Is the limit of development of God's identity to be
some sort of unpredictable, potentially dangerous, autocratic
SuperSpook?
It has been written,
"No man may look upon the face of God and live."
That sounds like a SuperSpook, to me.
How about another perspective:
that whatever God may be
God is not a he
or a she
although God may pervade
he and she
as the mystery at the deepest unknown essence
of a he or a she.
God is not a person
but God may be perceived to pervade persons
to appear via and through a person
as the person's radiance, the person's light.
The God-light of consciousness pervades all.
God pervades all,
though that may not be noticed
in the distracted involvement with it all
buried in the density of self.
The heart of all, is mystery
the substance of all, even the atoms
and also the continuing appearing of all,
even your own next thought.
The Mystery of it all cannot be denied.
Mystery is ever-present, before all, after all.
But Mystery confounds us
with our inability
to get a fix on it,
deflected, as the same poles of two magnets,
seek to deflect each other aside.
It is that force of deflection
when we persist in facing into the Mystery
that dislodges us from what we know.
Then, our actions communicate the genius of the Mystery, itself.
From Mystery all emerges.
Mystery is Source,
undefined
pervading all that appears defined
as living genius.
The God Myth:
Pushing the swirling memories of existence around
emerging with ever-new genius.
Existence, given momentum by density and the slowness of density to change
creates the appearance of Time,
the movements of things
and the changing of things
from one thing into another.
Density gives substance to, and is, the experience of, things moving.
Things moving creates the appearance of time.
Gazing into Mystery
dissolves us in Mystery,
so that it is said,
"One may not see the face of God
and live."
Rather, our density softens, expands and loosens
so that we change more readily
from one thing into another.
In that sense, no one may see the face of God
and live as (s)he has lived.
Mutation is upon him
who feels attention into the ineffable, deflective, indefinable Fount of Mystery.
Inspiration comes not from self
or the effort of self
or the aspiration of self,
but from the confounding of self
in intentional confrontation with Mystery
present in every moment of creation.
We witness the emergence of "something and everything" from the Mystery.
Everything appears in the medium and language of our lives of action,
Mystery paradoxically embodied in form -- as form --
form being recognizable, because of memory and language.
The resurrection of the being
comes with dissolution in Mystery --
to be transformed (softer and looser)
to be outshined by the Mystery
even as we appear to be mired in and as
a dense, slowly changing form with momentum to endure as we are.
God is not an unpredictable, dangerous, autocratic SuperSpook.
God, if we may say, is the genius of newness, the enlivening of life
and the mysterious power of life, beyond life, itself.
But not a "Him".
Not a "Him,"
but the Mystery of all
that gives rise to all of life
and life more abundantly.
The glory is not "His",
but that of the great Mystery and Source
called The Father.
Not a "father"
nor a Grandfather
or a Grandmother,
or even a rich Uncle.
Therefore, submit all things
before the Mystery
as if as a sacrifice,
so that Mystery may transform all --
not through burning to ashes and drippings
but through transformation and pervasion
by Mystery,
the intuition of which attracts attention, erotically --
curiosity enticed by Mystery,
Mystery that internally corrects and reforms
shapes and guides
the living form that we verily are
not by action, but by absorption in its own nature.
Now, if you understand that,
I have this piece of property in Brooklyn --
a bridge, as a matter of fact,
that for the right price . . .
But that's in another universe
another world
another dream.
Somatic Harmonization | Bringing Probabilities into Existence
Hey! FOLKS!! Let's do an experiment in "somatic harmonization"* and see what we can do.
*through group alignment of attention and intention
in a certain direction,
setting up a resonance in the morphic field
for the self-organizing,
self-reinforcing,
and immanent appearance
of a good-hearted "possibility-become-event".
We call the act, "somatic harmonization" and the event, "an attractive possibility to actually happen."
We organize for new experiences from our core | our attention, our intention, and our memory-imagination coalesce and move. In the coalescence of imagination (daydreaming, fantasizing, anchor aweigh), memory (getting situated, anchor down), material appearance (believing it matters) , and perpetuation (our imperative, whether toward, away or around) we generate a favorable condition for an event -- remembered, happening, or fantasized/dreamed -- to occur in our experience.
Let us "imagine into being" more and more use of Tibetan icons in the mass-entertainment media -- for mass preservation and regeneration of the Tibetan people and culture. Icons in advertising, in drama and comedy, in film, just momentary appearances, enough to make an impression on memory that can accumulate.
Lest this be confused with "Harmonic Convergence" thinking, let me point out that it takes sufficient time to stabilize a readily accessible memory in the morphic field as if were presently happening. A day, even with buzz before and after, is insufficient to set up a stable morphic field when random public individuals are involved, who otherwise have little in common. That was "The Harmonic Convergence, and "11/11/11" -- a lot of imagination, some memory, and not much correlation between the talk and the events. Somatic awakening is a trump card, a special resource, a secret potentiality -- an actuality -- the potentiality available with greater somatic awakening and higher integration, dissolving old and materializing new imperatives.
Hearkens back to my essay, "Where is Somatics Headed?"
The proof of the pudding is in the eating (not in the recipe).
I will say this: What I have described, here, is what makes "Mastermind" groups effective.
yours truly,
Voice in the Wilderness
IS ANYBODY OUT THERE????
hell-o-O-o-o . . . . .
*through group alignment of attention and intention
in a certain direction,
setting up a resonance in the morphic field
for the self-organizing,
self-reinforcing,
and immanent appearance
of a good-hearted "possibility-become-event".
We call the act, "somatic harmonization" and the event, "an attractive possibility to actually happen."
We organize for new experiences from our core | our attention, our intention, and our memory-imagination coalesce and move. In the coalescence of imagination (daydreaming, fantasizing, anchor aweigh), memory (getting situated, anchor down), material appearance (believing it matters) , and perpetuation (our imperative, whether toward, away or around) we generate a favorable condition for an event -- remembered, happening, or fantasized/dreamed -- to occur in our experience.
Let us "imagine into being" more and more use of Tibetan icons in the mass-entertainment media -- for mass preservation and regeneration of the Tibetan people and culture. Icons in advertising, in drama and comedy, in film, just momentary appearances, enough to make an impression on memory that can accumulate.
Lest this be confused with "Harmonic Convergence" thinking, let me point out that it takes sufficient time to stabilize a readily accessible memory in the morphic field as if were presently happening. A day, even with buzz before and after, is insufficient to set up a stable morphic field when random public individuals are involved, who otherwise have little in common. That was "The Harmonic Convergence, and "11/11/11" -- a lot of imagination, some memory, and not much correlation between the talk and the events. Somatic awakening is a trump card, a special resource, a secret potentiality -- an actuality -- the potentiality available with greater somatic awakening and higher integration, dissolving old and materializing new imperatives.
Hearkens back to my essay, "Where is Somatics Headed?"
The proof of the pudding is in the eating (not in the recipe).
I will say this: What I have described, here, is what makes "Mastermind" groups effective.
yours truly,
Voice in the Wilderness
IS ANYBODY OUT THERE????
hell-o-O-o-o . . . . .
MAINSTREAMING HANNA SOMATIC EDUCATION | Part 7 | It will be explosive and ongoing.
Let me explain something. When somatic education "takes off", it will not do so, "like a gentleman" or "in a ladylike way", saying, "Here we are, ladies and gentlemen," like some spawn of academia or science. It will not introduce itself to polite society, asking for approval and acceptance. It will not play by the rules.
It will be explosive, viral.
You know how virii spread? They don't spread "arithmetically" -- by addition: "1 + 2 + 3 ..." -- not geometrically -- by multiplication: "1 x 2 x 3" -- but exponentially, like the expanding Universe -- the longer it expands, the faster it expands, the only limit being "the maximum speed of information transmission". If you can imagine it, it's faster than that.
The difference: there's no immunity to somatic education. It's a cosmological imperative arising out of The Big Bang (of which Thomas Hanna spoke as our origin and nature). There may be resistance from the old order (as in Chris' reference to the AMA attacking HSE), but that will "cave in". There may be the inertia of obliviousness (as in people not recognizing what it is), but that will be temporary. Since we dealing in ideas, information and transformations deeper than acculturation, and since the need is cross-cultural, there's no way of heading it off. It will not wait for us to keep up -- or to catch up. It will come upon us like a tidal wave, when the time comes.
Think of the spread of cell-phones throughout the world, even to the poorest African nations. Faster and more pervasive than that. Think of our technological revolution (in progress and accelerating). Think of the information explosion (in progress and accelerating). Think of how yawning and laughter spread from person to person, involuntarily: Somatic Contagion. It's built in to humanity.
What will "go viral" will not be merely "clinical somatic education", like some form of medicine or bodywork. It will be full-spectrum somatic education. When it catches on, it will be a chain reaction, a wave that transforms everything in its path, every social sector I mentioned in a previous entry and more, every discipline, and from all directions.
I don't say, "Be ready." I don't think we can "be ready". That implies a "gentlemanly" or "ladylike" continuation of the status quo and "the expected rules". It will go viral unexpectedly at the moment it reaches "critical mass". The operative word, here, is "unexpectedly".
What we can do is respond with the greatest integrity and competence of which we are capable at the moment when the effects reach us, when the world-wide information network carries the message broadly, starting first as small streams into local backwaters, and expanding -- and the onslaught of public interest, fueled by need, begins. It will change our lives, as well. It will be "quite a ride" and it's barely begun.
It will be explosive, viral.
You know how virii spread? They don't spread "arithmetically" -- by addition: "1 + 2 + 3 ..." -- not geometrically -- by multiplication: "1 x 2 x 3" -- but exponentially, like the expanding Universe -- the longer it expands, the faster it expands, the only limit being "the maximum speed of information transmission". If you can imagine it, it's faster than that.
The difference: there's no immunity to somatic education. It's a cosmological imperative arising out of The Big Bang (of which Thomas Hanna spoke as our origin and nature). There may be resistance from the old order (as in Chris' reference to the AMA attacking HSE), but that will "cave in". There may be the inertia of obliviousness (as in people not recognizing what it is), but that will be temporary. Since we dealing in ideas, information and transformations deeper than acculturation, and since the need is cross-cultural, there's no way of heading it off. It will not wait for us to keep up -- or to catch up. It will come upon us like a tidal wave, when the time comes.
Think of the spread of cell-phones throughout the world, even to the poorest African nations. Faster and more pervasive than that. Think of our technological revolution (in progress and accelerating). Think of the information explosion (in progress and accelerating). Think of how yawning and laughter spread from person to person, involuntarily: Somatic Contagion. It's built in to humanity.
What will "go viral" will not be merely "clinical somatic education", like some form of medicine or bodywork. It will be full-spectrum somatic education. When it catches on, it will be a chain reaction, a wave that transforms everything in its path, every social sector I mentioned in a previous entry and more, every discipline, and from all directions.
I don't say, "Be ready." I don't think we can "be ready". That implies a "gentlemanly" or "ladylike" continuation of the status quo and "the expected rules". It will go viral unexpectedly at the moment it reaches "critical mass". The operative word, here, is "unexpectedly".
What we can do is respond with the greatest integrity and competence of which we are capable at the moment when the effects reach us, when the world-wide information network carries the message broadly, starting first as small streams into local backwaters, and expanding -- and the onslaught of public interest, fueled by need, begins. It will change our lives, as well. It will be "quite a ride" and it's barely begun.
Mainstreaming Hanna Somatic Education, part 6 | the five stages of acceptance
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross wrote of the five stages of grieving a loss. Her words are relevant because most people (especially those with a vested interest in conventional methods) are attached to their ways -- and to switch to our way entails a loss -- a loss of face, a loss of ego, a loss of status. People avoid "beginner's mind" and The Zone of Incomprehensibility
Her five stages of grieving:
1) denial
2) anger
3) bargaining
4) depression
5) acceptance
In practice, people who hear about HSE, who are not otherwise desperate for help, first deny our validity by ignoring us.
Then, they ridicule or invalidate us, and if not to our faces, then in their minds. (anger). This observation applies to chauvinistic "Feldy" types who prefer to think Tom Hanna was an upstart usurper, as well as to most physicans and physical therapists.
Then, they allow a little of what we have to say to penetrate ("They may have a point -- but it's unproven."), while seeking to maintain an attitude of superiority or seniority -- their usual viewpoint (bargaining/jockeying to maintain position/status). Tom Hanna's first act, with us Wave 1 people, was to ask us to put everything we knew about bodies and bodywork "on the shelf". He knew.
Then, when they realize that they're screwed (by their own condition and/or the limitations of their approach), they begin to submit, but in the mood of "I've lost." (depression)
At last, when they actually take action and get the benefits, they accept HSE and advocate it -- and encounter the same pathetic five stages in the people with whom they want to share HSE. (acceptance)
That's what's in the way of mainstreaming HSE.
Once HSE gets a toehold in the culture (we scarcely have that, now), and the mass media are giving us some play, they'll still have to go through the stages, but they'll go through much faster.
In the meantime, as we do our work and make our communications, we'll polarize people:
1) driving the most hard-headed away from us
2) gradually infiltrating the thinking of those less hard-headed, getting their skeptical and unsympathetic attention
3) intriguing the attention of those with some curiosity, drawing them toward finding out more about our work
4) attracting people toward us for one-on-one conversation
5) attracting people to use our services
6) having people advocate our work to others
7) attracting new trainees in HSE
In summary, we'll polarize people either into running away from us as fast as they can or coming to join us -- and every stage in between.
Our best candidates are those those know that they're screwed and they're looking for something -- they don't know what.
I've noticed that I've had scant success getting clients from conversations in public places (maybe it's my personality), or from advertising.
For years, friends and clients have wondered why this work isn't more popular, why friends they've told about somatics don't come to me. This piece may reveal the heart of the matter: people are attached to what they already know, haven't realized that they're screwed without somatic education; they aren't desperate enough.
The desperate who are looking find me on-line or hear from friends who were clients. They come and they reach "stage 5".
Hallelujah.
The Effects of Jaw Tension -- Is the gag on you?
Jaw tension and jaw movement
are a very interesting pivotal point
in the consideration of balanced movement and stance
but also of physiological health
and emotional well-being.
self-relief program (video)
Our balance depends much upon
where our jaw (mandible) is
in relation to our cranium:
clenched or loosely supported
mandible forward, head back
or mandible back, head down and forward
or tighter more on one side than on the other?
or with our cranium well centered and
moving in a well-balanced, well-supported way
by our free and gently elongated neck?
or pulling our head down and forward
as our lower jaw (mandible) pulls back and up
seemingly by itself
with no doing on our part.
LIKE A NUTCRACKER.
and the position of our jaw reflects our physiological state and shape
our arousal state
our emotional state
our attitude
our readiness for what's next
or our unreadiness
our "running" old memories
as our best understanding of the present
without also facing the mystery as
this living moment.
The View from Outside
The lower jaw, the mandible, connects most intimately with the body-core and front (ventral aspect) of the body.
Miscoordination of the jaws, in biting, chewing, and rest position, causes a misfit between the front and back of the body. That misfit causes chronic muscular tensions in the trunk and disturbances to breathing, swallowing, balance, posture and movement. Jaws are a big deal. I say more about that, below.
But for now, I think it's time we looked something squarely in the face, viz.,
"the grimace".
The grimace goes with the gag reflex,
but also with coughing,
revulsion, disgust (pulling back of the tongue),
and suppressed anger (pulling back the mandible in suppression of the urge to bite someone
or perhaps say something really rude),
all involving changes to the face, jaw position, the inside of the mouth, and throat.
And to all that, I say, "Blecch!"
But, there we are. We might as well look at it,
particularly if all that describes us.
So, the first question:
Where does our lower jaw go on such occasions?
Why, up and back.
The teeth clench,
the bones of the face compress and the face gets harder,
the tongue pulls back in and presses against the soft palate.
The head pulls forward and down,
the top of the head tips back
and the neck vertebrae come forward,
closing the throat passage from behind.
It's a response that says,
"Nothing's going in
and something may be coming out!"
Back to the jaws.
Clenching the teeth involves the muscles of the sides of the head
pulling the lower jaw (mandible)
up against the teeth of the upper jaw (the maxilla),
so the muscles of clenching pull the sides (and therefore, top) of the head down
and the bottom of the head, up
in a big squeeze.
The face shows it.
More is happening, however.
With the closing of the throat
comes also
depression of the front of the chest --
a cave-in
and compression around the base of the head
where the spinal cord enters (foramen magnum)
producing a sensation registered, somatically,
as shrinking inward along our length
and possibly, queasiness.
The change of mouth, throat, and chest shape
impair breathing at two focal locations
the throat
and the chest.
Well, this is a jolly state to be in.
The question arises:
"What is a more wholesome resting position of the lower jaw?"
I say,
"It is hanging freely, floating beneath the upper teeth
and somewhat forward."
self-relief program (video)
The exact amount of forward depends upon the inclination of the head
but in the neutral or balanced head position,
my provisional stand is, "the incisors match up"
although it's an error to think of the jaws having a fixed rest position.
It's more that they have a floating equilibrium that changes with head movement and position.
When our head is more inclined (forehead up)
the lower jaw hangs back, somewhat
as in the gag reflex
or worry.
When our head is somewhat bowed (forehead forward)
our lower jaw hangs forward, somewhat.
When our head is balanced between forward and back
our lower jaw hangs freely at some floating suspension point,
our facial bones feel the downward pull of the lower jaw
and they separate, somewhat
and our face softens.
Our chest spontaneously reshapes, sternum higher
breathing fuller,
and we sit at a new balance.
Some contrast with the gag reflex, eh?
So when we are revolting against life,
when life seems revolting to us
when "our bodies" are in revolt
or we are confronted with a revolting body,
and the emotion of revulsion closes in
we clench our teeth, somewhat,
or maybe a lot. (TMJ Dysfunction/bruxism)
Repressed anger involves a pulling back of the mandible (lower jaw)
and clenching of the teeth,
the proverbial "gnashing of teeth",
combined with a pasted-on smile
really, a grimace
not a true grin,
really the action of repressing rage and the urge
to bite someone or, as I said,
say something really rude.
An alternate cause of tightening the jaws in a held position
is pain in the jaws or teeth, whatever the cause,
which triggers the grimace response
of pulling the lower jaw back and up
or clenching the face.
Pain of sufficient intensity or duration
can cause long-term conditioning that outlasts the pain
and causes lingering pain of its own.
The same emotional and functional physiological changes occur from either cause.
It's not an all-or-none reaction, either, but a matter of degree
according to the pain or emotional state, involved.
A person may experience manifestations of narrowed air passages:
he may snore
or have sleep apnea
or just grind his teeth at night
frightening his spouse
and nearby neighbors.
enables us to feel and release accumulated grimace or pain-cringe
and enables us to move toward overall more wholesome health.
Our face shows it.
AH-MAIN
If you want to know how wholesome your own jaw position is,
take a walk and do this:
As you walk, slowly nod your head in a "yes" movement and feel how freely your lower jaw changes hanging position.
If it doesn't change position very slightly but freely, you have excessive jaw tension.Instead of a jaw splint, night guard or "appliance", develop control of your own jaw muscles by the means provided, here, so you don't need these devices. It's a faster (and more economical) approach to solving the problem.
MORE ON CAUSES:
articles on TMJ Dysfunction /TMD
Causes of TMJ Dysfunction
PRACTICAL ACTION:
instructional video
preparation for the instructional video, above, if needed
self-relief program (video)
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Lawrence Gold is a certified Clinical Somatic Educator (Hanna somatic education(R)) in practice since 1990 with two years' experience on-staff at a community hospital wellness and rehabilitation center in California. He has experience addressing TMJ Dysfunction (TMD) and sleep apnea. Read the articles linked, above, for fit to your condition -- and contact Lawrence by email, here.
An Easier, More Thorough Way to Release (Dispel) Stress and Enhance Creative Ingenuity: The Gold Key Release Balanced Intelligence process
The Gold Key Release
INSTRUCTION to DISSOLVE the GRIP
of STRESS PATTERNS
THAT KEEP US STUCK
~ a Way Out ~
INSTRUCTION to DISSOLVE the GRIP
of STRESS PATTERNS
THAT KEEP US STUCK
~ a Way Out ~
________________
on to the basics of
The Gold Key Release:
Relieving Ourselves of Accumulated Stress, On-Demand
RECORDED COACHING:
(since improved upon;
to be updated)
(since improved upon;
to be updated)
Optimal use:
(clickable] recorded instruction - full, two-segment form
(22 minutes, 30 seconds)
recording of someone being coached, (published with permission)
(12 minutes | earlier version)
(22 minutes, 30 seconds)
recording of someone being coached, (published with permission)
(12 minutes | earlier version)
EXPLANATION
It may seem odd that four functions can account for the entirety of possible experiences, but they do seem to. The unevenness of their development in people explains a lot about the world.
MEMORY and IMAGINATION
Memory is our sense of anything at all persisting at some level of intensity. That includes our at-present-moment experience, since our ability to recognize anything in the present moment depends upon memory. You've got to know something like it in order to recognize it. Our sense of anything and everything is memory; our imagination "fits" our memories to what we are sensing and that's what makes things seem recognizable. I'm not saying experience is based on memory; I'm saying that it is memory -- and the three other functions: imagination, attention, and intention.
Our sense of the solidity or actuality or substantiality or reality of reality is memory -- co-arising with, and filled out, by the three other functions.
Memory is our sense of anything at all persisting at some level of intensity. That includes our at-present-moment experience, since our ability to recognize anything in the present moment depends upon memory. You've got to know something like it in order to recognize it. Our sense of anything and everything is memory; our imagination "fits" our memories to what we are sensing and that's what makes things seem recognizable. I'm not saying experience is based on memory; I'm saying that it is memory -- and the three other functions: imagination, attention, and intention.
