Application 3

Activating Your Inner Tech

Todd: Hi everybody. Todd Jason here, and welcome to Application Number Three, or
another way to look at it, week number nine or module number nine out of ten
total segments in the Super Human OS program. Unbelievably, we are only one
week away from the grand finale, what we call the System Reboot, a very special
two-hour live even where Ken will upload the entire OS into our psyches and
really set the stage for what this can mean for each one of us individually and
collectively. We are almost there, but today is a critically important application
and it's almost at the end because it really encapsulates all the previous
installations and applications. It's what we call inner technology.

Inner technology, as Ken is about to teach has to do with our new notions about
spirituality, meditation, contemplation, and all those inner practices that we
need to integrate in order to fully express our greatness. If anything, Ken Wilbur
is a true transmitter of this type of wisdom. It's just such an honor for us all to be
here because as I like to think of Ken is almost like an unique antenna of
consciousness himself that was brought here to express a source impulse, an
idea, a set of frameworks that can help us reach our highest potentials. In no
other place is this evident that what is about to be brought by Ken in the Inner
Technology program.

What I recommend is that you sit back and you just listen. Don’t take a lot of
notes. Don’t think about it too much. Just listen to Ken's transmission, and listen
to it again. Take a couple of days and then listen to this program again because
this is one of those teachings that you can listen to again and again. Really this is
setting the stage for the System Reboot where we're going to have a chance to
actually go into a place together and really upload this program together. Thank
you again for being here. No matter where you are in this program, in terms of
what you think you're getting out it or not getting out of it or the pace by which
you're taking it, this operating system is psycho-active, and you are downloading
something that will affect you for the rest of your lives.

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 It's the broadest possible map of how we operate as human beings. It's truly
exciting and monumental to be doing the Super Human OS program. Let's get to
it. I'm going to hand it over to Ken. Ken, it's just such a thrill to be here with you.
I've been waiting for this particular application from the beginning because the
way that you talk about inner technology and meditation and spirituality is so
critical and integral to what we're doing. Let's just start there. Talk with us about
what inner technology means, and what meditation and spirituality is in terms of
the Super Human OS framework.

Ken: Meditation is uniquely important for a couple of reasons. One is that if you look
at all of the world's great spiritual and meditative and contemplative traditions,
they all maintain that there are two truths. There's a relative truth and there's an
ultimate truth. Relative truth is truth gained through a type of knowing that is
called dualistic. The subject is separated from the object and the subject then
attempts to learn about the object. Most of our modern sciences, chemistry,
biology, physics, and so on. It's that type of knowledge. The traditions are totally
in favor of that, so it's looking at aspects of chemistry, that's the object.

The subject studies it, does experiments on it, tries to find out its composition,
it's makeup, what it does, how it acts, and so in. Of course, this is an extremely
important part of human knowledge and human growth and evolution itself. The
traditions then also maintain that there is another type of truth and in some
ways of course, even though both are important, this is sort of the king of truths.
It's simply referred to as ultimate truth or absolute truth. It has to do with seeing
not just the relative truth of a finite object that will exist for a certain amount of
time and then eventually will end up dissolving, dying, disappearing, and so on.

Ultimate truth is truth concerned with that which will never die, which is eternal,
which is timeless and spaceless and infinite. Of course it's all inclusive as well.
The traditions maintain that that ultimate truth is not only the truth of
everything that we see out there, it's the truth of our own being and realizing,
recognizing, discovering the identity of this ultimate truth with our individual
being. The [inaudible 06:13] call it the Supreme Identity because it's the identity
of your being with [inaudible 06:22], with the Godhead, with [inaudible 06:25],
with Spirit, with ultimate reality.

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 This has been a truth that human kind has recognized for thousands of years and
is of course probably again, the most central of the types of truths that a person
can have access to. Now of course, given our modern and post-modern age, it's
very common to say that's just a fairy tale. That's the tooth fairy and Santa Claus
and so on. That's not the type of knowledge that this ultimate truth is talking
about. This truth is talking about not a narrative, a mythic narrative that has
certain stories about heroes or super heroes that can perform miracles and fly
through the air and walk on water and raise the dead, and all of that. That, to
just put it politely, may or may not be true, but ultimate truth is not about that
anyway.

Ultimate truth is about a direct experience that you have of this ultimate reality.
The individuals that have this experience, including scientists with PhDs, the vast,
vast majority of individuals that have this kind of experience, they're blown away
by it. They are absolutely convinced that it is indeed real and that it is something.
Of course, it's a life-changing experience and many of them actually end up
devoting their life to trying to transmit the importance of that kind of truth. We
have, in most cultures, and certainly most Western cultures, we have very little
of this type of truth that is made available to human beings.

This is in a certain sense, shocking because if you look at all the great religions,
including Christianity, it started in a riot of mystical transcendental experience.
The first gathering of Christians, Pentecostal had flames encircling their heads
and many other gatherings have white doves and all these were symbolic of an
actual change in consciousness that was happening to these people. As Paul said,
let this consciousness be in you, which is in Christ Jesus, that we all may be one.
It's that unity experience, that unity feeling, that is what drives ultimate truth.
Almost the only way that ultimate truth has been able to be discovered is
through meditation or contemplation.

That becomes in addition to all the other types of practices that we do, is
certainly something that we recommend as a central practice because it's the
only one that deals with ultimate truth. As you want your life grounded in
various intelligences and various capacities, and various skills, and so on, you
don't want to leave out ultimate truth. There are, and we went through several
of these in our previous discussions and looking at the different states of
consciousness that humans have access to, there are different meditations that

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 can work with each of these states. All of them are recommended. All of them
have some very profound awareness and knowledge and truth that is conveyed.

If we wanted to narrow down the kind of most centrally important ones, then we
would probably take the two highest states that are acknowledged. We find
them in the West and the East. In the East, they're referred to as Turiya, which
simply means the fourth. The fourth simply means that there are three states
prior to that that are our lower reality, less real, but still profoundly important.
Turiya, the fourth, and it is essentially the ever-present witnessing
consciousness. This is taken to be pure awareness. Awareness itself without any
qualifications, any characteristics, any defining marks, because it's essentially
just infinite spaciousness, infinite openness, infinite awareness, infinite
consciousness.

It's sometimes referred to as mirror mind because what it does is, it simply, as it
witnesses everything that's arising, it does so much like a mirror, and [inaudible
13:03] said, "The perfect person employs the mind like a mirror. It receives, but
does not keep. It reflects, but does not grasp." The idea is just that. It's to be in a
state of awareness where you simply allow things to arise moment to moment.
You don't identify with them. You don't condemn them. You don't judge them.
You simply allow them to arise moment to moment to moment. What you're
doing of course is in each of these cases, you're taking whatever subjective
component could be there and you're making it an object because you're looking
at it.

Because you're looking at it, you're no longer looking with it. It stops distorting
the world. It stops presenting the world through its own lens, through its own
way of looking at something, which is going to be of course in some way, narrow
and limited and even prejudiced because it's going to have it's one particular
view of how it looks at things. Instead of looking at the world through that
prejudiced view, we look at the view. As Robert Kegan says, "The view no longer
has us. We have it." That's part of the overall meditative development what's
offering from two, both East and West, as [Netay Netay 15:03], not this, not that.

We went through several exercises for this. I'll give just a very brief one as a
reminder of the type of exercise that's involved. That is you can simply right now
just get in a comfortable, relaxed position, and be aware of yourself, just feel
yourself, look at yourself, get a sense of it. Where is it located? Does it have a
color? Does it have a shape? Many people feel that their self, for example, is

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 located behind and between their eyes. Wherever it is, just feel it, get a sense of
it. Once you've done that, because what we're actually trying to do here, is we
are trying to anchor your being in ultimate awareness. We want your true self
not to be identified with a false, narrow, partial, finite, limited self, but with a
true ultimate real timeless, spaceless, infinite, and eternal self.

What we want to do again is get you plugged into that awareness as the very
ground of your being. If you are going to be identified with something, it might
as well be God. This is where we want to start. As you're being aware of yourself
and you're looking at it; you're paying attention to it; you're seeing where it's
located, what it feels like. You can describe it. I weigh so much. I'm this tall. I'm in
this relationship. I have this many kids. I have this job. I like this music. I drive this
car. A whole list, but as you're doing that, notice that there's actually a second
self involved in this. One is the self that you are looking at and that's the
objective self. That's the self that can be seen.

The self that's looking at that is the observing self, the witness. It can't be seen.
It's not an object. It's a pure subject and it's that pure subject Zen Master
Shibayama calls it absolute subjectivity. That's an important phrase because it's
driving to the fact that there's an absolute subjectivity that's beyond finite
subject and finite object. As you rest in this absolute subjectivity, then you won't
see any objects or if you do, they're fine. They're objects. They're just continuing
to arise and your small self might continue to arise and you might see mountains
and rivers and trees or tables or sofas or whatever. Those are all objects. Those
are not subject. Those are not what you really are.

As you rest in this witnessing self, and you simply witness everything that's
arising moment to moment, then that is in a sense, what you're after. As you rest
in that witnessing self, if you see anything, that's just another object. It's not the
real seer. It's not the real subject. It's not the real self. All you'll notice as you rest
in this witness and notice objects arising is as for the witness itself, all you will
notice is that it's a sense of freedom. It's a sense of not being identified with all
these objects.

It has an awareness that says, "I have sensations, but I am not my sensations. I
have feelings, but I am not my feelings. I have thoughts, but I am not my
thoughts. I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a mind, but I'm not my
mind." All you are is this infinite freedom and all these objects arising moment to
moment, but that's not what you are. You are this infinite sense of witnessing

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 awareness. This pure mirror mind awareness that's not identified with any. It has
a sense of great liberation, of vast freedom, of infinite openness and
transparency, and not being tied to anything because that I-amness is one's true
self.

As you just rest on that feeling of I-amness, you can start to get a sense of its
core being and how absolutely central it is to your own fundamental being and
that I-amness is simply reflecting what's arising moment to moment. It's
identified with none of it. Because of that, it's not identified with any particular
object that could hurt it or harm it because it's absolutely free of all of that.
Those objects just come and go, but the true stuff, the pure seer, simply
witnesses them without any identification, attachment, condemnation,
judgement, anything. What we find is that we're the victims of a colossal case of
mistaken identity.

We have inadvertently identified with a small self, often called the ego, but it's
finite. It's a separate self. It was born. It will live a while, be victimized and
subjected to various forms of pain, and then it will die, great life. This is what
Buddha meant when he said the Second Noble Truth is that life as typically lived
is suffering. Yet life awakened to the true self is free of suffering because it's free
of an identification with any of those broken, fragmented, torn parts. That shift
in awareness from identifying with this small, finite, separate self, which
incidentally isn't even a real self because you can see it. It's an object.

This case of mistaken identity has us identified with a series of objects that aren't
even real subjects and aren't even real selves. That's why most of the traditions
maintain that the separate self sense, besides not being our real self, is illusory.
It's just a fundamental mistake that we have made. What we want to do in order
to awaken from that is watch it as an object. In meditation, we might sit and
simply as we get a sense of the separate self, as we become aware of it, we
simply give it our attention. When we give it our attention, we make it an object.
We're converting it from a pretend self, pretend subject to an object.

That breaks our identification with it. That leaves us identified with that which is
observing the small self, namely the true self, the real self, the ultimate self.
That's step one is to get out of identifying with this small objective self, the self
contraction, the separate self sense, and resting in this vast infinite field of
spaciousness and transparency and clarity and openness and emptiness and

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 freedom. It's all of those and it's a vast, vast sense of liberation and identification
with a narrow, finite, illusory self.

That's the fundamental lesson of the meditative traditions, that we are born
under case of mistaken identity, but we can overcome that by simply giving that
small self our attention, turning that subject into an object and therefore
disidentifying with it.

Todd: Awesome. Ken, I want to talk a little bit more about the critical importance of
meditative practice as we're discussing here, creating the pathways to
experience non-dual awareness, the witnessing experience as it relates to the
overall Super Human Operating System in the journey we're on together.
Relating it back to the very first installation of levels and accelerating revolution.
One of the goals is to be able to see that there are levels or stages of
development and then we start understanding then. We've been practicing this
over the last bunch of weeks.

I've heard you speak to the fact that the practice of meditation or contemplation
is very important in terms of accelerating revolution, accelerating your way
through levels. It's also research based. It's based on a lot of science. Speak to
that to us because it's really important to understand just how critically
important meditation and contemplation can be to become super human.

Ken: If you look at what meditation is actually doing, it is taking whatever subjective
self is arising in you moment to moment that you take as a self, that you identify
with, that you call yourself, that you identify with. It's looking at it as an object.
The very fact of looking at it as an object, it breaks and identification with it
because it's clearly something you're looking at. It's no longer something you're
identified with. It's clearly something else. It's something that is not you. It's
something that you are aware of.

We saw that the key to development is a subject of one stage. It becomes the
object of the subject of the next. In meditation, what's happening is that
whatever subject is arising, in your giving it awareness, you're making it an
object. therefore you're disidentifying with it. Therefore you are making room
for the next higher subject to emerge. Then as that emerges and you identify
with that, then the same problems will start happening with that self. It will start
to become the source of the self contraction and it will become the source of
pain and suffering.

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 When you identify with it, then if something happens to it and that will cause
depression and distress and angst. If it doesn't live up to your expectations, then
you become disappointed and upset, but if you're meditating and that self
comes up and you become aware of that, you see it as an object, then again you
break your identity with it. Because of that, you open up a space in which your
next higher self can emerge. That will simply continue until you reach a subject
that cannot be made an object. That's the true self. That's absolute subjectivity.

It's a subject that is doing the looking and not something that can be looked at.
It's, like I say, Zen Master Shibayama calls it absolute subjectivity. At that point,
that is equivalent to enlightenment, particularly with regard to the separate self
because you are no longer identified with it. You're no longer open to the self
contracting pain and suffering that is inherent in the self contraction. Pain and
suffering and anxiety are not something that happens to the self contraction. It's
something that the self contraction is.

As long as you're identified with that small finite objective entity as if it were a
real subject, first of all,its a lie because it's not your real self. Second of all, it's
going to identify you with a finite thing that by definition is set apart from all
other finite things. Therefore, all other finite things can crash into it and cause
pain and suffering and hurt and so on.

Todd: It sounds like the ability, the path to meditation and contemplation again as
we've been seeing as a threat throughout this operating system is our ability to
strengthen the capacity to think multiple perspective within our own selves. This
is one of those practices that really facilitates and strengthens that ability.

Ken: Absolutely.

Todd: One thing I want to ask you too on it. I've heard you speak about the fact that
most people grow in their lives up until a certain point and that they get stuck at
a certain level or stage and that the practice of meditation is one of the main
things that helps people get back on the path of growth. Is that true?

Ken: Yes, and for reasons that are not terribly well understood, individuals can
transform fairly quickly until about age 20 or so. Then they just simply tend to
stop. Whatever stage they're at when they're 20, 25 tends to be a stage that

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 they will tend to remain at until they're 60 or older. There have been a number
of studies done on various types of activities to see if any of them could help
move a person, get them growing again when they're adults. If you take all of the
ones that have been tried and you add up the overall amount of actual stage
growth that was gotten using all of these techniques, the average amount of
stage growth is 0.25%.

In other words, all of these techniques, including psycho-analysis, including

Hatha, physical yoga, including most forms of psycho-therapy, including a
physical exercise, including any number of coaching and other practices. All of
those have not been able to produce more than a fourth of one stage of growth,
which is rather pathetic. Individuals practicing meditation twice a day for four
years show an average of two full stages of growth. It's the only technique that's
been demonstrated to grow human beings at adult levels.

Again, that's one of the reasons that we think that it's very important and that
we want to include it in any overall Super Human Operating System. Also to
become a Super Human, you want to be able to be in touch with ultimate truth.
Without doing that, then calling what you're doing Super Human is probably not
very accurate, but if you are hitting on all of these other components and you're
awakened to ultimate truth, then that is certainly the closet thing that we can
think of to calling is a Super Human potential.

