psychology
Historically I think this is something Circling culture got a little wrong—in an effort to not become bypassers, we overemphasized the negative/avoided/shadow experiences, rather than the meta-container of what allows us to even look at those epxeriences, so our average was less... I’m thinking this is a nice frame to apply to bad psychological experiences—"wounds" or "trauma." We don’t "heal"—we add new data until the past is proportionally negligible in our experience.... I have a pre-generated list of recommendations from my Level Up course; these arent necessarily my favorites, bc they’re directed at relateful facilitation: Jordan’s reading list Here are some books I think are wonderful and have had a big influence on me.... Favorite Non-Fiction: The Tao Te Ching Impro The Evolving Self by Robert Kegan A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber Finite and Infinite Games The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell Answer to Job by Carl Jung The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by... I like the idea of us continually talking about these things, mostly to provide the affordances for me to notice affordances to introspect and work with the things the various things the discussions might kick up about how I’m relating to the world.... - b_b...
thanks. I’m leaning into disagreement here, partially for my personal growth (I’m so agreeable!) but partially to give us more data. Something about saying they’re suffering tremendously and therefore calling "unconscious self-organization" a problem feels like re-introducing... Roger Walsh has a great bit on TLCs-therapeutic lifestyle changes- research that shows positive impact from the following category of things, for which he notes from his studies at the time only Fish Oil had good evidence behind it (or something like that, it was a decade ago... There is definitely a conflation with facts vs opinions between "I trust this info" and I "I personally like this." I also think a crushing majority don’t really know the difference and will "trust" things they want/hope are true, rather than what they bet is true.... Open heart to their suffering, wanting to love them in that, and the suffering about suffering. Something about wanting to separate compassion for the 1st person experience from 3rd person truth claims maybe?...