"๐๐ช๐ฒ๐ท ๐ฒ๐ผ ๐๐ท๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ช๐ซ๐ต๐ฎ. ๐ข๐พ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐ ๐ฒ๐ผ ๐๐น๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ธ๐ท๐ช๐ต"
The Buddha
๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ for being an independent thinker and non conformist with a growth mindset and a good sense of humour.
That is the only type of person who would respond to my ridiculously long, deadly serious yet tongue-in-cheek meme filled videos about ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐๐๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ ๐จ/๐๐ฎ๐๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ by Mastering Yourself.
Because my About Page is designed to filter ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ anyone who is ๐ง๐จ๐ญ that type of person.
Okay first things first. I have good news and bad news.
(And then some more good news.)
๐ป๐๐ ๐๐๐๐
๐๐๐๐ is that you have all the qualities and characteristics needed to Create a Life Full of Meaning & Purpose but ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ Suffering & Unhappiness by climbing the Ego/Consciousness Development ladder to Level 9 at which point Suffering, Unhappiness and Unfulfillment will be ๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ and your Outer World will have no choice but to Reflect the Peaceful Joyful Love filled State of your Inner World.
As it does for yours truly.
๐ป๐๐ ๐๐๐
๐๐๐๐ is that in today's Algorithm Managed, AI Hijacked, Attention Economy Driven, NPC Generating online world, where $Trillion industries profit from suppressing your Ego/Consciousness Development and keeping you part of the Herd, the Hive Mind, The Borg that is programmed by the Education/Indoctrination System, the terminally corrupt Political System, the psychopathic Financial System, dogmatic Scientific Materialism a.k.a. Scientism, misandrist Modern Culture a.k.a. Gynocentrism (see this post https://www.skool.com/inner-peace-made-simple-7278/if-you-still-think-that-the-patriarchy-is-the-problem-explain-this-data?p=bf6e2d5a ), for-profit News, for-profit Healthcare, for profit Arms Manufacture, toxic processed "non-food" Production, our toxic Earth Air & Water, the paedophile run Entertainment industry and Big Tech's Surveillance Capitalism Brain Hacking Psyop a.k.a. Social Media, into mindless conformist mediocrity - ๐.๐. ๐ฌ๐๐/๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐๐ 5 ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ - you are almost certainly ๐ง๐จ๐ญ going to put Suffering Unhappiness and Unfulfillment in the rear view mirror and Create a life Full of Meaning & Purpose ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ you have the Help Support Guidance Mentorship and Accountability holding of someone who has already done so. ๐ป๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐
๐๐๐๐ is that ๐ ๐๐ฆ that someone and the fact that you are ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ reading this post means that ๐๐๐ are someone that is capable of being that someone too.
๐พ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐
๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐
๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
You've done the hard part already. You overcame the natural resistance to Signing Up to a "new thing" when so many other "new things" you've signed up for in the past proved to be a waste of your time.
Thank you for trusting me enough to join The Only Way is IN "new thing."
I really appreciate it.
And I make a solemn promise to you that The Only Way Out is IN Self Mastery skool group will NOT be a waste of your time.
In order for me to keep my promise, I need you to do one thing for me.
Please read this whole post and watch all 7 videos at the bottom. Preferably in one session but if you don't have time to do that, read the post in one session and then come back later and watch the videos in one session.
Why?
I guarantee you that the Ghosts of the past that have been running your life will ๐ง๐จ๐ญ like what you are about to read in this post and watch in these videos because this post and these videos prioritize Healing Development Growth Purpose Meaning & Happiness and not Suffering ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ Remaining in Your Comfort Zone.
So the Ghosts of your past that have been running your life will do ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐๐ซ to cause you to ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ ๐
๐จ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ and get ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ by your phone notifications
or by what you are going to have for dinner
or by reminding you that you need to call your mum
or by reminding you to check what's happening with your football team during transfer season/the trade deadline
or by reminding you to quickly check in with what's happening on Tiktok, Reddit, Instagram, Discord, X, Telegram, Youtube or facebook...
...so that you do ๐๐จ๐ญ under ๐๐ง๐ฒ circumstances ๐๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ step out of your comfort zone and learn
The 5 Steps to Creating a Life Filled with Meaning & Purpose but ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ Suffering & Unhappiness.
Once you upgrade to โ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐ค๐๐๐ก and have access to the โ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ค๐ค and ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐จ Courses you will learn how to ๐๐ฑ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ the Ghosts of the past that have been running your life, so that you reclaim ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ of your Life.
But until then, the Ghosts of the past that have been running your life will ๐๐๐๐จ๐ญ๐๐ ๐ every attempt you make to step out of your comfort zone and take back ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ of your life from them.
Especially when you're stepping out of your comfort zone in order to ๐
๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐ from their control.
So until I can teach you how to ๐๐ฑ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ your Ghosts in my Courses, I am relying on ๐๐จ๐ฎ to keep them in their place - ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ - and not let them fuck up ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐
๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ by haunting ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ญ...
...by ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ you and causing you to ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ ๐
๐จ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ on the task at hand...
...which is to read this post in full and watch all 7 videos that explain
The 5 Steps to Creating a Life Full of Meaning & Purpose but ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ Suffering & Unhappiness.
So that's why I am asking you to do so in ๐๐ง๐ session or if that's not possible, two sessions.
Make sense?
You see, this is not my first rodeo.
I have helped hundreds of people to ๐๐ฑ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ the Ghosts of the past that were running their lives and the hardest part is always getting people to ๐
๐จ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ and not get ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ long enough for them to ๐๐๐ and ๐๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ how ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ and ๐๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ the path of Self Mastery and taking back ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ of your life actually is.
So please do us both a huge favour and read this whole post and watch all 7 videos at the bottom in one session. If you don't have the time (or the attention span) to do that, read the post in one session and then come back later and watch the videos in one session.
Deal?
Okay. Enough foreplay.
Let's get down to business.
Here are The 5 Steps to Creating a Life Full of Meaning & Purpose but ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ Suffering & Unhappiness (๐๐๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ โ๐๐๐ค๐ค๐ฃ๐ ๐ ๐ โ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ค๐ ๐ฅ๐๐๐ฅ ๐ผ๐๐ก๐ ๐จ๐๐ฃ๐ค ๐๐ ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ โ๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐๐)
1. Make The Unconscious Conscious - (โ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ค๐ค)
2. Name The Forces That Control You - (โ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ค๐ค)
3. Integrate What Has Been Split - (๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐จ + ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ช ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐ช)
4. Shift Your Identity From Ego To Self - (๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ช ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐ช)
5. Recognise The Prison and Help Others See It Too (๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ช ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐ช + ๐๐ช๐ค๐ฅ๐๐ ๐พ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ค๐๐ ๐)
๐บ๐๐๐ 1 - ๐ด๐จ๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ป๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ผ๐ต๐ช๐ถ๐ต๐บ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ผ๐บ ๐ช๐ถ๐ต๐บ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ผ๐บ - โ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ค๐ค
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates
Living an examined life is absolutely essential to developing your consciousness/growing as a person
What does it mean to live an examined life?
It means to Self Reflect.
- To reflect upon your habitual patterns of thought especially those which stress you out and cause you suffering such as thoughts that say "you're not good enough" or "that bitch/bastard is to blame for my miserable life" (when no one forced you to marry her/him) or "I'm fucked. That stupid mistake I made has ruined my life."
- It means to reflect on and think critically about your ideological beliefs - in particular those tied to a political party, religion or an "ism" such as Marxism Capitalism Progressivism Feminism Atheism or Satanism ๐
- It means to observe what triggers emotional reactivity in you. What words ideas or actions trigger you. What people or groups of people. What ideas or ideologies.
What it means to Self Reflect in order to live an examined life was best expressed by Carl Jung when he said.
"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."
