Studies of Ingo Swan's Work
Who Was Ingo Swan?
Ingo Swan, artist, writer, and psychic is known as the father of remote viewing by the military remote viewing community. Ingo was born September 14, 1933, at Telluride, Colorado, and died January 31, 2013 in New York City. He studied at Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah, and received a double bachelor’s degree in biology and art. He enlisted in the U.S. Army and served three years in Korea, after which he worked for twelve years at the United Nations Secretariat while pursuing an independent art career.
In 1969 when he was 36 years old, Ingo worked for the next 20 years only in controlled laboratory settings with scientific researchers. Because he participated in hundreds of thousands of experimental trials, author Martin Ebon referred to him as “parapsychology’s most tested guinea pig.”
In 1972--73, at the American Society for Psychical Research, Swann began suggesting experimental protocols to test for the existence of mind-dynamic processes that would enhance ESP. He coined the term “remote viewing” to describe the experiments in which subjects attempted to view targets at a far distance.
Swann’s successes on the East Coast attracted the attention of the quantum physicist Harold E. Puthoff at the Standford Research Institute, in Menlo Park, California (later renamed SRI International). From late 1973 until 1989 Swann worked principally at SRI’s “psychoenergetics project” established by Puthoff to examine important psi faculties (rather than psychic phenomena per se).
For more information, go to Paul Smith's website at: http://rviewer.com/Remote_Viewing_Blog/biography-page/
Paul Smith is one of the original military remote viewers trained by Ingo Swan.
I encourage people to read Ingo's books for new perspectives. You can buy them inexpensively for Kindle. Some great books are Everybody's Natural Guide to ESP, Secrets of Power Vols. I & II, Psychic Sexuality, Black Boxes, The Wisdom Category, and Penetration. There are also some fiction works that help illustrate some of his concepts.
Human Biosuper Powers
from Secrets of Power, Vol. I.
“…what human powers actually consist of falls into the category of forbidden knowledge.”
Our age “… has produced encyclopedic knowledge sources for just about everything but innate human powers.”
“This author posits and accepts that all individuals born of our species are born with a rather large spectrum of innate powers…” [Italics are Ingo’s.] “Just because a large number of those powers can be rendered nonoperational by social conditioning should not be taken as proof-positive that a spectrum of innate powers does not exist in each individual.”
from Secrets of Power, Vol. II
"Tangible and intangible types of sensed information are probably filtered through lenses of awareness, and which, in turn, are probably shaped and/ or depowered by constituents of different kinds of reality boxes. But the 'equipment' for uploading both tangible and intangible information is innate in all individuals, regardless of whether the equipment is active or inactive."
"Do be assured that no one so far knows anything about the details of human transducing systems except that the jump of converting impulse into feeling and meaning does take place."
Ingo's Five Innate Base Powers of Mind-Intelligence Sensing Systems are: Empathic powers, telepathic powers, attention powers, observing powers, and aware powers.
"Individual mind-intelligence systems possess at least five base powers that detect intangible information impulses. These base powers can be interactive, and all five have something to do with intuition and insight. Without these powers, it is unlikely that mind-intelligence could deduce or interpret anything about physicality except in some very gross tangible format. All five of these powers can be enhanced, but if too enhanced they can 'see' what others cannot — and so whether they should be enhanced enters into power games considerations.
They formulate a base upon which additional powers can become active."
"Although the major physical sensing organs are important with respect to these five powers, it is clear that they are more closely associated with receptors that detect and interpret meanings of subtle energies and impulses."
"Once it is recognized as such, the absence of research and information with respect to the potentials of human awareness is appalling. But
those powers, known absolutely to exist, have been considered an appropriate topic for parapsychology research, but only by parapsychologists. Otherwise, and for obvious reasons, such research has not achieved support of any power structure anywhere, excepting some short-term interest on behalf of secret espionage under some kind of power-structure control. The up-shot of such research is that if powers of telepathy are somehow enhanced, they will be illusive of power-structure control. End of the telepathy story."
“If individuals did not have innate powers, then it is difficult to comprehend why they should feel their absence. It is also difficult to comprehend why power structure arrangements seek to establish depowerment methodologies to dumb down something that does not exist in the targeted populations. Generally speaking, and all other factors considered, one cannot feel powerless unless one senses, even if only minimally, that one has innate powers that are there, but are inactive, deadened, or not operational.”
“Individuals can be selectively educated and socially conditioned so as to become unaware that minds have powers. In such a situation, mind and its powers can exist, but one can be unaware of some or most of the powers — and, as well, perhaps be unaware of some or most of one’s mind overall.”
from Reality Boxes and Other Black Holes in Human Consciousness
“ … exceptional human experiencing can take place with respect to anyone, including those allegedly destitute of too much consciousness.”
“ … many individuals feel they are MORE than what they have become within the average and conventional environments around them … “
“ … the human species is equipped with capacities that are neither used nor nurtured, but which anyway survive through the generations in some kind of latent form.”
“ … individuals are apparently over-endowed with capacities and faculties that are far in excess of what is needed to live in the sociological ways of our average and conventional social structures.”
“ … theories or laws need not necessarily take into account what individuals actually experience, largely because doing so can be inconvenient to the theories and laws.”
“ … some very wide gaps presently exist between research of human consciousness and what individuals actually experience.”
“Based on significant evidence, it can be thought that if our species did NOT have uplifting powers of intuitive linkages, perhaps several kinds of them, then— well, just subtract sympathy, insight, and intuition from the total human package and consider where we would be without them.”
“ … it could be thought that what human consciousness is CAPABLE OF would have received some priority attention long ago. Of course that is not the case at all, and many manifestations and doings of consciousness are denied within the same efforts that seek to define it.”
from Secrets of Power, Vol. I.
“…what human powers actually consist of falls into the category of forbidden knowledge.”
Our age “… has produced encyclopedic knowledge sources for just about everything but innate human powers.”
“This author posits and accepts that all individuals born of our species are born with a rather large spectrum of innate powers…” [Italics are Ingo’s.] “Just because a large number of those powers can be rendered nonoperational by social conditioning should not be taken as proof-positive that a spectrum of innate powers does not exist in each individual.”
from Secrets of Power, Vol. II
"Tangible and intangible types of sensed information are probably filtered through lenses of awareness, and which, in turn, are probably shaped and/ or depowered by constituents of different kinds of reality boxes. But the 'equipment' for uploading both tangible and intangible information is innate in all individuals, regardless of whether the equipment is active or inactive."
