Globway Global Wayfinding Meditation — an interactive reading of Mark Lippmann's protocol
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  • colophon ★
  • quick start guide ★
    • who is this document for? ★
  • closely related external resources ★
  • full table of contents ★
  • preliminary and introductory things ★
    • document-level meta-warning ★
    • epistemic status disclaimer ★
    • risks; maximally cautious warnings/directives (first-pass, without explanation) ★
    • but what actually makes it risky?; how do risks obtain, when they do? ★
    • an exoteric doctrine v0.2 ★
    • an esoteric doctrine ("going full buddhist?" / "is this full buddhist?" / "is this even buddhist?" / "never go full buddhist"\*) ★
    • introduction; getting over the hump; text interpretation ★
    • preconceiving, direct reifying [draft] ★
  • opinionated, telic, soteriological things ★
    • goal (draft) ★
    • end state (draft!) ★
    • no fixed conceptualized goal or end state part one ("goodness") ★
    • no fixed conceptualized goal or end state part two ("better") ★
    • meditation is concrete problem solving ★
    • wellbeing and sacrifice ★
    • ok-ness and cosmology ★
    • seamless hyphenation [draft] ★
    • other practices (draft) ★
  • practice preliminaries ★
    • timeline, mindset, trajectory, harm ★
      • raw hours ★
      • better to finish, and smoothly ★
      • a failure mode ★
      • meditation is not strength-training ★
      • entrenchment and active occlusion (layering); shoulds; pitfalls of inferred "mental actions" ★
      • extreme skill and extreme standards ★
      • physical sequelae ★
      • the end of your world (after adyashanti, maybe?) ★
      • drama ★
      • error propagation, wayfinding, grace of what minds are ★
      • on good and bad [draft] ★
      • conclusion ★
  • practice ★
    • nuts and bolts considerations ★
      • preliminaries and vacations; conceptualization as such ★
      • transitioning from other practices (re "sharp cutovers") ★
      • environment [and subtlety; (more) risks and rabbit holes] ★
      • movement ★
      • posture (section needs editing) ★
      • breath ★
      • states (draft) ★
      • "headyness"/"heady-ness"/"headiness" ★
      • "subtle energy" and "energy work" and mental models ★
      • brief draft comment on first-pass, seemingly separate magisteria ★
      • body, self-trust, sensory processing, meaning ★
      • but is it meditation? (a dialogue between J and Mark) ★
      • practice in daily life or no? ★
      • what about concrete/proximal problems? ★
      • how much and how often ★
      • what to do when ★
    • top-level practices/categories ★
      • meta practice [solo and otherwise] ★
        • meta protocol ★
          • collaborator formulations ★
            • collaborator formulation 1 (mh) ★
        • meta meta protocol ★
      • solo practice ("main protocol") ★
        • preliminary/auxiliary practices ★
        • main practice(s) ★
          • introduction ★
          • practices ★
            • p0 ★
            • p1 ★
            • p2 ★
            • p3 ★
            • p4 ★
            • p5 ★
            • p6 ★
            • p7 ★
            • p8 ★
            • p9 ★
            • p10 ★
            • p11 ★
            • p12 ★
            • p13 ★
            • p14 ★
            • p15 ★
            • p16 ★
            • p17 ★
            • p18 ★
            • p19 ★
            • p20 ★
            • p21 ★
            • p22 ★
            • p23 (stub) ★
            • p24 (experimental) ★
            • p25 ★
            • p26 ★
            • p27 (stub) ★
            • p28 (scratch notes) ★
            • p29 (stub/scratch) ★
            • p30 (stub) ★
            • p31 (draft) ★
            • p32 ★
            • p33 (scratch) ★
            • p34 (scratch dictated) ★
            • p35 (scratch) ★
            • p36 (scratch) ★
            • p37 (scratch dictated) ★
            • p38 (scratch dictated) ★
            • p39 ★
          • theory ★
            • incomplete, alternative renderings ★
