<span id="qq"></span> **partial guided tour** * **How can I immediately get a flavor of what *kind* of meditation this whole document is about?** * *See these sections:* * <a id="177q" href="https://globway.top/s/guided-on-ramp-for-main-practice-p2-draft">guided on-ramp for main practice p2 [draft]</a> * <a id="178q" href="https://globway.top/s/pith-instructions-experimental">pith instructions (experimental)</a> * <a id="178aq" href="https://globway.top/s/more-compressed-pith-instructions">more compressed pith instructions</a> * <a id="178bq" href="https://globway.top/s/yet-another-pith-instruction-formulation">yet another pith instruction formulation (experimental)</a> * <a id="179q" href="https://globway.top/s/a-bare-bones-bottom-up-noting-esque-practice-withou">a bare-bones, bottom-up, noting-esque practice (without labeling)</a> * <a id="179aq" href="https://globway.top/s/manipulation-themed-pith-instructions">manipulation-themed pith instructions</a> * **Does meditation carry risks? Yes, meditation is psychologically, physically, and financially risky, for oneself and even others.** * *See these sections:* * <a id="19aqh" href="https://globway.top/s/preconceiving-direct-reifying-draft">preconceiving, direct reifying [draft]</a> * <a id="16q" href="https://globway.top/s/risks-maximally-cautious-warnings-directives-first-">risks; maximally cautious warnings/&#8203;directives (first-pass, without explanation)</a> * <a id="14q" href="https://globway.top/s/document-level-meta-warning">document-level meta-warning</a> * <a id="15q" href="https://globway.top/s/epistemic-status-disclaimer">epistemic status disclaimer</a> * <a id="17q" href="https://globway.top/s/but-what-actually-makes-it-risky-how-do-risks-obtai">but what actually makes it risky?; how do risks obtain, when they do?</a> * *More sections:* * <a id="74q" href="https://globway.top/s/environment-and-subtlety-more-risks-and-rabbit-hole">environment [and subtlety; (more) risks and rabbit holes]</a> * <a id="165q" href="https://globway.top/s/-psychic-and-supernatural-stuff-what-how-how-not-dr">"psychic" and "supernatural" stuff: what/how/how-not [draft]</a> * <a id="187q" href="https://globway.top/s/human-epistemic-dynamics-and-phenomena">human epistemic dynamics and phenomena</a> * **What's the theoretical, metaphysical, ideological, sectarian, opinionated, telic, soteriological basis of this kind of meditation?** * *See these sections:* * <a id="19q" href="https://globway.top/s/introduction-getting-over-the-hump-text-interpretat">introduction; getting over the hump; text interpretation</a> * <a id="18q" href="https://globway.top/s/an-exoteric-doctrine-v0-2">an exoteric doctrine v0.2</a> * <a id="18aq" href="https://globway.top/s/an-esoteric-doctrine-going-full-buddhist-is-this-fu">an esoteric doctrine ("going full buddhist?" / "is this full buddhist?" / "is this even buddhist?" / "never go full buddhist"\*)</a> * <a id="21q" href="https://globway.top/s/goal-draft">goal (draft)</a> * <a id="22q" href="https://globway.top/s/end-state-draft">end state (draft!)</a> * <a id="23q" href="https://globway.top/s/no-fixed-conceptualized-goal-or-end-state-part-one-">no fixed conceptualized goal or end state part one ("goodness")</a> * <a id="24q" href="https://globway.top/s/no-fixed-conceptualized-goal-or-end-state-part-two-">no fixed conceptualized goal or end state part two ("better")</a> * <a id="25q" href="https://globway.top/s/meditation-is-concrete-problem-solving">meditation is concrete problem solving</a> * <a id="26q" href="https://globway.top/s/wellbeing-and-sacrifice">wellbeing and sacrifice</a> * <a id="27q" href="https://globway.top/s/ok-ness-and-cosmology">ok-ness and cosmology</a> * <a id="28q" href="https://globway.top/s/seamless-hyphenation-draft">seamless hyphenation [draft]</a> * **What's the "practical core" of the document? What do I actually do?** * *See these sections:* * <a id="57q" href="https://globway.top/s/practice-preliminaries">practice preliminaries</a> * <a id="71q" href="https://globway.top/s/nuts-and-bolts-considerations">nuts and bolts considerations</a> * <a id="87q" href="https://globway.top/s/what-to-do-when">what to do when</a> * <a id="88q" href="https://globway.top/s/top-level-practices-categories">top-level practices/categories</a> * <a id="90q" href="https://globway.top/s/meta-protocol">meta protocol</a> * <a id="95q" href="https://globway.top/s/preliminary-auxiliary-practices">preliminary/auxiliary practices</a> * <a id="96q" href="#main-practice">main practice</a> * <a id="112q" href="https://globway.top/s/creativity-unsticking-protocol">creativity(/unsticking) protocol</a> * <a id="115q" href="#-many-protocol-interpersonal-practice">"many" protocol (interpersonal practice)</a> * **How do I use this document? Also, is the above sort of "everything"? No! This just scratches the surface!** * (After you read about risks, warnings, cautions, etc., do jump around in the document as per your interest.) * *See these sections:* * <a id="19q" href="https://globway.top/s/introduction-getting-over-the-hump-text-interpretat">introduction; getting over the hump; text interpretation</a> * <a id="19aqh" href="#preconceiving-direct-reifying-draft-suggested-above">preconceiving, direct reifying [draft; suggested above as well]</a> * <a href="https://globway.top/s/full-table-of-contents">Full Table of Contents</a>