Category Archives: Activate Spiritual Capacities

What will it take to become a human being aka a Mensch?


Where is the value in a workshop, or a consulting call? What are you really taking home? Where is the value in my paid podcast: the recording of my private conversations with selected individuals?

I am looking for that myself, I am looking for that for you… to identify what is the value.

As an aside: seeing value is surprisingly a gene… a capacity, that is on, meaning active only for about one percent of humanity.

Some genes need other genes active to stay on… I think foresight needs the seeing value capacity to be able to stay on.

People’ behavior boggles the mind… because people are spending untold amounts of money on stuff… so what guides them if they don’t see value.
And the answer is both surprising and obvious: what guides them is their wants.
You want something and you buy it. And, obviously, you don’t see value… this is why so many people buy something that they don’t know what to do with. They don’t know how to get the value out of it.

You don’t even ask if you can, you just whip out your credit card and you buy it.

And then it sits there, unused, and surely unappreciated.

Earlier today I offered to turn on the foresight gene… but do people send me emails: please tell me more about it… how to use it, how to keep it alive?

No, they just send me money as if it were an ice cream cone, with absolutely no obligation on their part.

But it’s $45! Yeah. It is only worth that much if you need it. If you know how to use it because it has been what is missing. And you have been trying, and looking, and pondering, and could not see the consequences of your actions… Yeah, then it is worth $45 and more.

I have both seeing value and the foresight genes active.
I didn’t always have these genes on… I have been forcing them on with painful and consistent practice…
If you compare a gene or capacity activity to a light bulb… those two capacities are on, but the light is dim.

About 10%… not very bright.

So I am still working on it. Before every call or activity, I commit to come away with one piece of value, something that has the potential to last me and keep on providing me with value for a lifetime.
So I am training myself to not go for the want, go for finding the value and then… gasp… mining it. Mining it like a gold mine.
Or making it work for me… for a long time to come.

I am accomplishing the first part every time, but the mining it, the making it work for me is still limping along on one leg… Unless I remember to take a note of it, and contemplating it is what’s missing.

I have found out that unless I turn around and teach it, it becomes as good as if it never happened.

I have a few calls in a week. And if I get one nugget out of each, a nugget that I can identify during a call, just one even if the call is a 3-hour call and the nugget is… ahem just a nugget, I am golden… especially if I teach it… because then I’ll use it.
As a leader of a call I often fret
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How is the human DNA is like a Christmas tree


The Human DNA is like a Christmas tree
It has lots of light on, the active genes, and even more lights off, the inactive genes.

Some genes are supposed to turn off at a certain level of individual development, others are supposed to turn on, but most genes need to be needed by the person’s activity to turn on or even to stay on.

A light on is a human capacity that is active. It signifies that the organism considers it worthwhile and needed to keep it on… because it produces a benefit commensurate with the energy expenditure the body needs to put out to keep it on.

A light off is a human capacity that is not active.

Evolution of the human species is an inside job. It happens entirely on the DNA level: some capacities turn on, other capacities turn off.

One of these capacities, or genes in this case is the entitlement gene. This gene allows the child to be taken care of, instead of resisting it or working against the caretakers. This gene, when it stays on beyond age 3 wreaks havoc…

It keeps a person from seeing what is theirs to do. and it makes them have their hands out for alms all their lives.
The Law of Attraction and other religions preys on these people.
But how do these genes turn on, and why isn’t everybody the same on the level of DNA?

A DNA capacity turns on when it’s in dire need. Comfort, peace, smooth living don’t turn on new capacities.

You don’t need them. You could benefit from using them, but you don’t need them.

When I came to America, I spent all my money… it wasn’t much anyway. Eventually I made a habit of asking myself every time I wanted to buy something: do you want it or do you need it?

It was hard to tell. I wanted most things and therefore I felt I needed them.

This is not the kind of need I am talking about when I say that DNA capacities turn on when you need them. The need I am talking about is a dire need: have it or die. Have it or perish.
The result of extreme difficulty overcome.
You have to be seriously challenged, and there has to be tremendous energy demanding of you to have that capacity.

Remember ‘Run Forrest, Run!’?

Forrest Gump wore braces and didn’t know he could walk without them. But when the bullies were chasing him, he ran, first with the braces, and then the braces fell away. He never stopped, he won races, he just ran.

That was a new capacity for him. He ran for his life…

There is a difference between the chaser and the chased, the fox ad the rabbit. The rabbit runs for its life, the fox runs for his dinner… and there are other rabbits…

See the difference?
When were you last in a life or death situation? Probably never.
Some life or death situations are invented, do or die promises are like that. You promise to do or die… like when Hernan Cortes sunk the ships to force his crew to win on the shores of Mexico in 1519…

But it takes a person with a desire burning enough to create a do or die promise. It is not a dime a dozen: in
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What would Sophie say? What would Sophie Do?


If this goes way over you head… don’t worry. You can’t see what you can’t see. Your vibration is probably lower than the threshold of seeing this phenomenon.

