Regarding Xe Iaso (Christine Dodrill)'s
"Paracosm Immersion (https://when-then-zen.christine.website/skills/paracosm-immersion)"
I read this a long time ago and it's stuck with me since - a simple method for immersing yourself in your own paracosm (or "mental wonderland").
The way it's written feels a little bit like a poetry guide... The instructions themselves are slightly poetic, but plain text notes accompany.
I thought I'd lost the link but I luckily had the URL living in a text file in my little file cloud, and I found it using Sublime Text's most sublime capacity to let me search all the text files in a large folder for a particular term. (In this case, I searched for paracosm and found the note from 2020. Hooray!)
QuoteIf you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Want to change the world?
There's nothing to it
Short form reference card/mnemonic:
As a visitor, to help ground myself in a location, notice
(
See, hear, feel, smell, taste)-ing (5,4,3,2,1) things.
And any additional sensory reactions
As a visitor, to get more detail about some random thing, notice its
- Group or category.
- Common uses.
- Inherent actions.
- Properties.
- Most common location.
And any additional associations
54321, immerse myself in a place-
See, hear, feel, smell, taste
Note a thing's most common-
Group, uses, actions, properties, location