Metaphor Quality May Vary
[from a semi-automatic writing session the other day]…
[…] it could be said that our choices rest soley on the quality and kinds of metaphors we are basing our choices upon. what if there were a way to filter out all but the best metaphors? — even to feed the good ones into a computer (or our fucking minds!) and have it test out and spit out the resulting lives or choices + consequences that would arise from each metaphor, and every kind of combination of metaphor — we’d choose the results most desirable to us personally — down to specifics — then the computer would generate some kind of detailed chart of the beliefs + values + metaphors and combination of those that would, if adopted (say, via some good hypnosis based on the chart) give us the results we are after. I guess that would be too easy, though, and boring… because what then?
WELL — lets not be too hasty to toss this out — if we made sure that the results we were after were open-ended — that they’d only up a world of even more fulfilling and challenging avenues into the future — then “what then?” could be met with some pretty AWESOME ANSWERS.
I’ll toss that into the universe’s future-forming algorhithmic thingy and hopefully some qualified super-intelligent entity will pick it up and roll with it […]
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wow, I am such a nerd! haha! awesome.
You know Zac right? he is doing this weird thing, where he is undoing all his energetic body armor and going nearly batshit…but anyway, he has this idea, which I don’t know if I buy it, that there is no “observer” inside us, no “I” So anyway, he thinks it(the illusion) associated with facial tension.
So I was thinking, if you came up with a metaphor for yourself, your body might try to actually morph into it. Your chi or whatever would try to shape into it.
The Zac is going batshit? I need to check in on him. His writing petered out for awhile so I all but stopped thinking about him (let that be a lesson, kids who blog). I assume you mean batshit in a good way, though..
But yeah, I think our bodies do follow the blueprints of our metaphors, to a certain extent. I have a hypnotherapist friend who told me about this guy… I can’t remember if it was one of her clients or one she read about in a Richard Bandler book, but anyway, a true story apparently. This guy was really self-conscious about his height, so he had himself hypnotized to believe he was something like 2 inches taller. He became more confident and so on, as expected, but what wasn’t expected was that eventually he actually grew 2 inches taller. Maybe his spine just re-aligned itself properly and that added the 2 inches, but you get the idea; his body conformed to his self-image.
Well, He’s blogging about the end of the world now, so I think he’s back to normal :)
But anyway, yeah, he had this urge to strangle people and break stuff.
I totally believe that about the guy that grew.
if they stood up straight, most people would probably add an inch or two. you would see it in the mirror fairly easily.
and yes, I’m feeling muuuuccchhh better now…
About there being no observer inside us… I don’t know, because just by the fact that I’m using “I” in this sentence, if it is an illusion, I’m still under it. But it could be. Like isn’t the center of an atom just nothing? Could be the same thing. It doesn’t particularly bother the creamy nougat center of nothingness that I think of as me.
Zac, I had a feeling you’d say that, and I believe it. and it’s good to hear you’re feeling better!