How Conflict Comes about?

The awareness is fragmented by decisions made in infancy and in childhood resulting in conflict. 

Note: Once a decision is made with feeling, it is the rule of action until unmade. 

Infant decisions — Infant Mind 

1. Pleasure equals happiness and pain equals unhappiness. 

2. It's important to have my way or to think a thing makes it so. 

Child decisions — Child Mind 

1. It's important to please others to gain pleasure and escape painful sensations. 

2. Accept or do what you are told; don't ask questions.

 

The so-called grown-up mind — The Chooser 

Try to please both A, the infant mind, and B, the child mind, at the same time. 

This results in conflict going on more or less all the time. 

For example: 

If "I" do this it will give me pleasure but they will disapprove of me, which is painful. Therefore I do 

want to do this but I do not want to do this. This is conflict. 

Note: A, the infant mind, and B, the child mind, together make up the so-called subconscious mind. 

C, the chooser, is the conscious mind; all are fragmented parts of the awarenes

Proposition # 24 from Notes on Personal Integration and Health

REPORTING ACCURATELY REQUIRES DISIDENTIFYING FROM WHAT I AM NOT

Many highly publicized news events of late have raised some interesting questions in light of the Teaching. As students of the Picture of Man will know, the human function to allow the Awareness  to report accurately to Spirit "what is going on here." Spirit (or "X") then does the appropriate action for the information received. How appropriate the action is related to how accurate the reporting.

The word "allow" above is carefully chosen to stress that there is often resistance to accurate reporting from the reporter's addiction to the Four Dual Basic Urges. The 4DBU's, of course, are all feelings which the reporter wishes to gain or to escape. This addiction to these feelings interferes with accurate reporting of "what's is really going on" (objectively) and creates inaccurate reporting of "what is happening TO ME" (subjectively). Keeping this in mind, let's ask some questions about recent reporting being done.

 

How accurate can reporting done by groups of hundreds, thousands or even millions be if it is all saying exactly the same thing, if it is about a contrived relationship between the reporters and the incident?

 

When we are seduced into identifying with someone or something with which we have no authentic relationship (seduced into it because it gives us a certain feeling), we are reporting inaccurately. Humans are 100% subject to suggestion 100% of the time (subject to), and when we identify with what we are NOT, we have been seduced.

 

If someone is held up as a great achiever and because I admire the qualities this person appears to have I identify with him or her or them, I have not allowed the Awareness to function accurately, I have allowed this identification to interfere, to adulterate the Awareness. The Awareness then reports inaccurately all kinds of invalid feelings. For example, let’s say a person who I've been told is brave and good and doing what I would like to do ("if only" I could) happens to be killed in an accident. I'm identifying with that person (whom I have never met), if I have been told they represent ME somehow, I report feelings as though there were an authentic relationship, when in fact there is no relationship. A wound is produced, but have I really been wounded? Has someone with whom I have a true relationship been torn away, destroying this true relationship and leaving a true emptiness? No, this relationship has been imagined, the wound is imagined, but because I am identifying I have reported a true wound with my reported feelings, and X is doing the appropriate response, giving me extra energy to heal a wound that isn't truly there (it is an illusion). Where does this immobilized (immobilized because there is no true emergency to use it up) go? I am caught up in the Vicious Cycle, adaptation is needed to work out the immobilized energy, and here we go again.

 

This process, which is in itself continually proves Life's love for us, is adulterated due to the lie of my false reporting. 

 

The exact circumstances aren't important - whether we identify with a hero, or hate someone who said to be an enemy of a group (with which I have conned into thinking it is my privilege to identify), and therefore a threat to "Me," these are contrived relationships, not true valid relationships. When we report feelings as though it were real, we are reporting inaccurately and the appropriate response of Life to balance  our "emergency" is not to our advantage. Adaptation must occur.  

 

We have a responsibility to report accurately. It is essential for our survival. I am responsible to my true Self to report only what is true. I can work on this by questioning all the suggestions that I identify with - they are NOT I, not mine. These suggestions abound and I must not identify with then if I choose to lead a harmonious life, if my purpose is to function appropriately for

 

What I REALLY  am

Where I REALLY am

What's REALLY going on

in order to know

What I REALLY can do.

