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"
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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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oooh you're right about value judgment thing, for me the deprogramming word seems like i'm a robot too so a lil dehumanizing. deconditioning is the best i can think of atm too.
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yeah exactly "deprogramming" encourages you to think of people as robots / computers, not a fan :/
"unpatterning" or "repatterning" gets rid of the judgment even of the social/personal conditions that helped create the pattern (conditions that somewhat undermine our sense of agency)
I had a pattern, now I don't
simple as
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ooh. clean and elegant
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