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Page 83-98       Lessons of Enlightenment

Section Beta

Lesson Three: The Six Basic Feelings

Emotions Of Spirit

With the understanding of the intended feedback function of human emotion, the feeling signals become honored as crucial communicators. Although the simple behavioral guidance for choice of response is already a tremendous aid, full utilization of the sixth human sense is assisted by heeding the specific messages of each of the signals
. For each emotional signal has a specific purpose, related to a specific spiritual need, and each calls for its own specific response.

This "sixth human sense" referred to above can probably best be tapped by placing oneself in a light trance or a meditative state. We might also consider tapping the dream state in sort of a question/answer routine in which questions are put to our unconscious/spiritual nature before retiring and answers are reviewed as soon as we awaken.

In the earlier discussion regarding interpretation of emotional signals, the tool of the Twin Selves was offered to redefine the boundary between mind and body, or internal and external realms. This distinction allows humans rational interpretation of their feelings so that they can choose the correct response. During that discussion, it was hinted that there was an easier way to tell the difference between mind and body to help interpret emotional signals. This is because there are specific emotions connected with each of the selves. There are specific emotions which automatically suggest that the imbalance springs from limitations in the realm of mind, and others that communicate from frustrated needs of embodied spirit.

What will follow in this section is an examination of these various feelings. But first we will examine the difference between the emotions of body and the emotions of mind.

Although the order of response is still as recommended, those feelings which come from contents of mind will automatically suggest self-developmental behaviors (Right Responses), and those of body will suggest self-expressive or preservationary (Light, Fight or Flight Responses). We can now examine the feelings themselves and reacquaint ourselves with this most wondrous, yet misunderstood spiritual communication system.



The Emotions Of Body

In the beginning, there was one basic emotion, joy. Joy, of course, is the conscious experience of Divine Love. Joy is the intended state of spirit. As we now know, when humans donned the chemical cloak they became susceptible to interruptions of spiritual intention. To ensure an ever-present spiritual connection during the physical journey, the body (the Genetic Self), was encoded with protective devices to save humans from themselves. This is the homeostatic feedback device which signals when spiritual intention is frustrated, and motivates corrective actions to get back onto the track of joy. In this system, feelings both signal the problem and motivate the corrective responses.

There is more than just the instinct to survive buried within in us. There is an innate self-awareness of what we truly are and what we must do to continue to grow. These are the controls we exercise to progress along the trip using our metaphorical brake, our accelerator and our steering wheel--so to speak.

Encoded within the body to do this job were two basic human emotions. They were joy and fear. They equated simply to spiritual expression or frustration, to the Divine Light or the darkness in its absence, to pleasure and pain. Joy motivated a human approach and fear motivated an avoidance. Fear was intended to ensure the preservation of the species as a corrective signal when needs were unmet as well as a hardwired avoidant response that could over-ride the mind when necessary.

In a complicated world, even then, there were challenges to the acquiring of food and lodging, that even the best of environments offered. Threats to survival stimulated the mind just as beauty satisfied the soul.

These two emotions, when interacting with the cognitive abilities of the brain and the need-meeting actions of early humanity, soon branched into the emotions of anger and sadness. And then there were four.

Frustration at failing to meet a goal became "anger". Loss of a possession or relationship became "sadness". In today's society, we have chemical drugs to stimulate pleasure and reduce physical pain. We are less successful at dealing with these latter two, but are moving in that direction, i.e. tranquilizers and happy pills. Unfortunately, not only are such drugs temporary but, in the long run, probably harmful on levels that are not universally understood and appreciated.

Anger sprang from the human need for freedom and control. Anger would grow from fear over memories of frustration and future projections of concern over interference with efforts of spiritual expression. It motivated active "fight" responses to ensure that external obstacles were not to be tolerated. Sadness sprang from loss experiences. Most specifically from losses of people and the severance of ties that satisfied the group needs. Sad feelings were meant to motivate actions that promoted new, replacement alliances and protected against further loss.

Anger and sadness, in themselves, aren't necessarily experiences to be avoided. They can have value in our growth process if they don't lead to physical and mental harm against someone else or ourselves. We can go beyond these states when we elect to do so. It is part of exercising our creative abilities.

