# a break from assumptions — an invocation and commentary on cognition

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**Created:** [July 23, 2026, 8:54pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/a-break-from-assumptions-an-invocation-and-commentary-on-cognition/8055 "2026-07-23T20:54:22Z")\
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### the reading:

> **[Fractal Praxis on Instagram: ""a break from assumptions"

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> 0 likes, 0 comments - fractalpraxis on July 23, 2026: ""a break from assumptions"
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> Like much of what I preach about, this addresses the inherent troubles our trauma makes of our sense-making: the distorted ways we form worldview that, while they help...

### the text:

whatever lies you let slip  
through the supple sieve of your mind  
may amount in you  
root and stem of your suffering

sympathetical illusions make cruel mistresses.  
the brain fills in the blanks  
conjuring imitation solutions  
_missing something. messing up._  
_mistaking._  
_supposing._

the subtle rot eroding knowledge  
through laying routes that, reinforced, become ruts  
and enclose and reduce encounters  
leading nowhere fruitful, read: dead ends.  
drains down which we pour the waste  
unprocessed, of our squandered interactions.

rather,  
deprive your trust of what experience contradicts.  
let the flaws in your sensemaking break  
your coveted system to bits.

the break liberates. lets you breathe.  
fragments evaporate at your feet.

defenestrate taut beliefs.  
relinquish the self-knot  
—reconcile it not.

find a lightening relief.

enter stream  
exit knowing  
and be free, if not sure

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This is a little appetizer for the kind of spoken word / “preach” style (in the prophetic tradition, decidedly) work I want to publish in the world, and through Cosmos Co-op.

Specifically I have a 13 part, 13 minute sermon series I’m working on, called Stream Entry, that I hope to livestream to a private Fractal Praxis channel, located here in InfiniteConversations.

If you like this, let me know, because I’ll feel more impetus to keep working on Stream Entry 😃

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yes, I like this very much, and it’s only recently when I started reading Sufi poetry (after acquiring the rudimentary use of tools to understand them, in some basic way) that I’ve began to appreciate the beauty of prose like this.

Your writing (sort of) reminds me of this and would definitely be up for reading more!

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**Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 12:11am UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/a-break-from-assumptions-an-invocation-and-commentary-on-cognition/8055/3 "2026-07-25T00:11:46Z")

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Thank you so much for these kind words, Michael. I’m honored that you compare my style to Sufi poetry. And I’m so glad to know I’d have your support for writing and putting out more! 🙏

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**Author:** ![madrush](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/infiniteconversations/user_avatar/www.infiniteconversations.com/madrush/32/6452_2.png) [@madrush](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/madrush)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 7:06am UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/a-break-from-assumptions-an-invocation-and-commentary-on-cognition/8055/4 "2026-07-25T07:06:20Z")

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Kudos for using the word “defenestrate” so gloriously 🥳