A Modern View

The Discipline of the Optimal Solution

2011-07-26T02:42:00.000-05:00

Consider this concept:

Take a blank piece of paper. Make a pinhole in it.

That is the model for all knowledge, all understanding, all the universe(s) as you know it/them.

This inspiration was a one that came, again, in the middle of the night - prompting me to rise and write.

There is the ages-old idea of the optimal solution. Like the universal solvent, it simply resolves everything it touches. And that is where this story started.

For if one wants to live forever, if one wanted to have infinite peace, abundance without limit - all these things. You'd soon find that they are themselves limited, if not a limit, in themselves.

In both Silva Method and Release Technique, they bump up against Self - leading us to the point that when you can have everything and anything you want, you don't really need to have, do, or be anything at all.

You simply don't have to - anything, anyone, any any.

And that is the bottom line of Huna, the bottom line of self-help and spiritual training, all Campbell was looking for with his "Hero of a Thousand Faces." It is the first section of the Tao - which is all you really have to read of that classic work to fully "grok" its essence.

I give you, in this blog, the five points of knowledge understanding - five sets of tools - which you can easily apply to take you beyond any humanoid needs or wants. Beyond the necessity of any identity or individuality.

Napoleon Hill and New Thought
Release Technique
Silva Method
Huna Kapua
Joseph Campbell and his "Hero of a Thousand Faces" monomyth plot.

Each of these, as individual pieces, are flawed. Together, they can/may form a synergistic system which can/will give you anything you desire - and then erase that desire.

For you find that there is only Self and only Now. But you then find that there is a complete world beyond those as well.

And that is the pinhole in that paper.

"Zen" is simply balancing on the edge of that hole. That is "The Zone".

When you move off that point to one side or the other, then you are simply on one side or the other.

Of course, you can really "blow your mind" to consider the concept that there is an infinity of infinities of "sides" out there away from that point-which-is-no-point.

And once you grok the fullness of that, then life is completely simple.

Until we meet again...

2011-05-31T10:20:00.000-05:00

Looks like we're wrapped up here.

I can't see from this level that there are many more tools to give you. All that's left of this path is the walking.

But of course, I reserve the right to make observations from time to time - however, I'll probably include these into my cartooning. Since I've already gone off the "deep end" as far as the general public are concerned, it's simple to just leave "crazy" comments below the funny pictures.

When I looked over a preliminary PDF (yes, I'm working to get this into a more usable and final format), it showed up that I've been working to get "back" into cartoons for some 5 or 6 years (practically, my entire life). That's just a common theme with me.

The trick was that I had to get something done.

And that was this final reorganization and crossover work I had to wrap up.

Now, it's done. So there.

The final piece was in separating native states from emotions, using the body as a divining rod to see how you're doing toward your own intuitive goals. For all that counts is how you feel about your current existence. Past doesn't matter, it's done. Future never comes. Only the Now really exists - and it's fleeting.

But I leave you all this wealth of data (over 300 posts covering 5 years). Just take your time and don't get an upset stomach trying to digest it all at once.

Good Hunting!

How Life Really Feels.

2011-05-29T16:29:00.001-05:00

After I decided to just do whatever I (damned-well) felt like doing, it kept coming back to me that perhaps I wasn't being as organized as I could, that I should be dealing more with goals and what-not in order to be more efficient and such.

In short, I simply found that I was as or more productive than when I was busy analyzing and planning every week, plus following daily "to-do" lists which accomplished my "strategic" and "tactical" planning.

The main point which improved is that I was inspired more often and so actually worked on more stuff which was interesting to me.

This made me happier, much happier.

And even while I've worked this all out, my studies continue. For that Route to Infinite Freedom, is just a guide. I still have to walk it out myself.

In doing these studies, of course there are some interesting crossovers I keep running into.

I first ran into this with the Release Technique. There, Larry Crane said that you "felt" the effects of emotions in the body. He and older traditions held that this was the cause of various illnesses - as the feelings in the body areas caused stress, which caused dis-ease to show up.

Simply releasing those feelings alleviated or "cured" the illness. (Even though the FDA says no one can actually claim to "cure" anything...) What you were really doing was simply letting go of the stress you had put there. The result was that the lack of ease (dis-ease) you felt disappeared.

I was not so surprised that Chris Vogler ("Writer's Journey") mentioned that a well-written story would then show up in influencing the body. A person "gets into" a well-paced narrative, which then invigorates the adrenal and other glandular secretions, so causing "feelings" in that area.

But what was interesting was to find Jim Britt in a collection of T. Harv Eker's lecture-series who echoed the same concepts. Now you have to know that Britt uses Release Technique (as does Eker) in his seminars. It's just that useful. Shows up all over the place.

Britt found that when he consults his feelings about what he is doing, he can tell rapidly whether he's on or off track. And keeping on track keeps him successful. It brings him more opportunities.

The key point is that Britt goes a bit further than Levenson, Crane, or others do in their discussion of what are feelings. He differentiates between body feelings and emotions. There's native states and emotions.

Emotions really go back to the original root, which means something that "moves out." They are things you emit, communications. If they are affecting your body, you are holding onto them. Emotions aren't supposed to be held in, suppressed. They are things which are originally supposed to just leave.

Now native states are just that. Calmness, Peace, even Love. These are states. They don't flow, they just are. They aren't emotions. But you can't really experience them until you can release all your pent-up or expressed emotions. Joy and happiness are also states.

Emotions are things you throw out at other people (or at yourself.) States are just condition of being. You are "angry at" or "critical of" others. You can't just be them. You always have a target in mind. You can be calm, or peaceful, or joyous - and not have anything in mind except the current moment. That's a state.

Subtle difference.

But you'll be able to tell with their affects on your body. Feelings affect the body and are generally caused by emotions. But our language blurs this thin line - that you can "feel" happy - but states cause good reactions in the body, healthful ones. Emotions cause stress in the body, not healthful (except in small doses, like spice.) You can live without emotions. What's left over are your native states.

When you let go of all the programs which cause you to react with emotions - you are left with native states. And these (peace, joy, calmness, love) simply are. Even love - you can love someone, which is a form of sending loving thoughts over their way. And these can be felt.

But feelings don't mean something is an emotion. You can feel a certain way, but it doesn't mean that someone else's emotions caused it. No one else can emote to or at you and create anything in you at all. You create all your own feelings. You create all your own emotions. A person who is calm, at peace, can stay completely unruffled by someone else "going off" on them.

This isn't widely known. But Zen masters and martial art experts know it to be a fact. If you get or stay relaxed, for instance, you can't remain or become angry.

Now, most of the stories Vegler was talking about are not enlightened pieces. They are enabling you to mirror the situations and cause those emotional feelings in your body. If you read books such as The Tao, by Lao Tze, it will help you assume native states of calm and peace. If you read Art of War by Lao Tzu, it can cause you to become angry or excited. If you read War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, or Gone with the Wind (another book about war), you can experience the vast repertoire of possible feelings. Or view movies such as the Lion King (which Vogler worked on) and you'll be right there in the mix of emotional responses.

It's far more interesting that the most successful self help programs (Release Technique, Silva Technique, even Eker's programs about the Millionaire Mindset) - all these have been tested in part or in whole and found to be very effective. In every single case, they instruct and facilitate the person to reach a high native state (some call it Zen, or "The Zone") and to let go of the emotions which are clouding the mind.

For our use, once you can utilize native states as a permanent operating condition, you're ready for spiritual training, which is what these articles are about.

Not that you can't entertain yourself with emotions and well-written stories. But the point is that you can achieve more understanding and higher personal ability when you are operating from native states of beingness, not emotions.

It's also true that your inspiration and intuition almost only come in when you are in calm, peaceful states of contemplation. While you can have emergency insights which will save your life, this isn't common. And many people report that these insights were operative where the person was somehow "distant" or "detached" from the emergency they were facing - that time seemed to "slow down."

Again, we are talking operating at native states, completely removed from emotional patterns, programs, and feelings which were usually common place. (It could be said that the bulk of the victims out there from emergency-type situations are somehow blocked from reaching into any native state to access their intuition for solutions.

Takes some experimenting and practice with. But this will help you tons.

First Things First - How to Proceed with Living

2011-05-25T06:50:00.002-05:00

As in most things "human", we tend to live life backwards. Like looking through our rear-view mirror to go forwards.

When you meet or confront other objects, identities, or separatenesses - a person tends to put their own individuality first. "Hi, I'm Joe -" and then then extend your hand. Just before that is perceiving that the other person exists.(And some act as "blind" and literally bump into things before they can "see" them. While those without vision will sense something earlier than others who supposedly use their eyesight every waking moment.)

This really tells why it's so important to get enlightened/clear/satori early on. Because you have to be able to get your own individuality out of the way before you can truly perceive with any accuracy.

The sequence is actually

Grok
Perceive
Individuate

And the reasons for this is that a person is reactive by habit. Their programs are on full-tilt, telling them what they should be doing and how they should be reacting. And these just get in the way (which explains why humor works and why politics, "news", and entertainment are so fascinating - they don't make any sense.)

Only shaman can approach accurate perception, but only shaman who learn to get their "own self" out of the way and perceive simply what is, first. But before anything can be perceived, it has to be grokked fully.

This, of course, takes a fair bit of practice before your accuracy comes in. And why the ancient Hawaiians named their European visitors "haole" which means "those who don't breathe." For Hawaiians were taught to breathe deeply before speaking - which relaxes the body and mind, making perception easier.

Before you start seeing or hearing, you need to be grokking. Most people simply go through life throwing up their programs out ahead, before they even truly look at what is happening around them. Or even at objects that are just sitting there, waiting to be perceived.

The biggest "breakthroughs" are when you can get a person to sit still and just observe what is actually there. This is just inviting them to quiet their mind and quit using it instead of their actual perceptions.

However, the next step is to get them to just drop everything else and simply grok the world around them. You will find many more realities exist in that space than you can perceive through the senses or the mind. It is apparent that the "mind" is really only good for operating as a defense mechanism in the first (subjective) level. And it only gets in the way when you start operating on the other levels.

To really utilize your capacity for living, you'll need to learn to grok more fully - in every waking and sleeping moment.

Grok first, then perceive, then mind what's around you. "I don't mind" would be a good motto to adopt as you break that bad habit you've had for so long.

Have fun with this...

And was it all a dream?

2011-05-24T21:35:00.002-05:00

Just listened to the final video in the set of Joseph Campbell's "Power of Myth".

A very stirring 6 videos overall. And I recommend it.

However, Campbell and I disagree at the end point. He of course has me out-ranked in comparative religions. However, the essential point is in whether the importance of individuality is more vital than regaining the One-ness of Self.

His opinion was that the Oneness was a metaphor. He still, in all his studies, considered that humankind was a collection of identities.

My variance is that the identities are the metaphor.

He didn't, to my knowledge, tap into the shamanic studies within Huna. And this is what takes the entire scene right out into the ether.

I've several times told you not to believe anything I've said and I double-down on that now.

Consider me the Trickster in this play. That what I've been telling you is just the opposite of what you should really be understanding and taking as Gospel truth. Perhaps I'm only here to sell books and collect affiliate sales commissions.

Label me a scammer, a fake, a fraud. Consider me the anti-Christ and all I say as lies (including this statement.)

Make up your own mind. Follow the leads of hermits everywhere and venture into the wilderness where you can detach from "normal" or "average" thought programs - just to find your own way.

At the "end", it will be "you and you alone" who has to make your peace - or not.

For all we know, the highest purpose humankind can attain is sitting in front of the boob-tube every night, beverage of choice in hand, having just put in some more hours for "The Man". And on the weekend (if we don't have to put in overtime), we can take our boat down to the lake and sit in another chair with more beverages, and look out at nothing - or watch sports on another portable screen.

Perhaps that is all there is to life.

Consider me the Trickster - and your parents and teachers and authorities as all telling the absolute truth, and always have...

For me, I'm quitting this scene and handing it all over to you. I've got cartoons to draw and cattle to raise. Both of which make mockery of the seriousness we humans make of our lives. That's just my choice.

I still wish you the best, whatever you choose.

Relax, it's all alive - and all yours

2011-05-23T20:29:00.000-05:00

Of course no one really wants to accept this, however you could practically found your religious beliefs on what is covered here today. But the logic is pretty simple - if you accept the basic tenets. (But I'd suggest you reject this completely until you can prove it to yourself. And be warned: almost no one else will believe you, either.)

1. Your ideas create your reality, so Huna says. As well, there are no limits; we are all connected.

2. Next point is that we are all here with the purpose of getting back to Self. Practically, regardless of what name you use, it's patent that a collective consciousness is already present - just on the basis that we are all connected. It's the created fiction of "individuality" from which stems all problems and imagined conflicts.

3. In this, the world is what you create it to be - so if you weren't here, it would cease to exist. That defines everything in this world and universe as actively put there by you. So it's all alive. All of it. You "cease to exist", everything "ceases to exist".

4. But practically, there isn't anything such as death. There is a rearrangement of forms, but the spirit which animates that body is connected with all others (part of a larger whole), so only the dream "You" are living changes - and that body changes to other mineral combinations in that previous dream. That individuality which you call "Me" doesn't particularly cease - as it's part of "everyone else".

That's as short as this logic goes. If you don't believe in the oldest surviving philosophy on this planet, then fine. If it's not workable for your world view, that's perfectly OK. (Move along then, nothing to see here...)

But this logic also says:

Everything, including each thought and idea, is alive.
All life continues indefinitely, eternally.

Arguments for or against specific diets on the basis of saving lives, or lobbying commercials by activist groups trying to save "endangered species" cease being effective. (HSUS as a scam, anyone?)

It does bring farming and gardening back to their high pedestals, since they integrate all forms of life into harmony. And the idea of philosophy and story-telling as some of the highest (re)unions of life-forms, both physical and metaphysical.

Controversy about war become academic only - since "killing" people does what? Gives another non-survival lesson, one of many. While the reasons for war, such as attempted denial of basic "human rights" in terms of the ability to make their own living and improve their life-quality (i.e. interfering through force or threats of same) - all these have the rug cut out from under as well. (How could you "force" an immortal being to give up their rights - except maybe by deception, which they'd still have to decide to buy into...)

Here also is Justice, since people are only affecting themselves when they treat another "individual" poorly. Any attempts at harmful acts will also just come back to the perpetrator - since anyone trying to hurt another is just hurting themselves (and brings the basis to the Golden Rule.) Have the perfectly innocent verifiably pure at heart throw the first stone. Otherwise, have that jury and judge also man the prisons and throw the switch at the execution they order, meanwhile personally paying the restitution they awarded...

And brings the point that the best way to get through life is to constantly treat people even-handedly and look for the win-win solution to every situation. One has to look through the eyes of that "criminal" and see how they are looking at themselves.

Practically, this gives the religious objection to being part of anyone's war - and even participating in destructive government policies of any kind. (The idea of having to have a government is itself built on deception.)

As well, the entire planet becomes your house of worship - since it is all Divine Creation and we are all caretakers of it.

Now, before you get all "dogmatic" about this - these beliefs also include the idea of personal responsibility to solve your own problems and situations. There will never be "laws" or "edicts" or "fatwa's" saying anything at all. Because this belief-system says that people will work out their best solutions "on their own" by tapping into their spiritual inheritance - the commonality of Self.

None of this calls for any organized religion. Rather, it preserves the "ad hoc" quality of living. Obvious, since no idea is truly original, and inspiration is just a meditative moment away for all.

This doesn't mean anyone who takes these ideas as their own will be above local or national law. Rather, they would always interpret what was requested of them against the criteria of benefiting all concerned. And would preclude (usually) sitting in judgement over others. But nothing is set in stone - everything is balanced against optimal life-quality for everyone.

As I said, we're all here to make our way back to Self.

But don't believe me - work it out on your own. Make it yours.

And may you be showered in blessings.

Just Be.

Winning Your Infinite Freedom

2011-05-21T08:27:00.001-05:00

If I were going to compile a guidebook based on this blog, that would be the title. (So we're trying it out on the header above.)

Don't know at this point that a book is ever going to happen. This fits better on a blog, where people can find the links. And it makes finding your freedom easier...

The pages at the top, and the links on the side really tell you all you need. Or at least I think so. The whole point is to give you all the options you could use in order to sort out and build your own route to freedom.

As I've covered before (in "Freedom Is") - you already have all the freedom you could possibly have.

This whole site continued to evolve after that book was published. As I cover in "Why This Approach?", it becomes a point of, "So you're enlightened, - now what?" That's what Lester Levenson ran into after he solved a life-threatening physical situation. Spiritually, he was completely free - but still here on this physical plane.

Alan Watts covered this in his various lectures. Zen Masters who achieved satori and simply then returned to their old trades or professions. Didn't change what they had gone through or their personal result. Life was different.

I could probably go on for hours with this, another over-long, too-verbose post. Listening to Joseph Campbell's "Power of Myth" video gives you completely different views on life and living. The point brought up last night was that there are many more shamans out there than are thought. Most don't have the structure in their lives to start to learn what to do with that event.

For some, they've suffered through a near-death experience. Other's have a flash of inspiration when in Nature, or doing their normal daily lives. (Claude Bristol covers some of this in his "Magic of Believing". Another book Bristol references is "Cosmic Conscousness" by Maurice Bucke.)

My own life had one of each. I survived cancer in my early '20's and decades later had a life-changing epiphany while walking along in the woods - all thought dropped away for a few minutes, giving me the personal peace I hadn't realized I was looking for. Convenient to say "change of life", but harder to explain from the inside out.

It's just now that it's all settled into place.

And I'm letting you in on the path I followed to get there. Nothing more.

Your own mileage may definitely vary. Because the road you follow won't be the identical one to mine.

Just the way it is.

But if you've had that very unique experience, then you may want to digest this blog in different ways to search for what you feel you now need to become complete.

A subtitle could well be "Learning how to release your inner shaman - steps and techniques for fully living life."

That's probably the surprise hooker which startled me most. The point: just that anyone can live on these additional levels. And until they do, they really don't know what they are missing. However, it's more along the lines of that old phrase, "Many are Called, Few Choose." Because your life, your Now, is all a matter of choices, a matter of decisions.

Drop all your old programs and get spiritually free. Then complete your training to become fully alive in that freedom. That's the advice I'm following.

And have fun with all this. Lots and lots of it.

The Fiction of IT, the Reality of THOU

2011-05-20T07:21:00.001-05:00

Of course, after my discourse on shapeshifters, shadows, and tricksters - I then watched a bit more of Joseph Cambell's "Power of Myth".

He brought up the fact that by looking at people as "Thou's" instead of "It's" you change your own psychology.

This comes back to the point that you are only looking back at you.

Of course, this is the explanation for war and conflict of all types. Even these despots who are starving their country's people. They consider themselves separate from everyone around them.

That's the trick with operating from the first level. It's all separatist thinking. There really is no one else.

And that is what makes these stories fascinating for their viewers. The tragic hero has all these lacking qualities - among them that these people are living for their own identity. And only that.

Their lives are much, much harder to live than anyone who is looking at life from the other, additional levels.

Consider this idea that all around you - plants, animals, rocks, minerals, even air and water - are full of life. That they are actually you.

Of course, this gives you the reason for the "Golden Rule" as a shorthand credo to live life by. As you simply follow this, you are treating others as you would treat yourself.

That's closer to the truth than most people suspect.

And you knew that.

It changes how you deal with any nemesis you may meet. For they are really asking for your help, and your lessons.

What a great life this is.

Using Masks to Light Your Way

2011-05-20T06:27:00.002-05:00

The key point of Vogler is to know that he's only and strictly talking about scripts and storytelling - or is he?

When you start to apply his ideas to "real life", the first point you have to understand is that life isn't "real". Shakespeare's point that "All the world's a stage and all the people on it merely players" has more to do with actuality than you may think.

Step back and take this idea that you already are an immortal being. Further, any lifetime you have would then be a temporary affair. We are not taking up reincarnation or past lives here at all. We are taking up the Now, which is your only real constant.

The point you have is that you can affect or change the Now with your ideas. For better or worse, depending on what solution you want to find. But it's just a story, all the same, just stagecraft.

The game is exciting and involving, but all the players and playing field are creations of Self.

A practical application is "What the hell do I do with these people and companies I can't trust?" You may be affected by people or groups who aren't what they appear to be. Terrorists groups who want you to convert to a Dark Ages lifestyle. "Humane" extremist groups who want you to turn vegan-only (and have poorer health and also screw up our environmental and cultural balance through their tunnel-vision fixation.)

These of course may be shadows, tricksters, shapeshifters. Pick your poison.

Taking this seriously, it means that there is something lacking, some lesson you should be learning.

If you take up Wayne Dyer, the answer is Unconditional Love. Bless them out of existence. Send understanding their way.

Actions down this line would be to simply expose them for what they are, so others can see their duplicity. In that case, you treat them as a tragic hero in their own script. The lesson you give them is that they can run, but not hide - that they have to learn like the rest of us.

I did that once with a scammer company. They had taken a good chunk of my money after a long, long sales pitch and then didn't deliver the goods. It took me over a year to get my money back. During that time, I learned all the lines and methods of using the "authorities" to change them - and what their actual Achille's heel was. Then I started telling other people about how to get their money back. Mostly, I moved on with my life, since it was up to others to apply what I told them or not.

One day, I suddenly got sued by these guys. And they settled for making me quit telling people about how to get refunds. Plus, they also had to agree not to talk about me anymore. Shortly after, the government hit them with a lawsuit for nearly a million dollars - not the company, which was designed to simply drop out of existence. The government sued the actual individuals behind the scene - gave them their own personal lesson. And online complaints about that company (what they hated most) dropped to nothing after that. (I did find later that every single person I had told about that method had gotten their refund.)

In that case, the nemesis had gotten affected by a stronger force for truth - and had to learn their own lesson in this. But I was unaffected. That lawsuit simply got me educated in how the American law-system works. It really cost me nothing more than some pocket change and time invested. (Check out Jurisdictionary if you want the real scoop - and learn about a hero who is working to revise the legal system through education.)

Shadows don't like daylight. Tricksters and Shapeshifters don't like meeting forthright people who understand them.

The shorthand is to simply Be. Some intermediate techniques would be to do all necessary releasing in this area. You could also go to your Huna Garden and look for the dream symbols to change, asking the Master Gardener there for advice. Or visit your Mental Laboratory (Silva) and work your wonders with the advice of your Advisor there.

