Faith & Thought Flow

Dear Leonie,

thank you for asking this question :-)

> There is only one thing that bothers me about the
> technique, and that is, you
> do not get immediate feedback or "proof" that something
> has changed, like in
> ET, EFT or TAT.  Although you do have a state of well
> being, but not an
> immediate change of perception to the issue at hand. 

And interestingly, this question also came in from Sandy which
deals with the same structural problem:

>>> I can't help but wonder sometimes if in using this technique
I might be - even subtlety - suppressing rather than flowing?
In other words, putting the thought behind me and hoping
rather than really dealing with it.

Is there a way to tell the difference when you don't get
immediate feedback?<<<<

This might get a little long and intensive, so just in case, draw
up your chairs and get comfortable, then we can begin.

We all have grown up and lived in a world that is primarily if not
exclusively constructed *by the thought system* working in
isolation.

The thought system, that which creates our HUGE problems of
identity and of course, the hugely bizarre way we live and conduct
ourselves, is LINEAR in nature.

(DS9 Fans, you might have heard this before :-)

It works on cause and effect. It doesn't know anything about the
future and can do very little to influence the present, for all
it's machinations and attempts at trying to control, for example,
the physical body. If that is too abstract, just think as to what
happens to logic when a teenage girl falls in love and what good
the "practical thought-systems" are under such conditions :-)

The thought-system needs cause-and-effect in a correctly linked,
LINEAR FORWARD progression in order to learn what was right and
what was wrong. It can't do anything else and that's what it's
good for - to look at the past and make conclusions, theories and
lessons for the future, always with an eye out for the EFFECT of
the actions it set into motion.

But unfortunately, there are these tales of another world
altogether.

Of a world where in order to become rich, you have to have FAITH
first and BEFORE any proof has manifest.

Of a world where you manifest the proof by KNOWING THAT IT IS SO -
FIRST.

This is a complete reversal of all the thought-systems know and
have experienced to be true their entire existence worth, and not
only theirs, but all of their ancestors, all role models, all
loved ones.

The entire thought-system linear proof method is everywhere - you
have to write a good exam FIRST and THEN you are given a
certificate.

You have to prove that you are loveable FIRST, and THEN you are
loved as a result.

It makes sense, doesn't it. How else could we possibly KNOW? We
need PROOF in order to BELIEVE.

Ah. But then there's this annoying other world again.

Where you are told to believe first IN ORDER to manifest the proof
AFTERWARDS.

Now, where's the SENSE in that???? Nonsense! Bu-humbug! We want
PROOF FIRST!

Thus quoth the thought-system.

Who doesn't know any better.

Who cannot know any better and who is right in it's own context
and in its own little encapsulated world that is less than a mere
percentage of the real reality of things.

But consider this. On average, an author these days receives
between 275 and 700 rejections before they are published.

That's a really good example. Even if you're not an author,
consider the enormity of the weight of rejection for a moment. How
on EARTH do they keep going? Why don't they stop? Why are they not
taking the REALITY FEEDBACK which clearly tells them that they are
no good, that they will never "be an author"?

And it's true. Many people don't collect that many rejections.
They take their feedback and get a "real job" instead, in a
papermill or such.

But some keep on going and they end up as the authors of the next
generation, those who are trotted out for the young students as "a
great author".

What they needed to weather all the "reality feedback" was the
faith first that they were indeed, an author.

That is and was the only way to "make it" as an author - and
indeed, that's the way the world works in all truth and actuality.

You cannot say, for example, that "When I have won the nobel
prize, I know that I am a genius."

You have to believe that you are a genius FIRST in order to
produce the goods that will in the end bring you the nobel prize.

That is indeed, the core of magic and all reality creation - that
the thought-systems belief in cause and effect are absolutely
reversed.

When that happens, the so-called "impossible" becomes possible or
even inevitable, if you will. The more manuscripts the author
sends out, the higher the sheer statistical likelihood becomes
that they will get published. But it's not about just good old
thought-system cause-and-effect tenacity.

