David E. Birren writes:
>Paul Rousseau asks:
>
>>Help me understand how I can deal _directly_ with reality.
>
>Mindfulness. Whatever it takes to get out of your own "stuff." I prefer
>the Taoist path as outlined in the Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell
>translation), and the Buddhist path as interpreted by Jack Kornfield and
>Jon Kabat-Zinn, but I'm not dogmatic about it. Marcus Aurelius had a lot
>to say about the same thing, in his popularly titled "Meditations." Names
>and titles don't matter, as long as you remember that having a point of
>view is the best indication that the only reality you're seeing is your
>own.
>
>I hope this helps.
It does and triggered another idea. I've been reading a lot about
dialogue and I wonder if during very good dialogue session there is a
brief moment during the transition from ego to collective mind that
encouters with 'reality' happen. I'n not sure what the markers would be.
I would guess it would involve profound clarity and openess. And if this
experience could happen simultaneously among all of those in the dialogue
session, perhaps this is the moment of breakthrough.
I would be great if we describe in minute details the physiology of this
moment, the space between the loss of ego and the move to collective mind
where one deals more directly with external events.
Neuro-Linguistic Programing practitioners model physiological states and
try to describe them with such detail that they can then be 'installed' in
another human to replicate the state and, theoretically, the capabilities
that go along with that state. NLP folks also talk about 'anchoring'
(classical self-conditioning) these states so we can move in into them at
will.
This way we could deal with reality _or_ jump into our ego's at will.
create a larger 'mind' and that there is a brief period before this larger
mind develops a collective mind (with all the disadvantages of individual
ego's) that
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