I’ve been engaged in the process of decolonizing my self/brain for a couple decades, so you know, I’m in that long game. On some of the surface levels, that hasn’t been so very difficult because my kind of entity just wants to kick against the pricks all the time, if you know what I mean. But, in recent years, through some non-ordinary experiences, the legs have been kicked out from under my chair, so to speak. And I find myself often without a framework for understanding or expressing my experiences. It can be very isolating, and leaves me without many people to really talk to (or a pervasive sense of disconnection with most people.) This, I know, is because of the systematic destruction of ancestral knowledge and traditional culture, that massive culture-combine grinding all it finds into mash. I’ve found some ways-of-being and understanding in traditional witchcraft, but I suppose ultimately it’s been inadequate/incomplete. It has given me a scaffold to climb further down, but then you have to live where you find yourself. I wonder how, if it’s even possible, I can find a framework of understanding that isn’t based on the plunder of others. I see you talking around this, and I hear you, but I don’t know how to find more. I think this must happen with others, in community, a co-creation. Also, I just want to not feel so alone all the time, and the warm comfort of people. Is this a question?
Its true that some of the best innovations and learning comes from sharing with others in specific ways. The kind of critical feedback comes from artistic folks helping other artistic folks (science is also art) but everyone has to be playing a slillful game. U have to find ppl who are really dedicated to their craft AND relate in ways you find useful. U also have to have processes by which u can share your art and ideas that are good for u. If u dont have a process u dont have much at all. So what u may be missing is a complete process of generation-refinement-reflection.
Yeah, I definitely do not have a complete process of generation-refinement-reflection... I’d love to hear more about that, if you want to talk about it.
Way too long for a q&a thread like this. Ive given u a clue, but entire processes and methods are what i teach to students and clients in longer term containers.
I’ve been engaged in the process of decolonizing my self/brain for a couple decades, so you know, I’m in that long game. On some of the surface levels, that hasn’t been so very difficult because my kind of entity just wants to kick against the pricks all the time, if you know what I mean. But, in recent years, through some non-ordinary experiences, the legs have been kicked out from under my chair, so to speak. And I find myself often without a framework for understanding or expressing my experiences. It can be very isolating, and leaves me without many people to really talk to (or a pervasive sense of disconnection with most people.) This, I know, is because of the systematic destruction of ancestral knowledge and traditional culture, that massive culture-combine grinding all it finds into mash. I’ve found some ways-of-being and understanding in traditional witchcraft, but I suppose ultimately it’s been inadequate/incomplete. It has given me a scaffold to climb further down, but then you have to live where you find yourself. I wonder how, if it’s even possible, I can find a framework of understanding that isn’t based on the plunder of others. I see you talking around this, and I hear you, but I don’t know how to find more. I think this must happen with others, in community, a co-creation. Also, I just want to not feel so alone all the time, and the warm comfort of people. Is this a question?
Well maybe its more like an obstruction…
Its true that some of the best innovations and learning comes from sharing with others in specific ways. The kind of critical feedback comes from artistic folks helping other artistic folks (science is also art) but everyone has to be playing a slillful game. U have to find ppl who are really dedicated to their craft AND relate in ways you find useful. U also have to have processes by which u can share your art and ideas that are good for u. If u dont have a process u dont have much at all. So what u may be missing is a complete process of generation-refinement-reflection.
Yeah, I definitely do not have a complete process of generation-refinement-reflection... I’d love to hear more about that, if you want to talk about it.
Way too long for a q&a thread like this. Ive given u a clue, but entire processes and methods are what i teach to students and clients in longer term containers.
https://www.indigenousmindfulness.com/about
an actual indigenous neuroscientist. my final word on the matter.