Darren Allen

This is a brief extract from Self and Unself, section 48 (of 212). Some concepts here – such as Flatlander, facticity and mode – may seem a little mysterious; they are explained in earlier sections.
Waking reality is illusory, but it is not an illusion. The ordinary, everyday, represented world of is a self-evident, completely consistent and completely dependable matrix of facts which nobody ever actually doubts, no matter how fanciful their beliefs...

This is a brief extract from Self and Unself, section 194 (of 212).
The collapse of Western civilisation can be traced through the artistic dreamlife of the people who slept within it. This dreamlife comprised two new kinds of myth, the technocratic dream-world—or science fiction—and the technocratic dream-man—or the...

This is an extract from Self and Unself, sections 81 to 83 (of 212). Many of the key concepts here — quality, unself, noetic etc. are explained in earlier sections.
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character is self’s qualitative meeting place with unself. As such, it is partly, or essentially, synonymous with quality. Character does not appear as a measurable thing, but as a flavour, tone, vibe or ‘aura’, an unselfish, and therefore timeless sense...

Here are the first few pages of Self & Unself, by far the driest and most difficult in the book. As I explained in this little introductory speech, even the most beautiful and useful buildings must begin with foundations which are, in comparison...