You develop and eventually transcend your ego (and consequently Suffering Unhappiness and Unfulfillment) by making the unconscious (subconscious scripts, limiting beliefs and emotional wounds) conscious.
And there is really only one way to make the unconscious conscious and that is by Cultivating The Witness.
When we look at our thoughts beliefs and emotional wounds without The Witness we cannot help but make value judgments about what we see - this is good/bad right/wrong better/worst - because that is the nature of the ego, to judge and compare.
This makes our seeing conditional i.e. I will look at the thoughts/beliefs/emotional wounds that are positive/pleasurableย to look at (feel) but I will avoid or resist looking at the thoughts/beliefs/emotional wounds that are negative/painful to look at (feel).
The problem with this of course is that almost every thought/belief/emotional wound that is in our unconscious is negative/painful. Because that's why we pushed it down into our unconscious in the first place - it was so negative/painful to look at (feel) that we suppressed our awareness of it by denying or disowning it.
That's why we have to look at things with The Witness because unlike the ego it is NON JUDGEMENTAL and sets no conditions.
There is a well known expression "people don't change"
This is generally true.
Most people don't change.
Meaning most people don't grow past the Novice Level of the Game of Life aka Ego levels 3-6.
They hit levels 3-6 in their early 20s andย dieย (full of regret) at levels 3-6 half a century later.
The reason most people don't change/grow is that most people never Cultivate The Witness.
And so most people live an unexamined life.
A life that is quite literally NOT WORTH LIVING.
If you want to know what an unexamined life looks like you just need to read
The Top 5 Regrets of the dying by palliative care nurse Bronnie Ware:
1. I wish Iโd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
This regret reflects the realization that many people conform to societal expectations rather than pursuing their own dreams and desires.
2. I wish I hadnโt worked so hard.
Many individuals expressed regret over spending excessive time on work, often at the expense of family and personal relationships. This regret emphasizes the importance of work-life balance.
3. I wish Iโd had the courage to express my feelings.
People often hold back their emotions, leading to unresolved issues and strained relationships. This regret highlights the need for open communication and emotional honesty.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
As life progresses, maintaining friendships can become challenging. Many expressed regret over losing touch with important people in their lives, underscoring the value of nurturing relationships.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
This regret points to the tendency to prioritize responsibilities and worries over joy and fulfilment. It serves as a reminder to embrace happiness and seek joy in everyday life.
The challenge of escaping Ego/Consciousness levels 3-6 and thus avoiding The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying, boils down to ๐พ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ฐ๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐
I emphasized that phrase because it is the simplest and most accurate way to describe what you have to do if you want to Master Yourself i.e. heal and grow and transcend your Ego so that you Create a Life Full of Meaning & Purpose but ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ Suffering & Unhappiness so you don't end up dying unhappy and full of regret.
Be very clear there is ๐๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐ฌ๐จ๐ง that the vast majority of people never change, never heal their trauma, never grow beyond level 6 and never transcend their Ego.
๐ญ๐ฌ๐จ๐น.
Plain and simple. Don't overthink it.
If you are stuck or blocked or regressing in you personal life, career or relationships it is because you are not facing and walking through your fear.
๐๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ 100% ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐.
The only reason you don't see this is because your Ego's number 1 Avoidance Strategy is to ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ and ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฒ your fear-based choices as "necessary" "common sense" "realistic" "practical" "prudent" "sensible" "self loving" "obvious" and "just who I am", so that you don't have to face and walk through your fear.
The price of Ego Transcendence and making Unhappiness Suffering and Unfulfillment nothing more than a memory is very simple - Conquering your fear.
In life, ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐.
There is no middle ground.
"Conquering your fear" sounds more daunting than it actually is. So think about it like this:
All you have to do to create the life of your dreams is to become the YOU of your dreams.
And all you have to do to become the you of your dreams...
...is to be ๐๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐ enough to step outside of your comfort zone on a daily basis.
Just take it one day at a time.
When you wake up in the morning just decide that...
"๐๐จ๐๐๐ฒ I will step outside of my comfort zone. I can stay in my comfort zone for 99% of the day but
๐๐ญ ๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ง๐๐ Today I will step out of my comfort zone."
๐ ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ป ๐ถ 1000 ๐๐พ๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐๐พ๐๐ ๐๐พ๐๐ฝ ๐ถ ๐๐พ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐
.
Each day that you keep your commitment to yourself to step out of your comfort zone at least once,
is a single step in your journey to Self Mastery and the life of your dreams.
(N.B. The more times you step out of your comfort zone each day the quicker you complete the journey. The value of a Mentor - and my Courses - is that I can show you numerous simple easy ways to step out of your comfort zone multiple times per day and I can give you the tools that enable you to take Huge Strides outside your comfort zone. All of this makes the journey to Ego Transcendence and a Life Full of Meaning & Purpose but ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ Suffering & Unhappiness a ๐๐จ๐ญ easier and a ๐๐จ๐ญ faster.)
When you ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ to โ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐ค๐๐๐ก you will Gain Access (in the Classroom)
to My Self Mastery Training Course - โ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ค๐ค.
This course teaches you a series of ๐ณ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ that Cultivate The Witness which will in turn Empower you and give you the Strength and Courage to walk through your fear of ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
๐ณ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ are meditations you can do anytime anywhere while going about your daily life,
as opposed to sitting meditation for which you must take time out of your day and must find a suitably quiet place to practice.
Aside from convenience ๐ณ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ offers another huge benefit over sitting meditation.
Because you can practice for far longer - theoretically 16-18 hours a day - you can cultivate a very powerful level of ๐พ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ in a fraction of the time it would take to do so with a sitting meditation like Vipassana.
Vipassana is the only meditation practice that the Buddha actually taught (which I've practiced for over 600 hours).
It's Solid. It certainly does the job of Cultivating The Witness. But it's painfully slow. Which makes it useless for busy people in the modern world. Which is understandable as it was created for Indian peasants 2500 years ago!
When you complete โ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ค๐ค you will have the essential and foundational Self Mastery Skill required to climb from Ego/Consciousness Level 3 all the way to Level 9.
(Video #2 below shows you how to use The ๐ณ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ of 'Making a Home in the Breath' to Cultivate The Witness)
๐บ๐ป๐ฌ๐ท 2 - ๐ต๐จ๐ด๐ฌ ๐ป๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ถ๐น๐ช๐ฌ๐บ ๐ป๐ฏ๐จ๐ป ๐ช๐ถ๐ต๐ป๐น๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ถ๐ผ - โ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ค๐ค
"๐ฐ๐๐๐พ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐ฝ๐ ๐๐๐ธ๐๐๐๐ธ๐พ๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐๐๐๐ธ๐พ๐๐๐, ๐พ๐ ๐๐พ๐๐ ๐น๐พ๐๐๐ธ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐พ๐ป๐ ๐ถ๐๐น ๐๐๐ ๐๐พ๐๐ ๐ธ๐ถ๐๐ ๐พ๐ ๐ป๐ถ๐๐." - Carl Jung
๐บ๐ป๐ฌ๐ท 3 - ๐ฐ๐ต๐ป๐ฌ๐ฎ๐น๐จ๐ป๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ ๐พ๐ฏ๐จ๐ป ๐ฏ๐จ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ต ๐บ๐ท๐ณ๐ฐ๐ป - ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐จ + ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ช ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐ช
"๐ช๐๐ ๐น๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐ธ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐พ๐๐ฝ๐๐๐๐๐น ๐ท๐ ๐พ๐๐ถ๐๐พ๐๐พ๐๐ ๐ป๐พ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ป ๐๐พ๐๐ฝ๐, ๐ท๐๐ ๐ท๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐พ๐๐ ๐๐ฝ๐ ๐น๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐๐๐๐ธ๐พ๐๐๐," - Carl Jung
What has been "split" is what Carl Jung called ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐จ๐ฐ
Your Shadow is all the aspects of your personality/ego that you believed caused your parents/loved ones/caregivers to withdraw their love from you as a child.
