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Re Talk: 106, 107

     There are three aspects to the Wave Phenomenon (so what else is new?).  Firstly, it starts with a kind of surface agitation, as depicted in the diagram.  Since there is, even for my own uses in This, a validity to the idea in physics that everything produces an equal and opposite reaction, this surface agitation produces (although "produces" is not an accurate term) an underlying, reactionary turbulence below the surface.  On a flat body of water, you observe an initial surface agitation (although, of course, it doesn't come from nowhere), and underneath this "upward" movement is a reactionary turbulence which attempts to move in an opposing direction.  This is no big secret; you can stand in a swimming pool or bathtub and create an agitation, and if you look quick beneath the surface, you will see this reactionary turbulence.  I say reactionary, because it is a contrary movement to the one you initiated on the surface.  Now for the third part:  the turbulences will gradually even themselves out and there will be a period, both in the world of physical water and where I am pointing you, when the surface will again become placid.  The medium, in this case the water, subsides to a steady condition, only to start again with "bi-polar" agitation, followed once more by the "evening-out" process.  

     There is no such thing as a continual wave; there is no such thing as a continual agitation.  The agitation seems to  start, a wave seems to build up, creating a secondary turbulence, a contrary reaction.  And it only goes so far before it subsides.  Remember, this does not happen in one linear direction, it is an omni-dimensional movement.  But the agitation will build only to a certain point, and then it will even itself out to what would be called a "placid" state as opposed to an "agitated" state.  I've already pointed out that there are three aspects to this description, which seems like a very obvious hint.  But I'm not simply retelling the story of "C", "D" and "E".  There's much more to be seen here:  there's more than the Yellow Circuit is equipped to see.  There is a way, a movement by which all structures, all games, all pursuits, all endeavors lose their extreme variations in time.  All change is initially extreme, though within certain limits.  I've pointed out that if anything is too drastic a departure from the normal steady state, it is not of profit at that time.  Only so much new information, only so much new food, can be physically, chemically absorbed by any given system, whether that system is "you", or a group of men in a whole section of the life of Life.  Still, you should be able to shift this slightly and see that all change is initially extreme.  It must be, else it wouldn't be change.  Any agitation (remember, we are back to describing things in a linear, limited and ultimately specious fashion) begins as an aggressive phenomenon; it creates a change in the steady-state condition.

     There are no perfect examples; but I can give you a couple of crude ones.  Even those of you who are not followers of football can make use of this:  a kind of extremism existed in the National Football League in its first years.  At that time, the sport of football had not become big business with millionaires and corporations owning the franchises.  And there was not the present day general parity of talent.  In the League's infancy, one rich owner could buy the best available talent for his team; the League was thus initially lopsided.  There were one or two teams that continually ran roughshod over the other teams in the league, the score would be 60 to 12, 58 to 6.  But then a strange thing occurred, and it is not unknown even at the ordinary level.  Eventually, a kind of parity was achieved; things evened themselves out to where nowadays, as they are wont to say, on any given day one team can beat any other team.  And it is true.

   In the sport of baseball, it has been observed that the day when someone can hit .400 for a season is gone.  I am sure someone has attempted to describe how the nature of baseball itself has changed, how they have raised the pitcher's mound and brought it in closer to the batter's box, etc.  Notwithstanding the fact that each generation is stronger than the preceding one, no one hits .400 for a season any more.  So what has happened?  You could attempt to explain it by the fact that bringing in the pitcher's mound gives the pitcher an advantage over the hitter, etc.  It is not that such descriptions are untrue.  When a sportswriter says, "With the enormous pool of talent in college football available for the draft, and given the fact that owners by now are pretty much equally rich, it is no wonder one football team cannot dominate the others in the league.", it is not that such an explanation is false.  What I am trying to get you to Consider is that in time, everything loses its initial extreme variations.  In time, everything becomes the third part of the Wave Phenomenon.  Now, lest you think I am just talking about football and baseball and waves in the bathtub, Neuralize that all of this occurs within you-know-who.

     Can you feel within yourself, all the way from your sex life to your job, from your hobbies to your general joi do vivre, that this Wave Phenomenon, this inescapable loss of extreme variations in any system, is how Life moves through you.  It is a part of the transfer of food.  It is how Life grows; it is how man himself eventually grows.  Again, it is not a straight line occurrence; it does not go from "here' to "there".  It is all merely a form of the wave building.  It is an agitation, an aggression, and simultaneously (in a way that does not exist in the linear view of the world), an underlying reactionary turbulence also comes into play.  And then, irresistibly, everything will return to a placid condition.  Any observable extreme, from the Chicago Bears destroying every other team in the League to your fanatical infatuation with the woman or man next door, are all but one apparently separable part of a larger process. Yesterday's fanatic is today's guy lying in a hammock and taking a nap.  I will repeat:  all necessary change, all growth starts as an extreme.  It starts aggressively.  Yet at the same time, there is an opposing underlying turbulence.  People hear of a new idea, i.e., an extreme idea, and say, "That's insanity, it will never work; boy are they nuts, ha, ha....".  It is all necessary for that particular idea or endeavor to survive in the observable world.  The extreme variations will soon recede to parity.  And then the thing moves again into a new area of aggression, a new extreme.  I strongly encourage you to Neuralize and remember that this Wave Phenomenon does not move in any one direction.  It is moving everywhere.  Line-level consciousness can define, it can perceive one isolated piece:  this football league, this new idea, this extreme political theory, this bizarre human endeavor -- yet it is all visible as an aggressive agitation.  It is always contained within certain limits, of course, or it is too drastic.  But all change starts out as a kind of radical agitation. JC talk 106