Psycho-Active TetraSeed Transformations | The "Vajra" Self-Rectifying Processes

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The Vajra Self-Rectifying Processes

ESPECIALLY POTENT WHEN COMBINED WITH THE TONGUE MUDRA

"Vajra" :  "Thunderbolt" and "Diamond" (Sanscrit)

~ The Lightening Bolt ~

~ The Hammer of Thor ~

~ The Thunderclap ~

(A Rumbling in the Canyon)

~ Pervasion of Experience by ~
~ Transcendental Intuition ~

The TetraSeed of Every Experience

A word in advance:
This entry contains instructions for procedures that, due to their simplicity, are advanced practices.

Known collectively as, The Vacuum Cleaner for Your Mind, they require sufficient control of your attention muscle to do them.  Without that adequate control, some may find that their thinking-word mind is producing too much noise -- noisier even, than The Vacuum Cleaner for Your Mind -- impossible for some, for now.

The key for those with "noisy mind" and "weak attention muscle" is practice of The Gold Key Release and The Crystal Crown Procedure.

In this entry, I present four procedures -- The Lightning Bolt, The Hammer of Thor, and The Thunderclap ("Flashing the Unknown Unknown"), and Pervasion of Experience by Transcendental Intuition -- that, when combined, provide a quick, nearly-instant way to disarm and dissolve grips seemingly held upon us held by fate (but actually, unconscious habits of mental distraction, self-contraction and distress), so they can be sucked out of your mind, right then. Mental quiet ensues.

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Gate` Gate` Paragate
Parasamgate
Bodhi! Svaha!

Gone! Gone! Gone beyond.

Gone beyond going beyond.

Awakening Intelligence! Beneficial!

~ The Prajna Paramita (Heart) Sutra ~

Rationale for the Lightening Bolt |

 (Walking Backward)

The Lightning Bolt is a back-door maneuver for surfacing and dissolving hidden grips that keep us buried in the momentum of our habitual lives, confused and stuck (but still hopeful !!! above all, hopeful !!!) Another term for that stuckness, from the Tibetan, is "dukkha". It's a "one foot on the accelerator, one foot on the brake" situation.

Those hidden grips show up as tendencies for things to go a certain way, in life, as behavior habits and kinds of personal experiences (e.g., "chronic bad luck") that color or flavor our sense of self, our presence, our way of life, personal qualities and the habits by which people recognize us ... all hidden grips or fixes resident in us, in our own memories.

These hidden grips show up as the chronic issues and ongoing complaints of our existence; perhaps unexpectedly, they also show up as the virtues we uphold. They are the hidden influences that shape our existence, a body or mass of unfathomably deep-seated, totally unconscious set tensions (e.g., the tension of, "on your mark, get set . . . . ." ) maintained perpetually on automatic:  all kinds of memory conditioning, residual influences from past experiences, sensations below where our attention can ordinarily reaches in ourselves -- unless flushed up enough to be recognized with techniques such as these. 

When flushed up, these set tensions are seen to major distortions in ourselves that when discovered, make us feel, "How it the world did I ever get that way??"  Before their discovery, these distorting influences work behind the scenes to causes us to act and react in certain ways and to experience the same thing, again and again, and again (e.g., bad relationships, frustrations, etc.).

Such distortions of self can be "blitzed" by The Lightning Bolt or shattered by The Hammer of Thor -- to dissolve away that part or aspect of ourself that we confuse with the basic reality of life and so believe is unavoidable.

We may artfully use The Lightning Bolt and The Gold Key Release, alternately, to good effect; one does "clean-up" after the other.

BACKGROUND:  Ever-Here-ness and Conditional Reality
We confuse conditional reality (everything we experience) with our fundamental sense of ever-hereness, which IS reality; we confuse (mentally fuse) conditional reality with Eternal EVER-HERENESS -- and the sign of this confusion is the feeling that things will never change (which is how it feels, whatever we may think). This confusion of EVER-HERENESS with memory gives memory an air of permanence, even while it's temporary.

I know this is a new idea, for you, so go over the previous paragraph and digest it until it sinks in and you know what I'm talking about. Do that, now.

EVER-HERENESS doesn't change -- and it ain't nuthin' in particular. It "always already IS".  It's the sense that no matter how fast you are moving (say, in a car), you are always, always, HERE, to yourself.

That example may give you intuitive recognition of, "that which has been the same all my life" -- which is not an object of attention (inner or outer), nor anything that can be intended, remembered or imagined, but your own, HERENESS.

It's what The Buddha called, "a tacit intuition".

Practice of The Gold Key Release dissolves the sense of "something-there-ness", so that we may intuit our formless presence, which, in that moment of intuition, we recognize as having always been OUR presence.

Again, these are not concepts for your mind to understand, but pointers to direct experience available IN THIS INSTANT.

When we catch that we are considering "EVER-HERENESS" to be "something we can locate", WE RECOGNIZE THE FALLACY OF IT being something because EVER-HERENESS is not a product of mind or an object of mind. It is of an order completely other than mind; it is "formless feeling", a kind of feeling that dissolves attention so we naturally intuit consciousness as a field, not as an object or concept. Again, return to the "moving in a car" example and then notice that it pertains, in this moment.

