Deep Mindfulness

Meditation teacher · IFS guide · Writing a book on human transformation as layered self-organization, and meditation as coherence with that pattern. Good times!

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I don’t want to have a parasocial relationship with God. :/

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“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

Me quoting Carl Sagan to a waiter having the longest day of their life.

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@_StevenFan IDK, having done all of the worlds strongest psychedelics, nothing is more system shifting and psychedelic than significant meditation practice, IMHO.

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Wasn’t it Wittgenstein that said, Everything that can be thought can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly��

Related/ unrelated: in the west, the onus for clarity is on the speaker, and I’ve found that in Asia, often the onus for understanding is on the listener.

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It’s funny because I was about to say, you could use this as an equally strong argument against therapy. You go there to reduce pain, but the only way to do that is to experience pain.

And to be clear, I’m not opposed to therapy or awakening. They seem very much like the same process at slightly different scales.

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See, the key slaw is that you shouldn’t be involving any humans at any stage of the therapeutic process.

On the subject, my coercion test for parts is: 1. Is it a part?: if I gave it a magic wand, and it would it use it, it’s a part. If any part would use that wand on any other part, it’s causing systemic turbulence.

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Pro move! And I’m just now realizing that the 8 ox herding pictures follows a classic hero’s journey structure!

[Jake Orthwein @JakeOrthwein]

More obviously, the whole thing also traces a Hero's Journey structure

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This is fascinating. I had a conversation with @danielmingram a few years ago, about non-meditations for dark night material and he recommended things like community support and exercise among others.

It really highlights how distorted meditation can become when it’s cherry picked out of a broader context - one these kinds of practices are naturally woven into everyday life.

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@eshear @deanwball And, PS - space based solar would be so efficient, an array smaller than Florida would meet all of earths current power demand.

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@eshear Classic cyborg theory has entered the chat.

Unrelated genuine question, if language was (and is) co-emerging along with human consciousness, which part of it was/is “artificial?” What does artificial mean in this context?

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5 is not a miracle drug.

Its power lies in the fact that people are used to really big pleasant experiences or really big unpleasant experiences. People without a serious meditation background just are used to really big neutral experiences.

And if it’s helpful, everyone feels that way about toasters afterwards. They just don’t notice because they’re not in the kitchen… they’re in a yoga studio with a “shaman” named Shannon.

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Check out this sweet human talk to this other sweet human about being sweet humans.

[Michael Taft (simulation) @OortCloudAtlas]

In which I talk with @WystanTBS about stuff.

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@AlexKrusz People who are disassociative are often quite good at meditation. My theory is they make a big percentage of the spiritual bypassing crowd.

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@eshear @burny_tech Haha, I recall this wild dude making a fully convincing argument that current AI wasn't sufficiently biological or interdependent enough to become meaningfully self organizing. So take it up with him!

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This is the best thing I’ve watched this year. I’ve played this for friends and students and it gets better each time I watch it.

Congrats @JakeOrthwein! This will move people’s consciousness!

[Jake Orthwein @JakeOrthwein]

🆕📺 THE FILM IS OUT!!! (YT Link Below)

UNRAVELING THE DREAM: Psychedelics, Awakening, and the Brain

I couldn’t be more excited to finally get to share with all of you!

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@vividvoid This is great. My fun trick for this stage is to have people hold the volume of space in front of them in awareness, plus the volume of space of their body, plus the volume of space behind them, all together.

The disorientation that follows is a feature not a bug.

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It’s strange how pessimism now gets mistaken for depth. For a long time, I’ve believed that optimism is both a stronger way to live and a far more ethical posture than cynicism.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Mentally healthy people are often delusionally optimistic.

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@tucker_peck Wait WHAT!?!

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@eshear @burny_tech Hmm. So is artificial intelligence be considered an emergent property of human life (and other factors), or is ‘emergence’ reserved for self-organizing phenomena only?

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@JakeOrthwein I watched this enough times to know I want to watch it more! Such a sick project!