Saturday, September 24, 2005
Agreements and The Anatomy of the Mind
p. 122: Agreements
Participant: "I don't have any trouble keeping important agreements, but I'm damned if I'm going to bust my ass to keep trivial agreements."
Trainer: Oh yeah, how many times have we heard that one? .. Every tine in your whole fuckin' life you've felt like breaking an agreement, THE AGREEMENT HAS AUTOMATICALLY SEEMED AT THAT MOMENT TRIVIAL! That's hot the mind mind works! If someone owes you twenty bucks that's a fuckin' important agreement, right? But if you owe someone twenty bucks, surprise!, it's a trivial agreement.
What is reality, anyway? There's a long section on this? The conclusion is that we are responsible for what we experience, as, if I get this right, we are responsible for the interpretation of what happens. We experience people, events, etc."as something."
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p. 165: Anatomy of the mind
Mind: The mind is a linear arrangement of multisensory total records of successive moments of now.
Purpose of mind: The design function of the mind is survival, the survival of the being, but also of anthing which the being considers itself to be.
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Sometimes we sacrifice our physical well being to save what we consider ourselves to be.
Ego: state of affairs when the being comes to identify itself with the mind. Then the mind's purpose is the survival of the mind itself.
Because now the purpose of the mind becomes the survivial of the mind itself, the survival of the records, the tapes, of the points of view of the mind, of the decisions of the mind, of the thoughts, of the conclusions and beliefs of the mind. Now the mind has a vested interest in all these. WHat it does to try to survive is to try to keep itself intact, replay the same tapes, prove itself right. That becomes now the purpose of the mind, to survive be again and again proving itself right. ... Some of you eggheads out there have read your Nietzsche, suppposed to be a great philosopher, one of the very greatest. he wrote a lot of books about how the mind wil do anything to dominate, anything to prove itself right. He was sort of a master detective going around smelling out how people would develop religions so that poor people would feel right in their poverty, how philosophers would develop philosophies to prove right what they were doing anyway, how writers would wite books whose secret purpose was to justify themselves. Nietzsche's will to power isn't a lot of Nazi goosestepping around to build up their thigh musles, it's about how all the world's religions, all the philosophies, all the great books, all of 'em, are just the mind's way of trying to prove itself right and dominate others.
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p. 189 Summary of mind:
The mind is a linear arrangement of multisensory total records of successive moments of now. Its purpose is the suvivial of the being or of anything the being identifies with its survival. Since the being in fact inevitiably identifies his being with his mind, the purpose of the mind becomes the survival of the mind: the survival of the tapes, the points of view, the decisions, the beliefs, the rightness of the mind. The mind this seeks always for agreement and to avoid disagreement, always to be right and avoid being wrong, to dominate and avoid domination, to justify itself and avoid invalidation.
The construction of the mind involves two stacks, one containing records of experiences necessary for survival, a second containing records not necessary for survivial. Those experiences in the first stack are divided into three classes. Nonber ones are experiences haivn pain, the threat to survival, and relative unconsciousness. Number twos are experiences of loss or shocking loss associated with the number ones and involving strong emotion. Number threes are experiences triggered by important elements from either number ones or number twos. ...
This goes on for a while, and the point is ...
You're machines. ... All you're dramatic upsets are just your machine mind triggering off some past threat to survival ... The whole works is just stimulus-response, stimulous response, stimulus response...
You've spend your whole life trying to find an escape from admitting you're a machine, your whole life trying to escape from admitting what is, is ...
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Other Links about EST:
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dbromley/est.htm
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eldon.braun/awareness/pressmn1.htm
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