The Origin of Genius.

~"As a man thinks so is He..."~Hebrew Proverb

Origin of Genius

Compared with him who has tradition on his side, Trapped in the Matrix of Social Conditioning, and requires no reason for his actions, the Free Spirit is always weak, especially in actions; for he is aware of too many motives and points of view and therefore possesses an uncertain and unpracticed hand.

How does the Free Spirit become relatively strong, so that he shall at least make his way and not perish?
How does a Strong Spirit come into Being?

It’s kind of like … Someone who has completely lost his way in a forest but strives with uncommon energy to get out of it again sometimes discovers a new path which no one knows…

Or The way in which a prisoner, with the greatest desire to free himself, uses his wits in search for a means of escape, the most cold-blooded and tedious employment of every little advantage, are the instruments we will make use of that can teach us how to bring into existence…

Genius…

A word I ask you to be understood without any flavor of the Mythological, Metaphysical or Religious…

It is now a fact that a mutilation, crippling, a serious deficiency in an organ offers the occasion for an uncommonly successful development of another organ, the reason being that it has to discharge its own function but anothers as well.
That is how those Geniuses come about who are famed for originality.
It is in this way one can suppose that many a glittering talent to have originated.

He is called a Free Spirit who THINKS differently from what, on the basis of his Origin, Environment, his Class/Caste and Profession, or on the basis of the dominant views of the Age, would have been expected of him.

He is the Exception.

The fettered and conditioned spirits are the Rule...

Sometimes you have got to ignore what anyone else tells you about your purpose.
Your Genius is in your very Existence…Awaiting the right circumstances to express itself!
Each of us must seek to go beyond our resignations, cynicisms, fear, doubts and disbeliefs, and dare to remove any resistance to actualizing your Genius.

What characterizes the Free Spirit is not that his opinions are the more correct but that he has liberated himself from Tradition, whether the outcome has been successful or a failure. He will at least have the Spirit of Inquiry after Truth.

Your Truth. Your Personal Legend. Your Vision.

In the case of the knowledge of Truth the point is whether or not You possess it.
Not from what Motives you first sought it, or along what Paths you found it.
Demand Reason and Faith of Yourself.

If anyone wanted to Imagine a Genius of Culture, a Social Genius…what would he look like?

For some…things may sound a little shocking and controversial beyond this point, but please bear in mind that I am trying to the best of my ability to articulate and describe something that is hard to describe, and in the process trying to simplify a complex Paradigm for the Masses to get a glimpse of…

And trying to do so free of mythological, metaphysical/spiritual and religious vocabulary& terminologies…
Demand Reason and Faith of Yourself…not of others.
We have nothing to expect of anyone but ourselves…

You must recognize that… get what you get…
It is Only Your Own. It is what you added unto whatever was told you.

And with this in mind, let us explore further the attempt to describe the external appearances of a Social Genius…

~”Definition is Creation”~ Anthony Robbins

You Create…by the Simple act of Defining…

Let that sink in and bounce around for while…

This Social Genius…this great Man of the Masses possesses all the qualities of the Masses, thus are they all the less embarrassed in his presence, thus he is all the more popular.
It is sadly true that he is violent, envious, exploitative, scheming, fawning, cringing, arrogant…but in his defense…all really according to circumstance.

~“To deny our impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human”~ Mouse to Neo

Going deeper down the “Rabbit hole” we could describe him also as being able to manipulate falsehood, force and the most ruthless self-interests as his instruments so skillfully…that he could only be called an Evil demonic Being.

It is the way of this kind of Genius to avoid with passionate indignation everything that confuses and deceives us in our judgment of things, for he wants to give to each his own, whether that thing be dead or living, real or imaginary.
He seeks to set all views in the best light by illuminating it from all sides, and reveal a clearer knowledge of things.

But His Objectives…which here and there shine through…would be Great and Good.
He would be like a Centaur, half beast, half man, with Angels wings attached to his back and a Glowing Halo over his head…

One only has to take a few days studying the Life and Genius Works of Michael Jackson, and end your research with “This Is It!” to drive that point home, and dissolve your doubts in that description.

So Go…

Be Your Genius...

Be in Action in the World as the Living Breathing Manifestation of the Experience of the Talents & Works you were brought into this Earth to Do…

To Be…

Dare Something Worthy…

Who would You Be If You Knew No Fear?

Decisions. Decisions. Decisions.

When you look back there will be things you will regret.

You made the Wrong decision.

Wrong...

You made the Right Decision.

Life is about Decisions.

Am I going to have the practical car or the fast car?

Shall I go to College or get a Job?

Will I have Wine, Beer or Water?

Whatever Decision you make is the Only One you could make.



...Otherwise you would make a different One...

Everything we Do We Choose.

So what is there to Regret?

You are the Person You chose to Be...

Keeping Yourself Driven!

Let us Start off on the Right Foot By making some Wrong Decisions...

Steal.

Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

Devour films, music,books, paintings, poems, photographs,conversations,dreams,trees,architecture,street signs,clouds, light and shadows...

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your Soul.
If you do this, your work(and theft)will be authentic.

Authenticity is invaluable.

Originality is Non-Existent.

Don't bother concealing your thievery - Celebrate it if you feel like it.

Remember what Jean-Luc Godard said:
'It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to.'

Imagine

Every One wants an exciting Life, but most people are afraid to take the Bull by the Horns.

So they take an Easy Option for an Exciting Life.

