Joseph Maynor

Why are you believing?

Until someone swings a baseball bat in your direction then let's see how dead you are.

@XYZ My Hero's Journey is different from Leo's. That's what's great about Hero's Journey work is you can write your own story. I've never been much into storytelling and mythology, but maybe I should get more into that. The Collective Unconscious contains about all the story templates we need if we can locate them. Human stories about living the good life are nothing new under the sun.

@XYZ I wanna get into Hero's Journey Theory more. This system is all about putting your life within the framework of a created story or fiction book. It's a useful tool to get into and to tinker with. I've made it an objective to get into this tool more.

Yeah. I went from the End Stage of my old chapter to the Limbo Stage to the beginning of the Start Stage of my new chapter. All that took about 4 years.

Yes. But I'm not desperate so I can do it very slowly. I'm mostly just working on myself. I wanna do the IPEC coaching school like Leo did and become a regular life coach on the side. But I also wanna do courses and all that jazz. My life is going great right now and I can do the slow move in that direction over time. I'm not neurotic about sharing my insights. I have a job that I like and have enough money. I enjoy the practice of actual one-on-one life coaching.

And anybody who thinks they've reached the end of the Path are probably wrong too. One of the biggest traps is to believe you're "done" on the Path.

It takes a while to figure it out. That's why its called the Path. There are a lot of dimensions to this work. But at the core of this work is Knowing Yourself. That's not the only work that you need to do, but that's the core of the work. From knowing yourself -- knowing the Good emerges; and from knowing the Good -- knowing what to do emerges.

I have no need or desire to defend myself. Those videos were made and they are a snapshot of where I was at that time in my growth. There are some ways I have grown recently that would cause me to change some of the things I said in those videos, but only on a couple of points. In fact, making those videos kinda spurred me to grow. So, learn from them if they help you, but don't spend your Friday night obsessing over my monkey-chatter, that would make me feel guilty. My thinking has evolved on a couple of points since then. I've done a huge amount of personal/ interpersonal development work since I've come back from India. My conclusions have shifted most notably on the topics of (1) The Authentic Self, (2) Knowing Who You Are, and (3) Aligning With The Good. I'll write about ways my thought has changed since I did those three videos in my Journal this weekend.

@Galyna I trust you watched all 3 videos before arriving at your conclusion.

@Aakash Careful.

Interesting.

Care to substantiate?

You seem to be at war with yourself. Apply the Paradox of War and Peace. if you white-knuckle cling too tightly to one side of this paradox to the exclusion of the other, you can get locked or blocked. The Devil is you. Don't shit where you eat. Tread lightly and compassionately. You can be in favor of the Good without demonizing the Bad. If fact, the Bad is Good if it happened. Christians are at war with themselves in this manner.

I think Zzenn is a good counter-perspective to Leo. We learn from every perspective do we not? The great thing about life is we get a cornucopia of different perspectives to learn from. If you don't like variety, stay off the Internet. There are plenty of rocks to live under as many people choose to do. Stay open to perspectives and open to being wrong or stupid. Nietzsche wisely said that stupidity must be accounted for -- and I think this applies to all systems, including ourselves. So, stay humble and open to criticism. If you're secure in who you are, criticism shouldn't bother you deeply anyway. If somebody has an insight that can help me, I want to be presented with it. The last thing I wanna do is make people hesitant to share corrections with me. Criticize me please. That's how I learn and how I've learned on here to boot. Welcome criticism and show compassion to those who you genuinely believe are misguided. Everybody has a genius to them that you can learn from if you're willing to look for it. It's like Emerson said, and I paraphrase: there is something in everybody where they are superior to you in some way which you can be wise to learn from them. E.g., you can learn to integrate the pros of Stage Beige from interacting with a baby.

Yes. This can help you develop mindfulness of what I call "divinized intuition".

Good You mentioned it as one of your points in this video and in other earlier videos.

Good

A bunch of birds chirping about things bothers you, why? Why are you attached to experience such that it's triggering you?

Are you God?

What is the Universe?

Whose moralization of sexuality?

Eliminating distractions.

Visualization as a re-programming technique

The 80/20 Rule. Find the 20% of the things you're doing that's giving you 80% of your results. This will help you identify the fluff in your schedule.