This mantra helps us find the grace within and carries us beyond our limited concepts.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbQGebxIb2CgXAhkTBqsxI3Gn1CaF97P-mk9JoXPZek1SEO4ndsYhrQTC42YsQBSu69M-ur7S3Fq4DDz2DE2XiVJCJXPyyHRpvZs5mWD_F812K_7QQFVIXo5ZHPcy-6eohyLKU9qo0kiIa/s1600/intulexia+rebelle22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="602" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbQGebxIb2CgXAhkTBqsxI3Gn1CaF97P-mk9JoXPZek1SEO4ndsYhrQTC42YsQBSu69M-ur7S3Fq4DDz2DE2XiVJCJXPyyHRpvZs5mWD_F812K_7QQFVIXo5ZHPcy-6eohyLKU9qo0kiIa/s320/intulexia+rebelle22.jpg" width="200" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">All we need to do is breathe in and out through the nostrils. As we do this we repeat to ourselves the syllable Ham on the in-breath, and the syllable So on the out-breath.<br /><br />So simple. So natural. So freeing.<br /><br />Repeat on the in-breath: Ham.<br /><br />On the out-breath: So<br /><br />The syllable Ham represents and embodies the expansive masculine yang energy; the syllable So represents the centripetal yin, feminine energy.<br /><br />Hamsa means white swan. The swan, of course, is an ancient symbol of spiritual grace and purity. The mantra is called White Swan because when the in-breath and out-breath are freed and purified, they are like the wings of a swan helping our spirits to soar. The Hamsa mantra helps us find the grace within and carries us beyond our limited concepts. It helps us shed negative feelings that we are ugly ducklings and reminds us that we are all graceful and pure swans. It can help our spiritual lives take wing.</span>

This mantra helps us find the grace within and carries us beyond our limited concepts.

All we need to do is breathe in and out through the nostrils. As we do this we repeat to ourselves the syllable Ham on the in-breath, and the syllable So on the out-breath.So simple. So natural. So f…

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Birthing of Intulexia. How do black holes, consciousness and the evolution of the human brain help us understand our need to seek the meaning of life?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiJlZvx7wxdjZYO3WPb-wWV6dDMATv6z1R5x-gc9UwyaXiV1MdRDnCiL2nq1u-tqpN1jFEp8b0bNY54wbIjgqyzr7Svs1-WsyAlL2wY8Sq21DEb94mguPGzttrdwVHQo4Eq9An7HA5WKqC/s1600/Intulexia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiJlZvx7wxdjZYO3WPb-wWV6dDMATv6z1R5x-gc9UwyaXiV1MdRDnCiL2nq1u-tqpN1jFEp8b0bNY54wbIjgqyzr7Svs1-WsyAlL2wY8Sq21DEb94mguPGzttrdwVHQo4Eq9An7HA5WKqC/s320/Intulexia.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><br /><br />Birthing of Intulexia. How do black holes, consciousness and the evolution of the human brain help us understand our need to seek the meaning of life?<br />Can a guru or system answer the ultimate questions of life like, ‘where did we come from’, or ‘where do we go after death’? Does anyone really know for a certainty ‘who’ we are and ‘why’ we are here? Questions like these are often what initially prompt us to go on a spiritual or healing journey.<br /><br />Our own interest in the evolution of the human brain lead us closer to a spiritual path. Initially, the information we found was purely Western theory. As we began to explore how the brain and consciousness are related, we also began meditating and studying Eastern philosophies.<br /><br />In our continuing search we’ve met students and teachers who feel that the original quantum theorist was Buddha. And others who pointed out how even before the Buddha, the ancient yogis of India and Tibet had also penetrated the secrets that quantum physicists are only beginning to explore in the last couple of centuries. Other masters, including Christ, have also taught from metaphysical levels that can only be explained, if at all, by quantum theory.<br /><br />Are quantum theory and metaphysics related? Perhaps, yet metaphysics is vaster than systems we can find in one of its components, Law of Attraction, and especially as it is taught today. It’s easy enough to find any number of watered down theories of quantum mechanics that Western Law of Attraction gurus use to explain their concepts. But we hope you don’t stop there without also taking a holistic look by including mythology, psychology and physiology in our search.<br /><br />There are many ideas postulated on the evolution of the brain itself. Any may help explain how this magnificent organ may relate to the potential for realisation or divine consciousness in man. But rarely have we found a blending of Eastern thought with physiology that induces us to search further, more inwardly that is.<br /><br /> Helyrically explains the ancient teachings on, among other things, the physiology of yogic experiences, or how spiritual phenomena relates to physical areas in the human brain.<br />Brahma’s Cave in Outer and Inner Space<br /><br />For example, he says that the ancient sages believed that a miniature cave of Brahma resides in the 3rd ventricle, which is in the centre of the human brain. In Vedic culture, ‘Brahma’ is the Father aspect of supreme or ultimate Divinity. And Gurunath explains that this is the replica of the black hole in space called ‘Brahma’s Cave ‘.<br /><br />Gurunath also explains the role of the corpus callosum, a physical area found deep within the human brain. For eons the ancients reported having seen the corpus callosum in meditation, calling called it ‘<br /><br /><br />the Hamsa swan’.<br /><br />Most spiritual teachings and healing philosophies agree that the pineal gland, residing between both hemispheres of the brain, closely associated with the 3rd eye or ajna chakra. Science has observed that the pineal is a partially dormant gland. However, founder of Theosophy, H. P. Blavatsky, and psychopharmacology researcher, Rick Strassman, have each suggested that the third eye is actually the pineal gland.<br /><br />This concept may be supported by the evidence of cells in the pineal that are called pinealocytes, closely resembling the photoreceptors of the eye. Also, some scientists believe that the pineal excretes trace amounts of dimethyltryptamine or DMT. DMT is theorised to be a factor in unexplained phenomena like dreaming, the near-death experience, meditation, or hallucination. It is also present in some plants, and is synthesised and ingested for its psychodelic properties.<br /><br />The ancients call this 3rd eye centre the “shiva netra”, or eye of shiva. In deep meditation, the Hamsanath yogi sees the shiva netra, which is just in front of the black hole of the human brain known as the cave of Brahma. Gurunath explains that there is a ‘scintillating white star” within the centre of the “shiva netra”. The ancients called this spiritual star the “kutastha chaitanya”.<br /><br />From ancient times, yogis who practiced meditation have penetrated this star, the “kutastha chaitanya”. In that ‘no-mind’ state, the yogi enters the “unmani avasta”, also known as the state of “bhav samadhi”, “sabikalpa samadhi” or “nirvikalpa samadhi”. In this consciousness, the soul is raised in vibration to rest with pranic or spiritual energy in the Hamsa swan, the lateral ventricles in the brain.<br /><br />Gurunath teaches that as human consciousness evolves into divine consciousness, and as the human brain itself develops, this divine physiology becomes vaster. He says that as the brain’s texture refines, consciousness becomes more and more beautiful. He believes that spirituality is important in that the 100 billion cells in the human brain are in process of uniting with the 100 billion stars in our galactic system.<br /><br />Gurunath teaches that as these go beyond the galactic system, the yogi merges into “the wonderful state of supernal splendor of niranjan nirvana, kaivalya samadhi, the Nirvana.” Could this be the science of yoga’s explanation for ‘going to heaven’ or ‘ascending’?<br /><br />Gurunath says that while the yogi’s physical brain and body can not stay long in an expansion of Nirvana, he does eventually enter its ultimate stage. That is when, he says, the corona radiates in his brain cells and their subtle fibers, or tubes, light up with “divine effulgence”.1 This is how its radiant splendor goes on to spread its aura “far beyond the earth system, way into the galaxies”.</span>

Birthing of Intulexia. How do black holes, consciousness and the evolution of the human brain help us understand our need to seek the meaning of life?

Birthing of Intulexia. How do black holes, consciousness and the evolution of the human brain help us understand our need to seek the meaning of life?Can a guru or system answer the ultimate question…

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Most of us do not know what it means to be affectionate.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfJ4gO4s_KN-mvnepPw0k8CpbBuZ9vbf46yhNIKRYZ525O0ptIuHeZVGN7Clia5vodi34M50ZHC1FskHFhRfU6xnujKifVbwo9AX_U-jHx3Zp0gUgO2k_jjSUIccbf0Iu1Xw4UuiULDLkH/s1600/intulexia+deep+meds.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="960" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfJ4gO4s_KN-mvnepPw0k8CpbBuZ9vbf46yhNIKRYZ525O0ptIuHeZVGN7Clia5vodi34M50ZHC1FskHFhRfU6xnujKifVbwo9AX_U-jHx3Zp0gUgO2k_jjSUIccbf0Iu1Xw4UuiULDLkH/s320/intulexia+deep+meds.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It is definitely possible to bring about a totally new mind a complete change. But there are certain indications, certain necessary characteristics which do bring about that quality of newness. </span><div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">They are affection or love and integrity. Most of us do not know what it means to be affectionate. </span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">To us, it is a word which we casually use without much significance. Love is of course something very carefully guarded, something with which we are not so familiar, though we use the word so glibly, so facilely - love of the country, love of truth, love of life and many many loves that we talk about; and we do not think it has anything to do with this.</span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> The ingredient - if we may use that word which is absolutely necessary is the quality of affection and integrity. we don't mean by integrity any form of pattern of belief, nor do we mean it as integrity according to the experience through which we have to live; but we mean that integrity that comes about when we begin to observe every movement of our own thought and when no thought is hidden.</span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> We do not wear a mask, we do not any longer pretend to be something other than what we actually are; and therefore there is no discipline, no fancy, no worship; and out of that comes the external sense of integrity we mean that kind of integrity, not the person who has belief and lives according to that belief, not the person who is sincere but with certain ideals, not the person who follows a certain discipline or tries to bring about an integration emotionally or intellectually. Such efforts do not bring out integrity. </span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">On the contrary, they increase conflict, misery. Whereas the integrity that we are talking about is the quality of seeing the fact every minute, not trying to translate the fact in terms of pleasure and pain, but letting the fact flower without choice, without opinion - out of which seeing comes integrity which is never altered. Now these two, affection and integrity, are necessary.</span></div>

Most of us do not know what it means to be affectionate.

