Tuesday, February 28, 2012
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF BEING FACEBOOK GROUP PAGE
For all who are interested in joining our group on facebook, here is our link. This group contains many sample questions out of our step working guide. It also contains daily auto suggestion meditations and sample sections out of our up coming text book. ENJOY
Thursday, February 16, 2012
A PERSONAL APPEAL TO BILL & MALINDA GATES
A PERSONAL APPEAL TO MR & MRS GATES
Greetings Mr & Mrs Gates:
We have deep appreciation of the fact that the temples you and your wife are in the process of building will be found within the hearts of a collective conscious thirsty for an opportunity to discover their true potential rather decaying upon plains of future ruin.
You have worked tirelessly to place yourself in position to give the gift of your choosing to a world that shall inherit your legacy. Nobody who has achieved a position in life such as you has done so without the aid of powerful forces operating on your behalf. You have had to shoulder much in order to afford yourself the opportunity to affect the sort of change that you hold DEAR TO YOUR HEART.
As a result of your life's work, you and your wife Melinda are of but a few people on this planet with the power at your disposal to affect the change that we, the meek that shall inherit this earth, could cherish with deep and endearing appreciation.
Rather than sit idle in satisfaction of your prior accomplishments, you understand there is still much work to be done and infinitely greater realms of power to be realized through organized effort and practical service.
With the simple plan of action outlined in this document we would like to demonstrate our worthiness to inherit the keys to the kingdom. Please use some of your power to aid us in our mission which we hold EQUALLY DEAR TO OUR OWN HEARTS.
After more than five years of HANDS ON experience in all aspects of our Alliances proposed plan of action, we stand ready and able to effectively actualize our platform on a broader scale where it might be of greater service to the human organism during this most important time of transition.
People need something to do that is constructive. People need to have their fundamental needs met in order to avoid more destructive unconscious creation in the future. People need to have their faith in themselves and their brothers restored. People need to heal the wounds of trauma and loneliness and transmute their most shameful secrets into sources of motivation to serve others in their own recovery. As you shall soon see, every aspect of our plan meets our most fundamental needs and so many more.
Finally, we feel that in order to effect the GREATEST change possible in the SHORTEST amount of time, which is of the ESSENCE, we, meaning our collective and people such as you and your wife, must creatively collaborate together. We bring valuable personal and practical experience to the table in regards to the issues addressed in our proposed plan of action. You provide equally valuable experience to implement this plan of action more effectively and efficiently than we could ever hope to accomplish. Together we can transcend our individual limitations into a vast and all encompassing viewpoint that is much more capable of transmitting LOVE and TRUTH.
At this stage in the game none of us are in a position to point fingers or blame anybody but ourselves and our beliefs for our present situation. We feel that much could be healed if you would also kindly share the same perspective moving forward. We are almost like two totally different types of humanoid who each bring something positive to the playing field of life. We are like carbon and silicon molecules that when combined harness the powers of the sun through solar energy and afford all the precious gift of ENERGY
We do NOT have to let history repeat itself. We, as a collective human organism are much further along in our development then to have to wait on disaster, Either NATURAL or MAN MADE, to bring us together. We can COME TOGETHER NOW. We offer our well thought out plan of action as a sort of cosmic sized social experiment. We have nothing to lose and ALL to gain through merging our mental and physical resources in an organized effort of mutual aid and brotherly love.
By now you can already begin to feel our motivation behind the creation of this plan and perhaps you YOURSELVES feel that very same LOVE AND TRUTH coursing its way through your heart and soul. This being said, the author of this proposed plan of action who is a well schooled student of his own self imposed beliefs asks you a very simple question:
Will you expend your resources trying to stop the bleeding or have the moral courage to take the surgeons scalpel and cut deep enough into the human organism to correct the cause at its source?
Because you have the POWER and we have the DESIRE and ENTHUSIASM. Lets harmonize our individual motivations into a collective MASTERMIND and take care of this beast of human confliction once and for ALL.
Sincerely Yours,
The Creative Collective Alliance
A CREATIVE OASIS INSIDE THE BELLY OF THE BEAST
Copyright 2012 retrocollective Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved
Greetings Mr & Mrs Gates:
We have deep appreciation of the fact that the temples you and your wife are in the process of building will be found within the hearts of a collective conscious thirsty for an opportunity to discover their true potential rather decaying upon plains of future ruin.
You have worked tirelessly to place yourself in position to give the gift of your choosing to a world that shall inherit your legacy. Nobody who has achieved a position in life such as you has done so without the aid of powerful forces operating on your behalf. You have had to shoulder much in order to afford yourself the opportunity to affect the sort of change that you hold DEAR TO YOUR HEART.
As a result of your life's work, you and your wife Melinda are of but a few people on this planet with the power at your disposal to affect the change that we, the meek that shall inherit this earth, could cherish with deep and endearing appreciation.
Rather than sit idle in satisfaction of your prior accomplishments, you understand there is still much work to be done and infinitely greater realms of power to be realized through organized effort and practical service.
With the simple plan of action outlined in this document we would like to demonstrate our worthiness to inherit the keys to the kingdom. Please use some of your power to aid us in our mission which we hold EQUALLY DEAR TO OUR OWN HEARTS.
After more than five years of HANDS ON experience in all aspects of our Alliances proposed plan of action, we stand ready and able to effectively actualize our platform on a broader scale where it might be of greater service to the human organism during this most important time of transition.
People need something to do that is constructive. People need to have their fundamental needs met in order to avoid more destructive unconscious creation in the future. People need to have their faith in themselves and their brothers restored. People need to heal the wounds of trauma and loneliness and transmute their most shameful secrets into sources of motivation to serve others in their own recovery. As you shall soon see, every aspect of our plan meets our most fundamental needs and so many more.
Finally, we feel that in order to effect the GREATEST change possible in the SHORTEST amount of time, which is of the ESSENCE, we, meaning our collective and people such as you and your wife, must creatively collaborate together. We bring valuable personal and practical experience to the table in regards to the issues addressed in our proposed plan of action. You provide equally valuable experience to implement this plan of action more effectively and efficiently than we could ever hope to accomplish. Together we can transcend our individual limitations into a vast and all encompassing viewpoint that is much more capable of transmitting LOVE and TRUTH.
At this stage in the game none of us are in a position to point fingers or blame anybody but ourselves and our beliefs for our present situation. We feel that much could be healed if you would also kindly share the same perspective moving forward. We are almost like two totally different types of humanoid who each bring something positive to the playing field of life. We are like carbon and silicon molecules that when combined harness the powers of the sun through solar energy and afford all the precious gift of ENERGY
We do NOT have to let history repeat itself. We, as a collective human organism are much further along in our development then to have to wait on disaster, Either NATURAL or MAN MADE, to bring us together. We can COME TOGETHER NOW. We offer our well thought out plan of action as a sort of cosmic sized social experiment. We have nothing to lose and ALL to gain through merging our mental and physical resources in an organized effort of mutual aid and brotherly love.
By now you can already begin to feel our motivation behind the creation of this plan and perhaps you YOURSELVES feel that very same LOVE AND TRUTH coursing its way through your heart and soul. This being said, the author of this proposed plan of action who is a well schooled student of his own self imposed beliefs asks you a very simple question:
Will you expend your resources trying to stop the bleeding or have the moral courage to take the surgeons scalpel and cut deep enough into the human organism to correct the cause at its source?
Because you have the POWER and we have the DESIRE and ENTHUSIASM. Lets harmonize our individual motivations into a collective MASTERMIND and take care of this beast of human confliction once and for ALL.
Sincerely Yours,
The Creative Collective Alliance
A CREATIVE OASIS INSIDE THE BELLY OF THE BEAST
Copyright 2012 retrocollective Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved
THE PRESENT SITUATION (PART I)
THE PRESENT SITUATION
OUR EXPLANATION OF:
(1)
THE CAUSE AFFECTING THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CONFLICTION OF MAN
(2)
AN EXPLANATION OF OUR BELIEFS EFFECT MANIFESTED INTO PHYSICAL FORM
(3)
SELF DEFEATING BELIEF EFFECT ON CREATIVE EXPRESSION
(4)
SELF DEFEATING BELIEF EFFECT ON EVOLUTION AND MUTUAL AID
THE CREATIVE COLLECTIVE ALLIANCE
ADDRESSING THE CAUSE RATHER THAN THE EFFECT
(1)
THE CAUSE AFFECTING THE
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CONFLICTION OF MAN
We have come to discover that the primary cause of all EFFECT which manifests itself quite often to our own detriment, within the human organism, originates in our SYSTEM of BELIEFS. Any of our more negative and self defeating beliefs, if traced back to their point of origin, are usually born out of moments of TRAUMA. These source points are the true CAUSE of much negative EFFECT such as addiction, disease, apathy and hopelessness as well as less obvious EFFECT such as the DRIVE for power and prestige. The EFFECTS of our condition are equally opportunistic as evident in every person who jumps to their death either from the Golden Gate Bridge or the Towers of High Finance.
As instruments of creation, we can either transmit love or project fear. Creation in and of itself is beyond the man made realms of GOOD and BAD. Creation, we have learned through our own experience, finds its mode of expression along either conscious or unconscious lines.
We have the ability to distort the TRANSMISSION of love into a dangerous and destructive PROJECTION of fear if the environmental conditions within our own mind are negatively charged in nature. It is what we believe about ourselves, people and the external environment that determines this state of mind.
We take action on a daily basis that either projects fear or transmits love. Every day we wake up to a life that can either seem limited or without limitation. Every day there is a choice that we have to be conscious of the fact that we are making. We have come to understand that we will usually see the world the way we see ourselves.
Any belief that we uphold which is self defeating in nature is another condition we have placed upon the human experience. Any condition of this sort can limit our ability to create and express in a positive and life affirming manor. The true nature of our thoughts and actions ultimately distinguishes the the human condition and spiritual experience.
Our entire suggested plan of action outlined in this proposal aims to achieve specific objectives for all those who are willing to work towards their attainment.
We only help those who have a willingness to help themselves. We are only of service to those who are willing to serve others. We can only aid in the discovery of ones personal truth if they are willing to surrender what they believe to be true. Finally, we always work with what is here NOW, never hoping to CAUSE an effect in the future as a substitution for causing one NOW.
Humanity is evolutionary work in progress. Attempting to induce a revolution
to expedite our evolution is perhaps the grandest ego trip of them all.
The Author
(2)
AN EXPLANATION OF THE EFFECT OF OUR BELIEFS
MANIFESTED INTO PHYSICAL FORM
The very first lie that we accept and incorporate into our belief system is no different than the last. The principle antagonist dwells in all that we believe and re-enforce over the course of our lifetime. Through our own personal experience we have found that over time it becomes increasingly more difficult to distinguish what is TRUE from what we BELIEVE to be true, both about ourselves and the world of which we are a part of.
We incorporate beliefs into our sense of who we think we are and those beliefs begin to dictate the way we perceive ourselves and the image of ourselves that we project onto others. These beliefs are usually formulated via the outside influence of people, places and things. Some beliefs can be positive in nature and of transmitted variety through intimate experience, spiritual seeking, creative expression and more. These types of beliefs are not self defeating in nature, in fact they are life affirming and usually aid in the development of any individual. Other self defeating beliefs are negative in nature and are projected through traumatic interactions with others who were most likely victims of trauma as well. We have found through our own experience that we UNCONSCIOUSLY Create conflict in others to validate the conflict within ourselves. This mixture of fear and creative expression is deadly and common.
We have a theory to explain why this sort of unconscious, fear driven expression is practiced in such an advanced civilization such as our own. Our instincts for survival are activated by fear. Without the threat of real danger our instincts have actually enlisted the aid of our imagination to remain engaged to the extent they are accustom. In other words, we create a threat when it is absolutely unwarranted. We allow fear of the imagined variety to totally take ourselves out of the present moment which is the only moment that we truly have any power at all.
Try to imagine the instinctual fear based part of our brain as a person who used the chief executive officer of MAN I.N.C but is now basically unemployable due to the lack of real demand for his services. This little guy is trying to create scenarios to make himself feel like he is still an asset in the same capacity he once was. The problem is that his activity is pointless and actually causes more harm than good. He is actually creating busy work which is reflective in what motivates so many of us in our quest for self-fulfillment here on earth. He doesn’t even know that he is actually causing major problems for his co-workers, the more rational parts of the brain, and continues to engage in mindless busy work which is self-defeating in nature.
The more time that we have been left to our own devices the more distortion we have invariably created. Do you remember the old saying “idle hands lets the devils work be done”? Well the devil is our fear driven instincts that don’t know what to do with all of the free time. Not to long ago we were really guided by our instincts. Most of our days were spent trying to sustain a basic existence for our family and ourselves. Food and shelter were not taken for granted back then. Survival was a full time job. Fulfilling our basic needs is still a full time job except now we punch time clocks and buy our food at grocery stores which does not require the same instinctual response it once did.
On a biological level we somehow suspect that we are approaching a moment in our evolution in which there will be a shift from our minds being controlled by our base instinct to the extent it now is. In the very near future the duty of our most primary functions may be the responsibility of the more rational parts of our mind. This shift should strengthen the connection to the more spiritual aspect of our being. If the mind, in its current model, were a piece of our coveted technology, it would be reaching a point of obsolescence.
ONCE AGAIN it must be stated that it is our CORE beliefs below the water line of the human condition which has CAUSED the subtle and insidious demise of all civilizations before that of our own. Have we been here before? Have we stood at such a threshold of change and potential advancement only to remain at odds? Is this just the way it has always been and shall always be? Have YOU also accepted this line of reason no matter how illogical and irrational it may be? As we hang treacherously close to the edge of that very same fate we implore that you read our proposed plan of action with all of the earnestness that you possess.
(3)
SELF DEFEATING BELIEF
EFFECT ON CREATIVE EXPRESSION
OUR DEFINITION OF ADDICTION
A conditioned dependence to any psychological or physical mechanism
in order to produce and control a desired emotional effect.
MECHANISM
The agency or means by which an effect is produced or a purpose is accomplished
Lacking healthy alternatives and practical tools to cope with the condition stated in section 2, most of us suffering from the effects caused by our self defeating beliefs forgo our creative aspirations which most always leads to living a life of increased self defeating actions in search of relief from our negative emotional state. Obviously the negative emotional state created by living a life dominated by our self defeating beliefs can become quite emotionally painful. We often seek out relief or distraction through drugs, gambling, sex,, anorexia, food, co dependence, hoarding (ad infinitum) to gain relief from or control over our negative emotions and view of ourselves and our environment. Over time and repetition of use, these external coping mechanisms, which at one time provided relief, later escalate into addictions and become the focus of our perceived troubles. Once this physical and mental obsession ensues we commit our limited energy and resources to sustain our dependence of these very same mechanisms that once provided relief.
Over time, we begin to neglect our more life affirming needs and negative consequences ensue. These consequences such as failed relationships, loss of responsibilities and financial instability become the focus, both to ourselves and those who love us. These consequences of active addiction become the ideal camouflage that our self defeating beliefs hide behind.
Some of us did not experience observable trauma growing up but rather a subtle and negative viewpoint learned from those close to us who were themselves traumatized or had contact with others who were. We have come to see through our own discovery that the effects of trauma spread in much the same manor as a virus. The trauma virus is alive and well and reeking havoc inside the human organism. There are others who, by the physically addictive properties of their mechanism i.e alcohol or opiates became addicted and later experienced trauma as a bi product of supporting their addiction and corresponding lifestyle.
These conditions stated above are all EFFECTS caused by exposure to ones own SELF DEFEATING BELIEFS and UNTREATED TRAUMA or peripherally through others we come into contact with. Members of our collective have experienced all of the conditions listed above and even lost lovers and parents as a direct result of this exact progression of hopelessness and fear originating in beliefs that are defeating in nature.
Men and woman of this lot usually die unfulfilled, never realizing nor sharing their creative genius. Humanity has lost more through this sort of loss than perhaps all the wars fought since the beginning of time. Just as the author of this grant himself has had to walk through the most tragic of human concerns in order to report back to you, It would have been just as easy to succumb to his own doubts and fears and self defeating beliefs and die prematurely without ever sharing the incredible being trapped beneath the layers of sadness, pain and anger. They, speaking from experience, BELIEVE they do not deserve it and must be SHOWN that they are worthy.
The point of importance in nurturing the creative mediums of life force expression is the DISCOVERY or MANIFESTATION of a talent, tendency or adaptation in a given direction. This requires support and encouragement to apprehend, utilize and finally accomplish along certain creative lines.