Magic and reality don't work that way at all.

They work in truly mysterious ways. The author's manuscript is
chucked into the bin. The bin falls over. The manuscript slides
under a desk. Here, it is found by a cleaner who loves it and
carries it surreptitiously into the "approved manuscripts bin" on
the other side of the building.

Synchronicity. The strangest and most unexpected manifestations of
chains of improbabilities. All sorts of things can and do happen -
when there is FAITH FIRST.

But faith and the reversed cause-and-effect of reality creation is
an anethema to the thought-mind. It's too complicated for one
thing and entirely outside of its reach for another.

Further, faith is not something you think up and then collect
evidence to support it (which is the only thing the thought-mind
is capable of doing!).

Faith is an overall totality state - heart, mind, all systems
aligned in congruency, in that elusive Zen state where magic just
happens, be it on a keyboard, in a sports field or a laboratory.

The thought-system CAN STRUCTURALLY not manifest faith or love, or
trust, or ecstacy or any of these things associated with the
"higher enlightenment states".

Those come into being when the totality works together in a system
of which the thought-systems are but a small part, playing their
important part, that is for sure, but where the world is very much
larger than the thought-systems could ever allow it to be (for
then it would become way too complex and it couldn't keep in
control any longer).

Now, and to bring this back to the thought flow system and the
question of results.

The very reason I have published this whole process and idea is
because we need a way OUT of the endless loops our thought-system
is running.

It cannot answer questions such as, "Why am I here?" based on
previous evidence.

It cannot answer questions such as, "What is to come?" based on
previous evidence.

And it absolutely cannot construct a self concept with all the
conflicting information of past evidence that it has stored up -
am "I" a genius or an idiot? I have evidence for both - what am
I?????????

What we need is a way OUT of this.

I have spend an entire lifetime (and sometimes it seems, many more
than one!!) observing people NOT being able to answer this using
what passes for logic and reason by the encapsulated
thought-systems that are doing the very best they can with their
limited abilities, running themselves ragged and becoming
self-destructive in the futile endeavour to make sense of it all.

Frankly, and if cause-and-effect is all we have, it simply doesn't
make any sense at all. It can't make sense, and that understanding
is a huge relief in and of itself.

Come on guys.

Didn't we always know deep down that we needed help?

That we DIDN'T know the answers and had NO way of finding them?

That we were doing all sorts of things terribly wrong and wanting
it to be better but not knowing how to get out of it?

That "we" is our thought-systems in desperation, overstretched by
the truth of actual existing reality. By how things don't make
sense in a cause-and-effect fashion.

It doesn't make sense if someone was really trying hard to be good
all their lives getting dreadful diseases, little children
suffering and dying "who didn't deserve it", love and attempts at
love being stomped on and cruelty reigning supreme, insanity
reigning supreme - in the cause-and-effect universe it doesn't
make any sense at all and it never will.

Thinking more and harder, being more "logical" in the thought-mind
sense, is not and has never been the way out of it or forward, not
ever.

ALL - and check this out, for it is true! - ALL progress in
science, for example, is NOT the result of people being logical
but time and time again, just an "accident" or some weirdo having
a dream where they ride on a beam of light.

Some guy "forgetting" to put a dish away and "discovering"
penicillin.

Some other guy seeing a spiral stair case and understanding how
DNA works.

Who are the celebrated geniusses of humankind?

Madmen and madwomen to a man, not a single Spock amongst them.

I saw this, and noted it. Time and time again. All the
thought-mind clerics come up with is to push the pieces of
existing "effect" around and around on their puzzle boards.
Forever, if necessary. Making nothing happen, no shifts, no
breakthroughs to a higher level of organisation. Cluttering often
the existing breakthrough insights with so much detail nonsense
that the original break through ceases to work at all anymore (see
hypnosis and Reiki for current examples).

So when the time came and I ran into my own "walls of logic" I
stopped, and I said, this is not the way to do it.

