Drawninward - Psychic Skills for the 21st Century

Research

This page contains the results of ongoing research into what can be achieved when utilising the Sensitive Awareness State™. My intention is to incorporate the findings of those who have trained with me and who wish to add to the generation of new ways to work with the Sensitive Awareness Skill Set™.

I'm hoping that some of my more curious students will show interest in undertaking some of the research with me. Though some have shown interest, no one so far, has come forward to join me in exploring the limits and possibilites of the skills further.

For a list of books that were of great help in narrowing down my research and expanding the possibilites for further work take a look at my Recommended Reading page.

William of Occam

Around 1350, a scholastic philosopher developed a principle that later became known as 'Occam's Razor'. His principle was that in explaining a thing no more assumptions should be made than are necessary. This is also known as the Law of Parsimony - the principle that organisms tend towards economy of action in learning or in fulfilling their needs.

In all fields of endeavour we tend to develop the least strenuous means to achieve the most efficient and beneficial outcomes. This economy of thought and movement helps us to survive and not waste energy. When I began researching and developing the Sensitive Awareness Model™ I immediately sought to find the simplest and most effective way to achieve results, as quickly as possible. I therefore sought to find out what could be verified in my experience specifically, and could also be verified in the experience of others generally, without speculation.

Process and 'STATE'

It is hard to define the nature of 'states of mind' present when a person is being 'intuitive'. If I were a neuro-scientist, I might look at brain chemistry and electrical activity along with blood flow to the various regions of the brain and the structure of neurons and their interconnections. Unfortunately, I'm not a neuro-scientist. I don't have years of scientific and medical training to apply to the study of the way the mind works when a person is involved in 'intuitive' activities.

What I have at my disposal is a keen sense of curiosity, experience of performing so called intuitive demonstrations and a thorough grounding in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Thought Pattern Management and some training in Symbolic Modelling. (I've also got a basic City and Guilds certificate in Anatomy and Physiology but this seems woefully inadequate.) My curiosity and training has taught me two things above all others. Those two things are - to observe and pay attention using all my senses and not to bring too many preconceptions to this study.

Having too many ideas about the meaning of what 'being intuitive' is before entering this kind of research or study, is definitely not useful. The reason for this is that when we think we know what a thing is or what it means before actually studying and observing carefully, we often bias our study in potentially misleading directions. That's not to say we don't derive meaning and direction that isn't misleading even if we do get rid of most of our preconceptions. It just reduces the likelihood of too many blind alleys and false trails too early on in the study.

This particular area of research is littered with scientific papers and theories about ESP, Anomalous Cognition and Remote Viewing to name but a few. Science has found out a few things but not how to instruct a person in how to generate these skills in any kind of structured behavioural way. My question therefore is this: can you work out what's going on by just paying attention? That has always been my way of doing things. When it comes to finding out what generates a particular skill or capability within a person who shows a particular facility in a given field, there are few better ways to explore this ability than NLP Modelling. NLP Modelling helps us to gain keen, objective insights into the process that a person goes through both physically and mentally for any given activity, regardless of how subjective the activity seems.

Modelling

From my work and training in NLP I used a standard NLP Modelling process, developed over the last 30 years. In modelling a behaviour, you seek to find those elements of the persons 'activity' that are explicitly demonstrated and can be verified using the normal senses - and also those which are largely unconscious to that individual but are vital to the process. For example unconscious factors can be what the individual believes, their inner motivation, what they feel when they undertake the task, how they know what to say. Often the least useful part of their experience can be what they tell you they are doing. Quite often what they say they are doing is not quite what they are actually doing. We need to learn to pay attention, and open our minds more for as an old Chinese fortune cookie says:

"The World is full of magical things waiting for our wits to sharpen"


	Research This page contains the results of ongoing research into what can be achieved when utilising the Sensitive Awareness State™. My intention is to incorporate the findings of those who have trained with me and who wish to add to the generation of new ways to work with the Sensitive Awareness Skill Set™. I'm hoping that some of my more curious students will show interest in undertaking some of the research with me. Though some have shown interest, no one so far, has come forward to join me in exploring the limits and possibilites of the skills further. For a list of books that were of great help in narrowing down my research and expanding the possibilites for further work take a look at my Recommended Reading page. William of Occam Around 1350, a scholastic philosopher developed a principle that later became known as 'Occam's Razor'. His principle was that in explaining a thing no more assumptions should be made than are necessary. This is also known as the Law of Parsimony - the principle that organisms tend towards economy of action in learning or in fulfilling their needs. In all fields of endeavour we tend to develop the least strenuous means to achieve the most efficient and beneficial outcomes. This economy of thought and movement helps us to survive and not waste energy. When I began researching and developing the Sensitive Awareness Model™ I immediately sought to find the simplest and most effective way to achieve results, as quickly as possible. I therefore sought to find out what could be verified in my experience specifically, and could also be verified in the experience of others generally, without speculation. Process and 'STATE' It is hard to define the nature of 'states of mind' present when a person is being 'intuitive'. If I were a neuro-scientist, I might look at brain chemistry and electrical activity along with blood flow to the various regions of the brain and the structure of neurons and their interconnections. Unfortunately, I'm not a neuro-scientist. I don't have years of scientific and medical training to apply to the study of the way the mind works when a person is involved in 'intuitive' activities. What I have at my disposal is a keen sense of curiosity, experience of performing so called intuitive demonstrations and a thorough grounding in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Thought Pattern Management and some training in Symbolic Modelling. (I've also got a basic City and Guilds certificate in Anatomy and Physiology but this seems woefully inadequate.) My curiosity and training has taught me two things above all others. Those two things are - to observe and pay attention using all my senses and not to bring too many preconceptions to this study. Having too many ideas about the meaning of what 'being intuitive' is before entering this kind of research or study, is definitely not useful. The reason for this is that when we think we know what a thing is or what it means before actually studying and observing carefully, we often bias our study in potentially misleading directions. That's not to say we don't derive meaning and direction that isn't misleading even if we do get rid of most of our preconceptions. It just reduces the likelihood of too many blind alleys and false trails too early on in the study. This particular area of research is littered with scientific papers and theories about ESP, Anomalous Cognition and Remote Viewing to name but a few. Science has found out a few things but not how to instruct a person in how to generate these skills in any kind of structured behavioural way. My question therefore is this: can you work out what's going on by just paying attention? That has always been my way of doing things. When it comes to finding out what generates a particular skill or capability within a person who shows a particular facility in a given field, there are few better ways to explore this ability than NLP Modelling. NLP Modelling helps us to gain keen, objective insights into the process that a person goes through both physically and mentally for any given activity, regardless of how subjective the activity seems. Modelling From my work and training in NLP I used a standard NLP Modelling process, developed over the last 30 years. In modelling a behaviour, you seek to find those elements of the persons 'activity' that are explicitly demonstrated and can be verified using the normal senses - and also those which are largely unconscious to that individual but are vital to the process. For example unconscious factors can be what the individual believes, their inner motivation, what they feel when they undertake the task, how they know what to say. Often the least useful part of their experience can be what they tell you they are doing. Quite often what they say they are doing is not quite what they are actually doing. We need to learn to pay attention, and open our minds more for as an old Chinese fortune cookie says: "The World is full of magical things waiting for our wits to sharpen"