In all cases, you are dealing with symbols and masks. You only lose if you give them power over you. But all power comes from within. So realize that the truth you are is greater than the fiction you create.

Another point to consider is whether you really want to play that game. Will it profit you to keep going down this line. Or should you just let it go and let it play out? Again, this is just a simple approach: quit creating the problem. All life is generated problems. Release, Meditate, Be. And the solution is then obvious.

Best of luck with this.

You, Automaticity, and Everything Else

2011-05-19T16:58:00.002-05:00

Of course, this is more deep-end thinking which you can discard outright. After all, I only claim to be a scammer and an aspiring cartoonist. (I've written and published some books, but almost anyone can do that - same for the college degrees.)

The logic starts with Daddy Bray (from Laura Yardley's "Heart of Huna") saying that the 3 parts of Humankind are metaphoric. (conscious, subsconscious, superconscious).

In Urban Shaman (and even more in Max Freedom Long's books), the Ku (subconscious) is referred to as an entity of itself. This is a workable approach.

However, when you mix in the concept that the subconscious is mostly accepted programming - such as through Levenson and Silva training - then any "identity" for the subconscious would be another program.

Review http://amodernview.blogspot.com/2011/04/huna-3-selves-another-view.html, which outlines the world as being concentric, these 3 parts extending outside the individuality themselves. (A limited metaphor, but works for our argument.)

The consideration here is that what sits between you and Self (infinite potential, by any name) is a set of programs which are more or less accessible to you.

The subconscious controls the body, but by breathing you can get some control over several functions and turn semi-automatic to your control. Some have gone as far as stopping blood flow to specific areas - useful in accident situations.

Extend that metaphor out, and you'll find it workable in explaining how the universe around you continues to operate - mostly on full automatic, regardless of your input.

As you follow the four levels of reality, you can see that this is far from an unchanging state of affairs. By getting into more and greater communication with that universe around you, and in increasing your own responsibility for it, you will then improve your abilities to change it in different ways.

You are essentially expanding your individuality beyond the tiny core we start out at and through the body itself and into the universe. We aren't talking "control" here - that is separatist. We would be talking instead along the lines of cooperation and coordination.

Eventually, as you take complete responsibility for everything around you - being, doing, and having all that you can experience and sense - then you become One with everything, another name for resuming Self. At that point, you can make any amount of changes to anything - if you feel like it at all. (Some say that then you'll see the perfection of creation just as it is, so would no longer need to change anything - but the effectiveness of that statement is up to you.)

The summary of this is that as you improve your own abilities, you will be able to improve your ability to change or adjust the environment around you. It starts with your own body and your own life, being as successful and healthy as you want. Then the physical universe starts changing exactly as you would want it to - and more success comes your way.

It's all a matter of changing your considerations about your own limiting programs. And starts with what you consider about your individuality.

Stories, Parables, Sports

2011-05-19T16:57:00.000-05:00

There are key reasons that Jesus and other philosophers spoke in parables, and why mythology survives.

The lowest level is defined by its separation - people are picking fights as entertainment. Competition is what rules.

So in talking to people, they pick you out as a competitor first. And this is why they hold onto their touchiness and imagined affronts.

To a truly free person, being offended is for all practical purposes impossible. A mild curiosity about an inefficient or non-optimum solution being implemented is just about as bad as it gets.

And this also offers reason the Release Technique/Sedona Method is so effective and hasn't ever really gone mainstream - quite regardless that it's been proved effective by studies over and over.

Churches and Religions thrive in such a competition-climate just as soon as it becomes an "us vs. them" situation - as soon as dogma's are built and the underlying basic tenets have been translated into something you could have a fight over. At their core, Islam and Judeo-Christian beliefs have no argument. It's what came later on both sides that throws salt in the wound.

Most PR firms will tell you to push something controversial in order to get it picked up by the press - who make their living selling advertising in order to reach people who are fascinated with tabloid trivia and disasters. (Advertisers want to get people who are ruled by their emotional desires - addicts, basically.) Controversy is just another fight - people can't agree on what's the most workable and effective truth for any given situation. Their solutions are even worse - greenie-enviro's want the "government" to get involved. This means they can't simply get people to buy other products which are made better, safer, or more environmentally responsible.

(And then you get the HSUS, which by reports is trying to get people to go vegan. So they get government to regulate stuff in order to drive up prices so people will quit eating meat. Nice job when you can get it. Less than one percent of their donations go to actual shelters, at something like $3,000 per animal... ref: http://humanewatch.org)

There is actually no fight between anything - there are people who elect themselves to become fighters. Nazi Germany was a self-generated scene of separatists. They had to be fought - invited and took on the whole world in fact. However, many good things actually came from the actions which occurred during that conflict - for one, we learned how to streamline automation and developed enough manufacturing capability to feed and clothe and house the world.

Since WWII (and before) it has always remained a problem of the poor doing their darnedest to remain poor, and a few "leaders" getting them to give up their power of choice so that their poverty could become institutionalized via government. (Got to love them competitive politicians.) And despot-run governments are creating the only places currently where mass starvation is occurring on this planet - as well as higher unemployment. (As that "We Are the Children" group found out.)

But after that war, it became plainly obvious that Malthus had been and remains wrong on his warped statistics which proved that there is a limited amount of resources to feed, clothe, and house an increasing number of people. (Oh, in case you're curious - continuing census predictions say we top out around 2050 as a species - Italy, Ukraine, and a few others are already starting to go backwards.) There is tons of stuff around to take care of everyone - as well as the environment we live in. Just takes education, organization, and actual transparency. Oh yes, leave any government out of it.

Our charity organizations have been most effective when they taught people to fish or bake bread rather than handing out fish sandwiches. Passing out money only continues poverty, unemployment, and poor schools - been proved time and time again. The worst charity organizations (HSUS, United Way, and a few others) wind up spending most of their money on executive perks and fundraising, plus PR. Give directly to local animal shelters and local charity organizations where you know who runs them.

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Shortly, I'll be moving back into my cartoons. Because entertainment is the one communication line which doesn't deal in conflicts, it simply makes fun of everything equally. The "making fun" is in non-sequitur comparisons.

Perfect for a philosophy which says people are natively free, that their only limits are self-imposed.

Just in this blog itself (outside of a few early errors which are corrected in later posts), you have everything you need to re-create your own freedom. For eternity.

But I don't need to create more antagonism or problems for people - other than helping them wake up a little bit. Any good dish needs a dash of spice to improve it.

May all your roads rise up to meet you.

Now for something completely Mystic...

2011-05-19T14:10:00.005-05:00

Apologies to Monty Python fans, but this point seems a natural following to earlier posts today:

In remote viewing, that's just another fiction. LaTourette covers that point (see ad at bottom of page). There is no real "over there". There is no real space for Self. That's why telepathy in it's own definition is another fiction as well - you don't "tele" anywhere. Because practically you are just talking to yourself.

Of course, this is all the First Principle of Huna, which is that "Your Ideas Create Your Reality."

And this is the bottom line to The Golden Rule. You only do to yourself.

Gives us a new way of looking at things - doesn't it.

Yes, this is fourth-level stuff. Neat, though.

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Watching the Power of Myth videos. This is giving more mental fruit to chew on. Expect more posts shortly...

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Of course, this also brings to fruition the concept Jesus the Christ spoke of (very tortuously translated) as "The Kingdom of God is within you."

For that matter, it also means "Home is where the Heart is."

Another (holistic) view of people

2011-05-19T07:48:00.000-05:00

The punchline to this joke is that it's just you looking back at you.

That's the guy who is making faces at you, trying to get you to mirror his emotional outburst. That's why "news" casters always play up the over-wrought people in their interviews, always playing "gotcha" with politicians. And why politicians (since they were first recorded in Rome) always pick up babies during their campaign stops.

Self is all their is, in the final analysis.

So it's just Self to Self, if you think about it.

Try considering that when you get a critical thought about "somebody else."

Cheers!

How to find workable life improvement techniques

2011-05-19T07:03:00.001-05:00

Of course, this becomes obvious if you've been following this blog for any amount of time (or want to review it's archives - note to self: I really need to create some books out of this stuff readers can download...)

The best techniques work on all levels.

The worst technique simply stick you into playing separatist games on the first level.

If a dogma, belief-system, or simply says how some other people are "bad" or "lesser beings" than you and your tribe, then it's simply not the most effective technique you could be using.

Anyone can use the "Shadow" mask to point out weaknesses in whatever character you're currently carrying around.

The best techniques will tell you that it's just a mask, and you can take it off. (See Vogler's "Writer's Journey" book.)

And if you are rejecting what I say, simply get a few hundred of Alan Watt's recordings and listen to them.

This is why I don't recommend Scientology - even though I spent over 20 years of my life studying just that. It doesn't really give you any solution to this very separatist world we live in. Much like extremists have taken over most of the religions on this planet and turned them sour. The ones which are inclusive of all other beliefs and faith and thought-systems will be the ones which are most workable and effective for the greatest number of people.

Of course, if I hadn't done all that work and blind study, I wouldn't have been able to find all this data you have in front of you now. Within that body of work are all the clues you need. But you are going to have to tip over the apple-cart so you can see all the apples for what they are. (Just unhitch the horse first, OK?)

The simple approach is to look for techniques which work on all levels, that don't just work on or try only to explain the "real world". You won't wind up being an Islamic martyr or a starry-eyed zombie repeating back the corporate, party-line talking points. (And politics becomes far more fascinating, as does the "news", because you can see both sides of the story and simply pick the most effective, most win-win solution out of what they are saying.)

Have fun with this - and the rest of this life.

Who the Hero Really Is

2011-05-19T06:48:00.000-05:00

Vogler covers in his "Writer's Journey" that the hero always has a missing part, a "fatal flaw" which needs rectifying. Something lacking.

And if I haven't exposed this fiction before - here it is: You are already whole, complete, and perfect. Any game you are playing was created simply ignoring your own abilities, talents, and knowledge.

This is what makes self-help and success so easy. If it seems difficult, it's because you've made it that way.

The logic behind this is pretty simple as well. I first ran into it in LaTourette's version of Silva Ultramind. And then it showed up in Hale Dwoskin's material on Levenson's Release Technique.

You are rising to Self. But you already are Self. And the Master Gardener in Huna, the Advisor in Silva's Mental Laboratory, Hill's "Invisible Counselors" - they are all you. They are just "masks" you wear in order to have a metaphor you can readily understand and use.

You are already Self. Your journey is simply getting rid of the barriers you set up so many, many, many years ago as part of creating this nice little individuality you carry around. This is how you "identify" yourself.

And of course, that is the real explanation for why "psychic" talents such as telepathy, "akashic records", and stories of instant healing and superhuman strength in emergencies exist. You are simply letting your own light shine. You are just talking directly to you - temporarily pulling out all the stops.

So the game from here on out is how fast you can let you in on what you already know.

Techniques like Releasing work, because you are dropping the old programs you created which keep you from knowing what you need. (And is why releasing needs to be developed into an always-on habit.) Silva Method allows you to "go to level" quickly and bypass the various blocks you put in place so you couldn't know something - and their 3-finger technique allows you do assume state this near instantly.

Vogler tells this as the reason all these archetypes exist in a story as characters - they are all bringing or supplying something the hero is lacking. They all have lessons the hero must learn to be complete.

This then bridges the symbolic (3rd) level over to the holistic (4th) level. When you look for the lessons and archetypes in the world around you, then you can simply get the lessons Self is trying to tell you.

And by simply being everything, every person, every mineral, every waft of etheric vapor - you then become whole.

As you become more whole, you become more Self. And that's where holistic bridges over.

Now, since you already know everything about everything, you aren't stuck operating at any single level. You can use techniques from every level to sort out whatever is in front of you. The levels themselves are just metaphors - ways to organize data into segments so they can be more easily understood.

That is also why I've assigned material to various levels, saying that you are just going to go over and over these until you "get it". But any material can be applied on any level. Because all these levels really exist simultaneously, not as a linear path - but you can consider them this way if you like.

The most consistent advice I've heard from people who have collected the best and most workable techniques (Dwoskin, Levenson, Eker, among others) is to "not believe a word I say." Prove it for yourself. If it doesn't work, then simply move on.

An individual has set up various (and multitudinously infinite amounts of) programs which keep that individuality intact. By definition, they each have unique programs which maintain that individuality. You could say that no one else has the exact same pattern. Otherwise, they wouldn't be individuals. (No Duh...)

So your path will be your own, and different from anyone else's. The metaphor-concepts I've covered in this blog continue to be the broad strokes. Because you have to fill in the details.

And it's all part of rising back up to Self - who will tell you all these details if you simply sit still, relax, and open up to the lessons which are always there, always incoming. Just accept this idea that you already know the solutions to any problem or situation you are facing. Then pick the most optimal one which does the greatest good for you and everyone concerned.

Keep that idea as a new habit and you'll find all sorts of people, books, recordings, events - all entering into your life to tell you and remind you how great you are, how perfect you have always been.

The next step is believing them. Believe. Be.

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You may wonder why so many of these posts are in the early am. If you've studied Silva Method, you'll see this is because I'm just waking up from the delta wavelength of sleep and have trained myself to study my dreams to get the lessons they contain. And more frequently than not, I'm then urged to get up and blog about it so you can share these. Look it up under "Glass of Water" technique.

My own variation on this was from Huna. There, the answer you got depends on the question you ask. So you want to keep in mind as you go to bed that you will know the question you have to ask as well as the answer. Then drink half of that glass of water. When you rise and drink the other half, it all becomes obvious.

But that technique is just a crutch until you can do it on your own.

The next step is to be able to access those questions and answers anytime during the day. And then life becomes a great deal of fun, since it speeds up immensely.

Living on all four levels at once is much more fulfilling than just one. You look forward to playing the game of what lessons you can get today and how Self is sending them to you. Great fun.

Best to you and yours this day and from here on out.

How the Body Clues You In to Living Stories

2011-05-18T14:04:00.061-05:00

There's points Chris Vogler made in his "Writer's Journey" Appendices which give a different view of this universe and how it affects us.

The first, and very interesting idea is that stories themselves are alive. This is a logical extension that our creations are from us (Self) and so are alive to the same degree our bodies and everything else which is part of this creation are alive.

One could make the same point for various belief-systems, such as religions and Locke's ideals (which were written into the Constitution) and also the Magna Carta - a person's rights to his own property being above any rights of a King or other sovereign. But read Vogler:

"In the course of my adult wanderings through what is normally considered children's literature, I came to a few firm conclusions about stories, these powerful and mysterious creations of the human mind. For instance, I came to believe that stories have healing power, that they can help us deal with difficult emotional situations by giving us examples of human behavior, perhaps similar in some way to the struggles we are going through at some stage of life, and which might inspire us to try a different strategy for living. I believe stories have survival value for the human species and that they were a big step in human evolution, allowing us to think metaphorically and to pass down the accumulated wisdom of the race in story form. I believe stories are metaphors by which people measure and adjust their own lives by comparing them to those of the characters. I believe the basic metaphor of most stories is that of the journey, and that good stories show at least two journeys, outer and inner, an outer journey in which the hero tries to do something difficult or get something, and an inner journey in which the hero faces some crisis of the spirit or test of character that leads to transformation. I believe stories are orientation devices, functioning like compasses and maps to allow us to feel oriented, centered, connected, more conscious, more aware of our identities and responsibilities and our relationship to the rest of the world.

"But of all my beliefs about stories, one that has been particularly useful in the business of developing commercial stories for the movies is the idea that stories are somehow alive, conscious, and responsive to human emotions and wishes.

"I have always suspected that stories are alive. They seem to be conscious and purposeful. Like living beings, stories have an agenda, something on their minds. They want something from you. They want to wake you up, to make you more conscious and more alive. They want to teach you a lesson disguised as entertainment.

"Under the guise of amusement, stories want to edify you, build up your character just a little by showing a moral situation, a struggle, and an outcome. They seek to change you in some small way, to make you just a bit more human by comparing your behavior to that of the characters."

Vogler and I agree on one point, which I concluded years ago - that people use other's lives and the entertainment they see on the movie and video screens to evaluate their own life against.

Taking this to the next step, we are seeing that stories themselves are trying to influence our lives. It just depends on how intuitive a person is, how much they are in tune with the Universe around them.

The more separated, the more individual, the less likely they are going to see these inputs as lessons they should apply in their own lives. And the more desperate the stories will become to affect them at some level.

Vogler's next point was in defining what a "catharsis" was and why it's important to any and every story:

"Several times in this book we have used the word catharsis, referring to a concept found in the works of Aristotle, one of his terms that has survived to become part of the general theory of drama and narrative. It is a critical concept, the point of drama according to Aristotle, and its roots go back to the beginnings of language, art, and ritual.

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"Nowadays we may use the term catharsis more broadly to mean any kind of emotional release or breakthrough. Catharsis was adopted by the psychological community to describe a therapeutic process in which repressed thoughts, fears, emotions, or memories are deliberately brought to consciousness, triggering an emotional release or breakthrough that is supposed to relieve anxiety and relax tension. Movies and stories as well as art and music can have a role to play in triggering a psychologically healthy cathartic reaction."

Taken together, these may say that the story, as well as any particular person you know, is working to help you with your life (and vice-versa). Every person in your life (as well as objects and elementals) are wearing masks for your review. They are each there to help you resolve your lacks.

The ideal is to surround yourself with stories which bring you to that catharsis. Of course, the top-level catharsis would be an epiphany. Which would just confirm or set you firmly on your own shaman path.

Third point I'd tell you from Vogler is that he's worked up a theory that the story actually affects the body itself. Indicators of pulse and endrocrine secretions tell you how the story is affecting you:

"THE BODY AS A GUIDE TO CRITIQUING

"It's not easy to critique your own writing work or that of others. It can be hard to articulate what's wrong, how the story made you feel, what was lacking. Sometimes the best way to measure a story's effect and diagnose its problems is to ask 'How did it make me feel - in the organs of my body? Did I feel anything physical at all, or was I just having mental processes that didn't much involve anything but the brain? Did it make my blood run cold? Did it make my toes curl with horror or delight? Did it make my nervous system alert as if the dangers the hero faces were actually threatening me?' If not, there may be something missing, an appeal to the body, a physical threat, an emotional tension.

"As a professional evaluator of stories I became keenly attuned to the emotional and physical effects a manuscript could have on me. I came to depend on the wisdom of the body to determine the quality of the story. If it was bad and boring, my body would grow leaden and the pages would weigh a thousand pounds apiece. I knew it was bad if, as my eyes scanned down the page, my head kept drooping and I nodded off to sleep. The good ones, I noticed, the ones that ultimately made good movies, had the opposite effect on my body. They woke me up. The organs of my body came to life one by one. The body became alert, light, and happy, squirting fluids into the pleasure centers of the brain, 'the proper pleasure' as Aristotle called it, of experiencing emotional and physical release through a well-told, cathartic tale.

"As we watch a good movie or are engrossed in a good novel, we actually go into an altered state of consciousness, with a measurable change in brain waves detectable by the tools of science. Perhaps changes in the rhythm of the breath, combined with focusing the attention on the imaginary world of the story, bring about this almost hypnotic effect."

This then brings a very personal reality home - if you take all these three points together.

Stories represent the symbolical level of our existence. It's not particularly a stretch to say that they take on a life of their own. And the purpose of those stories are to make a change in our own lives - to help us achieve our own goal of regaining Self.

What's interesting in this is that point of affecting us through the body. This is the last refuge of the "hideaway" soul. The person who has given up almost everything in order to just let the subconscious run their lives. Cubicle, factory workers - wage-slaves.

Yet the story now has most effect even at this level. As a person climbs up and takes more responsibility, healing of dis-ease becomes easier, illness harder to succumb to. The person less and less able to be the effect of their body in general. The body becomes easier to live around and more responsive.

If you follow this right on out, you may get a clue that the Universe itself is alive and working its hardest to get everyone - even the lowest on the pole - to wake up and start living again. And it sends stories out into the world (authored and created by the most intuitive among us) to wake everyone else up.

This points to the fact that there is no such thing as "harmless distraction" in entertainment. You are going to get a lesson in spite of yourself.

You aren't separate from the world and universe around you. It's all alive, in every part, and just up to you to learn what you can from all you experience.

So the next time you are in a bookstore - be mindful of books and stories which seem to "leap out at you." It may be a lesson you should be listening to.

The Masks You Find On Your Path

2011-05-17T17:11:00.000-05:00

Chris Vogler hands us clues to the fourth level as well as the third. (It's notable that on the first level, as well as other levels, you are given all the tools you need to solve all levels. It's only how you use the tool that determines its results for you.)

He goes into substantial work about the archetypes. Defining each in terms of their use in film examples. Very convenient for a modern world.

Vogler also brings up an interesting point - that the archetypes may be understood as simply masks worn by the characters. This explains various complex movie characters who seem to be different archetypes at different points.

Again, here we don't need to fall into semantic problems. One person's name for their understanding of God will not necessarily be used by another. Once you understand the purpose/function of an archetype, then it's appearance is easier to use as a symbol.

The other idea Vogler uses at the beginning is that the Journey our Hero takes helps find the various parts of personal beingness which are insufficient or lacking. The journey is for wholeness.

And this is why it becomes a route on the fourth level as well. But the main use (for this discussion) is on the third level - that of dreams and symbols.

So I say to study both Campbell and Vogler in order to fully understand these concepts and how they relate to solving life problems.

Obviously, if you are simply applying this to your own life in a pragmatic, first-level world, it becomes useful as a nice metaphor in the objective world - suitable for study and entertainment.

On the fourth level, the tool this book gives is to be whatever it is that apparently opposes or hinders your success. For only a lack of beingness on the holistic level is what keeps you in that problem or situation, or keeps that existing at all. Be all, solve all. (And again, I told you these levels all segue into the next, just as most people in the "real world" are intermittently psychic.)

Good Hunting!

The Artist's Journey

2011-05-17T16:50:00.009-05:00

Chris Vogler has this essay as the last of his book (other than his appendices). It is as applicable to anyone "following their bliss" as it is to the writer or any of the artist-inclination. Within his framework, it applies the archetypes to that apparently unique worldview. But you may also see that it applies to anyone making their way on this planet, in this universe - whether they recognize it or not.

The Writer's Journey

The beauty of the Hero's Journey model is that it not only describes a pattern in myths and fairy tales, but it's also an accurate map of the territory one must travel to become a writer or, for that matter, a human being.

