10-15-2009, 12:00 AM
'Ravenna: Please try this small meditation. This demo is not my invention and is used in many different psychotrainings. It is possible that you have already come across it. So, find a calm place, and adopt a comfortable position either sitting or lying down. Close your eyes and try to remember the contents of your personal library or book collection. Recall the books that you like most of all. Recollect the approximate period of your life when you were reading each one of those books. What life events were linked with these books? As you proceed with this exercise imagine that you are throwing each recapitulated book into the fire. Recapitulate the first 10 of your most beloved books very meticulously. Say farewell to them and throw them into the imaginary fire. If your personal library is too big then begin to throw armfuls of books into the fire. Keep aware of your feelings, emotions and thoughts. Some people find this meditation to be very brutal. Anyway, I ask you to accomplish it and briefly describe your feelings and thoughts. I especially emphasize that this exercise should be done as a meditation. Do not burn any real books. There is no need to build any real campfires. Your books will be useful to your children, relatives and friends. The burning of your books is only IMAGINARY!!!'
'Ravenna: After you've accomplished this small exercise there are two options available to you. The first leads to recapitulation - you may continue using this technique by paying attention to different objects in your house and local environment. The second option is more brutal. Some of you have noticed there is a certain unwillingness to burn the books. Let's call this unwillingness a "barrier" which you were forced to overcome. I offered you a 'soft' exercise to achieve this. If you were unable to sense this barrier then try to imagine burning more important stuff. Beloved pets and close friends used to be focused on in this way for people at the training courses of military parapsychologists. What are these extreme measures for? They are used so that you can sense the 'barrier' of consciousness. Buddhists say that the adept must "kill Buddha" in order to reach enlightenment. It is considered to be the highest overcoming of the main barrier of consciousness. But first they have [to 'kill' - not literally of course] gods, mother and father, sisters and brothers. We are the dreamhackers and that's why we'll be considering this 'barrier' as a special program of consciousness which corrects our behaviour. Any program can be equipped with additional stuff which will allow you to use this program for your own needs. Two days remain until the beginning of our research. Try another small meditation. Repeat, with your imagination, the exercise that was given to CC (Carlos Castaneda) by don Juan. Imagine that you have caught a rabbit in your trap - an innocent and beautiful animal. You must ask it to forgive you and deprive its life in some way. Your specific task is to locate the 'barrier' - the feeling of unwillingness and pity. You don't even need to imagine killing this rabbit. Just sense the barrier and enter this program. Locate all the nuances which this program creates in your body and consciousness. Spend some time and energy on this and get the barrier studied. We will need this for further research.'
I think, the demo turned out to be small and efficient. For those, who haven't found the barrier, I will just give a hint, that your "missing barrier" is a barrier, burdened by the complex of "peculiarity". This means, it will be more difficult for you to master the material. The complex of peculirarity makes you fight, unconsciously disguise the obvious. This is not an accusation, but a chance for deeper self-stalking. Commenting on the feedback of other participants, I wish to notice, that the core of the barrier is still the fear. Fear of different levels and quality. If you focus on stalking, on overcoming the first enemy - these barriers will become your control points in self-cultivation. Barriers cannot be evaded, they cannot be wrapped in comfortable rubbish. Barriers are to be overcomed. Fear of height? Do a bungee jump, or a parachute jump. Fear of water? Try diving. Fear of animals? Get yourself a pet, take the whole responsibility for it. And so on. Purposeful and permanent overcoming of the barriers will cause irreversible process in the program of consciousness, which so-called extremals are very familiar with. But extremals have a lack of coverage in consideration of this interesting process - breakiing of all barriers. Me and you are the hackers of a special kind. That's why I'm asking you not to throw the whole of yours into extreme, but to approach consciously to overcoming of every barrier you find in your mind. A very good example was given by Don Juan, when he talked about his misadventures in a woman's dress. Such an extreme for Mexico, where one could be easily killed if such cross-dressing is noticed. Your life is also full of possibilities of extreme. But, I repeat, it must be CONSCIOUS. Furthermore, the process must be PERMANENT. This is about two or three years. I am not calling you to take this exact path. We've conducted a small demo of the possibilities you always have on tap - recapitulation and overcoming of fear. Our next task and research goal is improving dreaming, namely, crossing the second gates... but in the hackers' way, of course.
Ravenna: Barriers are linked directly with way of life which we learn from babyhood. For some nations animal killing is common act. Farmers and farmworkers kill livestock almost every day just because they have to eat something. In childhood my brother shot sparrows with slingshot and brought trophies home with hunters pride. Everyone of us has his own barriers which are archetypal with barriers of other people though. For instance, you are not afraid of being photographed. But there are nations in Far North who consider that photo deprives a part of soul from them. Appearance of photographer provokes unpleasant bodily senses for those people. At the same time they easily cut reindeers like you cut bread. Core of barriers is fear wraped in layers of views, belief, habits, rules of behaviour…
arialera-777: It's provided to be hard to kill. I've visualised dears, relatives, friends and have burned them. It was painful to see this. They suffered. Then I asked myself same question as khronos(it's a nickname) did. Why not burn myself? I have burned myself. It's seems to be easier. But maybe we mix up something? Ravenna, there are no nations in world who kill relatives, maybe we fight something more serious than just attachment behavior, not necessary dependencies and stereotypical thinking… something that lies in human nature… and if thoughts considered to be material can it be true that good visualisated meditation will affect reality. Ravenna: Arialera I haven't asked you to kill humans. I've even told you that it's not necessary to kill imagined rabbit. It's sufficient to have a sensation of barrier! It doesn't matter for programs of consciousness how you disrupt directive line - with fixation of attention, with imagined killing or with real slaughter. There's a block of comparison further in program - if "yes", then => action one; if "no", then => action two. You can jump from tenth floor or just silently smile in order to overcome barrier. It's said in zen that weak master draws sword from sheath and strong master will reflect blow with smile. I suggest that warriors way consists of understanding this "small things". But we have been doing small demo. It'll show you later whom you were. I hope that our further researches will advance you in understanding your barriers. Possibly after a couple of months you will read your own posts and see a difference between you from past and those whom you will become.