Our sense of the solidity or actuality or substantiality or reality of reality is memory -- co-arising with, and filled out, by the three other functions.
Memory forms when we have both attention on something and an intention toward it -- whether conscious and deliberate or automatic.
Attention[ x ] (times) Imagination [ x ] (times) Persistence
==> Memory
==> Memory
MEMORY FEELS LIKE
actuality, certainty of Reality, solid truth
MATTER
IMAGINATION FEELS LIKE
possibility and expectation,
"fantasy and ideas coming to me"
dream-like or daydream-like
LIGHT
The Teeth of The Gold Key
Every key has teeth.
The teeth fit and unlock the lock.
When you unlock your invisible limiting conditioning
with the steps of The Gold Key Release,
with the steps of The Gold Key Release,
you experience a Release
that feels like a Transcendent "Kiss"
an actual sensation probably unlike anything
you've experienced, before --
a Kiss of Dissolution into Formlessness
(please tolerate the metaphor).
an actual sensation probably unlike anything
you've experienced, before --
a Kiss of Dissolution into Formlessness
(please tolerate the metaphor).
(NOTE: "an actual sensation" means that you don't just come away thinking that you are supposed to get some result, soon, maybe later; it's that you vividly feel a distinct change in yourself -- immediately -- something unusual, something substantial. You feel more natural and different -- more like yourself.)
As the mind-habits that keep you going round and round
in "the same old same old"
As the mind-habits that keep you going round and round
in "the same old same old"
dissolve and dissipate
you come free to think, feel, and move in new ways --
spontaneously, more fittingly, naturally.
you come free to think, feel, and move in new ways --
spontaneously, more fittingly, naturally.
GUIDELINES
The words I use in these instructions are intended to point to felt meanings, not to "word definitions". Each step stimulates our sensibilities. So, catch the feeling you get as you hear each step -- then rest and await the next step.
At first, some people may not feel much, depending on how deeply they feel life, in general. If you don't get much, the first time, the solution is simple: Repeat the Gold Key Release. Each pass through is different.
At each step, take whatever comes up without evaluating it for correctness or dredging for more. Whatever comes up, take it, as is. There's nothing you need to remember.
The words I use in these instructions are intended to point to felt meanings, not to "word definitions". Each step stimulates our sensibilities. So, catch the feeling you get as you hear each step -- then rest and await the next step.
At first, some people may not feel much, depending on how deeply they feel life, in general. If you don't get much, the first time, the solution is simple: Repeat the Gold Key Release. Each pass through is different.
At each step, take whatever comes up without evaluating it for correctness or dredging for more. Whatever comes up, take it, as is. There's nothing you need to remember.
Use the exact wording shown, without paraphrasing (at least not until you are proficient enough to improvise improvements). (If you want to know why, try paraphrasing and compare.)
What follows is a full explanation of how to use The Gold Key Release. However, the process works without this explanation if you follow the recorded instructions.
The following section is for people who require some foreknowledge before trying anything new. However, the process works without explanation, so consider this an optional preview.
The first part of Gold Key Release takes about four minutes; the second part, about seven minutes.
PREPARATION
- Remember something - - anything - - and notice what "remembering" feels like.
- Imagine something - - anything - - and notice what "imagining" feels like.
This section is to awaken and sharpen your power of attention.
Alternate between remembering and imagining and repeat until you can clearly tell the difference -- and the connection -- between imagining and remembering.
One difference has to do with the degree of density of the experience and with the deliberateness with which you hold it.
Remembering feels solid; imagining feels ephemeral or likely to disappear if effort isn't maintained. . . . . and the connection? That's for you to find out.
(Here's a little hint about the relationship between imagination and memory: If you imagine something enough times or with enough intensity, the imagining gets remembered. Imagining becomes remembering. Imagining is like "the mouth of experience"; remembering is like the stomach.)
One difference has to do with the degree of density of the experience and with the deliberateness with which you hold it.
Remembering feels solid; imagining feels ephemeral or likely to disappear if effort isn't maintained. . . . . and the connection? That's for you to find out.
(Here's a little hint about the relationship between imagination and memory: If you imagine something enough times or with enough intensity, the imagining gets remembered. Imagining becomes remembering. Imagining is like "the mouth of experience"; remembering is like the stomach.)
ACTION #1
Identify the item you want to release (unlock).
Your item may be one of those, below, or anything that has substance, to you.
(Choose one and make note of interesting, possible others.)
