((My comments in double parentheses - Homer)) THE ADVANTAGES OF DISADVANTAGES ACT - 60 26 April 1994 Copyright (C) 1994 Homer Wilson Smith Redistribution rights granted for non commercial purposes. The problem with telling a pc he is cause, is that it doesn't work. This doesn't mean that you should tell him he is an effect of SOMETHING ELSE. The nature of the being operating as cause is totallly different than the nature of the being operating as effect. The being as effect just can't conceive of the being as cause, the motivations are so different, in some sense totally opposed. As cause he is trying to CREATE problems and lossses, as effect he is desperately trying to SOLVE them. And he just isn't friends with the cause side of his GodSoul. You might for example get him to see that his cause is somehow out of control and that he is being the effect of his own cause. BY HIS OWN CHOICE. He may not presently agree, but he can at least understand this in theory. There are probably many such 'views', one of which will click on your pc. Probably the biggest problem a pc has, is HE HAS A PROBLEM AND DOESN'T KNOW IT ANY MORE. Thus he comes in complaining about all these 'things wrong with him' and he 'wants to get rid of them all'. The truth is he wants to remember what the hell the original problem was in the first place that made him mockup all these disadvantages (surviving by succumbing etc.), and then perhaps to get some help with that prior problem and regain some ability to CONTINUE to mockup disadvantages if necessary to help him better deal with the problem. ONE of the disadvantages he mocked up was not knowing what the problem was. But that froze him in that state of advantage or disadvantage from there on out, as he was no longer able to monitor the problem or how he should change with it as time and circumstances changed around him. The problem did change, but his state couldn't, so he got worse in life, rather than continue to track the problem and have fun with it playing the game. What first started out as a 'sly and cunning move' in a high stakes game ended up as a disaster on a platter. Worse his opponent may have tricked or provoked him into making the move in the first place. Your preclear never saw that coming. Life seems to consist in part of solving problems by mocking up disadvantages for oneself, or at least there are alley ways of play where in this skill is desirable. SOME disadvantages, not all, when mocked up, prevent one from unmocking up disadvantages already created, or mocking up new ones. THIS IS A FROZEN STATE of advantage and disadvantage, and this is what the pc wants handled. The short term solution became a long term problem. The biggest disadvantage/advantage there is, is the inability to create and destroy DISADVANTAGES and advantages at will. Flexibility with creating and destroying advantages and disadvantages is the essence of good play. One doesn't really ever HAVE to stick oneself with a condition one can not get rid of to win. You got to be good at withholding that the condition is not real though. It was a mistake to make the disadvantage permanent even in the being's own eyes. It was also unnecessary to the play of the game. You can convince others with out convincing yourself. But sometimes that's not so fun or dangerous if others can read your mind. Better to not know, you know? Run, Define NEED as won't survive without. Get the idea of NOT needing to forget. Get the idea of needing to forget. Get the idea of NOT needing to remember. Get the idea of needing to remember. Homer ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Homer Wilson Smith This file may be found at homer@rahul.net ftp.rahul.net/pub/homer/act/ACT60.MEMO Posted to usenet newsgroup: alt.clearing.technology