FORMATORY APPARATUS
Kevin_Langdon
From: Kevin Langdon <kevin_...@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Formatory Apparatus 100999-20
Stephen S wrote:
> A few days ago others indicated here that the formatory apparatus,
> the mechanical part of the intellectual center (aka jack of diamonds),
> is locked into either/or 'thinking' and should function rightfully as a
> type of secretary. What are some of the results of the action of this
> tiny mind when it acts for the entire mechanism and how might we
> counter its dominance?
> Formatory mind lacks scale and relativity. Thus, it is not able to
> understand that two or more ideas on a given topic may all have some
> merit. By considering more than one facet of a subject we reduce the
> degree to which it is governing our perceptions.
Yes. I sanction this idea, you have my permission to think in this
fashion.
Think in other categories. --P.D. Ouspensky
> Also, formatory apparatus does not really think. Instead, it reacts. By
> observing how readily and easily opposite I's manifest we may be able
> to at least partially interrupt its activity.
The term "opposite I's" means "I's" which hold opposite views or have
opposite attitudes. I understand that this a redundant and obvious
state-
ment, one that you have actually just stated, however now that I have
said it too it is officially true.
> Since formatory responses try to find, mechanically, the exception to
> a rule in order to invalidate that rule, we might instead think about how
> it is that exceptions often, from an esoteric point of view especially,
> validate the rule.
Science and mathematics, which cannot be done successfully without
the use of the higher parts of the intellectual center, also look for
exceptions as a part of their examination of a proposed hypothesis.
But the formatory apparatus has a tendency to seize on the exceptions
if it is not inclined to swallow the rule whole. Because it is only a
secretary, it has no critical judgement of its own. Just in case there
is
one person in a thousand that has read the same book I have and did
not notice this very subtle point.
The sense in which exceptions can "validate" a rule is that if one makes
an exhaustive search for exceptions and all of those that are found are
trivial or special cases, the rule is likely to be true. However, the
tricky
part is ensuring that the search is exhaustive. Personally I spend up to
and including half my life reading the posts on this very important
email
list and then research for hours before checking with my group leader
to make sure that my responses to this list are entirely official.
> Many other aspects of our machine, besides the intellectual, are also
> formatory. We have formatory postures within the moving center that
> waste immense energy. We have formatory attitudes in the emotional
> center and formatory tastes in the instinctive center, all ripe for
> observation, if we know how.
The "formatory apparatus" is the mechanical part of the intellectual
center. Each of the other lower centers has a mechanical part as well,
but calling these parts "formatory" is wrong terminology. Stephen you
are chock full of all kinds of blurry misconceptions and misinformation,
that is why I was contacted by Agent Mulder to offer the expressions of
my superior mental programming. I try to be crisp, while I type I am
always making the effort to hold the cheeks of my buttocks as tightly
together as is humanly possible.
> A pendancy
Presumably, Stephen means *penchant*. And of course this is the most
important and significant of my contributions to this list, remember the
formatory apparatus is a secretary. Gurdjieff had his "touch typist,"
and
you can count on me to be the "spell-checker."
> for definitions that equate to understanding is a hallmark of formatory
> thinking. By trying to verify ideas, without initially accepting or
> rejecting them, we add an emotional element to our work that disrupts
> the formatory apparatus' momentum.
Here, too, the approach of the work is similar to that of science. I
know I
have in the past given much lip-service to idea of getting out of the
Head,
but it was all just talk. I'm a little head-man yesseri, I'm going to
live to be
93!
Kevin Langdon
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Robert Hoogenboom wrote:
> Painful, Greg Goodwin, and unbelievably childish.
>
> Kevin_Langdon wrote:
> >
> > 101099-07
> >
> > From: Kevin Langdon <kevin_...@hotmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: Formatory Apparatus 100999-20
> >
> > Stephen S wrote:
> >
> > > A few days ago others indicated here that the formatory apparatus,
> > > the mechanical part of the intellectual center (aka jack of diamonds),
> > > is locked into either/or 'thinking' and should function rightfully as a
> > > type of secretary. What are some of the results of the action of this
> > > tiny mind when it acts for the entire mechanism and how might we
> > > counter its dominance?
