Backwards Causality
What follows is as near as dammit the article I wrote for Indioama magazine which seems to have slipped off the edge of the world wide web. It made perfect sense at the time. I am aware that those amongst us who adhere to the scientific method may suggest my dopamine levels are running too high thus occasionally causing the subjective perceptual experience to become imbued with a sense of significance but the only significance I experience is that of wonderment at life and our state of connected all at onceness. To go further I suggest this state is a marrying of the Classical and Romantic frameworks as outlined by Robert Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values Here is the essay Using Passions As Beacons Leads to Instances of Backwards Causality or How Not to Write a Pop Song and stay looking trendy ...