************* The following message is relayed to you by [email protected] ************ I'm going to approach this from a new, different angle.
From Dennis, LRH and whoever else, we know that there are games that are played and to be played. If you care, you could even go back to Machiavelli and Sun Tsu or even earlier but let's just leave the subject of games in the realm of the understandings and therapies of the mind and the MEST Universe. That is where they belong, no place else.
I have to believe that Colleen from an earlier post is now starting to get the full understanding. Level 5 is wisdom. It is the skill of being able to play the game as a Master.
Just exactly who or what plays games? I can see games being played by or as a mind, a body, a computer of course or a spirit. However, the spirit has the ability not only to play games but to create or destroy them. Categorically, I don't see that the body or the mind can reach to or work at that level.
I see Level 4 as the door, the portal to the spirit and the Universe that is the sole realm of the spirit. It is the entry point beyond all things of and from MEST.
Looking at games again, one has choices in how they play a game. It can be played as a piece, the body. And that piece can then be a pawn or a King or a Queen. I would then liken the mind to being the chess board, a contributor to the environment in which the game is played.
If we now look at the last part, the spirit/Thetan/soul of a game in play, we see that this component can create, change or destroy the mind, the environment, all of the pieces and the game itself. So the spirit is a participant that can either play a game or be above any and all games.
Can you get the idea that MEST and everything in it that is MEST is in a game?
One must realize that in a game there is the possibility of winning as well as loosing or there just is no game at all. One must win as well as loose to be in a game. To never loose is not to be in a game at all. Master game players must loose as well as win and in the over-all subject of games one must have the ability to win more than they loose. This is the definition of a master game player. One who never looses any game or games is above games and can be classified as a God of Games. I don't see that Level 5 gives one the status of God of Games.
If one wants to rise to the level of God of Games, it will not be accomplished by completing Level 5. Obviously one must attain Freedom from Overwhelm to be a God of Games. This is Level 4.
In this perspective it is easily seen that Level 4 is a must. It is also the make/break point. Level 5 then becomes the practical for the God of Games to become an expert, a master of games, a true expert and master when he wishes and decides to be a part of the MEST Universe and participate in a game and games. If one cannot and does not achieve Freedom from Overwhelm, there will be a game or games that will eventually, sooner or later trap the Master Game Player. This trap that will loom in the future can only be handled by Freedom from Overwhelm.
Level 4 & 5 are distinctly different from each other and Level 4 must be achieved before Level 5. Level 5 will never achieve Freedom from Overwhelm and without that, one can never achieve 'Freedom from any and all Games'. Without Level 4, one will always be the effect of a game or some games, probably just be at a higher level of game player in the majority of instances.
Freedom from Games is not a result of Level 5, Master Player of Games is.
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