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Liberals and conservatives constitute different adaptive categories of being-in-the-world, and that matters. You'll never convince a liberal that the negative consequences of their good intentions bear meaningfully upon what their intentions should be. The liberal ethos, and

I can only imagine how boring it would be inside my mind if I had to believe an idea in order to entertain it.

Life is so good it’s almost unfair. Even the pain and suffering. Just to feel is such a gift, to be a part of the universe in a conscious way.

"Una civilización que niega a la muerte, acaba por negar a la vida." — Octavio Paz

It was a dream come true to finally get to record what I hope will be the first of many podcasts with David! I'll thread some relevant bits of the long conversation that led up to this below:

📚🤝🧘 Studying is most useful when it inspires your practice. Practicing is most useful when it inspires your study.

Episode #240 of the podcast just dropped.  Today we talk more about the work of Charles Taylor and his book The Varieties of Religion Today. We look at different answers to a classic question around religious belief. The sociological and structural role that religion plays at

some a yall have never encountered the word “iatrogenic” and it shows

Rehabilitating anti-self-improvement: Stop trying to improve yourself from as a path to some perfected state of an essential self. Once this goal is surrendered, self-improvement as compassionate activity liberated from any seeking for a perfected state may become available.

ཀ You are just fine—just as you are. ཨ

Does this framing resonate? Why or why not? Toxic Masculinity = Direct Hostility (implicit &/or explicit) Toxic Femininity = Indirect Hostility (implicit &/or explicit)

Also, when you accept offered power, how does it disempower you?

🆕📺 New video! Personal experiences of sacredness & community— In Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Neopaganism, and everyday secular life. 🔗 Link in reply tweet! ⤵️

When we fixate on healing or self-improvement, we constantly interrupt the natural process of Reality's intelligence: When we leave our experience alone, it tends to slowly harmonize, untangle knots, and become more present to itself.

⚠️ Metaphysics

🔬 Really exciting! A serious project by serious people to use AI to automatically evaluate the quality/credibility of scientific research. This will have ENORMOUS benefits if it works! First practical tool is available now. paullitvak.com/p/what-if-ever…

There’s a distinction Charlie Awbery & I have been working out, “multi-systematicity vs. meta-systematicity.” The categories systematic/multi-systematic/meta-systematic roughly line up with the Individualist, Strategist, and Alchemist “action logics” in William Torbert’s leadership