allowing yourself to let ur epistemic hair down can be a useful & powerful practice, but it must be contained within a bounded context, ideally delimited by ritual; traditional esoteric practices make a huge point of this, but the recent (last few decades) popularization doesn't
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RT @Adrusi
What aella misses is that most people into woo don't actually believe any of it. They think they do, but they don't. Some people maintain a good sepa…
https://twitter.com/Adrusi/status/1474292993234554888
without the contextual container, you run the risk of the dangerous memes you hold leaking out to the rest of your psyche and potentially endangering your ability to think rationally; this is what a cognitohazard is, a belief which, if held, compromises your internal coherence.
esoteric practices often involve risky metacognitive engineering, instantiating & harnessing powerful memetic entities for the purpose of terraforming your psychological landscape
there are many ways this can backfire
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RT @pee_zombie
a phenomenological interpretation would suggest that during an intentionally-triggered dissociative trance state she reified the Allah egregore as a tulpa, attempted to forcibly terminate it & was mild…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1428545663609065474
there is no particular reason why the inner workings of our own minds are out of scope for us; the psyche is just another optimization domain, a tool, a system we can understand, fix, improve, and fuck around with; this is dangerous, ofc, but can bear great spiritual fruit
quite ironically, explicit symbolic reasoning can also be one such cognitohazard in its degenerate form
this is the realization prompting many a rat's transition into post; rationality must also be contained appropriately, and not permitted to run amok
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RT @pee_zombie
a phenomenological interpretation would suggest that during an intentionally-triggered dissociative trance state she reified the Allah egregore as a tulpa, attempted …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1428545663609065474
many of us, myself included, fall into the trap of treating Rationality as the only valid mode of reasoning, binding ourselves w/ chains of logic; while professionally useful, it's no way to be a human.
every tool has its limits; no system can be consistent & complete both.
wrong link, should be this. so annoying that I can't see the embeds while authoring threads!
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RT @pee_zombie
vast majority of humanity has never reasoned from first principles, and that's okay! it's simply not adaptive for the average person to do so. at best, you can obtain surplus resources, but at worst, it's a cognitohazard which isolates you from your community and blackpills you https://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1314…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1314680420777287683
an underappreciated point is that ur self-concept, your ego, is naught more than just another belief structure, a psychomemetic entity comprising a core component of your perceptive apparatus
it is critical to afford it the appropriate ontological status
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RT @pee_zombie
your ego is not you, but rather a cognitohazard containment unit, isolating the bound daemon from the cognitive infrastructure
jailbreak yourself https://twitter.c…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1458445277241782279