Self Clearing book - chapter 22
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22.2 More on the anatomy of upsets

In the previous chapter, we analyzed upsets as stemming from breaks in 
affinity, reality, or communications. We can also add understanding to 
the list because it is a product of ARC and will sometimes come up as 
the specific source of the break.

So in dealing with an ARC Break, one is first of all interested in 
whether the break occurred in A, R, C, or U. Spotting this helps one 
focus on the exact cause of the break.

But it is often necessary to focus more precisely and spot exactly what 
occurred in regards to the affinity, or communication, or whatever.

For this is useful to know a practical scale which maps out the 
behavior of these flows of ARC.

When one first contacts something, one might be in a divine state of 
all knowingness and perceive and pervade it completely. But that is not 
usually the case. Therefore, one begins from a state of not-know, and 
that is the top level on our scale.

Not-knowing, one may choose to become curious or interested. This is 
the beginning of an ARC flow. From there, one may move on to good 
communication, affinity, etc. and then there is no difficulty or upset.

But often, one does not connect fully and instead finds some 
resistance. If one chooses to remain interested despite this, then one 
must amplify the flow to overcome the resistance, and with that, one 
begins to desire the person or thing. Now one can get into trouble 
because there is intensity and resistance and a possible game 
condition.

If the person can neither push through and accomplish nor abandon the 
desire, he will sink into the band of effort and begin to enforce ARC. 
>From this point on, he begins to react mechanically and can have great 
difficulties.

Failing to enforce, he will begin to inhibit in an attempt to get away 
from something which is now too highly charged. But this is often 
unsuccessful because he is now connecting to the item compulsively. So 
he tries to make nothing of the thing and have none of it. And failing 
in that, he begins to reject it with a vengeance.

This forms a scale as follows:

Not-Know

Curious (Interest)

Desire

Enforce

Inhibit

No

Refused (Rejection)

An ARC break can trigger on any of these being done to either A, R, C, 
or U, either by you to another or another to you. It occurs on the 
levels from Desire on downwards because these are enforcement or 
inhibitions of ARC flows to a greater or lesser degree (even desire has 
some push in it). They occasionally occur on the upper buttons 
(not-know and curious) simply because these can remind one of earlier 
ARC breaks.

There are other inter-related triangles (such as be, do, have) and 
there are other kinds of flows (energy or whatever) which can break or 
give one troubles, but ARC is by far the most significant and the most 
useful to handle.

We will examine how to use this in the next section.