Sorries that aren't - a critical view of critical views.

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The critical person cannot accept even open-handed help until they learn humility.

But don't hold your breath until they do. They are going to have to radically change their mind to even see, let alone understand, that anyone's welfare depends on how they treat others. (A natural law, actually.)

You're best approach is to nod and smile, say pleasant things if anything - then move on with your life.

The person who can't say anything without putting a critical remark in there about someone or something in their lives (yes, I know, that's a tough habit to break - from experience) also thinks this way. Constantly. They have an esteem problem, they are in constant denial that anything is wrong with them at all - and everything is an offense. A version of paranoia, to be blunt.

These are the only type of person who it's useless to apologize to. Because there are two types of apologies:

a) When you actually screwed up and actually hurt someone or something that person cared about, and
b) when that person got "offended" in some way from their imagined slight.

Right now we have several "over-vocal" minority groups which make it nearly impossible to have an honest opinion go public. (Ex: Former CEO Mozilla, current Clippers MBA owner.) Such groups are supported by various factions in the media and government who want to remain in power, so are bending over backwards to do anything these people want. "Racist" and "Sexist" are the two common terms being used - and the white male minority is their usual target.

All of these people, critical. All of them are intolerant of others. And they don't really think you have any right to disagree with them or say anything at all, really (except for sucking up to their magnificence.)

Do you need to apologize when you've done nothing wrong - but their "feelings" are hurt? No. Emotions are created by the individual to support their own mindset, their world-view. (Emotional response is programmed in by the person themselves.)

You only apologize in such circumstances if you consider you have to in order to help them get their emotions out of the way - in order to get back into production on your mutual goals.

And if you have no mutual goals you are working on? Then move on with your life. "These things too, shall pass."

Again, if you consider this may apply to you (especially if you are "offended" in reading this) look over your own communications from a distant view - as if you are someone else reading these emails. See if you haven't been completely gracious in what you've been saying. Is every word you used either objective, factual, or supportive? Every word?

Then there is something to improve on.

Humility can seem painful to swallow at first. But it grows on you. The reason for this is that you really only exist to the degree others around you are supportive. The more you help others, the better you get along in life. Survival and all that.

But the more you say critical things, even think critical thoughts - this is directly lessening your own survival. People don't want to support you when you are being nasty in return for their efforts.

Criticism. Is. Directly. Lessening. Your. Survival. With. Every. Thought.

Start today by letting these critical thoughts go, like any bad habit. Take a breath, relax. Then observe things as the really, actually are. Work out how to rephrase whatever you were just about to say to now be at least accurate, if not constructively supportive. Leave any possibly critical word or phrase out.

Then you start winning your way in life in every way you look. Only to the degree you can insist your writing, speech (and eventually, even your thoughts) are consistently accurate and constructive to everyone around you.

Take no offense and leave none. Two ways of happy living.

PS. If you are surrounded by critical people? Limit your contact. Nod and smile at whatever they say. Be constructive in return to any noise they utter. Find a better way of making a living if you have to. Life is what you make it. Don't limit yourself by having to constantly "keep the peace." You are probably better off leaving such a conversation, such a relationship. Work on only constructive things. Support positive people always. Turn off what passes for "news" these days. Just Be.

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You are now your own prophet, your own religion.

Of course, you've always known this to be true. 

Any and all freedom simply is. 

Here's a clue:

Let's make this simple - you are your own prophet, your own religious founder.

Of course, this probably ruffles someone's feathers somewhere. That's life, after all. Where someone chooses to be ruffled, then so be it. For the most part, I simply choose my life to be ruffle-free.

Levenson would call this "hootless."

But again, we are a  bit ahead of our logic.

1. There are only 2 parts to life: Self and Now.
2. Self + Now = Life.
3. Purpose gives Life meaning.

There's your religion. That's makes you a prophet and a founder.

If you boil any religion down, you are really left with just those points.

