Lawrence Gold, Somatics

02/23/2025

People are not schooled in intelligence. Only evaluated.

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02/23/2025

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In using the Intelligence Lattice, the point is to feel. The words are only pointers to feeling our own, present state.

At the beginning, the words are only words, mental ideas. Superficial.

To get past that point, we can do the "priming" technique.

"Priming" is a "digging a well" term. It refers to putting water into the pump that goes into a well so that, when we turn on the pump, it can generate suction and "produce".

In the Intelligence Lattice, the way to "prime" feeling is to repeat the word combinations in a leisurely way until our attention deepens enough to feel the feelings. Forcing doesn't work because the act of forcing, itself, tends to drown out the feeling we're invoking.

That "priming" action explains why use of the intelligence lattice involves repetitions.

An explanation like this can go only so far.

To get an experience, read the columns to yourself in word-pairs, like this:

(IMAGINING column):

Imagining
Imagining I am.
Imagining I am.
Imagining I am.
I am.

I am.
I am imagining.
I am imagining.
I am imagining.
Imagining.

Feel it? See?

02/23/2025

Between the heart region and the crown of the head, there is intuited a spire of feeling, the seat of formless, conscious presence.

Any experience, at all, felt and compared to the spire of consciousness, without opposition or reinforcement, gets "trued" by that felt comparison.

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01/07/2025

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer argued that stupid people are more dangerous than evil ones. This is because while we can protest against or fight evil people, against s...

01/07/2025

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Learn about the 5 basic laws of human stupidity according to renowned historian Carlo M. Cipolla. With examples from history, discover the logic (or lack the...

01/03/2025

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12/20/2024

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11/12/2024

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10/12/2024

Witnessing, as in the transcendental sense, is always different, from moment to moment. It is never the same.

There is no "THE" Witness. There is only WitnessING, one with and identical to the content of experience, at any moment.

Witnessing faces experience by means of attention, but also witnesses the intention of attention to locate, like a mouth as large as the sphere of our experiencing, all that emerges to experience from the Unknownably Unknown.

WitnessING : IS : IS : Witness.

"The" Witness is an anthropomorphic artifice, like The Bearded God or Santa Claus.

Witnessing is not a self. All selves are being Witnessed. We are being witnessed. "We" are not Witnessing.

So, to "be" The Witness is to intuit BEING Witnessed. If an "other" "doing the witnessing" appears, that is also being witnessed.

To witness is not to know or to have knowledge or memory.

To witness is to be the meeting place of the unknown and the known -- and that is all.

What is the Unknown Witness of everything, is witnessing US. We are being witnessed.

What is witnessing us is Unknowably Unknown -- right out the top of the head.

The Unknowable Unknown is the constancy of That Intuition, "the same, throughout all my life, as now". The Unknowable Unknown, unknowably unknown, now -- through the brain core, out the top of the head. Old Faithful.

08/30/2024

SENT TO V.P. HARRIS:

"From a video recording I saw of you stating your position on fracking, I discerned that you hardened yourself up, when responding to a question by an interviewer.

Hardening oneself up suggests that one is in conflict with oneself about ones position -- or at least, ambivalent.

I think I understand your position, wanting to secure the votes of Pennsylvanians. My question is, Is hardening yourself up and having to live, with that, worth compromising your integrity for the sake of votes?

Is fracking a beneficial practice, in the long term?"

07/16/2024

The 'entry level' procedure for disarming the "too much" state of overwhelm:

The Gold Key Release

See this summary about it.

CONTACT: http://somatics.com/wordpress/contactLawrence.Gold.Somatics | phone 505 819-0858This clip shows the very beginning and the very end of each Gold Key...

07/12/2024

Our problem is that we are too full up with the aftereffects of experience, of involvement. Memory is saturated and alters the experience of everything else, saturating it with, "too much".

Who knows how, other than hope in a night's sleep, of purging the excess aftereffects of experience? Is sleep sufficient, for you?

If not, where will you turn when experience has become overwhelming?

07/11/2024

Feeling overwhelmed is a product of the effort to epitomize, or optimize, some kind of experience, some kind of relationship.

That effort generally "runs on automatic" in most people, to one or another degree, turning every effort, every experience, into a kind of unpleasantness of effort that motivates avoidance, and with avoidance, overwhelm. We "want what we want" and the effort goes on.

That is why efforts to avoid feeling overwhelmed tend to be unsuccessful and why "overwhelm" is overwhelming.

The route "out" is not through perfectionism, but through transcendence -- and transcendence seems to be the outcome of awakening attention, intention ... memory and imagination, integrating them and balancing them.

In that event, the qualities of experience fade into balance and qualities are lost. The binding qualities of experience are released, attention comes free -- and that is transcendence, which is otherwise sought by perfecting qualities.

Can you feel how efforts of relationship have the same felt-flavor of avoidance?

The cure for 'overwhelm' is transcendence.

07/10/2024

Have you experienced overwhelming situations? Anything, lately?

What do you feel, remembering those situations? Are there similarities, among them?

07/09/2024

Ever wonder why overwhelming situations seem to pile up all at once?

You've noticed that, haven't you?

07/09/2024

When people stress themselves too much, it feels like opposition by others – and they tend to blame others, but it's just too much stressing of themselves. That explains political blaming games.

07/05/2024

On March 17th, we did a "pilot" (or experimental) teaching occasion for The Gold Key Release.

This video clip explains and shows the outcome of that session.
https://youtu.be/5fomDaBAOxs

The Gold Key Release is the entry-level procedure we use to dispel entrapment in overwhelming situations without having to "rip ourselves" out of them and with nothing about them having to change, first.

06/28/2024

Overwhelm' rides upon the distortion of those four modes of intelligence:
* Attention:distracted
* Memory:dominant or unreliable
* Intention:weak or excessive
* Imagination: dormant or dominated by memory.

When we raise the question, “How do we normalize those modes of intelligence,” (and so escape 'overwhelm') most of us stand silent with our face hanging out. The unspoken answer of most is, “more effort” or even "more of different kind of effort.". This is wrong. What we want is to work smarter, not harder. Less effort.

How do we cultivate intelligence?