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Spiritless Humans
montalk.net » 27 April 09
(This article replaces Matrix Agents: Profiles and Analysis)
Empty 
people. Puppet people. Cardboard cutouts. Drones. Organic Portals. 
Background characters. Why do these terms even exist? Because out of 
necessity they had to be invented by those who independently noticed the
 same puzzling phenomenon, one for which there is no official name: some
 people seem to be missing something very important inside. While they 
are not necessarily any less intelligent, successful, or physically 
healthy as anyone else, they nevertheless show no indication of having 
any higher components to their consciousness.
Over 
the years I have received emails from readers who came to this same 
conclusion. They noticed that some people were strangely one dimensional
 and hollow inside. This observation is not hard to miss, but it is easy
 to rationalize away, especially with modern society being so heavily 
brainwashed with the politically correct but unrealistic concept that 
everyone is completely equal in every way, which ignores functional 
differences due to environmental, genetic, and most importantly, 
metaphysical factors.
Background
The 
idea of empty people first dawned on me in 1999 after having done much 
research into sociopaths and psychopaths, their condition being 
medically known as APD or “Antisocial Personality Disorder.” My interest
 in the subject grew out of having been forced for many years to suffer 
under someone whom I later learned had all the signs of being a 
sociopath. Heartless and soulless were descriptive terms, but little did
 I know just how literally true they were. I had noticed in this person 
an emptiness behind the eyes and a very shallow conscious essence, which
 seemed to be at the root of the behaviors I observed.
Eventually
 I realized that this same root condition was present in some others who
 were not outwardly sociopathic, but whose lack of heart was masked by a
 well-adapted social exterior. In other words, what psychiatry would 
diagnose as APD was only the more extreme, criminal, sloppy 
manifestation of a condition that otherwise expressed itself more widely
 in a socially acceptable and less incriminating manner. The latter is 
what may account for the body of empty people present in the population.
But what exactly is missing in them? The answer is clear if we look at their common behaviors and qualities of consciousness.
Behavioral and Psychic Characteristics
Their 
behavior tends toward being glib, shallow, egotistical, narcissistic, 
mundane, predatory, and materialistic. Sometimes these traits are 
camouflaged by a polished social exterior, but anyone with a discerning 
eye can see through the disguise. They lack individuality, independent 
thinking, and are strongly biased toward holding a herd mentality. They 
lack comprehension of anything beyond the material sphere of the five 
senses, and have no interest in such metaphysical matters except as 
flashy accessories to boost their social image. They also appear 
entirely incapable of empathy, soul-searching, and willful 
self-sacrifice. Nevertheless, in the presence of others they can put on a
 flashy show of concern, distress, or altruism for purposes of social 
manipulation; for example, crocodile tears to elicit sympathy, or doing 
something nice for another solely to guilt trip them later and extort a 
favor.
Psychically
 scanning their consciousness reveals something interesting. There is a 
certain simplicity, flatness, and inertness to their essence, even if 
their intellects are highly developed. Unlike other people, their 
conscious energy is more diffuse, dull, impermanent, and amorphous 
rather than solid, sparkling, crystallized, and concentrated. Put 
another way, their minds are like sand castles instead of real castles. 
There is something animalistic and rudimentary piloting their bodies. It
 seems they have conscious awareness just as plants and animals do, but 
not conscious self-awareness as humans are supposed to have. There is an
 important difference between awareness and self-awareness.
Spirit: The Missing Component
The 
missing factor must be something that endows a being with 
self-awareness, volition, and the capacity to value transcendental 
ideals. This goes beyond mere physical factors like missing portions of 
the brain, defective genetics, or a poor upbringing, because the latter 
are just defects in the hardware and programming of the biological 
machine, whereas the problem here involves the consciousness operating 
the machine. What intuitive or clairvoyant perception picks up about 
their consciousness involves metaphysical factors instead.
What 
to call this higher component of consciousness absent in some people? 
Usually it would be called the soul, but that has caused too much 
confusion in the past. For example, casual readers unfamiliar with the 
proper definition of “soulless” thought it meant “completely devoid of 
consciousness” when in reality it meant “devoid of individualized 
consciousness.” No, they do have some kind of soul energy by virtue of 
being alive, but the soul is not imbued with a higher spark of true 
sentience and self-awareness.
Therefore
 I will call this higher spark “spirit” and define it as follows: spirit
 is the core of individualized consciousness, that permanent aspect of 
one’s being representing the true Self, which accumulates experiences 
and spiritual wisdom throughout life, survives physical death, and 
remains intact upon reincarnating to continue growing toward the 
fulfillment of its potential. It is the divine god-spark, the seat of 
freewill, the holographic fragment of the Creator residing at the very 
center of your being, the “I” that is you, the inner conscious observer 
capable of observing even its own self-observation.
It 
seems not all humans have spirit. Therefore they have no self-awareness,
 individuality, wisdom, empathy, creative intelligence, or conscience. 
What further confirms this hypothesis is that, as will be discussed 
below, one may observe a total absence of destiny, synchronicity, 
symbolic dreams, spiritual lessons, soul growth, and karma in their 
lives. This is to be expected if they have nothing permanent in them 
that survives death and reincarnates, because only spirit can gain from 
such things. Without spirit, they are temporary beings whose awareness 
forms shortly before birth and dissolves shortly after death. And if so,
 then for them, spiritual life lessons serve no purpose, karma from past
 lives does not exist, there is no higher Self acting as chaperone, nor 
would they have genuine interest in anything that serves a purpose 
beyond their current mortal existence. Therefore it is to be expected 
that they be particularly materialistic, worldly, and mundane in their 
ambitions; observation confirms this as well.
Other Components
How 
can we better understand all this? By understanding the various 
components and how they combine to make the whole of a being, we can 
grasp the numerous differences and similarities between spirited and 
spiritless humans1.
Aside 
from spirit, the other components are body and soul. Soul is the 
nonphysical energetic interface between body and spirit. Occultists 
divide the soul into the etheric and astral bodies. The aforementioned 
“empty” people have bodies and souls, but not spirits. In this way it is
 clear that they have some kind of conscious energy, but not the 
permanent core that retains continuity through incarnations.
The 
soul consists of two components, the etheric and astral. The etheric 
component is a quantum biasing field that keeps the physical body from 
entropic disintegration. Or to put it more simply, it is life-force 
energy that keeps the body from decaying. The astral component is more 
abstract and intangible. It functions as the seat of consciously 
experienced feelings and passions. Feelings are not just chemical 
reactions in the brain, nor are they abstract thoughts in the mind. 
Rather they are vivid energies residing somewhere in between, and that 
buffer zone between the completely physical and completely metaphysical 
is the astral component of the soul.
Body and Ego
The 
body is the biological instrument through which we interact with our 
physical environment. The body comes with its own hereditary 
dispositions, biological drives and instincts, and behavioral algorithms
 stamped into it through social programming. These deterministic 
influences converge to create an artificial intelligence in a person 
that, by default, runs the body like an autopilot computer running an 
airplane.
This 
artificial intelligence is hereby termed “ego.” Its fundamental purpose 
is to ensure survival of the body by optimizing its behavior for the 
surrounding physical and social environment. In other words, external 
conditioning programs the ego to achieve survival in the environment 
from which that conditioning originates.
But 
the ego has no true consciousness of its own. It is just a computer 
running on neural (and by proxy, etheric) hardware that simulates a 
living identity. Its main advantage is that, being just a computer, it 
only has to mechanically calculate and react to situations instead of 
deeply and consciously reflecting, therefore it can respond much quicker
 to external situations.
For 
the spirit, the ego functions as a software device that automates 
interactions with other humans and provides a mask of identity, 
programmed from birth, appropriate to the local environment. Somewhat 
like a player’s avatar in the Sims game, which looks and acts like a 
person and seems to do its own thing when not directed by the player.
The 
problem is that the ego is entirely a product of the past, and spirit 
entirely outside linear time. The first is completely deterministic, the
 second is completely nondeterministic. The first is an emergent 
property of matter, the second a permanent condensation of 
consciousness. The two have impulses that are often diametrically 
opposed, one pulling toward materiality, the other toward spirituality. 
Our daily consciousness, also known as the lower self, is a blending of 
both, namely the portion of spirit that shines through the mask of ego 
and identifies with it, analogous to a driver so absorbed in the act of 
driving that for him the car has become an extension of his body2.
Physical or Spiritual Influences Upon the Soul
Now 
the soul, in residing between body and spirit and mediating between 
them, is influenced by both. It takes on its organization and function 
according to impulses from both spirit and the body. For instance, the 
astral body would respond both to a chemical drug inducing a feeling of 
euphoria through the body, and the spirit volitionally invoking a lofty 
feeling of spiritual joy, although the effects on the astral are not 
identical.
Likewise,
 the etheric body could have its structure altered by some injury to the
 physical body, or from some blockage or abnormality in the astral body 
percolating its influence down to the etheric level. Whatever influences
 are exerted upon the soul by body and spirit, their effects continue to
 linger in the soul, like tea continuing to circulate after having been 
stirred. This is why I said the ego runs on both neural and etheric 
hardware. Despite originating in the physical, the ego imparts the 
momentum of its conditioning upon the etheric3.
Consequences of Lacking a Spirit
With 
the preceding in mind, consider what happens when someone has body, ego,
 and soul, but lacks spirit. First and foremost, their entire makeup 
would be the result of material influences like genetics and 
environment. The seat of their apparent intelligence would be the ego. 
And without the counterweight of spirit, their ego would reign king. 
Thus, in accordance with the function of ego, such people would be 
completely dedicated to material and social survival.
