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Working on goals lately, as a subset study of Lester Levenson’s release technique.

To bring you up to speed – when you get rid of all available desires, Lester suggested taking up goals in order to get residual desires, feelings, and thoughts to show up – so you can release them and get your Total Freedom back.

The very, very funny punch line is that once you get up to that top state, you really are so into the Zen moment, that it’s unnecessary to act any more. You are at total Be, which is above and beyond creating, which is Love. (For God so loved the world…) Love is an outflow, a Doingness.

Total Be is simply a point of satori, or enlightenment.

The trick is, like anything, to keep this going all the time.

I’ve recommended at various times, to live your life in a form of continuing prayer-state. What the Bible and even older religious and philosophic texts and traditions tell about. Monks would meditate constantly for years on end, pausing only for bodily functions such as eating and eliminating. Some would even kick those habits.

This top level of satori, or enlightenment should get to be an always-on state. Because life is easier at that level. You simply have anything you need. But you don’t need or want in the common sense. When you can have anything at all, then you don’t have to have anything at all.

Very Zen.

And the fastest method I’ve found to accomplish this is to first get hootless about having anything at all, then you’ll get to the point that it simply shows up – miracles as usual. Levenson’s release technique was the final clue for this.

I’ve already laid this out: Use Silva Method to get into a constant alpha-meditative state, then release all your desires (including fear of dying or needing/wanting to be separate, one-with-all, or an Individual.) Next step is to set out goals, smaller and big, to get the rest of your trained-in non-native desires out of there.

At the top end, it’s all there for you. But you have no needs or wants, so it’s a constant bliss state, without all the face cramps from grinning too much. It just is. Listen to a couple hundred hours of Alan Watts and you’ll catch the drift of this state.

Now, between where you are and that top state, is where you have to theme your life out.

A theme is something like a high-end goal, with all the planning steps that Napoleon Hill tells you to do. You take that BURNING DESIRE he talks about and get all the desires out from under it, out of the way, so you can simply just attain, achieve, or acquire it – effortlessly.

Some people call this theme their “purpose in life”. Others, as Earl Nightingale tells, are constantly in a “river of interest”, moving from one project to the next in a constant flow of actions.

The point is that you know what you are working to achieve (have), know the steps of it (do), and are able to assume or project the beingness to pull it all off. Be is the key point of that inter-related triangle, but you work it backwards to figure it all out. A waiter has to know that his services create satisfied customers who express their gratitude with large tips. So the beingness and actions have to be worked out to enable superior, non-obtrusive service. What his clients need has to be seen before they even are aware of it. He want to turn consumers into customers (habitual diners) and then into clients – ones which specifically ask to be seated at one of his tables.

The theme part is: why is he waiting tables?

- To get big tips, might be an answer.

And why does he need more money?

- To buy a big house and take care of his family or build one.

Why is a big family important? If you get the desires (approval, control, security) out of the way, it might be that he wants to set it up so he can retire and write a book or paint his artwork.

So writing or painting is the theme – in addition to providing incredible service to everyone he meets.

Ah, but the astute among you notice something missing. What is that book or artwork supposed to do? Make more money? Nope. Fame? No, again. Medical insurance? Absolutely not.

His use of aesthetics would be to simply improve the conditions of humankind in this existence.

Now we have the bottom-line theme for any existence.

And the next step is to find out how to do this for yourself.

Unfortunately, I’m running long here, so it’s going to be tomorrow. (Hint: Silva Method, Larry Crane, Burt Goldman, all these guys figure into it…)

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[I'm not working this over all that much for you. This is just an additional essay to go into Freedom Is (period.) This one is for the "hard-core" releasing enthusiast who is intent on getting their Freedom back in just a few months. Hence, "Extreme Sports" participants.]

