Ah, fearless feeling. Make friends with all the emotions and layers of ego. Progress is not minimizing the murky stuff and maximizing the admirable stuff. Progress is authentically becoming aware of all the layers without judgment or fear. Yes! I am the greedy death-mongering capitalist. I am the weak-minded addict who cannot kick the habits of consuming industry's products. Yes, I am the shallow, self righteous bastard who thinks I've evolved because I learned the language of social activism. Now that is clear, I stand unafraid of my many layered self, ready to act from my expanding heart and internal mission. : )
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Jennifer Armstrong Haha.
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Jennifer Armstrong Well, I'm not entirely sure that this is progress. That is more like premature self-satisfaction, perhaps.
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Pylon Jigme Can you fight within the dualism. Struggle against patriarchy, for instance, without becoming it's own antithesis (mirrored reflection)? For, indeed, that which you resist, persists.
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Jennifer Armstrong Yeah, but you don't need to fight within metaphysical dualism. At the same time, you don't need to collapse yourself into a self-embracing narcissism, as indicated in your sentences above. The dualism you enter is between yourself and your self. http://www.lexido.com/EBOOK_TEXTS/THUS_SPOKE_ZARATHUSTRA_.aspx?S=18
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Jennifer Armstrong ...but of course, if you are superficial, you will interpret shamanistic injunctions superficially (and narcissistically) -- which is why Bataille's writing is deliberately ambiguous so as to lure all simple-minded narcissists to their death.
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~my personal heart meditation~
Phase 1: admit that all that is in the world is also in me. Phase 2: admit that none of us can completely avoid entanglement with systemic murkiness. Phase 3: feel inside your belly the connection you have with all that is. Phase 4:know that some practices/behaviors Serve the self/whole better than others. Phase 5: know that all practices/behaviors have consequences and whatever you think or do is "practicing something" and "manifesting something". Phase 6: after practicing on the mountain top, do not stroll into the valley and slay the villagers. Phase 7: trust unified emergence. All of us are scout ants looking for the food source that will sustain the ant hill. As a whole, we will find the path. If we separate our hill into factions, we also separate ourselves within.
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Jennifer Armstrong Ok. I'm not sure that has anything to do with intellectual shamanism, but it is a way of living which might serve to suit. I don't feel things particularly that way.
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Jennifer Armstrong Yours sounds like a programme for moral propriety, moderation and nurturing self-awareness to the point of enhancing niceness.
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