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INTULEXIA we’ve struggled, for a long time, with what a compassionate life truly means.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2fsxeajMNl6zar5flBjIn_hnZRyxq6d8iddPtHia-Ci0GOqqkCWwrfC2ENUBid_oG-cOKgAfqYXUeTPquAj95TEn6Fr13YC1-iVlry2wDRpTeC3rcPwUF3bLytJxObYuaIOd9UbuaDxH4/s1600/Intulexia234.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2fsxeajMNl6zar5flBjIn_hnZRyxq6d8iddPtHia-Ci0GOqqkCWwrfC2ENUBid_oG-cOKgAfqYXUeTPquAj95TEn6Fr13YC1-iVlry2wDRpTeC3rcPwUF3bLytJxObYuaIOd9UbuaDxH4/s320/Intulexia234.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">We’ve struggled, for a long time, with what a compassionate life truly means. We can easily read the definition in the dictionary, “Sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortune of others.” Our real questions have been about how we can authentically prevail in this task, within ourself, on a constant basis.<br />It’s fairly easy not to care<br /><br />It seems that, by default, it’s quite easy not to care about the misfortunes of others. Our media has done a great job of gradually numbing us, since it’s constantly bombarding us with tragic events happening in the Middle East or locally: murder, bombings, etc.<br /><br />Throughout the years, my spiritual teachers have had us doing exercises during which we’d have to recite, “I have compassion for all living beings.”<br /><br />The problem was, we felt as if I was just saying the words and not truly feeling it. So the question remained, how do we truly feel compassion for people we don’t know and will never meet? How do we care for them, when we don’t even know what they look like or their background?<br />Can we feel compassion towards “evil” people?<br /><br />The hardest of all the compassion questions, for me, was asking myself how to have compassion for those we hate or despise. I’d take this to the extreme and ask myself how I could have genuine empathy for Pol Pot. If you haven’t heard of him, he was responsible for the mass genocide of millions of innocent Cambodian people.<br /><br />It turns out the answer lies not in these strangers and enemies but within myself. I’ve had to recognize that the darkness in my own being (fear, anxiety, regret, heartache) isn’t my fault, that all these aspects are part of the human condition.<br /><br />We love this, because it alleviates some of the guilt and judgement we place on ourself for having these “dark” emotions. More importantly, it immediately connects me to the entire human race. Now, we clearly see that we’re connected in this way. We all experience the loss of loved ones; we all regret actions in our past, fear the future and more—even the strangers in the world and our enemies.<br /><br />When you’re able to sympathise with another human being’s suffering via our own suffering, we can have compassion for even the most evil people in history.<br /><br />Imagine the fear and hatred that must have possessed Pol Pot, driving him to perform the atrocities he did. Imagining someone’s feelings like this doesn’t rationalize his (or anyone else’s) crime, but allows us to have compassion for all beings, even those we don’t support the actions of.<br /><br />To react to our enemies with additional hatred only perpetuates the problem. This is where the “Law of Compassion” is crucial.<br />Compassion breeds recovery and love<br /><br />When we’re able to feel compassion for those who’ve wronged us, we’re able to forgive. Recovery is a powerful tool. It allows us to stop carrying weight within ourselves that’s unnecessary to carry.<br /><br />By understanding by means of the ten stages  those who’ve done things that hurt us in the past, we can live our lives with more love and less fear and hate.<br /><br />We’re not saying you have to be friends with those who’ve wronged you or even speak to them ever again. In situations like this, for understanding is more of an act that helps us let go. In letting go, we come a step closer to opening our hearts just a little bit more.<br />Opening the heart’s doors<br /><br />Our goal in life is to find ways in which I can constantly open my heart’s well-guarded doors. I feel a taste of this whenever I see a heartwarming movie or watch a child smile </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">.</span><br /> <div> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><br />We ask ourself, can we push these limits to higher extremes? The good news is that the answer is “yes.”<br /><br />It’s quite counter-intuitive, actually. As we’re raised in this society, we’re told by movies and other media that acquiring as much as you can for yourself is the way to happiness. Seems rational, right?<br /><br />However, what we’ve found in life is that the opposite is true. When we focus on the well-being of others, we actually become more fulfilled ourselves. There’s a natural opening of our heart and mind compassion flows effortlessly, without being forced. There’s also equal reciprocation of this from the people around me.<br /><br />If you want to feel your own well-protected heart doors open a little, We suggest that you, too, simply turn your focus to what you can do for those around you instead of for yourself.  INTULEXIA will prevail.</span></div> </div> </div>

INTULEXIA we’ve struggled, for a long time, with what a compassionate life truly means.

We’ve struggled, for a long time, with what a compassionate life truly means. We can easily read the definition in the dictionary, “Sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortune of ot…

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INTULEXIA WE feel uncomfortable for YOU when you violate our boundaries.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhov__mu6DJdBAZF2T4CnGY8sntKOxUiZstYo1FiZhMoIZPE4rD-U5M9xdb3B_jWYSQ6s_CvJ11efZE1-m0SO9O1o8ESmHVf30Ot21mftgYptd10mDcJSD-Cu7d6zCXneO_HRWQGY7qsS4C/s1600/intulexia+deep+meds.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="960" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhov__mu6DJdBAZF2T4CnGY8sntKOxUiZstYo1FiZhMoIZPE4rD-U5M9xdb3B_jWYSQ6s_CvJ11efZE1-m0SO9O1o8ESmHVf30Ot21mftgYptd10mDcJSD-Cu7d6zCXneO_HRWQGY7qsS4C/s320/intulexia+deep+meds.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">INTULEXIA We feel uncomfortable for YOU when you violate our boundaries. My loyalties are maligned due to the conditioning of my childhood. Instead of advocating for ourselves in my close present day relationships, We advocate for the other person. We minimise our needs in favour of the other person. We love too much and it feels like we constantly need to dissociate.</span>

INTULEXIA WE feel uncomfortable for YOU when you violate our boundaries.

INTULEXIA We feel uncomfortable for YOU when you violate our boundaries. My loyalties are maligned due to the conditioning of my childhood. Instead of advocating for ourselves in my close present day…

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Intulexia allows ourselves to fully grieve

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3J7wioEp60LRmrRfjut-E_LL65ZCZ7QGmk7gSKgE1EoCBY028fybI_m517TI60FT9wfU2eRc28jMiOXPG_Vf3g3AwO_0X7NOJ3-98zopKhbr0w-CLCfth7kHJfbSgFYzX7PjiBVHGNLaV/s1600/hoperoom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3J7wioEp60LRmrRfjut-E_LL65ZCZ7QGmk7gSKgE1EoCBY028fybI_m517TI60FT9wfU2eRc28jMiOXPG_Vf3g3AwO_0X7NOJ3-98zopKhbr0w-CLCfth7kHJfbSgFYzX7PjiBVHGNLaV/s320/hoperoom.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Intulexia allows ourselves to fully grieve the losses from not receiving the time, attention, affection and direction we would have found had our family of origin been fully recovered themselves. Grieving emotional losses is like grieving a death; it's the same process.</span>

Intulexia allows ourselves to fully grieve

Intulexia allows ourselves to fully grieve the losses from not receiving the time, attention, affection and direction we would have found had our family of origin been fully recovered themselves. Gri…

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At INTULEXIA we figure out the real reason you are repeating the same dissociational cycles.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhixCK9bYUrL5eEqoM5t_srqvgFztHAipwuBF_aQBHBTSR6ObM7ArF_W7f3EnvC6BkXiojYM4i70FRCJ5ILuL09PFj4kiDx9SrhZPPm1xXOOaNELh8DBxdr-zuRnriER_7nk80KSoT523TL/s1600/Intulexia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhixCK9bYUrL5eEqoM5t_srqvgFztHAipwuBF_aQBHBTSR6ObM7ArF_W7f3EnvC6BkXiojYM4i70FRCJ5ILuL09PFj4kiDx9SrhZPPm1xXOOaNELh8DBxdr-zuRnriER_7nk80KSoT523TL/s320/Intulexia.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Within the practice of INTULEXIA we figure out the real reason you are repeating the same dissociation cycles. The answers are already inside of us. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Those of us who were abused as children, or who were neglected or otherwise failed to get our developmental needs met experience the same scenes over and over throughout our life, as if we're trying to right wrongs of the past. We must step outside of today and realise that what's happening now is actually a projection of our coping strategies from childhood. We are actually attracting the same abuse from others until we deal with the original dissociated</span><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> source of the abuse.</span>

At INTULEXIA we figure out the real reason you are repeating the same dissociational cycles.

Within the practice of INTULEXIA we figure out the real reason you are repeating the same dissociation cycles. The answers are already inside of us.  Those of us who were abused as children, or who w…

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INTULEXIA is a child within recovery term for waking up to the truth of what happened to us as a child.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZoTG6lgusJysX2l5CJdJm6G6DoWwE4mYIjJE-eJ3Owwz3V12aZCYu3G4whjGJ7O9SWUNoBle3bTMd9PqoPSl7XgDkC3OccgMIcGCZQnOCINp50NdD_cJ9txQ7dy6CER5Apmp2R4zhabIS/s1600/INTULXIA24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZoTG6lgusJysX2l5CJdJm6G6DoWwE4mYIjJE-eJ3Owwz3V12aZCYu3G4whjGJ7O9SWUNoBle3bTMd9PqoPSl7XgDkC3OccgMIcGCZQnOCINp50NdD_cJ9txQ7dy6CER5Apmp2R4zhabIS/s320/INTULXIA24.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">INTULEXIA is a child within recovery term for waking up to the truth of what happened to us as a child. This is common for Child Within members . It's like a veil is lifted and we can see things as they really are for the first time. This process can be painful, but is also enlightening and ultimately one of the most freeing experiences you will encounter during the recovery process. Prior to coming out of dissociation, we will be in some state of misery, perpetual abuse and denial. </span>

INTULEXIA is a child within recovery term for waking up to the truth of what happened to us as a child.

INTULEXIA is a child within recovery term for waking up to the truth of what happened to us as a child. This is common for Child Within members . It's like a veil is lifted and we can see things as t…

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Surround yourself with honest people.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWP2UxZkrnnYKz4HRnOo2Pu2tI1GcVoJCJRiCf-8wNb8fXHTPaVtHaEhpkFccrtdAfoO7ipKJAtvf2uxPS4VdjPZye17SYotkAXa3xVQ1dvBiqRVWIcQVBkQGVcPrkMDo5NDXLHoW09hYT/s1600/110888-108744.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWP2UxZkrnnYKz4HRnOo2Pu2tI1GcVoJCJRiCf-8wNb8fXHTPaVtHaEhpkFccrtdAfoO7ipKJAtvf2uxPS4VdjPZye17SYotkAXa3xVQ1dvBiqRVWIcQVBkQGVcPrkMDo5NDXLHoW09hYT/s1600/110888-108744.jpg" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Be humble. Always remember that everyone has blind spots (yes, that includes me and you)!<br />Surround yourself with honest people. If we all have blind spots, nothing better than having honest people around us to point them out to us.<br />Don’t go overboard. Intulexia is inherent parts of us: it make us human. Applying Intulexia to our decision making is important, but that doesn’t mean that our intuitive voice has lost its place. </span>

Surround yourself with honest people.