0. Set up a time daily where you simply are able to be in a quiet space, uninterrupted . Preferably this is both morning and evening.

ref.     Haanel
Hill
Nightingale

1. Use Silva system in order to be able to habitually and quickly achieve alpha state (or higher).

ref.     Silva Mind Control, Silva Ultra Mind, Silva Life System

2. Go into a mental “Huna garden” where you set up a peaceful scenario in which to comtemplate things. While people use this to solve situations in their lives, or get answers or to contact other people directly – you are using this as a mental plane where all else drops away. But mostly, a place of inner peace you can go to – something you can visualize as you meditate.

ref.     Serge Kahili King
Tad James

3. But don’t do anything there. Just look at the thoughts and feelings you have coming up. Take all thoughts down to their underlying feeling, all feelings to their underlying desires. Release everything until you have a very solid concept of how Courageousness-Acceptance-Peace feels. You may already know this as a personal revelation. Use Goals Releasing to attain this. Set out a goal and simply work that one goal with the phrasing that is most descriptive to you of the highest enlightened state real enough to attain.

ref.     Lester Levenson
Hale Dwoskin
Larry Crane
Stephen Seretan

4. Now, get into this particular point daily and start working from this first off – and then start examining the world around you, which is all your mental thought-patterns, taking these right back down to their basic desires and releasing them. If you get stuck, release on stuckness, if you get so much bliss that it’s bothersome, release on the bliss.

ref.     ibid.

5. When you’ve been doing this for some time and you’re finding it more and more difficult to find anything to release, and the state is more and more continuous with a nearly or completely calm mind all the time – then go for releasing the core desires below that, which for Levenson was the fear of Death, but can also be described as the apathy of non-existance. This is having to survive as a separate, distinct individual – and anything which “threatens” this unique beingness.

ref.     ibid.

6 . After that, work at answering, “What Am I?”

ref.     ibid.

7. Around this point, you may very probably achieve a Zen Master state, where you find yourself much as Alice did when running with the Red Queen, who stated that they had to run as fast as they could to stay in the same place. That is the point of the professor in the prelude. He was already there all the time. The mountain he was climbing didn’t exist in actuality.

ref.     Hale Dwoskin
Alan Watts
Lewis Carrol

And you may then want to take up studies of Alan Watts, if you haven’t already. You will hear him tell of the tradition where Zen Masters were too often simply returning to their earlier crafts and villages once they achieved Zen. And if you study Huna (and you will find the real ancient Polynesians had no real name for their philosophy, much like Lao Tzu’s description of the Tao) you will see tales of a world where Kahunas were everywhere and life was a very simple matter indeed.

ref.     Serge Kahili King
Alan Watts
Alfred E. Neuman

Notes:

Lester said that anyone could attain their own personal freedom if they worked at this in three months or less. But you will be working in seclusion, without interruption for those three months. It’s a very rarified existence. Rent a secluded cabin when the weather will be good. Stock it up with three months of supplies. No TV, Internet, or regular conversations with anyone during that time – just shut it all down so you can simply concentrate on achieveing your own personal freedom, peace, happiness – or however you would phrase it.

(Now, probably you might need to call someone once a week just so someone knows you weren’t hurt or something. Or do this in a monastery setup with complete silence, but someone taking care of you the entire time.)

You are looking at doing as Thoreau did – but with greatly advanced tools. Live a very comfortable, quiet life for three months – like a long summer vacation – or until you achieve that state you are looking for. Shouldn’t take that long, it could actually happen in minutes. But many have lived their whole lives without simply seeing the mountain’s base, much less attempting to climb it.

The caveats are many here:

• I’ve not done this, but this is the logical way to proceed. I live on a farm, which has it’s own isolation. And is how I came to write this book and do my other research.
• There are no average or typical results to this. No two people achieve the same identical state or successes.
• This is, as I said, only for those who are extreme about achieving this state. You really, sincerely, have to want Freedom more than you want the World.
• And more than likely, you will come away from this knowing that there was no mountain to begin with, and that you had whatever you were looking for the whole time. The universe, as you created it, was a scam the whole time. And you will understand how you are the punchline to it’s joke.
• On your way, apply Wattle’s Summary:

In order to receive his own when it is ready to come to him, a person must be in action in a way that causes him to more than fill his present place.
He must keep in mind the purpose to get rich through realization of his mental image.
And he must do, every day, all that can be done that day, taking care to do each act in a successful manner.
He must give to every person a use value in excess of the cash value he receives, so that each transaction makes for more life,
and he must hold the advancing thought so that the impression of increase will be communicated to all with whom he comes into contact.

