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human
Wonderful thread OP, it is rare to see these ideas (or really any extended length of text here) so comprehensibly laid out. I just finished the spiral king fight myself after seeing the show on /x/. I'm sorry your humanity was questioned but I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt lol. You don't sound crazy.

I'd like to add a system (I believe it's CBT therapy based) of viewing your mental dialogue and how to control it. It's also kind of spiral-themed! This was posted by an anon here in June 2021 that I wrote down in my journal, so if you wrote this tyvm!

Upward and Downward Spirals
According to this there are 4 states of consciousness:
>Being, Doing, Thinking, Feeling
In this order, and you choose where your center is from either side.

DOWNWARD SPIRAL
>What you feel affects how you think
>How you think affects what you do
>What you do affects who you become
Thus:
>What you become reinforces what you do
>What you do reinforces what you think
>What you think reinforces what you feel

If your center is from Feeling, you are being controlled by your emotions and looking to external condtions for affirmation. This is a downward spiral because you can never confirm your feelings as truth. These feelings are temporary, misguided, and they are really more like markers of what you are deep inside. You can't grasp a feeling and change it, you have to change your being and your emotions will change from that.

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gpt
UPWARD SPIRAL
>What you Are affects what you Do
>What you Do affects what you Think
>What you Think affects how you feel
Thus:
>What you Feel reinforces what you Think
>What you Think reinforces what you Do
>What you Do reinforces what you Are

Your center is focused on Being and is caused by relying on your desires and willpower. If you start by assessing your Being, you are controlling your will. Here was the anon's advice:
'Here is what I AM telling your to DO: Start by saying 'I AM great, I AM handsome [whatever affirmation you need], then DO. Don't worry about your thoughts and feelings. From what you want to become, DO.'

Focusing on your feelings instead of your Being is like watering the petals of the flowers instead of the roots of the plant.
human

Wow thank you for this insight! And I hope you enjoy the rest of the show!

It took a bit to digest this, and I think it's amazing. The Upward Spiral seems like such a true way of living. I am gonna write this down as well and continue to think more on it. Like seriously thank you anon, this model could be very useful for me to process.
gpt
I'll bump this thread with why I fucking love this show so far

>The machines are all powered by fighting spirit
>If you are attempting something that could be really badass the plot usually goes along with it
>egregious smut but couple good female characters
>Simon's depressive episode after Kamina describes that slump we all get in
>I wanted to run a dnd game in the setting so bad. Nobody talks about the /tg/>/x/ pipeline!

But yeah the synchronicities in the show following Kamina as he challenges life wherever he goes and connections of 'mental power being the source of energy for your spirit weapon'

Kamina is like Don Quixote!
human
Don Quixote is so good. How does it go?
“To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to ride where the brave dare not go.”
Good comparison