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WELCOME TO WEEK 4 OF SIMPLE IF YOU DIDNT ALREADY PLEASE GET A 3 RING BINDER AND A NOTEBOOK Have them with you at each session File different forms Write down and track homework Write down and track homework Jot down notes Tracking each

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WELCOME TO WEEK 4 OF SIMPLE

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IF YOU DIDN’T ALREADY PLEASE GET A 3 RING BINDER AND A NOTEBOOK

Have them with you at each session File different forms Write down and track homework Write down and track homework Jot down notes Tracking each week on a scale of 0-10 how well you think you did your homework. Learning new skills and how to use them is an active not a passive journey. You’ll get as much out of this course as you put in. Weather you benefit from this it or not depends on you. Stay organized in your practice. How much you believe the previous statement depends on your “locus of control.”

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THE STRUCTURE OF EACH SESSION

Mindfulness exercise ( guided meditation,

music, inspirational video, poetry etc. )

Description of what we will do Emailed questions Alternating weeks theory or skills. This week-

  • theory. Every week- applying skills.

Musical break Assignment of home(work) practice

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WARNING ABOUT MEDITATION

Feel free to skip meditation if it upsets you. With this time you can try grounding With this time you can try grounding

exercises ex. Use your sensory kit

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LIST OF READINGS OCTOBER - DECEMBER

Date Purple book-theory Green book – skills Purple book - practice October 19/22 No readings today October 26/29 1 – 20 212-218 November 2/5 1 - 13 219-236 November 9/12 21 - 60 Same November 16/19 14 - 32 Same November 23/26 61-70 Same November 30 / Dec. 3 33 - 46 237-239 December 7 / 10 70 – 80 Same December 14 / 17 47 - 68 Same No classes until January 4

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HOME PRACTICE FROM LAST WEEK

Make your own sensory kit. Utube “trauma coping

toolkit-sooth intense emotions with the 5 senses.”

Submit questions or comments to

itssimple2021@gmail.com itssimple2021@gmail.com

Read purple book p21-60 ( warning it’s a bit

philosophical and not necessarily essential to the course so read at your peril). Re-read p.219-236.

Rate your homework 0-10 Start working on a crisis plan. What do you need it for?

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WHAT WE WILL DO TODAY

Emailed questions/comments Purple book p. 21-60 philosophical background- how

we see the world, metaphysics 3 basic positions, we see the world, metaphysics 3 basic positions, Hinduism, Plato, judeochristianity, integral theory.

 Continue with Purple book p. 219-236, Putting skills into

practice in everyday life, the six tools, crisis plans.

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EMAILED QUESTIONS/COMMENTS EMAILED QUESTIONS/COMMENTS

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THEORY- HOW TO UNDERSTAND YOURSELF

We have to understand ourselves in the context of our world/universe because we are part of the universe. because we are part of the universe. To understand the universe we live in and ourselves is the goal of philosophy (love of knowledge) Science is also love of knowledge or philosophy and was until recently commonly referred to as “natural philosophy” In this course we will spend most of the time trying to understand ourselves psychologically.

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PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND

Please indulge me Please indulge me My apologies to anyone who really knows what they are talking about in the field of philosophy Understanding the nature of things key to understanding yourself

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A FUNDAMENTAL PREMISS OF SIMPLE

Applies to our individual thoughts and feelings But also to cultural and scientific beliefs But also to cultural and scientific beliefs It is a feature of wise mind/ mindfulness

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LET ME EXPLAIN :

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METAPHYSICS

Literally means “beyond physics”( physics Literally means “beyond physics”( physics remember is a part of natural philosophy) or what is the ultimate nature of reality or Why is there something rather than nothing and what is it that is? A branch of philosophy

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THERE ARE 4 TYPES OF “THINGS” IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE

Physical things- “matter and energy”- 5% Mental things-Experiences/consciousness/mind- what it feels like to be something like to be something The other two we’ve named but don’t know much about: Dark matter – 27% Dark energy- 68% That’s all we know.

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MOST MODERN PEOPLE ARE PHILOSOPHICAL MATERIALISTS

Pretty intuitive: if only mind is real why does it hurt when you get hit by a bus? Why for the most part do different people agree on what’s out there ? (consensus reality) (consensus reality) Yet where “is” everything that’s out there? Answer: everything out there is only in individual minds. When there isn’t a mind to observe it what is out There? (if a tree falls in a forest when no one is around does it make a sound?) Do worms and bats perceive the same world as human beings?

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QUANTUM PHYSICS

“ if you think you understand quantum mechanics then you don’t understand quantum mechanics” Richard Feynman. The most accurate theory about nature that humans have developed What’s really out there is a wavefunction ( a mathematical entity) that What’s really out there is a wavefunction ( a mathematical entity) that collapses when it is observed.

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IMPLICATIONS OF PHILOSOPHICAL MATERIALISM

Undergirds the modern prevalent scientific view of the world: The world/universe is made up of bits of dead matter (particles) that arose randomly from nothing, there is no plan in it and it will end in fire by arose randomly from nothing, there is no plan in it and it will end in fire by collapsing back unto itself or ice by expanding into a cold lifeless vastness

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OR

Are we seeing the world not as it is, but seeing it as the dominant culture (philosophical materialism ) is and we are ? Is there more to it than meets the eye? Is there more to it than meets the eye? Is it all about love? Will it all be ok in the end? Let’s look a little deeper into philosophical traditions. If you are certain you know what the world really is like bear with me.

