I’m looking for a rationalist-adjacent blog post about someone doing anti-meditative exercises. They didn’t like the results of their meditation practice, so they were doing exercises to see things as separate and dual and categorized and that kind of thing.
Second-hand anecdote: I heard from someone that a spiritual teacher of theirs suggested as a meditation exercise to take some ordinary object in one’s hand, say a mug, and contemplate the simple truth that “this is a mug”. He recommended it as an antidote to floating off to woo-woo land.
The link is anachronistic, this was long before LessWrong existed.
There’s some advice in this thread on Dharma Overground:
Given that this is a drug induced non-duality experience, it is most likely at some point to reverse by itself. At least that’s the pattern I have seen around me, and what I have heard from teachers. (one teacher told me that it reverses often just around the time that the person starts to enjoy it, after the initial freakout)
You could also try grounding exercises, like eating fatty food, exercise, lifting heavy things, etc.
I’m looking for a rationalist-adjacent blog post about someone doing anti-meditative exercises. They didn’t like the results of their meditation practice, so they were doing exercises to see things as separate and dual and categorized and that kind of thing.
I’d be interested in reading that.
Second-hand anecdote: I heard from someone that a spiritual teacher of theirs suggested as a meditation exercise to take some ordinary object in one’s hand, say a mug, and contemplate the simple truth that “this is a mug”. He recommended it as an antidote to floating off to woo-woo land.
The link is anachronistic, this was long before LessWrong existed.
There’s some advice in this thread on Dharma Overground:
categorization is good but soul duality is more accurately described as movement versus shape rather than consciousness versus substrate.