The Folly of Problem SolvingWritten by Tom Horn
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The second problem with problem solving is that problem solver’s life self-organizes in such a way that, without realizing it, he lives myth of Greek hero Hercules. Remember Hercules making a stand against monstrous Hydra, chopping off its ‘heads’ only to be surprised by more problem ‘heads’ growing at other locations on body. The actions of Hercules and problem solver merely generate more problems – somewhere. Life in round is not enhanced in any way. Our world divides itself into various ‘levels’. There is a predictable ‘level’ to which laws of science apply and which we are exploiting to provide all items of technology. This is realm of problem solver, where, unfortunately, his solutions often become new problems. He thus keeps himself in business indefinitely. However, there is also an inherently surprising ‘level’ of world. This encompasses daily interactions of people and, because this ‘level’ self-organizes in an inherently surprising way, it is magical. Within this everyday ‘level’ of reality it is practical to abandon folly of problem solving and simply choose life you would prefer. Although you must first choose a goal, it would have to emerge as a surprise. For this reason it would be necessary to live creatively using a STRATEGY FOR GETTING NICE SURPRISES. If an advanced and friendly race of people from another planet were to contact us here on earth, first thing they would divulge is this magical method. You can also find it revealed in various esoteric texts like New Testament Gospels and in works on Taoism.
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Another classic example of a living trend is one that is described in New Testament Gospels and which gripped life of Jesus. He, unlike ordinary person, appeared to be fully aware of 'power' in which he was caught up and did nothing to save himself from negative surprise to come. To possess a mind programmed with half truth makes you available to living trends without your being aware of it. Your days at school furnished you with imperfect knowledge of how world of everyday life functions and you naturally became a sitting duck for passing living trends. These living trends are ‘powers’, ‘forces’ or vortexes of disembodied ‘intent’. Science knows nothing of them and yet they most definitely operate a blind conspiracy against whole human race, causing individuals and nations to fall from grace. Living trends are just waiting for us to stray across inner thresholds within ourselves. A threshold is crossed when we stray: from ‘preference’ into ‘desire’; from ‘love’ into ‘lust’; from ‘caution’ into ‘fear’; from ‘courage’ into ‘recklessness’; from ‘gentleness’ into ‘weakness’; from ‘freedom’ into ‘anarchy’; from ‘thrift’ into ‘greed’; from ‘respect’ into ‘servility’; from ‘ambition’ into ‘ruthlessness’; from ‘friendship’ into ‘infatuation’; from ‘confidence’ into ‘ego mania’ etc. We don’t choose to cross these invisible lines. Instead, we have diminished responsibility because we do not understand threat posed by living trends. There are limits to all development and as soon as we cross a given threshold we expose ourselves to being drafted by a living trend into a madcap excursion whose destination is a negative surprise. Individuals, nations and species have been driven to extinction because they did not understand this one thing. There is however a single hope and that is putting into practice of an unwritten law that hides behind visible appearance of world. That law says 'Tap world lightly’. It is a hidden law that I personally would like to write across sky in great big letters: ‘DO NOT GO BEYOND WHAT IS JUST ENOUGH’. Here endeth lesson.
For information on a Strategy for Getting Nice Surprises visit Tom Horn's website at: http://www.angelfire.com/ab4/goldenflower/
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