Anyway, Sean, I totally agree with you on this post.

F.

Like everyone says, it’s all there, in you, and nobody cares…

Teches are NOT bullshit.

To the person that understands what you are saying,

teches ARE bs, but to the person that is confuses, which I think is the majority, they are not. They get you started,and keep you floatin until you can swim on your own.

But if the post was able to confuse me, it probably did so to others. I was alerted to this post by a member of my community (who will remain anonymous). It went something like this “Hey, I was reading Peebrain’s new site, and he seems to think that articles are bullshit. Is it true stony? Are you lying to us? I mean, this guy ran PSIPOG” etc.

This was the kind of thing I was attempting to get at. When a prominent figure calls techniques bullshit, you get that kind of result. Then smaller communities have to deal with it. That was my concern.

~ Stony

Technique is useful in teaching guitar or baseball because theres obvious feedback or improvement. In psychic experience theres both a natural doubt thats not easy to get by and an inability to explain success systematically. Technique is helpful but it is neither a garenteed route to success or always required to achieve your own use of an ability.

In Hindu and Buddhist mythology these powers can manifest without your searching for them, while your following a path to enlightenment. In that sense techniques are not even a stepping stone. Now certainly to cultivate and improve your skill with an ability you’ll require practice and no doubt thats developing your own technique. Your technique isn’t necessarily helpful to another, try explaining to someone whose never moved their arm, how to move it.

Even though we do have a sense of the systematic ‘whats happening to do what’ explaining to someone how to do it isn’t straightforward.

But I also think Stony’s criticism is bad faith.
I think it was rather clear that what Sean wrote was not entirely to be taken by word.

I mean, what you say Stony is true on the one side, but I think Sean means the following:

a) technique is not the ultimate goal, just a variable tool
b) techniques do not guarantee success. It depends on yourself
c) people must not lose themselves in believes they are confronted with, but
d) realize that they have potential in themselves they do not know of, but which, if controlled, are more useful then techniques and believes

is that correct?

I’m sorry my post offended you. I’m a little confused as to why this particular post has offended you, when I feel as though I’ve been talking about this idea for the past year and a half. This is the very idea I was supporting in my second, unfinished eBook. I suggest reading it if you’re searching for the evidence and ideas behind this post.

I feel as though a lot of your post is just jumping to conclusions. When did I claim that I wouldn’t provide guidance? Where did I say I know what you instinctively feel? Where did I say to turn off logic? Where did I say that everyone should just blindly accept what I’m telling them?

I’m claiming that you don’t *need* guidance. Not that I wouldn’t try and help if I could.

I’m claiming that my ability to help anyone is dependent on how well I understand what the person already instinctively feels. I’m not claiming that I immediately understand what someone else instinctively feels - just that if I fail to understand what they instinctively feel, then I will fail at my attempts to help them.

I’m claiming that it is the mind that acts against logic. When I’m talking about “victim of mind”, I’m talking about someone who only uses logic selectively. I am arguing in favor of logic.

Just because I believe something doesn’t mean anyone else has to. I am not telling people to blindly follow me - I’m just posting my thoughts on my blog. Some people like to know what I think, and I enjoy sharing my thoughts for people to both digest and criticize. Have I acted maliciously?

I would recommend reading my second eBook, reading some of my older blog posts, and then re-reading this post. I don’t mind if people disagree with me - that’s helpful for me! But I wouldn’t want to you to think I’m fighting against you, when I still perceive us to be on the same team, fighting the same fight.

~Sean