Note that government isn't necessarily part of this. Nor is any particular "extreme" belief system.

All "routes out" will ultimately take you to this point. (You could study self-help, or you could study Shakespeare - all roads lead to Rome, all Thought leads to Enlightenment.)

Below this, or before, or senior - is "Just Be." That's your capstone.

Or at least the way I see it from here. Your mileage may differ. Probably will, in fact.

My job has been to boil all humankind's massive knowledge and wisdom down to just this single blog post.

Yet we do have a few other points to cover...

This doesn't negate or diminish anything. You can still believe what you want. No one can take that way from you without your own decision. And you can have it all back just as simply.

This above gives you complete freedom from any government or personal oppression being heaped on you at any time - now or in the future. (Future, of course, being a fiction. There is only Now, really.) It also makes you completely responsible for what "happens" to you.

Your personal identity is another fiction, there is only Self. (Watch out for those feathers ruffling again...) But we all like to play the game of Individuality. This is a form of purpose, which gives life meaning.

Go ahead, play with the logic of this.

There are only 2 axioms of Life and Living:

• Now. 
• Self.

(Everything else is more than self-evident. The above two you create on your own.)

There is one test to Living: "Does this bring you more Peace?" Some would say, "Does this make your Life simpler?"

For peace is also created, but it's a more basic feeling than any of the rest.

So you want to change your Now, Self, Life, and Purpose so that you can experience more Peace in your life.

Or not.

Because I'm only here to tell you what I found. I'm just a prophet you can follow or not. You are your own prophet, actually.

You are a religion of one.

Practically, no two individuals can have exactly the same religion, because believing in individuality means no two people are exactly the same.

It's another game we play.

But I wanted to share this with you.

This gives you a religion you can remember on the five fingers of one hand.


Yes, I'm writing this in the early am because I woke from yet another dream, which had this as it's meaning. So my job is to get up out of my warm bed and sit in front of my computer to lay this out for you.

You're welcome.

Play around with this and you'll see it's probably the most basic statement of "How Things Are" as has been ever stated.

Of course, I'm not the first to state this. Jesus the Christ and many other philosophers have mentioned this through and before our histories.

You can "follow" any of them and come to this point - and surpass it. ("You will do even greater things than these.")

All of your efforts will ultimately wind up with you achieving some high state of personal freedom, zen, karma, whatever you want to call it.

Or not.

All I'm telling you here is that you have a choice.

That formula above actually describes Immortality. It also can make you insanely rich and happy at the same time. It can and does give you everything you have and anything you could want.

That formula also defines all the success routes you could possibly follow. Like that "Law of Attraction" which comes around every century or so.

It also means that whatever religious system you are following - Christianity, Judaism, the Koran, Wicca, or being a politician - you're right.

All I'm saying is that you can use these five points to improve your quality of living and those around you. You can be free and live in a high state of peace any time you want, for as long as you want.

Take any one of those five: Self, Now, Life, Purpose, Peace - and work to improve them. I've told you everything you need to know.

As the old phrase goes: The simpler, the better.

OK?

See you around. I've got a religion to run. And a warm bed to get back to.

One more thing: this particular blog post is now in the public domain - use it however you want.

Have fun.

Robert

PS. Immortality? Oh, yeah - like a dark room, you can't shovel the dark out, only turn on a light. There is no Death, only absence of Life. And as there is Self ("we are all connected") and there is Now. Now + Self = Life. It's just a logic loop, you see...

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That's Life - That's Entertainment!

Not too surprising: advertising mirrors real life.

Of course, it has to make sense - ads mirror real life. Go figure.

How to use this? Back it up a bit.

We know that people compare their stories to others around them in order to improve their own plot and character.

Life essentially is communication via emotions.

Ads use emotions to get us to act - where the balance between emotion and logic meets. (You decide by emotion and justify by logic.)

