Hi Unis,
Unis wrote:
"I think one of the things that has been holding me back from using the Genius Code is that I just don't seem to have the ability to visualize anything but a blank, black nothingness with my eyes closed. Tried image streaming and gave up in frustration - how do you image stream when there are no images?"
I bought Genius Code a couple of months ago, and am impressed by the logic of it. (And it makes a fitting complement to Huna, it seems to me, but that’s another story).
You ask "How do you image stream when there are no images?". I too have always been a very poor visualiser. That is, during meditation, (holosynch, and other forms), and during other times when I'm in an 'altered state', I can get flashes of images, sometimes very intense, but usually very short-lived. There have been many times when, in some form of deep meditation, I have been in contact with some inner mind stuff, and a moment later, a fraction of a second later, my awareness has all been in my conscious mind, and my memory of what I had been aware of in my inner mind, has completely gone. Forgotten in a moment.
I have never had that easy familiarity with Inner Mind contents in the way that some people seem to have - they just shut their eyes and - voila - they perceive a whole bunch of inner mind stuff. But with me, my awareness is EITHER focussed almost entirely in my inner mind (and I can only 'bring stuff back' from there with some difficulty), OR it's focussed almost entirely in my conscious mind. It’s as though there’s a closed doorway between the realms of the conscious and the inner minds, and one’s awareness can be on one side or the other, but not on both sides, of this door.
What I need is the means of opening this doorway between Conscious and Inner Mind.
What I get from Image Streaming is the notion that we can actually perform a kind of practice that will begin to open this doorway between Inner Mind processes, and Conscious Mind processes; that by doing the 'out-loud-description' process we can actually, gradually open this doorway between these inner and outer lives and facilitate an easier flow of information between them.
With me so far? Hope so. Back to: "I just don't seem to have the ability to visualize anything but a blank, black nothingness with my eyes closed." What I see when I close my eyes is initially blankness. The sight of the closed door, I would suggest. However, beyond this door is supposed to be the teeming, vigorous, ceaseless activity of the Inner Mind. It seems to me that this teeming activity ought to penetrate the door at least a little bit, through even a closed door, in the same way that a noisy party on the other side of a door will be perceivable through that door. Okay, the sound that comes through the door may only be muffled and dim, and consist of the bass notes since they pass through the door most easily, but something will get through, if only one listens hard enough.
So, I say that initially I see blackness. BUT if I look more closely, I find that this blackness is not featureless - it may have a kind of granularity about it, where there are paler granules dancing against a black background; and this granularity may pulsate somewhat. And if I keep looking, I may start to get a slight hint of a coloured field gradually crossing and recrossing my visual field. And by focussing on these things, they become clearer and stronger. They start out as the muffled hint of something beyond the door, but by focussing on them, they gain more clarity. Sometimes they change dramatically – a couple of times I had the experience of very clear mandala-like imagery forming with a very tangible energy shift or flow. On another occasion, the slightly dancing granularity of what I saw changed into a thrumming, throbbing, frenetic pulsing granularity. And many many times, a slight hint of a coloured wave crossing my visual field has turned into a bright clear powerful coloured field.
I think I am at the very beginning of what may be a long learning process, but Learning Strategies have given me a tangible process, a technique, a practice that I can do, that I believe will gradually ease open this doorway. And even if it’s slow [as it is at the moment], it’s a hell of an advance on feeling that we’re simply stuck with whatever degree of Conscious-Unconscious communications we find ourselves with, and we can’t do anything about it, which is the way things used to seem.
One other thing. Until I started earnestly to try the Image Streaming practice, I assumed I was looking very intently at the blankness behind my eyes. But I have come to realise that I was kidding myself a lot of the time – I thought I was looking hard, but in fact I was spending a lot of time talking to myself in my head, and not really looking at all. That is, my attention was much more on inner dialogue and listening, than it was on actually looking. I might well have been talking to myself about how blank it seemed, but in doing that I wouldn’t really be seeing the blankness, I would be talking about an assumed state of blankness. Even when I thought I was looking, I was frequently mainly listening. So if you see what I mean, and can bring your full visual attention to bear on what you see behind your eyelids, whatever it is, you may start to find that it isn’t just a featureless blankness, but in fact is a blankness which actually possesses a lot of features, and that the more you pay it visual attention, the more dynamic it will become, until it will spring into life!
Another simple little success. Even though I don’t feel I’ve had any great success with Image Streaming during the Image Streaming sessions, I have noticed that when I’m trying to navigate a route when I’m driving, something interesting sometimes happens: I get a flash of a visual representation of my route, a flash of a series of maps showing the segments of my route, in my mind, something that never used to happen. So I feel that that door is opening a little bit in everyday life.
I hope this helps,
Regards,
Marc
