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Now I had no idea what the Eucharist is and when the lady was questioned upon this, she didn't say "what it's supposed to be" but in fact, what it meant to HER.
In her words, "The eucharist is the taste of all good things - joy, peace, love, ecstacy, grace, all rolled into one."
I made an internal representation of that of my own and I completely agreed that "the Eucharist" is definitely something worth seeking out, looking for, hoping to experience one day.
Later on I found out that the Eucharist in general usage refers to eating bread and wine (like in the last supper) that has become imbued by the priest with the spirit of Jesus, so that the spirit of Jesus is actually eaten and drunk, becoming in the process a part of one's own structure. (As an aside, there is an EmoTrance pattern which uses that exact dynamic, called "The Magic Jelly Bean", which is a very powerful pattern for change indeed).
Somehow, the idea of "eating Jesus" had become "the taste of all good things" to the lady who then erroneously transposed it onto chocolate. As she realised the error of her ways, she could laugh and let that go, and continue her quest to taste the REAL Eucharist, according to her idea of the real Eucharist.
I went away from that completely fascinated with the idea of there being something "that is the taste of all good things" all rolled into one; that is clearly a total panacea for all problems, the solution to everything, in one handy energetic pill, if you will.
Not much later, I meet this person who is OBSESSED with money. Of course, they don't have any, and all their money affairs are in total disarray but they continue to obsess in a really over-the-top fashion.
The Eucharist sprang to mind; and I told them about the lady with her chocolate and "the taste of all good things" - freedom, peace, joy, health, happiness, sunshine, fulfillment, grace, immortality all rolled into one.
"That's it!" the person exclaimed, "That's exactly right! That's what I thought money was! The Eucharist!!! The answer to everything, the source of all good things! OH MY GOD!"
They were having a real "Aha!" experience right there on the spot (or having a threshold shift, or energized end state, if you will) right there on the spot, and I was having my own ongoings at the same time.
Once the original excitement had abated a little, and they were through with citing examples of how they had thought money could cure all their ills, answer all their questions, provide everything they always hoped, dreamed and HUNGERED for all their lives, this person said, and I quote:
"So if money isn't the Eucharist, what is the Eucharist?"
That moment was pivotal.
I saw from the question that although they had corrected the error of equating money with the taste of all good things, the basic structural error right at the bottom of it all was STILL in existence and remained unchanged - the idea that there was SOME FORM OF PHYSICAL SUBSTANCE OR MANIFESTATION that could or would be the taste of all good things!
Now for the full NLP intervention here, THAT was the final frontier of the piece of changework that was taking place; and this really was the watershed.
I answered the question, "So if money isn't the Eucharist, what is the Eucharist?" with this:
"The Eucharist is the Eucharist!"
The effect on the person was amazing.
There was a moment of total shock, and then the wheels really started to churn and chug, and finally, the person just started to laugh and laugh, and they couldn't stop.
Now that's what I call "the energized end state!"
Fascinating.
Without that final piece in the NLP intervention, namely to notice that the deep structure error was still the same, this person could have gone away, and probably WOULD have gone away, and simply transferred their mistaken idea of the Eucharist on some other thing - diamonds, gold, paintings, houseplants, whatever really.
Or they may have transferred it to a person - and what an unutterable disaster THAT would have been!
It is fascinating to note that this idea of the "taste of all good things", the healer of everything bad and provider of everything good seems to structurally exist in people, and they really don't have to be Catholics to seek THAT, only the Catholics gave it that word name - the Eucharist.
This simple statement that the Eucharist is the Eucharist, and nothing else will do, might be a form of NLP intervention that could be applicable to many other things, addictions of all kinds, obsessions of all kinds.
It may be so that the quest for the Eucharist is just something structural to people, and they misplace it onto people and objects, which then it would be impossible to give up on, for how can you not want the taste of all good things in your life?
You would have to be REALLY crazy.
So as a general lesson from this I might say that we are right to seek our Eucharist, really keep looking for it, and letting go of any tie ins with chocolate, sex, money, people, or whatever THAT got tied into.
If we put a few billion people on a research track to what the Eucharist might really be and how we can get hold of THAT, perhaps we can find out.
And THAT is the most fascinating idea of all ...
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