Cultural Integration of the TetraSeed I-AM-I Illumination Matrix

The TetraSeed I-AM-I Illumination System makes it easier to spot things that have been missed not to do something about it, but simply to re-regulate it in a moment of self-sensing.

What is the Whole of which the thing sensed ... is a part?

The shift, the re-regulation, occurs spontaneously with the sensing of the self-state.

No prompting is needed.

It is felt as "coming out an abnormal condition of weird stress",

sometimes called, "waking up".

Whatever meaning people take from word or the power we attribute, to them, is the power we invest in them when we, ourselves, us them.

We invest power into words that then become handles into us.

In an imaginary scenario, the TetraSeed is invited into corporate culture.

What might be the effect?

One might think, "competition!" and more and more efficiency.

Yes, that might be among the first effects to become evident.

Can you imagine that scene winding up?

I can, kinda.

What do you imaging that might do to distress levels?

So, coming up to the surface, like an inflamed boil, is the mass of memories we call, stress patterns.

Up like boil.

Now comes the self-purging and self-correction process.

As habituated stress patterns, magnified by the "wind-up", become apparent and, we feel, to be too "influential", we spontaneously start to wind down.

As the overall stress level of the environment decreases, higher intelligence can come to the fore.

The appearance of sanity may return at a higher order of functional capacity. In the corporate culture and in world-cultures, at large.

Are we Perceptors -- or "Feeders"?

 Though the human experience may be characterized as living as "perceptors" (observers or perhaps witnesses) and forming perceptions into knowledge (and by that means, fixating on or locating ourselves in experience ...)

an alternate characterization of the human experience might be being categorized as "feeders on" or consumers of experience for the sake of felt or presumed  satisfaction.

Manifested life offers "handles" on psycho-physically experienced, vibratory experiences that are handles for drawing in kinds of experience, when we lack the ability to access them satisfactorily through imagination.

By attaching attention to discrete experiences, we attach ourselves to (or can pursue)
"vibratory" (or harmonic) states -- both predictable and unpredictable -- as handles in hope of satisfaction of the hunger for particular experiences.

But the colors of the imagination are evanescent and the fulfillment of the tantalizing promises of memory is elusive.

So it is that Earthworld is a domain of "hungry ghosts".

"Tunnel Breathing" -- a somatic education exercise

 "Tunnel Breathing" consists of the integration of The Tongue Mudra and Staged Breathing.

RHYTHM:

Inhale and hold.

Open the breathing passage (epiglottis) keeping the same amount of held air.

Close the breathing passage (epiglottis).

Hold and while holding, relax.

Open-Close-Open
Hold and Relax.

Lose some air.

Repeat until fully exhaled.

Repeat in the reverse direction, toward full inhalation.

two full cycles

When the Inner and the Outer are Recognized as One

The primal integrity upon which all integrity is based is the integration of self-sensing with sensing the world (otherness).

When inner and outer are recognized to be always-coincident, then the distinctions between them are recognized to be arbitrary and assumed.  They come into equivalency and balance becomes the operating viewpoint of experience.

This is transcendental intuition.

Peculiar kinds of opening in the self-being occur.  Balance deepens.

Intuitive silence ensues, or rather, emerges or is revealed as the rest-condition that prevails even in the midst of activity.

This is the feeling of integrity.

Any action or movement that entails a loss of balance is sensed, and thus is subject to spontaneous course-correction.

Thus is integrity maintained in relationships, integrity with with integrity, as integrity ...

balance meeting balance as balance.

So it is written that "when the inner and the outer become one, then you will enter the kingdom of heaven".

The Four Expression of Intelligence and Swiss Cheese Mind

The Universal Key

These days, there is an epidemic of "Swiss Cheese Mind".

-- not that I have anything against swiss cheese.  I don't.  Swiss cheese was among my favorites, during my cheese-eating days.

But I don't want my mind like that.

Swiss Cheese Mind is a condition in which you are operating like a car with a flat tire, or with cylinders misfiring.

Swiss Cheese Mind gives rise to brain farts -- and we have those happening all around us.  Just start up some software and look for the bugs.

