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THE
KEY PRINCIPLES |
'The
Mind
that has woven its subsystem into place
as the defender
of the
rights of all subsystems'
Whenever
the empirical observation method of science has been applied
to the human consciousness, simply looking within oneself
without any suspected bias, what one sees is revelatory.
Freud for example realized there was an original wordless
part of oneself, which he called the Id and characterized
in certain ways which may have been misleading; he said
then that another center of power erupted out of the Id,
called the Ego, to serve as manager, to get the Id what
it wanted, by intervening with others in the outside world
- and that this eruption occurred when the Id was first
frustrated. We concur with Freud's observation of a wordless
part of oneself and a wording part of oneself. What he calls
the Id however we perceive to be a much larger totality
which includes all the other parts. Nor does that wordless
part "need" the worder part in order to make the right decisions.
Jung
is another example of an acute inner observer. Jung looked
inside himself and determined that all observables reduced
to four categories: thinking, feeling, perception and intuition.
Freud, Jung, Adler and Maslow were each in their own way
rediscovering parts of an ancient system from India noting
seven levels of inner motivation. The scientists representing
the historical peaks of "the human race psychology project"
have seen real things that are not subjective i.e. not limited
to one observer, but shared by all of us. This psychology
project is still in its early stages as we have collectively
realized more about the structure of matter than about the
structure of ourselves. But the project is just getting
started.
Visualize
the moment in your very early life where you first started
to use words in your mind. You might have been a year old,
or younger or older. A year is a long time especially while
one is in such an impressionable, awed state. For that first
year you were already making wordless decisions about things
you liked and didn't like. There was a real "you" there.
Then came a time when you started to think with words. The
process inside you changed. You changed. Underneath it all
you are still there, the one who was there at the birth.
When
we refer to 'The Mind that has woven its subsystem into
place as the defender of the rights of all subsystems' we
are referring to the parts of you that have taken over from
the wordless baby mind, papering it over with biocomputer
software that uses words. Our experience suggests to us
that this superstructure is robotical in its nature and
that the true Self is still the original wordless part.
When you get back into the framework of looking out from
the original baby mind, seeing and able to use or supercede
the superstructure software at Will, your performance in
any task improves enormously to the point of athletes and
performers calling this "the zone" or "the flow state" or
"being on". This is the state that our stimuli are designed
to gradually engender.
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