Congratulations 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 video ads about Ego/Consciousness Development & Brain Hacking.
Because my ads are designed to filter OUT anyone who is NOT that type of person.
Okay first things first. I have good news and bad news.
(And then some more good news.)
The good news is that you have all the qualities and characteristics needed to Cultivate The Witness, Master Yourself and climb the Ego/Consciousness Development ladder to Level 9 at which point Suffering, Unhappiness and Unfulfillment will be nothing but a memory for you.
As they are for yours truly.
The bad news 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/Hive Mind that is programmed by the news, entertainment and social media into mindless conformist mediocrity - i.e. below Level 6 - you are almost certainly not going to put Suffering Unhappiness and Unfulfillment in the rear view mirror without the Help Support Guidance and Accountability buddying of someone who has already done so.
The other good news is that I am that someone and the fact that you are reading this post means you are someone that is capable of being that someone too.
When the Student is ready the Master appears.
You've done the hard part already. You overcame the natural resistance to Signing Up to a new "thing" when so many other "things" you've signed up for proved to be a complete waste of your time.
Thank you for signing up. I really appreciate it.
And I make a solemn promise to you to NOT waste 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.
Deal?
Okay thanks.
Here is the promise I made on the About Page...
As PROOF of my claim to be at Level 9 when you JOIN I'll Immediately REVEAL
- How to Cultivate The WITNESS the KEY to Going Beyond Level 6
- The BLOCK to surpassing Level 7
- The SECRET to eclipsing Level 8
- The REASON Level 6 thinks it's Level 9
- The PARADOX of Level 10
- 19 Testimonials from people I've Mentored in Self Mastery
And here is me keeping my promise.
HOW TO CULTIVATE THE WITNESS THE KEY TO GOING BEYOND LEVEL 6
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates
Living an examined life is absolutely essential to escaping the black hole like gravitational pull of level 6.
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 😈
- 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.
This is because The Witness (Heart Consciousness as opposed to Head Consciousness) is Non Judgmental Unconditional Awareness.
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/pleasurable 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 average conformist mediocre stage of level 5.
They hit level 5 in their early 20s and die at level 5 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.
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 I’d 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 hadn’t 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 I’d 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 levels 4 5 & 6 and thus avoiding The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying boils down to WALKING THROUGH YOUR FEAR AS IT ARISES.
I capitalised 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 no longer suffer and you don't end up dying full of regret.
Be very clear there is ONLY ONE REASON that the vast majority of people never change, never heal their trauma, never grow beyond level 6 and never transcend their Ego.
FEAR.
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.
This is true 100% of the time.
The only reason you don't see this is because your Ego's number 1 Avoidance Strategy is to RATIONALIZE and JUSTIFY 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, either you conquer you fear or your fear conquers you.
There is no middle ground.
When you UPGRADE to Premium Membership you will Gain Access to My Self Mastery Training Course - CULTIVATING THE WITNESS.
This course teaches you a series of Living Meditations that Cultivate The Witness which will in turn EMPOWER you and give you the STRENGTH and COURAGE to face and walk through your fear.
Living Meditations 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 Living Meditation 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 Witnessing Consciousness 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 CULTIVATING THE WITNESS you will have the essential and foundational Mind Mastery Skill required to climb from Level 3 all the way to Level 9. Click Here to UPGRADE https://www.skool.com/inner-peace-made-simple-7278/plans (the 2nd video below shows you how to use Living Meditation to Cultivate The Witness) THE BLOCK TO SURPASSING LEVEL 7
The block to surpassing level 7 is Integrating your Shadow.
Your Shadow is all the aspects of your personality/ego that you believed caused your parents/loved one to withdraw their love from you as a child.
The primary need of every child is the unconditional love of their parents. 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 newborns 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 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 DISOWN and DENY whatever aspect of their personality/ego caused their parent/loved one 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 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 said in the Ego Development video - Level 7 is the first level where you "know yourself."
The reason the levels below 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 whole person that is aware of ALL aspects of your personality/ego you must integrate your shadow.
When you UPGRADE to Premium membership you will gain Access to My Self Mastery Training Course - INTEGRATING THE SHADOW.
When you complete this course you will have made a huge part of you that was unconscious, conscious. This creates a whole healthy ego that knows itself and thus has far less inner conflict.
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."
THE SECRET TO ECLIPSING LEVEL 8
Here's the secret: Your Perceptions are your Projections.
This is summed up by the wisdom teaching
"I am not what you say I am. You are what you say I am.
