AGENDA
- Start from Nothing
- Prepare Yourself
- Agreements
Start from Nothing
Adopting lessons from wisdom is an effective way to adapt into one’s own intuition. This program takes great inspiration from many philosophers, but the overarching theme comes from the father of Western Philosophy, Socrates.
From his famous words, “I know that I know nothing,” we begin your journey. This “intellectual humility” is not a literal admission of total ignorance. We understand some things fairly well, but we do so only with the information we can sense. Humans don’t see the whole truth at once, only pieces at a time.
The first step is to admit how little we can be absolutely certain of. When you do this, it softens your ego and allows it to admit mistakes with dignity intact. While it may be difficult to accept, in this program, you start from zero. Accept the following points:
- You know nothing.
- You control nothing.
- You are nothing.
- Life means nothing.
“You know nothing.” This is one of Socrates’s biggest conclusions. No one knows anything for sure. Just like Mario can’t know everything about Mario World because he’s part of the experiment of the video game life, we can’t know everything about our life in the real world. We might think we know in order to survive something, and that’s one necessary thing, but we don’t actually know anything for certain. If we leave room for doubt, our mind remains open, not closed. We take no conclusions—except we don’t know—so that we don’t become attached to our ideas. We can let them go and adopt new ones relatively easily.
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Where you are, what you are doing now, is every necessary step down the road to find your power.
In doing this, you may feel like you have stepped backward. Is that a good thing? Does the painter step back from the canvas to assess its composition? The goal of the program is to change these statements into the following:
- You know yourself.
- You control yourself.
- You are everything.
- Life means what you say.
Prepare Yourself
Effort
Only you can do the work. You can be given the answers, shown what to do, and supported, but only you can make the effort.
Digging deep can become a struggle, but remember how the cycle usually goes: feel pain, despair, push it down, feel temporary happiness, but the pain resurfaces. The cycle starts all over again, maybe because the hard questions were never asked, the answers were never sought, the emotions were never processed, and the lesson wasn’t learned. Maybe you quit too soon.
There’s no shame asking for help, nor in talking about emotions, even though across many cultures it seems to be an unspoken rule. Men have emotions just the same as women. Suppressing them only makes you ill, both emotionally and physically.
Accountability is part of this. It’s often that someone will offer us resistance even if they want help. We promise to hold you accountable for as long as you find it helpful.
You can make better progress by using Active Learning.
Friction
You must acknowledge the friction you feel in your life as an obstacle to your goal of happiness and peace. The friction itself isn’t your enemy; it’s the nature of our reality. It’s simply a construct or a mechanism. In other words, nature is neutral. No one is cursing you, giving you bad luck, nor are they giving everyone else good luck.
When you do physical work, your actions stretch your muscles, some things may cut you, and you may experience uncomfortable pains. The same is true when you do emotional or cognitive work. This should be expected. Though the emotions may feel intense, they will give in. They will share their lessons if you know how to listen to them.
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Anything worth doing takes effort. You can do it!
There isn’t a rush, so you might wish to pace yourself with this program. The concepts can be abstract, the workload can be heavy, and the effort may be tiring. It’s worth the effort!
Lifelong Learning
Learning something new can often take a lifetime. It can be compared to the process of learning a new language. Imagine a child born into the world. Depending on which country, that child will learn the language as it grows.
- First, it goes through a period of observation. The child listens to all sources of language around it and learns by example.
- Second, it goes through a period of trial and error. It mimics the language, gets most things wrong and some things right.
- Third, as the child grows into its late life, it starts wondering what it all means. It uses language to question its life purpose.
Committing to learning one thing should mean that you commit to being a lifelong student of as many subjects as you can handle, especially when it concerns yourself. You are a learner, and it’s okay to be ignorant of things. This is not being stupid, it’s simply not knowing something, and you can’t blame yourself for that. Doing so prepares you to for intellectual humility, replacing the old information with the new. Patience helps us hold on when the light of hope seems dimmest.
Agreements
You volunteer to participate in the program. You are here because a part of you is curious, and that’s great. Let’s make the best of your experience by making agreements between you and me.
We Are Equals
We are facilitator and correspondent, not teacher and student. We won’t use our time for me to talk and for you to listen. We are like two people examining an object, asking questions about it, and looking for truth.
I don’t own the truth, and neither do you. We have to use our brains and the laws of the world to make sense of things. If you find that I made a mistake, you must agree to point it out, as I will point yours out.
While we are equal, we maintain a high respect for each other. We don’t interrupt, we don’t fight, and we don’t lie. We don’t judge or attack the person. We take no offense, and we don’t become hostile.
We Clarify
We don’t make assumptions because we actively seek clarification. If we don’t understand each other’s thinking, if a strange term is used, or if you think something feels wrong, seek clarification! To question is not disrespectful—it’s expected.
If I understand something incorrectly, tell me. If you are lost and confused, tell me. We are operating in the ultimate environment of love, where everything is accepted. There will not be a rejection or a rebuke.
We Are Confidential
We won’t share the contents of our discussions with anyone. You can agree to share with your loved ones so that you can openly talk about it, but we ask that you don’t share the contents with anyone else. We won’t share anything with anyone. We may ask you for a testimonial about your experience with us, and that will be open to the public so that they can get an idea about the program for themselves.
The End
There is no finish line or graduation, but there is still a prize worth seeking. In the program, you are fighting for your own quality of life. You decide when you have enough to work on and when to end the program. Return if you feel the need to.
The struggle is real, the pain is potent, but through the acceptance of love, we learn about and claim our personal power so that we stand in the sovereignty of good.
What you have read are guidelines for the program. Though there is some room for forgiveness in the throes of emotional breakthroughs, repeated missteps here will lead to the termination of your particular program with us.
Pledge
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I, (name), pledge to dedicate my efforts to finding my personal power. I make a commitment to myself and to the facilitator of this program. I will follow the guidelines set in the orientation, be honest with myself, and continuously do my best to acknowledge how I am already a good person. I am already a whole person, I am not broken, and I only need to remember how to use my power to improve for the sovereignty of good.
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