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  ==DETAILED EXPLANATION OF PRACTICE STEPS==  ==DETAILED EXPLANATION OF PRACTICE STEPS==
 **0. WHERE ARE YOU NOW?** **0. WHERE ARE YOU NOW?**
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 I just ask "Where are you now?" If a new Seeker, I explain that this is their opportunity to look at their entire life and scene and examine anything important about it. We are not listing anything or looking for whys or causes or solutions or anything like that. It's just a Look, See and Say about where they are now. "Where" is interpreted in the most general way. I often used to say "Tell me about your universe," or "What's up with your life?", but it seems more logical and consistent to go with the past/present/future model, and it works just fine either way. I just ask "Where are you now?" If a new Seeker, I explain that this is their opportunity to look at their entire life and scene and examine anything important about it. We are not listing anything or looking for whys or causes or solutions or anything like that. It's just a Look, See and Say about where they are now. "Where" is interpreted in the most general way. I often used to say "Tell me about your universe," or "What's up with your life?", but it seems more logical and consistent to go with the past/present/future model, and it works just fine either way.
  
-It's the same question as "What's happening with you?", "Tell me all about it!", "How is it going?", "What is your attention on?", "What do you think about now?", "What is your intention now?" "What's up?". "What is your viewpoint?", or any of many other phrases which mean essentially the same thing. After the Seeker gets the hang of UCP, they don't care what you say because they know what they are doing. It's what the Seeker does that is important, not what the Witness says. You could simply say "Talk!" . . . and in fact I have done that too.+It's the same question as:  
 +  * "What's happening with you?" 
 +  * "Tell me all about it!" 
 +  * "How is it going?" 
 +  * "What is your attention on?" 
 +  * "What do you think about now?" 
 +  * "What is your intention now?" 
 +  * "What's up?" 
 +  * "What is your viewpoint?", 
 +or any of many other phrases which mean essentially the same thing. After the Seeker gets the hang of UCP, they don't care what you say because they know what they are doing. It's what the Seeker does that is important, not what the Witness says. You could simply say "Talk!" . . . and in fact I have done that too.
  
 A new Seeker may well talk for two hours about his entire life. A Seeker who already had a session this morning will probably give me a minute or two about what he has noticed since his last session. I don't care. He talks until he has looked at "Where he is now" and described it to his own satisfaction, not mine. A new Seeker may well talk for two hours about his entire life. A Seeker who already had a session this morning will probably give me a minute or two about what he has noticed since his last session. I don't care. He talks until he has looked at "Where he is now" and described it to his own satisfaction, not mine.
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 **1. WHERE MIGHT YOU BE?** **1. WHERE MIGHT YOU BE?**
  
-This is the POTENTIAL, FUTURE, IMAGINE, MOCK-UP, CREATIVE side of the process. It is not a tightly worded or narrowly construed question. You could probably just as well ask "What might happen?," "Imagine a possible future," or anything similar. The words are not critical as long as you understand what you are doing. I merely want him to create or notice some possible or even impossible future. It does not have to make immediate sense or even be actually possible. I just want him to fish something out of his universe and look at it. +This is the POTENTIAL, FUTURE, IMAGINE, MOCK-UP, CREATIVE side of the process. It is not a tightly worded or narrowly construed question. You could probably just as well ask:  
 +  * "What might happen?" 
 +  * "Imagine a possible future" 
 +or anything similar. The words are not critical as long as you understand what you are doing. I merely want him to create or notice some possible or even impossible future. It does not have to make immediate sense or even be actually possible. I just want him to fish something out of his universe and look at it. 
  
-Whatever the Seeker thinks of is fine with me. Anything he imagines is a proper answer. It could be a state of mind, an emotional state, a mental attitude, a spot on the highway, a physical position, a logical computation, a social position, a role he plays, etc.. It can be 10,000 years in the future, impossible by definition, in his wildest dreams, in another dimension, in a parallel or non-parallel universe . . . whatever. An unwritten Star Trek adventure is fine! It can be the same fantasy he's looked at 20 times already. Great! I don't care. Anything will do! His attention is on it NOW . . . so it MUST be the right thing to look at!+Whatever the Seeker thinks of is fine with me. Anything he imagines is a proper answer. It could be a state of mind, an emotional state, a mental attitude, a spot on the highway, a physical position, a logical computation, a social position, a role he plays, etc. It can be 10,000 years in the future, impossible by definition, in his wildest dreams, in another dimension, in a parallel or non-parallel universe, whatever. An unwritten Star Trek adventure is fine! It can be the same fantasy he's looked at 20 times already. Great! I don't care. Anything will do! His attention is on it NOW, so it MUST be the right thing to look at!
  