In any moment when creative action is taken we are NOT reacting to our self defeating beliefs. The practice of taking creative action through any artistic medium ensures victory in ones personal battle against resistance and apathy, which we have discovered to be the most lethal of allies to our self defeating belief system. Men like Hitler stand as perhaps our greatest advocates. If he were encouraged to nurture his own pursuits and not criticized then the course of that segment of history would have at very least had a different villain.
Whenever a book is started, a brush stroke added, a song composed or even an operating system developed, we as creative individuals become open to new and positive experiences with ourselves and the world of which we are a part of.
“It is as natural that one should develop along these lines as for a child to romp and dance in the exuberance of youthful joy”
J.D BUCK
ADDRESSING THE CAUSE RATHER THAN THE EFFECT
Copyright 2012 Retrocollective Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved
OUR EXPLANATION OF:
(1)
THE CAUSE AFFECTING THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CONFLICTION OF MAN
(2)
AN EXPLANATION OF OUR BELIEFS EFFECT MANIFESTED INTO PHYSICAL FORM
(3)
SELF DEFEATING BELIEF EFFECT ON CREATIVE EXPRESSION
(4)
SELF DEFEATING BELIEF EFFECT ON EVOLUTION AND MUTUAL AID
THE CREATIVE COLLECTIVE ALLIANCE
ADDRESSING THE CAUSE RATHER THAN THE EFFECT
(1)
THE CAUSE AFFECTING THE
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CONFLICTION OF MAN
We have come to discover that the primary cause of all EFFECT which manifests itself quite often to our own detriment, within the human organism, originates in our SYSTEM of BELIEFS. Any of our more negative and self defeating beliefs, if traced back to their point of origin, are usually born out of moments of TRAUMA. These source points are the true CAUSE of much negative EFFECT such as addiction, disease, apathy and hopelessness as well as less obvious EFFECT such as the DRIVE for power and prestige. The EFFECTS of our condition are equally opportunistic as evident in every person who jumps to their death either from the Golden Gate Bridge or the Towers of High Finance.
As instruments of creation, we can either transmit love or project fear. Creation in and of itself is beyond the man made realms of GOOD and BAD. Creation, we have learned through our own experience, finds its mode of expression along either conscious or unconscious lines.
We have the ability to distort the TRANSMISSION of love into a dangerous and destructive PROJECTION of fear if the environmental conditions within our own mind are negatively charged in nature. It is what we believe about ourselves, people and the external environment that determines this state of mind.
We take action on a daily basis that either projects fear or transmits love. Every day we wake up to a life that can either seem limited or without limitation. Every day there is a choice that we have to be conscious of the fact that we are making. We have come to understand that we will usually see the world the way we see ourselves.
Any belief that we uphold which is self defeating in nature is another condition we have placed upon the human experience. Any condition of this sort can limit our ability to create and express in a positive and life affirming manor. The true nature of our thoughts and actions ultimately distinguishes the the human condition and spiritual experience.
Our entire suggested plan of action outlined in this proposal aims to achieve specific objectives for all those who are willing to work towards their attainment.
We only help those who have a willingness to help themselves. We are only of service to those who are willing to serve others. We can only aid in the discovery of ones personal truth if they are willing to surrender what they believe to be true. Finally, we always work with what is here NOW, never hoping to CAUSE an effect in the future as a substitution for causing one NOW.
Humanity is evolutionary work in progress. Attempting to induce a revolution
to expedite our evolution is perhaps the grandest ego trip of them all.
The Author
(2)
AN EXPLANATION OF THE EFFECT OF OUR BELIEFS
MANIFESTED INTO PHYSICAL FORM
The very first lie that we accept and incorporate into our belief system is no different than the last. The principle antagonist dwells in all that we believe and re-enforce over the course of our lifetime. Through our own personal experience we have found that over time it becomes increasingly more difficult to distinguish what is TRUE from what we BELIEVE to be true, both about ourselves and the world of which we are a part of.
We incorporate beliefs into our sense of who we think we are and those beliefs begin to dictate the way we perceive ourselves and the image of ourselves that we project onto others. These beliefs are usually formulated via the outside influence of people, places and things. Some beliefs can be positive in nature and of transmitted variety through intimate experience, spiritual seeking, creative expression and more. These types of beliefs are not self defeating in nature, in fact they are life affirming and usually aid in the development of any individual. Other self defeating beliefs are negative in nature and are projected through traumatic interactions with others who were most likely victims of trauma as well. We have found through our own experience that we UNCONSCIOUSLY Create conflict in others to validate the conflict within ourselves. This mixture of fear and creative expression is deadly and common.
We have a theory to explain why this sort of unconscious, fear driven expression is practiced in such an advanced civilization such as our own. Our instincts for survival are activated by fear. Without the threat of real danger our instincts have actually enlisted the aid of our imagination to remain engaged to the extent they are accustom. In other words, we create a threat when it is absolutely unwarranted. We allow fear of the imagined variety to totally take ourselves out of the present moment which is the only moment that we truly have any power at all.
Try to imagine the instinctual fear based part of our brain as a person who used the chief executive officer of MAN I.N.C but is now basically unemployable due to the lack of real demand for his services. This little guy is trying to create scenarios to make himself feel like he is still an asset in the same capacity he once was. The problem is that his activity is pointless and actually causes more harm than good. He is actually creating busy work which is reflective in what motivates so many of us in our quest for self-fulfillment here on earth. He doesn’t even know that he is actually causing major problems for his co-workers, the more rational parts of the brain, and continues to engage in mindless busy work which is self-defeating in nature.
The more time that we have been left to our own devices the more distortion we have invariably created. Do you remember the old saying “idle hands lets the devils work be done”? Well the devil is our fear driven instincts that don’t know what to do with all of the free time. Not to long ago we were really guided by our instincts. Most of our days were spent trying to sustain a basic existence for our family and ourselves. Food and shelter were not taken for granted back then. Survival was a full time job. Fulfilling our basic needs is still a full time job except now we punch time clocks and buy our food at grocery stores which does not require the same instinctual response it once did.
On a biological level we somehow suspect that we are approaching a moment in our evolution in which there will be a shift from our minds being controlled by our base instinct to the extent it now is. In the very near future the duty of our most primary functions may be the responsibility of the more rational parts of our mind. This shift should strengthen the connection to the more spiritual aspect of our being. If the mind, in its current model, were a piece of our coveted technology, it would be reaching a point of obsolescence.
ONCE AGAIN it must be stated that it is our CORE beliefs below the water line of the human condition which has CAUSED the subtle and insidious demise of all civilizations before that of our own. Have we been here before? Have we stood at such a threshold of change and potential advancement only to remain at odds? Is this just the way it has always been and shall always be? Have YOU also accepted this line of reason no matter how illogical and irrational it may be? As we hang treacherously close to the edge of that very same fate we implore that you read our proposed plan of action with all of the earnestness that you possess.
(3)
SELF DEFEATING BELIEF
EFFECT ON CREATIVE EXPRESSION
OUR DEFINITION OF ADDICTION
A conditioned dependence to any psychological or physical mechanism
in order to produce and control a desired emotional effect.
MECHANISM
The agency or means by which an effect is produced or a purpose is accomplished
Lacking healthy alternatives and practical tools to cope with the condition stated in section 2, most of us suffering from the effects caused by our self defeating beliefs forgo our creative aspirations which most always leads to living a life of increased self defeating actions in search of relief from our negative emotional state. Obviously the negative emotional state created by living a life dominated by our self defeating beliefs can become quite emotionally painful. We often seek out relief or distraction through drugs, gambling, sex,, anorexia, food, co dependence, hoarding (ad infinitum) to gain relief from or control over our negative emotions and view of ourselves and our environment. Over time and repetition of use, these external coping mechanisms, which at one time provided relief, later escalate into addictions and become the focus of our perceived troubles. Once this physical and mental obsession ensues we commit our limited energy and resources to sustain our dependence of these very same mechanisms that once provided relief.
Over time, we begin to neglect our more life affirming needs and negative consequences ensue. These consequences such as failed relationships, loss of responsibilities and financial instability become the focus, both to ourselves and those who love us. These consequences of active addiction become the ideal camouflage that our self defeating beliefs hide behind.
Some of us did not experience observable trauma growing up but rather a subtle and negative viewpoint learned from those close to us who were themselves traumatized or had contact with others who were. We have come to see through our own discovery that the effects of trauma spread in much the same manor as a virus. The trauma virus is alive and well and reeking havoc inside the human organism. There are others who, by the physically addictive properties of their mechanism i.e alcohol or opiates became addicted and later experienced trauma as a bi product of supporting their addiction and corresponding lifestyle.
These conditions stated above are all EFFECTS caused by exposure to ones own SELF DEFEATING BELIEFS and UNTREATED TRAUMA or peripherally through others we come into contact with. Members of our collective have experienced all of the conditions listed above and even lost lovers and parents as a direct result of this exact progression of hopelessness and fear originating in beliefs that are defeating in nature.
Men and woman of this lot usually die unfulfilled, never realizing nor sharing their creative genius. Humanity has lost more through this sort of loss than perhaps all the wars fought since the beginning of time. Just as the author of this grant himself has had to walk through the most tragic of human concerns in order to report back to you, It would have been just as easy to succumb to his own doubts and fears and self defeating beliefs and die prematurely without ever sharing the incredible being trapped beneath the layers of sadness, pain and anger. They, speaking from experience, BELIEVE they do not deserve it and must be SHOWN that they are worthy.
The point of importance in nurturing the creative mediums of life force expression is the DISCOVERY or MANIFESTATION of a talent, tendency or adaptation in a given direction. This requires support and encouragement to apprehend, utilize and finally accomplish along certain creative lines.
In any moment when creative action is taken we are NOT reacting to our self defeating beliefs. The practice of taking creative action through any artistic medium ensures victory in ones personal battle against resistance and apathy, which we have discovered to be the most lethal of allies to our self defeating belief system. Men like Hitler stand as perhaps our greatest advocates. If he were encouraged to nurture his own pursuits and not criticized then the course of that segment of history would have at very least had a different villain.
Whenever a book is started, a brush stroke added, a song composed or even an operating system developed, we as creative individuals become open to new and positive experiences with ourselves and the world of which we are a part of.
“It is as natural that one should develop along these lines as for a child to romp and dance in the exuberance of youthful joy”
J.D BUCK
ADDRESSING THE CAUSE RATHER THAN THE EFFECT
Copyright 2012 Retrocollective Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved
CAME TO SEE THAT OUR BEING IS MORE POWERFUL THAN OUR SELF DEFEATING BELIEFS
CAME TO SEE THAT OUR BEING IS MORE POWERFUL THAN OUR SELF DEFEATING BELIEFS
There are many beliefs we my have about ourselves that limit our power to achieve the sort of life that really matters to us. Every belief we maintain is another limiting condition we have placed on our human experience. Lets take a look at LOVE. We have all heard the expression "Unconditional Love" before but what exactly is unconditional love? To understand we must first define the word CONDITION. A Condition is a restricting, limiting or modifying circumstance. Therefore unconditional simply means not limited by restricting, limiting or modifying circumstances. Any belief that we uphold in our mind is in FACT a condition we have placed upon our ability to love. If we BELIEVE we are not worthy of love we must ask ourselves why this is so? Is it LOVE or is it our BELIEF that we are unworthy that has placed limitation and restriction on our human experience? For now we pose one question to the reader: Are you aligned with your "BEING" which transmits love or your "SELF" which places CONDITIONS on love by upholding ITS OWN DEFEATING BELIEF that it is unworthy?
Mariposa The Cat: My Spiritual Teacher
As sure as our own pet sits in our lap while we watch a movie or read a book late at night we can disprove the BELIEF that we are not worthy of love. Our domesticated furry friends have a very important job on earth. Many of us have sought out a pet as a way of sharing intimacy and love with another living thing. We know that these cats and dogs will not turn on us, break our hearts or hurt us in the many ways we have been CONDITIONED to believe our fellow humans could. Animals are a safe bet for the most part.
Sometimes, as those of you who have rescued your pets from shelters already know, many such animals have been severely abused and traumatized and the effects of this trauma are very evident in the way they interact with us and other animals. Many of us have been affected the the very same sort of experiences and those experiences have conditioned our response to love. Members of our own Alliance have rescued their pets from the animal equivalent of jails and orphanages. It has been our experience that it takes quite some time to UNDO the trauma their pets have had to endure and in some cases their pets, even after many years of consistent love and nurturing still have aversions to the love of their human companion. The author of this book would like to share a personal story to better illustrate his point.
When I was newly sober and in transition I lived at a recovery house in east Hollywood for about a year. This was a grand old house built around the turn of the century. It was, and still is the home to about 25 men who are all newly sober and in transition themselves. Among the human residents was one female of the four legged and furry variety. She was a young cat maybe a year in age named Mariposa. Her and I instantly hit it off and over the course of my year long stay there developed quite a fondness for one another.
That was a particularly creative period for me in which I developed much of the foundation for my work today. I can recall countless times that I would be pecking away at my keyboard writing my thoughts on life when suddenly out of nowhere Mariposa would enter the room and literally jump on my lap and want to sit on my key board as I worked. I was very connected to my own being and conscious of the grand design of things during that time and because of this awareness I began to take notice of the times when she would pay me a visit. Invariably, in hindsight, she would engage in this odd affection with me when I was formulating my most fundamental points. As if we were connected by an invisible thread of consciousness, she came to me like like I was one of Pavlov's dogs to validate and reward my efforts.
After a while I actually began to take cues and silent advice from Mariposa. As you could imagine, I was very unsure of what I was working on and had little understanding of why I felt so compelled to sit at a desk every day for hours upon end and put my thoughts on paper. I was not motivated to publish a book or be the next self proclaimed guru of self help. I was merely co creating with the powers of love and truth because I was willing and open to doing so.
Mariposa honestly got me through some serious moments of self doubt and resistance. She affectionately and unconditionally nudged me along and helped me through these dark periods. After about a year and 364 pages of material the creative well had indeed run dry. I was not yet experienced enough to honor the process and wait for the next logical step to revile itself to me. I began doing what we all have done from time to time in our lives. I started to UNCONSCIOUSLY find some sort of validation for myself.
My mind turned this creative process into an escape and a drug that I had to have more of. I arrogantly envisioned myself as the next STAR of Oprah's book of the month club and set off in a fear driven frenzy to GET what was owed to me for MY WORK. I will share the details of that painful process in another section but needless to say that it did not take long before I was out the door and back on drugs trying to invalidate the beautiful process I had just had. In doing so I left the house and my good friend Mariposa in the dust.
I never once considered how this sudden abandonment would effect her. She is just a cat right? She is not going to even notice my absence right? It would be a very long time until her and I would cross paths again but as fate would have it that day did indeed come and I once again found myself newly recovered and living under her roof again. Five years had passed since our time together and needless to say I was over come with joy to be in her life again. She was older now and fatter as she should be. Fat cats are happy cats I thought to myself. But, as I soon discovered, she was not nearly as happy to see me as I was to see her. She was in fact very distant and withdrawn to the extent that I had to ask the house manager if she was the same cat. She looked like the same cat but her demeanor and openness had shifted. At first I took this personally. I considered one of two things were happening here. Either she surely DID not remember who I was of she had become effected by her surroundings.
This is when I removed myself from the situation and examined it objectively. I assessed the real issues at hand in her environment. I put myself in her paws if you will. I then realized that there were probably more than 100 other men who had abruptly abandoned Mariposa since I had left over five yeas ago. The effects of these sudden detachments from the Men in her life had manifested in her a belief that to get close was to get hurt because it was only a matter of time till she would in fact be left in the dust once more.
In this particular case this belief of hers is totally valid because of the unique environment she is a part of. It would be like a woman serving life behind bars who would have to accept her own limiting environment. This woman would surely be effected by the inmates coming and going and after a while simply withdraw from the painful process of growing close only to be ABANDONED again. She would however, still welcome the visits of her loved ones even though she knew the visit would enevitably end and they too would leave her. The difference is that those who visited her and whom she knew loved her would always be connected with her on a level of consciousness. Mariposa, like our friend behind bars, had seen so many come and then go that she too had been CONDITIONED to accept her reality.
We have similar experiences as humans but often times these experiences turn into fixed beliefs that we unconsciously uphold in our relations with others. We are accepting the conditions that ARE WITHIN OUR CONTROL as if the were NOT and protecting our hearts to limit the pain of the vicious cycle that Mariposa HAS to endure. She, I have come to discover is one SMART and spiritually connected cat. Over the three months that we have been back in each others life I have made it a point to TRANSMIT my love to her and make a conscious effort to give her the process of decided for herself if she wants to be my buddy again. She KNOWS that I will leave again and she will not have me around forever. But what is important to me was that I acknowledged her situation and did not impose my will on her out of a need for closeness NOW.
