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Q&A using a dowsing method
[01] Subject - Dialectics
[02] External - Transformative power
[03] Internal - Body language
[2+3] Synthesis - Philosophical technique
[04] Core - Atlantis
[05] Consequence - Neuroses
[06] Responsibility - Answers
[07] Predictable outcome - Indifference
[08] Conditioning -
[09] Attitude - Toning
[10] Right action - Metaphor
[11] Quality and Quantity - Drawing lines
[12] Objective - States of consciousness
[13] Possible outcome - Q and A
Synopsis:
This download refers to Socrates' dialectical method, but for questioning the genius within, which is what he was doing in a round about way by submitting to a higher source. The problem with asking questions is that it activates a transformative power that will challenge one’s beliefs. Linked to this is an unconscious ability to read emotional expressions that must be raised in a synthesis to something like the Philosopher’s Stone that one can use to navigate the change process. The link with emotions has to do with overcoming one’s own fears and also those of others.
The core issue suggests that Atlantis is another name for the universal Mind we seek, and that automatic writing will help get the answers. The problem with this method is that one can produce thousands of pages of nonsense, so it needs to be improved on to enable one to tap into the collective database of knowledge for specific references and answers.
The consequence of inviting change introduces a state of ambivalence in which one must learn to accept the coexistence of opposing attitudes and feelings that challenges one’s commitment. The responsibility one then has is to learn to listen for the subtle clues in the answers we receive that can help with navigating the Path. The probable outcome is being left with the question of what the ‘right action’ is at any given step on the path, and of how to solve this.
The conditioning to overcome suggests the use of quartz crystal (pendulum) to communicate with inner guides or heart mind etc. The right attitude supports the view that there are natural energy channels in our body that one must use to stay healthy.
The right action to take is to stimulate and train one’s imagination using mixed metaphors, which is to engage right-brain thinking, using language to raise consciousness. The quantity and/or quality aspect of the right action is a problem of where lines are to be drawn. The answer one gets from the other side is a clue that depends on the reason for the transfer of knowledge which in hindsight may appear as wisdom. The objective of any right action relates to it having deeper significance, linking dreaming to day dreams, to visualization, to right brain thinking, that should be supported into the waking state. There is a new state of consciousness to explore here.
The final outcome suggests developing an effective Q&A system using the pendulum.
Details:
[01] Dialectics
The subject is Socrates' method of DIALECTICS. Where it refers to ‘others’ we should include the internal guides etc.
By the middle of the fifth century the Sophist was the popular image of a philosopher … I'm sure it was important for him to distance himself from the Sophists and to maintain his own image and independence … Sophists only talked for money … Socrates' method of question and answer [see s13], the dialectical method, may have even developed as a response … setting up a method in which he wants only to ask questions of others, not to answer them himself … had no need to act like the other wise men.
Forstater M. The Living Wisdom of Socrates, 2004, Hodder and
[02] Transformative Power
The external characteristic is an attitude change in one's faith that can be attributed to the divine energy.
The Transformative Power of the Divine Energy: The fear of the supernatural and antipathy towards religion that had been constantly present during the first few months had partially disappeared … From a devotee, I had become an inveterate enemy of faith … turned into a rank atheist … In the early stages, desperately engaged in a neck-and-neck race, with death on one side and insanity on the other.
G. Living with Kundalini, 1993, Shambhala Publications
[03] Body Language
The internal characteristic to look for relates to the unconscious reading of body language.
The Man of Seven Thousand Faces: Paul Ekman … landmark finding in the understanding of the universal nature of the expression of emotions. That led him to a serious reading of Darwin, who long ago had proposed just that universality … Paul set out to build that system … Facial anatomy allows about seven thousand visually distinct combinations of those muscles … Facial Action Coding System.
Goleman D. Destructive Emotions, 2003,
[2+3] Synthesis
This refers to a philosophical technique found in alchemy that one can use to navigate the changing attitude during the transformation process. And, just as Jung developed Active Imagination, so we need to continue to improve these methods of inquiry. This download suggests to me that I need to work on developing a system that will allow a person to use a pendulum to find answers in a library.
[04] Atlantis
The symbol ATLANTIS as the core issue is a metaphor for the higher state of consciousness.
Did Atlantis really exist on earth? Does Atlantis exist already as a state of awareness [see s12] slightly more advanced than any now on earth, but on a higher vibratory, yet earthlike level? If so, is Atlantis yet to come to earth? Is man seeking Atlantis in the wrong direction, by looking into the past rather than into the future? … Atlantis could, itself, be another name for Mind. Is man matter or mind, or both? If man is a dweller on two plane(t)s, how long must he remain so, and how can he best live with his own duality? Automatic writing will help you gain many answers.
Parrott W.S. Understanding Automatic Writing, 1974, Sherbourne Press Inc.
[05] Neuroses
As a consequence one needs to be aware of the creative ways in which the mind works with neuroses.
Let us turn to the obsessional neuroses in the hope of learning more about the formation of symptoms … fall into two groups, each having an opposite trend. They are either prohibitions … negative in character … or … substitute satisfactions which often appear in symbolic disguise … The symptom-formation scores a triumph if it succeeds in combining the prohibition with satisfaction so that what was originally a defensive command or prohibition acquires the significance of a satisfaction as well; and in order to achieve this end it will often make use of the most ingenious associative paths. Such an achievement demonstrates the tendency of the ego to synthesize … In extreme cases the patient manages to make most of his symptoms acquire, in addition to their original meaning, a directly contrary one. This is a tribute to the power of ambivalence.
