Part 4. The BOOK of the books

24. The studies of Abraham Maslow - The king of the Real Creativity

Next I take into consideration one of the most important person on my road. The studies of Abraham Maslow are science not none sense. Maslow stumbled into one remarkable result in his studies. And the result was simple, that the Real Creative person doesn’t come from the deeds he does, but from the mental standards and attitudes he possess.

One of the most striking example of the relativity (good vs. bad) of thinking will be explained with the Real Creativity or with the Absolute Creativity. But until I go there, let’s see, what the creativity means to the person, who is in the operation system of the thoughts.

When an ordinary person speaks about creativity, he means only one thing, the work, the exceptional result. Or then there is a thought, that creativity is playing, singing and dancing. As you will see, we couldn’t be more wrong. So you will see, the word creativity is one of the most wrongly used words. Nobody seems to understand the real meaning. Now it is time to change all that.

Abraham Maslow started to study the creativity the same way, than you would have done. He defined at first, that to be a creative person the human being had to do a remarkable deed. So the deed or work defined the person. And that was for him the creative person. But Maslow didn’t stop there, or he was not able to stop there, because the findings of his study demanded otherwise.

If you decide, that the creativity is the deed, then you are kind of bound with it. The creative work defines the creative person. Maslow wanted to go farther. Next he interviewed people. The result was surprising. The result was something Maslow didn’t expect. The creativity was not bound into the work or the result of the work. The following quotation speaks for itself:

The conclusions of Maslow were:
• I found out, that the product couldn’t be important in the measuring of the creativity.
• For instance the creativity didn’t require intelligence. It was present even in the ordinary people, whom you wouldn’t normally say to be gifted. 
• I found out that the people who fulfilled themselves, had the following characteristics:

- They perceived things without any strain,
- they were open, innocent. They were childlike persons. They were crazy in a sound way,
- they were living this moment, they discipline for themselves is less than usual, they are extrovert,
- they are not afraid of themselves, of other people or of unknown subjects,
- they are psychologically and mentally healthy,
- they like to be not determined,
- they are healthily selfish,
- they have an inner consistence,
- they have a lot energy to fulfil themselves, they have no need for security,
- they have a lot of the peak experiences, I could describe them good with these words: joy, happiness, play, love, folly, bravery, freedom,
- they are fulfilling their desires, they know themselves and accept themselves,
- they see things freshly, raw, concretely, in their own way, abstractly, in a general way,
- they are anarchistic, chaotic, unclear, safely disturbed, unsure and unclear,
- they are very dichotomy (good and bad), there are strong variation from on wall to another, 
- they don’t restrict their expressions. 12

Obs: If you want to know, are you in the Final Goal. The former words describe, what you have to be. I could put it a little bit easier by saying, that you have to be a childlike person. Or I could say it also, that you have to Know Yourself and live Now, Now, Now...

Obs: The following is a straight quotation, not my none sense talk!

The behavior of the 40 - 50 years old  people in the inquire was the same kind than the behavior of a creative, happy and safe child. They have reached the second naivety, although they were well educated and they were adult persons and they had the mind of an adult person.

"They could be safely insane, anarchistic, chaotic, unclear, doubtful, insecure, approximate, not so sharp. It seems to me, that a creative person can live ones life in  uncertainty and insecurely, feeling at the same time these things enjoyable, exhilarating and as a peak experience in ones life."  14

This things joined to a subject, that had stirred Maslow’s mind for many, many year. He had seen in his studies without any doubt, that these creative people were very much in their behavior dichotomy (good and bad). In my opinion it made him wonder the subject until his death. But somehow he although perceived, what was the key question.

"I couldn’t decide, if these people in the inquire were selfish or unselfish. Then they were emotional and again unemotional or rational. They lived in their dreams, hopes and then again they were living with the facts. Also they lived in one moment doing their duty and in one moment they amused themselves and played. In one moment they were observing things and after awhile they were the subject of their observation. The persons who had the strongest egos and who were most certainly individual, were at the same time those who were most easily classified as none egoist, the most selfish and self centered and they were less centered to problems."  15

"They were very little afraid of the words and the laugh of other people. And still more important was that they were not afraid of their inner world, their desires, feelings or their thought. They accepted more than other people themselves." 16

12 Maslow, Abraham, Toward a Psychology of Being.  Princeton 1962,.  p. 137
14 Maslow, Abraham, Motivation and Personality. New York 1954, p. 232
15 Mt.  p. 234
16 Maslow 1962 p. 140

If you read carefully enough those words, you come to the same conclusion than I did, that it is a question about the very exceptional persons. But we don’t stop there. The most important thing is, that Maslow found out the Diamond of the Truth, the dichotomy (good and bad) behavior of the person who Knows Absolutely Oneself.

