頭腦清除計劃 THE MIND CLEARING PROJECT Part Y

頭腦清除專案



心靈清除是一種完全發展的處理心靈的實踐，但這裡只詳細討論了一些核心技術。這些包括清淨溝通週期、態度清凈和業力清新。還提到了與他人交流的技巧，就好像他們在場一樣，儘管沒有具體研究。這裡沒有空間討論其他任何事情。但更重要的是，閱讀技術而不在實踐中體驗它們的價值是有限的。

因此，頭腦清除比這些頁面中的內容要多得多。特別是勞倫斯·諾伊斯（Lawrence Noyes）開發了廣泛的培訓材料，論文，講座和手冊，以指導從業人員處理人們遇到的許多問題領域。核心原則始終保持不變，內置於針對不同類型問題的特定步驟中。

該方法始終以人為本，從提出客戶選擇的問題領域開始工作，目的是清除這些問題並揭示負責任的發起成年人的核心。它是診斷性的，因為它認識到心具有普遍的結構，因此，問題從根本上歸結為我們首先擁有心的原始原因。出於同樣的原因，問題領域對許多人來說是共同的，並且通常可以以類似的方式與各種客戶接近。但每個人在整個過程中都被直接稱為獨特的;我們都有重要的差異。它以人為本，因為它基於以人為本的前提;不是需要建構的，而是已經存在的，已經完整的，是所有自我檢查和進步的驅動力。



任何問題領域的所有方法都是基於清晰的溝通週期，以及提高客戶通過選擇直接展示自己的能力，而沒有頭腦的自動性，以至於固定的態度停止運行它們。有了本書提出的基本原則，各個層面的困難都可以得到解決。


頭腦清理不是萬能

的 頭腦清理不是通用的解決辦法。伯納開始尋找一種萬能的技術。從某種意義上說，他找到了它，但不是他最初尋找的地方。首先，他逐漸明白，用任何技巧都無法完成所有困難都消失的心。所有技術都需要使用紀律和意志;換句話說，武力。但武力與我們真實的身份格格不入，它是對現實的一種抵抗形式。故意的技巧只能讓我們走這麼遠，它們無法觸及我們扭曲的核心。為此，我們必須投降。

其次，當他越來越清楚地描繪出我們人類的實際情況時，他認識到構成人類狀況痛苦的不同因素。頭腦只是其中最外層，是第一個要解決的問題。

第三，他越來越清楚地區分每個元素必須以不同的方式處理。任何形式的談話幫助都會主要處理頭腦。其他層遮擋了我們的原文INAL中心，最好用其他方式處理。


心靈清除專案 儘管如此，心靈清除仍然

是一個製作精美的説明工具。有了它，我們可以處理人類狀況的相當多的認知層。它遠遠超出了一輪思想變革。頭腦是我們賦予其他中性事物和事件的意義。但是，這些觀念所具有的任何現實都與我們對現實的物質體驗有著內在的聯繫，因此只處理智力不會改變任何事情。例如，至少自十七世紀以來，心靈和身體之間的區別在西方思想和醫學中是如此強大，



可以通過依次檢查元素來實現變革，但它最終是基於錯誤的二分法。身心是不能分開的。

尋找並傳遞將一系列固定的態度和意義鎖定在原地的資訊，可以解鎖直接進入身體和情緒的模式，並與整個人產生共鳴。信息被識別得越精確，傳遞得越充分，與個人的共鳴就越大，從認知結構以及身體緊張和情緒保持中釋放得越深。

由於這項工作，身體可以而且確實會發生變化。與延遲通信發佈相關的長期緊張關係，以及最終完成和完成的通信。認知，或思想，是將人類狀況的一部分固定在原地。從思想的暴政中解脫出來是一種非常真實的自由。



從頭腦清理中期待的結果 有了頭腦清理，我們可以期望從頭腦喋喋不休和潛意識動機中解放出來。大部分的喋喋不休，以及讓我們停留在過去而不是現在的潛意識思維，包括未完成的交流和層層疊疊的想法在頭腦中堆積，使我們離現在越來越遠。當我們完成這些溝通時，我們允許事件成為過去，我們越來越多地到達此時此地。頭腦中可以喋喋不休的更少了。當我們越來越多地從一個明確的地方採取行動時，我們在這裡，更原始，更有創造力，更投入。我們會發現我們當前困擾我們的問題更少或沒有，因為我們能夠在這些問題出現時處理它們或將它們變成專案而不是問題。說出我們以前會隱瞞的事情變成了一個真正的選擇問題。也許我們有時選擇不這樣做是最明智的行動方案。但新的事情是，我們知道自己在想什麼，如果我們願意，我們可以傳達這些想法。因此，壓力水準更低，思維過程