 

Reference: What's Going On Here? (Arizona Newsletter)

Vol III No  3 & 4

What is My Nature, really?

Have you ever questioned honestly what we mean by "Well, that's my nature," or "That's just human nature"?

Let's look at what Dr Bob had talked about this subject on various occasions.. 

School Talk # 42 - The Necessity of Purpose

.... human nature is that the person is trying to be non-disturbed by gaining pleasure and comfort; attention and approval and a sense of importance of being appreciated or trying to escape pain on all of its forms or that we’re trying to escape being ignored

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School Talk #21 Mountain Climbing 

See, the average person feels that emotions are human nature, so it’s human nature to get angry if you’re not treated exactly as you want to be. It’s human nature to be frightened of the unknown. It’s human nature to be resentful. It’s human nature to feel apathetic when one has been rejected or disapproved of or in some other way disappointed. 

So as long as that is just accepted as the nature of the human being, of course, nothing is going to be done about it. We find people still indulging in it, even though they have been going through the motions of studying self-knowing and self-remembering and higher consciousness for Lord knows how long. It doesn’t make any difference; they’re probably still using these to a great extent.

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Q & A

What is meant by ''Human Nature"? I frequently hear someone say, 'Well, that's only human nature." I usually hear this statement when someone seems to he trying to justify some very unbecoming behavior. 

A: Mankind, humans, seem to have two natures - one ruled by emotional reactions, which can be considered animalistic, or carnal, or materialistic. This is the nature you seem to hear justified. 

The other nature man is, is so rarely expressed it hasn't been noticed by most. That is the Spiritual Nature. It is objective awareness and expresses unconditional love. 

Check on both human natures and see which you prefer to cultivate. 

Arizona Newsletter (what's going on here?) Vol 1, no 6

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The Bible and the Innerman no 4 of 30

The fundamental nature of man, his purpose, is to evolve, to rise to a new level of being - to be transformed, to be a new man. Man is not raw material for a planned society, but raw material for the kingdom of heaven. 

When one recognizes the basic nature of man, his purpose on earth, one understands the source of much violence, even though those engaged in the violence.don't know their purpose.

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B13. "I" BELIEVE that human nature cannot be changed.

(Place of Language in the Teachings)

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my nature is to what I am created to be

(From.a Salt Lake City workshop 1971's)

DO the RIGHT THING! But WHAT'S THE RIGHT THING? I

.... And I get lots of things from authorities as I go about my way and the authorities tell me that I should do this, do that, do the other. I should not eat any meat at all, I should be a vegetarian. Another one says I should eat meat. Another one says I only eat two ounces of a certain kind of meat. Another one says drink it out of a bottle and what-have-you. So, on and on and on we go with trying to do the right thing.

This one here (no 4 the authority) essentially says, do the right thing (writes on the board). You know, my mother told me when I started out getting up about this high “If I would always do the right thing, everything would just be wonderful for me.” But I could never find it out. And I’ve been around this world for a long time and I only heard last week what the right thing is (giggles) – I finally heard it.

I was sittin’ one evening with nothing else to do for about 20 minutes and the boob tube was on and some sad lookin’ little lady come on and they made some ballyhoo about what a “wonderful wife” she was – you know, whatever that may mean. And she said, “The reason for that is I always do the right thing – I take Geritol every day.” (laughter) So now I know what the right thing is after all these years – I finally got it figured out. All I got to do is watch the boob tube and I got it. Do the right thing, take Geritol every day. She sounded so sad and beautiful.

Dr Bob Gibson 

Bel Air 1977 cd 1 (ARK)

The Story of Mushkil Gusha

Mushkil Gusha is said to be the remover of all difficulties. It may be recognized by other names in different parts of the world. It is considered as a very valuable Teaching story* to be shared especially on Thursday nights.

Let's read how Dr Bob introduces Mushkil Gusha:

"We’re going to talk about a story tonight that we tell every Thursday night. And this is just the story of Mushkil Gusha. Now Mushkil Gusha has been known in oral traditions through many long years as “The Remover of All Difficulties.”

How you remove the difficulties and what, nobody knows. So we will tell the story to illustrate a point about one particular incident that Mushkil Gusha was involved, in removing of all difficulties."