The Hero's Journey and the Writer's Journey are one and the same. Anyone setting out to write a story soon encounters all the tests, trials, ordeals, joys, and rewards of the Hero's Journey. We meet all of its Shadows, Shapeshifters, Mentors, Tricksters, and Threshold Guardians in the interior landscape. Writing is an often perilous journey inward to probe the depths o f one's soul and bring back the Elixir of experience - a good story. Low self-esteem or confusion about goals may be the Shadows that chill our work, an editor or one's own judgmental side may be the Threshold Guardians that seem to block our way. Accidents, computer problems, and difficulties with time and discipline may torment and taunt us like Tricksters. Unrealistic dreams of success or distractions may be the Shapeshifters who tempt, confuse, and dazzle us. Deadlines, editorial decisions, or the struggle to sell our work may be the Tests and Ordeals from which we seem to die but are Resurrected to write again.

But take hope, for writing is magic. Even the simplest act of writing is almost supernatural, on the borderline with telepathy. Just think: We can make a few abstract marks on a piece of paper in a certain order and someone a world away and a thousand years from now can know our deepest thoughts. The boundaries of space and time and even the limitations of death can be transcended.

Many cultures believed the letters of their alphabets were far more than just symbols for communication, recording transactions, or recalling history. They believed letters were powerful magical symbols that could be used to cast spells and predict the future. The Norse runes and the Hebrew alphabet are simple letters for spelling words, but also deep symbols of cosmic significance.

This magical sense is preserved in our word for teaching children how to manipulate letters to make words: spelling. When you "spell" a word correctly, you are in effect casting a spell, charging these abstract, arbitrary symbols with meaning and power. We say "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me," but this is manifestly untrue. We know that words have power to hurt or heal. The simple words of a letter, telegram, or phone call can strike you like a hammer blow. They're just words - marks on paper or vibrations of air - but mere words such as "Guilty," "Ready, aim, fire.'" "I do," or "We'd like to buy your screenplay" can bind us, condemn us, or bring us joy. They can hurt or heal us with their magic power.

The healing power of words is their most magical aspect. Writers, like the shamans or medicine men and women of ancient cultures, have the potential to be healers.

WRITERS AND SHAMANS

Shamans have been called "the wounded healers." Like writers, they are special people set apart from the rest by their dreams, visions, or unique experiences. Shamans, like many writers, are prepared for their work by enduring terrible ordeals. They may have a dangerous illness or fall from a cliff and have nearly every bone broken. They are chewed by a lion or mauled by a bear. They are taken apart and put back together again in a new way. In a sense they have died and been reborn, and this experience gives them special powers. Many writers come to their craft only after they have been shattered by life in some way.

Often those chosen to be shamans are identified by special dreams or visions, in which the gods or spirits take them away to other worlds where they undergo terrible ordeals. They are laid out on a table to have all their bones removed and broken. Before their eyes, their bones and organs are split, cooked, and reassembled in a new order. They are tuned to a new frequency like radio receivers. As shamans, they are now able to receive messages from other worlds."

They return to their tribes with new powers. They have the ability to travel to other worlds and bring back stories, metaphors, or myths that guide, heal, and give meaning to life. They listen to the confusing, mysterious dreams of their people and give them back in the form of stories that provide guidelines for right living. We writers share in the godlike power of the shamans. We not only travel to other worlds but create them out of space and time. When we write, we truly travel to these worlds of our imagination. Anyone who has tried to write seriously knows this is why we need solitude and concentration. We are actually traveling to another time and place.

As writers we travel to other worlds not as mere daydreamers, but as shamans with the magic power to bottle up those worlds and bring Them back in the form of stories for others to share. Our stories have the power to heal, to make the world new again, to give people metaphors by which they can better understand their own lives.

When we writers apply the ancient tools of the archetypes and the Hero's Journey to modern stories, we stand on the shoulders of the mythmakers and shamans of old. When we try to heal our people with the wisdom of myth, we are the modern shamans. We ask the same ageless, childlike questions presented by the myths: Who am I? Where did I come from? What happens when I die? What does it mean? Where do I fit in? Where am I bound on my own Hero's Journey?

Cambell's Call to Adventure

2011-05-17T06:06:00.000-05:00

From Joseph Campbell's "Hero With a Thousand Faces", here is the last essay.

It seems another call to adventure - like you didn't have enough already - but you may find your friends and mentors already on this journey...

The Hero Today

All of which is far indeed from the contemporary view; for the democratic ideal of the self-determining individual, the inven-tion of the power-driven machine, and the development of the scientific method of research, have so transformed human life that the long-inherited, timeless universe of symbols has col-lapsed. In the fateful, epoch-announcing words of Nietzsche's Zarathustra: "Dead are all the gods.'" One knows the tale; it has been told a thousand ways. It is the hero-cycle of the modern age, the wonder-story of mankind's coming to maturity. The spell of the past, the bondage of tradition, was shattered with sure and mighty strokes. The dream-web of myth fell away; the mind opened to full waking consciousness; and modern man emerged from ancient ignorance, like a butterfly from its cocoon, or like the sun at dawn from the womb of mother night.

It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported. The social unit is not a carrier of religious content, but an economic-political organiza-tion. Its ideals are not those of the hieratic pantomime, making visible on earth the forms of heaven, but of the secular state, in hard and unremitting competition for material supremacy and resources. Isolated societies, dream-bounded within a mytholog-ically charged horizon, no longer exist except as areas to be exploited. And within the progressive societies themselves, every last vestige of the ancient human heritage of ritual, morality, and art is in full decay.

The problem of mankind today, therefore, is precisely the op-posite to that of men in the comparatively stable periods of those great co-ordinating mythologies which now are known as lies. Then all meaning was in the group, in the great anonymous forms, none in the self-expressive individual; today no meaning is in the group - none in the world: all is in the individual. But there the meaning is absolutely unconscious. One does not know toward what one moves. One does not know by what one is pro-pelled. The lines of communication between the conscious and the unconscious zones of the human psyche have all been cut, and we have been split in two.

The hero-deed to be wrought is not today what it was in the century of Galileo. Where then there was darkness, now there is light; but also, where light was, there now is darkness. The mod-ern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated soul.

Obviously, this work cannot be wrought by turning back, or away, from what has been accomplished by the modern revolution; for the problem is nothing if not that of rendering the mod-ern world spiritually significant - or rather (phrasing the same principle the other way round) nothing if not that of making it possible for men and women to come to full human maturity through the conditions of contemporary life. Indeed, these con-ditions themselves are what have rendered the ancient formulae ineffective, misleading, and even pernicious. The community today is the planet, not the bounded nation; hence the patterns of projected aggression which formerly served to coordinate the in-group now can only break it into factions. The national idea, with the flag as totem, is today an aggrandizer of the nursery ego, not the annihilator of an infantile situation. Its parodyrituals of the parade ground serve the ends of Holdfast, the tyrant dragon, not the God in whom self-interest is annihilate. And the numerous saints of this anticult - namely the patriots whose ubiquitous photographs, draped with flags, serve as official icons - are precisely the local threshold guardians (our demon Sticky-hair) whom it is the first problem of the hero to surpass.

Nor can the great world religions, as at present understood, meet the requirement. For they have become associated with the causes of the factions, as instruments of propaganda and self-congratulation. (Even Buddhism has lately suffered this degradation, in reaction to the lessons of the West.) The universal triumph of the secular state has thrown all religious organizations into such a definitely secondary, and finally ineffectual, position that religious pantomime is hardly more today than a sanctimonious exercise for Sunday morning, whereas business ethics and patriotism stand for the remainder of the week. Such a monkey-holiness is not what the functioning world requires; rather, a transmutation of the whole social order is necessary, so that through every detail and act of secular life the vitalizing image of the universal god-man who is actually immanent and effective in all of us may be somehow made known to consciousness.

And this is not a work that consciousness itself can achieve. Consciousness can no more invent, or even predict, an effective symbol than foretell or control tonight's dream. The whole thing is being worked out on another level, through what is bound to be a long and very frightening process, not only in the depths of every living psyche in the modern world, but also on those titanic battlefields into which the whole planet has lately been converted. We are watching the terrible clash of the Symplegades, through which the soul must pass - identified with neither side.

But there is one thing we may know, namely, that as the new symbols become visible, they will not be identical in the various parts of the globe; the circumstances of local life, race, and tradition must all be compounded in the effective forms. Therefore, it is necessary for men to understand, and be able to see, that through various symbols the same redemption is revealed, "Truth is one," we read in the Vedas; "the sages call it by many names." A single song is being inflected through all the colorations of the human choir. General propaganda for one or another of the local solutions, therefore, is superfluous - or much rather, a menace. The way to become human is to learn to recognize the lineaments of God in all of the wonderful modulations of the face of man.

With this we come to the final hint of what the specific orientation of the modern hero-task must be, and discover the real cause for the disintegration of all of our inherited religious formulae. The center of gravity, that is to say, of the realm of mystery and danger has definitely shifted - for the primitive hunting peoples of those remotest human millenniums when the sabertooth tiger, the mammoth, and the lesser presences of the animal kingdom were the primary manifestations of what was alien - the source at once of danger, and of sustenance - the great human problem was to become linked psychologically to the task of sharing the wilderness with these beings. An unconscious identification took place, and this was finally rendered conscious in the half-human, half-animal, figures of the mythological totem-ancestors. The animals became the tutors of humanity. Through acts of literal imitation - such as today appear only on the children's playground (or in the madhouse) - an effective annihilation of the human ego was accomplished and society achieved a cohesive organization. Similarly, the tribes supporting themselves on plant-food became cathected to the plant; the life-rituals of planting and reaping were identified with those of human procreation, birth, and progress to maturity. Both the plant and the animal worlds, however, were in the end brought under social control. Where-upon the great field of instructive wonder shifted - to the skies - and mankind enacted the great pantomime of the sacred moon-king, the sacred sun-king, the hieratic, planetary state, and the symbolic festivals of the world-regulating spheres.

Today all of these mysteries have lost their force; their symbols no longer interest our psyche. The notion of a cosmic law, which all existence serves and to which man himself must bend, has long since passed through the preliminary mystical stages represented in the old astrology, and is now simply accepted in mechanical terms as a matter of course. The descent of the Occidental sciences from the heavens to the earth (from seventeenth-century astronomy to nineteenth-century biology), and their concentration today, at last, on man himself (in twentieth-century anthropology and psychology), mark the path of a prodigious transfer of the focal point of human wonder. Not the animal world, not the plant world, not the miracle of the spheres, but man himself is now the crucial mystery. Man is that alien presence with whom the forces of egoism must come to terms, through whom the ego is to be crucified and resurrected, and in whose image society is to be reformed. Man, understood however not as "I" but as "Thou": for the ideals and temporal institutions of no tribe, race, continent, social class, or century, can be the measure of the inexhaustible and multifariously wonderful divine existence that is the life in all of us.

The modern hero, the modern individual who dares to heed the call and seek the mansion of that presence with whom it is our whole destiny to be atoned, cannot, indeed must not, wait for his community to cast off its slough of pride, fear, rationalized avarice, and sanctified misunderstanding. "Live," Nietzsche says, "as though the day were here." It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal - carries the cross of the redeemer - not in the bright moments of his tribe's great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair.

Life as you knew it is over - but it always has been.

2011-05-16T22:26:00.000-05:00

Watching one of these funny tragic end-of-season dramas. Funny because it's based in the most limited concepts possible.

But we've all been there.

Look, any of the various techniques and methods I've discussed here take you completely beyond the tragic ending.

Napoleon Hill - "Think and Grow Rich" - the complete method to achieve anything you want, regardless.
Levenson's Release Technique - get into an unflappable calm, an "inperturbability" which doesn't quit - ever.
Silva Method - through modern meditation techniques, you enter into high planes of intuitional understanding which gives you all answers to any situation. Then just pick the best.
Eker's Millionaire Mind Intensive - same results as above, getting rid of fears which hold you back - just do it from the game of making money.
Serge Kahili King's Huna (as well as Max Freedom Long) - find out how the universe really works and get all your questions answered on this or any other plane we exist on.

Any and all of these, especially when used in conjunction with each other, can give you any health or life or relationship quality you want. Abundance in everything you touch.

It just really becomes too easy. And I only picked the ones which appealed to me. These all followed on themselves and each lead to the other - most cross over into the others at one point or another. And there are side routes, such as "The Secret" and "switchwords" which really and only compounded solutions and cross-confirmed the others as workable.

The above is the path I've chosen. It probably isn't yours. But you can use any or all of it you want.

All lead beyond fear, beyond body death. And beyond caring what people think or react about you. Because you're too busy helping them make a better success out of their own lives.

You are an immortal being. As all of us. We are simply here to rise higher as we can to becoming Self.

These tragic TV shows which pass for entertainment - might as well watch an empty screen for what good they do. And I'm tired of explaining the motivations and reasons they do what they do. It's not a waste of time, but that's because you are taking other lessons from it than what they give.

Take this hint: learn all the 5 sets of study above. Learn them cold, until you have all the answers to anything and everything. At that point, you get the punchline to the joke you wrote so very long ago. You learn why it is that you've created this individuality you call yourself.

- - - -

I'm just about done working up this spiritual training lineup.

Tonight, I started piecing together the parts of the 4th level, holistic.

That's where I start drawing and publishing my cartoons from. Being the trickster might be a nice mask to wear for a change.

These final notes are just that - and as you've been following right along, it shouldn't be too hard a stretch.

Don't know if this lineup will ever come out as a book. I don't know that it's really necessary. More than likely, it will have to be a book of cartoons.

But I do know that we are in for some very interesting times. End times, actually. Because the world is waking up - and as they do, they waken to a different dream than the one they woke to last time. Like we do every day.

You see, the past is constantly changing in order to help us make sense of our present Now. This is why cops can't ever really piece together what happened from witnesses. Because as the minutes or seconds pass, they change. This is one datum that no one has really looked at before. And you won't see it until you start operating on the holistic level. Just about the point where time really stops mattering at all.

Best of luck to all of us with our journey(s).

Reading your Life-Dream as a Hero's Journey

2011-05-16T16:08:00.000-05:00

This is intended as a short-hand crib-note to make use of Campbell's Hero's Journey in your own dream working (3rd level).

The basic plot (from Vogler):

The hero is introduced in his ORDINARY WORLD where he receives the CALL TO ADVENTURE. He is RELUCTANT at first to CROSS THE FIRST THRESHOLD where he eventually encounters TESTS, ALLIES and ENEMIES. He reaches the INNERMOST CAVE where he endures the SUPREME ORDEAL. He SEIZES THE SWORD or the treasure and is pursued on the ROAD BACK to his world. He is RESURRECTED and transformed by his experience. He RETURNS to his ordinary world with a treasure, boon, or ELIXIR to benefit his world.

The 7 archetypes:

HEROES

SHADOWS

MENTORS

HERALD

THRESHOLD GUARDIANS

SHAPESHIFTERS

TRICKSTERS

In these, you could create a checklist to study just about any aspect of any life. Or simply print out this post to have it at hand in whatever is your "office". (It would fit on two sides of a note-card for your wallet or purse, for instance.)

As example, if your life is boring beyond all belief, was there a call to adventure which you didn't heed...?

As well, you may find yourself wearing masks for others - like the trickster or herald or mentor...

You can find this cycle in every single business cycle you enter, if you only look. Too often a product fails because it doesn't translate into an actual boon for mankind. But was there a trickster in the mix?

That is the first call: to look. (Only after that do you get the red pill, blue pill treatment.) But again, this is just a model. Use it or not. Treat it as you will. I'll readily assume any archetype you assign me. That's my job, it seems.

Luck to us all.

Good vs. Bad vs. Ugly

2011-05-16T08:53:00.000-05:00

Sorry, but the "news" got to me again. Just more to release and meditate on, I guess.

Getting to higher levels than the one most are "stuck" on tells you instantly that there is no bad or good, just as there is no evil or saintliness. The world is as perfect or rotten as you consider it to be. Nothing more or less.

As you rise in your own consideration of your own abilities and blessedness, you can see that most of the games being played - and all the "popular" media - revolve around emotional conflicts and controversies. It's all Us vs. Them, or the single individual against the rest of the world.

Even the concept that someone has to "make money" or "earn a living" is pretty much moot as being vital or necessary. Jesus the Christ had no job or income, yet stayed at some of the richest houses in the areas he visited. And he had to refuse many expensive gifts, or allow their giving only to give them away in turn. Mahatma Gandhi had a similar lifestyle, as did the Buddha. Give it all up and still have everything you could need or want.

So what reason, then, are we watching what passes for "news"?

Right off, I'd say mental bad habits. Or, you're working to help someone else improve and this is part of the background noise of their environment.

The point of this post is to get yourself back to the point where you don't have to accept or reject what the TV and other news media give you. You can let it be - even bless it. And take what lessons you're sending yourself for what they're worth.

Just part of moving from Individual -> Mind -> Universe -> Self.

Key points to spiritual training

2011-05-16T06:38:00.001-05:00

Nothing is permanent, the only constant is change.
There is no right or wrong - except on first level, and that is just a way to short-hand concepts.
Ideas are dreams, and dreams are a third level substance - but not limited there.
Nothing and everything is valuable. What the spiritually free do for goals isn't the same that the mass of humanity do. We aren't here for approval, security, or to escape control. We actually create our own freedom with all the actions we take and the blessings we send.
It's only living through all four levels that your life becomes really alive, in the fullest sense.
And so, we are blessed.

Starting the Hero's Journey

2011-05-16T06:28:00.001-05:00

So starts our study of a hero's journey.

Now this has been over-thought, over-reviewed and transmorgraphied beyond belief. So I'm going to stick to the main points. We'll use the Wikipedia version (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth) for best simplicity - but that's pretty involved in itself. What is needed is a simple view of things. The safest thing for me to do is to boil this down as much as I can, and then get out of the way.

Chris Vogler made his mark by converting Hero of a Thousand Faces to his "Writer's Journey" (http://www.thewritersjourney.com/hero%27s_journey.htm). The proved workability of this idea is in Disney's success with Lion King as well as others - this is what prompted me to zero in on this particular line. There are tons of discussions on this area, and it's a case of: "so what?" The point is to get an effective technique, not worry about perceived flaws. If it doesn't work for you, move on to something else. That this line of work has produced effective entertainment opens it up to use in other fields. By all rights, you could do the same in boiling down all the proved bestseller classics, as Louis La'Mour did, and then use this common thematic approach for the same end.

For our use (and in keeping this simple) there are only Campbell and Vogler to study - even though these make it quite tough enough.

The journey consists mainly of 3 parts: Departure, Initiation, Return.

There's an opportunity, dealing with it, and returning home with the goods. All of these steps have "or not" attached to them. Just like life.

This has been broken down in to 17 steps or nexus-points within the overall cycle:

The 17 Stages of the Monomyth

I Departure
  1 The Call to Adventure
  2 Refusal of the Call
  3 Supernatural Aid
  4 The Crossing of the First Threshold
  5 Belly of The Whale
II Initiation
  1 The Road of Trials
  2 The Meeting With the Goddess
  3 Woman as Temptress
  4 Atonement with the Father
  5 Apotheosis
  6 The Ultimate Boon
III Return
  1 Refusal of the Return
  2 The Magic Flight
  3 Rescue from Without
  4 The Crossing of the Return Threshold
  5 Master of Two Worlds
  6 Freedom to Live

And the wikipedia article details each of these. Needless to say, I consider these a bit more "academically-inclined" than necessary.

Within this overall cycle show up several archetypes from Karl Jung, which themselves are a form of shorthand from many different religions and philosophies. Oddly, there are 7 of them, which is itself a mystic symbol.

Here's an excerpt which lays out Vogler's understanding of the archetypes:

Hero: "The Hero is the protagonist or central character, whose primary purpose is to separate from the ordinary world and sacrifice himself for the service of the Journey at hand - to answer the challenge, complete the quest and restore the Ordinary World's balance. We experience the Journey through the eyes of the Hero."

Mentor: "The Mentor provides motivation, insights and training to help the Hero."

Threshold Guardian: "Threshold Guardians protect the Special World and its secrets from the Hero, and provide essential tests to prove a Hero's commitment and worth."

Herald: "Herald characters issue challenges and announce the coming of significant change. They can make their appearance anytime during a Journey, but often appear at the beginning of the Journey to announce a Call to Adventure. A character may wear the Herald's mask to make an announcement or judgment, report a news flash, or simply deliver a message."

Shapeshifter: "The Shapeshifter's mask misleads the Hero by hiding a character's intentions and loyalties."

Shadow: "The Shadow can represent our darkest desires, our untapped resources, or even rejected qualities. It can also symbolize our greatest fears and phobias. Shadows may not be all bad, and may reveal admirable, even redeeming qualities. The Hero's enemies and villains often wear the Shadow mask. This physical force is determined to destroy the Hero and his cause."

Trickster: "Tricksters relish the disruption of the status quo, turning the Ordinary World into chaos with their quick turns of phrase and physical antics. Although they may not change during the course of their Journeys, their world and its inhabitants are transformed by their antics. The Trickster uses laughter [and ridicule] to make characters see the absurdity of the situation, and perhaps force a change."

A preliminary inspection of these shows all the steps and archetypes to be fluid. None are set in stone or immovable.

- - - -

The story with this level is that it deals with dreams. Dreams are stories, nothing less or more. They have the force and effect you wish them to. For all of us as individualities, one can assume that we are in any role compared to others around us.

But the trick is that there are always options. And symbols are interesting things. They are best interpreted against workability - what improves the situation you're in. You're looking for the most optimal solution.

And that brings us right back to King's Shaman studies.

Our use is to "make sense" of them, to simply use dreams as the shaman would - to improve our understanding of this universe we live in.

Again, I don't expect you to believe me or follow this as any Gospel - which it most certainly isn't.

This is just another way to dream in this cock-eyed universe you and I created. It's simply another road, another journey. You're option to be a hero or not.

Seven Shamanic Talents

2011-05-16T06:17:00.000-05:00

This section is quoted directly from Serge Kahili King's "Urban Shaman", which reference you probably will need for your library if you want to continue in these studies.

These came to me as more important than before. You may want to try these out in various formats to get your own experience up. While King only talks about first and second levels, that was just an example. These 7 talents apply to all four levels.

