I will be posting articles on the following topics:
The largely unrealized implications of non-locality
Liberal vs Conservative: Basic Differences
The "Impass"
Emotional Literacy
Cognitive Literacy
Skepticism and Skeptics
Integrative Conversations
Basic Tools of Therapy
Self Therapy
The Role of Pain
Seeing vs Imagining
Data deficits, Data receptors, Data distribution
Existence vs Meaning
Stimulus orientation vs Response orientation
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
The "If then" Fallacy
Very very often people will formulate an argument based on an "if" that to some degree simply begs the question. These arguments when simplified sound something like: "if people would change they would be able to change" or "if something was different than what it was, it would be different than what it was". In some ways these kind of contributions can be meaningless. It is like saying " if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a trolley car".
If the "if" part is not very implementable, then the "then" part is not very implementable. Statements like: "If everyone voted responsibly we would not elect incompetent people" and "If we all listened to each other more, there would be less chance of war" are not very productive because the "if" part is not very implementable. Despite this, go to any group discussion and you'll hear plenty of contributions in this format. This is one reason why committees tend to have the reputation of not getting very much done.
If the "if" part is not very implementable, then the "then" part is not very implementable. Statements like: "If everyone voted responsibly we would not elect incompetent people" and "If we all listened to each other more, there would be less chance of war" are not very productive because the "if" part is not very implementable. Despite this, go to any group discussion and you'll hear plenty of contributions in this format. This is one reason why committees tend to have the reputation of not getting very much done.
Seduction
When I go to the supermarket and look at the physiques of the people around me; when I look in their shopping carts, I get a sense of the average person being seduced. Seduced by their own appetites, seduced by the advertising, seduced by their own self talk & propaganda, seduced by the media, seduced by their peers, seduced by their own "contentment", seduced by strong resistances to eating what one should eat, seduced by the comfort of their own traditions and habits, seduced by what they see everyone else doing.
I then wonder if the process of seduction is one of the main destroyers of our society. People who try to change our society, like politicians, make the mistake of resorting to further seduction. Perhaps the problem is seduction itself.
It seems to me the main counter to this toxic seduction is the feeling of healthy discontent. I then have to ask: what have I been seduced by and what is my unfelt discontent?
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A newborn, and toddler are supposed to be seduced by their parents. In a healthy "safe" family, they're supposed to be seduced by their mothers tit, their mothers touch, their mother's voice, their own needs and appetites. They also have the means of letting the mother know when they don't want something, when they've had too much of something and when they're discontent. In a healthy family the mother responds appropriately and the child develops appropriately.
In an unhealthy family with a toxic mother the infant's "yeses" and "no's" are not heeded properly and the infant develops defenses and resistances against its own yeses and no's. It still however longs to be "seduced" by its mother and its own needs. Eventually this longing breaks through in adult behavior. The adult is either seduced by his own original longings or seduced by his resistances to his own original longings.
I then wonder if the process of seduction is one of the main destroyers of our society. People who try to change our society, like politicians, make the mistake of resorting to further seduction. Perhaps the problem is seduction itself.
It seems to me the main counter to this toxic seduction is the feeling of healthy discontent. I then have to ask: what have I been seduced by and what is my unfelt discontent?
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A newborn, and toddler are supposed to be seduced by their parents. In a healthy "safe" family, they're supposed to be seduced by their mothers tit, their mothers touch, their mother's voice, their own needs and appetites. They also have the means of letting the mother know when they don't want something, when they've had too much of something and when they're discontent. In a healthy family the mother responds appropriately and the child develops appropriately.
In an unhealthy family with a toxic mother the infant's "yeses" and "no's" are not heeded properly and the infant develops defenses and resistances against its own yeses and no's. It still however longs to be "seduced" by its mother and its own needs. Eventually this longing breaks through in adult behavior. The adult is either seduced by his own original longings or seduced by his resistances to his own original longings.
Integral Remote Viewing
What is Remote Viewing?
Remote viewing is a "non-local" technique whereby one can experience being present at an undisclosed location that can be thousands of miles away. One can see, feel, touch, smell hear and be at this distant location just by using one's mind and attention in a special way!
Remote viewing differs from what is referred to as psychic in that it is a highly refined specific sequence of attentional operations that takes about an hour to do. It has built in safeguards to minimize contamination by one's own imagination and belief systems. It creates the possibility of a new "signal purity" and "signal strength" previously attainable by only a few if any.
Exactly what you are remote viewing is disclosed to you only after your session, by the person who possesses the photo or description of the “target” to be viewed. An example of a "target" could be: the pyramids of Giza at the time of construction.
Extremely well controlled research has demonstrated that these sensory-emotional-conceptual experiences can be very strong and very accurate. Remote viewing has been used very successfully to locate previously undiscovered buried archaeological structures in the Mideast. It was used by the U.S. intelligence community to single-handedly accurately describe and locate a previously unknown about, new Russian submarine. When spiritual targets are viewed, such as the Buddha, people often have the most profound experience of their life.
Non-Locality
Remote viewing is an example of using the “non-local” abilities of the brain. It means the brain can and does non-locally connect and exchange information with what so far seems to be anything in the universe. For anyone unfamiliar with or skeptical about the brain’s non-local abilities, please pick up the book Entangled Minds by Dean Radin. (You will become aware of the huge amount of research and meta-analyses with staggeringly high levels of significance.) The implications of the non-local abilities of the brain/mind are so staggering that it will take many many years for them to dawn on people. Most people simply do not know what to do with the concept or they simply plug it in to a new age pre-rational belief system.
More Examples of What Can Be Remote Viewed
One can remote view one’s father or mother at the time when one was 10 years old. During this time, one can reconnect with one’s father in a totally new and healing way. One can also choose to walk in one’s father’s shoes and see the world through one’s father’s (or anyone else’s) eyes.
One can remote view the historical Buddha at the time of his enlightenment. While remote viewing the Buddha, some will feel entirely safe for the first time in their life. During this time, some will experience their heart being opened up on a very deep energetic level. Deep tears of joy are common for this kind of viewing.
While remote viewing a pod of Dolphins one may feel oneself swimming in the water while emotionally connecting with the rest of the pod. (A bipolar woman who remote viewed a pod of Dolphins was able to feel stable for the first time in her life. She was able for the first time to grasp the meaning of stability (creating a new prototype of experience for her self.)
One can remote view the eruption of Old Faithful geyser at a certain date and time. While remote viewing the Geyser’s eruption, one can experience droplets of water on one’s skin. One can feel the ground rumble with one’s whole body. One can hear the roar and sense the energy and power of the hot water being forced upward. One can look around the area and see, smell and hear the trees, the lodges and the people. One can sense the excitement of the people as they watch the eruption. One can pick out a particular onlooker and go inside his mind to find out what he was thinking. (Usually done with permission and with positive intent)
What is an Integral Perspective?
An integral perspective takes into account all aspects and levels of “reality”, the self and others. It tries to leave no aspect neglected. It takes into account our conscious states, our past current & future stages of development, the subjective and objective parts of ourselves, our society & culture, the physical universe, spirituality etc. It sees the importance of dealing with our shadow as well as having a spiritual practice that “transcends and includes”.
It discriminates between the pre-rational (much new-age stuff), the rational (including science) and the trans-rational (seeing the previously unseen (and un-see-able) by being exquisitely rational, intuitive, sensitive and discriminating as well as being highly awake and clear-headed)
Remote Viewing from an Integral Perspective:
This Means:
1) Conceptualizing and formulating remote viewing theory and techniques that take into account, conscious states, our stages & lines of development, our subjective experience, our society & culture, the physical universe etc.
2) Actually viewing "targets" relating to conscious states, our stages of development, our society & culture, the physical universe, the nature of the heart the mind and reality. It also means remote viewing that deepest ideas that can conceptualize these things.
3) It further means remote viewing therapeutic targets that:
a) help heal our shadow and
b) facilitate and accelerate our moving on to higher stages of development and taking new perspectives.
What is so remarkable about Remote Viewing from an Integral Perspective?
1) Taking previously impossible perspectives
Remote viewing remarkably allows one to see from first person, a second person, a third person and a fourth person perspective! One can do a “collective deep mind probe” to get a sense of what a whole group of people are thinking and feeling collectively. One can go inside the human body and observe microscopic events. One can potentially observe the activity of cells, viruses, molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles. The observation of dark matter, dark energy and other universes is conceivable through remote viewing. One could formulate extremely abstract targets involving concepts and perspectives relating to mathematics, other dimensions, and previously unconceived of notions. One can see conceivably through the eyes of future scientists, philosophers and intelligent nonhuman entities that may exist elsewhere in the universe.
2) Seeing the world through other people's eyes
As mentioned, one can see the world through the eyes of another being, for example you can see through the eyes of your parents, your spouse, an enemy, or a spiritual master, or someone on a much higher or even lower level of development. In this way one might accelerate one’s progression to their next developmental phase by putting a “crack in the door” and by creating "prototypical experiences" of the next stage. If you are remote viewing your spouse under "blind" conditions then you can conceivably discover your spouse through totally new and unbiased eyes. You can literally stand up and walk in his or her shoes. This has the potential of transforming your empathy and communication with the ones important to you.
3) Seeing the world through the eyes of your future and past selves
One can remote view oneself at a future level of spiritual-emotional-cognitive development. One can then see the world through the eyes of their future self. The same can be done for yourself at a past moment of time, for example your birth, or a past traumatic or enabling event. It is not uncommon for someone who is remote viewing their birth to want to curl up in a fetal position and cry like a baby without any prompting. Since this is done single blind or double blind, you beliefs about yourself won’t get in the way to distort your experience. New and powerful possibility exists of integrating past, present and future selves.
4) Learning from, experiencing and taking perspectives from the Future
Since the non-local abilities of the brain transcend time and space, it is possible to bring back information and perspectives from timelines that haven’t happened yet. This has been demonstrated in well-controlled research. This blows wide opens the possibilities of individuals and groups reaching developmental stages never reached yet. Higher, not yet conceived of, memes or stages can be accessed now and integrated into one's current world-view. Of course, when this happens the defacto timeline will change.