I had a call with a client today. He shared that our conversations stay in his head a lot.

And while it is flattering to echo in someone’s head, I think there is a more useful way to “use” me.

When you try to remember what i said about this or that, where you are going is your “vault”, your cave, your mind… and that is the place you want to stay out of as much as you can.

Why? because life is playing out outside of the mind, and you cannot possibly be astute, appropriate, and responsive in the mind… where only the memory, the echo of what is real lives.

I have had many coaching clients over the years: remember I’ve been doing this forever… lol…

Ultimately all of them reported that they had me with them… but the question THEY asked, the question I find very useful: “What would Sophie Do? What would Sophie say?” meaning in a situation.
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If you want to make a difference you have to start with…


One person. Yup. One person. If you can’t make a difference for one person, then you seriously need to overhaul your entire operation, meaning your whole life… and start observing what it is about you and how you do it that leaves people … hm… (note: read the PS about this… please.)

So let’s look at what it means to make a difference, shall we?

I don’t know it exactly either, so we’ll look together. Willing?

OK, it came from Werner Erhard.
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What happens when you lie? What happens if you are a habitual liar, a con artist?


If you are awake at all, you have noticed that people, both in writing and in actual speak, avoid the word lie.

Even when the word they replace it with means something totally different. They say: I lay down… instead of I lie down.

Why is that?

Because the word lie also means: say untrue things.

And it has become the moral of the land.

As if it were true that if you say something untrue, it becomes true by just saying so… like positive thinking.

What do you think lying does to you? Let’s count the ways it makes you miserable, empty, and wretched, shall we?
1. It keeps your vibration low.

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The lost art of catching mice with what they want


It got suddenly cold in my area… and the troubles with it came…
I live in an area of Syracuse, the city, where my house is next to a wooded area… lately it has gotten a name…

There is wildlife. I can observe the white tail deer families, I can observe the badger taking its brood to a discovery tour, same with raccoons, skunks, millions of squirrels, birds of all kinds… and, of course, field mice.

I have lived in this two-family house for 18 years. And I have used hundreds of mouse traps during this time.

My favorite is the mice-cube…

It is one thing to put out a lot of traps, and it is quite another thing to observe what the mouse likes, and give it to them… inside the trap.

I know when I have a mouse, because I can smell it. I can smell the animal, I can smell its pee, I can smell its poop.
So when I do detect the smell, I start playing detective, and see what they have eaten…
It is fall, and it is getting cold, last night it was freezing. So the mice want fat… little volume, lots of body heat…
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Boys don’t know how to be boys…


“If you want to emasculate a guy friend, when you’re at a restaurant, ask him everything that he’s going to order, and then when the waitress comes … order for him.” It’s funny because it shouldn’t be that easy to rob a man of his masculinity — but it is.

I am doing good work with the participants of my accountability program.

One of the things that have been coming up is this: what did it do to you to be influenced more by your mother than your father?

Don’t be mistaken: man and woman, boy and girl, father and mother are different beings… almost as different as if they were two different species. And it should be.

Now, I admit that our “civilized” world makes the two roles more similar looking, but just like in eating, what works best for you is eating according to your DNA, the same is true about gender behavior.
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Get rid of the memes… all of them are lies… Boys and girls, memes…


One of the most important principles in the 67 steps program is to get rid of a “truth” as often as you can.

No one hears it. No one does it. Why?

The mind says: why should I get rid of a piece of useful knowledge.

But here is the problem with “knowledge”… most knowledge you have is fabricated, with rendering you an effect… instead of cause. Rendering you unthinking… instead of making your own observations, testing, and real truth.

I question everything. And little by little, I get rid of stuff that has been declared true for centuries, often thousands of years.
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The price of comfort…


Where did this humanity-wide phenomenon of being so weak… living like a putz come from?

Putz: putz
noun
1. a stupid or worthless person.
2. vulgar slang: a limp dick.
verb: putz; engage in inconsequential or unproductive activity.
origin: 1960s: Yiddish, literally ‘penis.’

I meant to share student essays on how self-created rules keep them alienated from themselves, keep them playing safe and dead… not joyful, not accomplished, not living a life worth living.

Then I changed my mind.

I had two calls, where I was training, each, a person to take on a practice to activate the capacity to be with unpleasant, bothersome, disturbing feelings and actions. To be a MAN…

This capacity used to be active in humans… but because of the widespread positive thinking and comfort: society now deems these situations, these feelings, these actions undesirable.

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This is how can you become sane in an insane world?


Falling in step, do it my way, destroy everything in the process
There are two ways to live.

One is to force, complain about what you don’t have, suffer
The other is to work with what you have

Roughly 3,000 years ago humanity moved towards the ‘my way or the highway’ direction.

Judaism was a religion that required submission to Life
Christianity was a new religion that fosters the sword
Islam was a tradition that went one step further: if you are not with us you are against us

Christianity and Islam took it upon itself to declare itself and its god superior to Life, to Nature, to all-of-it.
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