The Seven Shaman Talents
The seven shaman talents are simply derived from the principles. they represent essential skills to develop, rather than specific techniques.
Seeing (from The World Is What Yon Think It Is)
This the ability to operate in the world from the perspective of the principles, to "see" things from that viewpoint rather than in the ordinary way. We often call this operating at second level (ike papalua)instead of at first level (ike papakahi). In first-levelthinking, the "ordinary" reality of most folk, the world is in independent of your thinking, everything is separate, energy flows by physical mediums only, the past has more power than the present, to love is to risk unhappiness, power is outside of you, and effectiveness is a matter of genius, reward, strength, or luck. Operating at second level in a primarily first-level world is not easy, but is the key to a shaman's success. What makes it especially challenging is that you also have to hold the first level in awareness so you can communicate with others operating at that level.
Clearing (from There Are No Limits)
For the greatest effect this means using the best means at hand to keep the connectiosn clear between all parts of yourself and the universe around you, mostly by continually releasing mental and physical stress and tension as well as remembering to bring other aspects of yourself and the world into conscious awareness.
Focusing (from Energy Flows Where Attention Goes)
The skill involved here is that of keeping your intentions, objectives, goals, and purpose in mind, which means frequent review of your motivations for doing whatever you do. This helps you maintain a high degreee of efficiency and a low degree of frustration.
Presence (from Now Is the Moment of Power)
It is important to remain in the present moment as much as you can, especially when dealing with present-moment affairs. From hard experience I have learned that peopel I am talking two can sense a drop in my energy level if I let my mind wander, but not knowning what it is, they take it as aloofness or rejection on my part. The greater your presence, the greater your influence and effectiveness.
Blessing (from To Love Is to Be Happy With)
To bless is to reinforce actual or potential good by word, image, or deed. When you acknowlege beauty, admire skill, or appreciate kindness you are giving a blessing. What the shaman does that's extra is to bless potential. "May you have a safe journey'" "I wish you success in your venture," "Let the wind be always at your back" are examples of this type of blessing. And remember that telepathic blessings can be effective, too.
Empowering (from All Power Comes from Within)
We empower something whenever we attribute any kind of power to it. People who attribute special powers to certain crystals are empowering them, and they will get more benefit from the crystals as long as they maintain the empowerment. Another way to empower is tp personify, to attribute human qualities to nonhuman entities or objects. The skill of empowering also implies the skill of disempowering. You can empower or disempower anything at all, including people, places, things, the past, the future, and endlessly on and on.
Dreamweaving (from Effectiveness Is the Measure of Truth)
As a weaver of dreams, the shaman weaves dreams for himself and helps others to do the same. This is also calles "shamanic healing" A first-level masseur doing a massage is using the physical body as a tool to weave a new dream and heal the spirit. It might look the same, but it isn't. Dreamweaving doesn't depend on technique. It has to do with having a healer's attitude and taking healing action, mentally or physically, in every situation you encounter. At least, that's the goal.

Some Notes on Release Technique

2011-05-15T06:33:00.000-05:00

Because I found myself missing a description, I went back to find this material.

When you first learn release technique, you concentrate on the three "wants" which allow you to hold onto old programs:

Security
Approval
Control

And below these, you take it further and get rid of underlying fears. Ultimately, you tackle death or loss of individuality - but those can be very heavy scenes to get into without releasing a lot of general matter first.

I set this all up on a page: 6 Steps to Releasing

Once you've done all this, and you get pretty imperturbable about mostly everything, then what I've experienced is that you tend to drop format, since you are simply releasing all the time anyway.

Hale Dwoskin streamlined this to "3 welcomings" -

Welcome any and all feelings, sensations, pictures, sounds, and memories of any incident which appears.
Welcome any needing to change or fix it, to push it away or hold on to it.
Welcome any idea that it has something to do with you or who you are.

Really, that last seems to be where a person winds up when they've been doing this for awhile.

But I'm just including these all as notes. If you want more information, I've got a selection of material and summaries at http://robertworstell.com/sedona-method-review/index.html

Again, my suggestion is to use Release Technique in conjunction with Silva Method to get the best results. Both borrow from the other to fill in missing points. (Really need to do a post or page on how these can be fit together - or dig up an earlier post. Mental note.) For now, those are the affiliate links.

More transition (sigh).

2011-05-14T21:57:00.000-05:00

Of all the interesting situations to run into, we are again going "volte-vis", or "backassward forward."

I've covered before that Campbell's "Hero of a Thousand Faces" was the clue to the symbolic level, the common plot to dreams.

It's also the key to study in creating effective stories which entertain and captivate. And so this is the means to reaching the largest amount of viewers with greatest potential impact - is only gotten through study and implementation of that classic. (See "Lion King" and other implementations - through the essay "A Hero's Journey".)

So these then are a crossover study which is necessary at this time - even though I'm not complete on Silva re-study (much less Hill, Haanel, Levenson, etc.)

Means I'm dealing from the symbolic level in order to get the greatest effect on the objective and subjective levels. And the holistic level gets a boost meanwhile...

And if you want to follow these adventures, get yourself a copy.

Talking to your plants and pets - just natural

2011-05-14T06:23:00.000-05:00

Of course, this was way too obvious to take seriously.

Nap Hill talked about it in his "Think and Grow Rich", chapter 14 - on the Sixth Sense. And he had to say that he had been using this for years (his Invisible Counselors technique) and finally got to the point where he didn't care what others thought about him - that it was more important to tell people a proven technique rather than keep all this success to himself.

Here's the kicker: what he discovered was something which is more natural than success itself. Something on the order of breathing, and as easy to learn as smiling.

Intuition (also known as inspiration) is an always-on facility. Most of the work you are doing is to keep people out of your head and all your secrets unknown. (And of course this threatens governments, so it's just between us on this very public blog...)

No, I'm not the first to discover this by a long ways. And I have to tell you that I'll need to come back to this to get the proper (affiliate) links in here so you can try it out for yourself. (However, breakfast is waiting, plus a long list of chores to do before I get to some caricature work this am.)

Back to our sponsor: Intuition is always on.

You just have to see it happening around you to improve your ability in this are. As you get more confidence in this, you'll start using it more.

Some caveats: don't tell people around you that you can do this. It just upsets them. And they'll literally change their minds in order to make you wrong and "protect" themselves. If you tell them they were thinking about "A", they'll say no, it was actually "B". But you can tell they are now thinking about B on purpose.

Only share this with people who are seeking the same level of improvement you are. (Politicians might want to use this to get more power, but since it doesn't work that way, they'll just try to shut you down instead.)

Tools: Laura Silva's "Silva Intuition System". You could also do this with her "Silva Peaks", but that's probably a later course.

And yes, the complaint I have with her stuff is that it takes too long to get to the punchline. But that's probably what this blog is for, anyway.

The point is to get yourself into a frame of mind that you can use this material to gain greater freedom.

And you may find that those thoughts in your head are not self-generated.

The full use of this material is probably after you've been doing Levenson's Release Technique for awhile. This has a side-benefit of quieting the mind. So you get rid of all these old programs you've been carrying around and become much more at ease with the world around you.

Then learning to accept your native intuition becomes very natural.

This doesn't mean you will be able to read minds a continent away right off the bat or even with any certainty. So Washington is safe. But you will be able to start understanding the people around you much easier. And will know better when your plants need water or your pets are hungry.

And your life will get incredibly easier.

That's probably the point - we work too hard at this thing called "living". Time to take it easy and enjoy the natural abundance which is trying to show up in our lives - but we spend so much time and effort pushing it away.

There's today's tools: Levenson and Silva, Release Technique and Silva Intuition System.

Have fun!

The transition begins.

2011-05-13T21:51:00.000-05:00

Google made me take a difficult choice recently.

If you follow this blog, you know that while there have been some "hiatuses", it's recently been 2-3 blog posts a day. And outside of some different research, mostly I'm just too damned prolific for my own good. When I'm on a roll, it's mostly an accelerating ride until I get to the end. Recently, this blog has been the prime recipient.

The only saving grace is that I talk about such extremely long-tail material that no one could really make much sense of it.

Look over to the right and you'll see what is "popular" on this blog - mostly some transcripts and compilations which can't be found easily anywhere else on the web.

But this blog has always been a proving ground for some extremely logical research.

Up to the very point where logic fails.

It is that point which has hit home.

Google was doing a little "update" on its Blogger platform, which meant essentially that I couldn't post anything for most of a day.

Now at about the same time, I hit into what I call the "penalty box" which my satellite provider (all I can get out here in the boonies of Missouri) puts people who exceed their download quota. While I still haven't figured out what caused that, it again forced me to stay off the web for an even longer period.

The post you want to see (the only one I did in that period) is this: http://robertworstell.com/2011-05-12/stories-parables-sports

I don't know how well you've followed this blog. For several years, I've been working to get back to cartooning full time (outside of running this farm). But I've always had this or that project to keep me going.

Once I got out of Scientology in 2000, I've been working to sort out if self-help actually worked. This gave us the first three of the "Go Thunk Yourself" series. Yes, it does work - and there are just a handful of laws/rules/principles which make it happen for anyone.

I did find Huna during that point, but only used it as a method for explaining what Hill, Haanel, Wattles, and Troward (as well as Nightingale) couldn't. The seven principles of Huna really cover a great deal and kept pulling me back to it.

But before I dove into the whirlpool (which you've seen recently) I had to finish up the hole in self-help - which was finding Levenson's Release Technique. That have a fourth and final version of Go Thunk Yourself, which coincided with the 10th year of research into that field. And so it was titled "Go Thunk Yourself, Revisited."

I found that "enlightenment" is simpler than was thought or made out to be. But at the same time, it was simply another door that opened.

Into what was the actual question.

That was the stepping off point into shamanism, Serge King style. The next logical point was to take these additional levels or ways of viewing reality and seeing where they led.

And that study takes us beyond our extreme long tail into an area where there's more "etheric" than actual substance. "Running on fumes" is probably the best description.

It takes us into areas where a person would be attacked for simply opening their mouth. Because this undermines all established religions and belief-systems. And exposes the problems which this planet and universe has as its own endemic mental dis-ease.

That above post also explains that stories, parables, entertainment - these are the ways to get this material across. You'll also note that recent posts on this blog point out Joseph Campbell's "Hero of a Thousand Faces" as a key reference.

This then becomes my bridge to this material.

It doesn't mean that I don't have more to study. The point made earlier was that with these four levels of understanding (or living) actually contain the same materials which brought us all through to the end of self-help.

The workable materials (for me anyway - your mileage may vary):
1) Proctor, Nightingale, Hill, Haanel, Troward (in reverse order, but most easily understood.)
2) Huna 7 principles.
3) Silva Method
4) Levenson Release Technique.

Now, in and of themselves, none of these have all the answers - at least for Western minds.

Taken together, they fill in the gaps and bring you to an incredible, always-on, beyond-understanding, non-communicate-able, endless, fathomless, personal peace.

And for many, this is what enlightenment consists of. Probably why Alan Watts tells the story of Zen Masters returning to their old ways of life after achieving the top of their training line. Same world, different look at it.

So the trick is to then take these 4 shamanic levels which Serge King talks about and re-study these other materials through those new lenses.

I generally outlined what to study for what level a few posts ago.

The problem is continuing to blog about it. For this universe is set up with every reason not to do so. Start with government itself - FDA says you can't cure someone unless you're "qualified". The network of universities say you can't have a paper to be "qualified" unless it's by their rules. Religions and dogmas all over the planet are extremely touchy about mentioning anything about their foibles. Like they all pretend to have a monopoly on spirituality or something.

All these organizations and the individuals who support them are into competition. They want to pick a fight with you.

The people who don't are something on the order of less than 1% of 1% of 1% - probably a few hundred thousand out of the billions existing today. What makes this even more difficult is that most of these have never heard of this blog, which is probably the only place (only one I know of) where someone is trying to simply express these very workable truths.

Or there are a couple dozen blogs out there which are similar to this, but also are so esoteric and un-marketed that they are similarly hard to find.

All this long essay just points to the same solution: To educate or enlighten, you must entertain.

And the real tool to defuse almost all bombs out there - humor.

The format fits with cartooning, because people will participate and contribute to cartoons more than they will real life.

So, to celebrate, I'm taking three days of doing caricatures this weekend, which will give me time to develop the characters for a strip which will take up with material I can't easily talk about on a serious blog.

That cartoon will work to approach explaining life through the four levels at once. Much like the old Warner Brother cartoons, which entertained both adults and children at the same time, you should be able to find material which will be funny and interesting on objective, subjective, symbolic, and holistic levels all at the same time.

For people who are simply stuck in being objective, these should be funny enough to smile about at least (or maybe a mild guffaw from time to time - LOL...) But for the seriously un-serious student of shamanic lessons - they will hopefully be some very classic points of reference to forge your own chain of consciousness from.

I've already worked out the distribution such that you'll even be able to get poster and framed prints if you really like them, let alone published volumes of these strips. If I do the production right, I'll possibly be able to crank out several a day - which would then keep up with my over-verbose and over-inspired cracker-barrel philsophising.

But, you're in luck: I'll post them here as well.

Just wanted to let you know what's coming. Might take awhile to change gears. But transitions often have a few chipped gears and metal flakes in the transmission before the driver learns how that clutch works best. Lucky we have a full crankcase of oil...

Here's where you slap yourself on the back and say, "boy am I lucky - aren't we all."

Or just go and hug someone for no good reason. They deserve it, don't they. Because without them, you wouldn't be here reading this, would you?

Cheers!

You, Automaticity, and Everything Else

2011-05-11T16:02:00.000-05:00

Next Steps after Self Help

2011-05-10T22:03:00.000-05:00

While I've been involved lately with too many instances of simply having to get my hands really dirty in back-end webhosting issues, among other points (such as arrogant "support" staff who claim their machines are superior to those their clients are using - and we should bow down to their impressive "uptime" statistics and impeccably working websites, no matter that we can't get their links to work.)

It still tends to bring me back to the reality that things might not be as nice and cosy as we'd like them.

Still way too much separateness going on, and old habits of dealing with things as separate from ourselves.

Now, while I hold that King's description of three levels beyond our simplistic objective-experiences level are the next points to cover, it still doesn't mean you can't hold them up against the other in order to get the most effective truths and technique for your own use.

Again, I say that Levenson and Silva are keys to understanding Hill and his mentors as well as his students (Troward, Haanel, Nightingale, Proctor - with a side helping of Wattles).

Once you do have Levenson release technique to solve the remaining puzzles, you are then smack up against the next level, which both Levenson and Silva talk about. Silva went on ahead into the subjective/psychic realm with his last research.

I've been digging back into this while also sorting through King's "Urban Shaman". (Don't try this at home.) And the main problem is that Laura Silva does a decent job, but like her father, puts everything on long-play CD's instead of simply cutting to the chase and giving you a simple course of action with the techniques you need to practice. It takes longer to study a video or MP3 than it does to get through a PDF (and a lot more bandwidth, to boot.)

Silva is the simple route to getting a good grounding in the subjective level. Of course, you then also need to get King's methods understood and practiced as well. Daily practice. Underscore that. Daily.

Really, until I get through this point and can recommend the simplest approaches and find the streamline shortcuts, I won't be doing much else. The symbological approaches just will tend to confuse the matter, it seems.

And being able to be in complete communication with everything around you is vital before you can understand the dreams they are living here with us.

Knowing and being able to practice the simplicities of these levels are vital before you can consider learning and practicing on the holistic level.

So - it's back to Silva via his daughter's work, as well as his UltraMind recordings (particularly LaTourette's - who spills considerable beans during his asides.) Yes, I need to give you the Nightingale-Conant affiliate link at some point.

My approach to this (other than giving you the heads up first) will be to actually post websites which start reviewing and briefing people on these various findings. And there you will find links galore.

Meanwhile, I need to pull in more income to support this research. (So feel free to visit my bookstore and various sites to buy my books or related materials. Hint.)

Talking with Life

2011-05-09T19:56:00.000-05:00

Acknowledging another's purpose helps them. The point of social conversation is then to find out all about the other person so you can help them achieve their goals and become better. Then in your own meditation/prayers, you simply help them find their own successful points of reference.

What often keeps people from helping others is simply two things:

1. Their own insecurity or self-esteem lack. Easily resolved with Releasing Technique and Silva Method.
2. Their mistaken ideas (very real to them, however) that they are separate from those around them.

A person's wholeness comes from being part and parcel of everything around them. If this also means talking to animals and "things", then so be it. Anything that works with humankind would also work with plantkind, animalkind, and mineralkind. (Yes, you can also talk to the elements and even "empty" space.) Talking stands for communication, which there are many types. Our Western world is so very involved with words that this is just a more obvious transition.

The path to wholeness would be to improve one's senses and communication with every part and the whole as a whole of the environment and universe surrounding a person. Practically, this brings a person up to being able to recognise their own responsibility for creating it. As this level is approached, then seeing how a person could improve the environment they operate in would become apparent.

At the highest and best level, this becomes a person's goal - for all goals really translate to this at their highest applications or permutations. Taken out beyond any imagined limits, all goals involve the rest of humankind and all things living and created. All goals involve anything with motion or static qualities.

There is one definition which defines life as everything having motion. As the earth itself is in constant motion (several all at once, actually - spinning, revolving, oscillating, etc.) and our atoms themselves are in constant motion, this then says that every part of everything you are aware of is alive.

(Continuing on this line, you'd also see that there is really no such thing as "death". For the elements and atoms which make up any "living" body continue to have motion and change. "Death" is just a change. One wakes to another dream. And perhaps we go further than we need to at this time.)

The point is that in your conversations with other humankind, animals, plants, and minerals around you - be sure to inquire how you can help them. And know them by their needs and wants. Pray/Meditate to assist them with their goals.

By doing this, you will find and achieve your own goals faster and with higher quality, better results.

How to see what is... and where you are going.

2011-05-08T16:23:00.000-05:00

Before you can move in any direction, you have to know where you are. And that you actually are somewhere.

This was known to Archimedes, who is known to have said that if he had a long enough lever (and a place to stand) he could move the world.

The "place to stand" is the problem.

Because most of use don't really see the world the way it exists. We are so caught up in our own emotional subconscious state that we don't see anything but that. What we recognize around us is simply what programming we accepted long ago - and that programming tells us where we "are" and how we should be "reacting".

And this is the hole in Napoleon Hill's theory of how to proceed in "Think and Grow Rich". He didn't know how to fight the very programming which created any opponent. He lacked very simple solutions. The closest he got was Coue's affirmations (see "Secrets Between Your Ears"). Coue's approach was to simply replace any existing unwanted mental habit with a new one - mostly by sheer repetition of positive affirmation.

The bridge to this is found in Lester Levenson's Release Technique materials.

The entire success secret is in being able to release the unwanted condition, along with any underlying counter-create patterns (fear, anger, anxiety, dispair, etc. ) which are holding that concept and pattern in place, mostly or completely overlaying the original creative and loving thought.

And that bridges you from self-help over into the next level - subjective.

At that point, you can make real mileage through the Silva System, in almost any of its incarnations. Laura Silva has taken this way beyond her father's work - but mostly in terms of marketing, not particularly improving on his basics. Jose Silva's last work, Ultramind, is where he bridged over from the objective into the psychic - making it possible for anyone and everyone to utilize their native abilities in this area.

But the Silvas didn't apparently know about releasing. So you want to take that tool with you. Once you get into a simple and deeper meditative state, you are then able to utilize releasing to let go of the negative emotional states and programs you've been carrying with you.

Then program at this level the positive approaches which come to you as intuitive solutions. And you combine the methods of Silva and Levenson as regards your own goals so that you can achieve these the quickest, permanently from here on out.

That then leaves you in a perpetually peaceful state, able to quickly dissolve negative influences you've been carrying around. As well as those which pop up in your life.

Those are the only stops you've been having which keep you from being in communication with everything and everyone around you. That is the subjective level in full. Full communication with your environment.

At that point, you finally can know where you actually are. And then start moving forward.

Levenson releasing technique by itself left many open holes. It gets you into a great personal state, but says nothing about where to go from there. And as Levenson apparently didn't know about Silva or Huna, there were no cross-over advances to be made. The texts Lester studied in Eastern religions also didn't lay out the paths which Jose Silva and Serge Kahili King (and Max Freedom Long) walked.

Huna, in King's Kahuna Kupua materials, lays out the ancient understandings which were recorded in the Polynesian language of Hawaii thousands of years ago. And this tells us of two additional levels beyond the subjective/psychic level.

However, right at this point, I don't have a complete set of tools and techniques for these levels beyond King's own books and recordings, such as "Urban Shaman".

Anything that maintains the separateness of the individual as a base can be evaluated for usefulness. It may or may not have any application beyond its own universe of thought. Similarly, practices and dogmas which are full of indecipherable or unclear approaches - which have no accurate or definite translation - may or may not be useful. (One interesting study is to take only the actual stories and commonly-agreed talks Jesus the Christ left in scriptures - such as Thomas - and then throw away the practices, rites, rituals and so on which built up in the centuries after his passing. Go directly to the source.)

One book of possible application in that next level, Symbolic, would be Joseph Campbell's "Hero of a Thousand Faces", where he lays out just how the Jungian archetypes can be used to explain the common plots which all mythologies use.

Mythologies - Dreams - Symbols. This gives us a tool to sort through all these with a greater certainty of understanding. Again, you are able to use the Huna Garden technique, or Silva's Laboratory, or Hill's Invisible Counselors - all to verify what you are working to confront and grasp.

In all cases, you are getting information from Self (by whatever name you want to call it) beyond that Holistic level in order to achieve your goals in spiritual training.

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Luck to us all!

That's Entertainment!

2011-05-07T20:28:00.000-05:00

Stumbled onto one reason we all might have stuck into only the "objective" level.

It's simply more entertaining than the others.

Or at least it seems that way. Practically, they are missing out on the more sublime aspects of things. But it's convenient when you want to play the game of "warrior" or "competition".

And that explains why sports are so popular, at least among men. But that seems to be the way they are wired. Women also compete, but in much different ways.

Well, around 97% of both sexes, anyway.

The objective level says that you are separate from everyone and everything around you. And from the other levels, this is a fairly insane viewpoint. But not in a derogatory way. "Illogical" might be a more polite way of saying it.

And this explains why people who are looking for the "Law of Attraction" are pounced on so readily.

Because if you actually believe this stuff, then it ruins most of the games ongoing.

Games are simply fiction. They are employed to "pass time" - another fiction.

People, in actual fact, can readily be shamans. It's as natural as being able to experience the "sun rise". And if you ask people closely, they will tell you that they have had times that they "had an idea" what someone else was thinking (subjective level) or had a dream that was so real and perhaps even explained something to them (symbolic level) - or at times were really "in the zone" and knew exactly what was going on, that everything was incredibly real for a short while (holistic level).