"Do be assured that no one so far knows anything about the details of human transducing systems except that the jump of converting impulse into feeling and meaning does take place."
Ingo's Five Innate Base Powers of Mind-Intelligence Sensing Systems are: Empathic powers, telepathic powers, attention powers, observing powers, and aware powers.
"Individual mind-intelligence systems possess at least five base powers that detect intangible information impulses. These base powers can be interactive, and all five have something to do with intuition and insight. Without these powers, it is unlikely that mind-intelligence could deduce or interpret anything about physicality except in some very gross tangible format. All five of these powers can be enhanced, but if too enhanced they can 'see' what others cannot — and so whether they should be enhanced enters into power games considerations.
They formulate a base upon which additional powers can become active."
"Although the major physical sensing organs are important with respect to these five powers, it is clear that they are more closely associated with receptors that detect and interpret meanings of subtle energies and impulses."
"Once it is recognized as such, the absence of research and information with respect to the potentials of human awareness is appalling. But
those powers, known absolutely to exist, have been considered an appropriate topic for parapsychology research, but only by parapsychologists. Otherwise, and for obvious reasons, such research has not achieved support of any power structure anywhere, excepting some short-term interest on behalf of secret espionage under some kind of power-structure control. The up-shot of such research is that if powers of telepathy are somehow enhanced, they will be illusive of power-structure control. End of the telepathy story."
“If individuals did not have innate powers, then it is difficult to comprehend why they should feel their absence. It is also difficult to comprehend why power structure arrangements seek to establish depowerment methodologies to dumb down something that does not exist in the targeted populations. Generally speaking, and all other factors considered, one cannot feel powerless unless one senses, even if only minimally, that one has innate powers that are there, but are inactive, deadened, or not operational.”
“Individuals can be selectively educated and socially conditioned so as to become unaware that minds have powers. In such a situation, mind and its powers can exist, but one can be unaware of some or most of the powers — and, as well, perhaps be unaware of some or most of one’s mind overall.”
from Reality Boxes and Other Black Holes in Human Consciousness
“ … exceptional human experiencing can take place with respect to anyone, including those allegedly destitute of too much consciousness.”
“ … many individuals feel they are MORE than what they have become within the average and conventional environments around them … “
“ … the human species is equipped with capacities that are neither used nor nurtured, but which anyway survive through the generations in some kind of latent form.”
“ … individuals are apparently over-endowed with capacities and faculties that are far in excess of what is needed to live in the sociological ways of our average and conventional social structures.”
“ … theories or laws need not necessarily take into account what individuals actually experience, largely because doing so can be inconvenient to the theories and laws.”
“ … some very wide gaps presently exist between research of human consciousness and what individuals actually experience.”
“Based on significant evidence, it can be thought that if our species did NOT have uplifting powers of intuitive linkages, perhaps several kinds of them, then— well, just subtract sympathy, insight, and intuition from the total human package and consider where we would be without them.”
“ … it could be thought that what human consciousness is CAPABLE OF would have received some priority attention long ago. Of course that is not the case at all, and many manifestations and doings of consciousness are denied within the same efforts that seek to define it.”
Ingo Swan on Power, Empowerment, and Depowerment
from Secrets of Power, Vol. I.
Ingo lists four kinds of power: force power (at the point of a gun, say), artificial power (dependent on wealth, say---if the wealth or influence or whatever goes, the power goes), real power (our innate abilities), and stealth power (which depends on secrecy). “…societal power structures are perpetually nervous at the possibility of real power.” (Which is why in spite of all the extensive proof in the world, remote viewing is still not mainstream!) Ingo advises the reader: “Make stealthy lists of people who seem to fall within each of the four kinds of generic power.”
... regarding individual empowerment, we have two perspectives: “One can seek empowerment within the contexts of some kind of social or societal reality-box …” or “One can seek empowerment within the contexts of human powers that are innate and contained within our species.”
“…many earlier dictionaries identify and define numerous powers [of humans] …” Ingo compares definitions from Webster’s Dictionary to the more extensive Oxford Dictionary as well as other sources. Definitions change as social reality-boxes change. To sum it up (he goes into these things very extensively), in our time “power” is defined scientifically/mechanistically (“i.e., the ability to do work”) and as “having control, authority, and influence over others.” In our time, power is largely tied to externals. However, in earlier times, power was defined as “a particularly strong faculty of body or mind, of vigor, and energy.” With the rise of industry, power became more and more separated from the individual and seen more and more as something external in the environment.
from Secrets of Power, Vol. II
“There is a natural tendency for individuals to assume they can begin empowerment with what is already within their reality boxes.” However, “… those who feel relatively powerless don’t have much of the wherewithal for empowerment included and activated in their reality boxes.”
“… empowerment clearly implies a needed escape from the confines of reality boxes that work to disable it.” Ingo asks: “Can human organisms recognize empowerment information in ways that transcend the limits of their reality boxes?” He says yes. Some pages later, after explaining his answer, he asks, “Where and how has wisdom-like, hence empowering, information escaped the depowerment mechanisms of social power-control structures?” Here he ventures into the nature of aphorisms that transcend space, time, and culture, and become one of the sparks that ignite “new eyes” in one’s reality box.
“In any event, power is always a relationship between what is inside and outside of any individual reality box.”
“However power might be thought of, it clearly consists of various kinds of vital energy and force. Indeed, anything that is energyless and force-less can hardly be considered as power --- and this equally applies to whatever is inside and outside of reality boxes. Thus, any such lessness [Ingo’s term] can logically be identified as conditions of depowerment.”
Ingo considers definitions of the word “vital.” Today the word is defined as “existing as a manifestation of life, and concerned with or necessary to the maintenance of life and life organs.” However, from 1386 to 1593 it was defined as “that immaterial force or principle which is present in living beings or organisms and by which they are animated and their functions maintained.” By 1593, the term “vital” additionally referred to “faculties, functions, powers, etc., inherent in or exhibited by living things or organic bodies.” The older definitions were dropped when science couldn’t explain how animate life becomes animated.
After quite some exploration of a variety of things, including that the term “relevant” is taken from the Latin “relevare,” defined as “to raise up,” Ingo notes that “…to awaken, arouse, activate, incite, or excite equate to some of the definitions of empowerment.”
