Gift of a Superpower

Over the past couple of posts, we’ve been considering the apparent rule that programing within non-conscious self cannot be erased, only replaced. To serve that end, I've been trying to deliver tools to do just that. Well, this is the mother load of tools.

If we compose our own now, of what is our now composed? In this post  is the gift of a superpower that resolves that very question. The following post is adapted from a presentation I've been doing at the 6th grade level for the past 7 years. I hope you find it as empowering and joyful as they have.  

The gift I have for you is a true SUPERPOWER. A gift so powerful it works every time you use it. So significant it built the most powerful nation ever to exist on this planet. People and societies that do not have this superpower, have always eventually failed. 

Oh, they may last for a while by using another lesser power called “FEAR.” You’ve seen this if you’ve ever witnessed a bully at work. They use fear to make you feel powerless, small or helpless in the face of their emotional or physical violence.

The words in English to describe this superpower are:MUTUAL RESPECT. When one gives words as a gift, it is good form to be sure the giver and the receiver share common understanding of the gift, for it to truly be appreciated. In that spirit:

Mutual: (Adjective)

1 a: directed by each to the other or the others

   b: having the same feelings one for the other

   c: shared in common

   d: joint

2: characterized by sincerity

Synonyms: collaborative, combined, common, communal, concerted, conjoint, conjunct, cooperative, joint, multiple, collective, pooled, public, shared, united.

Respect: (Noun)

1: a relationship with or reference to a particular thing or situation 

2: an act of giving particular attention or consideration

3: high or special regard: esteem 

Synonyms: reference, regard

Antonyms: disfavor

Respect: (Transitive Verb)

1 a: to consider worthy of high regard or esteem

   b: to refrain from interfering with

2: to have reference to or concern for

Synonyms: regard, appreciate, consider, esteem, admire

Now we’ve shared the words that define “mutual” and “respect”; however; words are only symbols of experience not the experience itself. 

If you are to use “mutual respect” as the superpower it is, you will need to know how to perform the act of “mutual respect.”

Superman could never get off the ground by defining flying. To fly, Superman needed to know how to perform the act of flying. This is true about the superpower of “mutual respect.”

Before you get your driver’s license, you must show you can drive in a mutually respectful way. Some road signs are there to help you get where you want to go; however, many are to remind you about “mutual respect.” These symbols remind drivers to follow the laws that govern “mutual respect” on the road, such as: stop signs, speed limit signs, lines on the road, traffic lights, etc.

If you don’t go beyond the words and learn to DO “mutual respect,” this superpower gift will not work for you. 

Like Superman; simply understanding the word “fly” is very different from being able to “fly.” 

It’s in the doing that the magic happens.

You might ask, “How do I do mutual respect?” If I tried to tell you, I would confuse you and frustrate myself. For now, trust you will find this experience if you choose to look for it.

The doing of “mutual respect” is a successful way of facilitating wellbeing in your environment, yourself and those around you. When you are in the transitive verb state of mutual respect, there is a feeling of focus, security and wellbeing. However; life’s continuum hurls its slings and arrows in ever changing varieties.

Mutual respect is the ultimate swiss army knife for writers of their own now. Mutual respect has a full spectrum of shades to address every colorful challenge.

Virtues are mutual respect in action. These powers are choices you can make when life challenges your new superpower. 

If you walk through your life being mutually respectful, these virtues give you the respectful power to handle every situation you will face. Here, I’ll list them and you will see what I mean. Each of the words are a link to their definition at the  52 Virtuses.com site. 

The Gift of Virtues:

assertiveness caring cleanliness commitment compassion confidence consideration cooperation courage courtesy creativity detachment determination diligence enthusiasm excellence flexibility forgiveness

friendliness generosity gentleness helpfulness honesty honor humility idealism integrity joyfulness justice kindness love loyalty moderation modesty orderliness patience

peacefulness perseverance purposefulness reliability respect responsibility self-discipline service tact thankfulness tolerance trust trustworthiness truthfulness understanding unity

“Mutual respect” is the superpower we must have in place to apply any of the virtues listed above. Any of these words can be applied for good or for evil; however, when they are applied with mutual respect, each word works collectively with the entire list. If the composer knows the words on this list in a transitive way, the composer will find solutions to "Now" problems. Solutions that support life and resist decay into entropy and equilibrium.

As with all superpowers; the more you use them, the more powerful they become.

All Illusion Works for a Reason

After a presentation on this subject years ago, one of my professors approached me. He was one of my dance instructors. I was interested to hear what his feedback would be as a physical performer. He told me I was a reincarnated Essene master and he gave me a book by Dr. Edmund Bordeaux Szekely. The title of the book was, “From Enoch to the Dead Sea Scrolls.” With a smile and a hug, he walked away. I don't think I ever saw him again. When I got back to my place, I skimmed through the book with interest. It was interesting, but I didn’t have enough information at the time to understand what I was looking at or what he told me. I had some trees that were in that forest of meaning, but the forest itself was required to know that at which I was looking.

Professor, as he liked to be called, was a medical doctor; but more interestingly, he was a very influential anthropologist. His command of language was amazing. He spoke 14 ½ languages and the half language, he joked, was English. His translation work has illuminated our understanding of the ancient Sumerian culture, Essene Gospel of Peace, Dead Sea Scrolls and the Toltec culture of the new world to name a few. In addition to his translation work he wrote some 82 books. I’ve read virtually all of them.