"I" cannot think my way out of this.

To believe that "I" can is a total delusion and if I use my
thought-system, based on simple observed cause and effect, the
only answer "I" can come up with is that this system cannot ever
produce the answer.

To be clear about this, like everyone else, I did not trust my own
thought-system, for like all the rest of "us", "I" am just a fool,
right?

I did my historical research and collect the data, and the data
really is quite incontrovertible if one would care to really look
at it.

The thought-mind does not have the answers.

Now, if I was a thought-mind alone, if indeed, I was Mr Spock, I
would now simply say that THERE IS NO ANSWER.

But if one was to use one's thought-mind as it was designed to be,
which actually collects ALL evidence for consideration, and does
not shrink in fear to look at ALL available evidence, there is
evidence to the contrary.

There is plenty of evidence to suggest that there may, indeed, be
answer to be had.

Sometimes, somewhere, someone (and usually, some lunatic misfit)
does something, dreams up something and then there is indeed some
form of real noticeable shift. Vistas widen out. Possibilities
emerge that simply weren't there before. New lines of enquiry
arise - from nowhere.

>From nowhere?

Not from nowhere.

>From somewhere.

Let's be logical here - even cause-and-effect logically, why not.
It's all we have, and we have it for a reason.

There is *something* available to humans which makes breakthrough
insights possible.

Let's call it factor X as they sometimes do in mathematics when
there's a constant that, if you insert it into an equation, will
solve the unsolvable equation every time.

You don't need to know what factor X might be, you can deduct its
properties from what happens when you insert it into the
unsolvable equations.

And then you can run a scientific experiment, just like the
thought-mind would like us to, and it can get to start computing
as it should, and it can make connections when there weren't any
before, and in the process of doing this, re-arrange the existing
pieces on the puzzle table to come to whole new conclusions.

For a long time, I considered the so-called "unconscious mind" to
be factor X.

It seems to fit the bill in a way, what with dreaming about riding
on beams of light and such.

So I sought to test this assumption, and I made Project Sanctuary
(note, the name - PROJECT Sanctuary) to use this as factor X in
the equasions.

Now, and it's true, the "unconscious mind" (whatever THAT may be!)
is a most fascinating factor X indeed but it doesn't serve to
solve the equations - at least not in and of itself.

However, it does something else which was indeed, essential to
this entire investigation.

(Just to remind us, the investigation title of my long term
project was, "What THE HELL is going on here????" - my response to
life as it is :-)

During the Project Sanctuary experiments, it came to my attention
what I had previously erroneously believed to be logic was no such
thing, but indeed, a highly impoverished version that could handle
only the tiniest proportion of the input, stimuli and environments
we find ourselves in by virtue of being alive.

The thought-mind system responded to this with, "Wow! That's why I
could never figure it out! Thank goodness! NOW, and with this
added set of math-rules at hand, I can finally get to work and
re-process the entire thing! Thank goodness!"

And once more, the poor old thought-system went to work with a
vengeance.

And once again, it ran into those damned barriers beyond which it
simply could not go.

Granted, they were further and wider than before, but it now
really became clear that the sheer linearity of it was in and of
itself the problem.

So, now where do you go to find a truly non-linear processing
system?

One that actually results in changes, behavioural changes,
observable changes? The good old cause-and-effect of the
thought-mind still there, present and correct, as it cannot help
but being.

And now, finally, the metaphor of "the human energy system" comes
to the rescue.

Let's presume for a moment that we are designed quite structurally
to simply develop and live as we should as totality beings in our
incarnations here.

Let's presume for a moment that we are not some evolutionary death
trap but that we have a right to be just as we are, just the same
as a crocodile or a plant of some kind.

Let's leave all religion, delusion and nonsense out of it for a
moment and simply consider our structure and what we are currently
doing with it.

>From the available evidence, humans as a species can do some
things that are really quite extraordinary.

That whole thought-system thing, for one thing, is really
extraordinary.