Thus, we now have four basic hardwired emotions: joy, fear, anger and sadness. They should be thought of as emotions of the body or the Genetic Self. These hardwired feelings are present at birth and displayed in early infancy. These are universal emotions, experienced for the same reasons by all humans regardless of culture. They should be understood as indicators that self-preservation is truly the message. Joy means that needs of the spirit have been fulfilled, while the pain of anger, fear and sadness means that needs are frustrated by obstacles which must be removed. These four emotions motivate universal mental and physical responses of approach or avoidance to ensure self-preservation.

Keeping in mind that we can not progress if we are not "preserved", it is easy to see why these emotions are "hardwired" into our nature.

It is important to mention, that although these emotions spring from body in the feedback situation, that they are filtered through the perceptions and beliefs of mind. So for this reason, the Right Response should always remain the optimal first response choice. This would be a quick, non-resistant, (non-defensive) accurate analysis of underlying beliefs about the emotional-invoking situation. Any conflicts discovered could then be immediately resolved. This will ensure that objective, rational assessment of the situation has been achieved and that the obstacles are not internal, imaginary or self-created. But once this has been ruled out, this feeling signal in a similar situation can accurately be understood as indication of an external obstacle that must be removed by an expressive response.

There are many experiences that are self-generated and can just as easily and quickly be altered when we realize the source and how the actions that led to the situation can be corrected. In a truer sense, all experiences are self-created and serve as stimulants for our true growth.



The Emotions of Mind

All other emotions are outgrowths of these primary emotions and are secondary softwired emotions. Although they are rooted in human biology, they are not present at birth; they develop with age, interaction and experience. They develop entangled with the culture values, knowledge, memories and beliefs of the mind. They exist in the realm of the Cultural Self. Their meaning can be as complex or simple, as straightforward or convoluted, as supportive or debilitative as the human mind in which they are experienced. They are directly related to human experience---in other words, they are learned. They can be attached to most any human idea that can exist within the realm of mind. The summations and beliefs that invoke them can very widely.

We are programmed at an early age and those "programs" become the memories and beliefs of the 'Cultural Self'. Many of them govern our actions for the remainder of our physical lives. They even continue to damage us (and those around us) long after we learn the adverse consequences of their presence. Yet, because they are not hardwired into our being, they can be "deleted" and replaced with beliefs that are more compatible with our true spiritual nature.

The emotions of mind include guilt, shame, hope, pride, embarrassment, remorse, confidence and any other subtle shade of feeling not mentioned in the above category. They relate directly to contents within the realm of mind---to the gems and slivers---and indicate that self-developmental responses are in order. These learned emotions of mind call for learned responses of mind, Right Responses. We know now that these are not hardwired. They must be actively chosen and undertaken, often in the face of opposing urges toward avoidance.

We often see governments projecting "knee-jerk" reactions to situations considered threatening, often leading to military action, which incorporates death and destruction, usually of the more civilian portion of a population. Such governments presume they are reflecting the will of the public, but a more enlightened course of action might reflect a deeper sense of the public's true nature. That "nature" would likely turn out to be quite in contradiction to what ruling institutions presume to know.

This key understanding will cast many situations into an entirely different light. It will be shocking as it exposes rather entrenched and universal emotional boundaries. But it is now extremely necessary to shock humans back into understanding, to break through the haze of denial and self destruction.

Time is running short for the mass of humanity to adopt a broader paradigm. The responsibility for creating our own reality is now an essential realization. Within this "realization" lies the hope of the world.

For example, when a situation arises in which guilt is experienced, this will now be understood as a message from the spirit that some external dictate has been internalized which has frustrated or limited a need. This is exactly opposite of what most humans are taught about the experience of guilt. In fact, this emotion has been utilized to inspire conformity to external dictates at the expense of internal ones for thousands of years.

Guilt has an essentially positive purpose, until it is used as a weapon of control and punishment. Institutions seek control to sustain themselves. It doesn't matter if they are governmental, economic or religious institutions, they are all susceptible to falling into that pattern of behavior.

With such slivers, the first impulse upon the experience of guilt, might be a trip to the confessional or some such action which shares the concern and allows getting the issue off one's chest. This is good, it can actually be an expressive Right Response wherein one seeks external counsel, enlightenment or understanding so that the internal changes can be effected. The result would be a change in belief systems which would prevent the same situation from being repeated, thus the feeling signal would be quieted and would not arise again in similar situations.

