Above and beyond ethics would be the choice to enjoy your own personal honor. Such honor codes and ethics codes were created to get agreement on what acceptable behaviour should be in order to have a productive and smooth-running culture.

In all cases, they fall back to the Golden Rule, which exists in some form in every major religion's scriptures.

That Rule itself is based on natural observation, explained by the second principle of Huna, "We are all connected."

If you worked directly from the 7 principles of Huna, you'd have the only honor code you would ever need. Given that, you still would need to release from all need of security, approval, and control (having to have, having to escape from) and the key fear of death or loss of individuality.

Once those are achieved, you'll find that it's much easier to get along with everyone around you, regardless of how they act or behave.

For the Codes I've studied all have in their base to carefully preserve individuality at the expense of civility. They give lip service to high and noble aims, while still preserving the fearful mindset which made such a code necessary. All the warnings and whatnot that these codes embody are useless when you see that we are all so interconnected on so many different levels, that any harmful act just comes back and acts on you. And at least as powerfully as you sent it out, if not more.

Here's the 7 Huna principles in full:

1. IKE – our ideas create our reality.
2. KALA – there are no limits.
3. MAKIA – energy flows where attention goes.
4. MANAWA – now is the moment of power.
5. ALOHA – to love is to be happy with.
6. MANA – all power comes from within.
7. PONO – effectiveness is the measure of truth.

From this many things can be derived. Key among these are the newly discovered ancient ideas that there really is only the Now to be in. Your past is just a set of recordings which age over time (for most people, any way) and that explains why historians come up with quite different approaches to the same materials. People are reinventing their pasts constantly, ostensibly to justify their current actions. And the future never shows up - it's all Hope and Dreams, which are essential, but hardly concrete and actual. Instead, they motivate action in the present, the Now.

Given all that, I still recommend techniques to people so that they can re-acquire their native sense of ethical behavior, of personal honor.

1) You should study and apply Release Technique to be able to simply operate without other programs and mental convolutions based on pent-up fears.

2) Study Silva Method to be able to quickly get to a simple meditative state which makes releasing much easier and less painful.

3) Absorb New Thought classic authors such as Napoleon Hill and Thomas Troward so as to be able to simply understand the patterns we use to crete this universe around us.

4) Live as a Huna Kapua (shaman) and realize life as a dream, open to many interpretations, picking the most effective one as your own personal truth.

To this, I would only add that a fifth study - one which combines the bulk of these materials into an eclectic pattern: T. Harv Eker's Millioniaire Mind Intensive. This guy has oriented these materials against one drive so many Westerners have: their native ability to become wealthy and share in the abundance naturally occurring around them.

The point is to simply Be in the Now. To do this, you'll need to shuck off your old programs and reevaluate what you thought was reality. Then  you'll find yourself living in infinite freedom, fathomless peace, and unlimited abundance. Every day, all the time.

Try these ideas out for yourself and see if they don't improve your life.

After all, you only get back what you put in. (That Golden Rule, again.)

Good Hunting!

It's that one metaphor (or set of metaphors) is what you are personally looking for. That is your own individual "route out" of this mess you live in.

Like the truly successful number no greater than 1 in 10,000, it's really closer to 1 in 10 million who are able to find their own way in this world, achieve their own infinite freedom, and are able to live in fathomless peace regardless of what that world around them may bring. 

And that tiny, tiny handful of people out of the huge crowds many of us are surrounded by - those few actualy find their narrow path to walk. 

Why a metaphor? Because it's simply a symbolic set of beliefs which make sense to you. And start solving that scene around you into a sensible set of factors. That you can take apart and put back together anyway you want. 

But no two people will see the same philosophic base to make that perfect sense. Because just as we are individuals, we have very individual paths to walk. 

And that's why I offer this "Go Thunk Yourself(TM)" System just as that - a system. It's not a precise set of steps to walk. You are also invited to throw any and all of it out as unworkable for you personally. But mostly, you need to try it all - as I have, and more - in order to distill exactly from it what you can. 

