As we have attempted to create specific models to describe how the CRP works, several have suggested themselves from both science and the spiritual or mystical viewpoint. However, no one model describes the Consciousness Restructuring Process of Natural Healing completely. Applicable here is an old East Indian tale, the story of six blind men, each trying to describe an elephant by touching and feeling a different part of it.
There were six blind men who were friends and shared a house. They had never encountered an elephant before and each wondered what one was like. One day they had the opportunity to do so as a Rajah came through their village with his elephants. Each explored the elephant independently.
The first blind man touched its side and hide and thought, “An elephant is big and broad, it must be like a wall.”
The second one touched the elephant's trunk. “It is round and bends and has a mouth at the end, it must be like a snake.”
The third man touched its tusks and decided, “ An elephant is long, sharp and hard, just like a spear.”
The fourth blind man felt its leg. “How big and tall, round and firm,” he thought, “just like a tree.”
The fifth man decided after feeling the ear of the elephant, which was wide and thin and pliable. “It must be like a blanket.”
The sixth blind man touched the tail. “Why it is thin and round and flexible, an elephant is like a rope.”
Later as they met to share their experiences, they were soon arguing over who was right. Each thought the others wrong as they in turn insisted than an elephant was like a wall, a snake, a spear, a tree, a blanket or a rope. None would yield because each knew that he was right and the others wrong. Their friendship was in jeopardy.
Then along came a wise man. “Stop!” he exclaimed. “You are arguing over nothing. The elephant is a very big animal and each of you touched only one part of it. Each of you is right but limited and you must put all the parts together to find out what the whole elephant is like.”
As in this tale, all the models for the CRP must be considered in total to glean a sense of the whole, and even this is not completely suitable, since as we have noted previously, a simple sum of the parts does not really make the whole. A synthesis is needed. Much as a cake is more than the sum of water, flour, sugar, butter and its other ingredients, or an elephant is more than its trunk, tusks, legs, ears, tail or sides, so too this process is much more than is outlined or implied in any of the models.
Part of the problem is that our thinking, organizing and language are all designed for linear and cause-effect processing. It is difficult in descriptive terms to capture the essence of the whole. Perhaps a science fiction novel or a poem could do so better and this may be in the future also. But eventually with consideration and openness a gestalt should emerge. One will see the elephant or savor the cake.
We are presenting the more or less scientific models that describe the process here. By scientific we mean models that utilize either scientific theory to describe the process, or models that are based on the empirical method in their formation. These are models that address the question of “How?” the process works. When we understand this we can tinker with it until we become much more efficient with it. These are our first baby steps to establishing an applied science of consciousness, a consciousness engineering discipline.
There are a number of other models that are also pertinent that will be covered in another publication. These come out of shamanism, and some of the eastern philosophies and other spiritual practices, and also shed light on the process to make order of the imagery encountered in journeys. We are limiting ourselves in this publication to presenting these science-based models for the following reason:
The process must be able to stand on its own within either approach to healing. In this way it more reliably may serve as a common or meeting ground for both the spiritual and scientific healing practices.
Finding this common ground is important to our species and its continuing evolution of mind. The purists in each area must be satisfied as to its merits with respect to their world-view before being asked to embrace another heretofore antagonistic paradigm.
Our first model divides consciousness into six zones of activity or dynamics.
The Six Zones of Consciousness Dynamics
Zone 1: Behavioral patterns and somatic symptoms and physical configurations.
Zone 2: The dance of emotions and thought.
Zone 3: Belief systems.
Zone 4: Personal and archetypal mythology.
Zone 5: Quantum Consciousness, The edge of Creation, Archetypal strange attractors.
Zone 6 Chaos or undifferentiated consciousness, Implicate order, Infinite possibility.[ insert Figure 3-1]
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Model 1 The Six Zones of Consciousness
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