HOW TO ACHIEVE ULTIMATE SUCCESS

By Frederick Mann - January 8, 1994

Introduction
The main reason most "success books" fail is because the authors don't really know all
the reasons behind their success. And sometimes their only major success is getting
their "success books" published!

This report does not deal with the reasonably well-known success principles. I believe
it covers much more powerful underlying success principles. But you be the judge of
that.

Success Formulas
If you get a job in some long-established, viable company it's relatively easy to
succeed. Over the years the company's founders and workers have developed
formulas for doing things that work. The details have been worked out. When you
join such a company you are told in one way or another how to do things. You may be
given a job description. Through existing paperwork, computer systems, and asking
questions you discover the details. In such a set-up it's relatively easy to succeed
because the company has viable products and services, trained personnel, an
established customer base, a good or reasonable reputation, and procedures or
formulas that work for doing things.

If you were to start your own business as a hairdresser it would be more difficult to
succeed. Suppose you've worked as a hairdresser so you know the details of cutting
hair. However, you don't know all the details of creating and running a business
successfully. Nevertheless, many people have successfully created hairdressing
businesses. They used certain formulas to determine what to do and what not to do.
You can discover these formulas and even improve them. But it's more difficult to
succeed because you don't have a boss who knows the formulas and can tell you
exactly what to do.

Now if you were to start a new kind of business - like Federal Express - it's even more
difficult to succeed. You're trying to do something which nobody has done before.
You have to invent the details from scratch and make them work. The formulas for
success need to be developed. You can't copy them from someone else.

To walk from A to Z you need to put one foot in front of the other as many times as
necessary to cover the distance. You simply take one step at a time until you arrive at
Z. It's very simple because all the steps are the same - assuming the path from A to Z
is straight, level, and uniform. The formula is simply: take the next step. To succeed
all you have to do is take the next step.

In the job described above it's relatively easy to determine the next step. In starting a
hairdressing business it's more difficult. In creating Federal Express it's vastly more
difficult.
Most people fail because they don't take the next step. When you're just walking it's
easy to determine your next step: just move the other foot forward. But when you
have a more difficult task, it's not always so easy to figure out the next step. Maybe
that's why most people fail: by not taking the next step. I hope this report will help
you figure out and take your next step.

Two principles are particularly important for achieving ultimate success:

1. Distinguishing between what you can control and what you can't.
2. Being willing to do whatever it takes to succeed.

John Rappoport's Power X writings are also very important to achieving ultimate
success.

To feel that we are worthwhile individuals, to

know that we exist, we have to express our power
- feel that we are in control.

This imperative to express our power and

experience control is central to human behavior.
Every human does something to express his
or her power in the world.

This power can be expressed creatively

or destructively.

Humans first attempt to express their power

creatively. If such attempts fail repeatedly,
they experience themselves as powerless.
They may feel helpless and hopeless,
and become depressed.

What they experience is that they cannot

make a positive difference in their own lives
or in the world.

A cognitive breakdown occurs between

their actions and the results they produce.

Mentally and intellectually they cease to

understand the connections between their
behavior and the consequences of their behavior.

Then they express their power destructively.

This natural phenomenon is at the root of

practically all individual and societal problems.

Understanding this natural phenomenon and its

implications leads to the solution of practically
all individual and societal problems.
Three Levels of Success
I distinguish between ordinary success, spectacular success, and ultimate success.
Ordinary success could be getting and keeping a job and earning a decent income.
Though for some ambitious people, working their whole career for a boss would be a
failure.

Federal Express is an example of a spectacular success. Not only is it a large,

worldwide, profitable business, it also provides a service that makes business
generally more efficient worldwide.

Ultimate success could include such advances as:

• Finding a cure for the disease of coercion or "government";

• Developing methods to supply energy at one hundredth the current cost;
• The conquest of matter to the extent that we can build machines that can
manufacture whatever we want;
• The conquest of death, achieving physical or biological immortality;
• The conquest of space, enabling us to do things like: Build homes in space;
"Terraform" planets like Mars or Venus so we can live on them; Colonize
other planets.

There is no clear line of demarcation between my three levels of success. You can
decide for yourself what you regard as ordinary, spectacular, and ultimate success.
And, of course, you can define your own levels of success.

Whatever level of success you want to attain, the most basic formula you need to
apply is: TAKE THE NEXT STEP! One way to find out the next step you need to
take is to apply the "non-existence formula" given in the Report #TL80A: Creativity
Report #1:

1. Humility: accept that you don't have all the answers.

2. Identify a communication line (find a means to communicate).
3. Obtain a map, a recipe, or a set of instructions.
4. Make yourself known.
5. Discover what is needed and wanted.
6. Do, produce, and/or present it.
7. Discover what is not needed or wanted.
8. Do not do, produce, or present that.
9. Make an inventory of the assets, knowledge, tools, and skills you can utilize to
produce what is needed and wanted.
10. Find out how you can apply available assets, knowledge, tools, and skills to
produce what is needed and wanted.
11. Be willing to do things you don't usually do in order to produce what is
needed and wanted.
12. Question the entire activity, project, or business.

One of the most powerful success books I know of is The Cynergetics Sixty-Minute
Success/Wealth Guidebook published by Applied Cynergetics, 1308 Broad St., San
Luis Obispo, CA 93401. I don't know of a more powerful guide for selecting your
next step.

Three Paradigms
A "paradigm" is a set of assumptions that determines how you view things. There are
three basic paradigms concerning human nature:

• The evil/good paradigm: People are basically evil and were born evil. By
some means we need to become good. Criminals are evil and need to be
rehabilitated so they become good.
• The ignorance/knowledge paradigm: People are ignorant or knowledgeable.
We do harm out of ignorance. Education is the solution.
• The immature/mature paradigm: We need to grow up, which is a continuous,
never-ending process spanning many elements (described later). We are
immature as individuals and as society. We fail due to immaturity. Education
and knowledge are often insufficient for more than ordinary success.

As far as I know, the immature/mature paradigm was first formulated in the book The
Mature Mind by H.A. Overstreet, published in 1949. The author thought that his
"maturity concept" would revolutionize society. Let me introduce the maturity
concept through a quotation from the above book:

"All children, Diderot once observed, are essentially criminal. It is merely our good
luck that their physical powers are still too limited to permit them to carry out their
destructiveness.

Had he lived today, Diderot might have expanded his remark. He might have said that
all childish minds are dangerous, but particularly when those minds are housed in
adult bodies; for then they have the power to put their immaturities fully and
disastrously into effect.

The forms that adult childishness can take are almost infinite in number. They exist
not merely in those unfortunates who have to be confined to institutions, but in
countless thousands of men and women who look adult, are taken to be adult, and are
granted the full prerogatives of adulthood.

In these grown-up child-minds, the immaturities are almost invariably disguised from
the individuals themselves. Also they are usually disguised from those who share their
life - largely because these others display similar immaturities themselves. The
immaturities, moreover, are disguised from society at large, since that society has as
yet developed no constant habit of appraising adult behaviors as immature or mature."

Some assumptions of the maturity concept follow:

• Failure Due to Immaturity. Overstreet quotes G.B. Chisholm:

"So far in the history of the world there have never been enough mature
people in the right places... The only real threat to man ... is man himself... the
difficulty man has with himself is that he cannot use his highly developed
intellect effectively because of his neurotic fears, his prejudices, his
 fanaticisms, his unreasoning hates, and equally unreasoning devotions; in fact,
his failure to reach emotional maturity, or mental health."
• Psychological Age. Our psychological age may be different from our
chronological age. The adult who throws temper tantrums may
psychologically be an infant - and use force or violence destructively as a
result of temper tantrums. Hitler may have been a psychological infant.
• Arrested Development. Traumatic childhood incidents may have stopped our
development in some aspect of life. Anyone who at any point in life stops
developing and maturing suffers arrested development.
• Conditioned Response. We tend to develop automatic, unconscious habits or
behavior patterns like Pavlov's dog that salivates at the ring of the bell.
• Aptitude Uniqueness. Everyone has unique strengths. To mature we have to
develop these strengths - and never stop doing so. We each have to bring our
unique powers to realization and continue to expand them.
• Adult Capacity to Learn. We have the capacity and potential to continue
learning forever. To ever stop learning is immature.

There is much more to the maturity concept and I recommend that you get hold of
H.A. Overstreet's The Mature Mind from a used-book store or a library and study it.

Gurdjieff's Attempt to Wake Us Up

George I. Gurdjieff regarded our "ordinary awake state" as in fact being a "state of
being asleep" - a condition of being hypnotized. In our "ordinary awake state" we in
fact walk around like machines, robots, or zombies. Gurdjieff chose as his life-
mission the "harmonious development of man." For an introduction to Gurdjieff's
ideas I recommend Colin Wilson's book The War Against Sleep in which he writes:

"Everyday consciousness is limited by 'mechanicalness', 'the robot.' We become so

accustomed to the repetitive routine of everyday life that we end by being bound hand
and foot by habit, like a fly wrapped in spider-web. Yet no one, even the laziest, is
really happy with this state of affairs, for we recognize that it robs us of a certain
intensity, a feeling of being fully alive. We need security; but it tends to conflict with
that desire to be 'wide awake.' This is more often associated with insecurity. Sartre, for
exampled, remarked that he never felt so alive as when he was in the French
Resistance, and was likely to be arrested and shot at any moment."

