WHY YOU NEED TO READ THE META-PLACE

You live in two worlds—the outside world of sights,sounds, sensations, smells and tastes and the inside world of ideas, thoughts, memories, imaginations, beliefs, etc. The outside world is given; the inside world is what you make of the outside world. What you see, hear, and feel in the outside world—you bring inside and create the world of mind.

It is your meta place, control central of your experiences that governs life from the inside–out. When you learn to master your meta place, to see it, to enter it, to design it, to transform it, you then become the master of your own fate, your experiences, and the quality of your life.

Your meta place is a rich, wondrous, and mysterious world. It is the hidden and invisible world that you live in and that you operate from. Its development is a gift to you—what you fill it with, however, is your gift to yourself. It is what makes you uniquely you. What you do with your capacities is your choice and responsibility. And while you may have had very limited choices as a child growing up, as an adult, you are now free to make it as you will. So as an adventure in being human, make it a great one.

While some people put up a sign, “Closed for business,” and try their best to avoid, deny, and reject their meta place, but in the long run, it does not work. To be human is to have and live from the inner world of your mind and memory. The meta place describes the architecture of that place and this book gives you the keys for how to manage your meta place with grace, elegance, humor, and power.

Looking Inside Your Mind

My invitation to you in this book is to go inside and discover the meta place. It is an invitation to look inside your mind. If you ever say to yourself, “Why did I say that or do that?” or “I know better than that, what’s wrong with me?” or “How can I release the full potentials of my mind and intelligence?” then this journey is for you.

Now there’s a strange thing about the meta place. Each of us have his and her own meta place content. The inner world that each of us live in differs. When you understand your own meta place that will not give you a specific template for understanding others. It will only give you a basic template for how meta places are organized. And that will empower you to be so much more effective in relating to others.

When you learn the meta place template, you will be able to listen in an entirely new way to people, in a way that will enable you to figure out what’s inside a person’s inner world. You will discover that everyone has the same set of structures—thinking patterns, representations (a cinema in mind), editorial capabilities, beliefs, the meta-state funnel, background knowledge, future anticipations, an ecology check, intentionality, etc. That, in turn, will give you a tremendous edge in communicating, influencing, and loving.

Now as if that wasn’t complex enough, there’s something else that makes the inner world even more complex. The information in your meta place, and everyone else’s, is constantly shifting and changing. It does not stay the same. As you grow, your meta place grows. It evolves to reflect your increasing knowledge, understandings, and experiences.

Each person’s meta place is an assumptive world—an inner world of meanings. Out of your meta place comes your patterns which make up your “way of being in the world.” There your intentional world is manifested most clearly and from it, you become engaged in whatever you are doing. That raises a critical question, “What are you trying to do?” “What are you striving to do or to achieve in your life?”

Obviously you have a great many intrinsic human needs which drive you. You have survival needs, safety and security needs, social need for love and affection, and the need to be esteemed as socially worthy and able to gain respect (Maslow’s hierarchy of deficiency needs). Yet as you experience these deficiency needs (the D-needs), you do so by interpreting them via your meta place. This alludes to the first of the Being-needs (B-needs), namely, knowledge, information, and meaning.

As you learn about the meta place and discover how to enter into it and even better, how to change it for the better, you will find yourself on a journey of self-discovery and self-empowerment. Given the kind of consciousness that you have (i.e., self-reflexive consciousness), you inevitably create, and then live from, your meta place. Your life is inescapably inside–out. From there, the quality of your life is a function of the quality of your meta place. Now on to the journey!