A Midwest Journal

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…)

Thanks for visiting my blog and reading this entry.
If you’ve found it valuable, please consider donating via PayPal to enable my continuing research.

Our latest upcoming release, “Freedom Is — (period.)”

(continued from part 2…)

The Zen of a Medianomic Lifestyle

If you started applying this to your own life, you’d quickly find that this is actually the most economical way to live. And the happiest and most sensible.

The government is actually telling you to be average. If you look over the tax code carefully, you’ll see they are also telling you to start a business and work for yourself – that’s where the real low taxes are. And you’ll see that the bulk of the jobs in the U.S. are created and maintained by small businesses. That’s what makes every recovery in a recession. When you make it harder for the bulk of your small businesses to get started, you are damping everything down.

But a living by Medianomics actually puts you into a sort of “Zone.” While you don’t have to be a big fan of Alan Watts, he did cover very simple explanations of Zen – which are applicable in any Medianomics lifestyle. Your best interests are served by simply enjoying the life you currently live. While you understand and empathize with the extremes, you actually live in the middle. And you live to experience your own life, not based on what “celebrities”, or politicians,  or Wall Street CEO’s do with their lives  – or any other extreme minority group. Your decisions are your own. People who stick with their traditional lifestyles live very mundane, but happy lives.

Like the credit card binge we all are now suffering through as well as the sub-prime mortgage mess our politicians got us into. We erred by moving from traditionally successful finances of savings and layaways. So the credit card industry now looks to be a blip on the radar. Politicians meanwhile tried to get more votes by pressuring finance companies to make risky loans to people who had never done anything before besides pay rent. Because home ownership was equated with a “right”. But it’s always been a privilege you earn. Always will be. And these guys crashed the economy (don’t worry, some group or another does this every 6-8 years like clockwork.)

If you stick to what works, what’s common sense, then you live a simple and happy life. You aren’t striving to keep up with all these fads going. You don’t dress like celebrities or cult guru’s. And you read the stories of stars and starlets who ruin their lives or kill themselves off over drugs or fast cars or psychotic lovers. Most of us don’t.  And that’s living in the Zen of the Medianomic middle.

Just be normal and enjoy it.

Medianomic Predictions

So, now you can predict what is going to happen:

• Every time one political party gets in power, they lose it rapidly. Always have a president of one party and a Congress of the other. Do nothing while they’re there.
• Extremists who threaten the middle (Islamic and other terrorists) will get wiped out. Not popular, as they don’t allow the average lifestyle to continue.
• If you are in a Long Tail group (Gays, Vegans, Environmental and animal “rights” activists) – make it easy to be compromised with in order to get what you want. Don’t run a campaign that everyone should live like you do. Just say you want to be left alone to live your own life. Those that do, can.  But don’t try to get the government to support your cause. Like organic farming, it usually gives you a result you don’t want – and no one else does, either.
• People who want to get elected (a form of celebrity) will stay in office only as long as they are “normal” to their constituents – and really accomplish nothing. You get a lifetime pension and benefits automatically, so why work at standing out from the crowd and risk being defeated in a primary?

And some advice about what you should be doing with your life:

• Use your common sense to pick your own careful path – and you can be in the “zone” all the time.
• Forget about listening to the mass media guru’s or news announcers who are constantly telling you the sky is falling. Realize that the sun will come up tomorrow, and the day after, and even the day after that.  Those extremists live by selling advertising to pitch products to the average Joe and Joleen – so they want to hook you into watching their shows in between commercials. Talk and listen to your neighbor on your block – you know them, the ones who have a house almost like yours…
• Vote for people who think and act like you do – and then hold their feet to the fire. If we had average Joes rotating through our elected positions (and maybe all government positions), we’d start having more common sense actions showing up – and maybe some real service, as well.
• Pick the social network of your choice – one which you can be average in.  Somewhere that you can lurk and watch the postings and not feel pressured to stand out, but can “like” all the stuff you actually do – pretty anonymously.
• Start ignoring the people who stand out from the crowd and try to lead it.

Because the trick to being happy in this seemingly chaotic world we live in is to luxuriate in the average, common-place stuff that surrounds you.  Realize that the average people actually rule this planet, not the titular leaders who change every few years. People vote with their pocket books and wallets and remote controls. Understand that the real power in this country is in your own neighborhood.

The next time some community-organizing activist comes around who says that you should go out and stand up for what is right and make a difference – that your purpose for living is to get your face on the evening news for the cause they are pushing… just quietly smile and nod and show them the door. But when that sales man comes in and says that if you buy “X” detergent because everyone else does – usher him in and get him some coffee and cakes. He’s telling you how great you are for just being yourself.

Thanks for visiting my blog and reading this entry.
If you’ve found it valuable, please consider donating via PayPal to enable my continuing research.

Our latest upcoming release, “Freedom Is — (period.)”

Once you get done releasing all you can release, then you release releasing.

It becomes a way of life. Nothing more.

As you get all that Hale Dwoskin and Larry Crane and Lester Levenson and anyone else with an oar in the water – when you get all you can learn from these people, then just let it all go. Accept (welcome) it – then let it go. Or both at the same time.

You can take up Alan Watts as a study in order to understand the comparative religion references which Levenson mentioned, as well as the metaphysical concepts Dwoskin mentions in his advanced seminars. But of course, Watts often referred to himself as a fraud.

And as you get right up to the top level, you find that you’ve let it all go. Somewhere along the way.

You also find that there is no “top”. But the journey is great reward enough.

The Game of Life then becomes just too simple.

When you get to this point, do you look different to others? No. Are you particularly healthier, have perfect relationships, get more wealthy immediately – nope.

But everything is a lot easier.

You get to the point where it’s all just — well, … just so. The closest word to this is Zen.

But that’s for people who still need words. Some only need intuition. Others need more. Up to you.

Doesn’t mean you become Buddhist or Taoist or anything at all. Practically, you just become yourself. And then you move beyond your Self.

Life just gets better. If you want it to, anyway.

Simple.

And there’s not much more to it than that.

Thanks for visiting my blog and reading this entry.
If you’ve found it valuable, please consider donating via PayPal to enable my continuing research.

Our latest upcoming release, “Freedom Is — (period.)”