The Brain: The Twelfth Step

Again, after the previous mundane steps, this chapter takes us deeper into Think And Grow Rich’s “woo woo” territory — still totally explainable by psychological means, but tip-toeing into “what if.”

It tries to explain how unexpectedly brilliant ideas flash into the minds of people who have executed the previous steps. This is very, very smart people trying to understand their own brains with 19th century technology. Well, very early 20th. I’ve had enough instances of insight that bordered on the psychic to suggest that there are aspects of mental operation we don’t fully understand. And know people I trust who say they have experienced even stranger things. I don’t KNOW but I cannot deny either. SOMETHING is going on out there at the edges. Flow state is just the entry point, the last stop of “ordinary mind” before the non-dualistic kicks in. And THAT is the end of language, my friends. All you can do is point in that direction and say “try it.”

IF you take the previous eleven steps seriously, in order, I believe you will begin to have flashes of insight that shock you. If you create a “Master Mind” with at least one other person and align yourself completely, the two of you…well, its sort of like two tuning forks entraining each other. If the intent is positive, you will tend to share POSITIVE aspects of your being more than NEGATIVE aspects, and both of you change and grow for the better. If you add more people, SO LONG AS YOU ARE OPERATING IN HARMONY, it is utterly bizarre how the creativity can flow.