To use it, as we do in Sanctuary, to actually create worlds, have
them be real, move in and live in them, in many, many worlds in a
matter of a few short weeks, to learn lesson there that may be
applied in hard, is quite something.

It is clearly an evolutionary advantage if we take survival for a
measuring stick.

Then, there is our physicality.

The richness of it, the rightness of it. The resilience which is
breathtaking. If you've ever watched someone die, living on a
breath at a time in a body that you cannot believe could possibly
still hold together, you will know what I mean when I saw that I
am absolutely in awe of the power and total congruency of the
physicality to survive.

Our neurology is a part of that awesome totality. The neurology
that expresses itself in our thought-systems and also in the other
aspects of it, such as the so-called "unconscious mind" and which
lies asleep most of the time as cat-scans reveal so powerfully.

These systems are interwoven and a part of a totality - but there
is a detachment, a breakage that has occurred and they are not
working together as they should.

The unconscious mind, my previous factor X, turned out not to be
that bridge.

There were futher components at work.

Then, we were made consciously aware of a whole new dimension of
the human totality - the so-called "energy system".

This had been talked about in one way or the other for many, many
generations, right back into the mist of recorded history but was
not being factored into any of our current equasions as a whole;
as it cannot be made visible or "proven" with the current
mechanisms, it was and is excluded from the puzzle pieces in a
great many thought-systems amongst the current billions who live
on this planet.

When Roger Callahan started tapping on meridian points to make
fears go away, he made a bridge over which those who were not too
deeply enmeshed and entrained might travel and begin to factor the
"energy system" into their own thought-mind equasions as their
very own missing factor X - because it is my assumption that all
people are born to try and make sense of the world the best they
can.

Now, I had encountered these "invisible realities" before I met
EFT but what I had done with it was to keep it on a shelf, away
from all the other data that had been assembled, because I simply
didn't know just where to put it. It was so other, and also so
"unproven" (!) that it didn't fit into the ongoing experiments and
thought-mind constructs at the time.

Divisons.

Divisons are the hallmark of the thought-mind unlogic.

"A thing is one thing or another", said Aristotle and that "made
sense" to thought-minds ever since.

Dividing our totality into a conscious mind, an unconscious mind,
a physicality and an energy system and then studying the bits in
isolation - that is classical thought-mind action in order to be
able to keep in control, to simplify these incredibly complicated
systems and to in actuality, *make* those puzzle pieces in the
first place that we push around on our puzzle boards - endlessly.

Dividing the human race into males and females and dividing up
resources between them that is exclusive to either and not
available to each, so that no complete picture can ever emerge.

Dividing a human tribe into artists and farmers and warriors
likewise, each faction holding their own pieces and not one being
able to ever construct a full picture.

That's what the thought-systems have to do to keep the illusion of
understanding and control alive - to divide up and reduce the
overwhelming information density of the world to manageable
proportions.

Now, and factoring in all the various puzzle pieces of my own in
one great big overarching map, I started the other way around.

Let's start with a human totality.

A totality that is NOT divided but a system where everything
flows, everything is exchanged, and where energy flow changes the
system itself in direct response to the environment.

A system where physicality and energy body are one and the same.

Step one. Otherwise known as EmoTrance. And yes, it works a treat.

Now, step two. This is a system where thought and the rest of it
are one and the same. No division.

Thoughts are created and they need to go somewhere - energy must
flow, right?

That's the prime directive.

Where do they flow?

Well, it seems they loop for the most part round and round,
feeding back upon themselves, irresolvable, unending, overheating
the system, causing chaos in every sense and every part, from
sanity to sickness.

They need to go *somewhere* - and that *somewhere* would by
definition, need them in order to function at all, be fed by them
and return, produce something of its own that is then passed on to
somewhere else.

A new factor X.

A system that is not just willing and able to receive the "output"
of the thought-system but is COMPLETELY AND STRUCTURALLY DESIGNED
to do just that and RELIANT on the output from the thought-system
for its own full and proper functioning.

