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Welcome to Image-Streaming

A Practical "Talking Paper"

on Image-Streaming Training

by Win Wenger, Ph.D.

The following is a key document prepared for a special training inImage-Streaming. We publish it here in the belief that you also willfind it useful, helpful and informative. This document also plays auseful role in the special Image-Streaming Clinic that ProjectRenaissance conducts periodically in Maryland.

Welcome to Image-Streaming:

Most of this paper serves both as a “talking paper” during our training together,and as a directory showing you where to obtain further information in depth, invarious of the topics relating to Image-Streaming. Further along, this paper willalso serve additional purposes.

Image-Streaming is probably the most sensitive known avenue for consciouslycontacting information and understandings held beyond the focus ofconsciousness. Moreover, building links between the tiny (2% by volume)portion of brain through which we are verbally conscious, with the greater (60-90% by volume!) regions of brain which associates by sensory mental imageryand impression instead of by verbal-conscious concept — linking both theseimportant regions of the brain together through Image-Streaming — brings withit an apparent wide range of striking benefits. To do so, not least of all, enablesone’s conscious mind to more directly engage the main intelligence of most ofhis or her brain.

The Phenomenon:

We are pleased to report the existence of an ongoing natural phenomenon,ever-present in every living human being, but seldom noticed and discussed. Constantly, at back of everyone’s mind but usually little noticed, is an ongoingstream of visual and other sensory mental images and impressions, which



reflexively relates to and serves as an ongoing understanding and commentaryon whatever is going on at the time. Behind this phenomenon:

Forty times as much of the brain is engaged in associating experiences bysensory image, as is the conscious-focused 2% of the brain which associatesby word and word-concept. The verbal-conscious focus part of the brain is trained down to the speed of thelanguage we speak. The rest of the brain works many times more rapidly and sohas time to sort among and relate among one’s lifetime of accumulatedexperiences. This greater part of the brain takes far more into account inarriving comprehensively at its answers and insights, than can our plodding one-thing-at-a-time verbal-conscious brain which, however, is invaluable for bringingsuch awarenesses and perceptions as come its way into the focus provided bylanguage. People have generally referred to this greater portion of brain and mentalfunction as “the unconscious mind,” which term is a bit misleading. This greaterportion of our brain and mind is not “unconscious.” WE may be unconscious butit definitely is not. Referring to it as the Beyond-Conscious would be far moreaccurate than is the common usage referring to it as “the unconscious.” This greater portion of our brain and mind consists of many functions, skills andfeatures many of which contradict most popular descriptions of “theunconscious.” This greater part of the brain, working very comprehensively and very rapidly, iswhere nearly all our understandings, insights and inspirations form, well beforethey ever become conscious for us. Far MORE understandings, insights and inspirations are formed there than everbecome conscious. These are reflexively, constantly, being expressed instreams of sensory images “in the back of the mind.” Tuning in to those images,and developing them in your conscious focus through describing them aloud insensory detail TO a live listener or to a potential listener in the form of an audiorecorder, is Image-Streaming, the process we are here together today toexplore.

Without help, perhaps one third of all people can tune into this simply by lookingfor it. Virtually all the rest of us can also tune into this with a simple step or so ofprocedure as described freely in Image-Streaming One not only has there, free,complete instructions for engaging this major human resource. If one clicksthrough to each linked article encountered there, one will enjoy an entirecurriculum on this extraordinary topic, far beyond what we here can achievetogether in several hours of training. We give you this information so that if youchoose to, you can take this resource and develop your abilities far beyond eventhe applications we get to address together today. The most authoritative andcomprehensive published treatment of Image-Streaming is found, however, inthe CoreBook, Image-Streaming: Reaching the higher powers of your mind, byCharles Roman.



To Image-Stream:

Notice the images now playing in the back of your mind, and

WHILE you are examining them,Describe them aloud in sensory detail to a live listener, or to the potential

listener represented by an audio recorder.Aim to let yourself be surprised by the content which comes up. That is

important to all forms of effective answer-finding and problem-solving, akey way to get past our conscious expectations of what the answer “ought

to be” to where the best answers really are.

