interesting thing is - and I’ve noticed this talking with people too - repeatedly, an accurate full-stack diagnosis that emerges from within the body is something that people find *revelatory*, delightful, hilarious, even when the diagnosis is *horrible*
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which is very counter-intuitive to some of our commonplace norms about fear, bad news, etc. All of those norms I think apply at the… shall we say, crust and mantle layers. But deep deep down in the molten core, people want the truth, and it is *there* that the truth sets u free
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I’m pretty excited to draw a “focusing line” or thread *through* a subsequent edition of Introspect, bc I think both books are v aligned. Drama of Gifted Child too. My long game / end game for Introspect version 7 or 8 is to be an interface for all of these psychotechnologies
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very hype to hear this! i don't talk about it much but focusing is still in some sense my "primary" practice, a lot of other stuff i do amounts to variations and elaborations on it. gendlin was a real one
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it's extremely significant to understand that there's a specific way it feels to tell the truth about your life. once you get a real taste for that there's no going back really
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I felt a version of this ever since I was a teenager in the domain of self-expression, writing music, talking about my feelings etc, and in retrospect I think it’s part of why ppl have always been drawn to me. And even then there are domains for me where this is blocked bc fear
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we can hope to work through the fear one domain at a time 😅
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yup that’s the plan! I’ve worked thru a few already so I have no doubt I can keep going
(narrator: he had some doubts)
well, small doubts but nevertheless
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doubts are part of the process!
also, somewhat different track: maybe we should get on a call, i'm kicking around an idea for a project i've been calling "metatherapy" that is also an "interface all the psychotechnologies" kind of deal 🤔 maybe i should read introspect first
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everybody who says “maybe I should read Introspect first” should absolutely read Introspect first, I’ve had like 5 different conversations about this lol. It’s 3+ years of me condensing almost everything I know, I slowplay it but it answers most questions ppl here have
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