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The President of the Company
The Analogy:
L
et’s say that you are the president of your company. You have
worked long and hard to gain that position, and you deserve it.
Then, let’s say that one day, the owner of the company comes in
and tells you that he wants to train a young kid in the ways of
being a company president, so he is going to put the kid in charge
of the company for a week. Your reaction may be to smile and say,
“Yes sir!”. After all, he does own the company. But internally,
your reaction is, “Like hell! No young kid is going to take over
my job! Not even for a minute. I’ll fix this young twerp!”
Then, the owner brings the kid into your office, and you see that
the “young twerp” just happens to be your own son. Now, you have
a totally different reaction. Now, you want to the kid to succeed.
And so, the week begins. You first teach your son how to do the
basics, but then he comes up with an idea he would like to try.
You immediately realize that it is a dumb idea, but you still
want to encourage him, so you tell him why it won’t work. He
comes up with another idea, and it is a good one, so you help
him through the process. Then, he comes up with yet another
idea, and you realize that it is the one idea which could make
the company a fortune. “Good idea,” you say, “but I’ll take
care of that next week.” In other words, you suddenly realize
that the kid is so good that you might not have a job left to
come back to next week, if the kid gets his way, so you block
his progress.
This continues throughout the week, and at the end of the week,
your son will say one of two things to you. He will either say
to you,
“Well, Dad, I failed……….but only because you wouldn’t let me
do the job."
Or he will say to you,
“Well, Dad, I succeeded….but only because you wouldn’t let me
do the job.”
Either way, as a father, you lose.
Well, let’s say that the owner of the company sees what has
happened and asks the kid to stay for another week, under
different circumstances. You, as both father and company
president, are summarily sent on vacation while the kid runs
the company for the week.
So, you sit on the beach in Cancun, cell phone always nearby,
calling first one secretary or department head, checking up on
how things are going. You tell them to keep you posted about
the kid’s decisions, and to not do anything without your sayso.
So, this didn’t work either. The owner of the company learns
about what you have been doing, so he takes another tack. He
brings you back from vacation, and tries it for another week.
But this time, he puts you to work on the loading docks, keeping
you so busy all day that you don’t have time to interfere, and
this is the week that the kid finally gets to learn how to run
a company.
The Meaning of the Analogy:
The president of the company is, of course, your conscious mind.
The kid, the president’s son, is the subconscious.
The act of having the kid take over the company for a week stands
for the act of turning a CRV session over
to the subconscious mind’s control for the duration of the session.
The father’s desire to help the kid to succeed, but then to hold
the kid back if he gets too good, is the way your conscious mind
treats the subconscious mind during a session. It wants to help,
help, help. But, if the session starts going either in a way
that the conscious mind thinks is either too good, or just
plain dumb, the conscious mind jumps in “to save the day”.
At the end, you have a session which is little more than
conscious thought and/or the result of logical thinking.
The kid, (the subconscious) doesn’t get to play a part in such
sessions. The end result is that the session either succeeds
or fails, but only because the conscious mind kept tight reins
over the session and did not let the subconscious mind do its
job – and more importantly, it did not let the subconscious mind
learn how to do the job
Seeing that this is taking place, many psychic methodologies try
to send the conscious mind on vacation. That is, they try to
put the conscious mind into a trance or “altered state”. These
are the people who insist that psychic work can only be done “once
you have achieved theta”, etc. In actual fact, the conscious mind
sits in that altered state and keeps checking back every few seconds
to see how the process is going. The person isn’t usually aware
of it, but a part of them is constantly monitoring the session
and either giving its approval or stopping the subconscious from
doing its job by giving disapproval. You have heard, of course,
that a person who is hypnotized cannot be made to do something he/
she doesn’t want to. This is the reason why. The conscious mind,
although apparently in a trance, is ever vigilant. A well-trained
CRV monitor can watch a psychic who is doing “trance-channeling”
work, and can see, like a neon sign, each time the psychic’s
conscious mind “checks back in” to the process. It happens
constantly in all trance-state work.
Seeing that this is the case, Controlled Remote Viewing takes
another tack. It gives the conscious mind a ton of other work
to do. The rules and protocols of CRV are very complex, actually,
for two reasons: First, to get as deeply into the subconscious
as possible, but second, to also to simply keep the conscious
mind so busy that it can’t get in the subconscious mind’s way.
When someone claims to have improved on the Ingo Swann method, you
will generally find that what they have done is to simplify it
and make it easier and faster for the public to learn. They
think that they are doing the public a service (and making money
in the process), but in actual fact, the simplified methods
give the conscious mind more free time to interfere, and the
accuracy of the viewing process drops drastically. The sad
part is that these “for the masses” types of methodologies not
only fail accuracy-wise, but also actually train the student
to NEVER let the subconscious mind do its work cleanly. As
such, they are actually harmful to the student’s progress –
sometimes permanently wrecking their chances for ever achieving
their highest personal potential.