More Savant Training and Education

My own future is a divergent path, somewhat from what I've been doing up to this point. It has to do with where humankind is and is going.

The fate of humankind is easily understood and known.

It is writ large in the annals of self-help books. And in the application of same to actual work and what passes for accomplishment.

I have covered at various times and places (too many to look up and link here) about the bell curve and the forces at work which pull the center to and fro.

The bulk of humankind live in that center swell, more or less oblivious (by choice) to the forces at either end.

These two forces are both good and evil, but not true dichotomies. For as easily, they are named Create and No-Create. And those gray-scaled versions of each other rule the ebb and flow of survival action.

A study of Marketing reveals that all markets are simply "long-tail" minority sections. Even the top of the hump of that bell-curve is a sliding grasp - none hold the periphery long. Products reach their peak consumption and then decline in volume of use, until they reach again to that minority few of the late adopters - or again settle into a simple state of commodity.

It has been said that humankind, on the whole, would rather be slaves. And, to a great degree, this is correct. So the bulk of all peoples are lead hither and thither by the extremes, who work their skills at motivation to push, shove, pull, or lure the great "masses" closer to their side.

So it was in the foundation of this "United States", which was formed from extremists forced and cast out from England's home-base. Yet the majority of those in the Colonies didn't want to dissolve their governance by England, they simply wanted a stable way of life. A minority few "activists" were able to sway the bulk of these peoples into accepting a new form of governance.

Likewise, government has always been at the beck and call of extremes. It itself is a study in minority governance of the majority, which sleep through most election cycles. Provided that jobs are available to most, that taxes are not extreme, and the vast majority have a way of earning their living and easing their own passions, wants, and needs - then government is tolerated.

A study of humankind existence throughout history and philosophy brings these same points up: we are now, as always, simply living out a sequences of fluctuations in the scales of life. As one side adds more weight, the other compensates. But the scales do not themselves become over-stressed with their duty. For time itself, and Nature, tends to dissolve the weighted matters on each end of that balance arm.

You can study the Tao, and philosophic principles even more ancient than these. And the joke stated in the Tao was simply the same problem. You can't state what the Tao exists as or how. It can't be voiced. Yet it exists. 

Similarly, humankind has been running in this same mold for as long (or longer) than we've "walked upright." While it can be studied and learned, and even exploited, it can't readily be voiced or recorded without some sort of added slant or pitch.

There is a flow to history, to existance, which can be ridden much as a surfer does with a board - or a skier, or skateboarder, ice-scater, etc. 

And that is riding the moment of Now.

Were we to simply learn that flow, success is inevitable. Because, as you create your world - and so does everyone "else" - whatever you do is successful. All you do is a lesson which brings you new understanding. And our contribution is that conceptual understanding, perhaps nothing else, as we pass to our next adventure.

The journey is the enjoyment, not the goal or end-point. It's the challenges resolved, the vista's viewed.

For me, it's living this sequence of moments each in the greatest, most sublime peace I can find. And, as I understand the Laws of this Universe we share, is that my duty is to help others achieve their greatest peace - as their peace is inexorably tied to mine.

There is no "wrong" way to do this. Everything we do here and now is right. The trick and challenge is to do it ever more "right".

Apply that to marketing, to having a "job", to creating a family, to running a household. Seek to do everything more "right" in every way - and you will find infinite peace and freedom.

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And, with anytime you approach things from a Tao viewpoint, you can easily lose track of any goal.

My own purpose seems to have evolved from this point of open-handed help into pursuing the native peace which inspires it. Open-handed help is simply a way to achieve peace for everyone, including myself. 

This study, in marketing terms such as the "bell curve", simply is to say that I'm moving onto another research/production line - that of entertainment (edutainment, infotainment) as a way to reach a broader number of people. Of course, this is based in the affiliate/product/social marketing studies I've mostly completed during this last decade of intensive study - and also based in no small part on the counseling training I did for 2 decades before that.

The trick is to turn that hump into buyers - and so you present the content in ways they would appreciate, which is entertainment/diversion-based.