• This, and the Golden Rule as well as the 7 Huna Principles, will allow you to live a more comfortable life as you travel your chosen path – if you even need a path or have to travel at all after that…

Once you get to the point of real enlightenment, you will see that this book (and this blog) didn’t even need to be written. All of this is plainly obvious to anyone who would honestly look.

And you will see why I say that this be my last book on this subject.

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This  may be best discussed as a complete theoretical concept – figuring that the people who read this will find it intuitively, all buried in some stretched mathematics. They’ll skip down to the best part – and others who aren’t ready won’t see it at all, but just think I’m over the edge… Which I am, after all.

And this essay is also kept overlong on purpose – just to show the point that most people won’t actually use the data. The vast bulk of Internet users live on instant gratification and won’t bother. Those who are willing to suspend disbelief and do the hard work of research to follow their heart – those are the ones who have that very tiny chance of making it.

It’s not any government who is going to help you find your freedom. Nor any particular belief-system. Just you…

Natural Distribution, the Bell Curve, and Life

This is a natural distribution which you see in nearly everything around you. It tends to pull order from chaos if you can line up the data with the right comparative. (Told you this would get thick real quick…)

Now, any of these distributions has the 20/80 Pareto Principle in it, which then breaks down again around 2-4% on each extreme edge (20% of 20%).

The problem with philosophy and enlightenment is actually their continually reducing results, as these 2% limits continue to interact all the way along. These chain-react all the way up the line. Naturally.

Consider this natural distribution as showing how each level toward attainment works – only a very small handful in every “level” will actually achieve what they are seeking.

Levels of Enlightenment based on natural distribution

What is easily observable is that only a handful of people actually are successful in life. Earl Nightingale laid this out in his Strangest Secret – only 5% in that study were actually able to make a success out of life. Everyone else wound up either just “scratching by” or on the Welfare dole. Of course, these statistics were out of the 1050′s, but these have been examined later and found to be the same percentages.

Between 2-5% actually make a successful life.  (.02 chance)

Now, taking this on up, you’ll then see that the really, extremely and outrageously successful people are just 2% (or so ) of those. The very rich are just about 1 in 10,000 – or close to 2% of 2%. (.0004 chance)

On up from that are the very, very successful, or the uber-rich. These are about 1 in 100,000 or so.  (.000008 chance)

And if you want to wind up on the richest person on the planet list, you are going to have to apply another 2% to that – about 1 in 10 million. (Giving you a .00000016 chance.)

This is what drives scams along. I was just talking with a former scam-coach (he found out he was working for scammers after he had been there for awhile and discovered their actual statistics.) He pointed out their business model actually consisted of finding and selling dupes a bill of goods which had them build their own ecommerce site. Only about 2-3% of these finished building their site. Another 2-3% of those actually made their original investment back. And out of that tiny amount, only about 2-3$ of those then made a real “killing” from whatever they chose. This last bunch are then interviewed in the infomercials (long with scantily-dressed, buxom “hostesses”.

This is also then the same control and approval methods which various companies use to get you buying their products and continuing to support their services. This is the phenomenon which makes “consumers” – which are literally “people who use it up” and customers, which are “creatures of habit”.  (But that is all covered in my lesson series on how to scam proof your life.)

The deal is that they hype these “actual examples” to get you sold on the idea that you could do it. However, the FTC had to crack down on these, which would then tell you that the average results are in fact that you just lose money with these deals. Some to the tune of over $30,000…

Natural distribution and spiritual enlightenment

Same goes for making “saints” out of “sinners.” While both of those terms are inaccurate, they really give us the same points of digression people follow who are going to make their way out of this mess we call humankind existence.