The point is that they revert to the most separate level, and the one where their own native abilities are at their lowest - objective level.

But that's what passes for Entertainment on this planet, in this Universe, at this Moment.

No one is required to keep playing those games or any game. None. Nada. Zilch. Zero.

And if anyone really wants to improve the quality of their lives, they only have to start practicing on these other levels. Lots of practice. But you get better the more you do.

Life, as well, gets better and simpler. Easier.

The toughest thing to do is to hold yourself separate from everyone and everything and then try to do anything at all. Very tough. Probably why so many people are trying to "succeed" at all this. Because it's so hard, so very entertaining.

And why the first step in all these various cultures and studies which describe how to take it easy - is to begin by learning to relax. Just relax. Take a few deep breaths. Loosen all those tense muscles. Quit holding yourself so hard out and in such perpetual conflicts.

You really should "spend more time" or devote more moments of your infinite lifespan to simply appreciating the amount of beauty and life in everything and everyone around you. Even rocks, even dirt. Even pavement and trash. Once you see the incredible and endless beauty which exists all around you and within you - then you will see life in a much different way.

Between here and there, you'll regain all sorts of abilities you haven't experienced for years. But they are just there - waiting for you.

Your choice. As usual. Like it always has been.

Kahuna Kupua Chart

2011-05-05T16:14:00.001-05:00

Thought you might be interested in this chart of various Shaman correlations in Huna:

*Kahuna Kupua Chart*
Key	Power Animal	Ability	Challenge	Color	Element	Beingness	Talents
Ike	Dolphin	Awareness	Ignorance	White	Fire	Psychic	Seeing
Kala	Bird	Freedom	Limitation	Red	Water	Releaser of Blocks	Clearing
Makia	Cat	Concentration	Confusion	Orange	Wind	Manifester of Events	Focusing
Manawa	Bull	Persistence	Procrastination	Yellow	Stone	Shape-Changer	Presence
Aloha	Horse	Love	Anger	Green	Plants	Peace Maker	Cleansing
Manawa	Bear	Confidence	Fear	Blue	Animals	Teacher	Empowering
Pono	Wolf	Wisdom	Doubt	Purple/Violet	Humans	Adventurer	Dream-weaving

Again, King's interpretation of the 7 Huna Principles:

Ike	Your Ideas Create Your Reality
Kala	There are no Limits
Makia	Energy Flows Where Attention Goes
Manawa	Now is the Moment of Power
Aloha	To Love is to Be Happy With
Mana	All Power Comes From Within
Pono	Effectiveness is the Measure of Truth

Loving Your Way to Freedom

2011-05-04T10:37:00.000-05:00

While working on figuring out which tools and techniques fit to which Huna Kupua way (levels) of living, I ran across an old friend - Ho'oponopono.

And while this really belongs at the top level (holistic), it can actually used at any of the lower levels.

The relief is immediate, when you understand the actual theory of it and apply it with the intent of cleaning and resolving blockages wherever they may exist.

On the objective level, it is simply a method of relieving anxiety or emotional stress. And that link above really gives more data about it.

Dr. Hew Len boiled it down to a simplicity of:

"I'm sorry."
"Please forgive me."
"I love you."

If you look over these from a larger viewpoint, you can see that it consists of:

Observation
Acknowledgement
Re-creating/Loving

(I point out there, and here as well, that Charles Hannel and Thomas Troward pointed out that Love is the primal element which was and is used in creating this universe around us.)

A rephrasing of this could also be:

"I observe and understand."
"Thank you"
"Be Blessed"

Now at the highest level (holistic), this becomes even simpler: "I Grok."

That then encompasses the whole, as the whole situation becomes part of you and your responsibility.

As you use this, you can see applications on all other levels. Ho'oponopono (Big H) becomes a great tool when being in psychic rapport with anything or anyone (subjective level), and also it is a way to resolve dream situations on the symbolic level - another tool to apply during lucid dreaming.

The above-linked post deals with using it on the objective level - a simple way of getting unwanted emotional states resolved. Of course, since it is so powerful, it can have miracle-type results. (This also includes politicians, IRS agents, and lawyers who may be impinging on you.) But I'll leave that for you to discover, as you test this out and apply it in your own life.

Good Hunting!

4 solutions for every problem

2011-05-02T05:58:00.001-05:00

The shamanic approach gives you 4 solutions for every problem you face.

Again, these are:

Objective - or Scientific, how did this occur - what caused this?
Subjective - what does this have to do with me - how till this affect me?
Symbolic - what does this mean, what does this stand for?
Holistic - how does this fit into the whole?

It's no longer just one approach - Science, as usual, doesn't have all he answers. You are no longer just stuck into your own emotional or analytical response for your solution.

The world around us has stuck us into the dominant mentality of either/or. Either you get "rational" about it or "go with your gut" and leap into your emotional response. And don't think this gives you two choices. All your "emotions" are explained with what - science. Psychology, and all sorts of -ism's and -ology's explain all that you could possibly do or want to do.

The more you study these studies, he more you supposedly can "act rationally" or justify your reactions.

However, you're missing out on 3 other possible solution scenarios.

While we all use our practical skills, the next level up is being able to use our psychic skills, such as direct communication on a telepathic or other similar level.

Next would be processing the dream world of everything concerned. That all the world is a dream you wake to. Everything has it's dream and you are part of those dreams just as those others are elements in your dream.

The top level is that all this is part of you - you create the world around you directly.

And those four levels simply are unnecessary when you become Self in the fullest understanding.

Now, you don't have to follow this sequence, but can jump back and forth through all these levels. You can ask for inspiration of which approach would be the best for all concerned - then act on that answer.

I found a more detailed explanation of this at Paul Waters' site.

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Of course, you don't have to believe any of this. And you can live your life as "normal" as you can. On the other hand, you may find that this is a very interesting and new way to live a life. It could also give you remarkable insights into the world around you.

The best word which comes to mind is that of "mystic", which means both "adept" and "initiate".

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My own take on this is that the entirety of the physical universe is perhaps just an arbitrary creation we put in place to keep us separate from Self. This is for whatever purpose we created. The route back to Self is to simply take increasing responsibility for everything that is "out there" and make it our own, as it always has been.

To the exact degree that we do this - take responsibility and ownership for everything and everyone out there - that is where are are at on our own Freedom Scale.

Good Hunting!

3 recipes from 4 authors to manifest anything.

2011-04-30T09:14:00.000-05:00

Hopefully this is short. It's just something that came up yesterday that might be interesting and useful for you.

In Hill's "Think and Grow Rich", you'll find a phrase "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

Now Jose Silva had another recipe for manifestation: "desire, belief and expectancy".

You can see how these two are related.

And the third is from Earl Nightingale's "Strangest Secret" transcript, that 30-day program he lays out has at its core assuming the attitude of "calm, cheerful expectancy".

Conceive - Believe - Achieve

Desire - Belief - Expectancy

Calm - Cheerful - Expectancy

Of course, you can plug all this into what you've studied on "The Secret" DVD, from which I have a quote by Jack Canfield on my wall over my computers' screens:

"Decide what you what.
Believe you can have it.
Believe that you deserve it.
And believe it's possible for you.
And then close your eyes every day for several minutes, visualise having what you already want, and feel the feelings of already having it.
Come out of that and focus on what you're grateful for already. And really be, enjoy it.
Then go into your day and release it to the universe, and trust that the universe will figure out how to manifest."

That gives you the longer version, so you can see how these all fit together. They are all saying essentially the same thing. Pick your flavor.

Good hunting!

Why Huna, Why Now?

2011-04-30T06:26:00.000-05:00

The first key is workability. The second key is unlimited application.

While I uncovered Huna early on, it wasn't until I needed answers to other questions that I started using it in earnest.

This has been the key with all those who I've found who work with this material. Tad James, who was known for his work in psychology and NLP long before, said that Huna actually explained all the left-over questions he still had after years in other fields of the mind.

That is what happened for me. While Charles Hannel ("Master Key System") and Thomas Troward ("Edinburg Lectures") explain how this world works in no uncertain terms, there are still gaps.

And so I mostly refer people to the 7 principles of Huna as an introduction. These are the bottom-line core answers to most questions still remaining. As well, the rest of Huna (for the most part) tend to solve other difficulties.

Huna, like any study, is best done broadly. King explains that there are three main approaches to this subject, and that every family of practitioners had their own practices and preferences. King was adopted into the Kahili family, while others such as Daddy Bray and his lineage (which James studied under) has a slightly different approach.

Max Freedom Long was mostly self-taught. At the time he was in the islands, no kahuna would share data with him, so he had his breakthrough studies after he moved back to the states.

This is also explained somewhat by Laura Yardley's "Heart of Huna", which covers Bray's approach and also Long's.

King has long said that this is a study of workable truths. You use what you find to be effective for you. And so Huna isn't selective or dogmatic in what it teaches. You can and should test and evaluate everything you study in this and every other subject, then adopt only the really effective techniques as part of your box of tools.

Similarly, Huna is inclusive of all other effective truths. (And usually has better explanations for why they work.)

My own tool-set includes Silva, Levenson's releasing, and Hill's "Think and Grow Rich" book, as well as Nightingale's "Strangest Secret" and his recommended Dorothea Brande's "Wake Up and Live!".

But I've found that the simple basics of Huna explains why all of these work.

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The next point is that this can be applied anywhere and to any situation.

When I saw that self-help as a study was finite (which occurred at the end of "Freedom Is" research), I knew that the rest was going to be spiritual training.

And while leaving all of this settle for awhile, I then picked up Huna again in earnest. The material King and LaTourette discuss about the shamanic approach brought this all back around again. LaTourette was interesting in that (as I've mentioned) he brought both Silva and NLP practices in (going to level and timeline therapy), it was still a very workable approach.

King seems to be the only one who is explaining the shaman approach. And in reading his "Urban Shaman" (still not complete at this writing) I can see why. His purpose is to create more shamans to help handle this planet and universe as it exists for us. King had all this knowledge and saw that his job was to teach it and enable people to find it.

And that aligns with my own purposes.

Hopefully, it is also workable for you as you read this.

Another reason is that most of the best books on Huna seem to be out of print (Urban Shaman, Heart of Huna, Long's materials). So I work to bring these back as I can.

But my own work in this line is to share it as I start incorporating it in on top of all that I've researched on self help.

You'll also see that I'm now onto an approach which is beyond what is covered in what I've studied through individual authors. And this is a self-study shaman course. You have front-row seats for it.

For all of us - let the blessings fall like rain.

Sorry for all these posts - but when the spirit moves you...

2011-04-29T09:35:00.000-05:00

You can imagine that my life is filled to the brim and then some. While these last couple of weeks have been filled with esoteric posts, I have my farm-work and freelance web-design to keep me going. While the farm-work is done every day, regardless, the freelance work is often put off if I've no pressing bills.

Often, I'll come in for a mid-morning coffee and take some time to share what I've discovered out in the fields, woods, and pastures. Today is no different.

If you check the post dates and times recently, you'll see they've come out at irregular moments. That last post was in some early am hours, while the idea came to me just before sleeping. Seems to work out overall. One just has to ask, "And what is this reason I am now suddenly wide awake?" Then do whatever it is that you are inspired to do.

In this am, I am continuing to chew over these shamanic ways (or planes) which I've been studying as part of our spiritual training path.

It came to me simply that Life has a synonym in "Choice".

Another note: the actions in living are giving and receiving. And that is a balance to achieve there. For while anyone can play the game of working to give more than receive, some ancient texts say that the universe tends to give back in an out-of-proportionate manner.

What you are giving is value. And receiving tons of that energy-symbol "money" just allows you to give even more value. So you can see that this is a rising scale. Properly managed, it would be a continuing exponential scale of benefits to all concerned.

(Consider this post from T. Harv Eker on the necessity of receiving.)

Your financial management is such that you would probably be best in investing in forgivable loans in fishing and bread-baking lessons rather than simply handing out loaves and fish on a continuing basis. By teaching people to put food on their own table, you are giving them a greater value than simply continuing to hand out food.

Just a handful of successful people doing this would then quickly create a tipping point - provided they trained the people around them to do the same, and training those they helped as well, etc. - which would bring about true world peace in less than a lifetime.

Our modern welfare system and all these laws about minimum-wage have done more to keep people poor (not to mention increasing funds for education which mostly goes into administration salaries and bigger buildings instead of effective training.)

The point is to improve everyone's ability to choose.

Now as you work with these ideas on the subjective, symbolic, and holistic level, things around you tend to take on different meanings - often simultaneously. And in that case, you can simply ask the question: "What is the most effective way to process this information?" The answer you receive will be one to take action on immediately. But all of this is a fascinating adventure, regardless.

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Later today, I hope to publish some notes from these various recordings I've been studying. They should help you speed any work you have in this area.

Last month, I released in my newsletter a video on how you create your day. Using these four ways can enrich your creation intensely.

For instance, if you get a dis-ease (disease), you can look for what lesson to receive from it, what action you should be taking. As well, you can consider that this is not debilitating, but will rather leave you stronger and more able as a result. The adjustments the body is making are necessary to improve the world around you even more. Where their might be pain (and mostly, there is no reason for that), consider that this is communication bridges which are reforming to new and improved patterns. So future interaction with that body part will be only improved performance.

But don't be stuck in working only on the objective plane. Consider what any and every instance means on many levels, then pick the best one (or ones) to act on. Create your day from that, moment by moment.

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I'll also be sending out this month's newsletter shortly, which should be interesting as usual.

Cheers.

It's back to fencing this am for me. A nice day for it.

Relation of 4 "Ways" to You

2011-04-29T03:57:00.001-05:00

After my last brain-crunch, something else became obvious.

Just as self-help materials help a person master the objective level and move out from being mostly effect of the body and universe, so would other studies then help you empower yourself through other levels.

These levels seem to be nested (although that's just a convenient metaphor):

Huna is perhaps the first to describe these levels as separate (most others only describe the conscious-unconscious-superconscious arrangement). Even then, you have to pass into shaman training in order to get the above explanation. Thanks to King, Bray, and others, we are able to have this data again. Western culture had essentially lost its way.

Most of this has been an all-or-nothing approach to this point. One would either go all the way, or would stay minorly operating in the Objective plane. That left most of humankind simply slaves and slavers. (Our current condition for the bulk of humanity.) This is applied to governments, such as the "Arab Spring" currently underway. People are getting better communication tools and so being able to organize and demand their basic human rights.

Humankind's highest states were known vaguely as "enlightenment" or "bodhi". But even then, enlightened buddha's had differing ability levels. Even still maintaining a body would to some degree keep you in this objective plane we apparently share.

The materials Locke and others wrote which formed the foundation of the U.S. republic is very enabling in dealing with the objective plane. Other materials for this level include the bulk of self-help texts.

Some take you further than others. Silva takes you into the symbolic level with their "Mental Laboratory". But you'll also find this in Hill's "Think and Grow Rich" chapter 14, with his "invisible counselors" technique.

Levenson's releasing technique can take you into very stable, sublime conditions - but won't give you the tools to fully understand and develop what you find. And this is where spiritual training comes in. Levenson's own studies were mostly to bring him back to being able to communicate with those around him, in order to help them achieve that high state he found. He died a very normal death.

Some studies, such as Jung's archetypes, tend to educate mostly in the symbolic plane, but are widely misunderstood. And that is apparent as people try to "make sense" of them on the objective plane and fail.

Very, very few deal with the holistic level, which bridges the gap between the body as a symbol for the universe, and not needing a body or separate individuality to prove your existence - which is at that level and beyond. Apparently, a handful of people are able to "see" entities who operate on this plane. And our legends are filled with this type of material.

Again, just take this as a metaphor. But it may give you a way to study this area as you work to regain your native abilities. Don't use this material to "make sense" of anything. Use it to explore for yourself.

It's apparent that you can pull from any of these planes to solve whatever is affecting you adversely - aka: healing. And that's where the metaphor falls apart. But if it weren't for being able to access the "higher self" via intuition and inspiration, then all these "breakthroughs" wouldn't have been possible.

Through these planes, there are no enemies or actual conflicts. There is just adventure. (I'd hazard that the "warrior" concept and philosophy ends at least on achieving the symbolic plane, if not before. And pushing people to drop any idea of "competitive" in favor of simply being creative is known through most of the basic self-help materials (Haanel, Wattles, etc.)

Again, these are just notes for your own studies, as I continue mine.

Why popular is popular

2011-04-28T21:07:00.000-05:00

Just watching a long-running crime series tonight. And got curious about popular "culture."

Oddly, this drives right into the recent shamanic studies.

What we know:

Most of humankind function far more on the subconscious than conscious.
The patterns used are those which are objective.
And the point of this universe is to play the game of making sense of it.

So mysteries are composed with missing parts. And often altered sequences (things out of order).

The challenge is to make sense out of things.

Added into this is emotion, which is illogical - and often non-sequitur.

And this then sets the stage for "reality" shows.

Why are shows like this popular?

Escapism allows alternate programs to come into play. Different emotions can surface.

Entertainment, for the most part, is simply distraction - a roulette wheel of emotions.

Since often motion pictures will hang around for days later, and songs can replay for days to weeks - this forms the basis of addictions. If the emotions are wanted, but then suddenly cease, then the impulse to replace it surfaces.

Once a given input doesn't return the same wanted emotions, then a related input is sought.

So: fads.

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Now, when you look for successful people, follow their back-trails. You will find in every single case that they've kicked this habit scene. For greater or less, they know the bulk of the success habits which Napoleon Hill distilled with his Law of Success and Think and Grow Rich.

If you take this further, you'll find that they are connected on other levels - intuitive and inspirational.

The common objective plane becomes child's play to work. Abundance and success are commonplace.

Because they are no longer particularly held by their emotional states or addictions in this area. Where they have failures or collapse, it is because they dropped their particular success model that they've been following all along.

The funny thing is - all these popular plots are the same. Just read Joseph Campbell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces".

And Hill (plus a very few others) will tell you all you need to know to get released from the emotional rat-wheel.

Now Huna shamanic studies point at least two more planes above our "success story" models.

Should be an interesting ride.

Handling Government and Politicians

2011-04-28T09:07:00.000-05:00

Now, again, I'm about to give you data which you are free to disagree with - and I encourage you to.

This will of course seem completely strange and impossible. I will say, if asked, that I am simply a scammer and am out for my own monetary gain. That makes it simpler for everyone concerned. (If this helps: Visit my Best Self Help Books store.)

But here's today's wacked-out, conspiracy-theorist-ridden, but-very-mystically-logical way to handle those problems called governments and officials.

First, you have to work for the improvement of all concerned. Everyone has to improve their lives as a result of your efforts and thoughts. It's completely and utterly win-win. That's the bottom line ground rule. Anything else is simply temporary effects, and we are interested in only permanent change. (Also, this keeps you from having "enemies" - that's good for warriors, but we aren't taking that path.)

Next, you are going to have to completely "grok" the problem. ("Grok" is a term from Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land.") Which really means, in its essence, to fully become the problem in all its aspects - not just the solution it's demanding, or how it's affecting you. You have to see both (counter-opposed) sides of the problem and all the creating that went into it. Once you have it all figured out and know, personally, what is going on with it, then the solution is obvious. The most optimal solution benefits all concerned, everyone concerned.

And if you are familiar with Silva, you can ask for Higher Intelligence to send you inspiration if you can't figure it out yourself - or similarly, visit your Garden in Huna and ask the Master Gardener for advice on the best way to proceed - or have the Master Shaman appear. If you've read Haanel, you could just visit the Silence. Or from Nap Hill, use the Gates technique of sitting in a darkened room and concentrate on all the aspects of the problem. Lots of ways to get answers to this. The point is to get the best solution which you can use for the situation you're in, and your current abilities.

To grok the people connected with the problem, you may need to be that person. This doesn't mean that you quit being you - or even that you have to go anywhere or do anything. And this isn't trying to control anything, or have power over anyone. It's non-judgmental and depends on being secure in your own skin first.

Grokking people is a great way of learning things from people who have moved on, from historical figures. Napoleon Hill describes doing this with his "invisible counselors". He had people attend his board meetings both alive and passed on - who gave him direct advice on various aspects. Instead of a Huna garden, he had a board room.

One interesting point to this is that of gifting, thanks, and blessings. You are giving in these, always. And grateful for what you receive and experience. This forwards your flow of healing. All who are on this planet, in this universe, seem to be incomplete. So as you fill your own gaps in understanding, you are assisting others with theirs. This is why governments have to compromise all the time. They are dealing with the most rudimentary of living ways - that of separation and organization. Compromise is the order of the day, which is a form of mutual exchange and giving.

Often a good way to proceed is to give a gift when you arrive, and accept a gift when you leave. Gifts can be anything, something you consider that the other would find valuable. What you take away may not be apparently valuable - you might not see the use of it to begin with. But you trust that it's use will show up later.

The highest form of government is self-government and free association. That could be the goal your grokking takes. At any rate, your work in this is to help and assist those in government to do better. In many cases, this will be just in helping them be more certain and have more esteem. It's probable that you cannot "force" them to think or act any certain way. But you can always request that they work for the greatest good of everyone concerned, not just their party or a certain group of people.

Another technique you can employ is to access those with similar intent of solving that problem. Simply reaching out will then bring these others to you. And then you can work in harmony with them to bring about the positive change and improve the creation.

And yet again, you could bring any visitor to your own garden. Meet with them in a familiar landscape of your own creation. Treat them as a guest and help them feel at home. Have a conversation with them and seek out their views. Learn from them, just as they learn from you. Gift them and accept their gifts to you. Bid them adieu and see them off, then return to the Here and Now. Absorb what you have learned and get all possible lessons. More will probably show up later. Let them show up as they may. Be open to more lessons at all times.

Look for feedback which shows you the effectiveness of what you've been doing. Recognize the rightness of what you've been doing and you'll improve. See what you could still improve on.

As many people do this with their elected representatives, then they would truly reflect more accurately what their constituents want. Again - we are looking for optimal solutions. It could (but probably won't) be exactly the one you started out with. Reason being that it came from your individual concept, not a holistic one.

This is the exact point we are dealing with - that we are not particularly taking the "warrior" route of combating and winning against adversity. We are instead working with finding and forwarding the most optimal solution we can find within our current awareness, while we improve and expand our awareness-ability.

