Listen to this article as an audio essay on YouTube, here To suffer the pangs of nihilism can literally be a despair beyond belief. To...

If you haven’t already, I implore you to read part 1 first. So part 1 was a bit of a tease, being just the set up and forewarning. Essentially, the main idea of this shortcut is we go straight to - or as soon as possible - (de)objectifying the priors at the second from the first row of our constructed, fabricating mind. This layer is where the opposite of (de)objectification begins.  Now, what are these low level priors in question which generate a non-enlightened mind? They are no other...

I am presenting a process that admittedly is entirely theoretical as to whether it would work or not; and additionally, I believe if there is any chance of it working it would require a very specific kind of person to pull it off. I believe that person needs to be both highly analytically and phenomenologically minded; meaning they need to be able to logically organise and navigate a compendium of subtle concepts, while connecting intimately to their first-person experience with precision....