Dr. Varius Blynd: "Unlearning"

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Resonated & Orchestrated by Dr. Blynd, Ph.F.

unlearning - a process of eliminating obsolete and /or inaccurate foundational concepts by totally reorienting one's methods of accessing, coordinating, juxtaposing and internalizing data, perceptions, opinions, facts, truths and subjective reality. 2) awakening to one's fundamental Self-nature—our ground-state of Being. 3) the process of uncovering the nature of reality. 4) learning about the art of learning itself. 5) the ability to clear out one's default beliefs, programs, and self-doubts will open up one's consciousness to what you really want to create. By the time you reach your mid-twenties and beyond, your beliefs about yourself and the reality that you experience (or can experience) are pretty much already circumscribed and set in stone. The key to unlearning is to be a rolling stone—break away and then roll free. Unlearning involves reversing (undoing) the pedagogical technique that was applied in and during one's formative years of indoctrination, conditioning, education, programming, training, study, etc. Most of our learning has been unconsciously laced with limiting beliefs. The first step in unlearning is becoming aware of what is holding you back, holding you up or holding you down—in a word, what you deferred or settled for in life rather than what you preferred or dreamed possible. The technique of unlearning involves the following: Redirect Learning, Responsive Learning, Reflective Learning and Reverse Learning. Unlearning is akin to reverse engineering coupled with conscious re-imagineering. The conscious mind can only create what you desire in your reality if the subconscious mind doesn't present any stronger belief currents for why you can't. When the conscious mind knows how to unlearn (reverse the subconscious technique), it breaks the subconscious hold and breaks open as the processing mind breaks down. The degree to which ignorance falls away is the degree of enlightenment there will be. With a ruthless integrity we must scrutinize our own motives and make the honest effort to determine what our relationship to life is really based on. Those who learn think they are learning the ordinary that can be understood, while those who unlearn feel deep within they are embodying the extraordinary that is beyond understanding. Unlearning comprises a combination of learning {uncovering) something or realizing that something is possible and recovery (the removal of a block) of something that is aboriginal to us, something we've alienated, denied its rightfully belonging to us. Unlearning requires keen curiosity which embodies self-motivation. It is also about being aware of using concepts (which are static) without being fooled by them or getting lost in them, i.e., remaining in direct experience (which is dynamic). Unwinding a whole circuit of conditioned responses, inflexible seeing and fear-inducing habits requires an unimaginable amount of intellectual fortitude. R. D. Laing defines the depth of the challenge: "Our capacity to see, hear, touch, taste, and smell is so shrouded...that an intensive discipline of unlearning is necessary for anyone before one can begin to experience the world afresh, with innocence, truth and love." Unlearners leart at will by their own will. Learning consists of filling; unlearning consists of emptying. "The chief object of education is not to leam things but to unlearn things." ~G.K. Chesterton. We have to wean ourselves from overdependence on the expertise we've labored so hard to accumulate as stores of knowledge. "We must avoid letting our education interfere with our learning." -Albert Einstein. Unlearners are more favorably disposed toward the unexpected. Instead of filling with answers, empty of questions. Questions confine answers. When you are clear of questions, answers are unbound—free to arise of their own volition no longer held hostage by them. Unlearning is reformatting our gestalt in order to uncover and recover one's dormant or arrested potential through Self-Overstanding—the inner quest to the realization of the Overself. We must welcome the insecurity, the uncertainty and the wisdom of courting the unknown while making the familiar strange—to see or unblock the view totally anew. "We are too used to learning and too dependent on being taught. Over-reliance on the need to learn is making our society into a world of experts, ever more selective, divisive, and complicated." ~Dr. Ilchi Lee. Everything in Consciousness-based education starts with freedom from the need to leam. As you let go of your dependence on "learning" (in pursuit of earning a living), and simply listen, observe and reflect, life will naturally begin unfolding its secrets, mysteries and lessons to you. Unlearning reduces the frequency and extent of our pervasive misapprehension of reality—both its nature and attributes. Out from the shadows of familiarity and the cocoon of conditioning lies a vibrancy of life rarely encountered—and those that do, are mostly unlearns of the highest magnitude who recenter their perception and awareness into the actuality, the immediacy of the here-and-now. When you move from your deepest knowing, all the right doors will fling open for you. The more you learn the less you know; the more you unlearn the more you know that you don't. We gravitate with celerity those who think like us but learn slowly (and unlearn even slower) from those that don't. You know it's like that, 'cuz that's the way it is. When you're unlearning, you're burning—putting out a lot of self-made fires in the tender box of your unexamined life and unquestioning mind. When you're all burned up and the false self consumed, then you become the light. Drop what you've been taught so you can recollect what you know. "I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it!" While spirituality is all about unlearning all the garbage you've been taught. Unlearning has to do with awakening. (See: The Tao, Aw-akening, Unanswering, Questions, Overself, True Self, Questioning, Searching, False Self, Third Sight, Ego, Attention, Awareness, Stillness, Innocence, Truth, Seeing, U-Turners, Love, Truth Editing, Creative Seeing, Wisdom, Dream, Third-Door, Insecurity, Uncertainty, Unseeing, In-Seeing, Consciousness-Based Education, Unstuck & Seeking)