CHAPTER 46
THE UPPER DYNAMICS

These were mentioned in the chapter on Ethics. They are extremely important to your spiritual health as a being.

Here is the list again.

Dynamic 1 (9) : Ethics

Dynamic 2 (10): Aesthetics

Dynamic 3 (11): Construction (building things)

Dynamic 4 (12): Reason (mathematics and so forth)

Dynamic 5 (13): Variety (change)

Dynamic 6 (14): Games

Dynamic 7 (15): Understanding

Dynamic 8 (16): Creation

We have already done some work on ethics and aesthetics.

This chapter is barely a beginning in these areas. They run very very far back in the course of our existence. As you become more advanced, you will find much more material on these things, both in the far past and in your current lifetime.

46.1 Some Positive Processing

Let’s begin by spotting some positive factors on each of these upper dynamics. Since we have already run some things on Ethics and Aesthetics, skip the processes on those if they feel like an overrun.

46.1.1

a) think of a desirable ethical concept

b) think of an ethical concept that another would find desirable

46.1.2

a) think of a desirable aesthetic

b) think of an aesthetic that another would find desirable

46.1.3

a) think of something that you would have fun building

b) think of something that another would have fun building.

46.1.4

a) think of an interesting brain teaser or problem in logic that it would be fun to solve

b) think of an interesting brain teaser or problem in logic that another would have fun solving

46.1.5

a) think of some interesting changes that would be fun

b) think of some interesting changes that would be fun for another

46.1.6

a) think of some games that would be fun to play

b) think of some games that another would have fun playing

46.1.7

a) think of something that it would be interesting to understand

b) think of something that another would find it interesting to understand

46.1.8

a) think of something that it would be interesting to create

b) think of something that another would find it interesting to create

46.2 The Negative Side

Unfortunately, we have used these things against each other.

Lower scale mechanisms of pain and control will not work on a godlike being.

But these upper dynamics are native to somebody who is in a godlike state and they find the ethics and aesthetics and games and whatever to be of extremely great interest.

And so they can be used as lures for entrapment. Being innocent, the being can be easily tricked. These dynamics are the desirable bait that was used in laying the traps.

But let’s not get one sided about this. It is not so much that you, in your innocence, were dastardly tricked and trapped. The truth of the matter is that you also worked very very hard to trick and trap others. It was a two way street or else you never would have been caught so thoroughly.

We still do these things even now. Aesthetics are used to sell undesirable products, logic is used to talk people into undesirable things, and so forth.

The area is so basic and runs so deep that only the barest edges may be accessible at this point. But we should at least take some of the sting off of these areas. If you can run these deeply (possibly on a second pass), then do so. If not, then just take them to a mild win. Even that should have profound effects.

Because the area is very advanced, we are going to use a very loose question in the form of “spot the impulse to …” and let anything come up that you can get your hands on. This could be spotting your postulates or intentions, this could be spotting actual incidents in the past, or it could simply be “getting the idea of” as a way to soften up the area and bring it into view.

And we will use the general button of “control” rather than trapping or enslaving others because it is both more general and more basic.

46.3 Positive Action

Even though these upper dynamics have been used to entrap, the being will not truly abandon them.

As we have discussed before, the surface attempt to make nothing of something does not release the deeper impulses. A being might negate against ethics or aesthetics, saying that all rules are meant to be broken or that all art is junk. And yet he will still have some code that he holds to and some kind of aesthetics that he still considers beautiful.

He will not discard a gem just because it has become corroded. The only choice, therefore, is to polish it up.

So now that we have looked over the negatives and how these dynamics have been used to entrap, lets get back on the positive side and take it a bit further.

Run this for each of the 8 upper dynamics:

Go to a crowded place and spot people and postulate into them an increase in ability in that area. For ethics, postulate that they will have a greater sense of true ethics (not morality).

After this, go over each of the 8 areas again and think of things that you could do in the area and actually do some of them. It is all right if the things are trivial. Its all right if you only choose to do some things and not others in a particular area. But get some actual positive action going.