Read the fine print - you're actually in charge, the boss...

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There's an interesting point when you study all New Thought and Huna and all these Bibles/Korans/religious scriptures - and it's in the fine print.

If you squint right down there - and it's in every single one of these books, no kidding - just get out your magnifying lens and look. Yes, right there on the cover, or the inside page, or back at the bottom of the index, but when you see it, you actually find that it's been obvious the whole time...

There's some little tiny text there.

It says:

"You're in charge, bub."

Really.

Here's how I got there:

I covered in my Go Thunk Yourself series how there is no limit, really, to human ability. You can become as talented as you want.

And I mention the Huna principles - which really back all of these New Thought authors up. They say,

• The world is what you think it is,
• There are no limits,
• Effectiveness is the measure of truth.

Now there are 4 more, but let's look at these for now.

No limits - meaning also that we are all connected to each other and the planet. If you reach out to slap your neighbor, that hand comes out and hits your own cheek. Which is the reason that people who manage to accumulate incredible wealth then start giving it away. The ones that don't usually wind up bankrupt or insane (and can't benefit from it).

The world around you is determined by thought and by action. Your attitude brings you awareness of any problem and also its solution. You decide (another thought action) to put that solution into effect or not. Actions are all just little thoughts demonstrated - every action requires a thought to get started. The universe around you is the sum result of your thinking.

Now, there is some magic just in those two ideas. Or it looks like magic. "Miracles" can occur just because of belief and faith. Faith is internally generated. So you can actually have "miracles as usual" happen around you. (And if you look closely, this is what's actually happening. Scientists still can't explain how Life starts - except the one's who re-converge the spiritual and the material.)

You are, in fact, a walking and breathing miracle. And all the miracles in your life are free.

Now, all the truths I just told you are only as valuable as you consider them to be. That's the third point - effectiveness of truth. How valuable are all those old books that have this data in them? Only as valuable as you consider them to be.

The bottom line that all these books come back to is this:

You are completely in charge of your own universe. What happens around you is all up to you and what you consider to be _______. (Fill in the blank with any quality or condition.)

What's good is good. What's bad is bad. And they both either remain or become so, depending on what you want to do with them.

But it means that you are actually ruler of this planet, this galaxy, this universe - all universes out there. If you want to be, that is.

The catch is simple. You just have to take responsibility for yourself, and your actions - or the lack of them.

Because there are no differences among us. Republican/Democrat/Tory/Labor, atheist/agnostic/religious zealot/weekend church-goer, killer/savior/victim. We are all cut out of the same cloth. And all our cheeks feel the same.

People who want to believe that they are separate from the rest of the world have far more problems than those who are working to help everyone they can. And this is the simple solution, the why which sits below all our political and ideological messes around us. People have come to think they are separate from other people.

Actually, you have no enemy.

You are your own worst enemy.

The faster you realize that and start to work with that concept, the faster real peace will start coming into your life.

Because, in fact, you are both God and the Devil at the same time. The devil's problems started when he decided he was separate from God, no longer part of the grand scheme. Before that, he was an angel up there with the rest.

But our own Free Will is our blessing, not our curse.

If you want to look all this up, the proof is there. Those who live and work to improve the broadest part of humanity have the most peaceful lives. Countries which encourage individual responsibility and action create the highest quality of living. (The U.S. poor would live like royalty on their annual income if transplanted to some other countries.) Look at North and South Korea. Just two different approaches, two different thought series. However, the South could help the North become fantastically comfortable and healthy and well-fed. Even have some of the fastest Internet on the planet...

But all of these examples and all of this logic all just point to one thing:

You're in charge, bub.

It's all up to you.

So go ahead, be your own miracle-worker.

Wisdom and Teaching - two companions on the journey

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Wisdom and Teaching - requisite partners in life's journey

One of these odd wake-from-sleep lessons - Wisdom's payment is teaching. You can learn all you want, but as you do - you must share what you know.

