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Had to learn an old lesson all over again.

Once you get away from really self-centered, destructive people – stay far, far away.

You know they aren’t up to any good. You know you’ve been burnt before. You know it just irritates you all over the place.

So just get away and stay away.

They aren’t going to change by your doing anything to or for them. They are actually and factually already living in the worst sort of hell imaginable.

My solution: Get Your Self Scam Free.

When you know what Cialdini, Levenson, and Maslow wrote in these areas, you don’t have to be a dupe, patsy, or victim to criminal scammers anymore.

You can re-learn a great life for yourself and be free from here on out.

The only good thing about tar-babies is that it feels so good when you quit…

(And you can still release on anything leftover.)

Try it for yourself and see – this link: release technique.

If you touch them at all, you’re stuck. Don’t think the government is going to get you unstuck, either.

And the only way you can really get ripped off is to believe in their pitch to begin with.

But the trick is to stay far away to begin with – or take some actions now so you don’t have these rip-off artists on your lines ever again:

1. When a telemarketer calls, say “No.” and then tell them to take your name off their lists.

2. Never give a real phone number out online. Period. They don’t need to know. One solution I’d read was to get a cel phone, keep it paid up, and turn off the ringer and message service. (They aren’t legally supposed to be calling cel-phones anyway.)

3. Quit using credit cards. They can send telemarketers your way under their agreements’ fine print.

And once you are done with these internet rip off artists – stay far, far away and never deal in their general direction again (unless you are subpoenaed for legal information in someone else’s case, obviously.)

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Additional tip: use release technique to get rid of the negative thinking and emotions these guys stir up. One thing you can bless them for – giving you something to release…

(You’ll have to forgive the pun, humor is something Levenson appreciated, as does Larry. Plus, it’s a great photo…)

This page is simply a review of Larry Crane’s Abundance Course and the Releasing Technique.

Larry’s Own Story

“My name is Larry Crane. I am a self-made millionaire businessman, author and teacher. I have been featured in hundreds of articles in newspapers and magazines (including Time and TV Guide), and on T.V. throughout the world. I’ve had the limousines, the planes… with businesses all over the world… raking in MULTI-MILLIONS of dollars. I have lived a life most people only dream about, including being friends and business associates with some of the most important and influential people in the world. I could go on and tell you all about my successes and the money I have made but, I’m not going to bother. You see, I’ve got a disturbing secret to share with you:

“Around 9 p.m. on a Friday night, back in 1976… with a successful business… millions in the bank… a beautiful wife… and an article written about me in Time magazine… I took the elevator to my ten-room duplex penthouse suite in Manhatten… walked over to my terrace… scanned the beautiful view below… and for about 2 hours I seriously contemplated suicide!

“It was very confusing to me. I had everything any one could want… and yet… I truly was one miserable creature!

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“I had become determined to find the answer to my personal miseries. And although I was a very “closed” person at the time… and… not receptive to any kind of therapy or self-help stuff, my wife did talk me into some New Age courses. I took a bunch of these… but…Misery Was Still My Motto!

“Nothing was helping. I just became more and more depressed and frustrated.

“Then one day, in 1976, a young man came into my office to sell me a mail order item. I had some interesting spiritual or self-discipline quotations on my wall, and this opened up a conversation as to what I was “into”. That’s when I first heard about something called the Release® Technique.

It really resonated with me. So I decided to take the course that very weekend. That weekend was the first time I met the most fascinating man I’ve ever met – Lester Levenson.”

Larry goes on to explain that Levenson had everything he wanted, but was completely at ease and happy all the time. And he never seemed to work – but had an abundance of money, his health was good, he had tons of friends – solid relationships, and just effortlessly went through life.

And since Larry learned what Levenson was teaching, he’s adopted these into his own life and now spends it entirely to get these breakthroughs out to you and those you know.

What’s the Pitch?

Sure, it’s a lot of hype that surrounds this system. And I’m not telling you to believe anything that I or Larry has said on the subject. What you do with your own life is your business. Just because I’m totally set on this stuff as true breakthrough in all these fields – well, that doesn’t mean that you have to believe one word of it. I’m actually telling you not to.

Look, the big items people want to solve in their lives are all here: Health, Wealth, Relationships, Stress – anything and everything people can get sold on are here. I’ve even included the videos below so you can experience the pitches for yourself.

