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someone asked: why did you hit on this book to do a book club on
thought about it for a while, it wasn’t obvious in a way, it had become a background assumption of the way i relate to my reality moment-to-moment, in a way that i had never quite noticed https://t.co/ygI6O5ijHR
William T. Powers tell us this makes sense that this is what negotiation this, the only true alternative to inner conflict it’s when both parties accept the possibility that it may be their side for whom it is reasonable to change their desires https://t.co/mdL4z4BBBi
there’s only two other books that had felt like with, with that degree of clarity and concision the second one was The Meaning of Control: Making Sense of Behavior by William Powers, on perceptual control theory https://t.co/ygI6O5ijHR
William T. Powers tell us this makes sense that this is what negotiation this, the only true alternative to inner conflict it’s when both parties accept the possibility that it may be their side for whom it is reasonable to change their desires https://t.co/mdL4z4BBBi
the first one was Wearing the Body of Visions, about the magic, electricity, and ambivalence of being https://t.co/R8NP22QbHN
the reasons these books worked, where something like IFS, or this or that on meditation didn’t, is because they were specifically helpful for someone highly neurotic like me - merleau-ponty through revealing the body - tantra through accepting the electricity