As you might see in my mind the Creativity, is not the goal in itself. It is the follow up of the Awakening and most of all of the Knowing Absolutely Oneself. So it is very, very important, when you want to describe, what kind of personality the person, who is in the Final Goal, has.

A story of the Diamond of the Truth as I remember it: ”A Indian man was walking on a road. He found the Diamond of the Truth. He put into his pocket. After awhile he wanted to admire the Diamond. He took it from the pocket and looked at it. But in his had was only dog’s crab. He threw it away.”

I think the story must be true, because I have experienced it so many times. When the thing is present in the Absolute System, it can be the Diamond of the Truth, but when the system changes, it is to the thought only the crab.

According the Bible the ”kingdom of heaven is for the childlike person”.

Matthew 11:25 25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

Matthew 19:14  14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

I asked a long time ago from myself, if the child is an example of the mentality of an adult, that has reached the Goal,
- Is the child over 10 years old?
- Is the child 10 years old?
- Is the child 5 years old?
- Is the child 5-1 yeas old?
- Is the child under one year old?

The Gospel of Thomas showed it exactly. 4. Jesus said: "An old person doesn’t hesitate to ask from a seven days old child from the place of life and that person will live.”

So the old person ask the most important question from a child, that is seven days old. That is nonsense or better still none sense. The other thing is that, that kind of person is in the Final Goal. So the child has to be certain age, to know or to Perceive without thinking the correct answer.

Now it is said, that the child is only seven days old. I think the child can be older, when there is no me yet.

Maslow is describing the personality of the creative person. Other way is to think, that he is describing the person, who has no me or self. Let’s take a young child! Is he thinking much? Does he have much good and bad things in his memory? Is he thinking the subjects with a relative mind? Is he afraid of something? Does he have the concept of the future in his mind? And so on. What you get?

In short: Abraham Maslow found out, that the Real Creativity comes from the attitudes of a person, toward himself and toward the life in generally. The attitude is reflected into everything the person does in his life. This were the findings of Abraham Maslow according my interpretation. 

The Real Creative person is the same person, that has reached the Final Goal in life. He has found out the Meaning of the Life. It is nearly impossible to be certain if a person has reached the Goal. There is only one way to say it a little bit more certainly and that is: Do you have the same attitude of life than the person Abraham Maslow is telling about. The same person is the Bible’s childlike person, who has reached the Final Goal of the Absolute religions.

Addition: The Awakening is the key to the Creativity!

 

25. David Bohm was telling about an old word of ’hale’

I met first the name, David Bohm, when I was reading the books of Krihnamurti. Then later I was searching for material for my 1985 study, and I stumbled again the name David Bohm and now the subject was the physics - Bohm, David, ”Wholeness and the Implicate Order”. London 1980”. There was something in the book, that opened very big door.

David Bohm was a physicist. He said in his book, that the physicists are the only people among the science, who can explain the things that cannot be explained - religion, behavior and so on -, because in their ordinary work they are already doing that. I believe that and am gladly recommending the book. From it I take only one thing for a closer examination and that it the old word ’hale’.

’Hale’-word comes from the time there wasn’t jet the English language. From ’Hale’ originates three English word, that are in use today. When I was reading about that, I started to think, if the tree different words really are just one word. Or if the ’Hale’ is the Goal, where the tree different things meat. So let’s see, what you think about them!

From ’hale’ has developed these three words -  whole, holy and healthy. All the words are directing the thoughts into some goal. To be whole is an usual command or hope. We should put out mind and body together and be whole. Wholeness is the goal of many things in life. The opposite is to make things apart. A person is an individual. That means I am apart from others. Everything is taken apart in life. We have a saying in Finnish: ”Sound body in the sound mind!” What come first and what influences to the other? To me it means that the sound body is influencing to the mind. If the body is sound, then also the mind is sound. And you see, that it is taken seriously in life. All the human action is following unconsciously the command. Turn it around and the life isn’t the same anymore. One funny thing is in Finland, that we have over fifty academic chairs for dentistry but only one for the mind. May be it is in balance, because we have only one mind and about over thirty tooth.