There is an organic unfoldment to all intimate relationships which must be honored to ever be intimate. I understood this in my own consciousness and transmitted this awareness to her. Before long she was back to her old ways and would run up to me while in the back yard meditating and sit under my chair. Then shortly there after she would come sleep with me like she used to. I made it a point to keep my door open so she was always free to go as she pleased. Over time she began to trust that I understood and more and more came to rest on my perch. These days she can be found fast asleep on my bed all day long more often than not. This is not because I am some super human magical individual although there are many times that my ego has run with this in the past, almost always to my own detriment. The reason she has grown close to me once more is because I took the time to understand and to let her know this with my own consciousness.
Copyright 2012 Retrocollective Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved
There are many beliefs we my have about ourselves that limit our power to achieve the sort of life that really matters to us. Every belief we maintain is another limiting condition we have placed on our human experience. Lets take a look at LOVE. We have all heard the expression "Unconditional Love" before but what exactly is unconditional love? To understand we must first define the word CONDITION. A Condition is a restricting, limiting or modifying circumstance. Therefore unconditional simply means not limited by restricting, limiting or modifying circumstances. Any belief that we uphold in our mind is in FACT a condition we have placed upon our ability to love. If we BELIEVE we are not worthy of love we must ask ourselves why this is so? Is it LOVE or is it our BELIEF that we are unworthy that has placed limitation and restriction on our human experience? For now we pose one question to the reader: Are you aligned with your "BEING" which transmits love or your "SELF" which places CONDITIONS on love by upholding ITS OWN DEFEATING BELIEF that it is unworthy?
Mariposa The Cat: My Spiritual Teacher
As sure as our own pet sits in our lap while we watch a movie or read a book late at night we can disprove the BELIEF that we are not worthy of love. Our domesticated furry friends have a very important job on earth. Many of us have sought out a pet as a way of sharing intimacy and love with another living thing. We know that these cats and dogs will not turn on us, break our hearts or hurt us in the many ways we have been CONDITIONED to believe our fellow humans could. Animals are a safe bet for the most part.
Sometimes, as those of you who have rescued your pets from shelters already know, many such animals have been severely abused and traumatized and the effects of this trauma are very evident in the way they interact with us and other animals. Many of us have been affected the the very same sort of experiences and those experiences have conditioned our response to love. Members of our own Alliance have rescued their pets from the animal equivalent of jails and orphanages. It has been our experience that it takes quite some time to UNDO the trauma their pets have had to endure and in some cases their pets, even after many years of consistent love and nurturing still have aversions to the love of their human companion. The author of this book would like to share a personal story to better illustrate his point.
When I was newly sober and in transition I lived at a recovery house in east Hollywood for about a year. This was a grand old house built around the turn of the century. It was, and still is the home to about 25 men who are all newly sober and in transition themselves. Among the human residents was one female of the four legged and furry variety. She was a young cat maybe a year in age named Mariposa. Her and I instantly hit it off and over the course of my year long stay there developed quite a fondness for one another.
That was a particularly creative period for me in which I developed much of the foundation for my work today. I can recall countless times that I would be pecking away at my keyboard writing my thoughts on life when suddenly out of nowhere Mariposa would enter the room and literally jump on my lap and want to sit on my key board as I worked. I was very connected to my own being and conscious of the grand design of things during that time and because of this awareness I began to take notice of the times when she would pay me a visit. Invariably, in hindsight, she would engage in this odd affection with me when I was formulating my most fundamental points. As if we were connected by an invisible thread of consciousness, she came to me like like I was one of Pavlov's dogs to validate and reward my efforts.
After a while I actually began to take cues and silent advice from Mariposa. As you could imagine, I was very unsure of what I was working on and had little understanding of why I felt so compelled to sit at a desk every day for hours upon end and put my thoughts on paper. I was not motivated to publish a book or be the next self proclaimed guru of self help. I was merely co creating with the powers of love and truth because I was willing and open to doing so.
Mariposa honestly got me through some serious moments of self doubt and resistance. She affectionately and unconditionally nudged me along and helped me through these dark periods. After about a year and 364 pages of material the creative well had indeed run dry. I was not yet experienced enough to honor the process and wait for the next logical step to revile itself to me. I began doing what we all have done from time to time in our lives. I started to UNCONSCIOUSLY find some sort of validation for myself.
My mind turned this creative process into an escape and a drug that I had to have more of. I arrogantly envisioned myself as the next STAR of Oprah's book of the month club and set off in a fear driven frenzy to GET what was owed to me for MY WORK. I will share the details of that painful process in another section but needless to say that it did not take long before I was out the door and back on drugs trying to invalidate the beautiful process I had just had. In doing so I left the house and my good friend Mariposa in the dust.
I never once considered how this sudden abandonment would effect her. She is just a cat right? She is not going to even notice my absence right? It would be a very long time until her and I would cross paths again but as fate would have it that day did indeed come and I once again found myself newly recovered and living under her roof again. Five years had passed since our time together and needless to say I was over come with joy to be in her life again. She was older now and fatter as she should be. Fat cats are happy cats I thought to myself. But, as I soon discovered, she was not nearly as happy to see me as I was to see her. She was in fact very distant and withdrawn to the extent that I had to ask the house manager if she was the same cat. She looked like the same cat but her demeanor and openness had shifted. At first I took this personally. I considered one of two things were happening here. Either she surely DID not remember who I was of she had become effected by her surroundings.
This is when I removed myself from the situation and examined it objectively. I assessed the real issues at hand in her environment. I put myself in her paws if you will. I then realized that there were probably more than 100 other men who had abruptly abandoned Mariposa since I had left over five yeas ago. The effects of these sudden detachments from the Men in her life had manifested in her a belief that to get close was to get hurt because it was only a matter of time till she would in fact be left in the dust once more.
In this particular case this belief of hers is totally valid because of the unique environment she is a part of. It would be like a woman serving life behind bars who would have to accept her own limiting environment. This woman would surely be effected by the inmates coming and going and after a while simply withdraw from the painful process of growing close only to be ABANDONED again. She would however, still welcome the visits of her loved ones even though she knew the visit would enevitably end and they too would leave her. The difference is that those who visited her and whom she knew loved her would always be connected with her on a level of consciousness. Mariposa, like our friend behind bars, had seen so many come and then go that she too had been CONDITIONED to accept her reality.
We have similar experiences as humans but often times these experiences turn into fixed beliefs that we unconsciously uphold in our relations with others. We are accepting the conditions that ARE WITHIN OUR CONTROL as if the were NOT and protecting our hearts to limit the pain of the vicious cycle that Mariposa HAS to endure. She, I have come to discover is one SMART and spiritually connected cat. Over the three months that we have been back in each others life I have made it a point to TRANSMIT my love to her and make a conscious effort to give her the process of decided for herself if she wants to be my buddy again. She KNOWS that I will leave again and she will not have me around forever. But what is important to me was that I acknowledged her situation and did not impose my will on her out of a need for closeness NOW.
There is an organic unfoldment to all intimate relationships which must be honored to ever be intimate. I understood this in my own consciousness and transmitted this awareness to her. Before long she was back to her old ways and would run up to me while in the back yard meditating and sit under my chair. Then shortly there after she would come sleep with me like she used to. I made it a point to keep my door open so she was always free to go as she pleased. Over time she began to trust that I understood and more and more came to rest on my perch. These days she can be found fast asleep on my bed all day long more often than not. This is not because I am some super human magical individual although there are many times that my ego has run with this in the past, almost always to my own detriment. The reason she has grown close to me once more is because I took the time to understand and to let her know this with my own consciousness.
Copyright 2012 Retrocollective Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved
Saturday, February 11, 2012
DEVELOPMENTS LEADING UP TO OUR PRESENT CONDITIONS
DEVELOPMENTS LEADING UP TO OUR PRESENT CONDITIONS
(1)
A BELIEF THAT WE ARE NOT ENOUGH BECOMES A BELIEF THAT THERE IS NOT ENOUGH
(2)
TRAUMAS ROLE IN DEVELOPING SELF DEFEATING BELIEFS IN THE INDIVIDUAL
(3)
THE GARDEN OF EDEN & HEALING THE WOUND
(1)
A BELIEF THAT THERE IS NOT ENOUGH
REFLECTS A BELIEF THAT WE ARE NOT ENOUGH
If there is a fundamental belief that there is NOT ENOUGH which permeates the human organism then we will think this FALSE BELIEF into existence which is evident in all four directions in which a compass points. If there is a Fundamental belief that WE are not enough then we will rape our planet and each other in pursuit of its validation.
In our own country the pursuit of happiness is a far cry for its actual attainment. In our fear driven obsession to CHASE WHAT MATTERS, we have found that what truly matters, THE SAFETY AND COMFORT IN OUR OWN BEING cannot be reproduced by the wheels of industry nor obscured by the machines of war.
Although Creative Collective Alliance's structure is only in its formative stage of development we have already begun to experience its ability to emancipate our individual consciousness from the man made BELIEF in lacking and limitation which we had accepted as TRUTH for most of our lives. As has been our own discovery, there is nothing more dangerous than a MAN who believes his own deceptions of SELF and proceeds to build his life upon them as if they were the truth. Through applied spiritual principles, creative action and service we are living proof that through the reconciliation of self destructive beliefs, the projection of trauma, which has been handed down through the ages, could potentially do no further harm.
It is our BELIEF that if the same energy, resources and man power were put into healing the auto affliction of man at its source rather through its external symptoms such as war, disease, apathy and addiction, we as a collective human organism would in fact thrive at epidemic proportions. If all that was invested into the war on WHATEVER was applied to healing a child in their moment of trauma as well as aiding all those already infected with its destructive effects then there would be no further need for Jails, Institutions, Force and Ignorance.
This brings us to the next and perhaps most fundamental question the author of this grant has to pose to its reader: Will YOU continue to expend your own resources and life force trying to stop the bleeding you see all around you and perhaps deep within your own being or will YOU have the moral courage to take the surgeons scalpel and cut deep enough into your own consciousness to correct the cause at its source?
The GOOD COP/BAD COP scenario is playing out within the confines of our own mind. We have the devil sitting on one shoulder as an example of BAD and Jesus sitting on the other as an example of GOOD. It is in the misapplication of ones subjective knowledge that ANY and ALL suffering takes place. If the countless others did not resolve to prove or disprove their BELIEF in WHATEVER then hundreds of millions more lives would have died a natural death.
In the end, of what value is a life lived under the artificial vail of right and wrong? What power does anyone have who subscribes to this line of reasoning truly have at their disposal? Is this fear driven waste of life force expression not the very foundation of every life that comes to a sad and familiar end? What value did this fruitless support of a BELIEF in good and bad bear in lives of those who have died before us? Will we just follow in their DISTORTED and conflicted footsteps?
Do we really believe that we not capable of doing anything else?
Can you as an INDIVIDUAL rise above the murky quicksand of YOUR own beliefs and help others who are willing to do the same? Or will you expend you precious gift of life trying to change the minds of those too invested in their own beliefs and obstinately remain too blind to see?
Avoid at all costs BECOMING or REMAINING the sort of individual that forces their own confusion on others. This is MISERY of THE HIGHEST ORDER.
Will you wait for the consent of your fellow prisoners to HONOR your deep and fundamental NEED? Can YOU emancipate YOURSELF from the strangle hold of their deceased dream?
Do you have the courage and love of what and who YOU TRULY are to BURN ALL YOUR BRIDGES and honor your most private and fragile dreams and bring them to fruition?
Do not TURN this desire that holds the key fulfillment into an imaginary villain.
Don't let this most precious seed of desire fall prey to your learned DOUBTS AND FEARS.
Your desire and faith will get you over the rim of resistance learned by those who came before you.
Continuing to harbor their insane dream is A FORCE sure to pull you under... Like the crabs in a barrel.... to certain death--
We have innate creative faculties which must find adequate outlets for expression for the necessary nourishment of our creative nature. Without positive ways in which to express these energies we will continue to create world wars and diseases which turn the wheels of of industry but for the benefit of who?
WE ALL SHARE THE SAME WOUND AND IT IS THROUGH THE WOUND WE WILL UNITE.
Any power that is built upon FEAR is bound to crumble and disintegrate. Understand this great truth and you will never be so unfortunate as to try to raise yourself to power through the FEARS of other people who may owe you temporary allegiance.
-Napoleon Hill
(2)
TRAUMAS ROLE IN DEVELOPING
SELF DEFEATING BELIEFS IN THE INDIVIDUAL
Our own personal experiences described in this section illustrates a fundamental need within our own community. We can only speak our truth and do not claim to be anything other than experts of our own experience. We do not make any claims outside the realm of own personal experience. Just as there is no therapeutic equivalent to the value of one drug addict or alcoholic relating to another, we are only capable of relating with each other and finding the precious gift of service in our mutual aid and creative expression. We have come to realize that the wound of trauma and its resulting beliefs which are self defeating in nature may be a life long struggle but one that is well worth the effort. We are also in agreement that if one is to engage in a struggle of any sort that it should be one that has the capacity to kill the snake of human suffering by chopping off its head rather up its tail, piece by piece . Peeling back the layers of an onion will leed to the absolute FACT that in order to alter ones belief based on past events they must have new experiences that disprove what they had accepted as fact. In order to EVER know we must experience it first. What many ONLY know is what they have experienced in their past and many times these experiences have hampered their ability to experience anything else.
The effect of trauma causes an inability to sustain intimate relations with others. This lack of intimacy is the root of all confliction within the human organism and this confliction is kept alive by our self defeating belief system.
In the most precious moments of human development between an innocent child and their most primary care providers ensue the most tragic of crimes against man. The mental and emotional health of a child becomes compromised through a direct violation of trust and emotional need.
Parents, themselves survivors of trauma, who see the blinding and unconditional love inside their children's eyes have the most unfortunate response. They, or more specifically, their distorted perception of their beliefs see the love and truth in a child's eyes as a threat to their own trauma spawned belief system. Once again, through our experience we have discovered that parents will unconsciously project this distortion onto the consciousness of their own child as they had done unto them in their days of approximate youth. This an unconscious initiation from one generation to the next is the mode by which the “trauma Virus” is supported.
Through our own personal research within the linage of our own members history with trauma we have discovered some shocking correlations that we must revile. In many cases, the abuse (trauma) occurs between the parent and child at around the same time in the child's development that the parent themselves were traumatized. The parent, actually gives the most devastating and distorted conception of love to their off spring in the form of the modes outlined above in order to relate with their child in a sick but familiar way. Of course in these moments they are not even present in their body much like they had to leave their own body when they themselves were the recipient of trauma from those who came before them. . Much like the physical act of cutting or the many types of its emotional equivalent the perpetrator goes into an instinct trance. They do in fact overcome by their own activated instinct drive which in that source moment, has overridden their rational brain.
The most vicious criminals that currently sit behind bars have absorbed some of the worst traumas known to man. The homeless who wander the streets uttering their fragmented thoughts to themselves are also victims of trauma. The bankers on wall street who are driven to acquire at the expense of a nation are also trauma survivors. None of these examples should be judged or branded as BAD. They are the effect of a cause that we ALL share the burden of reconciling.
We all share the same wound and it is through this wound that we will unite.
One of the most primary needs humans lack in this age of terminal velocity is that of vulnerability and intimacy in their communication and communion of one another. We at the alliance have discovered that they one thing that we can all do to bridge the gap created out of belief and trauma is to foster environments that nurture both creative expression and mutual aid.
Rather than beating one another into a place of familiar pain and submission we can serve one another with the basic understanding that we are all damaged goods. If we accept the fact that we are fragile rather than believe that we are broken then there is room for healing to take place.
(3)
THE GARDEN OF EDEN,
HEALING THE WOUND
We share a sense of urgency to do everything within our power to balance out the field of play into localized, sustainable horizontal networks of interconnected cells working together toward the realization a higher purpose. The days of building ones personal Tower Of Babel drew to a close with the demise of the World Trade Center.
As was evident on that day, sometimes it takes a disaster to bring humanity together. For better or worse 9-11 was indeed a world wide wake up call. What seemed as a perpetration of EVIL to those entangled in the man made realms of GOOD And BAD has grown into a necessary awakening of the sleeping giant of consciousness which had been in hibernation since the GARDEN OF EDEN.
The Garden of Eden was forever transformed into The Garden Of Needing from the moment Adam reached for something outside of his own connection to his source, spirit, being or god to validate himself. This of course is not a literal story though it has been accepted as such since we first came to contemplate things other than our own nourishment and procreation.
The Garden could very well have been In Utero, inside our own mother. As we develop within the womb so too does our brain as it prepares us for the inevitable moment of independence and self sufficiency. The serpent from the story could very well have been symbolic of the instinctual mind preparing Adam for his inevitable birth into the physical realm. The deep sleep ensued just after Adam did exactly what God warned him not to do.
