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Dear George,
I find some reason for caution in what you related - in that I mean, as I
understand your description you thought you were installing a 'warning
machine' but didn't get clear signals in terms of gongs, which you said you
must reinstall and that somehow you must have got the submodalities V & or K
unconsciously. Doesn't sound like you installed one. Instead it sounds like
you relied on your own common sense and insight and wisdom to assist another
person. Which I think is marvelous!!! But I have trouble with the concept
of 'warning machine' - a device used on other people.
For these reasons - when I teach DHE we used a bullshit detector. That is a
device installed so that when an individual starts conning oneself into less
than productive thinking about oneself a signal goes off to tell or instruct
the person to stop bullshitting oneself. That is the purpose of the machine
- not to have a signal go off when others bullshit - which some people make
the mistake when the consider the concept of a bullshit detector. It is to
detect one's own bullshit not someone else's.
First off the purpose of building machines (which is a metaphor but useful)
is to calibrate internal processes and automate them reliably. That means
consciously and unconsciously working with the sub modalities very
deliberately to insure that they work as they are supposed to, when, where,
and how. But more importantly it is about working with the sub modalities to
be able to gain deliberate control over them. SO at least two purposes are
at work here (and there are more which I won't go into now) - deliberate
control over submodalities and combinations of them in all systems, and
secondly, building a machine.
First purpose is practice and self evolution the second purpose is a result
or application. Hence proper and successful installation is done
methodically, systematically and precisely so that you know what you are
doing, when, where and why you are doing it and you do it appropriately.
Whether done in deep trance or not it is not about being careless or sloppy
but about very careful precision.
Another thing - the 'signal' device is for the user to use to develop a
stronger personal belief system and move into their future more
dynamically. Not to detect when others are lying or whatever - that type of
use is very susceptible to mind reading and distortion of all types. People
eager in learning whether others are misleading them etc. would be well
advised to practice practice practice calibration skills and sensory acuity
skills very long and very hard before even considering building devices to
read the external world. Any signal device should alert someone only to
check on what is occurring, to bring the person to their senses, to enable
them to consciously begin to re-look and re-listen to what is occurring so
that they can find out, based on their calibration skills, whether something
is really occurring and should not be a signal for an end result,
nominalization etc. That only leads the practitioner into the delusional use
of these principles. Clean open sensory channels is what we want of
practitioners not one's who make value judgements about another person based
on bells and whistles on the inside.
I did not get that this is what you were doing - I only speak of these
problems because I feel they do need to be addressed as more people become
familiar with some DHE notions. A lot of people including DHE trainees seem
to miss the point as far as I am concerned. I read and hear a lot of
questionable things from people who supposedly have attended training and it
makes me wonder.
A major principle behind DHE is self evolution and self design. Which means
using principles and approaches applied to one's internal world for
enhancement. Could someone build a calibration machine to work with someone
else - sure but that is what one does anyway when one practices calibration
exercises and skills daily in Practitioner training. A practitioner trainee
builds unconscious and conscious skills which one can use more and more
frequently - that is what practice is all about. The building of machines -
the purpose of building machines is for practice in automating responses and
skills, gaining more deliberate controll over submodalities etc. and hence
needs to be calibrated reliably and rigorously.
The most one can say about another person is that it is your own judgement
about them, an interpretation of reality and not reality itself - hence the
calibration is not reliable and shouldn't be taken over seriously in the
first place and second the calibration shouldn't be generalized to all other
people either becasue that is a sure way to always be wrong much of the
time. Knowing what to generalize and when, and when the generalization does
not hold up is a very big aspect of NLP knowledge and skill.
Over genralization is a Big mistake - yet some make it. SO Notions sometimes
need taming. Because we want to build reliable tools and models we need to
know how they work - written descriptions by the author are not very
reliable. SO in building machines we should first have a strong background
in what it is supposed to do and is it's task and tak operations realistic,
how will it do it and is that realistic, workable and testable, as well as
the why do you want it, what purpose does it serve, will it work to serve
that purpose and is all this realistic or merely self deception.
Any way good luck with your work and your practice. I am not addressing you
in my letter I am addressing things people need to begin to consider when
they hear about some of these DHE things. People hear stuff about machines,
installation - and they want it done to them as if it is possible. Lot of
hogwash flying around about installation, DHE, NLP etc. People need to
really think and examine the underlying foundations for why things work and
how they work and how to apply these approaches rigorously as a scientist
would - and not simply assume because one closes their eyes and tells their
unconscious to do it (or has someone else tell them) that it knows what to
do and will do it. Installation is best done by the individual through
practice and repetition and clearly spelling out to the unconscious what is
being required of it. Precision, methodology as well as imagination are
required.
Will it work, how, when, what are the triggers, how will it stop, recycle,
move to next operation etc. etc. etc. Just as one would build a robot, or
software program we should program our minds. Remember garbage in garbage
out. Lot's of design questions need to be addressed to make these things
work at all not to mention really well. Imagination is more important than
knowledge in leading us in new directions, then it is a combination of
useful, practical knowledge, methodology, precision and testing, and more
imagination to get us there.
Anyway again good luck and be well!!!
Warmest regards,
Rex
Rex Steven Sikes
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