Ideating on Hemisphere Exploration meditations
- (eg for a session on The Stoa)
- Some of these ideas codeveloped with
- consider the phrase "you can't step in the same river twice".
- Can you feel inside you a perspective from which that statement is obviously false?
- Like, fucking of course you can step in the same river twice. You just do it. Step in, step out, step in, you're done.
- That's how the world looks from your left hemisphere.
- Can you feel inside you a perspective from which the statement is obviously true?
- Where the river and you are flowing processes and so the whole notion of "same river" is absurd to begin with and the proverb just serves to highlight as much.
- That's how the world looks from your right hemisphere.
- Other phrases to do this with, perhaps:
- RH-true
- The only constant is change.
- Everything changes and nothing stands still.
- < more heraclitus quotes >
- < daoist quotes? >
- < what else? >
- LH-true
- < maybe some in Notes on McGilchrist re Religion & Sprituality >>
- Something about finding the perspective from which "adding" or "subtracting" anything from a real system is absurd
- I think this relates to what people talk about with "wholeness"
- and I would contrast it with the enoughness meditation that I was just listening to
- this also relates to Change doesn't just happen, because "just" implies a lack of relationship
- relates to Belief Reporting and the "almondcount" experiments
- something about blindspots and self-justifying thoughts
- when I read the section in TMAHE about the RH stroke patients doing absurd things like denying their arms were paralyzed, I found myself thinking "I would not be that dumb if I had a stroke" and then it suddenly struck me that that thought was coming from exactly the part that would be that dumb.
- and it feels like there could be an interesting sort of short guided mindblowing meditation based on that experience I had
- oh huuuh
- I'm not sure what that would look like (the meditation)
- my response to that section was "wow I don't ever want an RH stroke bc I would probably do that"
- From a friend's private twitter account
- I challenge you to see the history of everything around you for the next two minutes
E.g. “this wall exists, crap, somebody had to literally build it out of whatever”
Can be anything
As long as you remain aware of everything around you
- something about the difference between fungibility & uniqueness/context-tracking etc:
- @selentelechia: I think the latter translates well to an exercise. considering [thing], identifying ways in which it's fungible, just a thing like other things of the same category, etc, and then switching into the context of the thing. back and forth
- Also this, re blood flow: