The document discusses the micro-forum technique as a form of neural networking. It is a constant structure that can be repeated to expand one's neural network and stimulate behavioral change. The technique balances observation and participation to create a balanced memory base and stimulate the ability to shift between cognitive functions fluidly. By paying attention to observing and then participating, it trains the brain to work in this way while also activating the "trickster element" to enable shapeshifting between modes of thinking. The goal is to reactivate the innate ability to adjust easily between perspectives through this formula of growth.

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The Micro-Forum Technique as Neural Networker.
The micro forum technique is a form of neural networking. If we look at networking in the conscious
moving state we see that it involves connecting with an ever expanding group of people, talking
making friends. Getting invited to meet more people at more events. Joining groups, connecting
people you know to each other etc. Eventually we can see this as a kind of map and if we look down
at the map we can see how expansion happens. We can see the map of connections and how they
grow. This is exactly how the neural network expansion happens in the micro forum technique only
it’s happening both in the conscious and the unconscious at the same time. It is built specifically for
this purpose.
Although the conscious and unconscious are always working in tandem it is not often contained in a
structure of development that is consistent repeated and constant.
The Micro-Forum Technique is a formula. It is a constant structure that can be repeated. It is a
formula for expanding the neural network. It is a formula for behavioural change.
When we work in this way we are balancing thought process in a specific way. As this initiation is
concretized the formula will be naturally adopted by the brain and we will begin to grow naturally in
this way.
It is a process of observation and participation. It is a process of moving from the former to the
latter. It is a process of observing what we are doing and participating in what we are doing at the
same time. This creates balance in our orientation within the world. We are also utilizing the brains
own capacity to shift from one mode of thinking to another the trick is that we are teaching
observation and participation, we are almost forcing the brain to work in this way. However, once
this mode is activated and as the process is adopted the shapeshifting ability will come as a natural
consequence.
The shapeshifting ability comes by way of an element of what’s known as an archetype an energy
pattern or formation within the psyche. There are twelve elements within an archetype and the
element we are particularly interested in is known as the trickster element.
What we are hoping for is to stimulate this element indirectly. We will move from observation to
participation in a continuous flow, creating the innate ability to shapeshift. If we try to work with the
trickster element directly it will continually change shape in a random succession and then we have
no control over the outcome. In the way that I have described we are maintaining the trickster at the
midway point in between the observing and the participating creating a constant formation ring,
containing and stimulating at the same time.
In the act of observing something we are engaging neural activity in a certain way. We are looking at
what is happening.
Watching a spider build a web for example requires us to see how the spider moves. How it
gets from one area of the web to the next, it requires us to see the development. We are removed
from being aware of participating and we observe. We observe the unfolding event before us,
outside of the directness of the one me, into the arena of the external.

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In the participating state we are required to notice how we are reacting to the spectacle we
are observing, how our body is reacting. What we are feeling. What are the sensations we are
experiencing in the body. We are participating in the event.
As I watched the spider build its web I was in participation as the event unfolded. It was cold
and it was the middle of the night. It was dark I was a little scared. It was or had been raining and as I
sat on the cold step I could feel my left thigh becoming cold and damp. I was very still.
It was a true piece of theatre I was observing. And I participated within the action of this truly
wonderful interaction between the spider and his web. I was both observing and participating at the
same time.
Is this not networking?
Or net – working?
So this brings us to the question what this is? How we can describe it further. It is about attention.
The attention we give to any given thing and the quality of that attention. In a book describing the
function of the pre-frontal Cortex it describes attention in this way:
“Attention is the cognitive expression or equivalent of a deeply seated and ubiquitous
neurobiological function. This function is based on the limited capacity of neural processing
systems as well as the need to allocate that capacity to the most effective processing of
information at any given time and in any given context.
It goes on to say:
By definition attention is selective; it is the selective processing of the most relevant
information toward the attainment of a goal under present circumstances. All sensory and
motor systems have rudiments of what is the cognitive sphere we call attention”. (c2008:
133) The Pre-Frontal Cortex
At the beginning of the quote here we see that it says a universal neurobiological function. This
means that every human brain cognitively experiences attention at some level in whatever state we,
as humans, are in.
Therefore we must believe that it is possible for everyone to have the ability to pay attention. But it
is vital to understand that we must know how to pay attention in the first place. We are not born
with this ability we are shaped by our interactions.
The ability to pay attention is tied into memory function:
“Working memory is the ability to retain an item of information for the prospective
execution of an action that is dependent on that information”. (c2008: 185) The Pre– Frontal
Cortex
So as well as observing and participating we are giving attention to these things. We are also
creating a memory base. We are actively creating the memory of observation and participation by
giving attention to these two specific actions within a constant and definable formula of growth.

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So we can now say that we are serving four states:
Observation
Participation
Attention
Memory
In order to move between the observer function and the participator function we need to utilize a
fifth element, that of our innate ability to shift between one thing and another fluidly. As we get
older it is common for us as to unlearn this as we try and create what we feel is acceptable
behaviour. There is a tendency to create barriers within ourselves at this point causing a rigidity of
being. What we are trying to achieve here is to reactivate our ability to adjust easily.
Not only are we building a positive memory base around the event that is built through the
development of the process in the conscious but the structure that is being used is building a
strength base in the unconscious that which is not consciously known. We can only speculate as to
the nature of what is being absorbed into the unconscious but if we create a solid and repeated
action in the now we have a greater chance of stability being absorbed into the unconscious. And as
is well known unconscious processes have a great effect on our behaviour patterns.
We can say then that by paying particular attention to observing what we are doing and then paying
particular attention to participating in what we are doing we are creating a balanced memory base
of these two functions. We are stimulating our ability to shapeshift from one cognitive function to
another. We are stimulating the neural network.
Cc Alix Harrow 2013
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