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REFERENCE
Few people function as the human being was designed as in the previous diagram. When an
infant is born, the trauma of leaving the non-disturbed uterine world is reacted to with a
feeling that the whole purpose of living is to regain the non-disturbed state. That decision
becomes the attitude and action from then on. As he grows, the child makes more decisions
as to how to gain his purpose of non-disturbance. He complains, which works for an infant.
When one day this fails to work, he sticks up for his “rights”, or demands non-disturbance.
(These begin the A-side of the Picture of Man.) Eventually he finds that pleasing people
sometimes gets him his way. (This begins the B-side.) At this point conflict sets in. He wants
to cry “but” feels he “should” please. Then he sees parents, teachers, others as authorities.
This is understandable for a child and helps keep him safe. It is not adult behavior, however.
The continual conflict between what he wants to do and what he “should” do (conflict between
A-side and B-side) intensifies and he feels if he would improve, things would be better. This
doesn’t work, either, and he blames everyone and everything for his disturbances, living in
conflict, except when distracted. Conflict is felt by the Awareness Function to be an
emergency. This false emergency is communicated to the Life Force, X, which always does
the appropriate thing, FOR THE INFORMATION RECEIVED, in this case supplying energy to
fight or run. If this mobilized energy is not used in violent activity, it disintegrates the body;
using emergency energy in a non-emergency is unusual behavior; neither is harmonious
living. Eventually disintegration ensues.
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Few people function as the human being was designed as in the previous diagram. When an
infant is born, the trauma of leaving the non-disturbed uterine world is reacted to with a
feeling that the whole purpose of living is to regain the non-disturbed state. That decision
becomes the attitude and action from then on. As he grows, the child makes more decisions
as to how to gain his purpose of non-disturbance. He complains, which works for an infant.
When one day this fails to work, he sticks up for his “rights”, or demands non-disturbance.
(These begin the A-side of the Picture of Man.) Eventually he finds that pleasing people
sometimes gets him his way. (This begins the B-side.) At this point conflict sets in. He wants
to cry “but” feels he “should” please. Then he sees parents, teachers, others as authorities.
This is understandable for a child and helps keep him safe. It is not adult behavior, however.
The continual conflict between what he wants to do and what he “should” do (conflict between
A-side and B-side) intensifies and he feels if he would improve, things would be better. This
doesn’t work, either, and he blames everyone and everything for his disturbances, living in
conflict, except when distracted. Conflict is felt by the Awareness Function to be an
emergency. This false emergency is communicated to the Life Force, X, which always does
the appropriate thing, FOR THE INFORMATION RECEIVED, in this case supplying energy to
fight or run. If this mobilized energy is not used in violent activity, it disintegrates the body;
using emergency energy in a non-emergency is unusual behavior; neither is harmonious
living. Eventually disintegration ensues.
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