5) Go beyond taking different perspective to taking temporarily taking different Identities
You can Temporarily “blend” with the identity of another person such as an historical figure, a spiritual master or significant other. When one pass this once begins to see how transient identity is. This also facilitates not identifying so much with the personal ego. One can sense what it is like to simultaneously think the thoughts, have the intentions of, and feel the feelings of and have the body sensations of another person or even an animal. This takes the empathy to an entirely new level.
6) Creating “Prototypical Experiences”
Remote viewing offers the possibility of experiencing aspects of reality you have never experienced before, from a perspective you have never experienced before. On a feeling level this means feeling what you have never felt before. Most of us imagine that future experiences will in some way fit within the bounds of what we have experienced before. A remote viewing experience however, can be totally outside your current “reality box” or completely outside the range of experiences you’ve had before. Healing Prototypical experiences can be created during the remote viewing process.
Not having prototypical experiences early in life, for example, really feeling safe and secure, is one of the main things that blocks people from moving to higher stages of development. If you have never really felt safe in your life, part of you will be stuck in the past at that time where developmentally your safety needs should have been met. On the higher end of the developmental ladder one can have prototypical experiences necessary for the more highly developed parts of ourselves to move to the next rung of one's developmental ladder.
7) Seeing from several different perspectives simultaneously
When you are remote viewing you're using the brain in unknown ways. No one knows how the brain/mind accesses non-local fields. The physics of neuronal functioning and neuronal connections during remote viewing may not be understood for a long time. Occasionally during intense remote viewing sessions viewers often report being able to see an object from several sides at once. In this case, consciousness is functioning in a very unusual manner. It is hard for ordinary consciousness to even conceive of this possibility. Viewers also report something that has been referred to as a "thought ball". A thought ball is a form of cognition that arises that is holographic in nature. It contains many few points simultaneously plus many thoughts and cognitions simultaneously. The potential for this kind of comprehension is monumental and may even be part of future human developmental stages not yet reached.
8) Taking the non-local and paranormal out of the realm of belief or disbelief into the realm of actual direct experience
It is one thing to believe something or to understand it intellectually however, it is an entirely different thing to experience it. It is similar to studying and talking about a river vs. jumping in the river in swimming in the cool water. One can never fully grasp what a river is until one has swam in a river and felt it's currents. The actual experience accurately remote viewing an event and gaining a strong sense of presence at the target can be an experience that sends ripples through one's entire being for years to come. To not take into account up the fact that we are constantly interacting with a everything around us on and on local level is to ignore an important slice of reality and to make one's life smaller.
The implications of the non-local abilities of the mind are beyond profound.
9) Seeing things with relatively little bias, prejudgment, pre-categorization or belief
As mentioned before, when one remote views one does not known what the "target" is until after he views the target. This keeps the viewer completely open and honest in his approach. As soon as the viewer thinks he knows what the target is his session is doomed. He must continually stay open. Through practice, one can learn to approach what arises in one's own consciousness without bias and pre-categorization. After the session, one receives corrective feedback on which impressions were accurate and which were not. This approach is incredibly useful in other parts of one's life. It is important to approach most of what one encounters in life with a consciousness relatively free of bias and prejudgment and then be open to corrective feedback; this of course is something easier said than done.
10) Remote viewing issues, topics and questions of paramount importance. For example remote viewing: the nature of dark matter and dark energy, the omniverse, God, consciousness, DNA, and evolution
Remote viewing has large potential uses in virtually all disciplines and in all aspects of life. One need merely formulate an appropriate target relative to a particular question.
11) Remote viewing therapeutic issues topics and questions
One can remote view one's unconscious, the unconscious of another person, one's defenses and fears, one's blind spots, significance events in one's past, one's current or future spouse, possible choice points in one's future, one's true nature, departed loved one's, one's own death, oneself after death etc. etc.
12) Distinguishing between non-local "seeing" and ordinary imagining.
There is a large but subtle difference between actually seeing an object or event non-locally and just imagining it in the theater of your mind. This ability to discern can be extremely important when navigating through daily life using one's "intuition".
IN SUMMARY the possibility exists for the unheard of acceleration of movement into one's next level of development by accessing that which was not previously accessible. It opens the possibility of very long immersions in perspectives an emotional/spiritual states that were not previously accessible. These new kind of immersions maybe a key to accelerated stage change. This opens up a whole new area of research. This is a whole new field and frontier using a new highly sharpened tool that harnesses our ancient non-local abilities. Some of these possibilities have already been demonstrated in Dr. Carr's workshops.
Remote viewing is a "non-local" technique whereby one can experience being present at an undisclosed location that can be thousands of miles away. One can see, feel, touch, smell hear and be at this distant location just by using one's mind and attention in a special way!
Remote viewing differs from what is referred to as psychic in that it is a highly refined specific sequence of attentional operations that takes about an hour to do. It has built in safeguards to minimize contamination by one's own imagination and belief systems. It creates the possibility of a new "signal purity" and "signal strength" previously attainable by only a few if any.
Exactly what you are remote viewing is disclosed to you only after your session, by the person who possesses the photo or description of the “target” to be viewed. An example of a "target" could be: the pyramids of Giza at the time of construction.
Extremely well controlled research has demonstrated that these sensory-emotional-conceptual experiences can be very strong and very accurate. Remote viewing has been used very successfully to locate previously undiscovered buried archaeological structures in the Mideast. It was used by the U.S. intelligence community to single-handedly accurately describe and locate a previously unknown about, new Russian submarine. When spiritual targets are viewed, such as the Buddha, people often have the most profound experience of their life.
Non-Locality
Remote viewing is an example of using the “non-local” abilities of the brain. It means the brain can and does non-locally connect and exchange information with what so far seems to be anything in the universe. For anyone unfamiliar with or skeptical about the brain’s non-local abilities, please pick up the book Entangled Minds by Dean Radin. (You will become aware of the huge amount of research and meta-analyses with staggeringly high levels of significance.) The implications of the non-local abilities of the brain/mind are so staggering that it will take many many years for them to dawn on people. Most people simply do not know what to do with the concept or they simply plug it in to a new age pre-rational belief system.
More Examples of What Can Be Remote Viewed
One can remote view one’s father or mother at the time when one was 10 years old. During this time, one can reconnect with one’s father in a totally new and healing way. One can also choose to walk in one’s father’s shoes and see the world through one’s father’s (or anyone else’s) eyes.
One can remote view the historical Buddha at the time of his enlightenment. While remote viewing the Buddha, some will feel entirely safe for the first time in their life. During this time, some will experience their heart being opened up on a very deep energetic level. Deep tears of joy are common for this kind of viewing.
While remote viewing a pod of Dolphins one may feel oneself swimming in the water while emotionally connecting with the rest of the pod. (A bipolar woman who remote viewed a pod of Dolphins was able to feel stable for the first time in her life. She was able for the first time to grasp the meaning of stability (creating a new prototype of experience for her self.)
One can remote view the eruption of Old Faithful geyser at a certain date and time. While remote viewing the Geyser’s eruption, one can experience droplets of water on one’s skin. One can feel the ground rumble with one’s whole body. One can hear the roar and sense the energy and power of the hot water being forced upward. One can look around the area and see, smell and hear the trees, the lodges and the people. One can sense the excitement of the people as they watch the eruption. One can pick out a particular onlooker and go inside his mind to find out what he was thinking. (Usually done with permission and with positive intent)
What is an Integral Perspective?
An integral perspective takes into account all aspects and levels of “reality”, the self and others. It tries to leave no aspect neglected. It takes into account our conscious states, our past current & future stages of development, the subjective and objective parts of ourselves, our society & culture, the physical universe, spirituality etc. It sees the importance of dealing with our shadow as well as having a spiritual practice that “transcends and includes”.
It discriminates between the pre-rational (much new-age stuff), the rational (including science) and the trans-rational (seeing the previously unseen (and un-see-able) by being exquisitely rational, intuitive, sensitive and discriminating as well as being highly awake and clear-headed)
Remote Viewing from an Integral Perspective:
This Means:
1) Conceptualizing and formulating remote viewing theory and techniques that take into account, conscious states, our stages & lines of development, our subjective experience, our society & culture, the physical universe etc.
2) Actually viewing "targets" relating to conscious states, our stages of development, our society & culture, the physical universe, the nature of the heart the mind and reality. It also means remote viewing that deepest ideas that can conceptualize these things.
3) It further means remote viewing therapeutic targets that:
a) help heal our shadow and
b) facilitate and accelerate our moving on to higher stages of development and taking new perspectives.
What is so remarkable about Remote Viewing from an Integral Perspective?
1) Taking previously impossible perspectives
Remote viewing remarkably allows one to see from first person, a second person, a third person and a fourth person perspective! One can do a “collective deep mind probe” to get a sense of what a whole group of people are thinking and feeling collectively. One can go inside the human body and observe microscopic events. One can potentially observe the activity of cells, viruses, molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles. The observation of dark matter, dark energy and other universes is conceivable through remote viewing. One could formulate extremely abstract targets involving concepts and perspectives relating to mathematics, other dimensions, and previously unconceived of notions. One can see conceivably through the eyes of future scientists, philosophers and intelligent nonhuman entities that may exist elsewhere in the universe.
2) Seeing the world through other people's eyes
As mentioned, one can see the world through the eyes of another being, for example you can see through the eyes of your parents, your spouse, an enemy, or a spiritual master, or someone on a much higher or even lower level of development. In this way one might accelerate one’s progression to their next developmental phase by putting a “crack in the door” and by creating "prototypical experiences" of the next stage. If you are remote viewing your spouse under "blind" conditions then you can conceivably discover your spouse through totally new and unbiased eyes. You can literally stand up and walk in his or her shoes. This has the potential of transforming your empathy and communication with the ones important to you.
