This notes-version of the original outrageous presentation allows you to find out where you are at as a member of humankind. Controversial, shocking, and perhaps just containing outright lies - there is still a discussion to be had.
If you've ever been scammed, you'll want to see this. If you consider that management and owners conspire against you - then read on. If you consider that quantum realities are obvious, then don't bother...
This is a way to help you improve your life. Hopefully, the infotainment here will be worth it - otherwise, there are still greater wastes of time on the Internet...
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1. Are We Scammers, Zombies, or
Saints?
Photo: www.popfi.com
This photo is from a hacked highway sign in Austin
Texas, which was apparently up for weeks until the
authorities learned about it on the evening news.
Video available on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dustinc/3227981714/
2. These can describe all of human
existence.
This isn't an understatement.
While my choice of words might be over the top, there
really are just three categories of all humankind
activity – and this explains why all marketing “works”,
as well as scammers, politics, fads, and even world
wars.
3. Shocking? Controversial?
Outright Lie?
While the terms I use are shocking, controversial,
perhaps even considered an “outright lie”, the point is
to get your attention while I then tell you the very
solid and logical arguments which support these
ideas.
And I wouldn't be telling you this unless I thought this
might help you improve your life.
Of course – transparency disclaimer: I'm also coming
out with a book and this is promotion for it. (Skip to
the end to see a cover promo and links.)
Otherwise, stay tuned for some infotainment...
4. ZOMBIES...
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Zombies are the “New Normal”
Sort of like the “New Coke”. But we don't claim to have
changed the basic secret recipe...
5. Scammers are your Best Friends
Photo credit: Dave Dugdale
Because they will teach you stuff you never suspected
you needed to know – like how to safeguard your
security from moral-less cowards who only want you
to pay their overhead, salary, and benefits with your
credit cards (which are also a scam).
If you reverse-engineer their tactics (see: “Get Your
Self Scam Free”
http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/get-your-self-scam-free/8880654)
you'll find that they are using the basic make-up of
humankind to exploit it for their own profit. You were
trained from a child to be a patsy, a dupe, a victim.
So finding these guys on your lines is the best way to
get a real education in how life works. At least it was
for me, anyway...
6. Saints are a “friendly kind of weird.”
Photo credit: kevindooley
There are saints who live in quiet harmony on this
planet and are a “friendly kind of weird” as they
simply see the world as rather interesting, but feel no
need to correct it – since they look into your eyes
and see the basic perfection that you are.
References down this line are the tapes and books by
Alan Watts and Lester Levenson.
Nice folks, but not any of your movers and shakers.
7. Boil all the textbooks down:
Zombies, Scammers, Saints
Photo credit: Mel B
Actually, those aren't textbooks in there, those are
boiled beans. (All photocredits are found on Flickr,
BTW.)
But the texts I'd have you study are Robert Cialdini's
“Influence”, Maslow's “A Theory of Human
Motivation, and Lester Levenson's “Keys to the
Ultimate Freedom.” All in addition to Alan Watts'
many books and tapes.
Now you could, as I did, study the bestseller self-help
books, particularly New Thought authors, and you'll
find a common theme to these.
And without studying these completely, you may not
see the commonalities which are there – it might
even seem a “shopping list” of references.
But let's carry on – this is a video, you know...
8. Traces back to the Pareto Principle
(80/20 rule)
Our first stop is the Pareto Principle, which has a great
deal of use outside economics, much to the chagrin
of Pareto himself.
80% of your income comes from 20% of your clients,
as one example.
9. 80% of your Income =
20% of your staff/clients
Similarly both 80% of your corporate or work problems,
and also 80% of their solutions also only come from
(separate) 20% of your staff.
10. 97% of what happens is generated
by 3% of the people.
My real interest got piqued when I found that
approximately 20% of 20% (.04) heightened the
effect. This is the real core of your profits, but also
your problems and solutions.
Just a tiny minority of your sales come from really big-
spending clients. Similarly, there are brainiacs in your
organization who nearly run the place single-
handedly, offset by another tiny minority who are
steadfastly trying to bring the place to its knees.
Other estimates bring this to 97:3 ratio, and even in
some cases 99:1. But I found that the 97:3 started
explaining a larger majority of life situations.
11. “The Secret”
Photo credit: the Italian voice
There was an interesting point in “The Secret” DVD
where Bob Proctor is saying that a very tiny minority
of people on this planet controlled the vast majority
of it's wealth. Of course, he attributed this to their
knowing the “Law of Attraction”, and the jury is still
out for many on that point. But as a naturally
observable “law”, it certainly played a part.
12. 97% of people exist at “Have”
Our use of this 97:3 ratio is to define why so very many
people simply go through their lives working for
someone else and otherwise being mostly
consumers for various products.
There is a scale of have-do-be. According to my
observations, 97% of people are sitting around just
having things, and expecting to be given a job and
buying things with their credit, and so on.
