The Basis of Control, the (dis)Continuity of Self, Integrity and Synchonicity

The term, "agency", has a number of different meanings.  Likewise, the term, "communion". I will say some things, about that.

THE MYSTERY OF SYNCHRONICITIES

Synchonicities are a mystery, to many, and integrity is commonly misunderstood to mean, "behaviors socially considered to be 'proper' and 'honorable'".

Let us clarify the airwaves.

AGENCY
A place where people go to find employment.  To be put to work, to take action. A place that deploys people to employment.  A place where a lot of people are employed.  A place where secret agents hang out.  No.

COMMUNION
A religious ritual.  A religious experience.  A feeling of one-ness with (or as) something or everything.  The result of putting attention on something long enough to get an incoming experience. The experience of incoming experience (ATTENDING TO IMAGINING to the point of REMEMBERING for a time).  The experience of a group of individuals sharing a feeling of one-ness.  A flock of priests.  OK.

What happens when you put them together?  What do you get?

Agency*Communion. A commonality-based unity of agencies, a community of agencies, agencies secretly in communion with each other. A Communist Agency! No.

As living beings, we experience agency as the sense of being a doer of things, being responsible for things, but also of being witness to our spontaneous actions; the taker of responsibility (respondent) as well as apparent and seeming initiator of actions that return consequences back to us.

But -- and here's the big question -- how do we know we're doing or being any of those things?

A-hah!

We experience it as incoming experience.  Received Feedback, Information Formation, The  Narratives of Mythic Beliefs, The Transparency of Truth, The Diversion of Fallacy, Characteristic Emotions, The Body Sense, The self-Sense -- all Modes of Communion -- shaped differently at different levels of the being.

There's more than agency; there's also communion.

So.  Back to Earth.

We have incoming sensations and move in ways and at times that are outgoing --  and at other times, coming back "in" -- returning to rest, floating at center (balance) and at no-center (transcendence).

Communion doing the Sensing
Agency Moving Sensibly Between Activity and Rest
Between Activity and Rest

There may exist more or less continuity in the sensing of oneself in movement more or less continuity in the sensing of \ones own state.  Attention wanders and we don't always look where we're going. There's a condition of misdirection.

Also, the senses depend upon memory for us to recognize anything.  Disruption of ones movements and sudden changes of ones state (shock) create a break of identity (amnesia), as memory can't keep up with the intensity of the change or the speed of that change.  The phonograph needle scratches across, leaving a click (or glitch) behind, as experiences leave their mark (memory), in us.

Identity continues to live, moment-by-moment, as a sensing of self and other and the moment-to-moment embedding of ongoing memories -- most of the "embedding" happens in the background -- unless pleasure overwashes us or pain strikes for a time.  Then, we experience heightened awareness -- more or less pleasant or unpleasant, but heightened -- and heightened awareness is like the laser that burns the groove of a phonograph record, CD or DVD.  The brighter and more sharply focussed, the deeper and sharper the impression. Obvious.

In incidents of disruption and discontinuity, a gap or "abyss of unknowing" encloses or encapsulates the memory stream that existed prior to the disruption. It's "saved" and no longer a continuous part of the memory stream forming after it.  This gap of memory or abyss of unknowing separates the newly forming identity from what it was before the disruption.  That's the discontinuity, a disjointed experience.  It's a lump in the gravy of the mind, a scratch across the record of memory, a skipping of CD playback.  We do well to stir in the lump, to smooth the groove, to buff out the scratch.

But to do so requires magnifying the ability to experience communion, to smooth it out so it's fairly steady.  Then, we can apply that ability for communion -- which is the ability to pay attention -- to the trouble left behind by the disjointed discontinuity on the other side of the abyss of unknowing, the gap in memory.

There exist specific ways to do that (the TetraSeed Awakening Invocations). We find the way into the lost, disjointed experience and we integrate it into our integrity.  We get free in it and free of it. It loses it's compulsivity. It becomes vulnerable to changing, available to emerging newness.

We do clean up on ourselves by making the unconscious, conscious, and undergoing the shifts to ourselves that result from making the unconscious, conscious -- the TetraSeed Awakening Invocations being of effective means of doing so.

The more we clean up, the subtler our sensing and the subtler our control.  Also, the clearer our self-signal and the better our ability to home in on the signals of others and the signals of things to come that invade us through incoming imaginaation (but that we may not notice because of our own disjointedness and mental noise).

Also, as we clean up, more power goes into our actions -- with less effort than we're used to -- because, in our integrity, we have wakened intelligence and released our old forms of self to conform to that higher intelligence. We are more congruent, integrated, "laser-like", free of the drag of unintelligent memories formed as the mark of our remembered experience.  This added potency makes necessary "recalibration" of how much intent we apply, in life, (i.e., recalibration of our self-re-control) from time to time, on a ongoing basis.