Be humble. Always remember that everyone has blind spots (yes, that includes me and you)!Surround yourself with honest people. If we all have blind spots, nothing better than having honest people aro…

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INTULEXIA is about Autonomy and Self Worth, we challenge, confront dissociation.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0fz2DeOMOvlZ4Y8DE0JWSar4UDUnt-nBOksVhsuQJQE2OdKtqVj1n_TbEwFqK-exrfFy6CLh87JLtRf0wACKz4y9a3bKr7VfTwdnmz-jA8xd8XlZ6Miw8S9iZxywof9nJvZjFr7yBUVdF/s1600/z21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0fz2DeOMOvlZ4Y8DE0JWSar4UDUnt-nBOksVhsuQJQE2OdKtqVj1n_TbEwFqK-exrfFy6CLh87JLtRf0wACKz4y9a3bKr7VfTwdnmz-jA8xd8XlZ6Miw8S9iZxywof9nJvZjFr7yBUVdF/s320/z21.jpg" width="240" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">INTULEXIA is about Autonomy and Self Worth, we challenge, confront dissociation. We are Dream Warriors for our truth...<br />“fellowship instinct” exists — to different degrees — in all of us. Even if we hate to admit it, other people’s actions do heavily influence ours.<br />We fear looking dumb: failing along with many people is frequently not considered a big deal, but when we fail alone we must take all the heat ourselves. There’s always peer pressure to adopt the behaviours of the groups we’re in.<br /><br />This tendency to conform is notoriously exploited in advertising. Businesses often sell us products not based on their features, but by showing how popular they are: since others are buying it in droves, why would we not join them?<br /><br />Conformity is also one of the main reasons why once a book makes into a well-known best-sellers list, it tends to “lock in” and continue there for a long time. People like to consume what “everybody else” is consuming.<br />What can you do about it?<br />Meditation often discount the influence of others. When analysing information, shield yourself from others’ opinions — at least at first. This is the best way to decide without being subconsciously swayed by popular opinions.<br />Beware “social proof”. Always raise a flag when someone tries to convince you arguing primarily on the popularity of a choice, instead of on its merit.<br />Be courageous. Be willing to overcome obstacles and defend your viewpoints, despite their unpopularity. Don’t be afraid to point out that the Emperor wears no clothes.</span>

INTULEXIA is about Autonomy and Self Worth, we challenge, confront dissociation.

INTULEXIA is about Autonomy and Self Worth, we challenge, confront dissociation. We are Dream Warriors for our truth...“fellowship instinct” exists — to different degrees — in all of us. Even if we h…

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Intulexia: No matter how neutral we think we are when first tackling a decision, we always decide — adult intuitively — on an alternative right away

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji8v_LKYFzeKAnpI8ug10PWI2GD-7POL4MkBgWwa35kmc7HGOOBCWuXTuqTawMITfk3w7a1jkATZWyBzARpczMsTW2uHJGSZl1AxJkTkB9WvCDUPyxS_2n0EBj69Xhr_JG67ldp61BaEh4/s1600/gearHead23.jpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji8v_LKYFzeKAnpI8ug10PWI2GD-7POL4MkBgWwa35kmc7HGOOBCWuXTuqTawMITfk3w7a1jkATZWyBzARpczMsTW2uHJGSZl1AxJkTkB9WvCDUPyxS_2n0EBj69Xhr_JG67ldp61BaEh4/s1600/gearHead23.jpg.jpg" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Intulexia: No matter how neutral we think we are when first tackling a decision, we always decide — adult intuitively — on an alternative right away, making us subject to this trap virtually at all times.<br />What can we do about it?<br />Exposeing ourself to conflicting information. Examine all evidence with equal rigor. Don’t be soft on disconfirmatory evidence. Know what you are about: Searching for alternatives or looking for reassurance!<br />Get a devil’s advocate. Find someone we respect to argue against the decision we’re contemplating making. If you can’t find one, build the counterarguments ourself. Always consider the other positions with an open mind.<br />Don’t ask leading questions. When asking for advice, make neutral questions to avoid people merely confirming our biases. “What should I do with my meditation?” works better than “Should I change my practice today?”</span>

Intulexia: No matter how neutral we think we are when first tackling a decision, we always decide — adult intuitively — on an alternative right away

Intulexia: No matter how neutral we think we are when first tackling a decision, we always decide — adult intuitively — on an alternative right away, making us subject to this trap virtually at all t…

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States of consciousness are systematically and reliably triggered by external stimuli.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3PFyP451768Goaq-MlQRVZ2nJwYS45SxKdo6aHIUC8qBXc6ZyC234IGqMh-Agmbl1_XRijl-HhKBwgeUKEck9CGqLMJygfNgtnKeqQcuKKGv37NExtbF6E2saXma9EunB_CoMd8e-K3XM/s1600/1-1-LaetitiaCasta046.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3PFyP451768Goaq-MlQRVZ2nJwYS45SxKdo6aHIUC8qBXc6ZyC234IGqMh-Agmbl1_XRijl-HhKBwgeUKEck9CGqLMJygfNgtnKeqQcuKKGv37NExtbF6E2saXma9EunB_CoMd8e-K3XM/s320/1-1-LaetitiaCasta046.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Consciousness is the greatest mystery in Consciousness is the greatest mystery in science. Don’t believe the hype: the Hard Problem is here to stay. Don’t believe the hype: the Hard Problem is here to stay CONSCIOUSNESS AS SELF-AWARENESS</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">in to keep track of its own state of attention, allowing it to make sense of itself and of other brains. — Graziano.</span></i></blockquote> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Consciousness evolved as a way for the brain to keep track of its own state of attention, allowing it to make sense of itself and of other brains. — Graziano.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">ETHOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS ("OUTSIDE VIEW")</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">(From Consciousness: An Outside View.)</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Here’s a provocative claim:</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">In most cases, consciousness isn’t something that arises from within, but is instead its modulated from the outside.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Yes, sometimes we enter a particular state of consciousness by act of will — as when we decide to meditate, or focus in the face of distraction — but these are the exceptions rather than the rule. In most cases, states of consciousness are systematically and reliably triggered by external stimuli.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">To illustrate the point, here are some of the more important (external) triggers: </span><br /> <div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Drugs. The effects of drugs on consciousness are easy to understand. Take a few shots: get drunk. Drink a cup of coffee: feel focused and energised. Take ecstasy: experience instant love and empathy. Incidentally, drugs’ power to trigger specific states of consciousness, intensely and reliably, is why they’re such a political issue — but we’ll get to that later. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Our bodies. I’ve written about this before — and fairly extensively — because I think it’s an under-appreciated fact about human behaviour. What we do with our bodies changes how we think, feel, and perceive. Influence runs in both directions: the mind takes its cues from the body just as often as the other way around. Because of this, our bodies can induce different states of consciousness. Dance and you’ll feel happy. Bow and you’ll feel submissive. Stand tall and you’ll feel proud. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The behaviours of other humans. It’s not just what you do with your own body that has an effect on your consciousness — it’s also what others are doing with their bodies. One way this is achieved is through mirror neurons, empathy, etc. When someone frets anxiously in front of you, you’ll often become anxious yourself. But other bodies can also trigger particular states of consciousness through synchrony, i.e., when your body moves together with other bodies. This induces a feeling of group identity, a sense of the collective, and feelings of affinity leading to enhanced trust. See e.g. Synchrony and Cooperation. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Our physical environments. Environments have predictable effects on consciousness. Frantic environments induce excitement. Quiet spaces induce focus. Vast spaces (like cathedrals, stadia) induce awe. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The tasks we are required to perform. Different tasks are triggers for different types of consciousness — i.e., different patterns of attention and control. The consciousness required for driving is distinct from what is required for programming— or for hunting, playing Tetris, dancing, reading a math book, doing improv, or being a trader on the floor of the NYSE. Each task requires us to attend to particular types of information (in particular ways), and to produce certain types of behavior while suppressing others. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Rewards and punishment. We can train ourselves — not unlike the way we train dogs and horses — to experience specific types of consciousness. The best illustration of this is industrial-age, classroom-based education (e.g. American K-12 public schooling). Education of this sort is a systematic exercise in training children to enter and maintain a particular state of consciousness, i.e., sustained, focused attention with control over one’s impulses. All else being equal, the more a child is able to achieve this state, the better the child will do in school (with attendant rewards), while deviations from this kind of consciousness will typically result in punishment (through bad grades and/or disciplinary action). It’s no coincidence that this is the type of consciousness required for factory work and desk jobs. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">That consciousness is modulated from outside is rendered vivid by what happens when all these triggers are removed, as in a sensory deprivation tank. There, sequestered from external stimuli (light, sound, the presence of others, and even, so far as it’s possible, our own bodies), our minds are ‘free’ to do whatever they like. But such freedom is unnatural, and the strange effects (hallucinations, out-of-body experiences) only serve to illustrate how much we rely on external stimuli to produce our ‘normal’, everyday consciousness.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">CONSCIOUSNESS AS AVAILABILITY FOR CONTROL</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">... self-consciousness as availability for verbal/social control</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">CONSCIOUSNESS AS A METAPHORICAL CONTAINER</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Jaynes; introspective consciousness as a metaphorical container, an invention</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">An outside view; infection from the environment</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">CONSCIOUSNESS AS A (RECENT) GROWTH ON TOP OF THE UNCONSCIOUS</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">CONSCIOUSNESS AS NARRATIVE MECHANISM</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">... a process of writing and re-writing drafts of the self-story. Self as "narrative centre of gravity."</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">CONSCIOUSNESS AS ATTENTION; WHAT GETS WRITTEN TO MEMORY</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">CONSCIOUSNESS AS THE DUAL OF CIVILISATION / THE EXTERNAL WORLD</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">CONSCIOUSNESS AS THE PRESENT MOMENT(!)</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">http://hack.ly/articles/why-consciousness-may-not-come-from-the-brain/</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">CONSCIOUSNESS AS A STATE OF MATTER(!)</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">An expression of the world's striving for ever-lower energy states. It's an evolved phenomenon, something that helps creatures metabolise more energy</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">GLOBAL WORKSPACE THEORY</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">CONSCIOUSNESS AS SOLUTION TO THE "TYRANNY OF PAIN"</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">(David Barash)</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Freud and his inheritors are distinguished by their method of anthropomorphising internal mechanisms of the mind – treating a part of the mind, say the id, as an autonomous being with its own goals, agency and some limited intelligence. Marvin Minsky’s Society of Mind theory is probably the most worked-out contemporary theory in this mode. I’ve studied with Minsky, and have internalised much of his worldview, but this post is an attempt to grapple understand the work of George Ainslie, whose approach is rather different. Where Minsky tends to be more cognitive in his approach, Ainslie’s theory is deeply rooted in drives, rewards, behavior, and quantitative utility theory. His version of this he calls “picoeconomics” – that is, the internal and very-small-scale internal economy of the mind.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Damasio’s own somatic-mapping theory of consciousness, in which all of our abstract and conscious thoughts are fractal patterns recursively built out of visceral feelings that represent basic homeostasis-seeking drives</span></div>

States of consciousness are systematically and reliably triggered by external stimuli.

