Labyrinth of the Spirit: Process examples and use of the Mind model.

Equal steps	Step #6 of the Solution model, (#17) asks: "What is wanted? Not wanted?" Actually, step #6 in any model suggests model #6: Purpose. Its step #6 suggests a principled approach when answering that question. Again, each step in each model supports the idea. Primary errors because of the models used are Denial (model #17) and Blind acceptance (model #6). The spiritual version of step #6 in model #18: Revelation describes a thought process of a "Period of settling down," in which one decides to give up or keep. Give up or keep what? Ideas, principles, behavior, standards, requirements—each model has a different term for what it is. The process is ultimately spiritual, with spiritual error the closed mind of Prejudice.
Will & Mind	The Will format follows what instinctively seems the right thing to do, which is automatic behavior. When automatic behavior, (which could be called "willful" behavior) either learned or unlearned, doesn't work, the Mind format should be used, which seeks proof. The Mind format brings decision into the Process, and adds the element of proof, making a change of will possible. When proof is used, what seems the best thing to do is more likely to be the best thing to do.
First example	Generally, choose the stage in the model of most concern. For example, let's use #7, the Relationship Model. Its step #4, Respect: Qualities are valued, seems to be the most important now. In the model #18, #4 is Period of Sorting Out: What is helpful? This last question is important. What is actually helpful? One wouldn't want to be respected what is not helpful. For example, drinking, drugs, and milder non-helpful forms of self-persecution are very common. Being respected for "keeping on drinking" isn't very helpful, for example. Review of both models may be required. First, review the model that corresponds with step# 4—Model #4: Resources. Its objective is "Profit personally." Personal profit provides a benefit of real value, not the delusional forms of self-help, which have little value. Secondly, with an overall look at the Relationship Model, step #1 asks Who or what is attracted? Does the attraction begin on the basis of a positive spiritual value, or is it a perceived lack in the self or the other that might be corrected by the relationship. Filling a lack is neither respectful or helpful to one or the other, though it may appear so. Step #2 of the Relationship Model asks what the relationship seeks: Promise: Benefit is indicated. In a relationship, one conceives being "at one" within the relationship. What is the real benefit? Is it for value or a lacked value? This applies to the complete process of the Relationship Model. Its goal? A satisfying relationship, which creates value. In all models, each step follows the Process.
Second example	Step #9 in the Process is Honesty. Step #9 in Model #8, Communications, is Message: Meaning is created. What meaning is created by a dishonest message? Step # 10 in the Process is Tolerance. Step #10 in Model #8, Communications, is Means: A medium is available. Knowing what a medium can or cannot hold determines the content of a message. Each medium has certain limitations, and understanding the "tolerance" of a medium's capacity is essential to creating an honest message that the medium can carry. For example, a telephone conversation is different than face-to-face communications, or a mass media like the radio. Honest messages accommodate the media, and some don't fit.
More	Hopefully, these two examples demonstrate both the relationship of a concern to its appropriate model, the relationship of each model to each other, and their relationship to the Process. If more explanation of the Labyrinth is needed, please express it in an e-mail—(linked at the bottom of each page).
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