You live in a world of your own design... You don"t like the design?

You live in a world of your own design

But how do you build a world of your own design?

Everyone hopes that this sentence "you live in a world of your own design" means that you can change your life.

But the sentence means: you have the world that you have designed. You built it. brick by brick. Anxiety by anxiety. By self-limitation or self-indulgence. By lack of self-worth, self-esteem, lack of any knowledge, lack of any values... or by delusion... yeah, YOU built it. Not ever considering the consequences of your actions.

You built it to be a tiny cage: secure enough so you can feel safer, that you can feel not too much for you to deal with it, tight enough to feel trapped.

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The chemicals in your food: are they a big threat?

The biggest threat to "them" is the man who stops jumping
There is an issue that I need to address: your trained Chemophobia.

You have been trained to bark up the wrong tree.

You have been trained to have Chemophobia, and it is bigger threat to your health than the chemicals themselves.

Why? For the same reason that you are attracted to film stars" sex life... You don"t know chemistry, but you understand some words. So you are morbidly curious...

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Updated: Hungry? Eager? How resisting "hunger" can raise your vibration.

Hunger is a poor advisor
It is said by many people, that you shouldn"t go grocery shopping when you are hungry.

Why? Because when you are hungry, the context of your being becomes to satisfy that hunger. Everything seems to be the answer to the question: this is the best way to eliminate hunger, to satisfy hunger.

So you end up spending money on stuff that is not good for you, that you should not have bought, maybe ever, in the first place.
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Are you healthy enough to have meaning to your life? Purpose?

Meaning: Following THAT Star. The alternative is Meaningless
This is my quest: to follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far.



Humans are strange animals: they need meaning to make their lives to feel more than just existing. They need purpose to give a backbone, to give direction, to transform a life of prose to poetry.

But life is, in itself, empty and meaningless... so how do you find the meaning, how do you find the purpose?

I was 38 years old when meaning first entered my life. It was dramatic, and it was life altering.

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Religion, smart Jews, and being a good person... what do spiritual capacities have to do with it?

This article is politically incorrect, and somewhat philosophical...

Not up for it? Spare yourself frustration, and don"t read it.

OK... now that only the eleven or so readers that are up for it remain reading, I can be blunt, and use some six letter words... lol.

Of course, this is, at least partially tongue in cheek...

OK, I am going to, first talk about a new insight I have on religion, then about Jews, capacities, genetically smarter... and other politically incorrect subjects that are keeping me busy pondering today.
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Against self criticism and the 4-day weekend

One of the rarest and most functional capacities is the capacity to allow... without resistance.

Resistance uses a lot of energy, mostly the energy that you need to become successful, to do the right thing, to be well, and to treat people, including yourself, right.

Resistance is normal, but harmful. Just like self-criticism: normal but harmful, with no upside.

Upside is the benefit you gain from a harmful or painful action or experience.

Neither resistance, nor self-criticism, self-judgment have any upside, only downside.

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Why is rape so traumatic, while sex is so commonplace?

Why is rape so traumatic, while sex is so commonplace?
Why is slave labor so traumatic, while working is so natural to us.

If you have ever been pinned down, not able to free yourself...
If you have ever been forced to do something you didn"t want to do... anything...

...your trust of life, your trust in people, your confidence has dealt a big blow.

Recovering is not guaranteed, and the wound can be torn open again quite easily.

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One of the most useful things I have ever done for myself

One of the most useful things I have ever done is this:

I would find a mentor. I offered my services to do whatever needed done. More often than not I learned useful skills through the doing. Skills that I needed for myself. And while I was around the mentor, I could learn from him.

Life needs a lot of skills to do life successfully. The opportunities to learn those skills is sparse... Because skills are not knowledge, even if they are mental, intellectual skills: they are the ability to do, to perform a skill... not to understand it.

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Lack of opportunities... giving opportunities... all myth... Dark Side suggestion

Most people that complain about lack of opportunities would fumble the ball if they got it... Fumble means: drop the ball.

The illusion is that what is missing is an opportunity, the funding, the money to start something... is an illusion, and it is a very harmful illusion. It makes you look at blame... not yourself.

Similar to this: support is missing. If your parents, spouse, the society supported you... blah blah blah.

It"s all illusion... as in a lie. Bull crap.

There was an incident in my life that I go back to often.

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How words really effect you? And how positive thinkers are stupid

If you had a childhood trauma... what is the best way to deal with it now, so you can grow?