This recalibration is the ongoing occupation of human proto-mutants, everywhere, who are learning to awaken themselves so that they and their environments develop more intelligently.

This isn't from Outer Space or science fiction. You think it is? I assure you: it's actual and true of a percentage of humans, today -- the leading face of the progressive movement of humanity, often unseen.

Have you heard of synchronicity?  (who hasn't?).

Synchronicity is an unexpected synchronization of events that have recognizable connections of significance.  In other words, they're too blatantly related to be overlooked, but too weird to act upon.  Synchronicities (dreams that foretell, reveries that show up, in life, like the song that goes through your mind and then shows up on the radio -- how often do you hear that song played? or the person you think of, who calls within a day) -- resonant moments in the stream of experience -- more likely to be recognized if the individual isn't already and presently drowning in the background conditioning of consolidated memories, the noise of a mind with an accumulated pile of unresolved business that causes him (or her) to lag behind in his (or her) responsiveness to present circumstances.  For most of humanity, as far as I can see, "fuggeddaboutit".

Still, synchronicities appear in movies, and even in the circumstances surrounding the creation of each movie -- such as the impossibilities that beset of filming the tale, Don Quixote (not "Man of La Mancha" -- a musical) --- and the state of grace that blessed the filming of the film, "Miracle on 34th Street" -- and the unexpected good fortune that "Casablanca", a film of virtue and healing, with a plot twist at the end, emerged as a classic, an outcome not expected by the studio to be particularly noteworthy -- and the weirdnesses that beset the filming of, "The Wizard of Oz".

But I digress.  Not really. Not at all, actually.

Synchronicity.

Agency in Communion with Communion
and Communion Intelligently Informing Agency

There develops a finer clarity of self-expression -- the way agency transforms when in communion with communion, and adapts more easily (though occasionally, it must be admitted, screaming, with feet dragging and fists pounding -- that's humanity in the 21st Century).

There develops a finer clarity in how Communion communicates the situation of reality to Agency.  (Get the metaphor?  No?  Then I'm wrong -- or you're just not aware of that, yet)

Sensation and movement are inner and outer perspectives on the individual (soma - body).

Sensation is Communion.
Movement is Agency.

The correspond to

ATTENTION (COMMUNION)

~ and ~

INTENTION (AGENCY)

Communion:Attention:Sensation  || Agency:Intention:Movement

See how they go together?

Soma is (we are) sentient (sensory attentive and intentionally moving), developmental (faculties emerge), initiatory (pushy),  malleable (omni-adaptive, more or less), and can be observed to undergo changes of tension and intention as experience activates different memory patterns.  You know.  Nervous tension, emotional "reactivity", resistance to change, guilt, offensive defensiveness internal conflict, regret, shame ... (the list goes on an on). You get the idea.

Want better self-awareness and self-expression?  Want greater intelligence? Improve the vehicle of expression -- yourself -- not by adhering to a set of ideals, but by dissolving the drag of confused agency and awakening the full structure of your intelligence, the full spectrum of your faculties.

It's a progressive job that allows synchronicities to happen and be recognized with seemingly increasing frequency. It's a progressive job that increasingly reconciles us to the the mystery of existence and the intuition of non-existence. It's a progressive job that relieves us of the marks of experience and integrates our continuity with that, about which we had lost intelligence. It's development of higher integrity.

The TetraSeed Awakening Invocations are potent, in that regard.

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Imagination

The thing we most take for granted is, ourselves.  We notice that we come into existence before we know it.  And, in fact, if you hadn't noticed it, thoughts arise before we know it, and our imaginings surface and rise into daydreams -- before we know it.

And the will, deliberately, to imagine also arises before we know it, as a growing impulse that we may perceive closer and closer to its root, as an intensifying of attention.

So, I think everyone's imagination is an arising from an innate place to go into places -- the places we think to look and their neighboring places.

It's just that some people's memories have a stronger grip than others', and so complicate and garble the arising imaginary newness, rather than allow it to arise in a more streamlined and more integrated (and so pristine) form.

Imagination.

The Unpredictable Mystery of Relationship

The Old Sage oversees the serene meditation
of his students, with stick in hand.

The Fool laughs at the beneficent and peaceful Quon Yin.

We are not, when alone,

as we are when with someone else.

And we are not, with every "someone else"

as we are, with any other "someone else".

Therefore, who can say what are the preconditions

for relationship?

For just as we cannot predict

how we will be with another,

we cannot predict how an other 

will be with us
when we are together.

We enter into mystery

every time we enter into relationship.