更清晰，人們更有能力公開和建設性地應對困難。從根本上說，過去將不再是一個禁區和當前反應的原因;關係將更容易，更真實，更充實，並且將免於內疚和僵持的存在方式。一些受害國家可能永遠消失了，而那些留下來的國家則不那麼固定，所以我們更自由地選擇讓他們離開並尋找其他方式。

我在幫助職業中，我們也一直在尋求任何進步的穩定性。思維清除進步的穩定性與直接溝通能力的收益成正比。在頭腦清理會話中所做的工作都是通過一些關鍵元素在Clearer和客戶之間的關係中結合在一起的

： ◉ 清除溝通周期強調從Clearer到客戶方向的關注。在被看到時，個人被要求做出回應。被看到使客戶相應地更容易在頭腦中找到自己，並將自己與這種混亂區分開來。

◉ 它要求客戶進入特定任務。為此，客戶端必須執行操作以定位他們是誰的穩定點。從那時起，客戶可以越來越多地區分並做出決定。

◉ 動作的表演將學習嵌入到整個人中;它被變為現實，道路被改變，新的道路被創造。

◉ 當回應被傳達時，所說的話的真實性在真實的關係中得到檢驗，辨別力得到發展。

◉ 隨著回應的傳達，這個人越來越直接地向另一個人傳達自己。

◉ 當回應被傳達時，隱瞞的想法被呈現、化解，可以進入過去，不再有助於大眾的思想。



◉ 隨著回應的傳達，客戶越來越多地從一個更清晰、更穩定的角度向眼前的人看他們是誰。

◉ 當收到並確認回復時，未完成的通信以及隱瞞的想法和想法會與另一個人一起找到一個安息的地方，一個想要理解並在他們這樣做時明確表示的人。那些隱瞞的想法和想法已經結束了。

◉ 當一個關鍵資訊被發現並傳遞時，一個保持固定態度的信息，那麼整個思想和混亂就不再相關並被停用。

◉ 我和你不止兩個。一個人承擔起説明另一個人更好地溝通的責任，在這個專案中與另一個人互動，不僅僅是其各部分的總和。

這就是有效的方法。Clearer增加了他們與客戶的能力有關的能力，他們共同努力增進理解。這種物質收益，或其中的一部分，被帶入了日常生活。個人脫穎而出，從頭腦的自動思維中解放出來，直到他們交流、呈現自己並被接受的程度。

生活在許多方面可能看起來和以前大同小異;那個人生活中的人可能不會改變，工作可能是一樣的，家庭生活還在繼續，但生活會改變。內心世界，人與他人之間的心靈數量，將會減少;頭腦將被清除。

以下是人們對心靈清除的一些看法：

我自己做了20多年的治療師，並且斷斷續續地接受了傳統的談話療法，我一直感到驚訝d 心靈清除為我提供的更深層次、更持久的影響。我親身經歷了，並與我一起工作過的人一起經歷了戲劇性地改變生活的結果。我的老師經常說，頭腦是真實關係的替代品。我意識到



自己和我的客戶花了多少時間在頭腦中，處理關係，而不僅僅是存在於關係中並真正看到這個人。我們在生活中真正想做的是彼此聯繫。心靈清除為我和我的客戶提供了一種工具和能力，可以協助實現這種聯繫的強烈願望，而不是在我的腦海中感到孤立和脫節。

這就像剝開洋蔥的層層，有時一次一層薄薄的一層;有時更大的塊。在心靈清除中，與我的客戶一起工作或讓它在我自己身上運行，有勇氣一起面對過去的誤解和創傷所建立的層次，而不是獨自一人。心靈清除的工作原理是，這沒有什麼可以「修復」的;我們在各個方面都是完美的，但我們所做的是誤解，在頭腦中產生。我在自己和與客戶合作時都經歷過這一點。

心靈清理給了我自我探究、關閉和擺脫創傷事件痛苦的工具，這些工具我已經在我靈魂中攜帶了 40 多年。我已經能夠從不再為我或我生活中的其他人服務的舊行為模式中獲得自由，並不斷與我周圍的人真實地展示。