      • creativity(/unsticking) protocol [solo and otherwise] ★
        • what to do when nothing's happening/working ★
        • creativity(/unsticking) protocol ★
      • interpersonal practice ★
        • formulation 1 (including Many Protocol) ★
        • formulation 2 ★
        • formulation 3 ★
        • formulation 4 ★
        • formulation 5 ★
        • formulation 6 ★
        • emotions(tm) and feelings(tm) in interpersonal processing vs meditation (alpha draft) ★
        • social honor(?) versus eternal soul theory of mind/identity (stub) ★
        • on friendship and (found) family (stub) ★
        • fight-fights (draft) ★
        • scratch notes ★
  • lists and more ★
    • nonmonotonicity ★
    • definitions ★
    • undefined and explications ★
    • bodymindenvironment ★
    • can’t-look-yet ("avoidance") ★
    • systematicity, ontologies, phenomenological and otherwise ★
    • exhaustivity and bottlenecks ★
    • ordering matters / order matters ★
    • (mental) action and the attentional manifold ★
    • the use of the will ★
    • a note on force (plus a brief mention of "redo-to-undo") ★
    • a brief note on effort ★
    • more on "undo" ★
    • meditating by coincidence ★
    • failure and other seemingly permanent and bad things ★
    • how bad does it have to get? ★
    • regarding "better not to start; if you start better to finish" (draft) ★
    • extremity replay and creativity: panic, trauma, sexual arousal ★
    • x-desires, fulfillment, transformation, discussion ★
    • how to know what you want or what your goals are (barely edited transcript excerpt): ★
    • taking refuge (can reshape the local environment and world; global wayfinding through late-stage); art, creativity as whole, part, or beginning of that ★
    • on falling asleep and utilizing sleep ★
    • complex breathing-related puzzles ★
    • working with hypoarousal and (and somewhat separately but relatedly) medical fear and uncertainty (draft): ★
    • note on letting go ★
    • a gentle onramp ★
    • good(ness) bad(ness) ★
    • some "big" useful concepts ★
    • poem of self/other confusion and interdependence ★
    • is good, is bad (q) ★
    • states ★
    • invitation of acceptance ★
    • nutrition ★
    • theory-driven (/ theory-harmonizing-equilibriating) intuitive/interoceptive nutrition and eating ★
    • typology of pain and suffering in terms of when to try meditation (experimental) ★
    • historical and contemporary difficulties and uncertainties of life [experimental section] ★
    • superstitious meditation, muscle tension, and will ★
    • a brief and incomplete theory of muscle tension risk in meditation ★
    • neutral postures, somatization, desomatization, muscle tension, etc. ★
    • CO2 tolerance ★
    • electrolytes ★
    • metabolic traps with respect to meditation ★
    • balancing solve and dissolve ★
    • sleep and distraction ★
    • clarification on muscle contraction and stretching versus chronic muscle tension ★
    • positive dwelling in inability ★
    • when things get worse again--burn-off, integration, suppression, unsuppression ★
    • integration, settling, unsettling, resettling, locality, globality, unity (draft) ★
    • last gasps ★
    • worse for no reason, more X in general, and wisdom ★
    • involuntary movement, semi-involuntary movement, kriyas ★
    • kundalini ★
    • can't talk ★
    • when/if things are bad / (not your) fault / determinism ★
    • being (not) ok tangles ★
    • being (forcibly) ok tangles (h) ★
    • brief note on space and sensations ★
    • raw/bare sensations contra "always on" (possibly misleading early draft) ★
    • brief, loosely related notes on unknotting, untwisting, untangling ★
    • attention is not fundamental ★
    • "inner space" and physical/social grace ★
    • dark phenomenology and presence/absence conceptions ★
    • seeming "boundary" phenomenology ★
    • when bad is good ★
    • bad chaos, dissolution, distintegration ★
    • upstream causes of ordering errors ★
