The Little Purple Notebook On How To Escape From This Universe
                        Copyleft © 1998 by Maximilian J. Sandor, Ph.D.
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   Backtracking Identities

 When talking about identities or  valences, many listeners associate this
topic with 'multiple personalities disorder' or schizophrenic behavior in
general.

However, these much ridiculized  forms of identity-switching are just
extreme versions of what 'normal'  persons of the un-cleared kind are doing
many times during the course of a 'normal' day without being aware of it.

What stands out in the extreme form  is the switching of entire _sets_ of
identities; sets, that seem to  contradict each other in a dramatic way,
manifesting without apparent external motivation and in a very short time.
It is this extremeness that is drawing the attention and the puzzlement of
the  observer.

On a smaller scale, however, a  person that is being pulled over by a cop
for speeding, is typically switching its identity sets nearly as fast as a
'schizophrenic'  person.

And, on an even smaller scale,  persons use different identities all the
time when they talk to their boss at  work, to their spouse at home, to a
stranger they meet on the street, when  speaking in front of a small group
of persons, or when speaking to a large group of persons.

Moreover, most personalities are not  experiencing emotions in a
self-determined way. They are 'being  carried away' by identities that are
stuck on exactly that emotional level which is then being experienced by
the person.

As with everything in this Universe,  'identities' have been created at
some time and in some place. They  have been created by the Being itself
and can therefore be addressed via  processes executed by the very Being
that created it.

Since there are chains of  identities, working through such sequences of
identities can be called 'backtracking identities'.

There was originally no intention of  presenting detailed instructions or
descriptions of processes as such in this  'Little Purple Notebook Of How
To Escape From This Universe' since there are  already large collections of
processes readily available in the  public domain, notably on the Internet.

Exceptions are being made only for  processes that the author cannot find
anywhere else and for those processes  that exist but which are not always
recognized as such, as it is the  case with the 'Nirvana Process', for
example.

In general, processes do not 'run'  when the person is not ready for them.
Someone reading about entity handling without having awareness of entities
is not likely to  restimulate case by reading about processes for handling
entities.

'Backtracking identities' could  potentially be run by anybody - with or
without experience in running processes.

For this reason, it should be  pointed out that 'processing' should be
learned step-by-step, starting with easy examples that are not prone to
stir up heavy stuff. The  processor should be familiar with the most
important remedies for problems that may  occur. Just as an example, the
processor should have already worked out his  or her most effective
'havingness process'.

Even with experience in training as  presented by the  'Transformational
Processing' series of F.A. Funch or by the 'Self-Clearing Handbook' of 'The
Pilot', it is a very good
idea  to be sure to have access to a professional processor _before_
engaging in  any adventures with exotic processes that are presented
isolated from comprehensive and premeditated 'programmes' (sometimes called
'bridges').

With this in mind, here is a look at  the birth of an identity:

     when life is going along just fine,  there is usually no
     reason to change anything. However, if there is a dramatic
     change of events, the person may be prompted to  change
     its approach to life in an equally dramatic way.


The typical case is that of a  significant loss such as the death of a
close friend or the failure in  providing the means for livelihood, such as
the loss of a job or larger amounts of money.

The most dramatic loss a Being can  experience on its  way through this
Universe, is the death of its 'own' body.  Most major identity changes are
prompted by this confrontation with 'death',  even if it is only a
'near-death' experience.

'Backtracking identities' can  therefore be used to plot the sequence of
identity changes over the course of past  lives. Such a table is called a
'line plot' and it will always produce a  circular pattern. In other words,
the sequence of identities is _repeating_ itself.

This repetition can be likened to a  rotating wheel: every point on the
wheel will eventually touch ground again  - every identity will be
manifested in this Universe again -
unless the  circle is broken.

Since the Being loses power with  every turn of the circular arrangement of
identities, a better picture than the  wheel would be a 'dwindling
spiral'.  If the power threatens to vanish completely, the Being may break
out of the wheel  altogether, and will then typically enter just yet
another circular arrangement in a  completely different paradigm.