它影響了我與生活中最親愛的人的關係，給我帶來了內心的平靜和更深層次的聯繫。對於任何自我發現的精神、情感或精神場所，以及我們最渴望的，在關係中建立聯繫，我怎麼推薦這個強大的過程都不為過。

– LT，加利福尼亞州，美國



在我所有的頭腦清理課程中，我都覺得我的頭腦真的更清晰了。從某種意義上說，更清晰，我感覺更輕鬆，更自由，只是做我自己。這就像放下雜亂。未言而喻的，未完成的，不恰當的決定或結論...也就是說，籠罩在當今現實中的舊事物的瘴氣正在被釋放。我發現自己在平時會害羞或自我意識的情況下感到越來越放鬆


，一些以前困難的關係正在改善。
這些問題和說明鼓勵我比自己更深入地研究。當我在腦海中翻找記憶的片段時，一旦我說出它們，我就會意識到它們在多大程度上控制了我的想法和感受，而沒有意識到......我突然想，這是多麼荒謬啊！然後，當我自動放手時，我感到非常欣慰。

– FJ，倫敦，英國



心靈清除立即説明我克服了生活中的情感困難時期。從那以後，它使我能夠看到我對自己和他人的固定想法如何導致我在意識到自己正在這樣做之前對人們所說的話做出情緒化反應。通過拆除這些錯誤的貝爾在會議期間，我感覺自己正在逐漸從腦海中收回自我。自從開始頭腦清理以來，我注意到我的人際關係越來越好，我在生活中感到不那麼自我意識和焦慮。慢慢地，但肯定地，我正在對我的方式負責，我擔心最終，在32歲的時候，我可能會長大。該死的，頭腦清醒！

– SK，內羅畢，肯亞



對我來說，頭腦清醒的過程是迄今為止我遇到的最重要和最有用的工作之一，在我看似艱苦的尋找是什麼讓我以特殊且經常令人沮喪的方式生活時。這些過程使我最終意識到或擺脫了我多年來一直試圖獲得的某些行為、態度和依戀。我的意思是幾年。在很多情況下，它使我從“受制於”轉變為“在選擇”。對我來說，這簡直就是不朽的。

心靈清除就像在心靈內部進行探險......永遠不知道一路上會發現什麼


，意識到無論是地雷還是鑽石場，每個都是自己的神聖禮物。


– CQ，佛羅里達州，美國



大約 3 年前，我開始定期進行心靈清理會議。起初，這些會議幫助我減輕了自己在腦海中迴響的未解決問題的負擔;然後，隨著我們深入，我意識到自己責怪他人而不承擔責任的態度。

我有生以來第一次感到被傾聽;當我在內在尋找時，在清澈者的指導下，我正在爆破讓我沮喪的困惑、模式和埋藏的情緒。心靈清除使我有能力成為我自己，並承認我在世界上的位置。我能夠更好地傳達我是誰以及我想要什麼

，因此我與他人的關係要好得多。對我來說，心靈清除是通往更有意識、更有價值的存在和生活方式的道路。

– DR，倫敦，英國



我接受過多年的心理治療，並在以人為本的心理治療方面接受了一段時間的培訓。有一些好處，但我很難說治療是值得的，我的生活仍然不順利;在某些地區，這是一場災難。幾年前我遇到了心靈清除，但大約 3 年前才開始有會議。對我來說，差異是明顯而直接的。有幾件事很突出。首先，我第一次覺得這是真正的協作。沒有任何東西被施加在我身上，我被要求真正在那裡並承擔責任。其次，我們以一種專注、結構化的方式處理對我真正重要的事情，這是令人滿意和有用的。我可以立即看到改善人際關係的價值，並減輕我從小就有的“問題”感。我也感到被看到並以一種微妙的新方式進入;或者也許不那麼微妙。我感到了真正的説明，在經歷這一點時，我意識到我以前是多麼深刻地覺得説明是不可能的。底線就是這樣，雖然這並不總是那麼容易，但它確實有效。我對
它瞭解

