tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post1432348852386234056..comments2024-03-28T03:31:42.278-07:00Comments on Chiron: Windows 1Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08483616030072739190noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-9902238437602271592010-07-14T08:14:41.097-07:002010-07-14T08:14:41.097-07:00Chris- I assume so. There are an awful lot of thi...Chris- I assume so. There are an awful lot of things that I'm ignorant about. That's the nature of blindspots.<br /><br />Sorry, Jonas. I only had about twenty minutes to write this and I forgot the titling part. I'll take care of it.<br /><br />Kai- Yes. But there is a qualitative difference that I'm trying to map my head around. One is frame of reference. In human imagination, soaring is fascinating, fun, pure freedom... raptor specialists tell me that flying is so exhausting and even soaring demanding that big birds avoid it as much as possible and they fly for food, not fun. Without a frame of reference, it's easy to meditate into a huge field of horseshit. The other problem are the people who visualize dishonestly, without true empathy and telling a story they will like. (Not you, my friend, but it's really common among the people I try to reach.)<br /><br />Tiff- Lot's of things are just big Rorschach Tests. When reading or hearing responses, it's important to winnow out the question the person chose to hear.<br /><br />Maija- Exactly. Because of crowding we rarely got new bookings except for person-to-person crimes, so my sample population was more violent than normal, but the underlying attitude was the same.<br /><br />Rory<br /><br />BTW en route to Colorado right now, stopped at a coffee shop in Utah for accessRoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08483616030072739190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-11571456167494440822010-07-14T07:13:40.589-07:002010-07-14T07:13:40.589-07:00Back in my early 20s I worked in a pub frequented ...Back in my early 20s I worked in a pub frequented by some guys that I guess would be described as a resources predators (non violent, and much milder types than you describe in your post)- car thieves/con men/drug dealers - out for a lark, and completely amoral. I have this memory of having a conversation one day with one of them, and him saying to me "I'm going to try as hard as I can to get what I want. You KNOW what I'm like, so if you fall for it, you deserve it".<br />He was right - and it was the last time I 'lent' him money!<br />I am forever grateful for that conversation - it was a great lesson, and has held me in good stead through the rest of my life.Maijahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18264657619197571965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-17118330913471952422010-07-13T17:59:15.756-07:002010-07-13T17:59:15.756-07:00I think there's a lot of insight into the psyc...I think there's a lot of insight into the psyche -- the true 'self" -- of an individual based on their answer to your question.Tiffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14353406161801417939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-16192881435130542682010-07-13T17:16:48.567-07:002010-07-13T17:16:48.567-07:00Once when I was a young teen I pretended for an en...Once when I was a young teen I pretended for an entire weekend that my father had died--as an experiment in grief. It was actually convincingly similar to what I experienced more than 30 years later when my mother died. <br /><br />I would approach this lesson through guided meditation. I am planning it in my head but I won't type it all out here, as it will be long and maybe more revealing than I want to post online. <br /><br />Another approach would be to ask students to write a biography of a predator, justifying the predator's choices as reasonable responses to the horrible things they'd endured (e.g., child abuse), and then comparing them to someone who went through the same bad experiences but chose not to become a predator. <br /><br />Maybe the extrapolation practice could work if they started with someone they know who is extremely self-centered. I mean, infants and toddlers don't think about your rights, don't have empathy, aren't constrained by fellow-feeling or respect; imagine an adult whose emotional development was still on that level.Kai Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13319136737099550784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-85964654298148666372010-07-13T10:03:07.776-07:002010-07-13T10:03:07.776-07:00No maps for these territories. No titles for these...No maps for these territories. No titles for these posts.Master Planhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14699687565908188376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-66451126172347268092010-07-12T16:10:21.059-07:002010-07-12T16:10:21.059-07:00Have you ever met anyone who regards you and your ...Have you ever met anyone who regards you and your relationship to violence, in the same manner as you regard the people you write about?Chrishttp://www.martialdevelopment.com/blog/noreply@blogger.com