When I was reviewing some "swipe" files of famous ads (the ones which just continued to run unchanged for decades) - I found a remarkable scene: Ads are entertainment.

They read like Fox News, any mainstream media outlet, and any popular magazine (like National Inquirer.)

People actually want to read a good ad - much like people will slow down to see a traffic accident.

Because it helps them improve their lives some how, some way.

I had to get out and away from most ads for a couple of decades before I could actually learn what they were all about.

Ads use emotion to communicate effectively. Humankind hasn't changed their behavior (much) even though the swapped skins for (pant)suits long ago.

Ads are just as entertaining as anything else we watch or read. In fact, the ads between the shows on broadcast TV are just almost as time-consuming as the show itself.

And is why books are still held as valuable all these years after Gutenberg and his Printing Press - reason? The plot and characters remains constant. On broadcast TV, their is  a show for 10-15 minutes, then 5-10 minutes of ads, which are either 60, 30, or 15 seconds long. Each has a different director, plot, and characters. That's the only reason that I see for turning them off. (And gives a new income for a well-liked show - have the characters do the ads in between the show segments, much like "Ron Burgundy".)

Ad mirror life, which is just the same emotional responses we've trained in for so very long.

Of course, the outlet is to get enlightened.

It's just interesting coming back this way again and seeing it with a new view.

Approaching ads as entertainment gives them another reason for existence.

If the screenwriters and directors realized that people were expecting their entertainment to inspire action, maybe we'd see better shows.

Life is just life. For 997% out there, it's all emotional content studied and acted out.

Definitely going to be more fun from here on...

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What Makes Sense - where emotion and logic meet...

Another breakthrough - making sense out of the non-sensical.

Strange bedfellows...

Just working along the other day, this time in studying copywriting - and found an interesting approach to things.

For too long, I've isolated myself from many things which simply didn't make sense to me. A lot of social conventions such as drugs, popular music, sports - these I either ignored or tolerated if I had to. (Drugs, much easier to stay away from - well, maybe if you exclude coffee and donuts.)

Recently, it came to me - especially going down some classic works in copywriting and advertising - that there is a definition of "sense" which has been missing.

Sense is where emotion and logic agree.

In any sales page, they have you make an emotional decision based on benefits and then give you enough logical features to justify your decision.

Of course, it's taken a decade of relative isolation to come to that conclusion - unclouded by all the intense amount of jabbering that takes place in cities (well, excepting that last U.S. election cycle - which was disappointing to everyone for none of the same reasons.)

This can be looked at with both right- and left-brained logic (which are obviously metaphors.)

When you get these both working in sync, then you have something which enables you to survive better. This is the road to happiness - or at least, a general feeling of satisfaction.

And now we also have a real meaning for "common sense." This is based on observing what is going on around you, but that sensing is done on many levels. It brings up Serge Kahili King's 4 levels of Analysis - Objective, Subjective, Holistic, and Symbolic.

Sorting out things around you with those four will tend to sync things for you - as long as they all align. Of course, you don't have to do that, but these give you options of how to process things happening around you.

Common sense would be a set of patterns where your own experience is sorted out completely. You have patterns which are very survival for the area you live in and around.  City folks lack sense in the country (I recall high-heels being worn on gravel paths in winter.) And rural residents will often shy away from much travel in cities as they are confronted by so much to process so quickly - their established patterns won't keep up easily.

But you can live anywhere.

This means a global common sense is possible - not for every single thing that happens, but for continuing trends.

I'll leave you with that for now.

Luck (and peace) to us all.

PS. Look for a few new books coming out - one on the underlying story-telling premise of marketing...

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Running in Circles, or Chasing the Waist-coated Rabbit Down a Hole?

What do you want me to do for you? 

It's really too simple, and there is where the lie lays.

All this life, I've found myself completely different from everyone around me. Trying all what passed for humankind practices kept winding me up in circles again. Even working for a corporate cult in L.A. which professed to be "changing the world" only showed itself to be out for money, power, control, etc.

