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Warrior - the Search for Self Sovereignty.
Where have all the warriors gone? Where are all the stoics, the hardy grafters, the industrious inventors, the pioneers and adventurers? Why are men’s shirts tight on the belly instead of on the chest and back, and why are woman having to get post codes placed on each cheek of their very large arses? What ever happened to physical prowess, the hardy mentality and the imaginative acuity that enabled our great species to survive eons against seemingly impossible odds? I was watching an old film the other night, The Last of the Mohicans, starring Daniel Day Lewis, a moving and visceral account of the dying Mohican race. It was amazing how these stoics dealt with their harrowing circumstance in history. It was an incredibly inspiring film, it stirred in me a need to reconnect with my warrior ancestry. All the time I was watching the film I kept reflecting on life in the twenty first century and thinking, ‘where….have all the warriors gone?’
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Impression
There was once a belief that our world was the centre of the entire universe. Later, as man explored the galaxies it was realised that far from being epicentre, our small planet was but a grain of sand lost somewhere on a beach of infiniteness.
They said that man was pretentious and foolish for even thinking that his blue marble held any sway in a universe that is so vast it could lose the earth from its balance sheet and not even notice, like a billionaire losing a penny from his bulging purse.
First we felt important and imperious. If we turned our gaze from the stars, even for a moment, the universe shuddered with fear lest our inattention might end its existence. Of course everything had to revolve around man, why should it be otherwise....
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Remote Martial Arts
This is a very exciting time. This is a time when anyone can become anything. And the information you need to get you on the right path is now available, and much of it is free so …no excuses. ___________________________________________ When I first started in the martial arts even finding an instructor – any instructor – was hard. MA books were as rare as precious stone and instructional film on the martial arts (this was just before the invention/popularisation of VHS video) was pretty much non-existent. So you took what instruction you could, from wherever you could, and dreamed of one day training with the leviathans in Japan. What instruction you could find was devoured, and any book or magazine that came into your possession was read a hundred times and treated like treasure. How things have changed, and for the better. Now, for some small investment of time and money you can train with the very best martial arts masters in the world. Even if you can’t make the pilgrimage and work with them in person, you can take their lessons and their passion from any number of instructional DVD’s currently on the market.
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An interview with Geoff Thompson by Emma Robbins - Part2
Part two - Very rarely do you get the opportunity to meet someone who is genuinely passionate about what they do. Geoff Thompson is genuinely passionate. Over the past few weeks, through this interview, I have taken a journey with a man who is steadfast in all that he does, and whose passion is overwhelmingly contagious.
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An interview with Geoff Thompson by Emma Robbins - Part 1
Part 1 - Very rarely do you get the opportunity to meet someone who is genuinely passionate about what they do. Geoff Thompson is genuinely passionate. Over the past few weeks, through this interview, I have taken a journey with a man who is steadfast in all that he does, and whose passion is overwhelmingly contagious.
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The Silent Whistle
Dogs know something that we don’t. They do I am sure of it. They have a knowing that is deeply spiritual and innate. Or perhaps we do know (what they know) but have somehow become detached from our knowing. Or maybe we just have stopped listening for the silent whistle. I have been lost on many occasions in my life. All of them occurred when I became detached from my own truth, or separate from God. I watched a programme recently called One Man and His Dog. You’ve probably seen it. It’s a sheepdog trial, where herding dog breeds move sheep around a field, fence, gates or enclosures. They are directed by a handler, who uses commands and a silent whistle to direct them. The fascinating thing about the whole trial is that often during the competition – because of hills or other distractions - the dog cannot immediately see the sheep he is supposed to herd, or in fact his trainer who is trying to direct him. And he is too far away from his master to hear his command. All he has to go on at this point is a dog whistle, a silent pitch that only he can hear. On the trial that I was watching the herding dog got into a bit of a tangle. He became completely distracted and lost. There was a lot of wind on this particular day, so, subsequently the dog could not hear any commands.
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Extraordinary Ordinary
Let me tell you what excites me about life: I can become expert in anything. I can. If I have the passion and the dedication and the courage to invest my time, my energy and my money into any given subject I can become not just a class act but a world class phenomenon. And I am a very ordinary man. So if I can do it, anyone using the same process can do it also. I was invited to America a few years ago (twice) by Chuck Norris to teach my system of martial arts to a few hundred of his black belts. After my class I sat with Chuck over a cup of tea and we chatted. Mostly about his life (because I was fascinated), how he met Bruce Lee how he trained and sparred with Lee and how eventually Chuck got into films. He told me that, after Bruce Lee died, there was a huge gap left in the martial arts film world that needed to be filled. Chuck decided that he was the man for the job. Even though he knew very little about the machinations of film, he knew that if he dedicated himself to the process, as he had dedicated himself to martial arts (wining the world championships 3 times) there was nothing he could not achieve.
