WANT AND DEMAND I believe it is incorrect to assert that one must merely tone down one's resistence from demand to mere want in order to get rid of something. Demanding to get rid of something and wanting to get rid of something are both efforts to push away, and less of something wrong is still a complete alter-is of the truth. Adore says that prior to the NOT WANTED is a WANTED. Adore says that the only way to fully as-is something, one must contact the WANTED prior to the UNWANTED, at which point one is then putting it out there with full operational acceptance. Of course one accepts what one is making willingly as an original creation. For example, LRH says the preclear chose his service fac condition with full knowingness and awareness exactly as he is now suffering it. So at that time it was WANTED and included an aesthetic. The aesthetic sticks the creation because its never duplicated, the wanted and the aesthetic are 'gone' to the pc. The being chooses the Service Fac condition, and then chooses to not know that the service fac is a wanted, and it also chooses to not know that he is choosing to not know he chose these things. The alter-is from wanted to unwanted is necessary to cause persistence. This is not a mistake or a flaw, as there are no such things. The being is trying to vanish unwanteds by taking responsibility OVER the unwanted, but this still denies his responsibility FOR the unwanted. The subtle change from responsibility FOR to responsibility OVER is enough of an alter-is to cause a persistence which is why talking responsibility over as a sole procedure never works and results in games that one can never win as everything persists by default of the approach. (To take responsibility over something means to add your cause into an existing situation to make it better. To take repsonsibility for something, means to own to having created the situation in the first place.) Homer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Homer Wilson Smith The paths of lovers Art Matrix - Lightlink (607) 277-0959 cross in Internet Access, Ithaca NY homer@lightlink.com the line of duty. http://www.lightlink.com