Fragmentation, Trauma, and the Question of Agency

Fragmentation, Disembodied Beings, and the Cosmic Forces That Shape Decision Making

Most modern decision-making models assume that choice is a matter of optimization. Gather enough information, weigh the outcomes, and select the best option.

This teaching approaches decision-making differently.

Rather than treating choice as a single act made by a unified self, it explores decision-making as a wayfinding process that unfolds within structure, constraint, and competing influences.

The talk examines why high-quality decision-making requires conscious participation, and why that participation is often disrupted. It looks at fragmentation and trauma, inherited structures, incoherent worldviews, reactionary North Stars, blind spots in perception, competing agendas in a populated universe, fate and probability, and the role of timing.

This is not a how-to guide or a system for certainty. It is an orientation piece meant to clarify what is already shaping choice before conscious decision-making ever begins.

This episode is part of the broader Wayfinding work within Eating Ancient Virtue. The video is a direct excerpt from Wayfinding: The Skill of Making Consequential Decisions, a course for premium members of Eating Ancient Virtue:

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Chapters
00:00 Conscious Participation and the Problem of Choice
02:40 Inherited Structure, Ancestry, and Orientation
04:40 Who Gets to Choose
Fragmentation, Parts, and Trauma
11:20 Incoherent Worldviews and Reactionary North Stars
18:55 Blind Spots, Divination, and Competing Agendas
24:05 Fate, Probability, and Destiny
25:40 Timing, Readiness, and Time-Space
27:40 The Scope of What Shapes Decision Making