If I was able to offer anything of value, I am blessed beyond imagination. If an inspiration of some kind, I'm overwhelmed.
Thank you for sharing - you are indeed 'Lady of Gifts.'
The above two
events - both
@david_wendelken's post and yours - are two prime examples of the model I've developed, and their results, in
The Cycle of Growth - the 12-step diagram from a New Input Event to a proper Perception.
There are 3 stages to move to Perspective.
- The first 4 steps - from an Occurrence to a potential New Input Event.
- The next 12 steps - from acceptance of a New Input Event to a proper Perception. (The hardest work of 'thinking' occurs within these 12-steps as they deal mostly with what we internally do with what we've accepted as a 'New Input Event.' Our conditioning will have us rejecting many Occurrences as a "New Input Event" to be considered - that is, our thinkiing is stifled before it even really begins.)
- The 8 steps from a proper Perception to a Perspective. (This is where we take our 'clean and proper Perception of an Occurrence, and move it forward to its impact on our Perspective (or Opinion, depending on what we hold actually) - which can remain the same, be altered, or be jettisoned entirely in view of a more accurate Perspective due to a clean and proper Perception..) Growth is the state of always being open to every Occurrence as a New Input Event, and making adjustments as necessary once we process the Occurrence as it should be.
This is called "thinking." The thinking resulting in Growth. (The lack of which results in Stagnation.)
Opinion however will derail us at many steps along the way. Opinion represents
The Cycle to Stagnation. I am working on that diagram now, to bring alongside the 3-stage
Cycle to Growth.
Our conditioning, the
System and the
Machine, beginning while we're still in the womb frankly, work to stifle the first 4 steps, so we no longer are able to see Occurrences as New Input Events - and then accept them as such for processing.
You and David both presented Occurrences to me, which are now received and accepted as "New Input Events" for action.
Some day, I'll share with you the first 4 steps, as they are critical to the whole thing, and it is imperative they be crushed out of us so we can become the conditioned, compliant citizenry preferred to fulfill the roles and achieve the objectives we are desired to provide to the world to help maintain the power and control preferred by those wanting it for those wanting it.
I'll give a minor hint--it has become my tagline.
"What is the state of our Wonder?"