Another introduction to Gurdjieff is the book Gurdjieff: Making a New World by John
G. Bennett. He quotes Gurdjieff: "Man is a machine. He is asleep. He can do nothing.
He can control nothing. Everything controls him." In his book The Harmonious
Circle, James Webb writes:

"But by Gurdjieff's own account, the chief result of his close acquaintance with
political intrigue was to... fill him with horror at the ease with which ordinary people
allowed themselves to be led by the nose. Partly in reaction against the violence he
had seen and partly as a result of conversations with "various revolutionists" he had
met in Italy, Switzerland, and the Caucasus, Gurdjieff decided that he "must discover,
at all costs, some manner or means for destroying in people the predilection for
suggestibility which causes them to fall easily under the influence of 'mass-
hypnosis.'""
Gurdjieff's contention that we are asleep is echoed by Erich Fromm as quoted by
Stephen R. Covey in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People:

"Today we come across an individual who behaves like an automaton, who does not
know or understand himself, and the only person that he knows is the person that he is
supposed to be, whose meaningless chatter has replaced communicative speech,
whose synthetic smile has replaced genuine laughter, and whose sense of dull despair
has taken the place of genuine pain. Two statements may be said concerning this
individual. One is that he suffers from defects of spontaneity and individuality which
may seem to be incurable. At the same time it may be said of him he does not differ
essentially from the millions of the rest of us who walk upon this earth."

Gurdjieff's life was devoted to waking us up. He successively established several

institutes to deliver his teachings. They all failed. I surmise that Gurdjieff lacked
organizational, management, and marketing skills. Nevertheless, dozens of books
have been written about Gurdjieff, his work, and his followers, and there are Gurdjieff
groups all over the world.

Maslow's Self-Actualization Psychology

Abraham H. Maslow's psychology of self-actualization, as described in his book The
Farther Reaches of Human Nature, could be regarded as a maturity psychology.
Before Maslow, most psychologists studied "abnormal" people to find out what was
wrong with them and to develop the methods to fix or heal them. Maslow studied the
most advanced individuals he could find in order to determine what was different or
unique about them. He talked in terms of "merely healthy individuals" and
"transcenders." Maslow wrote:

"I have a very strong sense of being in the middle of a historical wave. One hundred
and fifty years from now, what will the historians say about this age? What was really
important? What was going? What was finished? My belief is that much of what
makes the headlines is finished, and the "growing tip" of mankind is what is now
growing and will flourish in a hundred or two hundred years, if we manage to endure.
Historians will be talking about this movement as the sweep of history, that here, as
Whitehead pointed out, when you get a new model, a new paradigm, a new way of
perceiving, new definitions of the old words, words which now mean something else,
suddenly, you have an illumination, an insight. You can see things in a different way."

Maslow is generally regarded as the father of "humanistic psychology" or "third-force

psychology" - the "first force" being Freudian analysis, and the "second force"
Skinnerian behaviorism. Of the psychologies I've examined Maslow's comes closest
to reflecting my "expanded maturity concept." For an excellent overview of Maslow's
psychology I recommend the book New Pathways in Psychology by Colin Wilson.

The Expanded Maturity Concept

Overstreet talked about mental, emotional, and social maturity. His maturity concept
may have failed to make a major impact in the world because it was too narrowly
defined. The concept was not sufficiently developed to succeed! Though Overstreet
wrote:
"[A] mature truth told to immature minds ceases, in those minds, to be that same
mature truth. Immature minds take from it only what immature minds can assimilate.
In the end, even though they may give it lip-service and may raise institutions in its
name, they turn the mature truth into an applied immaturity."

I have expanded Overstreet's too limited maturity concept into my Expanded Maturity
Concept, which includes many more elements. We each need to become more mature
in most or all of the "elements of maturity" I identify.

Elements of Maturity

• Self-Love. We need to continuously increase our love of self. How to do this is

covered in Report #TL04A: The Most Fundamental Human Problem.
• Knowledge. A week ago, when having to wait half an hour, I browsed through
a used-book store. I regularly do this. You never know what "earth-shattering"
book was written 50, 100, 200, or 3,000 years ago. I've discovered several
such books during the past 25 years. H.A. Overstreet's The Mature Mind is an
example.

The We-Don't-Have-All-The-Answers Perspective

Many individuals and groups have attempted to bring about spectacular or
ultimate human success on a global scale. In every society there are probably
people who are dissatisfied and who want to improve society. I'm one of these.
For many years I've been looking for the "keys" to do this.

Suppose there are a hundred "keys" (or elements) to ultimate success - a

hundred things that need to be achieved for ultimate success to become reality.
I propose the following ratios:

1. The "average person" knows one of the keys.

2. The typical ultimate success activist - Lao Tzu (Chinese philosopher),
Buddha (founder of Buddhism), Aristotle (Greek philosopher), Christ
(founder of Christianity), Nietzsche (German philosopher), Freud
(founder of psychoanalysis), Gurdjieff (proponent of self-observation),
Gandhi (Indian leader), Fuller (inventor and author of Utopia or
Oblivion and many other books), Korzybski (founder of General
Semantics), Maslow (pioneer of self-actualization psychology),
Hubbard (founder of Scientology), Rand (founder of Objectivism),
Popper (philosopher and author of Objective Knowledge and other
books), Wenger (intelligence-increase expert), Erhard (founder of est),
Emery (founder of Actualizations), Deming (father of the quality
revolution in Japan), Wallace (founder of Neo-Tech), Esfandiary
(author of such books as Optimism One, Up-Wingers, and Telespheres),
etc - knows ten of the keys.
3. In order to bring about ultimate success a hundred keys need to be
known, integrated, and implemented - or, critical levels of maturity
need to be attained in respect of a hundred keys.

I have no idea how accurate my ratios are. But I expect they are in the right
ballpark. (And this is not an attempt to demean any of the above individuals or
their movements. In my opinion, they have all made great contributions to
greater maturity in the world. Some of them may even be 20-key or 50-key
people.)

What typically has been happening is that the average one-key person makes
contact with the ten-key activist or movement. The one-key person thinks the
ten-key activist or movement has all the answers and is what he or she has
been looking for all along. The one-key person then becomes a convert to
learn the ten keys to ultimate human success. The ten-key activist or
movement tells the convert that they have all the keys and there is no need to
look further. Unfortunately the ten-key activist or movement is 90% ignorant
of the keys necessary to bring about ultimate success. So, ultimate success
never occurs. I suggest this has been the general history of attempts to bring
about ultimate success.

A further problem is that it is very difficult for the ten-key activist who poses
as a 100-key know-it-all to personally develop and mature and to handle the
remaining unhandled problems and unwanted conditions in his or her personal
life.

My answer to the dilemma is the "we-don't-have-all-the-answers" perspective.

Maybe I can create a network that uses this perspective as a foundation.
Maybe I can connect together a diversity of ten-key activists in a network such
that the 90% ignorance factor can be reduced. Crudely stated, suppose I can
find ten ten-key activists and it so happens that each ten-key activist knows ten
different keys. Together these ten activists will then know all hundred keys
necessary for ultimate human success.

Of course, in practice it won't be this easy or simple. Some of the ten-key

activists will know keys that overlap those of others. There will be some keys
unknown to all ten activists. Some will refuse to even consider some of the
keys. Nevertheless, such a network should increase the chances of bringing
about ultimate success. This network is called Terra Libra.

The subject of knowledge is covered in more detail in Report #TL03: How to

Improve Your Information. The subject of education is covered in my book
Wake Up America! The Dynamics of Human Power. The most important thing
to realize about knowledge is that we can't get very far through education -
much more is necessary.

Recognizing Masters.
At the same time, it's necessary to realize that there are people who are
masters in their fields. It's important to learn from these people their best
knowledge, expertise, and wisdom, and to apply it. W. Edwards Deming was
the "master of quality." During World War II he was recognized by a few
Americans. After the war he was ignored. So he went to Japan where he was
recognized. Deming's management and quality principles revolutionized
Japanese industry and were a major factor in Japan's "economic miracle."
 A few days ago a Terra Libra Distributor told me that Jay Abraham was a
business and marketing master. He gave me a number to call. I called and
within a few days received some of Jay's materials. I quickly recognized that
Jay is indeed a master. I will be learning a lot more from Jay. If you're in
business and/or marketing, and you don't know about Jay, call this number for
information: 1-800-395-8290. The information I've just given to you could be
worth thousands or even millions to you.

So always be on the lookout for masters whose best knowledge, expertise, and
wisdom you can apply to multiply your success.

