Sometimes we’re at a functional local maxima, but we’re not pointed in the right direction globally, and frankly speaking our lack of a high energy parameter is our saving grace – our inability to directly muck up our emotional landscape.
I’ve heard a similar story in meditation circles about why integration work is important: greater awakening enables greater agency/freedom-of-action, and without integration, virtue, and ethics (these are traditionally combined via the paramita of sila) that can be dangerous because it can let a person run off in personally dangerous or socially bad directions that they were previously only managing not to because they weren’t more capable, essentially protecting themselves from themselves with their own failure.
Right—one question that Milan Griffes asked me was, “how can you tell if you should trust your aesthetic?”
Presumably integration practices should make it more trustworthy, but would be nice to have a good heuristic for when it’s trustworthy (and when pushing with meditation/psychedelics might be safe) vs untrustworthy (and they would be a bad idea).
I’ve heard a similar story in meditation circles about why integration work is important: greater awakening enables greater agency/freedom-of-action, and without integration, virtue, and ethics (these are traditionally combined via the paramita of sila) that can be dangerous because it can let a person run off in personally dangerous or socially bad directions that they were previously only managing not to because they weren’t more capable, essentially protecting themselves from themselves with their own failure.
Right—one question that Milan Griffes asked me was, “how can you tell if you should trust your aesthetic?”
Presumably integration practices should make it more trustworthy, but would be nice to have a good heuristic for when it’s trustworthy (and when pushing with meditation/psychedelics might be safe) vs untrustworthy (and they would be a bad idea).