the trickster?

skinwalker ranch?

i noticed that you are in a phase of moving away from “external” event realities toward the body as the locus of our experiece.

i think that whatever is going is a neuro-chemical brain state thingy that is a factory for reality that we can manipulate.

futher, i think that bibles and korans and the like have contained methodologies for getting it to work correctly, but mad kings and popes have censored the works so that all we do is go to church on sunday and listen to stories.

the work does tend to re-compile it`s self though eventually.

a hundred monkeys at a hundred typewriters eventually type out the complete works of w. shakespeare.

Alistair, have you given much thought to synchronicity and hemisphere communication? I was planning on writing about this soon.

if you are asked to spell the word stop, the first thing most people do is see a stop sign in thier mind, and then they read the sign. s.t.o.p.

the image is installed.

i use that example to show people in session work how thier minds show them images below the level ofcoscious awareness.

after a while the mechanism is unconscious. like driving a car or waking up and going to work…….

the floaty word thing works like a pattern interrupt visually that allows the mind to reason instead of react.

an intuitive, right-brain visual pattern interrupt.

i get auditory ones all the time that wake me out of my waking slumber to do the right thing.

The same thing works for teaching a police dog to bite. You get it to bite on command and let go on command.

So a well trained protection dog is far less likely to bite without being commanded to.

I guess the application of this with what you are working on would be to be able to queue negative responses to stimu scaslus at will, then correct them.

Like make yourself afraid on queue and then correct your response.

Well, yeah, Ok, but only once you’ve done it a few times. At first there’s a kind of consciousness bootstrap problem to be overcome… thinking about thinking. The problem of being wrapped up in one’s own thoughts.

Quietening the mind to be aware ain’t a simple matter.

Actually, it IS a simple matter. Not just that, but it can be accomplished on an almost mechanical level simply by re-training your patterns of activity and body awareness intensively.

P: That is the next step I was going to take all this: that spirit enters into perceptual field, and the link to Rupert Sheldrake’s morphogenetic fields…

Alistair, I wouldn’t mind hearing your interpretation of where the floaty words come from, as mine was more just a shot in the dark. I do agree however, that it ultimately *doesn’t matter* and it is gift and ought to be treated as such.

For example:
http://bardon.dnsalias.net/Self-HealingArchaeous.html

I have not yet seriously attempted these kinds of exercises.

is it really important to “know” how and why these words appear?

Yeah, I guess not. I had a dream about me, my Mom and my Great Aunt once. We were all Lakes that fed into each other but also competed for resources and space. When I tried to apply logic and reasoning to the interpretation of this dream it fell apart and I felt like the thing that had given me the dream was disappointed that I had thought so little of this gift that I would try to disect it like that.

Yea, I’m a ninja, oh yeah, oh yeah, ninja-rific.

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/02/06/im-in-ur-gras/

But I agree that there’s a good few steps between sense data and assignment of meaning. Below ‘reasoning’ and ‘assigning meaning’ is ‘paying attention’. Apparently the mind only has one ‘attention’ channel… studies with people listening to two voices at once reveals they can only ever extract information from one at a time. Below ‘paying attention’ is ‘awareness’ - the opening of the quiet mind to all possible sense data… is this what you’re on about? Quietening the mind to be aware ain’t a simple matter.

the floaty-word thing is a gift. i have some technical ideas about how it came to operate, but wow, what a pattern interrupt.

it allows you to resist the pig-parent judgement that we are all conditioned to react with, and instead you can access a deeper intuitive sense of understanding about life,nature and process.

is it really important to “know” how and why these words appear?

How is that for starters?

It’s good. If I can apply this to my body I’ll be a ninja someday. For now I’ll just have to try to be a good friend.

Because you rearrange how you value things emotionally.

So, who’s the director?

My best guesstimate:

7. Superconscious or psychic thought

That is, once you re-open up direct access to the non-judgemental awareness mechanism designed as a failsafe in your body, something happens. You stop living automatically out of mechanisms whose sole purpose is to protect the perceptual instruments which generate field states and prevent the disintegration of that field (ie, death).

Removing the repeat/retreat mechanism (I am not talking about quelling emotions - there is nothing inherently “wrong” about them - they are a beautiful form of stimulus/sensation) and confronting the reality of your decisions heretofore having been dictated by strict survival/reproduction algorithms, basically, I *think* you open up a level of thought which is “truer”. Because you rearrange how you value things emotionally. Repeat or retreat is not just a protector of the individual self’s integrity, but can then be applied as a means of judging and preserving field state integrity of other beings.

How is that for starters? Feels fairly solid at the moment. I think the key lies in retraining yourself to assign emotional values to things in new ways. I would guess that these intuitive flashes of insight come then from the perceptual mechanism whose job is to analyze perceptual clusters and derive meaningful patterns out of them. Just like with your “normal” or mundane thoughts, which arise out of emotional valuing of field states, these thoughts arise because some part of your perceptual system recognized some element which matches a pattern which it believes to be important, but it does not necessarily know why. So it brings it to your conscious attention: almost like a secretary would who screens your phone calls. The perceptual secretary system tells you the name of the person on the other line and simply, “He says it’s urgent!”

Do you have her take a message or do you accept the call and find out what he wants? Depending on what you choose to do, you seed new patterns into the perceptual secretary system: new rules to govern and evaluate behavior and intra-office communication.

More floating words. She mentioned a word that had floated across the field of vision of an Aunt of mine that had a big impact when directed against me. The way she pronounced the word I knew I had to change her line of reasoning because it would lead to a broken family. As she described the problems I could see the exact path of destruction and we spoke for three hours about body memory, illness, plain old psychology, generational patterns, etc.

Because of the floating word thing I paid attention. We could’ve had a good time bad mouthing her Son In Law and pretending to have it all figured out. But instead we talked about what would really be best for the children. We could’ve bonded over our shared disdain but instead bonded over a multi-generational plan for the well being of others.

This may sound like nonsense to you. “So what Julia, you grew up and aren’t so quick to judge.” Ok, but what made the word float around? That was the only thing that forced me into that emotional state. I really wanted to avoid this conversation when I saw where it was headed but I knew I had to stay until this was finished and I did. My perception was that this was a monumental event and I had to play my part, say my lines, motivate emotions as mine had been motivated. This was more important to me than the Tornados and floods. So, who’s the director?

OK. I’m not going to qualify as a ninja anytime soon but here’s my story. Many years ago my Mother told me that she saw a man’s name float across her field of vision. This mixed with her emotions over miscarriages and she decided that this name is what she would’ve liked to name one of her sons.

I later wound up working with a man by this name and had an intense feeling that he was my brother, spiritually, and sometimes my interactions with him mirrored my interactions with my real brother. I had an intense dream about his interractions with his daughter, which I don’t think I generated myself, and I saw a reflection of my own childhood. When this man went through a horrible period at work, largely due to his own actions but uncalled for, I stuck by him as a friend and reinforced his good feelings about work which helped keep him employed there. All the while seeing these emotional events as some sort of confirmation that this was supposed to happen this way. Whether it was or not I don’t know.

My point is that someone orchestrated this chain of events which gave me the emotional states I needed in order to manipulate things to a desired conclusion. Things happened and instead of reacting like I usually do I reacted from behind the sunglasses of the dream, vision of the name and feeling of debt I had from help I received as a child. Instead of breaking off contact with this person (because I had a lot of problems at work for supporting him) I proudly kept at it and the problems weren’t problems at all, the fire didn’t burn. Part two is coming.