Chapter VIII. Slides
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Terms you must own
- Virtual sector — define it and say what perceives it while the body stays in the material sector.
- Slide — define it, name its three parts in the projector image, and say what it is not (a fact about the world).
- Projection — define it and say what it is not (proof that an accuser has the trait).
- Positive slide — define it and say what it is built from.
- Will to have — define it and say what it is not (self-suggestion, or the resolve to act).
- Three kinds of visualization — name the dream, the film and the role, and say which one he rates weakest. (Not in the term index; he introduces them here.)
- Process visualization — say what you picture and what the goal becomes. (Not in the term index.)
- Transfer chain — define a chain and a link, and say which link you visualize.
Carried forward
Importance · comfort zone · intention · desire · inner intention · outer intention · excess potential · inner guardian · lifeline · thought energy · alternatives flow · guiding sign
Objectives
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explain Evidence: write three sentences with the "English lord's wife" case; give his two guesses why her sector did not materialize. [0:00:11] [0:03:45] [0:05:04] [0:07:31]
explain Evidence: label light, slide and screen with world, worldview and perception; note that the experiment is real but the leap to slides is his. [0:06:34] [0:08:54] [0:10:31]
apply Evidence: do Desk work 1; write what you misread in others, what you misread in the world, and one thing you do differently because of it. [0:11:21] [0:13:24] [0:14:11] [0:14:56]
apply Evidence: recall an unfair remark made to you or by you; apply the test and write the result in two sentences. [0:15:51] [0:16:43]
analyse Evidence: answer review questions 3 and 4; state the conflict (heart-mind unity makes outer intention work, yet he credits it with negative slides); give one gap in the Lautrec story. [0:16:43] [0:17:33] [0:19:19] [0:20:17] [0:21:17]
explain Evidence: take the slide from 8.3 and write what you stop doing and where attention goes. [0:23:15] [0:24:01] [0:24:43]
apply Evidence: do Desk work 2; answer review question 5. [0:25:28] [0:26:26] [0:27:28] [0:28:14] [0:29:27]
analyse Evidence: state the two senses he uses (worthiness; knowing, not believing); give one rival explanation for the oligarchs. [0:32:55] [0:37:11] [0:38:06] [0:38:44] [0:39:44] [0:46:53]
apply Evidence: write the three behaviors of a buyer versus a window shopper, then a rehearsal of your own for something you hesitate to own. [0:41:02] [0:42:46] [0:44:20] [0:46:03]
explain Evidence: answer review question 6; note that he also calls the role type "a slide" (third sense of the word). [0:52:19] [0:53:58] [0:55:04] [0:55:59] [0:57:27]
apply Evidence: do Desk work 3 with your current link only; answer review question 8. [1:07:32] [1:12:23] [1:14:39] [1:15:34] [1:16:30]
analyse Evidence: write the two jobs (widening the comfort zone, moving you); compare his low rating of signs with Chapter VI. [1:06:03] [1:18:05] [1:19:06] [1:19:58]
Readiness check
Answer these without looking anything up.
- What are light, slide and screen in the projector image, and what are the two ways a slide distorts?
- Why does he say a worry about your looks makes laughter sound like mockery?
- What does he say is under every slide, and what does outer intention do with it?
- Why does fighting a negative slide fail, and what do you do instead?
- Why start a positive slide with a reachable version, not an ideal or a copy?
- What is the will to have, and how does it differ from telling yourself "I can afford it"?
- Why does the film type give you someone else's house, and how does the role type differ?
- Which link of a transfer chain do you picture, and why not the later ones?
The next chapter assumes you hold one idea: outer intention gives you only what you allow yourself to have, and a slide held without importance and lived from inside is how the heart learns to agree with the mind.