I think you are recovering fast, otherwise you wouldn’t care so much. Maybe you will gain a net win here. Think about it all as an immunization event against such influences in the future.
I think Godel, Escher, Bach was my first booster shot. Less wrong helps too. It’s funny, I never thought of myself as a dogmatic person until I was forced to believe that the world is real with the stubbornness of a zealot. I do hope I recover quickly, I find that sort of thinking disappointing in myself.
I really sympathize. I use reality checking constantly to keep my strong tendency to believe in mystic resonance stuff to an absolute minimum.
This line I found especially poignant:
If nothing else, I’m more afraid of the dark or being alone than I used to be.
because while I don’t usually have those fears, I think they are a natural response. You are more alone than you used to be, if you have one person who moved from a great propinquity of relations, to hardly any contact. And in the dark you can not see what’s coming for you. knowing that the likelyhood of anything coming for you is extremely remote is no comfort.
The presence of another person usually is a comfort.
I think you are recovering fast, otherwise you wouldn’t care so much. Maybe you will gain a net win here. Think about it all as an immunization event against such influences in the future.
I think Godel, Escher, Bach was my first booster shot. Less wrong helps too. It’s funny, I never thought of myself as a dogmatic person until I was forced to believe that the world is real with the stubbornness of a zealot. I do hope I recover quickly, I find that sort of thinking disappointing in myself.
I really sympathize. I use reality checking constantly to keep my strong tendency to believe in mystic resonance stuff to an absolute minimum.
This line I found especially poignant:
because while I don’t usually have those fears, I think they are a natural response. You are more alone than you used to be, if you have one person who moved from a great propinquity of relations, to hardly any contact. And in the dark you can not see what’s coming for you. knowing that the likelyhood of anything coming for you is extremely remote is no comfort.
The presence of another person usually is a comfort.