The primary need of every child is the unconditional love of their parents/caregivers. However because most parents never reach level 9 most parents are not capable of loving their children unconditionally.
They will at times judge their children as "bad" or "naughty" or "a pain in the ass."
And judgment is the opposite of love.
Love accepts the beloved exactly as they are.
Most mothers love their new born babies unconditionally.
But as the baby grows into a toddler and starts making a mess, breaking things, throwing tantrums and refusing to eat/go to bed on time, almost all mother's love becomes conditional on whether her child is being a "good" boy/girl or a "bad" boy/girl.
And (under the age of 7) every time we are judged (or neglected or abused) by our mothers or fathers (or caregivers, siblings, relatives, teachers, close friends) as being "bad" (which we interpret as "unworthy of love") we feel that they have withdrawn their love.
This is an absolutely untenable position for a child to be in so the child will reflexively and automatically ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง and ๐๐๐ง๐ฒ whatever aspect of their personality/ego caused their parent/loved one/caregiver/authority figure to withdraw their love in a desperate attempt to regain the love they feel they have lost.
Every time this happens and a part of our personality/ego is disowned/denied and becomes unconscious we are creating a "shadow self" made of all of the parts of us that we hate/disown/deny.
As Chase Hughes said in the Ego Development video - Level 7 is the first level where you "know yourself."
The reason the levels 3-6 don't "know themselves" (even though they think they do) is because half of their ego lives in the shadowy darkness of their unconscious.
So to become a ๐๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐ & ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ person that is aware of all aspects of your Self you must Integrate Your Shadow.
When you ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ to โ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐ค๐๐๐ก you will gain Access to My Self Mastery Training Course - ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐จ.
When you complete this course you will have made a huge part of you that was unconscious, conscious. This creates a whole healed and healthy ego that knows itself and thus has far less inner conflict, self doubt, self loathing & self sabotage and far more internal power, self worth, self esteem, self confidence and self love.
It is also much more able to navigate complex inner feelings and experiences because it is facing them as a whole person rather than as a divided one. As the saying goes "a house divided cannot stand."
You will also gain Access to the Ultimate Self Mastery Course ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ช ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐ช but I talk much more about that in next 2 STEPS
๐บ๐ป๐ฌ๐ท 4 - ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ป ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐น ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ต๐ป๐ฐ๐ป๐ ๐ญ๐น๐ถ๐ด ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ถ ๐ป๐ถ ๐บ๐ถ๐ผ๐ณ - ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ช ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐ช
"๐๐๐ ๐๐ป ๐๐พ๐ป๐'๐ ๐๐๐ป๐ป๐๐๐พ๐๐ ๐พ๐ ๐ธ๐ถ๐๐๐๐น ๐ท๐ ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐ป ๐๐พ๐๐๐ถ๐๐๐ ๐พ๐น๐๐๐๐พ๐๐"
Chris Paradox
The main difference between the Ego and the Soul is that the Soul Witnesses what is actually there
and the Ego Projects what it desires/fears, clings to/resists, craves/despises onto what is there.
This is summed up by the wisdom teachings
"๐ฒ๐ ๐น๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฝ๐พ๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ฝ๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐. ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฝ๐พ๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐"
Anais Nin
and..
"๐ผ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฝ๐ถ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ผ ๐ถ๐. ๐ด๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐ฝ๐ถ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ผ ๐ถ๐."
Anon
From Google
"The Role of the Brain"
The brain plays a crucial role in vision, as it not only processes the incoming signals but also integrates them with past experiences and contextual information to help us understand what we see.
The key part of that sentence is "integrates them with past experiences and contextual information"
In practice the "past experiences" the brain draws on to "help us understand what we see" are made up of the value judgments we made about things similar to what we are seeing and the emotional states that were associated with those value judgments.
And the "contextual information" the brain draws on to "help us understand what we see" are actually our deeply held limiting beliefs, our subconscious scripts, our value system, our emotional trauma, our biased ego interpretations, our hopes and dreams and fears and wishes and fantasies.
In other words who we ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ a person to be is actually what we ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐๐๐ญ onto them.
This is something we all intuitively understand (we know that people's judgments of us say more about them than they do about us) but it is only at level 8 or above that are we honest enough to acknowledge and integrate this reality into our worldview and consequently the way we see and treat people i.e. we cease judging them.
Take Donald Trump for example.
A progressive liberal with pink hair and a septum piercing looks at him and sees the Devil incarnate.
A 52 year old good ole boy MAGA hat wearing Sherriff in Tennessee looks at him and sees the saviour of America.
They are both looking at the same person but they see ๐๐ฐ๐จ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐.
It is only at level 8 that you realise that you are projecting ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐.
This is why at level 8 you see people as mirrors who reflect who you are back to you, because you recognise that you are only ever seeing in people what you have unconsciously projected onto them.
When you ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ some Celebrity, Actor Musician or legendary sportsman like Michael Jordan or Lionel Messi you are projecting your ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ onto them.
When you ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฌ๐ some politician or public figure like Trump or Hilary Clinton or Andrew Tate or Destiny you are projecting your ๐๐ก๐๐๐จ๐ฐ onto them.
Chase Hughes pointed out in the Ego/Consciousness Development video that level 8 is where Judgement Self Righteousness and Suffering begin to disappear from your life.
Here's why.
We all like to think that we abide by the Golden Rule: "do unto others as you would have it done unto you."
Yet at the same time ๐๐จ ๐๐ง๐ wants to be judged yet ๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ judge others.
So in truth we are all hypocrites who CONSTANTLY break the Golden Rule.
This is something to remember whenever you are tempted to make the error of imagining yourself to be morally superior to someone else.
Our Judgment of others is 100% caused by our Projections onto others.
Basically Projection is Judgment and Judgment is Projection.
And our ๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ฒ that we know who the "bad guys" are and who the "good guys" are and that we are most ๐๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ฒ one of the "good guys" is based 100% on our Projections/Judgments.
The problem with all this is that ๐ต๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐ and ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
Reality is a Unified Field - that is - ๐พ๐ ๐จ๐๐ ๐จ๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐
This means that what you do to another you do to yourself.
And what you fail to do for another you fail to do for yourself.
This is why the Greatest Enlightened Master of all time taught you to ๐ณ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐๐.
(N.B. Yes Jesus taught Non Dual Enlightenment, but he was so far ahead of his time that hardly anyone - except a few Essene Gnostics - understood just how deep and transformative his teachings really were. Until the were unearthed in Nag Hammadi in 1948 and Carl Jung got a chance to study them - see video #6 below)
We all know the pain of being judged and how it causes us to suffer.
But because ๐พ๐ ๐จ๐๐ ๐จ๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐ every time we judge others we are actually judging ๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
And rest assured psychologically speaking, we experience all the ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ of the judgments we make about others as worry, doubt, neurosis, anxiety, depression, self loathing, problems sleeping, nightmares etc.
(N.B. This is what the biblical saying "Judge not, lest ye be judged" really means).
This means that our Judgmental Projections onto others along with our Self Righteous Certainty that we are "good" and others are "bad" or "less than" us, is actually the ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐ฒ source of our suffering.
There are many ways we create our suffering - negative self talk, guilt, shame, unworthiness, doubt, beating ourselves up etc. - but the main cause, is our Judgment of and Projection onto, others/ourselves.
The only way to stop Projecting/Judging - and thus massively reduce our suffering
is to take ๐๐จ๐ญ๐๐ฅ Responsibility for your thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, choices & decisions.
In other words to take ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ฅ Responsibility for the your entire experience of life.
To live by the mantra: "Everything under my skin is mine!"
My happiness and my unhappiness is on me.
My anger and my joy is on me.
My resentment and my forgiveness is on me
My guilt & shame and my self love & self worth is on me.
No one else is responsible for how I think, how I feel, what I choose and how I act.