3) Seeing the world through the eyes of your future and past selves
One can remote view oneself at a future level of spiritual-emotional-cognitive development. One can then see the world through the eyes of their future self. The same can be done for yourself at a past moment of time, for example your birth, or a past traumatic or enabling event. It is not uncommon for someone who is remote viewing their birth to want to curl up in a fetal position and cry like a baby without any prompting. Since this is done single blind or double blind, you beliefs about yourself won’t get in the way to distort your experience. New and powerful possibility exists of integrating past, present and future selves.
4) Learning from, experiencing and taking perspectives from the Future
Since the non-local abilities of the brain transcend time and space, it is possible to bring back information and perspectives from timelines that haven’t happened yet. This has been demonstrated in well-controlled research. This blows wide opens the possibilities of individuals and groups reaching developmental stages never reached yet. Higher, not yet conceived of, memes or stages can be accessed now and integrated into one's current world-view. Of course, when this happens the defacto timeline will change.
5) Go beyond taking different perspective to taking temporarily taking different Identities
You can Temporarily “blend” with the identity of another person such as an historical figure, a spiritual master or significant other. When one pass this once begins to see how transient identity is. This also facilitates not identifying so much with the personal ego. One can sense what it is like to simultaneously think the thoughts, have the intentions of, and feel the feelings of and have the body sensations of another person or even an animal. This takes the empathy to an entirely new level.
6) Creating “Prototypical Experiences”
Remote viewing offers the possibility of experiencing aspects of reality you have never experienced before, from a perspective you have never experienced before. On a feeling level this means feeling what you have never felt before. Most of us imagine that future experiences will in some way fit within the bounds of what we have experienced before. A remote viewing experience however, can be totally outside your current “reality box” or completely outside the range of experiences you’ve had before. Healing Prototypical experiences can be created during the remote viewing process.
Not having prototypical experiences early in life, for example, really feeling safe and secure, is one of the main things that blocks people from moving to higher stages of development. If you have never really felt safe in your life, part of you will be stuck in the past at that time where developmentally your safety needs should have been met. On the higher end of the developmental ladder one can have prototypical experiences necessary for the more highly developed parts of ourselves to move to the next rung of one's developmental ladder.
7) Seeing from several different perspectives simultaneously
When you are remote viewing you're using the brain in unknown ways. No one knows how the brain/mind accesses non-local fields. The physics of neuronal functioning and neuronal connections during remote viewing may not be understood for a long time. Occasionally during intense remote viewing sessions viewers often report being able to see an object from several sides at once. In this case, consciousness is functioning in a very unusual manner. It is hard for ordinary consciousness to even conceive of this possibility. Viewers also report something that has been referred to as a "thought ball". A thought ball is a form of cognition that arises that is holographic in nature. It contains many few points simultaneously plus many thoughts and cognitions simultaneously. The potential for this kind of comprehension is monumental and may even be part of future human developmental stages not yet reached.
8) Taking the non-local and paranormal out of the realm of belief or disbelief into the realm of actual direct experience
It is one thing to believe something or to understand it intellectually however, it is an entirely different thing to experience it. It is similar to studying and talking about a river vs. jumping in the river in swimming in the cool water. One can never fully grasp what a river is until one has swam in a river and felt it's currents. The actual experience accurately remote viewing an event and gaining a strong sense of presence at the target can be an experience that sends ripples through one's entire being for years to come. To not take into account up the fact that we are constantly interacting with a everything around us on and on local level is to ignore an important slice of reality and to make one's life smaller.
The implications of the non-local abilities of the mind are beyond profound.
9) Seeing things with relatively little bias, prejudgment, pre-categorization or belief
As mentioned before, when one remote views one does not known what the "target" is until after he views the target. This keeps the viewer completely open and honest in his approach. As soon as the viewer thinks he knows what the target is his session is doomed. He must continually stay open. Through practice, one can learn to approach what arises in one's own consciousness without bias and pre-categorization. After the session, one receives corrective feedback on which impressions were accurate and which were not. This approach is incredibly useful in other parts of one's life. It is important to approach most of what one encounters in life with a consciousness relatively free of bias and prejudgment and then be open to corrective feedback; this of course is something easier said than done.
10) Remote viewing issues, topics and questions of paramount importance. For example remote viewing: the nature of dark matter and dark energy, the omniverse, God, consciousness, DNA, and evolution
Remote viewing has large potential uses in virtually all disciplines and in all aspects of life. One need merely formulate an appropriate target relative to a particular question.
11) Remote viewing therapeutic issues topics and questions
One can remote view one's unconscious, the unconscious of another person, one's defenses and fears, one's blind spots, significance events in one's past, one's current or future spouse, possible choice points in one's future, one's true nature, departed loved one's, one's own death, oneself after death etc. etc.
12) Distinguishing between non-local "seeing" and ordinary imagining.
There is a large but subtle difference between actually seeing an object or event non-locally and just imagining it in the theater of your mind. This ability to discern can be extremely important when navigating through daily life using one's "intuition".
IN SUMMARY the possibility exists for the unheard of acceleration of movement into one's next level of development by accessing that which was not previously accessible. It opens the possibility of very long immersions in perspectives an emotional/spiritual states that were not previously accessible. These new kind of immersions maybe a key to accelerated stage change. This opens up a whole new area of research. This is a whole new field and frontier using a new highly sharpened tool that harnesses our ancient non-local abilities. Some of these possibilities have already been demonstrated in Dr. Carr's workshops.
Quotations and sayings from Dr. Carr
(Continually under construction)
"Most stimuli are really responses"
"Actualization first, other concerns second"
"That which is not allowed doesn't get heard"
"You have no business spending a lot of time in your head if you're not yet firmly based in your heart"
"Most stimuli are really responses"
"Actualization first, other concerns second"
"That which is not allowed doesn't get heard"
"You have no business spending a lot of time in your head if you're not yet firmly based in your heart"
What is spirituality, really?
Spirituality is a loaded word, but what is it really? Can it be put in terms that are perhaps a little more down to earth that speak to different people who are on different developmental levels?
From my point of view, spirituality is "contactivity" and connectivity on many levels. It is a willingness to have contact with that which isn't known. It is a willingness to surrender to that which isn't known.
It is an acknowledgement of, and awareness of a sense of connection that seems to transcend linear thinking. It is an awareness of the power (and potential power) of this sense of connection. It is an awareness of the immediacy of this sense of connection. It is a willingness to explore this sense of connection.
It is allowing this sense of connection to occur when one walks, when one is face to face, when one is occupied, when one is feeling, when one is thinking, when one is quiet, when one is hurting, when one is sensing, when one is confused, when one is sensing amorphous energy. It is an awareness that the sense of connection can precede permeate and follow everything that arises in one's awareness.
From my point of view, spirituality is "contactivity" and connectivity on many levels. It is a willingness to have contact with that which isn't known. It is a willingness to surrender to that which isn't known.
It is an acknowledgement of, and awareness of a sense of connection that seems to transcend linear thinking. It is an awareness of the power (and potential power) of this sense of connection. It is an awareness of the immediacy of this sense of connection. It is a willingness to explore this sense of connection.
It is allowing this sense of connection to occur when one walks, when one is face to face, when one is occupied, when one is feeling, when one is thinking, when one is quiet, when one is hurting, when one is sensing, when one is confused, when one is sensing amorphous energy. It is an awareness that the sense of connection can precede permeate and follow everything that arises in one's awareness.
Integral Primaling
Under construction
Let us approach the topics of consciousness, emotion and spirituality with an attitude of openness and humility, with an intention to discover something fresh and new about ourselves and the universe. Let us question any previous conclusions and beliefs so that we can replace “been there, done that!” with “be here, discover this!”
We are all at different stages on our developmental ladders with many rungs behind us and many rungs yet ahead of us. What helped us up to the last rung may yet hold us back from the next. To climb to the next rung we must sometimes learn to see the world through new eyes, even when what we do is to help others see the world through new eyes. May we resonate with the universe in ever-changing and ever-transcending ways as “I”, “you” and “we” are revealed to ourselves and the world.
In our society, consciousness, spirituality, emotion and deep emotional processing are often attended to as separate realms with only some overlap. This can be a detriment to a total healing process. Sometimes delving into spirituality alone can even be used as a means of avoiding painful emotional feelings. On the other hand, sometimes people do deep feeling work and ignore their own spirituality and transpersonal abilities. Despite this, many who people primal have spiritual experiences during their primaling process. They can notice a radical change in their own consciousness and a deep sense of oneness with others and the universe after a deep primal. Obviously consciousness emotion and spirituality can deeply interface with each other during primaling and during other spiritual / conscious processes such as meditation.
This integral approach is timely because there is now a large body of well-controlled research in parapsychology and quantum physics that suggests that all particles and even consciousness itself, in fundamental ways transcend time and space. (referred to as “non-locality”). Science is showing that in fundamental ways everything is simultaneously connected; the heart, the mind, the body, the DNA and the universe.) For those of you who are more interested in the science supporting these connections please read past Princeton Professor Dean Radin’s recently published book “Entangled Minds”. It is now possible to approach and integrate these arenas, in grounded, non-flaky, mindful, and practical ways.
It is not an accident that people sometimes have "spiritual primal experiences” as well as “past life experiences”. As infants we were especially open and vulnerable to the spiritual, cognitive, emotional “non-local” energy around us. If this energy was overwhelmingly negative or not nourishing we had to close off to it and bury the pain (as we had to do for other kinds of emotional pain). Part of primaling is to regain these lost initial connections to this non-local energy, and to the universe around us.
When we regain our initial and current spiritual connections we can progress to higher emotional-spiritual developmental stages. As American philosopher Ken Wilber suggests, we need to move from the initial pre-rational, to the rational, to the trans-rational. During proper development the infant, toddler, child, adolescent, adult, and elder all unfold different forms of feeling spirituality and consciousness. This is all part of the waking up process both in ourselves and in our society. We can only perceive our world from the developmental level we are currently on.
