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Everything the mind does is behavior, and this behavior can be controlled just as easily as the behavior of children. Behavioral acts which are neurotic are simply mental misbehaviors, and can be reduced and extinguished as easliy as any other behavior.

Neurotic behavioral acts can be recognized. Paranoia, for example, is always wrong-mindfulness, no matter how plausible, no matter how much of a basis in reality the paranoid apprehension may have -- it is a small-minded, mean way of being and it can be disallowed.

Okay mind, stop doing that. Hey! I said to stop doing that. Now you’re going to get a spanking. (Pants down, over the meditation seat, skin of the buns stretched taut, with the paddle, thwack! thwack! thwack! thwack! thwack! thwack! thwack!) Now are you going to stop doing that? Yes, sir. I WILL STOP DOING THAT! I WILL STOP DOING THAT! I WILL NOT BE PARANOID! Good boy. (smack smack smack, with the hand.)

Psychology errs when it assumes that the pleasure principle drives human behavior. That is probably true of lower animals, but the human form is divine. It did not evolve from below, from the lower animals -- we did not come from them. It involved, from above. (More on this point here. Don't interrupt your reading -- you can check this out later, if you wish.)

Divine forms are transcarnate. Most of the people reading this have lived for thousands of incarnations. Spanking-control is the normal way to bring children up. Everyone responds to it, regardless of how they were raised, because they have been raised by it thousands of times. It is so deep in the soul that it is impossible to deny.

For this reason, nothing works better. By applying it properly, a transcendental human, in touch with his transcarnate soul, can increase his self-control to such a degree that he can be, metaphorically, a shape-shifter.

Behavior is most key. Progress on our spiritual paths depends upon it, and behavioral level is most powerfully self-controlled by the method given on this website.

There is an archetype of the human form. (Theologically, this is Narayana, the way the human being was designed, in the ideal, by its Creator.) When we encounter a more archetypal person, we are often strangely drawn, and find that he will easily hold sway. We have got to get ourselves back to the garden, because we once were in the garden. Of Eden, if you will. Buddhists call that place the Pure Land. We are living in a cosmic fairyland, but we cannot perceive it. The more we conform to the archetype, the more we can see of it. Of course there is no sin in that place, and sin is mostly what has deprived us of the Pure Land, the Garden, the Archetype, and the presence of God. We are out of contact with these factors because we are out of contact with our own souls.

The divine nature, whose characteristics are listed in Bhagavad Gita is our true nature, our real nature, and conforming to those characteristics brings us closer to the archetype. Disidentifying with the characteristics of the demoniac nature -- pride, arrogance, conceit, anger, harshness, and ignorance, also listed in Gita, will likewise bring us closer.

Any lessening of sin in our lives will bring us closer to the archetype, since the more we eliminate sin, the better we can conform to our own souls, which always abide in a place where there is no sin.

Lessening of sin is brought about through discipline. After a sin is eliminated, the process of firm repudiation aids us greatly to become proof against that error in the future, including future lives. This is personal correction.

Children are very archetypal. Firstly, as babies, they come to us from a heavenly state. Secondly, they are mostly kept in the way of goodness by their parents, and so the archetype is not corrupted. The traditional, most normal sort of parenting works best in keeping them in that condition.

But the need which parenting addresses does not cease when the parenting has concluded (generally by the 25th birthday, usually somewhat sooner). If the archetype is to be embraced, the need must be addressed -- everyone who is good is made to be good, either by himself or by another.

The subconscious has only two motivations -- fear and desire, or you could say reward and punishment. Ideality does not enter the picture. Whether a given behavior will be chosen or not is a Mexican standoff. If the fear exceeds the desire by one unit, the fear will win, and vice versa. Any desire can be defeated by the fear of punishment. If you say to the subconscious, “You will get a spanking if you do that,” it wants to know how hard, so that it can make a rational choice.

Children are walking, talking subconscious units. Normal parenting controls them, and those same methods are best used by the independent individual to control his own subconscious (whose nature has not changed with maturity). And the subconscious causes well over 90% of the behavior of any individual.

To revert to childhood is pathetic, yet many do so, yearning for the more archetypal condition in which children are kept. That condition may be attained, but certainly not by abnegating our responsibility. A whole person is able to play, and to be disciplined in a way which resembles that of children, but the responsibility for the self must not be abnegated. This is why we use the discipline contract if we have disciplinary relationship.

Sin must be escaped, but repentance is not a very good way. When the sin-state has been entered, the seeming being, the ego, has become misaligned with its true soul, and has reverted to dependency upon group-soul, as the lower animals are. You cannot feel sorrow for your sin, since you are not aligned with your true soul, which is the source of your feelings. Instead, you are dependent upon whatever group-soul deigns to pump into you in the way of feeling.

The entire process of exiting the sin-state and entering the grace-state can be performed cognitively. Don’t worry about feeling sorry -- that will come later, after you have been restored to your true soul.

The worst mistake this planet makes is to give power to religion. Who is most interested in power? The devils -- the ill devas. And so the relgions tend to become devil-controlled.

Christianity and the other “saving” religions have become degenerate, and strive to keep their people in a borderline sin state so that they will be dependent upon the clergy and remain group-soul subjugates.

By applying discipline (if you sin you will get a spanking. ‘But I’m too old to be spanked.’ Not if you use the methods on this website.) the sin-state can be left, and the grace-state attained.