In other other words to totally completely and utterly ๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐!
So that it doesn't leak out onto other people as your Self Righteous Judgmental Shadow Projections.
By doing this you automatically and immediately ๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ the vast majority of the suffering you experience.
And by the time you've reached level 8 you will no longer be creating suffering for yourself due to negative self talk, guilt, shame, unworthiness, doubt, beating yourselves up etc. because you will have disidentified from your ego to a significant enough degree that you will have largely outgrown these immature patterns of thinking/states of consciousness.
So in effect ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ฅ Responsibility marks ๐ป๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐
๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ and the beginning of Ego Transcendence.
When you ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ ๐ฅ๐ โ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐ค๐๐๐ก you will gain Access to The Ultimate Self Mastery Training Course - ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ช ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐ช.
When you complete this course you will be able to take ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ฅ Responsibility for every thought you think, every feeling you have, every sensation in your body every choice you make and everything that has ๐ผ๐ง๐๐ฃ happened to you (including in previous lives).
You will never again blame anyone or anything for how you feel or what you think or what you say or what you do. And you will never again play the ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ of circumstances.
You will be the ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐จ๐ซ of circumstances.
This is because Responsibility isn't the burden of blame most people think it is and consequently avoid taking.
Responsibility is Response Ability. Your Ability to Respond to the challenges of life.
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune that assault everyone's life.
In short, Response Ability is ๐๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐.
Which is why whenever you "play the victim" by blaming someone or something outside your self for what is inside yourself - i.e. your thoughts and feelings of unhappiness and suffering - you literally
๐ฎ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐.
This is why taking ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ฅ Responsibility catapults you up to level 9.
It is the most ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ thing you will ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ do for yourself.
You will experience your ๐ฝ๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐ as one that is filled with every day Miracles, a deep sense of Connection with all of life and intensely RICH experiences of Meaning and Fulfilment moment to moment as your Dreams seem to come true before your eyes without you needing to make any effort beyond Focusing your Attention on what your Heart Truly Desires.
You will come to understand that your ๐ฝ๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐ is nothing less than Heaven on Earth.
And you will experience your ๐ฝ๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐ as an Awakened Being who Consciously Creates their Reality in each moment in Service to the Highest Good of All and from a place of ๐๐ฑ๐ป๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐ธ๐ท๐ผ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ธ๐พ๐ผ๐ท๐ฎ๐ผ๐ผ which effortlessly experiences an Ongoing Abundance of Overflowing Love for Everything and Everyone.
(N.B. Observation is ๐๐จ๐ญ Judgment. You can observe or Witness "bad" actions and "bad behaviour" and you can acknowledge that they are bad and refuse to condone them - i.e. selfish deceitful harmful manipulative exploitative etc. actions and behaviour ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ projecting your own shadow material as judgment onto the person carrying out those actions)
The difference between observation and judgment is emotional charge.
There is no emotional charge when you are simply observing someone's negative behaviour without judgment (think Spock from Star Trek) whereas when someone's negative behaviour irritates, annoys or triggers you then you are most definitely judging them.
So when your observations begin to turn into judgments remember what the Christians say:
"hate the sin not the sinner"
(Yes, even a broken clock is right twice a day)
๐บ๐ป๐ฌ๐ท 5. ๐น๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐
๐ฏ๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ ๐ป๐๐ - ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ช ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐ช + ๐๐ช๐ค๐ฅ๐๐ ๐พ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ค๐๐ ๐
The best way for me to describe this final step is by telling you of the many decades I spent trapped in the prison of Egoic Thinking.
And how I finally recognised that it was indeed my ๐๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ฅ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ that was keeping me imprisoned in my Separate Sense of Self.
And how I was finally liberated from imprisonment by my study and practice of The Way of Mastery.
And how that lead to me dedicating my life to helping others to see and therefore choose to liberate themselves from the prison of Egoic thinking.
As a 59 year old father of 2 and granddad of one, I have lived a epic tragicomic rollercoaster of a life full of mistakes and catastrophes and stupidities and cruelties and beauty and grace and miracles.
All of this lead me to being properly suicidal three times in my life.
On the first occasion (at age 24) I was miraculously saved by the still small voice of my soul/God's love and was graced with a transformation in my consciousness that quantum leaped me from an Arrested Development level 3 to level 5.
On the second occasion (at age 35) my soul/God's Love/Grace quantum leaped me from level 5 to level 10 (for 7 months) then down to level 9 for about a year. But within 3 years I had fully regressed back to level 6.
My third brush with suicide (at age 41) led to a Near death Experience which resulted in me having my right leg amputated below the knee, which turned out to be the (second) best thing that has ever happened to me (that rhymes๐) as it was the previously mentioned 'Divine Humbling' that I so badly needed.
In the 18 years since then I have actually put in the work (no more quantum leaps) to develop my ego/consciousness and for the last 8 years that work has been utterly transformative because it took the form of ๐๐๐๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ daily Spiritual Practices and ๐๐ฒ๐ฉ๐๐ซ ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ข๐๐ง๐ญ Living meditations.
The Moral of the Story?
Despite all of the stupid selfish things I've done and all the people I'd hurt I knew that I did those things out of fear and guilt and shame and ignorance, because of my wounding and trauma (the Ghosts of the past that were running my life), not because I was a "bad" person.
I ๐๐ง๐๐ฐ I was a "good" person and I wanted to prove it. Not just to other people but more importantly to myself.
8 years on and life has taught me that ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ the world considers to be a "bad" person because of the bad things they have done, was just like me.
They were acting out of fear and guilt and shame and ignorance because of their trauma and wounding (the Ghosts of the past that were running their lives), not because they are inherently "bad" people.
Simply put ๐๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ hurt people, hurt people.
And yes this includes psychopaths and sociopaths too.
In fact they are the most deeply wounded "hurt" people of all.
Remember the vast majority of people who rape children were raped as children.
The bottom line is just because you are a hurt person who has done terrible things it doesn't change the fact that at the ๐บ๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐๐ (which is the only level that matters) you Remain a Perfect Innocent Child of God who is Loved Loving and Loveable ๐ญ๐๐๐๐๐๐.
And if you can overcome your self loathing, guilt and shame and acknowledge your ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ'๐ฌ Innocence regardless of the hypocritical judgments of other people (let he who is without sin cast the first stone) the best way to ๐๐ซ๐จ๐จ๐ฏ๐ those who believe that you are inherently "bad" wrong, is to ๐๐๐๐ฅ & ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ and become ๐ป๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ version of yourself - the Level 9 ๐บ๐๐๐ ๐น๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
version of yourself - so that your inherent "Goodness" ๐๐
ท๐
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ด๐ through you in a way that is Absolutely ๐๐
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Just sayin.
Before I discovered the importance of Spiritual Practice and Living Meditation, for the first 10 years of my 18 year Ego Transcendence journey, progress was painfully slow because I kept choosing the wrong Enlightenment pathways.
They were all either from the East - and consequently made for the Eastern Mind which is very different from the Western mind - or they were Western knock offs of Eastern paths created by fake gurus/grifters - I'm looking at you Balanced View/Candice O'Denver.
All they did was lead me down the garden path and into a dead end while $costing me an arm and a leg.
I'd already lost a leg by then so I literally couldn't afford to be spiritual seeker anymore ๐
So 8 years ago, after 10 years of "doing the work" - as it's called in spiritual circles - and getting nowhere I was STILL stuck in level 6 - which is notoriously hard to escape from due to the Level 6 "do what is right" virtue signalling, moral high horse conceit which compels you to try to do "what is right" even though you don't actually know what that is because you are too busy projecting your unowned shit onto everyone and everything to actually be able to see anything but your own shadow.
So I gave up.
I quit being a spiritual seeker and decided to just try and be a good person.
I moved back to London from the centre of woo woo New Age pseudo spirituality - Totnes: where you're never more than 9 yards away from an Aromatherapist - and got myself a job as a care worker for autistic teenage boys.