When we take into account the religion, the goal could be to become holy or something like that. I like to use the words the Final Goal, because it doesn’t ring so many wrong bells. So it seems to me that, when a person is in the Final Goal of life, he is Whole, he is Holy and he is Healthy. Or to put it with one word, the person is HALE. I think that’s the word to use, when a person is beyond the Border and the system of the thoughts.

In short: The most important thing in Bohm’s book was the word ’hale’. I didn’t first understand the whole meaning of it, but the whole thing became clear when I met the book of the man in the next chapter, Siegel. So the part, healthy was left open. The word ’hale’ bound together three things, the wholeness of the mind and body and the goal of religion, the Holiness and the health of a person. So put this things together and you get the Final Goal of human life. When a person is a childlike person and his mind and body are whole, he is the Creative person. At the same time he has reached the Final Goal of the Absolute, Universal religions and is kind of ’Holy’. I also thought, that the person has to be healthy. But let’s see more about that subject in the next chapter!

 

26. The thoughts in the Siegel’s book about the dichotomy

This kind of accidents don’t happen, but I like to say anyway, that I stumbled accidentally to a book of Siegel in the library of Savonlinna. That was by the way the only book in Finnish, that had some meaning to my road. I don’t know the real English name of the book, but the author is Bernie, S. Siegel and in the Finnish version, there are tree meaningful word in the title - ”Love, medicine and miracles: Experiences of a surgeon with the cancer patient when they cured themselves”. The book was very important, because it bound together all my Perceptions and quotations. It hard to imagine, that the order of the books that I met was as an accident. They came into my knowledge in right order. I myself believe in Guidance.

In the book there are two kind of interesting survival types. One is the Siegel’s ’exceptional patient’, who has had the most deadly form of cancer. And they have cured themselves. You can freely think, how exceptional thing it is.

To me the main thing was, what kind of a personality they had. But before I tell that, let’s take to other interesting survival type into consideration. There was a story about Siebert, who met as a young man some veterans from the Korean war. They had survived in battles, where nearly all of their friends had died. What kind of personality they had, is again an important question.

Psychology Al Siebert was interested in the Korean war veterans, when he joined the paratroopers in year 1953. Among the paratroopers there was some veteran from the Korean war. They had survived, when all of their friend had died. He was not sure, what kind of men their were, because they were hard and soft, extremely patient for those who made mistakes. They were joking about the mistakes. They were relaxed and observant. They had kind of personal radar. Their personality was complex. Siebert couldn’t understand them. They had many contradictory qualities. Siebert named it as a bifacial quality. They were serious and playful, hard and soft, rational and intuitive, hard working and lazy, aggressive and shy, extrovert and introvert, and so on.

Siebert said, that they were paradoxical persons, who didn’t fit the normal categories. 

Does it ring the bell? Look for the list of Maslow from the characteristics of the creative persons and you see that they have to speak about the same kind of person. For me it was enough. 

What Siegel found out about the exceptional patient of his? They were the same kind of people, than the veterans of Siebert. They were:

- receiving
- creative
- sometimes angry
- they had strong me, self
- they were enough for themselves
- they appreciated and loved themselves
- adaptive
- they were governing their own life
- intelligent
- they had strong feeling of reality
- they trusted in themselves s. 180
- they didn’t need other people, but they appreciated the transaction with other people
- they were interested in their own well being, but
- at the same time they are tolerant to and interested in the other people
- they are nonconformists and
- tolerant in their moral
- unprejudiced and
- value the differences of the people
- the problem is to them on change nothing to be afraid of .

For the exceptional patients into the growth to adulthood belonged being as a child, what meant being a child like person not a childish person. That included the being happy as a child and the curiosity of the innocent child.

They were observant, but no judgment. They were not even afraid, that they were laughable and they laughed to themselves. They excepted the criticism of others. They were not afraid in being wrong. They had wild imagination. They preferred intellectual games and playing, in which they often talked to themselves. They were many times in those things so that they lost the sense of time and place.

