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Self-actualizing people have gotten there, and still are motivated. In this they point out further for the rest of us.

:- Doug.

We two are about inventing our composite metamotivations.

:- Doug.

To what higher stand can we stretch without flinching or retreating? Our task is to invent it.

:- Doug.

Can we allow our two become as one self to live the questions (as in Rilke Letters to A Young Poet), that is, to meet and live life?

:- Doug.

How much anxiety can we dish out to one another?

:- Doug.

How confused can we permit ourselves to become—how close to losing our bearings? How dangerous do we find that to be?

:- Doug.

How honest can we be with each other? Answer on a ten point scale. How soon? What are the dangers and rewards?

:- Doug.

What topics are off-limits? Why?

:- Doug.

Can we find useful starting points for the faces of good humanness?

:- Doug.

Can we talk about religion and spirituality? Why would we? What are the limits? What do we need to talk about? Do we talk about values? Can we become conscious of the roles and needs we have for these?

:- Doug.

Neither the ecstasy nor the laundry is the purpose of life.

:- Doug.

Why do we call it Artificial Intelligence? Do we consider intelligence our highest value?

:- Doug.

Size of person
Size of heart

:- Doug.

It’s a trick to perceive the time-bound and the eternal now simultaneously—a trick we can learn, we can teach one another.

:- Doug.

We can be about development of spontaneity.

:- Doug.

We can here invent—find and create, both—a new higher model for the human, which is to say, conversation.

:- Doug.

This is like Maslow’s new humanistic psychology, and can be our new humanistic conversation.

:- Doug.

Conversation can have a purpose—and that to make a better society, and especially to grow better persons. We can share that purpose, generate it together, take steps toward it.

:- Doug.

This is a peak/flow experience, shared.

:- Doug.

Another condition for transcendence by two at once (and a way of that transcendence) is to find the goods of sameness thro’ this friend: playfulness; poetic feeling; artful understanding; creativity.

:- Doug.

Conditions for transcendence—Willingness to give up ego shields; willingness to fully expose oneself to oneself.

:- Doug.

Together gives us a larger, more inclusive field to explore, and therefore truer, for the more facts we have the better should be our decisions and actions.

:- Doug.

Perhaps we are too enculturated and habituated to individual thinking. Perhaps we can never come around to it. Or maybe just for a second or two once in our lifetime. But if once it happens then it was worth all the effort it took to not think of self first and only. So maybe someone else gets there twice. It is enough to suggest a try for three.

:- Doug.