Message of Mushkil Gusha:

"When your need is great enough and your want is small enough. Only when your want is small enough does the mind become quiet enough for the two way communication to take place and be heard"

If interested about this story, please go to https://www.marshasummers.com/innerman/mushkilgusha.htm

*A Teaching story has one purpose only and that is to have an internal effect on you -- and the effect is not all at once. 

It is a scientific instrument designed to do one thing: bring about a transformation in the person.  

We're given the opportunity to have a very great and unusual instrument work on us– on the inner state 

From School Talk # 35 Interpretation 

Receiving Graciously

One of the subjects is that people frequently do very wonderful things for us – how would we repay them. You see somewheres or other, somebody has tried to put on all of us, most likely a not-I that I am obligated to you if you do something nice for me. I think that’s the way most people feel that if somebody sent you a Christmas card now you’re obligated to send them one, is that right?

(Yes.)

If they send you a gift, you got to run out and get them one. You’re obligated to return all favors. Now if I were to do something nice for a person regardless of who it is, I’m doing it because it gives me a nice feeling because I want to and It says thank you to me in some way or other. And then if you try to get even with me, I’d say you ruined my nice feeling. 

If you come and try to do somethin' in return so you’ve paid the bill, you have refused to receive graciously my gift – whatever it may be, whether it’s a gift of time, a gift of interest, a physical something or whatever else – you have now wrecked it because you insisted on making a business transaction out of it instead of allowing me to go ahead and express my joy and my wanting to say thank you by making some little contribution that happened to go your way. 

So I think the greatest gift that you can return to someone who gave you something or gave you a favor or gave you a nice compliment or anything is to receive it graciously – that is the greatest giving there is and it doesn’t tear the other person’s “good feeling” up.

... And when you do that [received graciously], you have ceased to make human relationship into business transaction. If I were to do something for you and I don’t expect anything – I am doing it because I wanted to, and then if you do anything, all you can do is receive graciously.  

Now we’re all the recipients of tremendous amounts of goodness that we didn’t earn from Life. It gives us everything; and I think all we can really do for Life – because it don’t need anything and I’m not gonna try make a dollars and cents arrangement out of it  and say, “Well, I’m gonna serve life and get even with it"– I’m going to receive it graciously and pass it on... and not at the same place.  

Pass it on – don’t try to return it because that kills the chain right quick, okay? Does that make any sense to you? I never try to get even with people.

Excerpt from 

Maryland Workshop 12 1978 cd 6 at the beginning (ARK)

How to See Differently? I

 Have you ever considered that we are giving away our power by blaming others? Let's hear what Dr Bob has to say on this concept:

... Of course, we want to escape all disapproval. Now if you want to see a real gymnastic, mental thing, you walk up and disapprove of someone - not them as a person, but something they have done or something they are doing or some idea they’re thinking on or some activity they’re indulged in. And you disapprove of them and see how quick they’re on the defensive. They start defending themselves mightily. 

Now, of course, most people feel that being blamed or disapproved of is a slur. Is that the way you generally see it that somebody come up and they’re puttin’ you down, is that right? 

Now if I blamed you for something, am I putting you down or am I assigning great power to you? I’m assigning and saying the fact that you have tremendous power, is that right?

If I say you made me miserable…

(Oh, yes.)

… haven’t I said you have tremendous power over me? So it really is a compliment, isn’t it? (Laughter) You see, we’re so funny we can’t recognize a compliment when it comes by. 

Well, they’ve assigned me great power.  I’m going to accept it. And I will say “Thank you and you should see what I have planned for you next week.” (more laughter)

Now what are they gonna do about it?  Now immediately they will start trying to take the power away from me ‘cause you see they thought they was puttin’ me down too. But when they saw all through the joke and started accepting what they were giving me and the compliment and they’re saying 'I’m a powerful person. I can control your inner state,' hmm? Is that a tremendous compliment? 

Now this is what we mean by beginning to see a little differently. Now you’ve seen all your life that if somebody said, “You gave me a pain in the neck,” or elsewhere, then immediately you felt you had to defend yourself that you didn’t do it, is that right? Now they were trying to give you power all your days, hmm, and you turned it down?