Notice
 that people with spirit who are awake to their spiritual impulses often
 make willful choices that serve no financial, social, or egotistic 
gains, that go against the expectations of Darwinian evolutionary 
principles, and that serve only spiritual ends. Such impulses are absent
 in spiritless people, thus they are truly optimized for survival in the
 physical world. Without conscience, empathy, or inner battle between 
ego and spirit holding them back, they can more quickly and easily 
succeed in their worldly environments regardless of the cost to others.
To 
better understand their metaphysical differences, consider what happens 
to spirited and spiritless people upon physical death.
Spirit
 and soul nested one inside the other, together leave the physical body.
 After a while, the etheric component of the soul disintegrates, leaving
 only spirit nested inside the astral body. The astral body then also 
disintegrates. The disintegration of etheric and astral bodies, meaning 
the dissolution or casting away of the soul, is known in Christian 
Esotericism as the second death4. The liberated spirit then advances 
into the afterlife before reincarnating.
Reincarnation
 involves the spirit forming around itself a new soul and then slipping 
into a new physical body. In sequential reincarnations, what talents, 
predispositions, and imbalances it has acquired from previous lifetimes 
influences the new incarnation.
In the
 case of spiritless people, life begins as follows. As the fetal body 
gestates in the womb, the soul forms for the first time, like beach sand
 being gathered into the shape of a castle, and joins to the body. This 
combination produces rudimentary awareness. After being born, such a 
person becomes nothing more than a product of genetics and environment 
due to absence of spirit. Without a spiritual counterweight, biological 
drives and social programming become their primary impulses in life.
Upon 
physical death their soul evacuates the body, perhaps containing a 
lingering imprint of the ego, and after some time it disintegrates and 
is reabsorbed into the lake of energies from which it originally formed.
 Nothing of their identity survives. For people without spirit, this 
life is their only one. They form upon entering and dissolve upon 
leaving. It cannot be otherwise if they lack a core of individualized 
consciousness.
Thus 
everything that a spirited person has due to the continuity of his or 
her incarnations, is missing in the life of a spiritless person. For 
example, the spiritless would have no need for life lessons or spiritual
 learning experiences. What would be the purpose if whatever is gained 
disappears after death? Therefore spiritless people are ones who cannot 
learn spiritual lessons, who cannot profit spiritually from the trials 
of life, who cannot pass what is gained onto their successive 
incarnations. And so they have no concern for lessons of humility, 
empathy, compassion, understanding, or forgiveness. Instead of changing 
as people through spiritual maturation in life, they only change in the 
sense of better adapting to life through conditioning. For instance, 
whereas a spirited person may see the error of his ways and grow humble,
 a spiritless person would simply learn to not get caught next time.
Karma 
is another metaphysical factor absent in the life of spiritless people. 
There are many misconceptions about karma, so I will first explain my 
understanding of it, before showing how its absence affects the life of a
 spiritless person.
Karma 
(the negative type) is simply a spiritual debt or imbalance acquired 
upon violating the freewill of oneself or another. Violating your own 
freewill happens when you make a choice during an ignorant state, like 
when identifying with the ego and acting upon its impulses, that 
violates a choice made during a more spiritually sober state.
Upon 
committing a freewill violation, the higher spirit-associated aspect of 
consciousness regrets the error and makes a commitment to redress it, 
even if the lower ego-associated aspect tries to ignore this. The karmic
 imbalance then attracts experiences that teach a lesson correcting that
 ignorance, whether in this life or the next. The lesson learned is 
universal and does not require memory of the original choice that 
provoked it, just understanding of the lesson. The karmic experience 
itself is not what is fated, rather the lesson learned, therefore karma 
can sometimes be mitigated through pre-emptive understanding and 
forgiveness without necessarily needing to learn it the hard way through
 experience.
But 
without spirit, there is no true freewill and no true lessons that can 
be learned. Therefore the spiritless have no karma and instead live 
completely under the laws of chance and the law of the jungle. Whereas a
 spirited individual might be born with karmic handicaps, for the 
spiritless these handicaps would strictly be a matter of chance or 
heredity and serve no higher metaphysical purpose. Same with the timing 
and manner of their death; whereas spirited people may have loosely 
planned out their life before incarnating, including the way they will 
die, spiritless people die according to random circumstances without 
purpose or meaning, unless their death somehow plays an important part 
in the pre-incarnation script of a spirited individual.
Other 
missing factors include meaningful symbolic dreams, synchronicities, 
higher intuitive guidance, and their personal hand of destiny. 
Spiritless people experience none of these because they neither can nor 
need to. This should be obvious from understanding the role of spirit, 
but I will elaborate for the sake of clarity.
Meaningful
 dreams primarily serve to alert a person to spiritual imbalances that 
need to be corrected, but a spiritless person has no need for such 
messages. They also have nothing higher to send such messages. Without a
 permanent core of individuality, they have no “Higher Self”, which is 
the perfected future manifestation of spirit reaching back through time 
to help out extensions of itself still in the linear past. And without a
 Higher Self, they have no inner intuitive guidance to provide certain 
nudges and protection in life. Thus, whereas a spirited person might 
experience freak synchronicities and bending of the laws of reality to 
save them from untimely death, a spiritless person lacking such 
direction and protection would perish according to chance.
Chakra Differences between Spirited and the Spiritless
There 
is also a difference between spirited and spiritless in what chakras 
they have. Chakras are vortical energy centers linking soul with body, 
and linking spirit and body through the soul. Each center coincides 
positionally with the major glands of the physical body, and each serves
 a different behavioral function.
The 
lower chakras are associated with such behavioral facets as physical 
instinct, sexual impulses, base emotions, personal power, and 
intellectual activity. Everyone possesses these. The spiritless, 
however, have no need for the higher chakras, namely the heart, crown, 
and third eye chakras because these are the ones that exclusively link 
to spirit.
The 
heart chakra, the center of higher emotions like compassion, empathy, 
spiritual jubilance, is missing in the spiritless because there is no 
spirit present to associate with these emotions. The crown chakra, 
through which higher intuitive understanding, originality and 
creativity, and a connection with objective truth manifests, is likewise
 missing. The third eye chakra, located between the brows, is normally 
used for the perception of phenomena and concepts beyond the material 
realm, and spiritless people confined to the world of the five senses 
have no need for it either.
Consequently,
 another difference between the spirited and spiritless is that the 
first have all seven chakras while the latter are missing the three 
higher ones, the heart, crown, and third eye chakras5. This further 
contributes to the intuitive or clairvoyant perception that spiritless 
people are flat and inert inside regardless of how animated they are on 
the outside, because the spectrum of their etheric or auric vibrations 
are missing certain colors and are therefore of a lower overall 
resolution.
All 
the above follows from one simple postulate: that some people lack 
spirit, and that they therefore also lack the higher chakras. If you 
deeply contemplate what this entails, you will understand how this 
postulate explains the full gamut of observations we have concerning 
so-called “empty” people.
Difference between Spiritless and Spiritually Asleep People
At 
this point you might be wondering what is the difference between 
spiritless people, and spirited ones who are spiritually asleep in life 
or simply immature. After all, both may be worldly in their goals and 
thoroughly caught up in the illusion of the “Matrix.” Both may not be 
cognizant of dreams or synchronicities, nor display much empathy. For 
example, there are negative people who are completely under the 
influence of their egos and external negative forces, who can commit 
violent crimes and even mass murder without blinking an eye. Not all of 
them are spiritless. But all of them are indeed void of the influence of
 spirit when it comes to engaging in such inhuman behaviors. Some lack 
spirit, others are asleep to spirit.
The 
difference is that a spirited but infantile/asleep person still has 
latent spiritual potential. So they still have, even in small amounts, 
the presence of those spiritual factors and dynamics mentioned above. 
They may still suffer the consequences of karmic debt brought on by dumb
 choices, they may still receive symbolic dreams attempting to alert 
them to spiritual imbalances in life even if they ignore it, they may 
still experience synchronistic help in shaping their lives against the 
odds even if they cannot see it.
Spiritless
 people lack that potential completely. They cannot grow spiritually. 
This is not a theoretical declaration, but a painful lesson learned from
 having dealt with too many such persons who never showed any signs of 
growth or evolution no matter how much help and opportunity for 
improvement was given to them. At best they adapt, but more out of 
conditioning and calculation than actual understanding.
There 
is another important difference. The spirited have lives appropriate to 
their spiritual needs. So there is a correspondence between their 
spiritual maturity and type of life. Infant spirits will lead crude 
lives, because a basic existence is all they need, and anything more 
would be too much for them to handle or gain from. Meanwhile, the 
spiritless live whatever life they are driven into by circumstance and 
their own cunning, which can mean being a beggar, corporate executive, 
or famous author all the same. Without constraints established by 
spiritual needs, the spiritless have no spiritual limits or curriculums 
structuring their lives. And this is why “empty” people are not all just
 spiritually asleep or infantile, because there exists a class of people
 who share the same inertness behind their eyes regardless of their type
 of life, their social standing, their intellectual prowess, and their 
physical appearance.
Psychopaths, Sociopaths, and Narcissists
The 
more extreme manifestations of an absence of spirit is known in 
psychology as psychopathic, sociopathic, or narcissistic personality 
disorders. Spirited people who fit this condition are misguided and held
 hostage by their egos, but they can be rehabilitated. Instead of 
lacking empathy, their empathy is either suppressed or displaced. These 
are not true psychopaths, but spirited people with personality 
disorders.
True 
psychopathy and sociopathy, however, cannot be cured because something 
is fundamentally flawed at the core of such persons. They lack empathy 
and remorse altogether, and these qualities cannot be recovered because 
they were never there to begin with. The incurable nature of psychopathy
 is an accepted fact in psychology. The cause is believed to be an 
abnormality in the pain and fear centers of the brain. Even so, without 
the balancing influence of spirit, such abnormalities would introduce 
unchecked errors into the programming of the ego, which then runs 
rampant to the point of coming to the attention of the legal and medical
 systems. What the medical system can diagnose is only the extreme and 
sloppy manifestation of a condition that is more widespread throughout 
the population. Other spiritless people with properly functioning egos 
are better at keeping their lack of empathy and remorse camouflaged 
under more refined social programming.