"The assumption seems to be that positive empowerment will automatically negate or overcome negative depowerment — and so there is no apparent reason to examine how depowerment is made to occur. Well, it might come as a surprise to discover that this assumption is entirely consistent with the workings of most societal power structures in which it is very important that the methods and mechanisms of depowerment should not be brought to light. The identifiable reason for this is that if those methods and mechanisms become broadly identifiable, than more individuals can escape from them."
"Those who have adapted to the societal reality boxes will have adapted to reality boxes that do not contain open information and knowledge about depowerment."
"Preventing or reducing awareness would work toward turning off perceptions of whatever is involved. And if perceptions are turned off, then numerous effects of power downsizing will naturally occur."
"Definitions of impulse can just as well be taken, with some surprise, as one of the most important definitions of power.
Indeed, impulse equals electrical/ magnetic/ power, which in turn equates to meaning/ information, and which in turn again equates to some quantum of power and empowerment."
"It can now be seen that electro-information impulses have some vital relevance to the status of power and empowerment not only regarding a given individual, but also with respect to 'sources' of power external to individuals."
“If individuals did not have innate powers, then it is difficult to comprehend why they should feel their absence. It is also difficult to comprehend why power structure arrangements seek to establish depowerment methodologies to dumb down something that does not exist in the targeted populations. Generally speaking, and all other factors considered, one cannot feel powerless unless one senses, even if only minimally, that one has innate powers that are there, but are inactive, deadened, or not operational.”
“Individuals can be selectively educated and socially conditioned so as to become unaware that minds have powers. In such a situation, mind and its powers can exist, but one can be unaware of some or most of the powers — and, as well, perhaps be unaware of some or most of one’s mind overall.”
“One cannot empower (strengthen) what one cannot identify.”
“… becoming aware of what one’s innate powers are needs to take place before the powers can become active enough to be extended outward into the situations and circumstances external to the individual.”
“The best way to depower powers of mind is to keep knowledge of them in a confused or ambiguous state via this or that societal confabulation — even keeping exact descriptions of them in states of ‘secrecy’ so that their nature and functions are inaccessible and cannot be learned about.”
“… societal power structures cannot afford to encourage too much empowerment of awareness, since such would seriously make for management difficulties within the larger populations of the powerless or relatively powerless.”
“… even moderately enhanced powers of empathy, telepathy, observing, awareness, and attention will result in recognition of motives and intentions of others.”
“It is clear that social conditioning can energize or de-energize innate human powers in individuals, and this much is admitted by researchers of social conditioning processes. One of the results of this is that more human powers are turned off than are ever turned on. This, in turn, results in deficits and absences of information and knowledge about human powers in general, and so clear pictures of the real scope of human powers are generally unavailable. Thus, knowledge of the scope of human powers is also not present within individual reality boxes. Introduction of such knowledge can begin to reenergize numerous innate sensing systems that have been rendered inoperative via the limiting formats of social conditioning processes.”
"The more one knows about depowerment, the more one will know about empowerment. Indeed, if depowerment can be recognized, then it becomes obvious what can be empowered — and this is of major assistance with regard to individual empowerment efforts. Many cannot recognize in self what has been depowered, because if they could do so then empowerment would have already commenced."
“… depowerment consists of preventing, reducing, or cutting back of awareness, and since this is so, empowerment consists of reinstating, enlarging, and adding more awareness to one’s overall thresholds of the same."
"The aware/ unaware equation has a great deal to do not only with the expansion and contraction of empowerment, but with whether the principle of unfoldment will be active or inactive in given individuals in given areas of their mental equipment.”
“… contrived social conditioning systems have something to say about what is and is not to be nurtured. The best way to ensure non-nurturing of something is simply to prevent awareness of it in the first place, either with regard to societal or individual contexts. … if individuals can be made unaware of their innate unfoldment powers, then the chances are very good that most of them will remain folded up and hence closed down and turned off — i.e., not empowered."
Social conditioning revolves around “information management having to do with what people should or should not learn or acquire knowledge of …” … “… adapting to social environments usually demands the turning off of more powers than are turned on." … “a so- called ‘average’ level of intelligence among the many will not be too high — but it will seem that that is just the way things naturally are.”
from Reality Boxes and Other Black Holes in Human Consciousness
“ … almost all past cultures, however seen as great, otherwise, were fundamentally based on massive broadband slavery, serfdom, and various other underclasses whose principal function was to be in servitude to the upper overlords.”
“ … the best and most obvious way of ensuring this [depowerment] is to prevent knowledge of extended forms of consciousness from being studied and realized by anyone, including the upper classes, and which, as history documents, could use a little of their own extended forms.”
“For clarity, although ‘the people’ need be allowed to undergo training, instruction, and teaching for the benefit of various social groupings and relevant contexts, the general understanding is that their minds should work WITH whatever knowledge is thereby acquired. What they should not realize too much about, however, is that their minds are also being shaped and, if the shaping is successful, then ultimately concretized in the process. Indeed, almost any in-depth study of social power structures everywhere, and throughout human history, reveals that mind shaping is always considered the prerogative of the higher-ups because they are in possession of alpha reality boxes all others must carefully observe and submit to. Thus, if ‘the people’ don’t know that mind-shaping also comes along with whatever knowledge they acquire, then don’t tell them.”
“ … all individuals are first born of the species BEFORE they are inculcated into this or that different cultural or social reality-box, after which the full spectrum of sensitivities disappears in favor of local and limited versions So, one principal, and quite hidden, reason for the minimal treatment of sensitivities appears to turn on the sociological issue of what people should be, or not be, sensitive to. After all, many societal reality boxes can be identified whose contexts require the nurturing and development of certain INSENSITIVITIES.”
“ … those who feel their reasoning is based on logic irrefutable (in their own reality boxes, anyway) become easy victims for Machiavellian strategies and tactics.”
“In the contexts of Machiavellian activities, dealing with the deducing components of mind is merely a piece of cake. Introducing a few subtle mental viruses, or a little mind F-word, will easily distort this or that information package, and Machiavellians can thus get on with it. But this is not the case with the detecting components referred to as intuition, generally defined as ‘the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without rational thought and inference.’ Via this definition, the intuition components of mind are several cuts above the deducing ones. It can also be observed that the intuition components must somehow be external to reality boxes, because the intuition components do not seem to operate only with respect to the limits of given reality-boxes. This is one reason why intuition is referred to as being irrational, and thus not amenable to rational explanation.”
“Machiavellians have no defenses against strange-mind functions such as intuition, insight, or telepathy for that matter.”
