Text: Positive And Negative Methodologies B: All right, I'll say: continue! Q: Hello. B: And to you, good day. Q: I'm looking at the book, The New Metaphysics. B: Yes. Q: And there is a chart there that really attracted my attention and my interest. And I became aware that I felt like I understood it, but not intellectually. So I would like to ask you to explain it a little bit more. B: All right, in a simplified way. Which one? Q: This is the positive and negative manifestation. B: Do you mean the idea that contains the notions of winning and losing? The idea simply is: as you read it off, then individuals can create -- as you already know -- positive methodologies or negative methodologies, to teach them what they wish to learn. In other words: they can learn through effortlessness, or they can learn by creating the idea of struggle. Different degrees of this idea are simply represented by the listings on the chart. All the way up from the idea of winning through to the idea of losing. Now these are your notions -- the notions, the labels -- you have applied to these concepts. And that is why we have used them in that chart. Individuals can simply win because they know they win; they can lose because they believe they lose. And all the variations in between -- of playing to win, which makes it take some time; playing to not win, which makes it take more time, and always keeps, as you say, the carrot out there. Because you enjoy the idea of getting there -- rather than being in a certain place -- more than having the idea. Then there is the idea of playing to not lose, which is just below that middle line. Which in that sense means that you are, quote/unquote, just barely keeping up with everything. You are not really, quote/unquote, losing; but you are never rising above a certain level within your own estimation of self. There is always just enough, but never an expanded idea of the more that you see. Then there is the idea of playing to lose - which means you're not really losing so much, but you are playing the game. You are creating a repetitive cycle in which it seems you always give yourself a boost up, only to create the idea of crashing back down. And then there is simply the idea of losing, reaching what you have termed the bottom of the barrel, which can, in a sense, connect directly into winning to the completion of the cycle. Because, as we have said, when you reach the bottom of the barrel, everywhere else is up. So it simply represents the polarity spectrum of the different mechanisms that people can use to create methodologies. It is a different way of understanding how individuals look at themselves, and the particular overall formats, or categories, of the type of energy game they might be playing - based upon what they believe to be most likely in their reality. Does this clarify the idea to some degree? Q: Yes it does. Where is, "just playing?" B: Oh, it is all of those. Q: I see. B: All of those are playing. Q: Uh huh. All right. Then, on the other side of the chart, it refers to, that's not clear. Is that positive action? Or just positive. B: In other words, the positive side is action, and is represented by the ideas of winning, playing to win, and playing to not win. Those are the positive sides; they are above the line, so to speak. All of that is the positive side, and it is represented by action. Below the line, as you say, is the idea of negativity. And that is re- action. Q: Mhmm. B: Does that explain the idea? Q: Yes, it does. Thank you. B: Thank you very much. Q: Okay, bye for now. B: All right. Hello again. Sharing!

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