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Design fields
 A design field is the field of energy, activity and influence that
surrounds a design. It is analogous to the magnetic field around a magnet, or
the gravitational field around a planet. Within the substance of energy every
design has its own field, the design field. Whenever we encounter a
design, we are enveloped in it's
design field in both the psychological realm and also in our physical
environment. Energy contains all designs and the field of all designs is
enveloping us at all times, but one design is dominant at any moment. When we
are at our job, the employee design is dominant, so we are primarily under the
influence of that design's field. When we understand design fields, we
understand the one basis for the dynamics in our life, in the material,
psychological, and spiritual realm and we can use this understanding to create
the life that we want.
Design fields are a metaphoric model of designs.
The creation of
metaphorical models is a common practice in sciences such as subatomic physics,
in which we cannot see the objects that we are studying, but we can detect their
actions and we can create concepts and illustrations to explain our ideas
regarding the objects. In a metaphor, we explore the dynamics of something. This
is a valid approach, because knowing what something does is more important than
knowing what it is.
Design elements retain a record of our interactions.
This is the key to
understanding how designs interact with our personal life. The process occurs in
this manner:
 | Energy or spirit is that which we experience as
life. It is the life
substance of our material body and the force that is the basis of all
material objects including those that we do not recognize as living. It also
exists in its own nonmaterial realm throughout the universe. Energy is a
tangible substance that possesses properties which can be studied, just as a
physical substance such as copper can be studied by a chemist. |
| Our true self is an individual
center within energy. Our true self is
composed of energy, just as a brick is composed of clay. |
| When there is an interaction between two people all designs are present
because energy contains all designs, but we focus primarily upon a design
within one person and the reciprocal design within the other person. This
could be an interaction between the teacher design and the student design. |
| During this interaction, we generate thoughts, images, energies, and
physical actions. These substances leave a record that is retained in the
design elements, thus the elements of a design include:
 | Thoughts |
| Sensory data
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Individual sensory impressions - whatever we see, hear,
touch, taste, or smell. |
| Internal The items in our recollection. This includes our
perceptions and the objects and impressions that correspond to our other
physical senses.
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| Energies The energies that we are exuding. Generally these energies
are our emotions or feelings. Our energies have a particular tone or
texture, as in the energies of anger or fear or affection or repulsion or
excitement. |
| Actions Our physical actions and also the physical consequences of
those actions such as the goods that we produce, and the relationships
that we create. Design fields are not merely psychological phenomena, they
include our physical world |
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Design fields can be related to other phenomena.
Examples of fields that act as a repository of energy and information are:
| Complexes |
| The collective subconscious
We relate to the collective subconscious in two ways:
| Designs provide the points upon which we build our own lives.
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Our thoughts, images, energies, and actions are registered in our
individual design elements. When we encounter a design these existing elements
influence our perception of it. When people generate new notions regarding a
design such as Government, those elements are registered in the collective
subconscious. When society experiences those elements, the collective
subconscious changes, causing a corresponding alteration in that design's
expression. |
| Group consciousness can be seen in phenomena such as group morale, mob
mentality, the united response of an audience at any public event such as a
concert, a political rally, or a sport event, and the prevailing mood of a home
or neighborhood or workplace. This design contains the energy, thoughts,
imagery, and actions of the group. |
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The collective potential
contains the aspects of life that are repressed by a
society. Victorian society pushed sexuality into its collective potential, to
hide its thoughts, images, energies, and actions of sexual expression. |
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Our human interactions are interactions between designs.
Every situation,
and every person, contains all designs. We can say this because designs are
aspects of energy, and energy is the basis of everything in existence. We do not
perceive this wholeness, instead we perceive particular designs such as the home
design. This fragmented view occurs because we are using the mind as an
instrument for studying our own substance, of energy. The purpose of the mind is
to perceive design aspects of energy so that they can be examined individually.
