A More Detailed Look at The Gold Key Release

When you're brand new at this, you may not get vivid feeling-perceptions at first; you  may feel like nothing is happening or that you're not doing it right.  Do it again. And again.  After a few times through, you will get vivid (and familiar) perceptions during the procedure and wake up more completely. 

After that, it will be easier and you will know whether you are getting good "traction" in a session. 

Understand, though, that you are addressing things in yourself about which you are relatively dense. If you weren't dense about them, they would not have shown up as problems.

If you want me to mentor you through the procedure to show you the "teeth", click mentoring.  With your permission, we may record the session for instructional purposes or for posterity, whichever comes first.

 

A DRILL: "Jiggling" the Key:

(if it the release doesn't happen easily)
Practice the drill once to a good result, then do more Gold Key Release.

| ! | Imagine remembering.

| ! | Remember imagining. 

| ! | Imagine remembering. 

| ! | Repeat indefinitely until you get a shift (not many repetitions will be needed).

|*| Stop imagining.  Awaken. 

(|=| The Transcendent "Kiss" occurs.) 

ESPECIALLY POTENT: As soon as you feel The Transcendent Kiss feeling, go into The Tongue Mudra.

Click the link to learn about, and how to do, The Tongue Mudra.  Using The Tongue Mudra causes releases to occur faster and more completely. Tongue Mudra is potent and not properly to be underestimated.

Let each Transcendent "Kiss" appear and fade before moving to the next step of The Gold Key Release. Let it spread through you before continuing. Pay attention to the feeling, and you'll know.  If it doesn't fade, by itself, you're done.  If you need more for that item, you'll know, later.

FOR "DENSE" ITEMS That Don't Easily Dissolve

... in which either "It's True" or "It's Untrue" feel absolutely true, to the exclusion of the other.

When one "side" ("It's true," or "It's untrue") is overwhelming, you will be too attached to your position to release your item at the final step.

To balance the two "sides", use the technique, below. Use it only after you're accustomed to doing The Gold Key Release and you know what dissolution feels like.

For now, try the words, below, for experience:

"It's true! It's true! It's untrue!  It's true!"

   Pause and feel what comes up.

"It's untrue!  It's true!  It's untrue!  It's untrue!"

   Pause and feel (optimally, at each step).

REPEAT until the two "sides" are equal.

In The Gold Key Release, substitute this sequence for the standard, "... It's true... It's untrue..." steps.

FOR EVEN MORE PERSISTENT (VERY DENSE) ITEMS:

At the, "It's true!" step, follow this (entire) sequence:

| "It's true!  It's true!"

| "It's untrue!  It's untrue! It's untrue!"

| "It's true!  It's true!"

|

| "It's untrue!  It's untrue!  It's untrue!"

| "It's true!  It's true!"

| "It's untrue!  It's untrue!  It's untrue!"

Pause and feel until your attention steadies (optimally, at each step).

This formulation helps balance out bias in either direction -- "It's true!" or "It's untrue!". That balance much eases recognition and release.  Play with it once you've gotten accustomed to the procedure.

Esoteric Somatics and Tibetan Buddhism
on kinds of experience in and to which
TetraSeed Modulations may be "interestingly" applied

“To study the Buddha Way is to study the self.
To study the self is to forget the self.
To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.
When actualized by myriad things,
your body and mind as well as the bodies
and minds of others drop away.
No trace of enlightenment remains,
and this no-trace continues endlessly.”
~~ Dogen Zenji

Intuiting and Harnessing the Powers of Intuition

Intuition isn't guesswork.  It isn't following hunches.

Intuition is direct perception of an impending, distant, or "not evident" event without need for description or analysis by the mind.

Perhaps you've had the experience of thinking of someone and very soon the phone rings, and it's them:  intuition (in the form of precognition).

As you know, intuition, like imagination, is ephemeral.  It tends to vanish quickly, unless captured in memory.

To capture anything in memory, it has to make enough of an impression -- something that can come from the intensity of an experience or its repetition -- or both.

In both cases, attention has to rest stably in an intuitive perception -- which means sufficiently steadily and focussed for a memory impression to form -- without use of the thinking mind.

Although intuition doesn't come from the thinking mind, deliberately thinking of something and holding attention on it can direct enough free attention to that item to open the channel of intuition.  It's "think, then feel".

Fleeting attention can't capture intuition.  Scattered attention can't capture intuition.  Noisy mind can't capture intuition.

Attention has to be free enough, the mind quiet enough, to detect an intuitive impression, which generally occurs spontaneously, sometimes instantaneously and sometimes after a delay, "when we're not looking".  You need free attention to capture it.

That last sentence should have clarified, for you, the importance of cleaning up chronic stress patterns, which are background noise in the nervous system.

I started by saying what intuition isn't.  Now, I'll say some things about what it is.

Intuitive impressions of an event or item feel like that event or item in question.  It's like a coming attraction trailer for a film.  It's a mini-experience occurring in our incoming channel, which is imagination; all of the senses may be involved, but at the very least, the feeling (not necessarily emotional) sense is involved.

