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Really good. I too feel we are on the cusp of new epoch. I think this is why the neo-feudalists are fighting so hard now, because they feel it too and are trying to prevent it. I agree on the pitfalls of ultra-specialization. Your concepts of the True Self remind me of a psychotherapuetic approach called "Internal Family Systems", where the True Self is ultimately recognisable by the eight C’s;

Calm

Curiosity

Compassion

Confidence

Courage

Clarity

Connectedness

Creativity;

and the 4 P’s

Patience

Presence

Perspective

Perseverance

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All of those ideas are embedded in what I have been working on for twenty years. I’ve read some on family systems. Looks like I need to dig deeper.

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Jan 26, 2023
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I agree. Change is normal. No change is problematic. But goes further and deeper than that. This afternoon driving back from Florida, I was listening to Iain McGlichrist read the introduction to his book, The Matter With Things. He makes a similar case for a host of concepts like hairs, simplicity, and complexity. I’ll butcher what he said, but basically this concepts are perception of of our left brain’s narrow rationalistic approach to phenomena. The right brain sees something different. This concepts are treated as incongruities. I believe he is saying that they don’t exist as we perceive them. Instead, my perspective on what I thought I heard him say, they are normal ways of operating.

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Jan 27, 2023
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Very.

BTW, not hairs, but chaos

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