得越多，伯納的見解和他所組合的技術就越給我留下深刻的印象。我可以徹底推薦心靈清除給任何希望自己的生活在任何層面上都變得更好的人。

– AW，諾里奇，英國



許多人認為他們在心靈清除方面的工作目標是達到一個點，即他們從固定的存在方式中解放出來，讓他們的生活變得更好。他們不一定有興趣進一步開展工作;生活是美好的，他們想出去享受它。這樣做的成功是一個非常真實的結果，可以止步於此。這不是伯納所理解的結局。對他來說，一個運作良好的生活，擺脫頭腦的固定，只是旅程的開始，是全新理解水平的基礎。他一直工作到生命的盡頭，以進一步發展自己的發展。這些其他步驟並不是每個人都想要的。也許只有少數人真正想要這樣;當他們從思想中獲得自由並欣賞生活是多麼美好時，這已經綽綽有餘了。但

伯納的其他方法反映了他的一些進一步研究。



THE MIND CLEARING PROJECT



Mind Clearing is a fully developed practice for dealing with the mind, but only a few core techniques have been discussed in any detail here. These include the clearing communication cycle, attitude clearing and karma clearing. The technique of communicating to others as though they were present is also mentioned, though not looked at specifically. There is no space to go into anything else here. But more importantly, there is a limit to the value of reading about techniques without experiencing them in practice.

So there is a great deal more to Mind Clearing than what is in these pages. Lawrence Noyes, in particular, has developed extensive training material, papers, lectures and manuals to guide practitioners in dealing with many problem areas with which people present. The core principles remain the same throughout, built into specific steps for different types of issue.

The approach is always person-centred, working from presenting problem areas chosen by the client with the aim of clearing these and revealing the responsible initiating adult at the core. It is diagnostic insofar as it is recognised that the mind has a universal structure and that in consequence, problems fundamentally come down to the original reason we have a mind in the first place. For the same reason, problem areas are common to many people and can often be approached in similar ways with a variety of clients. But each individual is addressed directly as unique throughout; we all have important differences. It is person-centred because it is based on the premise that there is a person at the centre; not one that needs to be constructed, but one already there, already whole and who is the driver of all self-examination and progress.



All the approaches to any problem area are based around the clearing communication cycle and on increasing the client’s ability to present themselves directly, through choice, without the automaticity of the mind, such that fixed attitudes stop running them. With the basic principles presented in this book, difficulties at every level can be dealt with.


Mind Clearing is not a cure-all

Mind Clearing is not a universal fix. Berner started out looking for a cure-all technique. In a sense he found it, but not where he was originally looking. First, he gradually understood that dealing with the mind to the extent that all difficulties are gone for good cannot be completed with any technique. All techniques require the use of discipline and the will; in other words, force. But force is out of step with who we really are, it is a form of resistance to reality. Wilful techniques can get us only so far, they cannot reach the heart of our distortions. For that, we have to surrender.

Second, as he mapped more and more clearly what we human beings actually are, he recognised the different elements that go into making up the suffering of the human condition. The mind is only the outermost layer of that, the first one to tackle.

Third, he distinguished ever more clearly that each element must be worked with differently. Any form of talking help will mostly deal with the mind. The other layers obscuring our original centre, are better dealt with in other ways.


The Mind Clearing project

Mind Clearing is a beautifully crafted tool for help, nonetheless. With it we can deal with a considerable amount of the cognitive layer of the human condition. It goes far beyond an intellectual changing round of ideas. The mind is the meaning we ascribe to otherwise neutral things and events. But any reality those ideas have is intrinsically linked to our material experience of reality, so dealing only in the intellect will change nothing. The distinction between mind and body, for example,



so powerful in Western thought and medicine since at least the seventeenth century, can be useful for achieving change by examining elements in turn, but it is ultimately based on a false dichotomy. Mind and body cannot be separated.

Finding and delivering the message that is keeping a series of fixed attitudes and meanings locked in place unlocks patterns that key straight into the body and emotions, and resonates with the whole person. The more precisely the message is identified and the more fulsomely delivered, the greater the resonation with the individual and the deeper the release from structures of cognition, as well as body tensions and emotional holding.

The body can and does change as a result of this work. Long-held tensions associated with withheld communications release, along with the communications that are finally fulfilled and finished. Cognition, or the mind, is keeping part of the edifice of the human condition locked in place. Freedom from the tyranny of the mind is a very real freedom.