Why Spiritless? What Others Say
Theories
 abound about why some people lack a higher component to their 
consciousness and what purpose they serve in the bigger scheme of 
things. Since I am not the first to make this observation, I will now 
briefly discuss what others have said so that you can weigh the 
available options.
John 
Baines writes in his book The Stellar Man that humans, like all animal 
species, have a collective soul unique to their species. This collective
 unconscious exerts a de-individualizing influence on humans, nudging 
them toward mob mentality, herd mentality, and following the crowd. 
Rupert Sheldrake would call this the human morphogenetic field. People 
who have not developed their own conscious individuality are mere 
automatons following the soporific influence of the collective 
unconscious, as though they were extensions of a hive mind. The goal of 
esoteric training is to split away from the herd, to develop one’s own 
volition and thereby become a free being.
Rudolf
 Steiner voiced similar sentiments. His foundational work, The 
Philosophy of Freedom addressed this problem. Steiner said that as long 
as humans obey external authority, their own biological instincts, or 
the animalistic parts of themselves in common with the rest of humanity,
 they are not free beings. Freedom comes from choosing based on 
intuitive understanding of what each option entails and what it means. 
This act of freewill requires introspection and spiritual acumen to act 
from a place of true understanding. Steiner acknowledged that not 
everyone introspects to the degree necessary to make intelligent 
freewill choices. In private discussions, Steiner went even further:
Dr. 
Steiner: That little girl L.K. in the first grade must have something 
really very wrong inside. There is not much we can do. Such cases are 
increasing in which children are born with a human form, but are not 
really human beings in relation to their highest I; instead, they are 
filled with beings that do not belong to the human class. Quite a number
 of people have been born since the nineties without an I, that is, they
 are not reincarnated, but are human forms filled with a sort of natural
 demon. There are quite a large number of older people going around who 
are actually not human beings, but are only natural; they are human 
beings only in regard to their form. We cannot, however, create a school
 for demons.
A teacher: How is that possible?
Dr. 
Steiner: Cosmic error is certainly not impossible. The relationships of 
individuals coming into earthly existence have long been determined. 
There are also generations in which individuals have no desire to come 
into earthly existence and be connected with physicality, or immediately
 leave at the very beginning. In such cases, other beings that are not 
quite suited step in. This is something that is now quite common, that 
human beings go around without an I; they are actually not human beings,
 but have only a human form. They are beings like nature spirits, which 
we do not recognize as such because they go around in a human form. They
 are also quite different from human beings in regard to everything 
spiritual. They can, for example, never remember such things as 
sentences; they have a memory only for words, not for sentences.
The 
riddle of life is not so simple. When such a being dies, it returns to 
nature from which it came. The corpse decays, but there is no real 
dissolution of the etheric body, and the natural being returns to 
nature. It is also possible that something like an automaton could 
occur. The entire human organism exists, and it might be possible to 
automate the brain and develop a kind of pseudomorality.
I do 
not like to talk about such things since we have often been attacked 
even without them. Imagine what people would say if they heard that we 
say there are people who are not human beings. Nevertheless, these are 
facts. Our culture would not be in such a decline if people felt more 
strongly that a number of people are going around who, because they are 
completely ruthless, have become something that is not human, but 
instead are demons in human form.
(Faculty Meetings With Rudolf Steiner Vol. 2, 3 July 1923, p. 649-650)
G. I. 
Gurdjieff spoke along the same lines. His lectures in Views from the 
Real World summarize his position. Humans are born as blank slates, as 
biological machines without self-awareness. At some point in life, a 
person either develops an “I” or branches onto the opposite path toward 
further mechanization and decay. So according to Gurdjieff, “empty” 
people are those who have never developed their self-awareness as they 
should have, but we all start out on equal footing. I don’t believe this
 to be true because there are infants and children who clearly have high
 sentience behind their eyes and expected behaviors of self-awareness, 
while other infants and children lack it, which suggests the factor of 
reincarnation in some people and complete absence of spirit including 
the potential for spirit in other people.
Boris 
Mouravieff has written on the subject of spiritless people most 
extensively. See his three volumes of the Gnosis series, particularly 
the second and third volumes. His approach is based on Esoteric 
Christianity, and thus it quotes heavily from scripture while bearing 
much in common with the Fourth Way tradition of Gurdjieff, which itself 
seems to trace back to Sufistic teachings. According to Mouravieff’s 
interpretation of the Book of Genesis, there existed humans before Adam 
and Eve, but that only Adam and by proxy Eve and her descendants 
received the breath of spirit from God. Thus nowadays there exists two 
mingling sub-races of humans, the pre-Adamics without spirit, and the 
Adamics who have it. Mouravieff explains that pre-Adamics serve the 
purpose of harvesting energy from Adamics as part of the cosmic food 
chain. He also explores the metaphysical differences between the two, in
 regards to pre-Adamics missing certain “centers”, which are analogous 
to chakras. Mouravieff believes the pre-Adamics have a group soul unique
 to their collective, and that only after further aeons of evolution 
will their collective soul differentiate into individual spirits like 
what the Adamics already have.
The 
Corpus Hermeticum, a famous hermetic and gnostic text written almost two
 thousand years ago, likewise states that not all humans have the spark 
of divine reason (termed Nous) active within them, and that without Nous
 a human is more like an “irrational creature” (animal) in his 
motivations, limited perception, and way of life. One would have to read
 the entire text to understand this in proper context. See the english 
translation titled The Way of Hermes: New Translations of the Corpus 
Hermeticum (Inner Traditions, 2000).
Lastly,
 the Cassiopaean Transcripts addresses the works of Mouravieff and 
provides some key insights on the matter at hand. The channelling source
 claims that some people are empty portals for other intelligences to 
work through, that they have uniform auras among them, lack the higher 
chakras, can be very skilled at mimicking “souled” (spirited) people by 
reflecting back their own soul energy, and that ultimately they serve as
 conduits from which our energy can be siphoned for collection by 
negative hyper-dimensional beings. All this is in line with my 
observations and the writings of Mouravieff and Gurdjieff, except a bit 
more realistic than the viewpoints of those two traditionalists. Whereas
 John Baines says some humans are extensions of the human collective 
soul, the Cassiopaeans say they are instead extensions of particular 
animal group souls. They say such so-called “organic portals” serve as a
 bridge between the human and animal kingdom, helping to transfer higher
 human energies to these animal group souls to accelerate their 
evolution, but that their function has been hijacked by higher negative 
forces for their own energy harvesting use.
So 
what I am saying in this article is not without precedent. I merely made
 the observation of “empty” people independently in 1999-2001 and then 
cycled through various personal speculations and existing theories 
before settling on the current one explained in this article.
I 
believe there are several ways in which people end up spiritless. Some 
are born that way because no spirit ever took root, just like theater 
seats that remain empty because no one bought tickets for them. Others 
may have started out with spirit but had it depart at some point in 
life. It could have evacuated through abuse or sudden extreme trauma, or
 evaporated gradually from decades of soul-killing routine. Not everyone
 who dies necessarily drops dead. People can go on existing as hollow 
shells, as echoes of their former selves, now void of the spirit that 
once gave them spark. There are other darker phenomena like dead people 
getting reanimated by aliens with advanced technology, human clones, and
 other types of artificial humanoids that would lack spirit, but these 
are relatively rare and therefore not worth discussing in this article 
(see instead my article on Human Simulacra).
Here I
 speak mainly of a larger sector of the population who naturally lack 
spirit, who always have throughout history, and who by virtue of their 
predatory and worldly natures have gravitated toward the top of the 
social, economic, and political hierarchies and made the world 
antagonistic toward spiritual impulses.
The Benefits of Understanding
As you
 can see, this idea that some people lack spirit explains much about the
 robotic, animalistic, predatory side of humanity. So many of us are 
under the false assumption that we are all the same inside, that if we 
walked in another’s shoes we would fully understand their motivations. 
But not all inhuman acts trace back to mere environmental variables. 
There are cases where, even if we put ourselves in their place, we would
 not act the same. That is because the cause of their motivations is not
 environmental, but metaphysical: the absence of spirit, and the supreme
 reign of ego.
Those 
who ignore the possibility of spiritless people will continue to shake 
their heads in frustration at behaviors they simply cannot compute and 
must either ignore or rationalize away. When dealing with a spiritless 
psychopath, for instance, such individuals are easily deceived and 
manipulated.
Only 
after getting burned again and again do they realize some humans are a 
different kind of animal, that some humans are not remediable because 
they are acting fully and healthily in accordance with their spiritless 
predatory nature. This is especially true of the psychopathic elite who 
run this prison planet; they cannot be rehabilitated, made to see the 
error of their ways, or convinced through appeals to empathy.
Caution and Conclusion
It 
would be unwise, however, to look down upon the spiritless with 
contempt. They are what they are, living their lives in accordance with 
their makeup. They should be handled no differently from how one handles
 a wild animal that acts according to its feral nature. It is only by 
trying to hold the spiritless up to higher spiritual standards that 
frustration sets in. Without expecting too much of them, and by 
understanding why they behave as they do, frustration gives way to calm 
insight.
Nor is
 it worth going out of your way to try and spot who is spiritless, 
because in ambiguous cases you will likely err on the side of paranoia. 
Since spiritless behaviors form a subset of the behaviors of spirited 
people, only the behaviors unique to spirited people can allow quick and
 certain identification, and then only of who is definitely spirited. 
Spotting only works for picking out who is truly spirited, which happens
 most easily with a spirited individual on your wavelength. You will 
sense the life in their eyes, the clear and unique energy behind their 
words, and the originality and independence behind their thought 
processes.
