How can I be Harmless to Me and to YOU?

Now the only way I can be harmless is to find out what's harmful to you. I say I'm gonna be conscious:  I am harmless, I choose my own inner state. Now I have not known what would be harmful to you, any more than I know what's good for you. But I have found out over many years of experimentation, what is harmful to me. 

It's very harmful to me to be angry, feel guilty, or feel fearful or feel insecure. Those are emotions and they're really the only emotions, they are. They have many, many synonyms and gradual subdivisions and all that. 

I was never designed to have them. And I find when I have one, they're very harmful - internally, externally, relationship-wise, and everthing else. So I found out once what's harmful to me and I wanna be harmless to everyone, so I wouldn't have those. 

If I don't have those, I never harm you because I gotta get angry to bite you or hurt you, I have gotta be fearful before I would feel you're a big threat that I had to annihilate you, right? And I would have to feel you tempted me by making me feel guilty and 'fore I want to destroy you. Or I would feel insecure and if I am insecure, you must be blamed for it so I could kill you with the greatest of ease. But if I don't have these emotions, I would never harm anyone else. 

So first, I have to start being harmless to me and I am harmless to me as long as I don't have those emotions and of course I don't use... commit physical violence. And I wouldn't commit physical violence unless I had one of the emotions. You can't just say, "Well, I'm gonna kill somebody. I feel real fine this morning, well, I gonna to kill somebody." You first have to gotta justify it by getting angry, feeling guilty and blaming you, or feeling fearful and blaming you. You see if I get fearful of somebody, I can go and shoot him right away. 

..

Now let's see how emotions come about because we can see that without those emotions, I am harmless to me and if I am harmless to me, I'd certainly be harmless to you, right?

As long as you got those (emotions), we can talk about accounts receivable; now I got to have emotions before I build these.  

Now basically everything we do is based on an expectation. Now as long as we feel that I don't have charge of my inner state, but circumstances do, I begin to build expectations as to how you should treat me, hmm? And I base this expectation on the ideal that you will treat me like I am entitled to be - that you should give me, lots of attention, approval, give me lots of pleasure and comfort, etc, right?

I will begin to expect and I will have my expectation based on the ideal. Now ideal is that other people have charge over circumstances, but I don't, is that right?

For the rest of this lecture please refer to Corona del Mar 1973 cd 6 under ARK folder

"Mighty" Subconscious?!

In some terminology the primary urge to have pleasure and the decisions linked with it is called the ID. 

The urge to gain pleasure and escape pain by doing what one is told to do, and by beliefs built up about these things, is called the SUPER-EGO. 

The Chooser is called the EGO. These are all merely names given to functional parts of the fragmented awareness* (not actual anatomical divisions). 

The ID and the Super-Ego being formed or made up of decisions made with feeling, not words, are below the conscious level. The contents are not easily recalled into conscious awareness, therefore they are called the SUBCONSCIOUS. 

There is no great power resident in the subconscious as is stated in pulp magazines and advertised by those who wish to exploit the unwary by selling mail order courses on how to tap the power of the subconscious. It is filled with recordings of decisions made by the "I" and every happening that "I" was ever aware of, including dreams, many of which are never remembered on awakening. As was seen in the discussion on the child type of thinking and the child type of mind, there results many identifications and speculations based on equating things that were not equal and misconceptions based on the defective method of inquiry. This causes "I" to see things not as they are but as they appear through the now fragmented awareness. 

THIS CAUSES "I" TO FORM FOUR DUAL BASIC URGES. These four dual basic urges are an expansion of the first infantile decision after fragmentation takes place. Either side of the duality may be either primary or secondary according to what decisions were made by the child.

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Basic Propositions for Inquiry and observation

*Proposition # 24 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

Please refer to Notes on Personal Integration and Health (available at )

The Most Interesting Thing in the World

The most interesting thing in the world is human relationships. Because it is interesting doesn’t make it important. See when you make anything important, you become anxious. And you put two anxious people in the house and there's going to be fire flying before long. And if there's nobody anxious in  the house it's a joy as to how we can get along, right? Dr Bob Gibson 

From unknown workshop, excerpted from the Way of Intelligence june 2003 page 5 -6

WHERE DO I LIVE? OR, HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS. II

In order to truly live a spiritual life we must harmonize these mental and physical functions by developing a "container" for all this. This container can be called the "Real I", the heart, or the Soul. 

After first recognizing the situation, we can then act to correct it. And ACTION is the only way on this planet earth we will ever accomplish this (or anything else!) Remember, THINKING is NOT ACTING. 

The method of action is simple but not easy. And it can only be undertaken in one small increment at a time. It is the only way to stop the chaos, and will take plenty of attention. 

We must first create a new member of the group we call "I". This new member is an observer only. It "watches" the body and its instincts (the feelings and emotions), and it "watches" the mind working on patterns and why questions and endless analyzing, and so on. This new member will at first be weak and sleepy and it will take effort to keep it on the job. 