So, what you think, are those people the same as the Totally Creative people of Maslow? If you think so, then you have found the solution to the Eternal Health and Survival. If a person is very sick and dying, then with this methods he can cure himself. If a person is already healthy, he finds out the Eternal Health. The other thing is, what the Eternal means.

The conclusion from the war and from the survivors: When a person is in war and he is following the handbook of combat, in certain situations he dies. When he is Intuitive and Perceiving, he survives.

Other problem in this picture is, when the cancer patient or the veteran in the war become the Exceptional Patient or the Exceptional Survivor. What happen to him or her? When it happened? This questions are not so important, because we know, that it had to happen before the real test or before the incident happened.

It is also possible, that the fear of death, when the person has the cancer and is in certain situations in the war, are so big thing, that they change the personality of the person. It makes them to become, what they have never before been.

When Maslow and other scientists studied the creativity, they found out, that often the most creative persons were homosexuals. I began to think, that coming from the closet is so big thing mentally, that it is the same as Knowing Absolutely Oneself, or the cancer or the war, so a person goes through a major change in his personality.

In short: The book of Bernie Siegel bound All together. He gave the missing link into the Creativity of Maslow. Bohm made all the important words into one word, ’Hale’ - whole, healthy, holy. In the book of Siegel there was two stories. One from the extraordinary patient and one from the survivors in the Korean war. From the survivor, the extraordinary patient and the Total Creative person become one.

 

27. One interesting form of the dichotomy (good vs. bad) and the Final Goal

I once thought about Adam and Eve. Could they have a child when they still were in Eden (and lived in the Absolute System - I explain this later)?

The biggest contradiction is me vs. you and man vs. woman. In religion there have been long conversations about the soul of a woman - is there or isn’t there. I think the conversation has not been finished.

In the Gospel of Thomas there is an interesting conversation about that subject. And I think an interesting view is brought out at the same time.

But before I look into the mater, let’s say that it seems, that the person who is in the Final Goal and Knows Absolutely Oneself, is Totally Creative and from wall to wall in mental qualities. So in other word he or she has many values or a person of multiple values and attitudes. The ordinary person has an ideal form of values and attitudes. He or she wants to be good. He or she wants to live in the good side of things. He is one sided.

The Gospel of Thomas 113: When the kingdom comes? You cannot see it. You cannot say ”Look there it is!” or ”Look here it is!” The kingdom of the Father is all over the world and the people cannot see it.

What Simon Peter said. Added later: Simon Peter said to them: ”Mary doesn’t belong to the group, because the women don’t deserve the Life.”

To me this means that Simon Peter doesn’t believe, that the women belong to the group of the disciples. And perhaps there is also a question about the Final Goal and that the women doesn’t go there.

Jesus said: ”Look, I guide her to become a man, so she also can become to the living spirit, and she is then like you, men. Every women, who makes herself a man, will go to the kingdom of heaven.

What this meant to me? A woman cannot become physically a man or vice versa. But how a woman can become a man? It’s done mentally. So to me it means, that if a person wants to reach the Final Goal he or she has to become mentally the opposite sex. The whole person in that sense is mentally both man and woman. Again the Wholeness is the key. In Buddhism it is yin and yang together.

Now you can think again about the Creativity and the homosexuals. If a man is manly and a woman is womanly, it is easy. To be the opposite is much harder if not even impossible for some people.

 

28. An Creative scientist, is it possible?

Couple of words from the Creativity. It is a common assumption, that same way than the artists are creative, so are the scientists. The scientists are the thinking machines. Their main work is done by thinking. There are different kind of ways to talk about their creativity. We could say, that there is ’creative thinking’ and ’creative way of problem solving’ and so on. But what is the real connection of them to the Total Creativity, which is not at all thinking but rather Perceiving, when the thinking process is silent.

So ’creative thinking’ and ’creative problem solving’ are only little bit different way of thinking. Perceiving things is a spontaneous job. Like a flash from the sky the mater comes into the mind. And it is usually the whole package. The person only has to do the deed, put in the paper and so on. You can read more about the Total or Real Creativity from my home page, from the work of year 1985 and from the chapter 4.1.3. It is in Finnish. If you don’t find the answers there, you can look for the books I have been reading.