More detailed instructions follow below. Here it is important to draw thedistinction between imagery content which is not directly controlled by yourconscious mind, so that your faculties beyond where you are consciouslyfocused can instruct you, and the consciously directed imagery which mostpeople think of when one refers to mental imagery. Directed mental imageryhas its uses and its place, but so does the “spontaneous, undirected” imagerywhich seems to form itself of its own accord, and it is that which we are exploringhere.

Practical Convenience to Image-Streaming:

To connect consciously with this activity of the majority of the brain, brings moreresources more immediately available for conscious use. Since these functionsin the brain, by reflex, associate the most related, most relevant experienceswith what’s currently going on, you may use that “what’s currently going on” todirect questions or focus on problems, and be presented images in his Image-Stream which answer - often ingeniously - those problems or questions. Someof these answers are presented in images which are literal representations,while most appear to be presented as metaphors, bridging sensoryassociations to verbal conscious concept.

Another use for this reflexive relating to “what’s currently going on,” is for creativework or for writing. Never ever experience a “block,” or have to wait forinspiration. Simply ask your own Image-Stream faculties “what comes next?” Describe in detail for a paragraph or so whatever imagery results, regardless ofwhat it is, and you find that your next or further inspiration clicks right into focus. -Pretty convenient.

This 100%-effective application of Image-Streaming, to find instant inspirationand totally eliminate “writer’s block,” is one feature in the major course ofcreativity techniques for writers defined in the book by Win Wenger and Mark

Bossert, End Writer’s Block Forever!.

Not only for creative writing or, indeed, for any creative project involving any ofthe arts, Image-Streaming may be readily used for all these —

Ingeniously discovering solutions and answers to problems of all kinds.

Discovering useful and productive/profitable innovations.Making discoveries - in any or all of the sciences, Image-Streaming



provides a remarkably fast and easy short-cut to the best hypothesis to

test, and can save days or years or decades in finding that hypothesis.

Your own internal theater, which the late psychotherapist Adelaide Bry

referred to in her book, Directing The Movies of Your Mind, provides youinvaluable insights about yourself, about the people around you, and about

the situations you are in. It also provides you entertainment, and often the

experience of the most profoundly beautiful.

By building better connections between your conscious and the mainregions of your brain, practice of Image-Streaming builds you a better

intuitive feel for things generally, for even when you are not doing formal

process.

Under some circumstances, Image-Streaming can be used to generateuseful predictions - see the appendix to this paper, below.

Image-Streaming is now extensively used as a sensitive method for

activating material which has been PhotoRead, and for “establishingspecial state” as a prelude to PhotoReading.

Not Only Genius Code, not only PhotoReading....

Not only these and Project Renaissance find it useful and beneficial to use thisprocess of Image-Streaming. Various other programs —and authors—havetaken up its use with our blessing; see a partial list at Citings.

Throughout history and before, and throughout every human culture, people havefound their dreams laden with apparent meaning. With the everyday chatter ofthe verbal conscious brain momentarily muted by sleep, some of the importantinsights arrived at by interior image-based associative process can tiptoe intowhere we have some chance of consciously noticing them when we comeawake. However, the main processing language of the greater part of our brainis that of sensory images, while the main processing language of our consciousmind is verbal. There ARE ways to effectively and accurately translate suchdream content - you will learn a way or so here - but these ways are not yetwidely practiced and so, in Western culture at least, we mostly miss themetaphor which is our inner mind's effort to bridge between these two verydifferent brain languages.

Many scientists, in a field which prides itself on systematic independentconcrete observation as the way to find truth, confuse the necessary standard forTESTING truth with the process for FINDING it, and this has greatly hamperedthe progress of science and technology. Scientific method pulls the weeds fromthe gardens of truth, but good hypotheses TO test may be arrived at by anynumber of effective means.

Kekule discovered the benzene ring, basis of all organic chemistry, while

dozing and dreaming in front of the fire in his hearth. In his dream he saw

snakes in the fire swallowing their own tails, the way we as children sawfaces or animals in the clouds (and some of us still do). That configuration,

of snakes swallowing their own tails, was his aha.

