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mindsets

A Cartography of Experience

Cover: Mindsets

Mindsets is not a personality typology and not a self-help system. It is a conceptual map of how experience organizes itself into a “world” and how that world can shift when interpretation, attention, or conditions change.

A mindset, in this sense, is not a trait you possess. It is a configuration: a way experience becomes coherent enough to feel like reality.

What the book examines

The book explores:

  • how experience forms stable worlds through interpretation and repetition;
  • how mindsets shift through thresholds, stress, insight, or disorientation;
  • how different worlds overlap, conflict, or misread one another;
  • how “spiritual” readings are only one subset of possible configurations;
  • how a configuration can harden into certainty and hierarchy;
  • how the urge for a final ground keeps returning and what happens when it does not resolve.

It is a cartography, not a doctrine. The point is not to arrive at the “right” mindset, but to see how any mindset becomes convincing from within itself.

Contents

  • Prologue
  • Introduction: A World Is Never Just a World

    Part I Foundations

  • The Architecture of Experience
  • Development Without Direction
  • The Myth of Higher Awareness
  • The Return of Hierarchy
  • What Mindsets Are Not
  • What mindsets are
  • The Phenomenological Mindset
  • When a Configuration Hardens

    Part II Cartography

  • Thresholds as Features of Experience
  • Overlapping Worlds
  • Misreadings Across Worlds
  • What a Mindset Reveals
  • The Scientific Mindset

    Part III Familiar Terrain

  • Introduction
  • The Pragmatic Mindset
  • The Conventional Mindset
  • The Analytical Mindset
  • The Autistic Mindset
  • The Narrative Mindset
  • The Religious Mindset
  • The New Age Spiritual Mindset
  • The Knowledge-Seeker Mindset
  • The Hyper-Attuned Mindset
  • Non-Duality Framed as a Mindset

    Part IV Worlds At The Edge

  • When Organization Falters
  • The Trauma-Activated Mindset
  • The Dissociative Mindset
  • The Manic Mindset
  • The Depressive Mindset
  • Chemically Induced Worlds
  • A Temporarily Coherent World

    Part V The Unframed

  • Introduction
  • Non-Duality as Non-Position
  • Headlessness and the Vanishing Center
  • Emptiness as Transparency
  • Darkness as Non-Orientation

    Part VI Movement

  • Thresholds: How Mindsets Shift
  • Overlaps and Hybrid Worlds
  • Misreadings and Crossings
  • The Pull of Foundation, and Why It Fails

    Part VII The Open Field

  • Infinite Mindsets
  • Living Without a Final World
  • The Space Where Worlds Appear
  • On Standing Beside

Sample passage

“A mindset is not a lens placed on top of the world. It is the world as it becomes coherent. It is what experience feels like when it stabilizes into a pattern that explains itself.”

“Different mindsets do not merely disagree about beliefs. They often live in different worlds, because the world is what the configuration makes available.”

Availability

Mindsets will be available as Kindle e-book and paperback.

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