Those moments of guidance in the confessional could be truly beneficial in a life-long sense. However, in order for this to occur, it would require a willingness on the part of the religious institution to step back and trust in the innate spiritual nature of people to come forth. Prayers of penance don't do much to alter attitudes and behavior. Rather, they assuage the conscience and allow behavior to remain basically unchanged.

But this is not an optimal action if it leaves the sliver in the mind. No amount of cultural or religious appeasement will actually remove a need that has been stifled. The spirit will diligently protest the sliver and the situation and its resulting guilt will arise again and again. For as we know, slivers are often conflicting ideas that humans believe, which give them conflicting directives and create confusing impulses. Once these conflicts are exposed and eliminated, the directives can be those of the spirit, not those of a confused mind.

Confuse(d) mind(s) are essential to those who need to maintain control. A clear mind governed by one's own innate spiritual nature has no need to be controlled from without, and no need to seek assistance from institutions. When this has become the new reality, these institutions will have to find a different role to play in society, one that compliments the spiritual aspects of humanity rather than stifles them.

For ultimately, humans will find that any action that brings a feeling of guilt will be the result of a maladaptive response to an emotion-invoking situation, driven by conflicting beliefs and misunderstandings, or good old-fashioned laziness. There is no evil, there is no inherently wrong act, unless it violates the needs of the spirit. Guilt is not the only misconceived feeling; each has become muddled and entangled with an incredible amount of human "knowledge".

This last statement may sound anti-intellectual, but what we sometimes interpret to be "knowledge" is really nothing more than ingrained belief systems that are passed on from one generation to the next for the primary purpose of controlling behavioral patterns from an outside source. True "knowledge" can be tapped from within ourselves and is capable of a great deal more infallibility.

Since there are so many misunderstandings regarding feelings, we now turn to a careful analysis of each of the major emotions. Together the emotions of mind and body now comprise six basic feelings which underlie every subtle feeling. All of which are affected by contents of mind, two of which are exclusive to the contents of mind. With clear understandings of the six universal feelings, rational analysis of each subtle experience can be attained.

These SIX now follow:



The Emotions Of Mind - Six Universal Feelings, i.e.
Joy, Fear, Anger, Sadness, Envy & Guilt

1. Joy

Definition: A very glad feeling, happiness, delight; anything causing this.

As children, we experienced this, even before we knew it had a name, or a definition.

Range: Mild, pleasant contentment, to rapturous ecstasy.

Everything from a Grandmother's soft smile to a teenager's leaps of "joy".

Source: Genetic Self (body/spirit), in its drive for preservation and expression; Cultural Self (mind) in its drive for development.

In either category, it can be a plus experience.

Stimulus Conditions: Rewarding, situations. Hyper accommodation of physical or psychological needs; getting better than expected results; creative and spiritual expression of the Genetic Self, and development of the Cultural Self.

Much of Joy is relative to creative activity.

Instinctive Response: To approach; to recreate stimulus circumstances to bring about the feeling again and again.

Some religions have taught that Joy is an experience to be shunned. This may be because our concept of God seldom includes a joyous state of being. But the natural state is a joyous state – even for God.

Intended Function: To accomplish self-preservation, development and expression by identifying those experiences which should be cultivated, reinforced and recreated. To provide motivation to continue along paths which are successful at spiritual need-fulfillment.

Once you have one joyful experience, you can build upon it until it becomes a treasured structure.

Pitfalls: The possibility of creating artificial, escapist or induced pleasure through compulsive actions or through biological and/or pharmacological manipulation; Joy entangled with reproductive drive (infatuation and other lesser forms of love)---beware.

This is the danger of relying consistently on outside sources for the joy we need in our lives. Such sources can exercise their free will and abandon us and leave us vulnerable to self-destruction.

Recommended Course Of Response To Joy:

1. Any approach (developmental or expressive), behavioral responses which increase the stimulus and recreate the feelings of joy, for genuine reasons, which expand goals, broaden arenas, elaborate and improve strategies that are already working, and sharing them with others. Joy leads to its own reward.

Some cultures know greater levels of 'Joy' than others; and those cultures are not necessarily the technologically superior.

