one word for this is "yoga"
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hmmmmmmmm can you elaborate on this?
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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
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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?
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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)
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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
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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
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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?
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Hmm so when I started telling rationalists about how IFS stuff fits their paradigm of True Objective Reality And Psychology, I was weaving a spell to harness the accumulated power of their paradigm to fuel a new aspect to be integrated to it
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