To start, Deeper Layering is all about wellness, accomplishing a goal, learning, and/or well-adjustedness. So, first, for the sake of effectiveness while applying this technique, it is advisable to choose one of the governing ideas in the first paragraphs below and go from there as a beginning point. For clarification, these governing ideas can be described as over-arching or filtering, as the content that a practitioner applies in Deeper Layering often, or even always, is shaped on their basis, under their underlying structure. Undoubtedly, there are more of these that can be found elsewhere among the writings in this site.

 

One filtering principle is for the content to be applied based either on obvious insight or by more complex insight, like cleverness vs. cunning. For this practitioner, the more obvious means, the cleverness, which can also be described as simple, commonplace, or animal, is more common, while the cunning requires more of what the Master, the Black-belt has. A very potent variety of – thinking in order to find good, effective content – is by casting that content in terms of metaphors, dreams, and images. A Master of this kind of thinking was a 20th century psychologist that wrote abundantly to create a whole discipline of psychology and a specific means of psychotherapy. His name was Carl Jung and he founded several academies that specially train his successors to be what they call Jungian Analysts. This trifecta of visceral material – metaphors, dreams, and images – which is used abundantly by Jungian Analyts, can be simple or complex – as metaphors can play into other metaphors, as dreams can start with an image but then play out into a little story full of images, and as images can have just a little, or quite a bit of color and detail.

 

One of Jung's major ideas was the idea, used also in other disciplines and by other Psychologists, of Gestalts, which is that a subject practitioner repeatedly experiences specific events under one theme of consciousness or life until he/she somehow surpasses it, kind of like the Eastern belief-system of karma. Hence the term, Gestalt Therapy, which employs just this same trifecta of content in order to help the subject through one or more theme, so that he/she can complete one or more goals and become more well or more complete. For a few examples of some commonplace, but remarkably potent trifecta instances, there exist content like: breathing underwater, fighting fluidly, dancing blissfully, flying in an airplane, hovering from one building to another, running up a mountain like a goat, wearing clothes, feeling marked passion or pain, swimming across a river, feeling the sensations of air, fire, bone, grass, tree-bark (like the meta-substances discussed in, Resonance), and on and on.

 

Next, then, not as a separate governing idea, but rather as a special use of our trifecta, there is the possibility of finding Deeper Layering content not just in common archetypes of the mind (like the ones listed just above) – but in ones that are of the more transcendent kind. While so far our trifecta can be more mundane or everyday, like Slow Thinking, it seems to this writer, so far, that they are much more of the Fast Thinking family. But paradoxically, the transcendent kind of metaphor, dream, or image seem/s to have the qualities of being neither of Slow nor Fast Thinking, of being distinctively, remarkably, and somehow Other, of being penetrating, of being memorable, of being and occurring in fewer quantity, and more of the like – it is very hard to describe the transcendent kind of trifecta content. And it seems that they are very hard to find, but often highly inspiring and incredibly valuable.

 

Moving on, the Law of Attraction, discussed in many of the writings herein, is a pretty good principle to use in this kind of Layering, mentioned despite the fact that it is something your writer is still working on. It references a consciousness phenomenon when internal actions contribute to the partial causation of, manipulation of, or full causation of specific external events. Of course, Quantum Physics teaches us by means of the concept that internal and external are not separate, or are the same. And it seems that this is why sensations repeated in the external world, at least for this writer, sometimes feel the same as things internal. But even for this practitioner, seemingly so far from Black-belt mind, there are several specific themes that exist on both sides of perception (internal and external), although there is a bit of confusion since those external events, for many pracititioners, happen spontaneously without anything like a deliberate command – that is, since these events happen in a way all lefty, or in yin of mind. Why is that?

 

Furthermore, also instrumental to this perception that things internal effect those external are a handful of meta-substances (see Resonance) that describe your writer's consciousness best, a little like the way astrological symbols work. These specific understandings of what materials feel like to look at or touch – perhaps warmth of the belly, perhaps metal, perhaps water – have been just one knowledge bridge that has connected his mind with what is undeniably “mystical.” And the joy of these kinds of insights, of matching them with oneself, and of witnessing an appearance of just this kind of internal to the external, is just one good reason why part of life's purpose should be to explore and gather knowledge and wisdom. The process is highly blissful. Put simply, this knowledge and wisdom generate things from the Superconscious and increase happiness.

