A very useful [[meditation]] by [[Lidia Zylowska]] that asks the listener to focus on their thoughts. Seems similar to [[Mahamudra chopping]] (a la [[Loch Kelly]]). Possibly needs to be adapted for those with [[aphantasia]] or [[people who don't have inner speech]].

• for: cognitive B journey
  • relationship to other people through time

• Guided mediation

  • We are all related

• comment

  • further study the reasoning

• Guided meditation
  • When did your life begin?
  • Regress to your mother's egg divided to determine which gene to pass on to you.
    • this, while inside her mother's womb
  • Regress 40 generations for 1000 years (average lifespan was 25 years!)
  • Regress a billion years, then 4 billion
  • With each regression stage, your ancestors were other species and ultimately, nonbiotic life as well.
• comment
  • this has limitations as well, as it is bu ilt on scientific narratives subject to change.

• Guided meditation
  • consciousness thinking about its own atomic constituent

• Carbon cycle meditation

  • to help achieve awareness of our physical connection to the world

• Comment

  • This is a limited practice as it still depends on conceptual models.
  • An atom is not an object we can directly experience phenomenologically.
  • Rather, it is a conceptual model and through social norm of using it as if it were phenomenologically a directly experienced object, we confuse ideas of phenomena with the phenomena itself
  • One way to determine if it is a fundamental human quality or if it is simply one narrative, is to determine if there are people such an exercise would NOT resonate with?
    • For instance, it would likely not resonate strongly with
      • climate deniers,
      • uneducated people
      • religious fundamentalists
  • to develop a method to reach ALL people, we need to look at even more fundamental commonalities - namely, how we use language to mediate reality
  • Perhaps a BEing journey can consist of two lievels
    • 1st level: conceptual
      • do the BEing journey as described using conventional concepts
    • 2nd level: meta-level
      • observe how you construct the narrative using language
  • it could be good to animate this with AI drawing program

• comment
  • these guided meditations are interesting because they are one level of our superorganism (consciousness)
    • thinking about a lower level of the same human superorganism
      • carbon molecule that was part of us
      • genetic material that was part of our ancestors going back billions of years