A good situation to get familiar with this kind of perception is when you are facing a choice between two options; put your attention on each option long enough to steady, focus and get a felt impression.  Alternate between the two options to detect the differences between them.

Though intuition may give us "yes or no" answers, more information than "yes" or "no" is available -- unless the two options are so close that it makes little difference, in which case I recommend that you wait a while until one of them is more prominent.

Why?

Timing.  It may just be too soon.

Our own biases and preferences may color intuition.  Sometimes, intuition says, "no" when we want it to say, "yes" -- or vice versa.  We're wiser to go with intuition than with preference -- to go for the feeling, rather than by knowledge or analysis.

Once in a while, following intuition leads to a surprise, a "what in the world was that about?" moment.  When that happens, take it in stride.  It's a wake-up call to learn to release your attention from fixed positions.

Intuitive perception requires the kind of openness that occurs when stress is low and the nervous system is relatively quiet.  The quieter, the more deep, vivid, and distinct the intuitive perception.

How to get stress low enough?

Balance your four core modes of intelligence:  attention, intention, memory, and imagination -- in every situation in which you feel stressed out -- and experience the peace that results, in each case.

That's all, for now.

In a few days, I'm going to make an announcement of a coming attraction.  Ready?

 

 

13. Focusing, Coherence, and Receptivity to New Ideas | The Foundation of Inspiration

Refreshed openness to new ideas is one of the promises of balanced intelligence.

First, we'll consider what "openness to new ideas means".  I expect that it will not be what you think.

Then, we'll consider how to be open to new ideas.  Here's a little clue:  it takes the same kind of receptivity as for receptivity to imagination -- and I'll explain why, in case it isn't already obvious.

I suspect that for most people, "openness to new ideas" allows for filtering new ideas according to what we know.  That's precisely not openness to new ideas; it's openness to familiar ideas!

Here's a familiar phrase:  "thinking outside the box".

"The box" is everything we believe we know.

So, openness to new ideas means allowing for all ideas -- not necessarily to act upon them or even to accept them, but to release the grip of mind that screens out anything not already ringing the bell of familiarity.  The operative word, here, is allowing.

Why?  

Because memory -- everything we think we know -- tends to drown out new ideas.  Pre-emptive rejection.

Here's an example of pre-emptive rejection.  It concerns actress Hedy Lamarr, who was in films of the 1940s.

It turns out that Hedy Lamarr was brilliant as well as beautiful.  She had a mind open to new ideas beyond those of the movie industry.  Actresses and actors must have focussed, coherent attention -- and imagination -- to perform.  She was practiced, in them.

On one occasion, she was in the studio of a musician who had a player piano.  In case you don't know, a player piano is an automatic piano; it has the music encoded in punch marks on a large roll of paper that feeds through a mechanism that activates the keys of the piano -- punch marks similar to those used in vintage 1970s computers to enter data from large stacks of punched cards.  We still hear of those used in voting machines.

She was aware of the use of radio controlled torpedos in the war effort (WW II) -- probably from news reports -- and that those radio signals were being intercepted by the enemy to evade or misdirect torpedos.  She was also aware of coding efforts (famous name:  Enigma) used to encrypt communications -- and that the enemy was getting better at decoding encrypted messages.

When she saw how a player piano worked, she had an insight into the radio control problem:  the one-to-one correspondence between the locations of the holes and the keys being activated on a player piano.  She recognized how torpedos' control signals could be made to switch to different radio frequencies (corresponding to different keys) while a torpedo was in transit, analogous to the way a player piano roll controls the piano, while the music was playing -- in a programmed way -- to defeat attempts to intercept the radio control signals.

She went through the effort of contacting officials at the Pentagon to present her idea -- called Frequency Hopping, in a meeting.  They had the meeting, and they rejected Frequency Hopping.

Officials at the Pentagon demonstrated pre-emptive rejection.  They wouldn't think outside the box, but stuck with what they thought they "knew".  They may even have failed to give proper attention to the idea because it came from an actress.

Nonetheless, she patented the technology.

Decades later, the exact same scheme has become part of the system that routes phone calls through the cellular network and which is in use, today -- a switching scheme for efficient wi-fi.  That was Hedy Lamarr's invention -- and now she gets credit, for it.

Hedy Lamarr's insight depended upon her focus (ability to see details) and coherence (ability to stay on-subject and to see more deeply).  She wasn't actively searching for a solution to the torpedo guidance vulnerability; it came to her, spontaneously.  That's how it works -- inspiration when we're not looking.

Coherence allowed her to focus steadily enough for her to see the details -- and for an idea "outside the box" to come.  She had the presence of mind to recognize its potential and the tenacity to arrange a presentation to Pentagon officials.  Coherent Focusing.

Focusing and coherence are attributes of free attention.

Free your attention, and focus and coherence are available, to you.

That's all, for today.

 

 

1. Do you yearn for a more peaceful life? Here's something that may be worth hearing

Have you been trying to create a more peaceful life by changing your circumstances -- everything and everyone around you? or even yourself?

That's what almost everybody in the world has tried and continues to try.  Our world situation is where that strategy has landed us.

