Stuart Evans

it's been interesting to watch as health culture has shifted to - entirely gluten-free, vegan, nongmo etc kind of a collective sense of "just because we technologically can, doesn't mean we should" - that tech is missing something important https://t.co/zg7LptrgPc

my theory is that AI-generated information will be weirdly unexpectedly bad for minds at scale in the same way that processed food is weirdly unexpectedly bad for bodies at scale so "human-made information" will be the new "whole foods" it'll still be important

What seems to change, when you perceive wholeness, is that you experience suffering as part of a larger picture, with the assurance that the larger picture is basically wonderful. But this might sound conceptual or philosophical, like a long series of thoughts. And that is wrong.

The feeling of wholeness is simple and immediate. It’s that the promis... See more

the judging function creates a sense of incompleteness, or wrongness. Like our present circumstances are never quite right. We are drawn to the flaw, the trace of hunger or thirst approaching, the trace of menace in the happy crowd.

The opposite of this experience is thoroughgoing wholeness, inner and outer. A sense that the universe is fundamentall... See more

Dropping the resistance to loneliness allowed me to slip into deeper sensations of flow. It was almost as if the emotional resistance had been preventing the emergence of a more intuitive part of my will. There were a few memorable walks I took where the feeling of solitude felt like a portal into an exquisitely smooth parallel world. When I allowe... See more