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Welcome to Image-Streaming
Welcome to Image-Streaming: Most of this paper serves both as a “talking paper” during our training together, and as a directory showing you where to obtain further information in depth, in various of the topics relating to Image-Streaming. Further along, this paper will also serve additional purposes.
Image-Streaming is probably the most sensitive known avenue for consciously
contacting information and understandings held beyond the focus of
consciousness. Moreover, building links between the tiny (2% by volume)
portion of brain through which we are verbally conscious, with the greater
(60-90% by volume!) regions of brain which associates by sensory mental
imagery and impression instead of by verbal-conscious concept linking
both these important regions of the brain together through
Image-Streaming
brings with it an apparent wide range of striking benefits. To do so, not
least of all, enables one’s conscious mind to more directly engage the main
intelligence of most of his or her brain.
We are pleased to report the existence of an ongoing natural phenomenon, ever-present in every living human being, but seldom noticed and discussed. Constantly, at back of everyone’s mind but usually little noticed, is an ongoing stream of visual and other sensory mental images and impressions, which reflexively relates to and serves as an ongoing understanding and commentary on whatever is going on at the time. Behind this phenomenon:
Forty times as much of the brain is engaged in associating experiences by
sensory image, as is the conscious-focused 2% of the brain which associates
by word and word-concept.
The verbal-conscious focus part of the brain is trained down to the speed of
the language we speak. The rest of the brain works many times more rapidly
and so has time to sort among and relate among one’s lifetime of accumulated
experiences. This greater part of the brain takes far more into account in
arriving comprehensively at its answers and insights, than can our plodding
one-thing-at-a-time verbal-conscious brain which, however, is invaluable for
bringing such awarenesses and perceptions as come its way into the focus
provided by language.
People have generally referred to this greater portion of brain and mental
function as “the unconscious mind,” which term is a bit misleading. This
greater portion of our brain and mind is not “unconscious.” WE may be
unconscious but it definitely is not. Referring to it as the
Beyond-Conscious would be far more accurate than is the common usage
referring to it as “the unconscious.”
This greater portion of our brain and mind consists of many functions,
skills and features many of which contradict most popular descriptions of
“the unconscious.”
This greater part of the brain, working very comprehensively and very
rapidly, is where nearly all our understandings, insights and inspirations
form, well before they ever become conscious for us.
Far MORE understandings, insights and inspirations are formed there than
ever become conscious. These are reflexively, constantly, being expressed
in streams of sensory images “in the back of the mind.” Tuning in to those
images, and developing them in your conscious focus through describing them
aloud in sensory detail TO a live listener or to a potential listener in the
form of an audio recorder, is Image-Streaming, the process we are here
together today to explore.
Without help, perhaps one third of all people can tune into this simply by
looking for it. Virtually all the rest of us can also tune into this with a
simple step or so of procedure as described freely on the web beginning at
http://www.winwenger.com/imstream.htm One not only has there free,
complete instructions for engaging this major human resource. If one clicks
through to each linked article encountered there, he will enjoy an entire
curriculum on this extraordinary topic, far beyond what we here can achieve
together in several hours of training. We give you this information so that
if you choose to, you can take this resource and develop your abilities far
beyond even the applications we get to address together today. (The most
authoritative and comprehensive published treatment of
Image-Streaming is
found, however, in the book of that title by Charles Roman, described at
http://www.winwenger.com/corebook.htm#IS )
To Image-Stream:
* Notice the images now playing in the back of your mind, and
* WHILE you are examining them, * Describe them aloud in sensory detail to a live listener, or to the potential listener represented by an audio recorder. * Aim to let yourself be surprised by the content which comes up. That is important to all forms of effective answer-finding and problem-solving, a key way to get past our conscious expectations of what the answer “ought to be” to where the best answers really are.
More detailed instructions follow below. Here it is important to draw the
distinction between imagery content which is not directly controlled by your
conscious mind, so that your faculties beyond where you are consciously
focused can instruct you, and the consciously directed imagery which most
people think of when one refers to mental imagery. Directed mental imagery
has its uses and its place, but so does the “spontaneous, undirected”
imagery which seems to form itself of its own accord, and it is that which
we are exploring here.