“…if one thinks that the idea of mind reading does not irritate controllers of Machiavellian projects, one should make haste to do a little reality-box retooling.”
“ … one can read existing definitions of consciousness and mind and not at all notice that there is yet another element that is not included in them. It is ‘information’ … ”
“ … one reason why moral sentiments have a limited range is that they seem somehow to be appended to two other innate faculties, those of empathy and telepathy, and which, if not nurtured, decrease sensitivity to ethics and compassion. It can be understood why amoral, cunning, and ruthless reality boxes can become alarmed by the nurturing of too much compassion and ethics— and so blank slate enthusiasts exclude such nurturing. So, with respect to some realities that may or may NOT be present in this or that reality box, there appear to be two principle types of reality boxes: those containing at least some modicum of ethics and compassion realities, and those that contain little or nothing of them.”
“ … a study of Machiavellian realities shows that they only work in the presence of great mental clumps of naivety and/ or stupidity on the parts of many others, and which is probably why such clumps are thought to be such a valuable resource and should somehow be maintained as such.”
“ … the earliest English definition of INFORMATION first put forth in 1387 as ‘formation or moulding of the mind and character’ was entirely inconvenient to, yes, mind-shapers everywhere, whether overt or covert.”
from Secrets of Power, Vol. I.
Ingo lists four kinds of power: force power (at the point of a gun, say), artificial power (dependent on wealth, say---if the wealth or influence or whatever goes, the power goes), real power (our innate abilities), and stealth power (which depends on secrecy). “…societal power structures are perpetually nervous at the possibility of real power.” (Which is why in spite of all the extensive proof in the world, remote viewing is still not mainstream!) Ingo advises the reader: “Make stealthy lists of people who seem to fall within each of the four kinds of generic power.”
... regarding individual empowerment, we have two perspectives: “One can seek empowerment within the contexts of some kind of social or societal reality-box …” or “One can seek empowerment within the contexts of human powers that are innate and contained within our species.”
“…many earlier dictionaries identify and define numerous powers [of humans] …” Ingo compares definitions from Webster’s Dictionary to the more extensive Oxford Dictionary as well as other sources. Definitions change as social reality-boxes change. To sum it up (he goes into these things very extensively), in our time “power” is defined scientifically/mechanistically (“i.e., the ability to do work”) and as “having control, authority, and influence over others.” In our time, power is largely tied to externals. However, in earlier times, power was defined as “a particularly strong faculty of body or mind, of vigor, and energy.” With the rise of industry, power became more and more separated from the individual and seen more and more as something external in the environment.
from Secrets of Power, Vol. II
“There is a natural tendency for individuals to assume they can begin empowerment with what is already within their reality boxes.” However, “… those who feel relatively powerless don’t have much of the wherewithal for empowerment included and activated in their reality boxes.”
“… empowerment clearly implies a needed escape from the confines of reality boxes that work to disable it.” Ingo asks: “Can human organisms recognize empowerment information in ways that transcend the limits of their reality boxes?” He says yes. Some pages later, after explaining his answer, he asks, “Where and how has wisdom-like, hence empowering, information escaped the depowerment mechanisms of social power-control structures?” Here he ventures into the nature of aphorisms that transcend space, time, and culture, and become one of the sparks that ignite “new eyes” in one’s reality box.
“In any event, power is always a relationship between what is inside and outside of any individual reality box.”
“However power might be thought of, it clearly consists of various kinds of vital energy and force. Indeed, anything that is energyless and force-less can hardly be considered as power --- and this equally applies to whatever is inside and outside of reality boxes. Thus, any such lessness [Ingo’s term] can logically be identified as conditions of depowerment.”
Ingo considers definitions of the word “vital.” Today the word is defined as “existing as a manifestation of life, and concerned with or necessary to the maintenance of life and life organs.” However, from 1386 to 1593 it was defined as “that immaterial force or principle which is present in living beings or organisms and by which they are animated and their functions maintained.” By 1593, the term “vital” additionally referred to “faculties, functions, powers, etc., inherent in or exhibited by living things or organic bodies.” The older definitions were dropped when science couldn’t explain how animate life becomes animated.
After quite some exploration of a variety of things, including that the term “relevant” is taken from the Latin “relevare,” defined as “to raise up,” Ingo notes that “…to awaken, arouse, activate, incite, or excite equate to some of the definitions of empowerment.”
"The assumption seems to be that positive empowerment will automatically negate or overcome negative depowerment — and so there is no apparent reason to examine how depowerment is made to occur. Well, it might come as a surprise to discover that this assumption is entirely consistent with the workings of most societal power structures in which it is very important that the methods and mechanisms of depowerment should not be brought to light. The identifiable reason for this is that if those methods and mechanisms become broadly identifiable, than more individuals can escape from them."
"Those who have adapted to the societal reality boxes will have adapted to reality boxes that do not contain open information and knowledge about depowerment."
"Preventing or reducing awareness would work toward turning off perceptions of whatever is involved. And if perceptions are turned off, then numerous effects of power downsizing will naturally occur."
"Definitions of impulse can just as well be taken, with some surprise, as one of the most important definitions of power.
Indeed, impulse equals electrical/ magnetic/ power, which in turn equates to meaning/ information, and which in turn again equates to some quantum of power and empowerment."
"It can now be seen that electro-information impulses have some vital relevance to the status of power and empowerment not only regarding a given individual, but also with respect to 'sources' of power external to individuals."
“If individuals did not have innate powers, then it is difficult to comprehend why they should feel their absence. It is also difficult to comprehend why power structure arrangements seek to establish depowerment methodologies to dumb down something that does not exist in the targeted populations. Generally speaking, and all other factors considered, one cannot feel powerless unless one senses, even if only minimally, that one has innate powers that are there, but are inactive, deadened, or not operational.”
“Individuals can be selectively educated and socially conditioned so as to become unaware that minds have powers. In such a situation, mind and its powers can exist, but one can be unaware of some or most of the powers — and, as well, perhaps be unaware of some or most of one’s mind overall.”
“One cannot empower (strengthen) what one cannot identify.”
“… becoming aware of what one’s innate powers are needs to take place before the powers can become active enough to be extended outward into the situations and circumstances external to the individual.”
“The best way to depower powers of mind is to keep knowledge of them in a confused or ambiguous state via this or that societal confabulation — even keeping exact descriptions of them in states of ‘secrecy’ so that their nature and functions are inaccessible and cannot be learned about.”