At that moment of recognition, we may release the sense of things that we have mis-identified as "EVER-HERENESS" and intuit the field of self-radiant awareness that underlies everything and that pervades us, ourselves.

Contrary to everything we have thought or have heard, Reality is unknown by us, unknown to us -- not a form of knowledge, at all, but a condition that cannot be reduced to mental memory.  Reality cannot be defined, however much we want to make it an object of mind that can be known mentally, the way you know a bowling ball.

The reason The Lightening Bolt works is that our habitual states are always forms of experience-with-limits -- or limited conditioning -- whereas Reality is inherently formless and only temporarily conditional.  Everything within Reality has a beginning and an end, a size and shape, a location where it is and where it is not. Reality has no size or shape, no location, no beginning or end.

When we let go of our sense of Reality, we are not letting go of Reality, but of conditions mis-identified as Reality, but which we have held onto as if  they were Reality, convinced by their persistence.

Better take a breather, on that one.  Start, again, when your mind has cleared as much as it will.

Said another way, when we do the release-step of The Lightening Bolt (The Hammer of Thor), we may think we are releasing the effort to intuit, identify, or locate Reality (our Here-ness), when what we are really releasing an erroneous mental effort that we confuse with Reality or that we believe points to Reality.

When we release the effort to intuit "Reality" (or "Now-ness", or "Here-ness"), we release the force of our conditioning along with it. What's left is the intuition of formless Reality.

I'm using a mental crowbar to pry you of your habit of believing that everything can be known and that your conceptual, thinking, word-mind is "where it's at". It ain't, but you're so used to going there that I need a crowbar.

Most strictly speaking, "Here-ness" is always already the case and always already our present condition.  Obviously.  We are always, already Here -- so anything we may do to intuit "Here-ness" is in addition to Here-ness and can only obscure our intuition of "Here-ness" as our already condition. The release that occurs in The Lightening Bolt only clears that way for that intuition.

The way to intuit Reality, or Here-ness, or "The Now", is to let go of it -- and any effort to intuit it.  Then, something entirely unexpected flashes forward or the way clears into it. Beyond these words, nothing useful may be said.

So, release The Lightening Bolt at the feeling of stuckness; or strike the blow of The Hammer of Thor upon it a few times in a row.  Notice the result.  It gets interesting.

The Lightning Bolt

Thus:

1. In your memory, fully experience whatever experience with which you feel stuck and which you would like to dissolve, whether a negative condition, an ideal that you recognize compulsively traps you, or any arbitrary thing you might like to change.
   
   The steps are:
   
   1. Feel its existence. (one breath)
   [advanced:] Intend its existence. 
   2. Feel its persistence. (one breath)
    [advanced:] Remember its persistence. 
   3. Feel its location. (one breath)
   [advanced:] Attend to its location, as felt or experienced. 
   4. Feel its appearance (it's quality). (one breath)
   [advanced:] Imagine its potential for changing appearance.
   
   Do not think, ruminate about, or analyze it; that's not experiencing. Steady your attention on each step long enough for it to stabilize; you'll get an experience.  Remember:  If your thinking mind is noisier than a vacuum cleaner, you won't be able to do this. Prepare yourself with The Gold Key Release until you have sufficient control of your own mind.
   
   You do the advanced forms once you easily remember the basic steps.
2. Feel it all as a single intensity that has a location and shape in your own "mind-space".
3. Notice what is not that, surrounding that location and shape. Feel until your attention steadies a bit.  Relax into it. Let yourself lose track of that shape.
   
   (If you can't let yourself lose track and feel outside the shape, alternate between feeling the shape and what is not that shape. Notice what constrains you -- some tension or holding on. Feel that and continue.)
   
   
4. Now, switch to noticing your sense of "Here-ness" -- that which has always been the same, all your life.
   
   ALTERNATE OPTION: Feel your whole body as the shape of a sensation.
   
   Notice what you do to locate, "Here-ness".
5. That action of "locating Here-ness" feels like "centering" yourself. It's the target of the lightening-strike.
   
   ALTERNATE OPTION: Hold the sensation, draw and release three breaths.
6. Recognize that sensation as a temporary, stressful effort. Stop holding onto it. Let it go. Lose track of it.

You will feel tensions dissipate, feel yourself reshape and probably sigh spontaneously as the experience dissolves partially or completely.

You have felt the experience of "stuckness" as it is . . . . . diffused your attention as much as you can . . . . . located and struck at the center of your sense of "persistent reality" and then dissolved it -- hence the name, The Lightning Bolt.

Imagine a little puff of smoke where your sense of "Hereness" or Reality used to be. (Just kidding, there.)

The Hammer of Thor
a recognition technique

The Hammer of Thor uses the power of intention to undo the effects of conditioning. It reveals how our own intention, running on automatic, keeps that conditioning in existence and relieves us of that conditioning either in big chunks or, in the case of extremely dense conditioning, layer by layer.

