Luan Hassett
Enlightenment In Everyday Life
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One of the benefits of Circling is that it allows you to see underneath the authority of social convention. You get to see the ‘why’ behind the punishments which society implicitly or explicitly hands out for certain behaviours. For instance, many people are punished for vulnerability. They are met with silence, distance, or gossip. They…
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Probability is the backbone of evidence based medicine, but it doesn’t describe reality with the depth that explanatory theories provide. Let’s say that I am studying physics and I calculate the probability that earth will be struck by an asteroid in the next five years. I don’t know what a typical probability calculation would come…
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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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The whole world is looking for a testCraving it, in fact. Because people crave the truth.Truth is not what you have been told it is.It is something far, far, farmoredelicate. Golden snitchesWhispers of insightGrasp too tight and you lose it. People crave it.The whispering changes that tell youwho you arein relation to this strain These…
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This is a list of things I wish were different about psychiatry. I am following the spiritual principle of owning my experience, which means that I am not stating these as necessary improvements. I am not implying blame of anyone. I am simply expressing wishes, not opinions. For balance, here are some of the things…
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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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