Traumwind - mixed results

Yesterdays experiment was only a partial success. For one I'm struggeling with problems on the technical side of things. As I mentioned I was using MP3 playback through my HiFi DVD player. While it did actually play my MP3s. I think I either did something slightly wrong in encoding or the player had problems with my CD-R. What made the listening experience fail was the facts that the player would 'lose track' about every 5-10min. and produce an gap of about 3sec trying to re-find the track. This is bad for normal music enjoyment, but for meditation/relaxation type listening this is a deal stopper. It's not being aware of the actual listening that's the trick, and these gaps have a very nice awakening effect...

The other side is the idea that one is supposed to not be aware of the spoken words for them to work and be remembered. It's actually rather hard to not listen to spoken words. The mind tries very hard to concentrate and to understand conciously. Thats how we are conditioned and that's what needs to be overcome for this to work. Listening to at least one chapter you already know well should help bore the consciousness enough to let go. Maintaining a highened state of (un)conscious awareness at the same time will be the feat.

Also the very idea and nature of this method makes it difficult to impossible to consciously register the effects of this unconscious learning. It'S the very principle that it a non-conscious process. But our western conditioning and experience with learning all tells us that one doesn't 'simply know' things.

And finally, given the subject I choose, it is rather hard to verify the success of this method. For one I already know some about C. It's difficult to decide if one gained a deepened understanding or not.

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