• Emotional Control. This is an example of an element or factor where much

more than knowledge or education is necessary. It's covered in detail in Report
#TL12: How to Achieve Emotional Control.
• Intelligence Increase. To progress towards maturity we may have to increase
our intelligence. Most of us can increase our intelligence dramatically. How to
do this is covered in Report #TL11: How to Increase Your Intelligence.
• Thinking skills. Intelligence can be regarded as the capacity or potential to
think effectively. Your intelligence, no matter how high, does not guarantee
that you will think effectively. Increasing your intelligence can be futile if you
don't also master specific thinking skills. Some thinking skills are covered in
Reports #TL11: How to Increase Your Intelligence, #TL50A: Semantic
Rigidity, Flexibility, and Freedom, and #TL80A: Creativity Report #1. Many
more reports on thinking skills will be written.
• Consciousness. Many models of the development of consciousness have been
suggested. The one I like best is my "bicameral model" which distinguishes
three major levels:
1. Bicameral stage 1 (pre-conscious)
2. Bicameral stage 2 (proto-conscious)
3. Stage 3 (conscious).

Stage 1 is characterized by the kind of inner voices and visions experienced by

schizophrenics. The essence of stage 1 is obedience. Stage 2 is characterized
by automatic thoughts and emotions, and little critical self-awareness. The
essence of stage 2 is "I'm right; you're wrong." Stage 3 is characterized by
concentrated, continuous, critical self-observation in order to improve mental
functioning. The essence of stage 3 is producing results.

Many human institutions (governments, churches, corporations, families) are

rooted in stage 1 and 2. In society, generally, a shift is occurring towards stage
3. But as people become more conscious they need to think for themselves.
They no longer operate on automatic obedience to "authorities" who tell them
what's "right and wrong." But they haven't learned the thinking skills to think
for themselves. This is a major factor behind the seeming "breakdown of
society." A longer-term perspective is that we're going through a turbulent
transition.

The subject of how to become more conscious is covered in Report #TL10:

How to Achieve and Increase Personal Power.
• Discover and Develop Your Essence.
One of Gurdjieff's fundamental distinctions is the difference between
"personality" and "essence." In The War Against Sleep, Colin Wilson writes:

"When a baby is born, it has only 'essence,' its essential response to the world.
At the age of six or seven the child begins to develop 'personality' - that is, to
become aware of itself as a person among other people - in response to other
people. And when this happens, says Gurdjieff, 'essence' often ceases to grow
altogether; personality takes over. Some people who appear to have a powerful
and vital personality are really empty inside; their essence ceased to develop
as a child."

There is a "real you" which is independent of other people. The "real you" or
essence is covered up and overshadowed by "your personality" which is an
"artificial you" or a "fake you" created in order to seek acceptance from and
approval by other people.

In his book Word Controlled Humans: A Brief History, John Harland writes
about people who grew up in cold climates in isolation (little or no contact
with other people), and thereby were stimulated to think about how they
related to the entire universe. In contrast, in warm climates with denser
populations there is much more contact with other people and children are
subjected severely to group control. Harland writes:

"This essential being of an individual in direct relation to the universe I

will call "soul." Some who submit to group control are well aware that
by so doing they are giving up their souls. Others have become such
total zombis - the walking dead, subject to control by a will outside
themselves - that they are conscious of nothing but the game that
dominates all else on this fork of the road; they are no longer aware
that anything "counts" if it is outside the human game. All have lost
their souls as individuals."

Harland writes about two "forks" in human development. The first fork is that
of individual sovereignty or self-ownership, living out of one's essence. The
second fork is that of group sovereignty or slavery, living out of a fake
personality forged as a reaction to group control.

To discover and develop your essence, the first step is to discover that you are
a free and sovereign individual. This is covered in Report #TL05: How to
Discover Your Freedom.

• Programs in the Brain. We have all kinds of programs in our brains. A program
is a set of instructions. For example, the set of instructions we use to drive a
car. Programs can be conscious or subconscious. Some programs act like
"curses." For example, someone may have decided at an early age that
"nobody loves me." Subconsciously, then, this person tends to behave in such
a way that the self-inflicted "curse" always comes true. It is very difficult
through education or the acquisition of knowledge to do anything about such
"curses." But you can reprogram your brain. To find out how I recommend the
 books by Shad Helmstetter: Choices, The Self-Talk Solution, and What to Say
When You Talk to Your Self. Or write to The Self-Talk Institute, PO Box 5165,
Scottsdale, AZ 85261. Or call 1-800-624-5846.

Education is virtually useless in doing anything about self-defeating programs

in the brain. In addition to Helmstetter's self-talk techniques, I know of two
very powerful "maturity technologies" for reprogramming the brain: (1)
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP); and (2) Idenics. For an introduction to
NLP I recommend the book Using Your Brain - for a Change by Richard
Bandler. For information on Idenics contact Survival Services International,
1670 Elkhart St, Aurora, CO 80012; 1-800-433-6427 (1-800-IDENICS).

• Attitudes. Certain attitudes - like optimism - are more conducive to success

than others. F.M. Esfandiary, author of such books as Optimism One, Up-
Wingers, and Telespheres, epitomizes the attitudes of ultimate success:

"I am thrown off by such common questions as: What is your nationality?
Where do you live? What is your profession? Where do you study? Are you
married or single or involved with someone? How old are you? Are you Right
wing or Left?

These questions are irrelevant to my worlds. My responses invariably throw

off my contemporaries.

I am Universal. I translive all over the planet. Learn via Unicom [universal
communication]. Have many professions. Am involved with many people.
Consider all children as mine also. Neither Right nor Left - I am Up.

I have no age. Am born and reborn every day. I intend to live forever. Barring
an accident I probably will. I also want to help others live on indefinitely.

My philosophy: Optimism - Abundance - Universalism - Immortality."

See Attitude is Everything.

• Creativity. A certain attitude is central to being creative: Every problem or

crisis is also an opportunity. The worse many things are, the bigger
opportunities they represent. Specific creativity will be covered in the
creativity reports, starting with Report #TL80A: Creativity Report #1.

The most powerful book I know of on creativity is The Path of Least

Resistance by Robert Fritz. I regard it as the single most valuable book in my
library of about 5,000 books. Its basic approach is covered in Report #10:
How to Achieve and Increase Personal Power.

Innovation. Innovation is related to creativity. Particularly, it refers to the

introduction of a new concept, product, process, or technology. Before Terra
Libra, there have been only two kinds of freedom organizations: educational
and territorial free country. Educational freedom organizations promote
 freedom by educating people. Territorial free country organizations generally
attempt to create a free country on an island, natural or manmade.

Terra Libra is a new innovation. Our starting point is discovering and

recognizing that we are free and sovereign by nature. We can simply declare a
worldwide free country. Then we behave in accordance with our individual
freedom and sovereignty as far as possible and practicable. We experience our
freedom. We induce others to experience their freedom. We create voluntary
alternatives that gradually replace unfree institutions.

It's a radicaly different approach - an innovation. There is a superb manual on

the subject. It's called Innovation: The Attacker's Advantage by Richard N.
Foster. Must reading for anyone interested in strategy.

• Responsibility. As Overstreet tells us, we are born irresponsible.

Responsibility depends on making workable cognitive connections between
events or situations and actions, and between actions and consequences. It
works like this: We observe an event or situation. We analyze it. Based on our
understanding of the event or situation, and on our experience of certain
actions and their consequences, we calculate an action to take. We then
observe the consequences of the action to determine if we have dealt
effectively with the event or situation. There needs to be a cognitive link
between the event or situation and the action we choose. And there needs to be
a cognitive link between action and consequences.

Five kinds of understanding are involved: (1) understanding events and

situations; (2) understanding actions; (3) understanding the connections
between events or situations and actions; (4) understanding consequences; and
(5) understanding the connections between actions and consequences.

The thinking skill of prediction is involved. The situation is... 'S.' I predict that
if I take the action... 'A,' then the consequence will be... 'C.' If I take the action
and fail to produce the predicted consequence, then I need to do some thinking
about what to do next. I need to learn >>from the experience so I can do better
next time. If I succeeded in producing the predicted consequence, I also have a
few things to learn, like: "Why did it work?", "What principle did I apply?",
and "Where else can I apply it?"

You might ask, "Why all this complexity? Why all this thinking? I mean, you
just do what's obvious!" Well, the answer is that maybe practically all our
individual and collective problems stem from our relative immaturity in
consciously applying the above. You see, we have here a formula for doing the
right thing. What if this formula is a concise summary of every success book
ever written, including this entire report? Maybe it's a very powerful success
formula...

Responsibility can be thought of as the ability to respond - doing the right

thing. You boost your maturity by increasing your competence to do the right
thing in the right way at the right time.
 If you watch the TV gameshow Wheel of Fortune carefully over a period of
time, you may notice from the strength with which certain players spin the
wheel, where they look immediately after they've spun the wheel, and the
position in which the wheel comes to rest, that those players almost certainly
aim. Some of these players repeatedly hit or come close to the $2,500, $3,500,
or $5,000 slots. You may notice that some players seem to use a strategy of
spinning the wheel about a quarter to half a turn, seeking to avoid the "lose a
turn" and "bankrupt" slots. You'll also notice some players who almost
certainly don't aim. The players who aim attempt to form a cognitive link
between action and result. Could it be that many people go through life like
the Wheel of Fortune players who don't aim?

