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Thanks for the inspiration. I have no distinct response, just see several possibilities and consider all of them valuable: 1. Grab TROM and run to the place of your comfort, there disseminate, e.g. by talking to friends about it or even by public lectures. Like some of the old FSMs did. You talk to 100 persons and hope for one to get interested. 2. Associate, build a group and do something of public impact and get the name known. 3. Do your own sessions and nothing else. 4. Do your own sessions and allow penetrating culture over many, many generations. 5. [Fill in blank] What little I did so far is to suggest to someone reading "Siddharta" by Hermann Hesse. It's beautiful, it's translated into all languages and its topic is nirvana! So I hope this to be an entrance point. If nirvana is not considered valuable, what's the point of doing TROM. Of course you can't see the value of nirvana before doing TROM, that's the weakness. TROM is no good as a quick solution, that makes understanding, dissiminating and proofing it difficult. People want quick solutions. Our strength is, that there is no money involved. So we do not need a central organization at all! I stumbled over a russian TROM forum that I didn't know about. And don't need to know, hope there are many more. Sticking to the original Games Manual is the only foundation we need. Altering it is the only pitfall. best wishes Roberto Von: Function [mailto:[email protected]] Gesendet: Freitag, 3. August 2012 12:38 An: The Resolution of Mind list Betreff: [TROM1] You're awakened? Prove it. :-) My apologies for the confrontational title. I needed to catch your attention. I noticed some talk on the list about distributing TROM to a wider audience. If TROM is as effective as it claims to be-- and I think that it is-- then there's no reason that such an operation shouldn't be something special. Shouldn't be entrancing and beautiful and uplifting. Shouldn't-- work. So, unless you all have something better to do than enlightening humanity and infecting culture with a movement of infinite love, I'd like to initiate a dialogue on the game to end all games. My first recommendation is that we drop any atavisms of scientological culture. It's unnecessary and a turn-off. The cultural distaste towards it is justified. Nobody knows about the early research phases. They don't even need to, unless they care to find out. My second recommendation is to go straight for the throat, so to speak. By that, I mean to state upfront and in as overwhelming (yes, overwhelming) manner as possible what differentiates TROM, whilst maintaining a feeling of love and strength and beauty. My third recommendation is to generate entrancing mythos. Hubbard was a master of this. You need a story to transmit this kind of information. You need, essentially, a viral memetic shell designed to distribute the core-- the kernel, TROM, what we're actually concerned with-- as far and wide as possible. A hypnosis that breaks hypnosis, a trance that awakens people from trance, a game that games people out of the game. Now, we'd be trying to help people. And people are pretty incredibly worn down by all the false dawns, all the bad news, by the wear and tear of life. So I think that a shell of pure love, of a Promethean and empowering kind, would actually be the most effective in our current cultural climate. Many people will be mistrusting at first, which is why you combine that type of aura/mythos/atmosphere with brutal honesty. Going for the throat. The two in combination, combined with a genuine insight into people's problems and all of the disappointments they've suffered in their attempts to resolve them... could be potent. You have to challenge and confront and provoke and intense reaction, to get people's minds and hearts entangled and invested. And then the magic of the tech and the truth and the love of what's being transmitted can do its work. Getting people in, by whatever means, is the main part. The love stops this strategy from hurting the players we pull into the game. Most people peddling 'love' and freedom, most mystics, most everything, are liars, incompetents, sell-outs, or manipulators. Actually living in truth and not shifting form it, expressing that truth as forcefully and directly as possible, WILL stand out amidst this hellish smog of confusion. And, even if we do fail and get hung/mobbbed/fail to have an immediate impact, surely a movement of ecstasy, love, and joyful games fueled by the power of people empowered by TROM would be a lark in its own right? No? The Summer of Love, but better? No? Could be fun? No? Prefer same-old corporatism daily news and pop culture? No time to wake up and forge a movement towards beautiful ascendancy? No time to start a process with no limits, and craft beautiful cultural forms? To create? Sorry, I get carried away with myself. :-) (...but how can you not when you start to get this goddamn beautiful world?) I wrote a draft-- merely a suggestion-- for a kind of mythos-spawning document or manifesto. I've written it as though it were from a kind of esoteric organisation. I'd be interested to hear your suggestions. It's just a starting point. Please do better. Also, if you think this whole idea is flawed that's also fine. I had fun just writing it. It's all fun and games :-) With all my love, and truly yours Function Welcome to Your End Most people throughout history have been sadly confused. We want people to be joyfully aware. People have lionised strength, felt superior to weakness, demonised strength, and felt righteous in their weakness for at least four millennia. People have lusted after enlightenment and riches, been envious and inferior, shrunk from the world in fear, and hidden in robotically repetitive patterns of behaviour and thought. People have chosen ways of life and schools of thought, or schools of ignorance, in an attempt to shield themselves from the overwhelming immensity of the world. People have erected identities and customs and constraining families as barricades against life. And people have reveled in the exertion of strength, in knowing how to play lifes games, in breaking through the restraints imposed by the weak. We dont like this situation. We dont want people to suffer. And we dont want to piously suffer over their impotence. We dont want the strong to be constrained. We love this life and what it has to offer. We love the mystery and wonder