Elias Howe discovered his long-sought-for solution to how to invent aneffective sewing machine, by noticing an oddity in one of his exhausted



nightmares. Cannibals were attacking in his dream, carrying spears - and,oddly, there were holes in the heads of their spears—Aha!

Albert Einstein discovered relativity by practicing his “deep thought

experiments,” his discovery technique which he later sought to teach to

others at Princeton, his methods being ancestral to the run of our current“Einsteinian Discovery” techniques of visual and sensory thinking including

Image-Streaming.

Nicola Tesla operated almost entirely from such “spontaneous” or

receptive visual thinking, in creating his array of inventions in electronicswhich was the basis of most of the economic development which

happened in the 20th Century.

Synectics, from the very beginnings of the worldwide creativity movement,built around elements of Einsteinian Discovery technique.

At M.I.T. and elsewhere, leading researchers working on matters of

computers and information technology, report experiencing “computer

dreams” which answer their questions and show them solutions to theproblems on which they were working.

This receptive visual thinking process, in a far better developed and more easilyused form, you can now readily use to solve or to gain deep understanding onthe matters with which YOU are concerned, whether professional or personal.

Yours Without Quibble or Hindrance:

Not only leading minds, leading scientists, leading discoverers.....

Everyone, apparently without exception, has this remarkable phenomenon

ongoing, and very nearly everyone can learn to engage it to advantage.

Your own imagery “knows” much more than “you” do. It is indeed part ofyou, but it reflexively understands much more than you consciously do.

Not one person in ten thousand is, as yet, consciously aware that the

phenomenon exists, much less that it exists within themselves, much lessthat it has these and other practical benefits.

This resource consistently operates at an apparently higher level of

“intelligence,” and from a much broader base of relevant information, than

we consciously function with.

Caveats:

This imagery function in the brain also tries to please us. We tend to see whatwe expect to see, and if the conscious information and expectations we have ona problem situation held key to the problem, it would have solved long since.Somehow we need to get beyond what we expect the answer to be, and lookwith fresh perceptions wherein the best answer is to be found.

Another cause of possible inaccuracies: no material or human informationprocess or content is infallible. In this material universe is always that tendencytoward entropy or error. Information directly from your Beyond-Conscious maytend to greater accuracy, acumen, etc., but to the extent that the “matter in the



message” is important, it should be tested like information from any othersource. We need verification, we need scientific method to pull the weeds fromthe gardens of truth.

Besides such testing, we need practice in objectively reporting this subjectiveongoing phenomenon of imagery. We need to work as much as possible in thelanguage - the sensory image language - of the part of the brain we areconsulting, describing what we find in sensory adjectives rather than inabstractions and explanations and names of places and things. We need torespond and describe faster than we can stop to think about what we weregoing to say, too fast for our loudly-focused verbal-conscious brain to step in andimpose its bias on the stream of images reaching us from our broaderconsciousness. Even with these things, to the extent that an issue is important, itis wise to test and verify the answer you get on it, whenever feasible.

Not only the vast majority of your brain, but most or even possibly all of yourexperience and data for it to work from, is accessed through your ongoingstreams of sensory mental imagery.

1. At any given moment, you are conscious of only 1-2 things in your

attention, but hundreds of times more information and data are alsosimultaneously processing into your greater data-base without evercatching your notice and attention.

2. Much, most or even all of the awarenesses and data you have ever

experienced, conscious OR unconscious, is still there, sorted through

reflexively from moment to moment via sensory image association. This

makes for a pretty respectable-sized data-base.

We've developed these instructions and published them in public domain,because the value—of access to your own higher mental and intellectualfaculties—is far too great for anyone to ration it out by price, or to hold back inany way on their availability. They are yours to work with, at this very moment,without hindrance or restriction, here or in detailed steps of instruction beginningat Image-Streaming.

A Basic, Step-By-Step Way to Image-Stream:

1. The Question — ask yourself a question.

2. Start the Image-Stream: Have a live listener or audio recorder with you.Sit back, relax, close your eyes, and describe aloud whatever imagessuggest themselves. Notice and go with your first, most immediateimpressions and describe them aloud, rapid-flow, in sensory detail. Morefree images will then emerge. Notice when the scene changes or otherimages emerge, and describe these as well.