The tree of knowledge bore fruit which Adam could not resist much in the same way infants are unable to resist the projections of beliefs from those who have come before them. Adam, much like ourselves, honored his GOD given ability to freely choose his own actions.
The problem lies not in the actions we take, for life is a learning experience, but the trouble lies in the shame, blame and regret we attach to those very same actions.
“Seeking out the validation of confused minds only makes my own mind more confused”
Copyright 2012 Retrocollective Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved
(1)
A BELIEF THAT WE ARE NOT ENOUGH BECOMES A BELIEF THAT THERE IS NOT ENOUGH
(2)
TRAUMAS ROLE IN DEVELOPING SELF DEFEATING BELIEFS IN THE INDIVIDUAL
(3)
THE GARDEN OF EDEN & HEALING THE WOUND
(1)
A BELIEF THAT THERE IS NOT ENOUGH
REFLECTS A BELIEF THAT WE ARE NOT ENOUGH
If there is a fundamental belief that there is NOT ENOUGH which permeates the human organism then we will think this FALSE BELIEF into existence which is evident in all four directions in which a compass points. If there is a Fundamental belief that WE are not enough then we will rape our planet and each other in pursuit of its validation.
In our own country the pursuit of happiness is a far cry for its actual attainment. In our fear driven obsession to CHASE WHAT MATTERS, we have found that what truly matters, THE SAFETY AND COMFORT IN OUR OWN BEING cannot be reproduced by the wheels of industry nor obscured by the machines of war.
Although Creative Collective Alliance's structure is only in its formative stage of development we have already begun to experience its ability to emancipate our individual consciousness from the man made BELIEF in lacking and limitation which we had accepted as TRUTH for most of our lives. As has been our own discovery, there is nothing more dangerous than a MAN who believes his own deceptions of SELF and proceeds to build his life upon them as if they were the truth. Through applied spiritual principles, creative action and service we are living proof that through the reconciliation of self destructive beliefs, the projection of trauma, which has been handed down through the ages, could potentially do no further harm.
It is our BELIEF that if the same energy, resources and man power were put into healing the auto affliction of man at its source rather through its external symptoms such as war, disease, apathy and addiction, we as a collective human organism would in fact thrive at epidemic proportions. If all that was invested into the war on WHATEVER was applied to healing a child in their moment of trauma as well as aiding all those already infected with its destructive effects then there would be no further need for Jails, Institutions, Force and Ignorance.
This brings us to the next and perhaps most fundamental question the author of this grant has to pose to its reader: Will YOU continue to expend your own resources and life force trying to stop the bleeding you see all around you and perhaps deep within your own being or will YOU have the moral courage to take the surgeons scalpel and cut deep enough into your own consciousness to correct the cause at its source?
The GOOD COP/BAD COP scenario is playing out within the confines of our own mind. We have the devil sitting on one shoulder as an example of BAD and Jesus sitting on the other as an example of GOOD. It is in the misapplication of ones subjective knowledge that ANY and ALL suffering takes place. If the countless others did not resolve to prove or disprove their BELIEF in WHATEVER then hundreds of millions more lives would have died a natural death.
In the end, of what value is a life lived under the artificial vail of right and wrong? What power does anyone have who subscribes to this line of reasoning truly have at their disposal? Is this fear driven waste of life force expression not the very foundation of every life that comes to a sad and familiar end? What value did this fruitless support of a BELIEF in good and bad bear in lives of those who have died before us? Will we just follow in their DISTORTED and conflicted footsteps?
Do we really believe that we not capable of doing anything else?
Can you as an INDIVIDUAL rise above the murky quicksand of YOUR own beliefs and help others who are willing to do the same? Or will you expend you precious gift of life trying to change the minds of those too invested in their own beliefs and obstinately remain too blind to see?
Avoid at all costs BECOMING or REMAINING the sort of individual that forces their own confusion on others. This is MISERY of THE HIGHEST ORDER.
Will you wait for the consent of your fellow prisoners to HONOR your deep and fundamental NEED? Can YOU emancipate YOURSELF from the strangle hold of their deceased dream?
Do you have the courage and love of what and who YOU TRULY are to BURN ALL YOUR BRIDGES and honor your most private and fragile dreams and bring them to fruition?
Do not TURN this desire that holds the key fulfillment into an imaginary villain.
Don't let this most precious seed of desire fall prey to your learned DOUBTS AND FEARS.
Your desire and faith will get you over the rim of resistance learned by those who came before you.
Continuing to harbor their insane dream is A FORCE sure to pull you under... Like the crabs in a barrel.... to certain death--
We have innate creative faculties which must find adequate outlets for expression for the necessary nourishment of our creative nature. Without positive ways in which to express these energies we will continue to create world wars and diseases which turn the wheels of of industry but for the benefit of who?
WE ALL SHARE THE SAME WOUND AND IT IS THROUGH THE WOUND WE WILL UNITE.
Any power that is built upon FEAR is bound to crumble and disintegrate. Understand this great truth and you will never be so unfortunate as to try to raise yourself to power through the FEARS of other people who may owe you temporary allegiance.
-Napoleon Hill
(2)
TRAUMAS ROLE IN DEVELOPING
SELF DEFEATING BELIEFS IN THE INDIVIDUAL
Our own personal experiences described in this section illustrates a fundamental need within our own community. We can only speak our truth and do not claim to be anything other than experts of our own experience. We do not make any claims outside the realm of own personal experience. Just as there is no therapeutic equivalent to the value of one drug addict or alcoholic relating to another, we are only capable of relating with each other and finding the precious gift of service in our mutual aid and creative expression. We have come to realize that the wound of trauma and its resulting beliefs which are self defeating in nature may be a life long struggle but one that is well worth the effort. We are also in agreement that if one is to engage in a struggle of any sort that it should be one that has the capacity to kill the snake of human suffering by chopping off its head rather up its tail, piece by piece . Peeling back the layers of an onion will leed to the absolute FACT that in order to alter ones belief based on past events they must have new experiences that disprove what they had accepted as fact. In order to EVER know we must experience it first. What many ONLY know is what they have experienced in their past and many times these experiences have hampered their ability to experience anything else.
The effect of trauma causes an inability to sustain intimate relations with others. This lack of intimacy is the root of all confliction within the human organism and this confliction is kept alive by our self defeating belief system.
In the most precious moments of human development between an innocent child and their most primary care providers ensue the most tragic of crimes against man. The mental and emotional health of a child becomes compromised through a direct violation of trust and emotional need.
Parents, themselves survivors of trauma, who see the blinding and unconditional love inside their children's eyes have the most unfortunate response. They, or more specifically, their distorted perception of their beliefs see the love and truth in a child's eyes as a threat to their own trauma spawned belief system. Once again, through our experience we have discovered that parents will unconsciously project this distortion onto the consciousness of their own child as they had done unto them in their days of approximate youth. This an unconscious initiation from one generation to the next is the mode by which the “trauma Virus” is supported.
Through our own personal research within the linage of our own members history with trauma we have discovered some shocking correlations that we must revile. In many cases, the abuse (trauma) occurs between the parent and child at around the same time in the child's development that the parent themselves were traumatized. The parent, actually gives the most devastating and distorted conception of love to their off spring in the form of the modes outlined above in order to relate with their child in a sick but familiar way. Of course in these moments they are not even present in their body much like they had to leave their own body when they themselves were the recipient of trauma from those who came before them. . Much like the physical act of cutting or the many types of its emotional equivalent the perpetrator goes into an instinct trance. They do in fact overcome by their own activated instinct drive which in that source moment, has overridden their rational brain.
The most vicious criminals that currently sit behind bars have absorbed some of the worst traumas known to man. The homeless who wander the streets uttering their fragmented thoughts to themselves are also victims of trauma. The bankers on wall street who are driven to acquire at the expense of a nation are also trauma survivors. None of these examples should be judged or branded as BAD. They are the effect of a cause that we ALL share the burden of reconciling.
We all share the same wound and it is through this wound that we will unite.
One of the most primary needs humans lack in this age of terminal velocity is that of vulnerability and intimacy in their communication and communion of one another. We at the alliance have discovered that they one thing that we can all do to bridge the gap created out of belief and trauma is to foster environments that nurture both creative expression and mutual aid.
Rather than beating one another into a place of familiar pain and submission we can serve one another with the basic understanding that we are all damaged goods. If we accept the fact that we are fragile rather than believe that we are broken then there is room for healing to take place.
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THE GARDEN OF EDEN,
HEALING THE WOUND
We share a sense of urgency to do everything within our power to balance out the field of play into localized, sustainable horizontal networks of interconnected cells working together toward the realization a higher purpose. The days of building ones personal Tower Of Babel drew to a close with the demise of the World Trade Center.
As was evident on that day, sometimes it takes a disaster to bring humanity together. For better or worse 9-11 was indeed a world wide wake up call. What seemed as a perpetration of EVIL to those entangled in the man made realms of GOOD And BAD has grown into a necessary awakening of the sleeping giant of consciousness which had been in hibernation since the GARDEN OF EDEN.
The Garden of Eden was forever transformed into The Garden Of Needing from the moment Adam reached for something outside of his own connection to his source, spirit, being or god to validate himself. This of course is not a literal story though it has been accepted as such since we first came to contemplate things other than our own nourishment and procreation.
The Garden could very well have been In Utero, inside our own mother. As we develop within the womb so too does our brain as it prepares us for the inevitable moment of independence and self sufficiency. The serpent from the story could very well have been symbolic of the instinctual mind preparing Adam for his inevitable birth into the physical realm. The deep sleep ensued just after Adam did exactly what God warned him not to do.
The tree of knowledge bore fruit which Adam could not resist much in the same way infants are unable to resist the projections of beliefs from those who have come before them. Adam, much like ourselves, honored his GOD given ability to freely choose his own actions.
The problem lies not in the actions we take, for life is a learning experience, but the trouble lies in the shame, blame and regret we attach to those very same actions.
“Seeking out the validation of confused minds only makes my own mind more confused”
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NETWORK VANGUARD-FULFILLING OUR OWN FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN NEEDS
NETWORK VANGUARD
The Creative Collective Alliance is a grass roots cultural arts foundation sponsored by the Los Angeles Leadership Academy, A 501c3 Non Profit Corporation in good standing with the State of California and the United States Internal Revenue Service.
The Creative Collective Alliance is a small yet ever increasing republic of artists and free thinkers who have harmonized their individual motivations into a Collective "Mastermind" for the sole purpose of affording any individual who seeks it, the opportunity to empower themselves creatively, financially, emotionally and spiritually through the practical application of spiritual principles, service and creative action.
“The intellect can be made to look far beyond the range of what men and women ordinarily see, but not all the colleges in the world can alone confer this power - this is the reward of self-culture; each must acquire it for himself; and perhaps this is why the power of observing deeply and widely is so much oftener found in those men and those women who have never crossed the threshold of any college but the University of Hard Knocks."
Observation-Russell H Conwell
THE CREATIVE COLLECTIVE ALLIANCE NETWORK
FULFILLING OUR OWN FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN NEEDS
In hindsight, WE have lived much of our life with our finger squarely on the pulse of the more negative manifestations of the human condition. In order to fully UNDERSTAND one must become part of what ever it is that they wish to know. Mr Gates, as you read our words, KNEW what you had to do and did not wait on Harvard to validate you in your own quest to fulfill your personal legend.
School is something of a disaster in our modern era. The confined mind learns to play the game early on is rewarded for thinking inside the dotted lines. If one were to look up the definition of addiction, Self defeating belief or trauma and recite it back to his teacher, they would gain the merits of a book-based education which had yet to be tested in the laboratory of human experience.
Instead many of our members rebelled against confines of this single dimensional learning machine and abandoned ourselves into the tragedies of life them self. We became the same person in the books our peers would study about. We escaped into each and every fear driven behavior until there was nothing left to do except succumb to our own self imposed fate.
Somehow we completed this well rounded education with our mind and body still very much in tact. If we could survive those dark years and live to articulate our findings in such a way that both the street junkie and the college professor could relate to then this is what we have an obligation to do.
We see now that much of our existence spent enduring the disappointments of human relationships was exactly as it was supposed to be. We were supposed to endure the years of isolation, frustration, fear and pain in order to serve those whom we met on our decent downward.
Through personal experience and reflection upon our own struggles and pains we have developed a practical plan of action that we have already began to implement on a local level.
Our farmers market which we collectively own and operate came to fruition through a 1500 dollar consultation fee the author of this grant proposal was paid to assist another local business in setting up a farmers market of their own. He has years of experience running many successful markets for a private owner and made good use of his experience as an example of WORKING WITH WHAT HE HAD NOW. The author of this grant proposal spent every last dollar of that money, which was all he had at the time on fees needed to legally open a certified market of that sort. On a microcosmic level he understood that to be worthy of ownership he would have to develop the essential tools required to do so. It should be known that through out that process he was overwhelmed with fear and self doubt to the point of sickness.
In hind sight it was the single greatest gift he could have to given to himself because he could now see exactly what he was capable of rather than what He BELIEVED he was capable of.
Once it was opened he had to be very conscious of his thoughts and actions due to an ingrained self defeating belief system which was fighting for its life. Some of these beliefs were that he was neither worthy of owning nor capable of managing the business even though he had already demonstrated the FACT that he could many times over the course of his life. Managing someone Else's interests or being a leader in a group were not quite the same as STANDING ON YOUR OWN and assuming FULL responsibility.
This might not seem like that big of a triumph to a man of your stature but none the less all is relative and I am sure you can relate to a time in your life when you had the very same doubts and fears. It is through this relation that all men can find communion. It was also a gesture to the powers that be. If men like the author could shoulder some of the burden and responsibility of taking ownership, first with themselves and then within the arena of life then this could pave the way for others of my sort to do the same. Perhaps over time more and more men will do as I have done and then the powers that be would no longer feel encumbered by our woes.
It is within the confines of our humble start up market where we collectively established the vendor ownership structure covered at length in a section to come. We as a group were able to work out some of the kinks that always arise when combining accepted structures with imagination to produce totally new combination of elements that at their most fundamental level never change. Thus the term of “Nothing New Under The Sun” holds true.
Our Silversun farmers and Artisan Market, which has been open since July 7th of last year has been a vital learning tool in order for us to become a serious co operative worthy of your considerations. It is one thing to have great ideas that may work as outlined in grants just like this. However we have had the advantage of practically applying all Arms of the Alliance on a small scale to verify both their effectiveness and their ability to fulfillment the most fundamental of human need. This is where you and your wife's organization come into the equation.
Members of our collective spent two previous years developing the guiding principles of Creative Collective LA and specifically, Our OPEN GATHERING event platform. With less than 500 dollars of start up capitol we started producing grass roots art and music events for the recovery community. Within a 6 month period we went from a small Aurthur Murray dance rehearsal space with a modest attendance of 80 to 120 people to a 20,000 square foot yoga studio in Hollywood which catered to upwards of 800 people per event.
We are all about designing structures that affect the most possible cause for the least amount of resources. We even took it upon ourselves to design and build 10 free standing art walls that would showcase over 50 local artists per event. This was essential since the beautiful and ideal yoga studio had one condition which was the only draw back. No art could be hung on their walls. Additionally, being an all inclusive collective, we found it far more beneficial to produce eclectic gatherings with a 5-10 dollar door donation that serves a thousand people than a black tie dinner at 500 dollars a plate which caters to 100 people.
This is is perhaps one of our greatest strengths in that our main and constant motivation is to SERVE rather than PROFIT. We have discovered that profit is a natural bi-product of doing what we love. On average our Golden Bridge Gatherings would collect 5-8,000 dollars at the door which we found to be more than sufficient to sustain future gatherings however we never intended upon being a one trick pony so to speak and made a conscious decision to turn our sights into new and uncharted realms that needed serious consideration prior to advancement.
The mortal clamors for power and prestige we rumbling through our steering committee meetings and our principle members saw that more internal work would be necessary THEN in order to be better suited to lead NOW. We had to ready ourselves for the moment when our paths would have the potential of crossing the likes of your own. We can report without a doubt that the first round of growing pains has been transcended. We now posses the essential understanding to meet the inevitable challenges of the future with adequate tools to steady the course.
CREATIVE COLLECTIVE L.A.
*Fraternal organization showcasing and inspiring creative action*
ART BRUT
*Homeless and institutionalized Artist outreach program*
THE BLACK BUTTERFLY PROJECT
*Supporting and empowering creators in transition*
SELF DEFEATING BELIEFS ANONYMOUS
*12 Step program addressing the cause rather than the effect*
THE LOTUS FLOWER
*Structured group residential program addressing self defeating beliefs*
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
*Reality TV show about the human condition in all its manifestations*
LIVE LOVE L.A.
