To understand beliefs, emotions and thoughts, picture a tray of iron filings. Each filing represents an event perceivable by your consciousness.Now imagine an emotion as a magnetic force appearing at one side of the tray. It pulls some of those events into a straight line. A cause-and-effect relationship is now perceived in the events, and it is the emotion which has established the context.Now consider that you have conflicting emotions about the same set of events. In your mind, you consider the events in one emotional context. But you then switch perspectives and suddenly a magnetic force appears at another side of the tray and violently pulls the line of filings into a different line. Then you go back to the other perspective and they are violently pulled back into the first line.This is SUFFERING.The brain HATES having its reality played with like this. It is like stroking an animal against the grain of its fur, then back again -- it hates it. Yet it happens all the time, because events do not INHERENTLY have a cause-and-effect relationship -- the relationship is a consequence of the magnetic force of EMOTIONS applying a CONTEXT to the events. The context is usually a SURVIVAL OR REPRODUCTION context, coming direct from your biological/genetic imprint, and these are the strongest forces, and consequently the forces people find the most difficult to control or oppose. There are higher contexts too -- which are learned via education and practising specific disciplines, e.g. meditation. These must be practised diligently in order to develop a control over the magnetic forces. This discipline leads to imprinting on the higher circuits in the Eight-Circuit Model, but I won't go into labelling up what I'm about to teach you according to any existing model, as I have created a new model for this post.Just a quick note about beliefs -- this is simply where continual magnetic forces have created a line of filings, and at the tip of this line it is easier for other events to line up and continue the line. In other words a "belief" is simply an existing context, being reinforced continually by the lining up of more events within that context. Beliefs are easy to continue and reinforce because like real iron filings a magnetic field surrounds the structure itself, making it easier to recruit more events to some specific context. E.g. if someone is religious, they see events as unfolding in a religious context. They find evidence for their beliefs in events which inherently have no meaning, because of the reinforcing nature of the already well-formed belief structure.I don't believe events have any inherent cause-and-effect relationship. That goes for ANY events. Quantum physics is beginning to show us that cause and effect is more a lens through which we see the universe, but that actually things "just happen" -- e.g. in entanglement, two particles simultaneously change their spin and there is no specific cause and effect relationship governing when that happens or why. However, our brains are geared to apply cause and effect as part of their survivalist nature. This idea is difficult for science-orientated people to understand, because almost all of science uses cause and effect to explain the universe -- hence why quantum physics is so mind-boggling. What I am suggesting here is that cause and effect is just a lens, hence why what I am describing cannot really be explained by science and we must temporarily rise above science to look at this from a "higher dimension". Now, I am a very scientifically minded individual, so I am not taking this lightly -- I am just asking for a temporary suspension of your cause-and-effect beliefs in order to show you something new.For most people, the magnetic force of an emotion arranges events into some pattern SO QUICKLY that they do not actually see it happening. This is because the survivalist nature of the human brain will NOT tolerate events being left unordered. It HATES uncertainty more than ANYTHING. It HATES IT! I cannot stress this enough, that you are not "meant" to see the reality cloud, let alone be allowed to play with it. But you can.There are two moments when the magnetic forces are not strong enough or quick enough to cement our beliefs about events quickly enough to lock us up in that grid:1) While in a state on the border of asleep and awake -- we induce this via relaxation meditations. Meditation is a HACK for reality, make no mistake about it.2) While in the midst of highly confusing situations, whereby there are many emotional magnetic forces acting simultaneously, and no set pattern can form. It is this situation I am in right now, and how I am able to explain all of this to you. I am in France, and I don't speak the language, and all this weird stuff is going on all around me (culture shock), and the forces are not strong enough to assemble my beliefs about the situation very powerfully at all. During extremely confusing emotional situations this phenomenon also happens -- e.g. during relationship