Globway — Table of Contents

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working title 14
quotes 145
byline 4
collaborators and credits 41
copyright 46
quick start guide 446
- who is this document for? 770
funding 28
canonical location of this document 8
closely related external resources 108
(hyper)linking/(deep)linking/(anchor)linking soft guarantees 71
full table of contents 1669
preliminary and introductory things 15
- document-level meta-warning 2197
- epistemic status disclaimer 203
- risks; maximally cautious warnings/directives (first-pass, without explanation) 1107
- but what actually makes it risky?; how do risks obtain, when they do? 2806
- an exoteric doctrine v0.2 1087
- an esoteric doctrine ("going full buddhist?" / "is this full buddhist?" / "is this even buddhist?" / "never go full buddhist"\*) 575
- introduction; getting over the hump; text interpretation 989
- preconceiving, direct reifying [draft] 1129
opinionated, telic, soteriological things 15
- goal (draft) 1375
- end state (draft!) 959
- no fixed conceptualized goal or end state part one ("goodness") 1478
- no fixed conceptualized goal or end state part two ("better") 768
- meditation is concrete problem solving 1444
- wellbeing and sacrifice 1701
- ok-ness and cosmology 3609
- seamless hyphenation [draft] 1424
- other practices (draft) 235
practice preliminaries 13
- timeline, mindset, trajectory, harm 28
practice 131
- nuts and bolts considerations 15
- top-level practices/categories 13
lists and more 39
- nonmonotonicity 144
- definitions 289
- undefined and explications 149
- bodymindenvironment 63
- can’t-look-yet ("avoidance") 382
- systematicity, ontologies, phenomenological and otherwise 505
- exhaustivity and bottlenecks 276
- ordering matters / order matters 599
- (mental) action and the attentional manifold 73
- the use of the will 322
- a note on force (plus a brief mention of "redo-to-undo") 532
- a brief note on effort 281
- more on "undo" 710
- meditating by coincidence 92
- failure and other seemingly permanent and bad things 262
- how bad does it have to get? 641
- regarding "better not to start; if you start better to finish" (draft) 367
- extremity replay and creativity: panic, trauma, sexual arousal 733
- x-desires, fulfillment, transformation, discussion 1104
- how to know what you want or what your goals are (barely edited transcript excerpt): 1298
- taking refuge (can reshape the local environment and world; global wayfinding through late-stage); art, creativity as whole, part, or beginning of that 1995
- on falling asleep and utilizing sleep 804
- complex breathing-related puzzles 489
- working with hypoarousal and (and somewhat separately but relatedly) medical fear and uncertainty (draft): 2500
- note on letting go 406
- a gentle onramp 535
- good(ness) bad(ness) 412
- some "big" useful concepts 32
- poem of self/other confusion and interdependence 143
- is good, is bad (q) 704
- states 261
- invitation of acceptance 65
- nutrition 1347
- theory-driven (/ theory-harmonizing-equilibriating) intuitive/interoceptive nutrition and eating 8007
- typology of pain and suffering in terms of when to try meditation (experimental) 372
- historical and contemporary difficulties and uncertainties of life [experimental section] 144
- superstitious meditation, muscle tension, and will 1356
- a brief and incomplete theory of muscle tension risk in meditation 1015
- neutral postures, somatization, desomatization, muscle tension, etc. 2580
- CO2 tolerance 461
- electrolytes 980
- metabolic traps with respect to meditation 887
- balancing solve and dissolve 36
- sleep and distraction 402
- clarification on muscle contraction and stretching versus chronic muscle tension 221
- positive dwelling in inability 1733
- when things get worse again--burn-off, integration, suppression, unsuppression 916
- integration, settling, unsettling, resettling, locality, globality, unity (draft) 1092
- last gasps 504
- worse for no reason, more X in general, and wisdom 1749
- involuntary movement, semi-involuntary movement, kriyas 996
- kundalini 391
- can't talk 332
- when/if things are bad / (not your) fault / determinism 1071
- being (not) ok tangles 320
- being (forcibly) ok tangles (h) 464
- brief note on space and sensations 244
- raw/bare sensations contra "always on" (possibly misleading early draft) 1938
- brief, loosely related notes on unknotting, untwisting, untangling 611
- attention is not fundamental 102
- "inner space" and physical/social grace 188
- dark phenomenology and presence/absence conceptions 417
- seeming "boundary" phenomenology 456
- when bad is good 661
- bad chaos, dissolution, distintegration 448
- upstream causes of ordering errors 383
- prenatal experiences, the fetal position, and other 'be moved bottlenecks' 539
- daily limits 1651
- advanced postures and pitfalls 1531
- picking up where you left off 797
- menstrual cycle 990
- blood pressure, etc: 672
- equanimity, no such thing and lock-and-key stuff 848
- autonomic vulnerability, autonomic nudity, autonomic alignment (rough draft) 1069
- pushing away, holding at bay, preconceiving, direct-reifying 1398
- brief thoughts on substances like psychedelics 401
- getting triggered, usefulness and risks 419
- some narrowly conceived phenomenological investigations that may or may not be useful 4142
- inappropriate reification (stub) 29