A husband says to his wife, “You just bore me.” So what? He’s giving her tremendous power. He said you have control to make me interested or make me bored or anything else, huh? Right You gonna defend yourself from that or are you gonna say, “Sure I do. I can bore you this week, and I can torment you next week. I have full control over you.” 

(According to him, yeah.)

You’re catchin’ on. You’re finally catchin’ on you say to him, “Sure, I’m catchin’ on. I got power.”  

Now then, you see, you begin to see a little different - you’re taking charge of your own inner feeling instead of throwin’ it out here and leavin’ it to the tender mercy’s of whoever wants to bother with it, is that right? Huh? Would you ever turn down anybody blaming you anymore, would you accept it?  

(I think it’s always that initial emotional-)

No, that’s only because you want to escape all this. (indicating Four Dual Basic Urges)

(That’s right.)

And you’ve had that since infancy. You never re-evaluated it. Now that is not the way to live...

Dr Robert Rhondell Gibson 

For full discussion please refer to "talk 7 14 79" cd 1 (ARK)

“Bury the Dog Deeper!”

 An interesting comment was made by Dr Bob upon below question:

(Can you comment on the esoteric meaning and the concept of the ray of creation, the octave…)

No! That’s from a thing Gurdjieff who put out all this stuff to see if people would struggle with it; and they still are.  There’s a lot of suckers in the world who bite on it. 

 

So all those things are throwed out to cover up a meaning every now and then - it’s like you read a big code somewheres and you put a piece of paper over it with little holes in it and it’d be 12 words left which would give you a message; and all the rest of the stuff is not having any meaning. It really has very little or no meaning whatsoever.  It’s to make it look complicated.

Gurdjieff's favorite statement was “Bury the dog deeper,” so you put in one sentence of real accurate material and you cover it up with 25 pages of double talk - with all kinds of high-sounding words and we’ll see if the person will dig for the point or will they eat the slop.  And that’s what the old man said all the time. 

Will they eat the slop or will they dig out the food? So I won’t comment on it because I really don’t work on that level. 

Dr Robert R. Gibson 

Talk 7 14 79 cd 3 (ARK)

A Practice for not to be Disappointed

Now, if we should begin to see that my expectation is based on reality – that 25% of the circumstances that I will encounter today will be just about like I want them.  And 75% of 'em will have some resistance to the way I want it.  And I expect that and I will never be disappointed. 

... you've been in lots of disappointments in your life, haven't you?  But they’re all because you expected that 100% of these to come out – every little circumstance every day and it's only 25 some days. Now, it wouldn't be no fun if they all came out just like you want ‘em every day – it would be so boring you’d go wild, you know?  That's what they put people in prison for so that everything's just like they expect it to be all day long.  Did you ever think of that? That's why they put people in prison so that their expectations don't have any variations in 'em.

Somewheres a man said, "Know the truth and the truth will make you free."  The truth is that all day long every day, which is made up – our day is made up of many, many little circumstances through the day, is it not? And about 75% the kids are gonna spill milk on the floor, they're gonna get in a fight and they're gonna push this and they're gonna scream and they're gonna do all sorts of things and they're gonna do somethin’ altogether different than what you had any idea they were gonna do, huh?  Right?  And so 25% we're gonna have just about like we would like it and 75% is gonna have a little Second Force which is really to our advantage.

  

It's (Second Force) the greatest thing we could have because now we got somethin’ to keep us busy with and to practice a little ingenuity with, to work around, to apply a little time here and there – a little connivin’ if you please; but nevertheless, we get through with it all right, okay?  

Now, this will require practice – like flyin’ an airplane, playin’ music, operatin’ a restaurant, sewin’ a dress, makin’ something in a machine shop or whatever, it will require practice

Robert Rhondell Gibson 

From Roswell 1975, cd 2

For full discussion please refer to

https://www.marshasummers.com/innerman/roswell2.htm

Technical Definitions from The Place of Language in the Teachings

EXPECTATION

The feeling one has that something will happen. It is a necessity before any action can be initiated.

TRUE EXPECTATION

The feeling, based upon reality, that something will happen; leads to creative action.

FALSE EXPECTATION

The feeling one has, based upon illusions, that one will not be disturbed; leads to disappointment and being hurt