One of he funnier points is that what I say you can accomplish with this system is described in all of the key programs that make up its parts. Any of these system-parts can take you there. I hold that each has faults, or "holes", which the others fill. And together, they will indeed take you there - at least it happened for me.

So I tell you the exception now: It may not be the same for you. 

This is exactly why I tell you over and over about the lie (among many) that the FTC tells - in self-help and spiritual training, there are no "typical results". Government is dealing with making sure the bulk masses keep voting for them. And so all the handouts and attacks on the individuals who try to live outside the "norm". When you see someone parroting "class warfare" or rascist/sexist/economist attacks - you see a person who is very, very afraid of anyone being different from them. 

However the joke is that everyone is. 

And so you are yourself looking for a metaphor, or several of them, which make sense to you. 

At this point, I'll leave you to find your own way. Sure, there's more to cover. But you can start with what I've already noted for you...

Disconnection

It becomes traditional in $cn (scientology) to disconnect formally from suppressive groups and persons. This, for me, has perhaps been far too long in coming. While I've made various comments and even outlined recovery programs for people who have been victimized by Hubbard, the corporate cult he created, and  his misleading materials - it's never been that I simply laid out my own disconnection.

The act of disconnection is too simple. It is really just like turning off a light which you've left burning. You shut out of your life all those connections which trouble you.

Unlike corporate $cn, I do not shut out the people I've met, the friends I've made. And my 20+ years on staff have lead me to meat and associate with a wide variety of people from all over this planet. I will talk with any of them at any time.

I will no longer deal with $cn as having any real worth. It has no worth to me, other than examples of how not to do things, how not to treat people, and how to misuse marketing for personal gain only - while at the same time booby-trapping the entire subject of self-help and spiritual training.

The gains I got from $cn were more in leaving than anything I professed while there. During the time I was under their influence, it was always the action of searching for "the next big thing". Whatever problem you had was resolved on the next, higher level. Public are made to spend hundreds of thousands, if not millions of their own personal income for these phantasms they were persuaded to seek. Staff were always working with the promise that such levels could be delivered to them - if they only worked harder to build and expand their organizations.

There comes a time where a person begins to see through their charades.

The fault of this lies in the corporate structure which Hubbard set up. His "Sea Org" and financial web of deceit allowed him to maintain freak control methods over buying public and dedicated staff who spent time and money with him to follow his mirage over endless wilderness scenes over the years.

And the result is that there are millions of "ex-$cnists", far more than were ever active and supportive members. All the enemies which corporate $cn does battle with were created by their own mismanagement and illegal actions. I do not have to enumerate these here - there are a growing library of books which expose and document their crimes, as well as current blogs which continue to detail their legal and moral mis-steps.

The gains I recieved where those I earned for myself - after I quit practicing their procedures and following their writings. It was during the course of actually examining their basic studies and premises that I uncovered parallel research routes (Silva and Levenson) who did actually produce results - by people who lived during the same times as Hubbard, but who were devoted to uncovering new applications for humanity, not increasing their own bottom line at the expense of others.

And those gains far outstripped anything and everything I had ever thought I'd achieved while within the corporate structure.

This doesn't mean to say that $cn doesn't "work" for those who stay the course and keep within the framework which Hubbard laid out. Within those tight parameters, it is known to produce gains for people. You have to know two things:

1) The corporate side of it has never worked, and only held back the technical side.

2) Only what was published by Hubbard during his own lifetime is what actually exists as "workable technology".

The corporate structure has no "upper levels" yet to be released. There are a few minor programs which had already been developed before Hubbard's death which corporate $cn has sat on. But there are no more "grade chart" levels to be released.

There are some subject areas (minor) where Hubbard did contribute beyond his money-grubbing antics. One of these was in compiling the material about the communication cycle. (This does not include his bastardization of Buddist meditation techiques into his "TR's".) And there may be others. One will find that all of Hubbard's materials came from somewhere else. He was not original in the slightest. Putting another name on something doesn't mean it's now your original breakthrough. And in looking up those prior sources that he used, you'll find that there are substantially more and very workable techinques which he didn't extract or "borrow".

