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Chapter 3, Negative Manifestation

Posted: February 10th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized

Sound file of Chapter 3

3 Negative Manifestation

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PWOS Group 3a

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3 Comments on “Chapter 3, Negative Manifestation”

  1. 1 Mike Williamson said at 10:50 pm on February 20th, 2010:

    PWOS:”Control of the machine’s manifestations is not our aim now or later, although the behavior patterns may change somewhat as a result of the influence of the active presence of the nonphenomenal self.”
    Can we see why control of the machine’s manifestations is not our aim now or later? Can we notice when we are trying to use machine manifestations to try to control or directly change the machine? In that case, as Aretha Franklin once asked in song “Who’s zooming who?” If we pour milk into milk, will we get anything other than more milk? So what is it that can allow the gradual awakening of the machine?

  2. 2 Mike Williamson said at 9:31 pm on February 21st, 2010:

    PWOS “Pay especial attention to that….particular manifestation under which the machine buries its feelings of personal insecurity….Practice this particular manifestation many times before the mirror until you are sure that you have it exactly.”
    First can we spot a manifestation that the machine uses to avoid feeling the immediate pain of personal insecurity? Then will we see if we can voluntarily re-produce this manifestation?

  3. 3 Mike Williamson said at 7:46 am on February 25th, 2010:

    “The real master of the machine, the non-phenomenal self, which is the real source of attention and presence, is very different from the complex personal identity of the machine. It is a simple presence with no particular identity, no particular qualities – although it may take on itself the qualities of its host machine for a short period of time.” What is this that is very different from the complex personal identity of the machine? Can we recognize in our own experience what the words “simple presence with no particular identity” mean?

    Are there two different ways that we may take on the qualities of the machine – (1)Taking on the qualities while identified with the machine and (2) Taking on the qualities while not identified with the machine?

    What are we when we are not identified with the personality of the machine? What do we assume or think we are in some moment when we are identified with the machine? What is the purpose of the personality of the machine? Almaas has written: “We can not give any reasons for the fact that we love being ourselves.” While we can be in confusion about what is our self and be identified with all sorts of things that are not our self, do we love making use of the “personality of the machine” so as to awaken the machine so it can fulfill its function as a transformational apparatus?

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