there's this idea in union psychology called the circumambulation and you only
had this idea that you had a potential future self which would be in potential
everything that you could be and that it manifests itself moment to moment in
your present life by making you interested in things and the things that
you're interested in are the things that would guide you along the path that
would lead you to maximal development now it sounds of like a metaphysical
idea or a or a mystical idea even but but it's not it's not it's a really
profoundly biological idea the idea is something like well you're set up so
that you're automatically interested in those things that was fully expand you
as a well adapted creature well like there's nothing radical about that idea
how well what else could possibly be the case unless there's something
fundamentally flawed about you that is what the situation would be it's kind of
interesting to think about how that would be manifest moment to moment but
the idea is something like well your interest is captured by those things
that lead you down the path of development
well that better be the case okay so that's fine and so there's some utility
in pursuing those things that you're interested in that's the call to
adventure let's say so and the call to adventure takes you all sorts of places
now the problem with the call to adventure is like what the hell do you
know you might be interested in things that are kind of warped and bent and
often it's the case that when new parts of people manifest themselves and grip
their interest say they do it very badly and shoddily and so you stumble around
like an idiot when you try to do something new that's where the fool is
the precursor to the Savior from the from the symbolic perspectives because
you have to be a fool before you can be a master and if you're not willing to be
a fool then you can't be a master so so you're gonna it's an error mmm error
ridden process and that's also laid out in the Old Testament stories because the
first thing that happens to all these patriarchal figures when God kicks them
out of their father's house when they're like 84 is that they they run into all
sorts of trouble and some of its social and some of its natural and some of it's
a consequence of their own moral inadequacy so they're
fools and but but the thing that's so interesting is that despite the fact
that they're fools they're still supposed to go on the adventure and that
they're capable of learning enough as a consequence of moving forward on the
adventure so that they straighten themselves out across time and so it's
something like this this circumambulation that young talked about
was this continual will return to this this continual circling in some sense of
who you could be you might notice for example that there are themes in your
life you know when you go back across your experiences you see you kind of
have your typical experience that sort of repeats itself and there might be
variation on it like a musical theme but it's it's like you're circling yourself
and getting closer to yourself as you move across time that's the
circumambulation now you remember that for a second we'll go back to it okay so
imagine that something glimmers before you it's an an interest that's dawning
and you decide well first of all you're paralyzed do you think well how do I
know if I should pursue that it's probably a stupid idea and the proper
response to that is you're right it probably is a stupid idea
because almost all all ideas are stupid and so the probability that as you move
forward on your adventure that you're gonna get it right the first time is
zero it's just not gonna happen and so then you might think well maybe
I'll just wait around until I get the right idea and which people do right so
they're like 40 year old thirteen year olds which is not a good idea so they
wait around until it's Waiting for Godot until they finally got it right but the
problem is you're too stupid to know when you've got it right so waiting
around isn't gonna help because even if it the perfect opportunity manifested
itself to you in your incomplete form the probability that you would recognize
it as the perfect opportunity is zero you might even think it's the worst
possible idea that you've ever heard of anywhere highly likely highly likely so
so you had there's a niche of Nietzsche called that a will will to stupidity
which I really liked so because he thought of stupidity as being it you
know it's it's you have to take it into account fundamentally and work with it
and so and so you can take these tentative
steps on your pathway to destiny and you can assume that you're gonna do it badly
and that's really useful because you don't have to beat yourself up it's
pretty easy to do it badly but the thing is it's way better to do it badly than
not to do it at all and that's a continual message that echoes through
these historical stories in Genesis it's like these are flawed people they should
have got the hell out of their house way before they did and they go out and they
stumble around in tyranny and famine and self betrayal and and violence and but
it's a hell of a lot better than just rotting away at home and that's the
that's great so that's good and so why is that well okay so you you start your
path and you think that you're heading you know towards your star and so you go
in that direction and then because you're here the world looks a particular
way but then when you move here the world looks different and you're
different as a consequence of having made that voyage and so what that means
is that now that thing that glimmers in front of you is going to have shifted
its location because you weren't very good at specifying it to begin with and
now that you're a little sharper and more focused than you were it's it's
going to reveal itself with more accuracy to you and so then you have to
