Conversation

Accidentally did my first meditation thread in a long while inside a conversation thread over here. Thanks

@nosilverv

for the prompt and

@m_ashcroft

for the Alexander Technique explainer.

Quote Tweet

Cinder

@Triquetrea

Jan 17, 2020

Replying to @nosilverv @m_ashcroft and @natural_hazard

There are constantly arising points of reference in consciousness; a sense of looking from, at. This from, at gives rise to "self", e.g. reflexive thought about you. "I am so and so," for example. The sense of looking out at the world from your eyes is another. Pretty gross.

Cinder

@Triquetrea

Jan 17, 2020

A little addendum to all of that: You can view these exercises entirely dispassionately, as some sort of meta-awareness of consciousness, but - in practice there is often a not-inconsiderable amount of totally weird shit going on, because of how far it diverges from "normal".

Cinder

@Triquetrea

I tend to have very little trust in the wider, impersonal significance of people's mystical experiences with meditation for that reason. There are many strange semantics in your consciousness that may be meaningful, but don't necessarily point to a Deep Universal Truth.

1:25 AM · Jan 17, 2020Twitter Web App

Replying to

and

Or, if there is such a substrate to those experiences, it is clearly chaotic and amorphous and deeply sensitive to your individual makeup. And thus in a wider objective sense, totally irrelevant.

Cinder

@Triquetrea

Jan 17, 2020

If everyone sees something different while submerged in the primordial chaos, there is no Thing to see while submerged in the primordial chaos.