There are two ways to grasp Self lightly as one lightly grasps a baby bird in mouth. (to save it! not eat it) One is through the visceral feeling of self as story. (Not merely intellectual parsing and interpretation)https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1340038265584250881 …
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The self-as-story feeling however is difficult to actually generate consistently just like entering a flow state at will. (Most at-will flow state entrance requires heavy control over the environment. E.g. a sports match or a morning reading ritual)
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The most traditional way to seek this feeling is through long meditations. Another common "modern" method is through accumulation of knowledge in the hopes of triggering a it some sort of super "insight" orgasm.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1333339180601020416 …
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The core weakness of any prescribed methodology is that a prescription requires a prescriber. A prescriber is a solidification of an identity which then acts or communicates a prescription. E.g. a koan, bible, yoga poses, trinkets, etc..
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This chain of solidification is always produces out of flow artifacts and so is always "wrong". The most you can do is a high-enough resolution model to sync on task coordinations like handing me "that" "pipe"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images …
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What this means is that someone else's Understanding of Everything will NEVER fully resonate with your own even if they're NOT faking/mimicing AND you get 100% conveyance with no misunderstanding.
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So you cannot truly learn from a teacher you don't want to "kill" in some form by making their ideas irrelevant or subservient to your own.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/09/12/the-exercise-of-authoritah/#more-4275:~:text=To%20collect%2C%20a%20natural%20connector%20must%20actively%20work%20to%20dehumanize%20the%20collectee.%20To …
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This is the problem with toxic positivity. It creates cults because all these incompatible models tied together with the masking tape of fake friendship and fake love Do. Not. Work. They are logically incoherent. You can't build a skyscraper if you can't agree on what "1" is.
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What a kool-aid suicide ritual is equivalent to is a skyscraper falling down. There was a psychic attempt to build a tower of babel and it collapsed, killing many. Without the humility to actually set a target height, the tower is built until it falls.
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Because what kind of tower is an infinite tower? One with NO architectural diagram because it had no concrete goal and no plan! No wonder. They were just winging it by the seat of their pants.
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What is the psychic equivalent of the Burj Khalifa? (To clarify, height here is a heuristic for "complexity of engineering", replace w/ ur favorite engineering thing) What are the most complex examples of organized human psychic energy?
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Computer companies come to mind. The amount of magic across so many disciplines, each requiring years to master, is staggering. And to get them to work together to the point where the customer is NOT forgotten? Staggering.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1334319835740655616 …
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A country doesn't really count because they aren't organized, they have competing goals. They're schizophrenic. Is it one building or two? Is it one person or two? Is it one group or two?
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E.g. the united states is composed of 50 sovereign states, each with conflicting interests. China is composed of multiple provinces. As command flows away from central, the concept of single "identity" starts to fade.
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In order for a country to maintain a single identity, it has to perform acts AS a single identity. A country cannot buy a watermelon. A country starts or ends wards, exports or imports products, engages in humanitarian activities, etc...
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Thus a country that is doing things(e.g. war) together merely for the sake of forcing themselves to work together is in terrible pain. It's like a marriage that isn't working. It's the drug dealer who doesn't want to shoot but has to be loyal to the gang.
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Extrapolate this to "self" as country, relationship as country, family as country, etc... the behavior should not be *necessary* to the group! if the bridge NEEDS the scaffolding to be there, you've built the damn bridge incorrectly!
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