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Jung's approach to vetting gnosis is a best-practice: If you feel like you've had profound, important insights in a neuroplastic state, test that intuition by pitching them to epistemically rigorous people. Jung used academia for this, but rationalists & dharma nerds work, too.

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@georgejrjrjr on Twitter

“Fundamental thinking” What is really the fundamental nature of your decision? Go to the most useful reductionist view of things; the kind the nerds think about when they hit the bong — eg “we are ultimately bouncing atoms in empty space” etc — and try to reason upwards.

Tools for Making Difficu...

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1. The Mind Creates Reality: The American Psychological Association once invited William James to give a talk on the first 50 years of psychology research. He simply said: __“People by and large become what they think of themselves.”__ Then, he left.

21 Ideas From 2021:...

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