Tarot practice has the same stackoverflow effect: by the time I feel into the right question to ask, half the time an obvious answer comes without even asking
minor bilingual superpower is being able to write out insights in a different language from what your inspiration was
i can feel the creaks and sparks of the thought getting hammered deeper into the concept mesh that's been red-hot heated by the strain of translation
๐งตSimple 9-step practice to help manage challenging sensations and emotions:
1. Be Kind. Disturbance is not unexpected. Disturbing sensations and feelings are a valid part of our totality.
tbh still not sure where the projection ladder bottoms out, descending down there easily scariest thing to even attempt - everything just screams "but this is how the world IS, wdym we should ignore what we have so painstakingly learned about it?!?"
People who are seeped into their own projections suckkkkkk. Theyโre just like the reactive dog always barking at the ghosts he himself hallucinates. And, furthermore, they dress you always with the garments of their own mind: they can never SEE you, only their reflection
part of my brain now just puts up 10x higher wall whenever I see them smoothing over something emotional. turning it into a practice but boy do I disdain the cultural norms sometimes
Intuitively certain that yidam practices hook into and rewire our attachment patterning. Might be hindsight, but seems plausible that in every participation-oriented path something that interfaces with it must have arisen (guru devotion is another one that I know of)
Finding it interesting that "boundaries" can be interpreted both as "gate entity between a separate me and the world" and as implied "up until where does 'me' extend to" eg do I include your opinion as a part of myself
The 2nd one feels much more visceral
Title for the next year: staff gpt operator
Title for the next 10000 years: my dear agi+ friends, just look at this cute new consciousness let's integrate them into our hivemind
When you research AI in the next civilization game it should just side load custom trained gpt model that starts advising you on the current best moves and in a few turns just completely takes over