After all, that's just how the rest of our totality seems to
work - there's always flow and if we have even a simple linear
chained system, the second system is reliant on the input of the
first, else it has nothing to work with.

So I went back to my imaginary drawing board and used the new
factor X, a processing system that actually "fed on conscious
thought" and ran my imaginary Tesla machine to see what would
happen if there was such a thing.

When I did, the problem equations resolved themselves most
beautifully - and not just the one I had been working on, which
was how to get out of the eternally looped thought-systems with
its terrible contortions and hopeless overheating with no
noticeable benefits to everyone concerned.

Do you know what the most successful weight loss system EVER is?

The one with the highest actual weight loss rates, and the one
with the lowest "fall back" rate?

You might laugh, but it is "Slimming With Jesus".

Religious women get together and they pray to Jesus for strength,
forgiveness and to help them with weightloss.

It works. It outperforms every single known behavioural
modification technique in the Western world - and what's more, the
participants on the programme are happy, delighted, relieved -
they simply LOVE it.

I have known many very religious people who are really happy, and
do you know what they do in a moment of real crisis?

They "hand it all over to Jesus".

They take their worries, their doubts and their unanswered
questions and they simply "outsource" them - with the result of
immediate relief, a huge sigh of relief and then, being able to
get on with life in a much more pro-active fashion.

This "handing over of problems and questions" to a higher
authority is a true hallmark of just about every human religion
ever invented and I looked at that, the evidence across the ages,
and I said to myself, "What if there was a system that every human
is born with, something you can't see, a higher processing system
that we all have and to which we can, indeed, outsource our
thought-system derived contortions for resolution?"

"What if it was either on a similar strata of existence as these
gods, dead prophets and saints we've heard so much about or just
plain of the same realm?"

"What if there was such a system - factor X - that is absolutely a
part of our own totality and to which we are *supposed to* hand
over the question the thought-mind has come up with?"

It was certainly a most intriguing supposition and I decided to
test this. I won't go into just how I came up with the idea of
physically catching thoughts and putting them right over your head
and "putting them behind you" rather than to pass them on and up
straight to <insert favourite deity, guardian angel or such).

Now, here we are.

YOU are a part of this test.

You, who are right here, right now, have become involved in highly
experimental, quite untried set of experiments based on a theory I
have made about the flow of information as energy through the
totality of us.

In the past, a one such as me would have beavered away for a
lifetime in my tower by the sea and you might or might not have
one day become aware of the giant manuscript I left behind when I
died.

All conclusions drawn, that's it, folks, that's the truth, now
take it or be damned.

But we are in the present.

In a very strange place where I can sit here in my tower in
England this afternoon and write down my ongoing thoughts and as I
write them, you read them and you get to play at the same time as
I and send me feedback on what happened when other people did
this, what their reservations are, if it worked for them.

My thought-mind, used to "the old ways" by sheer entrainment finds
that a very difficult proposition and concept indeed.

I'm supposed to write a big knowledgeable book and pretend to be
an expert after years and years - but I'm not doing that. Instead
I am presenting my findings on an ongoing basis as and when.

And it could well be so that I am entirely and totally wrong about
everything!

Allow yourselves, each one, for a moment the sheer wonder of this.

There's never been anything like it as far as we know in all the
times of humanity.

So, and with the disclaimers out of the way, here's the current
state of play.

I posit that the thought-mind cannot create material changes to
ourselves or our environment because it is always reliant on the
past and what was always there in the past.

It cannot run behaviour, and it cannot run the body. It sure as
hell as no control whatsoever over any form of higher realities
and it can't figure out the very basic questions of identity, nor
construct a "self image" that isn't a complete mess in every way
possible.

Most of all, it cannot provide the real energy drivers so
necessary to all human endeavour - energy states described in
words such as faith and love, for example.

These come from somewhere else, namely from a processing center
metaphorically called "the heart".

I'm not happy with that word because we get it mixed up with the
muscle of the same name in our chests but until I come up with
something better, we might as well call it that.

