Electra: Persistence And Because

PERSISTENCE AND BECAUSE

EXM - 51
24 March 1992

Persistence of condition is caused by misassignment of cause.

Let's say you want to create something horrible. So you create it. Your WANT came first and THEN your creation.

The thing exists and is horrible BECAUSE you WANTED it to exist and be horrible. That is the truth. The thing you created is a CONDITION. If you create it again, a perfect duplicate, or you just continue to create it as it is and then let go of it, it will vanish.

But now let's say you claim that you WANT it BECAUSE it is horrible. This is a reversal of cause. You are saying it exists out there and is horrible, THEREFORE you want it. You have made it cause and you effect. Your WANT is caused by its being there and being horrible. Why would you want something horrible you didn't make? Well to get you out of school or war maybe.

Or let's say you claim that you DON'T WANT it BECAUSE it is horrible. This is also a reversal of cause. You are saying it is horrible THEREFORE you don't want it. Again you have made it cause and you effect. Your DISWANT is caused by its being there and being horrible.

     Something that EXISTS BECAUSE YOU WANT IT is a CONDITION.
     Something that YOU WANT BECAUSE IT EXISTS is a SOLUTION.
     Something that YOU DON'T WANT BECAUSE IT EXISTS is a PROBLEM.

The only difference between a CONDITION and a SOLUTION or a PROBLEM is the direction of the BECAUSE.

Saying that something exists because you want it is the truth and will cause a vanishment of that condition.

Saying that you want something because it exists is assigning it cause and you effect and will cause a persistence of the wanted condition.

Saying that you don't want something because it exists is assigning it cause and you effect and will cause a persistence of the unwanted condition.

Thus conditions become solutions which become problems.

     First you say, IT IS BECAUSE I WANT IT.       (CONDITION)
     Then you say, I WANT IT BECAUSE IT IS.        (SOLUTION)
     Then you say, I DON'T WANT IT BECAUSE IT IS.  (PROBLEM)

And THAT is the anatomy of a trap.

How do you audit this? Well all that is wrong with your pc is his constellation of unwanted conditions, his 'problems'. Each problem was at one time a solution for him, and before that it was just a condition he wanted and made.

Take his stuffed nose.

What has he used his stuffed nose to SOLVE? Here it is a SOLUTION to him, something he used to help him deal with an earlier problem that he did not deal with directly. His stuffed nose is a condition he is presently pretending he did not make, but exists none the less, and he WANTS it because it gets him out of school, or homework, or out from under the eye of a cold mother or a colder Eternity.

Later in life, long after his cold mother lies in a warm grave, he can't sleep at night because he can't breath through his nose. His mouth dries out and he snores incessantly, and his life is a wreck because he can't get any rest. Now his stuffed nose is a problem to him, something 'he did not create', but exists none the less and he DOESN'T WANT IT because it is ruining his life and his marriage because his wife has to sleep in the next state.

So now you run, "What has he used to SOLVE his stuffed nose?" Nose sprays, picking at it, chlorotrimeton, water, cigarettes, pot, allergy doctors, injections, chainsaws, etc.

As he runs off all the things he used to SOLVE his stuffed nose, and all the things he used his stuffed nose to solve, his stuffed nose will leave being a problem and a solution behind and come back to being a condition. At which point he will be willing and able to make it again and have it vanish.

You see as a solution, he wants to have it PERSIST. He wants to get out from under school or war or mother dear, so he wants it to persist, but to do this he must really avoid making it responsibly because that would cause it to vanish. Thus he has to pretend he had nothing to do with it. Irresponsibility is a solution to him because it creates solutions that persist for him.

But then the solution becomes a problem, and now he doesn't want to make it because he wants it to go away. But the only way to make it go away is to MAKE it with full responsibility again. Re-operation of an AS-ISNESS causes a vanishment of the condition. Thus his irresponsibility becomes a problem to him because it creates problems that persist for him.

There is NOTHING that does not follow this little piece of idiocy including your persistence in this universe and its time stream. Your persistence started off as a condition, became wanted as a solution, and then became unwanted as a problem. End result, you are a meatball.

Good work.

The way to OT is to audit out these Condition-Solution-Problem cycles and reverse the direction of all BECAUSES that point from the external world (that the pc actually made himself) back towards himself. The direction of cause is a vector, and in truth is ALWAYS from the pc out towards the external universe.

The word BECAUSE is itself sort of a joke, because it means BE CAUSE, yet your pc has been using it forever to do everything but.

Be that as it may, what ever it is, if it is in his dream, he made it. Anytime you find the pc with a cause direction coming in at him from the external world to himself, you know it was once a condition created by him and then made to persist by making it a solution, and then a problem, by ARBITRARILY REVERSING THE CAUSE DIRECTION.

Perhaps your pc is not ready to take responsibility for the stars, but he is certainly ready to take responsibility for his stuffed nose, and his existence in a body. Total responsibility is the cure all for all wanted and unwanted conditions, solutions and problems. Thinking yourself as a body, that you were created OUT of the physical universe BY the physical universe is the ultimate in incoming cause vectors. 'I exist because something out there made me!' This is the bottom of the total responsibility ladder.

Such people inevitably become Scientists, forever trying to find their origins 'out there'.

If they study it long enough they eventually realize that all of 'out there' came from 'in here'. That's when they become OT.

The answer to who done it, is you did it.

Electra