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Hi Pete,

 

I don't think you are helping to clarify matters at all with your examples.
It seems to me that you have a number of things mismashed here.

 

Reordering the postulates is not really what Dennis meant by
cross-packaging. To order the "to eat" postulates like this:

 

1. must eat     3. must not be eaten
2. must not eat   4. must be eaten

 

is just plain stupidity if someone sets up the postulates in that fashion -
it just means they have not understood the most basic fundamentals of what a
package is. This of course could be called cross-packaging because it
completely violates the rules for how to form a package, but this misses the
boat on the subtleties of cross-packaging. 

 

Your explanation:

 

 "Where 2 is not available because of your previous decision that you "must
eat" and 4 is your opponent because it is now off your diet but  3. is not a
complement of 1 so you are cross packaged."

 

just muddies the waters because proper packaging has nothing to do with
whether a postulate is "available" or not. If the person is at "must eat"
then "must be eaten" IS a complementary postulate. This talk about donuts
being "Now off your diet" is spurious. The guy who is going to have a
problem with "must be eaten" and not going to eat the donut is at "must not
eat" not at "must eat". Trying to rationalize bad package formation with
this example doesn't clarify matters.

 

1. must eat        3. must be eaten

2. must not eat  4. must not be eaten

 

Don't disarrange the postulates, that's just a sure way to goof the floof :)


 

Cross packaging is the action of placing a postulate (or postulates) that
belong in a different package(s) into a single package.

 

" When two or more junior packages are crossed up into one package neither
of the packages will erase, and the whole mish-mash just grinds on forever.

...

Check that the complementary postulates are indeed complementary, and that
the opposing postulates are exact oppositions" - Dennis



 

Here are some examples of cross packaging:

 

Must eat           Must be edible (not complementary)

Must not eat      Must diet (not exact opposite)

 

 

Must wash                                Must be cleaned (not exact
complementary)

Must be dirty(not opposite)        Must not be cleaned (not opposite)

 

In this last you have wash and clean packages being crossed up with the
additional screwup of dirty not being a life goal. So I wouldn't say that
you have 3-way cross packaging here (to be dirty would handle by running to
be clean) You've got "To wash" cross packaged with "To clean"

 

Hubbard's methods of GPM running were fraught with cross-packaging and why
they nearly killed people. 3D Criss-cross was one of those processes. I have
a feeling that Dennis pulled the "cross package" term from how Hubbard
crossed items using oppose rather than using the exact opposite. If you look
at the goal plots of the 1963 ear you can see the cross packaging that is
going on.

 

Best wishes to all,

 

Brian

 

 

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From: Pete McLaughlin [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 5:20 PM
To: Aarre Peltomaa; TROM
Subject: [TROM1] MU's on Cross Packaging

 

Hi Aarre
Yes, of course, I have MU's on Cross Packaging. That is why I brought up the
subject for discussion.  I need the viewpoints of the talented people on
this tromlist to sort out the subject.

"all the 4 goals that you listed are in the same package, regardless how
they are arranged."

I disagree with you here. Dennis spent some time in the manual detailing the
games matrix:

leg 1 leg3
leg 2 leg4
with the relationships being leg 1 complementary to leg 3 and leg1 in
conflict with leg4 etc. So putting the postulates into different positions
in the matrix demonstrates a change in how the being views the postulates.

leg 1 must sex versus leg 4 must be sexed reflects a games condition and a
cross packaging. this also is masculinity versus femininity which Dennis
says may need to be addressed to handle the problems with sex that all
humans have.

The matrix is a useful tool for demonstrating the cross packaging.

The quote you provided demonstrates this point:

"' The legs of a junior package must bear the same relation to each other as
do the legs of the basic package. Otherwise the package is not a true
package and will never erase. E.G. The complementary goal of 'To free' is
'To be free' not 'To be freed'. "


Your examples of cross packaging are good and thanks for them.


Sincerely

Pete 

 

 


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From: Aarre Peltomaa <[email protected]>
To: Pete McLaughlin <[email protected]>; The Resolution of
Mind list <[email protected]> 
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: [TROM1] Cross Packaging? again

 

Pete,

You must have an MU (MisUnderstood Word) on 'cross packaging',  as all the 4
goals that you listed are in the same package, regardless how they are
arranged.

Slight alterations of wordings,  as a covertly hostile person would be happy
to do,  would lead to cross packaging. 



 

Here is the definition's first mention in the manual...

 

' The legs of a junior package must bear the same relation to each other as
do the legs of the basic package. Otherwise the package is not a true
package and will never erase. E.G. The complementary goal of 'To free' is
'To be free' not 'To be freed'. Some care is always required in formulating
the exact wording of junior packages. When a junior package is not erasing
cleanly the most common fault is that the package is not a true package.
This is known as cross-packaging. It is one of the 'deadly' sins. When two
or more junior packages are crossed up into one package neither of the
packages will erase, and the whole mish-mash just grinds on forever. The
therapist who tries to resolve a man's drinking problem by addressing his
infantile sex life is guilty of cross- packaging. This is why the 'therapy'
goes on forever with no relief for the patient. Indeed, the basic way to
confuse a being is to cross-package him. Much thought has been given to this
gentle art in the history of the universe, and the most confusing things
that have ever happened to beings have been overt attempts to cross-package
them - all under the guise of 'education', of course. Once cross-packaged
the being is stuck within the crossed-up packages forever. Cross-packaging
is the primary method of enslaving spiritual beings that has been used in
the universe. It is infinitely more effective than the use of rubber
truncheons. So make sure that the legs of your junior packages bear exactly
the same relation to each other 


page 85


as do the legs of the basic package. Only then will they erase. 
Check that the complementary postulates are indeed complementary, and that
the opposing postulates are exact oppositions. This can only be done
empirically, on the basis of cold, hard logic. To do it any other way is to
court disaster. One may have a strong 'gut feeling' that the goal 'To eat'
is opposed by the goal 'To not be edible', however logic tells us that the
correct opposition is 'To not be eaten'. The difference between the package
cleanly erasing and grinding on forever is to be found within such fine
shades of meaning. Nowhere in life do you have to be more precise than in
this area of composing junior goals packages. '

 

That's it right from the 'ol man' himself.   If he didn't give examples of
cross-packaging when he discussed the sex package,  then we have to come up
with and extrapolate our own examples from conjecture,  logic,  and
experience.

