There have been 1000 people in the world who have evolved to the level of human being… in tens of thousands of years.

The rest of humanity remained on the evolutionary level of homo sapiens.
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Immersion is a learning modality.

The most used example is jacket shopping.

You go to the jacket store. There is a whole rack of jackets. The sales clerk suggests you try a jacket on.

Immersion would be that you actually put the jacket on, feel it, look at yourself, look at the world. Look how the world changes as you are wearing that new piece of clothing.

You can take off the jacket and put it back on the rack, or wear it for a while for size, for cut, for color… and see if you like the way the world looks and feels with the jacket on.

That is immersion.

What most people do is refuse to put on the jacket. They are afraid that they will be stuck with it. Instead they ask questions that will never give them an experience… only mind candy.
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The core four are

having to
needing to
wanting to
should

They give you the mood that renders you joyless.
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Backdrop is a place where everything you say about yourself, all the beliefs, your entire worldview is stored and active when you do anything with the backdrop in sight.

We could say that the backdrop works like the tail that wags the dog… you.

We could say that all the experiences that you’d call spiritual, or life altering happened when something diverted your eyes from the backdrop. When you weren’t you…

The art of the backdrop process is to learn do that without extreme measures… and be allowed to behave like you are not you.

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from Alleydog.com

Successive Approximation
Let’s use the definition of “shaping” to explain successive approximations. Our definition of “shaping” is: “a behavioral term that refers to gradually molding or training an organism to perform a specific response by reinforcing any responses that come close to the desired response.

For example, a researcher can use shaping to train a rat to press a lever during an experiment (since rats are not born with the instinct to press a lever in a cage during an experiment). To start, the researcher may reward the rat when it makes any movement at all in the direction of the lever. Then, the rat has to actually take a step toward the lever to get rewarded. Then, it has to go over to the lever to get rewarded (remember, it will not receive any reward for doing the earlier behaviors now…it must make a more advanced move by going over to the lever), and so on until only pressing the lever will produce reward. The rat’s behavior was ‘shaped’ to get it to press the lever.”

In this example, each time the rat is rewarded, it is being rewarded for a “successive approximation”, or for acting in a way that gets closer and closer to the desired behavior.

The result is convergence
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there is only one perfect solution to any life situation… many imperfect solutions.
the one perfect solution, we’ll call strait and narrow.
You find it with successive approximation: using errors as guidance.
The desired result: convergence into the strait and narrow
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