20. "Thank you, eyes still closed, moving even deeper
into this experience.....Now please find some member
of this civilization, some person knowledgeable about
this device, maybe even this device's builder or
inventor. For even more understanding of what this
device is and how it works, let's become one with this
knowledgeable person or inventor in order to share his,
her or its perception of this same device that you've
been examining.
"To do this, please stand this
knowledgeable person at arm's length distance from
youwith his, her or its back to youand now please
waft yourself forward into the body of this
knowledgeable person. Bring your own eyes to where
this person would ordinarily look from, to be this person,
seeing. Bring your own ears to where this person
normally hears from, to be this person, hearing.
Perceive through and with this person's senses and
memories and abilities.
"Notice the often surprising
differences between the way this person sees the
device you've been examining and the way you had
seen it earlier. As this person, re-examine this device
and make utterly real to your partner these differences
in perception, coming to understand what those
differences mean....And how these add to your
understanding of how to build a working copy of this
device. Resume your describing now....."
Same instructions to you. This step is also expandable if
appropriate. The purpose, of course, is to press for enough detail to
become able to build a specific invention that actually works. Cycle
one-bing and then, at the next lull, three-bing, saying:
21. "Thank you, now return this person's head to his or her or its own shoulders now, so that you can ask
some questions and get answers. Perhaps the best
way to ask questions and get good answers in this
experience? Ask your questions very softly out loud,
so your partner can barely hear them, but in your own
head very loudly. Then listen as intently as you can until
you either hear this person's answer, or until this
person does something or points to something for you
to see, or the scene itself changes in answer to your
question. You then report to your partner whatever
happened, as it is somehow an answer to your
question.
"While your partner in turn is reporting to you
his questions and experience of answers, sometimes
you can add questions of your own without leaving your
own experience, for your partner's knowledgeable
person to answer. You can ask about anything, but our
main purpose is to get as effective an understanding as
possible of how the device works so you can easily
copy and build it back here on our Earth......."
"Think of the first question you can ask, whose answer
can add greatly to your understanding....Now loudly in
your mind, softly out loud, ask that question, look and
listen intently for the answer, report the results to your
partner, take turns with your partner doing the same,
and then maybe another question or so in the minute or
so remaining. Ask that question, report the results, go
on with this now....."
3 to 5 minutes but expandable, otherwise the same
instructions as following Step 10 above....
22. "Thank you. If you've not finished you can always
come back here for more, with your partner or with a
tape recorder to tape your additional observations.
Please return now to your elevator........ push the button
labeled return, and return..... feeling motions, returning with full recall of all that has transpired thus far....coming fully present to here and now, coming fully
alert and feeling marvelously refreshed! Now: please
take notes and make sketches of what you have
observed!"
Allow several minutes for note-taking and sketching, perhaps a
few more even for a refreshments-break. When ready, say:
23. "The most valuable part of this experience is often
the de-briefing. Debriefing brings new breakthroughs
because in relating what you've seen to a new listener,
new perceptions often occur to you or new meanings
for perceptions and relationships in such experiences
become clear. Take your notepad with you; let's see if
you can be seated with a new partner in ten seconds! Ten..... Nine..... Eight..... Seven..... Six..... Five.....
Four..... Three..... Two..... One..... One-half.....
One-quarter....."
...or whatever way to laughingly stretch out the interval if
needed until all are ready.
24. "This time with eyes open, in just two minutes tell
everything that you experienced, from the moment of
the color through the elevator door, on through that door
into the experience and what you found waiting for you
there in that experience. First one of you, telling that
experience in great detail but compressed into just two
minutes. Then I'll sound this chime as signal for you to
reverse roles so your partner can have airtime too.
O.K., with eyes open, this time one of you describing,
here goes....."
After 2 to 3 minutes or at first lull, gently sound the water glass or
chime a time or so, saying:
"Even at risk of incompletion, your partner needs
airtime too, very gently switch now so your partner may
also describe his experience."
Allow 2 to 3 minutes or until first lull...
25. "Gently return to here and now. You may want to
make a few additional notes or sketches, because
more has occurred to you and more may continue to
occur to you in the hours ahead. Now that you know the
way into this Discovery Space, with fresh partners at
home or with tape recorders to describe your
observations into, you can revisit this Space, as many
times as you like. You can revisit it to get fresh details
on an invention already seen or to go for entirely new
inventions, copying down all the details you need to be
able to build the thing back here on our present-day
Earth."
Encourage your participants to stay alongside their new partners
during the ensuing few minutes of open group discussion. If things
have gone well and the mood is right, orient the discussion toward
the "beachhead" aspect of Beachhead, that now each participant
has established a beachhead in that highly advanced civilization
where he can flash back to immediately whenever he wants, without
even need of the elevator because of the connections already built
up. Emphasize the diverse wealth of possible discoveries in an
entire advanced world, to say nothing of using the elevator to go visit
yet other such worlds. Liken the participant's situation to that of a
prehistoric caveman visiting your own town and having found a
wheelbarrow on this first venture, what else is there in your town for
him to find and re-"invent?" The entire accumulated wealth of not
only devices but arts and ideas and genius of all of civilization is
there to draw upon....
26. "For example: right now your civilization
'beachhead' is there, waiting to show you
something further that can be very valuable
to you. Right where you are now, without
elevator or any preliminaries, please close
eyes right now and be looking at some
further scene in your civilization! What's all
around you and what shows up when you
move around in that scene?Starting with
what's directly in front of you in that scene,
please begin describing this further scene
to your partner now!..."
Allow this to run 2 to 5 minutes, or longer if participants get strongly
involved, but don't go as long as with the initial visit. Bringing them
back after your cycle of bing and 3 bings, say:
27. "Waiting there for you is the incredible wealth of
entire worlds and civilizations, a wealth of ideas, a
wealth of arts, a wealth of techniques....Including even
other techniques to invent techniques with, and even
better ways to find answers; techniques of learning; a
wealth of genius, a wealth of devices, a wealth of
science and technology all freely there for you to copy
off and re-create back here. Visit as many times as you
like. Also visit other worlds as well, the universe is open
and free for us to explore, to create new wealth back
here on Earth."
Determine among you who has, on this first try, come back with
some workable invention or innovation. Determine which of the
inventions, innovations and ideas brought back has enough detail to
be made workable back here. Determine which may be used to
create and generate some practical wealth in the near future.
Determine if you want to work together to actualize that wealth and,
if so, begin action-planning together. Or you may leave it for each
participant to pursue his own devices.
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