*Vacant commercial structures converted into live/work cultural art hubs*
THE PEOPLES MARKET
*Vendor-Owned Farmer Market investing half the profits to their customers*
The Creative Collective Alliance is a grass roots cultural arts foundation sponsored by the Los Angeles Leadership Academy, A 501c3 Non Profit Corporation in good standing with the State of California and the United States Internal Revenue Service.
The Creative Collective Alliance is a small yet ever increasing republic of artists and free thinkers who have harmonized their individual motivations into a Collective "Mastermind" for the sole purpose of affording any individual who seeks it, the opportunity to empower themselves creatively, financially, emotionally and spiritually through the practical application of spiritual principles, service and creative action.
“The intellect can be made to look far beyond the range of what men and women ordinarily see, but not all the colleges in the world can alone confer this power - this is the reward of self-culture; each must acquire it for himself; and perhaps this is why the power of observing deeply and widely is so much oftener found in those men and those women who have never crossed the threshold of any college but the University of Hard Knocks."
Observation-Russell H Conwell
THE CREATIVE COLLECTIVE ALLIANCE NETWORK
FULFILLING OUR OWN FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN NEEDS
In hindsight, WE have lived much of our life with our finger squarely on the pulse of the more negative manifestations of the human condition. In order to fully UNDERSTAND one must become part of what ever it is that they wish to know. Mr Gates, as you read our words, KNEW what you had to do and did not wait on Harvard to validate you in your own quest to fulfill your personal legend.
School is something of a disaster in our modern era. The confined mind learns to play the game early on is rewarded for thinking inside the dotted lines. If one were to look up the definition of addiction, Self defeating belief or trauma and recite it back to his teacher, they would gain the merits of a book-based education which had yet to be tested in the laboratory of human experience.
Instead many of our members rebelled against confines of this single dimensional learning machine and abandoned ourselves into the tragedies of life them self. We became the same person in the books our peers would study about. We escaped into each and every fear driven behavior until there was nothing left to do except succumb to our own self imposed fate.
Somehow we completed this well rounded education with our mind and body still very much in tact. If we could survive those dark years and live to articulate our findings in such a way that both the street junkie and the college professor could relate to then this is what we have an obligation to do.
We see now that much of our existence spent enduring the disappointments of human relationships was exactly as it was supposed to be. We were supposed to endure the years of isolation, frustration, fear and pain in order to serve those whom we met on our decent downward.
Through personal experience and reflection upon our own struggles and pains we have developed a practical plan of action that we have already began to implement on a local level.
Our farmers market which we collectively own and operate came to fruition through a 1500 dollar consultation fee the author of this grant proposal was paid to assist another local business in setting up a farmers market of their own. He has years of experience running many successful markets for a private owner and made good use of his experience as an example of WORKING WITH WHAT HE HAD NOW. The author of this grant proposal spent every last dollar of that money, which was all he had at the time on fees needed to legally open a certified market of that sort. On a microcosmic level he understood that to be worthy of ownership he would have to develop the essential tools required to do so. It should be known that through out that process he was overwhelmed with fear and self doubt to the point of sickness.
In hind sight it was the single greatest gift he could have to given to himself because he could now see exactly what he was capable of rather than what He BELIEVED he was capable of.
Once it was opened he had to be very conscious of his thoughts and actions due to an ingrained self defeating belief system which was fighting for its life. Some of these beliefs were that he was neither worthy of owning nor capable of managing the business even though he had already demonstrated the FACT that he could many times over the course of his life. Managing someone Else's interests or being a leader in a group were not quite the same as STANDING ON YOUR OWN and assuming FULL responsibility.
This might not seem like that big of a triumph to a man of your stature but none the less all is relative and I am sure you can relate to a time in your life when you had the very same doubts and fears. It is through this relation that all men can find communion. It was also a gesture to the powers that be. If men like the author could shoulder some of the burden and responsibility of taking ownership, first with themselves and then within the arena of life then this could pave the way for others of my sort to do the same. Perhaps over time more and more men will do as I have done and then the powers that be would no longer feel encumbered by our woes.
It is within the confines of our humble start up market where we collectively established the vendor ownership structure covered at length in a section to come. We as a group were able to work out some of the kinks that always arise when combining accepted structures with imagination to produce totally new combination of elements that at their most fundamental level never change. Thus the term of “Nothing New Under The Sun” holds true.
Our Silversun farmers and Artisan Market, which has been open since July 7th of last year has been a vital learning tool in order for us to become a serious co operative worthy of your considerations. It is one thing to have great ideas that may work as outlined in grants just like this. However we have had the advantage of practically applying all Arms of the Alliance on a small scale to verify both their effectiveness and their ability to fulfillment the most fundamental of human need. This is where you and your wife's organization come into the equation.
Members of our collective spent two previous years developing the guiding principles of Creative Collective LA and specifically, Our OPEN GATHERING event platform. With less than 500 dollars of start up capitol we started producing grass roots art and music events for the recovery community. Within a 6 month period we went from a small Aurthur Murray dance rehearsal space with a modest attendance of 80 to 120 people to a 20,000 square foot yoga studio in Hollywood which catered to upwards of 800 people per event.
We are all about designing structures that affect the most possible cause for the least amount of resources. We even took it upon ourselves to design and build 10 free standing art walls that would showcase over 50 local artists per event. This was essential since the beautiful and ideal yoga studio had one condition which was the only draw back. No art could be hung on their walls. Additionally, being an all inclusive collective, we found it far more beneficial to produce eclectic gatherings with a 5-10 dollar door donation that serves a thousand people than a black tie dinner at 500 dollars a plate which caters to 100 people.
This is is perhaps one of our greatest strengths in that our main and constant motivation is to SERVE rather than PROFIT. We have discovered that profit is a natural bi-product of doing what we love. On average our Golden Bridge Gatherings would collect 5-8,000 dollars at the door which we found to be more than sufficient to sustain future gatherings however we never intended upon being a one trick pony so to speak and made a conscious decision to turn our sights into new and uncharted realms that needed serious consideration prior to advancement.
The mortal clamors for power and prestige we rumbling through our steering committee meetings and our principle members saw that more internal work would be necessary THEN in order to be better suited to lead NOW. We had to ready ourselves for the moment when our paths would have the potential of crossing the likes of your own. We can report without a doubt that the first round of growing pains has been transcended. We now posses the essential understanding to meet the inevitable challenges of the future with adequate tools to steady the course.
CREATIVE COLLECTIVE L.A.
*Fraternal organization showcasing and inspiring creative action*
ART BRUT
*Homeless and institutionalized Artist outreach program*
THE BLACK BUTTERFLY PROJECT
*Supporting and empowering creators in transition*
SELF DEFEATING BELIEFS ANONYMOUS
*12 Step program addressing the cause rather than the effect*
THE LOTUS FLOWER
*Structured group residential program addressing self defeating beliefs*
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
*Reality TV show about the human condition in all its manifestations*
LIVE LOVE L.A.
*Vacant commercial structures converted into live/work cultural art hubs*
THE PEOPLES MARKET
*Vendor-Owned Farmer Market investing half the profits to their customers*
EXPLANATION & PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF SDBA PROGRAM & THE RESULTING EFFECT
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EXPLANATION & PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF SDBA PROGRAM & THE RESULTING EFFECT
All of the action and service in the world will still fall short of maximum Affect if ones own self defeating beliefs remain in tact. This being said lets take a closer look at the first and fundamentally all encompassing Arm of our alliance with our simple 12 step program entitled “Self Defeating Beliefs Anonymous” which can be done by anyone in the privacy of their own home or if additional structure is required they can go through the steps at one of our structured creators Rehabilitation centers called “The Lotus Flower” or any other center of rehabilitation that is open to this new and probing self help alternative that penetrates the source rather than addressing its physical manifestation.
Obviously there is an abundance of supporting information the author of this grant proposal would be happy to give in support of this practical adaptation of the traditional 12 step program merged with aspects of many other ancient and contemporary applications. In fact the basic text book of Self Defeating Beliefs Anonymous shares the exact same name of this grant proposal. Considering the constrictions of the grant format much has been omitted from the text which the author of this grant has self published online.
Much in the same manor that Bill W, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous or napoleon Hill, the author of the Law of Success were not medical professionals nor experts of psychology, neither is the author of this grant proposal and the creator of this program except in the laboratory of his own personal experience. The steps outlined are rather the culmination of over 20 years of personal experience and practical application in his own life. Obviously with your aid we could expand upon these steps and test them on a broader scale to refine them to their optimal level of effectiveness within the consciousness of the human organism.
There have been millions among us who have applied the well known principles of recovery outlined in all traditional 12 step self help programs such as AA and NA as well as SLAA and OA. There are as many 12 step programs are there are glitches in the human condition of which we all perceive ourselves as suffering from. Self Defeating Beliefs Anonymous is nothing more than a logical progression extending to the cause of all these conditions which we have discovered to be nothing more than the EFFECT of a deeper and all encompassing underlying issue.
As members of these 12 step programs already in practice will attest, they have recovered from their specific addiction or to be more accurate, they have sustained prolonged periods of abstinence from the most obvious and destructive manifestation of their core confliction . Once this addictive condition in its most debilitating form has been arrested, those in recovery are afforded an opportunity to examine the underlying conflictions and distortions. Many program members probe deep enough to address the true cause of their issues while others simply remain abstinent from their mechanism of choice. We think it is important to understand that physical abstinence from engaging in ones most blatant addiction is indeed a huge step for humanity that until the 1930's had little or no answer to this devastating condition. all have recovered.
To quote AA's Big Book, yes, “They have solved the drink problem” but what about the Think problem which we have found to be the chief catalyst for any and all self defeating behavior humans engage in? What drives us to seek external distraction and relief in the first place? What was our underlying emotional state of being like long before the first binge, drink, pill, roll of the dice or shopping spree to name but a few. What did we believe about ourselves and the world that we lived in? It is at this point that motivation plays a huge part in determining the outcome of our actions and this holds true for those who seek escape as well as those who are in recovery and focus on length of abstinence and material progress as their chief motivators.
Whenever we don’t feel worthy of a good life it is because we believe there is no love in the life we live. We can easily become lost and not find our way out of the reality that our fear driven belief system has unconsciously created.
We would love for everyone to have an opportunity for individual reflection and self-realization sufficient to bring about a personal shift away from unconscious validation of beliefs to a conscious connection to the fundamental principles of spirituality that define our BEING. Thus creating an individual awakening which cumulatively could create a shift in our collective consciousness By providing people, the opportunity to undergo and complete this practical and simple process it is our belief that we can impede or even reverse any ones fear driven dominion over their own creative nature.
SDBA embodies positive elements of many successful programs and principles of life affirming which are practically applied to a person’s core belief system. This process works deeper to challenge the false which has been accepted as truth and is working subconsciously, usually in a self defeating manor. Our intense approach carries the depth and weight that people long for. It gives anyone the much needed tools for success that they would never give themselves. Our primary aim is to facilitate a permanent shift or correction followed by gradual growth through the application of spiritual principles, creative action and service.
A being is not a "self", it is a power greater than "self" that can affect cause when we are consciously connected to it. The self can manifest its own character constructed of the beliefs it upholds. All addiction is a conditioned dependence to any psychological or physical mechanism in order to produce and control a desired emotional effect. A mechanism is the agency or means by which an effect is produced or a purpose is accomplished.
Please take a minute to review the following examples of common liabilities that our character of self uphold and goes to great lengths to validate at our expense. The also consider the fundamental laws of our own being and consider how your life may be if guided by those laws of love and truth rather than the limiting conditions of self. This takes a little practice
COMMON LIABILITIES OF THE CHARACTER OF SELF
CONTRASTED WITH THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF BEING
SELF: I am an addict.
