Of all the programs for transformation I have ever lead… and I am not talking about programs that were energy supported, like the 2nd phase activators, and many others that were mostly about activation…
Of all the programs I have ever lead the most effective in terms of personal transformation, it was the Soaring Method…
I am sharing what I learned from leading that course… quite significant.
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One of my teachers, via Ayn Rand, has been Aristotle.
He taught me one thing. Most people will not teach you much… they will do one thing and one thing only: alter your foundation.
And with regards to foundation altering: Aristotle’s teaching is the most jarring, and the most transformative.
Here is the teaching:
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises.
If you are doing all the right things and still don’t have your results… that is a contradiction. Check your premises.
I got an email today: A classmate of mine died yesterday.
He wasn’t the first one to die, he was the first one I cried over his death.
I pay attention when I cry. It is part of my guidance system. It takes me to places I need to go. Not forcefully go, not mind-directed go, instead go like a child goes, his hand in the hand of an adult, and they just go together, and the child doesn’t even consider worrying: the child is safe as long as the two hands touch.
It’s like a pilgrimage… not like I know what a pilgrimage is, this is the word that came, and I am going to trust it.
I had no idea why I would cry over the death of this guy. I don’t remember talking to him more than once, for maybe one sentence… that’s it. This is going to be interesting…
I am going about doing the things I do, webmastering, answering emails, making lunch, tea… nothing extra. I know that I am still being guided, I feel it.
Next piece of the “becoming conscious pilgrimage” is a movie I loved.
Pure Magic
Magical Solutions to life… so you can experience love, care, and appreciation, finally… Part One
Why can’t you really experience love, caring, appreciation? What displaces all these wonderful feelings?
Part One of this article will bring focus to the real cause of why you can’t really experience love, joy, happiness, real connection, gratitude… all the wonderful feelings that would make your life worth living, and make every moment a celebration.
One of the magical results of my online workshop is that they return love, care, appreciation to your life.
How do I do it? It is surprisingly simple. And I just found a poetic way to express it.
I am quoting my most magical teacher’s Monday Morning Memo: always an inspiration, but today especially.
Time is a Solvent
An auction house is an island of cast-offs and misfits where the rejected and broken feel finally at home.
I am speaking of the merchandise, of course, not of the people.
Perhaps I am speaking of the people, as well.
From the age of 18, Pennie and I have searched for buried treasure in auction houses. When you collect the misfit and the broken, you quickly learn how to accentuate natural beauty and disguise the inevitable flaws. These are valuable skills for a marketing consultant.
There is magic in that moment between Before and After.
Even though I have completed my 20-day learning challenge, I am still listening to Dr Popper’s videos.
In one of these videos he says something very important, that i really managed to connect to some of my own experiences only on the third hearing.
Here is what he says:
The speed of life robs us of our ability to fully experience, fully feel.
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Back in the early 70’s I had a live-in boy friend, who was a philosophy student. His father was a famous philosopher, was a Hegel expert.
Hegel, I hear, is one of the most impenetrable philosopher to me. The family, father and three sons, had regular philosophy lessons.
I am not interested in philosophy, not a debating/argumentative person, but lately I am encountering philosophical questions that are at the root of my teaching: teaching you to be in harmony with life, teaching you to live a happy life.
One of the most important questions here is what is reality, what is real, because all that unhappiness we experience comes from what is not real.
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Update in the footnotes!
I was guided to this TED presentation today. It’s the best gift I can give you for thanksgiving.
Enjoy.
What’s the Truth About You?
At first I was surprised. Very few people want to find out what’s the truth about them. It was stunning to me, given what I know about life: Unless you know what you are up against you will shoot in the dark when you want to change direction, or results.
But then I looked again.
People don’t want to do the work. And they especially don’t want to do the work if it means they have to look at their own ugliness.
Don’t be mistaken: we are all ugly inside. Ever since Adam and Eve put on the fig leaves as costume, human being are trying to cover up, hide, and pretend that their shadow side doesn’t exist.
You learn, real fast, if you live in a country where people wear clothes, that being a girl or being a boy is not a physical thing, it’s a behavior thing. It’s not that you have a different equipment, it is that you are supposed to play with dolls if you are a girl, and you are not allowed to cry if you are a boy.
No one talks about your privates, as if they were a dirty secret, something to be ashamed of, something to hide, something wrong.
And those “privates” become much more interesting than dolls or toy soldiers: anything that is not allowed becomes more interesting than what is allowed.
So, if you didn’t start earlier, you start building a whole life of secret fascination with your own privates, other children’s privates, other people’s privates. And depending on your inclination to be obedient and fearful or proper… you will feel horrible about yourself, a fraud, a fake, a bad person.
Just look at your actions. Words are cheap. Only what you do counts, only what you do testifies about what is important to you.
It seems that being right, looking good, avoid domination of anyone or anything, including your own word, hoping, expecting the impossible… etc, etc, has been really important to you.
Where you are is where you are supposed to be, given all your actions.
Do all actions count? Talking, thinking, watching videos?
Only to a certain degree.
One of the people who have inspired me for many years is Werner Erhard, the founder of the est training.
What did he do?
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Become who you were meant to be
Really nice and really loaded title, would you agree? It means that you are not who you were meant to be. You are someone else, and that flies in the face of determinists.
Determinists say that your life is scripted, and you have no choice about it. You choose what you have in store for you. You have no free will.
But the truth is that human beings do have free will.
So what is this “who you were meant to be” stuff? Determinist or free will stuff… good question.
Every choice is somewhat pre-determined by the past, by the family you were born into.
The past gets into the choice by the mind storing everything that happened to you and placing it in your future as something to avoid, or something to repeat.
When you get hurt, or laughed at, or feel ashamed about, you vow never to do that again. That places it square into your future, and it sits there, blocking your view, preventing exercising your free will, it sits there like a golem, it sits there as the only choice there is.
There is a favorite example I learned in a born again Christian magazine I picked up at a train station some 15-20 years ago. It has made a profound difference in my life. It has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with explaining why our life looks the way it does, why we are the way we are.
Here is the story
Imagine driving on a mountain road that bends around the mountain climbing higher and higher. On one side the mountain, on the other side the abyss… the ravine, the depth.
It’s a beautiful morning, your radio blasts your favorite music, and you love your life.
As you go around yet another bend, you see, horrified, a car crash on the road. The road is narrow, and you need to choose how to avoid your certain death.