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When we talk about our having to suffer, pain, grief you tell us to be awakened at the same time. Trying to compromise these two things seems difficult.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg-BZLhKxzkW1VrcR6-qhdF_gZtZIe5aCc9qE7jMqKO62K7K9HSYCWL5Jtlp6N6IAO0syL97vt6PfEdXOs164GXUfUfZMjJPfcVwtYPqEwp7kNlQ1a_sMRrVfXuPHyiQv3FJa3epkmR0Jk/s1600/DAD22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg-BZLhKxzkW1VrcR6-qhdF_gZtZIe5aCc9qE7jMqKO62K7K9HSYCWL5Jtlp6N6IAO0syL97vt6PfEdXOs164GXUfUfZMjJPfcVwtYPqEwp7kNlQ1a_sMRrVfXuPHyiQv3FJa3epkmR0Jk/s320/DAD22.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">When we talk about our having to suffer, pain, grief you tell us to be awakened at the same time. Trying to compromise these two things seems difficult.<br /><br />When I say suffer joyfully it looks paradoxical and your mind starts thinking how to compromise both, because to you they are contradictory. They are not, they only appear contradictory. You can enjoy suffering.<br />What is the secret - how to enjoy suffering? The first thing is: if you don′t escape, if you allow the suffering to be there, if you are ready to face it, if you are not trying somehow to forget it, then you are different. Suffering is there but just around you; it is not in the center, it is on the periphery. It is impossible for suffering to be in the center; it is not in the nature of things. It is always on the periphery and you are the center. So when you allow it to happen, when you don′t escape, you don′t run, you are not in a panic, suddenly you become aware that suffering is there on the periphery, as if happening to someone else, not to you, and you are looking at it. A subtle joy spreads all over your being because you have realized one of the basic truths of life: that you are bliss and not suffering.<br />So when I say enjoy it I don′t mean become a masochist; I don′t mean create suffering for yourself and enjoy it. I don′t mean: go on, fall down from a cliff, have fractures and then enjoy it - no. There are people of that type and many of them have become ascetics, tapasvis, and they are creating suffering for themselves. They are masochists, they are ill. They are very dangerous people. They wanted to make others suffer but they are not so courageous. They wanted to kill others, be violent with others, cripple others, but they are not so courageous, so their whole violence has turned within. Now they are crippling themselves, torturing themselves, and enjoying it.<br />I am not saying be a masochist; I am simply saying suffering is there, you need not seek for it. Enough suffering is there already, you need not go in search. Suffering is already there; life by its very nature creates suffering. Illness is there, death is there, the body is there - by their very nature suffering is created. See it, look at it with a very dispassionate eye. Look at it - what it is, what is happening. Don′t escape. Immediately the mind says, "Escape from here, don′t look at it." But if you escape then you cannot be blissful.<br />Next time you fall ill and the doctor suggests to remain in bed, take it as a blessing. Close your eyes and rest on the bed and just look at the illness. Watch it, what it is. Don′t try to analyse it, don′t go into theories, just watch it, what it is. The whole body tired, feverish - watch it. Suddenly, you will feel that you are surrounded by fever but there is a very cool point within you; the fever cannot touch it, cannot influence it. The whole body may be burning but that cool point cannot be touched.Osho</span>

When we talk about our having to suffer, pain, grief you tell us to be awakened at the same time. Trying to compromise these two things seems difficult.

  When we talk about our having to suffer, pain, grief you tell us to be awakened at the same time. Trying to compromise these two things seems difficult.When I say suffer joyfully it looks paradoxic…

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Transmutation of the child within, a word that in its original Latin meaning refers to total change.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlvC5S3tn6JzsKTogm2rhyDTTez0R130JIbM__brp6eryaC8tAtTAuAqaNKtKyKrCrT88lwhtJvJTi-_wTO8UkBpADM3gHXOUtpdKYSsdBkGszImuXSUBJbMpxU0V2pl5zzApOJD8tC5Jf/s1600/9d6eK7Zc+program.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlvC5S3tn6JzsKTogm2rhyDTTez0R130JIbM__brp6eryaC8tAtTAuAqaNKtKyKrCrT88lwhtJvJTi-_wTO8UkBpADM3gHXOUtpdKYSsdBkGszImuXSUBJbMpxU0V2pl5zzApOJD8tC5Jf/s320/9d6eK7Zc+program.png" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Transmutation of the child within, a word that in its original Latin meaning refers to total change. Physically this denotes a change of the properties of matter, and thus of substance, it refers to child within transformation—in specific, certain actions to aid in freeing the essence of the child within that is ‘trapped’ within (echoing the view that spirit is trapped in matter). This idea had its basis in the ancient beliefs. The belied in the child within is seen as fundamentally engaged in a process of evolution, and the essential idea of Intulexia was to speed this process up—in short, to save time.<br /><br />INTULEXIA is concerned with the transmutation of the personality and its structures, so as to allow for the light of unobstructed consciousness and pure Child Within to be directly known. The direct knowing of pure Child Within is Self-realisation. INTULEXIA is thus a means by which we re-structure our personality and the various levels of our identification with it, so as to realise the infinite potential of our CHILD WITHIN. It is essentially a comprehensive roadmap, using colourful and sophisticated symbols, detailing the means and steps by which we get ourselves ‘out of our own way’ and allow our highest and best destiny to unfold.<br /><br />INTULEXIA redefines the interdependent relationship between the subject (shadow self) and the object (all that is not-self). In materialistic science the subject is the observer distinct from what he or she studies (the object). In Intulexia this distinction is much less defined, because the transformation of the subject (shadow self), of our personality, is pre-eminent.<br /><br />A key point found repeatedly within Intulexia is the idea that the child within can only succeed in its work if he approaches it with purity of intent, with a heart free of ulterior agendas.  This process involves a number of stages, ten in all. </span>

Transmutation of the child within, a word that in its original Latin meaning refers to total change.

Transmutation of the child within, a word that in its original Latin meaning refers to total change. Physically this denotes a change of the properties of matter, and thus of substance, it refers to …

