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• March 10th, 2021

  We killed God, we killed the Self, we killed Narrative. Unmoored from that transcendental algebra, we swim in a brackish sea of Weird Fishes, slimy and confusing and infinitely fascinating.

• March 13th, 2021

  I think the cultivated entity in breath meditation is an example of the Weird Fishes I've been writing about. It seems useful to have this way of thinking about it, as an alternative to thinking about it in the more abstract, transcendental, pure way that meditation is often described.

• March 24th, 2021

  After treating multiplicity so thoroughly, this question feels somehow more pragmatic and real than it does when asked in other contexts of spirituality and philosophy. It's like admitting subpersonalities makes it clear that selves exist just as much as flowers and animals, so we can go on to think more clearly about whether there are also processes that integrate or transcend those Weird Fishes.

• March 9th, 2021

  The social selves that Mead describes are what I call Weird Fishes growing out of role-specific participation in social groups and various types of games or institutions, especially as we come to see our own position from the perspective of others and in the context of the whole "game."