Meditation: Self talk
TYPE: Cognitive behavioral therapy
PURPOSE: This Audio-visual Meditation Narrative gives us cognitive accessing to injecting our awareness inside our habits. Belief determines action, and action makes habit. We all know this, but we lapse into a state of automatic believing. American self-help focuses almost entirely on the cognitive component of self-defeating behavior, so this will be news to no one.
CONTEXT: The children evoke Gorgan, who then assigns them their new mission. He tops it off with a little mantra meditation.
(The children are in a circle, chanting.)
ALL: Hail, hail, fire and snow. Call the angel, we will go. Far away, for to see, friendly Angel come to me. Hail, hail, fire and snow. Call the angel, we will go. Far away, for to see, friendly Angel come to me. Hail, hail
(The figure of a large man shimmers into view.)
GORGON: You have done very well, my friends. You have done what must be done. You have come aboard the Enterprise. Now our destination is a Federation settlement. Captain Kirk will undoubtedly choose a closer station. Do not let that deter you. Marcos Twelve has millions of people on it. Nearly a million will join us as our friends. The rest will be our enemies. Together with our other friends who will join us, we will defeat our enemies as we defeated them on Triacus. A million friends on Marcos will make us invincible. No one will tell us where to go, when to sleep, where to eat. The universe will be mine to command, yours to play in. To accomplish this great mission, we must first control the Enterprise. To control the ship, we first must control the crew. You know how to do that. That is your next task. And as you believe, so shall you do, so shall you do. As you believe, so shall you do, so shall you do. As you believe, so shall you do, so shall you do.
METHOD: If only we could talk to ourselves with such easy command. Our habit-selves really are little children. To have them obey our Dominant Monad (aka The Voice, Reason, Better Angel) we should treat them as such. Gorgan shows us how. In order to decouple a parent-belief and its child-action, we must first get that this link exists. And that, as you know from reading the other CSH Tech meditations, is by means of Schematism Tech—that is, by doing it intentionally. (See the next Meditation for how to do this.)
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