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Fear Shedding
One day – after a dark bout of depression - I realised that all my big dreams were hiding from me. They were hiding just behind a wall of fear. And I also knew that it was time for me to smash the wall down. ___________________________________ Let’s talk about fear. When we engage in any regime of self improvement, especially one as ambitious as sovereignty over the self, we will certainly encounter this deadly duo. We will experience bodily reactions that are uncomfortable and frightening and if we do not find mastery over these feelings, we will be defeated by them at every turn. Most people that fail in any endeavour, do so because they have no understanding nor tolerance for discomfort. And yet discomfort is manageable if you understand its nature. And fear – when harnessed – is the friend of exceptional people. Our Warrior journey then is about becoming exceptional, firstly by collecting vital information, and secondly by using that information correctly and courageously. Like a climber on a high ascent we will sometimes feel disorientated, we will often experience doubt and we will regularly as a matter of course become breathless. The air on the mountain is very thin. So it is best to be informed and forearmed at the start of your journey – this advice is rudimentary but vital – with savvy on how to deal with your own bodily reactions to confrontation; how to control anxiety and how to become a master of fear. As I said, the feelings associated with fear are unpleasant, let us be in no doubt about that, and looking for comfort in this arena will only lead to confusion and more anxiety, which drains vast amounts of vital energy. It is better instead to find a change of perspective and become comfortable with discomfort by embracing the things we fear. Doing so will create a paradigm shift that is very empowering.
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Six Impossible Things
People complain a lot lately. Have you noticed? They complain about not having enough. They say that they don’t have enough time, they do not have enough resources, and they feel as though they lack the influences necessary to live a successful life. Deep down, despite the lamentation, I know and they know that this is a lie. It simply not true. We all have the same amount of time in our day. That is a fact. Kings, queens, presidents and prime ministers, sportsmen and tycoons all get the same 24 hours. It is what they do with their allotted minutes that set them apart from everyone else. And we all have access to the same amount of knowledge too; every book ever written, by the greatest men and women of our species is available now, free to all, in the libraries of the world. But it will not fly through the window and land on your lap. You have to go out there and get it. God feeds the birds (as the old saying goes) but he does not put the food in their nests for them. So the onus is on you. If you need influence or guidance or inspiration, do not wait for it to come to you, instead, make it your definite intention to seek it out. People have big ideas. I hear them all the time. Big ideas are not unique, they are falling from the trees, and anyone can have big ideas. It is not enough. On their own dreams are impotent. It is massive action and dedicated industry that turns the germ of an idea into manifest reality. If you want to transform good information into a great reality you need industry. And if you want your life to be massive, then massive industry is the essential ingredient. Industry in your study and industry in your work. The knowledge that you take from books comes to you as raw energy; we call this energy information. To make information valuable we need to convert it. Let me give you a for instance.
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Dirty Greedy Bad
Just lately the subject of money has been coming up a lot in my reality. People talking about money. Actually, more specifically people talking about the lack of money. Certainly the lack of money in their own lives. Of course money is a touchy subject, some people think that lucre is as filthy as the muck it is said to come from and that the gates of heaven are welded-shut to those who hold it. Their belief is that anyone earning above the minimum wage must be either as crooked as a pirate’s hook or dirty-greedy-bad. Others still are mad-afraid of cold hard cash, their hearts fear its seducing way because money is power, money is said to be the very seat of power and of course power corrupts just as ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ Many more have little understanding of money, what money means, what it represents and how or where to get more of it – they only know that they have very little in their wallet and in their bank account, and their lack (they believe) is what separates them from the freedom they crave. The rarer few know that money is neither good nor bad, it is just numbers on a balance sheet that the skilled learn to move around, paper and metal, a tool (made from energy) that we use to barter with. Those wise enough to separate themselves from the hysterical, primitive and ‘mystical’ emotionality of cash educate themselves in the fiscal way and economics becomes their study. They build a solid infrastructure of virtue so that they can carry the weighty responsibility that having money demands and they learn to master its shape and distribution and make it labour for them in a way that profits everyone. The very best way to make money work for you is to make it work for everyone. My experience and my instinct and my intellect tell me that money in and of its self can be neither good nor bad. It is an inanimate; it is the hand of man that determines its intent. My senses also tell me that lucre could not possibly (on its own) be filthy, never, it could be used (it has and it is being used) by people who’s intentions are filthy, but in and of itself it cannot be anything other than what it is. And people that earn a lot of money are fundamentally no different really from people that earn none at all. They are just people. What they do with their position is what determines who and what they are. I know very good people and very bad people who are rich, equally I know very good and very bad people who are fiscally poor. Ultimately money is just one of the shapes we make with our energy, and our energy according science come directly from the stars, so we all have access to the same amount of it. I find this very exciting. I get to access the same raw material as Bill Gates, and Mother Teresa, Richard Branson and Mahatma Ghandi. We all have the same amount of potential energy available to us and that amount is infinite. The more we take from it the more there is. What we do with that energy, the shapes we make with it, are entirely up to us. The informed we take that energy and use it to develop skills and products which they then sell on the open market, and wise develop skills and products that serve the multitude, because that puts their manifestations in high demand. If we are industrious, as we are meant to be then we use our energy to make us into market leaders, so that our skills and products are sought around the globe.
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