“… societal power structures cannot afford to encourage too much empowerment of awareness, since such would seriously make for management difficulties within the larger populations of the powerless or relatively powerless.”
“… even moderately enhanced powers of empathy, telepathy, observing, awareness, and attention will result in recognition of motives and intentions of others.”
“It is clear that social conditioning can energize or de-energize innate human powers in individuals, and this much is admitted by researchers of social conditioning processes. One of the results of this is that more human powers are turned off than are ever turned on. This, in turn, results in deficits and absences of information and knowledge about human powers in general, and so clear pictures of the real scope of human powers are generally unavailable. Thus, knowledge of the scope of human powers is also not present within individual reality boxes. Introduction of such knowledge can begin to reenergize numerous innate sensing systems that have been rendered inoperative via the limiting formats of social conditioning processes.”
"The more one knows about depowerment, the more one will know about empowerment. Indeed, if depowerment can be recognized, then it becomes obvious what can be empowered — and this is of major assistance with regard to individual empowerment efforts. Many cannot recognize in self what has been depowered, because if they could do so then empowerment would have already commenced."
“… depowerment consists of preventing, reducing, or cutting back of awareness, and since this is so, empowerment consists of reinstating, enlarging, and adding more awareness to one’s overall thresholds of the same."
"The aware/ unaware equation has a great deal to do not only with the expansion and contraction of empowerment, but with whether the principle of unfoldment will be active or inactive in given individuals in given areas of their mental equipment.”
“… contrived social conditioning systems have something to say about what is and is not to be nurtured. The best way to ensure non-nurturing of something is simply to prevent awareness of it in the first place, either with regard to societal or individual contexts. … if individuals can be made unaware of their innate unfoldment powers, then the chances are very good that most of them will remain folded up and hence closed down and turned off — i.e., not empowered."
Social conditioning revolves around “information management having to do with what people should or should not learn or acquire knowledge of …” … “… adapting to social environments usually demands the turning off of more powers than are turned on." … “a so- called ‘average’ level of intelligence among the many will not be too high — but it will seem that that is just the way things naturally are.”
from Reality Boxes and Other Black Holes in Human Consciousness
“ … almost all past cultures, however seen as great, otherwise, were fundamentally based on massive broadband slavery, serfdom, and various other underclasses whose principal function was to be in servitude to the upper overlords.”
“ … the best and most obvious way of ensuring this [depowerment] is to prevent knowledge of extended forms of consciousness from being studied and realized by anyone, including the upper classes, and which, as history documents, could use a little of their own extended forms.”
“For clarity, although ‘the people’ need be allowed to undergo training, instruction, and teaching for the benefit of various social groupings and relevant contexts, the general understanding is that their minds should work WITH whatever knowledge is thereby acquired. What they should not realize too much about, however, is that their minds are also being shaped and, if the shaping is successful, then ultimately concretized in the process. Indeed, almost any in-depth study of social power structures everywhere, and throughout human history, reveals that mind shaping is always considered the prerogative of the higher-ups because they are in possession of alpha reality boxes all others must carefully observe and submit to. Thus, if ‘the people’ don’t know that mind-shaping also comes along with whatever knowledge they acquire, then don’t tell them.”
“ … all individuals are first born of the species BEFORE they are inculcated into this or that different cultural or social reality-box, after which the full spectrum of sensitivities disappears in favor of local and limited versions So, one principal, and quite hidden, reason for the minimal treatment of sensitivities appears to turn on the sociological issue of what people should be, or not be, sensitive to. After all, many societal reality boxes can be identified whose contexts require the nurturing and development of certain INSENSITIVITIES.”
“ … those who feel their reasoning is based on logic irrefutable (in their own reality boxes, anyway) become easy victims for Machiavellian strategies and tactics.”
“In the contexts of Machiavellian activities, dealing with the deducing components of mind is merely a piece of cake. Introducing a few subtle mental viruses, or a little mind F-word, will easily distort this or that information package, and Machiavellians can thus get on with it. But this is not the case with the detecting components referred to as intuition, generally defined as ‘the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without rational thought and inference.’ Via this definition, the intuition components of mind are several cuts above the deducing ones. It can also be observed that the intuition components must somehow be external to reality boxes, because the intuition components do not seem to operate only with respect to the limits of given reality-boxes. This is one reason why intuition is referred to as being irrational, and thus not amenable to rational explanation.”
“Machiavellians have no defenses against strange-mind functions such as intuition, insight, or telepathy for that matter.”
“…if one thinks that the idea of mind reading does not irritate controllers of Machiavellian projects, one should make haste to do a little reality-box retooling.”
“ … one can read existing definitions of consciousness and mind and not at all notice that there is yet another element that is not included in them. It is ‘information’ … ”
“ … one reason why moral sentiments have a limited range is that they seem somehow to be appended to two other innate faculties, those of empathy and telepathy, and which, if not nurtured, decrease sensitivity to ethics and compassion. It can be understood why amoral, cunning, and ruthless reality boxes can become alarmed by the nurturing of too much compassion and ethics— and so blank slate enthusiasts exclude such nurturing. So, with respect to some realities that may or may NOT be present in this or that reality box, there appear to be two principle types of reality boxes: those containing at least some modicum of ethics and compassion realities, and those that contain little or nothing of them.”
“ … a study of Machiavellian realities shows that they only work in the presence of great mental clumps of naivety and/ or stupidity on the parts of many others, and which is probably why such clumps are thought to be such a valuable resource and should somehow be maintained as such.”
“ … the earliest English definition of INFORMATION first put forth in 1387 as ‘formation or moulding of the mind and character’ was entirely inconvenient to, yes, mind-shapers everywhere, whether overt or covert.”
Ingo Swan on Reality Boxes
from Reality Boxes and Other Black Holes in Human Consciousness
“ … in metaphoric terms, a black hole in human consciousness could not directly be recognized as one, but otherwise could be recognized by virtue of what is being sucked into it.”
“ … black holes in human consciousness can best be recognized by virtue of their high body counts and associated collateral damage, both of which can be quite extensive, and all of which is sucked into such holes, never to be seen again.”
“ … conflicts are really NOT conducted by human beings per se, nor even by their minds, but by their reality boxes … “
“Individuals can accept the idea of reality boxes with respect to others, and can have great entertainment in pointing them out. However, most individuals do not experience their OWN realities as BOXED. And indeed, on average any intimation that one’s own realities are boxed (i.e. rigidly limited) can easily lead toward all too familiar interpersonal stresses and even toward a fracas of some kind.”