All these esoteric practices do work - and just to the degree you consider that they do. Of course, you'll need to practice with this to improve your ability.

And if this is beyond what you want to try at this time, just consider that I've told you a nice fiction. When you need this talent to resolve something in your life, it will be there for your. But it's smart to simply practice this regularly - as most need to develop their rapport in many different ways to get this easier.

Getting along with Government, Taxes, Politicians

2011-04-27T16:12:00.000-05:00

Listening to Serge King is quite heady. And he's telling me for the last several days all about healing.

Now the FTC, FDA, DEA, etc. have pretty much sewn up the monopoly of healing - they say that only licensed doctors are able to cure anyone. They long ago ran extensive campaigns about the dream that anyone who says they can actually cure someone is a quack. (Yes, I know, if it sounds like a duck...)

And you'll see many different self-help guru's who carefully tip-toe around this point. Because the people-are-authorized-to-carry-guns can use deadly force to require you to send yourself or any of your relatives to a licensed doctor and undergo their treatment.

They say that, simply, you don't own your own body. And they can kill you to prove it. Oof. That's their idea of keeping everyone safe.

But there's a simpler way - one which the Christ is held as saying: "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's."

Huna healing isn't the same as taking pills and having operations and injections and so on. Those are all external to the individual, usually not of their creation.

Huna healing is just allowing the person to be themselves, wholly. You don't directly change someone else, but a more accurate definition is to get into such good communication with that person that they feel safe enough to change themselves into however they want to be.

It's the person who changes, not the external influence. The healer doesn't heal - they simply help the person correct whatever it is that is bothering them. (If it isn't bothering them, then maybe it doesn't need to be healed...)

Again, this is learning to understand the universe around us. Once you grok the actuality of existence, then it becomes much simpler - it becomes your creation again.

Of course, you then come right back around to the point that all of these individualities we maintain are just part of Self, so it's not a big deal. Healing is much as you would pull out a small splinter from your thumb as a nuisance.

Healing anything and everything around you becomes second-nature. It's a good habit to evolve into. Everyone and everything gets better around you just because you get near them (more or less.)

The point may be to appreciate all the fine work these government workers are doing and to purposely not get in their way. Let them play any game they want to. Because as you are Self, you can appreciate all their efforts. And of course, it may be obvious that it's best for all concerned that nothing needs to be done at all. (The best government is one which governs least, it has been said.)

As all are in agreement, then there is no need for laws or their enforcement. A group of healthy people have no need of doctors.

And the ducks can enjoy their pond and raise their young.

Habit Replacement - Fact or Fiction?

2011-04-27T15:29:00.000-05:00

Found today where Serge Kahili King was telling me one habit needs to be replaced with another.

Now this is just as true as you find it workable, as much as you join in on the creating of it.

If you are in the habit of having persistent habits, perhaps this is a workable truth for you.

One concept which sits a bit sideways to this is releasing. (A description is linked in the title.) In Levenson's release technique, the action is to simply let it go. Quit holding onto whatever it is that's bothering you. Sure, it may take several rounds of releasing to really let go of something.

The idea that I had was in that once you let it go, it would just be gone. You are simply getting to the core reason (usually a deep-seated fear) which helped you create that habit to begin with. And so you don't have any reason to have that habit anymore.

If you consider that something has to replace it, you might see that a calm, fathomless peace replaces it.

So I suppose that your new habit would be one of endless and indescribable peace. (This is the "peace that passes all understanding.")

And then you are really expanding your habit of peace to encompass all other habits.

I suppose that King would say that you are simply then connecting up the "Ku" with the Higher Self as an "always on" condition - or habit.

My understanding of Ku is that this is all that sits between you and Self. It is the mutual creation you've agreed to as well as that you've directly created and may or may not be taking responsibility for. Your education is to learn about the Ku (your body and subsconscious) and expand this to the whole world and universe we live in. As you continue to learn about your surroundings, you can bring these into better forms of creation - or vanish them as they are no longer useful to you.

Habits, like most things in this universe, are pretty much set on automatic. Like gravity, the seasons, how your heart keeps running, etc. Habits. Patterns. Automaticities.

So consider what it would be like if you just took things back to the original creative thought. Far from being a dull, grey void, it would instead be one of peaceful pre-creation - where everything is possible. Bright and sparkling perhaps - tinted in shifting pastels, possibly.

And so your habits simply return to their origin - where they are simply in pre-creative form. Which means you can have that habit again if you want it. But perhaps next time, you'll simply use it for what you want it and then let it go again. Much like an actor who can smoke on stage as part of a character, but then is not "addicted" to cigarette smoking afterwards.

At least this is my understanding of habits at this level.

Have fun with this.

Starting to see the "world" in a new way

2011-04-26T21:38:00.000-05:00

Well, like it or not, we're on our way.

Since you've followed me this long (and I'm working on reviving the archives in PDF form for any to catch up on what you may have missed) - you deserve only the best.

And the more you feel that you do deserve this, the faster all manner of good things will show up in your life.

I had some time today (while waiting for a new front bearing for my truck) to sort out the skeleton of what real spiritual training consists of.

Funny enough, it's the stuff you've already studied.

But this time, it's now looking at it all from a completely different viewpoint.

Up to this point, you've been working on just getting your own Freedom back. Which you had all along.

And that realization is what passes for enlightenment for many people. Or Clear. Or even bodhi.

Those people who have attained this have achieved an incredible level of truth in their lives. So it's not something to be taken lightly.

It's also the end of individuality as you know it. For after this, you will continue to expand your beingness and abilities to even greater heights - but those are with this world around you. It's that world which you've gradually or suddenly realized that you've been creating all along. The world which you are completely responsible for.

The trick and secret is to view this world and universe through these other 3 ways in addition to the objective one where you've had all your training to date. You'll now be required to learn how to perceive and study and deal with things not just objectively, but subjectively, symbolically, and holistically.

You will learn to deal with things in terms of what they mean to you, what they can mean for you, and how it's all you, anyway. At the same time, the pleasures of seeing things separate from you continue to delight you - because you can be, have, and do at all these levels at the same time.

Now getting used to these various ways of operating isn't particularly easy, but it gets easier as you get more used to it. Like any skill you learn. Like dancing, or chess, or riding a bike.

Obviously, I have a great deal more to work out on this. But the fascinating part is that all these techniques you learned on the way up - the ones you used to gain your own freedom - can now be used to free the entire world around you.

Certainly, your prosperity and good health, as well as fantastic relationships will continue to the exact degree you continue to apply these techniques. But as well, you will now have access to even more power to create the complete and entire world of your dreams. And everyone will join you in that.

It's the final adventure - one which never ends, actually.

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In case I get busy with other stuff (which I've been putting off to write these posts), here's the basic tool sets you can review.

0. Huna Kupua - the four ways of the shaman need to be fully understood.

1. The 7 principles of Huna

2. Key books which lay out how this world works: Napoleon Hill (both Law of Success and Think and Grow Rich), Wallace Wattles, Charles Haanel, Thomas Troward, Genevieve Behrend. (And don't forget my "Go Thunk Yourself" series, which review all these...)

3. Review "The Strangest Secret" recording by Earl Nightingale, plus the books he mentions: Dorothea Brande's "Wake Up and Live!" and Claude Bristol's "Magic of Believing".

4. Key techniques to master: Silva System (Jose or his daughter's more recent materials), Burt Goldman's "American Monk" series (based on Silva, plus Eastern studies), Serge Kahili King's recordings as well as the Huna recordings of Tad James, John LaTourette's Huna materials (if you can find them), Levenson's Releasing Techniques (I prefer Crane's version as more straightforward, but Dwoskin or Seretan's will work, too.)

5. Anything else that shows up for you as workable.

As I can, I'll come back to link these up and speed your access.

You'll see as you study these, the more you really master the 4 ways of the Shaman, they all now have incredible depth to them. And the trick isn't to stick in any one field, but work to master them all. With that wealth of understanding, you can then simply choose the most effective tool for any given situation.

With that: I wish you all the best of everything.

Ready for your next step?

2011-04-26T07:29:00.000-05:00

Ready for real spiritual training?

These recent studies (and some collections I have been doing in the background) are bringing up a very sensible approach to moving beyond mere self-help into a much higher, more abundant, more powerful way of living.

While you already may be familiar with many of these tools, prepare to study them in a new fashion.

The key is to be able to move beyond simply the personal, individual view of things and start to recategorize these from the views of subjective, symbolic, and holistic as well.

The object is to re-program your universe into the one you've always wanted, always known down deep was possible.

Hopefully, we'll make this ride as easy as possible for all of us. Not that it won't take some "hard work", but the results are already proven on each of these.

We will simply be taking the next, logical step. I'll post here as I get them ready for your study.

Good Hunting!

What Does Your Life Consist Of?

2011-04-25T22:05:00.000-05:00

This just adds to what we've been covering so far. (Logical, I am.)

Now all this shaman stuff is fun. Don't take it for more than that. Seriousness can get you dead faster than anything else I know.

You can simply take your life down to nuts and bolts: how much love is in it?

Now, just as "there are no limits", you can think your life into any quality you want. ANY quality.

It's just how much love you want to create.

How does that work - create love? ...I thought love was creating?

And you really do. But the amount of love and creation you can do is infinite. Just like the spiritual world around you.

Let me tell you a funny story. Those serious scientists who were studying Quantum Physics came up with this wild theory that the observer affected the outcome. Not only did they prove that to be correct (which they really couldn't find otherwise, if you think it through...) but they also found that this physical universe we live in is actually infinite. Whenever a person considers that they can find other planets out there, they scrape up some money to create a rocket and send something out there - and get a lot of other people believing in the concept as well - then, Voila! They find something else out there.

This is exactly how Obama got elected - and why he is so polarizing today. Essentially, he was a "fill in the blanks" candidate with his political marketing - and so many people did. Many people got into this scene who didn't normally get into politics. Because they were reading into the situation what they wanted there.

And, like any president, candidates change when they get in office - because now more people are seeing different things there. Like the other 47% who didn't vote for him. People's thoughts, meditations, and prayers do have effects. So any person elected to office now starts behaving according to the way the people he now represents perceive them. Elected officers can be changed, and frequently are, by those they represent. Analysts try to say this isn't so, but it's the same point. Same reason celebrity's lives sometimes fall apart.

The way people "think" about a candidate or celebrity isn't anything trivial. It's a matter of how people natively are - how people want to live their lives. People think their world. Sure, "they say" it's all about what other people say to them and act for them to model.

I'm not just talking about the media and their coverage. Only about 30% of their readers actually believe what they say or report. Sure, this creates some effect - but listen closely to the "news" as impartially as you can, and you'll see that they are not trying to really improve our culture much. Most of their reporting is on the lower-end of the "love spectrum". So much so that they now have to say "accused", "suspected" and so on. Doesn't mean they don't concentrate on the worst, most sensational stories they can find.

Now you can always trace this back to the point that most people (including those working in media jobs) run on 95% automatic - which is mostly leaving it up to the subconscious to tell you how to live your life. And yes, the media are just parroting back what we supposedly want to hear. Yes, this includes the "public" stations as well - different content, but essentially all emotion-laden, not simply - well, simple.

The more complicated things are, the more interesting, the more entertaining.

And for some, this complex universe we live in is just for that - entertainment.

But regardless of how you want your life to be, you don't have to have any particular life-quality that your environment says. Just because the people around you say or act one way doesn't have to mean anything.

You assign any meaning to your life - or all of it. No one else actually can. Unless you let them.

So, if you want, take this suggestion for what it's worth:

Fill your life and those around you with as much love and loving acts as you possibly can.

And see if this doesn't invite more love into yours. The quality of life and living is what counts.

Finding Stuff that Works

2011-04-25T17:11:00.000-05:00

As you can see, I'm having a great deal of fun recently in studying all this Huna material.

Today, Serge Kahili King reminded me of a corollary to the 7th principle of Huna, "Effectiveness is the Measure of Truth". This is: There is always another way to do anything.

So this can mean whatever you want it to. That is the essence of Huna. Of course, that comes from the 1st principle, "The World is What You Think It Is."

Yes, these all interact.

Now the recordings I'm listening to reminded me of the four parts of awareness - how shamans operate:

1. Objective - the meaning is in relation to other things out there.
2. Subjective - the way of determining what this means to the individual.
3. Symbolic - that things mean something else than the actual, they represent something.
4. Holistic - that all things work together and share the same meaning.

And the more I write this, the more there is to write. Sometime earlier this month, I was inspired to tell you that the highest purpose of humankind is to put meaning into things.

Of course, you can disagree. However, if you take the viewpoint of Self (or God), then you'll see that the Holistic approach would answer a great deal of questions. Some entity that is all-powerful and all-knowing, and present in everything - that entity wouldn't have to deal with anything as trivial as meaning. Because such entity would already know all there is to know about anything and everything. That entity would consider something form they moment they created it - which was just a moment ago.

The game of meaning is one which we separate identities play.

You can take the idea that this living through "creating meanings" is simply another game.

And all the training and courses and what-not that you study is simply another effort to remind yourself of various meanings (training, knowledge, lessons) which are out there and available to anyone.

(As well, that there is a very valid view that we are here just for entertainment - yet another workable metaphor.)

The bottom line seems to be that as you get closer to the original creation, you heal. This is one description of Love, which Haanel held as a core and primal force in our universe. As you love something, it gets better. The more you are constructive and helpful - to everyone and everything around you - then these get better. The more you consider things to be separate and distinct, and not worthy of your love, then things around you get worse. This is considered "hate" by some - but actually is just a "non-love". Hate, like darkness, doesn't exist as actual. But the absence of love can be felt as "real".

However, it is simple to change anything. Like in a dark room, you simply turn on a light. (You do not try to "shovel out the darkness" as Haanel put it.) For any person who feels less than whole, you simply enable love to exist. There are many ways to do this, such as recalling times where something was perfect, or loving, or beautiful. Or you could simply cause yourself a positive emotion right now. Or you could simply start smiling for no particular reason.

The point is that as you put more love out from you, the more love you will find exists within you. And your life begins to run better and better.

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That point of "there is no one way to do things" is also where LaTourette uses NLP, Huna, and Silva in order to accomplish improving people's lives. All tools are good tools if you use them for good. The most effective ones are the best - but those tools vary depending on the other individuality you are addressing. And if you don't know a tool, you can simply ask for inspiration and it will show up for you.

As the Beatles, said, "All you need is love." But obviously, you don't have to "need" it for it to show up in your life. You can if you want, however. Far be it for me to interrupt what you consider to be true for you.

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Just to have more fun with this, to allow you to think in different terms than just the rote ones - here's some interesting quotes Serge Kahili King pulled from an older book by Pukui. These describe the ancients knowledge about the 7 Huna principles as contained in their proverbs (http://homepages.hawaiian.net/larryw/html/hunaword.html):

1.'A'ohe pau ka 'ike i ka halau ho'okahi, "All knowledge is not taught in one school," a variation on the idea that there are many sources of knowledge and many ways to think about things.
2.'A'ohe pu'u ki'eki'e ke ho'a'o 'ia e pi'i, "No hill is too high to be climbed ," a way of saying that nothing is impossible and that there are no limits.
3. He makau hala 'ole, "A fishhook that never fails to catch," said of one who always gets what he wants. The fishhook was a primary symbol of concentrated attention, and a good fishhook could attract fish even without bait.
4. Wela ka hao!, "Do it now!."
5. He 'olina leo ka ke aloha, "Joy is in the voice of love."
6. Aia no i ka mea e mele ana, "Let the singer select the song," a poetic way of acknowledging that power comes from within.
7. 'Ike 'ia no ka loea i ke kuahu, "An expert is recognized by the altar he builds." As Pukui puts it, "It is what one does and how well he does it that shows whether he is an expert."

And so: Aloha!

More About You, The Universe, and Self

2011-04-24T17:18:00.000-05:00

I've been studying along in Huna again, some LaTourette, some Serge Kahili King.

And the LaTourette stuff is interesting, because he uses material in the highest Huna traditions - that of "Effectiveness is the Measure of Truth." He has trained in NLP, Silva, and Huna - as well as martial arts. And in this, he also studied a great deal about the body's meridians and, on this particular series of video's, covers how you can utilize these to improve the body strength and abilities.

In searching around to verify this data and answer other questions, this went through neuro-vascular points, the meridians, and ultimately to auric fields.

None of this do you have to believe. LaTourette explained these in terms of kinesiology, which mainly deals with muscle-testing and muscle-strength. So the viewer (and those at the seminar) were able to immediately test the results of what he was saying. Again, he taught in terms of application, of effective use.

But this auric field stuff is what's interesting at this point. Because it backs up this other idea which I blogged about the other day. That one was relating how Daddy Bray thought the 3 parts of humankind were actually metaphor.

My addition to this was not saying (as Max Long and others held) that you needed to go via the subconscious (Ku) to reach the Higher Self (superconscious).

But there's an interesting approach to this that one has to work through that layer of physicality in order to reach the purely spiritual and infinite beyond. While some say you are training the Ku, you would be perhaps just re-learning lessons of dealing with the physical universe in order to enable your inspirations to talk to you more easily.

One point that both Long and King cover is that you can't work with the Ku on a force basis. It has to be loving discipline, much as you would a younger sibling, a child, or a pet.

That of course brings us right back to dealing with this physical universe around us. Sure, you can get some things done with force - but it's limited. The greater effects are created through dealing with Nature and the natural forces already at work.

There is no shortage of energy around us, but there is an apparent scarcity of petroleum which has to be forcibly extracted from far underground, then refined and "cracked" to make gasoline, which is then transported over great distances so that we can put it into our car engines where it is exploded to make our vehicles roll across the ground.

All very violent.

What hasn't been concentrated on is how to take the natural energy around us and work out how to efficiently convert that into the forms we need. There is an almost unlimited amount of earth-energy potential available, for instance. Simply by putting several rods into the ground and connecting them up, you can actually power a considerable amount of equipment with just the DC energy you can tap off. (Google "earth-batteries".)

There are also reports of people being able to communicate across massive distances just by putting posts into the ground and attaching the old-style telephones to them. But all this is pretty much "lost" technology at this point. Just because it could be done for free without towers and carbon-fueled electricity doesn't mean we should study it.

(I am considering a study of this simply as it would eliminate having to charge batteries to keep my cattle's electric fence charger running...)

We are getting a bit off the mark with these illustrations - just showing how we could actually have high quality of life with lower cost if we really wanted it. (Imagine just being able to sell infinite amount of energy and keeping nearly 100% of the profits. What a monopoly - until your secret got out.)

The three selves show that you have to learn how to first talk to your mind (again, with kindness and simple releasing). Then you have to learn to talk with the physical universe, starting with your own body. Once you master these, then you can start accessing your intuitional states of beingness - which extend from there on out, and aren't physically present in this universe we can directly sense.

But of course, since only 3% of 3% of 3% will actually go that route, this is safe with us. Don't even bother to explain it to people. Go ahead and heal them if you want with all this effective knowledge you have acquired. However, until they start to reach for it and work to apply it to benefit humankind, they'll try to tell you that it doesn't work and you are just another scammer.

Simply smile and nod - and go ahead to heal them as best you can, giving a lot of benefit to everyone you meet - but giving nothing away except those who are ready to be taught.

And if this doesn't make sense to you, well - download it or print it off and put it somewhere that you can find it later. Once you're ready for it. It will show up then.

Luck to us all.

How to make yourself stronger and healthier

2011-04-24T06:26:00.000-05:00

There's an old trick which W. Clement Stone used to live past 100. No, he didn't discover it, he just used it every day of his life. And of course, it disproves all these "guru's" who dump on positive thinking.

Stone was the past master of positive mental attitude - and was a Napoleon Hill student.

Here's what he said to himself in the mirror every single morning: "I feel good. I feel great! I feel TERRIFIC!!!"

Yes, that's out loud. Looking at himself in the mirror. While he said it.

And yes, you can do that, too.

This came up as an illustration after I listened to an old video by John LaTourette about Huna.

When you pay yourself a compliment (true or not), it makes the body stronger. Of course the true ones are more powerful because you believe it.

When you criticize someone else, you make yourself weaker.

So if you apply that Stone technique above, you immediately start off the day stronger. (An un-healthful state is simply weakness, isn't it? That's why this helps you get healthier.)

And if you find yourself thinking critical thoughts of yourself or anyone else, simply make a series or observations of what is right about that person or yourself. What is it that you (or that person) are doing that is good? What is a positive action you (they) do consistently?

Do this in threes, if you want.

Every time you feel less than great, simply give yourself a compliment. Keep complimenting yourself as needful until you get over it.

Every time you are critical about someone else, simply think something complimentary about them. Do this several times - not as penance, but because you want to personally get better (and help them as you can.)

Critical people are weaker and get sick more often. More often than they would if they went around noticing the positive attributes people have.

The human body is designed to live to around 150 years old. It's probable that little things like this could help us live to our potential.

Try it for yourself. Won't cost you anything. And it might even put a smile on your face.

Huna 3 Selves - another view

2011-04-22T21:57:00.001-05:00

In Yardley's "Heart of Huna", she mentions an interesting point that Daddy Bray thought the 3 Selves of Huna were metaphoric.

Those three selves have been described differently, but in King's "Mastering Your Hidden Self", he says they (very) roughly approximate to the sub-conscious, conscious, and super-conscious.

The classic (Max Freedom Long) explanation is that the conscious has to work through the subconscious to get to the super-conscious. And pictures of this show the subconscious being lower to the conscious, often being talked about as a "younger brother" or someone not as educated.

There's another interesting datum that the conscious mind is really only about 5% active. Most of the "brain" is just unused space. (Nap Hill readers will see why that is in quotes.)

Add this to the concept that the subconscious does all the work of running the autonomic system as well as digestion etc - most of which we would never do consciously, even if we could figure out how to.

So the "sub" is probably misplaced, as is the "super" part. A metaphor is probably more accurate.

But there is the training required so you can move through the barrier of the body into the spiritual version of Self.

Of course, this all comes back to the idea that there is just Self out there and we are all connected ("there are no limits.")

You simply have to let go of your own programming enough to push through your identification with a singular body and begin to experience the infinite Self, to start living in potential - instead of arbitrary limits.

Here's the schematic of that:

The trick is that while there are limits to the ego and the body, Self is unlimited. Just goes on forever. Which is why all this telepathy and akashic records stuff works. And why certain belief-systems put great store on "astral walking". But really, being "out there" is far more "normal" than being "inside".