 

Here's some possible examples...

 

I have to have sex with him so that he'll marry me.

I have to show my virility by giving her a good session in bed.

I'll look prettier to others if I wear this sexy dress.

I can't wear those orange pants, because they're such a 'gay' colour !

I'll be the life of the party if I tell them how often 'I scored'.

I can't have sex with him in the first two dates,  or he'll think that I'm a
whore.

To sex  vs.  To be sexy.  (definitely a cross packaging). 

To sex and to be sexed   vs.   to sensually stimulate and to be sensually
stimulated.

 

None of the above is just  'sex',  but rather other
postulates/goals/purposes/intentions

mixed in to muddy up the water and complicate things.

 

Now I understand the man;   eg.  If you are addressing 'welding steel',  you
aren't addressing 'screwing nuts onto bolts'.  They are two different
actions, and not the same enough to be called one package.

 

Thanks,  Aarre Peltomaa

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Pete McLaughlin
<[email protected]> wrote:

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HI
Another thought on Cross-Packaging in life. It only occurs? when you are
stuck in a compulsive game.

for instance with "to eat"

When you see a donut that screams "must be eaten" and you are in a voluntary
or no games condition you can  pick whether you adopt  the "must eat" or
"must not eat" postulate but if you are compulsively in the "must eat" and
have eating problems and see a donut you make the "must be eaten" postulate
your enemy and get the cross packaged goal:

1. must eat     3. must not be eaten

2. must not eat   4. must be eaten

Where 2 is not available because of your previous decision that you "must
eat" and 4 is your opponent because it is now off your diet but  3. is not a
complement of 1 so you are cross packaged.

Therefor compulsion is a necessary component of cross packaging in life?

Keep on TROMing

Pete



 

 


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From: Pete McLaughlin <[email protected]>
To: The Resolution of Mind list <[email protected]> 
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: [TROM1] Cross Packaging? again


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Hi Paul and Svoboda
Thanks for the responces. They got my brain working again.

Here is what i have come up with so far.

the normal to sex goals package has male and female complementing each
other.

1. must sex    3. must be sexed


by making females and males opponents in a game we move the female postulate
to the opponents position and the negative female postulate to the
complementary position.

1. must sex    3 must not be sexed

2. must not sex   4 must be sexed

This is by definition a cross package as 1 and 3 are not exactly
complementary.

Does this look like a correct interpretation of Dennis' statement that:

 "As a male, he soon starts to get opposed to females, and vice-versa. Very
soon he is in a terrible state on the subject, for the two genders are not
intrinsically in opposition to each other. 

 You end up with a classic case of cross-packaging. We find the male
desperately asserting his masculinity, while heavily suppressing any
feminine characteristics in his personality, and vice-versa for the female.
The whole subject soon takes on the quality of a nightmare, and becomes one
big unsolvable problem. And it stays this way until the being regains his
full freedom of choice to occupy, at will, any one of the four classes
available to him on the subject."

IF so then on any goals in life if you make what should be a complementary
postulate into the opposition postulate in a game you are cross packaging.



Keep on TROMing
Pete

 

 


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From: Paul Tipon <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 12:19 AM
Subject: [TROM1] Cross Packaging? again


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Hi Pete,

After reading further, I see that I may have muddied the waters a little
more.  With the following definition here is what I see.

On Jan 23, 2013, at 11:44 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> OK
> Here's the definition of cross packaging. it doesn't apply so Dennis
misspoke in the TROM manual.
> 
> 
> Cross-packaging
> When a junior package is not erasing cleanly the most common fault is that
the package is not a true package.  This is known as
> cross-packaging.  It is one of the 'deadly' sins.  When two or more junior
packages are crossed up into one package neither of the packages will erase
and the whole mish-mash just grinds on forever.  The therapist who tries to
resolve a man's drinking problem by addressing his infantile sex life is
guilty of cross-packaging.  This is why the 'therapy' goes on forever with
no relief for the patient.

The packages are not the little differences that exist between the sexes,
male to female or female to male but the fact that male is different than
female and vice versa.  So it is not the differences that exist between a
male and a female but the simple fact that male is different than female and
female different than male.  To heck with all the differences thereby
derived, it is that male is not female and female is not male.

With two separate things which are not the duplicate of the other, there
will always be a difference.  To then go into all the differences that one
can spot between the two sexes will not address the basic.  So one can
process out all of the differences that they can find between sexes and
totally miss the basic.  The basic is that one sex is not the other.

So if one then processes on those differences between two items, one may
miss the fact that there is an opposition and games condition because there
are two different things, not that there are two or more differences in
sexual characteristics.  Basically not being able to see the forest for the
trees.  Processing out all the different trees and all of their differences
between each other will not process out the opposition terminal of the
forest.  Just process on 'the forest'.  As in Dennis' sample, process
alcohol not "infantile sex life".  A person may give you or you yourself may
give yourself housekeeping as the opposition subject when it is really male
vs female or female vs male and nothing more non-esoteric than that.

I believe Dennis calls this 'Cross-Packaging' as all crossed or mixed up and
not addressing the correct item.

Paul, Level 5 in progress
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