Luan Hassett
Enlightenment In Everyday Life
Category: Inner Work
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Claude tells me that I already know what to do next, and my nervous system is simply acclimating to the expansion. All of which I already knew. Things that are good: void-based battle-hardened coaches telling you that this is normal. An emotion on top of an incomplete other one makes for contraction, which is what…
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In this essay I am assuming some prior familiarity with Kapil Gupta’s arguments about prescriptions, which he defines as shoulds, how-to’s, 5 step plans and emphasis on method and technique. He’s worried about disempowerment of the student, saying that once you ask a teacher how something is done, you are placing your capabilities in the…
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I signed up for Art of Accomplishment’s Groundbreakers retreat, and then realised I probably didn’t have enough money. Already on the verge of burnout, paying north of 10 grand would mean reneging on my promise to take the next month and a half off work which I had made to myself. The decision to pay…
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Is all thought management? (But then what about poetry, what about revolutionary philosophies)? How would you know it; what would it mean? It would be a delay, a dysrhythmia.It would cause a contraction in awareness, like “wait, what was I saying again?” as you expand back outwards. Even epiphanies in their final form have been…
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How many thousands of personal development modalities do you reckon there are? Modalities for exploring trauma, releasing tension, expanding awareness, reframing limiting beliefs Therapists have a term called ‘purple hat’ practices. These are newer forms of therapy that are only effective because they incorporate older therapies. I recently spoke to the Clinical Psychologist I work…
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There is no opposition between freedom on the one hand and success and material wealth on the other. The opposition is between freedom and any conditioned idea. Whether that be success, or romance or a steady income. A conditioned idea is a circumstantial one. If it were not for a specific set of good or…
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