The structure of The Hammer of Thor is as follows:

Locate and identify the feeling of the condition or conditioning you want to pulverize and dissipate. This step is similar to the equivalent steps in the other procedures presented on this page. You may use variations of this step found in other procedures. Use what works well, for you. Once you've tested those procedures, this recommendation will be understandable and do-able (but not before).

Having located the feeling of the condition or conditioning to be pulverized, follow these steps:

Imagine remembering the feeling three times in quick succession.

Notice whether your intending it more than refusing it, or vice versa. Whichever it is start with the version for that bias and follow with the other version.

Think to yourself:

INTENDING VERSION

1. Intending, with intent to experience the feeling
2. Intending without intent to experience the feeling
3. Intending intending
4. Intending [the feeling]

: "Intending, intending, intending intending. Intending."

Scan the whole body, feel for and relax any effort.

REFUSING VERSION

1. Refusing, with intent to experience the feeling
2. Refusing without intent to experience the feeling
3. Intending refusing
4. Refusing [the feeling]

:"Refusing, refusing, intending refusing. Refusing."

Scan the whole body, feel for and relax any effort.

Repeat to a satisfactory result (dissolution of the item).

The Thunderclap / (a-Rumblin' in the Canyon)
intensification by contrast and repetition

Rationale

The things we experience, presently, have a certain momentum (tendency to persist) to them, maintained by our memories of them. If we prefer things were different, those memories prevent change by occupying the space in which we would like to put a new experience. So, we have to dissolve the grip of memory, to make space.

The Thunderclap consists of two parts.

1. By alternating between remembering our current experience and imagining our desired experience, we loosen the grip and dissolve the density of the current experience.  That action is the part of the "Thunderclap" that creates the needed space.
2. In the space created, we attend to and intend our desired experience.
   That "attending" and "intending" is a new reverberation in the world.

Once you've created space and set up a new reverberation, persons and conditions around you that can resonate with your intention begin to do so and, as they show up, you will perceive in them a possibility of fulfilling your intention.

You may use The Thunderclap to fulfill desires or to transform conditions -- to go beyond and then to go beyond going beyond.

The Thunderclap is thus:

1. Identify an experience you would like to have.
2. Call up whatever you may remember about it.
3. Imagine the possibility you would prefer.
4. Return to your memory of how things have been.
   You will notice that your memories color your sense of possibility.

Now, when the space is noticeably clearer:

1. Imagine how it all might change.
2. Remember how it all might change.
3. Imagine how it all might change.

Now, when your perception of how it all might change is vivid:

Intend imagining it, one last time, to the degree you are able, and do The Lightning Bolt on it.

Repeat to a satisfactory result. Each cycle through will be different.  The closer your imagining gets to your felt ideal, the easier it will be to intend it (push to have things change).

Thus:

1. Identify
   
   
2. Remember
3. Imagine
4. Remember
   
   
5. Imagine 
6. Remember
7. Imagine
   
   
8. Intend.

Repeat to a satisfactory result.

Stages 2-4 and 5-7 are forms of reverberation and Step 8, like the ongoing rumbling of thunder.

You will feel your imagination contact results that are more and more in line with your intention, with each repetition.

If you have difficulty reaching a satisfactory result, do The Lightning Bolt and then return to The Thunderclap.

Pervasion of Experience by Transcendental Intuition
a conditional-attention unconditional-attention exercise
All experience arises within and from the Unknown Unknown. We arise from and within the Unknown Unknown.  It's the mystery of, "before our birth", of "after our death", and of "before the very next moment".

The Unknown Unknown may be intuited by noticing the totality of

• what we see in this moment -- and what is beyond it
• what we hear in this moment -- and the silence beyond it
• what we feel in this moment -- and what is beyond all that

This is not a thinking process (other than to get us started); it's a sensing and imagining process (possible only when your ability to pay attention to something is stronger than the attraction to thinking).

A verse by Lao Tzu, found in The Tao Teh Ching, "points to" the Unknown Unknown:

That which we look for, beyond seeing,

and call the unseen,

listen for, beyond hearing,

and call the unheard,

reach for, beyond grasping,

and call the withheld

merge beyond understanding in a Oneness

that does not merely rise and give light

set and leave darkness

but forever sends forth a succession of living things

as mysterious as the unbegotten existence to which they return.

That is why men have called them empty phenomena

with no face to meet, no back to follow.

Yet one who is anciently aware of existence

is master of every moment,

feels no break, since time-beyond-time

in the way life flows.

This procedure depends upon your having sufficient mastery of your attention/intention/memory/imagination, to remain free of the strange attraction of thoughts and to direct yourself as you will.

The procedure goes as follows:

1. Identify your "item" (conditioning).
2. Feel its location in you, the shape of its intensity.
3. Switch: Feel it and all what is beyond it (radiationally outwardly) toward the space that contains it all.
   
   You cannot feel that space because it's the Unknown Unknown; what you can feel is your inability to locate it.
   Repeat steps 2 and 3 until the experience gets more vivid.
4. Return to your item in the intuition of "inability to locate it". Bring that intuition ("inability to locate it") toward and then into your item.
   
