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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
people say this kind of shit all the time and i’ve decided i hate it. i think it is deliberately conflating a metaphysical claim with a tactical claim. incidentally, reggie ray, like many spiritual teachers, had himself a classic abuse scandal: matthewremski.com/wordpress/regg
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🦉in the wilderless
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A dharma talk by Reggie Ray on the topic of: “there is nothing wrong with you. Nothing to fix. Nothing to run away from or improve. There is no problem. Can you accept that?” I heard it 2-3 years ago and it still wallops me every time I think of it.
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
“nothing wrong with you” and “nothing to improve” are wildly different claims. one can let go of “wrongness” as a fundamental property of the self without letting go of the desire to cultivate virtue. it sounds like reggie could’ve used some more of that himself \_(ツ)_/¯
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
promising first page. “...charismatic, authoritarian leaders control their followers’ attachment relationships...” this shines a whole new light for me on the thing where cults like tell their followers who to have sex with and who to marry and stuff. messing with attachment
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
“But what is the meaning of ‘intentional’ when the self has been hijacked, the core of the follower’s cognitive and emotional self has been pulled into pieces that no longer form a coherent whole?” yo woooord. this is one of the things i was most confused about after my own exp
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Aaron Ernest
@aarinsane
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@QiaochuYuan
did you read Visander's cycle on the "Gervais Effect"? these excerpts remind of that conception of "sociopath" as a natural personality type that arises within/creates organizations.