I don't have much time here. But my two cents, I haven't read all the previous posts but am responding to one thing I saw:
There are different ways to respond to AOLs. Limiting the set for the moment to stopping, paying attention to them, and doing something with them, while in session, the options include:
1. In memory, breaking down the components of the AOL. E.g., if you just had a flash of a door and you wrote 'door', then you would flesh out what you remember of the door, e.g., "small, brown, wooden, metal handle, weathered, rectangular, smooth."
2. In logic, breaking down the components of the AOL. E.g., if your only info was 'door', you might flesh out, "vertical, flat, hard, opens/closes; structural; manmade."
3. In psi, exploring the AOL via basic sense. E.g., you simply turn your attention to the 'door' sense and then try to sense 'from there' something further to write down.
4. In psi/visualization, exploring the AOL via communication. E.g., you ask yourself 'What does the door represent?' or you ask the door you re-visualize 'What do you represent?' or you ask yourself, 'Please show me something else.'
5. Exploring the AOL in other ways. "Free association" would come in here. I would not be fond of FA for this because it is very similar to image streaming, which often gets psi data and is fantastic as an RV warmup, but when I've used it for sessions I had a huge percentage of data that was either inaccurate or heavily symbolic, whereas with RV I got a lot less imagination and creativity wrapped into everything.
My process is 1, then 3 if needed, then 4 if needed.
PJ
There are different ways to respond to AOLs. Limiting the set for the moment to stopping, paying attention to them, and doing something with them, while in session, the options include:
1. In memory, breaking down the components of the AOL. E.g., if you just had a flash of a door and you wrote 'door', then you would flesh out what you remember of the door, e.g., "small, brown, wooden, metal handle, weathered, rectangular, smooth."
2. In logic, breaking down the components of the AOL. E.g., if your only info was 'door', you might flesh out, "vertical, flat, hard, opens/closes; structural; manmade."
3. In psi, exploring the AOL via basic sense. E.g., you simply turn your attention to the 'door' sense and then try to sense 'from there' something further to write down.
4. In psi/visualization, exploring the AOL via communication. E.g., you ask yourself 'What does the door represent?' or you ask the door you re-visualize 'What do you represent?' or you ask yourself, 'Please show me something else.'
5. Exploring the AOL in other ways. "Free association" would come in here. I would not be fond of FA for this because it is very similar to image streaming, which often gets psi data and is fantastic as an RV warmup, but when I've used it for sessions I had a huge percentage of data that was either inaccurate or heavily symbolic, whereas with RV I got a lot less imagination and creativity wrapped into everything.
My process is 1, then 3 if needed, then 4 if needed.
PJ