Set a Yoda Timer and share the most important idea you haven’t had time to express. Five minutes is all you get.
Phew, okay, you asked for it. Since I only get five minutes I’m not going to filter for niceness.
Most people, including and especially most rationalists, are disconnected from an incredibly important part of what it means to be human, which for lack of a better word I’ll call the soul. The soul is the part of you that you’re talking to when you’re doing Focusing in a particular way. It’s where great art comes from. It’s where the power that comes from having something to protect comes from. The nondegenerate form of circling is learning how to communicate soul-to-soul. It may or may not have something to do with the enteric nervous system.
If I understand correctly, this is vastly different from the elephant?
Jordan Peterson speaks at length about the soul. He insists for example that if you’re paying attention, you can feel in your chest whether your soul endorses what you say (it feels stronger and tighter), and you can also feel when you’re being dishonest (it weakens and dissolves). I’m sure the actual sensations vary from person to person but this sounds like the same thing.
Cool, I’m treating this soul as an oracle to consult using roughly that method. I’m a little worried that your picture of the soul corresponds to (at least) two distinct things in my models, how important in particular is the “create great art” part to the rest?
I think I would classify the set of things you described as the “truth/conscience” oracle and separately the “subconscious/right-brain/unvocalized” artist. The second thing is the main producer of dreams for example.
I’m happy to make finer distinctions but at some level of fuzziness I identify the two things. The way you write great poetry using your truth / conscience oracle is you write a line of poetry and ask if your oracle endorses it; if not, you keep fixing it until it’s endorsed.
Phew, okay, you asked for it. Since I only get five minutes I’m not going to filter for niceness.
Most people, including and especially most rationalists, are disconnected from an incredibly important part of what it means to be human, which for lack of a better word I’ll call the soul. The soul is the part of you that you’re talking to when you’re doing Focusing in a particular way. It’s where great art comes from. It’s where the power that comes from having something to protect comes from. The nondegenerate form of circling is learning how to communicate soul-to-soul. It may or may not have something to do with the enteric nervous system.
If I understand correctly, this is vastly different from the elephant?
Jordan Peterson speaks at length about the soul. He insists for example that if you’re paying attention, you can feel in your chest whether your soul endorses what you say (it feels stronger and tighter), and you can also feel when you’re being dishonest (it weakens and dissolves). I’m sure the actual sensations vary from person to person but this sounds like the same thing.
It’s more specific. And yeah, that sounds right; sounds like a blend of Focusing and belief reporting.
Cool, I’m treating this soul as an oracle to consult using roughly that method. I’m a little worried that your picture of the soul corresponds to (at least) two distinct things in my models, how important in particular is the “create great art” part to the rest?
I think I would classify the set of things you described as the “truth/conscience” oracle and separately the “subconscious/right-brain/unvocalized” artist. The second thing is the main producer of dreams for example.
I’m happy to make finer distinctions but at some level of fuzziness I identify the two things. The way you write great poetry using your truth / conscience oracle is you write a line of poetry and ask if your oracle endorses it; if not, you keep fixing it until it’s endorsed.