The Great Fours

T H E   F O U R   G R E A T   Q U E S T I O N S

What am I?
Where am I?
What’s going on here?
What can I do, if anything?

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T H E   F O U R   F O R C E S

INITIATIVE
First Force
Intelligence, Inspiration, Biological Factor, LIFE

 RESISTANCE
Second Force
Always arises to meet Initiative in opposition, as opponents in a game, (a challenge)
not “bad” but seen so when the purpose of living is to be non-disturbed because
Resistance may be uncomfortable.
Resistance is required for anything to develop.

FORM
Third Force

Can be a person, place, thing or event.
The manifestation of the play
of Initiative and Resistance, producing:

RESULT
Fourth Force

The response (more usually reaction) to the above.

Click here for a diagram "The Four Forces in Motion"

T H E   F O U R   G R E A T   G A M E S
That operate
by suggestion (a threat or a promise)

 POWER POLICIES—Decrees what’s “in” and “out”
MEDICAL ARTS—Decrees what’s “normal” and “abnormal”
THEOLOGY—Decrees what’s “good” and “bad”
BIG BUSINESS—Decrees what’s “pretty” and “ugly”

Definition of SUGGESTION: a threat or a promise; anything
presented with or evoking a threat or promise.

A human being is 100% SUBJECT TO suggestion, 100% of the time,
but is FREE TO IGNORE IT.

T H E   F O U R   D U A L   B A S I C   U R G E S

 

LEVEL                                                               GAIN            ESCAPE
PHYSICAL
                                                    Comfort,            Pain,
                                                                        Pleasure            Discomfort
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MENTAL
                                                     Attention            Being ignored
                                                                                                    or
rejected
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EMOTIONAL                                             Approval            Disapproval
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WILL-TO-POWER
                               Being needed            Feeling inferior
Or TRANSCENDENTAL           Feeling important            Feeling Useless

 

The Four Dual Basic Urges are not “right/wrong” or “good/bad” or “do/don’t do”.
They are simply byproducts or side effects of living, not the whole purpose of living.
Because all humans are subject to all the Four Dual Basic Urges, when they are made
the whole purpose of living (unconsciously, beginning during the uncomfortable birth
process) they have to result in conflict—one wants all the “gain” side and none of the
“escape” side, and this is not possible on planet Earth. THE WAY of Intelligence
is not to self-improve by rejecting the Four Dual Basic Urges; THE WAY is to
observe self and one’s reactions to them, checking to see if
they are the purpose of living—of not.
They will come up and can be ignored if one chooses.

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T H E   F O U R   W A Y S   O F   M A N

THE WAY OF THE JUNGLE
Destroy anything that is in front of me and about to interfere.

 THE WAY OF JUSTICE, THE WAY OF THE LAW
“An eye for an eye”—not “Your life for an eye”

THE WAY OF UNDERSTANDING
That whatever any person including myself has done, is doing, will do, is felt at
the time of doing to be right or proper or justified with the light he has at that moment.

 THE WAY OF INTELLIGENCE
Aware of one’s Purpose of Living, making a new one that is advantageous,
the will to do it—Knowing what I am, where I am, what’s gong on, and what I can do.
In charge of my inner state of being.

T H E   P I C T U R E   O F   M A N

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