that it becomes when the keys to its prisons gates have been found. We love ourselves. We love others. We love the world, the joy, the sex, the love, the games, the loss. All of it. Even the parts were pretending to dislike in writing to tell you of thiskey. Perhaps the world has serious problems. Perhaps it matters that we are causing a mass de-speciation, wrecking ecosystems everywhere, living in a parasitic financial age that preys upon weakness, failing to use our technology for greater and more noble ends, educating our children with useless state brainwashing, and living like barely evolved morons who treat vacuous ideas as more important than our fellow living, dynamic, beautiful human beings. Perhaps. But whatever our answer is to those problems, seeing clearly comes first. Most people are locked into a prison of delusion, of pretending to be far stupider and smaller than they really are. Most people wreck the world with their absence, their gaping chasm of an empty heart, their inability to know the joy that is always here, unbounded, infinite. Sothe key. The key isnt to be strong. The key isnt to be brave. The key isnt to be moral. The key isnt anything you dont have or cant have. It isnt your special ability or your higher worth. It isnt that youre going to see the truth in this whilst somebody else isnt. If you want that poison, there are thousands wholl be willing to accept your belittled mind, your foregone freedom and your compromised humanity as a price for its administration. The key is only a key. It isnt a blessing from above. Its a blessing from within. You are already all the things you want to be. You just need toremember. Remember what? Remember how? Not in any conceptual or ambiguous or difficult way. Not as a trick you play on yourself. Not some deluded belief. Not by means of anything you need to buy. As some steps that you can easily take. And then youll be stronger. And then youll be smarter. And then you can take some more steps. And youll be stronger, and smarter. And youll rememberif you dont alreadywhat it means to live with lust for the world, with joy in life, with strength and ecstasy enough to join us in playing to the hilt. In living like the ecstasy and divinity that you really are. We dont want petty white lighters and insincere hippy halfwits to come from this. We want strength and beauty for all, we want players worth playing. We lovewhats behind the locked door. Whats behind the locked door? You are. You before all of the compromises. You before the pain. You before you learned that you were small. You before other tragically small, tragically broken people taught you what a human was. You before you were educated in, before you worked in, before you geared yourself towards manipulating and surviving in a culture formed by zero-sum power games. A culture scared of and in opposition to your power, and insistent upon its own. A culture where you are a biological robot, where the basic possibilities and nature of your existence are set out before you, and where your input on the matter is not welcome. Is that the catch? Is this revolutionary? Do you need to shrink back in fear and return to your broken life, lest you face social ostracism? No. You can still play the society game if you want to. There are no obligations here. Only simple steps. Simple steps that you can perform in private. That nobody need know about, except via the energy and power that you begin to bring into your life. The key is The Resolution of Mind. The key was written by Dennis Stephens in the latter half of the twentieth century. The key fits the lock, breaks the mind, and unleashes the infinite vision and capacity which it so often obscures. The key has no cult surrounding it, no social structure to sanction it, nobody who will profit from it. In its entirety, it is contained within a 200 page document, but the actual key can be stated in 2 or 3 pages of steps. The steps will take some time to perform, but the gains will begin very soon. This is not another false dawn. Do this, and you will wake up. The key is not a culture. The key is not an obligation upon you, and it is not an obligation upon us. Were writing this here as though we had some mission, but we really dont. Perhaps well play the game of lighting this world up with as bright a love as we can, and perhaps we wont. Perhaps you will, or perhaps you wont. Perhaps youll wake up and choose to dominate, subjugate, and brutalised those who still sleep. Perhaps you wont. Perhaps we will. Whatever. This, here, is power. This, here, is love. This is a gift. And its in your hands. [Notes on part 2...] This life is not a rigged game. Humanity hasn't found its way out of the labyrinth so far. And many have made a religion out of being lost, and mystically glorified it. But the answer is in there somewhere. Theosophy is incompetent. Christianity is incompetent. Islam is incompetent. Mysticism is incompetent. Buddhism is incompetent. Marxism is incompetent. All popular radicalisms are incompetent. All popular religions are incompetent. States are incompetent. Schools are incompetent. Society is incompetent. Thats not to say that theyre bad. But in so far as their aim is to better individuals lives, provide them with power, and remind them of their true nature, they simply fail. We dont want to eradicate them. But they fail. We dont dislike them. But, nonetheless, they do fail. Additionally, any group selling freedom or power with conditions upon your behaviour as the price is something to be wary of. Mostly, these become corrupted by power games. And incompetence. Mostly they do not have the right technology, clarified, understood and successfully implemented. Mostly they reward strength and punish weaknesswhatever the language they use to play this gamejust like any other social context. Mostly, they moralistically applaud strength and denigrate failure. That is not liberation. This is. This is a method that makes you powerful. That makes you successful. That unlocks your own vision. This isnt a test. This gives you the strength to pass other tests, or not to need to. This is love. You dont need to find the right social connections, the right teacher, the right amount of money. You just do it. And then you can pursue what you truly do need and want. Beware, you may have to forfeit your chains. _______________________________________________ Trom mailing list [email protected] http://lists.newciv.org/mailman/listinfo/trom