You just retard your own abilities to fit into a little tiny Cinderella glass slipper so you can go to the ball.

Practically, you're actually the ball, all the horses, carriages, pumpkins, fairy godmothers, and everything else all at once. But to play a game, you figure that you have to have a foot small enough to fit into a slipper so that gorgeous guy will marry you and take you to live in his castle.

What you are pretending to not know is how you built that castle and supervised it's construction and collected the taxes to pay for it while keeping the borders secure so that commerce could take place, etc. etc. etc.

All of this is just another excuse for you to look outside whatever existence you have and decide to make some sort of meaningful and positive change in your life - one which will help all concerned.

Plus it gives me another chance to talk with you.

Thanks.

Infinite Positive Thinking

2011-04-22T06:27:00.000-05:00

One reason "positive thinking" is eschewed by so many self-help guru's is that it "doesn't work" for everybody.

Practically, it is so powerful that it immediately dredges up all the negatives you have stacked up to ensure that it doesn't work. It's your basic game-ender. If anyone and everyone could simply have anything they think about come true, then the world as we know it would end. Everyone could be rich, happy, successful, peaceful - you name it.

So all this work we've put into making this fascinating play-ground around us called "Reality" - all of that would be for nought. We've just been wasting our time.

And that, of course, brings us right back to why you have to first be grateful for everything you have around you - all that is happening to your right here and now. Because you put it there and you did a great job of it.

At that point you can then say, "well, let's see how we could make it better."

The last thing you want to do is keep combating all the creativeness that's happening around you. Fighting against stuff just makes it more solid. Realizing that you had something to do with whatever it is that's bugging you - that's the first step to solving it.

Yes, that's positive thinking. You start thinking positive. Even if it's just a little "Boy, I sure screwed that up." And then revel in how well you did it. Then you can start "fixing" it.

The point is that this is all creative.

Now, this line of approach also brings us to a very interesting point. The logic goes like this:

Self is basically infinite. All-compassing, etc. (Many people have equated this with God - but that's their equation.)

You are part of Self - just with your own purpose, Free Will, etc.

You are therefore possessing infinite potential.

- - - -

Go ahead and swallow that for awhile. The next step is worse.

Everything you create has infinite potential.

Whew. But it's all true, logically.

And if you don't accept this, or some other thought comes in like "he's off his rocker", or "yea, right." All those are perfectly valid thoughts. You thought them, so they must be true.

All I'm offering here is another concept of how you could be running your life. Just another option.

So have fun with this. Go on and try being infinitely positive for awhile. All that's going to happen to you is that you'll be running into your own counter-thinking and creations as you do.

Or not.

Your choice.

As always.

My Job

2011-04-22T06:09:00.000-05:00

My own job is seemingly simple.

And of course, it's logical and timeworn.

It's also completely Self-ish.

I just think that people (especially me) should be able to create the world they want to live in.

This means, logically, that I should be simply working to enable anyone and everyone to re-create their own world exactly the way they would want, need, and like it.

That's because, according to the Golden Rule, anyone won't be able to get what they really want unless they enable others to get it as well. (Like all the millionaires Ray Kroc and Sam Walton made as they built their own successes.)

And how I do depends on how you do.

So I'm here simply to help people find/create their own "road out." And that road is individual, because we are all individuals. That's been our choice throughout this fiction we live in called "time."

This blog, all my books, my websites, every conversation I have with anyone - virtual or actual - is all toward that end. Helping people be, do, and have all they could possibly want to.

It might be your job, too. But your wording of this (like your own mileage) may differ.

Cheers.

Winning Every Time

2011-04-19T13:34:00.000-05:00

You can win every time, at everything.

Follow this pattern:

A trap, examined for barriers, becomes a game.

A game, examined for rules, becomes winnable.

Playing both sides of a game allows you to win every time.

May you find Self in every part of the world around you.

Sermon Problems - Ask, Seek, Knock?

2011-03-25T08:34:00.000-05:00

Some people make even make a problem out of the Sermon on the Mount.

It's just too easy:

Ask and it is given,
Seek and you will find,
Knock and the door is opened.

But they say - "But there are so many things to ask for - what if I ask the wrong thing?"

And others say - "And I could be looking forever if I don't know what to look for..."

Not to mention those who say - "But life is a hallway full of doors - which one should I knock on?"

Really?

So the simple resolution is this: Ask for what question to ask. Keep your eyes open for clues which tell you what you should be seeking for.

In short, the next door you knock on, look the person who opens it right in the eye, and ask them, "Is there a better door I should be knocking on?"

You'll find the only bad question is the one you don't ask, there's no harm in looking, and you'd be amazed what you you'll find when you open any door at random.

When you trust yourself, every move is the right one.

It takes practice, this self-trust and self-faith stuff.

So start today.

You're life is only getting shorter, as they say.

The Bottom Line (Huna)

2011-03-23T06:49:00.000-05:00

The lowest common denominator I've found to date was discovered in a rephrasing of the English version of Huna's first principle, as:

"The world is exactly as you imagine it to be."

"The world around you is exactly as you've been imagining it up to this point."

Have fun with these.

Books to read and absorb to find Self

2011-03-22T21:01:00.000-05:00

And, of course, I'm sitting on the very books I should be studying.

It goes like this:

Ancients/Huna
Troward
Haanel
Hill
Nightingale

who peripherally mentions:

Claude Bristol
Dorothea Brande

Their exact point - belief.

That particular line-up - if taken to heart - would and will take you to a completely new world.

The first point - and only point - is belief, AKA personal faith.

- - - -

What you have to start doing is observing your own life, how your thoughts create that world around you. Every hour, every minute, every micro-second - each and every moment of NOW.

And as you do - they become even more powerful as you do.

The world is just as you create it.

Just.

It can't be described, but the above authors have tried.

I then leave it up to you to prove it to yourself. Because you are the only one who can.

Imagine your Life

2011-03-16T06:31:00.001-05:00

Believe in Leprechauns!

And right off, I have to thank you all for following this small blog and reading these many posts I've placed here over the years. It's because of you that I've picked this up again and started seeing where this road heads - so thank you. Very much.

Because you and I and everyone are very, very special.

That is: if we want it to be.

Now, perhaps like many, I was irritated at the News lately. Yes, I know, I've often said that people shouldn't watch the news. OK, but maybe there was a lesson I still needed to get...

They were talking about all the various disasters which had hit, plus a few wars, and an ever-present problem of a tiny minority plotting to terrorize the rest of the world.

I wasn't irritated at what they were covering as much as HOW they were covering it.

They were going right along with all the various histrionics of crying people and sad, angry, worried views of life and all that. Every single emotion you could use.

Of course, we've gone over here many times about how anyone can get addicted to emotions and let these run their lives. And how to simply release all these and have endless, unfathomable peace.

But the "real world" is simply a thin layer over the actual one. It's much like wiping the early morning dew off the outside of a window in order to see better. That world you now see has always been there - it's just a thin layer of stuff in between.

So this actual works that way with life.

All along, you are surrounded by people telling you how this world "really" works. And this is a world where it's filled with uncertainty and strife and competition.

But then, you can find a very small handful which will tell you how it "actually" works. And they say that you can have certainty, that you can live a life of ease, that you can attract anything and everything you really want - that anything is possible.

My take on this: You'll have to believe in leprichans first.

Because the whole point is creative imagination. Napoleon Hill covered this in his "Think and Grow Rich". And valued it higher than anything else.

This is actually a connection to the Supreme, to the Universal, to Mother Nature herself.

This is the reason that your pets and all animals live serene lives and exist to fill their own niche even though living a life filled with the necessity of death-in-order-to-live. Pets are there to bring you joy and love. (As are all animals, if you get right down to it - the wild ones have a different way of expressing it.)

Humankind is busy running around finding "meaning" of things and playing all sorts of wild control games on each other. Because they have this very fascinating concept of "Free Will" going on. And that has a side line of keeping everyone separate from each other. And that is the source of our problems, angst, and so on.

Sure, we have several major natural disasters every year. And people need help outside their area to rebuild their lives. Now, imagine how much faster we could rush aid to them if we weren't involved in all these wars around the planet? How much faster would we solve things if we weren't spending tons of money with all sorts of government inefficiency and meddling?

You may know I'm no fan of the fiction government in general. One book I just got handed to me (haven't read much of it yet) simply points out that believing in authority is the first error. (Called "The Most Dangerous Superstition".) But regardless of what you think of that author (Larken Rose), the underlying point is that same one we've been talking about all along.

There is no limit - we are all connected. And - The world is what you think it is.

In other words, listen to your imagination.

It will calm your life down and help you live a fantastic new life.

Because once you start living in harmony with everything around you - when you quit looking for how things are and start looking for how they might be - then the world takes on a completely different hue and aspect.

Just follow the life of some of these miracle-workers who have lived among us. Like Earl Nightingale or his student, Bob Proctor. Both had become rich before they ran into Napoleon Hill. (Like W. Clement Stone.) And they live very rich lives in just helping people out.

And no, the main-scream media won't bring these guys up. Because they are all addicts looking for the crack cocaine that drives their lives.

Start filling your lives with these (add T. Harv Eker to that mix, would you?) and you'll find the one thing they have in common - they believe in themselves and they believe in the potential of every single person around them. They constantly give regardless of getting. And they are all multi-millionaires because of the value they give to others.

Their lives are dedicated to this one, single purpose - to help people anyway they can, so everyone they meet can live the best quality of life possible.

And it's actually easier than all the messes we humans otherwise get involved with.

Pick up their books and recordings fill your life with them. You'll see, as I(finally) did - that common string they all have running through their lives.

Then start living your own life of ease.

As you start imagining that better world around you, and imagining all the better ways life can be lived by those around you - all this will start taking place.

You only have to imagine your better world, then start acting in any way possible to start making that happen. You'll start getting a lot of help in this as you do.

And as usual, it's up to you.

Come - imagine with me.

As Nightingale said in his famous "Strangest Secret" recording, "Start today. You have nothing to lose — but you have your whole life to win."

Does your thinking have anything to do with you?

2011-03-12T05:51:00.000-06:00

David Davies

That's the conundrum which leapt at me yesterday.

It was Harv Eker giving me inspiration again, one of his Peak Potentials CD's. In that, he was going over the point that others' attitudes toward you have nothing to do with you - that you don't need to take anything anyone says, emotes, or any of their responses personally. (And he goes into a great deal of other reasons why, but you can see already that taking something personal is an emotional response, which is a dead end - it won't set you free.)

Backing that up, you'll have to dig out your Levenson materials, where you want to release the emotional content of your life and simply get back to your native peace and freedom. (See Freedom Is.)

Eker then went into a following CD, where he talks about "quieting the thoughts" and differentiating between an "idle" and a "quiet" mind. However, he missed a beat here.

It's very possible that your thoughts have nothing to do with you.

They may be, as the physical universe around you, something which more or less "just happens".

Let's consider how this could be.

OK, now there's this thing called Self, which we are all part of. Then there is our own individualistic "Free Will" scene where we are here to fill a particular purpose. And that keeps us individual.

Now, we are all connected, per Huna ("there are no limits").

So your thoughts and my thoughts aren't so very different. And that's telepathy, more or less. And explains why most all success in any endeavor is in the ability to concentrate. To follow your own purpose with a plan and action (Napoleon Hill, "Think and Grow Rich").

That action of concentration would then be a diciplined approach to thinking. The other end of this is known as insanity - where you blindly follow any thought.

In checking this down, let's observe the different approaches to thinking:

1) Analytical - this is perhaps what the Mind was essentially created for. To figure every possible combination of everything. This is pure analytics, and is time consuming. This goes back to the point that the Universe is a respository for all thoughts, that like the idea of Akashic records, you can access anything you want there. And if you consider that we are all like one huge networkd computer cluster, we are all thinking things through as a massive work-in-progress. But that would just be a Matrix-like explanation.

2) Emotional - this is all your feelings and such. Emotion was said by one to be "thought plus effort". However, that's wide of the mark. The point is that most of us live with having feelings and emotions, and these also give value to our lives and living itself. However, they also can be entrapping to various degrees - and so people find themselves just running their lives based on what they are feeling. And so the effectiveness of releasing in order to restore freedom of thought and action.

3) Inspired or Optimal - most meditation has this as it's aim. And following Jose Silva's work takes you down this route. The point is that there is a balance between your purpose and all other thought and action. Much like the example of Dr. Gates in Hill's book, if you sit and concentrate, then you will eventually get inspired thought to act on. This is also known as intuition. As you practice your intuition, you get better at it.

The idea is to get into the "Zone" all the time, where you are living intuitionally. Every inspired thought you have leads you to take the optimal action. And your life is full of "miracles" to others, because they can't see how these things "magically" occur to you. You have, do, and be anything and everything you want or need.

Of course, there are some rules to this:

a) Golden Rule - respect others and their purposes, help every one you can to achieve their own purpose and you'll get all the help you need for yours. But it has to be open-handed help - not expecting any response at all. Treat others as you'd like to be treated, not because you'd like to be treated any particular way.

b) Study a) until you really get it.

In this is the Law of Attraction, the effectiveness of positive thinking, every technique anyone has ever offered which works.

And when you know your purpose and let go of anything and everything that doesn't help you follow that purpose to its end, then your life becomes more and more miraculous and perfect.

That is the life I wish for every one. Complete peace beyond all understanding and description.

Scammers, Joseph Campbell, and the Eternal Story

2011-02-27T02:26:00.000-06:00

Howie Schwartz, a self-admitted black-hat marketer (turned grey) gave me this clue in the depths of some material he marked "Confidential". (Although I've found the same actual datums in several places, such as Charles Heflin's SEO2020.com.)

Howie said this about a social site:

"One of the strategies that work very well in rapport with [site concerned] is to put the accent in the personal point of view. Self improvement systems or anything that can be connected with the solution of problems affecting us in an emotional level are very easy to market with the appropriate line behind.

"The structure is the same of a story: it has the opening with the presentation of the problem and the protagonist, a transformation suffered by the protagonist thanks to the presence of an external element (contained in the product being sold) and the happy ending.

"Interesting elements to be added is the presentation of the protagonist as authority in the subject as a consequence of the transformation. Authority can be showed by the presence of a website dealing with the problem."

And of course, this is Joseph Campbell with his "Hero with a Thousand Faces", his Jungian archetypes, and it also rolls back to T. Harv Eker and his Peak Potentials training.

Let me fill in the details.

All life could be considered a story. Each person, being, entity, form in it is here for a specific purpose. To that end, we all have our problems to face and to solve.

Campbell hit on this when he studied mythology for ages and boiled down all their plots to a single one. Mythology, of course, is the stuff of the verbal lessons handed down for generations before they were ever written down. These are the same as our fairy tales in terms of plot and substance. Horrific adventures when you boil them down. Much worse than what we face in our day-to-day over-filled-with-media lives. (The modern tragic-filled media simply gives us the ethos and pathos we want to feel we need in our lives.)

So Campbell figured out this one single plot. And then found out that the Jungian archetypes he was using actually had something to do with analyzing anyone's individual life - that a person could use this material as a form of self-analysis. You could see where you were on your own journey - and that even the archetypes had their own journey they were following.

Schwartz tells the classic point that marketing in all it's 30-second TV ads and even a good elevator pitch, is telling a story. It says that this product can help the prince find the princess, waken her with a kiss, and then live happily ever after. He is saying that marketing is all about solutions to life problems.

This was Robert Collier's claim to success as well. While known for his landmark "Secrets of the Ages", he also known in marketing circles for his "Million Dollar Sales Letters" book.

The success of these sales letters were in the stories they told. In every case, you find that they contain heroes and protagonists, challenges overcome and boons fulfilled. In just the space of two single-spaced pages of type, the reader is catapulted into a world of mystery and adventure - and brought out the other side with a simple request: share in this adventure and buy this solution. Your problem is mine and now my solution can be yours.

The authority Schwartz speaks of above is that of the story teller.

But that authority is offered by the reader, based on the value inherent in the text (or modern video) which is offered. Does the story entertain? Can we see something in our own lives or something we could use to solve the problems in our own lives? Is our own story explained here?

That's the value of marketing. To bring solutions to people, to engage them personally, to help them to act.

In this way, marketing is another route to enlightenment.

Of course, the marketer themselves may be the Trickster, or the Changeling, or some other protagonist archetype. However, this is still another part of the story. In those cases, the scammer is bringing the lessons home on a personal level. And so you have to consider that being scammed was a lesson you learned.

And far from being angry or resentful toward scammers (particularly after you get your money back) - you should be grateful for recieving the lesson offered.

The best marketing involves the reader and gets them to decide. Modern sales letters condense this into short, pithy diatribes which are formulaic and able to be skipped right down to the bottom line of "how much is THIS going to cost me?"

But not if they are well crafted.

And if you do follow modern marketing legends such as Jay Abraham, you'll see that he teaches the underlying and foundational principles which have guided humankind all through those ages.

Self-proclaimed Black Hats like Schwartz (and those scammers who live shadow lives) also know this.

The same principles which allow a sale are those which will solve any problem set in front of anyone of us.

And that is the same set of problem which Robert Collier found when he had to do his own research when dying of a mysterious illness. He cured himself with what he found, then wrote it all up in his "Secrets of the Ages."

His story is also yours, according to Campbell. And it's the story you can find when you pick up any modern tabloid and read the ads inside. It's the same story you'll view on the evening news.

It's my story.

It's your story.

And the ending is the one we pick for ourselves.

What Harv Eker and I are teaching each other

2011-02-25T14:16:00.000-06:00

The biggest problem with making spiritual progress is that you are putting something there to release or get rid of.

That's the old scene that all the "secret end phenomenons" of $cientology had in common - that you are always realizing, with every personal level you pay for, that you just put the stuff there to begin with - and the only reason it's still there is because you say so. That is all there is to the "state of clear", which is just a marketed (proprietary) version of enlightenment, by all descriptions. And as well, the biggest fall-off point of their little set of corporate-cult followers.

Because once you get this completely handled, then you really don't have anything else to operate on. And the guys who buy into their "Advanced Levels" are just spending money on stuff that really isn't there.

But the concept is that if you can sell people on the point that there is something there, then they will "mock it up" in order to then "run it out."

Today I was listening to Harv Eker and finished up his "Millionaire Mind" CD set and started in on his "Peak Potentials" CD. Great stuff, really.

If you've taken my "Freedom Is" lessons, you'll see that I've probably gone a little beyond what he's offering. Simply because after 20+ years in $cientology, and then another decade sorting all self help out with my "Go Thunk Yourself" series, culminating in finding Lester Levenson - there's just not all that much to handle any more.

So when I'm running through all this material, I see that Eker is dealing with the very raw sliver of humanity who just found out that they've been asleep all this time.

Now his material on Millionaire Mind is very useful, since most of us have problems with money in one form or another. And those CD's literally brought me to tears several times. Excited other times, and intrigued mostly - because he's using some very powerful techniques within this - including Levenson releasing.

He goes into mentioning his Zen teacher from time to time, so he's right up there with Alan Watts - where he's working to get people to higher spiritual realms, just using this very common line of money.

This then rolls right up the line, since just about any approach will get you enlightened - if you consider that you can get enlightened at all. That is this "wake up" moment. After that, it's all down hill.

The key point is that when you get over "putting it all there", then there's no reason to release, or "run it out" or anything else you "have" to do to handle it. Again, it's "Just Be, Now." Anything else is additive. And you put it there.

Listing to these CD's gave me the explanation of what I was running into the other night. Something was bothering me. Didn't know what, particularly. So I started working at doing some massive releasing - really big goals. Didn't work. Just made it worse.

So I just plowed on through, a little testy and so on. Finally, I got to the bottom of it - what I was doing (not thinking or emoting or anything else - doing) didn't align to what I knew I should be. And it was a bit false. Sure I was doing a test of a new online marketing system (and that's where the bells should have gone off) and so I knew it was pretty wild. I was busy digesting all this new material and figuring out how to apply it and condense it and then I was testing it on some keyword which I knew wasn't going to go anywhere.

But the key point was that it was basically a bit dishonest and scammy. And so it became upsetting. Once I saw that and simply quit it, then I found that things eased off. As I started working on what really did align to my purposes, then all was well and things lightened up.

Now, to be sure, there are still some bad habits lying around that I need to replace and re-orient. Always some work to do there. But the more I DO at things, the more I follow my instincts (inspiration, Divine guidence, etc.) the more things straighten out. When I get off that thin line, I "feel" lousy.

Having feelings should have alerted me to that to begin with. Because a person can quit those when they get some basic fears released. Get over worrying about death or anything to do with non-survival - recognize that you've always been supplied with anything and everything you really wanted or needed - and then all is well. Worry is just holding two opposed ideas up and deciding not to decide which to choose.

So the bottom line is to quit mocking up problems to run out or release from. They just slow you down.

The simplest advice - Just Be, Now.

Everything else is additive.

Luck to us all.

All Criticism is True

2011-02-23T06:28:00.001-06:00

But like that old phrase, one finger points out, the rest point to you.

And this is a very tough pill to swallow, especially for those of use to post our mental meanderings online for the world to see and keep track of.

Everything a person says tells the world what they think about themselves.

That's the real bottom line.

A politician complaining about the lack of "bipartisan" support means that he's only out for himself. A person saying that another is just (some expletive deleted) is really just condemning himself, as he considers his own self-esteem or self-worth to be low.

What a person says about others never has anything to do with the others in our shared world- it has everything to do with the personal world they are creating for themselves.

Of course, that takes some getting used to.

But follow the logic our oldest philosophers left for us:

"As within, so without, as above, so below."
"The world is what you think it is."
"There are no limits. (We are all connected.)"

So the critical person is practicing separateness - a futile game, but must of us play at it.

What they are wanting is some help with getting their own purpose done. That individual purpose is the only thing which really keeps us separate. Otherwise, we wouldn't exist in this universe. (Yeah, swallow hard.)

Consider, then, that you could rephrase everything you say in terms of "how can I help you so you can help me?"

You major efforts would be to find people with similar life-purposes to you, such that you could join with them (Napoleon Hill and Charles Haanel's "Master Mind" coalition) to accomplish mutual/common/associated purposes.

Life then becomes much, much simpler.

Your duty as you live your life is to simply help others in every way you can, in order to find people who want to help you attain your own purposes.

The highest goal would then be making it possible for everyone to achieve their purposes in a harmonic fashion. We simply need to help people make more and more optimal decisions which help the widest possible amount of people to attain their own purposes.

