Thread by @Aella_Girl

I unapologetically view people who literally believe the stars/planets can predict unrelated things on earth as uniquely bad at thinking (moreso than many other strange beliefs)
But if you don't literally believe this, then astrology seems like it could be really cool. 1/

There's a ton of strange 'power of mind' stuff that probably feels very much like magic, and might need to be approached in a frame of magic for it to work well (similarly how believing in jesus makes spiritual healing work better on you). But it's hard to strike a balance! 2/

As in it can be really hard to let multiple frames overlay your reality at once without picking the mystical one and letting it blend into the predictive one. Mystical experiences can be soul-shatteringly profound, and it's *hard* to not let it interrupt normal truthfinding. 3/

I don't mean to treat mystical experiences as untrue, but rather as a diff type of truth. They are fundamental, they are art, they are the fount of wisdom that can transform who you are, but they *aren't* good evidence for planets predicting the future. 4/
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When I'm around people where I feel comfortable they know how to keep their frames separate, where understanding of physics remains intact, then I personally feel comfortable talking and interacting in very magical terms that would sound insane to outsiders. 5/

I think of it a bit like a computer; the "true nature" of the computer is incomprehensible ones and zeros in strange boards, but we interact with the "illusion" of the information on the screen. I'm comfortable interacting with illusions, knowing the true nature is 1s and 0s. 6/

and i wouldn't be surprised if we've only begun to tap the weird, cool shit we can do with the illusions on the screen. Experimenting with and investigating this - as long as it's done in harmony with predictive beliefs, not in dismissal of them - sounds really fascinating to me!