Burt Goldman

Now, if you know his background, you’ll see how he comes by all these fantastic (by definition, unbelievable) mental tricks and procedures.

If you go to his blog (blog.theamericanmonk.com), you can get a rather over-hyped “Quantum Jumping Special Report.” And in this, a small section gives his bio:

My name is Burt Goldman. I’m one of those lucky people who discovered a secret early in life. I spent 50 years cultivating my knowledge and travelled all over the world to teach others the secrets to life. Today, I’ve settled in California and will spend the next few minutes sharing a few important lessons with you.

When I was just nineteen, I was with the American Occupation Forces in Korea. I had a Korean American buddy who told me of a mystic he had met while he was wandering around the outskirts of Seoul. I got to meet that mystic. In that small home of Mr. Kwan Jung, whose name I later learned meant strong and righteous, I heard things I’d never thought of before. I learned about Qi, or energy, and Li, the control of this energy.

Suddenly Korea turned into much more than just a place to bide my time until I returned to the States. This was my first dip into the metaphysical world I knew so little about.

Then I was transferred to Hawaii where I met my first Kahuna Master. I was told the teachings of Kahuna were secret – the word secret in the Hawaiian language was huna, which meant, known to very few.

I was fascinated by what I had learned in Hawaii and wanted to know more but there were no Kahunas in the US at that time. After my discharge from the army, I heard of a great swami and my curiosity led me to Paramahansa Yogananda. I learned the art of meditation at the feet of the great master, Paramahansa Yogananda who brought meditation and yoga to the West.

I became a disciple of Yogananda and after he left this world in 1952 I sought other ways to fill my cup with knowledge. I read everything I could on the subject of the mind and the variety of ways to use it.

Next, I explored hypnotism and was fascinated by it. I could see the suggestion procedure as verifying much of what I already knew. I practiced it for many years, all the while researching and learning. I went to many hypnosis masters but they all fell short of what I already knew. I felt they were on a different road than I was. I was putting people into a trance in seconds while they all, for the most part, had long elaborate methods of reaching a persons subconscious. My therapeutic process took less than an hour while theirs required the subject to come back for months, sometimes years.

By then I had also become proficient in hand acupressure, a component of acupuncture without puncturing the body. I began healing and teaching people to heal by simply pressing on two parts of the subjects body with the middle fingers of my left and right hands.

Healings, when they occurred, happened in minutes, and sometimes seconds.

My teachings at the time were for small groups, or individuals. I had not yet gotten the idea of world travel, or gathering large groups of people.

At this point in my life I heard about Jose Silva and his mind control seminars. I decided to work with Jose Silva. After injecting some of my own techniques I became his number one instructor and remained in that position until I left the organization.

I didn’t stop there. I went on to study the Chinese Art of Feng Shui, I became a Psychic Healer, and I mastered NLP. At my peak I conducted seminars for Heads of States, European Royalty and amassed audiences numbering up to 700.

Now at the age of 80+, traveling around the world to do seminars would be too much. I’ve decided to spread my knowledge in a different way.

A miracle happened to cause this. The name of the miracle was the Internet. A way to offer my knowledge to the world, and enable people like you to easily tap into the latent power of your mind.

I offer nothing but proven, time-tested techniques that have been conceived, tested and fine-tuned with hundreds of thousands of participants throughout the world. Techniques that will now, beyond a shadow of a doubt, change your life for the better.

Burt Goldman's 81st Birthday Bash

In other words, this guy is a Seeker. One who is constantly learning new material and procedures. This is his “river of interest” as Earl Nightingale talks about. And we are the lucky recipients.

Now the trick to this is that it only works to the exact degree you put intention into it. Skeptics and doubters will always get scammed. People who are able to have an open mind about new material and try them to see how they work will probably find something useful.

If you’ve already tried Quantum Jumping, then you will probably want to get his MindBox materials – where QJ is just one technique out of 44 in that set. (And if I had a direct link, I’d give it to you – for now, you have to sign up for some sort of mailing list at theamericanmonk.com).