— It's important to describe aloud. This brings the mind's images intoconscious focus. Pick up on the UN-expected, describe no matter howseemingly unrelated to your question the images may at first appear tobe...



Let yourself be surprised by what your images reveal to you. The moresurprising these are, the more likely it is that you’re getting fresh input fromyour subtler, more comprehensive and more accurate faculties.

3. Feature-Questioning: After several minutes general describing, pick outsome one feature - a wall, a tree or bush or flower, whatever’s there in yourimagery. Let one feature, more than the others, catch your attention,whichever one that is. Imagine laying a hand on that feature and studyingits feel (and describe that feel), to strengthen your contact with theexperience. Ask that rock or bush or wall, “Why are you here as part ofthis my answer?” Whatever you notice changing in your imagery when youask that question, describe in detail.

4. Inductive Inference: After you’ve described more than a dozen or twentysensory details from your current set of images, thank your image-streaming faculties for showing you this answer. Ask their help inunderstanding the messages in your images. Ask for their help in thisway: “Show me somehow the very same answer to this very samequestion, but with very different images.” Thus you Image-Stream again,with entirely different images which nonetheless somehow are still givingyou the same answer to the same question. After 2-3 minutes of this newimagery, repeat this step to get a third set of images, each different yeteach showing you somehow the same answer but in a different way...

5. What's the Same? Examine whatever’s the same among the several setsof images when all else is different. These themes or elements-in-commonare your core answer or message

— Essentially the same method accurately interprets dreams, at leastsome of which are attempts by your inner mind to convey key messages orawarenesses to your conscious mind. Detailing everything you canremember of the dream, takes the place of your first set of the three sets ofImage-Stream. For the second and third, thank your faculties for thatmessage and ask for their help in fully understanding that message, via the(new) Image-Stream which somehow conveys the same message but withvery different images. Then examine what's the same when everything elseis different.

6. Relate: Go back to your original question that you posed to your Image-Stream, and determine in what way or ways these core elements are theanswer to your question, or your key message.

7. Debrief: Summarize the whole experience either to another person(directly or by telephone) or to notebook or to computer, which lets youorder and retrieve your information. This change of medium, and changeof feedbacks, should add further to your understanding.

Follow-Up Questions:

In addition to other, conventional ways to test the insights you glean from yourImage-Stream, here are a few follow-up questions you can conveniently ask your



Image-Stream and get useful information back:

1. “How can I make sure that I'm on the right track with this understanding?” (You should get back either a way to test and verify, or a reminder of real-time data or experiences which demonstrate that this is the right answer tobe working with.)

2. “What more do I need to know in this context?”

3. “What's a good, practical, concrete first step to acting upon thisunderstanding? Or: “What is Step One to implementing this answer?” (Isthere anything then that you need to do before that step? - if so, that wasn’t‘Step One’ so what IS ‘Step One?’)

Back-Up Techniques To Ensure You Get Useful Images:

Twenty-four methods are freely published in Backup Procedures. Out of manythousands of people who have been taught or who have taught themselvesImage-Streaming, virtually no one has “run the gauntlet” of those twenty-four“back-up” methods without getting images to work with.

More than visual sensory images are important here, not only in the sense thatinvolving what your other senses are reporting to you in these imageexperiences strengthens your contact with the greater part of your brain that youare consulting. The same principles hold for brain-connecting and developmentfor each of your various senses, although the crucial speaking-aloud feature ofImage-Streaming can compete with your auditory imagery. Bottom line on thistakes us straight to Behavior's main law, the most basic natural law ofpsychology, the Law of Effect.

Encyclopedias have been published on various aspects of the Law of Effect; atits most basic, this statement sums it up: “You get more of what you reinforce.”