And that lead me to retire to the Midwest to really sort out my own "head."

Semi-reclusive, semi-introspective.

Right now I have worked out some very arcane approaches to SEO which should make Google love the content I'm about to start pushing out. Mathematically, al-gore-ithmically, it's a great approach.

Too bad I can't share it with someone. (Well, actually, I have - most of it, online anyway. But the people I know locally who might understand are too defensively critical to share it with them.)

And I was about to run down a line of thought which would have created yet another book on a related subject - but found that I'd actually already written it.

"Well if you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" Runs through my life as if it were actually important. Practically, I've just uncovered the bulk of data which will keep a person indefinitely healthy - well, it works for me, anyway. So why would I want insurance to bet against myself. I'd already described it as a scam in another earlier book.

The game recently is to create a several-million annual income, and even larger net worth, all within a few years.

But let me tell you about a truck that's been causing me problems. You see, the doors on this thing have been catching lately. And of all things, they made the handles from plastic. So when it stuck recently, I gave the driver's side an extra pull - and broke it inside. Ok, so that's just leaving the window down enough to open it from the handle. (Dogs are inside when I take the farm truck to town, so that's not a break-in problem - plus a rural town isn't the same as a big city in terms of crime.) However, it was going to rain one day, so I rolled that d driver-side window up and shut the door - figuring the passenger side would let me in. After that rain, sure enough (just as I had been having warning thoughts) the passenger side was locked and wouldn't unlock with that little clicky thing. Meaning I was locked out.

As I've got other vehicles to drive, and it was parked out of the way, I left it until I could get back to it. Found I had gotten those "warning thoughts" and had ignored them - only to find that it would have kept me from that inconvenience. So I let the whole scene go, in order to solve it. Had I paid attention  to (or let go) these errant thoughts earlier, it might have helped. (A balance is needed.)

As a sidebar: for years, I've put up with a contrary starter on my tractor. It sometimes won't engage right off. A neighbor says it's probably some space-washers needing adjustment on the Bendix (whatever that is.) However, I can get it started by - wait for it - finding the connection between me and the earth through that tractor. Becoming one with and through it. Hey - it works.

So doing that to the truck was a logical extension. Today, I got the urge to get the key and try to unlock it again. Sure enough, the clicky thing worked enough so I could open the passenger door.

Okay.

Tonight I was all inspired to write another book - only to find on study, that I'd already written it.

I don't do "usual" very well. So the point is coming to me that I'd be better off using my metaphysical urgings to start sorting things out like "making money."

There's an old book I wrote/compiled/edited years ago, called "Mystic Marketing." And I'm "reminded" every now and then to re-study this - which of course, I've been putting off. It's really got every thing you need to know about how a person can "attract" or "manifest" anything and everything one would want or need.

And that seems to be the way it's needed to go.

I'm just telling you all here (those few followers which have found this blog interesting enough to follow it over the years) that we are now entering a new phase.

Sure, I've got it all set up to start marketing this stuff. But practically, I need to take a different approach - one which will attract/manifest individuals more like myself. And to do this, as Mike Dillard was just reminding me tonight (through one of his books) that "Attraction Markting" was the way to do this.

Now that type of marketing boils down to pushing "You, Inc." That of course, in our terms, boils down to "Just Be." (Which should be familiar to my followers.)

That and that alone is the key to all of this "money making/attracting/manifesting" stuff. Just Be. Let everything else go - the whole flaming universe. Let all of it go as unimportant. Nothing is important. No thing is important.

So my reclusive scene continues. As I can talk to you, in this way, we'll now see how this works out.

I'll give you a list of blogs soon which you can follow to keep updated.

What we are actually going to do is to break the mold. It's come to me over and over, in all these studies I've done since leaving that cult (coming up 13 years this month) that you have to actually throw away around 90-99 percent of what passes for conventional wisdom on this planet and universe. Keep the average of the 3 percent which proves workable to you personally. Let the rest go.