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 what we PERCEIVE people to be is actually what we PROJECT onto them.
This is something we all intuitively understand 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 treat people.
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 TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
It is only at level 8 that you realise that you are projecting ALL THE TIME.
This is why at level 8 you see people as mirrors who reflect who you are back to you.
When you worship some legendary sportsman like Michael Jordan or Lionel Messi you are projecting your HIGHER SELF onto them.
When you hate some politician or public figure like Trump or Hilary Clinton you are projecting your SHADOW onto them.
The only way to stop projecting is to take Radical Responsibility for your projections
i.e. to TOTALLY OWN YOUR SHIT (including your LIGHT) so that it doesn't leak out onto other people as projection.
When you UPGRADE to Premium membership you will gain Access to My Self Mastery Training Course - THE WAY OF MASTERY.
When you complete this course you will be able to take Radical Responsibility for every thought you think, every feeling you have, every sensation in your body and everything that has ever happened to you. You will never again blame anyone or anything for how you feel or what you think and you will never again play the role of a victim of circumstance. You will be the creator of your 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 every life.
In short Response Ability is your POWER.
Which 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 GIVE YOUR POWER AWAY.
This is why taking Radical Responsibility catapults you up to level 8. It is the most empowering thing you will EVER do for yourself.
In combination with The Mirror Principle (see video #3 below) the Radical Responsibility you will learn in THE WAY OF MASTERY Course will Empower you to literally Create Your VERY BEST LIFE in Outer World by Creating Your VERY BEST LIFE in the Inner World (a Level 9 Life without Suffering Unhappiness and Unfulfillment) Click Here to UPGRADE https://www.skool.com/inner-peace-made-simple-7278/plans THE REASON LEVEL 6 (Conscientious) THINKS IT'S AT LEVEL 9 (Integrated)
Chase Hughes misspoke when he said level 5 coaches think they are level 9.
He meant level 6 coaches think they are at level 9.
Firstly people at level 5 don't imagine they can coach anyone. They're are too busy trying to live up to the expectations of their parents spouses employers customers and clients to imagine they can coach others.
And they generally don't suffer from delusions of grandeur either.
That is the province of Level 2 & 3 (Arrested Development or Ideological Possession based Regression) and level 6.
For two very different reasons.
Someone stuck at level 2 or 3 is either suffering from a Cluster B personality Disorder.
NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder)
ASPD (Anti-Social Personality Disorder
Histrionic
Borderline...or has been ideologically possessed by an infantilizing ideology that divides people into 2 groups - Oppressed Victims vs Villainous Oppressors.
I'm sure I don't need to explain how this type of person might have delusions of grandeur.
But why do Conscientious Level 6 people - who have begun to self reflect on their behaviour and how it impacts others and try to "do what's right" because it's what they believe in - think they are at Level 9?
N.B. If you want to know what a level 6 person who thinks they are level 9 looks like, look no further than someone who describes themselves as "Woke" - on the left or "Red Pill Awakened" - on the right.
(Or see video #6 below)
The thing is in order to "do what's right" you have to understand what is right and why it is right and who it is right for and under what circumstances and within which contexts.
But if "what's right" is based on your beliefs - particularly the pre-established beliefs of Intellectuals who are generally speaking hugely biased and wounded with an Axe to grind and a bra to burn...
...or the pre-established beliefs established by biased and wounded Biblical/Quranic/Rabbinical Scholars and Theologians...
...all of the complexity and nuance of trying to discover "what's right" goes out of the window in favour of self righteous certainty and it's attendant "need to be right" even when you are wrong.
And trust me (because I know from direct personal experience) that the arrogance which comes from needing to be right when deep down you haven't got a fucking clue, is the fuel that drives the engine of delusions of grandeur.
Don't worry, life did a number on me and humbled me right back down to suicidal rock bottom.
So I'm all better now 😏
You may have noticed from the Ego Development video that I don't take myself too seriously.
I leaned my lesson the HARD way. So I learned it good. Pride does indeed come before the fall.
If you wish to avoid the fall to rock bottom because you like to learn your lessons the easy way
UPGRADE to Premium Membership and you will Gain Access to My Self Mastery Training Course -
MYSTIC GRANDAD WISDOM.