A great Spiritual Secret is that this effort produced by the Observer when objectively watching (completely without judgment); for instance, watching the body cry out in pain or desire and the mind searching frantically for the quickest remedy, will transform the instinctual and mental energy into a new kind of energy - creative energy, rather than dissipating, nervous energy. This creative energy builds the container, the new Soul. The Soul is the conductor of what can be a harmonious orchestra, rather than leaderless mass of chaos and confusion, or the disassociated logic and reason constructing its eloquent patterns in the ether. 

It cannot be over-stressed that this process can only take place moment by moment. One little instance of observing the instinct and denying it its little rampage will build upon the next moment of watching the brain off on still another "problem solving adventure" or other fantasy. The accumulation of these efforts transforms the energy involved in them into something new. The observer we create with this energy will put a Soul in charge of all these human functions so that we will at last be truly Human expressions of Life on this earth, neither OF it, nor ABOVE it, but creating WITHIN it. 

Check it out. 

WHERE DO I LIVE? OR, HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS. I

It is often said we are in the world but not of it. Maybe it also should be said we are in the world bul not ABOVE it. 

Most of us "live" in our heads. This technological, scientific, patriarchal society in which we live values this logic and reason above all. We may even call it the golden idol of Western "culture." 

The acceptance of this supreme valuation of what is called "intellect" causes a division between the mind and body of which we are completely unaware. And while the separation exists, we live in one place or the other, vacillating between the mind and the instincts of the body. We have not created a harmonious whole THROUGH which to express Life. What we are instead is a group of fragmented functions very roughly strung together by our individual perspective. 

We live mainly in the mental function until the instincts holler; then they are quickly indulged in hopes of shutting them up. How often are we "thinking" about the past or "planning for" (or dreading) the future? How often are we involved in mental machinations about some project or analyzing some situation, or rehearsing a future conversation, or re-writing a past dialogue, or wishing for something to make us happy, etc., etc.? 

Very often we pursue spiritual ideas in the mind. We give attention to a spiritual concept, maybe we "work out" a new understanding, and we believe we are "being Spiritual," when in fact nothing more is going on than the computer playing with and revising a program that happens to be labeled "Spiritual." 

Believe it or not, THINKING about spiritual things (no matter how "good" this makes us feel) is in no way a spiritual activity 

Because of the nature of human beings, which is to be the expression of Life in 

the physical world where we live, we must, in order to function properly, live IN the body, USE it to express Life. 

What most of us do instead, is live ABOVE the physical, bodily plane, exercising the mind, and out of necessity, dragging the body along with us. It is not integrated into the whole being, it is felt to be a separate possession of "me", the mind. Because of this neglect, it fusses and will not be ignored. Since we don't have the strength of repeated practice which builds a real, permanent "I", when the body fusses we can't control it. The instincts will be heard; they come up at any time of their choosing (when we are exposed to possible pain or pleasure) and run over us! 

Before we can begin to integrate these functions into a working harmonious expression of Life, we must first recognize that what we think is "I" is really a computer program running endlessly, which is constantly interrupted by a squealing body wanting to avoid annihilation it perceives in every potential pain or loss of pleasure. 

We drug this body with mental gyrations constantly; we live in a fantasy world in the head, and wonder why we are always unsatisfied at best, and often miserable.

to be continued...

From Arizona Newsletter vol 2, no 12

WHAT ARE THE COMMANDMENTS ALL ABOUT?

12) What are the commandments all about?

A commandment, on the sensory level, is an order. You better do it or else. On the psychological level (spiritual level) a commandment is a teaching. If you will look at them, you can see that they are teachings. But a pharisee (being an authority or an authority worshipper) gets hold of them and twists them into an order. For example, the commandment says, “Love one another.” So we go around pretending and professing to love one another, but soon the knife is in the back. I love you, but… I love everyone, but when it comes down to the one person, then we find out how much love we really have. On the spiritual level, to love is to understand and have agape. 

A commandment says, “We should...” Can you love because you should? No. And this is just the beginning of the Pharisseeism. Christ shook up the Pharisees by saying that they paid tithes on all the herbs but forsook the weightier matters, which were the understandings of the teaching so that it can apply to the evolvement of the inner man.

You can keep the sensory level of the commandment if you want and sometimes that is very nice. But as far as the inner man is concerned, it is beside the point. Understand the teaching behind the command and you can evolve considerably. I commend or recommend

From Workshop - Bible Q &A - Phoenix, AZ - 1970

Headlines pg 17

All the "thou shalt" and "thou shalt 

not," ideas were originally designed by 

wise men, to turn the violence inward in 

the individual, to create conflict and 

thereby increase the necessity to be 

knowing self. 

• 

The real aim for the thou shalt and 

thou shalt nots, having been long forgotten, are now used as reasons for the protection and expansion of the power of institutions. 

