SOLID GROUND

Exploring the full potential of our humanity is vital to our civilisation's future.

Every animal uses them everyday. Animals don't believe in them for them to work, and we don't have to. This is a natural way of being. It isn't a religion.

Paramic sensing IS a hidden potential – and evolution's basic balance in life.

It's a human birthright which we have neglected. It can be re-learnt in a few weeks instead of years (or lifetimes) of meditation and psychotherapy.

Paraming makes focused activity safe. Paraming makes focused thinking safe.

When alternated, the two ways of sensing form a near perfect balance.

Paramic and focused sensing are not opposites, they are very closely related. I'm talking about a feeling of balance with two feet firmly on solid earth. (If anything dreamless sleep is opposite to both.)

Paraming and focusing are like two good friends walking along together. Focusing does all the talking and decides which way to go. Paraming walks infront to check the way is clear. Without paraming, focusing would talk to itself and get lost.

From a focused point of view, we will think we need to 'let go' of focusing to find the balance; but then we will be focusing on 'letting go'. From the paramic perspective we just need to start sensing paramically, being directly aware of life as a whole.

My rational explanations are only a shell. With paramic sensing we can actually feel how our one sided feeling for life, is working.

All you need is enough curiosity and self-discipline to spend 5 minutes every day for 3 weeks learning how to do nothing except copying vulnerable animals when they are being paramically aware.

But the essence of the problem is, that one thought follows the next automatically, we think that's natural, it isn't. It's an illness only humans have. Humans don't realise how easy it is to stop thinking.

The key point is that thinking and wanting are dependent on focusing.

Every other animal has frequent short intense interruptions when they stop focusing and therefore stop thinking. They stop still and wait empty minded and pre-emptively open to any stimuli. At these times, if they want anything, it is only to remain safe.

Pre-emptive paramic listening interrupts our chronic preoccupation with thinking. And this thinking is almost always relative to our central ego. Paramic listening breaks the backbone of the ego-habit.

“I” won't be forgotten but there's been a pause, a break in the habitual routine, it's not neurotic anymore.

Paramic listening stops our internal chatter, and paramic vision reveals the world as an integrated whole.

At first we might only be able to enter this new space for a split second at a time. Ideas and feelings will rush into the vacuum. But imagine you're a mouse and life is full of danger, it's essential to find that space inside again and be purely receptive. It's the only way to feel safe in paramic reality.

Buddhism explains the illusion we suffer of trying to find fulfilment and security through attachments – this is an illusion, because of impermanence and change.

With paramic sensing, we witness impermanence and change as normal and there is fulfilment and security in just being open to and sensing it.

Predatory animals coordinate both modes of sensing. Coordination is very clever, it has an aura of doing something special which will inevitably appeal to some people.

But our culture doesn't need any more cleverness or egoism.

The pure safe method is to alternate as vulnerable animals do.

In addition, even by rational logical reasoning, the ability to param in its purest safest form, is indispensible to learn separately and first, before any realistic combination can be made.

Paramic awareness directly stops the never ending patterns of thinking and wanting which are causing the pace of life to overrun our modern cultures.

Being in intimate contact with the environment without wanting, couteracts all our normal focused habits involving having a purpose and self-justification.

The paramic experience has no concept of individual success and achievement, no sense of individual pride.

It is a state of consciousness where egoism is not possible. It interrupts the compulsive ego-habit for a moment. It's a time and space to appreciate something other than just "me".

Paramic reality is an awareness of everything happening, and how on earth could we ever hope to develop a sympathy or empathy for everything without being aware of it. It's probably the only realistic way to generate feelings for the common good.

This is a way of sensing the world which unifies all creatures, and people of all cultures at a fundamental level.

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