When googling “Courtesan training” your post is the second result and the rest doesn’t clarify anything. Similarly with your taxonomy of “Somatics, Rhetoric, Psychology”, in your last section you mentioned “traditions” that train each of the three skills, what traditions are you referring to? Is this an esoteric buddhist thing? The only thing that comes to my mind is that maybe pickup artistry somewhat fits with your “Psychology” concept, but other than that,[1] your definitions are too atypical to make searching practicable. In essence, I’m asking—”Can you point to any prior work/traditions or are you the first person to propose this frame?”
Was this sentence also written by AI? In contrast to this other comment, it has the same interesting-if-true and does-not-quite-fit-together-ness as the OP.
From a human, my response would be that this, if true, is something I did not know and would like to hear more about.
From an AI, it’s trash. I have no reason to suppose there is anything behind it, nor, if I asked it to elaborate, would I expect to see anything but more of the same.
When googling “Courtesan training” your post is the second result and the rest doesn’t clarify anything.
Similarly with your taxonomy of “Somatics, Rhetoric, Psychology”, in your last section you mentioned “traditions” that train each of the three skills, what traditions are you referring to? Is this an esoteric buddhist thing? The only thing that comes to my mind is that maybe pickup artistry somewhat fits with your “Psychology” concept, but other than that,[1] your definitions are too atypical to make searching practicable.
In essence, I’m asking—”Can you point to any prior work/traditions or are you the first person to propose this frame?”
GPT-5.2 suggested Gendlin’s focusing might fit into “Somatics”
Esoteric Buddhist practice the most powerful tradition I know of for training somatic perception.
Was this sentence also written by AI? In contrast to this other comment, it has the same interesting-if-true and does-not-quite-fit-together-ness as the OP.
From a human, my response would be that this, if true, is something I did not know and would like to hear more about.
From an AI, it’s trash. I have no reason to suppose there is anything behind it, nor, if I asked it to elaborate, would I expect to see anything but more of the same.