how trauma changes the brain, breaks predictive model in the brain, breaks our inner compass and blocks access to intuition

and how to restore it all

Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person’s capacity to act.

from Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

hyperactive intensification leads to an abrupt switch into hyperpassivity; now one obeys every impulse or stimulus without resistance. Instead of freedom, it produces new constraints. It is an illusion to believe that being more active means being freer.

from The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han

In occult practices, such joint ritual and concentration has traditionally been the way to summon an egregore —the occult term for a psychic entity much like a group mind

from The egregore passes you by by Erik Hoel