   At first, you may not be able to locate your item, same as you couldn't locate the Unknown Unknown, at first.
   
   When your item reappears to your noticing, notice that it is a location of density within the Unknown Unknown, which pervades it.
5. Feel the contrast between the density of your item and the trancendentality of the Unknown Unknown. Alternate.
6. Stay with it until your item starts to lose its cohesiveness, to dissolve and dissipate.

The actual doing of the procedure is much simpler than the words used to describe it. The first time is the most difficult. After that (if you have adequate control of your own mind), the process is readily available.

other TetraSeed Transformation procedures 

• The Gold Key Release (see link, below)

• The Middle-Way Memory Matrix Ritual*

• The Crystal Crown Procedure 

• The Set-Up Procedure*

* taught only personally

Esoteric Somatics and Tibetan Buddhism

http://lawrencegoldsomatics.blogspot.com/2015/01/tetraseed-modulations-vajra-self.html

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SOMATOLOGY | The Ultimate Structure of All Senses of Identity

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    INSTRUCTION IN THE SOMATIC ABILITY   
      TO DISSOLVE THE HIDDEN GRIP OF AFFLICTION    

  OR THE COMPULSION TO BE ANYTHING, IN PARTICULAR  

                                     -- horse training --                                         
       -- You're the horse. | You're the trainer. --       
Finding Ourselves Out 

First thing:  I should know about what I'm talking about.  I'm an expert on identity formation, as I've been running and reforming this identity for years.  One of these days, somebody's going to find me out and we'll all end up in show-biz.

In show-biz, to the degree that an actor/ess is free within his/her identity set and free to change, to that degree he or she can play different roles well.

(This could be a clue.)

No one of us has a single identity -- and that doesn't necessarily mean we all have Multiple Personality Disorder.  It means that our identity changes (more or less), from moment to moment, and in the circumstances of the moment, as we resonate with our circumstances.

The one thing that persists in some way is the vague idea of "self" -- the one to whom this identity purportedly belongs.  People rarely talk about that one!  (It's our 'sacred cow' self -- the one "outside it all" and viewing it all, the one who ostensibly never becomes hamburger, supra-Kosmic or otherwise.)

The expression of self changes, but the owner of it seems somehow the same: the secret identity.  The Continuity of Memory.

But behaviors, and the provisional identity of the moment, fluctuate.  Which one is the "real" identity?  Ha-HAH!!!!

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and now, a very important disclaimer:

That doesn't mean that we're the political flip-flopper

who flips and who flops with every passing wind

whose words are as passing wind

and whose meaning has no reliable connection to a functional outcome

whose integrity has big gaps, or lots of little gaps

whose principles are weak

whose equilibrium is easily upset

who takes an unstable stand

the dependent

who has too little active capacity to bring order,

who is not yet educated enough

to create forms with integrity,

who has too little capacity to reverse the course of entropy

in his environment and himself
who uses the word, "fight", instead of "create"

the secret nature of a mediocre nincompoop

in a position of responsibility beyond him

whose primary interest is

to get rich and avoid getting into trouble

to avoid any kind of crisis, lest he flub his response

he, in a position of visibility,

who fears to look like an incompetent

-- or worse -- have to face consequences.

Maybe it's what makes him a schlimazl
for whom nothing good ever seems to happen
since he can't marshal all the forces needed
to make it happen.

or makes him a shlemiele
(closely related to a no-account fool)
not good at much of anything,
fallen back into being a good-for-nothing freeloader,

an imbiber by days
and something of a hapless dimwit at twilight
walking into lampposts

or, alas, maybe he's just a poor putz --
a person who's a total loss
uneducated
unperceptive
incomprehending
wrong and insistent.

Maybe he's a shmoygeh,
or its sillier version, shmegeggie

whatever that is

a slob
a nudnick (Pest!)

or a no-goodnick in our eyes

but look!

He has a nice suit!

NO! This is a smart person!

a wonderful person!

He cleans up after himself.

He picks up his clothes.

He can read.
He's nice.

He's also a clever person, having learned a thing or two.

He knows the difference between

"flip" and "flop"


knows when it's OK to be flip
and knows when his flippancy has flopped.

Oh, most unflappable one,
I see you keep your equilibrium pretty well --

-- most of the time.

You are intelligently mindful of how we are unavoidably
affected by each other
and inextricably interconnected,
with everything unified in the present moment,
not as an idea or ideal, but as a perception
of how things actually are,

feeling and observing how we are affected by this moment
in a resonant and moving equilibrium
continuous in moment to moment experience
participating and yet mystified,
faithful in nothing in this life made of change,
in which the currents of our own existence
carry murky, turbulent memories that shape and color our times.

You sound like a wise man (or woman).

How did that happen?


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So, when I speak of identity, I'm not speaking of socialization or role.  I'm speaking of something much more fundamental, something that explains human behavior, how we get stuck in behavior, and how we may deliberately grow or evolve through an "unhooking" or "unlocking" process.

