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# Re: requesting help with chapter 1 of IIH

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- Subject: Re: requesting help with chapter 1 of IIH
- From: "caltobe" <caltobe@...>
- Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 11:44:18 -0000
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    Hi Maria
    I have, like yourself, been struggling on and off during a year or
    so with the mental excersises in IIH step 1. It was not until
    recently that I managed to achieve some progress with those. I had
    two big obstacles to overcome. the first is a very active
    brain...constantly planning, analyzing and in general being a big
    pain in the lower back so to speak. Another problem was
    expectations. I was having certain expectations about what to
    experience, certain ideas about how it would feel to reach EOM for
    example. Therefore I was constantly looking for and trying to reach
    that experience. And that, IMHO, is one of the best ways to make all
    efforts futile. So why is that so? I don't know if this is correct
    or if it's just my own interpretations but I'm sure someone will
    correct me if I'm wrong and I hope you do.

    The first mental excercise is an experience of the hermetic
    principle of gender as manifested in our mind. The Kybalion speaks
    about the "I" and the "ME" as the masculine/feminine principles, the
    Will and Creative force respectively. It describes the "ME"-part of
    our minds as the creating part, the part that reacts on stimuli from
    the outside and responds to them. Our thoughts, emotions etc belong
    to the "ME". The "I" in contrast does not react, it just IS, firmly
    in the present and is responsible for triggering the ME into action.
    It could be described as pure Will.

    In most of us the "I" is dormant and we go around our whole life
    in "ME"-mode. The purpose of the first excercise is to experience
    the existence of the "I". At least that is something I learned from
    it. Think about it, to observe something you need to be separate
    from what your observing. If you're not separate then your
    participating rather than observing. From that follows that if we
    can observe ourselves thinking, then there must be two different
    parts in our minds - the "I" and the "ME". Furthermore, if the
    Kybalion is correct, it's the "I" that observes the "ME".

    The next part is to actually start learning to use our "I" in
    constructive work. It's sole purpose is to will the creative "ME"
    into action in a beneficial direction. If "ME" is left alone it will
    start creating stuff on its own just out of boredom. New dishes,
    shopping lists and pointless songs going round and round in your
    head. That's the purpose of the Single thought excersise. Your "I"
    is giving the "ME" orders to follow one train of thoughts and if it
    goes astray your "I" firmly pulls it back on track.

    The last excersise, EOM, is an experience of the pure "I". When "ME"
    is disconnected. When I started doing the excersise I had an idea
    that the experience would be totally blank. I would stop existing
    and magically pop back into reality a while later to realize "Great!
    I just had an EOM experience". As far as I'm concerned that state
    of "non-being/non thinking" is maybe achievable but not the least
    desireable. You want "non thinking" and pure "being". An experience
    of the pure "I".

    Truthfully, I don't know if I have experienced EOM. I think I have
    and doubt if I can ever be sure. Seen in the light of the "I"
    and "ME" parts of ourselves the EOM is clearly an experience of
    the "I" when "ME" shuts up and that description fits what I'm
    experiencing perfectly. Yes, I have impressions when I reach my EOM.
    But it's a different kind, I'm not involved. It's there and i know
    it, but i don't care...or rather "ME" doesn't care because my "I"
    told it to go to bed.

    Summary...
    1. Realize that our minds are composed of "I" and "ME" parts
    through "observation of thought"-excersise
    2. Learn to use the power of your "I" through "singlepointedness"
    3. Experience the pure "I" through EOM

    ehh...and what was your original question? Sorry for the rambling
    but hope you get something out of it. Just relax and enjoy the EOM
    in the present. Forget about any results or expectations. Then they
    come.

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