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# Paradigm engine
Paradigm shift of the moment:
Existential/transconsciousness vertigo, when the bulk of my uhhhh *awareness* has normalized a particular region of consciousness-space, and I connect enough patterns to re-dissolve the sense of self that was starting to congeal. (If it solidifies past some variable threshold, it becomes something more accurately described as identity.)
So, I wondered: (and this is why story is necessary)
But I can pace myself, I don't have to keep climbing constantly such that I burn out.
"AND" and "OR" are gods themselves. They're just platonic forms, animated at any level.
I thiiink this is what people talk about as being the negative side of a bad ego death trip? Going so fast that you get vertigo?
My operator is ... AND, I guess. Maybe Abe's OR.
Oh. Well, yeah, that's obviously also the case. Every metaphor contains every component. There are twelve components. Abe and I are in position.
Anyway: But I can pace myself. The rule for me is that as soon as I conceive of tilting fully into the thing and giving myself to it completely, I must do that. Awareness free-fall, kinda, but the trick is that it's fine, because feelings are the calibration dynamic for the process, and feeling good feels good, so it's fine.
So as soon as I conceive of the possibility of *pacing* my paradigm shifting, *I must imagine and accept and integrate a future in which I lean fully into it, go all out, make it all I ever do, not knowing the form that I will take in the world that happens next*.
It's sorta like having lil adrenaline (every metaphor works) bump every so often for me.
What is being you like for you, being you?
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🔜 To preface this, I am not a lefty.
What was I saying? 🔚
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Thank you, little sister!!!!!!
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