To the point:

Four steps are involved in identity formation:

1. experience: the emergence of the "present" from the unknown: self, others and things, the momentary and total condition of "now" | Without the gathering and coalescing of attention and aggregations of memory, experience is void, without meaning, without significance, without object, just movements of the unknown
2. memory : persistence of experience, the experience of "now" (immediate memory), meaning, recognizable events, holding on to experience and experiences, having experience "be in your face"
3. identification: choosing to stick with a certain experience at any moment : assigning importance, assuming memory (persistence) is reality : taking remembered experiences of self as self and our perception of other things as "the way they really are." (The Myth of Actuality = "The Myth of the Given")
4. perpetuation:  intending, inviting, seeking to make more, or refusing, seeking to make less, all motivation, all "go", all "stop", all spin, all involvement with, all imagining

The four Stages of Things Becoming a Priority.  Obviously, I have to define my terms, so here goes.

EMERGING EXPERIENCE: " BEING", BECOMING
("the One" multiplied by becoming "the Many")

At every moment, we have a sense of "how things are".  It's our most obvious sense of the plain-old present.

It consists of our experience of our situation and our sense of ourselves.  Most of this sense of experience is submerged in subconsciousness.  But we experience it every time we meet a new person and visit a new place.  It's our first impression -- which fades with familiarity, into the background.

This first impression, or sense of the moment, is, at first, of "unknown" (yes, I wrote that rightly).  Our first impression is of "unknown".  Gradually, with enough time and enough exposure, "unknown" fades-in into "something known" -- a memory is formed. Until a sufficiently vivid memory is formed, no experience is being had.

The motions of experience inscribe upon memory an ongoing trail, movements of attention from one thing to another.

MEMORY : THE BASIS OF THE MOVEMENT BETWEEN HARMONY AND DIS-HARMONY

We resort to memory as a proxy for (approximation of) actual experience, so we can more easily focus on experiences that have that pattern, and look for what's changing, moving, happening. It's beginning from a presumed base of knowledge.

 As we get familiar with anything, we form a memory of it.  That memory constitutes our knowing of "how things are".

Then, the experience of the moment is seen always in terms of existing memories, which grow in a moving, changing pattern.  The growing edge of memory is experiencing what is emerging out of the unknown, clothing it in imagination so it may seem known, then forming memories and bridging them with other memories.  Impressions form over time about the "realities" of life, colored by memories brought to life by imagination, imagination informed by memory and going beyond.

We form our memories from our experiences of the moving moment of life, the changing harmonics of life.  All sensory impressions that go into memory refer to movements and harmonics of life, memories of persons, places and things.  Our memories of "the movements and harmonics of life" flavor or dress up all of our sense-impressions of the moment.

A memory of "a movement and a felt harmonic" gets called up every time we recall something and every time we put ourselves in a situation to experience anything familiar. Memory creates expectation.

A way of finding the force of a memory is to notice how much it matters to you.

ASSUMING MEMORIES are REALITY, TRUTH or SELF

We give our memories the status of "truth", and memories of our own state the status of "self".

To the degree that something feels, "in your face", that's the degree that you take it for truth, for reality, or as self.  That's how solidly set your / my attention is in memory, how solidly fixated, how ingrained, how entranced.  That's how much experience has "got us" by the ..... (ooch!) .

PERPETUATING and/or REFUSING THE EXPERIENCES WE REMEMBER

Persistence and resistance (or intending and refusing) are two forms of the same thing:  one is "wanting to make it more" and the other is "wanting to make it less"; the difference, only one of direction; both are "wanting".

When someone "knows" something, they want (to some degree -- strongly or mildly) either to reinforce/assert their knowledge or to minimize/deny it.  They want to rely upon it or they want to forbid it.  Either way, they want to do that for themselves, for their own sake.

By those acts, they form an attitude, a key part of the ability of identity to express itself, a felt memory.

Once a person has an attitude, they want to impose it upon the world.  (Even the idea of "not wanting to impose it on the world" is an attitude.)

That's the activity of identity, of self-propagation, the genetic imperative that distinguishes itself from others on the basis of memories.

A case in point:  Take, for an example, ten year old Jimmy.

experience
Jimmy has never been to a baseball game.

His father comes home with tickets to see the Cardinals.

They go on a Saturday.

At the ballpark, Jimmy takes it all in, eyes open wide.

Dizzy Dean is pitching.

He winds up.  There's the pitch.

Foul ball.  Into the stands.

Jimmy catches the ball.

memories
Now, Jimmy has a story to tell the guys in the neighborhood.

What does that do for his social status?

Jimmy likes the attention.  He brings the ball to school, he tells the story at Sunday School, around ...

The more Jimmy tells the story,
the more he reinforces the memory of it
and his place in it.

assuming memories are truth, reality, or self
Jimmy takes credit for catching the foul ball,
lays claim to special status, reason for pride.
casts himself into a self-image that he takes for himself
and shows around.


perpetuating what we remember as extended forms of "self"
Soon, Jimmy is a fan.

He's read up on Dizzy Dean, knows his statistics,
roots for the Cardinals,
feels the glory when they win
feels the humiliation when they lose.