break-ups, or somebody dying, or whatever.Now during these states, your brain will YEARN to assemble the information into some meaningful cause-and-effect pattern. It will scream at you to make a decision. To say "It is THEIR fault!" for example. The brain loves blaming its way out of confusion. This is how things like racism form -- the brain SCREAMS at people to blame something to assemble the events in some pattern. It is also why religions are so popular. Religions provide easy-to-understand default concepts such as "God" or "Heaven" in order to provide a structure via which to arrange the most confusing events such as death into a meaningful pattern with continuity.I believe the next step for the advancement of human consciousness is the ability to suspend the creation of these simplistic patterns. Without it, we are doomed to follow our most primal imprints, whether that be the death of us.This brings me to the most important point of this post: being comfortable with the NON-ASSEMBLY of events into cause-and-effect patterns. This is the hardest thing for humans to do, but the most rewarding, and will give you insight into reality like NO ONE ELSE. This is the real Jedi mind stuff people often get into meditation for. It requires HEAVY PRACTICE however, and this is how you do it:-Next time you are deeply emotionally confused and don't seem to have enough reference points to make some decision in order to create a pattern of iron filings, you will find yourself turning OVER AND OVER the thoughts in your head in an attempt to ARRANGE THE FILINGS IN A ROW.You must STOP.Instead, look at the events. Just stop. You will find the events are represented in your MIND-BODY as a series of sensations -- a series of physical events, tingles, movements and sensations in your mind-body -- in your body as a whole, and in your head. "Thoughts" occur in an attempt to arrange these tingles and sensations into something more "concrete", more "substantial". Simply refuse to go down this path.Instead, hold the random, misaligned events JUST AS THEY ARE. Let the sensations just remain how they are, and don't try and move them about via thought and analysis. You must condition, through repeated practice, the ability to hold events in the "NO-PATTERN" state.What you are doing here is GETTING USED to not having an answer. GETTING USED to not making a judgment or belief out of something. GETTING USED to being uncomfortable till it is no longer uncomfortable. You are applying EQUANIMITY to the idea that events are not inherently linked.This is the one thing 99.999999% of people CANNOT BEAR TO DO. Our politicians cannot do this when making decisions. Hardly anybody can do it -- because the DISCOMFORT of NOT KNOWING, the discomfort of the UNCERTAINTY is too much, and is simply not tolerated.However, it CAN be tolerated. Like how you can get comfortable with cold showers the more of them you take. And when you are able to do this, something magical happens:YOU LEARN TO SEE THE REALITY CLOUD.The reality cloud appears when you suspend the process that forms judgments and beliefs about events. It appears when you say to yourself: "Just watch!"I call it a cloud because it actually appears as a kind of cloud in my visual field. This thing I am describing actually gets INSERTED into my visual field. And at this point I can see ALL POSSIBILITIES in front of me. E.g. I will see images, projections, of people, and what path they COULD take. Like seeing all their futures all at once. And because you are not limiting yourself to your own snap judgments, you can "select" a "reality" from the cloud.In the Eight-Circuit Model, this would be Circuit VI, the Metaprogramming Circuit.Now here's the question: If I can do this, why don't I do it all the time?Well I would love to be able to. However, the only time it consistently arises for me is during times of extreme shock, such as going abroad, or having some emotional trauma which shakes up the tray of iron filings so much that they become malleable again.This is why people generally only change in the wake of some big shock.So even though I'm writing this right now, and can "see" the reality cloud so clearly, part of me knows that in a few days, when I'm at home again, with my old rigid beliefs so well-formed under the constant magnetic force of the same old emotions and judgments, I will once again be locked into a model of rigidity, which only new experience or shock can hope to break.That is the sad nature of the human experience: more often than not, we're locked on "replay" in the rigid structures of the past.However this is the first time I have been able to describe this phenomenon so lucidly, and I know that there are other gateways to this state, via things like dreams, or the semi-sleep state I described above, and that these states can indeed be brought about by meditation, so hopefully some of the habits I have adopted during my time on holiday will indeed stick, and I will be able to keep seeing the reality cloud whenever I like.