Practically, as he’s gone over recently his recent videos, “Quantum Jumping” is no new thing, but he’s put a great new marketing approach to it which gets people to try it. Napoleon Hill had a version of it with his “Invisible Counselors” (see Chapter 14 of “Think and Grow Rich”). Jose Silva had another version of it with his “Mental Laboratory” in his Silva Method and Silva Ultramind Course. The Hawaiian Kahunas had their “Magic Garden” technique. All of these involved connection to another spiritual guide in a dream-like trance (or an “alpha level” meditation in Silva). And if you really want to read up on some fascinating stuff, check out the “Magic of Believing” by Claude M. Bristol…

Also of interest is that Lester Levenson studied Yogananda and quotes him extensively. I hold that a combination of Silva Method and Levenson is the fastest way to direct results. And then using Goldman’s “mind tricks” at that point should make them even more effective. But results will vary (as mileage) and only practice makes perfect.

And while Goldman’s material is available on the Internet, you probably want the nice boxed sets you can get from finerminds.com – as well as Laura Silva’s products and others.

Since Google is sending me people to find out about Burt Goldman, I thought to publish this nice little summary he wrote as an assist.

Cheers!

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Geese actually do a great job mowing...

Came to me while mowing the lawn and watching/listening to/experiencing my thoughts rattle around. Not so much a unique experience for anyone familiar with Levensons’ Sedona Method. (I mean being distanced from your own thoughts – not mowing. I’d rather geese do my mowing almost any day.)

In my life I’ve been very busy following all sorts of leads which put all sorts of stuff in front of what I really should be doing.

I should have been listening to my intuition the whole time.

Intuitional living isn’t an easy thing to move over to. It’s not like you just ask the driver to stop at the next corner so you can get off. It’s a transformational thing.

At this point, I know these key points:

• You have to learn to listen.
• It requires working constantly for the most optimal solution around you.
• It means working in abundance in everything you do and more often open-handed giving.

There may be other key points (they’ll come to me if I need to tell you), but let’s go over these individually. While books have been written on each one (and I’ll reference those I know of as we go) you don’t have to get these books to understand and start applying these right now to your own life.

1. You have to learn to listen.

This is listening within as well as without. Most of the time we are so busy thinking that we are tripping over our own thoughts constantly. Our minds run away with our lives.

Several authors, such as Charles Haanel (in his “Master Key System”) said to seek the Silence. His 24-lesson course the book was based on had you practicing sitting still for some time every day and simply learning to control what you were thinking. Others call for meditation as a way to discipline the mind. My favorite is Lester Levenson, who simply said to release the thoughts and feelings which welled up – this quieted the mind and eventually removed its “thinking” influence entirely.

The point is like someone who is talking all the time and doesn’t let a word in edge-wise. Until that person learns to be quiet and listen to others, they can’t learn anything. While Levenson and others tell how a person develops that problem, it’s easier to simply “let go” of that impulse than to figure it out (which involves more thinking, doesn’t it?)

So intuitional thinking requires simply sitting down in a comfortable spot where you won’t be disturbed – several times a day if possible, but at least once daily – and learn to be still and just listen. Don’t contribute to anything that comes in, just allow it and then let it go. Eventually, with practice, you can sit for 5 – 10 – 15 minutes or more and just listen to the world around you. This skill starts to carry forward with you in life and you’ll find yourself taking in and enjoying more life around you.

Until you listen, you won’t be able to have the inspirational, motivational, and intuitional thoughts arrive (they actually are arriving all the time, but we have to get all this noise out of the way in order to begin to see them.)

2. You need to work constantly for the most optimal solution around you.

Now, “work” might not be the best term – it only seems like that at first. Later it becomes fun, a game. But you are changing some life-long mental habits at the outset. So start looking for better solutions, the best possible solution to everything you encounter. Just see if you can’t work out how to live more abundantly and install this abundance in everything you do.

All your situations should result not just in win-win, but in win-win-win. Everyone involved wins from the solution you help evolve – and they then take that to help others live abundantly as well. You really need to not just pay it back, but pay it forward, and then pay it forward in advance.  Wallace Wattles covered this in his classic, “Science of Getting Rich”. He laid out a whole chapter devoted to the idea of doing always more than you are asked to do, taking care with each detail to create the most professional product you can.

3. Work in abundance  – start giving open-handedly.

In nature, there really is no competition. That is a humankind-invented view of things. The oldest writings and teachings on this planet confirm just one thing – we are all connected, there are no limits. Sure, there are the apparency of limits and restrictions, but you’ll find that they are arbitrary and imposed, not occurring naturally.

