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the content of a thought is the "I just need to …"
the shape of a thought is noticing there is a sticky tangled ball of pain running around in your head and body
you cannot resolve this through the contents the thought
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A new parent learns that sleep is a skill the baby has to be taught. So is calm. Nobody stops needing that lesson at age two.
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I hereby reintroduce the concept of megabucks and gigabucks
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sometimes people ask me why I’ve chosen to be this sort of artist-busker-author figure rather than a STEMlord (which I was originally on track to become)
I just rediscovered an old quote from Rajaratnam (one of LKY’s closest colleagues) that really resonates for me still
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Good writing doesn't just transfer information, it crystallizes the author's way of perceiving the world into the text. Readers then inhabit that crystal and learn to replicate it within themselves. Good writing can be truly transformative in this way, showing you whole new modes of being.
It's tradition across most modern religions to memorize large sections of their holy text for this reason.
This can also be very very bad if said author is miserable and hates you. You're not inhabiting just the good, you're inhabiting all that they are.
There's a common manipulation tactic where Smart Guy tells you that you are a Bad Person and by listening to Him you can be a Good Person but it doesn't actually make you any better, it just makes you more neurotic.
This works particularly well on autists and people who have a strong drive to perceive themselves
The last psychiatrist does this, zizite stuff does this, a lot of more mainstream leftist stuff does this.
They are not even necessarily *wrong* about the specific insight, like the last psychiatrist’s narcissism. It’s just that the insight doesn’t make you better. It makes you miserable and hate yourself which is supposedly another example that the insight is true. The doom looping continues, you get more miserable, and you do not actually change.
If you are vulnerable to doom loops and want to consume their work anyway imo the best thing to do is Metta for equanimity and a somatic practice for grounding before and/or after engaging with them.
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After sleeping on this, I realize it's not just me and it's not just marketing.
If you use AI to do your work, all the emotionally easy parts will happen nigh instantly, plunging you straight toward your Ugh Fields. AI work requires you to confront feelings faster and faster.
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> Autopilot-shaped habits usually don't feel like habits, but like truths about the world.
>> Rushing doesn't feel like rushing, but like there isn't enough time.
>> Gripping doesn't feel like gripping, but like the thing you're working on is extremely important.
>> Judgement doesn't feel like judgement, but like someone or something is wrong and bad.
Habits that run on autopilot feel right and unremarkable.
So how can you notice and change them?
I was asked about that recently, and here's my answer:
expandingawareness.org/blog/…
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Loving-kindness got branded as being nice. It's closer to strength training for staying open when it would be easier to close.
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People always say you “visualize” when manifesting because being into manifestation is correlated with being good at visualization, but it doesn’t actually matter. Afaict visualizing is just a good way of generating a felt sense, which is the main driver*. I’m nearly aphantasic, manifestation still works super well for me.
You can use words to make a felt sense(prayer), or sounds, or smells, or external irl symbols you’re looking at, or you can work with a felt sense raw.
You can even read someone else’s writing and then attend to the felt sense generated by that! I’m pretty sure this is part of what’s going on when people chant a sutra continuously, you’re attuning your mind to the felt sense embedded in the writing.
It’s inverse gendlins focusing. Instead of generating words/images from bodily sensations you’re generating bodily sensations from words/images.
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Everything that is irrational either makes you laugh or frightens you. Laughter or fear: they are only reactions to get out of the ordinary." ~Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psychomagic
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a lot of people ask what evangelion is about and it’s about a lot of things but this is really one of the main things evangelion is about even if it didn’t have the data at the time just the vibe
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I learned this by getting extremely curious about the flinch that happens when I hit the “wrong note” playing music
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there was a guy in a documentary about getting addicted to world of warcraft that said, "at first, you just play when you have free time. but then you discover, you have a lot more free time than you thought." i routinely return to this as a source of motivation. i have the time
started seeing massage reels and the way muscles keep shaking is incredibly surprising
1. reminds me of trauma release
2. wonder how it ties into vasocomputation
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You learn the cost of poor etiquette by being a host
I hosted a party “for hosts only” in SF a few weeks ago:
> 100 people showed up on time
> people didn’t flake
> people texted me if they couldn’t make it anymore
> people stayed through the whole event instead of party hopping
@cosmos_raj was here to document it. It was fab