FIML is a dynamic fact gatherer, a dynamic gatherer of facts between two people.
As these facts increase into the dozens, then hundreds, partners will see in themselves and each other a very different picture of who they are, a unique mosaic of their actual psychologies as they actually function in real-time, real-world situations.
This gathering of many idiosyncratic facts, this creation of a mosaic of psychologically unique communicative facts, reshapes the mind, its self-awareness and its understanding of what mind and consciousness truly are.
FIML is a species of subjective science.
It works with objectively agreed upon micro communication data.
The advantages of working with micro-data are three:
- 1) micro-data are easy to identify, remember and agree upon with little ambiguity or confusion
- 2) micro-data once discovered are emotionally and psychologically easy to accept, to admit
- 3) micro-data are objective in that both partners agree on what they are
Acquiring a mosaic of micro-data facilitates beneficial extrapolation into meso and macro levels of the mind.1
And this allows for a profound reshaping of both partners’ minds and psychologies.
This dynamic fact-gathering and enhanced understanding of the mind forestalls solipsistic error and also the error of clinging to group norms.
For Buddhists2 and others who practice mindfulness, FIML can be understood as partnered mindfulness. ABN
- See Micro, meso, and macro levels of human understanding for more. ↩︎
- For Buddhists, a FIML query arises in the second skandha, deepens in the third skandha and is initiated verbally in the fourth skandha, thus altering the fifth skandha or preventing its habitual recurrence. See The Five Skandhas for more. ↩︎
UPDATE: I hope readers of this site who are members of a Buddhist Sangha or close to one will encourage their Sangha to learn and practice FIML mindfulness.
FIML would work especially well within a monastic community. It would greatly enhance their mindfulness and raise their common awareness to new heights of clarity and harmoniousness.
Lay Buddhists who see each other often and already communicate well would also benefit greatly from FIML practice, both as a group and as individuals. ABN
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