The vast bulk of the people have no clue what’s really going on. They live average lives going to work most of the week and paying out their income to support an average lifestyle, buying and paying off stuff that makes them feel secure. The government takes a huge chunk, as does their union (if they are in that shrinking minority), and more than half of what is left of what they make are sent to the black holes of insurance and finance companies. The average hard-working American, due to credit cards, usually has nearly nothing left to show for their life’s work – which is the exact design of advertisers, finance companies, and any government.

Now, about 2-4% figure out that they can actually improve their lives. These are the people who buy self-help, spiritual, and personal development books/tapes/seminars. The bulk of everyone else gets by with going to church on a regular basis. (The reverse minority are nihilists, who just consider life’s all a loss and that it is basically pain.)

Out of those 2-4% who know there’s a way out, only 2% of those will actually work out what their path needs to be in order to “go free” and “make it”.

And only about 2% of those will then stick to it and follow that path.

But of those finalists, only 2% will actually get enlightened in a given lifetime. Or about 1 in 10 million. Most of these keep it quiet, so you don’t hear much about them. (Follow the Christ’s works and you’ll see the problems he had with charismatic popularity and word-of-mouth advertising.)

That gives us a scale of:

• The mundane “Muggles”
• The Perceptive
• The Genius
• The Skywalkers

Now, the scale doesn’t really quit there, but the levels above enlightenment can’t be described in our words – they can only be intuited or imagined.

Churches, Self-Help Guru’s, and Money

Now, this also explains why there isn’t any money in philosophy and why real spiritual extremists (the guys who made it all the way out like Lao Tse (wrote Tao Te Ching), Siddhattha Gotama (Buddha), Jesus of Nazareth (the Christ) – none of these cared a hoot about money or even civilized society as it existed.

They were at or above that 4th level.

So in order to “do” anything with this metaphysical/spiritual stuff on a wide model – society wide – you have to have a lot of people working at the lower levels to keep people involved in it. Not that this either makes or prevents people from achieving actual enlightenment – but it’s a key point of having support groups for those who are between the 1st and 4th levels.

Any government, loosely defined, is a support group. Mostly devoted to the darker side of survival – but still, it supports those contributing to it (particularly those in power).

In all these, people pay their dues and follow along as best they can. They all know that if they keep to what they are seeking, they will find it.

Now, additionally, you won’t find the uber-rich being the enlightened, either. They are still looking for themselves (or looking out for themselves.)

You see, once you get into the third level (Genius), money doesn’t matter. You’ve got all you really need. And most of the reasons people have for keeping this fiction called Money going no longer apply to living – at least Genius’ see it that way. If they need it, it’s there. Otherwise, skip it – not worth investing the energy into it. Look up the lives of Sun Tzu, the Christ, and Siddhartha and you’ll see they just skipped the whole idea of money and what it “can buy”.

Genius live in the intuitional – everything gets provided at that level. But there’s a curious caveat as well. Levenson pointed this out in the beginning of his “Fireside Chat” series, which Larry Crane published. When a person is getting everything handed to them, they have to keep going and move above that level. Or catastrophe happens. We saw this recently in one famed self-help guru who was in the middle of a process where he was pulling in around $400,000 – and some people died. Now he’s charged with manslaughter.

You have to move beyond money or anything it buys, or any identification with a body – and that puts you into that next level, of real enlightenment (Skywalkers).

But there are people around these Geniuses who can “make money” off their existence and actions. And many who know that they have to keep this going in order for them to finish finding their own route to salvation, so they have to build churches and maintain followings in order to support their lifestyle. This doesn’t say anything is bad about this, it’s just a fact of life that “things” cost money. Especially if you don’t get that you actually do make things show up around you – the money aspect is just a frivolous additional exercise. Like Wallace Wattles – what you need will show up for you along the existing lines of trade and manufacturing.