Practical Convenience to Image-Streaming:
To connect consciously with this activity of the majority of the brain,
brings more resources more immediately available for conscious use. Since
these functions in the brain, by reflex, associate the most related, most
relevant experiences with what’s currently going on, you may use that
“what’s currently going on” to direct questions or focus on problems, and be
presented images in his Image-Stream which answer - often ingeniously - those
problems or questions. Some of these answers are presented in images which
are literal representations, while most appear to be presented as metaphors,
bridging sensory associations to verbal conscious concept.
Another use for this reflexive relating to “what’s currently going on,” is
for creative work or for writing. Never ever experience a “block,” or have
to wait for inspiration. Simply ask your own Image-Stream faculties “what
comes next?” Describe in detail for a paragraph or so whatever imagery
results, regardless of what it is, and you find that your next or further
inspiration clicks right into focus. - Pretty convenient.
This 100%-effective application of Image-Streaming, to find instant
inspiration and totally eliminate “writer’s block,” is one feature in the
major course of creativity techniques for writers defined in the book by Win
Wenger and Mark Bossert, End Writer’s Block Forever!, described at
http://www.winwenger.com/corebook.htm#block )
Not only for creative writing or, indeed, for any creative project involving
any of the arts, Image-Streaming may be readily used for -
* Ingeniously discovering solutions and answers to problems of all kinds.
* Discovering useful and productive/profitable innovations. * Making discoveries - in any or all of the sciences, Image-Streaming provides a remarkably fast and easy short-cut to the best hypothesis to test, and can save days or years or decades in finding that hypothesis. * Your own internal theater, which the late psychotherapist Adelaide Bry referred to in her book Directing The Movies of Your Mind, provides you invaluable insights about yourself, about the people around you, and about the situations you are in. It also provides you entertainment, and often the experience of the most profoundly beautiful. * By building better connections between your conscious and the main regions of your brain, practice of Image-Streaming builds you a better intuitive feel for things generally, for even when you are not doing formal process. * Under some circumstances, Image-Streaming can be used to generate useful predictions - see the appendix to this paper, below. * Image-Streaming is now extensively used as a sensitive method for activating material which has been PhotoRead, and for “establishing special state” as a prelude to PhotoReading.
Not Only Genius Code, not only PhotoReading....
Not only these and Project Renaissance find it useful and beneficial to use
this process of Image-Streaming. Various other programs - and authors - have
taken up its use with our blessing - see a partial list at
http://www.winwenger.com/citings.htm
Throughout history and before, and throughout every human culture, people
have found their dreams laden with apparent meaning. With the everyday
chatter of the verbal conscious brain momentarily muted by sleep, some of
the important insights arrived-at by interior image-based associative
process can tiptoe into where we have some chance of consciously noticing
them when we come awake. However, the main processing language of the
greater part of our brain is that of sensory images, while the main
processing language of our conscious mind is verbal. There ARE ways to
effectively and accurately translate such dream content - you will learn a
way or so here - but these ways are not yet widely practiced and so, in
Western culture at least, we mostly miss the metaphor which is our inner
mind’s effort to bridge between these two very different brain languages.
Many scientists, in a field which prides itself on systematic independent
concrete observation as the way to find truth, confuse the necessary
standard for TESTING truth with the process for FINDING it, and this has
greatly hampered the progress of science and technology. Scientific method
pulls the weeds from the gardens of truth, but good hypotheses TO test may
be arrived at by any number of effective means.
* Kekule discovered the benzene ring, basis of all organic chemistry, while
dozing and dreaming in front of the fire in his hearth. In his dream he saw
snakes in the fire swallowing their own tails, the way we as children saw
faces or animals in the clouds (and some of us still do). That
configuration, of snakes swallowing their own tails, was his aha.
* Elias Howe discovered his long-sought-for solution to how to invent an
effective sewing machine, by noticing an oddity in one of his exhausted
nightmares. Cannibals were attacking in his dream, carrying spears - and
oddly there were holes in the heads of their spears. - Aha!
