I once participated in an ice water test. I maxxed out on the timer because I felt like it. Thinking that’s a willpower test is really not great science, “put your hand in the ice bucket for as long as you like”, “what’s the max time?” it really wasn’t an effective measure and I hope I didn’t break their experiment.
Specifically this is about encouraging people to choose the spiritual pull over the animalistic pull. Not alignment but rather choice.
Although I personally suspect that your options for congruence include picking one, picking the other or trying to find alignment.
Re animalistic self vs spiritual self: I’m confused too. I’d just label them as two subagents, but then why call one spiritual.
Perhaps you could say that spirituality is about giving the spiritual subagent more space by aligning other subagents with it.
Maybe the spiritual self is not a subagent but the agent, constituting of a subset of your subagents that are already aligned.
There was a study where people that recited religious memes had a lot more willpower (they held their hands in ice water much longer).
I once participated in an ice water test. I maxxed out on the timer because I felt like it. Thinking that’s a willpower test is really not great science, “put your hand in the ice bucket for as long as you like”, “what’s the max time?” it really wasn’t an effective measure and I hope I didn’t break their experiment.
Specifically this is about encouraging people to choose the spiritual pull over the animalistic pull. Not alignment but rather choice.
Although I personally suspect that your options for congruence include picking one, picking the other or trying to find alignment.