He's even gotten into a couple of fights over it.
He can't help himself.
But then, he's only ten.


That was a long, long time ago.
Now, Jimmy's a Republican.

another case-in-point:

George enlists in the army.
Goes to war. It's his patriotic duty.

He's sent to the front.  Wounded.
Now he has a limp.  And a medal.

He's honorably discharged and sent home. He gets special recognition, special privileges. (This was an earlier time.)

He's sent to an innovative form of therapy that promises he can walk, again.  In fact, he'll lose the limp.

But now, George doesn't know "who he'd be" without his war wound.  He'd seem ordinary.  He also can't imagine walking normally, again.  He's forgotton his "pre-army" state.  His wound and his status as a wounded war vet, based in memory and the seeming permanence of his wound, have made him into something else.

The therapy doesn't work.

He gets into politics.  Eventually, he runs for political office.

Now, he gets some mileage out of being a wounded war vet.  His wound is his badge of courage.  He cherishes the identity of "War Vet", keeps it low-key on the campaign trail.  He imagines that it is some of the basis of the respect with which people treat him, that it's a "trump card":  On certain topics, no one dares challenge his position.

And, of course, years later, he's a Republican.

An identity is a standpoint with general ways of operating based on memories of experience, a standpoint that wants to reinforce (or perpetuate) its way of operating in the world.

Everything we know, we want to continue to be "right knowledge".  That's why people dislike "being wrong" and why "being made wrong" is such a politically incorrect social impropriety.  It's about what "wanting to be right" means -- not having to change (to change is work!).

So, first we experience something.  And then, as we experience it, we remember it.  Then, we assume that memory represents and actually says something reliable about either oneself or something or someone other.  We carry all the accumulated memory patterns that form out of the interaction of the world with our memoried self.  We act as if life exists in terms of those memory patterns -- and so act accordingly -- either to perpetuate and reinforce or to refuse or counteract.

That explains how we form behavior patterns, how we get stuck in behavior patterns (egotism, arrogance, "anything goes" or cold-fish authoritarianism), and also how we learn to grow and evolve.  It's a spooky business.

Just as we form innumerable memories from moment to moment, we form innumerable identities for each moment -- and hopefully they're all well interconnected, so we don't get trapped in one (dissociated identity state).

The tricky thing about all this is how to avoid getting stuck in the sheer mass and momentum of accumulated memories.

One answer is, to reverse the process.  What would happen for Jimmy if he imagined himself going back up the chain of identity formation?

I present The Gold Key Release ( which a New Age Flower Child might call, "The Somatic Crystal Decrystallization Process", a soul brother: "Da Big, Divine Kosmic Kiss" (mmmWAH!) or, an academic professor, rather stuffily, "A Somatic Faculty") --- viz:

(NOTE:  vizier = one who writes, "viz". 
"Vizier" is Arabic for "wise guy".)

"Somatic Awakening" is not an "awakening to" something. It's an awakening as something and then an awakening from it. 

It's "awakening as" what one most ordinarily IS,

scanning and observing it with attentiveness,

feeling it, inhabiting it,

enfolding it,

assessing its "charge": how one feels implicated (entangled)

in the force of memory,

detecting the imagination of memory,

then awakening from imagining,
releasing the sense of "something there", feeling it dissolve into the formless field of attention, as no-self, original self, more familiar than breathing

There. That. Which is Here.

It's going backward through
the stages of priority ("that which came before")
"upstream" of the creative process,
to awaken,  undefined, as self-source -- the Natural State, the awakening of which feels like A Big, Divine Kosmic Kiss, which we may symbolize by the word,

"mmmmWAH!!!"

which is also what it feels like, as we dissolve into the undefined Condition.

See? No?  You will.

1. He feels his position, attitude, standpoint, or whatever he is stuck with or is perpetuating -- his knowledge, his chosen identity, his refuge in the immunity of "rightness". 
   
   Whatever it is, it's a sensation, felt bodily, with a location, size, shape, and intensity in the overall body-sense (kinesthetic body, subtle body, etheric body, dream body -- whatever the name).  Feel each term.  Pretty similar, huh?
   
   It may occur to him that he may have "bought in to something" -- assigning the status of "reality" to his memory-shaped-colored perspective in the world: "the truth" or "The Truth",  "oneself" or "the Self". 
   
   It may occur to him that, that he does not "have" it, but that it "has" him -- that he lives "inside" it and is subject to its limitations, which he takes as Reality and not a product of his way of remembering and seeing things -- his perspective.  To him, it's solid, real, and consequential. The mood is, "This is real." or "This matters" (to a greater or lesser degree-- but note: If something makes a difference to you, you've bought into it and it has you.)
   
   
2. He feels how much of this sense of "solid truth" or "things mattering with consequences" feels like memory and how much of memory feels like imagination.  It's a "feel" thing, not an "answer" that he comes up with. He traces the feeling from the sense of solid truth to memory to imagination.
   