And who can say

what attributes will lead to a combination

of two "alone-ness-ess"

into a "we-ness"?

We don't even know 

what "we-ness" might emerge

in any next instant that we converge.

And in the converging,

a meeting of boundaries

and then an opening merging in the moment

with boundaries that may, at any moment
harden

and yielding movements that may, at any moment

move away

with undulatory messages

flickering between.

More on The Pair of Complementary Walking Patterns

I have written elsewhere about The Magnetic Walk, a rhythmic movement pattern that recycles, gathers, and conserves kinetic energy; and about The Old Scotch Geezer's Walk (or The Scotsman's Walk), which sets up a rhythm that oscillates right and left, and thereby dispels and disperses the conserved energy.

By alternating The Magnetic Walk, as a walking regimen, with The Scotsman's (or Old Scotch Geezer's) Walk, we set up an oscillation between gathering energy (or momentum) and dispelling and dispersing it.  It's a pulsation set in motion by alternating between the two patterns of movement.

That pulsation is the pulsation of our organizing ourselves for one walk and then organizing ourselves for the other.  The feeling is of a gathering of everything together around a center, then of letting go of the center and feeling sensation get more and more two-sided, then of gathering everything together again, and letting go, again.  That's a pulsation.

That pulsation is like a radar wave going through us, that we sense, showing us where we are creased, jammed, or broken.  The movement and breathing that go along with the pulsation seem to fuel a reorganization that solves some chronic problems.

Now, those who know The Magnetic Walk and The Scotsman's (or Old Scotch Geezer's) Walk can do as I have described.

And if you don't,
you gonna have to Get on the Train!

Shake Your Booooty!

There's moving because you want to
and there's moving because you have to,
and which do you do?

There's moving no more than necessary
and moving for the pleasure of it
and which do you prefer?

There's moving before you know it
and there's moving to show it.
Are you comfortable being seen?

There's moving to take it
and moving to escape it.
Are you that free?

There's moving a little
and there's moving a lot
and there's moving to show
that you're still hot to trot!
How old are you?

There's moving all creaky
and just getting along.
Are you satisfied with that?

There's moving in rhythm
as in moving in song.
Is the spirit alive in you?

There's moving, "Look out"!
and "Wow! Look at that!"
as your eyes open wide
and you hold down your hat.

There's shakin' yo booty
to the tune, Twist and Shout.
How long has it been
since you moved it about?

SHAKE YOUR BOOOOTY ! ! !   SHAKE YOUR BOOOOTY!!!!   SHAKE YOUR BOOOOTY ! ! ! ! !

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Being and Doing

There is no experience of "being" without "doing" -- contrary to the stated opinion of pop-spirituality and self-help enthusiasts.

Here's why: We can experience only sensations that change. Anything that doesn't change rapidly fades from our awareness.  If we can perceive it, it's changing, and that's a kind of "doing".

Things that change are all "doings"; even inanimate objects are doing something, if only capturing and re-radiating ("reflecting") light, and that light creates a change in our experience that makes it possible to perceive something.

The notion that being and doing are separate and different leads, in those who seek peace or other spiritual attributes, to seeking for being -- a kind of doing.  They abandon "already being" for seeking being -- a kind of doing!

That being the case, all seeking for "being" or "peace" or other spiritual attributes is fruitless.  Not just frustrating.  Fruitless.

Now, oddly, the act of seeking is the action of "being, seeking".

All actions come from an unfathomable depth in ourselves.  That unfathomable depth is our being; it is "the seer which is unseen".  (If it can be seen, it's an object, not the seer.)  Doing emerges from being.  Something comes from nothing.  (Where do you think the Universe came from? -- or if you have a theistic view, What do you think God's nature was, before creation?)  Doing is the action of being, while being remains forever unseen, only the doing being perceptible.

In reality, we can never depart from being, nor can we be separate from it -- mainly because there is no "it"; all "its" emerge from, are pervaded by, are "made from" and abide within "it". 

So, don't worry about "achieving being"; you can only achieve "doing" anyway, which is the action of being.

The way to do is to be.
-- Lao Tzu

Do-Be Do-Be Do
-- Frank Sinatra

Hanna Somatic Education -- a look at the larger picture

The time has again come for us to take a fresh look at the status of Hanna Somatic Education as a world-level teaching.

By that, I mean our role in alleviating the pain of the billions of people who are presently at the mercy of "less effective" clinical modalities and of the "ten thousand natural shocks flesh is heir to".

We, who number in the small hundreds, represent the seed stock for what may be a body of practitioners adequate to serve those billions.

Puts things into perspective, doesn't it?

Now, to accomplish that end (which is a many-decades long project, even with exponential growth that we have yet to see, in the number of proficient practitioners), two things need to happen.