The thing is that we needed to add these new discoveries about the other types
intelligences and skills and capacities and dimensions that human beings had
that weren't known about when the great meditative traditions were first
created. All of them are 2000 years old. We didn't even learn to define a
structure of consciousness, which means a particular level of consciousness until
about 100 years ago. That's why we simply don't find in any meditative the world
over, maps of the levels of consciousness as we're talking about them, structures
of consciousness in any meditative system the world over. It's just not there.

On the other hand, if we look at Western models of growth and development,

we don't find anything about state growth leading to enlightenment and
awakening. On the one hand, we're completely lacking an understanding of
various levels and how important they are because actually a level determines
how you will interpret your state experiences. On the one hand, we have
systems, meditative systems, contemplative systems that are brilliant at helping
individuals grow through states and we have terrific Western models that help

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 individuals grow through structures or levels. Never in history have these two
been put together.

That's why we feel never in history could you legitimately say that you're
working with a Super Human Operating System. What we have found is that
there are other types of practices that make meditation more effective. One of
them is shadow work because meditation itself doesn't get at the Shadow
material. In some cases, can make it work. If you combine meditation with
shadow work and I'll give you one more quick one. This is reported by Mike
Murphy. There's a test where a group of meditaters were divided into two
halves.

One half was given meditation plus weight lifting. The other group was given just
meditation. Both groups practiced the same overall amount of time, only one
group is doing half meditation, half weight lifting. The other group is doing all
meditation. The teachers aren't told which half is doing which. At the end of six
months to nine months in a year, they grade the students on how well, how
advanced they are in meditation. Virtually without exception, the people doing
meditation and weight lifting score higher on the meditation score than people
just meditating.

That's what we call cross-training. That's what integral life practice does. If you
just right there take meditation, add weight lifting, add shadow work, you're
going to get a more effective meditation and a more effective transformation
growth. That's one of the things that will best combine the techniques that we
do have even though some of them alone won't show transformation. When
combined with others, they all actually accelerate each other. Athletes have
known this in cross training for a long time.

Most athletes now, without any exceptions at all, will cross train. Somebody
playing football will also do yoga, do swimming and weight lifting and field word
because it increases their capacity. This cross training turns out to be really
important for helping to increase transformational capacity. Yoga is good for two
things. One it's good obviously for stretching the body, but most people forget
that yoga, the way it was developed, was as part of an eight-step process to
unify consciousness.

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 Unfortunately in the West, it's been reduced to nothing but a physical exercise.
That's fine, but it's just it's a tragic loss of what the practice can actually do. It's
part of an increasing steps of concentration up to concentrating and then
Samadhi, unitive consciousness. That's almost never ever talked about or used in
the standard yoga classes and yoga gyms and so on. That's just unfortunate.

Todd: In terms of meditation techniques, contemplation techniques, there are so

many. They are infinite. As part of this Super Human Operating System, we're
going to be recommending a couple for people to try. One of them includes
something called brainwave and [inaudible 43:07] binaural beats, which actually
really helps people drop into certain states of consciousness, which can then
help them unlock their potential, as we've been talking about because that's
what this is all about.

Can you speak a little bit to the benefits of actually using some of this spiritual
technologies that are available nowadays to actually get us into these states that
can help us unleash our potential?

Ken: Certainly, and that's another one of the reasons that truly comprehensive
operating systems for human growth and development really haven't existed
until just recently. This is a good example. We now have brain mind machines
that you can hook the person up to them. By the way, they're relatively
inexpensive. Some of then, the ones that are called binaural beats, can be
bought in a simple CD form. They cost no more than a CD.

What we've found is that because every brain state has a corresponding
consciousness state-we saw that with quadrants-then if you get the brain into
the corresponding state that goes with a particular spiritual awareness, then the
individual hooked up to that brain mind machine and having their brain being
put into a particular brain wave pattern, then within 10 to 15 minutes, that will
induce the corresponding consciousness state in the individual.