    • prenatal experiences, the fetal position, and other 'be moved bottlenecks' ★
    • daily limits ★
    • advanced postures and pitfalls ★
    • picking up where you left off ★
    • menstrual cycle ★
    • blood pressure, etc: ★
    • equanimity, no such thing and lock-and-key stuff ★
    • autonomic vulnerability, autonomic nudity, autonomic alignment (rough draft) ★
    • pushing away, holding at bay, preconceiving, direct-reifying ★
    • brief thoughts on substances like psychedelics ★
    • getting triggered, usefulness and risks ★
    • some narrowly conceived phenomenological investigations that may or may not be useful ★
    • inappropriate reification (stub) ★
    • a dialogue between N and Mark, on reasoning and pre-reasoning ★
    • bridge building and dialogue ★
      • bridge building ★
        • making connections between my stuff and lineage traditions, in three parts (draft!) ★
          • part 1: "same playing field" ★
          • part 2: continuity between "mundane" and "supramundane"; breadth-first vs depth-first ★
          • part 3: implicit and explicit global wayfinding (or having the best shot of generating everything you need) ★
        • making (sometimes straw) distinctions between my stuff and other stuff ★
          • many enlightenments? (a nonrigorous position) (old post) ★
          • no one gets pixel-perfect possibilities ★
          • renunciation quibbles and other things (draft; needs an even first editing pass) ★
          • polemics ★
      • open informal response on social media to someone in a contemporary practice scene ★
    • a note on "making progress," "regression," and redo-to-undo ★
    • on suffering ★
    • inner peace placeholder ★
    • love placeholder ★
    • wellbeing placeholder ★
    • autonomic harmony placeholder ★
    • far reaches of meditation (no particular order [yet]) ★
      • on groundlessness, a brief note ★
      • dreamlikeness ★
      • stub158da1a2b [intentional] ★
      • naturalization ★
      • cautions in favor of mere immediacy as sufficiency for any global grounding ★
      • impersonalization and environmentalization ★
      • rebalancing/balancing effortlessness and doing ★
      • vague sketch of progression, with respect to emptiness and groundlessness ★
      • touchstones sort of leaving out or only weakly interacting with "wisdom" and morality ("at least one sense in which") ★
      • tweets / shitposts ★
      • temp catch-all ★
      • vulnerability (physical and otherwise, cf. suffering) [stub] ★
      • that won't work ★
      • crappy timeline guidelines ★
      • endlessness vs impermanence (scratch/stub) ★
      • holy/(sacred?) mystery (scratch/stub) ★
      • void (nothingness, cessation(s), nibbana, nirvana [stub/scratch] ★
      • evil (far reaches) [stub/scratch] ★
      • eternity, suffering, death ★
      • emptiness (far reaches) [stub/scratch] ★
      • nonduality (far reaches) [stub/scratch] ★
      • impermanence (far reaches) [stub/scratch] ★
      • subjectivity, self, I-ness, ego, identity, awareness, doer, watcher and all that (far reaches) [stub/scratch] ★
      • suffering (far reaches) [stub/scratch] ★
      • making sense (far reaches) [stub/scratch] ★
      • self-love [stub/scratch] ★
    • on meaning, goodness, badness, aboutness, intentionality, secondary properties ★
    • a dialogue on wayfinding, homunculi, parts, goodness, agency, harmony, interdependence ★
    • a brief dialogue on locality and concreteness ★
    • clockworks metaphor (tweezers, scale, emptiness, locality) ★
    • sex, gender, etc. stuff ★
      • working with sex and gender (plus "tantra") ★
    • stuff stuff ★
      • don't be here now (to start) ★
      • normalcy, crackpotty-ness, wisdom, craziness, competency [stub/draft] ★
      • "false ends" (messy first draft) ★
      • surface areas and the radically personal (draft) ★
    • subtle interaction ★
      • "psychic" and "supernatural" stuff; what/how/how-not [draft] ★
      • self and other; good and bad [draft] ★
