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Break through the woo(TM)
- somatic/polyvagal
- breathwork
- manifestation, law of attraction, New Thought, Christian Science
- grounding to the Earth
Another 20th century philosopher: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell
universe = God
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
[I misremembered the end as "incompetence" which would also fit]
What does it mean to set intentions, how intention setting is different from goals, and using meditation and mindfulness to help start intention setting.
Somewhat related: Stephen Hawking's views
monotheism, buddhism, hermeticism... it all has some parallels!
This is that concept that was in a word-of-the-day mail list and I've been trying to describe for years, that was expressed as "the denying oneself of physical pleasure with the intent to be virtuous." That description was a bit more negative, but has the same general idea, of anti-hedonism, though perhaps missing the implied moral imperative in the practitioner's beliefs.