The trick to beating the natural distribution and achieving Enlightenment

The trick is that while there is a small minority of truly brilliant, there is also a minority of the equally-brilliant-but-criminally-destructive.  And these two balance each other out. It’s that old yin-yang thing. The middle route (quite Zen) is the way which actually wins out.  The criminal are those who are really keeping this planet down. It’s their offset which makes this distribution model the way it ends up.  If there were no offset, we’d simply all go free in short order. And it’s the fact that criminals simply can’t get it, so are always lop-sided and off-balance. Their base is destruction; they are always self-destructive to themselves and everyone around them.

But for all those people who are working as scammers and ignorant dicto-crats (North Korea, Uganda, anywhere people are being starved into submission) – mafia types which infiltrate (and run) governments – these are all equalized in the society as a whole, very effectively and at great expense, by honestly for-good-only organizations (Red Cross, among others) and everyone-wins, top-manager networks like CEO Space.

That’s the real reason for support groups like churches, social networks, and clubs like the Optimists. They need your help to keep the balance.

It’s our top minority (extremists) who are able to make it out in spite of. But you also see that the noise the lower end makes is what keeps the whole thing a mess – and so keeps this distribution pattern in place. So only the very few can make it out. (Now, eventually, it’s possible for everyone to make it out – but that’s a complete other story…)

[An interesting sidebar is that the "Middle Ground" is where the enlightened "skywalkers" find themselves. To these, there is no "evil" and "good", but just the whole Zen experience. From that viewpoint, this whole essay is completely an excess. Listening to Alan Watts explains why and how this is.]

How to get yourself enlightened is by NOT going after it

Essentially, you can’t get there from here.

Practically, the leap from Muggle to perceiving your own path out is as wide as perceiving there are geniuses and then becoming one.  And the gap between an operating genius and becoming an enlightened skywalker is even broader.

Again, there is a trick to this. This middle road can’t be described in any of our languages. It can’t be taught; it can’t be studied. It has to be experienced, which is the way of all truth. You can’t “work” at this, you can’t pay anyone to help you achieve it. You can’t stumble on this by accident (although there are plenty of synchronous serendipities to take advantage of — or not.) And when you know you’re there, you are.  Meanwhile, you simply know that something isn’t complete, and so you are still looking…

So don’t think I’m anything above being a genius. If I were, I wouldn’t be writing this – it would just be obvious and not needing the telling. I can only tell you the obvious steps you might or might not take to get up to the level you can then make your own “leap of faith”.

Route to a top end?

Intuition and your own Imagination are apparently the only effective skills you can develop in order to get up to that point.  At least the most effective known at this writing. You can derive such a path from studying as close as you can to what true Masters have said.  But you have to listen to these with your heart.

The trick is to get beyond having to “know” what is going on. You have to get beyond knowing, and find your own intuitional sense.

Of course, this goes beyond printed matter – but you won’t need it by this time, according to sources found to date. The Tao itself is a bit of a comic book, since it says that what can be spoken or written isn’t the Tao – and then continues on to tell all about it…

This starts to explain some of what we are running into in trying to discover this path – and why it’s so “hard” to do. Because you have to give up all the effort you’re expending to find everything you’ve been looking for. (This is as it’s really been there all along…)

Practically, you have to use whatever you are using to get enlightened to un-do their very fact and effectiveness of those exact tools. You won’t need them after that point, anyway. The impossible first becomes possible, and then they both become the same.

Again, words fail here as a description. But the reason for this is because you don’t need them any more. (And because this essay is of course supposed to be motivational, and get you to do something.)

You go to, and then beyond, the level of a Christ, a Buddha, a Master. There are obviously levels beyond just achieving the level of an enlightened being coexisting on this planet. Obvious.

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And we’re going to have to leave you with that. Nothing else needs to be said – or effectively could be.

Cheers.

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