1. We need to have a population of highly proficient practitioners.
2. We need mass-media exposure.

Now, after nearly twenty-one years of practice, I can tell you this, from my experience:  Lessons 1, 2 and 3 are highly potent, virtually "sure-fire" as Tom Hanna said to us, Wave 1, students.  I almost never have to repeat a session with a client; one pass through virtually always gets the job of each lesson done (with rare exception).  I expect that to be true of any proficient practitioner.

A fair number of former clients of mine have gone to the Novato Institute and SSI trainings.  My point is that to receive good work has been their inspiration to become practitioners -- and I believe that highly proficient practitioners are, for now, our best source of more practitioners -- hence, the further importance of everyone developing and practicing at a high level of proficiency.

As the more highly proficient trainers age and retire, who is going to replace them? and what will be their level of proficiency? -- which is all they can transmit to their students.

I'm not talking about a higher standard; I'm talking about the minimum acceptable standard -- which is getting the results I get.  Why?  Because the students should exceed the teacher; if they don't, the teaching is in decline.

For my part, in addition to giving private sessions, I have created and am still adding to my website, which nowadays gets about 30,000+ visitors, monthly and comprises some 245 pages.  That means that, since 1996, some millions of people who were looking for help with chronic pain have at least been exposed to somatics.  Through that website, I do what Tom Hanna did:  I publish information about somatic education and I sell somatic exercise programs to people, worldwide.  (I'm now considering re-doing the look of the site -- another large task for which I'm hoping to find a shortcut.)

Let me add another perspective.  We are all aware of the "health care crisis"; we are all aware of the "economic meltdown".  What do you think is the relationship between the "health care crisis" and the "economic meltdown"?

How about this:  Pain management is a major cost in medical treatment.  Huge amounts of money are spent on pain management, on conventional physical therapy; huge amounts are lost in productivity due to the three reflexes of stress and the inability of the medical system to manage pain and lost mobility effectively.  Do you know how large the Medicare budget is?  how much is spent on medical insurance that covers procedures that get so little done so slowly, compared to what we can do so quickly?  I'm talking about a major proportion of our country's gross national product, comparable in scale to the military budget.  Kind of awes you, doesn't it?

We have a role to play in the recovery of the world economy.

Now, how are we going to do it?

One key is "mass production".  We can't mass-produce proficient practitioners -- not, at least, until we have enough highly-proficient trainers producing highly-proficient students who become trainers, to support exponential growth.  The only way it's safe to "slack the reins of control" is if exactingly high training-and-certification standards result in top-notch practitioners who become top-notch trainers.

What can be mass-produced are self-relief, somatic exercise programs.  We need to infiltrate social institutions.

Let's not be lazy; let's be creative.  Let's not cop out; let's develop ourselves and our skills.  Let's not sit on the sidelines; let's make the contribution only we can make.  Let's not "go with the flow"; let's be the flow.  Let's not be foggy-minded; let's be clear about our situation.  Let's not be old and tired; let's regenerate and rejuvenate ourselves and this teaching.  The more we do, the more we'll have the resources to do more, to more effect and with less effort.

I think it's a little like pulling a cork out of a wine bottle.  It's "stuck in there good".  So you pull and twist and wiggle and it comes out a bit.  You pull and twist and wiggle some more and it comes out further.  That makes it easier.  At some point, it starts to come free faster, and then it's out -- with a pop.

We're the wine -- but still new wine.  Standard and most "alternative" practices and the mindset that they embody are the cork.  They should and will stay in place until the wine is ready -- and then they should be pulled from their closed position so we can pour out.  Maybe we can do that by positioning ourselves as "helpers" to them, but ultimately "the truth will out".  We're the vanguard.


Know that whatever we decide and do (or don't do) has consequences.  We need everyone's higher intelligence.

I have set myself to the task creating mass-producible instructional programs that address needs not being well-met by bodywork, therapy, and standard medicine.  My most recent was a program to address TMJ dysfunction.  I've also had new success with improving eyesight (mine) and with resolving deep pelvic pain and S-I joint syndrome.  People need a program for resolving neck pain, and I've got the essentials for that done in raw video.  I've developed a technique for multiplying the effectiveness of somatic exercises (fewer repetitions, less time, more accomplished) and written on somatics from "unusual" perspectives. 

Personally, I am more interested in training practitioners than in doing one-on-one sessions (which are about the closest thing to instant gratification that I know) or in producing publishable programs.  Training others is a way to multiply myself and the benefit I can bring to others.  However, I've delayed organizing trainings until I've gotten those other tasks done, even though I've had quite a few training inquiries in the past few months.

That's where I stand.

Lawrence Gold


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