/lit/ - Literature

https://vimeo.com/563950668

Two perspectives: one focused inwardly at an object (analysis) and one focused outwardly at the environment. (synthesis.) A crystal as an object is "a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions," while the *process* of crystallization is the taking-in of the environmental conditions by the emerging object that nourishes and influences the growth of the crystal.

"Everything that in any sense exists has two sides, namely, its individual self and its signification in the universe.” These two poles cannot be torn apart. Each finds its fulfillment in the other via their dialectical relation. Thus, becoming is for the purpose of being (signification in the universe) and being is for the purpose of novel becoming (the emergent individual self.)... The entire world finds its place in the internal constitution of the new creature, and the new creature lays an obligation upon the future: that it take into account the value achieved by the new creature. Thus every creature both houses and pervades the world" - Elizabeth Kraus, "The Metaphysics of Experience."

Mindfulness Meditation is about just taking in changing environmental conditions without the goal of trying to change them, while Perception Bending ( pastebin.com/vHKeTau2 ) is concentrative meditation, with the goal of changing one's perception.