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Appendix I: Common Questions
How do
 I know I’m not a spiritless person? – If you have experienced even one 
trait unique to spirit, then you are not spiritless. The very fact that 
you have wondered this, that you are uncertain and wish to know for 
sure, shows self-awareness and introspection, which is another trait of 
having spirit. Regardless, it is better to assume that you do have 
spirit and work on developing its qualities like intuition, empathy, and
 lucidity, all the while being aware of your lower egotistical impulses 
and keeping from acting on them.
I 
suspect that my (friend, spouse, parent) is a spiritless person, what do
 I do? – Set aside for a moment the question of whether they are 
spirited or not, and focus solely on whether you can continue being with
 them. Are they so manipulative, draining, abusive, or otherwise harmful
 to your well-being that you have to get away? If so, then it doesn’t 
matter whether they have spirit or not. Are they so friendly and easy 
going that you are doing quite fine having them in your life? If so, 
then it doesn’t matter whether they have spirit or not. So from a 
practical perspective, you only have to be concerned with whether you 
can deal with having them in your life. Where the distinction between 
spirited and spiritless does come into play is in dealing with 
psychopathic people, where even after promising to change they keep 
returning to their abusive ways; then at some point, instead of 
rationalizing that they are just misguided and need even more time and 
attention, it is better to conclude that maybe they are acting perfectly
 in line with who they really are. Naive people who think everyone is 
equally good inside will keep rationalizing and taking the abuse, but 
those with higher understanding will recognize the warning signs of 
futility sooner and save themselves the trouble.
How is
 this concept of spiritless people not somehow divisive, racist, 
persecutory, and antithetical to the idea of human equality, unity, 
harmony, and brotherhood? – If the theory is true, that some people do 
in fact lack spirit, then the truth of the matter should not be ignored 
for the sake of political correctness. When properly applied, knowledge 
can lead to greater stability and harmony in the long run. For example, 
every attempted utopian society has failed because it was founded on 
naive assumptions about the makeup of its citizenry; selfish, 
psychopathic, predatory individuals end up corrupting the utopia. If the
 utopia were founded on full understanding of such types, then measures 
could have been put into place to prevent corruption. Also, a theory 
should not be blamed for the consequences of its misapplication; those 
who misapply it use it as a vehicle for the satisfaction of their own 
egos rather than applying it from a spiritual perspective. Instead of 
throwing out the theory because of its misapplication, better effort 
should be made to prevent its misapplication. Lastly, the unity of all 
life can be recognized without sacrificing awareness of the functional 
diversity comprising it; and only by properly understanding each part of
 that unity can the whole be recognized in full clarity instead of mere 
ignorant bliss.
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Appendix II: Correlating Sources
John Baines – The Stellar Man
Rudolf Steiner – Theosophy
Rudolf Steiner – The Philosophy of Freedom
Rudolf Steiner – Outline of Occult Science
G. I. Gurdjieff – Views from the Real World
P. D. Ouspensky – In Search of the Miraculous
Clement Salaman, et al… – The Way of Hermes (Corpus Hermeticum)
Dion Fortune – Psychic Self-Defense
Boris Mouravieff – Gnosis, Volumes I-III
LKJ, et al… – The Cassiopaean Transcripts
Amit Goswami – The Self-Aware Universe
For excerpts from some of these sources, see this PDF.
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Appendix III: Permutations of Metaphysical Components
To 
show the necessity of concepts like spirit, body, etheric, and astral, 
here is a list of how these components combine to form different kinds 
of entities. As you will see, the difference between these entities 
cannot be explained with fewer than those components.
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Notes
1 In 
case anyone wonders why we even need terms like spirit, soul, astral, 
and etheric, it is because these constitute the simplest model that 
explains large body of known observations, in accordance with Occam’s 
Razor. People who ridicule the necessity of such metaphysical 
distinctions and believe only in the body, or only in body and soul, are
 leaving out certain crucial observations, thus their over-simplistic 
model suffices for their smaller set of givens. However, the model must 
be expanded to include observations by clairvoyants, the astutely 
perceptive, and anyone who has experienced the paranormal. In doing so, 
the additional concepts of spirit, soul, astral, and etheric enter the 
picture. I believe these are the minimal components necessary to explain
 spiritless people. But it explains a lot more, just see Appendix III. 
These terms are also not just ad hoc explanations, however. Instead of 
just being theoretical, the etheric and astral bodies are directly 
experienceable through astral projection and viewable by clairvoyants.
2 Amit
 Goswami explains with great insight how nondeterministic consciousness 
acquires deterministic traits through conditioning in the physical body,
 how quantum systems can acquire classical characteristics. See chapters
 13 and 14 of his book The Self-Aware Universe.
3 What
 does it mean that the ego imprints itself upon the etheric component of
 the soul? For one, it ties into a lot of what Rudolf Steiner wrote 
concerning the etheric double, the doppelganger, that mysterious shadow 
side of ourselves that is antagonistic toward our spiritual well-being. 
It also ties into Steiner mentioning that in Asia where ancestor worship
 is common, demonic entities can wear the cast-off etheric shells of 
deceased persons and thereby receive unto themselves all the psychic 
energy given to that identity during worship. Further, the ego 
continuing after death in etheric form may explain certain types of 
ghosts, as well as the problem of astral/etheric impostors in channeling
 whereby a negative entity can closely mimic a deceased relative. All 
these phenomena suggest that some portion of a person’s worldly identity
 (ego) survives death, and since it cannot be via the physical body, it 
must be the next closest thing: the etheric component of the soul. And 
lastly, when it comes to true artificial intelligence in quantum 
computers and cybernetic beings, it should be expected that these will 
be accompanied by an etheric field, just as plants have an etheric 
field, which would assist in the artificial intelligence having some 
level of “life” and not be just a deterministic machine with 
pseudo-random output.
4 The 
term “second death” is Biblical. “He that overcometh shall not be hurt 
of the second death.” Revelation 2:11. “And death and hell were cast 
into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not 
found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” 
Revelation 20:14-15. Boris Mouravieff and the Cassiopaeans would have 
interpreted this approximately as follows: ‘overcometh’ means having 
developed spirit, ‘second death’ is the dissolution of the etheric and 
astral components of the soul, and ‘lake of fire’ represents the 
undifferentiated group soul into which the soul dissolves. What does a 
fire do other than melt and turn to ashes, removing all trace of former 
identifiability? Second death happens after the first death. If the 
first death is death of the physical, then the second has to be death of
 the nonphysical. I believe this interpretation because it makes sense.
5 
“Higher” means higher in function, not positionally higher on the body, 
so the throat chakra is not a higher chakra since it is associated 
merely with speech and intellectual functions. In the Fourth Way system 
it correlates with the “lower intellectual center”. It probably 
developed or evolved along with human capacity for speech and abstract 
thinking, something most animals lack. That is why spiritless humans 
have a throat chakra as well, and why they can be intellectually sharp 
and have no limits to their speaking abilities. So it’s one of the lower
 chakras in terms of function.
Miguel Martinek with Michael Di Paola at New York Sports Clubs (Astoria, NY).
Just who are the Annunaki?
The Top 5 Regrets Of The DyingThe Top 5 Regrets Of The Dying
Joe Martino Collective Evolution
•
This post originally appeared in Collective Evolution.
A 
palliative nurse recorded the most common regrets of the dying and put 
her findings into a book called “The Top Five Regrets of The Dying.” 
It’s not surprising to see what made the list as they are all things 
that touch each of our lives as we struggle to pay attention to and make
 time for things that we truly love. Below is the list of each regret 
along with an excerpt from the book. At the bottom is also a link to the
 book for anyone interested in checking it out.
One 
thing on regret before we get to the list. It’s important to remember 
that whatever stage we are at in life, there is no need for regret. The 
process of regret is one that provides nothing but suffering for 
ourselves as we begin to allow the past to dictate how we should feel 
now. Instead, we can use the past as a reference point to understand 
what adjustments we would like to make moving forward. The adjustments 
do not have to come out of pain, sorrow, regret or judgment, but simply a
 choice to do things in a different way. We are learning all the time, 
we can very quickly slow that learning process down by getting stuck in 
the idea of regret. When it comes to making changes, be at peace with 
the past and remember that each moment is a new choice.
1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
“This 
was the most common regret of all. When people realize that their life 
is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many 
dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people had not honored even a half of
 their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had
 made, or not made. Health brings a freedom very few realize, until they
 no longer have it.”
2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
“This 
came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children’s
 youth and their partner’s companionship. Women also spoke of this 
regret, but as most were from an older generation, many of the female 
patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply 
regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work 
existence.”
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
“Many 
people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. As a
 result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they
 were truly capable of becoming. Many developed illnesses relating to 
the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result.”
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
“Often
 they would not truly realize the full benefits of old friends until 
their dying weeks and it was not always possible to track them down. 
Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let golden
 friendships slip by over the years. There were many deep regrets about 
not giving friendships the time and effort that they deserved. Everyone 
misses their friends when they are dying.”
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
”This 
is a surprisingly common one. Many did not realize until the end that 
happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits.
 The so-called ‘comfort’ of familiarity overflowed into their emotions, 
as well as their physical lives. Fear of change had them pretending to 
others, and to their selves, that they were content, when deep within, 
they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again.”
40 Regrets You Don’t Want to Have in 40 Years
Stop 
wasting time regretting what you did a year ago. Start doing what you 
have to do now, so that in a year’s time you won’t regret what you did 
today.
This 
morning, like he has every morning for the last decade, my 86-year-old 
grandfather picked a fresh wild flower on his morning walk and took it 
to my grandmother. This morning I decided to go with him to see her. And
 as he placed the flower on her gravestone, he looked at me and said, “I
 just wish I had picked her a fresh flower every morning when she was 
alive. She would have loved that.”