As a 58 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 two occasions I was miraculously saved by the still small voice of my soul and was graced with a transformation in my consciousness that quantum leaped me from level 2 to level 5 (the first time)
the second time grace quantum leaped me from level 5 to level 10 (for a month) then down to level 9 (for 6 months) within 3 years I had fully regressed back to level 6 (long story you'll have to become Premium Member to hear https://www.skool.com/inner-peace-made-simple-7278/plans) My third attempted suicide led to a Near death Experience which resulted in me having my right leg amputated below the knee, which turned out to be the best thing that has ever happened to me (that rhymes😃) 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 and for the last 8 years that work has been effective because it took the form of daily spiritual practice and living meditation.
Do you know why?
Because 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, not because I was a bad person.
I KNEW 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 EVERYONE 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, not because they are "bad" people.
Simply put ONLY hurt people, hurt people.
And just because you are a hurt person doesn't mean you aren't a good person. And if you believe you ARE a good person (even though others think you're a bad person) the best way to prove it to yourself is to HEAL & GROW and become THE VERY BEST version of yourself so that your Goodness is undeniable.
But for the first 10 years of my ego development journey, progress was painfully slow (aka non existent) because I kept choosing the wrong Enlightenment pathways.
They were all either from the East - and consequently made for Eastern Mind which is very different from the Western mind - or they were Western knock offs of Eastern paths created by fake gurus/grifters.
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 so I couldn't afford to be spiritual seeker anymore 😆
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 that "virtue signalling moral high horse" conceit which compels you to try to do "what is right" even though you don't have the foggiest idea what that is.
So I gave up.
I quit being a spiritual seeker and decided to just try to be a good person.
I moved back to London from the centre of woo woo 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 episode which caused him to try to run into very fast moving traffic and it took me 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 Development & Transcendence/Enlightenment Pathway of all time.
Taught by the greatest Enlightened Master of All Time.
And it was written for the modern Western mind!
Yet another gift of Grace. 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.
After 7 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 YEAH BABY!
The MYSTIC GRANDAD WISDOM 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 delusions 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 homeless and the addicts and the outcasts. I know what it is to be a complete and utter loser.
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 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, Cabaret Host, Inspirational Speaker, Red pill rager, bad boy player and eventually celibate MGTOW monk.
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 culture. 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 helped people heal from their trauma and use their wounds as grist for the mill in creating a more meaningful and fulfilling life. The Only Way Out is IN is the culmination of 18 years of doing this work.
I am that.
My mum has disowned me, twice. My dad won't speak to me. Neither will either of my sons. I haven't seen my Granddaughter in 5 years.
I am that.
The wonderful thing about being every form and shape and texture of loser while also experiencing extended periods of winning at life in an epic way (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.
Because one thing I know for sure is that I am NOT special.
So if I can do it ANYONE can.
On top of my VERY 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
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 then friends of friends) in The Way of Mastery for the last 4 years (see the testimonial video below).
And without exception the mentees that practiced diligently with discipline and joy (joy and humour is an essential part of The Way of Mastery as you can probably tell - because God IS 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!
As my mentee Brian is fond of saying "this shit just works"
A side benefit of spending so much time on less direct/effective Enlightenment pathways before coming to The Way of Mastery the Mother of ALL Enlightenment Pathways & The Big Daddy of ALL Enlightenment Pathways is that this juxtaposition has allowed me to become...
a Military Grade Spiritual Bullshit Detector!
Which is very useful when mentoring someone who has read a lot of spiritual books and watched a lot of spiritual videos Eckhart Tolle Rupert Spira Mooji Ram Dass Michael A Singer et al and thinks understanding spiritual ideas and concepts makes you spiritual.
When in reality ONLY spiritual PRACTICE makes you spiritual.
Spirituality is about making the unconscious conscious so you can grow as a person by developing and eventually transcending your ego. And making the unconscious conscious requires that you walk through your fears and be with your pain as they arise moment to moment.
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 WALKING THROUGH YOUR FEAR AS IT ARISES, CULTIVATING THE WITNESS, INTEGRATING THE SHADOW and OWNING YOUR PROJECTIONS (short of God's Grace descending upon you and causing a quantum leap) all you are doing is SPIRITUAL BYPASSING.
You certainly are not growing or developing and you will NEVER go beyond Level 6.
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 THEY not their husbands/boyfriends are the source of their unhappiness.
As Thomas Sowell put it
“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
Most people who consider themselves "spiritual" don't want to hear that they are just indulging in ego boosting, wounded child soothing, shadow covering "feel good" woo woo bullshit spiritual bypassing.
If you are one of those kind of people I am not the mentor for you.
Because I will tell you the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me God.
Regardless of if you want to hear it or not.
My Military Grade Spiritual Bullshit Detector also comes in handy when hosting Live Weekly Self Mastery Q&As.
Why?
