The specific structure of existence is irrelevant to the fact that existence is.

It’s neither bleak or bright, happy or sad. Those concepts are in the realm of human thoughts, which are within the existence.

Thank you for getting in touch. I would be very interested in hearing more. Let’s talk over email. I’ve sent an email to the address you provided.

I am 16 years old from Australia and I have long believed that i possess a great depth of understanding, it’s as if i know emotion and feeling in a sub conscious level but even with this “lense of truth” I am unable to articulate what I feel and “know” when I look into a person’s eye’s and immediately understand them or read a situation with emotions. Even now I find it hard to express in words the profound sense of Understanding that I get in situations like these but after reading sections of your blog I feel as though you may be able to guide my confusion as it appears you have dealt with a similar area of life as what I’m referring to and may be able to shed some light from personal experiences.

Joe

Thank you. A civil disobedience movement in the mind is a refusal to be comfortable with existence. A raisin cannot pluck itself out of a cake, and we cannot un-embed ourselves from existence. But we can squirm against our embedding. Push back, albeit ineffectually, against our container. Adopt a sullen attitude towards existence. That would be civil disobedience in the mind.

Thank you for clarifying your intent, and for bringing to me your position. I am truly grateful for the opportunity to connect with like minds. I would not reject the opportunity to make such connections. I was rejecting the suggestion (perhaps misperceived) that the content or creator of this website can fruitfully connect with a system of living.

Here is what I know (and ask not how I “know”): after an early point, withdrawal from knowledge contributes to, does not detract from, the experience of existence. I am not on a quest. I know my journey is over.

Less personally, I find that a crushing surfeit of words and rules is burying possibilities for people to come into contact with existence.

This, I believe, is true for movements, schools of thought, world views, philosophies, actions, organized systems, and ways of life. They are tools, just as thoughts are tools, just as images are tools, just as words are tools, to expose the eternal Riddle to those who miss it, which in the long run, is everyone.

Sometimes a lack of adoption in the face of all these categories is the more useful policy, but a lack of adoption of one thing is by nature the adoption of something else. There is no such thing as no perspective.

I don’t allow the Integral Institute to speak for me, nor I for it, but I do find its structure, and mainly the way it connects me to other people, to be useful. I think we will go a lot further by navigating this Mystery among fellow travelers than by attempting to go it alone. I’m not arguing for the adoption of any particular school of thought, mind you. I am simply saying that it may be useful for the purposes of exposing the immense implications of the idea that anything exists at all if we begin to examine where various schools of thought connect and come together on this matter.