Look at the things in life which are giving you the most problems – taxes, government, political parties, mass media – these things don’t exist except for us “highly evolved” humanoid-type peoples. And if you look at more “primitive” peoples who don’t have health care, insurance, lawyers – the same sun still lights up their day with warmth and causes things to grow for them. They still enjoy their family, they eat and live with much less stress than we face in our “modern” world. A recent article about some of the oldest-living people found this village where they still went out into the fields every day and harvested their own food, even into their hundreds of years living on this planet.

Competition is only a limiting apparency. Creative action and resolution is unlimited.

And I could really go on and on about open-handed giving – it’s where commerce started out and where online marketing is going again. People don’t want to be consumers, they want to be part of the experience and community that any given product represents.  Online vendors know that they have to give away tons of really valuable stuff before anyone will invest their own hard-earned income with them. It’s a matter of trust. But that trust is built best through open-handed value-giving, not tons of “promotional give-aways” (although the two are related.)

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None of these concepts are new – even Intuitional Living isn’t a new concept. Emerson talked about it in his own way, as did his student, Thoreau. Even Shakespeare touches on it here and there.

It’s just come the time now, in our Internet information age, that we can move anyone who wants to right on up this line and out. Because Intuitional Living is just the next logical step, but it isn’t the final one (if there is one). It’s the next thing after having everything you need and want in life, being whatever you want to be, doing, achieving, acquiring all that you ever really wanted. You’ll get all that on your road to Intuitional Living. All of it. And you’ll find that once you do, you don’t really have to have all that. (Like owning a candy store – you find that you don’t want to eat candy all the time, but are really interested how to improve others diets so they can enjoy candy as a treat – not an have-to-have.)

Try some Intuitional Living for yourself. Just those three simple steps. See how you can work on each one a little bit each day – and see if your world and the worlds of others around you don’t improve just to the degree you work on these. It really only helps improve things. And as you give to others, you will receive. So this is an invitation to immensely improve your life forever.

Don’t take my word for it, don’t believe what I say here. Try it for yourself and see if it’s true for you.

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Living on this planet is made a lot harder than it needs to be. It’s really too easy to figure out and know how to live a great life, full of Happiness, Peace, and Freedom if you really want it.

Now, those “stupid” yogi tricks aren’t really that dumb. But people call them than in order to control others and keep them from finding their own Freedom.

Lester Levenson worked out a lot of this from what he experienced in the early 50′s. He had to study all sorts of Western and Eastern religious and spiritualist books in order to make sense of what he had gone through.

Out of his writings and tapes, you can figure out a scale of sorts:

Love

Mind

Desires

Feelings

Thoughts

Life as we know it.

Sure, there is a lot to fill in among the blanks between these. This is just simplified (stupid) look at the subject.

But it begins to explain what I’d run across in Claude Bristol’s “Magic of Believing”. That author didn’t really understand how these yogi’s and swami’s were able to do what they did, except under the very general description of “belief”.

Levenson has taken it a bit further.

Look, it’s really simple. (And I’ve covered it recently under earlier Sedona Method posts.)

1. Love created this universe (see Haanel for a better breakdown).

2. In order to live in this setup, we created Mind.

3. We then used that mind to create everything else.

4. To keep it interesting, we decided that avoiding death was very important – and so then created desires which kept us into survival patterns which helped put off dying.

5. Feelings were set up to give us clues to when we were getting closer or further away from these desires.

6. Thoughts and the mental habit of thinking were then built on top of feelings.

And so we come right up to the modern day where “The Secret” DVD and Earl Nightingale (from Napoleon Hill) say that we can get whatever we want by learning to control our thoughts.

But the easier path is to simply release those desires, which then helps quiet the mind and eventually eliminate even the “need” for thinking. About then we can work out how to quit having to constantly mess with our aversion to death.

Levenson worked this path out from studying all those yogi’s and swami’s (plus some American preachers as well). His Sedona releasing method simply pulls the rug out from under the whole thing. Because once you get the desires quenched, you actually get into an effortless mode where everything you could possibly want starts showing up.

And you then really do have everything you could ever want – just exactly to the degree you quit that bad mental habit of resisting stuff that happens in the world around you.

Of course, this is all your choice. And you can believe it or not. Some people have been able to remarkably change their life. You might be able to as well.

Try it and see.

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Responsibility. That’s the ticket.

One of the ways to speed up arriving at your Goal of personal freedom is to look over what has happened to you and check to see what it is that you did to cause that. Just hold that idea until the answer comes out of your subconscious (or any other part of your mind).

Then you’ll have what you need to use the release technique.

