Selection of Attractive States

Type

Experimental Psychology

Link

http://bodhi.wikispot.org/

Creators

AndySkuns (and Bodhi)

Contact

http://www.skunsyatina.livejournal.com

bodhi@yandex.ru

Creation Date

2010-12-30

This Wiki-site is about new direction on experimental psychology - Selection [by you] of Attractive [to you] States [or perceptions, emotions, feelings and so on].

From a preface of the core book by Bodhi "Selection of Attractive States":

...This book is a practical guidance. It contains techniques which, if you follow them persistently and sincerely, is the shortest and clearest way
for any person to be free of sufferings (of negative emotions, false concepts, mechanical wishes and unpleasant feelings) and to start a totally
different life, full of discoveries and enlightened perceptions. The book is adapted to modern life and it is detailed enough as my wish is not just
bring a reader to a simple splash of emotions followed by a depression and the return to previous dreary life, but to show the reader a direct path
to the enlightened perceptions.

When I started this book in the year 2000, I hoped it was not all for nothing, but at a certain moment the book will resonate with somebody that
will “recognize” it as the most wanted way of living. I had no idea when and how it was going to happen. By the year 2005 many thousands of people
had read my book or some parts of it, a couple of hundred people tried to apply the techniques that I described in the book, and a few dozen got
so involved and were happy with changes in their lives that now they cannot even imagine going back to the cultivation of sufferings. I am aware
that my book can be in mass demand only in about one or two thousand years, but until then very few people will want to be set free, and for them
this is the book. It is for those, who want to make this journey into the world of enlightened perceptions either now, or in 20 years,
or in 2000 years. ...

This preface was written 5 years ago, so much more readers interested in SAS appeared since then, but most of them are russian speaking due to lack of materials in English.

There are also a lot of articles about various topics - child rising, religion, medicine, economic and politic - all of them give a clear view on situations from different points, show possible ways of argumentation. More importantly its teaches readers to start to think independently and destroy dogmatic conceptions giving technology and examples of finding flaws in it.

Additionally you can find discussions with authors on blog and forums, fiction stories from readers and the author, and a lot of other interesting stuff.

There is a Maya - a series of fiction books, nevertheless containing lots of real situations taken from lives of Bodh and "mordas".
"Morda" is name, by which guys and girls who practice SAS prefer to call themselves, is directly translated from Russian as a snout, i.e. face of animal, because sympathy feelings are more easily appear towards living creatures like animals, birds, plants, and even rocks and oceans, called "snouts" altogether. And a man is just one specie among all of them - so can be named as a snout as well.

See also some pictures of Bodhi and "snouts".