@_100101890 interesting. have you read much meditation literature? sounds similar to trying to communicate about jhanas and nanas
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@_100101890 very little, "mindfulness in plain english" is about the only piece of formal meditation literature I've read
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@_100101890 I use meditation's tools heavily and borrow the odd insight I come across, but prefer to discover for myself
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@_100101890 and no(?), I approach it in terms of empathy, which I had to learn, so I intellectualize it more than most people
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@_100101890 but also yes, since the tools for reaching a jhana are very similar to those used in non-obvious empathy?
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@_100101890 I think of jhana as a place to reside, while "thoughtforms" sound like constructions? Is that the difference?
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@_100101890 like constructing some mental "thing" and then meditative techniques to figure out proper orientation/how to use it?
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@_100101890 for me it's going there first and then finding/reverse engineering the form. but as long as you can make it work?
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@_100101890 heh, was gonna say I see how that could work for empathy but not >>>
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@_100101890 orienting yourself in an abstract horror story of a universe. and then it clicked
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