Each time you make some sort of concrete response to having an idea, or toyour own first-hand perception or awareness on something, you are reinforcing—

Not only that particular idea, perception or awareness, but

The behavior, the trait, of creatively having ideas or of BEING perceptive

or aware. That is a far more important carryover, and a cumulative one,than just the particular idea, perception or awareness. Moreover, sincemost ideas and perceptions start out subtle before we notice them, focusin on them and do things or don't do things with them: when you notice andmake some sort of concrete response to your own first-hand idea orperception or awareness beginning while it is still pretty subtle, youreinforce—

Your ability to handle subtle matters.

In any case, for most people the Image-Stream is at first a pretty subtle order ofphenomena to deal with. Thus you get the full range of these benefits when



Image-Streaming, and these pertain to every one of your senses so engaged,not only the visual. However, there is more information conveyed by vision, andto more regions of the brain, than with any other sense, so that wheneverpossible, visual images should probably be among the mix of sensory imagesthrough which we seek to consult with the greater regions of our brain. Thesense of touch is also very helpful in this contact and consultation. Most or all ofthe senses are initially subtle in these inner consultative experiences before wenotice and can get our attention on.

(For further understanding of how the Law of Effect affects not only our behaviorsand traits but our abilities, please see the article, Feeding the Loop.

Several Specific Key Uses of the Image-Stream:

Image-Streaming appears to make nearly everything work better. It is such abasic tool that asking what it is good for is somewhat like asking what ascrewdriver is good for. Its practice makes one far more effective at other visualthinking processes such as Over-the-Wall problem-solving; such en scenarioinvention and discovery-making processes as Beachhead and Toolbuilder; andsuch enhanced or accelerated learning techniques as Borrowed Genius and achild's version at "A Little Something You Can Do for Your Own Children"

(Winsights No. 20, May 1998).

However, two specific direct applications of Image-Streaming, per se, bringunique benefits:

1. Predictive Imagery, while not quite up to the speeds sometimes attainedwith PhotoReading, does enable one to absorb and understand muchmore information more quickly, from a given reading, lecture or AVpresentation. (We've also taken to calling this “the Mind Primer.”) Here arecomplete instructions for Predictive Imagery.

2. Rebuild the very foundations of your understanding! Use your Image-

Stream to take you back in imagination to key points in your life where,

had you gotten direct experience in a given context instead of beingmerely taught about it, you would have developed key abilities and

competencies which you until now have seemed to be missing. By building

in that imagined experience, you build in some of the intellectual and motor

and artistic and human concepts THROUGH which you can understand

much else today. Complete instructions step-by-step for cognitive

structural rebuilding, for this special use of Image-Streaming, are found in

"Build Your Ability to Understand Everything!" (Winsights No. 44, August

2000).

One of the most major benefits of Image-Streaming appears to be that of linkingacross the brain...

Pole-Bridging in the Brain:

Neurophysiological studies, by John Ertl and others, indicate that how soon and



how quickly other regions of the brain become involved with a stimulus once itenters some part of the brain in the first place, is a large part of “intelligence.”Indeed, the [we-are-not-yet-done-there-are-these-things-yet-to-do-with-this]“message” passed on to the rest of the brain from initially input sectors, is verydifferent in character from the [that's-all, we're-done] “message” passed alongwhere the different regions of the brain are not so immediate with each other.The person whose brain sectors are in tight phase relationship willcharacteristically see more aspects to each situation and more relationships,and be more thoughtful and perceptive about them. Such phase relationshipscan be readily trained up.

Once the necessary studies are run, not only is it increasingly clear thatintelligence can readily be increased, but the effects of stroke and/or traumaticbrain damage can be more readily ameliorated or overcome. The very idea thatintelligence can be improved is finally coming out of limbo, as can be seen if oneGoogle-searches for “Brain Plasticity” and then samples among the manyscientific studies which have recently emerged on the brain's well-demonstratedtendency to change its circuitry, its structure, its shape, its size and its very massin order to better handle the levels and kinds of information with which it has hadto cope during the previous year or so.

Pole-bridging in the brain is discussed by Win Wenger and Richard Poe in their

book, The Einstein Factor ; also freely on the web at "Pole-Bridging in the

Brain: Why and how it builds intelligence" (Winsights No. 73, February 2004).