It was the typical "shit pay but super rewarding job" that ex-spiritual losers like me tended to gravitate toward.
I had taken one of my lads - Bradley - out to Tower bridge for the day (he was 6' 3 and about 250lbs) and he had an autistic episode which caused him to try to run into very fast moving traffic and it took all my strength and all of a nightmarish 30 seconds to hold onto him and stop him from unwittingly committing suicide by car.
That really shook me. He almost died because I was distracted.
I loved this kid and I could never forgive myself if he died or was seriously injured on my watch.
So that night I decided that my only goal in life was to be the world's best care worker for autistic teenage boys. And I started to look for books and courses that would help me to do that.
And just like when you give up looking for your car keys and they suddenly appear right under your nose, the book that I bought in order to learn how to be a world class care worker also happened to be the greatest Ego Transcendence Manual/Enlightenment Pathway of all time.
Taught by the greatest Enlightened Master of All Time.
And it was written for the modern Western mind!
Grace had descended upon me once again for the fourth time. And I didn't even need to be suicidal, I just didn't want to be responsible for Bradley's suicide!!!
Trust me brothers and sisters, God's love is as advertised - Infinite, Eternal and Unconditional.
No matter how big a "sinner" you think you are, God sees you like a Mother sees her new born baby. Perfect. Innocent. And perfectly innocent.
So after 8 years of diligently studying practicing and eventually mentoring others in The Way of Mastery
I am now situated all snug and cosy under the Blissful Peaceful Lovey Dovey Duvet of Level 9 and patiently waiting for Grace to descend (again) and for "me" to be put aside forever like an old toy that has been outgrown.
Flowing into Level 10 ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐!!! ๐
The ๐๐ช๐ค๐ฅ๐๐ ๐พ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ค๐๐ ๐ Course is the accumulation of 58 years worth of life lessons from a bloke who has made every mistake in the book - plus some that aren't even in there - and learned almost every lesson the HARD way because I'm a stupid stubborn Mfker who won't let go of his delusional judgmental thinking and wounded shadow projections until he's dragged kicking and screaming back to reality.
This gives me a huge advantage over most coaches mentors and spiritual teachers.
Because I've been at suicidal rock bottom multiple times. I've been in the dirt and the mud and the gutter with the losers and the homeless and the addicts and the outcasts.
I've been ostracised demonized vilified and hated ๐๐ง๐ I've turned it all around, made lemonade from life's lemons and once again become appreciated celebrated admired and adored. So I know what it is to be a complete and utter loser as well as an absolutely epic winner.
I am that.
I cheated on my 2nd girlfriend with my 1st girlfriend and childhood sweetheart who I lost my virginity to and made them both pregnant. My son's were born on March 11th 1988 and March 16th 1988. I lied about one son and his mother to the other mother (who I lived with) for 3 years because I was a pathetic coward and cared more about what people thought about me than I did about honesty and integrity. When she found out she refused to let me see my son for 7 years. I didn't see him again until he was 11.
I am that.
I've been a young upwardly mobile professional Dickhead earning 6 figures driving a beautiful Racing Green Alfa Romeo V6 and running an Mad Men Ad agency.
I am that.
I proposed to my ex-wife while gurning my face off on ecstasy at 3 am in the back of a cab on the way home from clubbing. We eloped to get married in Las Vegas. I wore a white Elvis Jumpsuit and my she wore a bunny girl outfit. Within a year she'd cheated on me twice and within two years she accused me of physically assaulting her and divorced raped me. I was left penniless homeless and hopeless living under a tree in a park. I was reborn as a Mystic Poet, Event Organiser, Cabaret Host, Dreamspell Decoder, Inspirational Speaker, Workshop leader, Course Creator, Life Coach, Livestreamer, Youtuber and eventually Self Mastery Mentor.
I am that.
My super religious mum has disowned me, twice. Neither of my sons speak to me. I haven't seen my Granddaughter in 5 years.
I am that.
I lived like a King in London - rent free - between 2002 - 2007. During this period I became a Big Fish celebrity Performance Poet in the very Small Pond of the Mind Body Spirit & Anti Establishment sub cultures. This enabled me to meet and become friends with hundreds of amazing people and to be paid to travel the UK and the World performing, giving talks and running workshops. After losing my leg in a diving "accident" (there are no accidents) - while travelling around Mexico on horseback as part of a rainbow cowboy horse caravan circus - when I returned to England even happier and more shiny than I had been with two legs, I became somewhat of a living legend to my friends and fans and followers and pivoted to using my Post Traumatic Growth Syndrome (I experienced losing my leg as the second best thing that ever happened to me - after living in Battersea park for 7 months) to develop workshops, courses and life coaching programs that have helped hundreds of people to heal from their trauma and use their wounds as "grist for the mill" in creating a Richer more Meaningful and Fulfilling life.
The Only Way Out is IN is the culmination of 18 years of doing this work.
I am that.
So I really do see everyone from exalted saint to depraved sinner as a reflection of myself.
I can honestly say that I ๐๐ง๐จ๐ฐ that I am above no one and below no one.
Lots of people like to think this is true of themselves but their judgments betray them.
The wonderful thing about being every form and shape and texture of loser while also experiencing multiple extended periods of winning at life in epic ways (hence the name Paradox, which was given to me by the tree I lived under for 7 months) is that it cultivates deep humility and compassion for the human condition as well as an indefatigable optimism and belief in the power of the human spirit to overcome anything and everything life throws at you, climb out of the pits of hell that you dug yourself into and ascend home to heaven as the prodigal son or daughter, only to discover you have been unconditionally loved all along and nothing you have ever done has tainted or stained your immortal soul one iota in the eyes of your creator.
Because one thing I know for sure - as you can tell from the litany of "sins" above - I am ๐๐จ๐ญ special.
So if I can do it...๐๐ง๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ can.
On top of my ๐๐๐ซ๐ฒ hard earned life wisdom, over the last 23 years I have studied and (to some degree at least) practiced almost every Enlightenment pathway there is - Tibetan & Zen Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, Neo Advaita, Kashmiri Shaivism, Taoism, Sufism, Vipassana, Shamanism, Kabbalah, Hermeticism, Christian Mysticism and Gnosticism.
Although I have tremendous respect for each path and their genuine practitioners (all of the above paths can certainly bring you home if practiced sincerely in a committed and disciplined way under the tutelage of a genuine Master of that tradition) the path I found when I was a care worker - The Way of Mastery - pisses all over them.
And it's not close.
I know this because after only 3 years of practicing The Way of Mastery I was able escape level 6 and zoom through Level 7 to Level 8 and zoom through Level 8 to Level 9 which caused some of my friends to ask me "What the fuck happened? How did you become so Christ-like so fast?"
So I told them "The Way of Mastery nigga! It's da bomb."
This led me to Mentoring a couple of dozen friends and friends of friends in The Way of Mastery over the past 5 years (see the Testimonial video below).
And without exception the Mentees that practiced diligently with discipline and joy (joy and humour is an ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฅ part of The Way of Mastery as you can probably tell - because God ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐๐๐๐ the Cosmic Joker and the more One with Her you become the funnier everything in the Dream of Separation becomes) shot up the Ego/Consciousness Development charts just as quickly as I did...some even faster (I'm looking at you Sharmila!)
As my men's group mentee Brian is fond of saying "this shit just works bro!"
A side benefit of spending so much time on less direct/effective/efficient Enlightenment pathways before coming to The Way of Mastery - the Mother of ALL Enlightenment Pathways - is that this juxtaposition has allowed me to become an MGSBD or Military Grade Spiritual Bullshit Detector!
Which is very useful when mentoring someone who has read a lot of spiritual books and/or watched a lot of spiritual videos by Eckhart Tolle, Rupert Spira, Mooji, Ram Dass, Michael A Singer, Sad Guru, Osho, Swami Sarvapriananda et al and therefore thinks that understanding spiritual ideas and concepts makes you spiritual.
