Chapter XVIII. The Mirror World
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Terms you must own
- Image and reflection — say which is your thought content and which is the physical result, and which one you can work on.
- Seven mirror principles — state each in one line.
- Delay factor — define it and say what it asks of you.
- Amalgam — define it, say where the name comes from and what it sets.
- Mirror circle — give its four steps and what the fifth principle does to them.
- Kitten rule — define the trap and name the principle that ends it.
- Maker — say what a maker does and what a maker does not do.
- Mirror makers — name three kinds and say what they hand you.
- Active and passive position — define each by what the person does with their thoughts.
Carried forward
Dual mirror · alternatives space · sector · script and scenery · layer · thought energy · inner intention · outer intention · unity of heart and mind · target slide · excess potential · importance · strings of importance · coordination of intention · alternatives flow · pendulum · waking dream and lucid dream
Objectives
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recall Evidence: draw the mirror, label both sides, add one line on what a sector holds. [0:00:00] [0:01:52]
explain Evidence: list his three limits (money, opportunity, competition), then note that he leaves "certain conditions" unspecified. [0:03:31] [0:04:49]
explain Evidence: two sentences, using birth environment as the counterweight. [0:07:45] [0:08:20]
explain Evidence: answer review question 3 for principle one, then give one case from your own week. [0:09:31] [0:12:01]
explain Evidence: give his two reasons a desire splits; answer review question 2. [0:12:29] [0:14:25]
explain Evidence: retell the photograph analogy in your own words; say what "run the slide systematically" means. [0:16:02] [0:17:12]
apply Evidence: do Desk work 1, then write what you would say after a good event and after a bad one. [0:20:56] [0:21:45] [0:32:48]
analyse Evidence: note where he says it is not optimism and where he says belief is not needed; mark the missing evidence. [0:28:50] [0:34:44] [0:36:26]
explain Evidence: retell the elderly woman or the drinking wife; say how fear differs from doubt. [0:42:31] [0:45:10] [0:50:57]
apply Evidence: take a recurring complaint of yours and write what image it sends. [0:48:21] [0:52:48]
explain Evidence: use the car-skid image; state the loop in three steps. [0:40:43] [0:53:42] [0:55:30]
explain Evidence: draw both circles, mark where outer intention takes over. [1:04:19] [1:05:49] [1:06:54]
apply Evidence: do Desk work 2; add one line on what you do when nothing happens. [1:09:53] [1:12:48] [1:14:18]
analyse Evidence: list the reasons; explain the three-way mirror (want, fear, cannot let go); note that delay and doubt explain any failure, so the claim resists testing. [1:18:22] [1:25:55] [1:31:56]
explain Evidence: write the paradox "by abandoning control you gain control" and three behaviors it asks of you. [1:38:20] [1:41:32] [1:43:06]
apply Evidence: do Desk work 3. [1:46:14] [1:47:52]
analyse Evidence: write the claim "fate is a matter of choice", then one objection from "Watch out for". [1:52:56] [1:54:37] [2:06:26]
analyse Evidence: answer review questions 7 and 8; say why this explanation also covers a miss. [2:03:18] [2:08:00] [2:11:08]
Readiness check
Answer these without looking anything up.
- Which side of the dual mirror is the image, and what can each kind of intention do on its side?
- Why does hatred or fear get realized more surely than a wish?
- What is the delay factor, and what does he say to do while it runs?
- What is an amalgam, and how do you use it on a bad day?
- Why does the mirror return what you hate? Name the principle.
- What changes in the mirror circle when you move the image and not the reflection?
- What is the kitten rule, and which principle ends it?
- Why does he say fate is a matter of choice, and why are fortune-tellers mirror makers?
The next chapter assumes you hold one idea: you shape your layer by holding the image, not by pushing the reflection, and a delay means waiting, not failing.