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How Do You Know What You Know? by Darren Eden
Welcome to the current edition of “Tools You can Use.” The exercise I want to introduce to you is called, “How Do You Know What You Know?” It’s one of my personal favourite exercises because it propels you out of your identity into your Spirit. It is so simple yet so powerful.
One of the core dynamics that keep you locked into your limited identity is your “need to know”. Your identity is always seeking orientation and the gathering of knowledge is very orientating. In order to step outside of identity you have to not know.
There is nothing inherently wrong with knowing things. Learning can bring immense joy and pleasure as well as open doors in life that weren’t open to you before. The key thing to realise here is that your identity focuses on gathering and retaining information that supports and reinforces your beliefs. For instance, if someone has a trust belief, unconsciously they will only seek knowledge that ensures their safety. Your beliefs filter the information that is constantly coming your way. As William mentions in his article, our brain receives four billion bits of information every second, however it only processes two thousand.
To live outside of identity you have to be able to live outside of what you know. You have to not know. This is the beauty of the, “How do you know what you know” exercise. It propels you into “not knowing” and thereby propels you outside of your identity.
The process itself is very simple. It is best done with two people. One person starts by making a statement of fact, like “The sky is blue.” And the other person simply asks, “How do you know that?” The first person responds and then the second person asks the same question again, “And how do you know that?” You keep going along this path until you come to the very obvious end result.
Here’s an example for you:
Person 1: The sky is blue
Person 2: How do you know that?
Person 1: Because I can see it with my eyes
Person 2: And how do you know that?
Person 1: Because I’m not blind.
Person 2: And how do you know that?
Person 1: Because I don’t trip over when I walk
Person 2: And how do you know that?
Person 1: …………
As you continue through this process you’ll ultimately come to a point where you can’t go any further, you’ll come to the very obvious realisation that you don’t know what you know. You make it up!! I promise you, when you get this, all the lights will come on in your head. “You don’t know what you know. You make it up.” Keep going until you get to this point. Play the game. Don’t just stop because rationally you know what the answer is.
I’ve facilitated hundreds of people through this exercise and it’s very often the exercise that’s a catalyst for people making a fundamental shift from living in their identity to living in their heart. A great example is an engineer who did a training with me four years ago. His identity orientated around a trust belief and he always unconsciously sought safety. This influenced his choice of career and the company he chose to work for. He worked in a petro-chemical plant in Sydney and what he “knew” was vital to both his safety at work and his career as an engineer. When he did this exercise, he was a very tough cookie, he had a detailed rational explanation every time he got asked the question: “How do you know that?” But there came a point after 10 or 15 minutes when his eyes glazed over and he got it. He suddenly realised that he didn’t know how he knew what he knew. From that moment on he progressively started transforming his life. Within twelve months he left his very stressful job at the petro-chemical plant, fell in love, got married, moved to the country and started developing eco-designed self-sustaining technology for farms.
Every time you step out of what you know and into the unknown you step out of the limited resource of your identity into the rich wisdom of your intuition which, as it did for my engineer friend, will progressively lead you along the path to your dreams.
Keep creating magically. I hope to see you at the Magician’s Way Intensive in October or November.
Darren Eden
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