I'll pop up a Jynxy version later, for all you non-academic, McDonald's generation types.

Do you want fries with that?


Peace,

kowalski

I was kicked out of da McDonalds Life Academy 4 beying thik! ave u got a more stupider version then dat! LOL

Can you make a children's version for me with Mr Bunnykins in it?

Colour sensations.
A blind person taught everything there is to know about red. Then operated on to become sighted. Would be completely unable to identify red, untill it was pointed out to them.

Why is this?
Colour sensations are something that can not be explained only experienced.


Even two sighted people can never understand each others colour sensations.

Let's imaging that the colour I see in my head when I look at blood is the same colour you see in your head when you look at grass. (This is called spectral inversion). There would be no way of knowing that this was the case.

We were both taught what red was by pointing and naming. Our parents and teachers pointed at various coloured things and said 'Red', 'Green' etc. Untill we could accurately judge an object's colour for ourselves. (This is called ostensive definition).

Because we learn what colours are through ostensive definition (i.e. pointing and naming) it would make no difference whether I had spectral inversion (i.e. the colour I see in my head when I look at blood is the same colour you see in your head when you look at grass) or not. We would both use the word 'red' to refer to the same objects.

Given this can we ever know whether someone has spectral inversion (i.e. the colour I see in my head when I look at blood is the same colour you see in your head when you look at grass) or not?
No

What does this mean?
It means the word 'red', like all colour names, refers to a public experience not a private one.

In fact the same is true of all our words. Their use defines their meaning. Our sensory experience is not a part of this meaning.

Therefore, all knowledge is public.


How does this relate to PU and SA?
A lot of the material in the community talks about concepts that largely refer to your private sensory experiences e.g. state, energy, frame, nimbus etc. how to achieve them, how to recognise them and so on.

However, there are no words that can do them justice. They would be completely indescribable to a being that had no such internal feelings. Furthermore, even if you do have them there is no internal way of knowing that what you are feeling is what the guru is describing.

So what do we do?
We must understand the explanations as clues and know that although we don't know exactly what we are looking for, we will know it when we find it.


An example:
I read a book by one of the two guys who invented NLP, can't remember which one. Where he was talking about re-framing your experiences at the end of the day.

A lot of depressives tend to look back over their day, remember all the bad shit, feel even gloomier about it than when it happened and ignore all the good shit. Obviously this just re-enforces their worldview and contributes to their ongoing depressive state.

The guy suggests thinking back through all the good shit instead and making it all even better than it was. Colour it in, play cool music over it etc. (all in your head of course).

Then at the end of the section he popped a little throw-away comment. Something like 'Why wait untill the end of the day?'. I thought this was curious but couldn't quite put my finger on it. So it lingered in the back of my mind for a while.

Some months later I saw the Flawless Natural stuff. Tim talks about naming his shit car 'The Chariot' and his flat 'The Palais'.

Shortly after that I was explaining to someone how I always try and race with everything I do, like I love getting to a stage where I am tons of keystrokes ahead of my works PC then I have finished the task way before the computer has and can sit around watching it catch up with me, and how excited I get whenever I complete pretty much anything, no matter how mundane, often resulting in me yelping 'WINNER!' while jumping out of my chair, fist in the sky and sometimes doing a little dance of victory.

10 minutes later I had a moment of clarity.

The throw-away NLP comment, Natural Tim's re-naming everything and my own internal dialogue and say feels collided and I got a little bit more of it. I understood a little bit more of what is happening. I now was hip to more of the undercover truths of a healthy, happy life. Freer from the dogma of societal norms. Given more power to take control of myself and my environment.

And, thus, became a little bit more of a hippie.

So that's the simple version. Mr Bunnykins interpretation to follow ...


Peace,

kowalski

Awesome!

why didn't Kowalski just say it like that in the first place, lol!
Thanks for the simpler version i think i've just about cottoned on to what you mean!

I was round a mates house and we were watching the film knocked up.
There was a scene where Ben (main character) and Pete (husband in-law of the Bens Girlfriend) are sitting in a park watching Pete's kids playing with bubbles

Pete: I wish I liked anything as much as my kids like bubbles.
Ben Stone: That's sad.
Pete: Totally sad. Their smiling faces just point out your inability to enjoy anything.

Sad it may be but just from that little quote, it made me realise a bit more of what Tyler was talking about with self amusement in the Blueprint and that although you shouldn't take it as far as acting like children do, you should still see the enjoyment in everything you do or see no matter how big or small that is and bring the fun out of it.

So silly things like naming your car or as Kowalski does with his work celebrations, we should all incorporate these things into our lives and become more of the uncaring child, not afraid of what anyone thinks of them and just having fun and then that will help to achieve your complete happy self esteem and a permanent state within everything you do.

Have i got this right?

So far my cars have been Virginie (french, white and pure) and Daphne (dunno just called her that). At work I have Bob the printer (named after Bob Marley, he's always jammin!) and I used to have Jimi the laminator because you could play tunes on him. At home there's Fuji Om nom the laptop and Bernard and Manny the plants.