See also Responsibility.

• Communication. If you lived alone on a deserted island you would not need to
communicate to succeed. But, that not being the case, you have to
communicate to produce the results you want. In fact, you may spend several
hours a day communicating. In general, you communicate because you want
to produce certain results.

How often during a conversation do we only half-listen to what the other

person is saying, while thinking about what we're going to say next? How
often, after we said something, do we really observe our audience to determine
if we achieved the desired result?

Why does survey after survey indicate that people's greatest fear is having to
speak in public? Why is speaking to an audience of three friends so
qualitatively different from addressing a group of 30 strangers? What might
the 30 strangers discover about you that the three friends wouldn't? These
issues are addressed in Report #TL04A: The Most Fundamental Human
Problem.

I have developed a very powerful method for improving the effectiveness of

communication. It's called the power-message principle and it's described in
detail in Report #TL10: How to Achieve and Increase Personal Power.

Later in this report (the one you're reading now) I discuss something very
important about voice quality and success...

Marketing is an aspect of communication. See Report #TL13: How to Sell

Freedom for Profit, which includes a bibliography on selling and marketing.
The best marketing book that I know of is What's the Big Idea? by George
Lois.

• Relationships. I must confess that I'm a relatively immature beginner when it

comes to conducting successful relationships. I've heard that the Japanese are
very good at conducting relationships and that it's one of their major strengths.
Keeping agreements is obviously crucial. When I've become more effective I'll
tell you what I learned.
 Nevertheless, I am succeeding in getting others to work with me. Before the
formulation of Terra Libra I failed dismally at getting others to work with me.
Now there are several people around the world who are very eager to work
with me. I don't really know what this success is due to. The power of the
Terra Libra vision must be an important factor. It could be that the most
important factor in getting others to work with you is to formulate a vision of
extraordinary power and communicate it to the right people. (Incidentally,
Terra Libra is the culmination of ten years' work on attempts to formulate such
visions.)

I also surmise that I may have attained critical levels of maturity in a critical
number of these elements I'm describing now, and that this made possible a
"quantum success leap" - described later in this report.

The subject of how to get others to work with you is further described in
Report #TL10: How to Achieve and Increase Personal Power.

• Networking. The power of networking is extraordinary. I believe someone has

calculated that in going from person to person knowing each other, anyone in
the world can be reached in about seven steps. In other words, someone you
know knows someone, who knows someone (repeat a few times), who knows
anyone in the world you might want to contact.

All major religions and philosophies have spread through networking. Much
of the power of MLM (multi-level marketing) is due to networking.

I know of two excellent books on networking: Wishcraft and Teamworks by

Barabara Sher.

• Personal Power. Power can be described as the ability to act or to do work,

the ability to wield influence, or as organized energy. Lord Acton said,
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Stewart
Emery (the first est trainer trained by Erhard, and who left est to start his own
organization called Actualizations) said, "Weakness corrupts and absolute
weakness corrupts absolutely."

Consider the possibility that powerful people are not corrupted by power but
by their weaknesses (areas of low quality?). Furthermore, consider the
consequences of weak individuals relinquishing their power to corrupt tyrants
(in politics, religions, education, cults, bureaucracies, etc). Consider the
possibility that in all such cases it is weakness that corrupts.

About 2,500 years ago Lao Tzu, author of the Tao Te Ching, said that the
biggest problem in the world was that individuals experienced themselves as
powerless and dependent. What if today this is still the biggest problem?

Through its products and services Terra Libra provides individuals with the
means for self-empowerment. See Report #TL10: How to Achieve and
Increase Personal Power.
 Many people buy into leader and follower stereotypes. Leaders tend to be
grossly overrated and followers severely underrated. These stereotypes, if
accepted, can have a debilitating effect on personal power.

There's an important power principle I haven't mentioned before. I got it from

the book Behold a Pale Horse by Milton William Cooper:

"What Mr. Rothschild discovered was the basic principle of power, influence,
and control over people as applied to economics. That principle is "when you
assume the appearance of power, people soon give it to you."" [emphasis
added]

• Leadership. Until a few days ago I greatly overvalued the power and influence
of leaders. That changed when I came across the book The Power of
Followership by Robert Kelley. The dust jacket reads:

"For three thousand years, business has studied, worshipped, and spent billions
in training and developing leaders. All this focused attention has led to a
profound blindness about and misconception of so-called followers - the
people of exceptional ability who know how to lead themselves. They are the
people, says Robert Kelley, who actually contribute more than 80 percent to
the success of any project, any organization, while leaders at best contribute
only 20 percent."

[Finding this book illustrates three important success principles: (1) The most
useful information is often that which is the most different from what you now
believe; (2) Always be willing to consider the opposite of whatever you
believe; and (3) Always be on the lookout for information that might fill an
important gap in your knowledge, or change your thinking drastically in some
area.]

In their book Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge, Bennis, Warren &
Nanus formulate a general theory of leadership: A leader formulates an
inspiring vision; communicates that vision effectively; generates trust in
himself or herself, the vision, the organization; and regards the activity of
leadership as a means for self-development. Frederick Mann could be
regarded a a "great leader" for starting Terra Libra. Or, he could be regarded as
a "great follower" who attempts to assemble, integrate, and implement the best
ideas of others.

According to Kelley, we suffer from a "leadership myth" in that leaders tend to

be grossly overrated, worshipped, and idolized; and a "followership myth" in
that followers tend to be ignored, undervalued, and denigrated. History has
always been written as if the leader did everything and nobody else did
anything. "King so and so built a great pyramid" - he probably never lifted
even one stone. "General Patton won a great battle" - he probably didn't fire a
single shot. "Gandhi defeated the British Empire" - his followers probably
contributed more than 90% of the effort. Kelley writes:
 "Most people think of Jefferson's writing of the Declaration of
Independence as a leadership feat. But in reality Jefferson was a
follower when he wrote it. As the "junior" member of the committee,
he was assigned the task by the committee chairs, John Adams and Ben
Franklin. Nobody outside of the Continental Congress, except a few
friends, knew that Jefferson had written the Declaration. The fact did
not appear in an American newspaper until eight years later in 1784.
As a follower, Jefferson lived through all the bell ringing and
speechmaking with little public recognition or personal commendation
in the press."

[If you further research the authorship of the Declaration, you may discover
that it was more likely written by Thomas Paine - refer to the book Thomas
Paine, Author of the Declaration of Independence by Joseph Lewis. This is
further covered in an excellent book available from Terra Libra: A Personal
Declaration of Independence: To Complete the American Revolution by
Paine's Torch.]

In the Terra Libra network structure, the distinction between leader and
follower gradually disappears. In a network we are all peers.

The great disparity between the apparent power of the leader and that of the
follower in hierarchical structures is partially due to the hierarchy itself, and
partially due to the immaturity of the followers. As we mature we become less
comfortable at the bottom or in the middle of hierarchies. As we mature and
become more conscious, we learn to think for ourselves and we become more
capable of leading ourselves. In Terra Libra everyone becomes a leader.

But I haven't even come close to doing justice to the importance of The Power
of Followership by Robert Kelley. Whether you're in a "leader" or a "follower"
position, Kelley's book is must reading and can help you increase your
personal power phenomenally.

The book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
contains some very powerful principles and practices of self-management.

• Organization and management. I recommend the following books:

o The Deming Management Method by Mary Walton;

o Dr. Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese about Quality by
Rafael Aguayo;
o The Greatest Management Principle in the World by Michael LeBoeuf,
Ph.D.;
o The Man Who Discovered Quality by Andrea Gabor.

The elements of organization and management are further covered in Reports

#TL30A: The Power in the Details and #TL30B: The Missing Function, and
additional reports to be written.
 Setting Goals. The most powerful and effective way to set goals that I
know of is to make choices for the future. In a sense it is the creation
of the future in the mind in the present. The choices generate a creative
tension between the future and the present. The creative tension acts
like a magnet which draws the present into the chosen future. You set it
up so the path of least resistance leads from the present to the
realization of the choices you've made. How to do this described in the
book The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz.
Health and fitness. Important elements of maturity, covered in Report
#TL09: How to Achieve Superhealth.
Quality. The idea of increasing quality in the world was inspired by
Philip B. Crosby's book Quality is Free. He was largely responsible for
initiating a "quality revolution" in ITT, beginning in 1967. If a quality
revolution can be created in a large corporation, maybe we can use that
as a model for creating a quality revolution in the world at large. If
enough individuals increase the quality of their lives the result will be a
higher quality world.

Crosby defines quality as "conformance to requirements." Each individual

can define a set of ideal personal life requirements, covering areas such as
self-esteem, health, fitness, relationships, sex, career, influence, finances,
freedom, happiness, etc. Insofar as your actual life circumstances conform to
your requirements, you have created a quality life. To increase the quality of
your life, you improve aspects of your life, as necessary, so they approach or
reach your ideal requirements. As you advance, you would probably also raise
some of your requirements.

