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The Blindfolded Man on the Corner
The Analogy:
L
et’s say that I blindfold you and drive you around town so you
are totally lost. I then stand you on a street corner and tell
you that, as soon as I pull the blindfold off, your one sole job
and responsibility is to shake hands with the first person walking
by.
I then pull the blindfold off. Question: What will your first
thought be?
If you said that your first thought would be to find a person,
you are wrong. It is human nature that your first thought would
be, “Where am I?” You will look around to see where you are,
and only after coming to terms with your location will you
begin to look for the first person walking by.
The Meaning of the Analogy:
This analogy applies to the topic of frontloading – that is,
when someone tells you where to put your work in the session,
without telling you anything about the target, itself.
One would think that, if a viewer were told that “The target
is manmade”, the viewer would take the coordinates and
immediately come up with an ideogram for manmade. In fact,
that is almost never the case. When the subconscious mind
first gets to the target site, its first reaction is to ask,
“Where am I?” It will almost always come up with the other
gestalts for the site, such as “land”, “water”, etc. Only
after it has adjusted itself to its new location will it
then give you the ideogram for
“manmade”.
If you are monitoring for a viewer, or if you are a viewer
working alone, this can be a very useful thing to know, and
can even be very useful as a working tool. Let’s take the
case where you are viewing, working alone. If you have the
frontloading of, say, “the target is manmade”, then you will
perform your Ideogram/A/B sequence over and over while your
mind gets oriented to the target site. When it is ready to
then start viewing the site, it will give you the ideogram
of “manmade”, and you automatically know that it is time to
move into Stage 2. If you are a monitor working for a viewer,
it allows you to watch the progress of the viewer’s subconscious
mind getting oriented to the site, and allows you to know when
and whether the viewer is ready to progress into stage two work.