Integrity, Release, and Swiss Cheese Mind

The integrity of the individual is like vast network of interconnected memories.

That integrity is so complex that it defies intelligent analysis by mental means, but despite that fact, every part can be observed intuitively to affect every other part.  Dissolving the attracting force of a memory changes the felt status of all other memories.

That's the very virtue of dissolving memories; that's what it's for -- establish a new equilibrium and new patterns of behavior.

But understand, as memories have more or less intensity, they also have more or less attractive, binding force.

When a memory dissolves, the absence of its binding force, that once was, leaves a hold, a space, or a breaking or interruption of the integrity that is the individual -- one that must be mended -- and all other interconnected memories must be amended, accordingly.  That state has a nickname:  "Swiss Cheese Mind" -- full of holes. 

This mending, this integration of Swiss Cheese Mind, is the work of integration of memory, the forging of connections that makes sensitive,  intelligent, resonant responsiveness possible.

Integrity is resonant, intelligent responsiveness, throughout.

It is feeling while acting, listening while speaking, sensitivity to our internal state even as we look outward.

When the attractive, binding force lets go, a decrease of tension occurs throughout the individual.  That's one sense in which "individual" means "not divided."

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).