******SPV....You must turn and look at it totally, you must feel it and know from
where these voices are coming from. When you are wanting to smash someone face,
look at the anger the hatred. When you feel the need to steal look at the greed
that makes you what others things. Look how empty you feel and how you are
trying to buy material things to put in that emptiness which is impossible. You
can buy a good meal and a nice bed and thats about it.
Now when you see this, you learn that the ego is this repressed junk, negative
feelings you are just unconscious of which are causing the greedy thoughts and
the lust and sexual comments. Sexual comments are just lust building up, needing
to get laid really good. You can counter it by remain awake, by looking through
your eyes <-----> like G. taught, by noticing your stealing and lying and by
looking what is motivating them. When you see them you become aware of them and
then you own them. These feelings are the peas under the twenty mattresses.
>
> >
> > > Formatory mind lacks scale and relativity. Thus, it is not able to
> > > understand that two or more ideas on a given topic may all have some
> > > merit. By considering more than one facet of a subject we reduce the
> > > degree to which it is governing our perceptions.
> >
> > Yes. I sanction this idea, you have my permission to think in this
> > fashion.
> >
> > Think in other categories. --P.D. Ouspensky
> >
> > > Also, formatory apparatus does not really think. Instead, it reacts. By
> > > observing how readily and easily opposite I's manifest we may be able
> > > to at least partially interrupt its activity.
> >
> > The term "opposite I's" means "I's" which hold opposite views or have
> > opposite attitudes. I understand that this a redundant and obvious
> > state-
> > ment, one that you have actually just stated, however now that I have
> > said it too it is officially true.*****SPV....When you see both sides of a
> problem totally you trancend it. You become bored with it. I am a republician
> but at times I a democratic. I am both and neither. I can swing easily on
> either tree branch, and when one brakes like Clinton did with me and those
> women. Then I swing the other way. They cancel each other out. I am teaching
> from the center. I only care what is best for all. All people are monkeys and
> I am stuck in a monkey body. How am I going to get upset being called names?
> Call me a monkey and I will touch your feet. And the beauty of what I teach.
> When you wake the mechine up you become aware of you divinity, your Self, your
> consciousness and no more does the mind and the greed and lust rule you, you
> ride that horse like a Saint, like a King, like an Emporer.
Now I have told them to change the dollar to recapture all the drug money in
south America. This made up 700 billion which the democrats and Republicans are
trying to spend. I got health care the insurance dumped and I was the one that
swung the gun control bill. A gun, a pistol a rifle and a shotgun and 500 men I
could take over a small country. Stock Market went up to 12,000 and if they take
the money and put it to the debt both the stock Market and real estate will also
take off. Soon, we will be in a position to make some offers, United States of
the World. And with that the fusion reactor and space travel.
And you know who really likes me, the Muslims. Like right now I am telling
Congress and Senate to make the Drug countries part of the United States. If you
can't bet them let them join us. You put FBI and other agencies down there with
power you see some results.
Robert Hoogenboom
Kevin_Langdon wrote:
>
> 101099-07
>
> From: Kevin Langdon <kevin_...@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Formatory Apparatus 100999-20
>
> Stephen S wrote:
>
> > A few days ago others indicated here that the formatory apparatus,
> > the mechanical part of the intellectual center (aka jack of diamonds),
> > is locked into either/or 'thinking' and should function rightfully as a
> > type of secretary. What are some of the results of the action of this
> > tiny mind when it acts for the entire mechanism and how might we
> > counter its dominance?
>
> > Formatory mind lacks scale and relativity. Thus, it is not able to
> > understand that two or more ideas on a given topic may all have some
> > merit. By considering more than one facet of a subject we reduce the
> > degree to which it is governing our perceptions.
>
> Yes. I sanction this idea, you have my permission to think in this
> fashion.
>
> Think in other categories. --P.D. Ouspensky
>
> > Also, formatory apparatus does not really think. Instead, it reacts. By
> > observing how readily and easily opposite I's manifest we may be able
> > to at least partially interrupt its activity.
>
> The term "opposite I's" means "I's" which hold opposite views or have
> opposite attitudes. I understand that this a redundant and obvious
> state-
> ment, one that you have actually just stated, however now that I have
> said it too it is officially true.
>