   He imagines, moment to moment, that a scenario -- of which he is a part -- is developing and he has expectations -- informed, in part, by memory, and his perceptions are shaped and biased by memory.
3. Remembering is re-imagining something into our experience. The seeming persistence, the solidity or reality of anything you can put your attention upon is memory.  Memory fades unless refreshed by imagining.  The denser the memory, the more persistent it is.
   
   The way we do it:
   We put attention on the feeling of having some experience. 
   
   We sense the feeling of experience without words,
   as a sensation someplace within us
   We feel its size, shape, intensity.
   
   We pump up our ability to sense our somatic state
   with "attention maneuvers".
   
   We sense how much (not "what") intention we have toward it
   We notice how steadying attention solidifies intention.
   
   We feel the whole package as a single, contained force:
   the thing we are experiencing
   and our intention toward it made solid by attention.
   How intention*attention = memory.
   
   Now, we feel how much it matters
   in order to bring ourselves into the picture
   and acknowledge how much we are involved.
   How much it matters has to do with our relation to the world.
   Observe it, when you get around to doing a Gold Key Release.
   
   We may then own the intensity of the memory
   even if we don't know or understand when the memory is
   and we may sift that intensity
   to find the feeling of imagining.
   
   We feel how much it feels like "solid reality", how much feels like memory, and how much of the memory feels a bit like imagining (or as we like to say, "daydreaming" or "being entranced"). 
   
   We feel "remembering" and "imagining" and alternate between them until we can zero in on each equally steadily and equally easily, and so can balance them.  What makes it easier to alternate more to one side than the other is that we are more entranced by it.  These words make sense with experience, but perhaps not before.  Save yourself the brain-fog; instead of "trying to figure it out", just do it (at least once).
   
   If you have trouble with this step, deliberately remember something.  Feel what remembering feels like.  Then imagine something.  Feel what imagining feels like.
   
   Now apply those distinctions to your sense of "solid truth".



4. Feel the dissolution of his "fix" (or fixation) -- the thing he has been perpetuating -- as his discovery or sense of "how much of it is imagination" is "the little valve" through which the "air" that has inflated his sense of "solid truth" (and ego) escapes.  Simpler if he just does Step 3. (Imagination is easier to let go than "solid truth".)
   
   
5. He takes a breath, lets go of the imagining, and falls toward (or into) his identity-less, natural state, at least for the moment. (Don't do this while driving or try to understand this by reading it.  Do the procedure. Do it well at least once.)
6. He checks the remaining intensity of the feeling.  If anything is left, he starts at Step 1.

QUESTION:  Would he quit being a Republican?

I ask you.

From here, we go to the first "magical" process for decrystallizing crystallized identity patterns:

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How to Eat a Persimmon

You start at the tip of the fruit
at the bottom
on the other side from the hard, green stem with green petals.
Your persimmon is deep orange, and heart shaped
and plump and soft and delicate.
The point at the tip stands out.

You open the tip by nipping on it
taking little bites,
biting off more and again and again
until the soft, sweet, succulent
insides
come out onto your tongue
in a wash of flavor
from the thick, soft, swirling sensation of the pulp.

Then you know what you do:
You start to suck.
You suck the soft, sweet, succulent
insides
into your mouth
pushing deeper into the fruit
with each bite-and-suck,
working your way around in circles
as you press toward the hard stem at the far end.

Eventually, you've eaten most all of the soft pulp,
but there's still some skin left, skin with soft pulp on it
and you have no recourse
but to put the skin into your mouth
between your lips,
hold it in place with your tongue,
and bite and suck and pull on the skin
to get all the soft, sweet, succulent  pulp
onto your tongue,
and then you bite off the skin,
bit by bit
in a circle around the edge,
and chew it with your front teeth,
and swallow it
until it's all gone
and nothing is left but the stem.

That's how to eat a persimmon.

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P S Y C H O A C T I V E

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The "Middle Way" Memory Matrix Ritual
(Defining the Key and Playing The Fugue)

or just

The Memory Matrix Integration Procedure

Fully Revealing and Cutting Gordian Knots

A Power-Contemplation/Transformation Process

FOR SELF-KNOWLEDGE, BALANCE,  WISDOM, AND SELF-RELEASE

WHAT does the name of this procedure mean?

• "MIDDLE-WAY" refers to avoiding getting stuck in extremes of experience -- or to getting unstuck. It doesn't mean, adhering to a "center of moderation".
• "MEMORY MATRIX" refers to the memory of related things charged with intention and refusal, so that it keeps you trapped, until you make it conscious (available to your attention)
• "RITUAL" refers to a sequence of meaningful acts intended to generate a change of mind-state.

The Middle-Way Memory Matrix Ritual is a procedure to free ourselves from the traps of specific kinds of very difficult, very sticky, very obscure conditioning.

The Middle-Way Memory Matrix Ritual enables us to extricate ourselves and to escape from the influence of  "strangely attractive" memories that shape our choices and our destiny without our understanding or even being aware of it. "Strangely attractive", in this sense, refers to any experience that can captivate us, en-trance us, and entice, seduce, or guide us to a particular destiny.

This procedure works by comparing pairs of related experiences to each other, intending them and refusing them, in every possible combination. I know that sounds complicated. That's why there's a structured procedure to follow.