2. If any negative emotions arise from such Right and Light behaviors, analyze the stimulus conditions and proceed through the recommended course for those emotions. They will expose conflicts in belief that need resolution. Caution: joy is so powerful that no one wants to lose a source of joy, even if that source is also the source of great pain. This conflict spurs the automatic Flight Response of denial (denial of the negative aspects of the source in order to continue to enjoy the positive aspects of the source).

Those involved in abusive relationships will often remain in those relationships because of the accompanying moments of 'Joy' that are also experienced.

Food For Thought:

"Be happy, it's one way of being wise". ---Colette

"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls".---Mother Teresa



The Emotions Of Mind - Six Universal Feelings, i.e.
Joy, Fear, Anger, Sadness, Envy & Guilt

2. Fear

Definition: Anxiety caused by real or possible danger.

Range: Mild anxiety to blinding, heart-stopping panic.

Source: Genetic Self; in the drive for self-preservation.

Stimulus Conditions: Threatening situations.

1. Internal beliefs, thoughts, ideas, attitudes or memories which cause perceived danger or potential threat to need fulfillment.

2. People, things, or situations in the external environment which threaten health, safety or need fulfillment.

3. Emotional Boundaries of self cause mild anxiety in developmental or learning situations (growing pains), since development is a threat to self-preservation.

Instinctive Response: To take flight, to retreat or escape

Intended Function: To motivate the avoidance of, and the escape from situations which threaten to diminish need fulfillment opportunities or efforts, (and ultimately, threats to survival).

Pitfalls: Imaginary threats can create very real fear feelings. Fear prompts avoidant thoughts and behaviors quite naturally, but such denial fails to address or remove the underlying source, perpetuating a cycle of fear and further avoidance as well as narrowing mental emotional boundaries. Overly closed ideological environments can promote paranoia, avoidance of (and ultimately hate of) other different environments and their members. Fear of the unknown and avoidance of growing pains, can thwart self-developmental need fulfillment efforts and stymie learning.

Recommended Course of Response To Fear:

1. Right Response: Examine beliefs and interpretations of the fear-invoking situation to be sure that it is indeed a verified threat, not an imagined or self-created one. Discard any doctrines or beliefs which perpetuate irrational fear. Put valid memories of fear-invoking situations in their proper historical perspective. Seek knowledge. Often, knowledge alone can replace fear of the unknown. Remind yourself that risk is the necessary price of glory.

2. Light Response: Alter the situation to reduce the negative component, if minimally threatening.

3. Flight Response: Get away from a truly threatening situation long enough to evaluate strategies, to resolve or eliminate the threatening situation; or retreat permanently if necessary
.

Food for Thought:

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood".---Marie Curie

"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship". ---Louisa May Alcott

Most fears are self-implanted and self-sustained. We give fear the power to maintain itself within us or the power of others to hold it over us. Most people who try to inflict fear on others, are susceptible to it themselves ---more even than those they are trying to influence. Therein lies its weakness, for fear is no match against hope and resolve. There are some physical situations that require immediate flight (such as a falling tree) but our programmed instincts will stimulate us to take the appropriate action, i.e. move out of harms way ASAP. The rest are pretty much of our own making and can be "unmade".



The Emotions Of Mind - Six Universal Feelings, i.e.
Joy, Fear, Anger, Sadness, Envy & Guilt

3. Anger

Definition: Hostile feelings because of an opposition, a hurt.

Range: From mild frustration to irrational, blinding rage.

Source: Genetic Self, in its drive for self-preservation; stifled, confounded or unsatisfied individual needs for empowerment and control over one's destiny.

Stimulus Conditions: Power/control loss situations. Frustrated needs due to perceived external obstacles. The attributed source can be either upon environmental obstacles or upon shortcomings of the Cultural Self, both of which are external to the core Genetic Self.

Instinctive Response: The "Fight" response, outward aggression.

Intended Function: To accomplish self-preservation by generating active expressive behavioral responses which successfully remove the obstacles from the external environment.

PITFALLS:

In interpretation: Anger can be invoked by perceptions based upon maladaptive beliefs, attitudes or mental Emotional Boundaries. (This is invalid and contrived anger).

