GAME FIVE : CREATION OF A SIMPLE PATTERN

GAME FIVE: CREATION OF 

A SIMPLE PATTERN 

In this game, you stop giving away your control to imaginary forces. The previous games train you to look passively for patterns. In this game, you are going to start creating the pattern of the SEs yourself. This game has a simple, but wide frame of reference. You are going to look for SEs happening in any and every place you turn your attention. 

There are no “others” in this game. Just you and the effect you have on the SEs around you. 

First, choose a pattern that is easily recognizable and has some interest for you. You are going to build a thoughtform based on your chosen pattern. Might I suggest a power animal? No, I’m not suggesting you try to align yourself with an animal spirit the way our ancestors did. 

You create your “animal” from your own thoughts and emotions just by thinking about it for 20 minutes a day. 

If you like, look up power animals on the internet. You will find lists of the various qualities different cultures have ascribed to animals. 

Pick one you want to see. 

There are African, Native American, European, and Eskimo power animals. You are going to build your own pet thoughtform. I have a few basic suggestions. 

Pick something you are likely to find in your normal event stream. 

I like to make owls. 

The symbol is represented in the culture commonly enough, but is not so common that it is commonplace. If you choose a rare animal, there is less chance the pattern will be available to pattern match. Duck-billed platypuses are harder to pattern-match than wolves, horses, or bears. 

Your brain stores memories and thinks in associative patterns. Some things remind you of similar things immediately because they share the same storage areas in the brain. Creating patterns of SE always follows your brain function. Aiming at one pattern often produces closely associated SEs, just as one thought often triggers similar ones. If you try to create a pattern of owl SEs, you typically also get series of generalized bird SEs as well. The stronger you make your owl thoughtform, the more specifically “owl” your SEs become. It is possible Jung saw universalized archetypal patterns in SE because we store and process data in such generalized associations. Studying the fish archetype, triggers whole categories in memory of fish-like things. Jung may have been studying the technology of human biological information storage. He may have been the first person systematically exploring genetic neuropsychology. Our ancestors survived to reproduce because we specialized in flexible thinking. The more mentally flexible you are around your patterns of association, the easier it is to create and read SE. By the way, the more fun you have doing this, the better the results become.