Mystic Thinking ~ an alternative to conventional thinking

Wasted Honor -

Carl R. ToersBijns is the author of the Wasted Honor Trilogy [Wasted Honor I,II and Gorilla Justice] and his newest book From the Womb to the Tomb, the Tony Lester Story, which is a reflection of his life and his experiences as a correctional officer and a correctional administrator retiring with the rank of deputy warden in the New Mexico and Arizona correctional systems.

Carl also wrote a book on his combat experience in the Kindle book titled - Combat Medic - Men with destiny - A red cross of Valor -

Carl is considered by many a rogue expert in the field of prison security systems since leaving the profession. Carl has been involved in the design of many pilot programs related to mental health treatment, security threat groups, suicide prevention, and maximum custody operational plans including double bunking max inmates and enhancing security for staff. He invites you to read his books so you can understand and grasp the cultural and political implications and influences of these prisons. He deals with the emotions, the stress and anxiety as well as the realities faced working inside a prison. He deals with the occupational risks while elaborating on the psychological impact of both prison worker and prisoner.

His most recent book, Gorilla Justice, is an un-edited raw fictional version of realistic prison experiences and events through the eyes of an anecdotal translation of the inmate’s plight and suffering while enduring the harsh and toxic prison environment including solitary confinement.

Carl has been interviewed by numerous news stations and newspapers in Phoenix regarding the escape from the Kingman prison and other high profile media cases related to wrongful deaths and suicides inside prisons. His insights have been solicited by the ACLU, Amnesty International, and various other legal firms representing solitary confinement cases in California and Arizona. He is currently working on the STG Step Down program at Pelican Bay and has offered his own experience insights with the Center of Constitutional Rights lawyers and interns to establish a core program at the SHU units. He has personally corresponded and written with SHU prisoners to assess the living conditions and how it impacts their long term placement inside these type of units that are similar to those in Arizona Florence Eyman special management unit where Carl was a unit deputy warden for almost two years before his promotion to Deputy Warden of Operations in Safford and Eyman.

He is a strong advocate for the mentally ill and is a board member of David's Hope Inc. a non-profit advocacy group in Phoenix and also serves as a senior advisor for Law Enforcement Officers Advocates Council in Chino, California As a subject matter expert and corrections consultant, Carl has provided interviews and spoken on national and international radio talk shows e.g. BBC CBC Lou Show & TV shows as well as the Associated Press.

I use sarcasm, satire, parodies and other means to make you think!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Mystic Thinking ~ an alternative to conventional thinking

Mystic Thinking

By Carl R. ToersBijns

Mystic thinking is a very common trait among those special people that lead others into solving problems. Mystic thinking is an art that is solely a concept that exists within the mind and nowhere else. It does not become familiar to everyone unless they take the time to learn more about the concept and adapt their mindset to make it work for them.

Whether you are a parallel thinking or a lateral thinker you must learn how to think against the most logical approach and look at it from another view or dimension. Think of it as horizontal thinking or vertical to the parallel problem presented to you to solve. Not a new perspective but rather an old one, we have forgotten to think for ourselves as we have become accustomed to allow others do it for us. Surely this is something one will resist to admit but the truth is, many of us take things for granted as they are and not challenging the way thinks could be.

Enligthening the reader, it must be understood that not everyone is capable of mystic thinking. Some call it out of the box thinking but whatever it is called, it’s not a new concept but still unconventional in movements.

Mystic thinking is creative thinking to a large degree. However since it does share its qualities some mistake creative thinking for mystic thinking. Mystic thinking has many more qualities of its own to separate itself from creative thinking methods.

Some qualities of creative thinking are parameters bound by what you have to deal with realities or evidence involved. It does not allow you to drift away from the reality and create your own scenarios that are different from those already proposed or discussed. It is indeed independent thinking strategy but conforming to your own mindset designed in your brain.

Mystic thinking is a step beyond creative thinking. It performs in total freedom of moving your thoughts into any direction without parameters or restrictions. Endless and giving you the willingness or energy to proceed without hesitation, it gives you an entirely new perspective of what is being discussed or proposed. Therefore, creative thinking could lead into paralysis of the brain as it has certain possibilities of limitations and deliberate freedoms to think.

Ultimately, this kind of thinking is an alternative to conventional thinking and creative thinking combined. It allows people faced with a problem to go beyond creative works and without arbitrary constraints. In other words, mystic thinking requires you to break the rules of the other methods to solve problems.

Mystic thinking belongs to the person that is working on the problem. The vision is engrained and maintained inside the brain until released or explained to others for either consensus or objections to the manner it is being proposed.

In mystic thinking we must focus on the rules provided. The mere fact is that it requires extreme latitude in allowing the rules to be bent or broken to achieve freedom. Strict rules are counterproductive to solutions and narrows down the end product with no gain or little advance in problem solving.

So you can begin to see how creative thinking leads to mystic thinking as it serves as the very baseline to jump off the table and find solutions for the problem at hand. Real creativity turns into mystic creations when it gets done right as you remove all the rules. It allows more freedom in the manner of approaching the problem and coming up with a solution. Along with this freedom to move is the ability solve the problem.

A creative project that leads to mystic thinking will give you a bigger toolbox to work with and more movement go into any direction desired. It is almost empty of constraints and allows you to unleash a stronger force of energy to solve the problem. It’s like having a puzzle and allowing the opportunity to re-shape the pieces smaller or larger, round or square, jagged or smooth to make it all come together as a completed puzzled clear and understood visually and mentally.

Is this unrealistic? Think about it and decide if the answer is yes or no. mystic thinking is picking up a piece of the puzzle that is either undesired or discarded and make it into an entirely new piece that will work with the other pieces. Your mind must make strokes of delivering new ideas with new shapes and thoughts along the way. What was scrap before becomes a centerpiece for your solution. Your mind keeps moving to make things fit together and develop an entirely new puzzle but still something that fits the desired outcome.

Mystic thinking has no guidelines. You can make rules and take away rules as you go. You can lay it down on the table or pick it back up. The words experiment and motivation come to mind as you work your mind to overcome this challenge. It becomes in fact a puzzle your created from the original pieces but not resembling any portion of it except as a source for making it.

Gambling is one element of the concept. Another is the emotion of whether you are happy or unhappy with your choices or decisions along the way. Mystic thinking is tiresome and must be done when energized and not tired otherwise you will fall victim of the paralysis of the mind that will stop you dead in your tracks.

After executing several attempts of mystic thinking you may become tired and bored as you have developed and found a new way to solve problems other stand in awe of and all the while boring you to death. This is a personal challenge to maintain self-control and motivation. However, if kept up and fresh with desire to meet challenges head on, it will bring you self-satisfaction, confidence and joy as you have accomplished another extreme manner to solve problems identified to be most challenging to some, but impossible to attain for others.