* Albert Einstein discovered relativity by practicing his “deep thought
experiments,” his discovery technique which he later sought to teach to
others at Princeton, his methods being ancestral to the run of our current
“Einsteinian Discovery” techniques of visual and sensory thinking including
Image-Streaming.
* Nicola Tesla operated almost entirely from such “spontaneous” or
receptive visual thinking, in creating his array of inventions in
electronics which was the basis of most of the economic development which
happened in the 20th Century.
* Synectics, from the very beginnings of the worldwide creativity movement,
built around elements of Einsteinian Discovery technique.
* At M.I.T. and elsewhere, leading researchers working on matters of
computers and information technology, report experiencing “computer dreams”
which answer their questions and show them solutions to the problems on
which they were working.
This receptive visual thinking process, in a far better developed and more
easily used form, you can now readily use to solve or to gain deep
understanding on the matters with which YOU are concerned, whether
professional or personal.
Yours Without Quibble or Hindrance:
Not only leading minds, leading scientists, leading discoverers.....
* Everyone, apparently without exception, has this remarkable phenomenon
ongoing, and very nearly everyone can learn to engage it to advantage.
* Your own imagery “knows” much more than “you” do. It is indeed part of
you, but it reflexively understands much more than you consciously do.
* Not one person in ten thousand is, as yet, consciously aware that the
phenomenon exists, much less that it exists within themselves, much less
that it has these and other practical benefits.
* This resource consistently operates at an apparently higher level of
“intelligence,” and from a much broader base of relevant information, than
we consciously function with.
Caveats:
This imagery function in the brain also tries to please us. We tend to see
what we expect to see, and if the conscious information and expectations we
have on a problem situation held key to the problem, it would have solved
long since. Somehow we need to get beyond what we expect the answer to be,
and look with fresh perceptions wherein the best answer is to be found.
Another cause of possible inaccuracies: no material or human information
process or content is infallible. In this material universe is always that
tendency toward entropy or error. Information directly from your
Beyond-Conscious may tend to greater accuracy, acumen, etc., but to the
extent that the “matter in the message” is important, it should be tested
like information from any other source. We need verification, we need
scientific method to pull the weeds from the gardens of truth.
Besides such testing, we need practice in objectively reporting this
subjective ongoing phenomenon of imagery. We need to work as much as
possible in the language - the sensory image language - of the part of the
brain we are consulting, describing what we find in sensory adjectives
rather than in abstractions and explanations and names of places and
things. We need to respond and describe faster than we can stop to think
about what we were going to say, too fast for our loudly-focused
verbal-conscious brain to step in and impose its bias on the stream of
images reaching us from our broader consciousness. Even with these things,
to the extent that an issue is important, it is wise to test and verify the
answer you get on it, whenever feasible.
* Not only the vast majority of your brain, but most or even possibly all
of your experience and data for it to work from, is accessed through your
ongoing streams of sensory mental imagery.
We’ve developed these instructions and published them in public domain,
because the value - of access to your own higher mental and intellectual
faculties - is far too great for anyone to ration it out by price, or to
hold back in any way on their availability. They are yours to work with, at
this very moment, without hindrance or restriction, here or in detailed
steps of instruction beginning at
http://www.winwenger.com/imstream.htm
A Basic, Step-By-Step Way to Image-Stream:
1) The Question - ask yourself a question.
2) Start the Image-Stream: Have a live listener or audio recorder with you.
Sit back, relax, close your eyes, and describe aloud whatever images suggest
themselves. Notice and go with your first, most immediate impressions and
describe them aloud, rapid-flow, in sensory detail. More free images will
then emerge. Notice when the scene changes or other images emerge, and
describe these as well.
- - It’s important to describe aloud. This brings the mind’s images into conscious focus. Pick up on the UN-expected, describe no matter how seemingly unrelated to your question the images may at first appear to be... - - Let yourself be surprised by what your images reveal to you. The more surprising these are, the more likely it is that you’re getting fresh input from your subtler, more comprehensive and more accurate faculties.
