u/Zenseaking

I am curious about this. Decades ago shorthand was all the rage. Some practitioners getting around 200 words per minute.

Some more basic alphabet based systems allowed students to write between 60 and 80 wpm after one semester.

I'm not an expert typist. But productive for my job and get around 50-60 words per minute.

Theoretically I could short hand faster than I type woth 8-10 weeks practice.

And modern devices could probably instantly translate this to full text.

Which begs the question: Have their been any moves towards this as a digital input method?

I have practiced Stoicism off and on for 20 years. I worked in a high stress, high trauma job and tbh Stoicism was the thing that got me through most weeks and still able to show up as a human being in the rest of my life.

I occasionally fell into other practices like Zen amd other forms of Buddhism. But always came home to Stoicism. Yes there is a perennialism to some of these ideas but the focus and language used is enough to significantly distinguish them IMO. The entire time I would have described myself as an atheist. I followed the Stoic practice. Not the metaphysical concepts (yes the physics).

Anyway, I did end up with rather severe psychological problems. I started to doubt Stoicism and my application of it. Although I had been rigorous in my selection of materials (original Aurelius, epectitus and seneca) I still wondered if I had fallen into the trap of suppressing my emotions instead of acknowledging them. I did acknowledge them, and feel them. But was it enough? Did I feel them enough to avoid suppression?

To be safe I left Stoicism alone for a time. I moved into Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism and Jungian Psychology. I had some incredible experiences. I found a personal metaphysics I used visualisations to deal with deep trauma and it worked. I healed. And I felt at home in the world. I felt like life had meaning and purpose.

However, After the healing I continued on this path and I started to over mentalise things. And became consumed by symbolism. And I noticed an increase in emotional reactivity. I found out many things about myself and reality. But I became a worse person. More focused on myself than the world. I now believe this path, and Jungs integration is incredibly important work. But as the Dao de Jing says *retire from the work when it is done*.

I am considering the idea that these mentalising and symbolic systems are fantastic for deep trauma work but are not a lifelong daily practice. They are needed wjen they are needed and we need to recognise when the work is done and get back to daily living.

So here I am. Back to Stoicism.

But this time I am bringing more of a Logoscentric perspective. An appreciation for the divine. For meaning. Amor Fati becomes much more of a religious term. A love of Fate means a love of the guiding power behind fate. I see this as the Logos. The divine ordering principle and flow of nature. Perhaps being pulled by a whiteheadian force of creativity.

These are just my own musings. But I would be interested to hear on others perspectives of the Logos and Stoic Physics/metaphysics and how they interpret and use it in their practice.

Thanks