Next studies are those elements which tend to operate as "universal solvents". Music is one, and the theme of "Hope" or "Good Wins Out" is another. While this is another study, it's simpler, as so many people have studied the "mob" to try and break through into the popular culture.

Also, as this is to be in a (long) series of short stories, I'll be able to explore motif's, plots, genres, and all sorts of things.

So this is a longer view of how to tell us how and what I'll be doing.

Hope your lives are turning out as interesting...

But, as usual, I'm still open to anyone who asks. All this huge data accumulation is just being re-interpreted agains other comparatives (clunky-sounding, I imagine.) So if any of you has a question about anything - just fire away.

photo credit Dannerzz

Perhaps this Spritual Evolution stuff is just too easy. 

And it may be that what I say can be taken apart and understood in many different ways. 

The point is that we are at a tipping point (or very soon will be). 

If (and when) you take this material to heart, you'll find that you change the world around you. 

One of the first key points to find is that competition is a lie (which is an old datum, BTW), which means all warfare is invented as well. Every time you compete, or conflict, or fight against something, you simply are creating more of it.

What you want to create is up to you, of course. The idea with all this thrivelearning system is that you simply are able to create the world around you anew. The way you always wanted it to be.

And you may also realize along the way that this has always been possible - has always been the way things have been. 

This is, of course, why I consider that I need write no more books about how this system is set up and why. Because you can't get there by telling people about it. You have to involve them in a way that they'll adopt it.

So you simply won't be trying to beat anyone over the head with this material. It's all by invitation.

That's the asymmetry of this whole thing. 

If you believe all the press/news/media, you'll wonder why we haven't blown ourselves up several times over by now. But that's what you get for following the news as it's presented. They never tell the story of those actions and creations which are counter-balancing any destruction present. 

Were it not for those creative actions, we'd have gone that route long ago. But creative is survival, and destruction is death. The creative don't fear death, but see it as simply another juncture or doorway. 

And the truly free see this world around them with increasingly refreshed eyes. For it changes all the time - and is what you make it. 

Of course, I'm not laying some sort of offer at your feet, or telling you that so-and-so action HAS to be done. And I'm also purposely NOT telling you to check this material out, as well.

My job now, is simply to let the world know what I've discovered. And meanwhile to simply apply it as best I know. Yes, I still have a day job, but this will evaporate to the degree I am effective in marketing. 

I leave you now to get along with creating that world you've always wanted.

Beliefs are by choice, scams are by deceit.

Dreams can be fun, as they tell you more about yourself than you can possibly imagine.

The point (as with all life) is to not take them seriously.

What they seem to be is alternative universes - places wheree you have a chance to do things over, or to try something else. And yes, they are just as real as this world you are living in.

The beliefs you use in this are always those you choos yourself. And that single datum is worth keeping tacked up somewhere you can see it often.

Choice is a right, like living at all, your health, or your native intelligence. No one can give it to you, no one can take it away. You have to choose what you believe.

And this is why I am bringing you all this data as part of the Thrivelearning System.

Scammers deal in helping you decide to do something without necessarly giving you all the facts or all the ramifications of what you are about to do. So you can get "roped in" to spending a few thousand dollars on something which will essentially do nothing for you. A very small number of people do get something out of it. But if you are putting it all on a credit card, know that the practical end of this is that you are going to be paying for that bitter lesson for a very long, long time. (Yes, I've been there, done that. And you'll see a book-preview embedded below which gives the lessons I had to learn - all free for you.)

The solution is to learn to let it all go. And that I've written up early in my "Freedom Is", and "Go Thunk Yourself, Revisited".

Because that's the simplicity of all this. Just let go of the decisions and choices you've earlier made. They don't have to be held onto.

And then you'll find yourself truly free to think anyway you want to. (Did I mention the free online lessons to get you more personal freedom?)

Everything is simply a choice. Yours, in fact.

Please have fun with this.

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Your world is as you live it, which means a continuous flow of living. Self@Now.