Teaching Image-Streaming to Others:

Creativity was once believed to be something that one either had or he didn’t -something that you were pretty well born with or with its lack, you were pretty wellstuck accordingly and there was nothing could be done about it. The past halfcentury of world-wide creativity revolution has blown that limiting theory out of thewater. With the breakthroughs in “brain plasticity,” those similar beliefs regarding“intelligence” are now also being blown out of the water. This removes one of thelast excuses for treating people as pre-judged categories rather than asthemselves, their own unique, vastly potentialed, human selves. Addingsignificance to this:

Out of tens of thousands trained or self-trained in Image-Streaming, whichappears to be a tool for almost limitless self-improvement, only three individualshave been found who were unable to “get pictures” a la Image-Stream. Andthose three, with a bit more work, could likely also “get pictures” and pursueImage-Streaming for whatever benefits that practice brings.

You are cordially invited to not only practice it and take it to the limits of whateverbenefits you care to make yours, but to teach effective use of the practice toother people whom you care about.

Teaching Image-Streaming to a Child: See the specific, step-by-step

instructions for one method how, in "Help a Young Child to Flower" (WinsightsNo. 18, May 1998).



Teaching Image-Streaming to an Adult Individual: You can use pretty muchthe same method as the one just above for teaching to a child. Another, possiblystronger way is the “Helper Technique,” spelled out among what now are thetwenty-four backup techniques.

Whole Groups At A Time: The easiest method by far, in which groups sized toalmost any number can be directly and readily trained to Image-Stream — Aneasy succession of modelings of the process ensures that very few people willfind this difficult by the time it is their own turn to Image-Stream. See thispreferred method for training groups, detailed step by easy step at Image-Streaming for Groups .

You are welcome to teach Image-Streaming or any other published procedurefrom Project Renaissance, provided that you not only give the necessary contactinformation to those whom you so teach, but represent that process as aresource FROM Project Renaissance and not as the Project Renaissanceprogram or yourself as a Project Renaissance trainer. This not only protectsquality control but frees you to go in as a co-explorer. At such time as you DOwant to become a Project Renaissance trainer and present officially on behalf ofthe program, turn to the provisions you will find posted in To Become a Trainer .

Provisions for teaching The Genius Code) are not yet determined, but are likelyto become the subject of discussions between Project Renaissance, LearningStrategies, and other interested parties.

Protocols for Quick Question/Answer Procedure and High Thinktank:

Up to this point, this article has mainly served both as a “talking paper” and as adirectory showing you where to obtain further information in depth in various ofthe topics relating to Image-Streaming. At this point in our training together, iftime permits we will be pursuing one or two procedures which feature a numberand sequence of specific steps. If we get to either procedure, it will be best tohave in your hand for ready reference a list of the steps. The two procedures area fast way to get answers via your impressions and reflexive/responsive visualmental images, and a way which works especially well with the most importantquestions and issues.

Full descriptions of these two procedures are on the first two pages of theinstructions of High Thinktank. Objective of both methods is to get past thebaggage of conscious expectations as to what the answer “ought to be,”allowing perception through of what the better answer to your question orproblem may well be.

Quick Question/Answer Method: By this point in your experience you will havehad some practice with the basic Image-Streaming process, and with several ofthe steps for making sense of what your images and impressions mean. You willalso have found that you are able to obtain images - and make sense of them -more and more quickly as your practice and skills progress. On the making-sense, inductive-inference interpretative side you still need three very differentimpressions or sets of images; you need to record a dozen or more describableaspects of each impression or set of images; and you need, in coming to the



core of your answer or message to discover, among all those aspects,impressions and images of what is the same when everything else is different.

You need at least a dozen or more describable aspects or features in each ofthe three frames, in order to have enough opportunity to spot the regard in whichthere is such a common feature or similarity.

Here are the specific steps of Quick Q/A: (Do this in groups of three or four.Instructions how to do this alone and by yourself will become apparent from theinstructions given for that in the High Thinktank method.

