Very helpful and informative. Especially to me with my current situation. I'm working with a video (Timothy Leary: How to Operate Your Brain) and if you allow it to, it'll basically reset your brain to default settings, allowing you to design your own reality from the chaos. But anyways, I've made progress, I've felt and seen changes in my reality, but only for short times during and after the video.
Now, after reading your post, understand that I'm not getting anywhere because I have not learned to trust, everything around me, and perhaps even myself. I think I'm well on my way now.
ummm.. it's also a good idea to not just trust everything and everyone. you should choose with your head who you can trust with your heart.
for instance, i really don't like the idea of someone making a video that reprograms your mind for you. i learned how to reprogram my own mind (though i still can't figure out how the heck i learned how to do it), but i guess if you trust the guy, then that's ok. [:)]
~kakkarot
Yeah, but Tim Leary's the man. He was a psychology professor at Harvard, so he's not just some dingbat trying to get rich off selling videotapes. Is it good lateralus? I've never heard of that video, only all the books he's written like Infopsychology.
Does it involve the 8-Circuit Model?
Well, since no one really flamed me for my last one, i guess i'll post another one. a long time ago, while i was searching for info about the metaphysical on the internet, i'd constantly come across explainations of how to achieve the abilities that said that you just have to "open up" to them.
before i started getting my own experiences, i was like "yeah, whatever, how do you open up?", but after i started having experiences, and indeed the more experiences i've had the more i realize it is true, i started to think "yeah, you do just open up. but that doesn't help other people so i'm gonna try to figure out another way of explaining it." except i hadn't been able to figure out that way before (mostly cause i'd never bothered to think about it since i wasn't exactly teaching a thousand students).
but i think i have figured out a way of describing it, so please let me know what you think:
first, go into your memory and remember a time when you had a big secret that you didn't want many people to know, but a secret that you shared with at least one person.
do you remember how closed your heart felt, how constricted and guarded, before your started revealing the secret? and then how you felt completely open with the person, or at least felt a bit more trusting of them? as though you had a wall seperating your heart from them before you shared the secret, but at the end it felt like the wall was either gone or had a hole in it? or something like that?
that's because you "opened up" to that person. see, most people instinctively defend their hearts from being hurt by other people, but let down their defenses around the people they trust.
the lowering of the defenses, and placing your trust in them, is the "opening up". and to open yourself up to your abilities (though, of course, you won't just up and become some sort of powerful wizard or something). you must "open yourself up" to the world around you, lower your defenses, and trust that the world won't hurt you.
only after your defenses have been lowered, and you've become relaxed and trusting like this, can the parts of your being really "open up" and start interacting with the world in their own manner (ie the mind interacting with mental things, the spirit with spiritual things, etc).
BUT you must NOT merely take a passive stance after you begin trusting. you must still actively seek your development; you can't just think "ok world, come and do something to me", you must think "ok world, let's work together on this. i'll do stuff to you and i'll let you do back stuff to me, and new experiences will happen from there."
and finally, you must trust your senses.
~kakkarot