BACK TO BASICS _____________________________________         When we are conceived, the product of two individuals results in the creation of a new individual. From that moment of the gelling of the sperm and ovum the resulting zygote as a new individual or entity, receives and emits data. This receiving and emitting goes on until we die.     To die means to no longer receive data (at least In the same way that makes us self-aware) but we still give it out, since in some way we go back Into the earth or the world about us.     Whilst in the womb, we may have no consciousness, (that is we are not aware of our existence), but we still receive data (from whatever source).     Since we receive data, it becomes one with us. We have no control over it. When we are born and enter the 'world-as-it-is' we begin to have some control over the data we are receiving. This process is what is known as the sub-conscious, but we must beware that our concept of the sub-conscious may not be correct. Just how far our control is our self-awareness is open to question. Be that as it may, we are slowly but gradually becoming more self-aware.     This process of self-awareness (in Man) is what separates us from other life forms. That is to say, other creatures are aware, but not in the same degree of self-awareness that Man is (as far as we know).     There are professed to be two (at least) parts of the mind, the conscious (self-awareness) and the sub-conscious (the part that directs our bodily functions and so on). These two functions are not separate, but work closely together. That is, they shift constantly back and forth. The so-called 'mind' (I believe) is a reaction between the two,     We are conscious (self-aware) of our bodies and minds but it has been shown that we are dictated very directly by the sub-conscious. It plays the most important role In what we are or may become.     Since data has been received since inception or conception, this sub-conscious dictates what we do and how we react to new stimuli (data, experience or whatever you want to call it). This is sometimes known as cellular memory.     But cellular memory is more important than that. What cellular memory is, is that all the data that has been received since conception is found in every part of the cellular structure of our body. (Analogy: It is known that a hologram may be shattered into a   million pieces, but each piece has the whole original picture within it). I also feel that the walls that surround us hold all the emanations (data) from us, including  emotions as well as the  actual words spoken.     Our whole body contains all the data (from whatever source) we have received. It is therefore never forgotten. Although no cell of our body is the same cell after a number of years, we still retain the essential 'Me' or 'I'. As the cells receive more data they 'age' and this is distributed throughout the body and we 'age' (get older). (Thought: if we take a cell of our body and clone it, do we get the baby or the wo/man?).     Questions might be imposed here:     1. Are we a product, therefore, of our data? That is, do we react because we do, because of the data we received at an early age?     2. If that data seems incorrect now because of circumstances and  maybe our unhappiness, can we change it or is it fixed forever and we can do nothing about it? The answer to the first question is 'yes'. The answer to the second is "yes'. The reasoning to the first question is this:     We do receive data. This data may be totally sub-conscious (because we are not aware of its incoming). Therefore we have no control over it at the time. (As time goes on we can filter data to a certain extent we can ' switch off' to various experiences that lead to data reception) . It is this that leads us to the concept of levels of awareness. (There may be an argument here).     It's pretty obvious (to me at least) that we operate on different Levels of Awareness. If this were not so, then no-one could perpetrate crimes against another, for example. The data received, drives the individual, it is the accelerator of our lives.     The reasoning to the second question is this:     The fact that we are self-aware (conscious) means that if we are aware that we are programmed by the data input into us (albeit sub-conscious) we can have some control over it.     The concept of self-control is vital. Without it, we are lost.     This concept of self-control/awareness has often gone by the name of "free will', But are we free to will? It has been said that free will is the 'feeling' that we are free. I thought this correct but now I really doubt it because I ask: What is directing this thought, the data I have received?     The path to finding this answer is to find out (as much as is possible) what it is in our early data that directs us.     Our early history of data input is the most important factor. It is in the earliest years of our experiences in the world that are laid down the patterns of later behaviours. (The plural is significant because it implies change and possible changes). It is an understanding of these that can lead us to change them, consciously. We must bring the sub-conscious to the surface (conscious). How we do this depends on the individual and the teaching (the means by which we can learn about them). It matters not how, as long as we can become aware of what early data is driving us.     The fact that we receive data also means that we give out data.     This is a new ball game in this monologue.     The universe, as far as we know it, is made up of electro-chemical radiation.     As far as we know and understand, the universe is made of waves of energy . Energy is the on-going force which drives everything. It moves forward and therefore changes  as it accumulates (feedback).     