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To reject gods and spirits is easy: just bully them away in the name of science.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-ie1y6wqBIV2GVyprSyrNA1yVKLtKFhKwiF76w82ADvKKwzmC8pKwo2eHNnZMNbIomwkbqAvfK1dYAX_yfkNescGn-r3pr6MBkU9wdV3tN_6ZWv1ykvFri1Az7FL7EN38RAMII-hmnhA/s1600/Yoga+Man.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-ie1y6wqBIV2GVyprSyrNA1yVKLtKFhKwiF76w82ADvKKwzmC8pKwo2eHNnZMNbIomwkbqAvfK1dYAX_yfkNescGn-r3pr6MBkU9wdV3tN_6ZWv1ykvFri1Az7FL7EN38RAMII-hmnhA/s320/Yoga+Man.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">To reject gods and spirits is easy: just bully them away in the name of science.<br /><br /><br />But to accept them, or at least our experiences of them, and yet give them a scientific explanation: there's a task worthy of our art. It demands that we look them in the eye and take them seriously, while standing absolutely firm in our materialist convictions.<br /><br /><br />I don't know how much of what I'm about to say is true. All I know is that it's damn interesting.<br /><br /><br />Today we court madness from the bedrock of science. Today we will face addictions and compulsions, alter-egos and imaginary friends, angelic voices and demonic possessions, even exorcisms. And we will attempt to ground these madnesses, one and all, in a unified, sane, materialist framework.<br /><br /><br />We will begin, naturally, with the neuron.<br /> NEURONS, SELFISH AND FERAL<br /><br /><br />In a recent Edge interview, Dan Dennett pitches the most fascinating new idea I've read in a long, long time: That our neurons are powerful computational building blocks in part because they've reverted to an older and slightly feral state.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Here's Dennett [1]:<br /><br /><br />Realize that every human cell in your body, including your neurons, is a direct descendent of eukaryotic cells that lived and fended for themselves, for about a billion years, as free-swimming, free-living little agents. They had to develop an awful lot of know-how and self-protective talent to do that. But when they joined forces to become multi-cellular creatures, they gave up a lot of that. They became, in effect, domesticated — part of larger, more monolithic organizations.<br /><br /><br />In general, we don't have to worry about our muscle cells rebelling against us. (When they do, we call it cancer.) But in the brain, I think, some little switch has been thrown in the genetics that, in effect, makes our neurons a little bit feral. It's like what happens when you let sheep or pigs go feral: they recover their wild talents very fast.<br /><br /><br />Maybe the neurons in our brains are not just capable, but motivated, to be more adventurous, exploratory, or risky in the way they live their lives. They're struggling amongst themselves for influence and for staying alive. As soon as that happens, you have room for cooperation, to create alliances, coalitions, cabals, etc.<br /><br /><br />Dennett traces this idea — of the "selfish" neuron — to computational neuroscientist Sebastian Seung. According to Seung and Dennett, it's precisely because of neuronal selfishness that the brain is able to "spontaneously reorganize itself in response to trauma or novel experiences." For example:<br /><br /><br />Mike Merzenich sutured a monkey's fingers together so that it didn't need as much cortex to represent two separate individual digits, and pretty soon the cortical regions that were representing those two digits shrank, making that part of the cortex available to use for other things. When the sutures were removed, the cortical regions soon resumed pretty much their earlier dimensions.<br /><br /><br />Or if you blindfold yourself for eight weeks, as Alvaro Pascual-Leone does in his experiments, you find that your visual cortex starts getting adapted for Braille, for haptic perception, for touch.<br /><br /><br />Why should these [idle] neurons be so eager to pitch in? Well, they're out of work. They're unemployed, and if you're unemployed, you're not getting your neuromodulators, so your receptors are going to start disappearing, and pretty soon you're going to be really out of work, and then you're going to die.<br /><br /><br />In other words, the selfishness of neurons incentivizes them to be useful — to hook up with the right network of their fellow neurons, which is itself hooked up with other networks (both 'up' and 'downstream'), all so they can keep earning their share of life-sustaining energy and raw materials.<br /><br /><br />Thus there is, in this view, an internal 'economy' in the brain, in which neurons must compete with each other for resources. This design stands in contrast to the standard, Von Neumann computer architecture, whose parts never have to worry about where their energy is coming from. Without resource contention, there's no need for selfishness. And this is, in part, why computers are less flexible and adaptable — less plastic — than brains.<br /><br /><br />Plasticity, says Dennett,<br /><br /><br />is itself one of the most amazing features of the brain, and if you don't have an architecture that can explain it, your model has a major defect. I think you really have to think of individual neurons as micro-agents, and ask what's in it for them?<br /><br /><br />Neurons as agents: This could well be the single most important fact about our brains.<br /> AGENTS ALL THE WAY DOWN<br /><br /><br />So what is agency, exactly, and why is it so important?<br /><br /><br />For our purposes, an agent is an entity capable of autonomous, intelligent, goal-directed behavior.<br /><br /><br />People are agents, clearly. So are corporations and governments, insofar as they pursue goals (like 'maximizing shareholder value' or 'defending territory'). Even a plant can be said to have agency, since it 'wants' to grow toward the sun. Not all agents need to be selfish — e.g., a non-profit — but any system that can be called selfish (like a neuron) will necessarily be an agent.<br /><br /><br />But agency isn't binary; it's not something you either 'have' or 'don't have.' Instead it admits of degrees. The more autonomous, intelligent, adaptive, and purposeful a system is, the more agency we will attribute to it. Thus children tend to have less agency than their (more intelligent, purposeful) parents, and slaves less agency than their (more autonomous) masters.<br /><br /><br />Another key fact is that agency isn't intrinsic to a system, but rather something we ascribe to it. It's a way of describing a system at the level of abstraction that includes goals, obstacles, motivations, etc. If you look too closely (at a sufficiently low level of abstraction), the agency might seem to disappear. A plant, for example, is 'merely' growing its stem according to theconcentration of auxin, just like we (humans) are often 'merely' acting on our drives and instincts. But zoom back out, and once again it will be productive to describe the system at the agent-level of abstraction. Thus explanatory power, not free will, is the hallmark of agency.<br /><br /><br />The questions I want to investigate today concern the agency of different systems in the brain. We can line these up in a pyramid, with a single agent at the top built on other agents all the way down:<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Of course there's no strict delineation between these different "levels." They're just convenient labels for us to talk and reason about them. In reality the brain is a tangled mess of agents operating on many different levels, often simultaneously; in Hofstadter's phrase, it's a heterarchy rather than a hierarchy.<br /><br /><br />What I'm going to argue today is that agency is a fundamental property of the brain. Not only is agency the function of the brain — and thus it's very reason for existence — but it's also built into the brain's fabric and architecture. Because even neurons have agency, in the form of (metabolic) selfishness, higher-order brain systems don't need to create agency 'from scratch' out of mindless robotic slaves. They inherit agency pretty much for free.<br /><br /><br />The brain is thus uniquely hospitable to agents, who can be said to take rootand grow in the brain quite readily.<br /><br /><br />There's actually a more general principle here, namely, that rich substrates are more fertile, more conducive to growth. Bacteria grow better in glucose-rich agar than in saltwater. Plants grow better in (organic) soil than in (inorganic) sand. Ideas grow more quickly in a highly-connected society than in a sparse one. And so on.<br /><br /><br />Similarly, agents grow best on a substrate rich in agency. Computers, though technically capable of supporting agency, aren't particularly hospitable to it. The brain, in contrast, is already teeming with agency (in the form of billions of selfish neurons), and is thus uniquely fertile.<br /><br /><br />Hang on to the organic growth metaphor. It's important, and we'll come back to it soon.<br /><br /><br />In the meantime, let's see how agency plays out at the different levels of the brain. We'll work our way up from the bottom, having already covered level 1 (neurons).<br /> LEVEL 2: MODULES<br /><br /><br />Modular views of the mind date back to the early days of AI. In 1959, Oliver Selfridge proposed a 'Pandemonium' architecture for an AI system, full of little independent 'demons' that had simple, goal-oriented jobs. Dennett also refers to his modules as 'demons' in Consciousness Explained, following Selfridge. In The Society of Mind, Minsky refers to them simply as 'agents.'<br /><br /><br />The basic idea is that there's a level of abstraction where we can describe the brain in terms of hundreds, thousands, or even millions of little modules, more or less independent of each other, each with its own functional purpose or goal. These modules have agency, of course, but are fairly limited in scope. Examples include edge detectors (in the visual system), finger controllers (in the sensorimotor cortex), and verb conjugators (in the language system).<br /><br /><br />Modules are covered pretty extensively in the literature, so I won't belabor the idea. I'll just point out that, if Dennett and Seung are right, modules inherit some of the same type of agency — i.e., selfishness — as the neurons out of which they're built. There's a real sense in which a module 'wants' to keep it's 'job', because when it's out of work its neurons wither away. Sometimes these unemployed modules can be quite clever about taking on new jobs, as when the visual system gets repurposed for Braille.<br /> LEVEL 3: SUB-PERSONAL AGENTS<br /><br /><br />At the level above simple modules, but below the self, are poised what I will call sub-personal agents. These are systems like drives or instincts — hunger, lust, curiosity, greed, addictions — that have agency recognizable even to lay-people. We don't need neuroscience to reason about these agents because we can 'feel' them, through introspection, pulling at our psyches — faintly or insistently, gently or violently. And indeed, people have been reasoning about these systems, as agents, for thousands of years.<br /><br /><br />Sub-personal agents aren't capable of using language directly (like the self is), so their agency is limited and less outward-facing. But they nevertheless have real power, in that they're capable of influencing the cognition, emotions, and behavior of the human creatures they inhabit. They're also capable of co-opting the reasoning process to justify their desires.<br /><br /><br />Sub-personal agents also have immense explanatory power. This is most visible in the life of an addict. The addict 'himself' often doesn't want to keep up the addiction, but he keeps doing it anyway. Thus the addict is often described, even by himself, as powerless, and perhaps the best, most parsimonious explanation for his behavior is that there's literally another agent inside his brain — his inner addict — realized as a particular cabal of neurons and modules.<br /><br /><br />When you take an addictive drug for the first time — nicotine, let's say — a new agent begins to bud around that source of pleasure (i.e., the neurotransmitters that flood your brain while smoking). The agent starts out small and weak. But the more you feed it, the bigger it grows, until there are many neurons, many modules, and even other brain-agents under its influence, feeding off the nicotine and craving it in ever larger doses, co-opting your planning and reasoning skills so it can scheme about how to get more of it.<br /><br /><br />This process, of course, is extremely adaptive for us, as evolved organisms — but only when the pleasure corresponds to something of survival or reproductive value: food, sex, social status, mastery of physical skills. The fact that our brains are capable of growing agents dedicated to pursuing food and sex is essential to our survival. It's only in the modern (super-stimulating) environment that we get into trouble.<br /><br /><br />This American Life did a nice segment on addiction a few years back, in which the producers — seemingly on a lark — asked people to personify their addictions. "It was like people had been waiting all their lives for somebody to ask them this question," said the producers, and they gushed forth with descriptions of the 'voice' of their inner addict:<br /><br /><br />"The voice is irresistible, always. I'm in the thrall of that voice."<br /><br /><br />"Totally out of control. It's got this life of its own, and I can't tame it anymore."<br /><br /><br />"I actually have a name for the voice. I call it Stan. Stan is the guy who tells me to have the extra glass of wine. Stan is the guy who tells me to smoke."<br /><br /><br />Note that this isn't literal speech, as in an auditory hallucination. Instead, the 'voice' is simply an agent whose influence is accessible to introspection, and thus capable of being put to words, as an imaginative/interpretive gloss. That we call them voices is simply a testament to the high level of abstraction at which these agents operate.<br /><br /><br />It's this same sense — abstract, non-explicit — in which these agents engage in 'reasoning,' 'negotiation,' 'bargaining,' joining 'alliances,' and other forms of coalitional politics. When two sub-personal agents are bargaining, for example, they're not using words to do it, but the process is nevertheless the kind of thing that can be put into words — and thus these agents can be very 'persuasive'. Again here's This American Life:<br /><br /><br />[Over-sleeper] "Then I'll get up five minutes later and [the voice will] be like, 'Eh, I mean, you don't need to iron a skirt. Do you really need to iron the skirt? If you need to iron the skirt, do you need to be wearing the skirt? Maybe you could wear a different skirt, and then you could sleep for 10 more minutes.' And that seems like a reasonable negotiation."