• 

This is turning the violence outward 

again, the individual against the controlling establishment. 

The Way Workshop

Man through the ages has cried to his god to give him instruction. “Tell me what to do, Lord, and I will do it.” This prayer has always been answered by a wise Father, not an indulgent Father.  The commandments were given many, many, many years ago. Man looked at them and went out and tried to do them. When he didn’t, he merely felt guilty. He didn’t look to see why he couldn’t live up to them, what there was within himself that couldn’t do all the work. So he struggled on, put on an outward front, never seeing that these commandments gave him reasons that would make him look within if he was but awake. It is like a parent, that when a child asks for a gift, he gives him a way to earn the gift and more. When man sees that he doesn’t love either his neighbor or his creator he begins to find out why he doesn’t - if he is a wise man. If he is not a wise man, is a literalist, he is tolerant of his neighbor, expresses words about God and his inner state, goes on in darkness.

(transcript also found, in edited version, in Headlines, pages 22-30)

With the previous entry along with these excerpts, we see that commandments are also called decrees and thou shall/thou shall not...

Perfect Law of Liberty

The child now is, as it is written in the *Book of James, under the perfect law of liberty. 

Now this is not to say that license has been given, but as in the case of a child, he is told not to cross the street (a very solid commandment for a child when he is very small), it may save his life. But this doesn't last for his entire life, because as he grows and develops and understands the nature of things, he is no longer controlled by the command, "thou shalt not cross the street." 

He has been liberated from the command, and is now in a new level of being responsible for choosing when he will cross the street, and when he will not cross the street. He is at liberty to go as he pleases, he's no longer under the command "thou shalt not cross the street". 

He is now capable of looking and seeing the dangers for himself, that may occur, to avoid the traffic, to cross at certain places only. He is now liberated. 

Now, this is the message of the New Testament, that man is under the perfect law of liberty. In order to do this, and be under this law, he must, of course, know self. He must see what his basic motives are, and he must have many ways of seeing them, all the ways of attempting to achieve them. This makes up what is called the soul, or in modern psychology, the psyche. That with which a man sees and values and  understands all that is about him. 

If he should see this, and be capable of understanding from his own inner state, he no longer needs the decrees or commandments. They have been made void within him. He now knows self, and that these commands were of value to him in an earlier state. Now he is a responsible being and doesn't need commands. They have been made void. 

DECREE - is a commandment, thou shalt and thou shalt not. 

LIBERTY: liberation from slavery and/or compulsion

Corresponding bible verses  

*James ch 1, 13-16 & 22-25

Ephesians, ch 2, 15 -17 

Please refer to Bible and Innerman, cd 5 for the whole discussion 

transcripts available in the Headlines, book III

How to Avoid Discovery?

Keep opinions, allow only one eXplanation. All reality is formed on agreement. Keep agreements; never look. All agreements are based on speculation. With all this assistance, we do not have to stay awake.  

(assistance  agreements) anyone who does not agree with our reality, with our agreements, is bound to be wrong.

However, to discover:

Just be in a state of not knowing. After seeing (checking out) the discovery, we can describe.  We can only describe after discovery.

From Gibson Notes prior to 1971

Technical Definitions from Place of Language in the Teachings

LEARNING Playing the part of a tape recorder.

DISCOVERY Creative comprehension.

EDUCATION Gathering information regarding relationships.

Purpose of the Teaching

We are frequently asked, “What is the purpose of the teaching?” There are, of course, many purposes but we will assume for the moment that the question refers to the ultimate purpose. 

The ultimate purpose of the Teaching is to prepare the student to be capable of being aware of the many levels of consciousness or inner feelings and to be able to choose and generate or bring into being any level of consciousness so desired, because many areas of service can only be rendered when in a given state of consciousness or being. Healing, for instance, can not be practiced while in the state of consciousness called “fear,” or in the state of anger, etc., etc.

Many ideas of the Teaching is to make the student aware of the usual states of consciousness by the use of tools such as “The Picture of Man,” the “Tone Scale,” etc., etc.

Much work on self-Knowing is necessary before the potential student can remove the obstruction to higher states of consciousness, thus the reason for schools. Only by being at least somewhat familiar with the possibility of many states of consciousness can the student begin the work of actualizing these states of consciousness in his or her own being. This is the stage wherein the potential student becomes a student.

Many people are present in a school setting that first must attain a desirable state of well-being before they could be considered a potential student; some have to learn first the most fundamental knowledge of how to not destroy the body, then how not to disintegrate the whole being. Being a potential student, much less being a student, requires too much energy for sick or disintegrating persons to be involved in. 

So in a school situation many levels of work is going on at the same time: 

first, to make possible the transformation of sleeping, disintegrating persons into potential students;

then the transformation of potential students into students; 

then students into beings who experience any level of consciousness required for the task at hand.