Now, let me tell you a secret: If you get the free stuff Larry offers on his site, that’s all you really need to get going. Sure, there’s a bunch of other books and tapes to buy – but not unless you think it’s right for you.

I’ve been working with helping people get out from under scams for over two years now – so I’ve got more than a bit of experience in this area. And something is a scam if you say it is. If you didn’t get out what you wanted, then you got scammed. In all cases, you only really get out what you put in.

So my advice on this stuff is:

1. Don’t believe anything that Larry or I say on this subject.

2. Get the free stuff first and try it out – don’t buy anything unless you’ve tried it out first.

3. But if you do have some bucks to plunk down for his basic course – you can do that. It’s guaranteed return if you don’t like it. And you’ll have it all on CD’s (plus some bonuses) and you can check it out for yourself.

Release Technique Promotional Videos

First, lets listen to Larry Crane get interviewed. About 9 minutes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffQIykgMTrM

And here’s Larry giving a personal introduction:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQxnWqwuRIA

Now, at this point, if you feel this is the answer to what you’ve been looking for, go to the site with this link. What you’re looking on is on the front page – probably either “Learn More or “Buy Now” buttons.

Now, here’s some much shorter videos on the key topics:

Money and Wealth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysx5mRSdmVI

If you’re tired of being broke or want to find out how to manifest abundance in your life, use those links. You’re looking for the button on the extreme lower left .

Health:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyVZsUDac-M

If you want to know more about how to optimize your health and vitality with the release technique, use that link. You’ll want to go to the section on Mental and Physical Health – second from the left.

Relationships:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxzFxL0OOWc

You can learn how to discover the true power of Love by using that link. This will be the button on the top labeled “Relationships”, or the bottom button labeled “Improve Your Life.”

Life Changes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eZ31aaSQTo

For finding how to transform your life – use that link. This is the bottom row, 2nd to right button.

What do I get out of this?

I’m just here to give you the data to help you improve your life. Sure, the above are all affiliate links. And you can just go to his site directly if you want. Or search for Google for any of several dozen people who have put up sites that promote his courses, books, materials, and whatnot.

All I’m here for is to help you. Period. And that’s why I’ve written this page and how I wrote it this way.

Because your future is up to you – completely. People who stay poor, sick, upset, worried – these people aren’t really looking for a way to improve their conditions. And I’m not saying that Crane’s Release Technique is the way to solve everyone’s problems, either.

I’m just here to give you that additional choice.

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Hard to believe you already know this – it’s just going to take someone point it out for you…

This secret route has been known since the early 1950’s. It didn’t really show up in “The Secret”, although one of its proponents and teachers (Hale Dwoskin) was in that DVD/movie.

Lester Levenson discovered in in 1952, after being sent home to die by his doctor – told not to get out of bed or make any physical effort of any kind. (But the doctor didn’t tell him he couldn’t use his mind to sort out his life from the inside out.)

The breakthrough was in learning to let go of all the self-limiting thinking he was doing and just learn to live life simply. He found that all the Happiness he had ever been searching for was already in side of him – and he had been keeping it from showing up through all these habitual thoughts he had kept around during the earlier 42 years of his life.

Of course, it took something like another 16 years before he could figure out what he had done and how to teach it to others so they could learn it, too.

I’m still studying Levenson and his Sedona Method, although the tapes seem hard to find these days. Hale Dwoskin and Larry Crane, among others, have picked up this banner. Of course, they are bringing it to people in the way they want, which is to solve the material needs first.

And that’s where people consider that Sedona Method is a scam, because it doesn’t immediately give them everything they want. Hale Dwoskin covers this in several recordings – that by working on your Health, you might get Success or Prosperity showing up – or some other feature of your health being improved.

But I’m getting way beyond the scope of this little post. If you’re interested, you’re going to have to do some more homework on your own. (See links above, or other posts on this site.)

In studying more of Levenson, what he revealed as the cause of his near-death experience was his own attitude toward the world. And by sitting quietly and using his own mind, he was able to reverse these effects in just a few months – and also climb into states of high bliss which few humankind have ever experienced, even briefly.