1. One of you presents the question.2. Immediately - don't wait turns - instantly blurt or record your first impression

or set of images as answer to that question. As immediately as possible,since we want the answers to be in response to the question and not to

one another's initial answers.3. Describe in sensory detail a dozen or more features and aspects of that

impression or set of images. If there is an even number of participants in

your group, directly Image-Stream with each other in pairs. And/or, recorddetail on paper.

4. Compare notes and look for trends, similarities and aspects-in-commonamong your group's responses.

5. Determine - or speculate - how those elements-in-common may actuallybe an answer to the question that was asked. (For proper thinktanking, ifthe question was on an important matter, then follow-up questions would

be in order including verification - “How can I best make sure I'm on theright track with this interpretation and answer?” Here, we want to run

enough questions to afford everyone if possible the experience of gettinginteresting and plausible answers and hypotheses worthy of testing.)

Some problems or questions are so extensive or so major that either we orpeople around us are bound to have put some thought into them, formed someconclusions, have expectations as to what the answer ought to be. This ofcourse makes it harder to get the fresh perceptions needed without distortion.Case in point: I can ask you a question right now and for minutes, in response,your head will be filled with nonsense that doesn't come even close toconstituting a useful answer to that question.

Are you ready for that question? OK, here it is....

“What is the best form of government?”

— Listen to the stuff pouring through your head in response to that question!Some of it conditioned responses and catechisms, some of it other and equallyuseless stuff, none of it allowing any room for you to glean a fresh and possiblyuseful perception....

But what if you had been asked that question in a way that only your sensitivemajor part of the brain, able to pick up on subtle and subliminal cues, knew thatthat was the question being asked, while your loudly focused verbal word-conscious sliver of brain hadn't a clue as to what was being asked? Your loud



word-based consciousness wouldn't know in what direction it wanted to bias the(sensory impression) data to make that data support its beliefs. To get goodfresh answers, all you'd have to do is look in and see what answer was beingtold you in response to the question. AFTER you had gleaned that answer,THEN it'd be useful to find out consciously what question you had just gottenanswer to! This gives you a high accuracy rate on the important issues andquestions, where other problem-solving methods and even straight Image-Streaming tend to give you answers that fit your expectations rather than themost effective answer.

So that is the secret to getting fresh - and accurate - answers on the mostimportant issues and questions and on problems where the stakes are the highest. Present to one another, or find a way to present to yourself, questionssuch that the main sector of your brain can pick up by subliminal cue or othersensitivities what question is being asked and then respond, through yourimage-generating faculties, a fresh answer which often is also the best answeravailable. - All the while that your verbal-conscious mind and brain hasn't a clueas to what's being asked, so it won't know which way to turn the data.

Important: with this High Thinktank process, for best results, you are not trying to“psyche” what the question is. That would start guessing games with yourconscious mind and brain which would get in your way. Instead, just look in andreport and detail the images which come as the answer you are seeking.

Working with others in a group or in small groups, each numbering three to sixpeople, here is one such method for High Thinktanking:

1. One of you presents the question silently, or in hidden form such as afolded-in piece of paper bearing the question within, a slip of paper thatgets handed around but whose contents are not consciously seen. If thequestion is being asked silently by one of you, a nod or light snap offingers is appropriate to indicate to partners the end of asking and to elicitthe imagistic snap response.

2. As quickly as they can, each participant identifies the image in his/hermind as answer, blurting and/or recording their very first impression...While we are depending more on "hiding" the question than on speed withthis form of the High Thinktank method, it's still valuable to get that initialresponse made so quickly that people don't have time to pick up on oneanother's cues instead of those pertaining directly to the question beingasked... — OR —

Each participant silently describes his or her own image-answer by writingor sketching it for a few moments on a sheet of paper, enough on eachimage to support the ongoing describing to be made of these in Step 3.

3. In pairs within each group, develop that initial response into a brief but verydescriptive Image-Stream. Be sure to get a dozen or so sensory details,even in just that 1 to 3 minutes each, so it's easier to see where thosedetails match up as common elements in Step 4.



4. Compare your respective Image-Stream answers around the group,looking for those common themes and elements. After identifying thosecommon themes or elements,

5. The original asker "reveals" the formerly silent or folded-in "hidden"question.

6. Explore the relationship(s) between those common theme elements as

answer, and the question asked.