'Ravenna: After you've accomplished this small exercise there are two options available to you. The first leads to recapitulation - you may continue using this technique by paying attention to different objects in your house and local environment. The second option is more brutal. Some of you have noticed there is a certain unwillingness to burn the books. Let's call this unwillingness a "barrier" which you were forced to overcome. I offered you a 'soft' exercise to achieve this. If you were unable to sense this barrier then try to imagine burning more important stuff. Beloved pets and close friends used to be focused on in this way for people at the training courses of military parapsychologists. What are these extreme measures for? They are used so that you can sense the 'barrier' of consciousness. Buddhists say that the adept must "kill Buddha" in order to reach enlightenment. It is considered to be the highest overcoming of the main barrier of consciousness. But first they have [to 'kill' - not literally of course] gods, mother and father, sisters and brothers. We are the dreamhackers and that's why we'll be considering this 'barrier' as a special program of consciousness which corrects our behaviour. Any program can be equipped with additional stuff which will allow you to use this program for your own needs. Two days remain until the beginning of our research. Try another small meditation. Repeat, with your imagination, the exercise that was given to CC (Carlos Castaneda) by don Juan. Imagine that you have caught a rabbit in your trap - an innocent and beautiful animal. You must ask it to forgive you and deprive its life in some way. Your specific task is to locate the 'barrier' - the feeling of unwillingness and pity. You don't even need to imagine killing this rabbit. Just sense the barrier and enter this program. Locate all the nuances which this program creates in your body and consciousness. Spend some time and energy on this and get the barrier studied. We will need this for further research.'
I think, the demo turned out to be small and efficient. For those, who haven't found the barrier, I will just give a hint, that your "missing barrier" is a barrier, burdened by the complex of "peculiarity". This means, it will be more difficult for you to master the material. The complex of peculirarity makes you fight, unconsciously disguise the obvious. This is not an accusation, but a chance for deeper self-stalking. Commenting on the feedback of other participants, I wish to notice, that the core of the barrier is still the fear. Fear of different levels and quality. If you focus on stalking, on overcoming the first enemy - these barriers will become your control points in self-cultivation. Barriers cannot be evaded, they cannot be wrapped in comfortable rubbish. Barriers are to be overcomed. Fear of height? Do a bungee jump, or a parachute jump. Fear of water? Try diving. Fear of animals? Get yourself a pet, take the whole responsibility for it. And so on. Purposeful and permanent overcoming of the barriers will cause irreversible process in the program of consciousness, which so-called extremals are very familiar with. But extremals have a lack of coverage in consideration of this interesting process - breakiing of all barriers. Me and you are the hackers of a special kind. That's why I'm asking you not to throw the whole of yours into extreme, but to approach consciously to overcoming of every barrier you find in your mind. A very good example was given by Don Juan, when he talked about his misadventures in a woman's dress. Such an extreme for Mexico, where one could be easily killed if such cross-dressing is noticed. Your life is also full of possibilities of extreme. But, I repeat, it must be CONSCIOUS. Furthermore, the process must be PERMANENT. This is about two or three years. I am not calling you to take this exact path. We've conducted a small demo of the possibilities you always have on tap - recapitulation and overcoming of fear. Our next task and research goal is improving dreaming, namely, crossing the second gates... but in the hackers' way, of course.
Ravenna: Barriers are linked directly with way of life which we learn from babyhood. For some nations animal killing is common act. Farmers and farmworkers kill livestock almost every day just because they have to eat something. In childhood my brother shot sparrows with slingshot and brought trophies home with hunters pride. Everyone of us has his own barriers which are archetypal with barriers of other people though. For instance, you are not afraid of being photographed. But there are nations in Far North who consider that photo deprives a part of soul from them. Appearance of photographer provokes unpleasant bodily senses for those people. At the same time they easily cut reindeers like you cut bread. Core of barriers is fear wraped in layers of views, belief, habits, rules of behaviour…
arialera-777: It's provided to be hard to kill. I've visualised dears, relatives, friends and have burned them. It was painful to see this. They suffered. Then I asked myself same question as khronos(it's a nickname) did. Why not burn myself? I have burned myself. It's seems to be easier. But maybe we mix up something? Ravenna, there are no nations in world who kill relatives, maybe we fight something more serious than just attachment behavior, not necessary dependencies and stereotypical thinking… something that lies in human nature… and if thoughts considered to be material can it be true that good visualisated meditation will affect reality. Ravenna: Arialera I haven't asked you to kill humans. I've even told you that it's not necessary to kill imagined rabbit. It's sufficient to have a sensation of barrier! It doesn't matter for programs of consciousness how you disrupt directive line - with fixation of attention, with imagined killing or with real slaughter. There's a block of comparison further in program - if "yes", then => action one; if "no", then => action two. You can jump from tenth floor or just silently smile in order to overcome barrier. It's said in zen that weak master draws sword from sheath and strong master will reflect blow with smile. I suggest that warriors way consists of understanding this "small things". But we have been doing small demo. It'll show you later whom you were. I hope that our further researches will advance you in understanding your barriers. Possibly after a couple of months you will read your own posts and see a difference between you from past and those whom you will become.