Swiss Cheese Mind has holes.  Those holes are gaps in our attention, when we miss seeing things that are there.  They're like not-so-clear or even self-conflicting intentions ... forgotten memories and chaotic imaginings.

We have a screw loose -- or a few screws loose.

So, while I liked swiss cheese, I don't want my mind like that.

What causes it?

Mad Cow Disease?  Education?

Well, in a way yes.

Education teaches us ...

to remember, 

but not necessarily to imagine ...

... to attend,

but not necessarily how to pay attention...

to intend to remember

but not necessarily to intend with integrity

and hardly at all how to imagine.

Education in its common form educates unevenly.

and so, no wonder:  
Swiss-Cheese Mind

Memory needs attention and intention.

Not so easy to remember something with no attention on it.

Go ahead.  Try it.

See what I mean?

You even had to add some intention, didn't you?

and you imagined the whole thing.

Swiss Cheese Mind.

Now, you know what those words feel like ...

and what we do to fill in some of those holes, when memory fails us:  we fill in gaps of memory with imagination.

That explains the increasing numbers of blockheads coming out of our educational institutions.

When we enliven all four -- attention, memory, intention and imagination -- equally, with all four reinforcing the others -- we get

Swiss Cheese without the holes!

Compartmentalizing Life and Memories (The Opposite of Integrating) Diminishes Intelligence.

Individuals who compartmentalize their lives or the world, as if things operated separately, instead of interdependently, so compartmentalize themselves.

Rigidities appear.  Stiffness appears.  The effects of stress are sharpened.  Reaction to stressors occur more quickly.

Resonance is less.

Feeling is impaired.

Intelligence diminishes.

With diminished intelligence comes an increased toleration of tension and decreased sensitivity to the intensity of experience until they have become abnormally high.

Likewise, the ability to regulate our reactive emotions is often inadequate to the moment -- and we "lose our temper".

Compartmentalization decreases our"cushion" of resilience.

Compartmentalization impairs integrity.

Compartmentalization impairs intelligence.

The ways we compartmentalize may be hidden to ourselves.

Efforts to identify them may be likened to looking for something in a dark room with a flashlight or candle.

There exists a more exact and efficient way:

Look for them in each of the four "rooms" or expressions of intelligence -- attention, intention, memory, and imagination.

In each of those four "rooms" are four "compartments" that may contain things that we've compartmentalized, related to attention, intention, memory and imagination.

WHAT TO DO

When looking for experiences we have compartmentalized, we look into each of the compartments -- attention, intention, memory, and imagination -- in the context of any situation that troubles us.  We look at the situation in terms of attention, intention, memory, and imagination -- one compartment at a time.

We may start with any of the four, but for the sake of this instruction, let's say we start with attention.  We look for how our attention is involved in the situation.  If we find some sensation or impression, we release it as best we can in the moment and then move to the next compartment.

THE ROOMS

Here are the rooms.

On each of room's door is an emblem signifying what is to be found, within.

Let's look into imagination:

Imagination:  The Cornucopia

The Room of the Imagination contains a table with a puzzle, a jigsaw puzzle.  On the table are four pieces symbolized by four words.

IMAGINATION * UNDEFINED POTENTIAL * SPONTANEOUS IMMEDIACY * ORIGINATION

You study out how they fit, together.  You look at one, you look at another, you look at all possible combinations until you recognize the pattern and you assemble them.

You have understood something about what is in that room and about yourself.

You do that for each room.

Here's the Room of Intention:

INTENTION * FREEDOM * CAUSING * CONTROLLING

Here's the Room of Memory:

MEMORY * KNOWING * INTEGRITY * ACTIVITY

Here's the Room of Attention:

ATTENTION * ORIENTATION * SENSING * FOCUSING

To start, consider each of the words in each Room, how they combine to produce a feeling.

Then consider some item of experience in terms of each of these feelings, and then all at once.  This takes some concentration; doing the exercise will bring your concentration into focus.

When you look at any item of experience in these terms, you integrate the Rooms and yourself so that what has been compartmentalized is now freely available.  This statement will make sense only when you have done the exercise in terms of some recognizable experience.