In the process, what has been obscure becomes obvious. What has been too subtle to distinguish becomes clear. What has been only fleetingly perceptible "holds still" for a good, solid look. That's how it's a "power contemplation" procedure.

The Pre-requisite for Doing The Middle-Way Memory Matrix Ritual

YOU ARE FIT AND READY TO DO THIS PROCEDURE when you are proficient at practicing The Gold Key Release to a successful result.  Without that proficiency, you will lack the familiarity with the experience of release needed for The Memory Matrix Ritual to do its work. You need to be familiar with the experience of release and no longer confuse release with "acting out", suppression or repression. (Any description of "release" must remain vague and inadequate until you have directly experienced it.) Everyone with whom I have guided The Gold Key Release has succeeded in one or a few passes through, so its not difficult -- it's just a pre-requisite.

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"When an obstruction ... is recognized, the way to overcome it is to throw the weight of the imagination to the opposite side".

~~ The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

There are two pairs of "opposite sides":

1. intending to experience something and refusing to experience it
2. an item and its counterpart (examples follow)

This procedure uses both. You will discover how paradox releases.

"Ya Gotta Wanna." 

~~ The Prime Directive of Somatic Education,
according to Lawrence Gold

The Result of the Procedure

This is an extremely potent procedure, vastly more potent than The Gold Key Release, which is, itself, very potent.

The Middle-Way Memory Matrix has two results

1. SELF-KNOWLEDGE: recognition of your deeper, unconscious motivations related to something that's a problem, an "item-of-interest", or "project", for you
2. FREEDOM: dissolving the grip of those (now-conscious) motivations to such an extent that either:

• the item-of-interest has no "charge" (substantiality) left (it has lost cohesiveness, and now has the substantiality of smoke) or 
• you're unable to remember what it was without great effort

What's left is free, neutralized attention and space to have an entirely new relation to that experience, an entirely new kind of experience, but no compulsion to any kind of experience in that space ("area") of life.  It's "disappearance with no sense of loss" -- similar to that of The Gold Key Release, but affecting areas ("spaces") of life that were too difficult to get a handle on (too obscured), to use The Gold Key Release.

Burn-Off

After doing The Memory Matrix thoroughly on a pair of items, you may experience a period of intensification later in the day or the next day, in which the item or items re-appear and you feel helpless to do anything about it.

This experience (which I have called, "burnoff") is temporary and generally resolves in a day or two. The helplessness is a sign that you were heavily identified with a way of perceiving and operating, and now that it is dissolving, your sense of yourself as do-er, in that space of life, is also dissolving. This dissolution marks a shift in your way of operating that allows new possibilities and new responses on your part to emerge.

You need not do anything about burn-off; it will pass.

This procedure involves seven stages:

1. Identifying an Item-of-Interest:  a strange attractor/type of entrapment
   -- what you feel stuck with or stuck in
2. Identifying an Opposing or a Similar Condition -- a counterpart to the item-of-interest
3. Preparing the item for Dissolution
4. Starting Dissolution
5. Dissolving Double-Binds
6. Dissolving Pairs of Mutually-Creating but Unrecognized Conditioning
7. Clean-up (coming out of the procedure)

Wash, rinse, repeat until clean.

It sounds complicated in the reading; it's clear when you actually do the process, guided step-by-step.

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A word in advance:  If, after you have run the entire process, you are left with "a wad" (something that hasn't dissolved or just won't dissolve), apply The Gold Key Release to it.  Otherwise, expect the items you're working with to disappear in the process.

Since it's my intention that everyone who attempts this procedure succeed with it, I teach this procedure only "live" and not by written word. That way, in case you hit any "snafus", I can speed you through them.

FRUITFUL PAIRS OF ITEMS to which to apply this procedure: (I have a list of very potent combinations, from my own evolving use of the procedure for my own sake.)

• Thinking | Feeling
• Desire | Refusal
• Steady Attention | Scattered Attention
• Focused Intention| Undefined Intention
• Reliable Memory | Sketchy Memory
• Vivid Imagination | Vague Imagination
• all advice from well-meaning parents, friends, experts, pundits, mavens, teachers, gurus, and the traditions, including spiritual traditions: states, realizations, achievements, aspirations, ideals | and | the problems that such advice is intended to solve

In the beginning of practice, you may find it easier to choose concrete items -- such as your parents, your boss, or your job.  With practice, you may work on more abstract items.

The curriculum for Intelligent Empowerment 101 contains these and a host of other "interesting" items to pass through The Middle-Way Memory Matrix, all designed to bring intelligence to and free us from habitual, unconscious conditioning, so we may live more intelligently and create more freely.

M O R E    P R O C E D U R E S

• The Gold Key Release
• The Crystal Crown procedure
• The Set-Up procedure (simplest version and fully-elaborated version)
• Thor's Hammer
• The Lightening Bold/Thunderclap

As I stated, earlier, it's my intention that everyone succeed with these procedures, so I confine instruction (except for The Gold Key Release) to person-to-person (live-on-line) occasions. Click, here, to inquire about personal instruction.

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