Albert Einstein said something relevant -- if people could hear it:  "Problems cannot be solved from the same level of consciousness that created them."  If we digest that, it might sound like this:  "The results of our actions reflect our state of mind when doing those actions."  Chew on that, for a moment.  State of mind matters.

Another saying often swallowed whole, without much chewing is, "Become the change you want to see in the world."  Sounds good, doesn't it?  Idealistic!  Lofty!  Everybody should do it! 

I think Gandhi said that. After chewing, it sounds like a platitude:  "Live with integrity." Now, re-visit Gandhi's saying about being the change we want to see, in the world.  They fit together.  See?

And yet, we tend to try it the other way, first.  Change the world!!!

Why is that?

I think it's because so few of us are able to regulate our own state, very well, we instead seek to cope with circumstances to bring relief.  Coping is very tiring.  That's because "beneath" coping is resistance and opposition -- or it wouldn't seem like coping.  

Over a lifetime, it piles up. That's why, as we age, we go for the familiar, the commonplace, the conventional.  The pile-up

Some people try "inner work".  We aspire to healthy ideals, mental health, mindfulness and spirituality.  For such approaches to succeed, they must effectively eliminate the pile-ups. It's slow going.

Those pile-ups pervade our lives as lifelong patterns so familiar as to be taken as "just how I am"; we lack access to "the levers and switches of the runaway train that is our mind" -- that's why it's an uphill climb that seems like things are going downhill, fast.

The world is a conspiracy of stressful search for relief from stress.  Doing, doing, and more doing -- our state of readiness for anything and everything in all kinds of ways and running our lives according to everything we know.  "Stress".  "Overwhelm".  "Too much".  "On your mark! Get Set! ..."  Am I exaggerating?

We're not peaceful or we can get only "more peaceful".  A sea of "stress" pervades our places, concentrated some places (like airport departure gates), lower-level in others (like sensory-deprivation centers and massage studios), moderate-to-high level (parks and public venues) to hysterical (corporations, cities and the news media).  We get infected.  Relief is often temporary.

Because we seem to have so little control of our own state, we blame our stress on causes outside ourselves.  "Such and such made me feel bad." 

That load gets big.  When it becomes overwhelming, distress seems to surface like Nessie, The Loch Ness Monster -- or suddenly to loom, like Godzilla.  Bananas -- it's Bananas.

But the stress comes not from the circumstances, but from our own way of operating.  It's our internal state that we're experiencing, not "circumstances".  No escape from ourselves.

But, not having a handle on our own state, we make attempts to change circumstances, escape, or to suppress our reactions -- and away we go.  More of the same.

The more "stressed" we become about our chronic lives, the more disturbed we are, the more aggressive we become for something different.   We might become an entrepreneur! or for more of the same -- like a millionaire politician.

So, some people yearn for a more peaceful life -- and that's a sign of intelligence.

How to unload the pile-up without giving up or making unacceptable compromises? without burnout? without just persisting and bearing up?  Without becoming a moron?

What to do?  What to do?

Stay tuned.

Next expostulation forthcoming in two days, or so.

 

 

Change and Turbulence

 Every change involves turbulence, called, "disturbance".

People who resist change are resisting that turbulence and people who recoil from the disturbance of turbulence resist change.

As a result, little changes.

To be able to change requires a kind of steadiness characteristic of Balanced Intelligence -- a dynamic balancing, not a fixed, static state of balance.

Using the TetraSeed Awakening Matrix | The Intelligence Lattice

There is a way of using the Intelligence Lattice that economizes on time.

It's to select one expression in each of the four "muscles" of intelligence.

Identify the item you're wanting to illuminate.

Holding it in mind, go through each of the expressions in each column ("muscles" of intelligence), sensing which one "lights up" or becomes more vivid and distinct.  That's the basis for selecting each of the four expressions.

Then, using those expressions, combine them into pairs of every possible combination in the TAM3 rhythm, in the following manner.

A

AB

AB

AB

B

B [ item]

B [ item ] 

[ item ]


B

BA

BA

BA

A

A [ item ]

A [ item ]

[ item ]

"Priming":

repeatedly invoking the expressions of the four modes of intelligence until they turn on sufficiently vividly to feel.

Instructions for Novice Practitioners of The Middle-Way Memory Matrix

In the Middle-Way Memory Matrix, the feelings the words evoke tend to show up at varying levels of vividness.

Equalize them.

To do so links them.

Linking them places them into mutual relationship.

That leads to integration

It also leads to self-insight, spontaneous self-releases, and self-corrections.

Sensing the moment of meaning beginning, when we say or think a word, and the moment of meaning ending is called "cropping" our words.

"Cropping" our words teaches observing, starting, and stopping the fixation of attention:intention.

"Cropping" is a more advanced technique in using The Middle-Way Memory Matrix.

The words of The Middle-Way Memory Matrix are expressions of intentions.  Rest at an expression long enough for its meaning to consolidate -- or it's evident that nothing is forthcoming.  Hold to the rhythms of the words shown in the recorded instruction.