The act of 'Escaping From This  Universe' could be also formulated as
'breaking out of the wheels of existences in a  self-determined and
conscious way'.

In many cases, the pattern of  identity shifts during a life-time _mirrors_
the shifts over lifetimes - the 'line  plot'. This is a 'fractal'
phenomenon in which the larger picture repeats  itself in a smaller scale.

Therefore, backtracking identities  (or perhaps better: identity shifts)
can give important clues about the 'big picture'.

The process itself looks innocent enough:


        *  feel the identity currently  assumed and ask for the
          identity that _preceded_ the current identity.


It is neither necessary nor  advisable to examine the exact act of
switching at this point (yet). After all, the switch  of identity was most
often prompted by a heavy traumatic incident and  the _new_ identity is
generally _less_ powerful than the previous one.

The previous identity should be  fully recovered ('rehabilitated') first.
This is a most pleasant and joyfull enterprise!

After recovery, it would be tempting  to look at the 'switch' of identities
again that led to the less powerful identity.

However, the previous identity had  been abandoned because of an overwhelm
and may not be strong enough to  confront the specifics of the situation
even now - years or eons  later.

Before examining switches, the  identity prior to the previous identity
should be recovered first by the same process.

But again, the switching itself is  not asked for in the backtracking
process itself and is better addressed as a much later step in a
'mini-programme' that covers not only the switching  but also the prompting
situations and, very importantly, the opposing  identities that are
catalyzing the synthesis of the 'brand-new'  identity.

'Backtracking identities' can lead  to incredible experiences in a very
short of time. In especially, it will not  only bring up 'past lives' in
just a few iterations but it can also break  through 'dwindling spirals'
themselves.

Therefore, a couple of words about  'past lives' and 'evolution' seems in
order.

If one looks at a point a wheel,  there is an upward movement towards the
top and a downwards movement towards the ground.

If the current life is on the  'upswing' part, looking back to 'past lives'
would yield an 'improving'  picture.

This is the illusion of  evolution.

It does not consider the downswing  (which is extremely difficult to
confront) and it does not look at _prior_  turns of the wheel.

From this viewpoint, it is  impossible to perceive _preceding_ wheels that
occured within completely different paradigms.

Therefore, even persons who are able  to look back to their past lives,
either with a natural ability or with the  help of modern 'processes', are
often unable to perceive the  wheels within other lifeforms.

From that perspective, life  _appears_ as an evolutionary process and
lifeforms as animals, for example, are not  perceived as even being
possible.

Ironically, many persons who are  able to perceive past lives are then
making the very same mistake that  persons make who don't perceive any past
lives at all: just because _they_ cannot perceive them, they declare them
impossible altogether.

The problem of 'past life recall' is  compounded by the circumstance that
time itself is an illusion and a very  individual and subjective
perception.

A 'random' past life recall can  yield a host of contradictionary
information for the following reasons:


   * 'normal' time tracks are  twisted, broken, and convoluted;
   * Beings are known to 'steal' time  tracks from other Beings;
   * the recall may be accessing the time track of a body  entity that the
     Being is improperly identifying  with;
   * the recall may be impinged upon by an external source ('channeling');
   * the Being may jump ahead in time loops or  Universe repetitions (for
     example, the 'last' life happened in  the 'future' of the current
     Universe but during an earlier instance);
   * etc.

Now, where does repetitive  backtracking of identities is leading to in the
end?

This question will most certainly  have a different answer for every Being.


But there appears to be a  'break-away point', first postulated by Gotamo
Siddharto (now known as the 'Buddha'), at  which a Being recognizes the
compulsive and circular sequence of  identities it has been engaging in for
countless eons.

At this point the Being recognizes  that in all that time it had never been
truly touched by any of this - its core  has been, is now, and will always
remain outside time and space, beyond life and death.

The Being has now the ultimate  choice: to continue to observe the
spectacle of the games in this Universe and  to proceed meddling with all
this, or to just enjoy itself the way it
really 'is'.



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               Copyleft © 1998 by Maximilian J. Sandor, Ph.D.