“ … many reality boxes do not remember, thus see, that they ARE reality boxes only.”
“The theme of getting outside the box … If one gets outside, what, then, does one get into?”
“ … reality boxes can recognize only what is already filed in and fits with their memory, and are quite infamous for not recognizing other kinds of reality boxes as such. Indeed, there is some justification in observing that reality boxes often respond to others as if the others are viruses, the introduction of which will distort and destabilize their own working formats.”
“ … people, encountering something for which their reality boxes possess no frames of reference, want first to shoot it, and then talk about it later, if at all. One possible reason for the agonizing difficulty of self-identifying one’s own basic frames of reference is that they may have been mostly acquired or set up in childhood— and since then have subsided into that area of mind ambiguously referred to as the subconscious in whose murky depths they have been working on non-conscious automatic ever since.”
“ … distinctions can be made between reality boxes demonstrating excellence of character and disposition and reality boxes demonstrating relative or total absence of same.”
“ … if one wants to think and get outside of their box, they will soon encounter at least a few others that might not want such a thing to occur. So, to repeat, getting outside of one’s box is not at all a straightforward issue.”
“Innate in our species is the capacity to erect socio-environmental software programs, even if doing so switches off, within those programs, many elements of the totality of consciousness.”
“Everyone develops some kind of basic reality box, usually early in life. … knowledge that fits into the reality box can become more easily understandable, while knowledge, or even mere information, which cannot easily be fitted in will be dealt with differently. The acquisition or rejection of knowledge is therefore a reality-box issue … knowledge vacuums belong to consciousness that is being filtered through reality boxes.”
“ … on average, few will attempt to adapt to stigmatized information about consciousness potentials. At the individual level, doing so will erode their sense of belonging to whatever social ordering they feel they belong to. And, at the collective level, such adapting will also begin to place them outside of the social support systems they can otherwise fit into.”
“ … while there has always been much ado and vigorous activity about ideological matters, it seems that no one has wondered why our species can produce so many of them, and continue to do so everywhere, and down through all subsequent generations. Indeed, there are no peoples anywhere, and in any time, that have NOT produced such.”
“ … socio-environmental programming structures are somehow the equivalent of software programs that might be introduced into the innate hard drives of the motherboards of consciousness.”
“Reality boxes are apparently made up of a smaller or larger number of information and knowledge packages that are fitted together so as to somehow form an interactive whole within whatever has been fitted together.”
“At about the age of seven, the bio-body undergoes a series of major glandular activities that have numerous repercussions. One of these is that a sort of self-hood takes place, and the child ‘individuates’ as a self. Another important repercussion is that whatever the child has recognized as what is what, and imprinted upon, and so far adapted to, tends to become set and fixed. Some scientific studies indicate that the youngster’s basic character traits result, and also that these thereafter are permanent. A full part of this ‘set and fixed’ thing is that additional or subsequent information that fits tends to be accepted, while information that does not fit tends to be rejected.”
“ … the ‘interdependent parts’ of a reality box can be thought of as FRAMES OF REFERENCE.”
“ … if reality boxes are made up of frames of reference, we find that those can be made up not only of facts, but also of IDEAS— In common human experiencing, however, ‘assumption’ is also given a slang definition (yes, you got it already) as ‘the mother of all _ _ _ _ ups.’ ’’
“ … reality boxes seem to be made up of frames of reference fitted together and united into a constructional system that gives shape or strength, the whole of which is considered clear, constant, unmistakable, and precise. However, frames of reference can include not only facts, but also … suppositions, hypotheses, and assumptions which can act as substitutions … substitutions can include misapprehensions, illusions, and even hallucinations. And, as has already been discussed, reality boxes can incorporate information and knowledge vacuums, and some might have black holes in consciousness composed of who knows what.”
“Individuals can accept the idea of reality boxes with respect to others, and can have great entertainment in pointing them out. However, most individuals do not experience their OWN realities as BOXED. And indeed, on average any intimation that one’s own realities are boxed (i.e. rigidly limited) can easily lead toward all too familiar interpersonal stresses and even toward a fracas of some kind.”
“ … so, from the greater tableau of history, many information packages about reality boxes can be identified. This might not fully explain those reality boxes, but at least it might induce interest about WHAT, for heaven’s sake, our predecessors were using as reality boxes during their given times. History is therefore the first direct resource for reality box study, for the nature of historical reality boxes can be deduced from or because of events that downloaded from them.”
“ … amoral, cunning, and ruthless reality boxes have more or less dominated throughout ‘three thousand years’ of history …”
“ … although many desire getting out of their boxes, they are, in general, reluctant and even resistant with respect to examining how they got into their boxes in the first place, and what it is that keeps them therein. This is at least slightly illogical, for if one wants to get outside of a jail, one has to acknowledge and deal with whatever is preventing one from getting outside of it.”
“Locke … pointed up that ideas through which reality is filtered can contain ‘phantasm and notions,’ and with ‘whatever else the mind can employ in thinking,’ such as, perhaps, illusion, imagination, incorrect ‘facts,’ and even no facts at all.”
“ … one should check the validity of one’s basic frames of reference, upon which, and because of which, one’s reality boxes come into existence.”
“ … mind and reality boxes are not the same thing … that reality boxes are merely artifacts introduced into the innate mind that is amenable to such introductions.”
“ … conventional realities are glued together by little more than groupings of social reality boxes that achieve, for one reason or another, mutual influence and social power, but only for the time allotted to them.”
“Thus, in any conventional sociological sense, an overall principal way to keep people in their reality boxes is to diminish interest in and knowledge of awareness itself. It stands to reason that individuals cannot really get out of their reality boxes UNLESS they somehow upgrade and expand their awareness potentials, most conventional sociological orders are intolerant of the development of too much awareness about awareness, and especially of its potentials and dimensions.”
“ … any getting out of the box actually implies accessing additional, or at least different kinds of awareness that somehow or for some reason have not been incorporated into it— but which can be, and, in fact, if this ‘can be’ were not possible, then no one could ever get outside of their reality.”
“ … people, in their definitions of consciousness, cannot include what they are not aware of.”
“ … everyone experiences consciousness only within the contexts of their own experiential limits. Thus, what they do not experience within such limits is simply not experienced as consciousness of anything …”
“Innate consciousness does not reject millions of information bits, but reality boxes do. Thus, the information problem is with reality boxes, not with innate consciousness itself.”