Waves are not tangible. They cannot be seen but they can be reacted to. (We cannot see radio waves, but interpreted, they can be heard).     The body is a receiver. It receives data in the form of waves.   Because we are wave receivers we receive data in the form of waves. It therefore follows that we transmit waves of some kind, since life itself in the influx and outflow of energy, otherwise we would be dead.     We are electro-chemical beings.     The waves that we give out are dependent on the waves we have received. If those waves are positive, then we give out positive waves. If those waves are negative, then the waves we give out are negative. This is simplistic, of course, the waves we give out are a mixture of both.     Frequency modulation (FM) relies on a carrier wave (basic wave). Upon this wave are superimposed changing or modulating waves. This gives us the sound (experience) that we hear; a complex arrangement of waves that make sense (and music, for instance).     If the waves we give out are part of data that was our inheritance, we will give out signals that will be received by an other who is in tune with us (ABC out; ABC in). In other words: if I like women, women who would liked to be liked by men, they will like me in some way (I hope!).     In the '60's all this wave theory was linked to 'vibes'. Giving out the 'wrong' vibes was very common as was giving out the 'right' vibes. It is the same thing. 'There is nothing new in the Universe' said the Scribe. 'You get what you pay for'.     If you radiate charm you acquire charming people. If you radiate malice, you get malice.     But you need to understand what drives you before you can alter your radiations. Smile and you will be smiled at. Sneer and you will be sneered at. Give love and you will be loved.     Therefore it important to try to understand what drives one. To recap so far:     The Universe is made up of a spectrum of electro-magnetic waves (which we cannot see, but by way of scientific means they can be demonstrated).     These electro-magnetic waves are transmitted and received by matter (the stuff of the Universe) since that is what matter is made of.     The universe is therefore a transmitter and receiver of these electro-magnetic waves.     As we are part of the Universe, we are composed of matter. Therefore we transmit and receive these waves, which we will call data..     Data produces information. Information is a combination of data which we can make sense of (numbers and arithmetical symbols are data. Letters of the alphabet are data. We can combine them to make sums or words depending on how we combine them...maths or language.) Remember that data is plural (more than one. The word datum refers to the singular or one).     As individuals we receive data from the earliest point in our existence. This data is imprinted in every cell of the body since it is made up of matter and receives and transmits. It follows that transmission of data from ourselves impinges on the total Universe about us, since the Universe is made up of the transmission amid reception of data.     The fact that human beings are aware of being aware (in varying degrees) means that we are, in some ways, able to have an influence on the incoming and outgoing data. That outgoing data corresponds to the waves of energy that we give out. It is the awareness of giving out waves and our ability to change or modify them that makes us human. (It does not mean that we are better or worse than other species, merely that we have the ability to change outgoing data).     In the earliest times of our (Wo/Man's) evolution we have endeavoured to change the data which assails us. We have struggled to find that which is inherent in us. That which is inherent in us is the data we have received from the Universe which makes us what we are. We often call this 'Self-knowledge' or some-such. In this respect we have invented gods to help us. We have invented strategies to help us overcome the dilemma of what is what we perceive as 'real'.     In our day and age, because we are alive (inputting and outputting data) we feel the need more and more to find out who we are and possibly why we are here (although, in my view that is a moot point).     The 'Who we are' is our life's goal, whether we are 'conscious' of it or not.     That 'conscious of it or not' is very important and depends (in my view, at least on the level of awareness of ourselves that we are at.     We as individuals, need to find out, as far as possible, what it is that drives us.     What drives us, is the data that we have received from our conception. The closer we get to that, the more we, in our conscious life can have some control over it.     By trying to understand what that data was, the more chance we have of being able to control it or come to terms with it so that we can go forward in our lives.     To go forward is to be positive and have the motivating force that is life. If life is stagnant and does not go forward (that is, we give out no further data), then we die or are dead. That is, we give out waves but do not receive them on a level of consciousness that is life (input/output).     Control of our lives means that the very small part of us that makes us aware of being aware, can change the data we have received at our earliest times into something else. If that data is negative (because our experiences have proved it so and does not make us feel 'good') then we can change it. We can change it using various techniques that have been used over many thousands of years by all races that exist and existed.     To be in control means to be able to use that part of the brain/mind to influence past and present incoming data.

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