(3) Feature-Questioning: After several minutes general describing, pick out
some one feature - a wall, a tree or bush or flower, whatever’s there in
your imagery. Let one feature, more than the others, catch your attention,
whichever one that is. Imagine laying a hand on that feature and studying
its feel (and describe that feel), to strengthen your contact with the
experience. Ask that rock or bush or wall, “Why are you here as part of
this my answer?” Whatever you notice changing in your imagery when you ask
that question, describe in detail.
(4) Inductive Inference: After you’ve described more than a dozen or twenty
sensory details from your current set of images, thank your image-streaming
faculties for showing you this answer. Ask their help in understanding the
messages in your images. Ask for their help in this way: “Show me somehow
the very same answer to this very same question, but with very different
images.” Thus you Image-Stream again, with entirely different images which
nonetheless somehow are still giving you the same answer to the same
question. After 2-3 minutes of this new imagery, repeat this step to get a
third set of images, each different yet each showing you somehow the same
answer but in a different way...
(5) ...What’s the Same? Examine whatever’s the same among the several sets
of images when all else is different. These themes or elements-in-common
are your core answer or message
- - - Essentially the same method accurately interprets dreams, at least some of which are attempts by your inner mind to convey key messages or awarenesses to your conscious mind. Detailing everything you can remember of the dream, takes the place of your first set of the three sets of Image-Stream. For the second and third, thank your faculties for that message and ask for their help in fully understanding that message, via the (new) Image-Stream which somehow conveys the same message but with very different images. Then examine what’s the same when everything else is different.
(6) Relate: Go back to your original question that you posed to your
Image-Stream, and determine in what way or ways these core elements are the
answer to your question, or your key message.
(7) Debrief - summarize the whole experience either to another person
(directly or by telephone) or to notebook or to computer, which lets you
order and retrieve your information. This change of medium, and change of
feedbacks, should add further to your understanding.
Follow-Up Questions:
In addition to other, conventional ways to test the insights you glean from
your Image-Stream, here are a few follow-up questions you can conveniently
ask your Image-Stream and get useful information back:
(1) “How can I make sure that I’m on the right track with this
understanding?” (You should get back either a way to test and verify, or a
reminder of real-time data or experiences which demonstrate that this is the
right answer to be working with.)
(2) “What more do I need to know in this context?”
(3) “What’s a good, practical, concrete first step to acting upon this
understanding?” Or: “What is Step One” to implementing this answer?” (Is
there anything then that you need to do before that step? - if so, that
wasn’t ‘Step One’ so what IS ‘Step One?’)
Back-Up Techniques To Ensure You Get Useful Images:
Twenty-four methods are freely published at
http://www.winwenger.com/isbackup.htm Out of many thousands of people
who have been taught or who have taught themselves
Image-Streaming, virtually
no one has “run the gauntlet” of those twenty-four “back-up” methods without
getting images to work with.
More than visual sensory images are important here, not only in the sense
that involving what your other senses are reporting to you in these image
experiences strengthens your contact with the greater part of your brain
that you are consulting. The same principles hold for brain-connecting and
development for each of your various senses, although the crucial
speaking-aloud feature of Image-Streaming can compete with your auditory
imagery. Bottom line on this takes us straight to Behavior’s main law, the
most basic natural law of psychology, the Law of Effect.
Encyclopedias have been published on various aspects of the Law of Effect
but at its most basic, this statement sums it up: “You get more of what you
reinforce.”
Each time you make some sort of concrete response to having an idea, or to
your own first-hand perception or awareness on something, you are
reinforcing -
- Not only that particular idea, perception or awareness, but -
- The behavior, the trait, of creatively having ideas or of BEING perceptive
or aware. That is a far more important carryover, and a cumulative one,
than just the particular idea, perception or awareness. Moreover, since
most ideas and perceptions start out subtle before we notice them, focus in
on them and do things or don’t do things with them: when you notice and make
some sort of concrete response to your own first-hand idea or perception or
awareness beginning while it is still pretty subtle, you reinforce -
- Your ability to handle subtle matters.
