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TL;DR - A short treatise upon which nothing new is said. The information has been transformed from the typical presentation in hopes to achieve the same result in your mind: a psychological transformation. The topic deals with giving up something already achieved or obtained in order to gain something desired and absent.
Ritual Sacrifice
Consider precisely what this term means in general.
Ritual refers to a series of actions performed out of your own volition and agency, which is to say your own free will. The connotation of the word suggests that there is a purpose for which these actions are prescribed. They are meant to achieve a goal, or at least maintain and sustain a prior achieved goal or status.
Sacrifice refers to again purposefully surrendering something valuable and meaningful to us. Without value, meaning, and suffering, the sacrifice is not a sacrifice. In giving something dear and beneficial to us for the sake of a larger benefit, whether for ourselves or others, we hope to open new doors, new realms of possibility, and harness the energy left in the vacuum for new means.
What Are Your Habits & Rituals?
This question can be taken in two ways and is meant in both. What are your life and work habits and rituals in terms of the actual processes that you perform throughout your days? And what do they represent in the grand scheme of things? Your rituals are your weapons and tools in the fight against mediocrity and failure to act.
As was mentioned by Emp in his thread that provided an overview of the adventure, you WILL encounter The Valley of Tears. The magic, the glory, the fun, the enchantment, the infatuation for your newfangled business and idea is gone. The initial rush is over and you now have perspective on not only how little you have traversed down the path, but how much more is ahead of you. As Emp called it, "The Suck" is exactly that. It is the soul-sucking, hard-work for ages on end, the hurdle where most people trip up, fail, and walk back home to sit in front of their television instead.
Your habits and rituals are what will keep you on the path even when you don't want to be on it. They are outlined for you, and by now you simply must go through the motions to envoke the power of Success. This is the almighty metaphorical being for which you perform your rituals. If you perform each step precisely, in the right order, without mistakes, you will summon forth Success.
Questions for Contemplation:
What Are We Sacrificing?
So what are we giving up and why?
Abandoning negative habits is difficult as they are likely very pleasurable to you or at least provide deep secondary benefits, such as giving you excuses, rationalizations, and justification to not be trudging along the path. This is part of the sacrifice. You will sacrifice comfort.
Everything has a cost. To make any decision in this sea of infinite possibilities is to negate the 999,999 in favor of the 1. That is another sacrifice. Making decisions takes courage in the face of existential angst. It requires the courage to exist with an internal locus of control and the responsibility to exercise this power. You will sacrifice opportunity cost / time.
These are just two examples and I'm sure you could provide many more. But the point is that comfort is what we are trying to achieve with our business ultimately, so why would we give up the bit we already have in order to gain more? Time is the most valuable commodity any sentient being with a limited lifespan has, and we are to give it up as well? Why?
Alchemical Transmutation
Are you going to be a worker-bee, drone, warrior with an axe and no brain archetype, or are you going to be that as well as the magician? Will you comprehend your rituals and sacrifices on higher plane and use them as tools to aid you on the path? Will you be an alchemist?
If you think alchemy was really about transmuting elements into other elements, you'd know a fraction of the true purpose of this mystical pursuit. The goal is to transmute material, psychological, and spiritual energies into something more. It is to fundamentally alter the self at the most basic levels in order to gain control over the path.
Why We Must Sacrifice
Upon giving up negative rituals, you create a vacuum of time, space, and energy. They are negative in the sense that they detract from our focus on the path. Contentment, resignment to mediocrity, psychological pressure release valves, time, comfort. All of these things are fantastic in their own right, but they aren't allowed through the gate at the end of the path. Giving up these benefits gives rise to an emptiness that can be filled with the same energies used before, but renewed and empowered: transmuted.
A New Way of Understanding Choice and Transmutation of Ritual
The purpose of presenting this information in this fashion is to show the true magnitude of what we are playing with when we engage in this type of entrepreneurial lifestyle. I'm literally talking about magic, extending yourself into the field of time and the world of space and exterting your agenda upon it. I'm talking about using your mind to manipulate your body and your environment and those around you in a positive manner, true telekinesis. I'm talking about the ability to choose what stays and goes within your world. I'm talking about co-creation of reality.
This is the kind of high-level, metaphysical, spooky stuff that any determined individual does on the daily, that many perceive as being as low-level of topics as self-improvement, business tips, and regular run-of-the-mill labels that are so common place that they've sucked the potency out of the truth of what's going on.
Transmuting your habits, your body and mind, your energies, your perception of this process, the labels you use to describe them, and ultimately your business...
How can you expect to achieve the highest positions of power, wealth, health, and security without your entire experience and perception of reality being changed in the process? Have you considered that perhaps its not a matter of being changed in the passive sense but changing in the active sense?
Use your capacities to look at "everyday activities" in this philosophical light and you'll begin to pay it very serious respect. And when this happens, your rituals change, your sacrifices get made, transmutation occurs, and you find yourself further along the path than you realized even existed.
There are tiers of experience that simply aren't offered to you until you traverse the path deeper and deeper. But there are gateways that you can't pass until change occurs. But it doesn't happen to you. You happen to it.
TL;DR summary: Figure out what you want out of life and business, take a deep look at yourself and see what you're willing to sacrifice in order to move forward, make the changes, stick to the plan, abandon the trap of energy-sucking labels, and look at the process from the perspective of being a powerful entity in a universe that's willing to let you co-create. Respect the process and act first instead of waiting passively by, and guardians will retreat and gates will open.