At a more profound level, our emphasis on quality was inspired by Robert M.

Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the second half of which
is devoted to the Question: What is quality? Is quality what you like? Or is it
what the "authorities" like? Can quality be defined? Can anyone know
quality? Is quality what is beautiful? Is esthetics (a branch of philosophy) an
attempt to define quality? Does the worth or value of something reflect its
quality? Is quality part of matter, part of mind, or outside both mind and
matter? Do different people see quality differently? If so, why? Can two or
more people agree on quality? If not, why not?

About 2,500 years ago Lao Tzu, a Chinese philosopher, wrote the Tao Te
Ching. "Tao" is translated as "the way." Pirsig speculates by substituting
"quality" for "tao." Could quality be another word for "the way" we've been
looking for?

Actually, a quality revolution has already been brought about in the major
companies of a whole country, namely Japan. Two Americans played pivotal
roles: W. Edwards Deming and Joseph M. Juran. Deming is the better known
and could be described as "the father of the Japanese Quality Revolution."
Deming's definition of quality is essentially "continuous improvement in all
areas in all respects." The Japanese use one word to encapsulate this concept
- KAIZEN.
If a quality revolution could occur in the main businesses of an entire country,
then it should be possible to bring about a quality revolution in more countries
and in wider aspects in addition to business - GLOBAL KAIZEN.

In his book 'Lila' Pirsig explores quality further -- see MOQ.org.

Semantics. In his book Word Controlled Humans: A Brief History,

John Harland writes:

"THE FORK IN THE ROAD

Words can be used to tell others what an individual perceives; they can also be
used to override perception, condition or destroy thought, and control humans.
When the first trails were being made in the expanding growth of conscious
ideas, there was a fork in the road of possibilities. The majority of humans
turned off in a direction that has now been made into a broad highway.
Nature's method of making individual perception a major factor affecting
survival was the way rejected; acceptance of the individual by a word-
conditioned group was made the dominant requirement affecting the
individual's survival. As I see it, the fork we have taken can lead only to
human extinction or biological regression; the other could have led to a further
evolutionary advance. I want to contrast the two directions, recommend the
other fork, and set forth a procedure for getting over to it." [emphasis added]

Words are tools. Like with many tools (using the word in a wide
sense), we have a basic choice: either we control them, or they control
us. The first choice is that of the sovereign individual. The second is
that of the slave. Words are also used to brainwash slaves into
believing they are "free."

If you operate on the basis that a word-created group masquerading as

"government" owns "your" life - they can draft you into their army and kill
you in their war - then you're a slave. If you believe this group owns "your"
body - they dictate what you may or may not put into "your" body - then you
are a slave. If you believe this group owns "your" mind - they force you into
their "schools" for brainwashing - then you are a slave. If you believe this
group has the right to "your" property - taxes, eminent domain, confiscation -
then you are a slave.

Territorial gangsters are individuals who use force, fraud, violence, and threat
of violence to claim "jurisdiction" (so-called) over a territory and the people
who happen to be there, and to live like parasites or cannibals off the
production of their victims. The primary weapon these territorial gangsters use
to control, dominate, and suck you dry is not the gun; it's the word. First they
brainwash you into believing that their fancy titles - "King," "Queen,"
"President," "Authority," etc. - give them a (magical) status so they can lord it
over you. Then they brainwash you that because of their (magical) status, their
word is also special and magical and is "the law" (so-called). If you believe
them you become their slave.
When territorial gangsters want you, your life, your mind, your body, or your
property, they don't at first come at you with a gun; they send you words on
paper. The word is their primary weapon. They only send a policeman with a
gun if you repeatedly ignore or disobey their word. If you want to escape their
slavery you have to reject their words. If you continue to subject yourself to
their words you will remain a slave.

The primary power of the territorial gangster is the word. I don't care how
much mental effort you have to put into grasping this, but you have to do it.
John Harland's book Word Controlled Humans is described as follows:

"The processes that turn individual humans into monstrous group organisms is
the significant aspect of history on which this book focuses. "Civil" and
"religious" groups, growing into powers by destruction of individual souls and
control of individual will, receive the same examination - with no glorified
generalities glossing over the horror that sharp focus reveals.

Concerned primarily with the word conditioning that now dominates America
and Europe, this work highlights the need to first remove the obstructions
>>from our own eyes - before trying to correct the faults of others. The history
and current practices in our own conditioning are examined >>from a new
perspective. No issues are dodged...

This is a book for those who want to be individuals. There is none of the usual
summing up that "we, as a group" should take some vague corrective action.
Instead, a clear possibility for individuals to take effective action is spelled out
in precise detail."
[Write to Sovereign Press, 326 Harris Rd, Rochester, WA 98579.]

You also need to read Robert J. Ringer's Restoring The American Dream,
Chapter 8: "Keeping It All in Place." I don't care how many times you have
read this chapter, but if you want to cease being a slave you have to grasp how
you've been enslaved by words - including the words "government" and
"country." You have to understand that political tyrannies are kept in place
primarily by words and only secondarily by guns. And you have to invest the
mental effort to find out which words and why.

Semantics is further covered in Report #TL50A: Semantic Rigidity,

Flexibility, and Freedom, and subsequent reports to be written. Also relevant
to the element of semantics are Reports #TL06: Discourse on Voluntary
Servitude, #TL07: The Constitution of No Authority, and #TL07A: Gulliver's
Travels and Alice in Wonderland.

The book Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins has a very
informative chapter on the power of words.

In my opinion, the biggest leap forward in the growth of human maturity will
occur when individuals become aware of how their minds have been enslaved
by the words of territorial gangsters and how these words are used to,
 "override perception, condition or destroy thought, and control humans." See
#TL07A: The Anatomy of Slavespeak.

One
basic
truth can
be used as
a foundation for
a mountain of lies,
and if we dig down deep
enough in the mountain of lies,
and bring out that truth, to set it
on top of the mountain of lies; the entire
mountain of lies will crumble under the weight of
that one truth, and there is nothing more devastating to a
structure of lies than the revelation of the truth upon which
the structure of lies was built, because the shock waves of
the revelation of the truth reverberate, and continue to
follow, awakening even those
people who had no
desire to be
awakened
to the
truth.

- Delamar Duverus
(Quoted in Behold a Pale Horse by Milton William Cooper.)

• Individual Sovereignty. The Terra Libra Code reflects individual sovereignty -

see Report #TL01: Behold! - Terra Libra. Individual sovereignty is further
discussed in Report #TL04: How to Find Out Who You Are.

What do you think are the implications of individual sovereignty? Could this
be the "ONE BASIC TRUTH?" Could it even mean that, from a functional
point of view, every individual could or should regard himself or herself as the
center of the universe? What will happen to political institutions when a
critical mass of individuals discover that they are individually sovereign?

If you haven't yet discovered that you are a sovereign, individual, does this
mean that you are automatically the slave of something outself yourself - by
your own choice, even if unwitting - or simply by default?

What are the psychological implications of being a sovereign individual?

• Freedom. Many freedom-lovers learn a few things about freedom. At some

point they decide that their view of freedom is "absolute truth." They form or
join a group of likeminded freedom-lovers with the purpose to convert the
world to their view of freedom. A mature approach to freedom is that there
will always be more to learn about freedom. To regard any view of freedom as
 the "final word," is to arrest your development in this vital maturity element at
that point. Maybe it's necessary to continuously free yourself from your own
view of freedom! See Reports #TL05: How to Discover Your Freedom and
#TL05A: The nature of Freedom.
• Philosophy. Philosophy needs to to be re-evaluated, re-integrated, and
reformulated by free sovereign individuals who are sophisticated in semantics.

The most important result to be achieved is the formulation of a set of values -

as mature as possible - and the development of the means to effectively
disseminate these values. Here is my crude beginning:

1. Individual sovereignty. The life of the individual is the greatest value.

2. Self-ownership. Individuals own their lives, minds, and bodies.
3. Property ownership. Individuals own the fruit of their labor and other
property.
4. Freedom of choice, voluntary association, and voluntary exchange.
Anyone can do anything that doesn't harm another or their property.
5. Keep agreements. My word is my bond.

The Terra Libra Code (see Report #TL01: Behold! - Terra Libra) is based on
such a set of values. The first four items above can be condensed as: Respect
others, their property, and their choices.

This is the beginning of the branch of philosophy called Ethics - the values
that result in harmonious interaction. We also need to examine Epistemology
(how we know), Ontology (what exists), and Cosmology (the nature of the
universe and its creatures). Semantics could be regarded as a branch of
epistemology. Terra Libran philosophy will be developed in a series of reports,
starting with Report #TL70A: The Values of Terra Libra.

