Amplifiers:
Emotional and nonemotional
(Earth's Best Trap!)

The subset of laws which govern amplifiers is but one of the many forces which causes change in the human personality. Amplifiers, both emotional and nonemotional, are a mechanism within the individual which increases or magnifies the importance of A Happening. Emotional amplifiers always create a type of distortion--due to the unnecessary increase of the importance of the event. The nonemotional amplifier simply magnifies the event, and thus adds no unnecessary importance to the event in question.

Bear in mind that there are only 5 basic emotions:

1. Fear
2. Anger
3. Greed
4. Loneliness
5. Death

Each of these emotions are amplifiers which distort the existing reality/illusion Man finds himself in from moment to moment. All other seeming emotions are simply composites and can be traced back to these 5 basic emotions.

Periodically, we may interchange the phrase negative emotions for the phrase amplified emotions. While there is a difference (negative emotions tend toward causing unacceptable behavior in humans and amplified emotions could be either positive or negative in their effects upon the human in question) for our present purpose, effectively, they are the same; in that, all emotional amplifiers are considered in life's equation to be a negative repressing condition which often prevents spiritual human development.

As such, Man must master said emotions before he can attain Cosmic Consciousness. The mastering of emotions is not the complete elimination of the emotion in question, because that is not possible--emotions will come and go at the pleasure of the moment to moment's A Happenings. It is the ability to control them so they have no significant effect within one's illusion/reality. One recognizes their presence and their purpose, then one just lets them pass without suffering their effects.

Fear, in the TwinSpecies:Human, has its roots in the very ancient beginning of the TwinSpecies' beginnings; specifically, the sudden realization of being insecure... no food, no water, and no shelter, while all about is heard the sounds of other life-forms that could/would prey upon him.

Moment by moment, individuals live out varying degrees of fear as each A Happening unfolds according to the limits of the individual's control factors, to the limits of the individual's reasonableness, to the limits of the individual's understanding of the dangers at hand, and, to the limits of the individual's karmic bonds--the for bonds, the with bonds, and the against bonds.

Depending upon the interaction between his A situation and his A Happening, the individual will either pay closer attention to the present needs (because he has a momentary greater fear), or he will disregard the messages given to him by his present environment (because he has a momentary lesser fear) allowing him to concentrate on other things; but, fear is always with him.

Fear has many manifestations and many masks, some are very obvious; such as "Will I find Food today," and some not so obvious; such as the limits of the individual's ability to grow... to learn. However, regardless of the situation at hand, once any of the faces of fear are exposed and dealt with, the individual finds that the only thing that they have to fear is the thought of fear, itself--Man finds only the remnants of an energy which first cowers, then dissipates into nothingness.

Unlike fear, which is usually the underlying stage upon which all the other emotions are experienced, anger happens to be one of the most used emotions towards creating Man's non-basic emotions. It is especially active when Man is seeking to control, or is being controlled by, his temper. As a matter of fact, there is an element of anger in most of Man's so-called emotions. It is so active that there are some individuals who even make love from anger's vantage point--this is the source of many problems, and many power-trips between the sexes.

Anger, in Man, has its roots from being the second thought of fear; in that, he is in the process of suppressing the realization that he is frozen in a moment of fear. In this beginning, anger became the prime tool that allowed Man to survive his hostile environment, because anger was the answer to Man's question of fight/flight.

Sometime it will be done subjectively or sometime it will be done objectively, in either case, Man will always either increase his anger or decrease his anger in accordance with the interaction of a momentary A Happening that is but a part of his A situation.

Anger has many manifestations and many masks, some are very obvious; such as "I didn't find Food today. That means I have to go hungry, again!" and some not so obvious; such as the limits of his ability to grow, to learn that his anger often stands in the way of his succeeding.

However, regardless of the situation at hand, once any of the faces of anger are exposed and dealt with, one finds that the only background emotion that really drove/caused his problem was the thought of fear [hence, anger is the second thought of fear], the remnants of an energy which first cowers, then dissipates into nothingness. If the man was lucky, he discovered the relationship between his lack of freedom, because of fear, and his internal rage that froze his mobility, because of anger. He discovered that of the 5 basic emotions, anger, by far, caused him to expend the most energy in his attempts at suppressing his fear.

Greed, like most of the emotions [including the five basic emotions and the many composite emotions], is a complete continuum unto itself. On one side of the continuum greed will cause an individual to experience behaviors that serve the whole [for our point, it matters not if that whole is the family that was married into, the extended family of birth, the town in which he lives, the country in which she lives, or the planet upon which they live]; while on the other side of the continuum, greed will elicit behaviors that will serve only the individual, usually at the expense of the whole. Being a continuum, however, it is important that every point along that continuum is also represented, either in mind, in attitude, in emotions, and in behavior.

Loneliness, at least in Man, is the oldest of the basic emotions. This is because loneliness can trace its existence to a time long before ancient Egypt came to be. Long before Planet Earth was cool, the life-forms that would one day become Man knew/experienced the pain of the great separation which became known as loneliness [see the manuscript called What If/But].

Unlike the other basic emotions, loneliness is the only emotion that can cause an individual to gain/to wish for the desire for death. It was believed among the ancient Magi that loneliness was the only method by which the soul, itself could die. It was believed that loneliness was, itself, the very power that caused Man to descend into what we today called The Grand Maya.