Let us approach the topics of consciousness, emotion and spirituality with an attitude of openness and humility, with an intention to discover something fresh and new about ourselves and the universe. Let us question any previous conclusions and beliefs so that we can replace “been there, done that!” with “be here, discover this!”
We are all at different stages on our developmental ladders with many rungs behind us and many rungs yet ahead of us. What helped us up to the last rung may yet hold us back from the next. To climb to the next rung we must sometimes learn to see the world through new eyes, even when what we do is to help others see the world through new eyes. May we resonate with the universe in ever-changing and ever-transcending ways as “I”, “you” and “we” are revealed to ourselves and the world.
In our society, consciousness, spirituality, emotion and deep emotional processing are often attended to as separate realms with only some overlap. This can be a detriment to a total healing process. Sometimes delving into spirituality alone can even be used as a means of avoiding painful emotional feelings. On the other hand, sometimes people do deep feeling work and ignore their own spirituality and transpersonal abilities. Despite this, many who people primal have spiritual experiences during their primaling process. They can notice a radical change in their own consciousness and a deep sense of oneness with others and the universe after a deep primal. Obviously consciousness emotion and spirituality can deeply interface with each other during primaling and during other spiritual / conscious processes such as meditation.
This integral approach is timely because there is now a large body of well-controlled research in parapsychology and quantum physics that suggests that all particles and even consciousness itself, in fundamental ways transcend time and space. (referred to as “non-locality”). Science is showing that in fundamental ways everything is simultaneously connected; the heart, the mind, the body, the DNA and the universe.) For those of you who are more interested in the science supporting these connections please read past Princeton Professor Dean Radin’s recently published book “Entangled Minds”. It is now possible to approach and integrate these arenas, in grounded, non-flaky, mindful, and practical ways.
It is not an accident that people sometimes have "spiritual primal experiences” as well as “past life experiences”. As infants we were especially open and vulnerable to the spiritual, cognitive, emotional “non-local” energy around us. If this energy was overwhelmingly negative or not nourishing we had to close off to it and bury the pain (as we had to do for other kinds of emotional pain). Part of primaling is to regain these lost initial connections to this non-local energy, and to the universe around us.
When we regain our initial and current spiritual connections we can progress to higher emotional-spiritual developmental stages. As American philosopher Ken Wilber suggests, we need to move from the initial pre-rational, to the rational, to the trans-rational. During proper development the infant, toddler, child, adolescent, adult, and elder all unfold different forms of feeling spirituality and consciousness. This is all part of the waking up process both in ourselves and in our society. We can only perceive our world from the developmental level we are currently on.
Common Psychological Defenses
(Guess what?, If you don't see any of this in yourself, of course it's a defense)
"Crystal balling": looking into the crystal ball of one's own imagination and determining one's behavior primarily from that. For example "I knew that that was probably what you would think, so I didn't bother." or " I didn't borrow your lawn mower because I knew you were going to borrow a lot of my stuff later on."
"Categorizing and dismissing": Perhaps the granddaddy of all defenses. Before you even realize it, your mind takes an impression or perception from the outside world places it in a box (category) and put it on a shelf. It never had a chance to be mindfully processed and you are only lucky if you ever get corrective feedback again. As the gap between a stimulus and it's immediate categorization narrows the defense becomes airtight.
"Talking oneself and in and out of things": Here you convince yourself of things; you try to come up with a good argument to talk yourself into something. You believe your own propaganda. You will to believe supersedes your will to really find out. You believe what you want to believe and unconsciously arrange and select facts in a way that fits your beliefs. You split yourself into "convincer" and "convincee". It's a dishonest state where it's too painful to admit what you don't know what to make the effort to really look.
"Wound oblivion": Here you are clueless to the extent of your own wounds. This is a very understandable state and is true for every one. It's just a matter of degree. You both convince yourself you're not wounded and your wounds are so encapsulated you are not even aware of them. If you were wounded at a time before you had the ability to cognize you'll have absolutely no conscious connection to the wound. For you, that wound will not exist. That part of yourself which has never seen the light of day will not and cannot exist to you.
"Decorating the prison walls": You suffer from "wound oblivion" and rather than dealing with your wounds and getting out of the prison of your wounds. You change "window dressing" thinking you're changing things on a deeper level. You talk yourself into believing you're making all sorts of marvelous changes.
"Sheathing the irrational in the rational": Deep confused irrational thinking is frosted over with a layer of rational appearing thoughts. All of a sudden we think we're making logical sense. It is too painful to look at our honest confusion.
"Blind spot denial" : Here one does not take into account the fact that when one navigates through the world one will have blind spots just as we have blind spots that our mirrors don't pick up on when we are driving. If you drive a car and you do not take into account your mirror blind spots you will eventually have an accident. In this blind spot blindness you "can't see the flies in your eyes because of the flies in your eyes". Similarly in falling for "The myth of the given" you believe that what you perceive has no or few blind spots and needs no further exploration or consulting with others for corrective feedback.
"The essential need for the active attainment of corrective feedback is given a low priority": Here one assumes that if feedback is needed for one's behavior it will be obvious and forthcoming. One does not need to actively check out one's assumptions. This defense allows a person to live in their own world and comfort zone and not have passed to change.
"Whistling in the dark": here one avoids the unknown, the undifferentiated, and the amorphous within oneself by clinging to the known or overlaying the unknown with the known. One holds onto easy explanations of what one sees and oneself. One may feel uneasy and in the dark (in the background) and one covers that feeling by telling oneself "this (whatever) reason must explain my experience, there's nothing to be deeply concerned about or afraid of".
"Denying the unexpressed": Here one becomes oblivious to unexpressed anger, appreciation, hurt resentment etc. They're not aware that anything needs to be expressed and they will report that they have nothing to express. Later on they will somatize what they didn't express by experiencing headaches, fatigue, withdrawal, muscle tension etc.
"Comfort zone addiction": Here "wussaholics" want to stay in their comfort zone at all costs. The status quo is held on to very tightly as a means of security. It is a defense against being overwhelmed that causes one to become overwhelmed even more easily as one's settles into it.
Much of what is out of one's comfort zone is looked on with distrust and as abnormal. The trying of new things is looked at as impractical sense what they do already "works" for them.
"Sugar Coating":
"Crystal balling": looking into the crystal ball of one's own imagination and determining one's behavior primarily from that. For example "I knew that that was probably what you would think, so I didn't bother." or " I didn't borrow your lawn mower because I knew you were going to borrow a lot of my stuff later on."
"Categorizing and dismissing": Perhaps the granddaddy of all defenses. Before you even realize it, your mind takes an impression or perception from the outside world places it in a box (category) and put it on a shelf. It never had a chance to be mindfully processed and you are only lucky if you ever get corrective feedback again. As the gap between a stimulus and it's immediate categorization narrows the defense becomes airtight.
"Talking oneself and in and out of things": Here you convince yourself of things; you try to come up with a good argument to talk yourself into something. You believe your own propaganda. You will to believe supersedes your will to really find out. You believe what you want to believe and unconsciously arrange and select facts in a way that fits your beliefs. You split yourself into "convincer" and "convincee". It's a dishonest state where it's too painful to admit what you don't know what to make the effort to really look.
"Wound oblivion": Here you are clueless to the extent of your own wounds. This is a very understandable state and is true for every one. It's just a matter of degree. You both convince yourself you're not wounded and your wounds are so encapsulated you are not even aware of them. If you were wounded at a time before you had the ability to cognize you'll have absolutely no conscious connection to the wound. For you, that wound will not exist. That part of yourself which has never seen the light of day will not and cannot exist to you.
"Decorating the prison walls": You suffer from "wound oblivion" and rather than dealing with your wounds and getting out of the prison of your wounds. You change "window dressing" thinking you're changing things on a deeper level. You talk yourself into believing you're making all sorts of marvelous changes.
"Sheathing the irrational in the rational": Deep confused irrational thinking is frosted over with a layer of rational appearing thoughts. All of a sudden we think we're making logical sense. It is too painful to look at our honest confusion.
"Blind spot denial" : Here one does not take into account the fact that when one navigates through the world one will have blind spots just as we have blind spots that our mirrors don't pick up on when we are driving. If you drive a car and you do not take into account your mirror blind spots you will eventually have an accident. In this blind spot blindness you "can't see the flies in your eyes because of the flies in your eyes". Similarly in falling for "The myth of the given" you believe that what you perceive has no or few blind spots and needs no further exploration or consulting with others for corrective feedback.
"The essential need for the active attainment of corrective feedback is given a low priority": Here one assumes that if feedback is needed for one's behavior it will be obvious and forthcoming. One does not need to actively check out one's assumptions. This defense allows a person to live in their own world and comfort zone and not have passed to change.
"Whistling in the dark": here one avoids the unknown, the undifferentiated, and the amorphous within oneself by clinging to the known or overlaying the unknown with the known. One holds onto easy explanations of what one sees and oneself. One may feel uneasy and in the dark (in the background) and one covers that feeling by telling oneself "this (whatever) reason must explain my experience, there's nothing to be deeply concerned about or afraid of".
"Denying the unexpressed": Here one becomes oblivious to unexpressed anger, appreciation, hurt resentment etc. They're not aware that anything needs to be expressed and they will report that they have nothing to express. Later on they will somatize what they didn't express by experiencing headaches, fatigue, withdrawal, muscle tension etc.
"Comfort zone addiction": Here "wussaholics" want to stay in their comfort zone at all costs. The status quo is held on to very tightly as a means of security. It is a defense against being overwhelmed that causes one to become overwhelmed even more easily as one's settles into it.
Much of what is out of one's comfort zone is looked on with distrust and as abnormal. The trying of new things is looked at as impractical sense what they do already "works" for them.
"Sugar Coating":
The Psychotherapy Process
Psychotherapy can last 2 weeks or 10 years. The psychotherapeutic process (with or without a therapist ) should go on the entirety of one's life. (Most people do not want to do 10 years of psychotherapy and most people need 10 years of psychotherapy.)