Some of these states, for example, theta states, which are very common in
dream. Of course, dream as you recall in the traditions. We have waking
dreaming, deep formless sleep, witnessing, and non-dual. The dream state has in
the brain a theta brainwave pattern. It will generally take people a couple of
years to learn how to get into a theta brainwave state if they're just using
consciousness techniques. By using a binaural technology, you can get a person
who has never meditated into a theta state in about 15 minutes.

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 Even harder are delta states. These are of course the states you're in in deep
formless, dreamless sleep. It used to be that researchers thought that the
meditative state was an alpha state, which was relaxed waking. Then they
thought no, it's theta state, so it got even deeper. Now it more no, it's delta
state. Delta is very, very long slow brainwaves. They're 0.1 cycle per second to
three or four cycles per second. It's at the very low end of the spectrum. It can
take five or more years for an individual learn how to get to a delta state.

With binaural beat, 15 minutes. Keep in mind that the delta state is now looked
up because in the traditions, the delta state is often equated with the witness,
with the Turiya. What we were practicing a minute was just pure witnessing and
the observing self, and I-amness, and the mirror mind. That can take quite a
while if you just meditate to learn to do that, but you hook somebody up to a
binaural beat machine and again, it's 10-15 minutes and they will have a
consciousness state that correlates to the brain state. That brain state correlates
to Turiya.

You can get individuals into a very, very profound meditative state using some of
those brain mind machines. There are a couple of different types, including ones
that use actual electrical current applied to the brain, but binaural beat is
probably the most common. We do recommend those. It's still a good idea to do
regular meditation, but it's absolutely fine if there are time constraints and other
problems, to simply use a binaural beat. There all you do is lie down with your
CD or on your mp3, whatever player you have, put the stereo headphones on
and simply relax for 30 minutes or so. It will basically get in you in that
meditative state for 30 minutes. It can be very, very powerful.

Todd: I'm just really seeing the link between how practicing going through various
states helps unlock our potential and how most human beings also are in
development or in growth cycles for their entire lives, which we call levels. They
usually get stuck at some point along the way. That combing states with levels
helps the levels to continue. That meditation research, and science has shown, is
as you just said, the one practice that breaks that barrier and has people
developing two levels and then connecting that with the fact that there are now
spiritual technologies, binaural beat, brainwave entrainment, all the stuff that
we'll be recommending here, that can help facilitate people to get into these
states that they wouldn't have been able to in the past. It's just astonishing.

Ken: The idea that meditation is just staring at your naval is ridiculous.

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Todd: Thank you so much, Ken. This was truly amazing to. Like I told you, Ken is a
unique antenna of consciousness on this planet. We just got a serious download
from an impulse, a set of ideas, a set of concepts that this encapsulated in a
framework that is really spiritually inclined. Thank you so much. I can't wait to
listen to this one again and again. You know the deal by now. We're in week
number nine. We are headed towards the end and we will have a live Q&A call
with Ken on this topic on inner technology on Monday night.

Please send in your questions and we will answer them and aggregate them and
have Ken answer our questions, which has just been such an amazing part to the
program. The Q&As have really, really rocked. If you haven't made them, really
try to get on there and listen because this is really where the rubber is meeting
that road. This is our last Q&A coming up, so just be aware of that. The finale,
the System Reboot, is a two-hour finale, and we are ending the program at the
System Reboot so there will not be a finale Q&A after.

The reason why is that we're ending the program on a particular frequency that
we just want to end it there. There's been a lot of time with Ken and a lot of
Q&A, so this is the last one. The two-hour finale will serve as the grand
encapsulation of the entire OS. Practice, listen to what Ken just said, listen to this
program again. Email us your questions, your concerns. Share on facebook. It's
been such an honor to be a part of this community. We are just excited to be
heading towards the end.

Leif, Ryan and I, the three main guys that have worked with Ken to create this
program, and our entire team, are just grateful to be here with you right now.
We can't wait until the summer when we start really seeing the fruits of all the
week. Have a great one and we'll see you soon. Bye, bye.

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