This man’s teaching had a profound effect on how I view and interact with the world. One of the great “take aways” I got from his work was the idea that, one cannot take an element away from a living system, without putting something back in its place that is equal to or better than what was taken. 

In nature, living systems select what supports the continuation of life. When the imagination of human consciousness is involved, such rules do not necessarily apply.

In our Record/Play (R/P) non-conscious self, if a recording is attached to a specific stimulus, then that recording will be played if the environment represents that stimulus. Once the R/P self has a solution to an environmental challenge it can’t be erased; however, it can be replaced. I think this is self evident to most. The real question is, how do we effect such change? (See post 11/18/2011)

Remember, experience is not what happens to you. Its what you do with what happens to you. Context is so very important to the nature of a moment. Here are some ideas that can shape and focus when choosing how to experience what happens to us.

: Remember, it’s all a composed illusion

that happened no less than ½ second ago.

: If you are conscious, you have a veto.

: The composition of now is a creative process.

              There is no right or wrong in the creative process.

                       There is what doesn’t work.

What works and what works better.

: Mutual respect is the foundation of freedom.

       Virtue is mutual respect in action.

: Experience is not what happens to you.

It's what you do with what happens to you.

: All illusion works for a reason.

              Know the reason and the illusion becomes a tool.

: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Remember these principles when applying the solution. Here is the solution from the post on 11/18/2011:

Two elements are required to effect change in how one chooses behavior:

     1. Train in a “better” solution before it's needed now.

     2. Veto the perceived “negative” pathway when it’s initiated and don’t veto the

         perceived “better” solution.

The application of these gifts has quite an effect on the creative process of composing now. Once you commit these principles to your knowing, they become writing tools for your non-conscious self. Non-conscious self will select the pathway perceived to be best. Dr. Bruce Lipton, in his book “Biology of Belief” shows how perception shapes our choices. We compose our own "Now", a simulated "Now" that is based on past recorded experience. no less than ½ second old. The play becomes the simulated perceived environment of our visual illusion, existing only in our own imagination.

The simulation we presumably witness as now, is painted in a pallet of assumptions. The colors of our now are the colors we individually have learned to see. The same is true of the sound in our now. There is no constant. Each non-conscious self must learn how to experience new sights and sounds individually. This is true of all other qualities of experience; i.e., smell, taste, touch, thought, movement, memory, etc.  We indeed live in the moment; but remember, your conscious awareness is a simulation no less than 1/2 second old, not the experience itself.

Everyone Has to Learn Everything

Our individual body unit begins as two half cells becoming a one cell living creature. I hope you already had this discussion with your mom and dad.

Not to get into reproductive politics; but, I have to ask, what does this one cell human expression of life know? It has a potential of becoming a 50+ trillion cell being. It is at this one cell point I have to remember the lessons of epigenetics. 

Also, this is the point to remember Dr. Einstein again, " It is not the particle that governs the field. It is the field that governs the particle." The environment instructs the cell. The cell is a machine that responds to the environment. No one is in there, whether it’s one cell or 50 trillion cells.

The Childhood Macrostate chart from the last post makes one thing very clear. It is difficult to talk about all children as a single group. Children are human’s under construction. Their needs and potential for learning change so very drastically from one phase of development to another. At each step, the environment instructs the now huge community of cells, how best to fulfill its biological potential to survive another moment, another day, another generation.   

The next line I would have added to that chart, if there had been room, would have been communication. One of the lines of thought my research focuses on is the correlation between the other lines on the chart and the development of communication capability and then capability to use that capacity.   

In earlier posts I discuss how the act of composing now takes no less than ½ second to consciously manifest. This capacity manifests about age seven, capability begins to develop thereafter. Up to age seven is only non-consciousness. Non-conscious self is a record/playback (R/P) device. Around age seven, with the advent of Alpha state brain waves (8 to 13 Hz) conscious self begins to develop. This means we learn to use the innate ½ second delay in processing new stimuli with previous experience that creates a meaningful message perceived as now.  There is enough time to observe said potential event or continuum and decide to stop it from being expressed. This is the power of veto.

So, there’s the record/playback (R/P) self and there is the conscious observer self. This observer is born in each of us around seven years of age.  Observer is only conscious of, at best, 50 bits per second of information flow with which to wield veto power over every action. The observer must have high confidence that the information was well sorted and prioritized by non-conscious self when deselecting what not to include in its “Now Show.” Our being is fully functioning by age 7, but not fully grown when consciousness begins to come “online.”

The next to the last line of the Childhood Macrostate chart shows the average turning point when conscious self begins to be expressed. It also indicates that conscious self has no more than 5% control over the total expression of the beings here/now. We can’t consciously cause an action directly, only veto a potential action. The process of initiating action occurs in a non-conscious way. This is a profound fact and tool.

So, that means some 95% of the time, control is the non-conscious R/P machine itself. This part of self is like a motion sensor device. Such a device is not sensitive to everything. Its designer selects a quality of environment to which it will be sensitive and focus. When that environment occurs, BAM! The programmed response occurs. The sensor is stimulated and a process ensues to enact the programmed response to that environmental demand. A signal is then generated to cause action. It is that signal we have the option to interrupt with our veto. Can you imagine how this might change things if everyone knew this? Herein, is the "holy grail" of teaching.

Everyone has to learn everything.