In any case, for most people the Image-Stream is at first a pretty subtle
order of phenomena to deal with. Thus you get the full range of these
benefits when Image-Streaming, and these pertain to every one of your senses
so engaged, not only the visual. However, there is more information
conveyed by vision, and to more regions of the brain, than with any other
sense so that whenever possible, visual images should probably be among the
mix of sensory images through which we seek to consult with the greater
regions of our brain. The sense of touch is also very helpful in this
contact and consultation. Most or all of the senses are initially subtle in
these inner consultative experiences before we notice and can get our
attention onto them.
(For further understanding of how the Law of Effect affects not only our
behaviors and traits but our abilities, please see the article which begins
at
http://www.winwenger.com/feed1.htm )
Several Specific Key Uses of the Image-Stream:
Image-Streaming appears to make nearly everything work better. It is such a
basic tool, to ask what it is good for is somewhat like asking what a
screwdriver is good for. It’s practice makes one far more effective at
other visual thinking processes such as Over-the-Wall problem-solving (http://www.winwenger.com/overwall.htm);
such en scenario invention and discovery-making processes as Beachhead (http://www.winwenger.com/beachhd.htm)
and Toolbuilder (http://www.winwenger.com/toolbld.htm),
and such enhanced or accelerated learning techniques as “Borrowed Genius” (http://www.winwenger.com/borrow1.htm
and a child’s version at
http://www.winwenger.com/archives/part20.htm).
However, two specific direct applications of
Image-Streaming per se, bring
unique benefits:
1) Predictive Imagery, while not quite up to the speeds sometimes attained
with PhotoReading, does enable one to absorb and understand much more
information more quickly, from a given reading, lecture or AV presentation.
(We’ve also taken to calling this “the Mind Primer.”) Find complete
instructions for Predictive Imagery at
http://www.winwenger.com/predict.htm
2) Rebuild the very foundations of your understanding! Use your Image-Stream
to take you back in imagination to key points in your life where, had you
gotten direct experience in a given context instead of being merely taught
about it, you would have developed key abilities and competencies which you
until now have seemed to be missing. By building in that imagined
experience, you build in some of the intellectual and motor and artistic and
human concepts THROUGH which you can understand much else today. Complete
instructions step-by-step for cognitive structural rebuilding, for this
special use of Image-Streaming are found at
http://www.winwenger.com/part44.htm
One of the most major benefits of Image-Streaming appears to be that of
linking across the brain...
Pole-Bridging in the Brain:
Neurophysiological studies, by John Ertl and others, indicate that how soon
and how quickly other regions of the brain become involved with a stimulus
once it enters some part of the brain in the first place, is a large part of
“intelligence.” Indeed, the
[we-are-not-yet-done-there-are-these-things-yet-to-do-with-this] “message”
passed on to the rest of the brain from initially input sectors, is very
different in character from the [that’s-all, we’re-done] “message” passed
along where the different regions of the brain are not so immediate with
each other. The person whose brain sectors are in tight phase relationship
will characteristically see more aspects to each situation and more
relationships, and be more thoughtful and perceptive about them. Such phase
relationships can be readily trained up.
Once the necessary studies are run, not only is it increasingly clear that
intelligence can readily be increased, but the effects of stroke and/or
traumatic brain damage can be more readily ameliorated or overcome. The
very idea that intelligence can be improved is finally coming out of limbo,
as can be readily seen if one Google-searches for “Brain Plasticity” and
then samples among the many scientific studies which have recently emerged
on the brain’s well-demonstrated tendency to change its circuitry, its
structure, its shape, its size and its very mass in order to better handle
the levels and kinds of information which it has had to cope during the
previous year or so.