(SELF BELIEVES IT HAS TO HAVE SOMETHING TO FEEL COMPLETE)
(BEING BUILT OF THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF LOVE AND UNIVERSAL TRUTH)
SELF: I lack compassion for others
(SELF BELIEVES THIS BECAUSE IT LACKS COMPASSION FOR ITSELF)
(BEING POSSESSES THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF COMPASSION)
SELF: I hold people to double standards
(BEING HAS NO SUCH NEED, ALL BEINGS ARE EQUAL)
SELF: I make events that have little to do with me all about me
(SELF NEEDS TO FEEL IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT IS NOT)
(BEING IS LOVE AND TRUTH AND NEEDS NOTHING TO FEEL IMPORTANT)
SELF: I allow resentment to drive me to destructive self will
(SELF REACTION TO INABILITY TO GIVE AND RECEIVE LOVE UNCONDITIONALLY)
(BEING IS LOVE WITHOUT CONDITIONS, SELF PLACES CONDITIONS ON LOVE)
SELF: I am manipulative
(SELF HAS MANIPULATE EVERYTHING TO ACHIEVE ILLUSION OF LOVE)
(BEING IS LOVE AND DOES NOT UNDERSTAND MANIPULATION)
SELF:I am dishonest
(SELF IS A DISTORTION AND VERY MUCH A LIE WE TELL OURSELVES)
(BEING IS LOVE AND TRUTH AND DOES NOT EVEN RECOGNIZE DISHONESTY)
SELF: I seek attention through self pity
(SELF SEEKS VALIDATION IN THE BELIEF THAT IT IS A VICTIM)
(BEING IS COMPRISED OF SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLES THAT DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE PITY)
SELF: I am selfish
(SELF IS SELFISH BECAUSE IT IS NOT LOVE AND HAS TO CREATE SUBSTITUTIONS IN ITS PLACE)
(BEING IS LOVE AND NOTHING MORE IS NEEDED WITH LOVE BECAUSE IT IS EVERYTHING)
SELF: I am self seeking
(MY SELF SEEKS, MY BEING IS)
SELF: I lack faith in infinite intelligence
(SELF RUNS OFF ITS BELIEF SYSTEM AS A SUBSTITUTION FOR LOVE AND TRUTH OF BEING)
SELF: I am overly concerned with the opinions of others
(SELF NEEDS TO VALIDATE WHAT IT BELIEVES THROUGH OPINION OF OTHER SELVES)
SELF: I have issues of entitlement
(SELF HAS TO FEEL MORE OR LESS THAN BECAUSE IN EQUALITY IT WOULD CEASE TO EXIST)
(ALL BEINGS ARE EQUAL SOURCES OF LOVE AND TRUTH AND RECOGNIZE EACH OTHER AS SUCH)
SELF: I resent people calling me out on the truth
(SELF AND ITS FALSE BELIEFS CANNOT AFFORD TO BE FOUND OUT)
(BEING IS IN FACT THE TRUTH THAT THE SELF TRIES TO HIDE)
SELF: I use self pity as a form of manipulation
(BEING IS PRINCIPLES SELF IS BELIEF)
SELF: I engage in a battle of egos with others
(SELF IS EGO AND BATTLES OTHER EGO FOR VALIDATION OF EXISTENCE)
(BEING NEVER FIGHTS BECAUSE IT'S COMPRISED OF FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF LOVE AND TRUTH)
SELF: I take advantage of people when I am in a place of power
(SELF AFRAID OF LOSING OR NOT GETTING, BEING IS ULTIMATE POWER AND NEEDS NOTHING)
SELF: I make people my higher power
(SELF MAKES ANOTHER SELF ITS HIGHER POWER, BEING IS ULTIMATE POWER OF LOVE)
SELF: I am controlling
(BEING IS TRUE POWER, SELF HAS NO POWER SO MUST CONTROL THE SELF IN OTHERS)
SELF: I lack trust in others
(MY SELF IS UNTRUSTWORTHY AS ARE THE SELVES OF OTHERS DISCONNECTED FROM BEING)
SELF: I am a people pleaser
(SELF MANIPULATES TO GET VALIDATION, BEING IS LOVE)
SELF: I compromise my integrity to get what I want
(SELF COMPROMISES PRINCIPLES OF BEING TO VALIDATE ITSELF)
SELF: I have relationships with other addicts
(SELF SEEKS ITSELF BY ATTRACTING PERFECT MIRRORS (OTHERS) TO VALIDATE ITS BELIEFS)
SELF: I confuse ADDICT relationships for true LOVE
(SELF NEEDS TO FEEL COMPLETE SO IT USES OTHERS AS A DRUG TO FEEL WHOLE)
SELF: I put myself in jail for profit
(SELF VALIDATING BELIEF THAT IT IS NOT WORTHY)
SELF: I am not self supporting through my own contributions(SELF VALIDATING BELIEF THAT IT IS A VICTIM)
SELF: I make idle threats
(POWERLESS SELF TRYING TO PROTECT ITS ILLUSIONS FROM PERCEIVED THREATS)
SELF: I have unrealistic expectations of other people
(SELF DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO LOVE UNCONDITIONALLY THEREFORE EXPECTS OTHERS TO DO THIS FOR THEM)
SELF: I profited off the misery of others
(SELF NEEDS TO FEEL BETTER THAN AND HAVE ILLUSION OF CONTROL)
(BEING PROFITS IN THE ONLY WAY RECOGNIZED BY INFINITE INTELLIGENCE BY GIVING AND RECEIVING LOVE)
SELF: I am in denial of my true motives behind my actions
(SELF DISTORTS ITS MOTIVATION TO REMAIN IN CONTROL)
(BEING NEVER LOST CONTROL)
SELF: I take vengeful actions based on my fear driven thoughts
(SELF REACTS TO PROTECT WHAT IT BELIEVES)
SELF: I blame others for things that are my responsibility
(SELF IS UNCONSCIOUS CREATION THAT WILL NEVER TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY)
(BEING IS TRUTH AND LOVE AND NEVER IRRESPONSIBLE BECAUSE IT IS CONSCIOUS)
SELF: I create circumstances where I can be hurt and let down
(SELF SEEKS VALIDATION FOR ONE OF ITS BELIEFS WHICH ARE DEFEATING)
(BEING SEEKS AVENUES OF CREATIVE EXPRESSION FOR TRUTH AND LOVE)
SELF: I live in denial about my fears
(BEING DOES NOT UNDERSTAND FEAR BECAUSE IT IS LOVE)
SELF: I imagine fear which make my life unmanageable
(SELF IS RUN OFF OF FEAR AND PROJECTION WHICH IT CANNOT MANAGE BY ITSELF)
BEING IS THE MANAGER GUIDED BY FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF LOVE AND TRUTH)
SELF: I have an inability to set healthy boundaries
(SELF DEFEATING BELIEF THAT ONE CANNOT BE ACCOUNTABLE)
(BEING PROVIDES A STRUCTURE OF FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES TO SET BOUNDARIES WITH GRACE)
SELF: I don’t believe that I deserve a good life
(SELF DEFEATING BELIEF BASED ON ITS OWN EXPERIENCE OF MISMANAGING OUR LIFE)
(BEING IS LOVE AND DOES CREATE A LIFE WITH LOVE AND TRUTH BUT WE LIMIT ITS ABILITY)
SELF: I confuse kindness for weakness
(SELF DISTORTING LOVE FROM OTHERS INTO THREAT TO BE FEARED TO STAY SEPARATE AND IN CONTROL)
SELF: I feel exempt from the rules of establishment
(SELF FEELS ENTITLED WHICH IS REALLY DEFEATING TO ONES OWN EVOLUTION)
(BEING IS UNAFFECTED BY RULES BECAUSE RULES APPLY TO THE SELF AND ITS MISMANAGEMENT)
SELF: I lack respect for people in authority
(SELF MAINTAINS BELIEF THAT CAN DO BETTER THAN THOSE IN AUTHORITY WHILE DOING NOTHING)
SELF: I am always looking for a short cut
(SELF NEEDS IMMEDIATE GRATIFICATION TO ACHIEVE ITS ILLUSION OF WHOLENESS)
(BEING PROVIDES STRUCTURE OF FUNDAMENTAL BELIEFS TO AID IN OUR CONSTRUCTIVE GOALS)
SELF: I am uncomfortable stating what I am worth
(SELF BELIEVES IT IS WORTHLESS BECAUSE IT IS NOTHING)
(BEING CAN AID SELF IN BEING VALUABLE BUT ONLY AS A INSTRUMENT OF LOVE AND TRUTH)
SELF: I demand to be saved
(SELF BELIEVES IT IS A VICTIM WHICH IT IS BUT ONLY OF ITSELF)
(BEING SAVED AND REUNIFYING WITH THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF BEING ARE THE SAME)
SELF: I am afraid to be wrong
(BECAUSE SELF IS A LIE THAT CANNOT AFFORD TO BE FOUND OUT)
(BEING IS BEYOND THE MAN MADE REALMS OF RIGHT AND WRONG, IT IS TRUTH AND LOVE)
SELF: I don not value good advice
(SELF TAKES SUCH ADVICE AS A THREAT TO ITS BELIEFS)
(BEING CAN PROVIDE SELF WITH GUIDANCE OF LOVE AND TRUTH WHICH IS THE BEST ADVICE THERE IS)
THE 12 STEPS OF SELF DEFEATING BELIEFS ANONYMOUS
STEP ONE:
Admitted we had become powerless over our self defeating beliefs and our lives had become unmanageable
STEP TWO:
Came to see that we are in fact a power greater than our "self" and its beliefs
STEP THREE:
Made a decision to turn our "self" and its defeating beliefs over to the care of our being as we understand it
STEP FOUR:
Made a searching and fearless inventory of our "self" and the beliefs, both positive and negative, that it upholds
STEP FIVE:
Admitted to our being, our self and another person the exact nature of our condition
STEP SIX:
Were entirely ready to remove those beliefs which are self defeating through conscious contact with our being, practical application of spiritual principles and positive action
STEP SEVEN:
Humbly asked our being to help us dissolve those beliefs which are self defeating in nature.
STEP EIGHT:
Made a list of all those whom we have negatively affected and became willing to make amends to them all
STEP NINE:
Made direct amends to such people whenever further harm would not result
STEP TEN:
Continued to take personal inventory and when self defeating belief validation occurs, take measures to promptly correct it.
STEP ELEVEN:
Sought the practical application of spiritual principles, positive action and service to improve our conscious contact with our own being; asking only to see ourselves through eyes of love and truth rather than fear and self defeating belief.
STEP TWELVE:
Having reunified with our being as a result of these steps we carry this message to others and practice these principles in all of our affairs
THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF SELF DEFEATING ANONYMOUS:
Taking action, creative or practical in nature
Application of spiritual principles
Mediation and prayer
Being of service to ourselves and the group
IDENTIFICATION OF MOTIVATION BEHIND OUR THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS....
SELF DEFEATING BELIEFS ANONYMOUS
ADDRESSING THE CAUSE RATHER THAN THE EFFECT
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EXPLANATION & PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF SDBA PROGRAM & THE RESULTING EFFECT
All of the action and service in the world will still fall short of maximum Affect if ones own self defeating beliefs remain in tact. This being said lets take a closer look at the first and fundamentally all encompassing Arm of our alliance with our simple 12 step program entitled “Self Defeating Beliefs Anonymous” which can be done by anyone in the privacy of their own home or if additional structure is required they can go through the steps at one of our structured creators Rehabilitation centers called “The Lotus Flower” or any other center of rehabilitation that is open to this new and probing self help alternative that penetrates the source rather than addressing its physical manifestation.
Obviously there is an abundance of supporting information the author of this grant proposal would be happy to give in support of this practical adaptation of the traditional 12 step program merged with aspects of many other ancient and contemporary applications. In fact the basic text book of Self Defeating Beliefs Anonymous shares the exact same name of this grant proposal. Considering the constrictions of the grant format much has been omitted from the text which the author of this grant has self published online.
Much in the same manor that Bill W, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous or napoleon Hill, the author of the Law of Success were not medical professionals nor experts of psychology, neither is the author of this grant proposal and the creator of this program except in the laboratory of his own personal experience. The steps outlined are rather the culmination of over 20 years of personal experience and practical application in his own life. Obviously with your aid we could expand upon these steps and test them on a broader scale to refine them to their optimal level of effectiveness within the consciousness of the human organism.
There have been millions among us who have applied the well known principles of recovery outlined in all traditional 12 step self help programs such as AA and NA as well as SLAA and OA. There are as many 12 step programs are there are glitches in the human condition of which we all perceive ourselves as suffering from. Self Defeating Beliefs Anonymous is nothing more than a logical progression extending to the cause of all these conditions which we have discovered to be nothing more than the EFFECT of a deeper and all encompassing underlying issue.
As members of these 12 step programs already in practice will attest, they have recovered from their specific addiction or to be more accurate, they have sustained prolonged periods of abstinence from the most obvious and destructive manifestation of their core confliction . Once this addictive condition in its most debilitating form has been arrested, those in recovery are afforded an opportunity to examine the underlying conflictions and distortions. Many program members probe deep enough to address the true cause of their issues while others simply remain abstinent from their mechanism of choice. We think it is important to understand that physical abstinence from engaging in ones most blatant addiction is indeed a huge step for humanity that until the 1930's had little or no answer to this devastating condition. all have recovered.
To quote AA's Big Book, yes, “They have solved the drink problem” but what about the Think problem which we have found to be the chief catalyst for any and all self defeating behavior humans engage in? What drives us to seek external distraction and relief in the first place? What was our underlying emotional state of being like long before the first binge, drink, pill, roll of the dice or shopping spree to name but a few. What did we believe about ourselves and the world that we lived in? It is at this point that motivation plays a huge part in determining the outcome of our actions and this holds true for those who seek escape as well as those who are in recovery and focus on length of abstinence and material progress as their chief motivators.
Whenever we don’t feel worthy of a good life it is because we believe there is no love in the life we live. We can easily become lost and not find our way out of the reality that our fear driven belief system has unconsciously created.
We would love for everyone to have an opportunity for individual reflection and self-realization sufficient to bring about a personal shift away from unconscious validation of beliefs to a conscious connection to the fundamental principles of spirituality that define our BEING. Thus creating an individual awakening which cumulatively could create a shift in our collective consciousness By providing people, the opportunity to undergo and complete this practical and simple process it is our belief that we can impede or even reverse any ones fear driven dominion over their own creative nature.
SDBA embodies positive elements of many successful programs and principles of life affirming which are practically applied to a person’s core belief system. This process works deeper to challenge the false which has been accepted as truth and is working subconsciously, usually in a self defeating manor. Our intense approach carries the depth and weight that people long for. It gives anyone the much needed tools for success that they would never give themselves. Our primary aim is to facilitate a permanent shift or correction followed by gradual growth through the application of spiritual principles, creative action and service.
A being is not a "self", it is a power greater than "self" that can affect cause when we are consciously connected to it. The self can manifest its own character constructed of the beliefs it upholds. All addiction is a conditioned dependence to any psychological or physical mechanism in order to produce and control a desired emotional effect. A mechanism is the agency or means by which an effect is produced or a purpose is accomplished.
Please take a minute to review the following examples of common liabilities that our character of self uphold and goes to great lengths to validate at our expense. The also consider the fundamental laws of our own being and consider how your life may be if guided by those laws of love and truth rather than the limiting conditions of self. This takes a little practice
COMMON LIABILITIES OF THE CHARACTER OF SELF
CONTRASTED WITH THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF BEING
SELF: I am an addict.
(SELF BELIEVES IT HAS TO HAVE SOMETHING TO FEEL COMPLETE)
(BEING BUILT OF THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF LOVE AND UNIVERSAL TRUTH)
SELF: I lack compassion for others
(SELF BELIEVES THIS BECAUSE IT LACKS COMPASSION FOR ITSELF)
(BEING POSSESSES THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF COMPASSION)
SELF: I hold people to double standards
(BEING HAS NO SUCH NEED, ALL BEINGS ARE EQUAL)
SELF: I make events that have little to do with me all about me
(SELF NEEDS TO FEEL IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT IS NOT)
(BEING IS LOVE AND TRUTH AND NEEDS NOTHING TO FEEL IMPORTANT)
SELF: I allow resentment to drive me to destructive self will
(SELF REACTION TO INABILITY TO GIVE AND RECEIVE LOVE UNCONDITIONALLY)
(BEING IS LOVE WITHOUT CONDITIONS, SELF PLACES CONDITIONS ON LOVE)
SELF: I am manipulative
(SELF HAS MANIPULATE EVERYTHING TO ACHIEVE ILLUSION OF LOVE)
(BEING IS LOVE AND DOES NOT UNDERSTAND MANIPULATION)
SELF:I am dishonest
(SELF IS A DISTORTION AND VERY MUCH A LIE WE TELL OURSELVES)
(BEING IS LOVE AND TRUTH AND DOES NOT EVEN RECOGNIZE DISHONESTY)
SELF: I seek attention through self pity
(SELF SEEKS VALIDATION IN THE BELIEF THAT IT IS A VICTIM)
(BEING IS COMPRISED OF SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLES THAT DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE PITY)
SELF: I am selfish
(SELF IS SELFISH BECAUSE IT IS NOT LOVE AND HAS TO CREATE SUBSTITUTIONS IN ITS PLACE)
(BEING IS LOVE AND NOTHING MORE IS NEEDED WITH LOVE BECAUSE IT IS EVERYTHING)
SELF: I am self seeking
(MY SELF SEEKS, MY BEING IS)
SELF: I lack faith in infinite intelligence
(SELF RUNS OFF ITS BELIEF SYSTEM AS A SUBSTITUTION FOR LOVE AND TRUTH OF BEING)
SELF: I am overly concerned with the opinions of others
(SELF NEEDS TO VALIDATE WHAT IT BELIEVES THROUGH OPINION OF OTHER SELVES)
SELF: I have issues of entitlement
(SELF HAS TO FEEL MORE OR LESS THAN BECAUSE IN EQUALITY IT WOULD CEASE TO EXIST)
(ALL BEINGS ARE EQUAL SOURCES OF LOVE AND TRUTH AND RECOGNIZE EACH OTHER AS SUCH)
SELF: I resent people calling me out on the truth
(SELF AND ITS FALSE BELIEFS CANNOT AFFORD TO BE FOUND OUT)
(BEING IS IN FACT THE TRUTH THAT THE SELF TRIES TO HIDE)
SELF: I use self pity as a form of manipulation
(BEING IS PRINCIPLES SELF IS BELIEF)
SELF: I engage in a battle of egos with others
(SELF IS EGO AND BATTLES OTHER EGO FOR VALIDATION OF EXISTENCE)
(BEING NEVER FIGHTS BECAUSE IT'S COMPRISED OF FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF LOVE AND TRUTH)
SELF: I take advantage of people when I am in a place of power
(SELF AFRAID OF LOSING OR NOT GETTING, BEING IS ULTIMATE POWER AND NEEDS NOTHING)
SELF: I make people my higher power
(SELF MAKES ANOTHER SELF ITS HIGHER POWER, BEING IS ULTIMATE POWER OF LOVE)
SELF: I am controlling
(BEING IS TRUE POWER, SELF HAS NO POWER SO MUST CONTROL THE SELF IN OTHERS)
SELF: I lack trust in others
(MY SELF IS UNTRUSTWORTHY AS ARE THE SELVES OF OTHERS DISCONNECTED FROM BEING)
SELF: I am a people pleaser
(SELF MANIPULATES TO GET VALIDATION, BEING IS LOVE)
SELF: I compromise my integrity to get what I want
(SELF COMPROMISES PRINCIPLES OF BEING TO VALIDATE ITSELF)
SELF: I have relationships with other addicts
(SELF SEEKS ITSELF BY ATTRACTING PERFECT MIRRORS (OTHERS) TO VALIDATE ITS BELIEFS)
SELF: I confuse ADDICT relationships for true LOVE
(SELF NEEDS TO FEEL COMPLETE SO IT USES OTHERS AS A DRUG TO FEEL WHOLE)
SELF: I put myself in jail for profit
(SELF VALIDATING BELIEF THAT IT IS NOT WORTHY)
SELF: I am not self supporting through my own contributions(SELF VALIDATING BELIEF THAT IT IS A VICTIM)
SELF: I make idle threats
(POWERLESS SELF TRYING TO PROTECT ITS ILLUSIONS FROM PERCEIVED THREATS)
SELF: I have unrealistic expectations of other people
(SELF DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO LOVE UNCONDITIONALLY THEREFORE EXPECTS OTHERS TO DO THIS FOR THEM)
SELF: I profited off the misery of others
(SELF NEEDS TO FEEL BETTER THAN AND HAVE ILLUSION OF CONTROL)
(BEING PROFITS IN THE ONLY WAY RECOGNIZED BY INFINITE INTELLIGENCE BY GIVING AND RECEIVING LOVE)
SELF: I am in denial of my true motives behind my actions
(SELF DISTORTS ITS MOTIVATION TO REMAIN IN CONTROL)
(BEING NEVER LOST CONTROL)
SELF: I take vengeful actions based on my fear driven thoughts
(SELF REACTS TO PROTECT WHAT IT BELIEVES)
SELF: I blame others for things that are my responsibility
(SELF IS UNCONSCIOUS CREATION THAT WILL NEVER TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY)
(BEING IS TRUTH AND LOVE AND NEVER IRRESPONSIBLE BECAUSE IT IS CONSCIOUS)
SELF: I create circumstances where I can be hurt and let down
(SELF SEEKS VALIDATION FOR ONE OF ITS BELIEFS WHICH ARE DEFEATING)
(BEING SEEKS AVENUES OF CREATIVE EXPRESSION FOR TRUTH AND LOVE)
SELF: I live in denial about my fears
(BEING DOES NOT UNDERSTAND FEAR BECAUSE IT IS LOVE)
SELF: I imagine fear which make my life unmanageable
(SELF IS RUN OFF OF FEAR AND PROJECTION WHICH IT CANNOT MANAGE BY ITSELF)
BEING IS THE MANAGER GUIDED BY FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF LOVE AND TRUTH)
SELF: I have an inability to set healthy boundaries
(SELF DEFEATING BELIEF THAT ONE CANNOT BE ACCOUNTABLE)
(BEING PROVIDES A STRUCTURE OF FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES TO SET BOUNDARIES WITH GRACE)
SELF: I don’t believe that I deserve a good life
(SELF DEFEATING BELIEF BASED ON ITS OWN EXPERIENCE OF MISMANAGING OUR LIFE)
(BEING IS LOVE AND DOES CREATE A LIFE WITH LOVE AND TRUTH BUT WE LIMIT ITS ABILITY)
SELF: I confuse kindness for weakness
(SELF DISTORTING LOVE FROM OTHERS INTO THREAT TO BE FEARED TO STAY SEPARATE AND IN CONTROL)
SELF: I feel exempt from the rules of establishment
(SELF FEELS ENTITLED WHICH IS REALLY DEFEATING TO ONES OWN EVOLUTION)
(BEING IS UNAFFECTED BY RULES BECAUSE RULES APPLY TO THE SELF AND ITS MISMANAGEMENT)
SELF: I lack respect for people in authority
(SELF MAINTAINS BELIEF THAT CAN DO BETTER THAN THOSE IN AUTHORITY WHILE DOING NOTHING)
SELF: I am always looking for a short cut
(SELF NEEDS IMMEDIATE GRATIFICATION TO ACHIEVE ITS ILLUSION OF WHOLENESS)
(BEING PROVIDES STRUCTURE OF FUNDAMENTAL BELIEFS TO AID IN OUR CONSTRUCTIVE GOALS)
SELF: I am uncomfortable stating what I am worth
(SELF BELIEVES IT IS WORTHLESS BECAUSE IT IS NOTHING)
(BEING CAN AID SELF IN BEING VALUABLE BUT ONLY AS A INSTRUMENT OF LOVE AND TRUTH)
SELF: I demand to be saved
(SELF BELIEVES IT IS A VICTIM WHICH IT IS BUT ONLY OF ITSELF)
(BEING SAVED AND REUNIFYING WITH THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF BEING ARE THE SAME)
SELF: I am afraid to be wrong
(BECAUSE SELF IS A LIE THAT CANNOT AFFORD TO BE FOUND OUT)
(BEING IS BEYOND THE MAN MADE REALMS OF RIGHT AND WRONG, IT IS TRUTH AND LOVE)
SELF: I don not value good advice
(SELF TAKES SUCH ADVICE AS A THREAT TO ITS BELIEFS)
(BEING CAN PROVIDE SELF WITH GUIDANCE OF LOVE AND TRUTH WHICH IS THE BEST ADVICE THERE IS)
THE 12 STEPS OF SELF DEFEATING BELIEFS ANONYMOUS
STEP ONE:
Admitted we had become powerless over our self defeating beliefs and our lives had become unmanageable
STEP TWO:
Came to see that we are in fact a power greater than our "self" and its beliefs
STEP THREE:
Made a decision to turn our "self" and its defeating beliefs over to the care of our being as we understand it
STEP FOUR:
Made a searching and fearless inventory of our "self" and the beliefs, both positive and negative, that it upholds
STEP FIVE:
Admitted to our being, our self and another person the exact nature of our condition
STEP SIX:
Were entirely ready to remove those beliefs which are self defeating through conscious contact with our being, practical application of spiritual principles and positive action
STEP SEVEN:
Humbly asked our being to help us dissolve those beliefs which are self defeating in nature.