Some of you were abused as a child.

Now, strictly speaking, there is no such thing as abuse in reality. Abuse is a particular interpretation of something that happened. If I asked a visiting Martian what happened, he would say things like one person hit the other, or one person yelled at another, or one person tied up another, pushed them down, maybe even put one part of their anatomy into the other... but not abuse.

Abuse never happened... or it happened only if you said so... for you. In your mouth. In your interpretation.

Some things don"t exist outside of language... they don"t exist in reality. Abuse is just one of these. One other "thing" that doesn"t exist in reality is lack... In reality only things that are there exist.

New age gurus talk about the importance of the words you use. Of course, either because you are dumb or they are dumb, this gets generalized.

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The hardest thing, it seems, for any human, is to let go of control.

Just think how hard it is to let go and pee, when people are, maybe, watching. Falling asleep in a new environment.

But... when you are controlling, your are shrinking. When you let go of control: you are expanding.

There are so many things to control: with your control of the few things you know, your breathing, your thoughts... you take yourself out of life, take yourself to a place, where life dies with your control.

In you, and around you.

There is an exercise they make you do in leadership classes. Two people face each other. One say names of colors, the other"s job is to repeat the word the one says.

After a while they synchronize... then they switch.

Pairs where either of them wants to control... fail. Pairs where both let go... they seem to be one mouth speaking.

Same thing happens when it is movement they mirror. The same couples fail.

Life can"t be controlled, life works best when you let go.

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Current science"s view on DNA and what I say is the truth

Science talks about genetic lottery... haves and have nots, lucky and unlucky.

The truth is both simpler and more complicated.

Human DNA has capacities encoded, but they are either turned on or not. And even capacities that are turned of, may be used, or not used.

The kids in studies who are good at reading but not good at math are dealing not with a reading gene and a math gene missing, instead they deal with something less simplistic than that.

There is no reading gene and there is no math gene. On the other hand, there are 160 genes that lie underneath all the clever feats a child or adult can perform to scientists" amazement. Sarcasm intended.

So, let"s take an example: you got a kid who is good at reading... but isn"t good at math. I say, that the capacity that is definitely missing is humility: the capacity to say: I am incompetent, I don"t know anything: teach me.

Why? Isn"t saying "I am incompetent" going to keep me stunted? No, the opposite is true. What keeps you stunted is what you have decided is true about you and about the world.

When your earlier decision was: I am not good at math... you"ll not even try. You already know that you won"t be able to get it.

Are there other capacities that are missing? Probably another up to eight capacities... duh...

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Covering your facebook avatar with the tricolor French flag: what does it mean about you?

Covering your facebook avatar with the tricolor French flag: what does it mean about you?

Pretense? Courage?

Posting high-sounding sound bites on Facebook, like Marianne Williamson did:
David didn"t defeat Goliath by normal means; he defeated him by hitting him in the Third Eye. Goliath has one Achilles" heel, and that is that he has no conscience. The only thing more powerful than hate gone viral is love gone viral, and that is what we must make happen now. T

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What you see will give you your mood, your emotions, and your actions... what do you see?

When I find an issue that a student is struggling or not dealing well with, I often write an article.

The issue here, I guess, is universal. It has two parts:

you can"t see the big picture, the forest, for the trees.
you are not good, practiced, skillful at taking advantage of the practices I have taught.

A student of mine has a daughter. The daughter decided to join the swim team. She is 13 years old. The only person who can take her to her swimming is my student.

And although it is great that the daughter wants to do something that she likes, it takes a chunk of time out of the mother"s "me" time.

So a good news is threatening to become a burden. Tell me if you haven"t had to deal with a similar issue... I used to be someone for whom even having a date was a burden... lol. Going out to eat was a burden.
It is human to be hard to please.

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My energy level, my weight, my pain, stepping and rocking and what YOU can learn from that

I just got back from my weekly errand, and I am clearly not ready for a topic worth writing about. So how about many?

Just to tie loose ends... OK?

Why am I sharing what I am going to share? Because there is a technology, the technology of "NO TREE OF KNOWLEDGE" that you want to see working.
Topic #1: my energy level, my weight, my pain, stepping and rocking.
As you know (if you read my articles regularly) I have been getting old, heavy, and sore.

This year I had the idea that if I don"t get younger and more mobile, I will be stuck without a chance to move, to travel, to attend events...

