direct and indirect people and group stuff:
[please read the section, "psychic" and "supernatural" stuff: what/how/how-not, before this section]
In terms of accumulating "patterns," and so on, from other people, it’s sometimes helpful to be on the lookout for things from various places. Sometimes things can be "directly" from another person; sometimes things can be "indirectly" from another person; and sometimes things are more "averaged," across people or timespans.
In the course of meditation, one might seemingly find things from the people and places below. It’s of course possible to imagine, confabulate, and to be wrong, even while one gains more confidence over time about what’s what. It’s good to hold it all provisionally. Sometimes things can be imagined or confabulated by other people, which are misrepresented as being from another person, place, or time than their actual provenance. Sometimes it just doesn’t matter whether it’s "actually" X (or how X got there), and sometimes it does! Sometimes one might want to explore or confirm or cross-correlate ("indirect") things with respect to family and history, and sometimes that won’t be constructive or it won’t be possible. Over time, one gains more facility with both provisionality and constructiveness, with respect to all this kind of stuff.
"Things" that you "find," which could be feelings, patterns, sentiments, impulses... can be abuse-related, trauma-related, violent, sexual, coercive, etc. One may well encounter positive things, too. Positive things tend to be less apparent because they’ve become more integrated, metabolized. Negative things tend to be more "coaleseced," "object-like," "thing-like," which is can make it seem like there’s more negative than positive, generally, even when that’s not the case.
- lovers
- nuclear family
- extended family
- parents
- grandparents
- great grandparents...
- friends
- friendship group stuff
- small group activity stuff
- cohousing stuff
- workplace stuff
- community stuff
- the cultural milieu
- "great power" ideologies
- your religious or ethnic culture, belief, metaphysics, or cosmology
- other religious or ethnic culture, belief, metaphysics, or cosmology
- secular/"secular" contemporary culture, belief, metaphysics, or cosmology
- secular/"secular" contemporary subgroups’, belief, metaphysics, or cosmology
- nationalist ideologies
- global conflicts
- cultural and historical "curses"
- cultural and historical "paranoia", fear, trauma, etc.
- generational salience, trauma, and ideology from the past 10-50 years
- salience, trauma, ideology, colonialism from the past several hundred years
- belief, religion, cosmology from different parts of the world, seemingly going back thousands of years or into prehistory