Preamble Before I make my main point, I want to acknowledge that curriculum development is hard. It's even harder when you're trying to teach the unteachable. And it's even harder when you're in the process of bootstrapping. I am aware of the Kahneman inside/outside curriculum design story. And, I myself...
The reason for this submission is that I don't think anyone who visits this website will ever read the book described below, otherwise. And that's a shame. Simply stated, I think CFAR curriculum designers and people who like CFAR's approach should check out this book: Diaminds: Decoding the Mental Habits...
> [...] Here is the right way to address this bug: > > 1. Learn more about manifests, so I know what a good one looks like. > 2. Take a look at the one we’re generating for Kiln; see if anything obvious screams out. > 3. If so, dive...
If you stopped flow by binding all your energy to your chakra's that would be an explanation for the negative side effects you are describing.
I think we're just having a terminology issue. Spontaneously or deliberately, I can experience what could be described as undulation and movement throughout my body at any time, continuous "traveling" fluctuations. But, I would describe this more as "spreading activation" than "flow." Like, I don't think something is moving but, yes, sensation can move or spread in a seemingly non-discontinuous way. Do you think we're describing the same thing?
(Also, I'm more inclined to belief this is all in the brain's maps [electrochemical] than too much actually happening on-site... (read more)
Fascia vibration and mechanotransduction could be a thing. I would think that can be coincident with autonomic interoception (what I write about) but doesn't have to be. I hadn't heard of Danis Bois. His framework looks like it could be life-changing for some people.
I'm not really sure if there's an effective way to respond to your comments about my experience. I've been doing meditation, bodywork, "energy" work, phenomenology, and much more for over a decade, via many different systems, from many different perspectives (neuro, psych, evo psych...). I have no reason to lower my degrees of belief for my assertions at this time.
You may be trained in PP, but are you trained in phenomenology? Russell T. Hurlburt has been publishing peer-reviewed phenomenology papers for decades. He gives examples of people who are absolutely certain of their inner experience but quickly and confidently revise their claims after a few training sessions.
http://www.amazon.com/Investigating-Pristine-Inner-Experience-Hurlburt-ebook/dp/B005IVX1NE/
What systems do you work with? What do you think "energy" is?
The "truth" about "energy work," according to me:
(with a brief nod to psychoneuroendoimmunology.)
Writing is hard.
Alright, here's my list of writing resources (in no particular order):
Books:
This is an excellent article about writing:
http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/shakespeares-genius-is-nonsense
Some more inspiration:
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/01/11/seeking-density-in-the-gonzo-theater/ http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/05/03/rediscovering-literacy/
AI luminary Schmidhuber has written about complexity and beauty, and I've found his thoughts helpful:
http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/beauty.html
My blog is one, long, ungrammatical, rough-draft experiment, for reference, e.g.:
I've been using a personal wiki to develop my rationality skills, and I've recently written about it, here:
Not a book, but a blog post and a paper:
PRISMs, Gom Jabbars, and Consciousness
The point is that these speed runs presumably involve backtracking. They can rewind time and explore different paths until they find one they like.
Meditation and metacognitive training in general.
Self link: http://meditationstuff.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/how-to-do-foregroundbackground-meditation/
I have made some unsubstantiated claims in the "I’ve given you some reasons to meditate:" bullet in the link above. More generally, there is plenty of evidence that meditation does good things to you.
Preamble
Before I make my main point, I want to acknowledge that curriculum development is hard. It's even harder when you're trying to teach the unteachable. And it's even harder when you're in the process of bootstrapping. I am aware of the Kahneman inside/outside curriculum design story. And, I myself have taught 200+ hours of my own computer science curricula to middle-school students. So this "open letter," is not some sort of criticism of CFAR's curriculum; It's a "Hey, check out this cool stuff eventually when you have time," letter. I just wanted to put all this out there, to possibly influence the next five years of CFAR.
Curriculum development is hard.
So, anyway, I don't... (read 1419 more words →)
The reason for this submission is that I don't think anyone who visits this website will ever read the book described below, otherwise. And that's a shame.
Simply stated, I think CFAR curriculum designers and people who like CFAR's approach should check out this book:
Diaminds: Decoding the Mental Habits of Successful Thinkers by Mihnea Moldoveanu
I claim that you will find illustrations of high-utility thinking styles and potentially useful exercises within. Yes, I am attempting to promote some random, highly questionable book to your attention.
You contemptuously object:
... (read more)[...] Here is the right way to address this bug:
- Learn more about manifests, so I know what a good one looks like.
- Take a look at the one we’re generating for Kiln; see if anything obvious screams out.
- If so, dive into the build system [blech] and have it fix up the manifest, or generate a better one, or whatever’s involved here. This part’s a second black box to me, since the Kiln Storage Service is just a py2exe executable, meaning that we might be hitting a bug in py2exe, not our build system.
- If not, burn a Microsoft support ticket so I can learn how to get some more debugging info out of the error message.
Here’s the first
Meditation: My blog is a terse, cryptic, rambling, ungrammatical rabbit hole, but it's highly opinionated and absolutely packed with links and resources:
https://meditationstuff.wordpress.com/articles/
Here are two practical posts:
https://meditationstuff.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/additive-meditation/ https://meditationstuff.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/how-to-do-foregroundbackground-meditation/
Shinzen Young, Daniel Ingram, Kenneth Folk, and Culadasa have systems that can get you very far depending on how well they fit you.