Sasha Chapin
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Sasha Chapin is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between October 31, 2022 and March 10, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Sasha Chapin (writes Sasha’s Newsletter ) writes : I’m pretty solid at jhanas”; “17: Sasha Chapin on his experience with jhanas”; “Sasha Chapin: I Cured My Aphantasia With a Low-Budget E-Course, Self-Therapy, and a Wee Bit of Microdosing”. It most often appears alongside Andres Gomez Emilsson, California, Emil Kierkegaard.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: October 31, 2022
- Last seen: March 10, 2023
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Sasha Chapin (writes Sasha’s Newsletter) writes:
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17: Sasha Chapin on his experience with jhanas: “I got tired of them pretty fast. I go back to them maybe once or twice a month. And this is the story, as far as I can tell, of most people who can access the jhānas. They’re cool toys that you put away after an initial period of obsession. Why is that? Well, it turns out that pure pleasure isn’t really what human beings want, actually. Pure pleasure in isolation, after a short period of time, is pretty boring, or even annoying.“
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22: Sasha Chapin: I Cured My Aphantasia With a Low-Budget E-Course, Self-Therapy, and a Wee Bit of Microdosing. I found this interesting not just for the title claim, but for his reflections on how he (a person who previously had aphantasia) was surprised by the character of mental imagery: “Usually people with aphantasia imagine that visualizing people are really seeing images. Like, when they close their eyes, they don’t just see a black void. But that’s not true! Most people see a black void just like aphantasics do. They just have a sense of an image alongside it, hovering in some imaginary parallel nether-space.”