If one goes Clear, will he lose his emotions?

No, on the contrary, a Clear is able to use and experience any emotion. Only the painful, reactive, uncontrolled emotions are gone from his life. Clears are very responsive beings. When one is Clear, he is more himself. The only loss is a negative — thereactive mind — which was preventing the individual from being himself.

What can you do when you are Clear?

A Clear is able to deal causatively with life rather than react to it. A Clear is rational in that he forms the best possible solutions he can with the data he has and from his own viewpoint. A Clear gets things done and accomplishes more than he could before he became Clear.

In Dianetics and Scientology, Clear is stated to be a condition in which a person is free of unwanted influences of past memories, unwanted emotions or painful traumas which are not present in real time. A person in this condition, then referred to as a “Clear”, would be a person cleared of those negative influences. Such a person is said to be “at cause over” (in control of) their “mental energy” (their thoughts), and able to think clearly even when faced with the very situation which in earlier times caused them grave difficulty.

I also see evidence of the opposite of this, many powerful people start out with a competitive mindset, master themselves, accomplish great things and then, become more altruistic and philanthropic.

Because I was thinking about this in relation to groups of people like this “Mastermind groups” what the world would look like from theire perspective. I guess you are labeling these types of groups as “Illuminati” in a positive conotation.

Maybe a lot of these bilderberg and skull and bones types plot to do good, as often as not and only spend some of the time with “world management” type stuff.

But as far as everyone having the potential to be a super-hero, I agree. But statistically, its not so likely.

That’s why I am an individualist. Individually anyone can do whatever they want to accomplish.

Harris Hawks are cool. You should check them out.

wouldn’t the most altruistic thing to do be to commit suicide?

By what logic? Sounds retarded to me. The most altruistic thing you can do is commit your entire life to serving others.

No, meditation had nothing to do with it. Intentional formation of new concrete habits and behaviors had everything to do with it. Meditation never really did shit for me. Probably wasn’t doing it right.

By the way: wouldn’t the most altruistic thing to do be to commit suicide? (I’m talking theoretically of course; I’m certainly not altruistic enough in my babylike state to pull any stunt like that — just a question)

If they wanted to hear it then why do the charlatans make all the money?

Why is there not a dollar in telling the truth?

Yeah, without knowing who you’re referencing I can’t respond adequately. All I know is there are TONS of people telling the truth and making a fantastic living at it. Yeah, some aspects of modern culture hide this stuff, but many do not. There is always value in the truth; money becomes irrelevant at that point.

One of the most difficult things to disentangle in relationships - especially the deeper they get emotionally - is where I end and you begin.

You must read Rumi.

Why is there not a dollar in telling the truth?

People don’t want to hear it because the mainstream indoctrinates them to reject the message. It is always shown in a negative light. People have been given a mental immunization against freeing themselves.

the reason you HAVE to beat suffering first is because if you don’t, then you will keep suffering - whether or not you succeed in the things you set out to do.

right. if you think of a negative/suffering focus as a movement of energy in one direction and a positive/loving focus as a movement of energy in the opposite direction, you have to slow down and stop the momentum of energy flowing in the one direction to free it to move in the opposite. That’s just one possible analogy and may not be the way positive/negative emotional energy really works, but it feels right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Man_March
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promise_Keepers

Interesting to see how in other places where these themes arise, they get painted by mainstream media in a very negative light

There is a culture of learned helplessness in modern western society that people need to overcome.

It is so simple.

Stop being a child. Grow up and out of your garbage. Be of service to yourself and others.

HAHAH yeah seriously. That’s really all there is to it. No secret esoteric myth whatsoever. No superheroics. But nobody wants to hear that: especially the people who need it most.

Trust me: if I could put into into a single word for you, I would

You could make the whole thing more concise by stating:

Stop being a child. Grow up and out of your garbage. Be of service to yourself and others.

Lots of people wouldn’t take the proper information away from those statements though, would see them as a negative statement about or against themsleves, if they hadn’t already reached the point where they could also make those statements to others without bad intention.

I agree about the kung fu on the roof thing.

I think its more about starting things, turning on, activating. Becoming self actualizing. In my mind I trace this change in you to a dream you blogged about that you needed to brush up on your “math skills” then you got on this chess playing kick, that spread out into self mastery, with the finger tricks, proprioception, boxing etc.

The theme seems to be a decision to make things happen vs. simply reacting to what is happening around you, to you.

But anyway, great article.

BTW, about you as a bird person- What do you think of “Harris Hawks?” you should check them out. I was looking at my field guide and thinking if Tim were a bird, what bird would he be?

Harris hawks are very interesting. The only raptors that hunt co-operatively like a wolf pack and share the kill with each other. Plus they look like you.

Nice work.

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/six-strategems/

More directly though, make a list of everything which causes you to suffer. Then look at the decisions you make which are ACTUALLY responsible for your suffering. Then start making better decisions. It’s really not rocket surgery.