Meaning and Magic

Tag: non-unitary mind

  • Identifying With

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    Recently I’ve been using the phrase “identify with” a bunch. As in, “I’m learning not to identify with my past self”, or “I try not to identify with my beliefs”, or “the ego is what, when accurately perceived, we stop identifying with”. When a friend of mine asked me what I meant by “identifying with”,…

  • NVC/IFS in Action: Nausea

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    I’m a firm believer that physical sensations on their own do not create suffering—that suffering arises when there’s some sort of internal conflict. The book Nonviolent Communication includes a story of a woman resolving a migraine by connecting with her underlying needs, which, to me, was one of the less believable parts of the book…

  • Brain burning

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    Here’s a thought experiment: If you could burn ten claims about the nature of the world into everyone’s brain, so that they truly grokked them, which ones would you choose?   My answers, stolen from all over the place, in rough order of perceived importance: Reality is not vague. The past is sunk. There is no failure,…

  • Parts, parts everywhere!

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    Once I started thinking in terms of the different parts of my mind, I started seeing references to them all over the place in books I was reading. Here are some examples: “We are compassionate with ourselves when we are able to embrace all parts of ourselves and recognize the needs and values expressed by…