Some people just want some symptom reduction or problems solved so they can get back to where they were or want to be. That is OK. Some people want to grow and develop as far as possible. They want to heal all the wounds they can. They want all of themselves functioning at the highest level. (There's never a point at which you have arrived and cannot develop and grow further.)
That does not mean that you need a therapist at all times. The therapist does serve as a catalyst to reinstate self-healing and self-regulation, serves the function of being a witness to what needs to be witnessed, serves as a pair of eyes to help you see blind spots (and we all have lots and lots of blind spots), serves as a surgical blade to cut through what needs to be cut through, serves as a parent when you need re-parenting, serves as an educator when you need educating, a supporter and cheerleader when you need support, and a skillful frustrater when you resort to manipulation.
We come to therapy because we are discontented and/or because we want to grow. We want to alleviate painful things in our lives. Pure symptom reduction can, however, be problematic because, in certain cases, you can reduce symptoms at the cost of arresting your development. To grow you must go through a temporary period of healthy suffering and healthy frustration. If you go right to symptom reduction you cannot grow in this case.
Learning to process pain to our benefit rather than avoid it is crucial. Pain is the body-mind’s message: ‘pay attention to me” and “something needs attention”. It plays an important role in life. Unfortunately we live in a society that is very phobic toward pain and wants to medicate and alleviate it as soon as possible. However, when pain is intense enough it causes us to let go of our old coping skills and risk trying new ones. If you always take the edge off your pain with alcohol or another drug of choice, you will keep your old coping skills. A therapist role is sometimes to help you through this healthy suffering. An hour of healthy suffering can prevent months of unhealthy suffering. Healthy suffering opens the door to real happiness. There's no way to bypass this no matter what you've heard.
When we are not aware of the full extent of our pain we are also not aware of the full extent of our wounding. The amount of wounding goes unconscious inside of us and we redefine what is normal based on our baseline experiences in the baseline experiences of the people around us. The unconscious is the master of disguises and selective memory. In reality, what is considered normal is actually highly wounded. Very few escape wounding, even including most of the people who have memories of a happy childhood.
In general, when you come in for session you may or may not have something you want to focus on or work on. It is not required that you have some specific agenda to work on. Dr. Carr will give you his full attention and focus on the behavior, condition, feeling and concern that appears most prominent at the moment. The idea is that you, as a human organism, will present either consciously or unconsciously the thing that needs to be worked on the most. It is the job of the therapist to pick up on what it might be because a can be very subtle and very eluding at times to both the client and the therapist. Sometimes things like fear, shyness, distrust and resistance are the first things to present themselves in the first sessions. This can show up as body language, tone of voice, and type of eye contact. You're not being analyzed just caringly attended to.
The first phase of psychotherapy may have an emphasis on 2) Establishing rapport and trust by getting to know each other 1) The mutual setting of goals: general & specific, short term & long-term 2) Evaluation of all problems and their possible roots that go beyond the superficial. How much pain, dysfunction and discontent might there be really? 3) Education: the understanding of basic concepts & language and the achieving of emotional literacy. Ninety nine percent of people in our society are not emotionally literate, meaning that they do not have a basic understanding of how emotions work.
The second phase of psychotherapy involves going deeper into what is initially needed to begin healing. (This will probably be going on concurrently with the first phase). Sometimes the main thing that is needed is to be listened to without coaching or advice. The need to be heard and validated must often be addressed first. Sometimes what is needed is to have your own thoughts and feelings reflected back to you in a way that allows you to respond " yes that's what I mean. I'm so glad you really heard me!".
Before going further it will be better to go over a basic model of accessing and healing the self. This model will show what is approached as well as how and why it is approached. We are multi-level organisms and any truly deep and comprehensive therapy must deal with all levels. It is not enough to work on one level with the hope that the affect will effectively trickle up or trickle down to other levels.
Some people just want some symptom reduction or problems solved so they can get back to where they were or want to be. That is OK. Some people want to grow and develop as far as possible. They want to heal all the wounds they can. They want all of themselves functioning at the highest level. (There's never a point at which you have arrived and cannot develop and grow further.)
That does not mean that you need a therapist at all times. The therapist does serve as a catalyst to reinstate self-healing and self-regulation, serves the function of being a witness to what needs to be witnessed, serves as a pair of eyes to help you see blind spots (and we all have lots and lots of blind spots), serves as a surgical blade to cut through what needs to be cut through, serves as a parent when you need re-parenting, serves as an educator when you need educating, a supporter and cheerleader when you need support, and a skillful frustrater when you resort to manipulation.
We come to therapy because we are discontented and/or because we want to grow. We want to alleviate painful things in our lives. Pure symptom reduction can, however, be problematic because, in certain cases, you can reduce symptoms at the cost of arresting your development. To grow you must go through a temporary period of healthy suffering and healthy frustration. If you go right to symptom reduction you cannot grow in this case.
Learning to process pain to our benefit rather than avoid it is crucial. Pain is the body-mind’s message: ‘pay attention to me” and “something needs attention”. It plays an important role in life. Unfortunately we live in a society that is very phobic toward pain and wants to medicate and alleviate it as soon as possible. However, when pain is intense enough it causes us to let go of our old coping skills and risk trying new ones. If you always take the edge off your pain with alcohol or another drug of choice, you will keep your old coping skills. A therapist role is sometimes to help you through this healthy suffering. An hour of healthy suffering can prevent months of unhealthy suffering. Healthy suffering opens the door to real happiness. There's no way to bypass this no matter what you've heard.
When we are not aware of the full extent of our pain we are also not aware of the full extent of our wounding. The amount of wounding goes unconscious inside of us and we redefine what is normal based on our baseline experiences in the baseline experiences of the people around us. The unconscious is the master of disguises and selective memory. In reality, what is considered normal is actually highly wounded. Very few escape wounding, even including most of the people who have memories of a happy childhood.
In general, when you come in for session you may or may not have something you want to focus on or work on. It is not required that you have some specific agenda to work on. Dr. Carr will give you his full attention and focus on the behavior, condition, feeling and concern that appears most prominent at the moment. The idea is that you, as a human organism, will present either consciously or unconsciously the thing that needs to be worked on the most. It is the job of the therapist to pick up on what it might be because a can be very subtle and very eluding at times to both the client and the therapist. Sometimes things like fear, shyness, distrust and resistance are the first things to present themselves in the first sessions. This can show up as body language, tone of voice, and type of eye contact. You're not being analyzed just caringly attended to.
The first phase of psychotherapy may have an emphasis on 2) Establishing rapport and trust by getting to know each other 1) The mutual setting of goals: general & specific, short term & long-term 2) Evaluation of all problems and their possible roots that go beyond the superficial. How much pain, dysfunction and discontent might there be really? 3) Education: the understanding of basic concepts & language and the achieving of emotional literacy. Ninety nine percent of people in our society are not emotionally literate, meaning that they do not have a basic understanding of how emotions work.
The second phase of psychotherapy involves going deeper into what is initially needed to begin healing. (This will probably be going on concurrently with the first phase). Sometimes the main thing that is needed is to be listened to without coaching or advice. The need to be heard and validated must often be addressed first. Sometimes what is needed is to have your own thoughts and feelings reflected back to you in a way that allows you to respond " yes that's what I mean. I'm so glad you really heard me!".
Before going further it will be better to go over a basic model of accessing and healing the self. This model will show what is approached as well as how and why it is approached. We are multi-level organisms and any truly deep and comprehensive therapy must deal with all levels. It is not enough to work on one level with the hope that the affect will effectively trickle up or trickle down to other levels.
God / illusion
The very thing we seek is the essence of everything around us
There is no place in the universe which is not the very center of God
Like a child playing with the long veil of illusion, we learn to play hide and seek with reality
Such a fascinating game that, at one time, gently caresses us and loves us until we open our eyes,
and at another, walks us kicking and screaming through the painful primal fires that wake us up
Life itself won't leave us alone, forever beckoning us to see what has always been in front of our face
Unfold yourself to see what God has never seen and has always been
Chant the infinitely long sacred words of true emptiness and existence. This is the sound of God's voice
There is but one voice echoed in an infinite number of ways.
It is said the ear through which we hear God is the same ear through which God hears us
Now….. Just listen!!
The fabric of a young child's game never existed. That which is left, dies and is reborn in every vibration
No one is left
In the mundane is the highest celebration of God's presence
Now enjoy a piece of chocolate!
There is no place in the universe which is not the very center of God
Like a child playing with the long veil of illusion, we learn to play hide and seek with reality
Such a fascinating game that, at one time, gently caresses us and loves us until we open our eyes,
and at another, walks us kicking and screaming through the painful primal fires that wake us up
Life itself won't leave us alone, forever beckoning us to see what has always been in front of our face
Unfold yourself to see what God has never seen and has always been
Chant the infinitely long sacred words of true emptiness and existence. This is the sound of God's voice
There is but one voice echoed in an infinite number of ways.
It is said the ear through which we hear God is the same ear through which God hears us
Now….. Just listen!!
The fabric of a young child's game never existed. That which is left, dies and is reborn in every vibration
No one is left
In the mundane is the highest celebration of God's presence
Now enjoy a piece of chocolate!
A Model of Reality
Preface:
First: In writing this, I drawn on my: sense of making sense, my sense of connection, my sense of something speaking through me, my sense of nothing and my sense that it doesn't have to be perfect as it refines itself. Language does not have to be use precisely every time as long as the general intended idea is truly conveyed. Such thoughts, ideas and experiences will continue to draw preciseness to themselves. All forming gestalts, when given loving space, have a pull towards a lively and clear figure-ground before re-dissolving into the fertile void.
Second: All cookie cutters, molds and models that try to contain and explain reality will eventually overflow, burst at the seams, break and be swept away by dialectics operating on many many levels. They will all appear to be incomplete and primitive as we move to higher vantage points, which in part means we have developed more sophisticated cognitive structures in our brain. What is seen will always be in part a function of the seer and the kind and sophistication of the cognitions that form in his mind/brain which change his "perspective" and his "vantage point".