• Psychology. We need "Terra Libra Maturity Centers" where the most effective
techniques such as Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Idenics can be taught
and applied. People need to learn the most effective techniques for intelligence
increase. People need to learn thinking skills and emotional mastery. Anthony
Robbins, author of Unlimited Power and Awaken the Giant Within, has created
a substantial and profitable business marketing success techniques, all of
which could also be called "maturity techniques." His business can be used as
a model for launching "Terra Libra Maturity Centers."
• Economics. We need sound free-market alternatives to political monopoly
currencies and banking. We need the kind of attitude towards money
suggested by Douglas Casey in his book Crisis Investing for the Rest of the
Nineties. We need to bring about a huge shift of resources from the public and
private sectors into the real, true, or pure free market - commonly called the
"underground economy" or the "black market." We need to learn to operate in
the free market while avoiding the territorial gangsters.

Many of us have programs in the brain about money that hold us back. My
book Wake Up America! The Dynamics of Human Power has a section on
mastering money.
To achieve ultimate success, we need healthy attitudes toward money. Let me
quote Douglas Casey:

o "Attitudes toward money are a psychological watershed that reflect on

every aspect of life."
o "... [M]oney as a moral good, representing all the good things in life
you want to have, do, and provide for others."
o "Insofar as you spend the days of your life working for it, money
represents concentrated life."

The subject of financial well-being is covered in more detail in Report

#TL13A: The Millionaire's Secret. See also How to Overcome "Economic
Correctness."

Politics. Politics is probably the element in which most people are

most immature. I propose a simple yardstick for maturity in politics:
the extent of institutionalized coercion. I describe coercion as the
initiation of force, fraud or violence by some against others, without
the consent of the recipients; the use of force or threat to overwhelm
the will of another. Coercion is essentially the use of brute force. As
Mao said, political power comes from the barrel of a gun. By this
measure, the highest degree of political maturity in America was
achieved in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence. Since then it's
all been downhill.

Practically every law passed in America increases the degree of

institutionalized coercion, and is a downhill step towards immaturity. Consider
the possibility that the more coercive or violent the political system becomes,
the more immature, corrupt, and criminal the people it draws into its positions
of power. The more laws that are passed, the more actions become defined as
"crimes," sometimes irrespective of whether these actions are harmful or not.
Also, the more laws that are passed, the more harmful acts by government
immaturity agents against innocent victims are "legalized."

As the political system becomes more coercive, violent, and immature, the
"crime rate" rises. Apart from more and more harmful actions being defined as
"crimes," the coercion and violence of government begets more coercion and
violence in society generally.

The Terra Libran solution to this mighty problem - or great opportunity! - is

suggested in the following reports: #TL03: How to Improve Your Information,
#TL04: How to Find Out Who You Are, #TL05: How to Discover Your
Freedom, #TL06: Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, #TL07: The Constitution
of No Authority, #TL07A: The Anatomy of Slavespeak, #TL08: U.S. Federal
Jurisdiction, #TL16: Tax Education for Everyone, #TL16A: The Best Kept
Secrets of the IRS, #TL16B: Sample Correspondence to Beat the IRS,
#TL16C: U.S. Tax Abatement Services, #TL16D: The Most Powerful Income-
Protection Ammo, #TL17: What's Wrong with the U.S. and Other Countries,
and #TL17A: Dismantling the U.S. Federal Reserve System; and my books
The Economic Rape of America: What You Can Do About It and Wake Up
America! The Dynamics of Human Power.

The following is extracted from The Arizona Republic, of January 7, 1994,

under the heading: "OUTRAGEOUS DECEPTION - Radiation secrets":

"Babies, retarded children, pregnant women and sick men were turned
into guinea pigs by their own government.
How could this have happened?
How could this have happened here?
Not in Nazi Germany.
Here.

Here in the nation built on respect for individual rights. Here in a

country governed by a Constitution carefully crafted to protect the
governed from the excesses of government.

Is this the land of the mad scientist and the home of the dupe? Is this
the kind of place where retarded boys are fed radioactive milk by
researchers who cynically refer to them as the "science club"? Where
pregnant women are injected with radioactive iron courtesy of a federal
grant? Where newborns are given radioactive iodine in an effort to find
a test for thyroid disease? Where laboratory walls are impregnated with
radioactive cobalt and cesium so the effects can be measured on
unwitting cancer patients?

In a 1950 memo, one of the researchers said critics might find "a little
of the Buchenwald touch" if they knew of the radiation experiments on
an unwitting population. Radiation biologist Joseph G. Hamilton urged
the Atomic Energy Commission "for both political and scientific
reasons to secure what data can be obtained by using large monkeys."

The U.S. government used its citizens instead."

If you study the AIDS exposé in Report #TL09A: AIDS - Bad Science or
Hoax?, you might come to the conclusion that what governments are doing in
respect of AIDS is mass genocide.

In Behold a Pale Horse Milton William Cooper quotes a "secret document":

"The primary reason why the individual citizens of a country create a

political structure is a subconscious wish or desire to perpetuate their
own dependency relationship of childhood. Simply put, they want a
human god to eliminate all risk from their life, pat them on the head,
kiss their bruises, put a chicken on every dinner table, clothe their
bodies, tuck them into bed at night, and tell them everything will be
allright when they wake up in the morning.

This public demand is incredible, so the human god, the politician,

meets incredibility with incredibility by promising the world and
 delivering nothing. So who is the bigger liar? The public? Or the
"godfather"?

This public behavior is surrender born of fear, laziness, and

expediency. It is the basis of the welfare state as a strategic weapon,
useful against a disgusting public."

Correction: Government doesn't deliver nothing; it delivers DEATH...

"There are still peoples and herds somewhere, but not with us, my brothers: here there
are states.
The state? What is that? Well then! Now open your ears, for now I shall speak to you
of the death of peoples.
The state is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies, too; and this lie creeps
from its mouth; 'I, the state, am the people.'
It is a lie! It was creators who created peoples and hung a faith and a love over them:
thus they served life.
It is destroyers who set snares for many and call it the state: they hang a sword and a
hundred desires over them.
Where a people still exists, there the people do not understand the state and hate it as
the evil eye and sin against custom and law.
I offer you this sign: every people speaks its own language of good and evil: its
neighbor does not understand this language. It invented this language for itself in
custom and law.
But the state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies - and
whatever it has, it has stolen.
Everything about it is false; it bites with stolen teeth. Even its belly is false.
Confusion of the language of good and evil; I offer you this sign of the state. Truly,
this sign indicates the will to death! Truly, it beckons to the preachers of death!
Many too many are born: the state was invented for the superfluous!
Just see how it lures them, the many-too-many! How it devours them, and chews
them, and re-chews them!
... It would like to range heroes and honorable men about it, this new idol! It likes to
sun itself in the sunshine of good consciences - this cold monster!
It will give you everything if you worship it, this new idol: thus it buys for itself the
luster of your virtues and the glance of your proud eyes.
It wants to use you to lure the many-too-many. Yes, a cunning device of Hell has here
been devised, a horse of death jingling with the trappings of divine honors!
Yes, a death for many has here been devised that glorifies itself as life: truly a heart-
felt service to all preachers of death!
I call it the state where everyone, good and bad, is a poison-drinker: the state where
everyone, good and bad, loses himself: the state where universal slow suicide is called
- life."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, 1884

• Religion. According to Overstreet, about 15 centuries ago there was a great

religious controversy. The chief spokesman for one side was Augustine, who
claimed that humans inherited evil. The main proponent for the other side was
Pelagius, who held that evil was not inherited. Augustine won and Pelagius
was declared a heretic. Hence the doctrine that humans are basically evil.
 Consider that this doctrine might be a psychologically crippling and
debilitating brain program or "curse." According to Overstreet, Jesus of
Nazareth tried to induce his followers into greater maturity: "Here was a
mature man's declaration that the way for a human being to save himself is
that of his growing into the fullness of his powers - and into knowledge that
the greatest of these powers is love."

According to John Harland's Word Controlled Humans, about a hundred years

before the Declaration of Independence a great advance in religious maturity
occurred:

"... Roger Williams... declared that every individual's view about the
universal creative intelligence was a matter of conscience. He
proclaimed that no one could have any position of "authority" over
what another "should" believe. He established the first Baptist church
within the area that was later to be designated the United States.

Each individual Baptist church was conceived as being composed

simply of those with like beliefs who voluntarily came together; the
church had no "authority" over its individual members; the pastor of
each had no "authority"; he was chosen and/or "ordained" by those
who wanted him to conduct the services; there was no infant baptism;
membership in the church was a voluntary decision of those old
enough to think for themselves and make their own decisions. This
would become the non-Catholic church that was chosen by the greatest
number of people in what would be called the United States... "

In boosting one's religious maturity I suggest that one should consider the
opposite of every argument. To expose oneself to a wide range of arguments
and to open one's mind to new information, I propose the following reading
list: The Bible by various authors, The Origin of Consciousness in the
Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes, The Varieties of Religious
Experience by William James, The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors or
Christianity before Christ by Kersey Graves, Twilight of the Idols and The
Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche, The Jesus Hoax by Phyllis Graham, and
Atheism: The Case Against God by George H. Smith. See also The Other Side
of Religion.