Let’s start at the bottom. You can release your feelings and they don’t come back when you do. So you are responsible for all your feelings. After all, you recorded and put them there to begin with.

So when you have your feelings all sorted out – those random thoughts which come in and tell you how to feel about any given situation, as opposed to honestly reacting to the situation in front of you – then you can be responsible for creating those feelings which will best resolve that situation.

If you let your thoughts run your life, then you will always be a puppet on a string. Never responsible for what happens around you, never in control, always miserable.

When you take responsibility, you can take control, you can run your own life – be in charge, be confident of the outcome, achieve your goals.

Get into constant releasing, you can calm the mind and so see more clearly and take more responsibility and control in your life. As you do, your world becomes saner, better organized, simpler. Everything you need or want comes to you easier.

The next step after calming the mind and getting the world giving you everything and anything you want, is to answer, “What am I?” The answer to that is the capstone and you’ll then have assumed complete responsibility and complete control over your world.

After that, it’s up to you what you want to have, do, or be. But by then, you’ll also have a really good idea of what those are.

But you won’t get there by just reading my writings. You’ll have to prove this for yourself. Otherwise, it’s just more smoke and mirrors.

Check it out for yourself.

Until tomorrow…

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Don't wear your tin foil hat to bed.

Sorry to bring you another quasi-rant today.

I went to check out other blogs about this supposed Burt Goldman Quantum Jumping scam and found a doozy – over at Skepacabra. And unfortunately, this “mjr256″ (real name missing from his blog) seems to be more about tearing stuff apart rather than the pursuit of truth – or at least workable truths.

And unfortunately, his slip is showing in the post I linked to above. He’s so skeptical, I don’t know that he knows how the Scientific Method is applied – while he can claim that there is no “scientific” basis for anything that he levels in his sites, particularly Quantum Jumping.

On this blog, I’ve covered why and how it doesn’t work – and how it can easily be made into a scam.  I just disagree with this author’s approach to the subject – since he doesn’t seem to understand that the way you treat others is exactly how you are going to be treated – whether you “believe” in the Golden Rule or deny it. (If you look around for proof, then you’ll find plenty of it – if you simply deny it as a truth, you’ll also be perfectly right. But those who take advantage of it will live far more comfortable, even prosperous lives.)

Such debunkers are no experts in living or in life and so should be taken with a large grain of salt before  you base your lifestyle choice on what they write.

So, here’s the rant-du-jour:

There is a problem with your critical analysis of this – mainly that it’s one of the easiest things to believe = nothing. And criticism really just involves your world with more criticism.

Look, you probably believe in the Government and all that it’s done for you. Well, that belief won’t hold up under your own Baloney Detector Kit. The government is a scam which doesn’t work. Yet people (are forced to) believe in it.

As far as scientific studies, I love the one which said 50% of all scientific studies contradicted the other 50%. (And your baloney detection kit wasn’t applied to their own example of Global Warming, which is disproved by the correlation between sunspot data and recorded temperatures.)

With beliefs, you build your own belief system around you. People cherry pick all day long and only accept things which support their mental habits up to that point. No one is really wrong in this – it’s the way we’ve been set up. Politics is great for blind-siding people this way – by only giving them data which they can use to support their own views.

The conspiracy theorists (like your tin hat above) are constantly ragged on for this – since they are compiling data and proposing conclusions the rest of us would rather not agree with, and so, Believe.

(Like that popular FBI show about UFO’s – “I believe.”)

While you diss people who suspend disbelief, you also diss just about everyone in that category. When you go into a movie theater, if you don’t disbelieve reality for the hour or so of that money, you won’t enjoy it. All scientific method is based on having an open mind about the result – and running impartial tests with double-blind studies to show what results can be achieved.

By blinding and rigidly holding on to only a single set of beliefs, you live in a very boring and increasingly dangerous world – since only you are the one who isn’t evolving and can’t even get your car fixed when it breaks (because you can’t let go of the belief that it’s running just fine.)

Hyper-critical reviews of a subject are great for getting your blog to the top of the standings – particularly if you do it first. However, it doesn’t mean you are actually providing anyone else with any valuable information.

Belief what you will, disbelieve what you will. Doesn’t really matter in the final outcome, does it?

What you and everyone around you is looking for won’t be found by being critical of the entire world around you. These people are known as “bitter” and usually have few true friends. (Who wants to be criticized all the time?)

Treat others as you would like to be treated.