Because - like myself for at least 16 years of my spiritual journey - most people are full of spiritual ideas beliefs and concepts that they believe make them happier and more at peace.
In reality they make then happier and more at peace in the sane way a pacifier makes a crying baby happier and more and peace. Or a bottle of Jack Daniels makes an alcoholic happier and more at peace.
Basically in my experience most people uses spiritual ideas and beliefs as COPING MECHANISMS rather than what they are supposed to be used for - as a launchpad for the WORK of Walking through your fear i.e. Living an Examined life, Integrating the Shadow and taking Radical Responsibility for ALL of your Shit.
In other words as Jung said most people think spirituality is about "imagining figures of light" when in reality it is about "making the darkness conscious"
A good Mentor calls you out on your cope, your self deception and your rationalizations and justifications for your fear based choices. Or as I call it, your bullshit.
So if while reading this post you've had a voice in your head saying
"Yeah but, I'm already doing most of this. Yeah but, I can just Google how to cultivate the witness.
Yeah but, I can just Google how to integrate the shadow. Yeah but, I can just Google how to take Radical Responsibility. Yeah but, I don't need a Mentor and can do it all by myself"
Rest assured that is the voice of your wounded inner child who's terrified of having it's bullshit called out and being forced to leave the safety of it's comfort zone where it has kept you hiding from it's fear your whole life thus creating the suffering unhappiness and unfulfillment that you sign up for this group to overcome..
So I'm going to start as I mean to go on by calling out your bullshit and reminding you that...
"If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten."
Trust me when I say that if you hire me as your mentor and start calling out your bullshit on a regular basis, eventually you will THANK me for doing so.
Because you will become UNSTUCK, you will start to progress in ways you never have before, you will remove the BLOCKS and undo PATTERNS that you fatalistically thought were just "who you were."
And most importantly of all you will walk through your FEAR and so you will HEAL and you will GROW and you will experience yourself becoming THE VERY BEST 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 and time again and you can hear them tell the story of how it happened to them in the Testimonial video below.
THE PARADOX OF LEVEL 10 (Non Dual Enlightenment)
If you get to this level there is no you left to get to this level.
The End.
Of Endings.
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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 of your Level 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 of your Level 6 Ego telling you that your political ideology or Religious theology already has all the answers. So you don't have to waste all that time and effort trying to figure it out for yourself. The ideology/theology has already done all the thinking for you. All you just have to do is BELIEVE. And in any case "Non Dual Awakening" is superstitious nonsense/blasphemous heresy to be avoided at all costs.
or...
You can listen to the still small voice of your Soul that whispers to you of your heart's burning desire to be MORE than the world tells you that you are.
MORE than your conditioning.
MORE than your programming.
MORE than your trauma.
MORE than your wounds.
MORE than your limiting beliefs.
MORE than your subconscious scripts.
MORE than your Shadow projections.
The still small voice of your Soul in your Heart that whispers to you of your TRUE NATURE
and your TRUE IDENTITY as a PERFECT Child of God who is Loved Loving & Lovable FOREVER
and is given all POWER under Heaven and Earth to create WHATEVER experience your Heart Desires using the Mirror Principle (see 3rd video 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 come alive when we seek freedom and growth and new horizons and new experiences and new levels of being.
Bottom line?
If we listened to the fearful self protective conformist level 4 & 5 ego or the self righteous morally superior Level 6 Ego we would still be living in caves and wiping are asses with leaves..
If you genuinely want to listen to the still small voice of your Soul but find that you can't quite hear it's call because it is getting drowned out by the megaphone voice of self protection, fear and conformity of the lower Ego or wounded inner child...watch the videos below.
They will help to quieten the fearful voice in your head so that you can hear the loving voice in your heart.
or...
Your lower Ego 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 and Awakening and Enlightenment.
Maybe you'll watch a few more Eckhart Tolle videos or re-read The Power of Now because it helps you to feel like your growing and awakening when in fact it is just how your level 4/5/6 ego rationalizes and justifies your fear of failure.
Because if you don't honestly and sincerely TRY to become THE VERY BEST version of Yourself you can't fail to become THE VERY BEST version of Yourself right?
Genius.
But that is your free and Sovereign Soul choice and I can only honour and respect the free and Sovereign Soul 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 that internet marketing grifters use to manipulate you into buying...
...I will simply invite you one last time to take the 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.
As a independent thinker and non conformist with a growth mindset and a good sense of humour...
"You either get busy living, or you get busy dying"
Chris Paradox
Self Mastery Mentor