Rhondell

From Arizona Newsletter vol 1, # 2

Also the original handwritten note can be found at 

https://marshasummers.com/innerman/links.htm 

Under additional written materials, look for "coffee shop notes"

INITIATION (WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THE WORLD ALL ABOUT?)

A. WHAT AM I?                                                 I am a privileged invited guest.

B. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME?

I have totally forgotten what I am. I am totally conditioned to feel and act more like a prisoner than a guest.

C. WHERE AM I AND WHAT'S THE PURPOSE OF BEING HERE?

I am at a lovely estate called earth and the purpose of being here is to be experiencing freely and finding joy in it.

D. HOW HAVE I BEEN SEING IT?

As a literal place of torment and have felt that I was being attacked from all sides.

E. WHOSE ESTATE IS THIS?

It is the estate of the Host, who is God, Spirit, or Father. He is the one who invited me here.

F. WHO OWNS EVERYTHING HERE?

The host owns everything. He invites me to use some of the things. He owns such as a house, car, clothing, a body. We had nothing when we arrived and were given the privilege of using so much of what is here. We can take nothing when we leave.

G. WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?

A lot of interesting games are going on here. They are designed to enlighten the players -- business, marriage, traffic, self-improvement, education, trying to get rich, etc. The games all have rules and are very necessary. However, the players do not know that they are playing games, taking everything seriously. It is as though they were all playing the game of "Pin the Tail on the Donkey," all being blindfolded. Each is afraid that someone will get the prize before he does.

H. WHAT HAVE I BELIEVED IS GOING ON HERE?

I have believed there was a great struggle to compete with another, to survive, and to drive off all the enemies.

I. WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING?

I have been behaving as though I had to straighten the whole thing out and have not accepted the reality of the Host. So I have been trying to rebuild the whole party and even trying to become the Host, since I did not recognize or suspect there was a host. I have been seeing it as a chaotic royal mess and wondering what I was going to do to clean it up.

J. WHAT CAN I DO?

I can understand myself and the estate or world in which I live and see the beauty, balance, and purpose of everything and thereby begin to really appreciate and then to love the Host.

K. WHO CAN I DO ANYTHING FOR?

The only one I can do anything for is the Host. Never again need I go out to do things for the other guests, or even for myself. Fatigue is the price we pay for doing things for the wrong reason.

L. DO I FEEL REQUIRED TO DO FOR THE HOST OR DO I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE?

The Host says, "Would you mind....?" He does not say "You have to" or you "ought to." It is then He will accept us as a companion and may visit us from time to time, which is very worthwhile. Doing things for the Host is such a privilege because we do it freely. 

Source: First Workshop Workbook, page XVII (19 of 20)

What the heck is "Deep Therapy"? Who is it for? Does It really Work?

 *... So, this little voice that goes on on the inside is also another thing. So we will put along here with circumstances and other persons and accidental feelings, we'll put inner talking. 

Now, I think we all know about that inner talking, I use the word not-I. Now this inner talking that goes on, always says something derogatory about you or another or about circumstances. 

And further more I'll add one more attribute of it it's always a lie. So, everything it says is a lie. But it talks all the time, more or less constantly. If it sees you really having a good time, it really gets on the job because that inner talking's total food is human misery. And so it's gonna use some method or other to keep you miserable. And they're experts and they're very good at their job. And in case they're slippin' up a little bit they get night classes. While you're sleepin' they get a little study on how to work on you the next morning early. 

So, biggest part of the people it says, or 95% of the people, go into action, or their behavior is determined by accidental means you might say. 

Now of course if we compare any circumstance to an ideal, it's got a hole in it. Is that right off the bat, you know? If I've got an ideal circumstance dreamed up, no matter what's going on got something wrong with it. Is that right, Mark? 

Now I know people who have spent 20 years in what they call "deep therapy." They go to all kinds of shrinks, trying to find what's going on, they also go to a lot of lesser known ---  (talk is interrupted). So they spend years and years, and tremendous amounts of money, studying therapy- therapy working on the head. And what they generally work on is these not-I's. 

Now they just love for you to do that. They just love for you to go to a therapist and have your head worked on. Because you're still gonna have the same set of talking not-I's when you get through. 

So the not-I's continually work to have you feel that something is wrong. And they love for you to have therapy methods, and they have devised over the ages endless number of therapies, which many people have subjected themselves to, all in attempt to have a good feeling. But the minute you start having a good feeling about anything, they tell you either that it's a false good feeling, or that you are escaping into a good feeling. Or that it's extremely temporary, it won't last at all, it just can't last. 

So we really pay very little attention to the endless therapies that goes on. Because the only thing that really, gets round to making a total difference in how we're doing is the actions we take or the behavior. 

*This talk is about being self-determined vs other determined

For full discussion please refer to Motivation cd 1

Below source also has a transcription for the same part, in more complete form.

https://theteachingsofrobertrhondellgibson.blogspot.com/search?q=Inner+talking&m=1

Call it by Its Name; it isn't Our Nature

 In a nutshell:

"just stand off and watch that there is at least two ways of arguments about almost anything you do."

