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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...
@amasad on Twitter
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:...
@david_perell on Twitter
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