Setting the Stage
5. "Let's set the stage for our Mind's Eye now. Because
our physical universe is so very large both in time and
space, it likely has more worlds which are inhabited
than we can count. Even if it did not, imagining that it
does gives useful routing instructions for the inner
workings of subtler reaches of our brain. This routing or
use-code provides our subtler faculties a way to bring
their subtler information to our consciousness."
Setting more of that stage,
6. "European world civilization since the Dark Ages is
only about a thousand years old. The history of our
modern Euro-American portion of it is only a little less
than that and, through classical Mediterranean
civilization before it, draws on a continuity of recorded
experience running back only about ten thousand or so
years. Yet nearly everything discovered or invented in
the scientific, technological phase of our civilization has
come within the last two hundred of those years.
"Billions of other civilizations throughout our universe,
some of them resembling our own people and our own
civilization and some of them quite different from us,
are bound to have been, or still can be, in a scientific
and technological stage. Some of them may have been
in a highly productive, rapidly evolving, scientific and
technological stage for thousands or millions of years
and still accelerating, while others may be just coming
into that stage."
7. "In this experience, let's imagine visiting one such
civilization. While we're there, we'll stumble across or
find devices there in common use which would be new
inventions back here on Earth. As our inner minds' way
to show us new inventions, let us experience them as
devices we stumble across in our inner vision, as
devices in common use throughout the highly advanced
civilization we will visit in this experience. There we'll
take a good, detailed look at the device, in enough detail
that when we come back here we can 'copy' and
rebuild it back here on Earth as an invention."
8. "Because there are so many civilizations out there to
choose from, we have many potential inventions out
there, in fact, and many forms of any given invention to
choose from. So: whatever invention we get in this
experience, might as well be in its simplest, most
understandable form, and in a form that is harmless
and which brings the most benefit to any or all who are
affected by it or involved with it. And: we might as well
get whatever that invention is, in a form which can be
readily built back here from off-the-shelf components
and materials and techniques, the simpler the better.
Inventions we can readily construct from the
resources we have immediately available. How do we
get from here to the experience of that highly advanced,
real or imaginary, civilization which has this most
suitable invention lying around for us to come
across?"

The Experience
9. "For this experience, let us use an imaginary elevator
because we are used to the experience of movement
in elevators, and because elevators are partly
automatic and take us where we want to go without our
having to pay too much attention to the driving.
Anything, though, will do to provide for us the
experience of getting from here to therecar, plane,
bus, train, a Star Trek transporter with its
Federation technology on loan to us, or even just a mirrorwhatever you like.
"For convenience, this time I'll suggest the elevator
which we'll use to ride us to the highly advanced
civilization. To begin with, with your eyes closed, please
imagine pushing the call button on an elevator.
Because the elevator is coming from so very far away
and we have a long wait before it arrives, we have time
for this next step.The next step being to imagine that
as you're pushing the call button you are looking at the
back of your own hand in that act, seeing the skin color
and texture, the fine hairs, the nails and knuckles, the
hints of the underlying structures of muscle, tendon and
bone.Notice also the feel of your hand pushing that
call button....."
10. "Imagine now stepping back from that elevator door
and looking at that elevator door, real or imaginary.
Perhaps that door is familiar or it's one you've never
seen before. In the two minutes or so before I announce
arrival of the elevator, please use richness of detail in
your description to make your elevator door as utterly
real as possible to your partner, while your partnerwhenever you have to pause for breathmakes his
elevator door utterly real to you. Try to make anyone
listening see and experience your door through the rich
detail of your description, and while your partner is
trying to make you see his or her door. It's pretty much
O.K. if you end up seeing the same elevator door, but
it's probably best to stay with your own. So pretty much
stay with your own elevator door experience but in any
case, don't allow any air-time to lapse between you. In
the two minutes or so before I announce arrival of the
elevator, please force the utter reality of your elevator
door into your listener's experience by describing your
door in as rich a detail and in word-pictures as you can,
beginning now....."