take a you know it's almost like 180 degree reversal but it isn't because you
know you've I mean you've gone this far and that's a long ways to get that far
but that's a lot farther than you would be if you just stayed where you were
waiting and so it doesn't matter that you overshoot continually
because as you overshoot even if you don't learn what you should have done
you're going to continually learn what you shouldn't keep doing and if you
learn enough about what you shouldn't keep doing then that's tantamount at
some point to learning at the same time what you should be doing so it's okay
so it's like this now what's cool about it though I think is that as you
progress the degree of overshooting starts to decline right and that we know
that there's nothing hypothetical about that as you learn a new skill like even
to play it play a song on the piano for example you overshoot madly you're
making all sorts of mistakes to begin with and then the mistakes they
disappear there's a great TED talk I think it was about
skya set up a really advanced computational recording system in his
home and recorded every single utterance his young child made while learning to
speak and then he put together the child's attempts to say certain phonemes
and put them in the list and you can hear the child deviating madly to begin
with and then after hundreds and hundreds of repetitions just zeroing
right in on the exact phony so you know I you might not know this but when kids
babble because they start babbling when they're quite young they babble every
human phoneme including all sorts of phonemes that adults can't say and then
they they die into their language so that after they learn say English then
there's all sorts of phonemes they can no longer hear or pronounce but to begin
with it's all there which is really quite interesting but so they zip as
they learn a particular language they zero in on the proper way to pronounce
that and their errors minimize and every time you learn something that's how it
is and that's really useful to know too because it means that it's okay to
wander around stupidly before you fix your destination now you see that echoed
in Exodus right because what happens is that the Egyptians or the Hebrews
escaped a tyranny which is kind of whatever you do personally and
psychologically when you escape from your previous set of stupidly held and
ignorant and stubborn axioms it's like away from that tyranny it's like great I
freed myself from that well then what well you think well now I'm on the way
it's no you're not now you're in the desert where you wander around stupidly
you know and worship the wrong things until you finally organize yourself more
again and head in the proper direction so that's worth knowing too because you
think well I got rid of a lot of things baggage excess baggage that I didn't
need in my life and now everything's okay it's like no it's not
you've got rid of a whole set of scaffolds that were keeping you in place
even though they were pathological and now you have nothing and nothing
actually turns out to be better than something pathological but you you're
still stuck with the problem of nothing and and that's well that's exactly why
Exodus has structured the way that it is it's that you escaped from materially
its terrain we're no longer slaves yeah well now you're nihilistic and lost it's
not necessarily an improvement but it is but it is the pre let's see it's also
useful to know that because you can also be deluded into the idea that imagine
that you're trying to become enlightened which might mean to turn all those parts
of you on that could be turned on you think well that's just a linear pathway
uphill you know it's just from one success to another it's no it's not it's
like here you are and you're not doing too badly and the first step is a
complete bloody catastrophe it's worse and then maybe you can pull yourself
together and you hit a new plateau and then that crumbles and shakes and bang
it's worse again and so because part of the reason that people don't become
enlightened is because it's punctuated by intermittent deserts essentially by
intermittent catastrophes and if you don't know that well then you're
basically screwed because you go ahead on your movement forward and you
collapse and you think well that didn't work I collapsed it's like no that's par
for the course it's not indication that you've failed it's just indication that
it's really hard and that when you learn something you also unlearn something and
the thing you unlearned is probably useful and unlearning it actually is
painful you know let's say if you have to get
out of a bad relationship it's like not every not any really there isn't any
relationship that's a hundred percent bad and so when you jump out of it well
maybe you're in better shape but you're still lonesome and disoriented you don't
know what your past was and you don't know what your present is and you don't
know what your future is it's that's not that's why people stay with the devil
they know instead of you know looking for the devil they don't know so
so anyways the fact that you're full of faults doesn't mean you have to stop and
thank God for that that's a really useful thing and the fact that you're
full of faults doesn't mean that you can't learn and so you can positive
ideal and you're gonna be wrong about it but it doesn't matter because what
you're right about is positing the ideal moving towards it if the actual ideal
isn't conceptualize perfectly well first surprise surprise because like what are
you going to do that's perfect so it doesn't matter that it's imperfect
imperfect it just matters that you do it and then you move forward so that's
really that's really positive news as far as I'm concerned because you can
actually do that right you can do it badly anyone can do that so that's
that's useful
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