Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Jordan B Peterson"
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Symbolically, "resurrection" = "reincarnation"...uh-oh, problem...49:30--Jordan gets into "time"...Perhaps, gentlemen, consider: God's purpose is the redemption of the matter of which you are constituted AND with which you have contact! Then, that matter is made responsive to spiritual gravity--it becomes directly useful for God in His greater purpose, which it is impossible to consider. Matter has an infinity of grades, densities, from the most (or nearly most) dense that we are familiar with to the most subtle which is God. The density immediately above (more subtle, less dense) the grossly material is the most problematic for us. It is a grade of matter highly malleable for us: emotional. We are the masters of our own misery. Our individual efforts to find God, to the degree they are competent, redeem the matter of our being, of whatever grade, furthering God's Grand Plan. Count me in...I want to participate in the cosmic adventure. Sure beats anything atheism has to offer!
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Self-hypnosis, autosuggestion, can be very useful in self-control techniques. For instance, a post-hypnotic suggestion to "relax" can be programmed to be triggered by a word or phrase you utter. The disruption caused by sudden full-body muscle relaxation, even to a minor degree, weakens the prevailing emotional state, perhaps enough to regain greater control--even, "the upper hand". "Trance induction" is the centerpiece of the practice of self-hypnosis, and relies on full-body relaxation being a somewhat accomplished skill. The process is methodical: resting horizontally...breathe easily...starting with one foot, tense the muscle(s) for a few seconds, then relax those foot muscles completely...the relaxation is a "feeling" to remember...Do the same with the other foot, and so on up the body to the neck...and head (relaxing the head muscles is kinda weird feeling; head and neck together is simpler...I still have a hard time tensing the skull muscles--doing they even exist, I don't know). It can take 30 minutes to completely relax the body musculature in this process--and 30 days before you can manage to STAY AWAKE! But once accomplished, this is the hypnotic trance state. The first thing to do is instantiate a post-hypnotic suggestion to instantly induce this trance state, usually upon thinking a trigger word/phrase of your design.
The trance state, itself? Well, it's all you really need to enable you to do what you want to do with yourself.
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"The natural bandwidth of consciousness"?...eh...argh...I gotta backtrack...to
2:40--first proposition: "To see the world we must prioritize our perceptions." The ant on the sidewalk is less important than the car on the driveway?? They seem to agree that this process is not deliberate, though the phrasing of the proposition implied otherwise. "Body", "spirit", "mind/abstract intent"...Jordan wants to bring the academic approach into intrapersonal significance. These terms, and others like it, make a good bridge. "The process has to be dynamic and self-organizing"...uh, what means, "self-organizing"?...hehehe...V's kicking the can down the road..."A hierarchy of transformation from mind to body" is a good start, Jordan! I think the pattern of the body as transcribed in DNA is the pre-existing "dynamic and self-organizing" process that initiates the sensory system upon the foundation of the physical body. The natural urge to complexification abstracts the basic sensory level to an intermediate level of "sub-processing", where the sensory signals are filtered and modified, producing a "desensitization" effect, where we are allowed to ignore unimportant low-level sensory signals...it's efficient to do so. The same thing happens when you move your finger. The guitarist trains his fingers to do things the average fingers don't do. He instantiates habits of movement that, after practiced, become triggerable operations...it's efficient to do so. The "habit nature" is vast and powerful. You can use it at will--or it can use YOU without your will.
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In our self-conscious awareness, in the sphere of spirit, there is only spirit..."beings". In the most personal way we deal with things as if they were people; we anthropomorphize everything in order to appreciate its meaning value. In the mental sphere, there are only ideational processes, operating on human values, but we still see these processes as "beings". In the emotional sphere, there are only habits, persistent structures of stimulus/response cycles which we see and interact with as "beings". In the physical sphere there is only sensation, pleasure and pain by direct contact; this is where we get the whole idea of "beings" as they are all around us, as people, animals, insects.
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