As you
 can imagine, his words touched a nerve in me. I almost immediately 
started thinking about everything and everyone I care about, and what I 
don’t want to regret in 40 years when I’m on the cusp of my 80’s. It 
almost felt like every aspect of my life was flashing before my eyes. 
And as soon as I got home, I started jotting down everything that had 
come to mind. When I was done, I read the list to Angel. She nodded her 
head all the way through to the end, and then said, “I couldn’t agree 
more. I don’t think anyone wants to regret any of those things when 
they’re older.” Perhaps you will also agree…
1. 
Spending too little time with the right people. – Sooner or later, you 
just want to be around the people who make you smile. So today, spend 
time with those who help you love yourself more. And remember, the 
people you take for granted today may be the only ones you need 
tomorrow. Never be too busy to make time for those who matter most.
2. Not
 making your loved ones smile more often. – The most beautiful thing is 
to see a person you love smile, and even more beautiful is knowing that 
you are the reason behind it.
3. Not
 saying what you need to say. – Speak up. Don’t hide your thoughts and 
feelings, especially when you can make a difference. Be brave. Say what 
needs to be said. If you care about someone, tell them. Hearts are 
sometimes broken by the words we leave unspoken.
4. 
Constantly comparing yourself to everyone else. – Don’t compare your 
progress in life with that of others. We all need our own time to travel
 our own distance. It’s perfectly OK to be different. Today, the only 
person you should try to be better than, is the person you were 
yesterday. Prove yourself to yourself, not others.
5. 
Ignoring your intuition for too long. – Sometimes your mind needs more 
time to accept what your heart already knows. Breathe. Be a witness, not
 a judge. Listen to your intuition.
6. Not
 taking action on meaningful goals. – Instead of complaining about your 
circumstances, get busy creating new ones. You either suffer the pain of
 discipline or the pain of regret. Most of the time, the only difference
 between who you are and who you want to be, is what you do. (Read 
Getting Things Done.)
7. 
Letting others talk you out of your dreams. – Can you remember who you 
were before the world told you who you should be? Stop living for other 
people and their opinions. Be true to YOU.
8. 
Vivid memories of wasted time. – There is good reason why you should 
wake each morning and mindfully consider what and who you will give your
 day to. Because unlike other things in life – love, money, respect, 
good health, hope, opportunities, and many more – time is the one thing 
you can never get back once it’s gone.
9. 
Collecting more excuses than you can count. – If you really want to do 
something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.
10. 
Waiting, and waiting, and waiting until you’re ready. – Sometimes life 
seems hard, but we often make it harder than it is. All you ever have to
 decide is what to do next. It really is this simple. You don’t have to 
have it all figured out to move forward. Just do the best you can until 
you know better. Once you know better, do better.
11. 
Not putting in enough effort. – In life you are either a passenger or a 
pilot, it’s your choice. If you want something, work for it. Do what it 
takes, not what is easy. It will hurt. It will take time. It will 
require dedication. It will require willpower. You will need to make 
healthy decisions. It requires sacrifice. You will need to push your 
body to its max. There will be temptation. But, I promise you, when you 
reach your goal, it will be worth it.
12. 
Letting solvable problems stop you. – Not everything that’s faced can be
 changed, but nothing can be changed until it’s faced. Problems are not 
stop signs, they’re guidelines. If you want it, work for it. It’s that 
simple. Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from 
overcoming the things you couldn’t.
13. 
Not taking on enough risk. – Wouldn’t you rather have a life of “OH 
WELLs” than a life of “WHAT IFs”? Do what you can while you can. Don’t 
be afraid to move out of your comfort zone. Some of my best life 
experiences and opportunities came to me only after I dared to lose.
14. 
Settling for less than you are capable of. – Remember, growth and change
 may be painful sometimes, but nothing in life is as painful as staying 
stuck where you don’t belong.
15. 
Putting your own needs and happiness on the back burner. – All jokes 
aside, your life only comes around once. This is IT. So do what makes 
you happy and be with whoever makes you laugh, often.
16. 
Letting impatience govern your decisions and actions. – Patience is not 
about waiting; it’s the ability to keep a good attitude while working 
hard for what you believe in.
17. 
Giving up too soon. – Forget how many times you’ve broken down. It’s 
about how you stand up and move on. You may have to go through the 
worst, to get to the best. Good things take time. Stay patient and stay 
positive. Everything is going to come together; maybe not immediately, 
but eventually.
18. 
Letting someone walk all over you, ad infinitum. – Never allow someone 
to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. And walk
 away from anyone who continually robs you of peace and joy. Life is too
 short to waste your time with people who abuse and bully you.
19. 
Not helping others when you were able. – If you have a lot, give your 
wealth. If you have a little, give your heart. Just give what you can. 
No one has ever become poor by giving.
20. 
Ignoring your roots and those who have supported you. – Never forget 
where you’ve been. Never lose sight of where you’re going. And never 
take for granted the people who travel the journey with you.
21. 
Not appreciating what you have when you have it. – We often forget that 
happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, 
but of deeply appreciating what we do have. No, you won’t always get 
exactly what you want. But remember this: There are lots of people who 
will never have what you have right now. (Read The Happiness Project.)
22. 
Letting your health go. – Your body is the only place you will truly 
ever live. If you’re lucky enough to have a body that’s in good health, 
be wise enough to keep it that way.
23. 
Years of struggling to find happiness outside yourself. – Happiness is 
not determined by what’s happening around you, but rather what’s 
happening inside you. Too many people depend on others, or outside 
sources, to gain happiness, but the truth is it always comes from 
within.
24. 
Letting too many plans blind you from the beauty of now. – When life is 
good, enjoy it. Don’t go looking for something better. Happiness never 
comes to those who don’t appreciate what they have. You must be willing 
to loosen your grip on the life you have planned so you can enjoy the 
life that is waiting for you now.
25. 
Being too narrow-minded to see the opportunities given to you. – 
Sometimes life doesn’t give you what you WANT because you NEED something
 else. And what you need often comes when you’re not looking for it.
26. 
The limitations you put on yourself. – It’s often our own thinking that 
hurts us. There’s no reason to imprison yourself. Don’t think outside 
the box. Think like there is no box.
27. 
Letting negativity get the best of you. – Remember, true strength is 
when you have so much to cry and complain about, but you prefer to smile
 and appreciate your life instead.
28. 
Never admitting and growing beyond your mistakes. – You can learn great 
things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
29. 
Not accepting responsibility for life changes you need to make. – If 
you’ve been asking the same questions for a long time, yet are still 
stuck, it’s probably not that you haven’t been given the answers, but 
that you don’t like the answers you were given. Remember, it takes a 
great deal of courage to admit that something needs to change, and a lot
 more courage still, to accept the responsibility for making the change 
happen.
30. 
Seeking too much validation from others. – You are GOOD enough, SMART 
enough, FINE enough, and STRONG enough. You don’t need other people to 
validate you; you’re already valuable. You are YOU and that’s the 
beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.
31. 
Impressing the wrong people. – Not everyone will appreciate what you do 
for them. You have to figure out who’s worth your attention and who’s 
just taking advantage of you. Spend more time with those who make you 
smile and less time with those who you constantly feel pressured to 
impress.
32. 
Time spent on drama and needless arguments. – Life is too short to argue
 and fight. Count your blessings, value the people who matter and move 
on from the drama with your head held high.
33. 
Letting a grudge hurt your happiness. – Let it go. Grudges are a waste 
of perfect happiness. Holding one is like letting unwanted company live 
rent free in your head.
34. 
Endlessly worrying about things. – Move on. Stop letting it bother you. 
If a problem can be solved, there’s nothing to worry about. If it can’t 
be solved, worrying is useless.
35. 
Forcing what’s not meant to be. – Never force anything. Do your best, 
then let it be. If it’s meant to be, it will be. Don’t hold yourself 
down with things you can’t control. Sometimes you have to stop worrying,
 wondering, and doubting. Have faith that things will work out, maybe 
not how you planned, but just how it’s meant to be.
36. 
Getting stuck in the trap of consumerism. – Too many people spend money 
they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t need, to impress folks 
they don’t even know. Don’t be one of them. (Read The Total Money 
Makeover.)
37. Never traveling when you had the chance. – Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.
38. 
Not choosing to laugh at life more often. – Life is way better when 
you’re laughing. Being positive in a negative situation is not naive, 
it’s a sign of leadership and strength.
39. 
Resisting change instead of rolling with it. – You’re not the same 
person you were a year ago, a month ago, or a week ago. You’re always 
growing. Experiences don’t stop. That’s life.
40. 
Talking the talk, but never walking the walk. – When it’s all said and 
done, be sure you haven’t said more than you’ve done. In the end, 
actions always speak louder than words. So work hard in silence, and let
 your success be your noise.
Afterthoughts
If 
you’re struggling with any of these points, know that you are not alone.
 Many of us are right there with you, working hard to feel better, think
 more clearly, and live a life free of regrets. This is precisely why 
Angel and I wrote our book, “1,000 Little Things Happy Successful People
 Do Differently.” It’s filled with short, concise tips on how to do just
 that. And believe it or not, Angel and I review a lot of our own 
material on a regular basis too, just to center our minds on these 
positive principles.
The 
bottom line is that it’s never too late to take a step in the right 
direction. It’s never too late to become the person you are capable of 
being. Things can change if you want them to, at any age. Right now you 
have an opportunity to write yourself a future full of peace and free of
 regret.
Your turn…
Let’s 
flip the concept of this article around. Instead of sharing something 
you don’t want to regret down the road, tell me this:
What have you done lately that you know you will NOT regret down the road?
30 Things to Start Doing for Yourself
WRITTEN BY MARC CHERNOFF // 180 COMMENTS
Remember today, for it is the beginning.
Today marks the start of a brave new future.
