03-27-2010, 12:00 AM
The need for attention is a basic human need like hunger and
thirst. The capability to deal with our
need for attention is learned in early childhood , but remains unconcious and primitive as to compared with other basic
needs . Most children in our days are terribly deprived from attention and it
is no wonder that they are an easy prey to the internal voice of the flyer, who
is constantly giving them their predatory attention . The constant subliminal attention
to the endless dialog of the flyer gives children a cheap surrogate for real
human affection and high quality attention. The price we have to pay for not
caring properly for us and our children
is high . In exchange for a very low quality nourishment , the flyer hooks us
and feeds on our spiritual potential . The strategy of the flyer is simpel and
works with the well known business-
formula called : AIDA.
-Attention
- Interest
- Desire
- Action
There are various food- preferences of the flyers. Some like to feed on
agression , on greed , on stupid boredom , on lust , on jelousy etc.The most
dangerous are “ spiritual flyers” , who are feeding on proud arrogance of self
styled spiritual leaders(Yang).Arrogance can also be disguised as lack of self
esteem of gullible cult-followers(Yin). Every sheep in this forum gets the wolve he or she deserves. The inflated egos of the people in the spiritual
scene are a real feast –meal for spiritual flyers .
Dealing with spiritual things makes you a social misfit . This is a difficult
situation. Many social isolated individuals are in danger to become member of a
cult . First they are lovebombed ( i.e. receiving
a lot of attention ) and then brainwashed. Their internal dialog is
changed from a “profane” into a buddhist
, nagual, christian , satanistic etc. blablabla
. And you end confusing spirituality with mere talking or thinking about
spiritual work, instead of doing the Work, what is real non – doing.
The membership in a spiritual forum or in the nagual-scene is not
necessary real spiritual action . Ask yourself : Why am I here in this forum ? Do I want to learn, to develop and to do
something useful or do I simply need attention ? There is no problem to exchange attention, as long
you know what you are really doing and not pretending , you are doing spiritual
work.
As warriors we are trying to develop
an impeccable intent and it is worthwhile to contemplate deeply on the problems
of the attention factor:
1. Too
much attention can be bad, (inefficient).
2. Too little attention can be
bad.
3. Attention may be “hostile” or “friendly”
and still fulfil the appetite for attention. This is confused by the
moral aspect.
4. When
people need a great deal of attention they are vulnerable to the message which
too often accompanies the exercise of attention towards them. E.g.,
someone wanting attention might be able to get it only from some person or
organization which might thereafter exercise (as ‘its price’) an undue
influence upon the attention-starved individual’s mind.
5. Present beliefs have often
been inculcated at a time and under circumstances connected with
attention-demand, and not arrived at by the method attributed to them.
6. Many paradoxical reversals of
opinion, or of associates and commitments may be seen as due to the change in a
source of attention.
7. People are almost always
stimulated by an offer of attention, since most people are frequently
attention-deprived. This is one reason why new friends, or circumstances,
for instance, may be preferred to old ones.
8. If people could learn to
assuage attention-hunger, they would be in a better position than most present
cultures allow them, to attend to other things. They could extend the
effectiveness of their learning capacity.
9. Among the things which
unstarved people (in the sense of attention) could investigate, is the
comparative attraction of ideas, individuals, etc., apart from their purely
attention-supplying function.
10. The desire for attention
starts at an early age of infancy. It is, of course, at that point linked
with feeding and protection. This is not to say that this desire has no
further nor future development value. But it can be adapted beyond its
ordinary adult usage of mere satisfaction.
11. Even a cursory survey of
human communities shows that, while the random eating tendency, possessiveness
and other undifferentiated characteristics are very early trained or diverted
(weaned), the attention-factor does not get the same treatment. The consequence
is that the adult human being, deprived of any method of handling his desire
for attention, continues to be confused by it: as it usually remains primitive
throughout life.
12. Very numerous individual
observations of human transactions have been made. They show that an
interchange between two people always has an attention-factor.
13. Observation shows that
people’s desires for attention ebb and flow. When in an ebb or flow of
attention-desire, the human being not realizing that this is his condition,
attributes his actions and feelings to other factors, e.g., the hostility or
pleasantness of others. He may even say that it is a ‘lucky day’ when his
attention-needs have been quickly and adequately met. Re-examination of
such situations has shown that such experiences are best accounted for by the
attention theory.
