we gotta agree on a word/term for when you have a conditioned feeling/behavior pattern, and then you meditate a certain way/do psychedelics intentionally etc, & then you no longer have that conditioned pattern.
"purging" sounds kinda gross. "deprogramming"? "deconditioning"?
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i get the sense that "deprogramming" has a lineage going back to the hippies but personally i find it kinda gross and slightly objectifying. i like "deconditioning"
yeah i like "deconditioning" (i think i first saw it in 's bio) too because it doesnt have an implicit value judgement (IME negative value judgments are a hindrance to actually doing it!)
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the main reservation i have about it is that it brings up connections to behavioral / operant conditioning and i think "real conditioning" goes deeper than either of those. tied to questions of "what do i have to do to belong" etc.
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