Allow 2 to 3 minutes or so. Check that everyone is actually
participating, but under-manage rather than over-manage, to make
sure you don't intrude on anyone's process. You may be surprised
to discover that if you, yourself, run a similar picture in your own
mind's eye describing it silently or very softly to yourself, your group
will work even better. Running this experience in your own mind's
eye also will automatically improve the quality of your instructions to
your group thereafter.....
After several minutes, or when there's let-up in the ongoing
buzz-murmur, lightly sound your chime or water-glass once, softly
saying words to this effect,
"Half-minute's notice, keep on going but
a half minute from now be ready to hear the next instruction."
Even said quietly, your words ride the chime sound as if it were a carrier
wave. After another half-minute or so or with the next let-up in
buzz-murmur, lightly sound your chime three times, saying,
11. "Thank you. Eyes still closed, staying with this
experience, moving even deeper into this experience: some of you may already have experienced the elevator arriving. If not, let it arrive now, and let's all of us step into our respective elevators now. To save time I'll
describe a little about this elevator. Whatever the door
looked like from outside, notice that from inside it looks
like there is some sort of window set in it and you can
see out. When we get where we are going, you will see
a color flash beyond the door. I will ask you to identify
that color. Then the door will slide open and I will ask
you to step out there and describe to one another what
you see on all sides, beginning with what's directly in
front of you....."
12. "The control panel inside this elevator has a number
of buttons on itincluding the up-when button for
moving into a future civilization, one of many possible
future civilizations.including the space button for
moving across our galaxy or across many galaxies,
even as far as the Great Wall of Galaxies if need be.
Going either by future or across space to reach whichever particular high civilization happens to have for us the invention we're after and has that invention for
us in the form which is best and most useful to us."
"See also there on the control panel, beside the elevator
door, the down-when button to move us to possible,
real or imaginary, civilizations deep in the past. Note
there is even a side-when button to move across
parallel tracks of time to where our own lives, our own
civilization or world, took a different turning than in our
own past, and developed the thing we now seek
here....."
13. "Please note, in the lower corner of the control
panel, a button and packet labelled disengage.
Disengage that packet and imagine sticking it in your
pocket. Any time you want to get back in a hurry, or
leave a visited civilization without taking time for the
elevator, or are just too lazy to bother with the elevator:
just slap your pocket and find yourself back here on our
Earth, in present time and space..."
14. "This time, let your finger rest on the space button,
to go across galaxies to where a high civilization awaits
your visit. If you prefer up-when, meaning the future,
recognize that your observing the future necessarily
changes the future and generally for the betterand
that the one future being viewed is only one of many
possible futures ahead of us. For convenience, though,
perhaps the next time you use this elevator, use its
future button and for now, this time, let's go across
the galaxy with the space button...."
15. "Let your finger lightly rest on the space button
without pushing it yet. That's to make possible the
convenience and mutual reinforcement of us all going
up at once when the time comes. With your finger
lightly in contact with that button let's program your
elevator to take you where you want to go. With your
finger resting lightly on that button, say silently to your
elevator but say it loudly in your mind, some form of this
instruction:"
"'Take me to a highly advanced civilization where I will
observe a useful and beneficial device in common use
there which I can copy, understand, bring back and use
back here on present-day Earth.....' Say things to your
elevator like, 'Take me to a highly advanced civilization
where I can observe and copy a suitable device there
as an invention here.' Say silently to your elevator,
programming it by having your finger on the button
though not pushing it yet, think loudly to your elevator
some form of this instruction, 'Take me to the point of
experience in that highly advanced civilization where I'll
best be able to view and understand this device,
technical solution or innovation in its most useful and
beneficial form. And in the form my resources back
here will best let me re-create it back here. Take me to
a point of experience where I will be best able to
understand and copy off the device in detail to bring
back....'"
"Give some form of that instruction to your elevator,
silently with your finger in light contact with the
button...."
A 10 to15 second pause, then continue:
16. "Good. Soon but not quite yet, we will press that
button and let ourselves experience the movement of
this elevator. Because this experience of an elevator we
are riding is more than a mere elevator, is instead a
Space/Time Transporter, the movement we experience
may be much more complex than just the movement of
going up or down. Then we'll suddenly feel the elevator
drawing to a stop, a color will flash through from beyond
the door. I'll ask you to tell your partner what that color
is, then the door will open and you'll step forth into
whatever scene from your highly advanced civilization
will best provide you your invention for this session.
