CHAPTER 18
CAUSE

Early on, the being can act and be at cause over things. But sometimes he regrets what he has done and inhibits himself from further action. And sometimes he becomes guilty or ashamed over what he has done and begins to withhold both his communications and himself from others. Eventually the being ends up in a state where he can’t act and cannot communicate and is holding himself tightly under control.

In this chapter we are not worried about ethics or morality or responsibility or justifications. Those are more advanced topics, because you need to confront doing things first before you can sanely consider what should or shouldn’t be done.

And its not just crimes or evil deeds that the person is withholding. Areas can shut down to the point where the person is withholding everything in that area, not just bad things but even nice things.

So the emphasis here is on spotting any actions and any restraints.

As we did with simple communication barriers, our intention here is to knock out the “subconscious” barriers to action. We want an individual to be capable of doing anything without buried inhibitions coming into play. But this does not mean irresponsibility. It simply means that the choices and actions are conscious instead of hidden. Just because you can do anything does not mean that all things are desirable or helpful.

As a further reassurance, let me point out that the fact of withholding is one of the strongest factors that causes a being’s ethical sense to deteriorate, and that the dark weight of regret leads to further mistakes which the person regrets even more. In other words, there are feedback effects at work here. Our intention is to break out of a declining spiral where the person becomes ever less capable of acting.

18.1 Willing to Do

Let’s start very simple. As always, these commands are alternated over and over.

a) What would you be willing to do.

b) What would you be willing to have another do.

c) What would you be willing to have others do.

18.2 Willing to Reveal

a) What would you be willing to reveal.

b) What would you be willing to have another reveal.

c) What would you be willing to have others reveal.

18.3 Finding Out

a) What shouldn’t people find out about you

b) Who would it be safe to tell that to

c) What shouldn’t people find out about another

d) Who would it be safe for them to tell that to

18.4 The Body

Now let’s work over some specific areas, beginning with bodies. Each process has two commands run alternately.

18.4.1a) What have you done with your body

18.4.1b) What have you kept yourself from doing with your body

18.4.2a) What has another or others done with their body

18.4.2b) What has another or others kept themselves from doing with their body

18.4.3a) What would you permit another or others to do with their body

18.4.3b) What have you kept another or others from doing with their body

18.4.4a) What could you let others find out about your body

18.4.4b) What have you kept hidden about your body

18.4.5a) What could another or others safely let you find out about their bodies

18.4.5b) What have another or others kept hidden about their bodies

18.5 Sex

Note that “involving sex” not only means sexual acts but also sexual relationships and in childhood would include boys teasing girls etc.

18.5.1a) What have you done involving sex

18.5.1b) What have you kept yourself from doing involving sex

18.5.2a) What has another or others done involving sex

18.5.2b) What has another or others kept themselves from doing involving sex

18.5.3a) What would you permit another or others to do involving sex

18.5.3b) What have you kept another or others from doing involving sex

18.5.4a) What could you let others find out about you involving sex

18.5.4b) What have you kept hidden about yourself involving sex

18.5.5a) What could another or others safely let you find out about themselves involving sex

18.5.5b) What have another or others kept hidden about themselves involving sex

18.5 Family

This could be parents, relatives, spouses, children, or even members of a close knit commune that you are a part of. If some specific one of these is especially charged up (continually fighting with the wife or a parent or whatever), then use it in place of family and run that first before running family in general. Note that you should use a general form (”a wife”) rather than your specific wife right now in case their are earlier similar things that might need to come up.

18.5.1a) What have you done involving family

18.5.1b) What have you kept yourself from doing involving family

18.5.2a) What has another or others done involving family

18.5.2b) What has another or others kept themselves from doing involving family

18.5.3a) What would you permit another or others to do involving family

18.5.3b) What have you kept another or others from doing involving family

18.5.4a) What could you let others find out about you involving family

18.5.4b) What have you kept hidden about yourself involving family

18.5.5a) What could another or others safely let you find out about themselves involving family

18.5.5b) What have another or others kept hidden about themselves involving family

18.6 Work

This is the area of work and jobs and group activities where you have some responsibility to get something done. It includes housework and taking care of the children etc. Again, if a specific area is particularly charged up, you can run it first before running work in general.

