The Flash Answer/Awareness Method

Session 4: The Flash Answer/Awareness Method

Word associations are the focus of this session as Dr. Wenger takes you through an in-depth study of the Basic Associative Method, also known as the Flash Answer Method. When someone says “sky,” what word comes to mind? Did any other thought or mental picture come to mind?

And when one says “brick,” what immediately comes to mind?

These are flash associations — sometimes just word-associations like blue with sky, or wall with brick; other times they are sensory image associations — seeing a brick or some bricks or seeing brick in a picture, the feeling of holding a brick, even the smell of a brick in the sunshine.

When someone says “brick” and you think “wall,” the revelation is not very profound. But many or most of the associations formed at very deep levels of the brain and mind — the deeper the faster, mind you - DO have profound meaning. This can be VERY convenient in finding answers and solutions to problems, especially in this Lesson’s main procedure, which is called the “Flash Answer Method” (also referred to as the Basic Associative Procedure).

Exercise 11: The Flash Answer Method Exercise 11: The Flash Answer Method

As you are asked the following questions, be prepared to notice where your attention and awareness first start to veer to. Then wherever that is, please start describing that aloud, so your awareness can fully develop. Here is your question:

1. “Until now, what’s the main thing you’ve let stand between you and full development of your intelligence?”

Capture that first impression or stray awareness, zero in on it even while your partner repeats the question for you:

“Until now, what’s the main thing you’ve let stand between you and full development of your intelligence?”

2. Whatever that first impression or awareness was and is, please now tell your partner about it out loud, as if he/she were physically present with you. Tell him/her as many details as you can about what was in that first awareness, beginning now.

Allow two and a half minutes to pass for this segment of the exercise.

3. Now mentally thank your own higher faculties, your greater mind, for that answer. Please thank your further resources, now, for having given you a great answer to that question — those parts of you like to be reinforced, just as the conscious part of you likes to be reinforced and acknowledged. Now ask your faculties to help you understand that great answer. Let them help you understand that answer by giving you, with a very different flash awareness this time,

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somehow the same great answer to the same question, only shown to you a very different way.

Perhaps the same great answer but through a very different flash awareness, your NEW first flash awareness in response to the question,

“Until now, what’s the main thing you’ve let stand between you and full development of your intelligence?”

That first flash awareness whatever it is, please tell your partner all about it, with as many details as possible.

Allow three minutes to pass for this segment of the exercise. After two of those minutes the partner should say, “Good, still more detail please…” and then continue through the third

minute.

4. Please thank again your higher faculties for that answer, ask their further help with yet a third, different flash awareness which somehow is the same answer to the same question, only shown differently. Notice again what is your first flash-awareness, this time, in answer to the question.

“Until now, what’s the main thing you’ve let stand between you and full development of your intelligence?”

Allow three minutes to pass for this segment of the exercise.

5. Even if these three flash awarenesses or impressions are VERY different from each other, there are some points or elements in common, some pattern, some trend maybe. Find those points in common and you’ve found what these three impressions are highlighting as your answer. Maybe it’s the memory or image or thought of grass present in all three, or maybe it’s the color blue, or maybe things that are shaped like circles. Whatever point or points in common, you will want to not only tell me but to write them out over these next couple of minutes in the space provided below or in your Portable Memory Bank. What ARE the things that are alike from one of these awarenesses to the next, when everything is different? Please identify and tell your partner those elements-in-common.

Allow four minutes to pass for this segment of the exercise. Two minutes into this process, have the partner say, “Good, what else can you find that’s alike from one to the next awareness?

6. Now that you have those points-in-common, as you conclude this lesson, you may have an idea of how they make a great response to the question your partner asked you. If not, you may need to do a bit of brainstorming. Please list on your notepad, and tell your partner aloud, ALL the possible ways in which those points-in-common could somehow answer the question. Then, list some of the things you can do about it. Have your partner repeat the instruction for this final step: “Please list on your notepad, and tell me aloud, ALL the possible ways in which those

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points-in-common could somehow be an answer to my question — and then, if that IS your answer, what are some of the things you can do about it?”

Allow three to four minutes to pass for this segment of the exercise.

Exercise 12: The Solo Flash Answer Method Exercise 12: The Solo Flash Answer Method

You can, and should, run your own questions and problems at this method. But how can you get enough suddenness if you are asking yourself the question? There is an easy solution. Write out three different questions on separate pieces of paper. Fold them in on themselves and switch them around and around so you don’t know which piece of paper represents each question. Pick out one piece of paper. When you’re ready, suddenly unfold and read which question that is and go for that flash awareness answer. After you’ve recorded enough details on your first flash awareness, thank your faculties, ask their help as before, abruptly look again at that same question to elicit your second flash awareness, and so on.

When you’re done, replace the question you’ve answered with another new question or problem, so you have three ready to pick from for the next occasion.

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