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  1. Apr 2025
    1. I had a profound experienceof oneness. Although I am not sure that this description is “accurate” in anyobjective sense, it conveys my experience.

      for - Lisa's profound meditative experience - gestalt switch - perspective switch - no words to describe the experience - novel experience, no words exist to describe

      comment - Lisa talks about finding it difficult to describe this experience - When we have entirely new experiences that are radically different from anything we've had before, - we have no reference system to describe it, the words don't exist, while the novel experience does. - This becomes an invitation to extend language, knowing however, that language itself is always dualistic and symbolic

  2. Jun 2024
    1. It was enclosed in scare quotes, a sort of acknowledgment that the author knew it was non-standard, but was too apt for the purpose to resist. I remember reading it and trying to think of the “real” word that would be employed there, but could not find a satisfactory alternative. Since then, I’ve found myself unable to resist using the word when appropriate, due to its utility!

      "too apt for the purpose to resist" :kiss:

  3. Jan 2021
  4. Jun 2020