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Chapter VI. The Alternatives Flow

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Terms you must own

  • Information field (matrix) — define it, say who can read it and who cannot, and say what the mind adds to what it receives.
  • Reason and heart — say which part of you each word stands for and why he picks these words.
  • Designations — define them and say why the heart does not use them.
  • Rustle of the morning stars — say what it is, what drowns it out and what it can tell you.
  • The needy, the indignant, the fighter — name what each does and the one mistake they share.
  • Alternatives flow — define it, and name what it is not: a force to hand yourself over to.
  • Omen — define it and say what gives it power.
  • Guiding sign — define it and say what it announces.
  • Shifting the center of gravity — say what moves, from what to what, and what it does not mean.

Carried forward

Alternatives space · Sector · Script and scenery · Lifeline · Material realization · Thought energy · Pendulum · Importance (inner and outer) · Excess potential · Balanced forces · Puppet strings · Inner guardian (inner witness)

Objectives

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  • explain Evidence: write three sentences, using the chicken and the human as the example. [0:00:00] [0:01:16]

  • explain Evidence: write one sentence for each; then explain the child asking "what is white?" in your own words. [0:11:01] [0:12:13] [0:15:34]

  • analyse Evidence: trace the route (unrealized sector, heart, designation, discovery) in four steps, then note where he calls the claim "perhaps too categorical" and what support he offers. [0:03:13] [0:09:39] [0:13:19]

  • recall Evidence: write the two states, then one sentence on why mental chatter drowns the signal. [0:17:14] [0:19:00] [0:20:46]

  • apply Evidence: do Desk work 1 in the guide, and write what you asked, what you felt for each choice and what he says to do if no clear answer comes. [0:21:44] [0:22:41] [0:23:45] [1:10:29] [1:11:51]

  • recall Evidence: answer review question 3 in the guide; then state the "don't plead, don't demand" stance, and mark that the how is promised later. [0:24:51] [0:29:12] [0:30:53] [0:35:15]

  • apply Evidence: do Desk work 3 in the guide, naming the role, the importance behind it (inner or outer) and what it cost; use the beggars-in-the-crowd image for the cost. [0:31:41] [0:33:37] [0:34:25]

  • explain Evidence: write a two-sentence definition; then explain the person at the helm and why the flow can lead to a lagoon or a waterfall. [0:39:24] [0:40:15] [0:45:55] [0:46:58]

  • apply Evidence: retell the shop next door, then do Desk work 2 in the guide and note the difference afterward. [0:43:59] [0:47:52] [0:52:14] [0:53:02]

  • explain Evidence: answer review question 6 in the guide, using the black cat and the forgotten item. [0:55:35] [0:56:27] [0:57:28] [0:59:22]

  • apply Evidence: take an odd event from this week, put a yes/no or good/bad question to it, and state what you do if your feeling is mixed; include the spontaneous phrase as a second kind of sign. [1:00:19] [1:01:24] [1:03:30] [1:04:57] [1:07:18]

  • explain Evidence: write the error in one sentence, then three habits he lists (refusing, arguing, correcting) and the one case where he still permits criticism. [1:25:16] [1:26:41] [1:33:03]

  • analyse Evidence: answer review question 9, then add two limits (for example, nature-wastes-no-energy as proof; one day is not a test; heart "rarely mistaken" yet signals vague); say what control he keeps. [0:46:58] [0:47:52] [1:27:30] [1:28:57]

Readiness check

Answer these without looking anything up.

  1. What does the information field hold, and why does knowledge differ from it?
  2. How does the heart communicate, and how does that differ from the mind?
  3. Name the two states of the heart. What do you do before a decision to hear them?
  4. What is the single test he gives for catching an inner no?
  5. What do the needy, the indignant and the fighter share, and why does it serve pendulums?
  6. What is the alternatives flow, and what does the person at the helm do that the other three do not?
  7. What separates an omen from a guiding sign, and how do you read a sign when your feeling is mixed?
  8. What is the mind's greatest error, and what does he ask you to move your attention from and to?

The next chapter assumes you hold one idea: the three roles fail, so the master of one's own fate must be a fourth stance, which Chapter VII (Intention) names and builds on.