Wild Country (2018), about the spiritual guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (aka Osho) and his followers.
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The best analysis I’ve seen of this tendency among twentieth-century spiritual movements to mistake indulging one’s
emotions for some greater spiritual awakening came from the brilliant author Ken Wilber. He called it the Pre/Trans Fallacy and
argued that because emotions are pre-rational, and spiritual awakenings are post-rational, people often mistake one for the other
—because they’re both nonrational. See Ken Wilber, Eye to Eye: The Quest for a New Paradigm (Boston, MA: Shambhala, Inc.,
1983), pp. 180–221.
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A. Aldao, S. Nolen-Hoeksema, and S. Schweizer, “Emotion-Regulation Strategies Across Psychopathology: A Meta-
analytic Review,” Clinical Psychology Review 30 (2010): 217–37.
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Olga M. Slavin-Spenny, Jay L. Cohen, Lindsay M. Oberleitner, and Mark A. Lumley, “The Effects of Different Methods of
Emotional Disclosure: Differentiating Post-traumatic Growth from Stress Symptoms,” Journal of Clinical Psychology 67, no. 10
(2011): 993–1007.
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This technique is known as the Premack principle, after psychologist David Premack, to describe the use of preferred
behaviors as rewards. See Jon E. Roeckelein, Dictionary of Theories, Laws, and Concepts in Psychology (Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1998), p. 384.
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For more about “starting small” with behavioral changes, see “The Do Something Principle,” from my previous book, The
Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (New York: HarperOne, 2016), pp. 158–63.
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One way to think about “guardrails” for your Consciousness Car is to develop implementation intentions, little if/then habits
that can unconsciously direct your behavior. See P. M. Gollwitzer and V. Brandstaetter, “Implementation Intentions and Effective
Goal Pursuit,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 73 (1997): 186–99.
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Damasio, Descartes’ Error, pp. 173–200.
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In philosophy, this is known as Hume’s guillotine: you cannot derive an “ought” from an “is.” You cannot derive values
from facts. You cannot derive Feeling Brain knowledge from Thinking Brain knowledge. Hume’s guillotine has had philosophers
and scientists spinning in circles for centuries now. Some thinkers such as Sam Harris try to rebut it by pointing out that you can
have factual knowledge about values—e.g., if a hundred people believe suffering is wrong, then there is factual evidence of their
physical brain state about their beliefs about suffering being wrong. But the decision to take that physical representation as a
serious proxy for philosophical value, is itself a value that cannot be factually proven. Thus, the circle continues.
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