When we encounter another person, that person contains all designs in his or her
essence, but we primarily focus on, and respond to only one design at a time
although all other designs are interacting in the background. We could view this
one individual design as a man, or an employee, or a clerk, or a father, or a
spouse. If someone is enacting the child design, regardless of whether that
person is our biological offspring, we tend to respond with our parent design,
depending upon the needs of our two centers:
| The true self Through your higher awareness you recognize your true
essence and the true essence of the other person. You see them as perfect just
the way they are and this influences the way you respond to their designs. |
| The false self The ego pursues a course of action that would satisfy
our needs at that moment based on existing designs. Unless this interaction is
mutually beneficial, the unsatisfied portion of the exchange remains in the
design element as a form of energy such as resentment, guilt, anger or
frustration for one or both parties. If this residual energy is not dissipated
it will have a negative effect. |
Design fields simplify our psychological processing.
The design field is a reference to be used when we are in a design situation,
because all situations are based upon designs. As the mind attempts to formulate
a response, it asks itself, "How have I responded previously in similar
situations?" and it finds the answer in the design's record, in the residue
that has been left by previous thoughts, images, energies, and actions. If
someone insults us we do not have to wholly improvise our response. The mind
refers to the design element that is associated with this situation, and then it
has the option of reusing some of the thoughts that it finds in the design. We
can view this process as an action of the mind, or as an impersonal energy
dynamic in which the charged elements in the design are activated automatically
in the presence of their corresponding designs.
| Design fields provide stabilizing points for the accumulation and dispersal
of energy. This energy is the residual charge in our designs. |
| The guidance that we receive from design fields is imperfect.
Our perfect
guidance comes from our true self through intuition.
| Design fields produce incorrect perceptions and
interpretations. We are
not perceiving the unique dynamics of this situation. Our perceptions include
only some of the dynamics, and we fill in the gaps by generalizing on the
basis of thoughts, images, energies, and habits that we created during
previous encounters with this design. |
| Design fields produce inappropriate responses due to various
factors:
| Our Incorrect
Perception. We are hardly perceiving this unique situation at all. We are perceiving a
stereotype that is based on the residual elements of the design field,
including the thoughts, imagery, and behavioral habits that we generated
during previous encounters. Obviously, if we are not perceiving the unique
factors in this situation, we cannot respond to the situation as it is. We
have created a closed system, in which we are feeding off of pre-programmed
elements and prejudging. |
| The residual energy from previous encounters with this
design. Design fields contain the energy that was not dispersed during previous
situations and it is experienced now, regardless of its appropriateness. If
the design field contains the emotional energy of anger that was not expressed
during previous encounters with this design, the elements will discharge some
of that energy during this encounter, causing us to be angry even though the
current factors don't warrant the anger. |
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Techniques for discovering the contents of our
design fields
Residual elements can be detected in the following forms:
| Our habitual activities. In any situation, we can be aware of our typical
state, including thoughts, energy tones such as emotions and feelings, sensory
data such as visual memories or fantasies, and actions. When we are cooking, we
can have particular habits that include thoughts of perfectionism, such as
everything must be just right, our usual energy tone of love because we are
cooking the meal for our beloved family, or repeated fantasies of ourselves as a
professional chef. These are the elements of our designs. |
| Incorrect interpretations and incorrect responses. We may realize that we
are unduly angry at someone. Anger could be justified as a response to an
immediate threat, but the intensity of our anger suggests that an additional
charge is being added by the lingering charged elements of a design. |
| Psychological disorders. Psychologists deal with our thoughts, emotions,
feelings, imagery, and physical habits. As we examine these things, we are
discerning the elements of our designs. These elements can be responsible for
obsessive thoughts, compulsive behavior, phobias, complexes, stubborn habits,
and other dysfunctions. An inferiority complex is based upon inappropriate
elements in the design that correspond to our valuation of ourselves. We can
correct this by implanting elements that affirm our value. |
| Dreams. In a dream, the characters, settings, objects, and actions are
usually symbolic expressions of our design elements. These elements are in the
dream because we are trying to resolve the design issues with which they are
associated, and we are attempting to discharge the residual energy charge that
the elements carry. |
| Potential-work. As we explore our potential, we discover the design
elements that we have repressed, suppressed, or simply haven't recognized yet. |
| Design-work. This is a group of techniques by which we willfully change
the contents of designs. As we use design-work we learn about the elements that
are already there, and the new elements that we are implanting. When we use
design-work to improve the quality of our designs, we improve our lives. |
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