Enlightenment, I suppose, is the ultimate 'experiment in refactored perception.' cc: @ribbonfarm
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enlightenment is *un*factored perception, tantra is refactored cc
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I want to quibble with the details of this analogy, but I think the insight is basically right!
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I quibble! Been reading a bit on this, esp. Jeffrey Martin's survey of enlightened ppl http://nonsymbolic.org/PNSE-Article.pdf …
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have now read this in full, it's great (the similarity to schizoid personality is striking)
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I thought the most interesting parts were the more skeptical ones toward the end.
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More work to separate the mythology from the realities would be helpful imo.
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In terms of “refactored perception,” author’s claim is that subjects’ perception of own bodies was >
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objectively wrong (according to yoga teacher and his observations), which I find both plausible and
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usefully deflationary. It’s not that there’s not important phenomena in this vicinity, but that >
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it’s super easy to delude yourself about what is happening, especially if there’s an attractive >
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