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1. analog8374 ◴[] No.45945427[source]
Comprehensive agency is best achieved via meditation (specifically, "choiceless awareness"). In my experience.

It's basically a physical approach to applying agency rather than a rational one. Agency becomes a paint sprayer and you spray it everywhere. Your agency expands in all directions. It's pretty great.

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2. aspenmayer ◴[] No.45946578[source]
I’ve been watching a lot of interviews with David Lynch lately (RIP), and apparently he was a longtime practitioner of meditation, and he even wrote a book about it. Your words, especially the “paint sprayer for agency” resonated with me and reminded me of the way he would describe expanding consciousness through meditation.

I appreciate your insight.

Here’s an interview where he describes a bit about his meditation practice. The entire video is worth a watch, but for the sake of brevity, I have linked directly to the timestamp referenced.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FPb-eTI5jZE&t=597s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catching_the_Big_Fish