One useful method: You can try this method in you everyday life. You have a problem or you don’t even have to know that you have a problem, the only indicator could be that you have a bad feeling. In both cases, forget the problem or the feeling. Sleep on it! And after awhile you get the answer or the solution to the problem. It comes like from the sky and it solves everything.

Anna Roe studied 64 successful scientists.  Her goal was to find the definition for the creative scientist. The following is the sad story about the scientists, what they are like and how they became what they are now.

The average successful scientist is:

- He comes from a middle class family.
- He is usually the first son of the family.
- The person has been sick in his childhood or he has lost one of his parents in very early age.
- He has a very high IQ .
- He read a lot, when he was a boy.
- He felt himself being alone and different.
- He was shy and he drew himself from the company of others.
- He was only a little interested in girls.
- He started to go with the opposite sex in early stage at the collage.
- He married in the age of 27 and got two children.
- He found security from the marriage.
- His marriage was more stable that usually.
- He didn’t decide until in the early stage at the college to surrender to science.
- When he found out the pleasure from the scientific studies, he never turned away from his road.
- He was completely satisfied with his work. That work is his whole life.
- He has very little hobbies. The movies are dull.
- He drew himself away from the social life and the political activities.
- The religion has no meaning for his life or for his thinking.
- The most of them are protestants.
- The scientific work filled their inner needs.

What comes into you mind, when you read this sentences? I feel pity! Oh, pure, pure scientists! Why do you need my appreciation? You don’t deserve it! I can only be sorry for you and your destiny. 

A few years ago I was so naive, that I thought, that the main goal of the scientists was to make science, to find the truth. Then I began to think about the rat race they are in. They have to fight with their fists to get farther. They have to be very, very selfish, me, me, me… They use the science and the universities as a hiding place. There they are secure and fulfil their selfish drives. This means that all the means are acceptable, when you don’t get caught.

Another thought game, when I was thinking about a man, who has 100.000 video film or what ever. It is laughable isn’t it? He is overdoing something. And when a person does that, he is lagging something else or filling some emptiness with the overdoing. For instance he has no sex and no transaction with other people. The more he does, the more he is missing. This is also a description of scientists and artists. They are over doing.

The only difference between the man who had 100.000 video and the scientists and the artists, is that we don’t understand to laugh to the later ones and feel pity about them.

The next story is from de Bono. He was once writing in one of his books about the lateral thinking. To me the lateral thinking is not at all thinking but Perception. He tells in his book about the specialist. The specialist is in the hole in the ground. He is the specialist of that hole. The hole has it’s dimensions - the width and the depth. In the main hole there can be side holes and the specialists of the side holes.

In the deepest corner of the hole is situated the main specialist of the hole. He is the man who is most of all the other people engaged to the hole. When he is done that, he is the last one to clime away from the hole. The main question concerning the hole is, is the hole in the right place? The duty of the specialist is to broaden and deepen he hole. The more ’beautiful’ the hole is the better person the specialist is. With the hole he get respect and money. Without the hole he isn’t anything.

As in stories, to the hole came one day the snake and asked: ”Is the hole in the right place?” The specialist of the hole knows it better and he doesn’t give an answer, he doesn’t even see the ’snake’. This kind of human beings are leading our life. What on earth they know about human behavior or life?

The scientist is like the specialist. Only another specialists of the hole can ask the right questions and put the first specialist in distress. There has to be a major upheaval, before there in the hole section happens something.

So important is, that, the science and the Real Creativity are worlds apart. The former is the area, where the thought is the king and the later is the part where the none thinking is leading it All. The science has taken into use the unconscious insufficiency of the human being and is unconsciously making the best of it without any success. In the Absolute System and in the System of Perception the intuition is the main thing and all the materials are folly or nonsense to the thoughts.

In short: In generally there is not that kind of creature than a Creative scientist. Of course the scientist can have that kind of peak experiences, that I have been describing, but other wise the makings of the science are not really Creative. I think that in many perspective the scientist is farthest from the Real Creativity.

 

29. The relative difference of the people

One of the most important Perceptions on my early road was, that the people are not different. .At that time I didn’t understand the whole picture, but it became clear a little bit later. I don’t want to pressure you to except it. But if you want to go far and up to the the Final Goal, you have to make the same kind of decision. Play a game, say that the people are the same and look what you find.