Hubbard was out to make money. He developed a "system" based on having a "monopoly" on the treating the human mind. And sold that concept to his followers as long as they stayed with him. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a monopoly in Nature. That's just another scam. There is no "one road out". There are as many as their are people on this planet.

Any research will find numerous programs outside of $cn which can give you any or all of the personal gains Hubbard and his marketing cadre have ever promised. Again, if you look to the Silva Method and Release Technique, you'll see clear paths to redevelop these native talents for yourself.

And that is now the choice which the 50,000 active participants in $cn actually have now. You can get all the gains possible from studying and applying Hubbard's work - particularly since all of this has now been released to the Internet. After that (or instead of that) you can seek other studies which can and have restored native spiritual abilities to their participants.

The studies of ancient Huna will also give you the core materials and priniciples which Hubbard's DN  (dianetics) and $cn were based on. And their 7 principles are far simpler than the hundreds of "axioms" and "logics" which were published as gospel truth by Hubbard, purported to form the basis of his "religion".

Any spiritual or metaphysical study has spiritual aspects and as such do not fall under secular control or review. For the FTC cannot enforce that you will or won't get any particular gain from one study or the other. (But government itself is a scam, isn't it?)

However, if you stay within the "closely taped path" of $cn, you are probably missing out on gains you could have had years ago. I've mentioned three such studies above.

So there's my own take on their "system" First, it's broke. You have to get rid of their management and all their management policies to allow their technical side to work. Second, there are far more gains to be had outside that structure than within it. Third, like any scam, once you've gotten outside of it, leave it alone and stay away from it. Help others to get out from under that scam, but otherwise, disconnect your self from all active involvement or attempts at influencing it.

$cn is a dead cult walking. And as more stay out of its path, it will totter more violently and ultimately collapse.

If you are currently in $cn, then you can continue and get all the possible gains from it. But more than likely, if you are reading this, you've already started looking outside their walls for answers. The gains you haven't had yet are still available for you. As it's often said, "when the student is ready, the teacher appears."

For me, $cn and Hubbard done, finished, kaput. And so I formally disconnect from corporate $cn and break any supposed agreement I signed with them - as these were all done under duress.

I leave you to your own decisions in this area. 

The end of suppression is just a thought away.

Seriously. 

Of course, this came to me about 2am, after digesting a rather interesting dream into its basic lesson. And I really thought I was done writing about the oddities of Scientology ($cn). However, it just balanced out and bubbled up.

I've been over this time and again (particularly in my blog "A Modern View" and the book "Freedom Is (period.)"

It all goes back to the most basic Huna principle there is: "The world is what you think it is." So you create your reality, moment by moment. In other words, if you want to see SP's (suppressive persons) and PTS (potential trouble source) people in life around you, they'll start showing up. Very similar to conspiracy theorists. (A PTS is someone connected to an SP.)

Practically, the worst suppression I've seen personally came from people who called themselves Scientologists - and their current disavowed policy of "disconnection" is still breaking up families and long friendships - even though it supposedly doesn't exist anymore (but people are still trained on it in a required course for their "Grade Chart") A person who is "PTS" can't make or hold gains until they "handle or disconnect" from the "SP on their lines. 

We both know that to make person gains doesn't depend on being part of $cn. Billions of people improve themeselves daily without even knowing the teachings of $cn exist. Their SP/PTS fantasy is just another control gimmick. 

Since I had to do that course several times (every time it was updated), it's been ground into me with a very thick and heavy weight. You have to believe in this stuff in order to make any progress, according to corporate I-know-best's.

However, believing in the tooth fairy and Easter rabbit have just as much affect on your own personal improvement. 

The core scene is that this gives everyone an excuse to be an individual and to separate from others. Which is exactly the Achilles' heel Founder Hubbard had. The main point to his teachings is that he is the only true Source and all other lines of self-help or spiritual training are all booby-trapped and dead-ends. The only problem is that he left this earth with his research incomplete and now there is no "way out" for all those who have spent a lifetime or hundreds of thousands in "getting up the Bridge". And the guys that are left have no clue how to develop this material, either. Or they would have.

