[Neurons] 2008 Meta Reflection #51

[Dr. Hall]

From:  L. Michael Hall

Nov 17, 2008

Meta Reflection #51

                        

 

       THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ROSETTA STONE 

OF META-STATES

 

                                                

In 1799 the Rosetta Stone was discovered by accident by Napoleon's armies.
And with the discovery of that stone, the mysteries of Egyptian
hieroglyphics began to be unlocked.  This was possible because the stone
contained the same message in two languages and three alphabets, two of
which scholars already understood.  This meant that the hidden code of
hieroglyphics could be broken so that with the code the ancient world was
opened to be explored in a new way.

 

Similarly the Meta-States model has provided a new way to unlock the code of
all of the meta-language that evolved over the centuries for our higher
levels of awareness, for our Meta-Life.  For millennia the human race had
been trying to come up with the language for describing the meta-levels of
the mind, for the "realities" that we live in and deal with, but which do
not exist empirically.  We live in this higher realm which is an evaluative
rather than descriptive realm.  It is created by the human mind through the
way we draw conclusions, abstract, and conceptualize.  And it exists at that
level, not at the primary level.

 

This means that whenever you talk about "beliefs," "values,"
"understandings," "concepts," "intentions," "memories," "imaginations,"
"models," "permissions," "prohibitions," and use a hundred other terms
similar to these-you are talking about the higher levels of the mind.  You
are talking about the "logical levels" of your Meta-Life.

 

But the referents of these words are not real.  And they do not exist-well,
at least they do not exist "out there" in the world.  You can't go to
Walmart and buy these things.  You can't ask the attendant, "Where do you
keep new beliefs; mine are worn out."  "What aisle is 'values' on?"  "I need
a pound or two of some higher intentions."  You can't put these meta-terms
in a wheelbarrow-the NLP test for nominalizations.  You can't weigh them,
measure them, take pictures of them-no empirical see-hear-feel test will be
able to identify these things.

 

And that's not only because they are not things, they also do not exist at
the primary dimension.  Their referent exist in the meta-dimensions of your
meta-life.  And further, this is where all of us mostly live our lives-we
live in meta-land.  We live our lives seeing each other and the world and
the things we do through the lens of our beliefs.  We shop by making our
choices through the lens of our values.  We relate and get along with each
other, or don't, and have fights and arguments through the lens of
understandings, memories, imaginations, and all of the other hundred
meta-terms.  In Neuro-Semantics, we refer to these meta-terms as the
psycho-logical levels (following Alfred Korzybski) and use the four
Meta-Dimensions model to detail out the numerous Meta-Questions that this
model gives rise to.

 

As a psychological Rosetta Stone, the Meta-States model explains how we
create level-upon-level of layers of thoughts-and-emotions to create these
psycho-logical levels.  And Meta-States also shows how that each of these
"layers" or "levels" of these processes are simultaneously "the same thing."
That is, they offer us multiple points of view of the same thing-the
subjective experience.  (This is the point of the Diamond of Consciousness
diagram.)

 

Consider the experience or meta-state of "joyful learning."  Is that a
belief?  Do you believe in joyfully learning?  Is it a value?  To you value
joyfully learning?  Is it a memory?  An imagination?  A concept?  A
decision?  An identity?  Are you a joyful learner?  A permission?  A plan?
It is all of these and many, many other meta-levels and it is all of these
at the same time from different perspectives.

 

So what is a "belief?"  One way we define a belief is to say that it is a
confirmed thought.  And that takes it to a meta-level from primary level
thoughts or awarenesses.  And as a meta-level generalization, it is also
many other things-a value, an understanding, a concept, a permission, a
thought, an emotion, a meaning, etc.  The Meta-State Model as a
Psychological Rosetta Stone now gives us an extended vocabulary and alphabet
so that we can talk about and give expanded descriptions of the higher
realms of the human mind and spirit.  It gives us a redundancy about the
layers of our meaning frames in our mind (our Matrix) so that we can open up
a belief system and work with it using the language of permission, decision,
value, identity, meaning, and so on.

 

So a belief may be a belief about the importance of something (a value), a
belief about the direction to take (a decision), a belief about one's
self-definition (an identity), a belief about the allowance or dis-allowance
(permission or prohibition), and so on.  In this, it is beliefs all the way
up.  

 

Now we realize that each of the words that we have considered different
logical levels are just different languages for the same thing-a Rosetta
Stone enabling us to translate one "logical level" in terms of another.

 

And of course, you can always learn about this psychological Rosetta Stone
via the APG training (Accessing Personal Genius) or NLP Master Practitioner
as delivered by Neuro-Semantic Trainers, or through the foundational book on
the Meta-States Model, the new third edition of Meta-States (2008).

 

To the decoding and higher levels of management of your Meta-Life!

 

 

 

 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

International Society of Neuro-Semantics

Meta-Coach Training System

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