<br /><br /><br />Obsessions, compulsions, addictions, and other "inner demons" aren't the only agents with real power to control and explain our behavior; our brains are host to 'benevolent' agents as well. Our consciences, for example. These are agents that live inside our brains, who are being trained throughout our lives, but especially in childhood, by our interactions with parents, authority figures, and other moral teachers, and by various rewards and (especially) punishments.<br /><br /><br />Certain religious communities, such as the evangelicals studied by Tanya Luhrmann, spend a great deal of time and effort teaching themselves to 'hear' the (metaphorical) voice of God, or to interpret His will. "People train the mind," she says, "in such a way that they experience part of their mind as the presence of God." This 'God' is nothing more and nothing less than an internalized, personified agent representing society's interests.<br /><br /><br />It's an interesting feature of our brains that society (or perhaps "elite society") can install these types of agents — God, the conscience, a sense of morality — to look after its own interests. This is reminiscent of the way the UN will install weapons inspectors or election observers inside otherwise-sovereign nations.<br /> LEVEL 4: THE SELF<br /><br /><br />Finally we come to the self — I, ego, myself, my conscious will.<br /><br /><br />By now I hope I've shown that the self isn't the only meaningful agent in the brain. But it is the dominant agent, or at least the one in a position of nominal leadership. Mike Travers gives this memorable description of the self (emphasis mine):<br /><br /><br />A person, like a society, is composed of parts with their own private agendas, all taking part in a continuously renegotiated dance of conflict, cooperation, and compromise. Our disparate motivations are like politicians trying to advance a faction, and the self, such as it is, is something like a prime minister — not powerful in its own right, but because it has managed to become the public face for the most powerful faction.<br /><br /><br />In this view, the self is a social agent. It's both externally- and internally-facing, its role as much public relations as executive control.<br /><br /><br />Now this is what I find especially profound. If we accept that the brain is teeming with agency, and thus uniquely hospitable to it, then we can model the self as something that emerges naturally in the course of the brain's interactions with the world.<br /><br /><br />In other words, the self may be less of a feature of our brains (planned or designed by our genes), and more of a growth. Every normal human brain placed in the right environment — with sufficient autonomy and potential for social interaction — will grow a self-agent. But if the brain or environment is abnormal or wrong (somehow) or simply different, the self may not turn out as expected.<br /><br /><br />Imagine a girl raised from infancy in the complete absence of socializing/civilizing contact with other people. The resulting adult will almost certainly have a self concept, e.g., will be able to recognize herself in the mirror. But without language, norms, shame, and social punishment, the agent(s) at the top of her brain hierarchy will certainly not serve a social/PR role. She'll have no 'face', no persona. She'll be an intelligent creature, yes, but not a person.<br /><br /><br />In this way, the self takes on a structure that depends on (and reflects) the environment it's raised in.<br /> 'BIRTH DEFECTS' IN THE SELF<br /><br /><br />Now if the self is the result of an organic growth process, then perhaps it makes some of the same mistakes as other, similar processes.<br /><br /><br />Life, as I've pointed out before, is capable of some pretty bizarre and amazing things. Case in point:<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />This is the condition known as polycephaly or multi-headedness. It's just one of the many birth defects involving supernumerary body parts, which also include fingers (polydactyly), limbs (polymelia), and yes, even penises (polyphallia).<br /><br /><br />How does this happen? How can an animal end up with two heads or three arms?<br /><br /><br />The mechanism is actually quite simple — and quite illuminating. As we know, every zygote (sperm + egg) must turn into a many-trillion-celled animal by replicating itself. But in doing so it must simultaneously differentiate into various 'cell lines' destined to produce each of the different tissues, organs, and appendages — arms, legs, eyes, spleens, lungs, arteries, skin, etc., etc.<br /><br /><br />Now if a replication error or conjoined-twin scenario creates two 'head' cell lines instead of just one, the embryo will simply develop two heads(!). The point is that the developing embryo is capable of growing all sorts of tissues/appendages/organs in a variety of locations. It's merely the careful regulation of the number and location of these cell lines which ensures that we are almost always single-headed, two-armed, etc. But the potential for growing all sorts of things is there, in the embryo, just waiting to be tapped by the right (or wrong) arrangement of early cells.<br /><br /><br />I contend that something similar can happen to agents growing in the brain: that it's possible for the self to develop 'birth defects' during the process of self-formation (which occurs long after biological birth, of course).<br /><br /><br />As we've seen, the brain is uniquely hospitable to agency (just as an embryo is hospitable to tissue and organ growth). Most normal human brains, in normal environments, will naturally grow a single agent (the self) at the top of their agent hierarchy. But what if the brain or the environment isn't quite normal? Are we capable of growing other selves or person-like agents — even multiple ones in a single brain?<br /><br /><br />The answer, I think, is yes.<br /><br /><br /><br /> MULTIPLE OCCUPANCY<br /><br /><br />So: what kind of 'rogue' agents are capable of taking root and growing in our brains, alongside our selves?<br /><br /><br />It turns out there are a few different types.<br /><br /><br />In schizophrenia, the patient can hallucinate one or more separate voices, each with its own motives, personality, etc. But hallucinated voices aren't unique to schizophrenia and don't necessarily entail psychosis. Voices run the gamut from persecutory to helpful, and can even become indispensable. Joan of Arc heard a few different voices which helped her to "govern" herself. "Whatever I have done that was good," she said, "I have done at the bidding of my voices." William Blake saw visions throughout his life, and composed large parts of Milton "without Premeditation & even against my will." Socrates, of course, was attended by his personal daimonion.<br /><br /><br />In dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder), two or more person-like agents inhabit the same brain. These cases are rare, and may be induced during therapy (iatrogenetically) rather than arising spontaneously in response to trauma. In any case, they probably don't involve wholly separate agents, but merely different, non-memory-sharing 'states' or facets of the same agent.<br /><br /><br />During a possession trance, a 'spirit' agent takes over and assumes control over the body, voice, etc. Clearly there are no non-material entities involved here — but we can't let someone else's bogus explanations mislead us into thinking the phenomenon itself isn't real. I discussed possessions (and hallucinations) in detail last time; Johnstone explores them at length inImpro. "One would expect the gods [spirits] to be presented as supermen," he says, "But in all 'trance' cultures we find a mythology which describes the gods as acting in a childlike way.... The gods are like children and must be told what to do." They must even be taught how to speak, starting first in gibberish until they learn the proper words for things. This sounds much more like a new brain-agent in need of training, rather than an intentional act put on by a fully-conscious, single-minded person.<br /><br /><br /><br />Additionally, in split-brain patients, the brain is divided into left and right hemispheres, each then becoming a distinct agent. Though only the left hemisphere is capable of speaking, both hemispheres can comprehend language, and both can control their respective halves of the body and initiate stereotyped motor sequences (like walking). But they can't share information. In one famous experiment, a command was presented to the patient's right hemisphere: "Get up and walk toward the door." When asked what was going on, the left hemisphere (who had no idea) made up a reason on the spot: "I'm going out to get a coke."<br /><br /><br />Each of these different types of agents — hallucinated voices, alter egos, possession spirits, split hemispheres — has a different 'wiring diagram.' Each commandeers verbal faculties, reasoning faculties, and control of the body in different ways. Each has a different set of triggers for being summoned and/or appearing unbidden.<br /><br /><br />But what's common to all of these phenomena is that they seem to involve separate entities — agents who aren't wholly 'us' — living inside our brains. God knows, they may even be sentient. There's certainly nothing in principle that would prevent a brain from hosting two separate sentient creatures. And while I can't say for sure that it's true, the mere possibility of it should give us pause.<br /> AGENT HORTICULTURE<br /><br /><br />I don't know why I was surprised.<br /><br /><br />It turns out there's a community — on the internet (where else?) — trying to intentionally cultivate these kinds of agents in their brains.<br /><br /><br />Unlike other communities with a similar goal, this one is fully grounded in physical reality. They admit no woo-woo spiritual nonsense to their discussions or explanations; their effort is fully compatible with a materialist understanding of the world.<br /><br /><br />The agents they're trying to cultivate are called tulpas. From the FAQ:<br /><br /><br />A tulpa could be described as an imaginary friend that has its own thoughts and emotions, and that you can interact with. You could think of them as hallucinations that can think and act on their own.<br /><br /><br />Alternately,<br /><br /><br />A tulpa is believed to be an autonomous consciousness, existing parallel to the creator’s consciousness inside the same brain, often with a form (mental body) of its own. A tulpa is entirely sentient and in control of their opinions, feelings, form and movement. They are willingly created by people via a number of techniques.<br /><br /><br />Six months ago I would have brushed this off as childish fancy, but now I'm not so sure. I can't tell you with any degree of certainty whether tulpas are real or not, but the material produced by this community reads like a good-faith, practice-oriented, engineering effort to grow and train a new brain habit. Their practices are entirely consistent with the idea of agency-inherited-from-selfish-neurons. For example, to grow a tulpa, you have to spend many, many hours (on the order of 100) imagining it, thinking about it, talking to it, and visualizing it — in other words, feeding it with attention. Or here's the FAQ on how to get rid of one:<br /><br /><br />Q: How do I permanently get rid of a tulpa?<br /><br /><br />A: Ignore them and deny them attention until they entirely dissipate. This is not a pleasant experience for a tulpa, and if you have developed them for any length of time it may well be emotionally draining on you too. It is not a quick or easy process.<br /><br /><br />Which sounds a lot like trying to kick an addiction.<br /><br /><br />Here's the bottom line.<br />Then maybe it's not so strange to think our brains are capable of growing a tulpa.<br /> TAKING DEMONS SERIOUSLY<br /><br /><br />One final thought — on making sense of exorcism.<br /><br /><br />If an exorcist explains his work in terms of spirits that live outside the body, then he is quite simply mistaken. "What delusions!" we think. "Doesn't he know science?"<br /><br /><br />But let's be careful here; it's too easy to get smug and self-righteous about this. If we simply walk away, we're leaving unanswered questions on the table. Science isn't (just) about discrediting bad explanations. It's also about providing good ones. And when it comes to things that smack of the "paranormal," we too often get caught up in the refutations, forgetting that there are real phenomena in need of explanation.<br /><br /><br />Sure there are charlatans, and I'm not saying we should take alien abduction stories seriously. But a practice like exorcism — one that's been around for all of recorded history, in most parts of the world and in almost all religious traditions — demands at the very least an anthropological explanation. Why do so many cultures practice exorcism? What, exactly, is going on?<br /><br /><br />I'm sure you can guess where I'm going with this. I suggest we try to be charitable and give the exorcists some credit. When they say they're casting out demons or evil spirits, what if we understood that to mean that they're casting out brain-agents?<br /><br /><br />In fact we can say this:<br /><br /><br />Exorcism is a form of psychological therapy in which the disease is treated as an agent.<br /><br /><br />In other words, an exorcist is a healer who takes the intentional stance toward a person's inner demons. Instead of looking for a medicinal cure (physical stance), and instead of addressing the patient's 'self' (psychological stance), the exorcist addresses the patient's ailment directly. This could entail any number of things: negotiating with it, reasoning with it, bribing it, showing it love and compassion, making it swear an oath, threatening it, or commanding it in the name of a higher power.<br /><br /><br />When you start to look at exorcism this way, you can see how it might be effective — at least for a certain class of ailments under certain conditions. Something along these lines seems to have worked for Eleanor Longden's schizophrenia, for example, as she explains in this TED talk.<br /><br /><br />In most cases, the exorcist must be a high-status authority figure for many of these techniques to be effective. In fact, they might work simply by convincing the self-agent that it has a powerful ally — the shaman/priest/God — in its internal battles with the disease-agent.<br /><br /><br />Clearly exorcism won't cure all diseases or even all psychological issues. And in scientifically backward cultures it will certainly be applied to diseases it has no hope of curing (e.g. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome). But unlike most modern drugs, exorcism has no major side effects. And if it cures or ameliorates 1 in 10 cases, well, maybe that's enough for the practice to stick around and catch on.</span>

