I tried to be a bit more specific about what I am and am not looking for in Why I Am Not a Quaker (LessWrong link here). Church of Satan seems like basically watered-down Quakerism or liberalism but I might be pleasantly surprised. Almost definitionally, since I don’t already know of a group doing The Thing, and I haven’t been living under a rock any group doing The Thing must be at least somewhat hidden or eschew marketing towards people like me. (If they’re just not good at marketing despite trying, that’s a bad sign, though not fatal.)
Some monasteries might score well on this criterion. Vipassana Center does OK. Doesn’t need to be a formally incorporated institution. Shinzen Young is just a person & I’m looking for institutions, but if he’s part of an interesting lineage (i.e. if he learned from teachers who also had an interesting following, and his students themselves go and do interesting things) then he might be interesting, even if there’s no Shinzen Young Institute.
Recently I visited Arcosanti, Earthships, and the Santa Fe Institute. Currently in Chicago to visit the Committee on Social Thought.
Thanks for the offer!
I tried to be a bit more specific about what I am and am not looking for in Why I Am Not a Quaker (LessWrong link here). Church of Satan seems like basically watered-down Quakerism or liberalism but I might be pleasantly surprised. Almost definitionally, since I don’t already know of a group doing The Thing, and I haven’t been living under a rock any group doing The Thing must be at least somewhat hidden or eschew marketing towards people like me. (If they’re just not good at marketing despite trying, that’s a bad sign, though not fatal.)
Some monasteries might score well on this criterion. Vipassana Center does OK. Doesn’t need to be a formally incorporated institution. Shinzen Young is just a person & I’m looking for institutions, but if he’s part of an interesting lineage (i.e. if he learned from teachers who also had an interesting following, and his students themselves go and do interesting things) then he might be interesting, even if there’s no Shinzen Young Institute.
Recently I visited Arcosanti, Earthships, and the Santa Fe Institute. Currently in Chicago to visit the Committee on Social Thought.
Your lesswrong link is not a lesswrong link