“ … evidence on sensory mixing, however challenging to mainstream thinking about perception, indicates that it’s time to drop the assumption that people and other animals perceive the world through separate sensory channels of vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.”
“ … when the incoming information AND the frame of reference are compatible, then the message might reach the receiving mind without too much error. On the other hand, if the frame of reference is not compatible with the incoming message, then “noise” is encountered ….”
“ … the other person simply does not have frames of reference to certain kinds of information and therefore cannot process them.”
“ … the ‘old’ definitions of mind and consciousness are clearly due for some upgrading, and also for some strategic reconceptualizing— which should deeply interest anyone trying to get out of the box.”
“ … scientific materialism has produced many wonders, including the technological and electronic age we all now live in, whether one likes it or not. It has also produced many technological horrors as is well known.”
“ ‘history’ clearly establishes that negative black-hole types of reality boxes can be formed or fomented within human consciousness that ask for the destruction of whatever does not fit with them— and ask such via violence, terror, war, and sometimes genocide, and other ‘crimes against humanity,’ as it is fondly expressed.”
from Secrets of Power, Vol. I.
“ … all individuals have reality boxes, whether of the tattered or highly organized kind.”
“ … nowhere can be found a human that is entirely reality-boxless.”
"Human history is composed of endless contests between various kinds of reality boxes. But there are two factors about reality boxes that seem never to have been identified. First, all reality boxes constitute operative mind maps of some kind, even if inadequately formatted. Second, that so many reality boxes can be formatted anywhere, everywhere, and in all times and ages, is entirely suggestive of the inescapable fact that formatting them does constitute a very important human power innate in our species."
from Reality Boxes and Other Black Holes in Human Consciousness
“ … in metaphoric terms, a black hole in human consciousness could not directly be recognized as one, but otherwise could be recognized by virtue of what is being sucked into it.”
“ … black holes in human consciousness can best be recognized by virtue of their high body counts and associated collateral damage, both of which can be quite extensive, and all of which is sucked into such holes, never to be seen again.”
“ … conflicts are really NOT conducted by human beings per se, nor even by their minds, but by their reality boxes … “
“Individuals can accept the idea of reality boxes with respect to others, and can have great entertainment in pointing them out. However, most individuals do not experience their OWN realities as BOXED. And indeed, on average any intimation that one’s own realities are boxed (i.e. rigidly limited) can easily lead toward all too familiar interpersonal stresses and even toward a fracas of some kind.”
“ … many reality boxes do not remember, thus see, that they ARE reality boxes only.”
“The theme of getting outside the box … If one gets outside, what, then, does one get into?”
“ … reality boxes can recognize only what is already filed in and fits with their memory, and are quite infamous for not recognizing other kinds of reality boxes as such. Indeed, there is some justification in observing that reality boxes often respond to others as if the others are viruses, the introduction of which will distort and destabilize their own working formats.”
“ … people, encountering something for which their reality boxes possess no frames of reference, want first to shoot it, and then talk about it later, if at all. One possible reason for the agonizing difficulty of self-identifying one’s own basic frames of reference is that they may have been mostly acquired or set up in childhood— and since then have subsided into that area of mind ambiguously referred to as the subconscious in whose murky depths they have been working on non-conscious automatic ever since.”
“ … distinctions can be made between reality boxes demonstrating excellence of character and disposition and reality boxes demonstrating relative or total absence of same.”
“ … if one wants to think and get outside of their box, they will soon encounter at least a few others that might not want such a thing to occur. So, to repeat, getting outside of one’s box is not at all a straightforward issue.”
“Innate in our species is the capacity to erect socio-environmental software programs, even if doing so switches off, within those programs, many elements of the totality of consciousness.”
“Everyone develops some kind of basic reality box, usually early in life. … knowledge that fits into the reality box can become more easily understandable, while knowledge, or even mere information, which cannot easily be fitted in will be dealt with differently. The acquisition or rejection of knowledge is therefore a reality-box issue … knowledge vacuums belong to consciousness that is being filtered through reality boxes.”
“ … on average, few will attempt to adapt to stigmatized information about consciousness potentials. At the individual level, doing so will erode their sense of belonging to whatever social ordering they feel they belong to. And, at the collective level, such adapting will also begin to place them outside of the social support systems they can otherwise fit into.”
“ … while there has always been much ado and vigorous activity about ideological matters, it seems that no one has wondered why our species can produce so many of them, and continue to do so everywhere, and down through all subsequent generations. Indeed, there are no peoples anywhere, and in any time, that have NOT produced such.”
“ … socio-environmental programming structures are somehow the equivalent of software programs that might be introduced into the innate hard drives of the motherboards of consciousness.”
“Reality boxes are apparently made up of a smaller or larger number of information and knowledge packages that are fitted together so as to somehow form an interactive whole within whatever has been fitted together.”
“At about the age of seven, the bio-body undergoes a series of major glandular activities that have numerous repercussions. One of these is that a sort of self-hood takes place, and the child ‘individuates’ as a self. Another important repercussion is that whatever the child has recognized as what is what, and imprinted upon, and so far adapted to, tends to become set and fixed. Some scientific studies indicate that the youngster’s basic character traits result, and also that these thereafter are permanent. A full part of this ‘set and fixed’ thing is that additional or subsequent information that fits tends to be accepted, while information that does not fit tends to be rejected.”
“ … the ‘interdependent parts’ of a reality box can be thought of as FRAMES OF REFERENCE.”
“ … if reality boxes are made up of frames of reference, we find that those can be made up not only of facts, but also of IDEAS— In common human experiencing, however, ‘assumption’ is also given a slang definition (yes, you got it already) as ‘the mother of all _ _ _ _ ups.’ ’’
“ … reality boxes seem to be made up of frames of reference fitted together and united into a constructional system that gives shape or strength, the whole of which is considered clear, constant, unmistakable, and precise. However, frames of reference can include not only facts, but also … suppositions, hypotheses, and assumptions which can act as substitutions … substitutions can include misapprehensions, illusions, and even hallucinations. And, as has already been discussed, reality boxes can incorporate information and knowledge vacuums, and some might have black holes in consciousness composed of who knows what.”
“Individuals can accept the idea of reality boxes with respect to others, and can have great entertainment in pointing them out. However, most individuals do not experience their OWN realities as BOXED. And indeed, on average any intimation that one’s own realities are boxed (i.e. rigidly limited) can easily lead toward all too familiar interpersonal stresses and even toward a fracas of some kind.”
