Galen

rarely here

[Galen @gcuth]

@lowlandsapien also, dude, you from SA?? I'm in mount gambier, from adelaide (+ around) via canberra.

[Galen @gcuth]

@lowlandsapien yeah. smoking takes a long while, too; real hard to do these days.

[Galen @gcuth]

@QiaochuYuan @ascetic_shadow I strongly recommend attending a quaker meeting for worship that does waiting/unprogrammed worship at least once. ideally also stick around to chat to friends afterwards.

(caveat: I've never been to a meeting in the US; it may be a very different vibe from UK / Aus / NZ / .)

[Galen @gcuth]

@diviacaroline (also fwiw @natural_hazard may have a more informed opinion on whether the structured viz scaffolding is just 'parts work with a spicy ontology + extra bullshit' vs a diff thing, as I tried to cover the core skill via a long text convo last year (tho with caveats & adjustments).

[Galen @gcuth]

@diviacaroline yeah, changes to dreams seem anecdotally common (& I'm v curious about mechanisms there). is your sense that the "dreams are doing processing that I endorse" thing happened after you started doing a bunch of parts work, or has that always been the case, or...?

[Galen @gcuth]

@diviacaroline hard to fully explain in short-form tweet, but the tl;dr is: structured visualisation for dialoguing with aspects of your psychology and/or your simulated model of another person; adjacent to what I'd now call "parts work" or something, albeit very much not from that tradition.

[Galen @gcuth]

interesting! this is so far from my own experience of dreams and "seems like good processing is happening here"-shaped brain stuff.

from the age of ~10–22, I had one recurring nightmare—which had no overtly disturbing content but viscerally very upsetting—but then I learned a specific processing/introspection skill, and that removed almost all positive & negative affect from my dreams (inc the recurring one) as an unexpected side-effect.

[Galen @gcuth]

@diviacaroline lol wait ok but
1. are nightmares common enough (and sleep-context-sensitive enough) in genpop that this kind of advice might be truth-tracking?
2. if you ~like a dream, in what sense is it a 'nightmare'? (if you're not disturbed or upset or bothered isn't it just a vivid dream?)

[Galen @gcuth]

cf esperanto, which dissolves the cost of a noun/verb distinction but also optimises so hard for these taken-to-be- neutral grammatical categories that it in all instances you use a 'category-neutral root' with a mandatory terminal vowel acting as the type assignment operator.

[Galen @gcuth]

@natural_hazard if 'country' = 'the nation-state as a whole' → no
if 'country' ≈ 'a [narrower-than-nation] cluster of specific ecological niches, geographical regions, communities, & lifeways' → yes

[Galen @gcuth]

@HiFromMichaelV [speaking as a "reading paradise lost changed my life when I was an 18y/o" girlie—] i'm pretty sure this this is just a "what's your dissociation style" quiz

[Galen @gcuth]

@AnnaWSalamon I very strongly share this sentiment. I really hope that this publication turns out to decrease the veering-away-ness. But I don't usually expect that a book—even a bestseller—will do the kind "big global conversation nudging/improving" that I feel is so desperately needed here.