Our 
previous article, 30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself, was well received
 by most of our readers, but several of you suggested that we follow it 
up with a list of things to start doing. In one reader’s words, “I would
 love to see you revisit each of these 30 principles, but instead of 
presenting us with a ‘to-don’t’ list, present us with a ‘to-do’ list 
that we all can start working on today, together.” Some folks, such as 
readers Danny Head and Satori Agape, actually took it one step further 
and emailed us their own revised ‘to-do’ versions of the list.
So I 
sat down last night with our original article and the two reader’s 
revisions as a guide, and a couple hours later finalized a new list of 
30 things; which ended up being, I think, a perfect complement to the 
original.
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1. 
Start spending time with the right people. – These are the people you 
enjoy, who love and appreciate you, and who encourage you to improve in 
healthy and exciting ways. They are the ones who make you feel more 
alive, and not only embrace who you are now, but also embrace and embody
 who you want to be, unconditionally.
2. 
Start facing your problems head on. – It isn’t your problems that define
 you, but how you react to them and recover from them. Problems will not
 disappear unless you take action. Do what you can, when you can, and 
acknowledge what you’ve done. It’s all about taking baby steps in the 
right direction, inch by inch. These inches count, they add up to yards 
and miles in the long run.
3. 
Start being honest with yourself about everything. – Be honest about 
what’s right, as well as what needs to be changed. Be honest about what 
you want to achieve and who you want to become. Be honest with every 
aspect of your life, always. Because you are the one person you can 
forever count on. Search your soul, for the truth, so that you truly 
know who you are. Once you do, you’ll have a better understanding of 
where you are now and how you got here, and you’ll be better equipped to
 identify where you want to go and how to get there.
4. 
Start making your own happiness a priority. – Your needs matter. If you 
don’t value yourself, look out for yourself, and stick up for yourself, 
you’re sabotaging yourself. Remember, it IS possible to take care of 
your own needs while simultaneously caring for those around you. And 
once your needs are met, you will likely be far more capable of helping 
those who need you most. (Angel and I discuss this in detail in the 
“Self-Love” chapter of 1,000 Little Things Happy, Successful People Do 
Differently.)
5. 
Start being yourself, genuinely and proudly. – Trying to be anyone else 
is a waste of the person you are. Be yourself. Embrace that individual 
inside you that has ideas, strengths and beauty like no one else. Be the
 person you know yourself to be – the best version of you – on your 
terms. Above all, be true to YOU, and if you cannot put your heart in 
it, take yourself out of it.
6. 
Start noticing and living in the present. – Right now is a miracle. 
Right now is the only moment guaranteed to you. Right now is life. So 
stop thinking about how great things will be in the future. Stop 
dwelling on what did or didn’t happen in the past. Learn to be in the 
‘here and now’ and experience life as it’s happening. Appreciate the 
world for the beauty that it holds, right now.
7. 
Start valuing the lessons your mistakes teach you. – Mistakes are okay; 
they’re the stepping stones of progress. If you’re not failing from time
 to time, you’re not trying hard enough and you’re not learning. Take 
risks, stumble, fall, and then get up and try again. Appreciate that you
 are pushing yourself, learning, growing and improving. Significant 
achievements are almost invariably realized at the end of a long road of
 failures. One of the ‘mistakes’ you fear might just be the link to your
 greatest achievement yet.
8. 
Start being more polite to yourself. – If you had a friend who spoke to 
you in the same way that you sometimes speak to yourself, how long would
 you allow that person to be your friend? The way you treat yourself 
sets the standard for others. You must love who you are or no one else 
will.
9. 
Start enjoying the things you already have. – The problem with many of 
us is that we think we’ll be happy when we reach a certain level in life
 – a level we see others operating at – your boss with her corner 
office, that friend of a friend who owns a mansion on the beach, etc. 
Unfortunately, it takes awhile before you get there, and when you get 
there you’ll likely have a new destination in mind. You’ll end up 
spending your whole life working toward something new without ever 
stopping to enjoy the things you have now. So take a quiet moment every 
morning when you first awake to appreciate where you are and what you 
already have.
10. 
Start creating your own happiness. – If you are waiting for someone else
 to make you happy, you’re missing out. Smile because you can. Choose 
happiness. Be the change you want to see in the world. Be happy with who
 you are now, and let your positivity inspire your journey into 
tomorrow. Happiness is often found when and where you decide to seek it.
 If you look for happiness within the opportunities you have, you will 
eventually find it. But if you constantly look for something else, 
unfortunately, you’ll find that too. (Read Stumbling on Happiness.)
11. 
Start giving your ideas and dreams a chance. – In life, it’s rarely 
about getting a chance; it’s about taking a chance. You’ll never be 100%
 sure it will work, but you can always be 100% sure doing nothing won’t 
work. Most of the time you just have to go for it! And no matter how it 
turns out, it always ends up just the way it should be. Either you 
succeed or you learn something. Win-Win.
12. 
Start believing that you’re ready for the next step. – You are ready! 
Think about it. You have everything you need right now to take the next 
small, realistic step forward. So embrace the opportunities that come 
your way, and accept the challenges – they’re gifts that will help you 
to grow.
13. 
Start entering new relationships for the right reasons. – Enter new 
relationships with dependable, honest people who reflect the person you 
are and the person you want to be. Choose friends you are proud to know,
 people you admire, who show you love and respect – people who 
reciprocate your kindness and commitment. And pay attention to what 
people do, because a person’s actions are much more important than their
 words or how others represent them.
14. 
Start giving new people you meet a chance. – It sounds harsh, but you 
cannot keep every friend you’ve ever made. People and priorities change.
 As some relationships fade others will grow. Appreciate the possibility
 of new relationships as you naturally let go of old ones that no longer
 work. Trust your judgment. Embrace new relationships, knowing that you 
are entering into unfamiliar territory. Be ready to learn, be ready for a
 challenge, and be ready to meet someone that might just change your 
life forever.
15. 
Start competing against an earlier version of yourself. – Be inspired by
 others, appreciate others, learn from others, but know that competing 
against them is a waste of time. You are in competition with one person 
and one person only – yourself. You are competing to be the best you can
 be. Aim to break your own personal records. (Read The Road Less 
Traveled.)
16. 
Start cheering for other people’s victories. – Start noticing what you 
like about others and tell them. Having an appreciation for how amazing 
the people around you are leads to good places – productive, fulfilling,
 peaceful places. So be happy for those who are making progress. Cheer 
for their victories. Be thankful for their blessings, openly. What goes 
around comes around, and sooner or later the people you’re cheering for 
will start cheering for you.
17. 
Start looking for the silver lining in tough situations. – When things 
are hard, and you feel down, take a few deep breaths and look for the 
silver lining – the small glimmers of hope. Remind yourself that you can
 and will grow stronger from these hard times. And remain conscious of 
your blessings and victories – all the things in your life that are 
right. Focus on what you have, not on what you haven’t.
18. 
Start forgiving yourself and others. – We’ve all been hurt by our own 
decisions and by others. And while the pain of these experiences is 
normal, sometimes it lingers for too long. We relive the pain over and 
over and have a hard time letting go. Forgiveness is the remedy. It 
doesn’t mean you’re erasing the past, or forgetting what happened. It 
means you’re letting go of the resentment and pain, and instead choosing
 to learn from the incident and move on with your life.
19. 
Start helping those around you. – Care about people. Guide them if you 
know a better way. The more you help others, the more they will want to 
help you. Love and kindness begets love and kindness. And so on and so 
forth.
20. 
Start listening to your own inner voice. – If it helps, discuss your 
ideas with those closest to you, but give yourself enough room to follow
 your own intuition. Be true to yourself. Say what you need to say. Do 
what you know in your heart is right.
21. 
Start being attentive to your stress level and take short breaks. – Slow
 down. Breathe. Give yourself permission to pause, regroup and move 
forward with clarity and purpose. When you’re at your busiest, a brief 
recess can rejuvenate your mind and increase your productivity. These 
short breaks will help you regain your sanity and reflect on your recent
 actions so you can be sure they’re in line with your goals.
22. 
Start noticing the beauty of small moments. – Instead of waiting for the
 big things to happen – marriage, kids, big promotion, winning the 
lottery – find happiness in the small things that happen every day. 
Little things like having a quiet cup of coffee in the early morning, or
 the delicious taste and smell of a homemade meal, or the pleasure of 
sharing something you enjoy with someone else, or holding hands with 
your partner. Noticing these small pleasures on a daily basis makes a 
big difference in the quality of your life.
23. 
Start accepting things when they are less than perfect. – Remember, 
‘perfect’ is the enemy of ‘good.’ One of the biggest challenges for 
people who want to improve themselves and improve the world is learning 
to accept things as they are. Sometimes it’s better to accept and 
appreciate the world as it is, and people as they are, rather than to 
trying to make everything and everyone conform to an impossible ideal. 
No, you shouldn’t accept a life of mediocrity, but learn to love and 
value things when they are less than perfect.
24. 
Start working toward your goals every single day. – Remember, the 
journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Whatever it is you 
dream about, start taking small, logical steps every day to make it 
happen. Get out there and DO something! The harder you work the luckier 
you will become. While many of us decide at some point during the course
 of our lives that we want to answer our calling, only an astute few of 
us actually work on it. By ‘working on it,’ I mean consistently devoting
 oneself to the end result. (Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective 
People.)
25. 
Start being more open about how you feel. – If you’re hurting, give 
yourself the necessary space and time to hurt, but be open about it. 
Talk to those closest to you. Tell them the truth about how you feel. 
Let them listen. The simple act of getting things off your chest and 
into the open is your first step toward feeling good again.
26. 
Start taking full accountability for your own life. – Own your choices 
and mistakes, and be willing to take the necessary steps to improve upon
 them. Either you take accountability for your life or someone else 
will. And when they do, you’ll become a slave to their ideas and dreams 
instead of a pioneer of your own. You are the only one who can directly 
control the outcome of your life. And no, it won’t always be easy. Every
 person has a stack of obstacles in front of them. But you must take 
accountability for your situation and overcome these obstacles. Choosing
 not to is choosing a lifetime of mere existence.