In response: Maladaptive, misdirected anger can result in violence and destruction of self and others. (Negative outcomes of these pitfalls can be avoided if response rules are followed)

RECOMMENDED COURSE OF RESPONSE TO ANGER:

1. Right Response: Evaluate beliefs, attitudes and expectations that bring on the angry feelings. Look to self. Are outcome expectations realistic and reasonable? If not, the anger is contrived. Look to the world. Does the environment deny a just and equitable opportunity for need meeting? If not, the anger is contrived. In both cases, beliefs are to be altered accordingly. This step will remove the mental source of contrived anger.

2. Light Response: If Right Responses have met with failure and the obstacle is legitimate, it is time to effect external changes. Light Responses are behaviors toward the anger source which can successfully alter or remove the obstacle so that needs can be met. Respectful cooperative communication, persuasion and self expression can accomplish this goal.

3. Fight Response: If respectful cooperation is not successful, it is time to take a more aggressive, even revolutionary expressive stance in honor of the spiritual need. Such actions should be attempted within the established conflict-resolution processes that exist, but should escalate in direct proportion to lack of receptivity within the environment.

4. Retreat Response: If even after all expressive attempts, the obstacle persists, a Flight Response is in order. It is then necessary to leave the situation and find more free, just and opportune surroundings.

Food For Thought:

"The size of a man can be judged by the size of that which makes him angry".---Harry Truman

There is, I believe, such a thing as "righteous anger" that can be expressed in such a way as to make clear one's feelings about a situation to those we perceive to be responsible for our anger. If our state of mind is justified in a spiritual sense, then those who hear our anger will more likely alter their behavior to appease or, at least, respect our position. This would be the beginning of the process of diverting this energy into a more positive environment.



The Emotions Of Mind - Six Universal Feelings, i.e.
Joy, Fear, Anger, Sadness, Envy & Guilt

4. SADNESS

Definition: Having or expressing low spirits; unhappy, sorrowful, causing dejection; sorry (broadly includes grief).

Range: Mild, unfocused "blues" to the depths of chronic, even suicidal, depression.

Source: Genetic Self; in its drive for self-preservation.

Stimulus Conditions: Loss situations. The perceived irretrievable loss of something need-fulfilling; be it a dream, a goal, a belief, a person, a thing, a self-image or exception. (Note: if the loss is impending but has not yet occurred, anger, not sadness is cued, the loss is perceived as certain and irretrievable when sadness is experienced).

Instinctive Response: To take flight, to escape or deny the loss.

Pitfalls: Lingering in state of denial that a loss has actually occurred can perpetuate continuing anger. Failure to adapt to a loss can result in long term depression. Loss can be purely imaginary or falsely perceived, and sadness is cued unnecessarily and unjustifiably; acceptance of such an imagined loss (or personal lack) can lead to the adoption of faulty and detrimental thought processes and self-defeating behaviors.

Recommended Course Of Response To Sadness:

1. First Right Response: Accept that the loss has occurred when your external experience keeps telling you that it has. An attitude change is necessary which shifts the object of the loss (idea, thing or person) into a realm of the past. Although memorial fondness can continue forever, the object, along with its need-fulfilling gifts must be completely removed from future expectations. This can, and does take time. But such restructuring is necessary to usher in replacement strategies. If anger is experienced during this process, it shows that the loss is not yet fully accepted.

2. Second Right Response: Adopt replacements for the object of loss. Find new beliefs, things or people to provide the missing need-fulfillment.

3. Light Response: Actively make external changes in physical or ideological surroundings which can accommodate the adaptations suggested above. Extensive grief can be channeled in vicarious, yet positive, need-fulfilling directions.



Food For Thought

"Adversity is the first path to truth". --Lord Byron

"Loss" is an essential part of life. The mere fact that we experience it is the proof that we have found something or someone of value and enjoyed that connection for a particular period of time. All of life is a gaining experience, but a losing experience, as well. When we dwell for too long on the latter, we deprive ourselves of opportunities for further gain. Because the Universe is a dynamic state, nothing can ever remain the same for very long – nor should it.



The Emotions of Mind - Six Universal Feelings, i.e.
Joy, Fear, Anger, Sadness, Envy & Guilt


5. ENVY

Definition: Discontent or ill will over another's advantages possessions, abilities, etc., (broadly includes jealousy).

Range: Mild self-conscious discomfort, to open hostility toward another.