18.6.1a) What have you done involving work

18.6.1b) What have you kept yourself from doing involving work

18.6.2a) What has another or others done involving work

18.6.2b) What has another or others kept themselves from doing involving work

18.6.3a) What would you permit another or others to do involving work

18.6.3b) What have you kept another or others from doing involving work

18.6.4a) What could you let others find out about you involving work

18.6.4b) What have you kept hidden about yourself involving work

18.6.5a) What could another or others safely let you find out about themselves involving work

18.6.5b) What have another or others kept hidden about themselves involving work

18.7 Society

This area includes governments, courts, policemen, lawyers, protesters, wars and armies, racial prejudice, ideologies, social classes, an so on. If a particular area is heavily charged, run it first before doing society in general.

18.7.1a) What have you done involving society

18.7.1b) What have you kept yourself from doing involving society

18.7.2a) What has another or others done involving society

18.7.2b) What has another or others kept themselves from doing involving society

18.7.3a) What would you permit another or others to do involving society

18.7.3b) What have you kept another or others from doing involving society

18.7.4a) What could you let others find out about you involving society

18.7.4b) What have you kept hidden about yourself involving society

18.7.5a) What could another or others safely let you find out about themselves involving society

18.7.5b) What have another or others kept hidden about themselves involving society

18.8 Thought and Creativity

This area is very intimate to a being. Though includes ideas and ideals and moves into the areas of aesthetics and creativity. It can also include ethics and knowledge and understanding.

18.8.1a) What have you done involving thought or creativity

18.8.1b) What have you kept yourself from doing involving thought or creativity

18.8.2a) What has another or others done involving thought or creativity

18.8.2b) What has another or others kept themselves from doing involving thought or creativity

18.8.3a) What would you permit another or others to do involving thought or creativity

18.8.3b) What have you kept another or others from doing involving thought or creativity

18.8.4a) What could you let others find out about you involving thought or creativity

18.8.4b) What have you kept hidden about yourself involving thought or creativity

18.8.5a) What could another or others safely let you find out about themselves involving thought or creativity

18.8.5b) What have another or others kept hidden about themselves involving thought or creativity

18.9 Other Areas

Areas where you are having trouble and difficulties often include harmful acts, inhibited actions, and withheld secrets.

So if there is a particular kind of person or thing or area that is giving you real difficulty, fill it in the blanks and run this set of processes against it.

You can also run this on other general areas such as lifeforms or possessions or spirits or religion or even (for the advanced student or on a second pass) on creation and destruction.

18.9.1a) What have you done involving _____

18.9.1b) What have you kept yourself from doing involving _____

18.9.2a) What has another or others done involving _____

18.9.2b) What has another or others kept themselves from doing involving _____

18.9.3a) What would you permit another or others to do involving _____

18.9.3b) What have you kept another or others from doing involving _____

18.9.4a) What could you let others find out about you involving _____

18.9.4b) What have you kept hidden about yourself involving _____

18.9.5a) What could another or others safely let you find out about themselves involving _____

18.9.5b) What have another or others kept hidden about themselves involving _____

18.10 The General Version

Once enough specific areas have been run, you can finish this up with a general (non-specific) run to pick up any loose ends.

18.9.1a) What have you done

18.9.1b) What have you kept yourself from doing

18.9.2a) What has another or others done

18.9.2b) What has another or others kept themselves from doing

18.9.3a) What would you permit another or others to do

18.9.3b) What have you kept another or others from doing

18.9.4a) What could you let others find out about you

18.9.4b) What have you kept hidden about yourself

18.9.5a) What could another or others safely let you find out about themselves

18.9.5b) What have another or others kept hidden about themselves

18.11 Forgiveness of Past Existence

Of course you might have run some past life material on the above processes. It was neither encouraged nor discouraged.

But here we are interested in things that are out of your conscious recall but perhaps sitting in the background just out of sight.

We have all existed for a long long time and have done just about everything good and bad. Most of it is buried out of sight even on people who remember many of their past lives.

The key to really blowing this apart is forgiveness, for in forgiving others you forgive yourself as well.

Here we are not limiting the question to things that you remember doing or even to things that you actually did. Imagination and speculation are quite valid here and you might even need to say something that you really never did do just to get it off of your plate.

This is the big one and you should push it to a major feeling of relief and freedom.

a) What terrible thing might you have done

b) Imagine being forgiven for that

c) What terrible thing might another or others have done to you

d) Decide (as best you can) that you forgive them for that

e) What terrible thing might another have done to another or others

f) Imagine that their victims have forgiven them for that

If you work over every horrible thing you have heard of or can dream up, you might be able to reach a Christ-like state of total forgiveness. But that might be too much to expect on a first pass, in which case it can be left for a second run through this book.