STEP EIGHT:
Made a list of all those whom we have negatively affected and became willing to make amends to them all
STEP NINE:
Made direct amends to such people whenever further harm would not result
STEP TEN:
Continued to take personal inventory and when self defeating belief validation occurs, take measures to promptly correct it.
STEP ELEVEN:
Sought the practical application of spiritual principles, positive action and service to improve our conscious contact with our own being; asking only to see ourselves through eyes of love and truth rather than fear and self defeating belief.
STEP TWELVE:
Having reunified with our being as a result of these steps we carry this message to others and practice these principles in all of our affairs
THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF SELF DEFEATING ANONYMOUS:
Taking action, creative or practical in nature
Application of spiritual principles
Mediation and prayer
Being of service to ourselves and the group
IDENTIFICATION OF MOTIVATION BEHIND OUR THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS....
SELF DEFEATING BELIEFS ANONYMOUS
ADDRESSING THE CAUSE RATHER THAN THE EFFECT
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EXPLANATION & PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF CCLA & THE RESULTING EFFECT
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EXPLANATION & PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF CCLA & THE RESULTING EFFECT
The Los Angeles chapter of The Creative Collective Alliancs is committed to showcasing and aiding in the therapeutic process of creative action. This localized organization serves the artist no matter what phase of development they are at within their own creative process. Creative Collective L.A’s “OPEN” GATHERINGS” provide the community inspired nights of creative expression and gives us a perfect platform to fulfill our mission.
Our OPEN GATHERINGS feature live musical performances, dance performances, art showings, installations, silk screening, interactive art, guided meditations and yoga classes, designers, healers, psychics and much more.
Our past events such as “East Meets West” and “Ego Armageddon” produced at Golden Bridge Yoga in Hollywood were attended by upwards of 1000 people. They showcased over 100 artists and blended local and national performers under one roof.
Our “OPEN” Gatherings are designed to be artists of all mediums together and help people in and out of recovery begin to engage their own creative inspiration in a drug and alcohol free environment.
These Open gatherings also serve as the perfect platform to educate and gain support of all of the other Alliances practical concerns which are outlined in detail in the pages to follow. As you will soon see, there is not one aspect of our Alliance which is not interconnected and mutually supportive to the others. This ensures that the absolute most will be done with every last dollar you pledge to our endeavors.
ARTIST EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM (PEACE CORPS FOR CREATORS)
We propose the establishment of viable outlets for artists of all mediums who have the willingness and desire to meet us half way. These are men and woman who have already laid their foundation of recovery and are ready and willing to re-engage their creative aspirations.
We would fund qualified applicants to go back to school and upon their graduation simply require that they donate a pre-determined amount of hours of service back to CCLA. The participant would turn right around and help others by teaching what they have just learned to participants who enroll in Creative Collective Alliance acting, singing, arts, dance, film and music (Ad Infinitum) classes They would be required to complete a two year part time commitment with Creative Collective Alliance in exchange for their education or paid apprenticeship with any of the more established artists who enroll in our program as financial or life experience "Mentors". This proposed plan of assistance would receive tremendous positive public response both socially and financially. This is a cross between Teach for America, MAP and the Peace Corps which would pave the way for many disadvantaged youths to follow their creative dreams.
Copyright 2012 Retrocollective Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved
EXPLANATION & PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF CCLA & THE RESULTING EFFECT
The Los Angeles chapter of The Creative Collective Alliancs is committed to showcasing and aiding in the therapeutic process of creative action. This localized organization serves the artist no matter what phase of development they are at within their own creative process. Creative Collective L.A’s “OPEN” GATHERINGS” provide the community inspired nights of creative expression and gives us a perfect platform to fulfill our mission.
Our OPEN GATHERINGS feature live musical performances, dance performances, art showings, installations, silk screening, interactive art, guided meditations and yoga classes, designers, healers, psychics and much more.
Our past events such as “East Meets West” and “Ego Armageddon” produced at Golden Bridge Yoga in Hollywood were attended by upwards of 1000 people. They showcased over 100 artists and blended local and national performers under one roof.
Our “OPEN” Gatherings are designed to be artists of all mediums together and help people in and out of recovery begin to engage their own creative inspiration in a drug and alcohol free environment.
These Open gatherings also serve as the perfect platform to educate and gain support of all of the other Alliances practical concerns which are outlined in detail in the pages to follow. As you will soon see, there is not one aspect of our Alliance which is not interconnected and mutually supportive to the others. This ensures that the absolute most will be done with every last dollar you pledge to our endeavors.
ARTIST EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM (PEACE CORPS FOR CREATORS)
We propose the establishment of viable outlets for artists of all mediums who have the willingness and desire to meet us half way. These are men and woman who have already laid their foundation of recovery and are ready and willing to re-engage their creative aspirations.
We would fund qualified applicants to go back to school and upon their graduation simply require that they donate a pre-determined amount of hours of service back to CCLA. The participant would turn right around and help others by teaching what they have just learned to participants who enroll in Creative Collective Alliance acting, singing, arts, dance, film and music (Ad Infinitum) classes They would be required to complete a two year part time commitment with Creative Collective Alliance in exchange for their education or paid apprenticeship with any of the more established artists who enroll in our program as financial or life experience "Mentors". This proposed plan of assistance would receive tremendous positive public response both socially and financially. This is a cross between Teach for America, MAP and the Peace Corps which would pave the way for many disadvantaged youths to follow their creative dreams.
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EXPLANATION & PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF ART BRUT & THE RESULTING EFFECT
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EXPLANATION & PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF ART BRUT & THE RESULTING EFFECT
ART BRUT
De-Institutionalizing, rehabilitating and healing through the practical application of spiritual principles outlined in Self Defeating Beliefs Anonymous, creative action and service to the individual and community.
Art Brut is the front line of Creative Collective Alliances mission. This arm of the alliance addresses the necessary nourishment of mans creative nature where it is absolutely needed the most by serving those behind bars and living on the streets.
The Homeless Creator:
The author of this grant has close and personal association with a handful of homeless artists throughout Los Angeles whom he has personally provided with the supplies needed to get these artists successfully reengaging their creative process.
Incarcerated and Institutionalized Creators:
As the author of this grant can attest to through his own experience, incarceration is a destination for those most unable to cope with his or her own trauma and self defeating beliefs. Ones own inner compulsion to prove to themselves that they are worthless or unworthy can take them to the darkest and most tragic places on earth.
Like attracts like and it is no wonder that the last stop on ones downward decent are places like SKID ROW in downtown Los Angeles. People who are infected with the crippling conditions of self hatred and apathy gather together in these places much in the same way men of light and love once came together in masonic temples. This law of the universe is inescapable and beyond the man made realms of bad or good. With this understood we would like it to be considered that Skid Row is in fact a state of mind. This state of mind is the CAUSE just as its physical location is merely the EFFECT.
The dominating thoughts of any individual reproduce themselves in outward bodily action and transform themselves into reality. Understanding this Fact we propose safe zones which would consist of refurbishing abandoned structures and converting them into modest yet functional hubs of creative expression.
Helping Those Who Help Themselves
The homeless who utilize these centers to pursue their creative aspirations would be permitted only after taking the required steps outlined in an application process to ensure they understand the responsibility and privilege of being a part of such a space. We would supply all the essential supplies and equipment needed to achieve our goal of facilitating creative action in those far less fortunate than ourselves.
This exact same process would be reproduced inside the correctional system in the form of Art Rooms or studios where all prisoners would be requested to check all racial, gang and personal affiliations at the door much in the exact way that Alcoholics Anonymous and religious functions are able to function in those very same institutions today.
Those Prisoners in solitary confinement and even death row would be supplied with supplies within the confines of their own cell to produce works of art.
It is the belief of the author of this grant that each and every person alive today comprise a part of the human organism and it is for this reason alone that we should consider the collective effect caused by some of the most conflicted and traumatized members healing their individual vibration through engaging in the creative process. This would ensure that our collective vibration become that much more harmonized and unified.
One of the healing elements of Art Brut would be facilitated through periodic art shows at a spaces such as MOCA in Downtown Los Angeles. These art shows simply called ART BRUT would consist of submissions from incarcerated artists from across the world. Each art show would have its own theme and the first would be “What Do You Love”.
If the artists wishes to, they could sell their pieces and would receive 30% the money on their books to be used for commissary, 20% would go back into paying for future art supplies which would indirectly begin to instill the principle of self sufficiency essential for healthy living. Finally the remaining 50% would be given to either their Victims family or if no direct victim was involved then the cause of their choosing. This would be a valuable way to heal tragic events of the past, harmonize the human organism and teach the ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLE of serving others through Creative action.
We understand that this seems like a precarious proposition but but much like the prisoners who police each other to ensure they have Television privileges behind bars or the Harmony that always prevails in soup kitchens out of a greater and far more fundamental need for survival or entertainment these centers would soon be as sacred as any church. The author of this grant has attended soup kitchens and seen the resolution of conflict behind bars personally, and is very confident that once they experience the difference within their own state of being for having been afforded such an opportunity they will do everything in their power to protect and cherish it.
As a natural bi product we will have begun the essential and difficult task of teaching those with nothing the principle of OWNERSHIP and MUTUAL AID.
The other key aspects of this arm of the alliance are listed below. The author of this grant is happy to provide further clarification of these essential supporting elements upon request
1. Correspondence Program
2. Mentor and apprenticeship programs
3. Transitional living
4. Intoxicant dependence services
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EXPLANATION & PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF ART BRUT & THE RESULTING EFFECT
ART BRUT
De-Institutionalizing, rehabilitating and healing through the practical application of spiritual principles outlined in Self Defeating Beliefs Anonymous, creative action and service to the individual and community.
Art Brut is the front line of Creative Collective Alliances mission. This arm of the alliance addresses the necessary nourishment of mans creative nature where it is absolutely needed the most by serving those behind bars and living on the streets.
The Homeless Creator:
The author of this grant has close and personal association with a handful of homeless artists throughout Los Angeles whom he has personally provided with the supplies needed to get these artists successfully reengaging their creative process.
Incarcerated and Institutionalized Creators:
As the author of this grant can attest to through his own experience, incarceration is a destination for those most unable to cope with his or her own trauma and self defeating beliefs. Ones own inner compulsion to prove to themselves that they are worthless or unworthy can take them to the darkest and most tragic places on earth.
Like attracts like and it is no wonder that the last stop on ones downward decent are places like SKID ROW in downtown Los Angeles. People who are infected with the crippling conditions of self hatred and apathy gather together in these places much in the same way men of light and love once came together in masonic temples. This law of the universe is inescapable and beyond the man made realms of bad or good. With this understood we would like it to be considered that Skid Row is in fact a state of mind. This state of mind is the CAUSE just as its physical location is merely the EFFECT.
The dominating thoughts of any individual reproduce themselves in outward bodily action and transform themselves into reality. Understanding this Fact we propose safe zones which would consist of refurbishing abandoned structures and converting them into modest yet functional hubs of creative expression.
Helping Those Who Help Themselves
The homeless who utilize these centers to pursue their creative aspirations would be permitted only after taking the required steps outlined in an application process to ensure they understand the responsibility and privilege of being a part of such a space. We would supply all the essential supplies and equipment needed to achieve our goal of facilitating creative action in those far less fortunate than ourselves.
This exact same process would be reproduced inside the correctional system in the form of Art Rooms or studios where all prisoners would be requested to check all racial, gang and personal affiliations at the door much in the exact way that Alcoholics Anonymous and religious functions are able to function in those very same institutions today.
Those Prisoners in solitary confinement and even death row would be supplied with supplies within the confines of their own cell to produce works of art.
It is the belief of the author of this grant that each and every person alive today comprise a part of the human organism and it is for this reason alone that we should consider the collective effect caused by some of the most conflicted and traumatized members healing their individual vibration through engaging in the creative process. This would ensure that our collective vibration become that much more harmonized and unified.
One of the healing elements of Art Brut would be facilitated through periodic art shows at a spaces such as MOCA in Downtown Los Angeles. These art shows simply called ART BRUT would consist of submissions from incarcerated artists from across the world. Each art show would have its own theme and the first would be “What Do You Love”.
If the artists wishes to, they could sell their pieces and would receive 30% the money on their books to be used for commissary, 20% would go back into paying for future art supplies which would indirectly begin to instill the principle of self sufficiency essential for healthy living. Finally the remaining 50% would be given to either their Victims family or if no direct victim was involved then the cause of their choosing. This would be a valuable way to heal tragic events of the past, harmonize the human organism and teach the ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLE of serving others through Creative action.
We understand that this seems like a precarious proposition but but much like the prisoners who police each other to ensure they have Television privileges behind bars or the Harmony that always prevails in soup kitchens out of a greater and far more fundamental need for survival or entertainment these centers would soon be as sacred as any church. The author of this grant has attended soup kitchens and seen the resolution of conflict behind bars personally, and is very confident that once they experience the difference within their own state of being for having been afforded such an opportunity they will do everything in their power to protect and cherish it.
