--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> 
wrote:
<snip>
> > > The drawbacks of this approach are two. First, the
> > > discrimination necessary to practice it can only be
> > > taught via transmission -- by "broadcasting" states of
> > > attention to the students and then varying them some-
> > > what and asking them what they perceived when the 
> > > shared state of attention changed. The second, of 
> > > course, is that when you do "wrong" you only really
> > > find out about it *afterwards*, as you state of 
> > > attention has started to slide "down." The latter
> > > becomes less and less of a problem as you become
> > > used to the discernment. You *start* to act a certain
> > > way, get an instantaneous "readout" that you're going
> > > the "wrong" way by realizing that your state of atten-
> > > tion is lowering, and thus you correct your path and
> > > go a different way. The whole process is that fast;
> > > you can make such decisions in microseconds.
> > 
> > [Dryly] Works very well in your case, Unc.
> 
> I haven't been practicing it. I'm still not,
> but I'm considering taking it up again.

Karma-wise, it couldn't be too soon.


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