And along the way, he found the underlying explanations and techniques that enable a person to get anything and everything they want from this world. Anything and everything.

Doesn’t mean it comes to you instantly, although it can. It’s going to take some work on your part. It all depends on how much you are completely willing to give up everything first. And of course, that seems contradictory. But I’m not going to try to explain why it works that way.

Here’s a video where Levenson, in his classic New York accent and approach, lays it out for a small class of students in Arizona:

Lester Levenson Fireside Chat 1

Why I bring this to you is simple – I care about your future and that of the world around you.

I’ve been covering the Golden Rule here for a long time – many, many posts. The short hand version is thsi: You have to give before you can get.

Now some have this down to just, only, and exactly how much money do they have to pay to get a CD set that will help them get the pay raise or new car or cash bonus they want to show up in their lives. And some are simply working at visualizing every day to get things to show up.

And while these will work, most don’t find they can get them to work just by reading a book or listening to a tape or DVD. (Although “The Secret” is a good introduction to this approach.)

As the intro to that above recording goes – you have to listen with your heart. Put your thinking aside.

Because all your thinking has gotten you into any particular situation you are in right now – any lack you are experienceing.

What the Sedona Method does is to calm the mind so that your native Self can show up and start working.

And there is a built-in trap mechanism that will ultimately give you a huge loss, a catastrophy if you don’t really give it all up. That’s what Levenson said in the video above. Because, yes, you can get every single thing you ever wanted in this world – and they will all show up for you. But if you don’t move beyond that bliss point where you have the entire universe at your feet, then it will all come crashing down around you.

You have to be able to give it all up.

Because that is the way we’ve set this Universe up to operate. Like death, as Patrick Swayze would quote from one of his movies – you only take the love you hold within you. All these material things around you aren’t worth a tinker’s damn in the final reckoning.

And as you get this idea into your life right now, you can have an incredible life of unlimited Happiness, Joy, and everything you need to accomplish your basic purpose, your passion, your unending bliss on this planet.

It’s been there, really all the time, just waiting for you. As Jesus said, you already have Heaven within you.

But the way to find it isn’t within any particular religion or spiritual philosophy, but is in all of them.Check their basic books and you’ll see this to be true.

The trick is in how much you want to find it.

Geese actually do a great job mowing...

Came to me while mowing the lawn and watching/listening to/experiencing my thoughts rattle around. Not so much a unique experience for anyone familiar with Levensons’ Sedona Method. (I mean being distanced from your own thoughts – not mowing. I’d rather geese do my mowing almost any day.)

In my life I’ve been very busy following all sorts of leads which put all sorts of stuff in front of what I really should be doing.

I should have been listening to my intuition the whole time.

Intuitional living isn’t an easy thing to move over to. It’s not like you just ask the driver to stop at the next corner so you can get off. It’s a transformational thing.

At this point, I know these key points:

• You have to learn to listen.
• It requires working constantly for the most optimal solution around you.
• It means working in abundance in everything you do and more often open-handed giving.

There may be other key points (they’ll come to me if I need to tell you), but let’s go over these individually. While books have been written on each one (and I’ll reference those I know of as we go) you don’t have to get these books to understand and start applying these right now to your own life.

1. You have to learn to listen.

This is listening within as well as without. Most of the time we are so busy thinking that we are tripping over our own thoughts constantly. Our minds run away with our lives.

Several authors, such as Charles Haanel (in his “Master Key System”) said to seek the Silence. His 24-lesson course the book was based on had you practicing sitting still for some time every day and simply learning to control what you were thinking. Others call for meditation as a way to discipline the mind. My favorite is Lester Levenson, who simply said to release the thoughts and feelings which welled up – this quieted the mind and eventually removed its “thinking” influence entirely.

The point is like someone who is talking all the time and doesn’t let a word in edge-wise. Until that person learns to be quiet and listen to others, they can’t learn anything. While Levenson and others tell how a person develops that problem, it’s easier to simply “let go” of that impulse than to figure it out (which involves more thinking, doesn’t it?)

So intuitional thinking requires simply sitting down in a comfortable spot where you won’t be disturbed – several times a day if possible, but at least once daily – and learn to be still and just listen. Don’t contribute to anything that comes in, just allow it and then let it go. Eventually, with practice, you can sit for 5 – 10 – 15 minutes or more and just listen to the world around you. This skill starts to carry forward with you in life and you’ll find yourself taking in and enjoying more life around you.

