The Internet and Mimesis
Mar. 19th, 2021 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
youngelephantI don’t think I have ever entered into an official student-teacher relationship in a 1 on 1 setting, at least in adulthood. The best thing about the internet is that it allows humans to learn from lots of different teachers in an informal setting. The act of a student learning from someone they admire is called mimesis.
I seem to stumble on informal internet teachers at the proper stage of my development for them. I stumbled on Culadasa and his work when I desperately needed to learn how to sit still, and in silence for long periods of time. I stumbled on Dhammarato (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxg5GJFsRqnS-YLTzyrjLQ/videos), materialist that he is, when I needed to learn that I could choose how I felt whenever I felt like it. Wim Hof jumped into my life when I was ready to learn that we could consciously choose our reactions to stimuli, and do things far beyond what the establishment teaches is possible. I started avidly reading John Michael Greer when I was ready for the more serious occult teachings, and when a desire burned in me to embrace my intellectual side.
Even if a teacher isn’t permanent, a student can be successful if they form an understanding of what is being taught to them, and integrate it into their life. The teachers essentially program the mental bodies of their students. The student’s mental body will differ from the teacher’s because no person is exactly the same, and therefore everyone forms different understandings of reality.
Teacher’s resonate and enter a student’s life when the student has some degree of wanting to be like the teacher (mimesis). The student will never be exactly like said teacher; the best they can do is integrate understanding of the teachings into their own life.
As the old platitude says, “like attracts like”, and teachers will enter a student’s life when there’s a certain degree of readiness and resonance.
I think I discovered The Archdruid Report (if my memory is correct) back when I was a curious college burn out, and only read one post. I find it interesting that I discovered JMG back then, but didn’t start reading him seriously until 4-5 years later.
If the student teacher relationship is done right, the teacher initiates the student into their understanding of the taught subject, which as said earlier, is basically a consented programming of the mental body by the teacher to the student.
One way to look at the ecosophia blogosphere is that JMG is initiating the readers into his understanding of spirituality, politics, the humanities, and reality itself.
I suspect that I’ll be initiated into new understandings in addition to JMG’s in the future, but I also suspect I’ll be reading JMG until the unfortunate day where he can no longer write, or I can no longer read.
I seem to stumble on informal internet teachers at the proper stage of my development for them. I stumbled on Culadasa and his work when I desperately needed to learn how to sit still, and in silence for long periods of time. I stumbled on Dhammarato (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxg5GJFsRqnS-YLTzyrjLQ/videos), materialist that he is, when I needed to learn that I could choose how I felt whenever I felt like it. Wim Hof jumped into my life when I was ready to learn that we could consciously choose our reactions to stimuli, and do things far beyond what the establishment teaches is possible. I started avidly reading John Michael Greer when I was ready for the more serious occult teachings, and when a desire burned in me to embrace my intellectual side.
Even if a teacher isn’t permanent, a student can be successful if they form an understanding of what is being taught to them, and integrate it into their life. The teachers essentially program the mental bodies of their students. The student’s mental body will differ from the teacher’s because no person is exactly the same, and therefore everyone forms different understandings of reality.
Teacher’s resonate and enter a student’s life when the student has some degree of wanting to be like the teacher (mimesis). The student will never be exactly like said teacher; the best they can do is integrate understanding of the teachings into their own life.
As the old platitude says, “like attracts like”, and teachers will enter a student’s life when there’s a certain degree of readiness and resonance.
I think I discovered The Archdruid Report (if my memory is correct) back when I was a curious college burn out, and only read one post. I find it interesting that I discovered JMG back then, but didn’t start reading him seriously until 4-5 years later.
If the student teacher relationship is done right, the teacher initiates the student into their understanding of the taught subject, which as said earlier, is basically a consented programming of the mental body by the teacher to the student.
One way to look at the ecosophia blogosphere is that JMG is initiating the readers into his understanding of spirituality, politics, the humanities, and reality itself.
I suspect that I’ll be initiated into new understandings in addition to JMG’s in the future, but I also suspect I’ll be reading JMG until the unfortunate day where he can no longer write, or I can no longer read.