People who operate at Have, don't really use their
power of choice very much – even though they think
they do. Most of their lives is run by the
subconscious – which is exactly how they can be
manipulated into consuming different products.
So the name “Zombies”.
13. The Gimme's.
The phrase “Gimme's” probably came from listening to
old Earl Nightingale recordings, where he used an
example of a young couple who wanted to live in
Monterrey, CA – but couldn't get anyone to “give”
them a job.
He pointed out many different ideas they could start on
their own as entrepreneurs, any of which would
enable them to earn more than enough money to
cover their expenses so that they could live there.
Earning is different from expecting someone to “give”
you something, like a job.
14. Workers
As well, Nightingale pointed out – and it's on his “Lead
the Field” series – that there are so many people
who simply consume stuff. And the spend their lives
in working to manufacture products for others.
Many feel they are content with this set up.
My view is that this is indeed a “set-up”. Most of these
people are incredibly talented and could start any
number of businesses if they only spent some of that
time they use watching TV or being entertained to
instead actually study and learn what it would take to
set up and run a business of their own.
Probably no harder work than what they are currently
doing – but harder in that they have to be their own
boss...
15. “Scammers” are most of that 3%...
Photo credit: jepoirrier
Let's take up the 3% of people left over. These people
are where Scammers are found. Not that they are all
scammers, but the people in this area of operation all
know various basics which get the “Gimme's” to do
things, or buy their stuff – and so on.
So unscrupulous people can find that they get others
to buy useless or worthless stuff pretty easily. And so
as there are so very many of these people around,
they can “make” a fairly good living at this.
Buying people off who wise up to their scheme (and
start telling others) is just the “cost of doing business”
for them.
16. The Getters.
These people (the 3%) are in action all the time. They
do stuff. They make changes. This is all the people
who start and manage organizations. This is all the
people who get themselves elected to government
jobs, as well as their top staffers.
These are the people who are always on the go and
generally get other people to give them very nice
salaries and perks. They live comfortable lives in
general.
And you'll see these people lose it all from time to time,
but then they get it right back – because they know
how it is done, and just duplicate what they did
before.
17. They figured out Zombies run by a
given set of rules.
Those textbooks I told you about before – boiling these
down gives you the rules that the 97% actually run
on. As well as the rules of the Universe that we
mostly all agree with.
So when you know these, simply manipulating or
controlling the vast majority of people is rather
simple. And so you see government leaders, their
staffers, and corporate heads getting away with all
number of outrageous acts – reasoning (as one
President said) “...because I can.”
18. All your marketers and scammers
know these rules.
I'm not kidding that these texts contain this stuff. And
it's really easy to find. Pick up any text on how to do
Internet Marketing, particularly on how to write copy
and sales pages – and you'll quickly see what makes
people tick.
It's all spelled out there.
Now, cross-check that with Maslow, Cialdini,
Levenson, and the top New Thought Authors (Hill,
Wattles, Haanel, and even Troward) and you'll see
that the whole universe is set up on a very direct
basis.
As you learn how the universe is set up, how
humankind keeps training its young to act – then it's
easy to market (or scam) to get whatever you want.
19. “Get Your Self Scam Free”
A lot of this is covered in my book, which is available
on Lulu. (Blatant sales pitch...)
http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/get-your-self-scam-free/8880654
20. “Saints”
Now we get to the real interesting part: there are a
subset of the Getters/Scammers who have even
figured out more than they did.
I call them saints, because in our traditions the people
who did all this figuring out usually wound up with a
title like that. “Prophet” is another, or - tragically -
martyr.
21. The Be-ers.
Photo credit: Unhindered by Talent
While the bulk of humanity sits at “have”, and a small
minority who control most of them operate at “do”,
these Saints just sit around and “be” all day long.
These are your enlightened few, those who have
achieved illumination, the true Zen Masters, etc.
They no longer have to do in order to achieve, acquire,
or attain anything and everything they want. That
statement of course sounds very odd – but only
because we haven't yet attained that state for
ourselves.
Alan Watts covers this in various lectures, and the
Eastern adepts have been talking about this for
years.
This state does exist – and they walk among us...
22. 3% of Getters are Be-ers.
The percentage is very small – just 3% of 3%.
Statistically, that's just the way it works out (more or
less).
But you'll see that you'd really have to be a studious
marketer to really get down to the core data on how it
works for real. You'd have to get to the basic
principles and laws which allow the mechanics to
work.
Most marketers/scammers/getters don't want to work
that hard. And some are just natively curious enough
to pull it off.
Very, very few, though.
23. Saints live a serene existence and
get everything they want.
There's a real interesting phenomenon which occurs at
the upper levels. When a “Getter” keeps studying
what happens and how this Universe actually works,
they can move into an effortless band of “miracles as
usual.”
