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This woman and her husband are a kind of self help guru type character popular on Twitter. All their stuff is this weepy kind of ersatz vulnerability that comes with too much detail and too little meaning.

However this kind of stuff is very popular among that crowd, the TPOT subculture there, and the rationalist adjacent group.

by neilk3 hours ago|

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I understand why the parent post felt it was clankerish. It has the same feeling - many signposts on a road to nowhere.

But it's also got the structure of marketing. Or a pitch for a cult. Or both.

It is literally book-ended - they mention the new book in the first and last paragraphs.

As far as I can tell it's no different from a pitch for other popular spirituality books. A tease that there is an answer, the author discovered it, but now is not the time for that revelation. Boring.

It's just targeted towards an audience that has different filters, and different expectations for what enlightenment might look like. Apparently for some it involves PKD-like psychonauttery, name-checking Bay Area grifters of past and present, post-rationalism, etc.