14. Objections based upon the
supposed pleasure of attention being strongest when it is randomly achieved do
not stand up when carefully examined. ‘I prefer to be surprised by
attention’ can be paraphrased by saying ‘I prefer not to know where my next
meal is coming from’. It simply underlies a primitive stage of feeling
and thinking on this subject.
15. Situations which seem
different when viewed from an over-simplified perspective (which is the usual
one) are seen to be the same by the application of attention-theory.
E.g.: people following an authority-figure may be exercising the desire for
attention or the desire to give it. The interchange between people and
their authority-figure may be explained by mutual-attention behaviour.
Some gain only attention from this interchange. Some can gain more. .
16. Another confusion is caused
by the fact that the object of attention may be a person, a cult, an object, an
idea, interest, etc. Because the focii of attention can be so diverse, people
in general have not yet identified the common factor – the desire for
attention.
17. One of the advantages of this
theory is that it allows the human mind to link in a coherent and
easily-understood way many things which it has always (wrongly) been taught are
very different, not susceptible to comparison, etc. This incorrect
training has, of course, impaired the possible efficiency in functioning of the
brain, though only culturally, not permanently.
18. The inability to feel when
attention is extended, and also to encourage or to prevent its being called
forth, makes man almost uniquely vulnerable to being influenced, especially in
having ideas implanted in his brain, and in being indoctrinated.
19. Raising the emotional pitch
is the most primitive method of increasing attention towards the instrument
which increased the emotion. It is the prelude to, or accompaniment of,
almost every form of indoctrination.
20. Traditional philosophical
and other teachings have been used to prescribe exercises in the control and
focusing of attention. Their value, however, has been to a great
measure lost because the individual exercises, prescribed for people in need of
exercise, have been written down and repeated as unique truths and practiced in
a manner, with people and at a rate and under circumstances which, by their
very randomness, have not been able to effect any change in the
attention-training. This treatment has, however, produced
obsession. It continues to do so.
21. Here and there proverbs and other pieces
of literary material indicate that there has been at one time a widespread
knowledge of attention on the lines now being described. Deprived,
however, of context, these indications survive as fossil indicators rather than
being a useful guide to attention-exercise for contemporary man.
( Exerpt fom I.Shah , Learning how to Learn )
thirst. The capability to deal with our
need for attention is learned in early childhood , but remains unconcious and primitive as to compared with other basic
needs . Most children in our days are terribly deprived from attention and it
is no wonder that they are an easy prey to the internal voice of the flyer, who
is constantly giving them their predatory attention . The constant subliminal attention
to the endless dialog of the flyer gives children a cheap surrogate for real
human affection and high quality attention. The price we have to pay for not
caring properly for us and our children
is high . In exchange for a very low quality nourishment , the flyer hooks us
and feeds on our spiritual potential . The strategy of the flyer is simpel and
works with the well known business-
formula called : AIDA.
-Attention
- Interest
- Desire
- Action
There are various food- preferences of the flyers. Some like to feed on
agression , on greed , on stupid boredom , on lust , on jelousy etc.The most
dangerous are “ spiritual flyers” , who are feeding on proud arrogance of self
styled spiritual leaders(Yang).Arrogance can also be disguised as lack of self
esteem of gullible cult-followers(Yin). Every sheep in this forum gets the wolve he or she deserves. The inflated egos of the people in the spiritual
scene are a real feast –meal for spiritual flyers .
Dealing with spiritual things makes you a social misfit . This is a difficult
situation. Many social isolated individuals are in danger to become member of a
cult . First they are lovebombed ( i.e. receiving
a lot of attention ) and then brainwashed. Their internal dialog is
changed from a “profane” into a buddhist
, nagual, christian , satanistic etc. blablabla
. And you end confusing spirituality with mere talking or thinking about
spiritual work, instead of doing the Work, what is real non – doing.
The membership in a spiritual forum or in the nagual-scene is not
necessary real spiritual action . Ask yourself : Why am I here in this forum ? Do I want to learn, to develop and to do
something useful or do I simply need attention ? There is no problem to exchange attention, as long
you know what you are really doing and not pretending , you are doing spiritual
work.
As warriors we are trying to develop
an impeccable intent and it is worthwhile to contemplate deeply on the problems
of the attention factor:
1. Too
much attention can be bad, (inefficient).
2. Too little attention can be
bad.