Pole-Bridging in the brain is discussed by Win Wenger and Richard Poe in
their book, The Einstein Factor (http://www.winwenger.com/einfact.htm);
also freely on the web at
http://www.winwenger.com/part73.htm
Teaching Image-Streaming to Others:
Creativity was once believed to be something that one either had or he
didn’t - something that you were pretty well born with or with its lack, you
were pretty well stuck accordingly and there was nothing could be done about
it. The past half century of world-wide creativity revolution has blown
that limiting theory out of the water. With the breakthroughs in “brain
plasticity,” those similar beliefs regarding “intelligence” are now also
being blown out of the water. This removes one of the last excuses for
treating people as pre-judged categories rather than as themselves, their
own unique, vastly potentialed, human selves. Adding significance to this:
Out of tens of thousands trained or self-trained in
Image-Streaming, which
appears to be a tool for almost limitless self-improvement, only three
individuals have been found who were unable to “get pictures” a la
Image-Stream. -And those three, with a bit more work, could likely also “get
pictures” and pursue Image-Streaming for whatever benefits that practice
brings.
You are cordially invited to not only practice it and take it to the limits
of whatever benefits you care to make yours, but to teach effective use of
the practice to other people whom you care about.
Teaching Image-Streaming to a Child: see the specific step-by-step
instructions for one method how, at
http://www.winwenger.com/archives/part18.htm
Teaching Image-Streaming to an Adult Individual: you can use pretty much the
same method as the one just above for teaching to a child. Another,
possibly stronger way is the “Helper Technique,” spelled out among what now
are the twenty-four backup techniques as detailed in
http://www.winwenger.com/isgroup2.htm
Whole Groups At A Time: The easiest method by far, in which groups sized to
almost any number can be directly and readily trained to Image-Stream. An
easy succession of modelings of the process ensures that very few people
will find this difficult by the time it is their own turn to Image-Stream.
See this preferred method for training groups, detailed step by easy step
at
http://www.winwenger.com/isgroup1.htm
You are welcome to teach Image-Streaming or any other published procedure
from Project Renaissance, provided that you not only give the necessary
contact information to those whom you so teach, but represent that process
as a resource FROM Project Renaissance and not as the Project Renaissance
program or yourself as a Project Renaissance trainer. This not only
protects quality control but frees you to go in as a co-explorer. At such
time as you DO want to become a Project Renaissance trainer and present
officially on behalf of the program, turn to the provisions you will find
posted at
http://www.winwenger.com/trainer.htm
Provisions for teaching The Genius Code (http://www.winwenger.com/genicode.htm)
are not yet determined, but are likely to become the subject of discussions
between Project Renaissance, Learning Strategies, and other interested
parties.
Protocols for Quick Question/Answer Procedure and High Thinktank:
Up to this point, this paper has mainly served both as a “talking paper”
and as a directory showing you where to obtain further information in depth
in various of the topics relating to Image-Streaming. At this point in our
training together, if time permits we will be pursuing one or two procedures
which feature a number and sequence of specific steps. If we get to either
procedure, it will be best to have in your hand for ready reference a list
of the steps. The two procedures are a fast way to get answers via your
impressions and reflexive/responsive visual mental images, and a way which
works especially well with the most important questions and issues.
Full descriptions of these two procedures are on the first two pages of the
instructions beginning at
http://www.winwenger.com/htt.htm Objective of both methods is to get
past the baggage of conscious expectations as to what the answer “ought to
be,” allowing perception through of what the better answer to your question
or problem may well be.
Quick Question/Answer Method: By this point in your experience you will have
had some practice with the basic Image-Streaming process, and with several of
the steps for making sense of what your images and impressions mean. You
will also have found that you are able to obtain images - and make sense of
them - more and more quickly as your practice and skills progress. On the
making-sense, inductive-inference interpretative side you still need three
very different impressions or set of images; you need to record a dozen or
more describable aspects of each impression or set of images, and you need
in coming to the core of your answer or message to discover, among all those
aspects, impressions and images what is the same when everything else is
different.
You need at least a dozen or more describable aspects or features in each of
the three frames, in order to have enough opportunity to spot the regard in
which there is such a common feature or similarity.
Here are the specific steps of Quick Q/A: (Do this in groups of three or
four. Instructions how to do this alone and by yourself will become
apparent from the instructions given for that in High Thinktank method at
http://www.winwenger.com/htt2.htm )
1) One of you presents the question.
