this works because the shape of attention is the actual important part of the majority of magical practice
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Most of my woo practice is just doing mundane activities and considering them rituals
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parallel anecdote: a friend once told me that her uncle, who is an opera singer, taught her that you learn to sing opera by pretending to sing like an opera singer
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nice. i learned to sing by imitating singers on the radio and in disney movies and stuff as closely as i could. also reminds me of this from TLP:
thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/05/thank_
also reminds me of the whole thesis of the inner game of tennis
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he gives a bunch of verbal instructions to his tennis students and it just tenses them up as they *try really hard* to follow all of them, vs. he demonstrates to them the desired behavior and asks them to imagine and then imitate it and it works perfectly
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I wonder if a side effect of an advanced society is a shared, over-conceptualized world-view. The efficiency of teaching things like languages, motion, music drops because we come to view these as something to be "explained" and "understood" rather than "acquired".
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