The trick with living is to start living every moment. The techniques I cover in "Winning your Infinite Future" are the same tools explored in "Freedom Is". The difference is in what you are using them to accomplish.

Technically, the latter has you working at the goal of reaching enlightenment. The former has the goal of figuring out "what's next?"

Even though I don't really allot much of these works to goals, all of the four study-areas do utilize this in their basics. And the parts of this system each have their own goals - which take effect on their users.

Those four areas again:

New Thought Books - Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich", as well as his mentors and his derivatives (later students).

Silva Method

Release Technique

Huna Kapua

The point of Hill's book is in his second chapter - Develop a Burning Desire.

The end view of Silva Method is to be able to live an alpha life, ie. being in a meditative state continually - open to inspiration through connection to the Universal as an ongoing experiential condition of living.

Release Techinique develops the ability to simply let go of stressful conditions moment-by-moment. Again, the ideal is to be able to release continuously, replacing earlier mental programs.

Huna Kapua teaches that the world is as you create it in each moment, that you live in your own waking, vivid dream. Practice enhances the shamanic abilities of the user.

Each and every one of these tell you to use their practices as a continually-on condition of living. Each starts out with the point of simply being able to do their activities at all, but eventually spring the kicker on you that this is and should be an always-on condition of using their tools every single waking and sleeping moment of every day.

And eventually, you cease to have "days" and "moments", but live in the never-ending Now.

The breakthrough of all this is finding the system that can take you to that point. One that moves you from humanoid, habit-controlled thinking - into a very calm, peaceful, centered existence.

I know of no other single book or set of techniques that can modernly take you there. Especially in just a few months of concentrated work. Compare this to years of study in various disciplines, perhaps an entire lifetime - all with no track record of regular success.

Looking into the background of these separate studies shows why.

Hill, in his research, took 20 years and interviewed well over 500 individual top leaders, statesmen, business magnates.

Lester Levenson made his Release Technique based on a very personal and illuminating quest he undertook in order to save his own life. But then studied 18 years through Western and Eastern religions and philosophies to understand what he had accomplished. Release Technique has been put through many different academic and independent studies, which verified its efficacy.

Sedona Method is one of the most academic and professionally-reviewed modern meditation methods, and when you review Jose Silva's original materials, you find a plethora of references to ancient Eastern datums.

Huna Kapua, especially as translated and explained by Serge Kahili King, is based on the oldest known philosophy, which may predate any surviving written history on this planet by several thousand years. King himself studied under several Masters, including Western academia, where he earned his PhD.

However, and again - quite regardless of how these various studies have been individually approved - they work together and synergistically far better, with far better results than they do individually and separately.

It is completely up to you to get these results. It's not about how much power you can attain - it's more the Zen level, which is completely different and beyond that limiting concept. Power is built on being powerless, a fear of non-existence. What you may possibly attain with these all used in conjunction is a level which sees both extreme power and lack as two sides of the same coin.

And you may find yourself not one side or the other - nor even the edge - but being the coin itself.

No, each of these individually won't particularly take you that far. Levenson's Releasing Technique comes closest.

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"Winning Your Infinite Future" was the exploration of 'Now What?'

Once you achieved this high state, then what do you do for the rest of your life?

It was the scene that no one particularly ever approached. None of the above really say what goes on at that point. So that book (and blog - http://amodernview.blogspot.com) goes to find additional sources which start to explore this question.

This study then was based on a 4-sourced, inter-related, tetrahedronal system. I didn't necessarily start out that way, but it ended again with four sources.

Key to the explanation was Joseph Campbell's Monomyth. His use of archetypes to explore the various recurring charact-influences was genius. And enabled his studies to bring a new, cohesive interpretation to myths we all knew.

What was interesting is that Campbell did see that his concept-theory could be applied to the individual as an analysis of any life. However, he didn't really hold to the Eastern concepts of existential Self, and all individuals being part of and interconnected with that.

When reaching for the deeper levels of Huna Kapua and Silva, these showed that there was a near-infinite possibilities in terms of abilities which could be regained. And of course, this was from the view of having already attained enlightenment/satori/cosmic consciousness.