-I don't even care if it is really from the future or not. I often have the Seeker tell me a place he "might be," and in the process of describing or comparing it . . . he realizes it is actually an incident from his past. Fine! He snuck up on a REGRESSION by putting it in the future to make it more confrontable! Of course, that is also a possible future place, as he might be there again someday. You might notice this selection method is very similar to traditional "free association," except that traditional therapists don't know what to DO with what comes up.+I don't even care if it is really from the future or not. I often have the Seeker tell me a place he "might be," and in the process of describing or comparing it, he realizes it is actually an incident from his past. Fine! He snuck up on a REGRESSION by putting it in the future to make it more confrontable! Of course, that is also a possible future place, as he might be there again someday. You might notice this selection method is very similar to traditional "free association," except that traditional therapists don't know what to DO with what comes up.
  
-I once had a session in which "Where I Might Be" was the dream I had this morning . . . and analyzing the dream by comparing it to where I was now was profound, and took me all the way up to "know" in a huge area of my universe that was making me very frantic. +I once had a session in which "Where I Might Be" was the dream I had this morning and analyzing the dream by comparing it to where I was now was profound, and took me all the way up to "know" in a huge area of my universe that was making me very frantic. 
  
-Notice that this same dream might also have come up on the past leg of "Where I Was, this morning." Often it seems random whether something comes up on the Future or Past command. Who Cares? As long as it comes up, it's there . . . so you can now LOOK at it!+Notice that this same dream might also have come up on the past leg of "Where I Was, this morning." Often it seems random whether something comes up on the Future or Past command. Who Cares? As long as it comes up, it's there so you can now LOOK at it!
  
 This future leg of the process helps the Seeker discover his future, or lack thereof. It allows him to create new futures, and to change his mind and revise them. It lets him separate his goals, fantasies and possibilities from the actuality of his present time, and see how his future, or lack thereof, is actually created by him in the NOW. This future leg of the process helps the Seeker discover his future, or lack thereof. It allows him to create new futures, and to change his mind and revise them. It lets him separate his goals, fantasies and possibilities from the actuality of his present time, and see how his future, or lack thereof, is actually created by him in the NOW.
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 This is simple and easy because you are not trying to figure out what the Seeker should put his attention on, and when he should take it off. You don't have to find, assess or analyze mysterious stuff in the dusty far corners of his mind to pick a minute obscure topic or "item." You just gently help him look at whatever IS NOW. This is simple and easy because you are not trying to figure out what the Seeker should put his attention on, and when he should take it off. You don't have to find, assess or analyze mysterious stuff in the dusty far corners of his mind to pick a minute obscure topic or "item." You just gently help him look at whatever IS NOW.
  
-Since that is all that is needed, anything additional would be an unnecessary complexity and distract the Seeker from his important work. The less the coach / therapist / Witness does, and the less attention the client / Seeker has on him, the better UCP works. If the  +Since that is all that is needed, anything additional would be an unnecessary complexity and distract the Seeker from his important work. The less the coach/therapist/Witness does, and the less attention the client / Seeker has on him, the better UCP works. If the Seeker is so absorbed he forgets the Witness is there... Wonderful!
-Seeker is so absorbed he forgets the Witness is there . . . Wonderful!+
  
-This description of "where he might be" could be 2 words . . . or 20 minutes. I don't really care, as long as the Seeker describes it to his satisfaction. When he is ready to look at something else, we go on.+This description of "where he might be" could be 2 words or 20 minutes. I don't really care, as long as the Seeker describes it to his satisfaction. When he is ready to look at something else, we go on.
  
