Joseph Maynor

I always start with what do I want to consciously create. In this case the artform is career and the artwork would be my career. I love this creator approach.

Yes. My model fits all of that. First you identify the artform that you want to create in. It could be anything. And then the focus is on what artwork can I create in this artform? It could be cooking. That's the artform. And your creation of an artwork would be a dish that you create.

The way I think of it is I'm creating an artwork in such and such artform, this keeps it grounded. So thinking would be tied to an artwork. What artform does that thinking fit? Is it a brainstorm, a plan, a contemplation? And then to consciously create, e.g., a great brainstorm as an artwork.

One thing about trauma to watch out for is when you get ego backlash loops trying to fix it that happen over and over again where nothing is solved. That becomes very noticeable and can cause setbacks in life.

What we're looking for is a bridge between the Absolute and relative. It's too reductionistic to pragmatism.

I would be a little bit leery of the understanding is a skill mentality.

It's more of a realization than a framework. It's something I share from my own experience, but it may not land with others.

It's pretty simple. It gets into what I call creator recontextualization. The finite (the practical) is the canvas of creation in space and time. You're not just a passenger sitting back and observing, that's a limiting belief. You can open to realizing you're an artist in reality shaping form and content. This gets deep, but this is a good starting point.

I call bridging this gap conscious creation. Awareness of consciously creating. This links enlightenment with the practical.

I watched it. I'll watch the first 2 again. I see reason as more of a middle ground between sense experience and intuition. This is Spinoza's epistemology. Reason can correct for but not necessarily replace sense experience, and intuition can correct for but not necessarily replace reason.

Here's an honest question I have. Who is a rationalist?

Wait until you get bored with life and you just need a change to feel excited and inspired again. This is more of a middle-aged problem.

Truth is a link to the Self, a spiritual foundation.

No, I'm enjoying the exchange. So you're linking understanding to skill in doing something.

This is a good once a week thing to create.

Understood. But what is the activity that we're competing in?

I see. So for you truth is what can be demonstrated to others (or to a reasonable person) for verification.

I worry about the groupthink aspect to objectivity sometimes. We're looking to confirm with others. But direct experience can be true and subjective as well.

The problem here is it ties true to the social or to the imaginary reasonable person (third person).

I guess it kinda depends on what we're calling free will.