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HI Colleen Happy New Year! And it's good to hear you are still having fun with TROM and making progress.
I too keep working away at resolving the mind. The Art of War is a great little book which outlines the means of playing the game of war. War is a game. A game is any activity played by two or more people with opposing goals for the purpose of generating sensations. The goal of the aggressor in war is to force something one another that the other does not want or to take something from another they are unwilling to give or both at the same time. The defender is trying to stop the aggressor from succeeding. I am fascinated by this because if have much charge on the subjects of others forcing things on me I do not want or others taking from me things I do not want to give up or others refusing to give me things I want to take from them or others preventing me from forcing on them things in insist they have. When I have timebroken all the charge I have on these goals I will loose interest in the subject of war and publish my rewrite of "The Art of War" and move on to a new life game to timebreak. TROM is great1 Keep on TROMing Pete McLaughlin Sent from my iPad > On Jan 14, 2016, at 8:57 PM, The Resolution of Mind list > <[email protected]> wrote: > > ************* > The following message is relayed to you by [email protected] > ************ > Hello everyone. Forgive me if you find this post too long. I felt inspired to > communicate. > > Dennis' basic senior stable datum is the universe is life and postulates. I > take it to mean the rest is phenomena resulting from interaction of life that > holds postulates. > > Historically, if you start with Freud's attempts in the late 1800's to apply > logic to resolving the mind - which he called psychoanalysis - you can see > that he came close and I don't think he realized how close he came and he > probably still had his own case to resolve ... > > Freud was able to observe and note that "To Sex" was a goal that was > affecting many of his clients' judgement. Dennis' senior stable datum is > that the universe is life and postulates/goals and that is why I'm pointing > out Freud's discovery, and as I said, Freud could not take it any further > than that. For example, I'm surprised he did not start examining his work > with his clients for other common goals. I think he got swamped by the high > abberativeness of sex'ing in his society and in fact could not face up to the > depth of degradation surrounding that goal set. Besides, he had somewhat > workable techs and a steady stream of clients who were only demanding to be > better humans in their society. > > However, Freud did want to analytically find "THE GOAL" that drives mankind > to the heights and to the depths, and he took the goal set that was most > important to the majority of his clients. Couldn't fail, right? > > Then comes Hubbard in the 1950's who at the very least is a persistent > researcher and compiler and promoter of psychotherapies, and who likewise > went looking for THE GOAL that drives mankind. He went a notch of two higher > than "To Sex" and stated in Dianetics that mankind's driving goal is "To > Survive". A few years later he went looking for a more primal goal and if he > found it he did not announce it or I am not aware of it. I am aware he had a > lot of attention on the goal "To Help". > > Fifteen years later or thereabouts Dennis decided to pick up where Ron left > off with his aspirations to clear the minds of humans by finding the primal > goal set that would resolve all cases. In other words, was there a being > outside the universe that formulated this universe for its own purpose ... > and by what postulates did it do that? > > In the tradition of Zen masters Dennis formulated a simple and mostly solo > path to nirvana consisting of two basic practices: one a "positive" practice > and the other a "negative" practice, both of which are worked together until > the mind is vanished. In Pali language "nibbana" means "extinction" [of the > mind]. As with any practice these two processes become easier, more fun and > more certain as one persists through the initial discomforts and flubs in > following instructions. > > More crucially, Dennis addressed an even higher goal set - "To Know and To Be > Known" and its negatives, and wrote out a scale of lesser goals leading up to > this higher goal which includes Freud's "to sex" and Hubbard's found goals. > Dennis left a diagram with instructions on how to correctly apposition all > possible combinations of interactive goals that could exist within the mind > that holds this universal reality. What more could I ask for? > > Pete is expanding on "The Art of War" which is a great complementary exercise > to what one discovers through doing the practices of TROM. Likewise, > personally, I find that with the progress I make in practicing TROM I better > grok (i.e., understand) the "Tao Te Ching". Tao and Trom share the same goal > - to be inducements and pointers and instructors to vanishment of the mind > through a thorough objective and subjective understanding of our seeming > closest companion - our mind. > > Which reminds me of the movie, "Revolver". > > The only problem I see now is that people who are all "To Know" will collect > and read and archive, and perhaps eruditely discuss Trom without much > application, and people who are all "To Be Known" will be too busy deciding > what effects to create in order to be known by the to-know people. The mostly > "To Not Know" people will make themselves known so that they can loudly and > soundly reject Trom without any recourse to reason ("I tried it and it did > not work for me!!!", and other derogatory or picky generalities). The mostly > "To Not be Known" people -- they are still a mystery to me. How can anyone > save themselves?! > > For myself I do see some vanishment of lifelong blocks to logical thinking > and good judgement and complementary postulates. It took a decision to see my > covert game strategies that had been seeded in early life, and I decided to > take a good long look at my interactions with my young parents. I find most > of my whacky decisions almost always boil down to particular aesthetic > fixations... the desire for aesthetic sensation. > > The two simple practices of TROM are more fun and smoother than they were > when I first started. My resolve is still weak and I am easily thrown off my > routine practice by some present-time problem. Hubbard called it being > "out-rudiments" or "PTS" (a potential trouble source); I've had over 60 years > to do impulsively what seemed right at the time, and the more covert game > strategies one has piled up or decisions that have led to a complicated and > busy life I would imagine the more difficult it is to be consistent with this > practice. I do make note that Dennis did work a job for many years and > finally was able to settle in and decently organize his life with others > around the working out of TROM while resolving his own mental structure, so > I'm not going to be too hard on myself, and I keep picking up where I left > off. It can only get better at this point. > > "Complicated minds require drastic measures" ... Tao Te Ching ... > > Colleen > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.newciv.org/mailman/listinfo/trom
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