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  1. Apr 2025
    1. And yet it wasn’tlike hugging myself either. As I said, it’s hard to describe. These words, so rootedin separateness, do not convey simply by stating the concept of nonseparatenesswhat the experience of it was like. It was orders of magnitude different andmore profound than any flow state I have experienced. I was simultaneously

      for - Lisa's indescribable experience - gestalt switch - perspective switch

      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. 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