A story from my visit to the library: I once had some enjoyment, when I thought about going into the library and ask some information. I thought, that I would ask the clerk: ”I want to know myself. Do you have books, that would help me?” 

Do you think, that the question is proper? I believe you do! To me it is totally silly. Because if people believe, that all the people are different, then there is no possibility to find a book, that would help. If there would be one, then I should have written it. Because I am different and only I know myself. I cannot read from the experiences of other people and have some help.

Let’s think awhile, that people are different and their behavior is also different. What does it do in practice? There should be billions of religions, billions of psychologies, billions of everything, because the people are different. It would be impossible to sell the same kind of music, medicine, movies, videos and so on, to them, because everybody would be a different kind of individual and would have their unequal needs.

But the reality is, that there is the mass marketing and many kind of mass movements and so on. The reality of the world shows, that we do things the same way.

If I would think very hard about the real differences of the human being, I would not get but three absolute differences - the finger print, the iris picture and the DNA print. Others are relatively the same. There are only some minor differences.

When I am talking about the sameness of the people, I am not talking about the look and the build of the people. I am talking about the behavior of the people. I am not saying, that the behavior of the people is exactly the same. What I am saying, is that from the deepest and the most important parts of the behavior, the people are the same. Everybody is insufficient to oneself or to what the person is and has. If that is true and it is reflected to everything a human being does, then the behavior of the human beings is the same. That means, that if you know one, you know them all. And in short it means, that if you know yourself you know all the people. It’s that simple!

In later chapters I will tell you, how it is done, why the behavior of the people is relatively the same and why Knowing Absolutely Oneself happens in a flash and why it includes All.

In short: One of the biggest force in the world of human thought is unconsciously, that people are different. All the people believe so. Also the Awakened persons believe so until they Know Absolutely Themselves. So I say, that in the major areas and especially in the deepest part of it the the behavior of the people are relatively the same. People have the same ’theory-in-use’ and the same defense system in use. The later is explained in the ’Learning Organization’ chapter.

The sameness comes from that, all people are insufficient to themselves. Or all the people are nearly all the time unconsciously saying to themselves: ”I am already good, but I want to be better!”

 

30. Values, attitudes and norms

There are great differences between people and cultures. In an other culture something is good and in the other bad. So you could say, that the values, attitudes and norms are very different. But I say, that when you take into consideration the smallest possible nominator in those things, you find out, that it is the same.

To all the people the most important thing is me, self, ego. All the people are thinking unconsciously, that they are not enough for themselves or to put it little more nicely - ”I am already good, but I want to be better!” If that sentence is behind all the values, attitudes and norms, then they are the same in every age, culture and in every person.

In a book, that handled the quality (Pirsig, Robert (1989) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'. Black Swan) was a section, where the main point was the duty. How do you think a person does his duty in Japan and in the western world. Japanese have the duty to the group, the organization, the country. In western world we have to highest duty to ourselves. In Japan the people are sacrificing themselves to the group and here in west we sacrifice ourselves for our own good. The interesting thing is, that also in Japan the people are human beings and they main goal in life is me, self. So they are living in a massive, collective deception. And still they have discovered so much from subject of the Final Goal. How wonderful!

When you think about the person, that is described in the works of Maslow, Siegel and Siebert and the thoughts of a ordinary person (99% of people), there is big difference. The ordinary person is living good life, when he is collecting and showing the best possible values to surrounding. And the person who Know Absolutely Oneself, is Totally Creative and Total Survivor, he has now values. He is worthless.

As I told you earlier a person doesn’t choose the values. He inherits them from his parent just as they are in his parents mind. The ordinary persons are one minded and the person who Knows Oneself is from wall to wall. It is said, that a person changes his values and attitudes very slowly. The only real possibility to change the values is to see them all at once after Awakening. If we say, that the change happens in the form of development. The persons sees wrong values one by one and changes them accordingly. He gives birth to a new value. In the Bible there is a remarkable saying: ”Don’t put the new wine into an old container”. What is the container in this respect? It is you mind! When you put something new into it, it turns soar. So if your thinking process is the same it colors all the new thoughts. And in the bottom of your container is your insufficiency.

