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Overload

Befuddling

Category: Actions

Type

Voluntary

Introduction and description

Befuddling is a method which overloads the reasoning system.  Interestingly, it is overloaded so much the overall effect is that the reason system is actually suppressed by this technique, because it is presented with so much input of a confusing nature that it gives up. 

I originally had befuddling in the 'suppression' section because of this, but the objective is overload, so I have moved the activity here, where it more logically fits.

To befuddle means to confuse or perplex, to confuse the function of Reason, to do something which makes it difficult for someone to think clearly.  So it is a very odd combination – the input itself is made so confusing that the system of Reason doesn’t even bother to try to reason – and this is the key.

The key is to not try to reason but let the confusion wash over you and completely befuddle you.  It also of course defeats the Learning system too, because the Learning system says – ‘I can’t be bothered with this nonsense’.  And this is why Lewis Carroll was so very fond of nonsense – aaah what a wise man he was!

Background

I am going to provide a whole load of suggestions for how to befuddle and you will see that the technique has an almost worldwide usage in various religions and practises. 

Within the Hindu system for example, the alternative name for this group of techniques is samadhi pada yoga. There is a branch of Yoga called Raja Yoga and Samadhi pada is one of the practises within this yoga discipline. 

Raja Yoga is the branch geared towards  mind exercises - and is in contrast to Hatha Yoga which is more geared towards the use of physical exercises.

Exactly the same techniques are present and were used in Sufi practices, Christian mysticism, Platonic and Neoplatonic practises, by Pythagoras and his disciples, in Zoroastrian practises, in Chinese thought, Buddhism, Shintoism and so on. 

There is not a single mystic branch of a religion that does not use this approach.  The observations will show this.

Method

The following have all been used with some success, I have provided observations to show what happened in each case. 

Within this list are methods which rely on there being no meaning at all to the input you are using.  For example, the repeating of meaningless koans, poems or an attempt to solve riddles that have no solution.  Over and over and over again!

By studying the silly, incomprehensible and linguistically meaningless, the mind is gradually stilled, lulled into a state where the words, because they are meaningless, become meaningless and the mind is opened.

In all cases you can see that the methods are different from those that use repetition of words, for example chanting.  Chanting stills by repetition, boredom!, riddles koans and nonsense work via confusion.  This is the key – confusion.

I suspect that at the grammar school I went to, listening to my teachers had much the same effect on me, I was certainly with the fairies most of the time, anything to get away from the illogical rubbish that was being dolled out.  Listening to politicians has the same effect too.

You have no need for repetition with koans, riddles or any of these sorts of methods, the more the better, the faster the better.  If you have a book of them, you read them one after another.

These are all techniques that can be used by a person on their own, but there are techniques that can be used by another person – preferably a trained hypnotherapist,  psychotherapist or other qualified honest person, which are intended to confuse.  They use the techniques on you, you just sit back and get more and more befuddled by what is going on.

The befuddling techniques – and there are a lot of them, are notoriously difficult to achieve, requiring months of practise without help – and ultimately how do you know you are doing the right thing?

One way is to use biofeedback – the use of instruments to monitor the brain waves and thus to see whether you are reaching the right ‘state’.  If you look at the list of befuddling techniques, you should be able to see that practically all of them might benefit from being used with a biofeedback instrument of some sort.  The only problem with some of them is the practicality of having a machine monitor you when doing some of the techniques.

The machine I suggest may be of most use as a training aid is the EEG.  An electroencephalograph (EEG) measures the electrical activation of the brain from scalp sites located over the human cortex.

How it works

It knocks out the function of Reason and by doing so helps still the Will, as the Will only has the emotional input left to work on.  If this technique is combined with Sensory deprivation there is very little for it to work on, so the results can be more dramatic.

See also the more generic description of How spiritual experience works.


 

Advantages

  • It works
  • It can cost you nothing
  • You can do this by yourself, so even if you lose your reason there are no dangers involved from ‘outside sources’

Disadvantages

Some of the methods can take months and months to work. You have to practise.

Related observations

Healing observations

Hallucination

Wisdom, Inspiration, Divine love & Bliss

Out of time

Near death, Out of time, Out of body, Rebirth

Enlightenment

Kundalini, Ecstasy, Moksha, Nirvana and Annihilation

In time

Synaesthesia, Pure or enhanced perception, Inter composer communication, Vision, Dream, Perception recall, Exploring group perception

Prophecy

Environmental Influence

Other observations