most interesting articles I have ever read

January 7, 2010

Sat Nam,

This is one of the most interesting articles I have ever read. It shows a

methodolog or process on how to recognize and deal with incidents, actions, and

situations in one's life. I am not sure where it came from but there is website

urls at the end.

The 2010 New Year Letter

Recently my brother imparted more wisdom to me about the nature of

responsibility and the reality of `crashing'. We were discussing one of the

National Geographic television programs about air crash investigations. During

this conversation he shared something very insightful with me. His words went

something like this:

" Most people assume a plane crash happens at the moment of impact – and is

caused by something that occurs a few moments before the event. This is seldom

true. Investigation has shown that most plane crashes start hours or even days

before the point of final impact. They begin as a pattern of incidents deviating

from what is considered `normal activity'. However, to the untrained eye, this

pattern of incidents is only clearly recognizable in hindsight, after the

impact, when it is already too late do anything about it.

What pilots are trained to do these days is to recognize any deviation from

`normal activity'. They are taught to watch for and to recognize patterns of

unusual activity. This can be incidents like a pilot oversleeping and arriving

late for duty, followed by a member of the cabin crew dropping a tray twice on

the same shift, and then the co-pilot forgetting a simple and obvious procedure

whose lack of application appears harmless, and so on.

What we as pilots have to recognize is not the specifics of these individual

incidents – but when they start to occur as a pattern. This pattern of incidents

may at first appear unrelated to the actual flying of the plane – but it is not

their relationship to each other, or even to what is happening in the cockpit

that matters – it is the fact that they are happening in the first place.

Such a string of incidents can creep into our flying routine quite unnoticed.

You see, in our case for example, we fly the same route every day, sometimes

twice a day, sometimes four to five days a week. We get to know every aspect of

the flight drill to the point it no longer becomes conscious – it becomes

automatic. Because we are so familiar with the territory and the moment to

moment procedures – we do not require consultation of our scheduling details or

flight procedure manuals. We know it all like clockwork. We therefore become

like pilots flying on an internal autopilot based on familiarity.

However, this is where we can also become vulnerable to oversight. This is why

we have `crash-prevention training'. If we notice that a string of incidents –

seemingly unrelated – are starting to occur – and it doesn't matter how trivial

they appear – the fact that they are occurring is `the signal' – then we must

institute an immediate evasive response. This seemingly unrelated string of

incidents is telling us that something as yet unseen to us is starting to

unfold.

The moment we recognize this pattern, we immediately counteract it by taking all

our activity completely off autopilot. For the next five or six flights, we

behave as if we know nothing. We assume nothing. We take out our flight manuals

and follow all drills and procedures `to the T'. We consult our flight schedules

even though we already know what they are. Our cabin crew is also instructed to

behave accordingly – to conduct themselves as if they are on a training flight.

Absolutely nothing is left to chance. We fly by the book until any surfacing of

`strange unrelated incidents' is neutralized.

Many crashes on many planes are averted by adhering to this avoidance

procedure. First it requires recognition of a pattern of seemingly unrelated

`unusual incidents' – then the immediate agreement of the entire crew to return

to 100% application of the manual – to do everything by the book – no matter how

we feel about our flying skills. Only our egos prevent us from taking this

evasive action. Final analysis of disasters often reveal that the cause of plane

crashes involve an ego behind the controls. Flying by the book – as in making a

deliberate conscious shift from autopilot-mentality to 100% manual-mode – is

what puts the ego in check and stops any unconscious pattern leading into

disaster. "

This wisdom shared by my brother is possibly the most useful insight we may

digest as far as navigating our experience through the 2010 skies is concerned.

http://thepresenceportal.com/2010_new_year_letter.htm

www.thepresenceportal.com

If I had used this method, when things were really crazy, and my browsers were

acting strange, I even knew I should get away from the computer, but I was so

busy and swamped with work, that I stuck it out until I accidently deleted some

html code of my page, and then I had to 'scramble' to find it on the page source

code, copy it and paste back into the page.

The rest of the email is also very interesting.

Blessings,

Sat Avtar Kuar

http://www.kundaliniyogainfocntr.com/

http://www.kundalini-yoga-info.com/

lol I almost signed it Sat Avtar Grrrrr lol

I am overwhelmed right now.lol

January 7, 2010

Hi Sat Avtar!

You know I knew you particularly would like this! Glad you found out.

Paul (means 'good friend in Gurmurk and is also a spiritual name as are all

names)

Kundalini-Yoga , " sat_avtar_kaur " <myralorey wrote:

>

> Sat Nam,

>

> This is one of the most interesting articles I have ever read. It shows a

methodolog or process on how to recognize and deal with incidents, actions, and

situations in one's life. I am not sure where it came from but there is website

urls at the end.

>

> The 2010 New Year Letter

>

> Recently my brother imparted more wisdom to me about the nature of

responsibility and the reality of `crashing'. We were discussing one of the

National Geographic television programs about air crash investigations. During

this conversation he shared something very insightful with me. His words went

something like this:

>

> " Most people assume a plane crash happens at the moment of impact – and is

caused by something that occurs a few moments before the event. This is seldom

true. Investigation has shown that most plane crashes start hours or even days

before the point of final impact. They begin as a pattern of incidents deviating

from what is considered `normal activity'. However, to the untrained eye, this

pattern of incidents is only clearly recognizable in hindsight, after the

impact, when it is already too late do anything about it.

>

> What pilots are trained to do these days is to recognize any deviation from

`normal activity'. They are taught to watch for and to recognize patterns of

unusual activity. This can be incidents like a pilot oversleeping and arriving

late for duty, followed by a member of the cabin crew dropping a tray twice on

the same shift, and then the co-pilot forgetting a simple and obvious procedure

whose lack of application appears harmless, and so on.

>

> What we as pilots have to recognize is not the specifics of these individual

incidents – but when they start to occur as a pattern. This pattern of incidents

may at first appear unrelated to the actual flying of the plane – but it is not

their relationship to each other, or even to what is happening in the cockpit

that matters – it is the fact that they are happening in the first place.

>

> Such a string of incidents can creep into our flying routine quite unnoticed.

You see, in our case for example, we fly the same route every day, sometimes

twice a day, sometimes four to five days a week. We get to know every aspect of

the flight drill to the point it no longer becomes conscious – it becomes

automatic. Because we are so familiar with the territory and the moment to

moment procedures – we do not require consultation of our scheduling details or

flight procedure manuals. We know it all like clockwork. We therefore become

like pilots flying on an internal autopilot based on familiarity.

>

> However, this is where we can also become vulnerable to oversight. This is

why we have `crash-prevention training'. If we notice that a string of incidents

– seemingly unrelated – are starting to occur – and it doesn't matter how

trivial they appear – the fact that they are occurring is `the signal' – then we

must institute an immediate evasive response. This seemingly unrelated string of

incidents is telling us that something as yet unseen to us is starting to

unfold.

>

> The moment we recognize this pattern, we immediately counteract it by taking

all our activity completely off autopilot. For the next five or six flights, we

behave as if we know nothing. We assume nothing. We take out our flight manuals

and follow all drills and procedures `to the T'. We consult our flight schedules

even though we already know what they are. Our cabin crew is also instructed to

behave accordingly – to conduct themselves as if they are on a training flight.

Absolutely nothing is left to chance. We fly by the book until any surfacing of

`strange unrelated incidents' is neutralized.

>

> Many crashes on many planes are averted by adhering to this avoidance