As a natural bi product we will have begun the essential and difficult task of teaching those with nothing the principle of OWNERSHIP and MUTUAL AID.
The other key aspects of this arm of the alliance are listed below. The author of this grant is happy to provide further clarification of these essential supporting elements upon request
1. Correspondence Program
2. Mentor and apprenticeship programs
3. Transitional living
4. Intoxicant dependence services
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EXPLANATION & PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF BLACK BUTTERFLY PROJECT & THE RESULTING EFFECT
THE BLACK BUTTERFLY PROJECT
The Black Butterfly Project offers emotional, mental and practical support to artists of all medium who have recently been released from institutions such as Jail, Prison, rehab and more. Who We Help: We help the Tortured Artist recently released from institutions such as rehab, mental wards and prisons who is almost always a survivor of childhood trauma. They are creators of all mediums who seldom realize their creative potential without constructive outlets and structured positive support for the NECESSARY NOURISHMENT OF MANS CREATIVE NATURE.
These negative manifestations are always symptomatic of our true cause of death... A BROKEN HEART. Being so connected and aware, we often feel the negative aspects of our environment much more intensely than most. In an attempt to protect our extremely sensitive nature we ingest intoxicants that shift our already distorted perception of ourselves and our reality into dangerously negative realms of pain and self destruction. These substances we ingest provide filters and allow us to take creative control in building a new world of illusion safe within the confines of our minds. Of course all mind altering substances are habit forming and expensive thus the criminal element always rears its ugly head.
Before you know it, as the author of this grant has first hand experience, they commit crimes to supporting their new found addiction and their tour of correctional institutions begins. This addiction is not so much to the substance (EFFECT) but to the control they have over their negative emotions resulting once again from their SELF DEFEATING BELIEF SYSTEM from unresolved TRAUMA. This is a vicious cycle that often becomes a life long struggle which is never recovered from.
THESE PEOPLE MUST UNDERSTAND that they are not bad and have done nothing wrong. A person is bad only if they believe they are bad. All beliefs are learned and can be unlearned. They are not the abuser but do harbor the abuseinside their mind. It is the goal of this specific arm of the alliance to Break this cycle before it is passed on to the generations to come. Our remedy is simple and once again it involves affording those who are willing and open to helping themselves the opportunity to empower themselves creatively, financially, emotionally and spiritually through the practical application of spiritual principles, practical service and creative action.
SHORT TERM
The Black Butterfly Project shall provide clothing and personal hygiene solutions as well as facilitate employment in order to increase ones basic self esteem. Internet access and prepaid cell phones will also be available to aid establishing support networks.
We will provide short and long term housing solutions via structured, residential and cooperative living solutions outlined in the Lotus Flower and Live Love LA portions of this grant proposal which will be outlined in the sections to come.
Food assistance programs and vouchers for fresh fruits and vegetables to be worked into our Farmers and Artisan Market Arm of Our Alliance covered in the pages to come. The BBP would also offer medical and shelter assistance for participants in order to render the BASIC SUPPORT which must be addressed before they could even contemplate higher aspirations such as education and creative collaboration.
The basic structure of The Black Butterfly Project builds upon and utilizes the foundation of services offered through ART BRUT. The level to which we can assist those who participate in the Black Butterfly Project depends upon their own level of commitment to their own progress. Lets make it absolutely clear that we are not here to Enable those we serve but rather to empower them to help themselves. The widely accepted practice of warehousing or displacing people as evident in the mental health sectors today will never be practiced because it does nothing to aid in ones accent out of apathy and hopelessness. People need evidence to the contrary of what they have accepted to be their fate. This “Fate” is often nothing more than a culmination of all self defeating beliefs one possesses and as you and I both know more than most, nothing dissolves these self destructive beliefs more than a taste of success and hope.
The long range services offered by the Black Butterfly Project would be a blend of services offered by foundations already in operation such as “Homeboy Industries” which bakes and sells breads at farmers markets through out Los Angeles and “Out Of The Closet” or “Goodwill Industries” with their line of second hand stores. Our motivation with all aspects of this plan of is Mutual Aid and Personal Self Sufficiency. We offer any individual the tools to expand their consciousness, dissolve their self defeating beliefs and engage their creative aspirations. Nothing that we set into motion will be done so unless it serves all whom it affects,
This is the perfect introduction into the next and complementary Arm of our Alliance which is the first element to incorporate collective living in a short, medium and long term residential method. The Lotus Flower is a creative boot camp and self defeating belief system rehab in one. Lets take a closer look at the lotus Flower....
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EXPLANATION & PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF BLACK BUTTERFLY PROJECT & THE RESULTING EFFECT
THE BLACK BUTTERFLY PROJECT
The Black Butterfly Project offers emotional, mental and practical support to artists of all medium who have recently been released from institutions such as Jail, Prison, rehab and more. Who We Help: We help the Tortured Artist recently released from institutions such as rehab, mental wards and prisons who is almost always a survivor of childhood trauma. They are creators of all mediums who seldom realize their creative potential without constructive outlets and structured positive support for the NECESSARY NOURISHMENT OF MANS CREATIVE NATURE.
These negative manifestations are always symptomatic of our true cause of death... A BROKEN HEART. Being so connected and aware, we often feel the negative aspects of our environment much more intensely than most. In an attempt to protect our extremely sensitive nature we ingest intoxicants that shift our already distorted perception of ourselves and our reality into dangerously negative realms of pain and self destruction. These substances we ingest provide filters and allow us to take creative control in building a new world of illusion safe within the confines of our minds. Of course all mind altering substances are habit forming and expensive thus the criminal element always rears its ugly head.
Before you know it, as the author of this grant has first hand experience, they commit crimes to supporting their new found addiction and their tour of correctional institutions begins. This addiction is not so much to the substance (EFFECT) but to the control they have over their negative emotions resulting once again from their SELF DEFEATING BELIEF SYSTEM from unresolved TRAUMA. This is a vicious cycle that often becomes a life long struggle which is never recovered from.
THESE PEOPLE MUST UNDERSTAND that they are not bad and have done nothing wrong. A person is bad only if they believe they are bad. All beliefs are learned and can be unlearned. They are not the abuser but do harbor the abuseinside their mind. It is the goal of this specific arm of the alliance to Break this cycle before it is passed on to the generations to come. Our remedy is simple and once again it involves affording those who are willing and open to helping themselves the opportunity to empower themselves creatively, financially, emotionally and spiritually through the practical application of spiritual principles, practical service and creative action.
SHORT TERM
The Black Butterfly Project shall provide clothing and personal hygiene solutions as well as facilitate employment in order to increase ones basic self esteem. Internet access and prepaid cell phones will also be available to aid establishing support networks.
We will provide short and long term housing solutions via structured, residential and cooperative living solutions outlined in the Lotus Flower and Live Love LA portions of this grant proposal which will be outlined in the sections to come.
Food assistance programs and vouchers for fresh fruits and vegetables to be worked into our Farmers and Artisan Market Arm of Our Alliance covered in the pages to come. The BBP would also offer medical and shelter assistance for participants in order to render the BASIC SUPPORT which must be addressed before they could even contemplate higher aspirations such as education and creative collaboration.
The basic structure of The Black Butterfly Project builds upon and utilizes the foundation of services offered through ART BRUT. The level to which we can assist those who participate in the Black Butterfly Project depends upon their own level of commitment to their own progress. Lets make it absolutely clear that we are not here to Enable those we serve but rather to empower them to help themselves. The widely accepted practice of warehousing or displacing people as evident in the mental health sectors today will never be practiced because it does nothing to aid in ones accent out of apathy and hopelessness. People need evidence to the contrary of what they have accepted to be their fate. This “Fate” is often nothing more than a culmination of all self defeating beliefs one possesses and as you and I both know more than most, nothing dissolves these self destructive beliefs more than a taste of success and hope.
The long range services offered by the Black Butterfly Project would be a blend of services offered by foundations already in operation such as “Homeboy Industries” which bakes and sells breads at farmers markets through out Los Angeles and “Out Of The Closet” or “Goodwill Industries” with their line of second hand stores. Our motivation with all aspects of this plan of is Mutual Aid and Personal Self Sufficiency. We offer any individual the tools to expand their consciousness, dissolve their self defeating beliefs and engage their creative aspirations. Nothing that we set into motion will be done so unless it serves all whom it affects,
This is the perfect introduction into the next and complementary Arm of our Alliance which is the first element to incorporate collective living in a short, medium and long term residential method. The Lotus Flower is a creative boot camp and self defeating belief system rehab in one. Lets take a closer look at the lotus Flower....
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EXPLANATION & PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THE LOTUS FLOWER & THE RESULTING EFFECT
THE LOTUS FLOWER
”DISCOVER YOURSELF”
We would love for everyone to have an opportunity for individual reflection and self-realization sufficient to bring about a personal spiritual transformation. Thus creating an individual awakening that cumulatively could create a shift in our collective consciousness and establish a reconnection to the truth. By providing people, the opportunity to undergo and complete this sort of spiritual awakening it is our belief that we can impede or even reverse our egos fear driven dominion over our creative nature. By healing this fragmentation of the BEING we are afforded the opportunity to emancipate the creative power of man from this SELF-imposed, age-old wrought iron cage of consciousness that strangles our creative expression in slow suicide.
Lotus Flower is a unique and forward thinking alternative to the more traditional approaches to addiction treatment and living environments. The Lotus flower of Silver Lake embodies positive elements of many successful programs as well as universal truths which are practically applied to a person’s core belief system. This process works deeper to challenge the false which has been accepted as truth and is working subconsciously, usually in a self defeating manor.
Our intense approach carries the depth and weight that people long for. It gives our resident creators much needed structure that they would never give themselves. Our primary aim is to facilitate a permanent shift or correction followed by gradual growth through the application of applied applied spiritual principles, creative action and service.
We also offer our residents a creative, active or educational schedule which affords our gusts opportunity to take positive creative actions.
We offer inpatient, outpatient and transitional living
Lotus Flower::Program Overview:
Three Commitment Durations:
Short Term 30-90 Days
Medium Term 90-180 Days
Long Term 180-270 Days
Each commitment consists of three phases which will be outlined regardless of which commitment is made. Obviously those who commit to longer times will afford themselves greater foundation for success due to repetition and the therapeutic aspect of mutual aid.
Phase 1
Emphasis on detoxing the mind of its specific addiction(Effect), stabilizing unconscious reaction and affirmation of self defeating behaviors and beliefs through instilling and practicing the tools for success outlined in Self Defeating Beliefs Anonymous, The Law Of Success by Napoleon Hill and Rational Recovery by Doctor Maxie Maltsby.
Phase 2
Intermediate, additional freedoms and responsibilities.
Emphasis on awareness and personal integrity and self sufficiency of the emotional, mental and physical realms of life force expression.
Phase 3
reunified being.
Goal-Planning and Achieving,
Service Work- Individual and community
Structure Disciplines-Applied techniques Incorporated into personal philosophy
There is a books worth of information outlining each and every step of this forward thinking program but given the nature of the format for grants be submitted we think that perhaps the extensive information and research should be covered once we have officially began our work together.
There are those who simply believe they are far too busy to attend one of the Lotus Flower styled structured livings and still many more who simply believe they have absolutely no need what so ever for this sort of program. We have developed a Reality styled documentary entitled The Pursuit Of Happiness which would be the television show based on the Lotus Flower which would aid still millions of others in their own efforts to transcend the effects of their own self defeating belief system. Here is a brief description of that Television Show:
The Pursuit Of Happiness
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EXPLANATION & PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THE LOTUS FLOWER & THE RESULTING EFFECT
THE LOTUS FLOWER
”DISCOVER YOURSELF”
We would love for everyone to have an opportunity for individual reflection and self-realization sufficient to bring about a personal spiritual transformation. Thus creating an individual awakening that cumulatively could create a shift in our collective consciousness and establish a reconnection to the truth. By providing people, the opportunity to undergo and complete this sort of spiritual awakening it is our belief that we can impede or even reverse our egos fear driven dominion over our creative nature. By healing this fragmentation of the BEING we are afforded the opportunity to emancipate the creative power of man from this SELF-imposed, age-old wrought iron cage of consciousness that strangles our creative expression in slow suicide.
Lotus Flower is a unique and forward thinking alternative to the more traditional approaches to addiction treatment and living environments. The Lotus flower of Silver Lake embodies positive elements of many successful programs as well as universal truths which are practically applied to a person’s core belief system. This process works deeper to challenge the false which has been accepted as truth and is working subconsciously, usually in a self defeating manor.
Our intense approach carries the depth and weight that people long for. It gives our resident creators much needed structure that they would never give themselves. Our primary aim is to facilitate a permanent shift or correction followed by gradual growth through the application of applied applied spiritual principles, creative action and service.
We also offer our residents a creative, active or educational schedule which affords our gusts opportunity to take positive creative actions.
We offer inpatient, outpatient and transitional living
Lotus Flower::Program Overview:
Three Commitment Durations:
Short Term 30-90 Days
Medium Term 90-180 Days
Long Term 180-270 Days
Each commitment consists of three phases which will be outlined regardless of which commitment is made. Obviously those who commit to longer times will afford themselves greater foundation for success due to repetition and the therapeutic aspect of mutual aid.
Phase 1
Emphasis on detoxing the mind of its specific addiction(Effect), stabilizing unconscious reaction and affirmation of self defeating behaviors and beliefs through instilling and practicing the tools for success outlined in Self Defeating Beliefs Anonymous, The Law Of Success by Napoleon Hill and Rational Recovery by Doctor Maxie Maltsby.
Phase 2
Intermediate, additional freedoms and responsibilities.
Emphasis on awareness and personal integrity and self sufficiency of the emotional, mental and physical realms of life force expression.
Phase 3
reunified being.
Goal-Planning and Achieving,
Service Work- Individual and community
Structure Disciplines-Applied techniques Incorporated into personal philosophy
There is a books worth of information outlining each and every step of this forward thinking program but given the nature of the format for grants be submitted we think that perhaps the extensive information and research should be covered once we have officially began our work together.
There are those who simply believe they are far too busy to attend one of the Lotus Flower styled structured livings and still many more who simply believe they have absolutely no need what so ever for this sort of program. We have developed a Reality styled documentary entitled The Pursuit Of Happiness which would be the television show based on the Lotus Flower which would aid still millions of others in their own efforts to transcend the effects of their own self defeating belief system. Here is a brief description of that Television Show:
The Pursuit Of Happiness
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EXPLANATION & PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS & THE RESULTING EFFECT
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
Is a Reality TV show set in the hillside of Silver Lake where five modern bungalows play host to the human condition in all its curious manifestations.
This VERY real world features an over eater, gambler, alcoholic, sex addict, kleptomaniac, cutter, hoarder, drug addict and a compulsive spender. We even threw in a couple of co-dependents and enablers for good measure.
They have agreed to live in a summer camp environment and allow our private cameras to expose every crack of their moral foundation as well as aversion to intimacy and truth which are sure to rear their ugly head. Our guests will allow themselves to experience every human emotion, reaction and fear in front of the world and come to discover themselves along the way.
We will have special guests who are experts in their chosen fields such as Dr Drew from celebrity rehab and therapist Dr. Robin Zasio from the hit show Hoarders as well as non professional healers and spiritual leaders as well.
The Pursuit of Happiness will serve as the televised run through of a new forward thinking structured living environment for all addicted people in all different stages their condition called:
Lotus Flower of Silver Lake…..”Discover yourself”
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EXPLANATION & PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS & THE RESULTING EFFECT
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
Is a Reality TV show set in the hillside of Silver Lake where five modern bungalows play host to the human condition in all its curious manifestations.
This VERY real world features an over eater, gambler, alcoholic, sex addict, kleptomaniac, cutter, hoarder, drug addict and a compulsive spender. We even threw in a couple of co-dependents and enablers for good measure.
They have agreed to live in a summer camp environment and allow our private cameras to expose every crack of their moral foundation as well as aversion to intimacy and truth which are sure to rear their ugly head. Our guests will allow themselves to experience every human emotion, reaction and fear in front of the world and come to discover themselves along the way.
We will have special guests who are experts in their chosen fields such as Dr Drew from celebrity rehab and therapist Dr. Robin Zasio from the hit show Hoarders as well as non professional healers and spiritual leaders as well.
The Pursuit of Happiness will serve as the televised run through of a new forward thinking structured living environment for all addicted people in all different stages their condition called:
Lotus Flower of Silver Lake…..”Discover yourself”
Copyright 2012 Retrocollective Publishing Group All Rights Reserved
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