(Choose one and make note of interesting, possible others.)
In the beginning stage of practice, you may choose a specific instance or occasion (memory you have) in which you experienced one of the items, below. As you get better, you will become able to deal with the conditions, below, in general, rather than requiring specific memories on which to run a Gold Key Release.
So, select an item that has some intensity, to you. It's a good practice to choose conditions that keep showing up in your life.
- anything that bothers you
- anger
- sorrow
- fear
- guilt
- shame
- (more ... to be suggested in The Gold Key Release Training)
- Be artful and clever! Do a thorough Gold Key Release on the feeling you have from reading this entry!
At the very beginning, you may or may not have enough "presence of mind" to catch yourself in persistent patterns. Those are good "items" -- but you've got to catch yourself at them to recognize them. Don't choose "hypotheticals" or things you've read about. Choose something actual, in your life.
Rule of thumb: If something bothers you, THAT'S A GOOD ONE!!!
If there's something you think about, often, that's it. If you're buried in a mood, that's a good one. If you're in a situation that brings up strong emotions, that's a good one. When you recognize one of those, it must occur to you to do The Gold Key Release.
In a formal Gold Key Release on-line training, I can provide more, and more interesting, "items".
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ACTION STEPS: (next version to be published)
"Holding the Lock in Your Hand"
Regarding your selected, "work-with" item: (to be read aloud)
State it to yourself two or three times, distinctly.
| | Feel, "having it".
| | Notice where you feel it, in you.
| | [ the name of your item ]
| | Feel the intensity of identifying [ the name of your item ].
| | [ the name of your item ]
| | Feel the intensity of its intensity.
| | [ the name of your item]
| | Listen.
| | Listen.
| | Feel the shape ... of its intensity.
| | [ the name of your item]
| | [ the name of your item]
| | Think to yourself:
"Intending [ the name of your item ]
"Intending [ the name of your item ]
"Intending [ the name of your item ]
"Intending refusing.
"Refusing.
| | "Refusing [ the name of your item ]"Refusing.
| | "Refusing [ the name of your item ]
| | Feel how it mattering involves YOU.
| | [ the name of your item ] [ the name of your item ]
| | It matters.
| | [ the name of your item ]
| | [ the name of your item ] doesn't matter.
| | It doesn't matter.
| | [ the name of your item ]
| | ... It matters.
| | Feel how it mattering involves YOU.
| | Feel how it mattering involves others.
Unlocking the Lock:
| ! | Think to yourself and feel: "It's true. It's true."
| ! | Think to yourself and feel: "It's untrue. It's untrue . . .
It's untrue."
| | "It's true."
| ! | Think to yourself and feel: "It's true. It's true."
| ! | Think to yourself and feel: "It's untrue. It's untrue . . .
It's untrue."
| | "It's true."
| | "It's untrue, it's untrue."
| | "It's true, it's true."
| | "It's true, it's true."
| ! | Remembering remembering, "It's true. It's true." (pause and feel)
| ! | Remembering, remembering [your item], "It's true."
| ! | Remembering remembering, "It's untrue. It's untrue."
| ! | Remembering, remembering [your item], "It's untrue."
| ! | Remembering [your item], "It's true."
| ! | Remembering [your item], "It's untrue."
| | Allow how remembering involves imagining.
| | Stop imagining.|=|
Allow it to dissolve, and dissipate.
Notice: You are awake.
Notice: You are awake.
(|=| The "Transcendent Kiss" feeling occurs. You'll know it when you feel it. It's the feeling of your mind feeling amorphous -- losing its form, empty, silent)
That completes the first part of Gold Key Release. Repetition gets more done, until the item is so gone, it doesn't affect you, anymore.
The Transcendent Kiss feeling may occur at any point during The Gold Key Release -- or after several passes through. When it happens, relax and rest. Prevent nothing, hold on to nothing.
Variations of The Gold Key Release exist to address common issues. Get training in those after you have become familiar with the basic Gold Key Release and with the feeling of The Transcendent Kiss.
copyright 2014-2025 Lawrence Gold
This writing may be reproduced only in its entirety
with accurate attribution of authorship.
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No Memory of Eternality | No "The" | No "Time"
Do we confuse persistent, present conditions with permanence and eternality?
Intellectually, perhaps not; emotionally, it seems, we may.
To us, permanence is exactly like a memory that never fades
or that one thing you feel like will never come to an end or go away.
Gawwd.
Of course, there is no such thing as "permanent" or "eternal", but it may seem like there is.
