1. The Instinctive Level is the first level to get programmed, starting at birth, or
even before. This is the level of physical nurturing and physical health and well-being -
cuddling, being held, nursed and cared for. Normally this level is primarily programmed by
your mother first, and by your other early caregivers. How they care for you is the basis
of the unconscious programming in this level which will effect how you deal with and feel
about this part of yourself all your life.
2. Your Sexual Level. Even as a baby you begin to discover this area and explore it, and
how those around you respond to this, as well as their attitudes about sex and sexuality,
and whatever activities in this level go on around you, are the beginning of your
programming in this level. Later society's statements, overt and subtle, about sex and
sexuality, and your peers responses and attitudes, will add to this early programming.
3. Imitative. Again the programming starts almost immediately, as the infant attempts to
imitate the facial expressions and sounds, and then the actions, of those around. The
amount of behaviors that are learned through imitation is phenomenal. By the time the
child gets to school, the element of reward and punishment has been added to this level of
programming. Those who imitate well are rewarded and those who do not are generally
punished.
4. The Emotional Level. This level needs lots of free time and space of doing nothing
in particular, with no commitments, in order to develop. This is the part that lives
totally in the moment (existential timing); it is where that feeling of joy just to be
alive comes from, like you felt as a child when you woke up and the whole world was new
again, with endless possibilities. Some of us as adults do not even remember having those
feelings, but if your emotional level is open, you can feel that way now. Also from the
emotional level come feelings of deep love and connection, and the knowledge of what you
want to do, on a deep level - not as a reaction to your programming, but from within
yourself. It is pretty rare in our society for this level to stay open past childhood, or
to develop. Summerhill, where the kids were free to do whatever they wanted (with
responsibility taught through a democratic process) produced adults who were maybe less
than the average population on the
"success" (imitative) level, i.e. fewer doctors and lawyers, more mechanics and
gardeners, BUT they were way ahead of the average population in their emotional
development - happier and more fulfilled. An overload of imitative life, and linear
timing, (among other things) will cause the emotional life to shut down and not continue
to develop.
5. The Intellectual Level. This level involves a type of thinking that most people never
learn how to do, very different from the thinking which comes from the imitative level or
the simple filing and
rearranging of facts. It works through the triad of Describe,
Compare and Evaluate. When you start using those three processes to think about any
subject, your thinking develops and expands and it is totally different from
"ordinary" thinking. This is a level which cannot develop without effort, and
being taught or mentored in this way of thinking, so in most people it never even begins
to develop.
6. The Higher Emotional Level. This is the spiritual level, however you conceive it. What
you've been taught about religion is not part of this level, that is in the imitative.
This is where your actual spiritual
feelings come from, feelings of compassion, oneness with the universe, eternity,
understandings about life beyond the physical plane. Also many types of intuition,
telepathy, premonitions, etc. come from this level.
7. The Higher Intellectual Level. This is the level from which you perceive how the
universe operates, what the cosmic laws are, "the universal unconscious" of
Jung, or the akashic records. A flash of
insight into your soul's purpose in this life, or about your karma, would come from this
level. When Einstein understood all that he eventually reduced and translated to the
imitative level as e=mc2, he
was in the Higher Intellectual level. Levels 6 & 7 are non-verbal, since language is
an imitative function, so in order to talk about experiences in these levels, it is
necessary to reduce the experience. Physicists eventually understood some of what Einstein
had seen, by studying the
reduced statement he gave them, but it was of course only a portion of the totality he
saw/understood.
The first three levels - Instinctive, Sexual, and Imitative - are programmed by outside
forces - parents, teachers, your culture, your peers, etc. Whether the next two develop or
not depends on the individual's circumstances - the Emotional level requires lots of free
time and space, the Intellectual level requires exposure to and practice in the use of the
triad of Describe/Compare/Evaluate. The last two - Higher Emotional and Higher
Intellectual - are fully formed and functioning all the time,
but whether or not we are in contact with them is the question. Simply becoming aware that
you have these seven levels, and that you need to be responsible to all of them, will
start to open up new elements in your life. If you take the step of rating your seven
levels everyday, you will be feeding into your internal "computer" inputs
based on your own evaluations, which, over time, will replace and override the programs
put in by outside forces.
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