Of course, this rules out decisions that kill other people. Or other violence. This is practically a route to world peace.

And you'll find tools like the Internet (which was made to share information broadly) to now be a tool people can use to improve their own lives. We now have frank and open discussions about things that have for a long time been hidden.

Dictocratic rulers are having a rough time now - because they aren't working for the optimal good of everyone around them.

The funny part is that there is a level of mutual abundance we've never approached before. And it's not with hand-outs or welfare, but by re-educating people around us to drop poor mental habits and simply helping everyone they meet open-handedly.

Try this for awhile, and you'll prove the workability for yourself.

The next time you get a critical thought about someone or something, consider how you could help that person, or how you could improve your actions, or how you could better that condition around you.

Sure, this is known as "constructive criticism".

And sometimes, the best thing you can do is just smile, nod, and keep going. The world may already be perfect as it is.

When in doubt, Just Be.

Living is just too easy - with Practical Faith

2011-02-16T06:09:00.000-06:00

It's simply to easy to live life. Once you have a practically, self-proved reality that you create the world around you.

Now you have to first get rid of all irrational (and rational) fears. With those out of the way, you then can simply live life in the moment, not with the shadow of some formerly impending disaster hanging over your head. Or wanting always to change something in the past - same difference, still a fear and a memory running your life rather than simply acting in the present to improve your life.

(Of course, you get over all these fears with Levenson releasing technique. And the easiest way to do this with by applying the Silva Method.)

After you get this done, then all the various work you can do to reprogram your life (such as Earl Nightingale's "Strangest Secret" program, which just pulls from Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich") - all these programs simply fall into place once you have a "middle ground" from which to stand.

This is really a version of the "middle path" that Buddha recommended. And Zen practices.

Self actualization, per Maslow, is "...freedom from the good opinions of others."

The advice Harv Eker tells his children: "Don't take anything personally."

The universe doesn't tell you what you are, or how much you are worth, or anything at all. Only you can do that for yourself. And as you find yourself out of all the memories stacked around in your mind, you'll find that you are very, very simple. Nothing like you thought, actually.

The point is that you generate your own faith in yourself and what you are all about.

The simple strategy is to drop whatever you're holding onto in the moment. Just accepting it for what it is just as it is. That's the releasing part.

It's nothing to do with thoughts or a quiet mind. That last is simply a by-product of releasing. Trying to discipline your mind into quietude hasn't been the most efficient method found over the years. And a quiet mind isn't particularly a goal, anyway. It just happens when you find Self.

And that's when life becomes easy.

Now, there are some interesting (some say fascinating) things which occur at this point. Pain, it can be observed, is mostly thought and memories. The body is attempting to resolve a problem as best it can. The source of all illness, some say, is emotional stress - which again is a series of conflicting thought-patterns and memories. The outrageous successes you occasionally hear about are simply people who are savvy to a relatively small number (17, I think Napoleon Hill finally narrowed it down to) of success principles. And employing release techniques (and Silva Method) allows these to do their most effective work without the mind interfering.

So that's something to put in your pipe or under your hat for today...

It's a puzzle inside a conundrum - but the answer is at your feet

2011-02-11T06:35:00.000-06:00

All this universe around us is simply a puzzle that - if we really take the time to sit and listen - we already know the answer to.

Most all of the emotions y0u are experiencing are their simply to make the experience interesting. You put them there, so you should know.

When you strip those away, life becomes a calm, cheerfully expectant situation. Everything opens for you. Everything.

Of course, this is just to help you achieve whatever purpose it is that you've selected to accomplish with this existence. For most people, this involves helping others with their situations, to achieve their purposes. (Like Carnegie amassed a fortune in steel mills and then put libraries all over the place across America. Gates got his fortune with personal computers and is now spending it to bring literacy to millions and also to solve certain diseases which are also global. The list goes on...)

If I had you in front of me, I could help you answer any of the questions you have about what you are doing, and help you find the tools you need. But this blog is the best substitute for that.

All I can do from here is to simply point out some of these esoteric rationales which lay behind some of the thornier problems we have - and to inspire or motivate you to reach within your own resources to do greater things.

But what you do is, as usual, all just your choice. The results are your responsibility. And the more you really look at the world around you and listen to your own heart, this becomes less and less of a "burden" and more the joy it's always been.

That is also why I keep sending you all these links - so you can have the tools to find out for yourself exactly what you need to take your next step.

I mean, it's not like I'm writing this from some mystic trance in a cave somewhere in the Himalaya's (with power to keep the battery up on my laptop and some really incredible wi-fi...)

This is coming from an old farm in Missouri.

And yes, you can come visit - it's easy to find with Google Maps.

But the point is that we'd learn from each other and the world would be a better place.

Of course, you knew that already. Because we all know the solution to the puzzles in front of us. Just part of being Self Now.

Tetrad Releasing - Making Life More Fun

2011-02-09T10:54:00.000-06:00

(Disclaimer: all this is rather advanced and won't make any sense unless you've followed my other stuff somewhat. Get my Freedom Is book for a simple grounding, but really you should get and study the whole "Go Thunk Yourself" series. Otherwise, just consider me a crazy scammer and move on.)

You can take releasing and release far more than most consider possible. Usually, they leave off with just releasing thoughts, emotions, desires, and fears. And this takes you to a very nice state of release. Even enlightenment - total personal freedom.

But you can also take this a lot further. Essentially, as this universe is your own creation, you can start releasing the universe itself.

What this does is rather interesting. Of course, you get all sorts of calm and peace coming in - that's a given. The point is to take responsibility for all you've created and experienced, then simply see what's beyond that.

Now this takes you beyond your normal physical senses. What you are left with is your own concepts - what you created your universe with to begin with.

The underlying basics I found there were two interactive dichotomies - a tetrad of four interlocking points:

Self
Now
Purpose
Choices

If you went into your Silva Method meditation, or (Burt Goldman approach) every day, you'd then simply and quickly be able to apply a releasing technique such as Larry Crane or Stephen Seretan in order to rapidly achieve an unflappable calm and endless peace to deal with life.

The approach beyond what you are told with any of these is then to combine them -

Get into alpha or theta level meditative state. Then simply release until you are free from any thoughts, emotions, and deep-seated fears like death (and all other of the 7 basic fears Napoleon Hill lays out).

Once you are to that point, then you can simply release all your creations. Realize that you've been "mocking them up" all along and simply let them go.

This takes some discipline. It's far too easy to simply put them all back in place. But the steps you will be taking at this point is to review your basic purpose and then look at the choices you've made. Again, as you look over your choices and take responsibility for them - you can simply let them go or polish them up if you consider they are still valuable.

You aren't trying to change the past. Can't be done. However you can release any that you are still holding onto. Yes, this should have happened before, but the key point is that you simply release what you find.

The point is that you are building a new world around you - just as you actually do every moment of every day you live. This simple technique just puts you at cause over the process.

You should release at the end of every day. Review your choices that day and release any and all of them which still have "should have" or "could have" connected with them. You should see that all the decisions or choices you made were the best possible at the time - they always are. The next step is to simply see what you've learned from those choices.

Then program yourself (using Silva Method) to get the answer to anything you haven't been able to resolve - while you are at the delta level during sleep.

In the morning, simply do this again to release right off. You'll have the solution you were looking for (or another part of it). Release any emotion or reactions to implementing that solution. Review your goal and also how this might help implement your planning. Consider that this step has already occurred and release anything that comes up as limiting or adversely affecting its outcome.

Then let it go for the Universe to deliver it to you.

Open your eyes and feel the gratitude for it showing up. Then assume your normal calm and cheeful expectancy of all the opportunities now coming your way.

Simple.

Makes life a lot more fun, too.

Empathy is Logical

2011-02-03T06:23:00.000-06:00

Boiling all this material down to basics leads to some very interesting conclusions. It helps when the entire world around you is your laboratory and crucible.

And one of these conclusions is that empathy, in its basics, is completely logical.

Of course, it stems to the point of the Golden Rule, and that comes from the point that we are all connected - Self.

(So of course, everything you do or think makes sense - you are always right and doing the best you can with what you have. Everyone else is, too.)

Now, you have to watch out for some fallacies that creep in.

We aren't all harsh and uncaring to allow the "tooth-and-claw" evolution concept to just continue. On this planet, life forms consume life forms - be they animal or vegetable. And buried lifeless bodies are consumed again, in order to free up natural resources for later growth. (The only really weird idea is to try to keep bodies from decomposing - tries to defy the cycle of life.)
Also, we don't need that fiction called "government" interfering to make sure everyone has everything. Actually, we already do - and it's in all of our best interest to help the person next to us live better quality lives.
There is no innocence, only non-confront and avoidance. There is Self and there is Now.

Of course, in knowing this then gives you the option to either accept responsibility for everything around you and work to improve it somehow - or just to say I'm off-the-deep-end-crazy. And go on trying to live your life as a "rugged individual" - with everyone else "out to get you."

You always have Free Will and choice, after all.

What you see around you is the result of your earlier choices based on the data you had to hand.

What you want to improve is based on your empathic understanding of how things could be.

The way to really live - and still get everything you want...

2011-02-02T06:54:00.000-06:00

After about a year or so of living this way, I've come to the conclusion that there are two ways of living:

un-enlightened, and
enlightened.

Now neither is really effective at getting anything done.

However, the peace you find with enlightenment is worth everything.

The trick is that as you get enlightened, you have to make a decision as to whether you want to help someone else (or several) attain that state you just found. Because when you get to that fabulous level of peace, it really doesn't matter. Nothing matters any more, as everything is perfect.

If you want to get a lot more people up to that state, you'll have to come back over that line to the shared place called "reality".

Unfortunately, you'll soon be working with emotions and stuff again.

After trying both, it seems to me that the mix of the two is where it's at. Nobody said you couldn't go back and forth at will.

What you want to do, IMHO, is to "red-line" your state. You want to get as close as you can to being enlightened, but still stay in that action state just below it. So you're always motivated to help others achieve that state.

Simply, you do get into releasing all the time. And you do let go of everything that doesn't contribute to a regular "calm, cheerful expectancy", as Earl Nightingale covered.

And you do clean up your environment so you only have in it those things which contribute to that stable attitude.

Then all your work with goals and vision-boards and all that will be the most effective.

That's the recipe.

Wish us all luck.

Sorry, you're becoming a saint.

2011-01-30T02:43:00.000-06:00

I have to apologize here - mostly because it's rude to change people without letting them know what's happening. Well, it's a point of wanting to treat people as you'd like it.

So when I tell you you're becoming a saint, it's just fair warning what's coming down the road at you (or you're coming up the road toward it - depending on your model.)

As all roads lead to a greater spiritual freedom, you are simply rising to what people in earlier ages (and some today) are calling sainthood.

Practically, if you worked out the best possible way to treat people according to that ubiquitous Golden Rule, you wind up with attributes of living which are usually reserved for sainthood.

Of course, these are actually much simpler and more rewarding ways to live. And far more profitable these days (if you follow T. Harv Eker and Bob Proctor).

But saints don't live troubled lives. And they don't particularly have to rail against authorities (or turn over money-changer tables in temples.)

I've covered before that there are far more enlightened living among us that is commonly suspected.

And this is what's making the world improve more rapidly than every before.

Today's logic:

The bell curve also predicts action. The great center just reflects what action is being taken on either extreme. You see this in politics - where people will vote one side or the other more heavily.

But practically, it's not just a two-sided dialectic approach - rather it is a 3D scene, where you have a bump in the middle of an otherwise flat plane. If you pull any particular side of that bump over, the rest tends to follow.

And like Eker points out, there is no right or wrong belief, there are only beliefs.

This doesn't mean that there aren't more pro-survival ways to live your life. Just that just as "the poor will always be with us", so will criminals and the insane.

However, if you follow work in Ho'oponopono (like Dr. Hew Len and Joe Vitale's Zero Limits), you'll find that there is a hole in this logic. Because Love can simply dissolve things without consulting them ahead of time. There is practically no defense against it. It is, per Haanel, the force which created and continues to create this universe.

Now all that is saying is that we are dissolving this playing ground around us as we continue to evolve.

But that's OK, because our legends tell us that we have many more besides this one to play around in.

And this is all very short-handed, and more than a bit skimpy. I've misplaced some of my notes for all this to sketch out this path more fully. So there: I've just got too many things to apologize for today.

As you're reading this, you have already come to some of these conclusions for yourself.

Otherwise, this is going right over your head and you probably leave it at this point or before.

Because blogs are supposed to be fascinating things which appeal to that common addiction we have called "modern culture".

It was just that I got woken up this am with something I was supposed to say - and it's just that I had to tell you that I'm sorry you're being turned into a saint as you read this type of stuff.

The only disclaimer I have for you - if it's any consolation - is that it's a helluva way to go.

So please enjoy this incredible new Now we are all creating.

Even though there may be some apparent bumps in the road, they are being created just to make it all seem more "real". It's all part of waking up. The best part.

And in between the lines of this is far more meaning than I have time right now to tell you. But as you continue your own studies, and start analyzing the world around you more carefully (and a lot less seriously) you'll find all sorts of fascinating meanings which help you along that path-that-isn't-there toward a similarly non-existent mountain.

Have I been mystic enough this early am?

Well, we all have access to that line of prose when we need it.

Of course, if this strikes a chord - you can always leave a comment.

Cheers!

How to Change Your Mind - Really Shift Gears

2011-01-27T06:50:00.003-06:00

The problem, after awhile, is not how to get inspired, but how to quit having to deal with all these inspirations coming in all the time.

Seriously, it can get bad after awhile.

And you have to learn how to shut it off, as it were, so you can have some peace every now and then.

Otherwise, you're going to get ragged out just trying to keep up with all the genius-type thoughts you have all the time. They come faster than they can be put to use or developed into a working model.

The result is that you get nothing done, make no money, have nothing to show for all that thinking and writing and whatnot you've been doing.

The point, as so many of the real masters have told through the years, is to concentrate.

However, the problem is that most initiates have to work through this effort band of trying to force themselves to concentrate or "don't think" of things around them. And of course, they wind up thinking even harder. (That's the old NLP conundrum that there is really no negative in the mind.)

Let me give you the solution right now, then we'll cover how to get from here to there:

You simply let it all go and just be.

Yes, I've said that before, and it's really that simple. And once you've really mastered this for yourself, you have an always-on, endless supply of Peace that you could almost bottle and sell for pennies to make your fortune and retire. (Of course that secret is that you've already retired at that stage and are into your second or third career by then.)

But that's the simplicity of getting your mind back to where you want it.

This has always been the point, and probably why most people just leave their mind on automatic (as well as most everything else.)

There haven't really been decent tools a person could use to get their mind back into a "clutch-gearshift" mode. I mean, I love automatic transmissions - but if you can't utilize the lower gears when you need them, what's the use of having them? When you have to manually shift, then you know what's going on all the time and can get a lot more performance out of your vehicle.

And that's what a body and a lifetime are - a vehicle for you to ride in for now.

(If all that transmission metaphor doesn't appeal to you, then maybe try the free vs. trapped concept. Same point.)

Key to being able to think of what you want when you want is based on a few principles:

Know you can be free and get unlimited peace anytime you want it (or need it.)
Know that you can tap into an unlimited amount of information, knowledge, and understanding at will.
Know your own purpose, what makes you an individual here and now.

Really, those are all three the same thing (and there's a fourth kicking around somewhere which should show up shortly...)

The best solution I've found to get there (aka enlightenment) is to learn both the Silva Method and Levenson Releasing - as I've covered before. You can always try Burt Goldman's stuff, but it's based on Silva UltraMind/Peaks. And there are at least 3 main versions of Levenson (Dwoskin, Crane, and Seretan).

Both of these methods (Silva-Levenson) have many additional tools you can use to tweak it for your own best experience and results.

The key theory is to simply let go of whatever chain of thought you've been working on and simply drop back to your natural state of peace. This will mean relaxing into an alpha or theta brainwave state (that's the Silva part) and then simply letting go (the Levenson part).

As soon as you have that peace back again, then you can review your basic purpose and see what goal you wanted to pick up again and what needed some more work. Then the thoughts you want to take up can start - because you're working from intuition forward.

Now, this doesn't mean that you can't pick up any chain of thought again, at any time. Practically, it will stay just where it was until you do get back to it. Because it's a creation process - and until you create on it some more, it will stay there, unchanged.

This works because you are simply pulling from a much more powerful source than anything in this universe. You may have heard of the concept, "as within, so without" (comes from the old Emerald Tablets if you want to look it up.) The kicker is that the inner universe is much bigger and resource-full than the outer one. The world and physical universe we live in is like looking down into a microscope. Sure the world you know see when you concentrate on that small little bit is huge and involving, but when you back out of it, you can see that it really is just a speck of something in a drop of water between two thin pieces of glass.

- - - -

All of today's post is really short-handed beyond belief. But since I had the problem, I wanted to share with you how I scratched my own itch.

If you want more data, you're going to have to check out those links for Silva, Goldman, Crane, and/or Seretan. Or just look their stuff up online. Most have free downloads you can check out. All of this data can be gotten by lots of time spent in research on the Internet. But I can tell you that you'll get it faster by investing money rather than time. Your choice.

Hope this helps you.

Robert

PS. What's that? You don't have the "always-on Genius" problem? Check out this book I cobbled together a couple years ago - "Genius: How to Be One, How to Live With It." 20 bestselling and all-time classic authors from the last 100 years (except mostly the last 50) who had that problem and lived to write about it...

Now for some queer controversy

2011-01-26T06:16:00.008-06:00

Homo's, fags, queers, dykes, lesbo's, fudge-packers, you name the slur.

Just about as bad as kyke, honky, spic, jew-boy, negra, etc.

(Now you can see what we are in for today... Controversy and imagined slights - here we come.)

Once we've seen what real empathy is, then we can start examining where and why it's not apparently present everywhere and in everyone around us.

Basic principles that drive this examination:

We are all connected, all Self.
For each of us, individually and collectively, the world is what we think it is.
Mental patterns of thought are just that - habits.
Nothing is set in stone, all is possible to be changed - including these statements. Change is our only constant, part of evolution.

So now I'll take up what I understand at this point about homosexual/queer/gay phenomenon.

There are physical differences between the two sexes. And interaction has to occur in order to continue any species. It's this yin-yang thing. There are subtle physiological differences with glands which make different responses. So there has been some hard-wired differences.

(That of course doesn't affect empathy, it just makes the practice more interesting.)

Two people of the same sex can get along better because there's more predictable response. It doesn't mean they'll all like football or art the same way. But guys and gals tend to have different responses according to gender. So it's sometimes easier to get along with those of the same sex.

But there is no - and can be no - definite proof that queers and straights are only wired that way. There's enough shifting back and forth to observe that it's a matter of choice.

Once again: queer or straight is a matter of choice.

Anyone has patterns they were brought up with. They model their lives on the basis of some set of patterns or another they observed or were taught. And by either severe interruption (like a dire illness or catastrophic event) or simply continuous work over a long period of time, any pattern can be remodeled. And like the "brain-washing" in WWII, that newly-remodeled pattern can be changed back.

But queers don't inspire trust. Because you have a person who looks one way and acts another. People think in patterns and it throws them off when their assumed patterns aren't followed.

This "queers in the military" conversation is an interesting one. If you look up "Book of 5 Rings", by one of the greatest samurai's of all time, there is a section about homosexual samurai which were commonly accepted during that ancient century in Japan. And a lot of advice there on how to get along. One of the funnier anecdotes I'd heard in this modern review of this ancient subject was that a forward combat company had a queer in with them and he was trusted implicitly. Because he was big and tough and killed people without a qualm when he was supposed to do it.

That meant he fit the pattern and job requirements. To be sure, he didn't "hit on" others around him when he was on the job. Such action would destroy that trust.

Once you live with a person for awhile, you can figure out generally what they are going to do and how and when, so it gets easier. And the more people work to be empathic with others, it gets better.

What doesn't help is all this "minority rights" stuff. Because that is counter-empathic. In order to champion rights for a "repressed" minority, you have to maintain your individuality, your separateness. And so you won't be able to understand where others are coming from. Because you can't be them.

This is, of course, why the "Civil Rights" movement is dying off - and why these "reverends without congregations" seem the biggest bigots around. They don't want to understand that people can get along. They make their living in fact from the imagined continuing existence of non-empathic rugged individualism. But the more people co-exist with each other, the more they "work out" their differences. Sure, there are still some racists and sexists (particularly in government jobs and government-supported academia). Thank God they are all a dying breed. They make for poor entertainment.

You can also see why extremists on both sides (particularly the liberal left) are dying off. Same logic. Unsustainable viewpoint. Politicians only get elected from the center. And government intervention always eventually just screws things up. Take the EPA and IRS - way out of bounds these days.

That said, you also then know that the majority of the mainstream media are also bigots. Because they make their living by leading their audience along by their little individualistic noses with their penchant for and addiction to extreme emotionalism. If they can't get someone crying, or furious, or pathetic on TV, then it's not much of a story. And if they can't fill these addictions, then they don't sell advertising which keeps them afloat.

Emotions and feelings are all created, all arbitrary. Sure, they are entertaining. But when they are mixed up with actual facts and logic, the whole smorgasboard gets pretty unworkable.

And people trust movies more than they trust the news. Neither news programs nor politicians can get regularly above about 30% believabiliity according to survey (which is why perhaps they are such solid bedfellows.)

As a person (speaking as an individual here) I don't care whether a guy or gal is straight or queer. But I don't like having it thrown in my face because they are insecure in their own skin. Makes them unpredictable. Can't be trusted.

And as far as being a repressed minority, try being a white male for awhile. You're blamed for everything that is "wrong", yet are expected just to suck it up and take it.

If you want government hand-outs and special treatment, claim your minority status (except for white males). But don't expect it to get anywhere except more isolated and alone. Handouts never made anyone happy.

To get real peace in your life, get out of this trap of being special and separate and unique. Quit listening to any "individual" around you and start listening with your heart.

Just let it all go.

Now all that doesn't mean diversity (or sex) isn't fun, and it doesn't negate the apparent fact that all this individuality is present due to separate purposes we each have to accomplish while we're here.

The overall point is that life can be incredibly fascinating and amazing and a heckuva lot of fun.

And the next time you meet a bigot, just smile and nod and try to understand their narrow view. Realize it's just you looking back at yourself.

Ultimate Empathy - Boiled Down

2011-01-25T05:31:00.002-06:00

The key seems to be in letting go of the individual in order to be all.