Source: Cultural Self, in the drive toward self-development (offshoot emotion, tempered by learning, but related to genetic anger & sadness).

Stimulus Conditions: Negative comparison situations. When self and others are compared on some scale, the self is assessed with less of the desired qualities, skills, abilities, advantages or possessions than the other.

Instinctive Response: To fight or take flight, to overcome or avoid the object of painful comparisons.

Intended Function: To signal that the Cultural Self has not yet developed to the point of full expression of the Genetic Self and that further development is needed. This painful reminder comes when one sees another who possesses or has achieved higher levels of some desired quality.

Pitfalls: Feelings can be misattributed. Personal lacks perceived can be irrational, defiling or neglecting spirit; prompting maladaptive, spiteful responses which attempt to lessen the other instead of Right Responses which bolster the self. It is often difficult to avoid Fight and Flight Responses.

Recommended Course Of Response To Envy:

1. First Right Response: Take self-developmental steps to acquire skills, abilities, opportunities, etc., that are possessed by the object of envy. (But such changes should only alter the mind or Cultural Self).

2. Second Right Response: If the enviable ability or quality lies in the realm of the Genetic Self or body (i.e., physical beauty, strength, height, etc.), acceptance of corporeal limitation will end pangs of envy over qualities which simply cannot be changed. Instead, consider and work upon areas of strength which can be or have been cultivated. Give self-credit where self-credit is due.



Food For Thought:

"If it's painful to you to criticize your friends---you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue". ---Alice Duer Miller

As one Greek philosopher expressed it: "The greatest wealth in the world is the ability to get along with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied." There is no force more masochistic then envy. In the burning desire the have what another has, our misery can have no limits. If kept in, it becomes an infliction. If acted out, it becomes an addiction. The cultural world plays upon it and attempts to ostracize those who decline to conform to this weakness. Envy takes personal courage to resist, but that is true of any weakness.



The Emotions of Mind – Six Universal feelings, i.e.
Joy, Fear, Anger, Sadness, Envy & Guilt

6. GUILT

Definition: A feeling of self-reproach from believing that one has done wrong; (broadly includes shame and embarrassment).

Range: Mild self-doubt to debilitating self-hatred.

Source: Cultural Self, (offshoot relative of fear).

Stimulus Conditions: When thoughts and behaviors fail to match with some internal ideal self-image or accepted code of behavior. Often guilt is experienced following a behavior which fulfills some physical, spiritual need, yet which goes against some learned ideology.

Instinctive Response: To take flight, retreat from negatively assessed self qualities, actions or behaviors.

Intended Function: To direct attention to conflicts within knowledge and beliefs, or to those which go against the needs of the Genetic Self.

Pitfalls: Guilt is learned and can be attached to almost any behavior or thought, depending on the culture. Since it is a gut feeling, it seems to come from some sacred place within, while in actuality it springs solely from learned beliefs. It is common to subordinate the needs of the Genetic Self to the rules and codes of behavior dictated by one's culture. It is also illogical and debilitating to do so.

Recommended Response To Guilt:

1. Right Response: Make sure your behaviors match your conscience. Do what you say you will do---walk your talk. But examine beliefs, alter or discard any which go against the needs of the Genetic Self. Develop positive accommodating attitudes toward every aspect of your Genetic nature.

2. Light Response: Use logic and persuasion to alter the external cultural belief systems which deny any aspect of your genetic nature. (Any such components are counter-evolutionary and will hamper even the most intelligent, best fitting cultural doctrines) .

3. Flight Response: If the external environment fails to accommodate your nature, leave for better ideological or physical locales.

Food For Thought:

"Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway". --- Isabelle Holland

"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head". --- Sally Kempton

"Sin is whatever obscures the soul". --- Andre Gide

It would appear that there is a correlation between the strictness of a religion or enforced moral code, and the volume of guilt that was made to be dealt with. Guilt is the ultimate instrument of control, enabling a few in power to control the many. It succeeds because it is implanted in the mind earlier in the developmental stage and kept in place by institutional means. To escape its punishing intent, one often has to sever all ties with those who were most important in one's earlier life. But then one comes to the true meaning of the refrain: "Free at last, free at last. Thank God, I'm free at last."

With clarity regarding the feeling system, how it works and how it can be so easily misused, we can press on to discuss the practical usage of this system.

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