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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
i suppose insofar as this sort of thing happens the decent thing to do is to err on the side of believing psychological theories that attribute people a lot of agency and fundamental goodness
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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coherence therapy calls this "symptom coherence" - taking the stance that every thing you do that drives you nuts makes deep sense once you get the underlying emotional reality that's driving it. it very cleanly articulates something i've been grasping at for years and years
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
also relevant to questions like "why is everyone's psych book full of case studies of patients for whom that specific psych method works so perfectly" presumably there are multiple selection effects going on, and then perhaps more subtle influence stuff?
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@embryosophy
should check my ass here but it's something like getting an attractor loop running in your belly/wherever and various forms of subtle communication pulling people into an analogue of it if you watch Wild Wild Country and squint you can kinda see Osho doing it
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@embryosophy
on some uses of the term “yoga”
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Replying to @embryosophy @taalumot and 3 others
in SE Asian literature, the term “yogi” has often meant a magician or sorcerer with dangerous siddhis like levitation, raising the dead, and especially possession, that is, *linking* oneself to another in the interest of controlling them see also the Buddhist “vetala” or vampire
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