when acquiring a fluid domain, a certain type of neophyte learner will often try to apply mechanistic techniques, which, being more legible, are easier to transmit and refine

this can cause much frustration as often the domains are impenetrable with these methods

intuitive learning techniques, being generally illegible to the user, are much more difficult to transmit, and hence have fallen out of favor in modern didactic approaches; what KPI does a teacher use to track progress on goal? how does a principal evaluate teacher skill? unclear

you know who's figured out how to do this, tho? spiritual traditions. most of em (the good ones anyway) have developed a set of practices around Precisely This; transmitting intuitive knowledge down a lineage, repeatably & verifiably

they had to, due to the nature of the domain

our contemporary allergy to anything spiritual unfortunately precludes reaping the benefits of these seeds sown eaons prior; to be quite clear, this is both tragic and constitutes an emergency, as we risk losing access to this knowledge as the extant masters age and die

my own experience with this world had a Taoist bent; while I was far from the most dedicated devotee, I acquired understanding and skills I previously did not even have the ability to conceive of

modernity does not quite inform us of the subtle arts

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few in my personal life know this, but I've long considered the Tao as my primary spiritual lens

like many others around here I come from a materialist atheist rational…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1335106161704570880

I was not aware that there existed an internal world it was possible to explore, I didn't realize what sort of ontological status the phenomenological referrants ought to be afforded

let alone that it was possible to characterize its dynamics and intervene towards harmony

these v same techniques also happen to be generalizable to intuitive domain acquisition, to a much larger degree than mostly anyone believes

while I haven't studied AT, I've experienced this w/ wu wei, or nondoing, the Taoist version of the same thing

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most ironically, it is that very struggle preventing us from achieving our goals; the intensity of our efforts is inversely proportional to their success

the Joke is …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1414093361477259269

nondoing shows you the ways in which you're holding yourself back out of fear

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this has huge consequences for your ability to more effectively be the person you want to be; when you learn to stop fighting yourself, much energy is freed up to be reinvested into ur growth

this has many connections to other practices, such as wu wei & the Alexander Technique
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1418370367492698118

nondoing shows you how you're getting into your own way by trying too hard to Do

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this has huge consequences for your ability to more effectively be the person you want to be; when you learn to stop fighting yourself, much energy is freed up to be reinvested into ur growth

this has many connections to other practices, such as wu wei & the Alexander Technique
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1418370367492698118

the technique described in the OP thread is nondoing learning; instead of actively trying to figure out how to Do The Thing, you unfocus ur mind, unhook ur executive function from the phenomenal stream, & pipeline ur sensory inputs directly thru ir intuition & into ur actuations

this process is akin to training a neural network; data streams thru, the feedback from a discriminator system provides backpressure, & the network weights adjust in response to minimize the loss (effort, frustration, technique epicycles)

doing gets in the way of this process

inheriting this fluid intuitive mode was lifechanging for me, as someone who was deeply trapped in the explicit algorithmic mode; it opened me up to new possibilities and helped me become a much more whole person

if ur anything like me, you may benefit from these practices too

whoops, this one was supposed to be this

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most ironically, it is that very struggle preventing us from achieving our goals; the intensity of our efforts is inversely proportional to their success

the Joke is that if we stop trying in this way, we usually get what we want

nondoing is a bitch
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1314436053021884417?s=19
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1414093361477259269

whoops that was supposed to be this

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my experiences with psychedelics and meditation opened me up to vividness, and I burned brightly for a while, burning myself in the process

eventually, I found a path to centeredness in the study of the Dao thru Tai Chi

this practice tempered my flame

https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1407455291998879749?t=6cH8_jpdd3kQH5S_8v0Vdg&s=19
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1479127293679357955