2) Immediately - don’t wait turns - instantly blurt or record your first impression or set of images as answer to that question. As immediately as possible since we want the answers to be in response to the question and not to one-another’s initial answers. 3) Describe in sensory detail a dozen or more features and aspects of that impression or set of images. If there is an even number of participants in your group, directly Image-Stream with each other in pairs. And/or, record detail on paper. 4) Compare notes and look for trends, similarities and aspects-in-common among your group’s responses. 5) Determine - or speculate - how those elements-in-common may actually be an answer to the question that was asked. (For proper thinktanking, if the question was on an important matter, then follow-up questions would be in order including verification - “How can I best make sure I’m on the right track with this interpretation and answer?” Here, we want to run enough questions to afford everyone if possible the experience of getting interesting and plausible answers and hypotheses worthy of testing.)
On the more important questions and issues, chances are you’ve already put
some thought into them, formed some conclusions, have expectations as to
what the answer ought to be, making it harder to get the fresh perceptions
needed without distortion. Case in point: we can ask you a question right
now and for minutes, in response, your head will be filled with nonsense
that doesn’t come even close to constituting a useful answer to that
question.
Are you ready for that question? OK, here it is....
“What is the best form of government?”
- - Listen to the stuff pouring through your head in response to that
question! Some of it conditioned responses and catechisms, some of it other
and equally useless stuff, none of it allowing any room for you to glean a
fresh and possibly useful perception....
But what if you had been asked that question in a way that only your
sensitive major part of the brain, able to pick up on subtle and subliminal
cues, knew that that was the question being asked, while your loudly focused
verbal word-conscious sliver of brain hadn’t a clue as to what was being
asked? Your loud word-based consciousness wouldn’t know in what direction
it wanted to bias the (sensory impression) data to make that data support
its beliefs. To get good fresh answers, all you’d have to do is look in and
see what answer was being told you in response to the question. AFTER you
had gleaned that answer, THEN it’d be useful to find out consciously what
question you had just gotten answer to! This gives you a high accuracy rate
on the important issues and questions, where other problem-solving methods
and even straight Image-Streaming tend to give you answers that fit your
expectations rather than the most effective answer.
So that is the secret to getting fresh - and accurate - answers on the most
important issues and questions and on problems where the stakes are the
highest. Present to one another, or find a way to present to yourself,
questions such that the main sector of your brain can pick up by subliminal
cue or other sensitivities what question is being asked and then respond,
through your image-generating faculties, a fresh answer which often is also
the best answer available. - All the while that your verbal-conscious mind
and brain hasn’t a clue as to what’s being asked, so it won’t know which way
to turn the data.
Important: with this High Thinktank process, for best results, you are not
trying to “psyche” what the question is. That would start guessing games
with your conscious mind and brain which would get in your way. Instead,
just look in and report and detail the images which come as the answer you
are seeking.
Working with others in a group or in small groups, each numbering three to
six people, here is one such method for High Thinktanking:
1. One of you presents the question silently, or in hidden form such as a folded-in piece of paper bearing the question within, a slip of paper that gets handed around but whose contents are not consciously seen. If the question is being asked silently by one of you, a nod or light snap of fingers is appropriate to indicate to partners the end of asking and to elicit the imagistic snap response.
2. As quickly as they can, each participant identifies the image in his/her
mind as answer, blurting and/or recording their very first impression..
While we are depending more on "hiding" the question than on speed with this
form of the High Thinktank method, it's still valuable to get that initial
response made so quickly that people don't have time to pick up on one
another's cues instead of those pertaining directly to the question being
asked..
——OR——
Each participant silently describes his or her own image-answer by writing
or sketching it for a few moments on a sheet of paper, enough on each image
to support the ongoing describing to be made of these in Step # 3.
3. In pairs within each group, develop that initial response into a brief
but very descriptive Image-Stream. Be sure to get a dozen or so sensory
details, even in just that 1 to 3 minutes each, so it's easier to see where
those details match up as common elements in Step # 4.
4. Compare your respective Image-Stream answers around the group, looking
for those common themes and elements.
After identifying those common themes or elements, 5. The original asker "reveals" the formerly silent or folded-in "hidden" question.