- a dialogue between N and Mark, on reasoning and pre-reasoning 2365
- bridge building and dialogue 15
  - bridge building 13
    - making connections between my stuff and lineage traditions, in three parts (draft!) 130
    - making (sometimes straw) distinctions between my stuff and other stuff 21
  - open informal response on social media to someone in a contemporary practice scene 543
- a note on "making progress," "regression," and redo-to-undo 721
- on suffering 864
- inner peace placeholder 9
- love placeholder 293
- wellbeing placeholder 23
- autonomic harmony placeholder 1248
- far reaches of meditation (no particular order [yet]) 19
  - on groundlessness, a brief note 1480
  - dreamlikeness 15
  - stub158da1a2b [intentional] 17
  - naturalization 1354
  - cautions in favor of mere immediacy as sufficiency for any global grounding 1175
  - impersonalization and environmentalization 968
  - rebalancing/balancing effortlessness and doing 1132
  - vague sketch of progression, with respect to emptiness and groundlessness 653
  - touchstones sort of leaving out or only weakly interacting with "wisdom" and morality ("at least one sense in which") 2468
  - tweets / shitposts 366
  - temp catch-all 7
  - vulnerability (physical and otherwise, cf. suffering) [stub] 232
  - that won't work 608
  - crappy timeline guidelines 908
  - endlessness vs impermanence (scratch/stub) 307
  - holy/(sacred?) mystery (scratch/stub) 150
  - void (nothingness, cessation(s), nibbana, nirvana [stub/scratch] 400
  - evil (far reaches) [stub/scratch] 332
  - eternity, suffering, death 5698
  - emptiness (far reaches) [stub/scratch] 299
  - nonduality (far reaches) [stub/scratch] 1175
  - impermanence (far reaches) [stub/scratch] 44
  - subjectivity, self, I-ness, ego, identity, awareness, doer, watcher and all that (far reaches) [stub/scratch] 107
  - suffering (far reaches) [stub/scratch] 5
  - making sense (far reaches) [stub/scratch] 361
  - self-love [stub/scratch] 142
- on meaning, goodness, badness, aboutness, intentionality, secondary properties 330
- a dialogue on wayfinding, homunculi, parts, goodness, agency, harmony, interdependence 1279
- a brief dialogue on locality and concreteness 475
- clockworks metaphor (tweezers, scale, emptiness, locality) 242
- sex, gender, etc. stuff 15
  - working with sex and gender (plus "tantra") 983
- stuff stuff 13
  - don't be here now (to start) 695
  - normalcy, crackpotty-ness, wisdom, craziness, competency [stub/draft] 503
  - "false ends" (messy first draft) 1036
  - surface areas and the radically personal (draft) 1753
- subtle interaction 13
  - "psychic" and "supernatural" stuff; what/how/how-not [draft] 4279
  - self and other; good and bad [draft] 2283
  - prenatal experiences and subtle interaction 1738
  - direct and indirect people and group stuff 386
  - on vibe(s) and vibing, briefly 115
  - distinctions 284
  - on parts, demons, egregores 264
  - axes of individuation with relation to value judgments (transcript) 1703
  - spiritwork manifesto thing (snapshot) 3210
- character, personality, ego, virtue. sovereignty. outside view. cultural, familial good/bad reversals (draft) 3097
- civilizational stuff 13
  - buddhas, anti-buddhas, civilization, and the importance of method [draft] 3190
  - sketching alternatives to straw realism (international and group relations) [draft!][2500 words] 2764
  - karma, losslessness, developmental stage models, violence, world; including Ken Wilber and Robert Kegan (draft; 6000 words) 6261
- mark's approximate practice timeline summary highlights 4513
- farther to fall and sometimes just plain wrong 1197
- arational coherence \[draft] 495
- miscellaneous pith notes 1118
neuroscience speculative snapshots 14
- neuroscience and meditation, odds and ends [2022-02-09] 3693
- more neuroscience odds and ends 2022-02-10 279
- neuroscience, meditation, rationality, folk psychology, and sensorimotor processing 19
  - crowley, chads, rationality, and the unification of will 3500
  - enlightenment, sensorimotor processing, love 2181
- brief discussion on generalization 455
teaching and learning and creating and relating (meditation and anything) 21
- teaching 12
- embodied learning 13
- epistemics 12
- relating 12
  - in-relationship foreclosing legacy of past interaction [stub] 42
- creating 12
  - randomness/arbitrariness, unpunished, as necessary data [not yet written] 28
- lineage and pedagogy 14
  - lineages and transformative works 1936
  - on thinking and rigor and pedagogy in meditation instruction 1824
bibliography (incomplete) 3596
appendix 1: preliminary/auxiliary practices (names only) 3696
appendix 2: preliminary/auxiliary practices (full) 37465
appendix 3: main practice p1 appendix (usa english; "en-us") 5127
appendix 4: worst case culture/community stuff 13934
appendix 5: subtle interaction 7528
appendix 6: death LARPs 2103
appendix 7: jhana and yoga nidra for long covid (and other things) (draft, experimental) 4020
appendix 8: acute and chronic ill-health LARPs 213
appendix 9: gricean and yin-yang analysis 216
appendix 10: communicating feelings (spicy) (draft) 1707
appendix 11: language and the "causal body" (scratch; draft) 720
appendix 12: language and perspective taking (scratch; draft) 280
appendix 13: narrative writing bibliography (messy) 20655
appendix 14: resolved (usually) temporary notes 1467