The Escape Hatch from "Hard Reality" into Intelligent Fluidity

The intensity of an experience and the quality of the same experience are inversely related, as regards the entrapment or entrancement vs. freeing of attention. That means that when attention to the intensity of something increases, attention to its qualities decreases -- and vice versa.

By tendency, the qualities of an experience trap our attention and we fail to note the intensity of the experience.  We one experience before the other, according to our interest.

When we shift attention to the intensity of an experience, we put less attention on its qualities.

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

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

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

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

Integration of the distinct particulars of experience dissolves into an undefined integrity without distinctions.

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

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

Integration into integrity dissolves distinctions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The TetraSeed Awakening Invocations serve that purpose.

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

Imagination is the Escape Hatch -- not the Destination or Its Features

What makes us believe we know what is happening is our subconscious stress-conditioning rising to meet every new moment, to make sense, of it.

The mind cannot sufficiently grasp this point without an intuitive experience of it.  Prior to that, it is just words.

If you "get it", you're having an intuitive sense, of it that informs and infuses your word-mind with a sense of the meaning.

Intuition and imagination are closely related.  Both are non-verbal or pre-verbal apprehensions of the process by which things come into existence out of the unknown Unknown.

Here is the structure of imagination:

1. imagining
2. as-is, undefined
3. spontaneous immediacy
4. origination
5. happening
6. difference
7. Is-Is

Here are how unconscious impediments or inadequacies of imagination lead to overwhelm.

LITTLE QUIZZE
The first "muscle" of intelligence we have just considered is ___.
(A:  imagination)

Imagination is the entry of something new from ___ to ___ reality.
(A:  unknown, the known (memory))

When combined with the three others, imagination is the release-mechanism from experiences of all kinds -- and hence, from overwhelm.  What's important about it isn't the content of imagination, but the activity of imagination, itself, as a conduit from the unknown into memory.

The unknown is the release from the known.

This is transcendence, or release from the effort-filled alternatives of possible experience that overwhelms us.

Imagination and memory are the objects of attention and determine the objectives of intention.

Reality is the Four-fold Unity Comprising What is Both Conditional and Transcendent.

If necessary, specific maneuvers of attention, intention, memory, and imagination, in the form of well-structured procedures that take minutes to do, may be self-applied with or without external facilitation-guidance.

Intelligent consciousness, and indeed, all experience, is composed of attention*intention*memory*imagination.  Of these, attention, intention, and memory are conditional, or defined, or finite, or definite.

The fourth, imagination, is infinite, or undefined, or unknown, or non-conditional.  Transcendent.

Imagination is our interface with the unknown, or underined.  Imagination is where the unknown becomes known.  It is our "face" of confrontation with moment-to-moment experience in the most ordinary sense.

It is the truth of the observation that we don't know what is actually happening until it has already happened -- and a memory of it has formed -- even if only short-term memory.

Recounting, Incomprehension, and Comprehension

A clear perception of subconscious conditioning requires an operating based, or standpoint, that is other than and distinct from what is being contemplated for the sake of release.

Mere working harder won't do it because doing so may entail more doing of that which must, itself, be released.

Humans tend to follow frustration with more-of-the-same kind of effort that has been being frustrated.  We may tend to just add more "whack" to the effort, when what is needed is to decrease effort -- something people may consider counter-intuitive -- but which is merely "counter-habitual".

The recounting, from an apparently "outside" source, provides such a free standpoint.

However, due to the subconsciousness of the stress-pattern conditioning, such a recounting may result in our being confronted by a feeling of incomprehension.

Incomprehension is a state of conditioning, in itself, a form of resistance discovered to be voluntary, when pressed.

So, in the case of incomprehension, that feeling of incomprehension must be felt, recognized, and stripped off before the subconscious resistance (unconsciousness) can be revealed, met, recognized, and released.

The recounting is a first, preparatory step.

Feeling is the next step.

Recognition is the next step.

and Release, or informed relaxation, is the last step -- done in a succession of encounters with ones own subconscious stress-conditioning.

What follows this entry, then is that recounting.

Distinguish Shit from Shinola

So many people and companies want to train us to accept bullshit.

They do so through crappy products, crappy service, and outright misbehavior.

Whey want to cut corners and they want US to accept it.

They want to train us to accept even MORE bullshit. They want us so we can't tell shit from Shinola (shoe polish).

They want us stupid and compliant.

But don't let them win. Distinguish shit from Shinola ... and act accordingly. That's a function of The Middle Way Memory Matrix TetraSeed Invocation.

Be smart and expectant. Get what you deserve: integrity and fair treatment.

That means that the exploiters have to grow up and behave like mature adults whose actions have consequences, not just for others, but for themselves (long term).

Witnessing Leads to an Eruption

 Witnessing, as in the transcendental sense, is always different, from moment to moment. It is never the same.

There is no "THE" Witness. There is only WitnessING, one with and identical to the content of experience, at any moment.

Witnessing faces experience by means of attention, but also witnesses the intention of attention to locate, like a mouth as large as the sphere of our experiencing, all that emerges to experience in the Unknownably Unknown.

WitnessING : IS : IS : Witness.

"The" Witness is an anthropomorphic artifice, like The Bearded God or Santa Clause.

Witnessing is not a self. All selves are being Witnessed. We are being witnessed. "We" are not Witnessing.

So, to "be" The Witness is to intuit BEING Witnessed. If an "other" "doing the witnessing" appears, that is also being witnessed.

To be witnessed is not to be known or to be a subject of knowledge or memory. Witnessing is not recording anything.

To be witnessed is to be at the meeting place of the unknown and the known -- and that is all.

The Unknown Witnessing everything, is witnessing US. We are being witnessed. But not known.

We intuit being witnessed when we sense of things in particular. To the degree that we sense anything particular, to that degree are we being witnessed, witnessed doing the sensing -- witnessed, but not known. Witnessed : Illuminated for Attention

What is witnessing us is Unknowably Unknown -- Unknowably Unknown -|- right out through the top of the head.

The Unknowably Unknown IS the constancy of The Intuition of "THAT" --, "the same, throughout all my life, as now" -- most subtle, everpresent. NOT particular.

The Unknowably Unknown is unknowably unknown, now -|- from the heart region through the tongue to the palate, to the brain core, breathing in through the top of the head. Old Faithful.