9. Open Blind
Unknown
Hidden Land of
Serendipity
– Unit 15 –
The Hidden Window
♣ What is the modern malady of
fear and anxiety?
♣ Why do we get bored?
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
to self
Open Blind ♣ What makes you nervous?
♣ A time you felt injured?
Unknown
Not
Hidden Land of
known Serendipity ♣ On your conscience?
to others
♣ In the Hidden window are the things ♣ What makes you angry?
you know about yourself but choose not
to reveal to others. ♣ Secret information
What we hide – Think & Feel – ♣ Private behaviour
we may know about (and
others might observe the ♣ Something in the last 24 hrs
you’ve not shared?
symptoms in the Open
Window). ♣ Fears, anxieties
We might know why we hide it
– and sometimes we might ♣ When are you bored?
not be so sure...
12. Hidden maladies of the soul
Soul maladies & associated physical ailments
have been believed to result from a victims
wrong-doing or wrong-feeling or wrong-
thinking – as result of which, elemental
beings have invaded and must be expelled.
Nowadays, neurological and genetic causes
are more likely to be sought and treatments
prescribed according to the particular edifice
of “received wisdom”.
Or else a materialistic
psychotherapeutic approach will seek
cause in our reflected self-image.
Hidden maladies of the soul
Soul maladies & associated physical ailments
have been believed to result from a victims
wrong-doing or wrong-feeling or wrong-
But we only read half the story unless, with
thinking – as result of which, elemental
beings have invaded and must be expelled.
Nowadays, neurological and genetic causes
are more likely to be sought and treatments
prescribed according to the particular edifice
of “received wisdom”.
Or else a materialistic
psychotherapeutic approach will seek
cause in our reflected self-image.
sound practice and warm heart, we consider
But we only read half the story unless, with
sound practice and warm heart, we consider
karma and successive earthly lives. karma and successive earthly lives.
13. Transformations and metamorphoses
Our spiritual, Enduring “I” harvests from our
soul in one earthly life what is required for us
to grow and develop in a subsequent earthly life.
14.
15. Spiritual causation - karma
Our spiritual, Enduring “I” harvests from our
soul in one earthly life what is required for us to
grow and develop in a subsequent earthly life.
16. That which was infused within an earlier life
is woven into our Nerve-sense system, which
gives expression to our Inspirational stream.
That which was realised
between death and a new earthly life
is woven into our Rhythmic system
of circulation and breathing, which
gives expression to our “I” stream.
That
which impresses
itself upon this
earthly life weaves into our
Movement system of metabolic
organs and limbs, which gives
expression to our Formative stream.
17. Our enduring “I” knows its
enduring mission but our capability for
“I”
its remembrance has weakened
A modern malaise and we draw back in anxiety
(„hold our breath‟) and easily
judging intuition prone to distraction.
soul
soul
memory
past Formative body stream
Inspirational body stream
Weak attention span, future
deep
easy distraction – yearning
weakens permeation of
the Formative stream That which was infused in an
with the Physical body earlier life flows towards us –
and therefore memory senses but a Formative stream that was
and capability for previously weak can result in a
remembrance. hurly-burly of feelings, which
itself weakens the permeation
physical of the Inspirational stream, and
body a nervous fidgetiness.
18. “Virir con miedo es como vivir a midias”
“A life lived in fear is a life half lived”
Poor attention
Inactivity
Indecisiveness
Excessive reassurance
Depression
Impulsiveness
Hyperactivity
Ennui
soul
memory
past Formative body stream
Inspirational body stream
future
deep
yearning
Anguish Trepidation
Torment Apprehension
19. Play -
♣The Attention Game
Object of the Game:
To observe some everyday
attentiveness.
20. AD(H)D – a sign of the times?
Apparent increase over the last 50-
100 years – global prevalence now
estimated at 5%+
(children and adults)
British Journal of Psychiatry May 07
Diagnosis problematical
Theories as to cause include
neurological imbalance, genetic
„throw back‟, nutritional,
social/environmental –
Scotland. Source: NHS Scotland
and the label itself.
No consensus as to treatment yet
medication continues to increase,
especially in North America and
Europe.
Medical consumption of methylphenidate. Source: WHO
21. Boredom
has a close connection to this modern malaise
Both streams seek Or, we retire „within‟ to
enlivenment. When relish the feeling from a
something fascinates us remembrance or let flow a
– our feelings satisfied feeling into imagination or ,
by an association – „spellbound‟, “nurse a
“Time flies”. wrath” – whichever way,
“Time flies”.
We‟re not bored.
22. But when a desire flows
towards us yet our memory – we get bored.
is left un-enlivened: e.g. “Time drags.”
we‟ve learnt all that
can be learnt from a job,
relationship, etc –
Judging what we yearn for is an activity that flows with our
enduring “I” – expressed as the reasoning and „figuring out‟
of our everyday self when reflected in our Formative stream.
If our capability for intuitive judging
is left to wither on the vine,
we‟ll not know what we want –
become very bored at best and fearful at worst...
23. The general malady of fear A child‟s unconscious deep
(and awareness of yearning flows full even
AD(H)D) has increased while their feeling life is
with the emergence of the only gradually maturing
Consciousness /Spiritual and their enduring “I” still
Soul. incarnating.
1413-3573AD >>
Do we bombard their
Consciousness/ senses with -
Spiritual Soul of “something
the present
epoch to do”?
Life‟s karmic
opportunities flow towards
Or seek ways to prepare
us and are yearning to be
for and nurture their
known – yet fear of the
capability for
future and weakened
remembrance?
remembrance can leave
them unknown.
24. enduring
“I”
That we are able to recognise the consequences of the past is a
result of our growing self awareness – an echo
of my enduring “I” beyond my everyday self
judging intuition
soul
soul
memory
past Formative body stream
Inspirational body stream
future
... a reverence for deep
the light that yearning
illumines my “I” ... develop a calm
tranquillity and
senses humility to recognise
And pour what is the signs...learn to trust
gained into the world. the serendipities
physical arising in our future
body stream
25. We don‟t get bored trying to
understand something but
often, “My head aches!”
Our enduring “I” will not be coerced.
Patience and tranquillity – the keys.
My cat has a type of habitual, dream
Does my cat like memory and a remarkable
get bored? awareness of its „soul body stream‟ –
but not intuitive remembrance, no “I”
stream.
My cat‟s head doesn‟t ache. It is
either awake in the present moment,
where the stream of the past meets
the stream from the future, or asleep.
Time never drags. It just is – in the
present moment :
a “present-ever”,
within which also
dwells my
enduring “I”...