But the end of this book's research, where it all pulls together (after around 800 pages) - something different happened.

All this showed that a person could take the reverse approach, that of working to gain all these abilities, would ultimately wind up with the person at the same level of operation: Self@Now.

Answered along the way was the point of 'what's next?' - which is actually answered by whatever purpose you came here for. And of course, when taken as part of the simple dream studies through Huna Kapua, then you see that the individual viewpoint for that dream has a specific purpose to attain. Next dream, next purpose.

Beyond all this, and perhaps to the point, is that it becomes more and more this Self@Now result. Which isn't clearly defined in any modern or ancient literature I've studied to date. Because it is beyond the limits of any language we've developed.

All this book also did was to reiterate the prelude from "Freedom Is" - where the hero leaves everything, climbs this horrible mountain which even haunts him in his dreams, reaches the top in the middle of a blinding blizzard, only to find that there wasn't a mountain to begin with.

Self@Now is obvious, and explains all, yet has no space in time. So nothing can decribe it, but it can be experienced - and has been throughout history. Some get glimpses of it (read Claude Bristol) and others have longer moments or years experiencing it. Yet others achieve it as a continuing bliss state. (And interestingly, some actually work to get back to a "normal" state.)

It is something you would have to believe to see.

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And this is apparently where we are all going, one way or the other. But you are going to have to find your path for yourself, since most everyone is busy being an individual - which is desparately trying to not be Self and not live in Now. But that's everyone's choice, isn't it?

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One tip, which prompted this post: Just as fearing Death is wasted motion, so is fearing any of the archetypes you may meet on your journey. All of these are your creation, your dream. All.

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In search of a remedies for a non-perfect world.

This starts out turning assumptions on their head.

It's more successful to not be famous.

Extreme wealth can get you attacked by governments.

Working on your native rights will get you a calmer, saner life.

"Famous" isn't what it's promoted to be.

If you look over the lives of the famous, you'll find that before and after that point, they lived fairly average lives. Like actors/actresses, most never achieve real fame, but can achieve a regular and decent income to support themselves and their families. Same for musicians. They all don't have to be leaders of the band, or have their name in lights to have a great life. 

And that's the basic theme of this post - that people can and should work to improve their quality of living, not work to achieve some extreme pinnacle which sets them apart. The intentional separateness and "rugged individuality" which people work for actually pushes you further down the line - farther into the abyss away from friends, family and everyone else.

Now, looking over the lives of the "famous" once they achieve their notoriety, you more often than not find that they gave up their privacy to be hounded by paparazzi and autograph seekers. Everything they do then tends to get press, even attending a lunch with friends - or trying to. More often than not, their world turns into shambles. 

The reason for this is the same one which brought them that fame - they were seeking to be different and to stand out from everyone else as the best, brightest, or prettiest, cleverest, funniest, most outrageous, etc. 

And in doing that, they also set into play patterns which also kept them from their own families and loved ones - they couldn't share with others or appreciate the lives of people around them, other than peripherally or anecdotally.

Fame is a double-edged sword that cuts both ways and, even when held by the handle, brings destruction to all it touches. Because "fame" is actually needing people to be separate and distinct from one another. It says that the One out of a hundred is to be lauded - but the other 99 should be ignored. 2nd, 3rd place and the rest are to be shunned. Fame craves the individual to be just that. But as Benjamin Franklin was famous for quoting Aesop, "We must all hang together or surely will all hang separately."

"Rich" will get you attacked.

The revenge of the lazy poor is documented throughout history. That is why the fiction of government exists, actually. Define "government" as the organized weak-willed attempts to dominate the strong-willed - and you'd have a picture of what goes on. And why for so long, some people have made it their practice to continually give handouts in order to gain more support (and re-election.)