Recently it dawned on me that I'm most of the time in conflict yet hardly ever call it by its proper name, and unfortunately it is very misleading and harmful to describe it anything but inner turmoil- inner conflict. Another "human nature" issue, something taken for granted or unquestioned, denied, ignored, or justified under different names... 

In below excerpt Dr Bob explains how we approach conflict and what really goes on internally. He starts the discussion with a very common yet unconscious belief.* 

“I” don’t believe that there are many “I’s” – each with a will – each trying to run the entire household called “self” – that this household is usually in conflict…. "

You don’t even believe that even though you notice it once in a while. You don’t believe it is most of the time – it’s just once in a while, isn’t it? 

 

(That’s a problem for getting things squared away.)

 

Yeah, just a little conflict here and there, but it’s really conflict all the time. [he continues with the quote] 

"…and is in an inward state of disintegration which will sooner or later be expressed externally."

 

In other words, you’ll see the body start getting aged and falling apart so forth after a while. Most of us try to convince ourselves that we are not in conflict – only just once in a while, isn’t it? Now and then something goes haywire, but most of the time one of the not-I’s says, “We’re doing pretty good, aren’t we, Joanie? It’s just now and then when somebody misbehaves that upsets me,” hmm?

 

(Bob… Elaborate on that a little bit, will you, somehow?)

 

I’ll try to do it.

 

(How can you…. Don’t you feel all your conflicts?)

 

Oh, no, you can keep a lot of it buried and you can at least keep yourself distracted, so you don’t really aware of it. Mm-hmm. 

 

(Is there a not–?)

 

The favorite indoor sport of the human race.

 

(That means then the not-I’s up all the time?)

 

Oh, one or more is up and one of ‘em says, “Why, we are not having any conflict." I've got ‘em all pushed down there. But there’s one down there’s _____, waitin’ for their chance to come. And you really are in conflict most of the time.

 

(Like 99 and 9/10th percent of the time?)

 

Yes. 99 and 9/10th plus percent. 

 

(You’re talkin’ about all the thoughts.)

 

Yeah, most of us are in conflict. One runs by and then one comes right behind it. Another one down there says, “I am gonna get him.” So one says, “Paint the house pink,” and one says, “Paint it in blue,” don't they, Rachel? 

 

Now we don’t think of “this” as conflict; we usually call it something else. We call it 

“trying to make up the mind” 

“I’m trying to come to a conclusion”  

“I’m trying to do the right thing” 

“I wanna figure this out.” 

“I want to get the facts on the matter.”   

 

You know, we got lots of beauties for it.

 

(That has a… glandular reaction.)

 

Yep. As long as you make it important that you’re gonna do it. Now if you really wanna do the right thing, you’re in conflict, aren’t you? Now if you would never have a conflict or have to make up your mind about anything, you'd be without conflict already – you didn’t have two “I’s” fighting over it, would you? At least two. You’ll always be spontaneous, action at every moment, and how often do you do that? You always have to think about it, don’t you, Darrol? Okay, now you’ve been in that state so long, you think of it as being normal.

 

(That’s right.)

 

Just because it’s usual, you say it’s normal. 

 

(That’s right.)

 

Okay. Now you’ve always been in this state that were everything you did, you had to think about it a while. Is that conflict, sir?  

 

(That’s me!) (he laughs)

 

Well, it’s been you… you’re goin’ this way and you’re going this way. You’re… one “I” says “Go… don’t take off from the restaurant when it’s really making you a living.” And the other one says, “Well, after all, it’s more worthwhile to find out somethin’ than it is to run the restaurant.”  

 

(Exactly.)

 

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. (laughter)

 

(Exactly. That’s right.)

  

That get with ya? 

 

(Yes.)

 

Is there conflict then?

 

(Well, I hadn’t recognized it…)

 

Well, no, because we’ve lived in it all of our life lives and we take it for being “natural.” But do you see that there was two voices talking about it, is that right?

(Is there a way I can see that for the demon it is – that conflict? ‘Cause I–)

 

Well, just stand off and watch that there is at least two ways of arguments about almost anything you do. 

 

(No, okay… I’m back.) 

 

Huh? You stand out there and watch it; and one of ‘em says, “Well, you should burn the threads on the floor and the other one says, “Oh, no, don’t take time to burn it – yank the thing out.” Now what do you do? [chuckles] Do you see it? But it’s constantly…. there is two attorneys arguing ever point and trying to get I, to judge, to take one or the other, is that right? So you’re constantly being suggested to. Is that right now? 

 

(Yes, sir.)

 

Okay. Now that clarify it?

 

(That's death.)

 

That’s what?

(Death.)

Well, sure… it’s just being down there and being kicked around by these things in here –  mechanical. You got two sets of programming in the same computer and you throw a problem at it, what do you think the poor computer will do?

