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Feb 01, 2024

Searchless Responsiveness: Table of Contents

Note: Slightly revised versions of selected essays featured in the Searchless Responsiveness series of posts are now available as a hardcover book (here) and as an e-book (here). See full notice here.

I've grouped the posts into areas of consideration, ordered them, and created a narrative through-lines that connects them.

There can be no perfect consistency of language here, because when linguistic consistency is made paramount, language that was gesturing towards experiential gnosis devolves into a symbolic framework referring only to itself.

Front Matter

Searchless Responsiveness

The Search: how responsivity is lost
Realization of Completeness: the foundation of searchless responsiveness
The Space of Affordances in Unelaborated Umwelt: the unity of body and environment
Existential Inertia, Conceptuality, Identities, and Selves: embracing commonly rejected aspects
The Happen of the Nature of States: care, power, and intrinsic satisfaction
Recognizing the Nature of States: familiarization with the free play of perceptual transformation
The Simplest "Exercise" of Searchlessness: a preliminary practice for exploring Searchlessness
The Simplest “Exercise” of Responsiveness: a preliminary practice for exploring Responsiveness
The Resonant Wealth: relating the sense-fields
The Path of Disorientation: the wellspring of freshness
The Seven Non-Progressive Intimacies of the Nature of States: a practice of existential intimacy
Another "Simplest" Exercise of Searchlessness: further exploration of Searchlessness
Searchless Directionality: what projects look like without a final project
The Fields of Flux: the aspects of sensation, affordances, and care
Clarification of Self via Inversion of Skies: The clarity and bliss of the union of interiority and exteriority

Interstitial 1

Streaming

Responsiveness: the temporal fusion of true nihilism and dynamic eternalism
Surrender to the Life Current: sensory-motor coupling with the world
At Play among Lifeworlds: patterns of engagement and care
All Energy Maps Are True, but Only Some Are Useful: relating to energy maps
Dimensions of Energy: exploring some dimensions of energy
The Art of Being: the default shape and texture of interaction as creative medium
The Incarnation of Fluid Nebulosity: a pattern language of energy
The Imaginal Kinesthetic: naturalizing a common family of energy practices
Streaming Conductivity: methods for coming into fuller engagement
Conductivity/Responsiveness: dwelling in the feeling of being
Formless Arousal: an exercise of searchless sexuality
Another "Simplest" Exercise of Responsiveness: responsiveness to feeling-textures

Interstitial 2

Physicality

Cultures of Embodiment: against mind-made body
Shaping the Kinesthetic Field: foundations of bodily experience, part I
Body Image, and the Image of the Other's Body: foundations of bodily experience, part II
Moving Just Because: physicality as an aesthetic experience
Some notes on the mechanical aspects of breath: fundamentals of breath
Weightlifting Tantra: applying the breath in weightlifting
Visionary Weightlifting: ecstasy in weightlifting
Every Ground Is a Wealth: enjoying the sensation of running
Don’t Watch Where You're Going: removing vision to enhance bodily awareness

Interstitial 3

Relationship

Streaming Contact: bodily intimacy
Transforming Hugs into Art: hugs as a core relational practice
Dynamic Tradition and Children: taking children seriously
The Beauty and Horror of People as Hurricanes: allowing people to be as they are
Developing a Personal Vocabulary of Other-Visions: playful explorations of the other

Life Integration

Ornamenting Being: The Aesthetic Ornamentation of Existential Integrity
Truth, Goodness, Beauty: The Next Generation: A generative view
Life Aesthetics: Ritual and Incident: Daily ritual as a container to craft a life aesthetic
The Simplest “Exercise” of Transformation: Standing in both the present and an already-accomplished future
In Praise of Traditional Californiaism and the Seven American Tantras: the integration of money, fame, beauty, sex, power, vitality and heavy machinery into spirituality
Becoming the Body of Automobile: integrating with being a driver
Better Self-Improvement through Intentional Self-Undermining: general principles of integration
The Ecstasies of Unfolding Conversations: Allowing Fresh Meaning to Arise
My Principles for an Ecology of Practice: musing on life integration
The Expanse Between Familiar Lifeworlds: The felt-sense of a lifeworld’s aesthetic as portal to communicative interaction
Adult Development as Affordances and Aesthetics: The orders of adult development

Interstitial 4

Discourse

How Wonderful That Someone Is Wrong on the Internet: relating to discourse
In Praise of Incoherent Visions: embracing both magical and materialist worldview
Fractally Embracing and Rejecting Ideas: beyond correct and incorrect
Non-curiosity Cures False Precision: allowing “no reason”

Art

The Beauty of Meaninglessness in Cinema: enjoying disorientation in cinema
Cinema With Realistic Texture: what brings realism to cinema
The One Taste of Elevator Music and Demonic Screamo: the beauty of polarized aesthetic experiences
Repetition as Novelty: repetition in aesthetic experiences

Interstitial 5

Personality

Personality as a Stance: the fundamentals of personality
Responding to Emotions: a simple guide
The Search, part 2: no emotion is the lynchpin of an existential dilemma
First, I is I. Then I is not I. Then I is I: re-embracing identity
Trying to Be Completely Un-Fucked Can Fuck You Up: the limitations of personal growth

Final Interstitial

Cultivating Fluid Power

Resonant Maneuvers: Introduction: Cultivating Fluid Power
Boydian Strategy: A Brief Primer
Resonant Maneuvers as Fire: Coherence in Bodies, Energies, and Minds
Resonant Maneuvers as Water: Using concentration and dispersion to create opportune waves of activation energy

Final + 1 Interstitial

Rhapsodies

Final + 2 Interstitial

Back Matter

Addenda

The Option Attitude: Mystic Pragmatism

Happy Motivation: (Bruce Di Marsico)
The Unhappy Condition (Max Soweski)
How to be Happy, Basically (Andrew Blevins)
The Option Method: The Myth of Unhappiness (Bruce Di Marsco)
Paperback: Vol 1., Vol 2, Vol 3
The Option Method: Selected Audio (Bruce Di Marsico)

Conversations

The Conversations has video recordings of conversations I have had with various people on various topics.

Esoteric Library

The Esoteric Library page has selected scans of rare spiritual books from my library.

Also…

The Also… page has selected older productions.

Selected Notes

Further Vision

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