27. 
Start actively nurturing your most important relationships. – Bring 
real, honest joy into your life and the lives of those you love by 
simply telling them how much they mean to you on a regular basis. You 
can’t be everything to everyone, but you can be everything to a few 
people. Decide who these people are in your life and treat them like 
royalty. Remember, you don’t need a certain number of friends, just a 
number of friends you can be certain of.
28. 
Start concentrating on the things you can control. – You can’t change 
everything, but you can always change something. Wasting your time, 
talent and emotional energy on things that are beyond your control is a 
recipe for frustration, misery and stagnation. Invest your energy in the
 things you can control, and act on them now.
29. 
Start focusing on the possibility of positive outcomes. – The mind must 
believe it CAN do something before it is capable of actually doing it. 
The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to 
develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.
 Listen to your self-talk and replace negative thoughts with positive 
ones. Regardless of how a situation seems, focus on what you DO WANT to 
happen, and then take the next positive step forward. No, you can’t 
control everything that happens to you, but you can control how you 
react to things. Everyone’s life has positive and negative aspects – 
whether or not you’re happy and successful in the long run depends 
greatly on which aspects you focus on. (Read The How of Happiness.)
30. 
Start noticing how wealthy you are right now. – Henry David Thoreau once
 said, “Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” Even when times
 are tough, it’s always important to keep things in perspective. You 
didn’t go to sleep hungry last night. You didn’t go to sleep outside. 
You had a choice of what clothes to wear this morning. You hardly broke a
 sweat today. You didn’t spend a minute in fear. You have access to 
clean drinking water. You have access to medical care. You have access 
to the Internet. You can read. Some might say you are incredibly 
wealthy, so remember to be grateful for all the things you do have.
50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind
These questions have no right or wrong answers.
Because sometimes asking the right questions is the answer.
1. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
2. Which is worse, failing or never trying?
3. If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
4. When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
5. What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?
6. If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
7. Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?
8. If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?
9. To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?
10. Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?
11. 
You’re having lunch with three people you respect and admire. They all 
start criticizing a close friend of yours, not knowing she is your 
friend. The criticism is distasteful and unjustified. What do you do?
12. If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be?
13. Would you break the law to save a loved one?
14. Have you ever seen insanity where you later saw creativity?
15. What’s something you know you do differently than most people?
16. How come the things that make you happy don’t make everyone happy?
17. What one thing have you not done that you really want to do? What’s holding you back?
18. Are you holding onto something you need to let go of?
19. If you had to move to a state or country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?
20. Do you push the elevator button more than once? Do you really believe it makes the elevator faster?
21. Would you rather be a worried genius or a joyful simpleton?
22. Why are you, you?
23. Have you been the kind of friend you want as a friend?
24. Which is worse, when a good friend moves away, or losing touch with a good friend who lives right near you?
25. What are you most grateful for?
26. Would you rather lose all of your old memories, or never be able to make new ones?
27. Is is possible to know the truth without challenging it first?
28. Has your greatest fear ever come true?
29. Do you remember that time 5 years ago when you were extremely upset? Does it really matter now?
30. What is your happiest childhood memory? What makes it so special?
31. At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive?
32. If not now, then when?
33. If you haven’t achieved it yet, what do you have to lose?
34. Have you ever been with someone, said nothing, and walked away feeling like you just had the best conversation ever?
35. Why do religions that support love cause so many wars?
36. Is it possible to know, without a doubt, what is good and what is evil?
37. If you just won a million dollars, would you quit your job?
38. Would you rather have less work to do, or more work you actually enjoy doing?
39. Do you feel like you’ve lived this day a hundred times before?
40. When was the last time you marched into the dark with only the soft glow of an idea you strongly believed in?
41. If you knew that everyone you know was going to die tomorrow, who would you visit today?
42. Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by 10 years to become extremely attractive or famous?
43. What is the difference between being alive and truly living?
44. When is it time to stop calculating risk and rewards, and just go ahead and do what you know is right?
45. If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?
46. What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you?
47. When was the last time you noticed the sound of your own breathing?
48. What do you love? Have any of your recent actions openly expressed this love?
49. In 5 years from now, will you remember what you did yesterday? What about the day before that? Or the day before that?
50. 
Decisions are being made right now. The question is: Are you making them
 for yourself, or are you letting others make them for you?
Please share your thoughts with us in the comments section below.
And check out these books for more thought-provoking questions:
• The Book of Questions
• If… (Questions For The Game of Life)
• The Complete Book of Questions: 1001 Conversation Starters for Any Occasion
25 Things You Need to Stop Wasting Time On
WRITTEN BY MARC CHERNOFF // 92 COMMENTS
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that’s the stuff life is made of.”
―Benjamin Franklin
This 
morning I received a thank you email from a reader named Hope. She said 
our blog and book helped motivate her through an arduous recovery 
process following a serious car accident last year. Although her entire 
story was both heartbreaking and inspiring, this one line made me pause 
and think:
“The 
happiest moment of my life is still that split-second a year ago when, 
as I laid crushed under a 2000 pound car, I realized my husband and 
9-year-old boy were out of the vehicle and absolutely OK.”
Dire 
moments like this force us to acknowledge what’s truly important to us. 
In Hope’s case, it was her husband and son. And in the remainder of her 
email, she talks about how her family spends significantly more time 
together now, simply sharing stories, telling jokes, and appreciating 
each other’s company. “The accident made us realize how much time we had
 been wasting every day on things that weren’t important, which 
prevented us from spending quality time with each other,” she said.
It’s hard to think about a story like Hope’s and not ask yourself: “What do I need to stop wasting time on?”
Here are some things to consider, that I’ve been examining in my own life:
1. 
Distractions that keep you from special moments with special people. – 
Pay attention to the little things, because when you really miss someone
 you miss the little things the most, like just laughing together. Go 
for long walks. Indulge in great conversations. Count your mutual 
blessings. Let go for a little while and just BE together.
2. 
Compulsive busyness. – Schedule time every day to not be busy. Have 
dedicated downtime – clear points in the day to reflect, rest, and 
recharge. Don’t fool yourself; you’re not so busy that you can’t afford a
 few minutes of sanity.
3. 
Negative thinking about your current situation. – Life is like a mirror;
 we get the best results when we smile. So talk about your blessings 
more than you talk about your problems. Just because you’re struggling 
doesn’t mean you’re failing. Every great success requires some type of 
worthy struggle to get there.
4. The
 needless drama around you. – Be wise enough to walk away from the 
nonsense around you. Focus on the positives, and soon the negatives will
 be harder to see.
5. The
 desire for everything you don’t have. – No, you won’t always get 
exactly what you want, but remember this: There are lots of people who 
will never have what you have right now. The things you take for 
granted, someone else is praying for. Happiness never comes to those who
 don’t appreciate what they already have.
6. 
Comparing yourself to everyone else. – Social comparison is the thief of
 happiness. You could spend a lifetime worrying about what others have, 
but it wouldn’t get you anything. (Read The How of Happiness.)
7. 
Thinking about who you were or what you had in the past. – You’re not 
the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or a week ago. You’re 
always growing. Experiences don’t stop. That’s life.
8. 
Worrying about the mistakes you’ve made. – It’s OK if you mess up; 
that’s how you get wiser. Give yourself a break. Don’t give up. Great 
things take time, and you’re getting there. Let your mistakes be your 
motivation, not your excuses. Decide right now that negative experiences
 from your past won’t predict your future.
9. 
Worrying about what everyone thinks and says about you. – Don’t take 
things too personally, even if it seems personal. Rarely do people do 
things because of you; they do things because of them. You honestly 
can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you 
can do is change how you react and who you choose to be around.
10. 
Self-deception. – Your life will improve only when you take small 
chances. And the first and most difficult chance you can take is to be 
honest with yourself.
11. A 
life path that doesn’t feel right. – Life is to be enjoyed, not endured.
 When you truly believe in what you’re doing, it shows, and it pays. 
Success in life is for those who are excited about where they are going.
 It’s about walking comfortably in your own shoes, in the direction of 
YOUR dreams.
12. 
Everyone else’s definition of success and happiness. – You simply can’t 
base your idea of success and happiness on other people’s opinions and 
expectations.
13. 
Those who insist on using and manipulating you. – What you allow is what
 will continue. Give as much as you can, but don’t allow yourself to be 
used. Listen to others closely, but don’t lose your own voice in the 
process. (Read Codependent No More.)
14. 
Trying to impress everyone. – One of the most freeing things we learn in
 life is that we don’t have to like everyone, everyone doesn’t have to 
like us, and that’s perfectly OK. No matter how you live, someone will 
be disappointed. So just live your truth and be sure YOU aren’t the one 
who is disappointed in the end.
15. 
All the fears holding you back. – Fear is a feeling, not a fact. The 
best way to gain strength and self-confidence is to do what you’re 
afraid to do. Dare to change and grow. In the end, there is only one 
thing that makes a dream completely impossible to achieve: Lack of 
action based on the fear of failure.
16. 
Doubting and second-guessing yourself. – When in doubt just take the 
next small step. Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends
 up being the biggest step of your life.
17. 
People who continuously dump on your dreams. – It’s better to be lonely 
than allow negative people and their opinions derail you from your 
destiny. Don’t let others crush your dreams. Do just once what they say 
you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their negativity 
again.
18. 
Thinking the perfect time will come. – You can’t always wait for the 
perfect moment. Sometimes you must dare to do it because life is too 
short to wonder what could have been.
19. 