The heart cannot generate these powerful energies without getting
fed within the system, and I further posit that the food it needs
is the end result of the higher processing systems; so we have a
very simple 3 point spiral through which energy must travel:

The heart
The thought system
The higher processing systems (factor X)

As the energy travels through one to the other, it is changed
*materially* and in interacting with these systems, the energy
itself is also *changed materially*.

This is an evolutionary, developing system in process, always in
flow.

A "change of heart" (i.e. a really sweeping re-organisation of the
conclusions drawn from information) causes totality change
directly - this is the system that controls the physicality and
influences it directly.

It changes the neurology which is part of the physicality and so,
thought changes as well.

As thought changes, new computations arise which in turn are
handed over to the higher processing systems which in turn,
produce new "changes of heart" - and so on in an ever-lasting flow
that strengthens and develops all the systems involved, grows them
all by design.

By structurally detaching the thought-system from this flow and
making it solely responsible for everything, which is what we have
done, not only are we starving the other two systems which rely on
a flow through the thought-system for their functioning and
survival, but we are also placing inordinate strain on the
totality in every way and that includes our physicality.

We are also disabling our own magic if you will, and our own
innate abilities to not just create reality with our thoughts and
actions, but also to experience it in turn.

Now, and after all of that, back to the original question.

How can we procede if we *are* at this point ONLY our
thought-systems, and thus by the very design, NEED proof before we
can "change our minds" or "believe" in something *wholeheartedly*?

Well that's the million dollar question, isn't it :-)

As I am fully aware that I am talking to thought-systems in
preference here, in this very linear and slow, slow way of
information exchange we have become so used to, I would smile and
say, "Hey look at the practical evidence.

When you *do* the simply thought-flow technique, specially made by
Silvia (PhD!) for all those looping thought-minds out there, you
stop worrying!

That's a result, isn't it?

That's an effect, don't you *think*? :-)

And further, consider the evidence over time.

How many times have you tried to solve the problem, to your very
best ability and then beyond the call of duty, but simply failed
to do so?

That's evidence - just count it up. That question, that thought,
that problem - how many computations across your time of life?

Doesn't it make sense to at least *try* a new avenue of
exploration?

And it does, doesn't it :-)

Here's more evidence.

When you lay in bed or wherever you were, driving yourself crazy
with worry about tomorrow, or about a loved one far away, or about
your own self, what good did that ever do?

When did that actually *work* to bring about a change for
yourself, to protect that loved one far away, give you a sense of
control and destiny?

That's evidence alright if you allow yourself to consider it.

But there's a lot more.

A lot more.

How many times have you "changed your mind" only to find that
nothing, but absolutely NOTHING had changed - for all your tears,
willpower and endeavour, hard graft and desperation, day in and
day out?

Are we ready yet to, in the light of such overwhelming statistical
evidence, to begin to consider some other options, including the
central one, namely that the thought-systems cannot get us out of
the various corners our thought-systems (individually, combined,
culturally, hereditarily!) have painted us into?

Now, I can't honestly promise any one of you that this simple 3
step system of information flow actually works to bring us back
online as a functioning totality.

I certainly won't stand here and declare that when you factor
*your own soul* into this energetic equation, your problems in
body, mind and spirit will simply resolve themselves within the
next few months and your lives will become completely
unrecognisable from what they are today.

But come on guys - have you anything better to do than to give it
a try?

:-)

If the thought-system had any idea of how to resolve any of your
long standing problems, it would have done so by now. It is a
serving part of the totality and truly will drive itself insane
and rip itself to shreds than giving up on its single minded task
to help the totality live and grow.

I was going to make a call to have some faith to motivate you to
have a go, but that's really unfair because it's one of those
things that is just way out of reach for our poor thought-systems
to artificially manufacture, and so I won't.

Let's just be logical instead and run a truly scientific
experiment each.

SF :-)

           
Received on Sun Apr 13 2003 - 12:41:38 BST