6. Explore the relationship(s) between those common theme elements as
answer, and the question asked.
7. As time permits, ask follow-up questions to clarify, verify your answers
and to map out ways to implement them as appropriate. Also ask yourself or
as a group, what more do I/we need to know in this context?
The more important the question, the more that people have already developed conscious, even reflexive, opinions which tend to prevent the fresh perceptions needed for an effective answer. This is one reason we remain "stuck" on the greatest human problems and issues, and why great national and world problems remain unsolved for decades or centuries. Even more does this appear to be the case with the most basic issues in science and technology.
How to thinktank when working alone without partners, at home or at
your desk:
Accumulate six or more questions in a box, each question on a separate index
card or scrap of (folded in on itself) paper. Because you have written
these, your subtler resources will know which is which, but if you randomize
these questions and pick one at random, your conscious left temporal isn't
likely to recognize which one is which, and will most likely get out of the
way of the visual data-flow coming from the rest of the brain in answer to
that question. Your objective is not to "psyche" which question that is, but
simply to look at what your mind is showing you as answer to it.
On the question you thus select, get three sets of imagery on each question. As in the group form, this gives you a basis for comparison. Be sure to get enough sensory detail recorded from each image that it will be easy for you to spot where one of the many aspects of the one image matches with one of the many aspects of another image. Each image coming from your richer resources is rich with many meanings and messages, but each image generated within a given context as answer, context defined by this "hidden question" you are holding, contains among these in some form your main or key answer(s) as well. This comparison, looking for common elements or for themes running among your several different images, makes this key meaning or meanings stand out above all the other messages for you and makes this key far easier for you to spot and to experience your "aha"! Only after you've mapped out these detailed comparisons among your several various images or impressions, should you then look at the "hidden question," read it consciously, and examine how those common elements or theme do actually answer that particular question.
Be sure to replace the answered question with another so you keep up a
minimum stock of six at any given time to draw from, keeping that old
left-temporal guesser from getting back into the act.
Your questions should be very different from one another, so the answer to one isn't confused with that to another. Doing two to four such questions per day for a few days should give you the feel for allowing the flow to come from wider sectors of your brain, so that then you can resume doing regular Image-Streaming undirected even by such questions (though you might also keep up this Q/A process as well, which can be very instructive!).
High Thinktank apparently does different things to develop the brain than
does Image-Streaming:
Besides the convenience of speed, there are apparently some things in the
brain which High Thinktanking does which not even Image-Streaming does. We
don't know quite what's going on with the brain with this, but see some
extraordinary abilities develop and remarkable things happen which we've not
seen even with regular sustained practice of Image-Streaming.
Until we know more about it, we strongly recommend some practice of both, to
encourage as wide a range as possible of neurons and brain circuitry
activated and abilities developed.
The further we’ve gotten into this, the more clearly we see that the main
challenge in all of this is - not that of getting the images; not that of
getting accurate answers although there is some challenge still to getting
our interpretations of these answers accurate; not that of heightening
numerous of our abilities generally with practice of these methods. Rather,
the main challenges are:
* Noticing more of one’s subtler awarenesses as they are happening, so you
can reinforce them and especially so you can reinforce their related traits.
* Noticing issues, questions and problems around you worth solving, and then
using a deliberate process to solve one after another after another.
* Devising or finding better questions to ask, from situation to situation,
in most of the aspects of your life and work.
Conclusions:
We are but an egg. This is but a work in progress. There is so much
unexplored, all around, that you yourself stand on the edges of major
original discoveries which YOU can make, instructing US all.
Look around you to determine whether or not the world is very much in need
of all the discoveries any or all of us can make.
The depth of the problem is the scope of our opportunity to make a positive
difference.
We live in a richly holographic universe, where everything affects
everything else to at least some degree, everything relating to everything
else. Despite all that is now known in our civilization, we are only a few
steps, or a few observations, away from centuries-worth of new science and
new civilization, no matter in what direction we turn to look.
In this training of Image-Streaming and of related tools, you now have some
easy ways to make some of those few original observations which can lead to
so much else. One practical application at a time can get you there.
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