\\ Ryuzaki, Signing Off. Over and Out //
Ritual Sacrifice
Consider precisely what this term means in general.
Ritual refers to a series of actions performed out of your own volition and agency, which is to say your own free will. The connotation of the word suggests that there is a purpose for which these actions are prescribed. They are meant to achieve a goal, or at least maintain and sustain a prior achieved goal or status.
Sacrifice refers to again purposefully surrendering something valuable and meaningful to us. Without value, meaning, and suffering, the sacrifice is not a sacrifice. In giving something dear and beneficial to us for the sake of a larger benefit, whether for ourselves or others, we hope to open new doors, new realms of possibility, and harness the energy left in the vacuum for new means.
What Are Your Habits & Rituals?
This question can be taken in two ways and is meant in both. What are your life and work habits and rituals in terms of the actual processes that you perform throughout your days? And what do they represent in the grand scheme of things? Your rituals are your weapons and tools in the fight against mediocrity and failure to act.
As was mentioned by Emp in his thread that provided an overview of the adventure, you WILL encounter The Valley of Tears. The magic, the glory, the fun, the enchantment, the infatuation for your newfangled business and idea is gone. The initial rush is over and you now have perspective on not only how little you have traversed down the path, but how much more is ahead of you. As Emp called it, "The Suck" is exactly that. It is the soul-sucking, hard-work for ages on end, the hurdle where most people trip up, fail, and walk back home to sit in front of their television instead.
Your habits and rituals are what will keep you on the path even when you don't want to be on it. They are outlined for you, and by now you simply must go through the motions to envoke the power of Success. This is the almighty metaphorical being for which you perform your rituals. If you perform each step precisely, in the right order, without mistakes, you will summon forth Success.
Questions for Contemplation:
- What rituals do I have in place and are they harmful or helpful?
- What rituals can I design with the intention of accelerating my journey and ensuring success?
- How can I adjust my positive rituals for efficiency and strength?
What Are We Sacrificing?
So what are we giving up and why?
Abandoning negative habits is difficult as they are likely very pleasurable to you or at least provide deep secondary benefits, such as giving you excuses, rationalizations, and justification to not be trudging along the path. This is part of the sacrifice. You will sacrifice comfort.
Everything has a cost. To make any decision in this sea of infinite possibilities is to negate the 999,999 in favor of the 1. That is another sacrifice. Making decisions takes courage in the face of existential angst. It requires the courage to exist with an internal locus of control and the responsibility to exercise this power. You will sacrifice opportunity cost / time.
These are just two examples and I'm sure you could provide many more. But the point is that comfort is what we are trying to achieve with our business ultimately, so why would we give up the bit we already have in order to gain more? Time is the most valuable commodity any sentient being with a limited lifespan has, and we are to give it up as well? Why?
Alchemical Transmutation
Are you going to be a worker-bee, drone, warrior with an axe and no brain archetype, or are you going to be that as well as the magician? Will you comprehend your rituals and sacrifices on higher plane and use them as tools to aid you on the path? Will you be an alchemist?
If you think alchemy was really about transmuting elements into other elements, you'd know a fraction of the true purpose of this mystical pursuit. The goal is to transmute material, psychological, and spiritual energies into something more. It is to fundamentally alter the self at the most basic levels in order to gain control over the path.
Why We Must Sacrifice
Upon giving up negative rituals, you create a vacuum of time, space, and energy. They are negative in the sense that they detract from our focus on the path. Contentment, resignment to mediocrity, psychological pressure release valves, time, comfort. All of these things are fantastic in their own right, but they aren't allowed through the gate at the end of the path. Giving up these benefits gives rise to an emptiness that can be filled with the same energies used before, but renewed and empowered: transmuted.
A New Way of Understanding Choice and Transmutation of Ritual
The purpose of presenting this information in this fashion is to show the true magnitude of what we are playing with when we engage in this type of entrepreneurial lifestyle. I'm literally talking about magic, extending yourself into the field of time and the world of space and exterting your agenda upon it. I'm talking about using your mind to manipulate your body and your environment and those around you in a positive manner, true telekinesis. I'm talking about the ability to choose what stays and goes within your world. I'm talking about co-creation of reality.
This is the kind of high-level, metaphysical, spooky stuff that any determined individual does on the daily, that many perceive as being as low-level of topics as self-improvement, business tips, and regular run-of-the-mill labels that are so common place that they've sucked the potency out of the truth of what's going on.
Transmuting your habits, your body and mind, your energies, your perception of this process, the labels you use to describe them, and ultimately your business...
How can you expect to achieve the highest positions of power, wealth, health, and security without your entire experience and perception of reality being changed in the process? Have you considered that perhaps its not a matter of being changed in the passive sense but changing in the active sense?
Use your capacities to look at "everyday activities" in this philosophical light and you'll begin to pay it very serious respect. And when this happens, your rituals change, your sacrifices get made, transmutation occurs, and you find yourself further along the path than you realized even existed.
There are tiers of experience that simply aren't offered to you until you traverse the path deeper and deeper. But there are gateways that you can't pass until change occurs. But it doesn't happen to you. You happen to it.
TL;DR summary: Figure out what you want out of life and business, take a deep look at yourself and see what you're willing to sacrifice in order to move forward, make the changes, stick to the plan, abandon the trap of energy-sucking labels, and look at the process from the perspective of being a powerful entity in a universe that's willing to let you co-create. Respect the process and act first instead of waiting passively by, and guardians will retreat and gates will open.
\\ Ryuzaki, Signing Off. Over and Out //