Band-Aids and temporary fixes. – You can’t change what you refuse to 
confront. You can’t find peace by avoiding things. Deal with problems 
directly before they deal with your happiness. (Angel and I discuss this
 in detail in the “Adversity” chapter of 1,000 Little Things Happy, 
Successful People Do Differently.)
20. 
Close-minded judgments. – Open your mind before you open your mouth. 
Don’t hate what you don’t know. The mind is like a parachute; it doesn’t
 work when it’s closed.
21. 
Other people’s mistakes and oversights. – Today, be tolerant of people’s
 mistakes and oversights. Sometimes good people make bad choices. It 
doesn’t mean they’re bad; it simply means they are human.
22. 
Resentment. – Kindness is not to be mistaken for weakness, nor 
forgiveness for acceptance. It’s about knowing that resentment is not on
 the path to happiness. Remember, you don’t forgive people because 
you’re weak. You forgive them because you’re strong enough to know that 
people make mistakes.
23. 
Any hateful thoughts at all. – Set an example. Treat everyone with 
kindness and respect, even those who are rude to you – not because they 
are nice, but because you are. Make kindness a daily ritual; it’s what 
makes life happier and more fulfilling in the long run.
24. 
Regrets of any kind. – You don’t have to be defined by the things you 
once did or didn’t do. Don’t let yourself be controlled by regret. Maybe
 there’s something you could have done differently, or maybe not. Either
 way, it’s merely something that has already happened. Leave the 
unchangeable past behind you as you give yourself to the present moment.
25. 
Every point in time other than right now. – Don’t cry over the past, 
it’s gone. Don’t stress too much about the future, it hasn’t arrived. Do
 your best to live NOW and make this moment worth living.
4 Things I Learned by Stepping Out of My Comfort Zone 850 Times in a Row
You 
hope to meet incredible people, but you’d rather bite your lip than make
 small talk with strangers. You want to build that side business you’ve 
been daydreaming about, but the complexities of actually starting it 
make the palms of your hands sweaty. Speaking up and adding value in 
corporate meetings could improve your reputation in the eyes of your 
boss, but you’re scared of saying the wrong thing. Circumstances like 
these – the ones that are fundamentally important in the long-term, but 
downright terrifying in the near-term – are incredibly common. And of 
course, the easiest reaction to these circumstances is avoidance. But 
that would be a huge mistake!
In fact, if there’s one thing I’ve learned from completing over 850 self-assigned comfort zone challenges, it’s this:
We 
don’t stumble accidentally into a wildly fulfilling, deeply satisfying, 
jaw-dropping life… we create it. And the journey always leads us outside
 our comfort zone.
Before
 starting The Year of Fear Project, I was the least likely person on 
planet Earth to be interesting, adventurous, or successful (more on my 
story here).
Even 
after a decade spent studying the psychology of success and how to 
procrastination-proof my goals, I found tackling something outside of my
 comfort zone every day was the one decision that transformed every area
 of my life nearly overnight.
I have
 now gone on to speak, write, and teach students across seven continents
 how to get comfortable with the circumstances that make them 
uncomfortable.
Here’s
 the good news: you don’t have to invest all the hard work and hustle I 
did over the past several years to learn a few of the most powerful 
lessons from venturing outside your comfort zone.
Here’s the bad news: you can’t “unlearn” what you’re about to read…
After 
getting a sneak peek into just a few (of the many) life changing lessons
 I’ve learned, you may have no choice but to join me on this journey.
When 
you discover the real “secret” to getting everything you want out of 
life starts with one simple action – facing your fears in small ways 
every day – it becomes the healthiest addiction one can form.
A Comfort Zone Is The Most Dangerous Place To Live
A 
comfort zone is like wallpaper in most people’s lives – operating in the
 background, ever-present, something we never even think about.
But as
 much as we seemingly enjoy comfort and routine, we as human beings are 
often happiest when challenged and making progress. And when we commit 
to finding small ways to grow daily, we discover four things rather 
quickly:
1. Even when you are on the right track, you will still doubt yourself.
Before you practice expanding your comfort zone, you may think fear is a sign that you are on the wrong track.
I vividly remember preparing for my first cross-country move to Los Angeles from the Midwest.
Even 
though I dreamt about it daily, I struggled to slash it off my bucket 
list for four years. Every time I convinced myself to finally put my 
sleepy hometown in the rearview mirror, fear would overwhelm me…
• “Am I really strong enough to do this alone?”
• “Will I ever make friends as great as the ones I have here?”
• “What if I’m not cool enough to hang with the hipsters in LA?”
• “Wait… how much is rent?!?”
• etc.
What I
 discovered after starting The Year of Fear Project is perfectly summed 
up by one of my favorite writers, Jon Acuff: “We will never be brave 
enough to do what we need to do next.”
The 
problem wasn’t that I was losing sleep at night and sweating through my 
sheets at the rate of Niagara Falls. The problem was I thought I 
shouldn’t be.
Even when you are on the right track, you will still be afraid and doubt yourself.
Half 
the battle is already won when you expect that fear will show up. It 
does not matter the size of the leap – little or large. From walking up 
to compliment a beautiful stranger, to bravely asking your boss for a 
raise, doubt and fear are always near when you are on the right track. 
I’ll say that again…
Doubt and fear are always near, especially when you are on the right track.
And it takes practice to embrace this reality…
Instead
 of a stoplight, I now see doubt and fear as a spotlight – illuminating 
where I should go next. I realize all of the good decisions (and 
necessary growth decisions) that change our lives often cause us to lose
 a little sleep, and that’s perfectly OK.
How 
would your life change if you saw doubt and fear as a sign that you are 
on the right track? What goal or project would you bravely stick with or
 start up again?
2. You can love others without listening to them.
I’ll 
kick this off with a disclaimer: having a few people you can lean on and
 trust to give it to you straight when you are being a wackadoodle is 
important. However, what may surprise you is that those whose advice 
helps you the least can sometimes be those who love you the most.
So, trust me now and believe me later: you can love someone without listening to them every step of the way.
When 
you start taking risks – especially the kind of risks your loved ones 
don’t agree with – you become a red hot bullseye for feedback. Even when
 they mean well, it’s rare that they’ll just toss their hats in the air 
and enthusiastically shout:
“Go for it!”
“Do what makes you happy!”
“Quit that crappy sales job that is slowly suffocating your soul and go teach yoga!”
Why?
In short: they care and want to protect you from failure.
But 
they may also subconsciously fear that if your life changes too much, 
there may not be space left for them. And that’s OK too.
Spiritless Humans
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Many 
skeptics dismiss Christianity as a pagan fable. Although 
pseudo-Christianity has borrowed ideas from the pagan world; the truth 
is paganism ori…ginated in primitive Judaism. At Babel, Noah was deified
 as the creative artisan of the world. After God confused the languages,
 every culture would retain a similar set of beliefs.
Early 
paganism was ancestral worship. All the gods and goddess of antiquity 
are based upon real people. Even the twelve houses of the Zodiac are 
built upon biblical stories. For instance, Leo the Lion, Taurus the 
Bull, Scorpio with an eagle, and Aquarius the divine Man, represent the 
four-living creatures – who guarded the Tree of Life at Eden.
In 
ancient Egypt, Osiris was the Patriarch Noah. According to legends, 
Osiris was nailed inside a coffin and thrown into the Nile River by 
Typhon. This is an illusion to the Great Deluge and Noah’s journey on 
the ark. The ark is symbolic of Noah’s casket; but also represents the 
moon and womb of Isis. The mysteries teach Osiris is killed in the 
antediluvian world; but exits the ark – as the risen Horus!
In 
ancient Rome, the hero of the ship was Saturn. Saturn builds a grotto in
 the midst of the ocean to protect his family from impending doom. Some 
versions have Saturn sailing a ship. At any event, Saturn is an adaption
 of the biblical Noah. Like Noah, Saturn’s family consists of three 
sons; and eight people in totality. And similar to the Genesis account 
of Noah, Saturn becomes drunk and his naked body is exposed. In the 
classical myths, Saturn becomes intoxicated – and his youngest son 
castrates his naked father – and throws his phallus into the sea.
Saturn
 is not exclusively Noah, but is Father Time and thus the Christ of all 
ages. Noah is the god between worlds; he is the Father of the Post Flood
 epoch. He is one of many heavenly luminaries; who soul migrated into 
the stars. In the Eden Epoch, Saturn is the androgynous Adam Kadmon. He 
is believed to have ruled over the Golden Ages of the antediluvian 
world.
In 
Hinduism, the Earth goes through four cycles – the Golden Age, the 
Silver Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. After the four cycles 
finish, a new world emerges with a new savior. This is similar to 
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of four successive empires. In the dream, he sees
 a giant statue with a head of gold, arms and chest of silver, belly and
 thighs of bronze, legs of iron, and feet of iron mingled with clay. 
Ultimately, the statue is destroyed; and the Final Empire is replaced 
with an everlasting Kingdom of God.
Saturn’s
 symbol is the triangle. The triangle represents Mount Ararat where the 
ark rested. The triangle also symbolizes the Tower of Babel, pyramids of
 Egypt, pagados of Hindus, and ziggurats of the Aztecs.
Another
 sigil of Saturn is the hexagram – or double triangle, which teaches the
 occult maxim “as above, so below”. The hexagram is the national symbol 
of Israel – placed on every Jewish flag. Besides the Star of David, the 
Jews wear the tefillin – a Black Cube of Saturn. Also the Jewish Sabbath
 day – Saturday – is named after god Saturn.
Despite
 the mythos of Saturn being an allegory of Noah; many connect Saturn to 
Satan. This makes sense, because Saturn is associated with the death, 
black, and evil. However, this is also misleading because Satan is a 
created being – and not Father Time. Ultimately, Saturn is based upon a 
dualistic universe. In this false paradigm Satan is depicted as a god. 
Thus, Saturn is a blend of Yahweh and Satan; he is Yahweh vilified and 
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