Until you listen, you won’t be able to have the inspirational, motivational, and intuitional thoughts arrive (they actually are arriving all the time, but we have to get all this noise out of the way in order to begin to see them.)

2. You need to work constantly for the most optimal solution around you.

Now, “work” might not be the best term – it only seems like that at first. Later it becomes fun, a game. But you are changing some life-long mental habits at the outset. So start looking for better solutions, the best possible solution to everything you encounter. Just see if you can’t work out how to live more abundantly and install this abundance in everything you do.

All your situations should result not just in win-win, but in win-win-win. Everyone involved wins from the solution you help evolve – and they then take that to help others live abundantly as well. You really need to not just pay it back, but pay it forward, and then pay it forward in advance.  Wallace Wattles covered this in his classic, “Science of Getting Rich”. He laid out a whole chapter devoted to the idea of doing always more than you are asked to do, taking care with each detail to create the most professional product you can.

3. Work in abundance  – start giving open-handedly.

In nature, there really is no competition. That is a humankind-invented view of things. The oldest writings and teachings on this planet confirm just one thing – we are all connected, there are no limits. Sure, there are the apparency of limits and restrictions, but you’ll find that they are arbitrary and imposed, not occurring naturally.

Look at the things in life which are giving you the most problems – taxes, government, political parties, mass media – these things don’t exist except for us “highly evolved” humanoid-type peoples. And if you look at more “primitive” peoples who don’t have health care, insurance, lawyers – the same sun still lights up their day with warmth and causes things to grow for them. They still enjoy their family, they eat and live with much less stress than we face in our “modern” world. A recent article about some of the oldest-living people found this village where they still went out into the fields every day and harvested their own food, even into their hundreds of years living on this planet.

Competition is only a limiting apparency. Creative action and resolution is unlimited.

And I could really go on and on about open-handed giving – it’s where commerce started out and where online marketing is going again. People don’t want to be consumers, they want to be part of the experience and community that any given product represents.  Online vendors know that they have to give away tons of really valuable stuff before anyone will invest their own hard-earned income with them. It’s a matter of trust. But that trust is built best through open-handed value-giving, not tons of “promotional give-aways” (although the two are related.)

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None of these concepts are new – even Intuitional Living isn’t a new concept. Emerson talked about it in his own way, as did his student, Thoreau. Even Shakespeare touches on it here and there.

It’s just come the time now, in our Internet information age, that we can move anyone who wants to right on up this line and out. Because Intuitional Living is just the next logical step, but it isn’t the final one (if there is one). It’s the next thing after having everything you need and want in life, being whatever you want to be, doing, achieving, acquiring all that you ever really wanted. You’ll get all that on your road to Intuitional Living. All of it. And you’ll find that once you do, you don’t really have to have all that. (Like owning a candy store – you find that you don’t want to eat candy all the time, but are really interested how to improve others diets so they can enjoy candy as a treat – not an have-to-have.)

Try some Intuitional Living for yourself. Just those three simple steps. See how you can work on each one a little bit each day – and see if your world and the worlds of others around you don’t improve just to the degree you work on these. It really only helps improve things. And as you give to others, you will receive. So this is an invitation to immensely improve your life forever.

Don’t take my word for it, don’t believe what I say here. Try it for yourself and see if it’s true for you.

All the happiness you are ever going to get is already there. If you aren’t experiencing the highest level of joy and internal peace, then it’s only your own agreed-upon limitations which are keeping it from showing up.

Natively, we are all Masters in our own right. You already have all the abilities and powers and serenity – more than you could even conceive was possible.

But this is hidden behind all what you’ve swallowed over the years, all the teachings you’ve received in school, by examples of your peers and friends and family, from the books you’ve studied, the lectures you’ve attended (or been given), by the videos and TV and recordings you’ve listened to or watched.

All the teaching you’ve received has been worthless beyond belief. And to that exact degree you’ve believed all this stuff you’ve ingested, it is to that degree that you aren’t free and can’t experience the basic happiness you already have inside of you.