Results to expect from Mind Clearing With Mind Clearing we can expect to become a great deal freer from mind chatter and subconscious motivations. Much of that chatter, as well as the subliminal thinking that keeps us in the past rather than present, consists of the unfinished communications and layers of ideas stacking up in the mind and taking us further and further from the now. As we fulfil those communications we allow events to become the past and we arrive more and more in the here and now. There is less for the mind to chatter about. As we act more and more from a clear place of who we are, we are more here, more original, more creative and more engaged. We will find we have fewer or no current problems nagging us, as we are able to deal with these as they arise or turn them into projects rather than problems. Saying what we would previously have withheld becomes a matter of real choice. Maybe we choose not to do so at times as the wisest course of action. But the new thing is that we know what we think and could communicate those thoughts if we chose. Consequently, stress levels are lower, thought processes



clearer and people more empowered to meet difficulties openly and constructively. Fundamental to this, the past will no longer be a place of no-go areas and a cause of present reactivity; relationships will be easier, more authentic and fulfilling, and there will be freedom from guilt and stuck ways of being. Some victim states may be gone for good and those that remain are less fixed, so we are freer to choose to let them go and find other ways to be.

In helping professions we are also always looking for stability in any progress made. The stability of progress in Mind Clearing is in direct proportion to the gains made in the ability to communicate directly. The work done in Mind Clearing sessions all works through a number of key elements coming together within the relationship between Clearer and client:

◉ The clearing communication cycle emphasises the attention that goes in the direction from Clearer to client. In being seen, the individual is called on to respond. Being seen makes it correspondingly easier for the client to find themselves within the mind and differentiate themselves from that muddle.

◉ It asks the client to go inside, with specific tasks. To do this, the client must perform an action to locate the stable point of who they are. From that point, the client can increasingly differentiate and make decisions.

◉ The performance of an action embeds the learning into the whole person; it is made real and pathways are changed, and new ones are made.

◉ As the response is communicated, the truth of what is said is tested in real relationship and discernment is developed.

◉ As the response is communicated, the person gets themselves across more and more directly to another person.

◉ As the response is communicated, the thoughts withheld are presented, defused and can go into the past and no longer contribute to the mass of mind.



◉ As the response is communicated, the client increasingly looks out from a clearer, stable point of who they are to the person in front of them.

◉ As the response is received and acknowledged, the unfinished communications, as well as the withheld ideas and thoughts, find a resting place with another person, one who wants to understand and makes it clear when they have done so. Those withheld thoughts and ideas are done with.

◉ When a key message is uncovered and delivered, one that is keeping strings of fixed attitudes in place, then whole chunks of mind and muddle cease to be relevant and are deactivated.

◉ Me and you are more than two. One person taking on the responsibility to help the other become better at communicating, engaging with the other in that project, is more than the sum of its parts.

This is what works. The Clearer adds their abilities in relating to that of the client and they work together towards greater understanding. This material gain, or a part of it, is taken forward into ordinary life. The individual comes to the fore, freer from the automatic thinking of the mind to the extent they have communicated and presented themselves and been received.

Life may look much the same in many respects as it did before; the people in that person’s life may well not change, the job may be the same and family life carries on, but life will be changed. The inner world, the amount of mind stuff between the person and others, will be reduced; the mind will be cleared.

Here are a few things that people have said about Mind Clearing:

Having been a therapist myself for over 20 years and having had traditional talk therapy on and off myself, I have been amazed at the deeper, lasting effects that Mind Clearing has provided to me. I have experienced for myself personally, and with those that I have worked with, dramatic life-changing results. My teacher often said the mind is a substitute for real relating. I realised



in myself and my clients how much more time is spent in the mind, working on the relationship, rather than just being present in the relationship and truly seeing the person. What we are really trying to do in life is to have connection with one another. Mind Clearing has given me and my clients a tool and the ability to assist with this deep desire to connect, rather than be in my mind and feel isolated and disconnected.

It has been like peeling away the layers of an onion that is opened up, sometimes one thin layer at a time; sometimes bigger chunks. In Mind Clearing, working with my clients or having it run on myself, having the courage to face the layers built up from past misunderstandings and traumas together and not doing it alone. Mind Clearing works on the premise that this is nothing to be “fixed”; we are perfect in every way yet, what we work on instead is the misunderstandings, created in the mind. I have experienced this in myself and with working with my clients.

Mind Clearing has given me the tools for self-enquiry, closure and freedom from the pain of traumatic incidents that I have carried in my soul for over 40 years. I have been able to gain freedom from old behavioural patterns that no longer serve me or the others in my life and a continual ability to show up authentically with those around me.

It has impacted my relationships with the people in my life who are most dear to me and brought me a sense of inner peace and deeper connections. I cannot recommend enough this powerful process for any mental, emotional or spiritual place of self-discovery and what we most yearn for, connecting in relationships.

