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how do you keep yourself grounded/do you ever feel like you’ve gone too far when you are working with areas around magic, imaginal work, psychedelics etc?
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oh i like this question! i am currently still more or less a scientific materialist somewhat against my will although i know and respect people who aren’t, so i still double-check my beliefs against, like, physics. mainly i believe that human minds are very powerful
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eg we had a thread about entities recently - currently i believe entities could exist as sort of distributed software running on human (maybe also other animal?) hardware, not necessarily physically. so they could be like IFS parts but moving from person to person
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also i like to hold my beliefs in this area playfully and lightly to the extent i can. part of the game here involves deliberately playing around with belief which i can’t claim to be any good at but it’s interesting to try
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so things like “haha wouldn’t it be funny if…” or “hmm let’s try behaving as if…” and other kind of liminal states between “this is definitely false” and “this is definitely true”; openness and curiosity
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also i double-check against more experienced practitioners who strike me as serious critical thinkers. like i think it’s easy to assume that if a spirit tells you something on ayahuasca or w/e then that thing is divine revealed truth but i don’t think it works like that
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there was a thread recentlyish about how oracles and divination etc. were never historically considered infallible, just additional sources of information, still subject to rational inquiry like eg sense data, and that feels refreshingly evenhanded to me
also i double-check against people who don’t brand themselves as magical practitioners but run into related phenomena anyway. alexander technique, inner game of tennis, craniosacral therapy - everyone runs into human universals if they pay enough attention to their experience
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