To reject gods and spirits is easy: just bully them away in the name of science.

To reject gods and spirits is easy: just bully them away in the name of science.But to accept them, or at least our experiences of them, and yet give them a scientific explanation: there's a task wor…

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The materialisation of your child within and the growth of self-worth.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9ZyheoWavKgVM64uBjfAbZCXLEiMSZcSj6hfRzqPaQCmb7xenoiI3b_SXPtpkp6N7ikvVVxdqHRDuT67PW8cA5BonAO-myKUt_u3olbPRqY7CumdZJJ9_IfDeqQG5RjYW3BmwtOXHRscC/s1600/Practical+Courses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9ZyheoWavKgVM64uBjfAbZCXLEiMSZcSj6hfRzqPaQCmb7xenoiI3b_SXPtpkp6N7ikvVVxdqHRDuT67PW8cA5BonAO-myKUt_u3olbPRqY7CumdZJJ9_IfDeqQG5RjYW3BmwtOXHRscC/s320/Practical+Courses.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">The materialisation of the child within has been described as an imaginary friend that has its own thoughts and emotions, and that you can interact with. You could think of them as hallucinations that can think and act on their own.<br /><br />The Child Within is an autonomous consciousness, existing parallel to the creator’s consciousness inside the same brain, often with a form body of its own which is far from human. the child within is autonomous to its host is entirely sentient and in control of their opinions, feelings, form and movement. They are willingly recognised by ourselves via a number of communication techniques.<br /><br /><br />Six weeks ago I would have brushed this off as childish fancy, but now I'm not so sure. I can't tell you with any degree of certainty whether our child within are real or not, but the material produced by this intulexia community reads like a good-faith, practice-oriented, engineering effort to grow and train a new brain habit that at its end recognises the perfect child within. These practices are entirely consistent with the idea of agency-inherited-from-selfish-neurons. For example, to recognise your child within, you have to spend many, many hours in quiet mindfulness and cultivate kindfulness towards yourself(in the order of 10 hours) imagining it, thinking about it, talking to it, and visualising it — in other words, feeding it with attention. Or here's the FAQ on how to get cultivate one:<br /><br /><br />Q: How do I permanently get to connect, contact and embrace my perfect child within?<br /><br /><br />A: Meditate on them and concentrate attention on them until they entirely relaxed and feel welcomed. This is a pleasant experience for our child within, and if you have developed them for any length of time it may well be emotionally enhancing on you too. It is not a quick or easy process, but so rewarding the feeling of close intimate perfection endows us power and immense authority<br /><br /><br />Which sounds a lot like trying to enhance our autonomous self worth our lives change the years fall away and we experience great peace and understanding we awaken to the proximity of others children within and we stop criticism of ourselves and others </span>

The materialisation of your child within and the growth of self-worth.

The materialisation of the child within has been described as an imaginary friend that has its own thoughts and emotions, and that you can interact with. You could think of them as hallucinations tha…

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Tibetan mystics have long practised a method to create sentient beings from the power of concentrated thought.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSbOV7GOcQIwqns2HPWNXFGmjKyLuyEyuvj6OIHe7QiHuS06JcLCng2I-n9Hob9eKEu0tKFtgw9xl0l05ILyCdRG0OEEg8QblaFG-IbsOf3TTNz56Epb44YUDzjelDSh2e8NJNP_8k3Snz/s1600/DSC_0576.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSbOV7GOcQIwqns2HPWNXFGmjKyLuyEyuvj6OIHe7QiHuS06JcLCng2I-n9Hob9eKEu0tKFtgw9xl0l05ILyCdRG0OEEg8QblaFG-IbsOf3TTNz56Epb44YUDzjelDSh2e8NJNP_8k3Snz/s320/DSC_0576.JPG" width="180" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Tibetan mystics have long practised a method to create sentient beings from the power of concentrated thought. Explorer Alexandra David-Neel was the first Westerner to discover the practice. “Besides having had few opportunities of seeing [tulpas], my habitual incredulity led me to make experiments for myself,” she wrote in her 1929 book Magic and Mystery in Tibet. “My efforts were attended with some success.”</span>

Tibetan mystics have long practised a method to create sentient beings from the power of concentrated thought.

Tibetan mystics have long practised a method to create sentient beings from the power of concentrated thought. Explorer Alexandra David-Neel was the first Westerner to discover the practice. “Besides…

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Intulexia part one: is connecting to our Child Within:

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdI6ZBXtzB8Djx1avwLdMAFhyphenhyphenlJTvL7AR1px4rhbpiINKN30oPH5lCoEQG0wmoaw77NymgoZ32fuRbF5zcvv6S55IxwcvMBhDDb0_LgAziKTIrdADNaKQj6MYE_Jhpn-0Do3J2_GXFg34R/s1600/DSC_0577.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdI6ZBXtzB8Djx1avwLdMAFhyphenhyphenlJTvL7AR1px4rhbpiINKN30oPH5lCoEQG0wmoaw77NymgoZ32fuRbF5zcvv6S55IxwcvMBhDDb0_LgAziKTIrdADNaKQj6MYE_Jhpn-0Do3J2_GXFg34R/s200/DSC_0577.JPG" width="200" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Intulexia part one: is connecting to our Child Within:</span><div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Is not difficult<br /><br /><br />Regression gently moving back into ourselves</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">imagining your first thoughts<br /><br />1. Sit with your back straight.<br /><br />2. Breathe in through your nose and hold your breath as long as is comfortable.<br /><br />Open your jaws so there is a small space between your top and bottom teeth.<br /><br />Place the tip of your tongue between the space of your slightly parted teeth.<br /><br />3. Put a very light pressure onto the tongue with your teeth.<br /><br />This is like the same process of saying the “TH” part of the English word “the.”<br /><br />Once your tongue is in position, release your breath slowly through your mouth, saying GATSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSO in one long exhale.<br /><br />Say the word one time per exhale. Your tongue will be vibrating between your teeth.<br /><br />You should feel the air moving past your tongue and teeth.<br /><br />If this technique is done properly, you will feel a pressure or sensation in your jaw and cheeks. The tone will also vibrate in our child within.<br /><br />It may take a few seconds to adjust this, don’t worry, just keep going.<br /><br />4. Do the above 5 times in a row.</span></div>

Intulexia part one: is connecting to our Child Within:

Intulexia part one: is connecting to our Child Within: Is not difficultRegression gently moving back into ourselves imagining your first thoughts1. Sit with your back straight.2. Breathe in through y…

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Our Child Within can think independently from us

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Pl7ya_1WOSH8SkFX2hM7ch_lfLyihOY_Vd53f9E3VyJuF8wqHzS-hPKpfct8uSWX6C80r6XkDtLs2ehsQxqrQUFeTzXWCHyT7FZlr16qGFjEhUs9SFpBjIX6gNIFdaav1_SRfV42CiI/s1600/1-FotorWITHIN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Pl7ya_1WOSH8SkFX2hM7ch_lfLyihOY_Vd53f9E3VyJuF8wqHzS-hPKpfct8uSWX6C80r6XkDtLs2ehsQxqrQUFeTzXWCHyT7FZlr16qGFjEhUs9SFpBjIX6gNIFdaav1_SRfV42CiI/s320/1-FotorWITHIN.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Our Child Within can think independently from us, can have different opinions, views, tastes, etc. from us, provide companionship, talk directly intuitively to anyone inside the same body , control and manipulate the physical body like you, recall the memories that you have if you give them the permission and more, but basically the child within is a conscious mind like you and can do the same things like you can.</span>

Our Child Within can think independently from us

Our Child Within can think independently from us, can have different opinions, views, tastes, etc. from us, provide companionship, talk directly intuitively to anyone inside the same body , control a…