 **2. COMPARE THAT TO NOW.** **2. COMPARE THAT TO NOW.**
  
-This step has the Seeker compare the selected "something" with the present. I don't use the word "place," because I don't want to define what he will be comparing. I don't know if it will be an attitude, a computation, a physical location, an activity, an emotion, a state of mind, a beingness, an identity, or whatever . . . and I don't care. +This step has the Seeker compare the selected "something" with the present. I don't use the word "place," because I don't want to define what he will be comparing. I don't know if it will be an attitude, a computation, a physical location, an activity, an emotion, a state of mind, a beingness, an identity, or whatever and I don't care. 
  
-Whatever he talked about on Step 1, I just want him to compare that to NOW . . . which may still be what he described in Step 0 . . . but quite likely has changed considerably since then.+Whatever he talked about on Step 1, I just want him to compare that to NOW . . . which may still be what he described in Step 0 but quite likely has changed considerably since then.
  
-By "COMPARE," I am asking for SIMILARITIES and DIFFERENCES, but I only ask for them specifically if I am grooving in a new Seeker who is not used to UCP and is still feeling his way into it, or who may be reluctant or inhibited in talking. Otherwise "compare" is fine.+By "COMPARE" I am asking for SIMILARITIES and DIFFERENCES, but I only ask for them specifically if I am grooving in a new Seeker who is not used to UCP and is still feeling his way into it, or who may be reluctant or inhibited in talking. Otherwise "compare" is fine.
  
-This step could be two sentences, or it could take two hours as he looks back and forth between the two scenes over and over again, seeing more and more clearly, and describing things in more and more detail and texture . . . until he loses interest in this.+This step could be two sentences, or it could take two hours as he looks back and forth between the two scenes over and over again, seeing more and more clearly, and describing things in more and more detail and texture until he loses interest in this.
  
 In order to compare the two elements, the Seeker essentially has to view both pictures, incidents, viewpoints or whatever at the same time. This in itself is extraordinarily beneficial to him.  In order to compare the two elements, the Seeker essentially has to view both pictures, incidents, viewpoints or whatever at the same time. This in itself is extraordinarily beneficial to him. 
  
-Most people's awareness is much like a television set displaying a station selected by a remote control . . . in someone else's hands. They are totally hypnotized by whatever program, picture, valence, identity, advertisement, idea, etc. is currently displayed on screen.  +Most people's awareness is much like a television set displaying a station selected by a remote control in someone else's hands. They are totally hypnotized by whatever program, picture, valence, identity, advertisement, idea, etc. is currently displayed on their screen. They compulsively identify with whatever that is as "themselves". 
-They compulsively identify with whatever that is as "themselves". +
  
-When the picture flips to a different channel, it's still "them," as far as they are concerned . . . and they have *NO* awareness that it's actually a different channel and program. They can only duplicate or comprehend one viewpoint at a time, and it's totally beyond their awareness that they were just spouting a totally different party line.+When the picture flips to a different channel, it's still "them," as far as they are concerned  and they have *NO* awareness that it's actually a different channel and program. They can only duplicate or comprehend one viewpoint at a time, and it's totally beyond their awareness that they were just spouting a totally different party line.
  
 The constant discipline of comparing builds the ability to view two viewpoints, pictures, etc., at the same time. This forces them OUT of the picture they have been IN, and gets them to adopt the viewpoint of the being who is looking AT the pictures. This DIFFERENTIATES them from the pictures they have been compulsively dramatizing, and are now self-determinedly viewing.  The constant discipline of comparing builds the ability to view two viewpoints, pictures, etc., at the same time. This forces them OUT of the picture they have been IN, and gets them to adopt the viewpoint of the being who is looking AT the pictures. This DIFFERENTIATES them from the pictures they have been compulsively dramatizing, and are now self-determinedly viewing. 
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 If their attention is on only one item, they can interiorize into it and BE it. When they confront two pictures and compare, it is very clear that they are neither one, but the viewer of pictures.  If their attention is on only one item, they can interiorize into it and BE it. When they confront two pictures and compare, it is very clear that they are neither one, but the viewer of pictures. 
  
