9. Open Blind
Unknown
Hidden Land of
Serendipity
– Unit 16 –
The Blind Window
♣ The metamorphosis of habit
and memory.
♣ Habit forming
and re-forming.
10. Known Not known
to self to self
Known
to Open Blind
others
Unknown
Not Land of
Hidden
known Serendipity
to others
♣ In the Open window can be ♣In the Blind window are things
seen all the things you know other people know about you but
about yourself that others also of which you are unaware.
know.
♣In the Unknown (Land of
♣In the Hidden window are the Serendipity) window is your
things you know about yourself motivation and potential future of
but choose not to reveal to which neither you or others are
others. aware. It waits, dormant, until
something causes it to be
revealed.
11. Known Not known
to self to self
Known
to Open Blind
others ♣ Observe the gestures of others –
is there anything comparable in
Not Unknown your own behaviour?
known Hidden Land of
Serendipity
to others ♣ When has someone drawn your
attention to something about
♣ In the Hidden window are the things yourself you were unaware of?
you know about yourself but choose not
to reveal to others.
♣ Can you recall a time when you
were ‘kept in the dark’?
Habits afford us the capacity to
live independently. ♣ On a scale of 1-10 how thick
skinned are you?
But, of all that we can be blind
to, unconscious habits of ♣Habits
thinking and perceiving can
deceive us most of all.
12. “Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.”
"Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end."
Samuel Beckett
P
Save time
Take no effort
O
Waste time
Lead to worry
Reassure Deplete conscious attention
Simplify routine tasks Debilitates our will
Free us to think Constrains our thinking
Habit is the melody Habits bind and
of memory‟s music blind the memory
The „Fried Egg‟ __ _+
+ __
_ _
_
If the „new‟ is approached with
_+ ++ +_
the habits of the old, nothing + + _
much will change = me
+ +
Experience notices + = new to me +
what habit hides _ = now a habit
13. Play -
♣The Habit Game
Object of the Game:
To identify some habits.
14. The millions of neurons and peptides of
the brain and their billions of
interconnections are constantly decaying
and re-growing – their form retained by
our Formative Body, to function as an
instrument of consciousness.
Some „footprints‟ – perhaps „habitual
engrams‟ – may reappear if paths are
well worn, like a pair of old slippers –
we love our slippers.
Spiritual science extends the story...
15. In far distant ages Spiritual forces,
past, memory was wove within our
not a faculty as body‟s rhythmic
such but rather a system of
way of life. breathing and
blood circulation,
permeating and
flowing through
our physical body.
Our past was
impressed within
the world‟s vital,
Formative forces
with which we
had direct
experience.
16. There is gradual Consciousness of
transformation – who we are is
our past dependent on
experiences connecting our
became experiences.
impressed upon Totems and
our own standing stones
Formative Body acted as rhythmic
stream. „Island‟ reminders of our
memories once direct
became storyline experience of
memories. spiritual realities.
17. With a gradual As still resonates
release from in our early years,
spiritual forces, when our
we needed to fashioning
acquire the aid of through imitation
habit and, precedes the
through frequent development of
repetition, habits and
behaviour that capacity for an
helps us live independent life.
independently.
18. We think Habits have
independently – helped us in the
link one memory transformation
to another - but from dependence
direct our and „un-freedom‟
thinking to the to independence.
sense world losing But we‟ve now
sight of the super- become locked
sensible world – into a habit of
even though the „chain-link‟ or
sense world is an „cogwheel‟
expression of the thinking.
spiritual.
19. Empathy Wakeful freedom
Thought-picture Truth & sacrifice
Phonetic-tone Selfless subtlety
Hearing Spiritual expression
Warmth Radiant interest
Sight Inner quality
Taste Healing
Smell Judgement
Balance Poise
Movement Destiny
Life Pain
Touch Relationship
See
Unit 5
20. Habit forming –
and Re-forming Reflective-
Intuitive
Competence
Unconscious
incompetence Unconscious
We don‟t know Competence
what we don‟t
know
Conscious
incompetence
Conscious
We know we
Competence
don‟t know
how to do it
Conscious
Competence Conscious
We know we‟re incompetence
now doing it
Unconscious
Competence
We do it Unconscious
without incompetence
knowing it
21. Play -
♣The Alexander Game
Object of the Game:
To experience something that feels right
being wrong.
22. They now lift us, tempt
us with a sort of „secular
spirituality‟ as if the
spiritual grows out
of the material.
Forces bestowed upon us
memory and habit – which
freed us, but tore us away
from spiritual realities.
Or draw us down,
deceive us with a
habit of thinking the
sense world is all there is.
Balancing these forces and
strengthening intuitive
remembrance reconnects us
23. Habits afford us the capacity to live
independently. Our spiritual,
enduring “I” harvests that which
our soul has gleaned from past
experiences.
Consciousness of our Spiritual Soul
requires that we release the
energies stored up in our
habits of thinking and perceiving
and strengthen our capability for
intuitive remembrance.