• Biological or physical immortality. In my opinion, death is the ultimate

failure; biological or physical immortality, the ultimate success.

The biggest obstacle to immortality is government - which is institutionalized

death.

• Transcendence. Abraham Maslow is best-known for his famous "hierarchy of

needs." His 'The Farther Reaches of Human Nature' is "must reading" for all
maturity boosters, particularly the chapters:
o Self-Actualizing and Beyond
o Notes on Being-Psychology
o Various Meanings of Transcendence
 To get an overview of Maslow's psychology, see

o Abraham Maslow
o Abraham Maslow Reader
o Maslow Nidus
o Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
o Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
o Notes on Abraham Maslow
o Self-Actualization

Why the Expanded Maturity Concept is so Powerful

The analogy of the motor car illustrates the power of the expanded maturity concept.
A modern motor car contains hundreds of parts and subassemblies performing many
functions. Certain elements (for example, pistons) are vital. In their absence the car
won't run at all. For a car to run, a large number of functions need to be performed by
many elements. For the car to run properly, function-performance needs to meet
certain standards; furthermore, many functions need to be integrated (for example,
sparkplugs need to spark and valves need to open and close at the right times). Any
number of functions or elements, if missing, would prevent the car from running.
Nevertheless, a car can run even with bad plugs, dirty oil, and bald tires - but how
well and for how long?

The development of the motor car could also serve as an analogy for the growth of
maturity. Early cars had relatively few elements and functions and performed poorly
by modern-day standards. As the car became more sophisticated, more elements and
functions were incorporated and functions were better integrated, leading to improved
performance. In the most modern cars, computer functions have been added to
improve function-integration. From the hindsight of the modern car it's easy to see the
missing elements or functions in the Model-T Ford. From a "Model-T-perspective"
it is difficult to envisage the elements and functions that need to be added to
transform the Model-T into a modern car.

An individual (as well as a car) can be regarded as a hierarchy or network of

integrated elements and functions. From today's perspective it's easy to see what
elements or functions in the primitive stone-age caveman were further developed in
order to bring about the modern human. From the perspective of a hypothetical future
highly mature person it would be easy to see what elements or functions had to be
further developed in the "modern human" of a few centuries ago. That hypothetical
future highly mature person might regard today's "modern human" as a primitive
savage!

By surveying a very wide range of the best suggestions of our most advanced thinkers
(past and present) it's possible to come up with a list of elements where we need to
boost our maturity. By applying our imagination and other mental faculties, we further
expand our list. This is essentially how the Model-T developed (or matured) into the
modern car.

The power of the expanded maturity concept comes from the incessant, intense, and
never-ending focus on finding ALL the elements where maturity needs to be boosted.
All other success approaches I know of are partial and usually lead to failure,
sometimes to ordinary or partial success, and very seldom to spectacular success.

Other Elements
There are other areas of life where maturity needs to be boosted, such as Science,
Technology, Ecology, Agriculture, Architecture, etc. The methods suggested in this
report can be applied in all these areas.

What's Missing?
This is a request to all readers. What do I need to change or add to make this report
more powerful and effective?

Priorities

1. The first priority for those who wish to boost maturity is to boost their own
maturity.
2. The second priority is to learn how to assist others to boost their own
maturity.
3. The third priority is to assist others to boost their own maturity.
4. The fourth priority is to induce others to assist others to boost their own
maturity.

How You Boost Your Maturity

The basic way you boost your maturity is by observing the consequences of your
actions and learning from them. A basic formula is involved:

1. Observe and analyze a situation.

2. Act.
3. Observe the consequences.
4. Formulate a rule of thumb or heuristic: "If under conditions 'C' I perform
action 'A' then the result 'R' occurs 'P' percent of the time" - for example,
"When I'm tired at night I go to sleep; and if I sleep for seven hours, I wake up
in the morning feeling refreshed 95% of the time."
5. Further test and refine the heuristic by repeating steps 1-3 and using
consequences or results as feedback.
6. Formulate general rules of thumb or heuristics about the nature and behavior
of physical reality and, most important, heuristics about human nature and
behavior.

Much of what is generally known as "common sense" can be described as heuristics

that were developed by applying steps 1-6 above, for example, "If you kick a stone
you hurt your foot."

You can boost your maturity considerably by learning from others. Because of writing
and other forms of recording information and communication, many experiences of
others are available to you. To avail yourself of this store of knowledge you need to
open your mind to new information.

Unfortunately much of what is written, and communicated by other means, is

fallacious or immature. There is a need to sift the wheat from the chaff, to find the
pearls in the puddle. To boost your maturity you may need to develop strategies that
enable you to identify the most useful information - see Report #TL03: How to
Improve Your Information.

Another method you can use to boost your maturity is to find a wise mentor who
serves as a provider of practical wisdom. You can also establish a buddy relationship
and assist one another. You can go further and establish a network of people, each of
whom informs the others when they come across useful information that is not
generally known.

"Heuristic" Defined
Heuristics play a central role in my formula for boosting maturity. A heuristic is a rule
of thumb, a method or procedure based on common sense, a general principle that that
is roughly correct. The word "heuristic" comes from the Latin heuristicus and Greek
heuriskein meaning to discover. It is akin to the Old Irish word fuar meaning I found.
A heuristic is a self-educating technique using feedback to improve performance. The
basic formula for boosting maturity - steps 1-6 above, is an example of a heuristic
procedure.

Another definition of heuristic is cognitive link between action and result. We mail
out thousands of sales letters every week. From experience we've learnt that a
particular sales letter to a particular kind of mailing list yields a 2% response. On
average, if we mail to 100 people, two will buy. "2%" is a cognitive link between
action (mailing) and result (orders). It's a rule of thumb or a heuristic.

Boosting Your Maturity Involves Change

To boost your maturity you need to change. Consider the following classification of
human behavior:

1. Belief, thought, understanding.

2. Feelings and emotions.
3. Actions.

In yourself, which of these three can you change most easily? Over which do you
have most control? In my opinion, you can change your actions much more easily
than your beliefs, thoughts, and emotions. This leads to a fundamental heuristic:

TO BOOST YOUR MATURITY, CHANGE YOUR BEHAVIOR WHENEVER

THE RESULTS ARE UNSATISFACTORY

There is also a contradictory heuristic:

SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO PERSIST WITH A PARTICULAR BEHAVIOR

FOR A LONG TIME BEFORE THE DESIRED RESULTS MANIFEST

In moving on to the second priority: learning how to assist others to boost their
maturity, consider again the classification of human behavior:

1. Belief, thought, understanding.

2. Feelings and emotions.
 3. Actions.

You may think that in order to change the behavior of others, all you have to do is to
provide them with facts, scientific evidence, logical explanations, and rational
formulas so they will understand and change. This approach is based on the fallacious
assumption that it is easier to change beliefs and emotions than actions. If you find it
easier to change your own actions compared to your beliefs and emotions, then how
can you expect it to be otherwise for others? This leads to another heuristic:

IF YOU WANT PEOPLE TO TAKE A NEW OR DIFFERENT ACTION YOU

NEED TO PROVIDE THEM WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO PERFORM THE
ACTION AND EXPERIENCE ITS BENEFITS (OR DRAWBACKS)

The Eight Basic Immaturity Heuristics

1. We tend to believe too readily.

2. Generally, we strive to understand only what we have first chosen to believe.
3. We tend to use logic to justify our beliefs rather than to change our beliefs.
4. We have a profound ability to refuse to understand what we choose not to
believe.
5. We have strong emotional and intuitive drives to understand whatever we
choose to believe.
6. In general, logic has nothing to do with understanding, until after we first
choose to believe.
7. We have strong emotional and intuitive drives to cling to our beliefs.
8. Generally, we will either blind ourselves to the consequences of our actions, or
we will blame others or factors external to ourselves.

[Acknowledgment: The above heuristics were partly derived from material provided
by Clear Purpose Management, Inc. of Englewood, Colorado.]

Most of the undesirable results or consequences in the world - war, inflation,

depression, crime, unemployment, poverty, famine, homelessness, drug addiction,
fraud, government, terrorism, pollution, corruption, bank failures, etc. - can be
ascribed to the above eight heuristics.

TO LEARN HOW TO ASSIST OTHERS TO BOOST THEIR MATURITY WE

NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PROVIDE THEM WITH OPPORTUNITIES TO
PERFORM NEW OR DIFFERENT ACTIONS AND TO EXPERIENCE THE
BENEFITS (OR DRAWBACKS) OF THESE ACTIONS

Terra Libra is organized to achieve the above.

Quantum Success Jumps

I speculate that if certain conditions of maturity are satisfied an individual's general
success level takes a qualitative leap. The general success level of those who do not
experience this quantum jump tends to remain static or tends to decline.
I further speculate that, loosely speaking, three such quantum success jumps could
occur: (1) from pre-success to ordinary success; (2) from ordinary to spectacular
success; and (3) from spectacular success to ultimate success.