That’s a challenge – if you can suspend your beliefs long enough…

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Now, right off the bat I have to remind you to not believe anything I say – always, always test everything for yourself.

There is more stuff from Levenson I’ve been working with (although I need to make more time to study him carefully and at length). And a friend pointed this out to me yesterday.

Some background is needed before I get into today’s excitement: Levenson wound up in a very interesting state when he was about 42. While a complete material success, his body was literally dying around him. And Hale Dwoskin talks about this in his intro lectures (free on his site) briefly.

What Lester had to do at that point was to solve this so he could keep on living. And the way he did that brought him in just three months to a form of personal enlightenment so intense that he couldn’t understand it – even as a trained physicist – so he spent several more years studying all the great religions and spiritual philosophies so that he could get his wits around what just happened to him.

And so there is a great deal of Eastern studies (as well as Western) in his references – where you listen to tapes  he recorded directly.

OK, now about this mental fiction we carry around -  well, at least our version of it is fiction.

Lester said that essentially, there is only one Mind and we are all just keeping ourselves separate from it by our individual and collected thoughts.

No, it’s not easy for me to get at this point, either – because it raises a whole lot more questions. But the main point is not to try to figure out how that could be, but just to first test to see if it works as described.

How this lines up is these quantum physicists which we encountered in “The Secret” and “What the (Bleep) do we know?” Fred Alan Wolfe was one (and I really need to look up the other guys) and they mentioned that the next real final frontier to explore is Mind – this is what they found in their studies, that Mind was present in all their experiments and would actually affect the outcome regardless.

And these guys had to also go back to Eastern studies to understand what they had discovered.

So the basic, in American English, is that there is one Mind and we have elected to separate ourselves from it for various reasons. That crazy mind you know isn’t the Mind that is all around us, just your personal little version of it. All those thoughts you have streaming around is what you think are your mind, but actually, they are just a tangled ball of yarn in a whole bag of yarn balls.

The great thing is that any ball of yarn can be unrolled (no matter how badly a playful kitten has snarled it up…)

The best way to do this that I’ve found is the Sedona Method of releasing. This quiets your mind like nothing else.

And allows you to do that “Intuitional Living” I’ve been talking about. Once you get your own individual thinking calmed down, then all manner of solutions start coming to you.

Just the way it works.

(Of course this explains insanity, and provides a method to help those who are “losing it”.)

Let me know what you think on this one. It seems to be a real doosey.

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He talks about having to move beyond having to get anything out of this world, that people and groups who achieved a great point of bliss – where everything in this world was working just great for them, everything was lined up nicely – that these people soon after had catastrophes happen around them.  And Levenson then cautioned to go right beyond that state, to take the next step.  He pointed out that the world itself is a trap, that your joy and your freedom comes from yourself.

As well, Levenson pointed out that you get your freedom by wanting and helping others to go free. I stumbled onto this earlier when I told people to “pay if forward in advance”. This is actually another one of those very old concepts which has riddled our philosophies and religions right down the line. If you want something, help someone else get it first. Along the way, and the more people you try to help, the faster this appears for you.

When you take the Sedona Method straight out – follow it right out past any limits you think it has – then you find a very, very interesting place. There are no words to describe this, because words fail – they are simply useless. And it’s not a state of being, doing, or having anything. It is probably best described as the most profound peace…

But, again, words fail here. Because there are no superlatives, no descriptions which fit. And when you reach it – even if you only touch it for a moment – you know what I say here.

And that state is beyond being true. It actually makes up truth, or causes or allows truth to appear – take your choice of concepts.

OK, how to get there:

In any area you have your attention on, or pulled to -

Extend beingness into that area, object, or entity.

Release all negative feelings regarding this.

Release all other feelings re: this. (And this includes any ideas of control, security, or approval.)

Release being, doing, or having this.

Release any idea of this.

Release any separation or oneness.

Release any ideas.

Release releasing.

You can see the logic of this. And you can see where this is heading.

Try it yourself on anything in your life.

And there are a lot of benefits from this – but I’ll let you figure these out. Once you get into that point, you’ll see that this goes beyond having power or ability or anything in this universe, because power or ability or anything physical is a limit. And limits define your freedom.

Freedom, actually, is itself a limited concept. But it is way, way beyond anything that any average humankind participant can really get or understand fully – so pushing freedom enables everyone to see a lot more of the world around us, and allows us to begin to become greater than that world and actually end up not have to play that game any longer.

Have fun with this.

Good Hunting!

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