Looking, Direct-Knowing, Gnosis, ~Trust

created 2023-05-06 · edited 2023-05-07 · open in Roam

gnosis
there's a capacity that everybody has, but for some people it's offline/repressed etc, in some contexts
my gloss on it is "I can tell for myself"
- (and nobody can tell me otherwise)
- part of the whole deal of NNTD is that "I don't/can't trust you/this" is ALWAYS something you can tell for yourself
- nobody can tell you that you should trust them!
- they can say "here are my credentials" or "have you noticed how I'm doing X, not Y?" but then the trusting or distrusting just happens
my friend & colleague Michael "Valentine" Smith is doing a bunch of stuff with this
- here's a vid of his that's probably about this (I haven't watched it but the title feels right)
  - this one might also be
    - youtube.com/watch?v=vk_OYkDJ_lA
- he also explains it in relation to math here
  - Wise Knowing
- he also wrote this post, which talks about it as Looking
  - Kenshō
  - which has some follow-ups from others
    - My attempt to explain Looking
    - Looking and the no-self

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seems like some aspects of blindspot feedback need to be different depending on ~whether someone knows how to Look
- if someone knows how to Look, you can be like "I want to point something out to you, but I trust you to check for yourself and not let my story of it override"
- if someone doesn't know how to Look (or not fluently? I'm confused about what it means to HAVE this skill... it seems kinda binary but also obviously someone can be more or less capable (in general and in a given moment))