3. Attention may be “hostile” or “friendly”
and still fulfil the appetite for attention. This is confused by the
moral aspect.
4. When
people need a great deal of attention they are vulnerable to the message which
too often accompanies the exercise of attention towards them. E.g.,
someone wanting attention might be able to get it only from some person or
organization which might thereafter exercise (as ‘its price’) an undue
influence upon the attention-starved individual’s mind.
5. Present beliefs have often
been inculcated at a time and under circumstances connected with
attention-demand, and not arrived at by the method attributed to them.
6. Many paradoxical reversals of
opinion, or of associates and commitments may be seen as due to the change in a
source of attention.
7. People are almost always
stimulated by an offer of attention, since most people are frequently
attention-deprived. This is one reason why new friends, or circumstances,
for instance, may be preferred to old ones.
8. If people could learn to
assuage attention-hunger, they would be in a better position than most present
cultures allow them, to attend to other things. They could extend the
effectiveness of their learning capacity.
9. Among the things which
unstarved people (in the sense of attention) could investigate, is the
comparative attraction of ideas, individuals, etc., apart from their purely
attention-supplying function.
10. The desire for attention
starts at an early age of infancy. It is, of course, at that point linked
with feeding and protection. This is not to say that this desire has no
further nor future development value. But it can be adapted beyond its
ordinary adult usage of mere satisfaction.
11. Even a cursory survey of
human communities shows that, while the random eating tendency, possessiveness
and other undifferentiated characteristics are very early trained or diverted
(weaned), the attention-factor does not get the same treatment. The consequence
is that the adult human being, deprived of any method of handling his desire
for attention, continues to be confused by it: as it usually remains primitive
throughout life.
12. Very numerous individual
observations of human transactions have been made. They show that an
interchange between two people always has an attention-factor.
13. Observation shows that
people’s desires for attention ebb and flow. When in an ebb or flow of
attention-desire, the human being not realizing that this is his condition,
attributes his actions and feelings to other factors, e.g., the hostility or
pleasantness of others. He may even say that it is a ‘lucky day’ when his
attention-needs have been quickly and adequately met. Re-examination of
such situations has shown that such experiences are best accounted for by the
attention theory.
14. Objections based upon the
supposed pleasure of attention being strongest when it is randomly achieved do
not stand up when carefully examined. ‘I prefer to be surprised by
attention’ can be paraphrased by saying ‘I prefer not to know where my next
meal is coming from’. It simply underlies a primitive stage of feeling
and thinking on this subject.
15. Situations which seem
different when viewed from an over-simplified perspective (which is the usual
one) are seen to be the same by the application of attention-theory.
E.g.: people following an authority-figure may be exercising the desire for
attention or the desire to give it. The interchange between people and
their authority-figure may be explained by mutual-attention behaviour.
Some gain only attention from this interchange. Some can gain more. .
16. Another confusion is caused
by the fact that the object of attention may be a person, a cult, an object, an
idea, interest, etc. Because the focii of attention can be so diverse, people
in general have not yet identified the common factor – the desire for
attention.
17. One of the advantages of this
theory is that it allows the human mind to link in a coherent and
easily-understood way many things which it has always (wrongly) been taught are
very different, not susceptible to comparison, etc. This incorrect
training has, of course, impaired the possible efficiency in functioning of the
brain, though only culturally, not permanently.
18. The inability to feel when
attention is extended, and also to encourage or to prevent its being called
forth, makes man almost uniquely vulnerable to being influenced, especially in
having ideas implanted in his brain, and in being indoctrinated.
19. Raising the emotional pitch
is the most primitive method of increasing attention towards the instrument
which increased the emotion. It is the prelude to, or accompaniment of,
almost every form of indoctrination.
20. Traditional philosophical
and other teachings have been used to prescribe exercises in the control and
focusing of attention. Their value, however, has been to a great
measure lost because the individual exercises, prescribed for people in need of
exercise, have been written down and repeated as unique truths and practiced in
a manner, with people and at a rate and under circumstances which, by their
very randomness, have not been able to effect any change in the
attention-training. This treatment has, however, produced
obsession. It continues to do so.
21. Here and there proverbs and other pieces
of literary material indicate that there has been at one time a widespread
knowledge of attention on the lines now being described. Deprived,
however, of context, these indications survive as fossil indicators rather than
being a useful guide to attention-exercise for contemporary man.
( Exerpt fom I.Shah , Learning how to Learn )