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.This list could go on.But even trying to describe being by listing attributes may besomewhat foolhardy, because it is a state of consciousness beyond description.If you are init, overanalysis will almost surely take you back out of it.But by knowing what to look for,you can begin to align your perception in the direction of this experience.In a nutshell, beingconsists of a continual, direct connection between self and world.It results from consciouslyawakening, the deliberate effort that leads to the natural condition of being fully conscious ofbeing conscious.BECOMINGMaslow maintains that self-actualization is everything that a person can become, an ultimateachievement.But we can t see what we can become because we are dominated bywhatever need pulls at us.5Becoming necessitates constant venturing into the unknown.Itsuggests the ability to move toward, or maintain, being, to move with life s experiences bysaturating yourself in each moment and, at the same time, by completely letting go of eachmoment.It is an unfolding.The conditions of your life emanate from that instant.Viewed inthis way, learning is becoming and vice versa.Maslow asserts that being and becoming are not contradictory or mutually exclusive and that both are rewarding.6 Both require simultaneously connecting with potential andallowing that connection to give rise to actuality.Maintaining being requires constantbecoming and constant becoming takes you to being.Neither is static, excessively closed,or dogmatic.The two arise from a continual dance with learning and imagination, withpotential, and with infinity.In this dance you entertain possibilities and move toward thosethat resonate with core.But if you identify too much with these goals, you will once again pinperception to the definition, to the thoughts, rather than to the experience.That prevents youfrom awakening completely, removing you from the very energy of the venture.You thensuccumb to closure, which blocks becoming.As you awaken your energy body, you automatically activate latent capacities ofperception.Developing these gives rise to factors that are similar to those found in becomingand being.For example, don Juan says that seeing is the greatest accomplishment of anartisan because seeing places you at the doorstep of mastery.Yet a person can lose oneselfin the intricacies of what is being seen.The person may become less objective and moreobsessed, ending the robust ontological development of the energy body.The immediateconsequence is that the person fixates the assemblage point rather than coming to terms withits nature, its relativity.This is a key point, he says, in understanding the inherent propertiesof perception.7The skill is to remain unbiased in order to allow seeing to reveal more of what humansand the world are.This is possible only through becoming.It is the descriptions of realitythat ensnarl us, states don Juan.If we remain unbiased and free as we learn, we stand achance of complete awakening.8Physicist Roger Jones helps place this in another context.He notes that Newtonianscience contended that there is a clearly defined, objective world that exists independently ofobservation.With the advent of quantum physics, the role of the observer came intoconsideration, as did the notion that what is being observed can t be separated from theobserver; by the very nature of quantum theory the observer and that which is beingobserved are entangled.9 The consciousness of the observer directly influences what is beingobserved.The point here is that when measured against infinity there is no ultimateaccounting for what is perceived, no encapsulating it.A new model, as measured by a newassemblage point position, will always emerge as we get better at perceiving infinity.FlowA main characteristic of being is flow and flow aptly characterizes becoming.PsychologistMihaly Csikszentmihalyi explores this in his book Flow: The Psychology of OptimalExperience.He says that joy, creativity, and total involvement with life are all aspects offlow, and comprise conditions of optimal experience.Furthermore, Daniel Goleman says thatbeing able to enter flow is .emotional intelligence at its best; flow [italics mine] represents perhaps the ultimate in harnessing the emotions in the service of performance andlearning. 10Accordingly, deliberately entering flow is not a haphazard, farfetched proposition.Itchallenges you to jettison everything that holds you back, and then catapult your awarenessinto regions that remain unimaginable for most.Flow occurs from adeptly navigatingpotential.A degree of abandon fosters it.You have to push forward.Relaxation is alsoneeded.Even in strenuous athletic activity, relaxation is a main ingredient for optimalperformance.11 Developing a natural energy field also requires relaxation.Energy cannotcirculate when constrained.A natural energy field has no ordinary definition; you don t haveto maintain it by force.Residing in a natural field maintains flow.And this works hand-in-hand with heightened consciousness.TimingAs Heidegger maintains, time offers the possibility of moving forward, of becoming.12Beingresults from residing in the continuously developing moment and for this timing carries theday.Timing in this sense means you have keen awareness of your place in the world andhow to effectively navigate your path through daily life.An unnatural pace blocksimagination and learning, and thus becoming, and therefore you need to discover yournatural pace in all activities; it s not like you have to behave only one way.Emotionalintelligence establishes a strong step in discovering your innate timing.Too many thoughtsabout the world and you lose your sense of the world.This refined balance with the worldautomatically leads to peak experiences.Timing, then, stems from awareness of the moment,allows you to connect directly with the world, and promotes quality of life.Another effect of timing is experiencing a shift from reviewing time to looking into theface of on-coming time, another element of being.Usually, we view time as linear, aligningour perception in a manner that we view time moving from the past to the present to thefuture.To make a decision, we call upon past experiences and project that information intothe future, thinking the stability and predictability of the future is held together by events ofthe past.While this rings true to some extent, it produces self-fulfilling prophecy by weaningout potential; especially potential that doesn t immediately connect with our known world.Life then unfolds by the conditions we give it.We also see continuity in another s behaviorbased on our experiences with them, and then get disgruntled if their behavior doesn t fit ourexpectations.As we hold the order of our world to a linear progression of time, it becomes amajor force affecting our perception.We forget it is a convenient arrangement to help usmake sense of our experiences, and lose ourselves thinking it is the only way the worldworks.To face time, you maneuver your cohesion to a new coherence, a new assemblage pointposition.You face upriver, so to speak, to witness the origins of time.This has the effect of enabling you to hook onto potential, to nonlinear time that spreads in many directions.Thishelps manage flow.However, time and flow may be viewed as entirely separate dynamics.Flow results from achieving a solid alignment with an emanation and then feeling theresonance of energies, whereas time and timing are the measurement of this action.To have proper timing, you need to gain masterful control of your energy body, whichinvolves a highly refined balance with the world.Proficiency with timing therefore rests inthe artisan stage.13 As an artisan, you can step away from the familiar and bring potentialinto play through becoming-being
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