Freud S. Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, 1961, The Hogarth Press Ltd.
Definition of ambivalence is (a) the coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings toward a person, object, or idea. (b) uncertainty or indecisiveness as to which course to follow. [see s07: indifference].
[06] Answers
It is one's responsibility to learn to respond to the subtle clues from higher consciousness:
We thought back over the day's long journey, attempting to marshal it in reversed images. What would have happened … (if)? … what would have happened had we not responded … And still we have no answer to this question, other than in the clue found in the fragmentary gospels now called the The Acts of John. The Disciple cries out, 'I would flee.' The Master says, 'I would rather have you stay.' The angels, no less than the Master, are not permitted to issue imperative commands. However, it seems that they may warn or persuade us with signs and wonders, even if these are no more substantial than … (whatever).
Ovason D. The Zelator, The Secret Journals of Mark Hedsel, 1999, Arrow Books Limited
[07] Indifference
For the probable outcome we get the symbol INDIFFERENCE. Note how the paragraph ends with a question on how best to act.
One can draw so-called indifference curves, i.e. lines joining the points in the coordinate system representing alternatives to which the person in question is indifferent. Given certain assumptions about preferences, these curves are always convex with respect to the origin; and a part of the person's preference system is that, of all the curves he might possibly find himself on, he prefers that which is furthest from the origin. The question now is how a reasonable or rational person who wants to maximize his well-being or utility should behave in this situation.
Ontological Investigations, 1989, Routledge.
[08]
The conditioning one needs to overcome in is given in the symbol . Note the reference to communicating with angels, and the energy fields that shape our actions.
: Aldous Huxley … had his own theory. Precious stones are precious because they remind us of the glittering vistas of the inner worlds, pregnant with light and colour. … but quartz crystals are unique. Their inner and outer aspects are identical , the only known structures on our planet to exhibit this characteristic … Elizabethan magicians John Dee and Edward Kelly attempted to communicate with angels, they did so with the aid of a crystal shewstone … Russian scientists … 1960s … explored the possibility that the Earth itself is a giant crystal. According to this theory, a crystalline lattice, providing a matrix for cosmic energy, may have formed part of the original structure of our emerging planet. More exciting still, this structure can still be seen in twelve pentagonal slabs covering the surface of the globe … has influenced diverse phenomena as magnetic anomalies, earth faults, volcanoes, mineral and oil deposits … even the siting of ancient civilizations.
Campbell E. & Brennan J.H. Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit, 1994, The Aquarian Press. [see s9 for natural energy channels in the body]
[09] Toning
The need to change an attitude is given by the symbol TONING:
I tone, therefore I am "… We do leave a tone by the sound of our voice and the feel of our actions, an impression that may be remembered long after our messages are forgotten." -Guidepost.
As adults, many of us have lost touch with our voice as an expressive tool. We aren't as unselfconscious or spontaneous as we were as children. But if we only try, we can do amazing things with our vocal equipment … I realized that to enter the world of sustained vowel sounds - to begin toning … meaning to make sound with an elongated vowel for an extended period, it dates back to the fourteenth century … And, in 1973, Laurel Elizabeth Keyes wrote a simple and intuitive book called Toning: The Creative Power of the Voice … "There are natural channels in the energy in our body, and if we recognize and learn to flow with them, they will keep us healthy."
Campbell D. The Mozart Effect, 1997, Books
[10] Metaphor
This symbol represents the right-action to take.
Robert Graves and Alan Hodge go some way towards defining a more 'permissive' attitude [see s8]. 'A ready test of the legitimacy of a metaphor', they say, 'is whether it can be illustrated even in fantastic caricature or diagram.' … Mixed metaphors are apt to train the imagination to its furthest limits. Why do we mix them so often? Writers in other ages were far more versatile than us in the use and exploitation of imagery. Language, for the Elizabethans, was very much alive, something to be manipulated and gloried in.
Lawrence J. Mix me A metaphor, 1972, Gentry Books Limited
[11] Drawing a Line
This symbol is apt because it raises the problem experienced at this point, which is to find the line between not enough and too much, between nurturing and spoiling, between corrective and abusive etc.
How will a clear dividing line be drawn between two … The answer to this question is uncertain … " a reason related to a transfer"
Van Zyl rudd, Labour Law Review, 2005, Van Zyl Rudd & Assoc.
[12] States of Consciousness
The symbol sleep, as the objective, introduces another state that continues to influence our cognitive processes after we wake up.
… experiment, conducted by Fiss, Klein, and Bokert … to study the interrelations of waking and sleeping states … The results strongly suggest that the distinguishing properties of a sleep stage are not "switched-off" following awakening but may persist into the waking state … On the basis of … and NREM sleep differ sharply with respect to cognitive qualities and … are two distinct states, subject to separate regulative mechanisms.
Jones R.M. The New Psychology of Dreams, 1974, The Viking Press
[13] Q and A
Finally, we go back to existing methods that we simply have to build on. Note how this links back to the first symbol, that of Socrates' Q&A method. It is these links that make us aware of a higher mind at work directing what we need to become aware of within the limited focal point we call conscious awareness.
Mental questions, or the 'YES' / 'NO' system … is effectively for the pendulum only, for only the pendulum has the necessary range of reactions, precision and speed of reply.
Graves T. Dowsing, 1980, Granada Publishing Ltd