When in reality ๐๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ dedicated daily and moment-to-moment spiritual ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ makes you spiritual.
Spirituality is about making the unconscious conscious so you can Awaken to Your ๐ป๐๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐ by disidentifying with and eventually transcending your ego.
And making the unconscious conscious requires that you walk through your fears and be with your pain on a daily basis aka step outside your comfort zone every day.
No matter how much you read about spirituality, or watch spiritual videos, or believe in spiritual ideas, or think spiritual thoughts if you are not ๐๐๐ฅ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐
๐๐๐ซ, ๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐๐ข๐ง, ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ฌ, ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ก๐๐๐จ๐ฐ & ๐๐ฐ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐ ๐ ๐
๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ - short of God's Grace descending upon you and causing a temporary quantum leap in your Consciousness - all you are doing is ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
You certainly are not Growing or Developing or Healing or Awakening.
Most spiritual teachers, coaches and gurus won't tell you this of course, for the same reason that psychotherapists rarely tell their female clients that ๐๐ก๐๐ฒ not their husbands/boyfriends are the source of their unhappiness.
Generally speaking boys are raised to be accountable for their failings, to admit when they are in the wrong and to take responsibility for their negative emotions - such as anger or unhappiness - instead of blaming others for them.
Girls...not so much.
So most psychotherapists who wish to keep their female clients adopt the attitude pointed out by the great Thomas Sowell
โWhen you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.โ
Similarly most people who consider themselves "spiritual" don't want to hear that they are just indulging in virtue signalling, ego boosting, crystal worshiping, astrology justifying, New Age rationalizing, wounded inner child enabling, denial of shadow projecting, feel good Kool Aid drinking spiritual bypassing which ensures that their suffering unhappiness and unfulfillment will remain with them until the day they die (and into their next lifetime/s).
If you are one of those kind of people I am ๐๐จ๐ญ the mentor for you (you probably stopped reading this a long time ago anyway, which was by design mwuahaha)
Because I will ๐๐ฅ๐ฐ๐๐ฒ๐ฌ tell you the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God (as best I understand it) regardless of whether you want to hear it or not.
But trust me when I say that if you are ๐จ ๐น๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐ and you make the wise decision to become a โ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ ๐ฃ ๐๐โ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฃ and at some point I start calling you out for ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฒ๐ฉ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ you will eventually ๐๐ก๐๐ง๐ค me for doing so.
Because you will finally become ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ค
You will make ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ in ways you never have before.
You will remove the ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐๐ค๐ฌ and undo ๐๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ง๐ฌ and heal the ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ฌ that you always believed were "just the way it is" or "just who I am"
And most importantly of all you will walk through your ๐ญ๐๐๐ and be with your ๐ท๐๐๐ on a daily basis.
And so you will ๐ฏ๐๐๐ and you will ๐ฎ๐๐๐ and you will ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐ to your ๐ป๐น๐ผ๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ฝ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฌ ๐ต๐จ๐ป๐ผ๐น๐ฌ and you will experience yourself becoming ๐ป๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ version of yourself in real time.
A version of yourself you never even dreamed was possible for you.
I have seen this happen to the people I mentor time and time again and you can hear those people tell the story of how it happened to them in the Testimonial video below.
So if the ๐๐ช๐ค๐ฅ๐๐ ๐พ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ค๐๐ ๐ Self Mastery Course sounds like the perfect cherry on top of this Self Mastery Course cake I've baked for you Click Here to ๐ผ๐๐๐๐๐
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"๐จ๐ธ๐พ ๐ช๐ป๐ฎ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ช๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐ช๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ ๐น๐ฎ๐ธ๐น๐ต๐ฎ ๐๐ธ๐พ ๐ผ๐น๐ฎ๐ท๐ญ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ถ๐ธ๐ผ๐ฝ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฑ."
Jim Rohn
I would be lying to you if I said Transforming your Consciousness to level 9 so that you can Create a Life Full of Meaning & Purpose but ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ Suffering & Unhappiness was easy.
However, it's damn near ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ to do it alone.
Having a Mentor/teacher/coach/guide/cheerleader/accountability buddy like my self
is Necessary...but ๐๐จ๐ญ sufficient.
Having someone like me in your corner is only half the battle.
The other half is being part of a Network of people who are on the same journey as you.
As you will see in the Testimonial video below, the support encouragement accountability holding and straight up ๐ณ๐๐๐ that you receive from your fellow travellers on the Hero's Journey/Heroine's Quest of Self Mastery is absolutely ๐ฐ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐!
That is why I created ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ช ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐ช ๐๐ธ๐๐๐ผโ๐๐โ๐ป on Signal for โ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐โ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐ค.
Skool groups are great for delivering courses and live video Q&As but not so good for building connection and community.
For that you need a double encrypted truly private community platform with voice and video messaging that is not owned by Silicon Valley, the Chinese Government or the Zionists ruling elite.
The only app which meets that definition is Signal.
So when you become a โ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ & ๐๐โ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฃ you will gain exclusive Access to ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ช ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐ช ๐๐ธ๐๐๐ผโ๐๐โ๐ป on Signal where you can connect with men and women from all over the world who will undoubtably be birds of your feather.
How do I know?
Because like you they are independent thinkers and non conformists with a growth mindset and a good sense of humour that were feeling the About Page enough to take the time to sign up for Standard Membership...
...and then took even more time to read this long ass post...
...and then took even ๐ด๐๐๐ time to watch the 7 videos below (all of which were designed to filter out anyone who is not ๐จ ๐น๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐)...
...and then had the balls/ovaries to believe in themselves enough to embark on their own Hero's Journey/Heroine's Quest of Self Mastery by ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ to โ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ & ๐๐โ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐ค๐๐๐ก.
Why is it important to be surrounded by like minded people seeking the same goal as you?
It's not just because of the Jim Rohn quote, although that is part of it.
Let's face it as an independent thinker, non conformist with a growth mindset and a good sense of humour you fall into a very small minority of human beings on this planet at this time.
My guess is that you were probably the black sheep in your family and if not you are most definitely ๐๐จ๐ญ your average bear.
I am willing to bet money that you only have 1 or maximum 2 genuinely close friends and that your general acquaintances and work colleagues think you're a bit weird/a bit of a loner.
Put simply, nobody "normal" is interested in Transforming their Consciousness, Transcending their Ego or Awakening to their True Divine Nature.
This means that not only will very few people in your life understand what you are doing enough to offer you any meaningful support, including (in all likelihood) your spouse siblings children and parents, but most people will actively discourage you thanks to Tall Poppy Syndrome and the Crabs in a Bucket aspect of the human ego.
People who can't be bothered to even ๐๐ซ๐ฒ to transcend their suffering and live their Best Life by becoming their Best Self because they are too busy playing the victim and blaming the world and other people for their problems ๐๐จ ๐๐จ๐ญ generally take kindly to people who ๐๐๐ง be bothered to try.
Why?
Because it reminds them that they don't really love themselves enough to follow their hearts, pursue their dreams and care for their souls.
And that's why it is ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ you plug yourself into a Network of like minded people on the same journey with the same goal who will be MORE than happy to reciprocate the support encouragement advice accountability and love that you bring to the group.
Because like all worthwhile things in this world, you get out of the ๐๐ธ๐๐๐ผโ๐๐โ๐ป what you put into it.
So you bring what you expect to find.
WARNING: I can spot Pretenders/Grifters a mile off because I used to be one - poacher turned gamekeeper vibes - and so leeches and non contributors don't last long in the Signal groups I run.
๐ป๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ด๐ถ๐ด๐ฌ๐ต๐ป ๐ถ๐ญ ๐ป๐น๐ผ๐ป๐ฏ
So now you know the secrets to climbing the Ego/Consciousness Development Ladder to Ego Transcendence/Non Dual Awakening/The End of Suffering you have a decision to make.