A very interesting property of space-time
makes it seem as if temporary conditions
are permanent.
It has to do, in a roundabout way, with motion.
Everything is in motion. Period.
Even apparently static conditions are in motion -- if only from their molecular vibration due to their temperature being above Absolute Zero.
Everything is in motion in its own way.
and the way everything is, to be in motion,
has to do with the way everything else is in motion.
Anything that is not in motion is not a part of this universe,
because not exchanging energy with anything else,
and cannot be perceived in any sense. By definition.
What is in motion gives substance to space-time,
defining the amount of space it has moved
in terms of the time it took to cross it
and defining time by the use of events perceivable in space.
But something more than motion is necessary to create the appearance of time.
That "something more" is memory.
MOTION plus MEMORY are what our experience of TIME is -- nothing more.
Permanence is a concept derived from memory --
the memory of the perceiver (felt as if permanent)
and the memory of what the perceiver is perceiving
both, inseparable.
The perceiver's idea of "how it was" compared to "how it is",
contrasting long-term memory with short-term memory,
-- that comparison
and that contrast --
makes the sense of time.
It is always a memory of change occurring.
a memory of movement or of motion.
The seeming permanence of anything of the world
depends upon the seeming permanence of the perceiver--
which is really the sense of duration,
dependent on movement + memory.
Given that what does not move is not part of this universe
it follows that all things persist by moving
and seem to be durable or permanent
exactly because they are moving and impermanent.
Why must it be that way?
because the sense of permanence
cannot be perceived if it does not change.
It fades out into its unknown nature,
as happens when you stare at anything for long
and it washes out and vanishes from your field of vision
until you move or it moves, again.
To perceive permanence,
what seems permanent must actually be impermanent and moving.
What is impermanent
seems permanent
by being impermanent.
Just as we, perceivers,
must move to be alive
we must move to perceive what is apparently permanent
durable,
having duration
enduring over time.
So, all we take for permanent
even what is seeming to take forever to change,
we take that way
because we feel the potency of the permanent
through the force of the impermanent.
Eternality is form
and form is eternality
even as it changes.
Right?
Intellectually, perhaps not; emotionally, it seems, we may.
To us, permanence is exactly like a memory that never fades
or that one thing you feel like will never come to an end or go away.
Gawwd.
Of course, there is no such thing as "permanent" or "eternal", but it may seem like there is.
A very interesting property of space-time
makes it seem as if temporary conditions
are permanent.
It has to do, in a roundabout way, with motion.
Everything is in motion. Period.
Even apparently static conditions are in motion -- if only from their molecular vibration due to their temperature being above Absolute Zero.
Everything is in motion in its own way.
and the way everything is, to be in motion,
has to do with the way everything else is in motion.
Anything that is not in motion is not a part of this universe,
because not exchanging energy with anything else,
and cannot be perceived in any sense. By definition.
What is in motion gives substance to space-time,
defining the amount of space it has moved
in terms of the time it took to cross it
and defining time by the use of events perceivable in space.
But something more than motion is necessary to create the appearance of time.
That "something more" is memory.
MOTION plus MEMORY are what our experience of TIME is -- nothing more.
Permanence is a concept derived from memory --
the memory of the perceiver (felt as if permanent)
and the memory of what the perceiver is perceiving
both, inseparable.
The perceiver's idea of "how it was" compared to "how it is",
contrasting long-term memory with short-term memory,
-- that comparison
and that contrast --
makes the sense of time.
It is always a memory of change occurring.
a memory of movement or of motion.
The seeming permanence of anything of the world
depends upon the seeming permanence of the perceiver--
which is really the sense of duration,
dependent on movement + memory.
Given that what does not move is not part of this universe
it follows that all things persist by moving
and seem to be durable or permanent
exactly because they are moving and impermanent.
Why must it be that way?
because the sense of permanence
cannot be perceived if it does not change.
It fades out into its unknown nature,
as happens when you stare at anything for long
and it washes out and vanishes from your field of vision
until you move or it moves, again.
To perceive permanence,
what seems permanent must actually be impermanent and moving.
What is impermanent
seems permanent
by being impermanent.
Just as we, perceivers,
must move to be alive
we must move to perceive what is apparently permanent
durable,
having duration
enduring over time.
So, all we take for permanent
even what is seeming to take forever to change,
we take that way
because we feel the potency of the permanent
through the force of the impermanent.
Eternality is form
and form is eternality
even as it changes.
Right?
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