This is where they really take ownership and
responsibility for the idea of “We become what we
think about.” (Earl Nightingale) or “The world is what
we think it is.” (Huna)
And there are techniques (or rather the lack of any
need for them) which move you from having to Do to
get anything and everything you want or need over to
simply Being – and watching them show up, in real
and regular volume.
24. The scammers of scammers.
In this way, it could be said that they can out perform
anyone of the Getters in achieving their goals.
The idea of scamming scammers is delicious, but is a
bit of a mis-statement. Because they have gone far
beyond the ethical and moral problems scammers
have.
The shorthand of this is that they really have taken the
Golden Rule, Law of Attraction, and Principle of
Correspondence to heart – and now realize that we
are all connected (Huna says, “There are no limits.”)
So by being all they can be, their beingness extends to
include everyone around them. And so their
abundance is our abundance. The more they Be, the
better everything gets.
A friendly sort of weird, as I said earlier.
25. Gimmes, Getters, Be-ers.
Just a review here:
● 97% of all people are sitting at “gimme.” They
consider that they have to work to get things, but
jobs are given to them, and winning the lottery is
getting the big ring on the merry-go-round of life.
● About 3% are Getters – who consider that the more
effective they are in their actions is what “makes” the
universe get them what they want.
● 3% of that 3% know the higher truth, and practice
open-handed help and unconditional love. Their
result is that whatever they want simply shows up.
26. Effect
Most of this universe, as we are taught from the time
we understand language (if not before), is that things
happen around us. We aren't in control of most, if
any of it.
Our highest goal in life is to have regular and
consistent work so we can buy stuff we want.
The smartest put some of this away so that they can
use it when they aren't able to work any more. So
they can still buy the stuff they want.
Earl Nightingale pointed out that the vast majority of
our U.S. Population winds up broke and dependent
on government handouts or someone else to care for
them until they die.
27. Effect -> Cause
Getters tend to refuse the concepts of just being the
effect most of our lives and go out to get things done.
These are the people who start businesses and grow
them into multi-national corporations.
These are the guys who create the jobs that everyone
else works at.
They know that the smarter they work (not harder), the
better their returns.
Most of these, even though they might be bankrupt
and start over several times, wind up leaving a lot of
wealth to others when they pass on. (Sam Benton of
Wal-Mart, for example – as well as Warren Buffett
and Bill Gates, who are very much still around.)
28. However, what these Big Getters really miss is the
punchline to this Universe's joke:
You don't really have to work or do anything at all.
You just have to Be effectively.
And then, life is a piece of cake. You are at constant
peace all of your life and have a very satisfactory
lifetime – full of joy, happiness, and unlimited
freedom.
29. ...what goes on in the world around
us.
But you have to see it and try it out to believe it.
The biggest problem we face is the considerations
which hold us back into our set patterns:
● Gimme's usually only complain about Management or
Owners instead of doing anything.
● Getter's consider that they need to “work smarter, not
harder” - but still figure that “work” and action are the
key to their success.
● Be-er's see the whole thing as humorous, but know
that people are already perfect and are on their own
route to personal self-actualization and will get there
eventually.
30. Quantum Realities
Quantum Realities have been around for a very long
time, and are becoming increasingly more marketed
and promoted.
The essential idea is that there are an infinite number
of alternate universes created at every moment. The
one you find yourself in right now is the one you most
believe in.
Change your beliefs and you change that universe.
“Bad” things don't have to happen. Miracles can
become routine.
Or – you can keep your wage-slave job until you die,
with government interference the whole way. Taxes
and Death are certain unavoidable evils.
31. Quantum Realities are true...
Burt Goldman comes into this scene with his Quantum
Jumping. While he's talked about this for years, and
learned it from older Jose Silva's UltraMind methods,
with this new title and marketing, it's really taken off.
Of course, depending on your mindset is how much
you can get out of it:
Gimmes say it's a scam.
Getters work to use it to get the money, cars, lifestyle,
and relationships they want.
Be-er's see it as so obvious, what's the big deal? Nice
package, though. Glad someone brought this up.
32. Bottom line:
3 viewpoints.
Photo credit: w00kie
With these three viewpoints concerning life, you can
easily see how they each stick themselves into that
reality.
Only by being willing to look and try can you move
from one to the next. Otherwise you simply stay
where you are indefinitely, if not forever.
----
Oh, did I imply there's another level above Saints? Yes,
but it is so out of our reality it's not worth bringing up.
Everyone below that level would simply consider it
fiction or myth – which is where you find the
descriptions of it...
33. “Everything you have is just what
you got.”
Simply consider that statement.
Your reaction to it shows which group you are in.
Yes, it's that accurate.
34. Your choice.
Your universe.
But that's why I brought this to you, even if you don't
believe me.
Because you always have choice.
And those choices create and maintain the universe
you live in.
Believe it or not.
35. Your Freedom Is - (period.)
The theory and tools of how to move from the bottom
to the top is covered in this book.
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/freedom-is-%28period%29/8856614
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