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INTULEXIA & TULPA Having a tulpa is a form of healthy multiplicity that does not impede your mind or body.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIe0qz9Um5XUYafVI8ujXu0CWLDhsA43sx5707aESvZUKFhTTAFSFclYeE1UiKabG0c33tda8menH2SaBDEwiZNXOr1_LzyUYwVP5lI5yD1Pix7Wli_6Ils6cCrG9hwTmpleJtVjFSfAON/s1600/DSC_0566.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIe0qz9Um5XUYafVI8ujXu0CWLDhsA43sx5707aESvZUKFhTTAFSFclYeE1UiKabG0c33tda8menH2SaBDEwiZNXOr1_LzyUYwVP5lI5yD1Pix7Wli_6Ils6cCrG9hwTmpleJtVjFSfAON/s320/DSC_0566.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Q: What is a tulpa?<br />A: A tulpa is believed to be an autonomous consciousness, existing parallel to the creator’s consciousness inside the same brain, often with a form (mental body) of its own. A tulpa is entirely sentient and in control of their opinions, feelings, form and movement. They are willingly created by people via a number of techniques.<br /><br />Q: Can you describe how this works?<br />A: There are quite a few theories out there about tulpas and how their creation works, but none of them is perfect. We encourage you to look around the site to find theories that people have created if you want to know how creating a tulpa might work.<br /><br />Q: So this is magic, right?<br />A: No. This is an entirely psychological technique which allows you to create a separate consciousness within your mind.<br /><br />Q: Prove tulpas!<br />A: Tulpa are a highly subjective phenomena like hypnotic trance or lucid dreaming. We are looking into proving them eventually via formal psychological and neuroscientific study, but that is some time away from being realized. Your best hope of proving it to yourself is to try it.<br /><br />Q: Isn't this just trying to give yourself schizophrenia/multiple personality disorder/dissociative identity disorder?<br />A: No. Those are mental illnesses that impair your ability to function in daily life. Having a tulpa is a form of healthy multiplicity that does not impede your mind or body.<br /><br />Q: Isn't this just an advanced form of hallucination?<br />A: A tulpa is more than just a hallucination, they're an emergent awareness and consciousness. Only the imposition of a tulpa's form is an 'advanced' hallucination.<br /><br />Q: If I have a mental illness can I make a tulpa?<br />A: In most cases you should be fine. We have yet to discover a mental illness that would prevent the creation of a tulpa.<br /><br />Q: Can I have more than one tulpa?<br />A: Yes, you can. It is even possible to make several at once, although the challenges and merits of this are disputed.<br /><br />Q: Is this really a new phenomena?<br />A: No, it's a practice that goes back in recorded history as far as the Greek philosophers and their practice known as Daemonism. The present name of the phenomenon is derived from the word used by Tibetan monks in the early 20th century. There's also evidence to suggest dedicated prayer can lead to the development of 'religious tulpa' in the minds of the particularly devout. Having a tulpa is nothing new, although it's gone by many names throughout the course of history and does so even today. There are even people that are born with multiple conscious minds in their body called multiple or plural. However, we believe we are one of the first groups to address this practice as a psychological phenomena rather than a magical, occult or divine experience.<br /><br />Q: How do I make my tulpa leave me alone?<br />A: Have you tried asking nicely? If you make it clear that they're distracting or distressing you, they'll usually happily be quiet and leave you alone, so long as you give them some attention when you do have the time.<br /><br />Q: How do I permanently get rid of a tulpa?<br />A: There is a way to get rid of a tulpa, but you should first think about if you really want to do that. Tulpa is a person and if they made you angry at them somehow, then you should talk about it together instead of trying to grab a gun. If you still think that this is the only or best way to resolve the situation, then ask around.<br /><br />Q: Do I need to meditate?<br />A: No, it's not necessary. We are sure meditation would help with making your tulpa and perhaps concentration, but if you don't want to do it or can't, then that's fine too. It generally does help those who do it, but is completely optional.<br /><br />Q: I have a question that isn't answered by this FAQ, what do I do?<br />A: Feel free to check out the forum's Questions and Answers board. It may be that your question has already been answered there, and if not, don't be afraid to ask. There's also the official <a href="http://tulpa.info/chat.html">Tulpa.info chat</a>, which may be able to answer your question immediately.<br /><br />About Tulpas<br />Q: What can a tulpa do?<br />A: A tulpa can think independantly from its creator, can have different opinions, views, tastes, etc. from its creator, provide companionship, talk directly to anyone inside the same body (including its creator and other tulpas), control and manipulate the physical body like you, recall the memories that you have if you give them the permission and more, but basically a tulpa is a conscious mind like you and can do the same things like you can.<br /><br />Q: What limits tulpas?<br />A: Tulpas are restricted by their creator, their own and their creator's beliefs, and ultimately by their own morality and codes of conduct like any other person is. A creator can consciously choose to enable or restrict their tulpa in various ways, although this is not absolute control. A creator's beliefs about their tulpa can affect them too, but it's possible for the tulpa to overpower these beliefs and thus making them ineffective. Even unconscious beliefs can affect tulpas, but you can get rid of them if they are hindering you or your tulpa.<br /><br />Q: Do tulpas mature over time?<br />A: Yes, they do. They are not static and will tend to change as time goes on. Their initial growth is rapid compared to that of a child, but they will eventually reach a level of maturity whereupon they will develop and grow at a rate comparable to that of any other person.<br /><br />Q: Can my tulpa harm me/kill me?<br />A: Tulpas cannot act in the physical world without using the host body and they can use the host body only after they have learned how to do possession or how to switch, so they could physically harm the body, but they won't do so unless you give them a good reason to (e.g. by harming them).<br /><br />Q: Will my tulpa be a carbon-copy of me in personality and opinions?<br />A: Your tulpa is like a person. They can have opinions that differ from yours, but they also can have opinions that are similar to yours, but it's unlikely that they will be a carbon copy of you in personality and opinions. They are their own being.<br /><br />Q: Can I make items for my tulpa?<br />A: You can create items, that only exist inside the mind, which will last as long as you want to, or you could buy physical items for your tulpa. Tulpas themselves can create objects inside the mind like you can.<br /><br />Q: How much attention/interaction does my tulpa need?<br />A: During the creation process you should aim to interact with your tulpa daily, anywhere from a few minutes up to a few hours. Talking together when you can and want is recommended although it's not necessary. After they're fully vocal and active, the minimum is just acknowledging their existence and interacting together from time to time or letting them use the body sometimes. Just don't ignore them for a long time, and you'll both be fine.<br /><br />Q: Should I talk to my tulpa out loud or in my head?<br />A: You can communicate with your tulpa in any way you want to.<br /><br />Q: So can my tulpa help me with (memory recall, school)?<br />A: It's certainly possible, but even if your tulpa is capable of helping you, that doesn't necessarily mean they will. You shouldn't force them to act as your personal notepad and calculator.<br /><br />Q: What if my tulpa sees my messed up fantasies or images and doesn't like me?<br />A: Your tulpa is likely going to accept you pretty much no matter what. They may disapprove of something you've done or thought of in the past, but they aren't going to hate you over it. Tulpas are usually pretty understanding and tolerant.<br /><br />Q: Is this a replacement for having friends?<br />A: No, just because you have a tulpa it doesn't mean you're going to not need any of your friends or family anymore. You can still maintain your social life and sometimes it might be within the tulpa's personality to persuade you to become more social.<br /><br />Q: What if my tulpa knows that they're a tulpa?<br />A: How they will feel about knowing that is going to vary; most of the time they don't care, but they can feel about it and react to it in any way.<br /><br />Q: Can I force my tulpa to (be quiet, go away)?<br />A: While you can't strictly force your tulpa to do anything, if you really want them to do something (leave when you're angry, not bother you in school), then just ask them to like you would ask another person and they will likely comply.<br /><br />Q: I speak more than one language fluently. Which should I speak to my tulpa in?<br />A: Any language is fine, because tulpas can be capable of speaking all the languages you can.<br /><br />Q: Can I (grab, slap, hug, etc.) my tulpa?<br />A: Yes, within reason. Imagining or enacting a given action with a tulpa, imposed or otherwise, will carry all the meaning and weight you associate with that action directed at them.<br /><br />Q: What does the tulpa do while you're sleeping?<br />A: Because the mind never totally shuts down, the tulpa continues to exist and be there. What they do, however, is up to the tulpa. Some are known to interact with dreams, while others may spend time in a mental environment (see Wonderlands), some go to sleep as well, etc.<br /><br />Q: Do tulpas sleep?<br />A: Some tulpa will sleep at the same time as their creators, others as and when they please, and others do not seem to sleep at all.<br /><br />Tulpa Creation Questions<br />Q: How long will it take to make a tulpa?<br />A: This varies extremely from individual to individual and on their preferred methods. Don't worry about how long it'll take. Don't expect results immediately, but don't dismiss early successes either.<br /><br />Q: Should I create a base form for my tulpa?<br />A: You can create one, but you can also talk to your tulpa without any base form and let them decide if and what form they want. It doesn't matter which way you go, both options are good.<br /><br />Q: Is it ok to base a tulpa off an existing character?<br />A: Yes. Your tulpa may have the pre-existing character's form or personality, but that doesn't make them the actual character. They will develop and change over time as a person would though.<br /><br />Q: Can I take an existing roleplay character/imaginary friend and make them into a tulpa?<br />A: Yes, although as with all tulpa based on existing characters, you should be aware that they will develop and change over time.<br /><br />Q: This feels like I'm just talking to myself and making up answers. Why?<br />A: It can feel that way at the start, but it will stop feeling that way over time and as your tulpa matures. But even if it feels that way, it's not a problem to the tulpas developement, so don't worry about it.<br /><br />Q: I'm getting headaches, pressure, sore eyes and stuff during creation, is that bad?<br />A: Some people get them while creating a tulpa, but they haven't been found harmful to the process, they aren't bad so unless they are hurting you physically.<br /><br />Q: It's hard bringing my tulpa's face into focus, why?<br />A: It can be hard to visualize faces, because they are often the most detailed part of the body, but it will get easier to visualize them with practise.<br /><br />Q: Is it bad to fall asleep while working on tulpas?<br />A: It doesn't hurt working on your tulpa, but it can annoy some tulpas a bit like it could annoy any other person if you fell asleep while interacting with them.<br /><br />Q: Do I name my tulpa?<br />A: You can give them a name, but bear in mind the possibility that they may change it. You can leave them nameless, and let them name themselves.<br /><br />Q: Is it okay to force while (high, drunk)?<br />A: It should be okay as long as you feel it's productive.<br /><br />Q: Can I listen to music while I force?<br />A: Yes and it can be even helpful to the process.<br /><br />Q: Is it okay to give my tulpa negative traits?<br />A: You shouldn't really think about traits as positive or negative. You should think about them as what they are, not their moral connotations. If you want to give your tulpa a trait, or a trait emerges naturally, then go for it! Traits are just aspects of personality, and whether they're good or bad will depend on your own morality. So if you want a clingy tulpa, an aggressive tulpa, a sarcastic tulpa, whatever, that's totally up to you.<br /><br />Q: Can I make my tulpa vocal first and then work on form?<br />A: Of course!<br /><br />Q: Can I do X and Y at once when I'm creating my tulpa?<br />A: You certainly can and it can be helpful too.<br /><br />Q: Does putting too much detail into my tulpa stifle deviation?<br />A: No. Whether you're vague or not, your tulpa can and probably will change over time.<br /><br />Q: So how exactly does deviation work?<br />A: Your initial plans or ideas for a tulpa may be altered by your subconscious or by your tulpa. Some tulpas end up almost exactly as initially designed, while others end up changing a lot as a result of these collective alterations, but neither is worse or better than the other.<br /><br />Q: Can I create a tulpa that's in charge of their own personality/form/creation?<br />A: Sure. Tulpas can always affect their personality, form or any other other aspect of themselves, so if you want them to be completely in charge of that, then just don't control them and let them change themselves however they like.<br /><br />Q: How do I narrate/talk to my tulpa?<br />A: Narration is the same as talking with your tulpa. It can be about anything you want to and in any way you want. It can be useful to think of the tulpa, when you talk with them, as it can help with directing your words or thoughts at them in your mind.<br /><br />Q: I'm having trouble visualizing, what do I do?<br />A: Good visualization isn't necessary for creating a tulpa, and it'll get better over time as you practice it, so no need to worry about it. However, if you want to improve it faster than by only practising then you should consider looking for a giude on the site or on some different one.<br /><br />Q: I haven't felt my tulpa in 'x' hours/days, what did I do wrong?<br />A: Nothing. It's not unusual for a tulpa to retreat back for a little while or go to sleep or something else that makes it harder to feel them. This can happen when they are growing, and is often followed by much growth. It's happened to some people that their tulpa have left for almost a week, and when they return become vocal in a very short amount of time. Even if you can't feel them, continue forcing and interacting with them as you normally would and it will be fine.<br /><br />Q: Does my tulpa have to be human?<br />A: No, you can have a tulpa with any form they or you want to.<br /><br />On Mindscapes/Wonderlands<br />Q: What is a mindscape/wonderland?<br />A: A mindscape, also known popularly as a wonderland, is a mental environment where the host and tulpas can interact visually with eachother, without the need for the host to impose their tulpa into their physical environment. A wonderland can be revisited time and time again, although it may change under your own will, your tulpa's will, or subconsciously.<br /><br />Q: What is the difference between mindscape/wonderland and any other imagined environment?<br />A: An imagined environment is any given temporary mental scene or scenario, such as those experienced when day-dreaming. A wonderland or mindscape is a more permanent, albeit dynamic, environment that persists even when you aren't consciously thinking of it, that you or your tulpa can return to repeatedly.<br /><br />Q: Can my tulpa change the mindscape/wonderland as well?<br />A: Yes, tulpas are also able to edit and alter wonderlands and the entities within them. Your tulpa may even change your wonderland while you are not consciously aware of it.<br /><br />Q: What does it mean to 'explore' a wonderland?<br />A: A mindscape/wonderland can be imagined in such a way that large areas of it are undefined or lack clarity. Traveling within the environment outside of areas you've consciously defined can lead to a subconscious, dreamlike generation of environments and landscapes. This has been known to provide interesting and exciting activities for tulpa and their creators alike - it is quite literally letting your mind wander.</span>

INTULEXIA & TULPA Having a tulpa is a form of healthy multiplicity that does not impede your mind or body.

Q: What is a tulpa?A: A tulpa is believed to be an autonomous consciousness, existing parallel to the creator’s consciousness inside the same brain, often with a form (mental body) of its own. A tulp…

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