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Heads
Your guide to a multitude of heads. A source of (un)truth.
Introduction
The title comes from the slang use of the
word "head" to mean roughly "mindset"
or "worldview". The text deals with different
ways of viewing the world.
This text does not
try to be compendium of possible "Heads"; that
would be impossible and pointless, as there seem to be as
many heads as there have been individuals on the planet.
Even more as every moment each person could be in a
different head. Instead, I have attempted to describe
what I see as some underlying features and capacities of
consciousness.
This text may seem
strangely serious to those familiar with my writing.
Sorry about that I promise more jokes and paradoxes next
time.
Chapter 0 may be
considered a joke upon the reader: how else would you
describe an attempt to describe the indescribable?
Nevertheless, I have left it in more for the sake of
completeness than anything else. Chapter 1 contains the
basis of the book and it can be seen as a metaprogram
waiting to be uploaded. It deals with the basic
interpretive circuit that seems to underlie most common
forms of consciousness.
The two parts of
Chapter 2 deal with specific, if broad, heads. These are
not necessarily root heads in the way as head1 but I have
included them because they are the two major ways that
consciousness deals with itself. At the moment, the
scientist and shaman are very much at war in our society
although I do not feel this has to be the case. To be
honest I find anyone who is only capable of seeing the
world from only one of these points of view a bit tedious
to say the least. Hence in these chapter's unpleasant
things are said about fundamentalists of both sides and
those who try to explain one in the terms of the other.
Although these two heads appear as a duality here it
should be remembered that from any point of view outside
of these two no duality appears.
Not all of the
concepts in this text should be thought of as wholly
original as the "further reading" section of
each chapter shows. With this in mind, I would like to
thank everyone who had an idea I nicked and indeed the
entire history of human thought.
