Funny oneself in existential terror or personal or secondary survivor trauma isn’t exactly the problem. That can be exciting and empowering, along with utterly terrible and horrifying. When it works, it’s emancipating. 1/2https://twitter.com/meditationstuff/status/1242799597803778048 …
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What if you advertise your process to people who are *already* in existential terror and on the edge of mental breakdown? They desperately need help right now and have very little to lose anyway. Everyone else can keep going around talking about cosmic consciousness and stuff.
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This is a possibility. There’s a danger, though, of taking advantage of desperate people. I would have to trust that they would read the fine print, including the risk of making things even worse. I feel like there’s a real design challenge there, too, huge responsibility.
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In what way do you think this would be taking advantage? There's huge responsibility here for sure, but it turns out that literally no one knows a reliable way to help these people, so we might as well just try and do our best. https://twitter.com/made_in_cosmos/status/1237650234504814592 …
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Am actively thinking abt this. I do think there's a sense in which hardcore meditation can sometimes help people when "nothing" else will!!! And/but other ppl might just need money and someone to listen to them. The former still need support, and latter might explode if meditate.
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From my experience, exploding is a fantastic option, provided you have a safety net of people who love you and will catch you when you fall apart. Without the right conditions it can be extremely dangerous. So, how do we create the right conditions when everyone is in quarantine?
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The explosion aspect is reminiscent of research at Brown University through a study formerly known as the "Dark Night Project," now "Varieties of Contemplative Experience."pic.twitter.com/43o2nFjwXD
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Is this Cheetah House? I want to connect w them at some point. Me & 1000 other teachers probably think they can help with people who've hurt themselves through meditation. I (of course?) think my stuff can, in some sense. Gotta approach carefully, though.https://meditationstuff.wordpress.com/protocol-analysis/ …
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That's it! The term "citta" was the inspiration for "cheetah," if my memory serves me. Their research team recently published a paper on the sense of "Not Really Being Here." https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp/jcs/2019/00000026/f0020007/art00008?crawler=true&mimetype=application/pdf …
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Been crafting several routes of assistance inspired in part by their work. Count me among the 1000. Lots of possibilities here, but must tread these paths wisely...
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