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Empathic Response
When I am very confused, depressed, anxious, or otherwise bothered, one sure-fire way to get myself out of that “obsessive thought pattern” is Tonglen. And I view that as a form of “projection.” But it always works to put my concerns about myself out there in the interest of someone else, or many people, who…
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Outside of Borrowed Meaning
Remember I said earlier that we can’t really invent symbols? It’s all already there. Yes. We are already working from a bedrock of meaning. We just dismiss it as childhood fantasy, but you can’t fully and completely ignore it. You just engage in aggressive reinterpretation. You put people into roles, that you originally assigned to…
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Meaning Behind the Meaning
Should I go further into meaning as it stands now? Or perhaps the meaning behind the meaning? Remember my earlier reference to children seeing everything as an agent? And well, adults do also. They just deny it. It’s actually inescapable. Scientific pretense even collapses under pressure. We understand our world as behaviour. We understand reasons…
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Your Personal Story
How much of your personal story is about concrete physical experiences? It’s more about subjective so not much on the concrete. How many of our day to day fears are based on concrete things? How much control is exerted over us by concrete presences or potential for direct influence? I’ve been shown how people interact…
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Interpreting Symbolism
Let’s talk about communal meals. Everyone can understand the concept of a communal meal, yes? We eat with our families as children if nothing else, so communal meals have meaning. They even have meaning for other species. Much of the dynamic behind a communal meal shapes and gives structure to the social hierarchy of pack…
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Most Human Experience
We behave and react according to what we perceive something to mean to us, and a good portion of that perceived meaning is obtained from simple biological sensation, but an even greater part is obtained socially from communication. We perceive things according to the meaning our social milieu assigns to them, or would you say…
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A World We Imagine
Today we are talking about virtual interaction theory. We tend to convince ourselves that we interact with an objective world, that we perceive and evaluate people places and things exactly as they are. What do you think? Is this true? We see through our own lenses, lenses upon lenses, veils behind veils. We project our…
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Control Your Battle Trance
Want to control your battle trance? I’m not sure. It is such a boon to survival, you know. Want to be controlled by it? Nope. If you don’t want to control it, you do indeed want to be controlled by it. You have always gotten exactly what you really wanted. Your fear and your love…
This also seems descriptive for a type 3 indigo. I do have many of these traits that alternate but know…