The Ontological War

On first hearing about them, some ontologically insensitive people may think that the socialself is the same as the realself, only a little deeper. This is not true. The two selves are structured differently, and because of their different structures they perceive themselves and all of human life and existence in different ways. The socialself [...]

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On one of the groups I’m on someone asked about Colin Wilson and his book The Outsider.
To understand Colin Wilson a person first has to understand the two kinds of alienation, which are worlds apart. In “World A” all of us normal, healthy, well-adjusted people look at those who are maladjusted, neurotic, and worse and [...]

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I can’t remember exactly when I first started thinking about ontological questions; it was either when I was 18 or 19.
But when I was about 20 I became consumed with thinking about ontological questions and emotions. For a year or two, the whole experience felt to me as if I were driving along a dark [...]

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The following excerpt from an autobiographical sketch by DH Lawrence is probably my favorite passage of any I have ever read. Lawrence was sometimes described as “maladjusted,” but what this passage actually shows, at least to the ontologically insightful, is that he was sensitive enough to know that human existence is unacceptably wrong and needs [...]

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