The world after good has won...

Thursday, June 6, 2002

The Mill Valley Community Coaching evenings have gotten more and more powerful as we have gone along. We’re outgrowing the room!

The world after good has won, in real, practical terms.

I want to summarize what was covered so you can take advantage of it in your own lives.

1. Culturally, there is a complete void about what the world will look like when good has triumphed. If you notice, our movies, books, and stories are all about the endless struggle between good and evil (look at your daily newspaper – it’s the longest running soap opera in history). When we get to the part where good wins as it always does (in the last 5 or 10 minutes/pages) – often using the same violent tactics as evil – then, all of a sudden we come to “THE END.” We need to develop the vision for what the world will look like after “The End.” More to say, we need to stop saying “The End” and finally start saying, “AAAH, now THE BEGINNING.” Whatever you cannot envision, you will probably not be able to create. (Try this experiment: really try to envision what a world where goodness has triumphed looks like. Most likely, you’ll get stuck after about one minute and go blank.)

2. We think that Good triumphing is some global phenomenon. Nothing could be further from the Truth. The triumph of Good is a personal, individual, intimate experience that every one of us can have now and generate as a grassroots wave. Be honest with yourself, Good has won in you. I’m not talking about the ridiculous perfection game where you are never free to make a mistake. I am talking about that if you are reading this, you are probably a person who is honest, prays for a better world, generally treats people with respect, is a good parent, etc. YOU ARE PERSON IN WHOM GOOD HAS WON (whether you make mistakes or not). When you finally acknowledge this in your own being and stop acting like something is wrong or broken, you enter a different universe – the one you have been praying for! I’ve seen people weep when they finally freed themselves from the insane “Original Sin” (a very old version of good vs. evil) nonsense we live in and come into contact with their intrinsic goodness. (Do this now…take it in…you ARE a good person. Good has won in you. Period. Isn’t it great?! It’s a gigantic relief to let this in.)

3. When you acknowledge that Good has won in you and that you are not at war with yourself or evil in yourself – or ANYWHERE, several things become obvious. The first and primary thing that is obvious is that the strategy that you used to live your life when good and evil were at war is not going to be a useful strategy to live in peace and happiness. You will need to craft a new strategy for your life – one that reflects your goodness and what’s available in that state. That’s where fulfillment-based thinking occurred in me. Rather than trying to fix something or win something, I investigated what my greatest joy and pleasures are and began to follow them. (Finally I was safe to.)

4. Evil loses its power and glamour and threat. It actually becomes boring because it’s a losing strategy that never gets anyone what they truly want, namely to be happy – the central thing that is hardwired in EVERY human being.

5. You will have to hold yourself to a different standard. War/struggle is a state of emergency. It is permissible to do things in a state of emergency that you would never allow in peacetime. In war, you can injure yourself deeply to get a result produced and people will call you a hero. In peace, you have to develop a style that nourishes and grows you. (Think of raising your children. You nourish and grow them. To raise them in “life is an emergency” would be a state of insanity. And you just wouldn’t do it.)

6. War is a state of constant fear. Fear is the opposite of openness and shuts people down. What I discovered for myself when I shifted worlds was that the state of chronic fear in which I lived had caused my brain and central nervous system to be “starved,” and that I needed to nourish them. In our way of thinking we use the erotic practice to fire up the brain and central nervous system by putting vast amounts of sexual bliss in our bodies in a relaxed state while speaking words of pleasure, gratitude and greatness to reprogram the mind while opening the breathing to nourish the body and soul fully. (There is a one-hour tape I’ve made about this. If you want one ($30) call my office and I’ll make sure you get one. 510-525-3303. This is a embarrassing thing to say, though it needs saying: Most people are not getting where they would like to go in life because their brain and central nervous system is starved energetically and cannot “read” the data. This kind of starvation kills intelligence and deadens our natural gifts and talents.

7. Your style of agreeing and interacting will need to change. That’s why we invented “Irresistible Offers.” These are agreements that are crafted so that everyone involved feels joyous and gets what they wanted – or even more than they wanted. Feel the fear you feel when someone says they would like to sell you something – even if you want it! You feel it because the game of selling is often predicated on the wartime strategy of domination and pressure.

8. In a time of peace the emphasis is on building, growing, nurturing, exploring, and enjoying. Isn’t that what you want? Then declare that Good has won in you and enter a world of peace and start the practices that come from it. We need people who are real, live everyday examples of human beings who are living from their goodness, pleasure and joy, so that others can see what it looks like. That’s how to have a world that works for everyone – one person at a time until the mass conscious rolls over!

All my love,

Bill Lamond

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