[Neurons] 2016 "Neurons" The Psychologicsal Rosetta Stone of Meta-States

Sun Mar 20 16:31:24 EDT 2016

From: L. Michael Hall

2016 "Neurons" Meta Reflections - #12

March 21, 2016

Meta-States "Genius" Series (APG) #17

        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 Rosetta
Stone contained the same message in two languages and three alphabets, two
of which scholars already understood.  This immediately 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.

The Meta-States Model operates in a similar way.  The similarity is that the
Meta-States Model today provides 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 has 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.  We live in a realm that 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.

Yet the referents of these words are not real.  They do not exist-well, at
least they do not exist "out there" in the world.  You can't go to Wal-Mart
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.

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.  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 that we have in the APG manual.)

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.

What then is a "belief?"  Using Meta-States, we define a belief as a
confirmed thought.  That takes it to a meta-level from the primary level.
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.

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 you can discover that each of the words that have been 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.

If you want to learn about this psychological Rosetta Stone do so via the
Accessing Personal Genius (APG) training or in the NLP Master Practitioner
delivered by Neuro-Semantic Trainers.  Or you can read about it in the book
Meta-States (2008).  The good news is that when you do, you are learning to
decoding the higher levels of your meta-life which gives you many more tools
for self-management and self-leadership.

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