What else is possible?
What can I try?
What can I do?
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Just had an intuitive hit that gave a bit more insight into the career strategy and orientation of the INFP.
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Yes, and?
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- An inward facing orientation to a discipline, view, or project that is more about oneself and one’s experience of the world than about a job, task, or external goal, or a service provided to others. This may be, for the INFP, the foundation of true vocation. The job or the work emanates from this, but is neither the core nor the purpose of it. I thought of the great astrologer, Steven Forrest. He has been on a decades-long project to deepen and align his own understanding. The consultations that he offers to others are secondary to that. Another image would be the oracle at Delphi. The main orientation of that person is what they are doing at the temple, day after day: devotions, meditations, ritual practices, etc. Then at particular times, they open up that space for visitors to enter, and drawing from that fund or fountain of inner engagement, they offer a singular perspective or consultation to the visitor. And the visitor pays in some way. So this is similar to the conventional job. But after the visitors leave, the oracle returns to the primary work.
An extraverted society frames and defines you in term of what you do, the deals you make, the goals you meet, the works you perform. This will never satisy Introverted Feeling. It is primarily directed towards an establishment and expansion of coherence and integration. The elaboration of a lived worldview or ontology.
- Eugene Gendlin’s ‘felt sense’ as the intellectual expression of introverted Feeling.
The great psychological philosopher Eugene Gendlin seems to me to have been describing and outlining exactly the process of how introverted Feeling grows, creates, explores, and establishes. The steps of his Focusing are a guide for the introverted Feeler. Both a guide to the ‘How’ and a guide to the ‘What’ and ‘Why’.
Those are my attempts to express some of that non-verbal intuition from yesterday.
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current mood: I have this strange hopeful feeling.
Hope is a kind of enthusiastic anticipation of positive developments.
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Hey, @Malkuth just saw an old comment from you when @Nataraja liked one of my replies to that comment:
And wanted to say thank you; you the man @Malkuth
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What are you dealing with other than Sensations?
Come to terms with sensations.
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Mind is the Easel
Awareness is the Canvas
Sensations are the Pigments
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Sometimes I look at people and get a quick glimpse of the entire life cycle. It can be disorienting.
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Softer, more permeable feel to this morning’s meditation.
Won’t deny that it was refreshing.
Lots of laggy, foot-dragging energy these days. Have done a number of evening meditations due to getting moving more slowly at the start of the day.
Today I managed the morning meditation; but am still moving slowly.
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Observe this sphere (this space) of Experiencing
Explore its limits and potential.
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Noticed a slight step of development/advancement in my phenomenological engagement practice (i.e., meditation).
This is an interesting area because deepened intimacy with your ignorance and limitation–those things often framed as failure–comprises significant progress.
I suppose anyone engaged in a process of Exploration has a similar experience.
If your aim is to extend and elaborate a map, and all you see are features and spaces with which you are already familiar, then you might be failing. On the other hand, if you find yourself confronted with new and unknown conditions and vistas, then things are progressing on plan.
It’s helpful for me to notice–even slightly–the shifting contours and limitations of my sphere of awareness.
Solipsism is, to some extent, unavoidable; but we can harness it in the direction of learning and growth.
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Sometimes after meditation, if there’s a sufficiently clear intuition in awareness, I’ll write it down. And also sometimes, occasionally, I’ll offer it to the AI Language Learning model, to dialogue and process it through that set of perspectives.
I did that just now with the previous post. Here is the ‘interaction’.
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Those responses from Claude feel pretty useful to me.
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Don’t get upset because someone who is unfamiliar with what you’re doing, misunderstands what you’re doing.
This is just an invitation for you to learn to stand on your own two feet.
You wish to be free and independent and autonomous? Well, when you are, such misunderstandings will not upset you in the same way. So take your upset as a sign of the work that you still need to do.
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There are aspects of my stack that feel like they’re just now beginning to perceivably come online.
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First, clear the land, then build your house.
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For me, the magickal mindset entails something like this: Everyday, waking consciousness is a generated agglomeration of orientations (sets), reference points, and perceptions/sensations. This agglomeration is a generated, contrivance of mind (albeit a crucially important contrivance).
There is an Ocean: Mind. Within that ocean, in order to establish a sense of location, place, and center, nodes of ice are formed within that vast expanse of flow and current. Standing on the iceberg creates an artificial sense of center; but that sense of Center and Location is so compelling, and so conveniently and easily attached to, that its contrivance is subverted, elided, and inverted.
The Ocean now seems, from this vantage point, to be the encroaching chaotic threat to the ‘orderly’ iceberg that has ‘always’ been the true center and fundamental reference point of existence. It’s an understandable illusion. Specificity, no matter how contrived, is easier to focus on and to regard as ‘real’ or ‘legitimate’.
When awareness stands on the solidity of the iceberg, benefiting from its apparently solid and stable ‘this-ness’, and yet, remembering the actual state of affairs, connects to the shifting inchoate flowing space around it as the actual source and foundation, a balance between the solid and the mutable, the ‘orderly’ and the ‘chaotic’, now becomes possible. Flexibility has been attained, and the possibility of intentional transformation has been opened.
This, for me, is the magickal mindset—an ontological reformation; a ‘remembrance’ of the genuine state of affairs.
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If someone wants to break up with you, and you have absolutely no idea why; that means they are probably right. (and vice versa).
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This man is one of my musical role models. It’s fun to hear how transparent and straight-forward his descriptions of his work and his life are.
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