The worldview, organized.

The worldview tag contains the more theoretical posts on this site. The following is the suggested reading order, which isn't necessarily identical to the chronological order.

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An introduction to terms and fundamental concepts.

• The "I" in the body.: We can direct the location of the "I" to a region in our body—specifically, the chest area.
• Some initial terms.: Short definitions on body, mind, avatar, and POV.
• The "I" outside of the body?: We easily shift between equating our location with that of the body versus with that of the mind.
• Time, space, and the POV.: The POV can travel freely through time and space, while giving each coordinate equal weight/solidity/validity.
• The "I" beyond the the avatar world.: Thanks to the POV, we can be various things (sometimes simultaneously) beyond the body, the avatar, and the avatar world in general.
• On the distinction between "imaginary" and "real.": Such a distinction is blurry at best, and possibly nonexistent.
• Experiencing the becoming of non-avatar things.: Two ideas for the intentional experiencing of other-than-body-ness.
• A relevant quote from "The Poetics of Space" + On labels.: Labels don’t matter.
• The question of POV-level free will.: The POV cannot control what inspirations from the storyteller it is visited by. However, the POV can accept or reject the storyteller’s inspirations.
• Your POV is powerful.: The avatar with its POV work together with the storyteller. All of them need each other.
• A model, not the actual thing.: A model is useful and powerful, but it isn’t the actual thing.
• Time to accept or reject.: Because, merely adding theory doesn’t mean anything.

Life is a story.

Literally so.

Feeling the reality of the storyteller.

• Summary, so far.: Using the example of the dream apple and dream monster.
• The POV, in its specialized state.: An avatar tends to have a POV that is more specialized than its original, limitless state.
• Identifying with both the storyteller and the avatar + inside and outside.: The avatar is so powerful that it can accept the seeming inside/outside separation. But it can also choose to accept that it is also the storyteller.
• The POV is where the avatar and the storyteller meet.: What’s not in the character’s POV, the novelist doesn’t expect the character to be aware of.
• What's the point of being in a story at all?: Why a mere few sentences aren’t enough for the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
• Your storyteller loves you unconditionally.: What unconditional love means.
• The avatar world: one of relativity.: Let the undesired thing be undesired, for it is proof of the inevitable existence of that which you desire.
• Being pissed at the storyteller is an excellent place to start.: We can’t get pissed at something that we believe to be nonexistent.
• More on using opposites/relatives + a handy POV specialization.: Opposites prove each other’s existence.
• The "I just know" feeling.: Nothing can beat the realness of the “I just know” feeling.
• It's easier to consciously de-specialize than to consciously specialize.: It’s easier to melt the letters, get to the blank page, and then fill that page with new inspiration—if at all.
• List up the problems in your POV.: Look at what the POV says.
• Gazing at the POV with the storyteller's eye. Not glare. Not awkwardly stare. Gaze.: The gaze, in more practical terms.
• There is no need to "fix" the POV + no avatar can give this to you.: Your POV is fine as is. And only you can embrace that for yourself.