They Live their excitement through other people.

By aligning themselves with famous rebels, a little bit of glamour rubs off on them.
They Imagine they're like John Lennon,Ernest Hemingway,George Best, Liam Gallagher, Lenny Bruce,Janis Joplin, Damien Hirst,Andy Warhol, Johnny Depp...

The Difference being, these people when faced with a decision took the outrageous One, not knowing were it might lead them, but knowing that the safe decision had danger written all over it...

Are You Being Reasonable?

Salomon Brothers, the well known New York Investment House, met with prospective clients not once a month, or once a day...But Three 3 Times a Day.

That is Unreasonable...

But it Works...

Most people are Reasonable, that's why they only do reasonably well.

~'The Reasonable man adapts himself to the World. The Unreasonable Man adapts the World to Himself. All progress depends upon the Unreasonable man.'~George Bernard Shaw

Do It, Then Fix It as you Go!

Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually Do it.

Instead of Waiting for perfection, run with what You've got, and fix it as You go...

Beat This!

A Young Man worked as a runner for an advertising firm.

One day he said to his manager,
'I'm leaving. I'm going to be a Drummer.'

The Manager said, 'I didn't know you played the drums.'

He replied, 'I don't, but I'm going to.'

A few years later that young man played in a band with Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce, and it was called Cream, and the Young Man's name was Ginger Baker.

He became what he wanted to become before he knew he could do it.

He had a Goal.

Simply Change Your Life.

The World is what You Think of It.

So Think of it Differently and Your Life will change.



Final Thoughts.

For a Creative person starting out on a Career, try not thinking about film or media or whatever...

Think about Money.

It's Honest...

I stole this from Paul Arden.

He in turn stole it from Jim Jarmusch

Fear Fuelled Awakening.

"Need is the Mother of Invention. Desperation is the Father of Creativity."

The path that leads to heaven

When they asked Abbot Antonio if the path of sacrifice led to heaven, he answered:

- There are two paths of sacrifice. The first is taken by the man who mortifies the flesh and pays penance because he believes that we are condemned. The man who follows this path feels guilty and judges himself unworthy of living happily.

- The second path is taken by the man who, even though he knows that the world is not as perfect as we would like, prays, does penance and offers up his time and toil to improve the world around him. So he understands that the word sacrifice comes from Sacro Ofício, Holy Work. In this case the Divine Presence helps him all the time and he obtains results in heaven."

Breakdown. The Awakening.

That the World is not what it appears to be, is something all Religions have insisted upon.
Something that Myths have hinted at, and something that Science has finally established in this last Century, beyond all reasonable, or even unreasonable, doubt.

That perhaps the entire Western Civilization is playing the game of consensus reality whether they are aware of it or not.
And are playing by rules which they neither invented, nor even consciously agreed to.
In most cases, in fact, we are grossly unaware that such rules even exist.

"We are caught in the 'superstition of materialism'...the Hypnosis of Social Conditioning." ~ Dr.Deepak Chopra

Oddly enough, the ‘Matrix’ of consensus reality has been set up in such a way that it is necessary to first understand the rules before you can begin changing, bending,warping or breaking them.

An Option which the vast majority of humans never become aware of...

::::GROUPTHINK::::

Groupthink is a type of thought exhibited by group members who try to minimize conflict and reach consensus without critically testing, analyzing, and evaluating ideas.

Individual creativity, uniqueness, and independent thinking are lost in the pursuit of Group cohesiveness, as are the advantages of reasonable balance in choice and thought that might normally be obtained by making decisions as a Group.

During Groupthink , members of the group avoid promoting viewpoints outside the comfort zone of Consensus thinking.

A variety of motives for this may exist such as a desire to avoid being seen as foolish, or a desire to avoid embarrassing or angering other members of the group.

Groupthink may cause groups to make hasty, irrational decisions, where individual doubts are set aside, for fear of upsetting the groups balance.

The term is frequently used pejoratively, with hindsight...

~Inspired by Erykah Badu

Who would you be if you knew no Limits?

Who would you be if you knew you could not fail?

Who would you be if everything was possible, and nothing was impossible?

Who would you Be...If You were Fearless?


Almost everything we know argues...that Living powerfully is accomplished by skillfully building on the past.
We learn, expand, grow, building on our experiences, our education, our upbringing, our successes and failures.
We tend to look at what we do to determine who we are.

How we Perform in the present and what we see as possible in the future, then, are largely determined by how effectively we build on the past.
This Idea of building on the foundation of the past is so fundamental to our Thinking, that we can hardly imagine a reality Different from the Past...

Suppose, However...that Living Powerfully - Living an Extraordinary Life - works in Exactly the Opposite Way.
Suppose that the Possibilities available to us Today... are not those given by our past, but those given by our Future.

If You could be Free of your Past...Who would you Be?

We all get stuck in our belief systems, however sensible we think they are.
What we believe is not necessarily Real.

And with this in Mind I'd like to have a conversation with you...

Whether we believe in psychic ability, crystal energy, alien abduction, talking to the dead, or Christianity, we are rightly or wrongly buying into a very powerful belief system.

Its all about questioning...
As intelligent human beings we should be prepared to question our Beliefs.

But there are beliefs we are not encouraged to question... and these are often the Beliefs upon which we are asked to make important Life's decisions.
These are the areas where we should test and look for mis-information, because often we are making Life decisions based upon information we are getting from seeming authority figures representing different Religious Belief Systems.