 

(Will smoke up.) [chuckles]

 

What do you do? [chuckles]

 

(But I’ve never recognized that.)

 

I know that. But I said we’ve done it all of our life so we take it as being normal and I'm gettin’ along fine. That’s one of those not-I’s that says, “Well, this is the way it’s supposed to be. It’s human nature!”  

 

(Otherwise you’d be bored.)

 

Right. If one of ‘em says, ”Well, this is human nature,” one says, “Well, that’s what you really are, a problem solving machine. After all, everybody has problems.” 

 

(You can’t win.)

 

No, you can’t win.

 

(It has no matter –)

 

No, there’s no winning of this. So you can only stand off and watch this commotion going on. But you see, they all tell you, “This is the way it should be.” One says to deny and to keep it asleep says, “Well, don’t wake up; we’re taking care of everything – everybody has problems.” Hmm?

....

From Dis-identifying Roswell 1972  cd 3 - mp3 available 

* There is a complete belief list at The Place of Language in the Teachings under the title of THE LANGUAGE OF THE THINKING MIND

The Law of Balance in One's Habitual Attitude (part 2))

 7. OBJECTS / OBJECTIVES::  Up to 5 on AAC (Attitude-Action-Condition) on Tone Scale, the person is more concerned in striving for objects. From Contentment on up, the individual is more conscious of having the objectives of life rather than striving for objects. The person is enthusiastic rather than ambitious. Value is in work rather than what work may bring. Below this point on the tone scale, the decision is that objects make life worthwhile.

8. RESPONSIBILITY / BLAME PLACING:  When an individual nears 6 on the AAC tone scale, he answers to self as cause. He no longer looks for someone or something outside of himself, nor creates an entity such as a diagnosis on which to place blame as cause. He accepts responsibility for self and the betterment of his environment.

9. INTEREST and CONTROL:  Below 6, a person centers his interest in himself and wants to control others in such a way that will serve self. His feeling is that if he can control others, he will not have need to control self. As one moves above 6, his interest centers around others because of the fascination he sees in them. He loses all desire to control others, finding control of self being attained. 

10. STRESS vs.HARMONY:  There's action in both worlds, but in man-made world has action which produces stress while the real objective of action is HARMONY. The attitudes of #1 through #5 deal with dissatisfaction. Above #6, the attitudes deal with satisfaction. The feelings below 6, deal with fear, above 6 deal with confidence. The higher degrees on the tone scale indicate an individual that sees relationships rather than thinking in terms of cause-effect

11. PERSONAL INTEGRATION:  The call of the Father is union with Him through love. Due to misconceptions, an individual feels false feeling of threat or emergency and causes him to put up defenses which fracture or disintegrate the Light of Truth given to him by God. It is the Truth which makes man free. Responsibility or independence is a matter of degree. Some may study self to achieve enough responsibility to rid themselves of headaches and indigestion, but go no further. Some may study and observe to raise themselves to the tone of Contentment, some to Exhilaration, some to points much higher.

12. RESPONSIBILITY and DUTY:  The study of self or personal integration opens the way for the person to see and feel responsibility for self and to differentiate duty for others from responsibility. No one can be responsible for another, even though there can be duty for another.

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Please refer to previous entry for the Tone Scale

Reference: the Tone Scale

 0.001 COMA

1.   APATHY

2.   FEAR

3.   HELD RESENTMENT 

4    ANGER

5    BOREDOM

6    CONTENTMENT 

7    VITAL INTEREST 

8.   EXHILARATION 

9    ARTIST 

10. PROPHET 

11. CLAIRVOYANT 

12.  MAGICIAN

13.  CHRISTlike Man

The Law of Balance in One's Habitual Attitude (part 1)

1.BALANCE TONE: There is a constant balance between our Action and Attitudes and the Condition we are in. This balance can best be understood by comparing it to the rate of vibration in tone. A high tone has a very rapid vibration. A low tone is very slow. No vibration is no tone, and would represent death. Tone can be also compared to Light, which is also vibration. When a body is filled with light, having no darkness, there would be energy frequency comparable to celestial tone. So, "Balance Tone" indicates rate of tissue cell speed or rate of vibration. Tone is a matter of degree. There is a continuous ascending degree of tone or tissue rate of vibration from .001 or apparent death to a degree raised to Nth or infinity. 

2. ATTITUDE: Our attitude is our agreement or what we have decided or believe to be true, whether conscious or not. What one lives by, usually unknown, are decisions which distort perception. To change or remove the decisions is to improve perception or to remove distortion from perception. Attitude is the reflection of the decisions of the person in action as feeling. 

3. ACTION: Action is always felt to be correct for the situation as perceived. If the perception is distorted due to decisions, there is inadequate response resulting in held motion, thus stress. If the perception is for the actual situation, there is adequate response to the situation, thus creative action results.