You can listen to the fearful self protective 'voice in your head that never shuts up that you think is you but is not you' of your Level 3/4/5 Ego telling you not to be a Tall Poppy because Tall Poppies get their heads cut off.
Telling you to hide in the middle of the bell curve where it's safe.
Telling you to conform, to stay average, to be mediocre like the rest of the herd because there is safety in numbers.
And you can listen to the self righteous morally superior 'voice in your head that never shuts up that you think is you but is not you' of your Level 6 Ego telling you that your way more evolved than the vast majority of people/sheeple/untouchables anyway and besides your Political Ideology/Religious Theology/Scientific Materialist & Atheist Philosophy/New Age Belief System already has all the answers.
So you don't have to waste all that time and effort trying to figure life out for yourself because your ideology/theology/favourite academics/intellectuals/priests/imams/rabbis have already done all the important thinking for you.
All you just have to do is ๐๐จ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ฏ๐ & ๐๐๐๐๐ง๐ the Ideology/Theology/Philosophy and be a good obedient compliant member of your ideological/theological/philosophical in group.
Then the in group will give you the Attention Approval Validation (๐๐จ๐ฏ๐) and Sense of Self Worth & Purpose (๐๐๐๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ) you so desperately crave.
And in any case "Ego Transcendence" & "Non Dual Awakening" are nothing more than superstitious nonsense/blasphemous heresy/only for special people and so they are ๐๐จ๐ญ something you should be wasting time thinking about unless you want to be judged as a weirdo/fool/heretic and ostracised from our ๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ in group that has all the answers.
After all, Cults gonna Cult.
And rest assured every Political Ideology, Religious Theology, Scientific Materialist world view, Atheist Philosophy & New Age Spiritual Belief system creates a cult around it.
๐๐ซ...You can recognize the simple truth that ๐ป๐ฏ๐ฌ๐น๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐บ ๐ต๐ถ ๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฌ๐น ๐จ๐ผ๐ป๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐ฐ๐ป๐ because You are a ๐บ๐ถ๐ฝ๐ฌ๐น๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ subject only to ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ซ'๐บ ๐ผ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฝ๐ฌ๐น๐บ๐จ๐ณ & ๐ต๐จ๐ป๐ผ๐น๐จ๐ณ ๐ณ๐จ๐พ and so you choose to listen ๐ถ๐๐๐ to the still small voice of your Soul that whispers to you of your heart's burning desire to be ๐ด๐๐๐ than the world tells you that you are.
๐ด๐๐๐ than your conditioning.
๐ด๐๐๐ than your programming.
๐ด๐๐๐ than your trauma.
๐ด๐๐๐ than your wounds.
๐ด๐๐๐ than your limiting beliefs.
๐ด๐๐๐ than your subconscious scripts.
๐ด๐๐๐ than your Shadow projections.
The still small voice of your Soul in your Heart that whispers to you of your ๐ป๐น๐ผ๐ฌ ๐ต๐จ๐ป๐ผ๐น๐ฌ
and your ๐ป๐น๐ผ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ต๐ป๐ฐ๐ป๐ as a Sovereign Being & ๐ท๐ฌ๐น๐ญ๐ฌ๐ช๐ป ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ซ ๐ถ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ซ who is Loved Loving & Lovable ๐ญ๐ถ๐น๐ฌ๐ฝ๐ฌ๐น and is given ๐จ๐ณ๐ณ ๐ท๐ถ๐พ๐ฌ๐น under Heaven and Earth to create WHATEVER experience your HEART DESIRES using the Mirror Principle (see video #3 below)
The still small voice of your Soul that reminds you that those who exchange their spiritual freedom for worldly security, end up with neither.
The still small voice of your Soul that whispers to you that only herd animals seek safety in numbers and humans are NOT herd animals.
Humans are pioneers and explorers and innovators and artists and creators and risk takers who only feel truly ALIVE when we seek freedom and growth and connection and new horizons and new experiences and new levels of being.
Bottom line?
If we all listened to the fearful self protective conformist level 3, 4 & 5 ego or the self righteous morally superior Level 6 Ego we would all still be living in caves and wiping our asses with leaves.
So if you genuinely want to listen to the still small voice of your Soul but find that you can't quite hear it's gentle but insistent call because it is getting drowned out by the megaphone voice in your head that never shuts up that you think is you but is not you - it's the voice of your cultural conditioning/ruling elite programming, the voice of fear, self protection, conformity and mediocrity...
...the voice of the lower Ego/wounded inner child which repeats the fear & avoidance and resistance mantra "yeah but...yeah but...yeah but.." over and over like a demented parrot...
...then watch all 7 videos below in one sitting as they reveal in Full Colour Audio-visual form of The 5 Steps to Creating a Life Full of Meaning & Purpose but WITHOUT Suffering & Unhappiness.
And if you prefer to learn Audio Visually rather than via TEXT they will help to quieten the fearful and disempowering voice in your head, so that you can hear the loving and empowering voice in your heart.
After that you will either be ready to ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ your ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐ค๐๐๐ก
or...
Your lower Ego/wounded inner child will rationalize and deny it all away so that you can to continue spinning your wheels i.e. going nowhere fast - by reading articles and watching videos to increase your knowledge about Ego/Consciousness Development and Transcendence or Awakening or Enlightenment.
Maybe you'll watch a few more Alan Watts videos or re-read The Power of Now because they help you to feel like your growing and awakening when in fact that is just how the level 3-6 ego rationalizes and justifies your fear of failure.
Because if you don't honestly and sincerely ๐๐ซ๐ฒ to become ๐ป๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ Version of Yourself you can't ๐
๐๐ข๐ฅ to become ๐ป๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ Version of Yourself right?
Genius.
The Problem is that ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฒ to Create a Life Full of Meaning & Purpose but ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ Suffering & Unhappiness is to become ๐ป๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ Version of Yourself a.k.a. the Level 9 You.
And the fact is ๐๐จ ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ of watching videos or reading books will get you to Level 9.
Because watching videos and reading books is well WITHIN your comfort zone.
And the only way to get to Level 9 and thus to live the life of your dreams is by...all together now...
stepping ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ of your comfort zone on a daily basis.
Simply put, your prioritization of Safety, Security & Comfort over Healing, Growth and Awakening (ie Your ๐ญ๐ฌ๐จ๐น) is the ๐ถ๐๐๐ thing standing between the life you are currently living and a Life Full of Meaning & Purpose but ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ Suffering or Unhappiness - the life you were ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ง to live because your ๐บ๐๐๐ wants to live it.
But the choice to be a SLAVE to your FEAR is - paradoxically - your FREE WILL choice.
And I can only honour and respect the FREE WILL choice of my fellow PERFECT CHILD OF GOD.
So rather than do what most other online coaches/mentors do at this point i.e. create artificial scarcity by pretending that if your don't Upgrade TODAY the price will go up...
...or you'll miss out on this extra BONUS material (which was originally part of the basic package but was removed and called "bonus material" so you would be fooled into thinking you were getting extra value for free) or some other bullshit grift that internet marketers use to manipulate you into buying...
...I will simply invite you one last time to take the Badass Hero's Journey/Heroine's Quest of Self Mastery with a quote from everyone's favourite film The Shawshank Redemption which sums up that choice perfectly.
"You either get busy living, or you get busy dying"
Chris Paradox
Self Mastery Mentor
๐.๐. ๐จ๐ต๐บ๐พ๐ฌ๐น๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ ๐ป๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต๐จ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐บ๐บ ๐ถ๐ญ ๐ถ๐ฉ๐ฑ๐ฌ๐ช๐ป๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐บ
"If you're so enlightened why are you charging money for this? A real spiritual teacher teaches for free, because they are in selfless service to Humanity/the whole/God, not their ego/bank balance."
