Posted by araucaria
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For the benefit of carryattune and others, I want to explain how I see the Village operating, because it is certainly not obvious and msisundertandings are inevitable. I have a nephew who has had a mental health issue for over a year now, recently diagnosed with schizophrenia, but he is much better these days than he was. One time he came to our house with his mother, he thanked me deeply for some crucial help I had given him. All I had done was speak to him sympathetically on his one or two previous visits. Oh and, without telling anyone, I had briefly commended him to the Village; my post received a few thanks and no comments, and the thread moved on to other matters. This was the only reason my nephew had for thanking me, not, as he thought, as the source of this beneficial effect he had received, but more as the direction from which it came, or the conduit through which it came. I personally had nothing to do with it, and felt nothing, and nor for that matter did the Villagers, themselves acting as conduits for this healing energy from the universe. But my nephew as the ‘target’ in blind conditions appears to have felt something rather powerful.
An effective conduit is an empty one, as clean as a whistle, a place where nothing happens, where stuff simply passes through from a source upstream to a destination downstream. If stuff starts happening, it means there is a blockage that needs to be cleared. If you are looking for stuff and see nothing, then that is good. This is what we mean by selflessness, service to others, removing ego, or whatever. Effective action is no action, it is getting out of the way to let the process happen on its own. Healing is what occurs at the point where a blockage is met. This is why on threads in which someone asks for healing, posters who involve themselves in the healing process are both administering healing by acting as part of the conduit, and themselves benefiting from the healing process to the extent that their posts get in the way and need to be cleansed along with the rest. Paradoxically, the healing energy itself is the more powerful for being unseen and helped along by others who remain silent.
This is how energy generally works. An electric wire offers maximum conductivity to enable the flow, and the point of action on the contrary offers a ‘resistance’ where it produces the required heat or light etc. Cold fusion and zero-point energy are merely incredible enhancements of this process. The more it works, the less it is needed. By the way, my signature ‘Free energy now!’ is not so much a slogan for a desired future as a description of this effect in the here and now. Similarly, my Byron quote ‘love is no sinecure in this part of the world’ suggests that love/energy can and should be effortless, or in other words, it is not-doing as a supreme form of doing (the Taoist
wu wei).
This is not easy to understand for the materialist mind, which needs something rather than nothing. I have an ongoing debate with a tennis buddy who tells me how with better focus I could play all the time as well as I sometimes do. His idea that sport is 30% physical and 70% mental mostly sums up his own issues. He is strong and fit but his head is all over the place. I tell him my head is perfectly fine when my legs are OK. But since 30+70 = 100%, the physical and mental aspects occupy his entire conception of what is going on, the unseen aspect is invisible to him (going with the flow when there are no physical issues of injury or tiredness and no mental blocks). I would have to get into over-unity to explain how I manage to play some amazing shots he would like to see more of – ‘over-unity’ being synonymous with magical hogwash. Until he understands, he is going to see me as simply nonchalant and want to teach me how to do better.
Of course, I could simply reverse the proposition and step into his shoes to try and improve
his game – but it doesn’t work that way. If the concept is ‘nothing’, then no demonstrations or explanations of ‘nothing’ will be much use. Anyone learning to ride a bike is going to have to turn those pedals, i.e. ride the bike. The best any helper can do is steady their centre of gravity, but only for a very short time before they are outpaced. Trainer wheels are useful, but they only serve to show how little or no teaching is involved.
The expression ‘in the zone’ covers what I am trying to convey, except that in the definition below, I would quibble with the word ‘increased’. ‘Decreased’ would do just as well if not better.
Expression used to describe a state of consciousness where actual skills match the perceived performance requirements perfectly. Being in the zone implies increased focus and attention which allow for higher levels of performance. Athletes, musicians, and anybody that totally owns a challenge of physical and mental performance can be in the zone.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=in%20the%20zone
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