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IDEALISM IS ANCIENT

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HINDUISM 3000 B.C.

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PLATO AND THE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS

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JUDEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS

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THERE ARE 2 WAYS OF “KNOWING” IN EVERY CULTURE/RELIGION/WORLDVIEW

Exoteric-superficial Esoteric-deep

  • Ex. Building, mechanics, engineering

In religion: exoteric – most of us, televangelists: “logos” or the word- subject to interpretation Esoteric- Confucius, Buddha, Jesus, St. Francis, Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa of Avila, Sri Ramakrishna, Thich Nhat Hanh, 14th Dalai lama. “Gnosis” or knowing by experiencing.

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Exoteric view

 Outer world: the world is made up

  • f bits of dead matter.(atoms)

 Inner world: exoteric view ex. The

mind is the result of neuronal

  • activity. What happens in our minds

is not real

Esoteric view

 Outer world: the world appears to

be more like a thought or dream than bits of dead matter

 Inner world: the brain as a

“reducing valve” , filter or receiver

  • f “universal mind” or

is not real

 Everything just happened by

chance

 We know a lot about the world

  • f “universal mind” or

consciousness.

 These views reenchant the world.  We know next to nothing about the

world and the universe

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THE UNDOING OF NEWTONIAN MECHANICS: BLACK BODY RADIATION

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RELATIVITY AND QUANTUM PHYSICS

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THE MISTAKE OF PHILOSOPHICAL MATERIALISM

It is dominant in our culture It only considers real what is in the exterior quadrant It only considers real what is in the exterior quadrant It sees the world from an orange or modern stage of development (or growth) and considers the views of other stages of development as being wrong. It cannot account for the findings of quantum physics

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PHILOSOPHICAL MATERIALISM IS THE DOMINANT MODERN SCIENTIFIC/CULTURAL WORLDVIEW BUT IS NOT SUPPORTED BY MODERN PHYSICS. NOT SUPPORTED BY MODERN PHYSICS.

So which metaphysics are compatible with modern physics?

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EX: DUAL ASPECT MONISM

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HOW DO WE LIVE IN THE WORLD IF IT IS NOT AS WE SEE IT, BUT WHICH WE SEE AS WE ARE ?

Very carefully Very carefully This realization affects humans at every level from the intra/interpersonal to the global. Understanding this involves wise mind/wisdom. We must be humble about what we think we know

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WE SEE THE WORLD NOT AS IT IS BUT AS WE ARE.

So what is it that we are ? In other words what “ LENSES” (what we are) do we see the world through ? Or in terms of plato’s allegory of the cave: what are the shapes behind us whose projections we see on the cave wall which we take to be reality?

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“LENSES” THROUGH WHICH WE SEE THE WORLD

Archetypes Stages of growth (integral theory) Instincts

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FIRST LENS ARCHETYPES

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ARCHETYPES

Brought to modern psychology by Carl Jung (1875-1961)-collectively inherited, unconscious, ideas, patterns of thought, images etc. that are universally present in individual psyches. Plato’s figures behind the prisoners, hinduisms subtle body, judeochristian soul. The essence of all timeless stories from Hindu, Greek/roman mythology, fairy tales, movies, literature.

  • Ex. Hero and Antihero- evolutionary anthropology says origins in tribal life: The skilled

hunter who protects the tribe vs. the selfish boastful hunter who hoards his resources to himself and his cronies. Today’s politics are often more driven by archetypes than policy. Archetypes have more primal power. Deeper Archetypes in the universe- contraction and expansion, birth and death etc.

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SECOND LENS: STAGES OF GROWTH GROWTH

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INTEGRAL THEORY

Stages of growth through which we see the world Stages of growth through which we see the world

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WE SEE THE WORLD FROM THE STAGE OF GROWTH THAT WE’RE AT

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THERE ARE FOUR QUADRANTS TO THE WORLD

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THIRD LENS: INSTINCTS

More on this later Especially fight/flight or attachment Especially fight/flight or attachment

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THESE 3 LENSES THROUGH WHICH WE SEE THE WORLD:

Are parts of the hindu subtle body, the platonic figures behind the prisoners, the judeo-Christian soul and the secular “imagination”. The world we see is the gross body, or “material” world The “I” who sees this is the causal body, spirit or pure consciousness I prefer to think that the “I” that sees through me is “dissociated” universal mind. (see Kastrup) My cats and i

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THE ISLAND OF KNOWLEDGE

Marcello Gleiser Marcello Gleiser

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THIS HAS PROFOUND IMPLICATIONS FOR EVERYDAY LIFE NAMELY

Don’t believe anything you think or feel But But Develop as good maps or models of “reality” as you can to guide you through life.

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PRACTICING THE 6 TOOLS PRACTICING THE 6 TOOLS

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CRISIS PLANS

Update on erica

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HOME PRACTICE

 Have your own sensory kit. utube “trauma coping toolkit-sooth

intense emotions with the 5 senses.”

 Submit questions or comments to itssimple2021@gmail.com  Read green book p. 14-32  continue working on crisis plans. Memorize them and practice

them in your imagination.

 Practice humility

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SEE YOU NEXT WEEK