7. As time permits, ask follow-up questions to clarify, verify your answers and

to map out ways to implement them as appropriate. Also ask yourself oras a group, what more do I/we need to know in this context?

The more important the question, the more that people have already developedconscious, even reflexive, opinions which tend to prevent the fresh perceptionsneeded for an effective answer. This is one reason we remain "stuck" on thegreatest human problems and issues, and why great national and worldproblems remain unsolved for decades or centuries. Even more does thisappear to be the case with the most basic issues in science and technology.

How to thinktank when working alone without partners, at home or atyour desk:

Accumulate six or more questions in a box, each question on a separate indexcard or scrap of (folded in on itself) paper. Because you have written these, yoursubtler resources will know which is which, but if you randomize these questionsand pick one at random, your conscious left temporal isn't likely to recognizewhich one is which, and will most likely get out of the way of the visual data-flowcoming from the rest of the brain in answer to that question. Your objective is notto "psyche" which question that is, but simply to look at what your mind isshowing you as answer to it.

On the question you thus select, get three sets of imagery on each question. Asin the group form, this gives you a basis for comparison. Be sure to get enoughsensory detail recorded from each image that it will be easy for you to spotwhere one of the many aspects of the one image matches with one of the manyaspects of another image. Each image coming from your richer resources isrich with many meanings and messages, but each image generated within agiven context as answer, context defined by this "hidden question" you areholding, contains among these in some form your main or key answer(s) as well.This comparison, looking for common elements or for themes running amongyour several different images, makes this key meaning or meanings stand outabove all the other messages for you and makes this key far easier for you tospot and to experience your "aha"!

Only after you've mapped out these detailed comparisons among your severalvarious images or impressions, should you then look at the "hidden question,"read it consciously, and examine how those common elements or theme doactually answer that particular question.



Be sure to replace the answered question with another so you keep up aminimum stock of six at any given time to draw from, keeping that old left-temporal guesser from getting back into the act.

Your questions should be very different from one another, so the answer to oneisn't confused with that to another. Doing two to four such questions per day for afew days should give you the feel for allowing the flow to come from widersectors of your brain, so that then you can resume doing regular Image-Streaming undirected even by such questions (though you might also keep upthis Q/A process as well, which can be very instructive!). High Thinktank apparently does different things to develop the brain than doesImage-Streaming: Besides the convenience of speed, there are apparently some things in thebrain which High Thinktanking does which not even Image-Streaming does. Wedon't know quite what's going on with the brain with this, but see someextraordinary abilities develop and remarkable things happen which we've notseen even with regular sustained practice of Image-Streaming. Until we know more about it, we strongly recommend some practice of both, toencourage as wide a range as possible of neurons and brain circuitry activatedand abilities developed. The further we’ve gotten into this, the more clearly we see that the mainchallenge in all of this is - not that of getting the images; not that of gettingaccurate answers although there is some challenge still to getting ourinterpretations of these answers accurate; not that of heightening numerous ofour abilities generally with practice of these methods. Rather, the mainchallenges are:

Noticing more of one's subtler awarenesses as they are happening, so

you can reinforce them and especially so you can reinforce their relatedtraits.

Noticing issues, questions and problems around you worth solving, and

then using a deliberate process to solve one after another after another.

Devising or finding better questions to ask, from situation to situation, in

most of the aspects of your life and work.

Conclusions:

We are but an egg. This is but a work in progress. There is so muchunexplored, all around, that you yourself stand on the edges of major originaldiscoveries which YOU can make, instructing US all. Look around you to determine whether or not the world is very much in need ofall the discoveries any or all of us can make.



The depth of the problem is the scope of our opportunity to make a positivedifference. We live in a richly holographic universe, where everything affects everything elseto at least some degree, everything relating to everything else. Despite all thatis now known in our civilization, we are only a few steps, or a few observations,away from centuries-worth of new science and new civilization, no matter in whatdirection we turn to look.

In this training of Image-Streaming and of related tools, you now have someeasy ways to make some of those few original observations which can lead toso much else. One practical application at a time can get you there.

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