Pencil: The Eraser/Past (is Stupid)

Book 6: The Internal Worship | Chapter 6.2 | 26 May 2021

When it comes to your past, the only question you have to ask yourself is this: "Do I have a time machine?" If your answer is "no", then the past is fixed and utterly useless to you.

The past only endures within the mind. Predefined tissue ridges and connected neurons can play these tapes back, but the moments no longer exist on your current plain. Moreover, even these memories are unreliable, as no two minds can ever recall the exact situation identically, and a simple knock on the head can wipe the hard drive clean.

Do you dare to go deeper than this? How certain can you be that your memories are genuine? You have zero proof that some external force hasn't planted them in there via hypnotism or perhaps even as an elaborate simulation built just for you. Again, Janthopoyism remains neutral to entertain every hypothesis.

Many people get stuck in their former days, persistently looping through cerebral litter that drums up a potent emotional association. Of all the methods to betray your Internal Universe, this mental hindrance would be of the most criminal. For what is more contradictory to evolution than facing backwards?

However, we recognise that letting go of the past isn't easy for everyone. Incidents have moulded our personalities for better or worse, haunting our immediate psyche wherever we look. And until your brain can accept previous traumas as mere electrical currents zapping between dodgy grooves, it's going to be a challenge to train the mind to pick the needle up and drop it somewhere else. If this is an issue for your well-being, we are only willing to suggest is that you do whatever it takes to sort that out. Pursue anything that resonates with your energy as a healthy, permanent solution, be it therapy, meditation, exercise, or the like. Running the Skew System will do a lot of the work for you. But, unfortunately, that's where Janthopoyism stops on the matter. The past plays less than a minuscule function in our teaching, and considering the ample number of publications on the topic, we feel no desire to get involved. If you need to deal with something in your history, that's a part of your process that will require independent pursuits outside of the Janthopoyism range.

Various philosophies revolve around the concept of past lives. Janthopoyism would never claim these theories as 100% untrue but would also appreciate it if other schoolings did not claim them as 100% true. From our awareness, these entirely unprovable notions of recollected info from reincarnated processes are improbable due to the Universe's infinite space to reuse energy. And while there's no harm in dancing within this realm of thought, the immovable belief in past lives (or anything!) is unlikely to serve your Internal Energy. Your ego clings to identification, and your mind exclusively presents material that it has convinced itself as accurate. To trust such mental imagery is a dangerous game with no end. If it's too late and your convictions have trapped you in this "past lives" speculation, then at least evaluate how it's helping you right now. Remember that we want to move forward! So if you are focusing most of your mind's energy so far into your past that it predates your life itself, then you risk overlooking what Janthopoyism is gifting to you.

Individuals frequently argue that the past is beneficial for us to examine as personal learning experiences. Janthopoyism teaches that this is not necessary. For all of its craziness, your brain has plenty of valuable functions, one of which is saving memories for later recall. When a crossroad arrives that demands earlier information, the brain retrieves it by the duty of its job. But by stewing in past pictures without immediate benefit, you can block out current opportunities of progression, particularly if these recollections are upsetting in nature.

That said, one past-associated practice we do support is journaling. Whenever something provokes strange energy, get into the habit of writing down an emotionless solution-based analysis about what you can do to improve next round. The idea is not to document your woes in a Dear Diary fashion but to assist your memory in recording the data correctly. In doing so, you have played a conscious role in carving out the thought's power, preempting the experience when your predefined neurological pathways next call upon it. In your own words, you have neatly organised the brain documentation whilst concurrently training your Gatekeeper to recognise repeated actions coming a mile away. This preparation is hugely advantageous compared to what most people do: scrambling together shreds of flashbacks during moments of blinding emotions. No reliable solutions can come of that!

There is additional value in using the past to gauge personal progress. Janthopoyism believes that everyone's path is incomprehensibly different, hence why it is futile to compare oneself to anyone else. You will only reach warped results this way, as the Universe constructs unique staircases for each unique perspective. Utilise others as inspiration, sure, but only evaluate your present situation against your preceding positions. Exclusively seek to advance yourself by improving on your former self! The Skew System provides numerical values associated with your life, and this can be a helpful method of measuring yourself in opposition to yourself. It allows us to detach from any specifics and instead note how far we have progressed or where we may have slipped. If you're advancing, good! Keep doing that. If you're regressing, then it's time to adjust. Short of a brief observation concerning emotional changes, it would be best if you spent very little of your day dissecting past details whatsoever. Look at where you are going, not where you have come from.

Finally, recalling memories that produce delight is highly recommended! Anything that sparks happiness is profitable and wholly the point of Janthopoyism in the first place. If a past picture pops up that vibrates with positive energy, hold it there and enjoy!

Reading the above paragraphs, we can note examples where Janthopoyism appreciates the past. But these are so minimal that one can disregard them if they complicate your circumstances in any trend. Are you a person whose history consumes a large portion of your energetic resource (especially from a negative viewpoint)? Then it's advisable to cut these thoughts off completely and trail more lubricated paths however you manage to do so.

Getting upset about bygone events makes as much sense as getting upset about the weather. You have no control until you give up trying to gain control. What's done is done. There's nothing you can do except accept it and move on.

That is why we refer to it as The Eraser.
If you can get rid of the past's real estate in your forward motion plans, then you've already conquered this segment of the Pencil Program with a 100% scorecard.

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