-This is an enormously important spiritual capacity to develop. It builds enormous self-awareness of the Seeker as the creator of his own universe, and greatly enhances his ability to knowingly create himself and his future. This simple ability is far beyond the realm of most individuals who believe themselves to be spiritually advanced, but are actually quite thoroughly lost in pretense and hysterical compulsive identities which they strenuously dramatize.+This is an enormously important spiritual capacity to develop. It builds enormous self-awareness of the Seeker as the creator of his own universe and greatly enhances his ability to knowingly create himself and his future. This simple ability is far beyond the realm of most individuals who believe themselves to be spiritually advanced but are actually quite thoroughly lost in pretence and hysterical compulsive identities which they strenuously dramatize.
  
-While doing UCP, you will normally see many different kinds of weird mental phenomena, known variously in different disciplines by many arbitrary terms, appear with a vengeance . . . and disappear again with no fancy complex rigid process commands, no chains of earlier similar incidents, no tricky diagnosis or evaluation of what is wrong, or what to do, no hypnotic suggestions, and no Seeker attention on the Witness or the Process. It's simple, smooth, often easy, and incredibly effective.+While doing UCP, you will normally see many different kinds of weird mental phenomena, known variously in different disciplines by many arbitrary terms, appear with a vengeance and disappear again with no fancy complex rigid process commands, no chains of earlier similar incidents, no tricky diagnosis or evaluation of what is wrong, or what to do, no hypnotic suggestions, and no Seeker attention on the Witness or the Process. It's simple, smooth, often easy, and incredibly effective.
  
-Just let them describe similarities and differences as long as they have interest. It might be a few words. It might be many minutes of analysis and cognitions. You don't have to worry about "flattening" it or getting "all the charge off." If the Seeker has more attention on it, his attention will go back to it, and he can simply look at it again on the next merry [or not so] go-round. You do NOT have to "control his attention" and tell him when to think about what, and when to stop thinking about it.  +Just let them describe similarities and differences as long as they have interest. It might be a few words. It might be many minutes of analysis and cognitions. You don't have to worry about "flattening" it or getting "all the charge off." If the Seeker has more attention on it, his attention will go back to it, and he can simply look at it again on the next merry [or not so] go-round. You do NOT have to "control his attention" and tell him when to think about what, and when to stop thinking about it. You controlling his attention is always DESTRUCTIVE to HIS universe. You just easily and naturally follow his lead to what HIS attention is on.
-You controlling his attention is always DESTRUCTIVE to HIS universe. You just easily and naturally follow his lead to what HIS attention is on.+
  
-When he is satisfied he has seen what he wants to . . . we move on.+When he is satisfied he has seen what he wants to we move on.
  
 **3. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?** **3. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?**
  
-This step of the process simply has the Seeker select something already existing that his attention is on. It is not critically worded. You could probably run it as "Remember something" or "What has happened?". This just asks for anything from his past. He simply selects something for examination from what has already happened, and is therefore PAST, and he is relatively the EFFECT of. It could be how his morning has been going so far, his reaction to a commercial, an exact specific incident lasting 1/10 of a second, a lingering thought he had 85,000 years ago as he lay dying, a room he used to live in, or a broad general scene that went on for trillions of years. I don't care.+This step of the process simply has the Seeker select something already existing that his attention is on. It is not critically worded. You could probably run it as "Remember something" or "What has happened?". This just asks for anything from his past. He simply selects something for examination from what has already happened and is, therefore, PAST, and he is relatively the EFFECT of. It could be how his morning has been going so far, his reaction to a commercial, an exact specific incident lasting 1/10 of a second, a lingering thought he had 85,000 years ago as he lay dying, a room he used to live in, or a broad general scene that went on for trillions of years. I don't care.
  
 This leg of the process is the EMOTIONAL DISCHARGE or TRAUMA REDUCTION aspect of prior events. It includes as subsets all of the narrowly defined regression processes that many "well-trained" therapists know hundreds of. It handles and heals what has already happened to the Seeker as the effect. It leads naturally to the FUTURE. This leg of the process is the EMOTIONAL DISCHARGE or TRAUMA REDUCTION aspect of prior events. It includes as subsets all of the narrowly defined regression processes that many "well-trained" therapists know hundreds of. It handles and heals what has already happened to the Seeker as the effect. It leads naturally to the FUTURE.