Meta-programming
Our left hemisphere unconsciously focuses on only a select few of the sensory signals it receives that it considers important. The left hemisphere is much like a self-programming computer. It chooses—usually unconsciously and mechanically (we generally struggle to examine and criticize our own neural programs)—the quality of consciousness and the reality tunnel it will employ in order to orchestrate the incoming signals of the experienced world. When the brain becomes conscious of this unconscious programming, Its creativity becomes truly astounding and is called meta-programming by Dr. John Lilly.
Our right hemisphere, by contrast, has broad, global, and flexible attention (The right hemisphere has broad, global, and flexible attention, while the left has narrow attention). In meta-programming, the right hemisphere becomes capable of deliberately expanding our window of attention and increasing the number of signals consciously apprehended.
- When metaprogrammer awakes, you begin to perceive and create infinite realities where before there was only one static habitual “reality” in which you were trapped
One looks casually, in the ordinary way, and then looks again and again. Dull objects and boring situations become transformed—partly because they were dull and boring only when the left hemisphere was working on its old mechanical programs—and the synergetic unity of observer and observation becomes a thrilling experience. Every experience becomes the type of intense learning that usually only occurs in school when cramming for exams.
Since in the existential world of experience we have to make bets (Each perception that we make is best considered to be a gamble rather than a certainty) and choices (The experienced world transcends the deterministic views of the fundamentalist), we are consciously “cramming” all the time, but there is no special sense of stress or anxiety involved, we are living time instead of passing time.
References
- Wilson, A., Robert. (1986). The New Inquisition Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science Chapter 8 Creative Agnosticism (Page 260 · Location 5470). Grand Junction, Colorado: Hilaritas Press.
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