4 FEELING: Feeling is always either a degree of fear or confidence. Fear may be referred to as a false feeling of emergency. Confidence may be referred to as true perception. The more the person understands the forgotten decisions, the more he or she accepts responsibility for self and the betterment of his or her world. The less the person understands of forgotten decisions, the more dependent he is and the more he places blame. Thus, the lower he or she is on the Attitude - Action Tone Scale.

5 HABITUAL ATTITUDE: All points on the tone or attitude scale are continuous. A person may vary temporarily, but each individual has his habitual tone due to unrecognized decisions that distort perception. As the decisions are recognized the tone raises.

6.TWO WORLDS: The man-made world of blaming, controlling others, interest in self, stress, dissatisfaction, and fear diminish at the tone level of 5. From 6 to 13, the tone level represents the Real World created by God which all are invited to enjoy as His guests. Each is a privileged, invited guest on the world. The Host has given each food, clothing, transportation etc around his plantation. Each who truly lives in this awareness tries his best to be a good guest, with every thought for the "Host." Boredom,# 5, is the emptiness as one ceases to be energized by the fear, resentment, and anger of the world, but is not yet nourished by the Light of the Truth from the Real World. Contentment, #6, is the beginning of the higher nourishment, but is lacking in commitment to the Real World. 

To be continued...

From Howard Hess archives

Please refer to next entry for the Tone Scale

Cease to Conclude - Resist the Temptation to Know

To be in a state of knowing at a given moment is to be in a state of discovery where everything is new; one is seeing new relationships. One is seeing everything in a new light... But the temptation is that as soon as one has made a discovery, one forms a conclusion. 

So, one concludes paying attention; one is delighted with one's newfound discovery and one goes to "sleep.” ... One dreams that what one has observed or discovered is permanent. But everything in the world is in a state of change. So, a discovery is valid for this moment.

The perversion of conditioning, the effort to be secure entices him to come to conclusions. And he concludes, of course, that what it is now it will forever be. He has mistaken an event for a thing; and he feels that things are permanent, things are dependable.

However, if one observes even one individual, say a husband or wife, and observes them without any conclusion from the past as to what that person is like – in other words one sets down the accounts one has made against a given person and says, "I'm going to observe this individual,” – one will see that you have a brand-new person about, that it is not the same person one had formed the conclusion about. This is to awaken to see that everything is in a state of change, that there is nothing permanent in the visible world, that all are events that are ever undergoing change. And one can resist the temptation to "know." 

Intrigued? Please see SOM # 45 for full explanation and ways of transforming from static I-know (asleep) state to ever- changing discovery mode.

It was a big eye opener to relate labeling/ concluding that someone is such and such and having accounts receivable against him/her.

Do I know what I need? I

THERE is a very old story to the effect that a man asked a wise man to tell him about the wise man's ideas and teaching so that he could decide whether he was a real teacher, and could give the seeker what he wanted. 

The wise man asked his visitor if he would do a small favor for him, before he replied to the visitor. He agreed, and the wise man took a ring from his finger, and asked the seeker to take the ring to the stallkeepers in the flea market across the way and to get several estimates as to its value. 

The visitor took the ring and returned shortly with estimates of value and offers to buy from eleven to seventeen dollars. The wise man thanked the visitor and asked if he would do one more favor.    

The visitor agreed, and the wise man thanked the visitor and asked that he take the ring down the street to any fine jewelry store and see if he could get an offer to buy the ring. Again, the visitor returned shortly with an offer to buy the ring - for $43,000 ! 

A person who is full of conditioning thus under control of illusion, conflicts, struggles to be non-disturbed, and subject to emotions, belief, etc., is in no way qualified to know what he needs. In effect he may pass over a real gem as worthless because it doesn't appeal to his conditioning, and on the reverse he may pay a considerable sum for a cubic zirconium because it appeals to his conditioning & emotions. 

A school, or a teacher, to be of any value to a person, must be able to provide what the seeker needs. What the seeker needs is very, very seldom recognized by the seeker. 

As long as a person lost in the forest believes he knows his way, no one can be of assistance to the lost person. When the person has lost his or her way, and CAN RECOGNIZE TI-IE CONDITION, then much can be done which is of real value. 

Each day's mail brings many letters with requests for all sorts of things believed to be what is needed for transformation. These include a new pink Corvette, a job in the theatre, a boy friend, a girl friend, more money, a trip around the world, getting rid of the present mate, and many more of the same level asking for things or situations to tickle the senses. 

Now and then comes something to the effect that, "I'm confused and feel lost. I don't even KNOW what I want. Can anything be done for me?" This kind of asking gets service. 

Arizona Newsletter vol 1, #:3

How to See Differently? II

(But do we create - are we responsible for everything in our existence?)

Well, I don't know what all you put out as your existence. There is windstorms and rainstorms and hail storms and hurricanes come along and some people suggest, I suppose, can you bring in a hurricane? I don't know, ask yourself, don’t' ask me.