If a person becomes worthless by accident for instance in burn-out situation, it is the worst that can happen. The person isn’t anything for himself and he thinks, that also other people think the same way about him. The only way be be worthy is to work better and better. If the person looses the sense of self, he thinks that he isn’t anything anymore.

Think about the story of the Korean war: Some persons were Survivors. Did they follow the handbook of the war and the combat? No they didn’t follow the common values, attitudes and norms or orders. They did something unthinkable and they are still alive.

What the values are and how they come to control the life? They are controlling all the behavior of a person. So they are controlling the life. With the values a person becomes a good person who is living the good life.

The values have much to do with the concept of me, self. They carry the me. The values are in the system of thoughts. They are the undercurrent of the thoughts.

As you perhaps start to see, the Totally Creative person or the person who Knows Absolutely Oneself is very dangerous persons for the society and for the people who have much good values to show other people. If values are worthless, they loose their value.

The most simple way to describe the values is to look the diagram ( the boxes and the arrows) of human behavior There are three levels: the outside irritation; the person (and what is inside him) and the reaction. Some irritation has occurred. The person don't have to know it. You don’t have to know, what happens in the personal level. The process is mostly unconscious. The only thing that is to be seen always is the human reaction. The reactions tells it all. Nothing stays hidden, if you are observant enough. You know what kind of irritation you have noticed unconsciously and you know what happened unconsciously inside yourself.

Let’s say, that we don’t know anything about the person in the middle. If this is hard, imagine that there is on ET from the space watching the human behavior He sees only the reaction.

The human being expose everything within his reactions. The ET knows, that the person has had some outside irritation before he reacts, He also knows that inside the person has happened some kind of process. For instance the person heard something within the words, when a director said him: ”What a good worker you are!” ET saw, that the employ was red from his face and very angry. ET understood, that the director has had some hidden agenda inside the message. And he saw, that the employ reacted more to the hidden agenda than to the words. So he knows, that the irritation, the message has met something in the mind of the employ and the employ reacts accordingly.

The example is not very good, but it tells you, that if you want to take the first steps on the road to know thyself, you have to have enough energy and courage to look ’from eye to eye’ your reactions. They tell you, what irritations you have taken inside and especially what is inside you mind and what happens there.

All the human beings show their values in their behavior Attitudes are kind of automatic reactions. We don’t have to think hard every time, we meet a certain situation or irritation. We only react.

A story about attitudes: As I was a teacher. I was walking to the school. There was a white man and a Gypsy woman. The white man kind of hit the woman. It made me angry as I walked away. Then I started to think about what I had seen. And to my horror I Perceived, that the white man was better person than I. He cared the woman so much that he wanted to hit her. To me the Gypsies are air. I walk ’through’ them.  

In Finland we don’t have the problems of foreigners or the racial problems for the same reason. We don’t take any notice about those people. The only reaction we have is the anger, when someone goes and hits a black man. Oh, how rude!

So the attitudes are very dangerous thing. It is said, that a person shouldn’t build his life on those attitudes he hasn’t searched through.

In the learning organization there was a question about the unconscious defense system. It was said, that you cannot control that kind of thing. You can do only something to the mater, when you are conscious about it.

The story about a friend who had three burn-outs one after another = total burn-out: I have mentioned the burn-out already many times, but now I tell the whole story, because it is very much to do with the attitudes and values a person has and how they affect the life of the person.

A person sent me e-mail. He had visited my home page through ’Anthony de Mello’. He began to tell his story. When I heard more, I gave to his condition a name, ’total burn-out’. 

He had been excellent worker, director and consultant. He was the best. He was a performer, like men generally are. If I want like to say with one word, what a man is, he is a performer, he does deeds. OK, my friend was very successful in his work. He passed the usual standards. But then the regression game and his customers couldn’t pay their bills. The marriage started to rumble. He didn’t get the sleep as well as usually. Also he got other medical problems as well. Until today he has been operated for sleep disorders over ten times. The final blow came, when the wife said in front of the children, that she wants divorce and the house must go to market for sell. 

If I draw a picture for me about what happened, I would imagine the ladders. The friend of mine would be standing very high, unusually high. Then he would fall down to the concrete floor on his head, smacks. And on the floor he wasn’t anything. He was less than nothing. He was a living corps as he himself put it.

He simply fell down and was worthless. His me was worthless. He’s me was death.