In the sin-state, you cannot perceive either God or your own higher self, yet neither God nor your higher-self cease to be completely aware of you. Because I know this, and I tell it to you, you can believe it.

So you can represent your own individual higher-self when you are correcting yourself. (‘This is for committing that sin.’ Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! ‘Ow! Yes sir.’ ‘Are you going to stop doing that?’ Silence. Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! ‘Ow! Yes, sir.’ ‘Now go clean up your room. If you disobey, you will get another spanking.’ ‘Yes, sir.’)

Early behavior-modification researchers observed that when adult prisoners were given a parenting-like discipline, even including corporal punishment, almost at once the characteristic set of responses that children evince when they receive the discipline, emerged in them, making it clearly obvious that the responses are not childish, but human.

The parts of the behavior of children which constitute their archetypal nature (obedience, parent-pleasing, play) are mistakenly discarded by one who begins to be mature. The b’thwatter is thrown out with the baby.

The more archetypal we are, the more we work the way we are supposed to. Children are typically much more archetypal than adults. This is because the archetype is the natural, unaffected way of being. Children are protected, they have not been overwhelmed by their own cumbersome defenses, and, more to the point, they are largely kept out of the sin-state by their parents..

Adults, in this world, are typically deluded, enmeshed in their own defenses, and very poor examples of the archetype. Many sense this, yearning and groping back toward the more archetypal condition they knew in childhood.

That is a well-motivated seeking. But to become more archetypal once more, delusion and the sin-state must be conquered, and right there you are in a fight with the devil, who wants to keep you deluded and in sin, so that he can continue to draw power from you through your dependency upon group-soul -- the dependency to which sin and delusion have relegated you.

And so when the reclaiming of the archetypal condition is essayed, one will encounter a number of fiendish traps. “No, no, you are a child. Your adult powers, prerogatives, and privileges are forfeit. Furthermore, you are no longer independent. You must obey. Any adult.” So on and so on, blah blah. “You cannot escape, because I will viciously attack you. Now get back into those pretenses and delusions.”

Archetypal values, including those of childhood which have been mistakenly discarded when childhood is exited, may be reclaimed, but not by abnegating your responsibility for yourself.

In seeking them, it is important to do so in a way which befits your years. Most essentially it is necessary to not take any parent figures, who would seem to bear toward you some or all of the responsibility you have for yourself. Responsibility which you cannot abdicate, for you will ultimately admit that you have never ceased to be responsible.

Indeed it is possible and proper to reclaim all of the values without any compromise of self-control whatsoever, and without yielding sovereignty to anyone whomsoever.

The human form, like all other divine forms in the cosmos, is inherently subordinate, but ultimately each of us is subject only to the Godhead and to his own Buddha-self in Nirvana. One Godhead, several quintillions of eternal Buddha-selves, each divine form in the universe having only its own.

So let us look at some of the archetypal values that we observe in children, but not in most adults, and ask ourselves what is the version of those values that befits our years and state of independence.

The first is parent-pleasing -- the fervent desire to please and to obey a loving parent whom we also love. For the mature, independent person, this quality may be applied to the Godhead directly in any of his millions of forms, or it may be sent inward toward the Buddha-self, including any identity constructs met with at various grade levels of consciousness between our own level and Nirvana.

You often see in a public place, a small, thigh-high child, innocent, ingenuous, completely secure, unabashedly dependent, put its arms around it’s parent’s leg, rest a blissful cheek upon it, and happily give love, in a sort of released rapture. This is archetypal.

In reclaiming that value, I would duplicate it exactly, imagining yourself in relation to a symbol of either the Godhead in any of his many forms, or of your very own Buddha-self in Nirvana. And give that love. In just that way. We are more dependent upon Him than the little child is on the parent.

It is a rare thing to be touched by one’s Buddha-self directly. I was over 60 when I experienced it during Kundalini Yoga, and I stumbled around for days or weeks afterward, mumbling, “I love that more than God.”

Motivation by fun, the power of play, complete and utter truthfulness, the desire to train and condition, natural grace of body, powerful conscience, compulsion to associate with friends that we like -- these are all archetypal.

We sometimes observe in a very good twelve-year-old boy, a truthfulness which is utterly uncompromised, which takes no prisoners. It is a cosmic force, and awesome to behold. The reason for its manifestation at such a young age is that the child at that age has never known insecurity.

There is no survival-fear, no question of where the next meal or the next dwelling will come from. No tendency to compromise factuality for reasons of tact, or of threat to one’s position.

Yet that perspective is realer. These threats that we perceive are illusory, and game-bound. The real truth is that we are all being completely supported by the Godhead, in the form of Vishnu, at all times.

In reclaiming the archetypal values it is very necessary to not revert to juvenility, and especially to not allow oneself to be grouped with juveniles. That is what the systems of usurpant demonry try to do -- to sell you on the notion that the price of those values is your adult powers, privileges, and prerogatives.

Also your mature mind and soul properties. Be adamant that you are not abnegating them. State clearly that you are reclaiming archetypal values which most mistakenly discard when they grow up, in a way which does not compromise your condition of maturity.

To underscore that, do not submit to any human system -- even religion. Make your submissions only to the Godhead and to your own Buddha-self in Nirvana. You can play obedience games if you are fortunate enough to find someone to play with, but always govern them with some form of the discipline contract.

Control by spanking-discipline (which works equally well in self-discipline as it does in parenting) is actually hard-wired into your very body. We were designed to respond to it.