Strong-willed (ie. focused) individuals will amass far more abundance (in terms of wealth, money, land, property) than those who aren't able to direct their will (the lazy poor). And government agents are continually resolved to take money away from the "rich" in order to feed, clothe, and house the poor. This doesn't make it easier for the poor, however. They still have it rough until they decide to be more responsible for their condition and start changing their quality of life. Having a large amount of people on "the dole" didn't work in Roman times and doesn't work now. It's an easy thing for people who don't have to work for a living to simply protest, strike, and riot. Look up the recent and historical riots, and you'll find goverment support of large percentages of their populace just before.

Another approach (tyrants, despots, and dictators use this) is to keep all the wealth to the ruling class and everyone else poor. In these cases, they simply encourage anyone who is strong-willed to simply move themselves and anyone they care about right out of the country. Oddly, this made two of the most independent and strong nations currenty - the United States and Australia. In our US, those states which penalize the "rich" have lost a huge percentage of their millionaires and large businesses (California, New York). It also made Detroit a ghost town through rewarding unions (which are protected by the government). Strong-willed people either joined the ruling class or left the country. It's an historical fact which repeats itself.

And when too many people leave, then the "civilisation" collapses from it's own weight. The people in charge stay that way because they have some system in place to control almost everyone else. But once the strong-willed leave (they can't be controlled) then there is no one to keep the society running and the masses drag the whole thing down. People who can't make a decision and focus long enough to create that reality - these people can only be victims. Getting them to protest or vote doesn't do a damned bit of good. They need to produce something valuable enough that they can exchange it with others for something valuable to them - so they can actually improve their own lives on a continuing basis.

People in charge can be down right idiotic, but they'll stay in charge just as long as they maintain that system which controls the "masses". (Any resemblence to current or recent politicians in any country is purely coincidental.) All the media and pundits are just more parasites on this same system of "government". Practically, they don't have anything else they know to do. Were the government to cease, they'd have to get a "real" job, or somehow produce a service or good which would help someone else enough to get paid (which would then help themselves.)

Working on your native rights will get you a better life.

Your native "rights" are those you were born with. A few seconds from your mother's life support - that's what you came in with and are all the rights you have. That's your native intelligence, your ability to make choices, your inherent health, your personal concept of freedom. Anything that money can't buy or effectively change - these things are your "inalienable rights". People claiming that a "college education" or "adequate housing" or "a viable, living wage" are "rights" are simply government stooges.

If you want these things, then you have to work and produce something which can be exchanged for something you need to improve your own life. It's that simple. Everything else is worthless propaganda, designed to further some party or individual in their career move trying to stay in control.

Control, approval, and security are emotional buttons which are pushed to get you to act. (And a fourth, utilized by Unions, is that of being part of a group or shunned as separate.)  All of them are built on the idea that people generally are afraid that they will cease to exist if they don't do these things. That's a fear based on complete loss of individuality - or also known as: death.

If you simply let go of all these nonsensical approaches, then you cease to be the effect of them. And all that energy you devote to dealing with these all the hours of your days - you've have that back to invest in honestly and productively improving your life, as well as those of others around you.

This is where I finally get to the point. When you work on those things called "rights", you are actually working on your own native abilities at the same time. Of course, you have to know what real rights are, as opposed to those things politicians call "rights". Human rights are just that - what a human is born with. A right to life. A right to make their own decisions - plus a right to endure the results of those decisions, for good or bad. And a right to learn from their mistakes - or not.

The point is that you can have a better quality life than whatever you are currently living. It doesn't mean that you need more fame, or more money, more house(s), food, clothes, or anything other than the chance to improve the You that you were born with.

I share a widely held view (every major and most minor religions on this planet, as well as countless philosophies) that whatever you do for someone else comes back to you - good or bad. So working to improve others' lives improves your own. Working to destroy, harm, or impair someone else's does the same to you - sooner or later, in greater or lesser ways. As little as a critical thought will boomerang as hard and as fast as a smile or a blessing. And this is observable and unerring as the sun shining on half of this planet at any one point. Half-lit, half-darkness. 24 hours a day, 365 days per year, every single year since before humans walked on this planet - and probably many, many more after our species is gone.

It's up to you.