Apparent contradictions and dualities seen from lower vantage points tend to dissolve when seen from higher vantage points. From a higher vantage point the "hills" don't eclipse each other because you are looking down upon them. When a higher perspective is first seen from a lower perspective it often appears as irrational, airy ferry, unsubstantiated speculation, incomprehensible, nonsensical and delusional.
Anyone who rapidly categorizes and dismisses something that appears to be irrational and speculative falls into a huge trap that will permanently lock him into a lower perspective. They will be trapped by the pre-rational/trans-rational fallacy. It makes little difference how brilliant you are, if there are colors you have never seen or can't even imagine yet, you must forever question, sharpen and reformat your powers of discernment.
Third: Whenever the mind is used, on one level a hall of mirrors is created. From one point of view, the mind is created, at least in part, by connectivity in the brain. From another point of view the "actual brain" is merely an image that exists in the mind. The feeling of being "behind your face" is an image in the brain driven by sensory input and a separate sense of self generated by circuitry in the brain. However, the sense of there being an actual brain in an actual reality or the sense and belief that there is circuitry in the brain is in itself circuitry in the brain which in itself is an image in the mind and so on.
"Reality" is a concept of the mind, "The mind" is a concept of the mind. " Concept of the mind" is a concept of the mind. "That which is not a concept the mind" is a concept of the mind. "the map is not the territory" is a concept of the mind. " The eye cannot see itself" is contained in the mind. We use tools to look with, and we ourselves consist of these very same tools. The thinker, the thought and the medium of thought are all mirrors that always reflect back on each other. (When there is "no mind" there is a different kind of clarity.)
Forth: the mind, its contents and perceptions appear to be more than constructions and structures, they are processes and resonations. We have information, patterns and perspectives dancing, resonating and co-varying (locally & non-locally) with information, patterns and perspectives from all four quadrants!
Tenets:
Number one: Primary Existence: flux, flow, resonation and structure containing all perspectives and no perspectives, containing all potentials and no potentials, containing the potential for all wholes and all parts, containing all information and no information, containing all existence and no existence, containing all consciousness and no consciousness, containing crystallizations and de-crystallizations, containing all potential timelines. All fully complete and fully incomplete. Emptiness and form.
Number two: Your nervous system: a temporary crystallization of existence which both resonates with, and models aspects of primary existence on both local and non-local levels. It is a function of the multi dimensional organism.
Number three: The primary programming of your nervous system which allows for pure non-dualistic subject object and no-mind (non-dualistic self). It resonates with the nervous system.
Number four: The secondary programming of your nervous system. The programming of the programming which allows for the experience of mind and the experience of a self. It is our internal "holodeck" within which the self navigates. It resonates with the primary programming.
Number five: All four levels are parts of primary existence in their own right.
Number six: Congruent Resonation: (the cascading connection and synchronization of smaller fields of consciousness with larger fields of consciousness)
as secondary programming (the self) resonates more fully with the primary programming (non-dualistic self)
and as the primary programming resonates more fully with the nervous system
and as the nervous system resonates more fully with primary existence on both a local and non-local level
resonation becomes congruent, connected and unitary and thus consciousness itself becomes congruent, connected and unitary.
Number seven: Unitary consciousness: all smaller fields of consciousness can become exquisitely nested in, and more fully resonating with the larger fields. The "hall of mirrors" is dissolved and re-emerged, included and transcended. The primary existence of all things can be "resonated with". This is also possible on a quantum non-local level because all existence is "co-located" on that level.
Number eight: Resonation and exquisite nesting are always evolving and are never complete. Resonation and exquisite nesting non-locally deeply influence timelines, hence timelines themselves are always evolving and are never complete.
Number nine: Within this infinite incompletion is exquisite completion (the great "oh my!" of God discovering himself, spaciousness and bliss, before we were born and after we die.) If if
First: In writing this, I drawn on my: sense of making sense, my sense of connection, my sense of something speaking through me, my sense of nothing and my sense that it doesn't have to be perfect as it refines itself. Language does not have to be use precisely every time as long as the general intended idea is truly conveyed. Such thoughts, ideas and experiences will continue to draw preciseness to themselves. All forming gestalts, when given loving space, have a pull towards a lively and clear figure-ground before re-dissolving into the fertile void.
Second: All cookie cutters, molds and models that try to contain and explain reality will eventually overflow, burst at the seams, break and be swept away by dialectics operating on many many levels. They will all appear to be incomplete and primitive as we move to higher vantage points, which in part means we have developed more sophisticated cognitive structures in our brain. What is seen will always be in part a function of the seer and the kind and sophistication of the cognitions that form in his mind/brain which change his "perspective" and his "vantage point".
Apparent contradictions and dualities seen from lower vantage points tend to dissolve when seen from higher vantage points. From a higher vantage point the "hills" don't eclipse each other because you are looking down upon them. When a higher perspective is first seen from a lower perspective it often appears as irrational, airy ferry, unsubstantiated speculation, incomprehensible, nonsensical and delusional.
Anyone who rapidly categorizes and dismisses something that appears to be irrational and speculative falls into a huge trap that will permanently lock him into a lower perspective. They will be trapped by the pre-rational/trans-rational fallacy. It makes little difference how brilliant you are, if there are colors you have never seen or can't even imagine yet, you must forever question, sharpen and reformat your powers of discernment.
Third: Whenever the mind is used, on one level a hall of mirrors is created. From one point of view, the mind is created, at least in part, by connectivity in the brain. From another point of view the "actual brain" is merely an image that exists in the mind. The feeling of being "behind your face" is an image in the brain driven by sensory input and a separate sense of self generated by circuitry in the brain. However, the sense of there being an actual brain in an actual reality or the sense and belief that there is circuitry in the brain is in itself circuitry in the brain which in itself is an image in the mind and so on.
"Reality" is a concept of the mind, "The mind" is a concept of the mind. " Concept of the mind" is a concept of the mind. "That which is not a concept the mind" is a concept of the mind. "the map is not the territory" is a concept of the mind. " The eye cannot see itself" is contained in the mind. We use tools to look with, and we ourselves consist of these very same tools. The thinker, the thought and the medium of thought are all mirrors that always reflect back on each other. (When there is "no mind" there is a different kind of clarity.)
Forth: the mind, its contents and perceptions appear to be more than constructions and structures, they are processes and resonations. We have information, patterns and perspectives dancing, resonating and co-varying (locally & non-locally) with information, patterns and perspectives from all four quadrants!
Tenets:
Number one: Primary Existence: flux, flow, resonation and structure containing all perspectives and no perspectives, containing all potentials and no potentials, containing the potential for all wholes and all parts, containing all information and no information, containing all existence and no existence, containing all consciousness and no consciousness, containing crystallizations and de-crystallizations, containing all potential timelines. All fully complete and fully incomplete. Emptiness and form.
Number two: Your nervous system: a temporary crystallization of existence which both resonates with, and models aspects of primary existence on both local and non-local levels. It is a function of the multi dimensional organism.
Number three: The primary programming of your nervous system which allows for pure non-dualistic subject object and no-mind (non-dualistic self). It resonates with the nervous system.
Number four: The secondary programming of your nervous system. The programming of the programming which allows for the experience of mind and the experience of a self. It is our internal "holodeck" within which the self navigates. It resonates with the primary programming.
Number five: All four levels are parts of primary existence in their own right.
Number six: Congruent Resonation: (the cascading connection and synchronization of smaller fields of consciousness with larger fields of consciousness)
as secondary programming (the self) resonates more fully with the primary programming (non-dualistic self)
and as the primary programming resonates more fully with the nervous system
and as the nervous system resonates more fully with primary existence on both a local and non-local level
resonation becomes congruent, connected and unitary and thus consciousness itself becomes congruent, connected and unitary.
Number seven: Unitary consciousness: all smaller fields of consciousness can become exquisitely nested in, and more fully resonating with the larger fields. The "hall of mirrors" is dissolved and re-emerged, included and transcended. The primary existence of all things can be "resonated with". This is also possible on a quantum non-local level because all existence is "co-located" on that level.
Number eight: Resonation and exquisite nesting are always evolving and are never complete. Resonation and exquisite nesting non-locally deeply influence timelines, hence timelines themselves are always evolving and are never complete.
Number nine: Within this infinite incompletion is exquisite completion (the great "oh my!" of God discovering himself, spaciousness and bliss, before we were born and after we die.) If if
Little Story on Perspective and Vantage Points
Once upon a time, in a land that was very flat with no hills at all, there dwelled a somewhat primitive village of people who couldn't see very far off in the distance because they had no hills to stand on. They saw their houses, their streets, their fields and since they were too busy surviving to take long trips, they thought that what they saw was all that there was. Since they thought that was all that there was, they never felt the need too take long trips. Since they could see all that there was, it made them feel secure. In fact it made them feel even more secure to punish those who questioned their security and so they created taboos and passed laws against taking long trips and building structures higher than their house. They taught that going beyond certain points would subject them to the forces of evil and insecurity. Everyone believed this so strongly they knew it had to be true.
A very very long distance away, in a land where there were many small hills and no trees, there was another village. These people could stand on top of their hills and see much further distances. They could see rivers, lakes, deserts and forests off in the distance. They of course, thought this was all that there was and journeyed to these locations on occasions. At these times, they thought themselves quite adventuresome. They could be adventuresome at times because they felt the security of knowing that where they were traveling was all that there was. It also made them feel secure to chop down the trees where they traveled so that the land would look more like home, besides they could use the wood to build more structures at home. It made them feel even more secure to teach themselves and their children that that was all that there was and they could rely on that as fact. They knew it was fact because their experts had spent many hours of careful observation looking from their highest hill. They all knew that it wasn't rational to venture further on their trips, or to try to build higher than their hills.