Integrity, Release, and Swiss Cheese Mind

The integrity of the individual is like vast network of interconnected memories.

That integrity is so complex that it defies intelligent analysis by mental means, but despite that fact, every part can be observed intuitively to affect every other part.  Dissolving the attracting force of a memory changes the felt status of all other memories.

That's the very virtue of dissolving memories; that's what it's for -- establish a new equilibrium and new patterns of behavior.

But understand, as memories have more or less intensity, they also have more or less attractive, binding force.

When a memory dissolves, the absence of its binding force, that once was, leaves a hold, a space, or a breaking or interruption of the integrity that is the individual -- one that must be mended -- and all other interconnected memories must be amended, accordingly.  That state has a nickname:  "Swiss Cheese Mind" -- full of holes. 

This mending, this integration of Swiss Cheese Mind, is the work of integration of memory, the forging of connections that makes sensitive,  intelligent, resonant responsiveness possible.

Integrity is resonant, intelligent responsiveness, throughout.

It is feeling while acting, listening while speaking, sensitivity to our internal state even as we look outward.

When the attractive, binding force lets go, a decrease of tension occurs throughout the individual.  That's one sense in which "individual" means "not divided."

The Escape Hatch from "Hard Reality" into Intelligent Fluidity

The intensity of an experience and the quality of the same experience are inversely related, as regards the entrapment or entrancement vs. freeing of attention.

By tendency, our attention gets trapped by the qualities of an experience and we fail to note the intensity of the same experience.  We sense qualities first, intensity, second, according to our interest.

When we shift attention to the intensity of an experience, we put less attention on the quality or the feeling of the experience.

That shift, when made completely enough, releases us from entrancement by the qualities that keeps us trapped.  The experience dissolves into pure intensity without definition.

On the other hand, if the attractiveness of an experience is sufficiently overwhelming, in a given moment, attention is not free enough to shift to the intensity of the experience.  The experience takes on, or is assigned, the status of "solid" reality, "real" reality, "unchanging" or persistent reality.

At that point, all we have left, to do, is deal with the particulars of the experience.  Transcendence is impossible.

There is an "escape hatch":  the peculiar property of the four-dimensional TetraSeed, that when all of its expressions -- attention, intention, memory, and imagination -- are well-integrated and resonate together, the whole lot loses its density, its cohesion.  Experience dissolves into an "open field" sensation -- undefined or free attention.  The solid fixity of "reality" loses its solidity and dissolves and the sense of self, also dissolves into formless, pristine consciousness.

Integration of the distinct particulars of experience dissolves into into a unified integrity without distinctions.

The fixed, hard-case, solid "status" of reality softens and spreads, loses intensity, loses density until it is forgotten.

If the experience shows up in life, again, its a very different kind of experience than one might have expected.

Integration into integrity dissolves distinctions.

Disarming Frustration and Chronic Distresses Triggered by Situations Out of Our Control

The sense of opposition -- or of frustration -- is a self-generated sensation, whatever the circumstances, however much those circumstances may justify feelings of opposition or frustration.

Those sensations -- frustration or opposition -- are a stress reaction that lies dormant until triggered by an experience similar to a remembered experience -- generally, the memory of opposition by someone or in some form.

Frustrating situations leave behind memory impressions -- impressions of both the situation and of our reaction, as triggerable behaviors, of going into distress and of its sensations.

That memory imprint of triggerable distress-behavior can be triggered by circumstances that may or may not really apply, circumstances that may be controllable, manipulable by learned actions.

Because those similar circumstances may be manipulable, efforts to remedy a stress reaction triggered by memory of a stressor may tempt us to control the similar circumstances in a similar way as before.  That temptation is likely to lead to persistent or repetitive conflicts.

A better approach is to disarm the situation from "the other end":  Give people the means to release themselves from their own stress reactions, whenever needed, without situations having to change, first.

The TetraSeed Awakening Invocations serve that purpose.

That way, disturbing circumstances are far less likely to perturb us, so we can retain more command of our own intelligence.