It was believed that as Man descended from the Pure State called Deluge, he separated himself from his true destiny--to grow into Godling. It was believed that not until Man returns to his roots, not until Man leaves The Grand Maya behind shall Man know peace from the harpy that plagues him--loneliness, the awareness of the separation from the true presence, the awareness of the true nature of The Great Force--God.

On the lower levels of creation, specifically, the Astral Plane of Common Reality's Lower, Middle Earth, loneliness seeps in when one realizes that there seems to be no more anger, no more of anything left within that mattered. It is the very recognition that nothing mattered which created a longing deep within the individual, a longing that drains such that it develops a void, an empty place where the energy of life's cares once was.

However, while it is true that loneliness is a continuum, the continuum of loneliness is not simply a continuum of behavior--it is a Royal Continuum; as such, it is a continuum of degrees of loneliness, it is a continuum of awareness, it is a continuum of the ability to change, it is a continuum of the ability to feel as though one belongs, but most important, it is a continuum of experiencing The Presence Vs. The Absence. On one end of the continuum loneliness might be experienced as the feeling of being alone in a room and wishing for someone to talk to. On the other end, the extreme end of the continuum, loneliness is always experienced as the desire to end it all. The desire to return from The Grand Maya. Needless to say, every point of the continuum is also represented.

Death is the most unusual of all the basic emotions--it is sometimes seen as the big ending, and it is sometimes seen as the new beginning. It is sometimes feared, and it is sometimes welcomed. It is sometimes accepted with understanding, and it is sometimes never accepted, much less understood. It is sometimes accepted as a gift, and it is sometimes thought of as a curse. Regardless of how it is seen, few know death for what it really is.

Death, in Man, has [as it roots] the realization of loneliness. It is when an individual has the conscious awareness of being separated from himself, being separated from his love, of being too unique, of being torn apart from his species.

Often, while caught in the Death emotion, Man learns that there must be something better than what he himself only sees. Man deepens himself into, firstly, the abysmal feeling of "There has got to be more to life than this!" And, then later, if he becomes a seeker, into the exhilarating, inspiring and blissful feeling of "Their has got to be more to life than this!" The beauty lies in the understanding that the emotion called death does not refer to the Death Process--physical body's dying. The emotion called death is involved each time an individual desires to change his mind, or each time an individual chooses to change life-styles.

Nothing can be brought into existence unless something else dies. This statement is compound in that there are two things happening at the same time; first, there is the process, the change--the death of the old and the birth of the new; Second, there are the emotions which brought about the desire to change, and the needs of the moment that gave awareness of the need for change. The first can be associated with The Death Process, while the second can be associated with The Emotion Death.

Now that we have a better understanding of the five basic emotions, and what they are, we can better accept that when the emotions are evoked in any given A Situation, that situation will become more important, or more urgent, in the mind of the individual. The events of the A Situation will become larger, more significant than it would otherwise--which is a type of distortion.

For example, let's say that someone you don't care about yells at you. You may be sufficiently stable within yourself to keep your emotions out of the A Situation. If such is true, the incident will not bother you, and you will soon forget.

Now, let's say that someone you do care for yells at you. You will have to be a very stable individual for your emotions not to arise in A Situation such as this. If your emotions do arise, the A Situation will seem very significant to you. You may think about it for days, or you may cry. Other emotions, such as anger or even hate may arise. You may seek to do whatever is necessary to solve the conflict which caused the yelling. The point is, that the A Situation acquired a completely different quality than if the emotions had not been present. The emotions amplified the A Situation.

The emotional amplifiers (every single emotion is, itself, an amplifier) always distort that which they act upon. The increased significance, caused by the personal involvement that accompanies the emotions completely changes or distorts the A Situation by adding unneeded significance.

As a direct result of the added significance, the individual looses control. Logic is no longer the prime director. The emotionally trapped individual can no longer truly understand what is actually transpiring. He fails to realize that he begins fighting ghosts of his own creations. He battles illusions of what is, instead of battling the real cause of his problems. He will usually blame others for things which he, himself, is responsible. Without knowing it, he finds himself caught in an emotional loop wherein the only purpose for his thoughts is to continue the battle (one way in which the battle continues is when he fervently defends his previous position, regardless of the unsound logic), as opposed to solving the problem at hand. He can only understand that he feels.

There are certain amplifiers which are better thought of as magnifiers because they do not distort--States.

While most will call them emotions, emotions they are not! They are either States or Conditions. A State is royal in its nature, in that it is usually unconditional--you either have it, or you don't. An example of this might be Love. While it is true that most will confuse the State called Love with the Condition called love, and confuse both the State and the Condition with the emotion called love.

The State of Love is like a switch--it's either present or it's absence--on/off. There's nothing in between. The Condition called love is not an on/off thing. Its limits are noted in its name--it's on when behavior is appropriate, it's off when behavior is not appropriate. The emotion called love is different still. As a matter of fact, it's not an emotion at all--it's mutual satisfaction of need.

Magnifiers make a situation more significant, but they do not condemn the individual to the Hell of his own thoughts. It is for this reason that they are better thought of as magnifiers.

I know who I am because I feel, I think;
My emotions tell me who or what you are,
If I believe all I am told, I do not know you... Still, I would like to, I think...
If I believe all that I have seen I do know you... I think that I love you...,
My mind tells me to take care,
My mind tells me that both can be wrong,
My love bids you welcome to my heart.

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