Questions hide hidden layers. “Learning that ‘questions hide hidden layers’” is yet another layer. Truly learning what has always been available to learn—but which you may not have learned… yet—is itself another layer that wakes up you, your observer, your observer of your observer, and so on, ad infinitum.
- If you read that and it’s gobbledygook, you haven’t had its “AHA!” moment.
- If you read that and you’re intrigued, you may be on the way to understanding it.
- If you’ve had an “AHA!” moment, well… then you’ve had it!
Any time I read a question, I will look at it at 90° off the typical observer’s positioning and ask myself, “What hidden numbers are integral to the question?” What do I mean?
Let’s start with a cliché where someone says, “How can you build a better mouse trap?”
Looking at that 90° askew from how you’d normally interpret its introduction, start looking for assumptions that went into the asking of the question.
- Building implies parts. Minimize how many parts are used.
- Building implies component materials. Use previously unimagined materials. What about ice?
- Mouse traps assume “catch one mouse at a time.” What if two or more can get caught?
- Mouse trap implies one species. What if it were designed to trap multiple species?
The examples above may hold water themselves, but that’s not the point. The point is that once you get your hands on any number related to the start of a question’s start,
CHANGE ITS NUMBERS
and you will automatically guarantee a different endpoint. A new viewport gets created—you create a new way to see anything by getting to its numbers and tweaking its numbers.
So when someone asks a question, learn how to see it differently, using that different view of the question look for its hidden, implied, inherent and unavoidable numbers, and… change them! In changing them, you’re using the physics’ law’s structure of the world to your advantage to open up the curtain that’s hiding the hidden wizard behind it. Getting to that point and getting to the point where you’re *aware* of that point takes work, itself. It’s an inside job. It’s about awareness and attention.
The Second Thing You Can Do
If you know the steps for anything, but you then insert something, your having inserted something becomes the way to crack open reality in the insertion of the thing inserted.
Writing down the steps for making ice might be:
- Get an ice cube tray.
- Fill the tray with water.
- Put the tray in the freezer.
- Wait for the cubes to freeze.
- Pop the ice cube out of the tray.
Five steps. If anything can be added to the sequence to make it 6 steps (which—by the way— addresses the changing of its numbers above) that change from 5 to 6 again takes advantage of the structure of reality to reveal the wizard’s curtain again.
PUT SOMETHING IN BETWEEN
Is another “positioning of your observer” tool that is the thinking (the ‘being’) outside the box.