phenomenology

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to be very clear, attachment styles are not real, IFS parts are not real, none of that stuff is real, in a specific sense. it's scaffolding. it's pointers to the rough shape of more subtle dynamics that one can come to understand in much more granular phenomenological detail

Just realized I don't really talk about psychedelics anymore because I learned to meditate (and I use that term loosely—what I'm referring to is actually more like a cluster of skills that can be summed up as "sink into and trust my felt senses, which when listened to carefully, reveal vital information about how I take in the world and feed it thr... See more

this feels connected to why I prefer sensory- and qualia-based healthcare approaches. like, people """"""could""""" spend hundreds of hours learning how to review (often shoddy) academic papers or they could learn to detect the felt sense of illness & remedy

there’s a take i think of internally as the “minimal but respectful take” on astrology, tarot, magic, etc. which is that nothing is happening that violates known physics, but that the human mind is capable of discerning real signal from more info than the west assumes

@dthorson motivated me to revisit my previous attempt to rework the “window of tolerance model,” which I’m calling “the window of trust.” Please offer any thoughts, feedback, insights, or questions. https://t.co/AbDElaQgdD

one of my big shifts the last four years was from "health & wellbeing as a list of chores I have to do" to "health & wellbeing as a self-motivating attractor state, because feeling good feels good" a key to the shift seems to be: taking my subjective experience seriously

the five senses are an odd way to think about things imo, direct realist coded. Awareness is constructed and anything can add to it. Visualizing a pink ox adds the pixels of a pink ox If I were redoing I’d focus on spatialness, viscosity, valence, etc. Aspects of each particle