As I have been telling you, at first came into my mind, that he had to be very much performer. His upbringing should have been centered to the performance: ”What ever you do do it good and better. A man isn’t nothing if he doesn’t work hard. You life will be better, if you work hard. You have to be better than the other man. and so on”

I think, he had not many values. He was very one sided man.

The heading of this section could be: ”The total burn-out isn’t infectious, but everybody will have it eventually, if….”

I think he has always been a closed up person. He hasn’t been talking about himself or his problems to other people. He has been very very strong or durable. When the burden has become heavier and heavies, he has carried it, until… All the problems have been his own, so what to speak about them. He has been the perfect performer also on this section. One help has also been his intelligence. He had always reasons to go on and not to lighten the burdens of his life. He has not been able to see himself. All had been unconscious. Also he was not able to meet the basic problems. He couldn’t even see, that he had problems. He was always good, until…

When a person looses the work, the health and finally the marriage and the children, he looses it all. What about the savings and the properties? Can they help? I think they don’t help, because a person can keep up his worth only by performing again and again. You cannot perform into the bank. I think, that all the things don’t go sore at once. I think it starts with the performance and then the other things follow, because you project your bad feeling to everything and to everybody in your surrounding. 

What the former means, is that the money in bank or the property cannot save a person. It simply isn’t enough and it never have been enough. The only way to correct the situation of insufficiency in his life has been to perform. And if a person looses his ability to perform, he is lost.

What’s the cure? If you fall from a very important situation, you cannot ever go back. You have to start it again, but very different way. First thing to do is to become conscious about what happened. The next thing a little bit more difficult. The person has to understand the meaning of me or self. And because to really understand, you have to go consciously over the Border and to the System of None Thinking.

That makes the cure of the total burn-out very difficult to accomplish. Because the victim doesn’t Perceive his own condition and also the helper don’t Perceive the condition of the patient. They are helpless. The ordinary doctors try to cure the patients from a ’disease’ they don’t know anything about. Because the patients fall through every safety ’net’ into their arms.

There are some areas of employment, that are more dangerous that others in the burn-out situation. On these areas there are more women than men in work. The women are more conscientious. They want to do the work right. But the situation is worsening. The most dangerous areas of work are the teaching and the nursing. The pupils and the patients have multiple ’injuries’. When in former times a patient had a sickness, it was simple to cure. And the patient was well again. In former times it was simple also to teach kids. You as a teacher was good and the children learned, if they were capable of learning. Now when you take care of the patient and the main sickness, it doesn’t help, because the main reason for the sickness stays untouched. And the main reason is in the mind of the patient. The same is in teaching. If you try and do the best you can, it doesn’t help.

And if that is the case both in teaching and nursing, then the better you want to do your job, the surer you will burn-out.  The same thing seems to be with the police men. Also the women doctors seem to be in danger. And I think that the reason is nearly the same.

A tale about the men and women: I once thought about the religions and why the women are not leading a religion. As I told you with one word a male person is performance. A woman with one word to me is security.  A religion is to me a product. There are many religions. What is the guarantee of a religion, that you reach the Goal with it? There is no guarantee, that with this religion, you reach the Goal with the 75% probability.

So the explanation could be, that the women don’t lead a religion, because would like to save us all. What the men do? They are kind of casual - That’s the way it goes! What the heck! The performance is more important that the result. Or the result is the performance.
The same picture is drawn, when we think about the leading of a war. The men behave the same way than with the religion. What the heck 100.000 men died. The women couldn’t do that. I have heard rumors, that the women directors suffer the burn-outs a lot. I has to be so.

The most important thing in the behavior is,  that you can always see the reaction. And the reaction tells it All, what is inside the person and what has happened there!

The person who has the total burn-out, is worthless and his or hers me has died. By starting to succeed in the performances the me starts to develop again. I have reached to the death of me by wanting it and I am ’happy’.

In short: Values, attitudes and norms are highly unconscious governors of human behavior When a person Knows Absolutely Himself, he has no values or he is worthless. When a person Knows Himself, he sees through the values, attitudes and norms. He sees what they are and he stops using them. And they stop guiding his life unconsciously. In a way this stopping of the unconscious action is the main thing. The person can use values and attitudes, but he makes the choice.

The BOOK of the books Part 5.