What you do with this insight is your own choice. I've made my point by now. Why I was inspired to write this over-long essay was to help you. Simply that. Because you needed to see something like this right now in your life. It's just the way things go.

Turn to the guy next to you, or your loved one sitting close. Look at the shape of their face, any worry lines or lack of them. Note their state of health, if you can. What was the last meal they ate that you know of?

Next, do the harder part. Ask yourself, "How have I helped this person lately?" And: "What can I do for them - in a completely openhanded fashion - which would help them improve their life from this day forward?

When you know those answers, you're half way there.

And when you know you can do this for every person in your life, or whoever shows up in your life, you then can go the rest of that distance. It will take action, even work on your part.

That's your right.

And you'll find that working down this line brings more and more toward you, either good or bad. Because your choices echo through others. As you seek positive improvement, you continue to improve personally. The harder you work at putting optimal solutions in place for you and everyone else, the more this accelerates. Up to and past an infinite speed. Really.

It's true that I simply needed an output line. So I created these various blogs and linked them together through Posterous.

I've found out that maintaining your own blog as it's own site is a bit of a hassle. And so I've worked to get things simple. Posterous helps me with this, as well as the other blogs it autoposts to. 

Another simplicity I've found is running on Ubuntu Linux - specifically, their Studio version, which has a low-latency kernel (for all you uber-geeks out there). Only problem I had was opening up "encrypted" DVD's (which is really not encryption, but a form of trick publishing which moves the data around.) But simply looking this up through Google gave me several answers.

I've been trying to do the migration bit for years (over a decade, actually) but was stymied by the hardware and OS - which both have now matured - a lot over the last year alone - so this is now possible. 

Now I'm ready to do cartooning and get on with it. Yes, you can do everything on Linux now. Or probably install that Windows program under Wine. 

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I've been quite around the pike lately. You can tell from various posts that I was in the corporate cult "Scientology" for quite awhile. And left because I couldn't sort out simply why people weren't applying stuff they way their founder wrote it. The reason was that they were afraid. 

But in figuring that out, I also figured out that there really was something to self-help (if you follow New Thought from Napoleon Hill back through Haanel and Troward). Then I still had questions, so found the next three parts: Release Technique, Silva Method, and Huna Kapua.

These were all written up in "Freedom Is - (period)", which is found on my Lulu.com site. (And the whole set of "Go Thunk Yourself" book-series covers that research route.) 

After that, I still had something nagging and went right through to find out what actually happens after you get enlightened (which can occur after you do that Freedom book above.) It turned out that you can get all sorts of native abilities back, but you don't necesarily need to be enlightened first. 

One of the interesting byproducts is that I quit publishing books, as I simply didn't need to anymore. I have one sitting there (800 pages or so) from that A Modern View (http://amodernview.blogspot.com) and is available on my Thrivelearning System slideshare site as "Winning Your Infinite Future" as a free download. Sure, I ramble on a bit through that, but I think it's pretty well organized so you can find your way through it.

It's just a final "hat write-up" on how to get from average humanoid right on out and then beyond that. But I say frequently that the kicker is in the fact that everyone has to work their own, personal, individualized route out - or "path up the mountain".  

After that, you find out that the mountain you were climbing so arduously never really existed to begin with. And then you get to do what you always wanted to - which is anything which regularly makes you happy. 

My point was to simply write everything up I found and then help people to find it. And that last part is what I'm working on how. 

You see, entertainment is the widest possible way to disseminate material in a format people can access. So I'm off the books and publishing, except for collections of my artwork. 

And believe me, it's quite difficult to simply turn this corner. Like an aircraft carrier going at top speed. But I'm getting there. Some of it is simply the discipline of drawing pictures every day. Being inspired isn't the problem - it's the execution. So I continue to stretch my wits around how to do this quickly enought to keep up with my volume.

One of those steps was to move onto Linux/Ubuntu with the minimal tools I needed. (I still have one tool, which will be speech-to-text, which may be an efficient way of getting all this content out - but that's still going a research cycle.)

So I just wanted to drop this note and let you know.