(Okay, the things that happen to us - maybe accidents or you know the good things and the accidents and the whole...)

I said, that's in the "I don't know" department. I only look at what can I do about it. I'm not interested in attempting to answer “why” questions. Finding that anytime you answer a "why” question, the next answer is "why that?" and I don't wanna get caught in that score of answering why everything happened.

I am very interested in seeing “what I can do about the present situation” but I'm not interested in philosophizing, describing, explaining as to why that happened. Now I don't know why you were born a girl and Charles was born a man. Now I can deal with the fact that you're that way, but I don't know why, okay?  

And as far as I'm concerned, you're asking me a why question. Can you answer why did this happen and that happened; and this person had a flat tire, this one didn't and this one had an accident and this one didn't have? I can't answer that question; and I don't want to get caught in any why questions. So to me you're asking me a why question and I've turned 'em down ever since you've known me - I don't care what it was about, is that right? Not because you brought it up that you went to an EST class. It's because you were attempting to ask me a why question; and I won't try to answer 'em because I don't know. 

I don't know why anything happens, but I can usually see what to do about it after it gets here. That's the only thing that I know. Yes, Pearl?

(I interpreted that X is the experience…)

Right, so you tell Debbie the answer to it, okay? 

(Can I ask a question?)

Sure.

(Are we responsible for our experience?)

Yeah, we generally choose how we're gonna see things, yes - we're generally gonna choose how we see things. One person sees a given situation as very bad. Another one involved in the same thing sees it fine. 

We are responsible for how we see things - how we choose to see things. We've talked about that at qreat length sometime through the week. We can choose how we're gonna see things which is another way of seeing “what can I do about it" when it is here. 

I have had the question that Debbie asked, throwed at me several different times on that like “did you bring about the ingrown toenail.” “Did you bring about the accident on the street?” “Did you bring about the flood that washed away your buildings?” and so forth. I don't know, so I'm not trying to answer a why question. That's the only thing, I don't know why these things happen. We see what we can do. If the buildings washed away, I can start rebuilding it or move to higher ground.

(My interpretation about that is that I am responsible for my experience.)

I would say that - I would 100% agree with. I am responsible for how I see it; but not for all the things that might and might not have happened, okay?  

From Newport Workshop 1980 cd 19..

(Please note that audience comments and questions are in parentheses. The ideas mentioned here like the insignificance of asking Why questions, I- don't-know department, taking charge, being responsible etc will be brought up from time to time including more excerpts from this exceptionally rich workshop. The entire workshop has been transcribed also.)

What Will People Think? I

 "Now no one, when he has lighted a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a couch; but he puts it upon a lamp-stand, that they who enter may see the light.  

For there is nothing hidden that will not be made manifest; nor anything concealed that will not be known and come to the light. Take heed, therefore, how you hear, for to him who has, shall be given; and from him who does not have, even what he thinks he has shall be taken away."

....

" ... The scripture further says that there is nothing hidden that will not be made 

manifest; nor anything concealed that will not be brought to light. "

Luke, Chapter 8, verses 16 through 18.

Man has hidden or concealed much from himself. One hides from self one's constant desire to have one's own way right now. If you doubt this, try telling someone, "You always want to have your way right now." See if it is denied, but observe that person a while in relationship with others and see. The person may be yourself. 

We conceal that we resent, that we are greedy for more, for better, for different, that we feel sorry for ourselves most of the time, that we are constantly nursing hurt feelings, that we are constantly blaming someone for these hurt feelings, and that we judge everyone we meet compared to a false picture of oneself as the best of the best. 

We hide all this, because we have been told to hide it - after all, "What would people think?" Man hides from himself that he hungers for power over his fellow man, that he really wants to be a magician and have everything happen at his wish. 

This is just a sample; as you can discover if you lighted your lamp and put it on a lamp-stand.

Source: Headlines page 50, part 9 of the Bible and the Innerman, book III - No Audio

So, What is a PROBLEM?

A problem is:

1: CONFLICT, STRUGGLE AND RESISTANCE.

2: How does it come about? 

WHEN THERE IS THE BELIEF IN AN "IDEAL" AND A STRUGGLE TOWARDS "WHAT OUGHT TO BE."

There is conflict, struggle and resistance because one is struggling towards an illusion

3: THERE IS NEVER AN ATTEMPT MADE TO SOLVE A PROBLEM. 

4: THE EFFORT IS TO UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM:  THE PROBLEM IS ALWAYS CONFLICT, STRUGGLE, AND RESISTANCE BETWEEN “WHAT IS” AND WHAT THE PERSON SAYS, “OUGHT TO BE,” OR THE “IDEAL.”

You see, everything comes out with a problem or a flaw if one has an ideal. The ideal is not real; it’s an illusion, it is a fantasy.

For full explanation please refer to Science of Man - SOM # 43

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)