– LT, California, USA



In all my Mind Clearing sessions I have come away feeling my mind is literally clearer. Clearer in the sense that I feel lighter and freer to just be me. It is like letting go of clutter. The unspoken, the unfinished, the inappropriate decisions or conclusions...that is, the miasma of old stuff that clouds present-day reality is getting released. I have found myself feeling more and more relaxed in situations



where I would normally have been shy or self-conscious, and some previously difficult relationships are improving. The questions and instructions encourage me to look deeper than I could on my own. As I rummage in my mind bits of memory surface that once I say them, I realise how much they governed my thoughts and feelings without realising...and suddenly I think, How ridiculous that is! Then I experience a huge relief as I automatically let go of it.

– FJ, London, UK



Mind Clearing was immediately helpful to me in getting over an emotionally difficult time in my life. Since then, it has enabled me to see how the fixed ideas I have about myself and others cause me to react emotionally to what people say before I am even conscious I am doing it. Through dismantling these erroneous beliefs one by one during sessions, I feel like I am gradually reclaiming my self from my mind. Since starting Mind Clearing I have noticed that my relationships are going better and that I feel much less self-conscious and anxious and in life. Slowly but surely, I am taking responsibility for the way that I am, and I fear that finally, at the age of 32, I may be growing up. Damn you, Mind Clearing!

– SK, Nairobi, Kenya



The process of Mind Clearing for me has been by far one of the most significant and useful bodies of work that I have encountered during my seemingly arduous search for what makes me tick and do life in the particular and frequently frustrating way that I do. These processes have enabled me to finally become aware of, or get free from, certain behaviors, attitudes and attachments I have been trying to get at for years. And I mean years. It has taken me, in a lot of instances, from being ‘at the effect of’ to being ‘at choice’. For me, this is nothing short of monumental.

Mind Clearing is like going on an expedition through the interior of your mind...never knowing what exactly



you might find along the way, realising whether it’s a land mine or a diamond field, each is its own sacred gift.

– CQ, Florida, USA



I started having Mind Clearing sessions about 3 years ago on a regular basis. At first, the sessions helped me to unburden myself of unresolved issues that were echoing in my mind; then, as we went deeper, I became aware of my attitude of blaming others and not taking responsibility.

For the first time in my life, I feel heard; and while I am searching within, with the Clearer’s guidance, I am blasting out confusion, patterns and buried emotions that keep me down. Mind Clearing is empowering me to become myself and acknowledge my place in the world. I am better able to communicate who I am and what

I want, and I have much better relationships with others as a result. For me, Mind Clearing is the way forward to a more conscious, worthwhile way of being and living.

– DR, London, UK



I have had years of psychotherapy and trained for a while in person-centred psychotherapy too. There were some benefits, but I struggle to say that the therapy was worthwhile and my life was still not going well; in some areas, it was a disaster. I came across Mind Clearing years before but only started to have sessions about 3 years ago. For me, the difference was clear and immediate. Several things stood out. First, I felt it was really collaborative for the first time. There was nothing being enacted upon me and I was being called upon to be really there and accountable. Second, we worked on what really mattered to me in a focused, structured way that was satisfying and useful. I could immediately see value in improved relationships and a lessening of the sense of ‘problem’ I had had since I was a child. I also felt seen and got in a way that was subtly new; or maybe not so subtle. I felt actually helped and, in experiencing this, realised how deeply I had previously felt that help wasn’t really possible. The bottom line is that, although it isn’t always easy, it does work. The more I understand about


it, the more impressed I am by Berner’s insights and the techniques he put together. I can thoroughly recommend Mind Clearing to anyone who wants their life to go better on any level.

– AW, Norwich, UK



Many people see the goal of their work in Mind Clearing as being to reach a point where they are free enough from their fixed ways of being that their lives go better. They do not necessarily have an interest in taking the work further; life is good and they want to go out and enjoy it. The success in doing this is a very real result and one can stop there. That was not the end as Berner understood it. For him, a well- functioning life, free from the fixidity of the mind, was just the start of the journey, the groundwork for a whole new level of understanding. He worked, right up to the end of his life, to take his own development further. Those other steps are not what everyone wants. Perhaps only a few people really want that; when they gain freedom from their minds and appreciate how good life can be, that is more than enough. But

Berner’s other methods reflect some of his further research.