This also means you have to put on blinders in order to make progress in Hubbard studies. You can't study anything outside the "closely taped path" corporate $cn laid out for you. And is why they tell their staff and public not to get on the Internet. (It turns out you can get access to any of the supposed "secrets" $cn ever had, and all their course materials, as well as multiple discussions and critiques of them. Oh - and if you believe their materials, you can find very under-priced delivery models for the same courses and "processing" they offer - all the way up their "Grade Chart" to "OT".)

Of course, to even look at other materials makes you "open-minded", which is an incurable degree of PTS. Yes, that means that you are connected to an SP. However, there are no rundowns for handling open-mindedness - so this is a great way to get them off your back and quit calling you. (And you can stop all mailings by sending them back "refused", plus writing "Xenu Lives!" in big print so their mail room lowlies will see it.)

Yes, that's all very suppressive to tell people how to get the $cn corporation to quit harassing you.

But the joke is that only Scientologists have this boogey-man called the SP who lives in their closets and under their beds. 

And practically, making people believe only one way is itself suppressive. So I advise anyone and everyone to get out of $cn when you can and start reading widely, find out for yourself, and make your own decisions.

Now, to give this some credit, there is a statistical point which anecdotally supports this. Those who are actually going to be successful are about 3%, which lines up with the 2 1/2% that $cn tells about. Practically, it goes like this: for any course of training, only 3% will finish it. Of those, only 3% will apply it to get their money back. Out of that small set, only about 3% will actually make themselves into an outrageous success. So the chance of being one of the "movers and shakers" is about 1 in 10,000. And, oddly, that was Edison's rule of thumb to get an invention perfected - he figured that on average, it took about 10,000 experiments before a viable product emerged. (One story has that the light bulb itself took 30,000.)

Reversely, there is a very small percentage in the opposite direction who are dedicated to making everything and everyone lose. Unfortunately, that also includes themselves. So these type of people are simply doing themselves in as well - and often die earlier than need be do to self-inflicted illnesses and accidents. And the proof of this is the fact that far more people survive each day than succumb. And longevity is increasing, despite our addictions to fast-food and video.

The cure for this insanity is the Golden Rule. If you want to get better, you simply start treating everyone else around you better. If you want help, you start helping everyone around you. And you'll find many more holes in corporate $cn's theories and "dogma's" as you go. Because all this is really the fanciful creation of a science fiction writer who said many time the reason he created a church was to make money. And Hubbard died rich - very alone, but very rich.

Recreate the world the way you want it. That's what the oldest surviving philosophy says to do (their legends say that they helped the Egyptians get started) - create your own world from moment to moment. If you don't want one with SP's in it, then simply create a new one. 

Because, without this peculiarity we call individuality, it is just Self and Now. Everything else is fanciful. 

So start enjoying life and create the world you want - just as you want it. 

Cheers!

Getting anything and everything you want - abundant manifestation begins with denial.

One lesson from this: The "law of attraction" is based on first deciding that you can't, won't, or don't.

Please consider this video from T. Harv Eker and his "Millionaire Mind Intensive"

Hope these bring you many lessons in your daily living.

Why do Release Technique, Silva Method, Millionaire Mindset, and Online Business work together?

Because separately, they don't get the results that they can together. Each of them have tools the others miss. Each gets remarkable results on their own. But it's the difference between having a diamond and having a diamond in an exquisite setting. Or the difference between having a car parked in front of your house and driving it anywhere you want, as fast as you want.

If you've followed the "Go Thunk Yourself" series, you'll know that I've long been a favorite of inter-related, loosely joined, and almost ad-hoc systems. In "Go Thunk Yourself, Again!", I referred to a four-pointed system that I called a "tetrad". Much like the tetrahedron, it is the smallest 3 dimensional object which is stable. And it takes all the different parts working together.

So like the squirrel above, success is measured in acquired acorns, which works in conjunction with the trees and weather (as well as predators) and the rest of Nature as a system.

