Insinq Datum
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I'm an aspiring poet, author and philosopher. I run a 5000+ debating community on Discord and a couple of Youtube channels, one related to the Discord server and one related to my work as a philosopher. I am also the author of DMTheory.
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Degrees of Separation
This is a story told to me by a close friend to whom I was teaching much of the material that composes my lecture series. In teaching her how to open herself up and look for this phenomenon authentically, she - someone with no prior belief in this topic - had an experience which to this day stands out in my mind as an exemplary piece of evidence in favour of the reality of the phenomenon of psynchronicity. I imagine that this is the sort of story you will readily dismiss, as it seems the sort of thing that only happens in movies or in video games, when there's a director to the drama, not in the chaos of real life where there is no 'grand plan'. Regardless, this is what she told me. First, I have provided a summary of the incident that she wrote in her own words in retrospect some months later, and secondly I have provided my own account of what she told me, an account I recorded within my psynchronicity journal within days of her telling me her story.
By Insinq Datum5 years ago in Humans
The Vehicle of Progress
A good way to think about my motivational system - or, rather, the issue I have therein - might be to conceptualize it as the engine of a run-down car attempting to start in a very cold climate. This abstraction applies equally to both the microcosm and the macrocosm; on the macro scale, the way to move towards my goals is to keep the engine running day after day. This enables the vehicle of progress to overcome the initial inertia and begin to gain speed through acceleration, which can be described in more straightforward and concrete terms as a cultivation of certain positive, productive habits that cumulatively have an effect that begins to loop back around and feed into itself. In the micro sense, part of the reason that the engine won't start in the cold is that it is not running yet, in that if it were running, it would itself dispel the cold which prevents it from starting. This is illustrative of the self-perpetuating nature of the issue as well as the parallel yet inverse effect present in its solution; it corresponds to the disparity which exists between the volume of tasks and responsibilities I have awaiting my immediate attention and my capacity to complete them, in that not only would I have less demands on my attention all the time if I did more of them more often, but in addition to that, I experience a somewhat debilitating feeling of being overwhelmed when there is an immense amount of work awaiting and requiring my attention which makes the prospect of attempting to begin almost intimidating - this intimidation is the cold of the climate which is dispelled by the engine itself once it has started.
By Insinq Datum5 years ago in Poets