There's the entirety of study and training - regardless of what they hold as valuable in Western schools. Once you learn, you are required to teach what you know. The student and teacher are one and the same - because so often they trade roles.

Only in our western culture does the dogmatic teacher-student relationship become a one-way, top-to-seeming-bottom flow.

Our oldest surviving philosophy/life-system is found in the Polynesian Huna-Kahuna (Secret of Secrets). Here anyone who had mastered his particular set of life-skills was a kahuna. And taught only as another student asked questions. Being judged a kahuna wasn't some official status, it was just a community recognition of the wisdom and skill a person had attained. This didn't mean they knew everything about everything. A kahuna skilled in catching fish would not know the same data as a carpenter-kahuna.

So there was ample opportunity for a person to learn from others while having apparently mastered his own niche.

But I don't think that within any particular niche that there are closed doors to continuing knowledge. Farmers I know who are judged expert in rotational grazing cattle (moving them to a new section of land every few days or daily) say that they are constantly learning new stuff every year. (And the land so grazed is producing grasses no one has ever seen before, interestingly enough.)

Once, for some years, I had a job of internal consultant for a large West Coast corporation. It had set policies on how to consult. I had been trained several times on their consulting methods as they had changed over the years. And had gotten so good at it that it had almost become repetitious. Solutions were too easy. But then I got so good that it looked like I was "cutting corners" because I could tell people within minutes what their problem was and write out a short list of policies for them to study and actions to do. This made my bosses so afraid of reprisal from their seniors that they forbade me to act that way. Seeing that I was trying to operate with understanding in a corporate structure based on fear, I quit. Transferred to another department in that organization that had nothing to do with consulting (graphic design, actually) and set about learning a whole new set of skills. And a few years later, transferred right out of that corporate culture entirely.

Didn't mean I quit learning.

After that, I then boiled down their entire structure and phil0sophy into a short book called "Go Thunk Yourself!" This then became a short series, which actually contains a sort of universal solvent to learning just about anything.

Of course, then I had to learn all about marketing, since no one will sell your books for you.

However, just having these books and knowledge doesn't mean you can sit on it - so blogging is a natural means of expression. Here, people can find what they want to understand through searches and RSS feeds and life-streams and other aggregators.

So it's the old Kahuna-student relationship on Internet steroids.

The expert in one field is the rank amateur in another, a willing student as well as a willing teacher.

That's the future of our lives, our planet, our cultures.

What a great life to have!

How to spread the Word

How to spread the Word - about everything.

Just a (hopefully) short note. I'm just on the beginnings of jumping full-bore into promoting self help techniques and philosophies full time, flat out.

Because what I've discovered is the universal solvent. Given enough data, I can render an opinion and give a real process to resolve any particular problem facing anyone. (Otherwise, GIGO - garbage in, garbage out.)

Just based on Go Thunk Yourself self help series, and following years of corroborative cross-research, it shows that this can be done.

I've had to take a meandering approach to this, since I've needed to tear apart modern marketing and study up on those nuts-and-bolts in order to even start at this.

And it's seemed like some real distractions at times. But I've almost got all the runway paved now, engines tested, tires kicked, and the pilot chair is ready. A few more tweaks of the instrumentation and we'll take off.

For those (few) followers of this backwater blog, I'll give you the first notice.

Essentially, since I can talk about nearly anything, marketing this is pretty simple. It flows through social media channels, to the search engines, and then to people looking for solutions. So I can "take over" any number of long-tail niches and pull these viewers, shoppers, and buyers over to my "sales funnel" to support further marketing. Yes, I have some very big plans for all that dough - it goes right back into non-profit work for this local community and into building a base where I can get this message out even bigger, to millions simultaneously.

But for now, I've got some gauges that aren't telling me what I need to know, and some idiot lights to replace.

Later, then -- and Good Hunting! Pray Peace.

Your Seven Deadly Sins - Scientifically Anal-yzed

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