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finding:the-omega-participant-who-initially-chose-the-stool-later-changed-his-perception-to-recognize-the-bench-as-more-whole-after-a-few-days-of-letting-go-of-attachment

The Omega participant who initially chose the stool later changed his perception to recognize the bench as more whole after a few days of letting go of attachment.

Qualitative evidence that the mirror-of-the-self experience can facilitate personal growth and refinement of perception.

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Performing the mirror-of-the-self test gradually brings the observer closer to contact with the original mind.
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The reciprocal effect: doing the test deepens self-knowledge and judgment.
The mirror-of-the-self test is not mechanical; its accuracy depends on the observer's level of personal development.
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Important caveat about the reliability of the method.

Related by similarity (8)

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

At the 1985 Omega conference, 99 out of ~100 people selected the blue wooden bench over the gray steel stool as a better picture of their self.finding0.841
A large-group demonstration showing near-unanimous agreement that is hard to explain by individual preference.
Alexander's experiments showed different people can agree on which actions are more structure-preserving or life-bearingfinding0.750
Repeated experiments demonstrating that people of good will can reach substantial agreement about the life of a design decision.
"[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... when inspecting its interior, we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.749
Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception
As observers mature, their liking converges because they discover the deeper self that is shared.claim0.748
Developmental claim about aesthetic maturity.
The more whole it becomes, the more transparent, the more it seems to melt, the more it realizes itself and releases its own inner reality.claim0.746
New assumption #9: the melting transparency of increasing wholeness.
The client now feels unequivocally that it was all worthwhile.claim0.742
Statement about the client's satisfaction after anxious delays.
Under these conditions, what is done next always has a natural and comfortable relation to what existed before: it has a similar structure and never violates the previously existing structure.claim0.742
Characteristic of a structure-preserving process.
When the process is correct, the creation of life follows almost automatically, without effort.claim0.741