An even further distance away on the other side of the world there dwelled a village of people in a high, high mountain range. (Of course, "the other side of the world" would not make sense to the other two villages in the same way it would to us.) At the top of their mountain's, on a clear day, they could see the other mountain's, the flat land, and the land of hills as well as many other geological areas. They could even see the curvature of the earth so that they thought the earth was a round ball. The nights were so clear that they could see other round balls in the sky.
They would travel long long distances and mingle with and learn from the people of other villages. They learned to appreciate the variety of differences they saw and wanted everyone else to appreciate these differences. It made them feel good about themselves to appreciate differences and to not judge one difference as being better than another. They wanted everything to be equal and they wanted the whole world to feel the way they did. If only they could stop people from being egocentric or unaccepting of others.
Within the village on the high mountains there was a small group who became more and more discontented. They realized that by wanting everything equal and nonjudgmental they had just created another flatland from which there was no vantage points. One dark night, these discontented people climbed to the top of the highest mountain to see if they could see something more. Suddenly, a light in the sky moved towards them. In a moment they saw a large glowing turquoise-indigo metallic ship hovering above the ground in front of them. Out of the ship, walked a slender bald man, who smiled and spoke the strange words "welcome to second tier".
They entered the ship and through the viewing port they were able to look down on their previous viewpoints. They could see the whole mountain range and as the ship moved higher, the whole continent. They begin to realize they were transcending and including all their previous lower perspectives as they move to higher vantage points. They realized that everyone had to start at lower vantage points before moving to higher ones, just as they were doing. They felt deep compassion for everyone on their various levels and in their various degrees of stuckness. Finally they could see the entire earth, and solar system. As they begin to see the galaxy they begin to realize in their very core, on a permanent basis, they weren't seeing the galaxy, they were the galaxy. To be continued.
A very very long distance away, in a land where there were many small hills and no trees, there was another village. These people could stand on top of their hills and see much further distances. They could see rivers, lakes, deserts and forests off in the distance. They of course, thought this was all that there was and journeyed to these locations on occasions. At these times, they thought themselves quite adventuresome. They could be adventuresome at times because they felt the security of knowing that where they were traveling was all that there was. It also made them feel secure to chop down the trees where they traveled so that the land would look more like home, besides they could use the wood to build more structures at home. It made them feel even more secure to teach themselves and their children that that was all that there was and they could rely on that as fact. They knew it was fact because their experts had spent many hours of careful observation looking from their highest hill. They all knew that it wasn't rational to venture further on their trips, or to try to build higher than their hills.
An even further distance away on the other side of the world there dwelled a village of people in a high, high mountain range. (Of course, "the other side of the world" would not make sense to the other two villages in the same way it would to us.) At the top of their mountain's, on a clear day, they could see the other mountain's, the flat land, and the land of hills as well as many other geological areas. They could even see the curvature of the earth so that they thought the earth was a round ball. The nights were so clear that they could see other round balls in the sky.
They would travel long long distances and mingle with and learn from the people of other villages. They learned to appreciate the variety of differences they saw and wanted everyone else to appreciate these differences. It made them feel good about themselves to appreciate differences and to not judge one difference as being better than another. They wanted everything to be equal and they wanted the whole world to feel the way they did. If only they could stop people from being egocentric or unaccepting of others.
Within the village on the high mountains there was a small group who became more and more discontented. They realized that by wanting everything equal and nonjudgmental they had just created another flatland from which there was no vantage points. One dark night, these discontented people climbed to the top of the highest mountain to see if they could see something more. Suddenly, a light in the sky moved towards them. In a moment they saw a large glowing turquoise-indigo metallic ship hovering above the ground in front of them. Out of the ship, walked a slender bald man, who smiled and spoke the strange words "welcome to second tier".
They entered the ship and through the viewing port they were able to look down on their previous viewpoints. They could see the whole mountain range and as the ship moved higher, the whole continent. They begin to realize they were transcending and including all their previous lower perspectives as they move to higher vantage points. They realized that everyone had to start at lower vantage points before moving to higher ones, just as they were doing. They felt deep compassion for everyone on their various levels and in their various degrees of stuckness. Finally they could see the entire earth, and solar system. As they begin to see the galaxy they begin to realize in their very core, on a permanent basis, they weren't seeing the galaxy, they were the galaxy. To be continued.
Minimizing The Myth of The Given
The "Myth of The Given" is the belief that an objective existence is out there waiting to be discovered by us and then seen as it is. It is also the illusion that what appears to arise in your consciousness is free of bias and filtering. It ignores the fact that the developmental level of your mental structures is a major factor that determines your interpretation and selection of what enters into your awareness.
it is not a given that we are aware of existence as it is. If fact there is nothing state-able that "actually is", only a perspective that eternally changes as we develop to higher ground. only when we have a larger cognitive perspective can larger gestalts form in our consciousness.
I've listed below several questions to ask to minimize being seduced by myth of the given and prevent getting trapped by an idea or mentality:
Did I start from a conclusion?
Am I starting from a conclusion?
Can I reexamine something from a state of not knowing?
What would change if I was brutally honest at this moment?
Can I get a perspective on my current perspectives? (perspectives on perspectives)
What would happen if I just looked at the data only?
What would happen if I just experienced the content of my consciousness phenomenologically?
How possible is it that I am missing vital pieces of data?
How might an intelligent extraterrestrial view this?
What am I currently isolated from?
If I were on a desert island with two other people would this make a difference or still matter?
Can I honestly see through the eyes of someone who would disagree with me?
Can I let go of a need to be right?
If I viewed with indifference what would change?
How possible is it that I could be wrong?
What contradictory evidence is there?
What happens if I totally let go of the issue?
What might I be blocking from my consciousness?
What am I avoiding or preventing?
And my questioning absolutely everything?
Can I find any hidden assumptions?
Am I convincing myself of something?
What are all possible implications of the data so far?
Where can I look to find more data?
Am I trying to force something into what I believe?
Am I trying to take a position?
Do I feel compelled to make a conclusion or take a stand?
What would happen if I just looked at the data making no conclusions and taking no stand?
Am I aware of the past conclusions I have made that are currently influencing me?
Am I following some kind of rule or injunction I've given myself or that other people have given me?
Where and how can I test something and get corrective feedback?
Am I directly aware of my sense of making sense?
To what extent do my thoughts feel habitual or automatic?
Am I completely mindful of my process?
Are clear figure-ground gestalts forming in my consciousness?
To what extent am I confused?
How might the most intelligent people I know respond to this content?
Am I giving my authority away to other people, beliefs, and ideas?
Am I taking into account the non-local abilities of my consciousness to access across space and time?
Am I giving myself permission to be skeptical?
Am I getting input from all parts of myself as well as all parts of the "outside world"?
What is obvious and in front of my face?
Can I question what appears obvious?
Am I creating a straw man?
Does my criticism of others also apply to myself?
Am I projecting an aspect of my shadow?
What might my peers see that I may not?
Do I need to look at the actual data?
From how many other perspectives can this be looked at?
How much am I speculating?
Am I willing to accept that I may be wrong?
Am I willing to accept my mis-takes?
How might someone see this 1000 years in the future?
How might someone see this 100000000000000000000 years in the future? ]
Do I want to believe more than I want to really find out.
Am I dealing with gaps in my data?
Do I acknowledge that was appears as accepted clear logical scientifically based fact can still be wrong?
how much do I want to avoid the disapproval of my peers?
Is there anything overriding my sense of making sense?
Can I tolerate ambiguities and uncertainties?
Am I fully looking for and addressing the most contradictory data?
MOST IMPORTANTLY: Can I enter the pre-thought gap?: Can I catch that which arises in my consciousness before it gets categorized, interpreted or given meaning?
it is not a given that we are aware of existence as it is. If fact there is nothing state-able that "actually is", only a perspective that eternally changes as we develop to higher ground. only when we have a larger cognitive perspective can larger gestalts form in our consciousness.
I've listed below several questions to ask to minimize being seduced by myth of the given and prevent getting trapped by an idea or mentality:
Did I start from a conclusion?
Am I starting from a conclusion?
Can I reexamine something from a state of not knowing?
What would change if I was brutally honest at this moment?
Can I get a perspective on my current perspectives? (perspectives on perspectives)
What would happen if I just looked at the data only?
What would happen if I just experienced the content of my consciousness phenomenologically?
How possible is it that I am missing vital pieces of data?
How might an intelligent extraterrestrial view this?
What am I currently isolated from?
If I were on a desert island with two other people would this make a difference or still matter?
Can I honestly see through the eyes of someone who would disagree with me?
Can I let go of a need to be right?
If I viewed with indifference what would change?
How possible is it that I could be wrong?
What contradictory evidence is there?
What happens if I totally let go of the issue?
What might I be blocking from my consciousness?
What am I avoiding or preventing?
And my questioning absolutely everything?
Can I find any hidden assumptions?
Am I convincing myself of something?
What are all possible implications of the data so far?
Where can I look to find more data?
Am I trying to force something into what I believe?
Am I trying to take a position?
Do I feel compelled to make a conclusion or take a stand?
What would happen if I just looked at the data making no conclusions and taking no stand?
Am I aware of the past conclusions I have made that are currently influencing me?
Am I following some kind of rule or injunction I've given myself or that other people have given me?
Where and how can I test something and get corrective feedback?
Am I directly aware of my sense of making sense?
To what extent do my thoughts feel habitual or automatic?
Am I completely mindful of my process?
Are clear figure-ground gestalts forming in my consciousness?
To what extent am I confused?
How might the most intelligent people I know respond to this content?
Am I giving my authority away to other people, beliefs, and ideas?
Am I taking into account the non-local abilities of my consciousness to access across space and time?
Am I giving myself permission to be skeptical?
Am I getting input from all parts of myself as well as all parts of the "outside world"?
What is obvious and in front of my face?
Can I question what appears obvious?
Am I creating a straw man?
Does my criticism of others also apply to myself?
Am I projecting an aspect of my shadow?
What might my peers see that I may not?
Do I need to look at the actual data?
From how many other perspectives can this be looked at?
How much am I speculating?
Am I willing to accept that I may be wrong?