So it will be the next test to actually study the metaphysical marketing methods to create value in other peoples' lives and get exchange for that.

Should be relaxing, and fun.

Luck to us all.

PS. Leave a comment, or PM me if you need/want something I can give you.

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Success is Inevitable - Just Listen

The World is Busy Telling You How to Succeed - CanYou Hear?

Releasing is a very fun game, and it tells us that the world isn't serious out there. Factually, the world - the entire universe, actually - is really telling you at every turn how to do this and that, how to improve such and so, different ways to do just everything and anything.

Yes, that is the way it is.

Proof? Well, actually I can't. You'll have to do this for yourself.

The logic of it can constructed: 97% of everyone and everything out there is trying to survive more than they are trying to succumb.  The vast bulk of humanity, as well as all their creations, and all living things (and the jury is still out on inanimate objects) - the vast bulk of everything out there can be considered a metaphor, an extension of your own consciousness. And unless you are killing yourself off, you're trying to live.

So you are constantly feeding yourself solutions, hints, helping tips.

"The world is what you think it is." 

So - whaddyathink? If you want to start hearing more solutions to every problem in your life - maybe try this:

Quit reacting and let go. 

Just be in the moment and absorb the lessons around you.

See if that doesn't start improving your life.

Of course, you don't have to accept any of the lessons you find. And you certainly don't have to accept this.

Yes, it's just you giving yourself another clue...

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Letting Go and Letting God - Explained

There's this big Bell Curve going on in the General Public which affects your life - or can, if you let it.

I believe I've gone over this before: there are some people who are creatively solving more than their fair share of problems on this planet. This is the same number/class of people who start businesses and employ the masses. They also get ribbed about being the "1%" who are "unfairly" earning the top income on this planet (note that the one's doing the complaining weren't themselves running businesses, having jobs, or particularly helping the planet's conditions.)

There is likewise another small portion of this planet who are its "usual suspects" as they are responsible for most of the crime and mayhem which goes on. The supposed "criminal genius" lies in this world - but they are not as smart as given credit. Like the Whitey Bolger trial, they are shown mainly to be ruthless, cold, and inhuman. Other people don't really exist to them.

Good usually wins out mainly because the criminally insane few are also destroying their own lives as they work to destroy everything around them. So they actually get sick more frequently, and make decisions which will cause them to self-destruct.

The upper end of the "good guys" is filled with the enlightened, who usually are never spotted or seen - their world view is very peaceful, and that is nothing which sells what passes for "news" these days. The world around them is quite peaceful. 

In between, you can have genius and clever types, but the ability to think quickly has little to do with how enlightened or criminal they are. Agreement with the world around them does. 

In that bell curve, you have the Pareto principle, where 20 percent of clients are generating 80 percent of the income. Taking 20 percent of 20 percent will wind you up with the top-spenders - about 4 percent. The math works out to support another observation of a break-point at 97% and 3%. This last break comes up in marketing and other areas repeatedly. 

That 3 percent is where we find our magnates of commercial success, and the other end - our Whitey Bolger's.

How this affects you, is to only surround yourself with a "Master Mind" of people who are constantly working to improve the world around them. You are looking for people who are not critical, but supportive. They know that to have a vision and push it forward will attain results.  

Basically, these people live successful and peaceful lives. 

And you work to slide out of your life all people who are constantly or frequently critical.

One great tool to use is Releasing. Spot how they are working to control, approve, or secure your life - as well as what group they are trying to get you to join. Let all of this go. Keep spotting and releasing and they'll move right out of your life. Or they'll change and start to be more supportive.

- - - -

A side note: Releasing can also be thought of as letting be as is. It can be said that people are already perfect, and letting go of any effort to change them would just let them be as they are.

This would also be in the phrase Letting Go and Letting God...

May all your days be filled with joy.

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