 

Concurrently, the Law of Attraction does especially well when considered while remembering the best, worst, most shaping and influential, and otherwise most memorable experiences of a practitioner's life. That is, there are ways of applying examples of the healthy thoughts, feelings, needs, desires, or sensations that repeat, sometimes by easy parallels converted into trifecta form, and sometimes by parallels that are more difficult to find or come up with, also in trifecta form. And, here, remember the possible principles of clever vs. cunning. Perhaps those repetitions – as many as all of them, even – are spontaneous instances of a practitioner's Superconscious mysteriously applying the power it happens to have to effect such external events, outside of the pracititioner's perception! Of course, the first appearance of such a consciousness event – a mere thought, for instance – could be an appearance of Deeper Layering working on its own – but there also is the more deliberate kind, which could be a second or later appearance. These latter examples can both be applied on purpose in trifecta form, even when there is a spontaneous appearance in the next following moment of one or more deliberate appearances. It appears to this writer that these are the central, or most common, sequences of this kind of Layering.

 

Of course, simply thinking about things in terms of this law is another form of this kind of layering. And this is at least for the sake of simply remembering what Superconscious stuff is most relevant to a given practitioner. Of course, for the sake of the Lesser, of Slow Thinking, of Moderation, sometimes it is prudent when thinking in these terms, or reflecting in this way, to include these three important experience-types with the chosen Superconscious content – while simultaneously not desiring too much after the more frequent and habitual parts of Superconscious material. And, additionally, it is advantageous to attend to the metaphors, dreams, images, that are somehow hidden, or inadvertently ignored – they are important, too, as one of the many function layers found in the writings of your website. It seems that their purpose is to be routinely attended to in passing.

 

Another advantageous, deliberate reflection is to study and find patterns and trends that occur through the course of chosen sample time periods. These especially include childhood or young adult experience, a time when themes repeat themselves or appear in meaningful sequences. It also looks to this practitioner that many of us share in internal themes with others – even or especially when it very much seems that everyone is different. Perhaps that is why Jung, and others no doubt, created the term, Collective Unconscious. To be more specific in this kind of studying, it is good to analyze the thoughts, feelings, intuitions that occurred during days and weeks before the best experiences of one's life. Funneling mere awareness, like thinking or reflection, for example, into such parts of the mind and psyche has been known to be enough to move mountains. And studying about the imperfections or vices, too, is important if not essential, like knowing oneself, like knowing about the psychological complex/es that are in one's nature.

 

Gathering this kind of knowledge about oneself or about others – of knowing about patterns, vices, weaknesses, virtues, goings-on, etc. – can be done by means of thinking, reflective, cerebral, or intellectual means. And this is a deliberate version of Deeper Layering, as above, it being that an interested party can do it at will. It is an example of knowing about what is in the background of their consciousness, knowing about what is going on in there, in the subconscious, in the conscious, in the Spirit, the Lesser, the Superconscious, and/or the psyche. But, while this kind of valuable knowledge that has been gathered sits in the background, sort of floating, entering in and out of the conscious mind, perhaps touching or entering the other parts of one's consciousness – there does exist an even more active and conscious family of Deeper Layering that has the same effects and is just as highly valued as these yin concsiousness workings. For instance, believing that there will be some effect, it is clever for a practitioner that likes the element of earth to imagine holding a treebranch or a clump of grass, and then to project the image onto bodyparts that seem relevant to it, like the feet or the knee.

 

This use of our magic trifecta can be described as, made into the like of, a video game. And with repetition its significance increases. There are endless possibilities. One can use any of the five senses in any of many ways, and can use them by means of cleverness or of cunning. They can be played slowly or quickly. The imagination can add or subtract. It can receive or project. And, perhaps, then, the imagination is another larger part of human consciousness, just like the subconscious and the psyche. It does seem to be fact that all three elements of our trifecta can funnel through the imagination. And it is in this way that the use of a consciousness place that is somewhere between the body and the mind, composed of energy, if you wish, becomes relevant or important.

 

Meta-substances, and other things like earth, water, fire, listed here and there in these writings, can be the object of an imagination game by means of our trifecta. And while there surely are techniques and tools that are cerebral, it seems that the Layering content of the relevant trifecta objects most often has emotional or feeling nature. Or an image from the trifecta that happens to be of our Transcendent kind can be used; as it seems that the body thinks, it could be projected and held on the heart organ, or can be imagined to be connected to a bite of spaghetti with tomato sauce and eaten, which could be said, as many people wouldn't think of it, to be a cunning way of consuming units of the life force, or of catalyzing just a little bit of very deep processing. How then can this game be turned to a goal's advantage? How is one layer combined with others? How are the ones currently in action detected, defined, and used? How can the complexes a thinker finds be worked, destroyed, or accepted? How can a Deep Layerer have fun while doing it? And how can Deep Layering be combined with Conscious Layering?