Because from inside, this elevator door is transparent,
while the elevator is still moving you may even get to
see some things which belong with this experience
before you get there. If so, you can share these with
your partner after you've arrived in the high civilization,
as part of your ongoing description."
17. "For now, let's prepare to push that button when I
count down from 3 to 1, on the count of 1 we will push
that button, are we ready?...I'm counting down now,
3.....2......ONE! Push it now!"
Lightly snap fingers or tap table or wall for emphasis.
" Elevator's moving....feeling motion....let yourself feel whatever motion or
motions, some of the motion might be hard to describe
when we're sharing later but it's interesting to note how
some of these motions of our Space/Time Transporter
feel up, down, sideways, angles, spirals, maybe
combinations of motion. We're arriving, feel the elevator
stopping, the color through the door! What is that color?
Name to your partner whatever impression of color you
have. Please quickly tell your partner your color
impression now!....."
Allow the 5-10 seconds needed for each to tell the other their
respective color impressions. Then continue:
18. "Now let the door slide open and step
forth into this scene of some remarkably
advanced world. Describe this scene in
richly sensory detail, make it utterly real to
your partner in sensory-evocative
word-pictures. Beginning with what's
directly in front of you there, then to either
side, then with whatever more comes into
view or contact as you move through the
areas of this scene...beginning with what's
directly in front of you here, make this new
space utterly real to your partner as you
resume describing richly now....."
The same instructions to you, reading this, as those
following Step 10 above. If your participants are restless at this
point or otherwise not responding well, give them a minute or so,
then the half-minute's notice, then cut short the experience by going
back in the elevator saying,
"Let's get back in the elevator now, after this first look-around, so we can
compare notes before going back to this civilization to see what we
can find in it."
If, on the other hand, you've plenty of time and if your
participants are responding well, this is one of the steps whose
interval you might allow to extend to eight minutes or longer. If your
participants are responding well enough for you thus to carry on
further, at the end of this interval of 8 to 10 minutes, give the
half-minute's notice as in the instructions during the
interval following Step 10 above, then at the next let-up in the
buzz-murmur give the three bings and say:
19. "Thank you. Keeping eyes closed, perhaps moving
even deeper into this experience as you move around
the spaces of this highly advanced civilization in
whatever form you've encountered it....Whatever
aspect, object or feature you've found there that's
unusual or new to you, pick one to investigate more
closelyor find something now to investigate if you
hadn't noticed anything special before."
"Getting enough detail is the main thing now, especially
this first time or so we go invention-hunting. Getting
enough detail makes this the crucial step of this
experience. To have enough patience to get all that
crucial detail, you might want to breathe smoothly and
slowly again for awhile in a feel-good way. Going after
all the detail you might need:
"Because you have complete freedom of your own
mind, whatever it is that you find: You can open it up, or
go inside of it. You can expand it to bring more of it into
view or make it smaller to gain perspective. You can
even move it through time of day or year to see how it
performs or how it was made or whatever else you can
observe about it, inside and out, to discover how it
works. Discover the principles of how it works, in
enough detail to become able, back here, to build a
working copy of it yourself.
"You might start by going up
to it and touching it, feeling it, maybe even smell and
taste it, and describe to your partner, as if your partner
were 'Mission Control,' everything you can of how it
looks, how it performs, how it feels to touch, taste and
smell. Then get inside of it one way or another, and go
on from there until you and your partner know every
working detail of your respective inventions and know
how to build a working copy of the device. Whatever
this device or object is, now go up to it and discover
everything about it, as you resume describing now....."
Same instructions to you as in the interval following Step 10 above. This interval, too, if your participants are doing especially
well, you can expand to 8 to 10 minutes or longer if you have time,
searching for all the working detail which will enable your
participants to build actual working inventions from these
observations. Run the one-bing half-minute's notice. Next lull in the
buzz-murmur, the full three-bing signal, saying:
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