      • prenatal experiences and subtle interaction ★
      • direct and indirect people and group stuff ★
      • on vibe(s) and vibing, briefly ★
      • distinctions ★
      • on parts, demons, egregores ★
      • axes of individuation with relation to value judgments (transcript) ★
      • spiritwork manifesto thing (snapshot) ★
    • character, personality, ego, virtue. sovereignty. outside view. cultural, familial good/bad reversals (draft) ★
    • civilizational stuff ★
      • buddhas, anti-buddhas, civilization, and the importance of method [draft] ★
      • sketching alternatives to straw realism (international and group relations) [draft!][2500 words] ★
      • karma, losslessness, developmental stage models, violence, world; including Ken Wilber and Robert Kegan (draft; 6000 words) ★
    • mark's approximate practice timeline summary highlights ★
    • farther to fall and sometimes just plain wrong ★
    • arational coherence \[draft] ★
    • miscellaneous pith notes ★
  • neuroscience speculative snapshots ★
    • neuroscience and meditation, odds and ends [2022-02-09] ★
    • more neuroscience odds and ends 2022-02-10 ★
    • neuroscience, meditation, rationality, folk psychology, and sensorimotor processing ★
      • crowley, chads, rationality, and the unification of will ★
      • enlightenment, sensorimotor processing, love ★
    • brief discussion on generalization ★
  • teaching and learning and creating and relating (meditation and anything) ★
    • teaching ★
      • guided on-ramp for main practice p2 [draft] ★
      • pith instructions (experimental) ★
      • more compressed pith instructions ★
      • yet another pith instruction formulation (experimental) ★
      • "advanced" (or whatever) pith instructions (work in progress) ★
      • a bare-bones, bottom-up, noting-esque practice (without labeling) ★
      • manipulation-themed pith instructions ★
    • embodied learning ★
      • technical debt, meditation, and minds ★
      • a speculative comment on language learning ★
      • technical debt and inverse operations ★
      • merely just having the experience itself, and, technical debt is good, actually ★
      • the scale analogy [draft] ★
      • karma, samskaras, technical debt dialogue with PK ★
    • epistemics ★
      • meditation indirectly discloses domain knowledge ★
      • human epistemic dynamics and phenomena ★
      • epistemic-aesthetic rigor [stub] ★
      • calling word salad phenomenon ★
      • brief notes and qualifiers ★
      • path-dependent mediate conclusions and provisionalities ★
      • the aboutness experience directly itself (note---this is very general and could also go in 'lists and more' proper) ★
    • relating ★
      • in-relationship foreclosing legacy of past interaction [stub] ★
    • creating ★
      • randomness/arbitrariness, unpunished, as necessary data [not yet written] ★
    • lineage and pedagogy ★
      • lineages and transformative works ★
      • on thinking and rigor and pedagogy in meditation instruction ★
  • bibliography (incomplete) ★
  • appendix 1: preliminary/auxiliary practices (names only) ★
  • appendix 2: preliminary/auxiliary practices (full) ★
  • appendix 3: main practice p1 appendix (usa english; "en-us") ★
  • appendix 4: worst case culture/community stuff ★
  • appendix 5: subtle interaction ★
  • appendix 6: death LARPs ★
  • appendix 7: jhana and yoga nidra for long covid (and other things) (draft, experimental) ★
  • appendix 8: acute and chronic ill-health LARPs ★
  • appendix 9: gricean and yin-yang analysis ★
  • appendix 10: communicating feelings (spicy) (draft) ★
  • appendix 11: language and the "causal body" (scratch; draft) ★
  • appendix 12: language and perspective taking (scratch; draft) ★
  • appendix 13: narrative writing bibliography (messy) ★
  • appendix 14: resolved (usually) temporary notes ★
A rearranged reading of the canonical document by “meditationstuff” (Mark Lippmann). This edition may lag the original.
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