I wonder if being able to get into a dissociative-like state at will, where you didn’t actually feel like being yourself, but rather like an external spectator to your own feelings, would help with being able to take a more objective, far view on your own feelings. Are there drugs that can help achieve that safely anyway?
I seem to recall Michael Vassar summarizing Robert Greene as essentially “repetitively associate yourself with positive feelings in other people’s head regardless of whether those feelings have anything to do about you.”
Brains can’t compartmentalize such feelings well. Given enough time and repetitions, even being aware of it, I suspect you’d come to like or dislike someone if you consistently had good or bad feelings when you met, regardless of whether those had anything to do with that person.
I wonder if being able to get into a dissociative-like state at will, where you didn’t actually feel like being yourself, but rather like an external spectator to your own feelings, would help with being able to take a more objective, far view on your own feelings. Are there drugs that can help achieve that safely anyway?
I seem to recall Michael Vassar summarizing Robert Greene as essentially “repetitively associate yourself with positive feelings in other people’s head regardless of whether those feelings have anything to do about you.”
Brains can’t compartmentalize such feelings well. Given enough time and repetitions, even being aware of it, I suspect you’d come to like or dislike someone if you consistently had good or bad feelings when you met, regardless of whether those had anything to do with that person.