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How to take an active role in raising your vibration: the process

Let me repeat the process that will begin your active role in raising your vibration, that will begin your process of becoming a Human Being.

If you are offended that I say that you are not a human being, please give it up. Beingness is not available fully on the level humanity is existing, and if you live in the United States, you are even less likely to be on the level than people who live in countries where pretentious living is not the norm.

With that said, let"s see, again, what is the process. What is triggering this article, is the response I am getting to the article: no understanding, none whatsoever.

Now, the process is simple. It is not easy, but at least it is simple.


Step 1: What do you want to accomplish?

You look at yourself, you look at your life, and you see where you are, you see what you have, and you decide what you want to have. Some result...

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Expectation is the mother of Disappointment

One of the questions I hear on the Talk-to-Me calls or in emails is how to "make it better" or what is good, etc.

It"s all a comparison, past based, from the mind.

One thing, disappointment ((the feeling of sadness or displeasure caused by the nonfulfillment of one"s hopes or expectations.
"to her disappointment, there was no chance to talk privately with Luke"
synonyms: sadness, regret, dismay, sorrow; More
dispiritedness, despondency, distress, chagrin;
disenchantment, disillusionment;
displeasure, dissatisfaction, disgruntlement
"his disappointment in the outcome was obvious"
antonyms: satisfaction

a person, event, or thing that causes disappointment.
plural noun: disappointments
"the job proved a disappointment"
synonyms: letdown, nonevent, anticlimax, washout; informal: bummer
"the trip was a bit of a disappointment")) can"t be made better. It"s like pregnant: it is either a yes or a no.

Now, I assume that we all get disappointed, more or less, depending on us.
Disappointment is the shadow side of expectation.
Expectation, of course, is quite automatic, just like having an agenda is automatic... actually they are just a different word for the same thing.

I haven"t been able to consciously not expect a certain result... on the other hand, for the most part I expect nothing... or expect the worst.

This is another Dark Side suggestion: expect the best and then you"ll get the best... What a bunch of huey! The whole positive thinking movement is a Dark Side suggestion, and has created more misery than even religion, which is saying a lot.
Expecting the best won"t get you the best... Exactly the opposite is true.

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What will save you in this tanking economy: three moves anyone can learn

How to be the eye of the storm calm... Three moves you can learn and practice
Everything is moved by the invisible... where all the power is. Some are just one layer below the surface, some are deeper... but all the same, all changes, all movements, all phenomena comes from there, the invisible.

Do I see all the forces in the invisible that jerk on your chains? I don"t.

But be sure that your efforts to manage the visible, in reaction to what you see, is misdirected.
Let"s look at the economy in the wake of an election.

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Updated: Your Money And Your Higher Vibrational Frequency: What Is The Connection?

Your Money
I wrote this article four years ago. To my surprise I had little to update. Here you go
One of the major issues people, you, deal with is money. You want more of it.

Let me share my personal situation with you: I dropped my car off at the shop on Wednesday. I heard some noises, and the car didn"t like me to turn as much as it used to.

At 4 pm I got a call that the repairs will cost 3,000 dollars. Wow. I don"t have that kind of money lying around. I went into a familiar mode: worry... but I saw that it is useless, so I pulled out of it.

I kicked it around in my head, then called a friend to have someone listen.

I saw that I had two sources of potential revenue that I could activate with just a few emails.

I sent out an email offering a discount on one of my products, but I botched up the email: I got angry emails back, and almost no money. Oops. Let"s look before we leap, OK? I told myself. This is where I am at now, and writing this article is designed for myself as much as for you: to force thinking. Let"s begin, OK?



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Authenticity... your power belongs to you

Authenticity examined through movies...

When I watch TV series on Netflix or Amazon, I am working... wouldn"t you like to get a job like that? lol.

When I was in high school, I joined every group, every course, went to every seminar that spoke about movie making, the art.

When I had my high school final exams, I got lucky and I pulled question #40 on movie making... I so fascinated the three teachers that were the "jury" that I upset the exam schedule...

The trick (what I didn"t know} was that I watched the movies on all levels, auditory, visual, and kinesthetic. I felt the feelings of the characters, while I saw them and while I heard them.

360 degree experience.

My experience is that I can go to the movies with anyone, and come out and find out that we saw two different movies... Very weird.

Anyway... One of the phenomenon I can see, hear and feel, that most people can"t, is authenticity.

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