************* The following message is relayed to you by trom@lists.newciv.org ************ Hello, my name is Max.
I've been practicing TROM for a few months already and faced some problems. I ask gone-far-enough TROMmers (those who successfully started Level 5 I suppose, so their words will not be just mental speculations) to please answer my questions. The only questions I have are about practice. Because practice doesn’t go as smooth as it is written in the book. I have been doing and still do RI only, so when I say „do TROM“ it means „do RI“ actually. So I am still doing The Test (I know there are changes, so RI works for me. But changes haven’t seized yet). So, the questions. 1). Why I can do RI only a little amount of time in a row? I mean, I tried to do sessions (like intentionally dedicated time to TROM) but managed to practice it for a few minutes only (even less). After this little time it gets hard to do RI commands. For perceptive RI it gets harder and harder to pay my attention to “…feeling its solidity, temperature, texture etc., …”. In a few minutes time (even less) I almost can’t pay my attention to those feelings. For creative RI commands it gets harder to [grasp the idea that I am creating these objects] or [grasp the idea that another creates those objects]. Did you experience anything like that? I mean, anything like “a limited quantity of RI that could be done in a certain period of time”? Or you could do RI for 3 hours in a row and for whole 3 hours it was done with same easyness? In conclusion I will repeat the main question. Why I can do RI only a little amount of time in a row? 2.1). How many creations per minute do you perform? Is it 60 or 10 or maybe 180 like a machine gun? 2.2.). How often do you switch from first RI command (“Bring something into existence”) to the second RI command (“Have another bring something into existence”) and back? I mean, you do it a few seconds each command or you do it a few hours each command before switching? 2.3). A question about the process of RI itself. For example, I want to create a car. Is it better to create a car of giant size (like a big building) instead of a car of normal size (5x3x2 meters) or it doesn’t matter? I ask because D.H.S. wrote “Quality of creation is far secondary to quantity of creation; abundance is of the essence”. 2.4). How to create, but not perceive creations? When you create them, you have to perceive them, haven’t you? 2.5). D.H.S. writes: “If all games are fun, and no game is reasonable, and if resolving the mind is a reasonable activity, then it is not a game, but that does not prevent it from being fun”. But I don’t feel fun at all. In fact, I have to force myself to do exercises. I don’t like to do sessions, in fact, I asked a guy to force me into doing them regularly. Why is that so? Do you feel inner resistance towards doing exercises? Please if you answer questions, do it under same numbers. And if you think some of my questions are not essential, please let me know (like “question number 5.12 is not essential – you shouldn’t even think in these terms”). That’s a big feedback as well. Thank you for time spent, Max P.S.: Please give whatever advices you can give, not matter how relevant they are to my letter. P.P.S.: I feel really frustrated, because I have time to do TROM – many hours a day, but merely do not manage to do it whole that time. Only a few minutes in a row. I feel especially desperate when I reread this: “I offer you a route out. There may well be other routes out; if there are I know not of them after many lifetimes of searching. The fortuitous combination of games matrix and circumstances that permitted me to discover this route at this time may not ever happen to me again; and others too could easily overlook it. So don’t lose this data, for it may be many lifetimes before you come across it again - if you ever do” What if I will not be quick enough to succeed during this life? Don’t you feel the same? _______________________________________________ Trom mailing list Trom@lists.newciv.org http://lists.newciv.org/mailman/listinfo/trom
