The knowledge you hold within yourself is connected to the very fabric of life because that is what you are, quite literally, made of. You have an innate understanding of the workings of your body, the earth and the universe you inhabit. All life on earth carry the same imprint or genetic makeup only 30% marking the biggest difference between some species, with as little as 2% between humans and chimps, and only 8% difference between us and mice. This tells me one important thing, even the smallest difference in genetic sequencing can be a major difference in function and design. In humans the difference is technically infinitesimal with only .1% offering individual cataloging of race, gender as well as ancestry and yet unlike chimps and mice we like to think of ourselves as individuals. Psychological testing has proven again and again over many years that we are as predictable as mice in pretty much any environment that we have been consistently required to respond to stimuli or an absence of stimuli, we have proven so predictable that multinational corporations have made immense amounts of money exploiting these tendencies. This is not a political statement, it is one of awareness, it also shows it is not the result of upbringing if the same methods work across different nationalities as well as for those who hold differing beliefs and values. It seems we have not outgrown the value/reward motivations that drive mice to allow themselves to be hurt to gain a nominal amount of cheese. The difference between us and mice is not that 8% it is our knowledge that the testing we undertake IS testing, it is not survival for us and yet we are still driven by the same motivation as the mouse as if our very lives depended on it.
The Hawthorn effect describes the changes in behaviour that are apparent when a person knows they are being studied, these studies were conducted in work situations where there is a perceived interest but just as important, perhaps more so, those being studies know their performance will be related back to their employer, As many of these types of studies do, they just ignore the obvious, that is the very real possibility of reward for good behaviours and a consequence for not doing your job, the pseudo intellectual arguing over the merits of any study where the subject knows they are being studied rarely seem to include the natural tendency to please the the observer or those who may have access to the information. University studies are so well versed in the antics of subjects to please or give 'correct' rather than true answers, that they devise some very interesting groups of questions and time limits on answering in an attempt to subvert our attempts to please them. What does all this mean really? It means we are so predictable in our responses that clever devices are needed to find the true you or the true result of any testing, it means that no matter how much you know about what is going on, there is a tendency to play things in a way that give you a reward by pleasing someone else, even when there is no actual reward in play. In other words, we just don't think.
The very skill we are proud of, the one that we say makes us different from animals, the ability to adjust our thinking, analyze and problem solve beyond a survival instinct, seems to be dormant in the face of reward, any kind of reward, Spiritually speaking we are sold a reward in heaven and a damning in hell and like the mice taking electric shocks to achieve their reward becoming less and less intimidated by the pain, we are prepared to accept the pain to get what we see as the reward. there is not one area of life that this motivation doesn't affect, To move past this idea some spiritual idealists deny the need for any material reward and see this as evolved without ever considering the very act of voluntarily enslaving yourself to your belief is seeking the reward, this may be absolution, reincarnation or heaven, it doesn't really matter. What happens if you can move beyond reward, beyond 'I deserve'. More and more the teachings involve the word deserve, too often I hear spiritual counselors advising their listeners that they deserve all the good things in life, there is nothing to feel guilty about along with forgiveness of others and self. What a dis empowering teaching for surely that means anyone who does not have their hearts desire does NOT deserve it in some way, that someone who has guilt has no reason for it nor responsibility for their actions in the past or the present. Perhaps all we need to learn in the modern day is to think, to use what we have learned to be creative rather than exercising an ongoing principle of denial that is so prevalent with those seeking ascension, evolution and what they deserve.
The Hawthorn effect describes the changes in behaviour that are apparent when a person knows they are being studied, these studies were conducted in work situations where there is a perceived interest but just as important, perhaps more so, those being studies know their performance will be related back to their employer, As many of these types of studies do, they just ignore the obvious, that is the very real possibility of reward for good behaviours and a consequence for not doing your job, the pseudo intellectual arguing over the merits of any study where the subject knows they are being studied rarely seem to include the natural tendency to please the the observer or those who may have access to the information. University studies are so well versed in the antics of subjects to please or give 'correct' rather than true answers, that they devise some very interesting groups of questions and time limits on answering in an attempt to subvert our attempts to please them. What does all this mean really? It means we are so predictable in our responses that clever devices are needed to find the true you or the true result of any testing, it means that no matter how much you know about what is going on, there is a tendency to play things in a way that give you a reward by pleasing someone else, even when there is no actual reward in play. In other words, we just don't think.
The very skill we are proud of, the one that we say makes us different from animals, the ability to adjust our thinking, analyze and problem solve beyond a survival instinct, seems to be dormant in the face of reward, any kind of reward, Spiritually speaking we are sold a reward in heaven and a damning in hell and like the mice taking electric shocks to achieve their reward becoming less and less intimidated by the pain, we are prepared to accept the pain to get what we see as the reward. there is not one area of life that this motivation doesn't affect, To move past this idea some spiritual idealists deny the need for any material reward and see this as evolved without ever considering the very act of voluntarily enslaving yourself to your belief is seeking the reward, this may be absolution, reincarnation or heaven, it doesn't really matter. What happens if you can move beyond reward, beyond 'I deserve'. More and more the teachings involve the word deserve, too often I hear spiritual counselors advising their listeners that they deserve all the good things in life, there is nothing to feel guilty about along with forgiveness of others and self. What a dis empowering teaching for surely that means anyone who does not have their hearts desire does NOT deserve it in some way, that someone who has guilt has no reason for it nor responsibility for their actions in the past or the present. Perhaps all we need to learn in the modern day is to think, to use what we have learned to be creative rather than exercising an ongoing principle of denial that is so prevalent with those seeking ascension, evolution and what they deserve.
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