Am I willing to accept my mis-takes?
How might someone see this 1000 years in the future?
How might someone see this 100000000000000000000 years in the future? ]
Do I want to believe more than I want to really find out.
Am I dealing with gaps in my data?
Do I acknowledge that was appears as accepted clear logical scientifically based fact can still be wrong?
how much do I want to avoid the disapproval of my peers?
Is there anything overriding my sense of making sense?
Can I tolerate ambiguities and uncertainties?
Am I fully looking for and addressing the most contradictory data?
MOST IMPORTANTLY: Can I enter the pre-thought gap?: Can I catch that which arises in my consciousness before it gets categorized, interpreted or given meaning?
From Pre-rational to Pseudo-rational to Trans-rational
Trans-rational:
"Second sight"
Strong intuition
Self-regulation of cognitive processes
Seeing many relationships at once
Seeing multi-level truths
Seeing the whole picture
Seeing the relationship to the whole.
Using processes that transcend thought
Emergence of "Thought balls": unitary multi-perspective thoughts
Very large "pre-thought" space or interval
"Non-local" abilities of the brain are well integrated with the "local" abilities
EQ is integrated with IQ
Able to see things absolutely fresh
includes, assimilates and transcends the rational
Rational:
Doing things because they make sense
A healthy "sense of making sense"
Thought itself tends to be inherently logical in nature
Clarity of thought - thoughts tend to form clear "figure-grounds"
Questioning as many assumptions as possible because it makes sense
Starting from honest "not knowing"
Doesn't jump into thought immediately
Large "pre-thought" space
Ability to "chew" on ideas (taste, bite-off, de-structure and assimilate ideas)
Love and passion for the taste of trueness
Healthy skepticism, not afraid to doubt
Beliefs are manipulated or changed to fit current "sense of making sense" rather than vice versa
The "sense of making sense" compels one to carefully look at the available data and actively pursue data that is missing or not yet explored.
All sources of data can be looked at with discernment
Pseudo-rational:
Follows logical procedures, but does it more because that is what one was taught, than because it makes sense.
Being right in doing things right or "correctly" has a higher valence than making sense
Complying with criticisms of peers has a higher valence than making sense
No pre-thought space, jumps right into thinking
Tends to start with a conclusion or with pre-categorizing.
"Should's" have a higher valence than making sense
Many scientists and pseudo-skeptics come from a pseudo-rational perspective
Immediately takes a position and defends it
Tends to submit to pressure to " stay in the box" to avoid peer ridicule
tendency to "fuse" their "sense of making sense with their previous conclusions.
Rational operations can be manipulated to fit previous conclusions or beliefs
Pre-rational:
Either "gaping-minded" or "closed-minded"
Swallows things whole without chewing or tasting
Magical thinking
Black and white thinking
The sense of "making sense" is relatively undeveloped.
Rational operations easily manipulated to fit previous conclusions or beliefs
"Second sight"
Strong intuition
Self-regulation of cognitive processes
Seeing many relationships at once
Seeing multi-level truths
Seeing the whole picture
Seeing the relationship to the whole.
Using processes that transcend thought
Emergence of "Thought balls": unitary multi-perspective thoughts
Very large "pre-thought" space or interval
"Non-local" abilities of the brain are well integrated with the "local" abilities
EQ is integrated with IQ
Able to see things absolutely fresh
includes, assimilates and transcends the rational
Rational:
Doing things because they make sense
A healthy "sense of making sense"
Thought itself tends to be inherently logical in nature
Clarity of thought - thoughts tend to form clear "figure-grounds"
Questioning as many assumptions as possible because it makes sense
Starting from honest "not knowing"
Doesn't jump into thought immediately
Large "pre-thought" space
Ability to "chew" on ideas (taste, bite-off, de-structure and assimilate ideas)
Love and passion for the taste of trueness
Healthy skepticism, not afraid to doubt
Beliefs are manipulated or changed to fit current "sense of making sense" rather than vice versa
The "sense of making sense" compels one to carefully look at the available data and actively pursue data that is missing or not yet explored.
All sources of data can be looked at with discernment
Pseudo-rational:
Follows logical procedures, but does it more because that is what one was taught, than because it makes sense.
Being right in doing things right or "correctly" has a higher valence than making sense
Complying with criticisms of peers has a higher valence than making sense
No pre-thought space, jumps right into thinking
Tends to start with a conclusion or with pre-categorizing.
"Should's" have a higher valence than making sense
Many scientists and pseudo-skeptics come from a pseudo-rational perspective
Immediately takes a position and defends it
Tends to submit to pressure to " stay in the box" to avoid peer ridicule
tendency to "fuse" their "sense of making sense with their previous conclusions.
Rational operations can be manipulated to fit previous conclusions or beliefs
Pre-rational:
Either "gaping-minded" or "closed-minded"
Swallows things whole without chewing or tasting
Magical thinking
Black and white thinking
The sense of "making sense" is relatively undeveloped.
Rational operations easily manipulated to fit previous conclusions or beliefs
Breathing and Attention
Breathing and attention are like brother and sister. Where the breath goes so does the attention. When the breath is shallow, attention is shallow. When the breath is deep, attention can be deep. Breathing is the point where the voluntary meets the involuntary. Every breath is an echo of the original one breath. Let the breath be undivided, then when you fully find the point where reality splits into two; it convulses into one. This point has awaited your attention even before you were born.
Achieving Balance
May we be able to achieve balance (homeostasis) between:
Process and Content
Abstinence and Indulgence
Healthy Pleasure and Healthy Discomfort
Work, Rest and Enjoyment
Doing and Being
Contact and Withdrawal
Current Gratification and Deferred Gratification
Narrow Focus and Diffuse Focus
Healthy Creation and Healthy Destruction
Health Shoulds and Healthy Wants
Nourishment from Self and Nourishment from Others
Charge and Discharge
Sympathetic and Parasympathetic
Heart, Mind and Soul
Healthy Strength and Healthy Weakness
Process and Content
Abstinence and Indulgence
Healthy Pleasure and Healthy Discomfort
Work, Rest and Enjoyment
Doing and Being
Contact and Withdrawal
Current Gratification and Deferred Gratification
Narrow Focus and Diffuse Focus
Healthy Creation and Healthy Destruction
Health Shoulds and Healthy Wants
Nourishment from Self and Nourishment from Others
Charge and Discharge
Sympathetic and Parasympathetic
Heart, Mind and Soul
Healthy Strength and Healthy Weakness
Basics of The Mind
To grow, the mind needs to discover basic things about itself. It needs to understand some of it's basic structures and processes. I believe this is a never ending process. I am amazed at how basic the things are that I'm still discovering about myself.
Krishnamurti talked about the difference between a mind that's made quiet and a mind that is quiet. It's quiet because it understands basic things about itself. There's also a profound difference between a quiet mind and no-mind which I won't go into now.
Through meditation and radical honesty, the mind can discover its basics, for example: conflict , how conflict arises, what it is and how to see it. Discovery is only made from the state of "not knowing". Everything that is discovered once must be rediscovered fresh from a state of emptiness or not knowing.
Krishnamurti talked about the difference between a mind that's made quiet and a mind that is quiet. It's quiet because it understands basic things about itself. There's also a profound difference between a quiet mind and no-mind which I won't go into now.
Through meditation and radical honesty, the mind can discover its basics, for example: conflict , how conflict arises, what it is and how to see it. Discovery is only made from the state of "not knowing". Everything that is discovered once must be rediscovered fresh from a state of emptiness or not knowing.
Simple Silly Sayings
What you most fear is what's most near
What you deny will make you lie
And what you resist will always persist
For what you hide will still abide
Your shadow knows beneath your clothes
Hide in a role and lose your soul
When you don’t breathe life takes its leave.
What you don't cry begins to die
What you don't use you’ll surely lose
What you repress will make a mess
So repossess what you repress
Feel Primal Pain’s emotional brain
And make it less when you express
To empty the pot you must practice a lot
And what you should heed is what you need
To move up from survive to be fully alive
Let “what you notice” unfold like a Lotus
Let your life be surprised by what will arise
What you don't taste you’ll surely waste
And meditate don't medicate
For what you allow you can avow
What you face & embrace you can surely erase
What you feel you can surely heal
Go up to your box and open the locks
For what you can be, you will set free
What you think will make a link
But what you conclude will delude
It’s what you don't know that makes you grow
When you’re direct you will connect
Jump in the stream that flows through your meme
When you’re in the flow you can trust what you know
Mind plus Heart makes you act smart
When no-thing is your clothing
Figure-ground is lost and found
There is no “duel” in non-dual
In the eye of the storm “Emptiness is form”,
You want the truth? then let it loose
Get off the hook, shut up and look!
What you see and hear will make it clear
The Suchness of things the whole universe sings
What you deny will make you lie
And what you resist will always persist
For what you hide will still abide
Your shadow knows beneath your clothes
Hide in a role and lose your soul
When you don’t breathe life takes its leave.
What you don't cry begins to die
What you don't use you’ll surely lose
What you repress will make a mess
So repossess what you repress
Feel Primal Pain’s emotional brain
And make it less when you express
To empty the pot you must practice a lot
And what you should heed is what you need
To move up from survive to be fully alive
Let “what you notice” unfold like a Lotus
Let your life be surprised by what will arise
What you don't taste you’ll surely waste
And meditate don't medicate
For what you allow you can avow
What you face & embrace you can surely erase
What you feel you can surely heal
Go up to your box and open the locks
For what you can be, you will set free
What you think will make a link
But what you conclude will delude
It’s what you don't know that makes you grow
When you’re direct you will connect
Jump in the stream that flows through your meme
When you’re in the flow you can trust what you know
Mind plus Heart makes you act smart
When no-thing is your clothing
Figure-ground is lost and found
There is no “duel” in non-dual
In the eye of the storm “Emptiness is form”,
You want the truth? then let it loose
Get off the hook, shut up and look!
What you see and hear will make it clear
The Suchness of things the whole universe sings
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