Same goes for any talent you “wish” you had, or abilities you’d “like to attain”. The only reason these aren’t showing up in your life, the only reason you aren’t brilliant, talented, famous, prosperous, satisfied with the life around you – all these have a single reason.

You just think you don’t _______ (fill in the blank.)

The trick is to knock off this thinking, rationalizing, figuring out. It doesn’t get you anywhere. For all Einstein’s work – are we any closer to traveling at light speed across the galaxy? We do have his atomic bomb (which he regretted for the rest of his lifetime.)

All this thinking, what has it accomplished? Government, taxes, strife, warfare, hunger, want, scarcity. And on top of that: more government, more taxes, etc.

If you “think” down that line, you only get more of the same. Look down your past-track, your own personal history, and you see it’s completely true.

You really and actually have to stop thinking in order to get any “forward” progress.

The progress we are actually making is getting ourselves out of the hole we’ve dug ourselves into. It’s not that we need to stop digging when we found ourselves in that hole, we need to start digging ourselves out.

And you begin the long process of stopping your thinking by learning how to quiet the mind.

This is called releasing – and it was uncovered and worked out by Lester Levenson, and it’s called the Sedona Method.

How this is done, how to quit thinking – that’s really, really simple: When you get a thought, you don’t try to stop it. You welcome it. You don’t try to figure out how you are having it, you just accept it for what it is. It won’t hurt you if you simply look at it for what it is. Thoughts can’t hurt you. They are just an old bad habit.

So the first thing is to simply recognize that you have a thought, and then to simply accept that thought. Welcome it. See it for what it is.

Then let it go.

Maybe you can’t let it go right off the bat. Hale Dwoskin and others have developed additional techniques to enable you to find and release these various thoughts.

The basics are: Welcome/accept any thought that comes in, and then release it. See it, let it go. Don’t resist it, don’t work at figuring it out, just welcome it and let it go.

Then your mind starts to quiet. You don’t have to keep thinking any more. Happiness and joy fill the gaps in between the thoughts. You start to live at peace within yourself and within your world you live in.

And you’ll start getting some really brilliant intuitive ideas. Your native genius will shine through. Solutions to all your problems will show up. Simply. Or the problems will simply disappear.

But you have to quit that bad habit of thinking first. And to do that you have to learn the habit of releasing – and make it constant in your life until you don’t need to.

Try it – see if this works for you.

Been listening to some great stuff that should give a solution to the Scientology problem.

It’s a problem because there is a lie inside it.

And I’m not going to either justify Hubbard or his Scientology, nor will I negate it.

I’m saying that there is a life after it, and that there is a tool which will both help a person enhance the gains they experienced and also allow them to move on – or to stay in.

That solution is the Sedona Method. With this simple set of processes (and there are only 5), you can get relief from any suffering you’ve endured on behalf of or due to the management of Scientology.

I’ve read that it’s estimated that it takes 12 years to “get over” Scientology. Unfortunately, this isn’t true. Anything you resist, you get. And as you continue to hold onto the difficulties and inequities of that belief-system, there is no “getting over”.

By using the Sedona Method, a scientifically proven method-set which has been around since the early 50’s, you can get relief form any significant remaining charge you have about how you’ve been treated through the various Scientology organizations.

For those who want advanced studies, there are some tapes I’ve been listening to from the founder of the Sedona Method, Lester Levenson. These will really show some very simple and basic laws which the whole study of Scientology was based – but were heuristically discovered by Levenson when he was sent home to die at the age of 42. A trained physicist and engineer, he has many parallels to Hubbard, but has left a legacy which grows independent of any corporate structure.

But the key is that you can apply it yourself, or get with “co-auditors” to apply it to each other.

The most expensive package, which contains 20 CD’s and a workbook, is still only around $300 – $400. A free introductory CD and DVD is found at the main site, sedona.com

So you can find this all out for yourself at no or little cost.

I’m giving you this data as I’ve been struggling along with all my own baggage since I left my 20+ year Sea Org career at the end of 2000. And finally, I’ve gotten the peace in this area I’ve been looking for in all those years.

You should check this stuff out.

Contact me via this blog and I’ll help you anyway I can to make the transition. Not in selling you anything or telling you what you need to believe, but just to listen.

And you can comment below, as well.

After all, with what you’ve already been through, what do you have to lose?