Eker's Millionaire Mind Intensive works to help you get rid of the programs you've held onto this long which keep you poor (non-abundant). He uses a form of release technique in that program. And he pushes you toward a higher state while doing it.

Studying the rest of the tools Release Technique has to offer will help you achieve your abundance goals even sooner - but it's not really designed to help you become a financial success directly like Eker's program.

But the Silva Method allows you to even speed up your releasing, and have a more calm approach to living - using an active meditation method which has multiple university studies that proved its efficacy. 

It's the combination of these which make them work the fastest and most effectively.

I've found that having your own business, particularly online, is one of the most easily leveraged ways to increase your income and do the most for other people. And so I include the data on Synnd (social network marketing), WorldWideBrands (market research), and Jurisdictionary (how to get and keep your lawyers working to protect your business interests).

Those four sets of approaches to living seem to give a stable system to regain all the personal freedom, peace, and abundance you could ever need or want. 

I don't say this is a perfect system. And you'll only get out what you put in. But I do say that this is a very, very workable way to achieve any and all goals you may have - and realize a calm, perpetually cheerful and expectant approach do deal with the life you create around you. 

The idea is that you get this serene-type of attitude into an always-on state.

And from there, you can then study materials such as Serge Kahili King's Huna books and continue on up your spiritual training path (much as I covered in "A Modern View").

That's why I promote this stuff and how it all works together.

Just in order to help you create the best-quality life you can. 

Cheers!

Your Personal Freedom, Peace, and Abundance are waiting...

But before you can create (or even effectively understand) any universe around you, there's a certain amount of simply learning to co-exist with what's already there.

There's all these abilities you can regain and control to change the universe into anything you want. All you could imagine you could be, do, or have is entirely possible if (and here's the punchline) you actually confront and experience what you already are, are doing, and are having.

The entirety of self-help (the really effective self-help) is designed to simply allow you to experience the Now right as it is.

The ineffective self-help (and how affirmations and positive thinking get such a bad name) is that they work to layer something on top of your existing programs which reject whatever is already around you.

If you have a program which says males can't be trusted (especially those over 30 or with a different sexual orientation, or color) then you will never be able to be at ease or effectively work with a person of that type or set of characteristics.

That is the problem which rascist or sexist attitudes, training, or activities (including most universitiy "women's studies" courses) have. They are separatist as a solution to an imagined problem. Gays or straights have the same basic problem - they consider themselves different to others.

Yes, you can take it all right back to the point that we are all connected. So to the exact degree you criticize something/someone else, you are just limiting yourself. And that continues until you get rid of (or at least accept or recognize) the personal program you've been using up to this point.

Which is the reason for the release technique. You learn to simply let go of the oddball and non-intuitive programs you've been carrying around all this time. You learn to Just Be.

And is also why I recommend the Silva Method in conjunction with releasing or letting go. There are all these abilities you can recover - but until you can simply Just Be, it's pretty academic. However, the simple ways of being able to meditate your way down to however you are causing your current situation is very useful. And this allows you to release more effectively.  The two simply work together.

That is also the key to all the different other levels Serge Kahili King points out in his books. In particular, is this one called "Urban Shaman", which has been out a very long time. If you want to influence the weather, you first have to be able to be yourself and not reject or resist the weather you are currently experiencing.

Because you created that universe around you. It's simply not efficient to create another universe on top of the one that's already there. You'll the the result of having two universes competing for the same Now. And your own programs (or lack of them) will tell you what shows up as "real". If it weren't for those programs, your own imagination would win out every time.

Be what you're already being.

Do what you're actually doing.

Have what is already around you.

And after that you can regain the ability to improve on any beingness, activity, or abundance you are already experiencing. 

A person who is fighting all the time is simply creating enemies in order to play that particular game. A peaceful person  lives at peace with everything and everyone around them. And that person has learned to simply experience what is.

From there, you can expand on your abilities to get far more freedom, peace, joy, abundance, and anything else you could possibly imagine you want or need. (Those last two are completely imaginary concepts, BTW. Logic it out for yourself.)

Wishing you a plentiful and productive imagination...