“ … so, from the greater tableau of history, many information packages about reality boxes can be identified. This might not fully explain those reality boxes, but at least it might induce interest about WHAT, for heaven’s sake, our predecessors were using as reality boxes during their given times. History is therefore the first direct resource for reality box study, for the nature of historical reality boxes can be deduced from or because of events that downloaded from them.”
“ … amoral, cunning, and ruthless reality boxes have more or less dominated throughout ‘three thousand years’ of history …”
“ … although many desire getting out of their boxes, they are, in general, reluctant and even resistant with respect to examining how they got into their boxes in the first place, and what it is that keeps them therein. This is at least slightly illogical, for if one wants to get outside of a jail, one has to acknowledge and deal with whatever is preventing one from getting outside of it.”
“Locke … pointed up that ideas through which reality is filtered can contain ‘phantasm and notions,’ and with ‘whatever else the mind can employ in thinking,’ such as, perhaps, illusion, imagination, incorrect ‘facts,’ and even no facts at all.”
“ … one should check the validity of one’s basic frames of reference, upon which, and because of which, one’s reality boxes come into existence.”
“ … mind and reality boxes are not the same thing … that reality boxes are merely artifacts introduced into the innate mind that is amenable to such introductions.”
“ … conventional realities are glued together by little more than groupings of social reality boxes that achieve, for one reason or another, mutual influence and social power, but only for the time allotted to them.”
“Thus, in any conventional sociological sense, an overall principal way to keep people in their reality boxes is to diminish interest in and knowledge of awareness itself. It stands to reason that individuals cannot really get out of their reality boxes UNLESS they somehow upgrade and expand their awareness potentials, most conventional sociological orders are intolerant of the development of too much awareness about awareness, and especially of its potentials and dimensions.”
“ … any getting out of the box actually implies accessing additional, or at least different kinds of awareness that somehow or for some reason have not been incorporated into it— but which can be, and, in fact, if this ‘can be’ were not possible, then no one could ever get outside of their reality.”
“ … people, in their definitions of consciousness, cannot include what they are not aware of.”
“ … everyone experiences consciousness only within the contexts of their own experiential limits. Thus, what they do not experience within such limits is simply not experienced as consciousness of anything …”
“Innate consciousness does not reject millions of information bits, but reality boxes do. Thus, the information problem is with reality boxes, not with innate consciousness itself.”
“ … evidence on sensory mixing, however challenging to mainstream thinking about perception, indicates that it’s time to drop the assumption that people and other animals perceive the world through separate sensory channels of vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.”
“ … when the incoming information AND the frame of reference are compatible, then the message might reach the receiving mind without too much error. On the other hand, if the frame of reference is not compatible with the incoming message, then “noise” is encountered ….”
“ … the other person simply does not have frames of reference to certain kinds of information and therefore cannot process them.”
“ … the ‘old’ definitions of mind and consciousness are clearly due for some upgrading, and also for some strategic reconceptualizing— which should deeply interest anyone trying to get out of the box.”
“ … scientific materialism has produced many wonders, including the technological and electronic age we all now live in, whether one likes it or not. It has also produced many technological horrors as is well known.”
“ ‘history’ clearly establishes that negative black-hole types of reality boxes can be formed or fomented within human consciousness that ask for the destruction of whatever does not fit with them— and ask such via violence, terror, war, and sometimes genocide, and other ‘crimes against humanity,’ as it is fondly expressed.”
from Secrets of Power, Vol. I.
“ … all individuals have reality boxes, whether of the tattered or highly organized kind.”
“ … nowhere can be found a human that is entirely reality-boxless.”
"Human history is composed of endless contests between various kinds of reality boxes. But there are two factors about reality boxes that seem never to have been identified. First, all reality boxes constitute operative mind maps of some kind, even if inadequately formatted. Second, that so many reality boxes can be formatted anywhere, everywhere, and in all times and ages, is entirely suggestive of the inescapable fact that formatting them does constitute a very important human power innate in our species."
Ingo Swan on Genius
from Secrets of Power, Vol. II
"Studies of genius conclude that 'those having genius were thus and so because they could see what others do not.' ”
"Seeing things and seeing connections between them are two entirely different matters."
"They do not just see what is out there, or see what is to be seen. They see how things are connected, or how they may or can be connected.
Identifying their connections requires something additional to the mere seeing. This something additional also needs to be more specializing than mere seeing."
from Secrets of Power, Vol. II
"Studies of genius conclude that 'those having genius were thus and so because they could see what others do not.' ”
"Seeing things and seeing connections between them are two entirely different matters."
"They do not just see what is out there, or see what is to be seen. They see how things are connected, or how they may or can be connected.
Identifying their connections requires something additional to the mere seeing. This something additional also needs to be more specializing than mere seeing."
Ingo Swan on Normal, Abnormal
from Reality Boxes and Other Black Holes in Human Consciousness
“Indeed, many individuals today agonize whether what they do become aware of reflects normal or abnormal consciousness. And if anything could introduce black holes regarding what consciousness can DO, this was it.”
“ … the definition of NORMAL is achieved, which is: ‘According to, constituting, or not deviating from a norm, rule, or principal,’ or, for that matter, not deviating from authority whatever THAT is composed of. Without too much question, ‘an authoritative standard or model binding upon members of a group’ clearly equates to a shared reality box, within which only ‘normal’ sensitivities that ‘guide, control, or regulate proper and acceptable behavior’ within the box are needed, desired, or, or course, required.”
“ ‘norms’ are ostensibly and statistically based on what it is thought that most people experience … ”
from Reality Boxes and Other Black Holes in Human Consciousness
“Indeed, many individuals today agonize whether what they do become aware of reflects normal or abnormal consciousness. And if anything could introduce black holes regarding what consciousness can DO, this was it.”
“ … the definition of NORMAL is achieved, which is: ‘According to, constituting, or not deviating from a norm, rule, or principal,’ or, for that matter, not deviating from authority whatever THAT is composed of. Without too much question, ‘an authoritative standard or model binding upon members of a group’ clearly equates to a shared reality box, within which only ‘normal’ sensitivities that ‘guide, control, or regulate proper and acceptable behavior’ within the box are needed, desired, or, or course, required.”
“ ‘norms’ are ostensibly and statistically based on what it is thought that most people experience … ”
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