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hmmmmmmmm can you elaborate on this?

well

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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one thing i've noticed here that seems relevant is that the inventor of a therapy modality seems to be able to run a much stronger loop than their students, and correspondingly seems to affect their clients more strongly and in ways more consistent with the modality

it frustrates me a little that i haven't seen any commentary about this. but like i've watched a video of richard schwartz doing IFS and it feels really important to me that he sort of... vibe-ly hypnotizes people into believing that IFS works, which makes it work better?

you could probably do the same thing as a faith healer and make faith healing work, as long as you were working with someone who was already inclined to believe that faith healing works (which is why i believe that faith healing works)

and the faith healing comparison is specifically b/c in this video i have in mind richard schwartz talks to this woman's parts for like 30m or whatever and in the end cures her *chronic back pain* absolutely nuts

maybe i'm moving towards a pov here where different therapy modalities are a bit less like different theories about some underlying True Psychology and a bit more like different schools of magic

ah, ah, when a therapy modality claims "this is a scientific theory about a real objective phenomenon called True Psychology" that is actually how it taps into... the... magical structure of western civilization as a whole?

Mikael Brockman

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