"And if you are so good at creating your dream life through the Mirror Principle, why do you need to grift money from people by selling online course subscriptions?"
This is the final boss of objections because it is the only truly valid objection to upgrading and paying for Premium Membership. All the other objections people have are really just rationalizations and justifications for their ๐ญ๐ฌ๐จ๐น.
Their fear of failure.
Their fear of "not being good enough" for the life of their dreams.
Their fear that they don't really deserve a life without suffering.
Their fear that they are not worthy of Awakening or Enlightenment.
But the "why are you charging for something that you should be giving for free" objection is not about fear. It is about recognising that the overwhelming majority of people that are trying to "sell you happiness" online, are AT BEST completely full of shit and thus unable to deliver on their promises...
...and AT WORST greedy grifters that don't give a damn about your happiness except for the fact they can use your desire for it to extract money out of you.
This is the ๐๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ of valid objections.
Fortunately I have the ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฒ of answers to this objection.
Here it is.
For most of the last 8 years I ๐๐๐ฏ๐ been mentoring people for free.
You are absolutely right. A spiritual teacher (I don't describe myself as such - I am a Self Mastery Mentor - because so many so called Spiritual Teachers turn out to be corrupt grifters who sleep with all their young nubile female devotees and extract maximum profit from their wealthy but deluded followers. But I know that many traditional spiritual seekers who see what I'm offering, will describe me as a "spiritual teacher" and lump me in with disgraced frauds like the Moojis and Andrew Cohens of this world. So it is what it is) a genuine spiritual teacher gives of themselves freely and selflessly to teach others - by example - that they do not have to suffer because their true nature is peace joy love and happiness.
So doesn't the fact that I am charging for my mentorship mean I am doing this for selfish ego reasons rather than as selfless service to my fellow man (and woman) to relieve them of suffering?
Well yes and no.
And...
...you are absolutely right again. If I have Mastered myself and thus Mastered the Mirror Principle I should be able to create the exact life I desire without having to charge people a monthly subscription.
After all, is that any different from the original direct mail scam, where the grifter runs an ad which says
"I will show you how to make easy money and get rich quick. Just send $10 to this PO box for my full instructions."
And of course the instructions the sucker receives after sending their money are
"Run an ad telling people you can show them how to make easy money and get rich quick if they send you $10"
Isn't me asking people to pay me to learn how to create the exact life they desire pretty much the same scheme?
Well yes and no.
Let's address part 1 of this valid objection.
Doesn't the fact that I am charging for my mentorship mean I am doing this for selfish ego reasons rather than as selfless service to my fellow man (and woman) to relieve them of suffering?
Yes and no (annoying I know but my name is Paradox so get used it)
Yes. I am charging for selfish ego reasons.
No. I am not charging for MY selfish ego reasons.
Let me explain.
For the 10 years that I gave talks and ran workshops on how to live a more meaningful and fulfilling life I did it for free and accepted donations from those who wished to give them.
Then for most of the last 8 years of creating video courses, livestreams and running Signal groups I didn't even ask for donations I just did it for free because I loved doing it and I didn't want to price anybody out of what I was offering.
In fact, The Only Way Out is IN was completely free with no paid upgrade level for the first 5 months of it's existence.
What this means is that for the last 18 years I have almost exclusively selflessly served my fellow man (and women) instead of serving my selfish ego's desire to "get rich or die trying"
The ONLY reason I decided to start charging subscriptions/a fee is because I discovered that people who are currently identified with their egos (i.e. everyone who I want to help transcend their egos/my target audience) who aren't already your friends ๐ซ๐ ๐ต๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐.
For the first 5 months of running this skool community I would spend 12-16 hours a day creating content, responding to comments, answering questions and providing guidance. In return all I heard was the sound of crickets and tumbleweed.
This was a pattern I first noticed 16 years ago with my free workshops. When you give people your time and energy for free the selfish human ego assumes ๐ฐ๐'๐ ๐ต๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐.
After all the top lawyers and doctors and pro athletes charge $thousands/hour for their services and people who can afford them will happily pay because the human ego equates high prices with high value.
Conversely it equates low prices with low value. And prices don't get any lower that free.
So the reason I decided to charge $30/mth for Group Mentoring and $300/mth for 1 to 1 Mentoring is so that people who upgrade would...
a) take me seriously as an experienced professional mentor and not just some fly-by-night amateur
b) value my time (and theirs)
c) Actually follow instructions and DO THE WORK because they don't want to feel like they are wasting their money.
Now let's address part 2 of this valid objection.
Isn't me asking people to pay me to learn how to create the exact life they desire pretty much the same as the classic direct mail get rich quick scam?
Yes and no.
Yes. I am charging money to instruct some people who primarily want to make money, how to use the Mirror Principle to do that.
No. I am not running a Pyramid scheme where I just tell people to do what I have done (build a skool community) to make money.
And even more importantly I am not even targeting the "I want to make money" audience.
You will notice that both the About Page and this post are very clear that I am offering Mentorship to help you Create a Life Full of Meaning & Purpose but ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ Suffering & Unhappiness.
Now I am aware that the level 3/4 ego equates Happiness and reduced Suffering with having money/wealth.
But the more mature level 5/6 ego (the majority of my target audience) realise that you can have all the money in the world and still suffer greatly, be deeply unhappy, feel that your life is meaningless and experience being profoundly unfulfilled in your relationships work and creative life.
So even though a few people may well pay me money with the sole intention of using my Mentorship to help them "get rich quick" that is ๐๐จ๐ญ what I am offering.
I am offering the opportunity to create Your ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ by Becoming Your ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐.
Now you can certainly doubt my credentials and my ability to deliver on this promise.
But you cannot say it is a Pyramid scheme or a get rich quick scam.
But that begs the question of what do I need the money for if I have Mastered myself and the Mirror Principle and created a Life Full of Meaning & Purpose but ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ Suffering & Unhappiness?
The answers is I DON'T need the money.
But there are plenty of people who do.
I have a long list of people who could really use the money to buy land and grow food and become off grid independent.
As well as my sons and Granddaughter who I would like to set up for life.
In addition to the true friends who stuck by me when when everyone else ostracized me and believed in me when nobody else did. I want to reward them for their love and loyalty.
Because I am already happy fulfilled and content independent of money, I am the perfect channel for the Universe to pour an overflowing abundance of wealth through in order for it to be distributed to those that it can genuinely help to transform their lives.
But that begs another question. If my life is so rich meaningful and fulfilling why am I spending so much time and effort and money on ads trying to "recruit" people to a Self Mastery Mastermind?
Didn't I say in video #5 that I don't have any worldly ambitions?
I did. And I don't.
But I do have the ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ambition to serve the At-One-Ment: The Awakening of all of Humanity to our True Divine Nature leading to the realization of a Sublime 5D Heaven on Earth beyond all Pain and Fear and Loss and Suffering.
So the reason I'm spending all this time and effort and money on ads recruiting people to a Self Mastery Mastermind is because the At-One-Ment will come about via the 100th Monkey effect on our Collective Unconscious combined with the Mirror Principle (see video #6) when 10 million human beings reach Level 9.
I don't expect to mentor all 10 million myself but I don't need to. Because there are 1000s of other people around the world serving the At-One-Ment helping to get people to Level 9.
I'm just trying get as many people as I can to Level 9 and trusting that together we'll hit the target in time.
God (and the Mirror Principle) have never failed me yet, so I don't expect them to start now.
I trust you agree that the only valid objections to ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ to โ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐ค๐๐๐ก have now been answered in full.
I look forward to seeing you inside ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ช ๐๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐ช ๐๐ธ๐๐๐ผโ๐๐โ๐ป on Signal.
Where the ๐ด๐จ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ช of Personal Transformation ๐น๐๐๐๐๐ happens.
(and where our cheeky little side quest is helping to make ๐ฏ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฝ๐ฌ๐ต a place on Earth ๐)