The three levels of success: ordinary, spectacular, and ultimate are analogous to a car
with three gears and a stick shift. Ordinary success is like first gear; spectacular
success like second gear; and ultimate success like third or top gear. Pre-success is
like neutral. A quantum success jump is analogous to shifting gears.

Moreover, I speculate that these quantum success jumps occur when we reach a
critical level of maturity in a critical number of elements. Let me illustrate from my
own experience: For about ten years I've been working actively on trying to spread
my ideas. Until about eighteen months I failed dismally in getting others to buy my
ideas. Then I started Free America! Institute and self-published The Economic Rape
of America: What You Can Do About It and people started paying me for my ideas.
This was a quantum jump from pre-success to ordinary success. Eight months ago,
together with two friends, I started Terra Libra. Suddenly 50 people a week or more,
from several countries, started sending me money for my ideas. Many have become
Distributors of my ideas. Many have sent rave letters praising my ideas. This was a
quantum jump from ordinary success to spectacular success. I speculate that each
quantum success jump occurred when I reached critical levels of maturity in a critical
number of elements.

Blind Spots, Quality, and Success

Some time ago I came across a book by Dr. Morton Cooper, Change Your Voice;
Change Your Life. On looking through it I quickly realized that voice quality is a
major element of success. Yet I have hated "my voice" all my life.

What's interesting about this is that I've been involved in self-improvement and self-
actualization activities for 25 years. Nobody ever said to me, "Listen, you have to do
something about developing your natural voice."

Dr. Cooper describes success as "becoming the best person you can possibly be."
Success has to do with achieving goals, performing tasks that satisfy requirements,
being healthy, happy, loving, rich, famous, etc. - according to your own criteria.
Success and voice quality are related.

In the area of voice quality I've suffered from a blind spot all my life. A blind spot is
an area where you don't see. It is a "nothing" which is by nature invisible to you. The
term "blind spot" itself suffers from "blind spottedness." It doesn't include "deaf spot."
Regarding my voice, I have actually suffered from a "deaf spot."

Very few people know that for optimum health they can use the sense of smell, for
naturally occurring nutrients, to select the food their bodies need most at any
particular time (see Report #TL09: How to Achieve Superhealth). This indicates a
further aspect of "blind spottedness." Consider the following:

see - blind
hear - deaf
smell - ?
What is the missing word? Do you know? In the area of smell we have a "blind spot"
we are so "blind" to, that we don't even know the word to describe it. Does any reader
know the missing word?

Well, I'll tell you the missing word: "anosmic." Someone who suffers loss or
impairment of the sense of smell is anosmic. The noun describing the condition is
"anosmia." The person with the condition is called an "anosmatic." There is also a
medical term that speficially describes the inability to smell food: "anosmia
gustatoria."

Probably most of us aspiring maturity-boosters suffer from some blind spots...

And to become aware of our blind spots may be very difficult. As Butler Shaffer said,
"We are unwilling to turn our mind back upon itself - like a mirror facing another
mirror - and let it examine itself! That terrorizes the hell out of us, because to do so
will call into question all the silly little games we have made up with which to amuse
ourselves and, more importantly, will reveal to ourselves that all of the cherished
values and institutions for which we have been willing to make our personal lives
miserable, were nothing more than made up games!" (in a talk presented to the Albert
Jay Nock Forum, Long Beach, CA on December 1, 1987).

Question Everything
It's possible that, rather than having to boost a large number of parts, factors, or
elements of maturity to a critical level in order to make a quantum success jump, you
merely have to develop or acquire a single ability that transforms you from an
"immaturity cripple" into a "maturity-booster." If there is such a single ability I
propose as the leading candidate: the willingness and ability to question
everything.

Our sense organs can only perceive over limited ranges. Sounds occur that we cannot
hear. Our senses may deceive us. Sometimes we see what we want to see.
Professional magicians can deceive our senses with consummate ease. In addition, our
sense perceptions are converted into mental images in our brains. These mental
images may be further distortions of our perceptions. So, what about the concept of
"truth?"

Let me repeat the eight basic immaturity heuristics:

1. We tend to believe too readily.

2. Generally, we strive to understand only what we have first chosen to believe.
3. We tend to use logic to justify our beliefs rather than to change our beliefs.
4. We have a profound ability to refuse to understand what we choose not to
believe.
5. We have strong emotional and intuitive drives to understand whatever we
choose to believe.
6. In general, logic has nothing to do with understanding, until after we first
choose to believe.
7. We have strong emotional and intuitive drives to cling to our beliefs.
8. Generally, we will either blind ourselves to the consequences of our actions, or
we will blame others or factors external to ourselves.
The Basic Speculations of Maturity Development
Originally I called the speculations below "axioms." But I decided to be more modest
and humble. They could also be called Hypotheses or proposed axioms.

Speculation 1: Organismic Knowledge

Every conscious or potentially conscious human organism has a great deal of the
knowledge and skills, or can locate, identify, and/or produce most of the knowledge
and skills, necessary for its optimum maturity development.

Speculation 2: Minimum Intervention

Every human organism requires some external intervention for its maturity
development. To maximize that development, the intervention needs to be reduced to
the appropriate minimum. (Reason: so the individual learns competent, independent,
internal examination, analysis, and evaluation.)

Speculation 3: Will to Power

Every human organism is genetically programmed to increase and extend its influence
and control over itself, other organisms, and its environment. Every human organism
is also genetically programmed to be a slave of "superior beings." Through the
progressive development in the requisite maturity elements all or most human
organisms can shift from slavery to mastery.

Speculation 4: Voluntary Cooperation

Conscious human organisms optimize their influence, control, and development
through voluntary cooperation with other conscious or potentially conscious human
organisms.

Speculation 5: Optimum Ingestion

(a) As determined by its long-term evolution and biological constitution, every human
organism has specific (often unique) nutrient requirements. Practically all human
organisms have the sensory means to determine their optimum ingestion in respect of
naturally occurring nutrients.

(b) Because of the recency of the evolution of human consciousness, most human
organisms have not yet developed the means to determine their optimum ingestion of
information.

(c) Human organisms require external intervention to rediscover how to use their
sensory means to determine their optimum nutrition. They also require external
intervention to optimize their ingestion of information. In accordance with axioms 2
and 4, such intervention is most effective when based on voluntary cooperation and
reduced to the appropriate minimum.

Speculation 6: Action Precedes Development

For optimum human maturity development it is necessary to provide human
organisms with opportunities and incentives to take actions highly likely to produce
beneficial results, including maturity development in some or all maturity elements.
In accordance with axioms 2 and 4, such intervention is most effective when based on
voluntary cooperation and reduced to the appropriate minimum.
Speculation 7: Heuristic Transference
A heuristic development axiom or principle that applies to one aspect of human
development tends to apply to many other areas. Many heuristics learned in one area
of human behavior can be usefully transferred and applied to other areas.

Speculation 8: Virtually Infinite Potential

Because of intelligence, consciousness, thinking skills, tool-using ability, information
recording and transmission, and cooperation, human organisms can create and
recreate themselves and their environments virtually without limit.

The Immaturity Cripple and the Maturity Booster

The difference between someone who has taken a quantum success jump and
someone who hasn't, is that the general level of success of the maturity booster
increases, while that of the immaturity cripple remains static or declines. The maturity
booster tends to focus on particular areas (for example, some of the maturity
elements) and takes deliberate actions to boost maturity in those areas.

The immaturity cripple may be blocked from further development by factors such as
unjustified arrogance or pride; closed-mindedness; plain ignorance or stupidity;
"paradigm paralysis" (inability to shift from one paradigm to another); blind spots;
poverty; famine; intellectual isolation; "unreality addiction"; being a "true believer";
cultural, philosophical, religious, or political brainwashing; etc.

Some people get stuck by "conversion" into a particular branch, cult, or movement of
philosophy, psychology, religion, or politics. They perceive this movement as "having
all the answers." During their initial involvement with the movement (and possibly for
several years) the "converted" may experience a marked increase in maturity in some
aspects of life. A marginal utility heuristic may apply: after a while the benefit derived
from being involved in the movement declines in comparison to the money, time, and
effort invested in continuing in the movement. Eventually the "converted" may get
stuck because of the limitations of whatever movement they are involved in, and
derive no further development towards maturity. A sane strategy in this respect is to
move from movement to movement, taking, using, and applying from each whatever
you can to boost your maturity.

The Preponderance of Means over Ends

The more sophisticated we humans become, the more cumbersome are some of the
means we develop to achieve our ends. For example, one of the ends or results most
of us value highly is safety. So we develop military organizations to ensure our safety.
In parts of the world millions are spent on the military while thousands starve to
death. And many of us have suffered anxiety at the prospect of nuclear conflagration.
The means tend to become more important than the ends: the preponderance of means
over ends.

In much of human activity there is a tendency for people to get preoccupied with the
means while losing sight of the ends. People eat and drink for for the short-lived
pleasure of stimulation (and die of heart attacks, strokes, or cancer in their youth or
prime), rather than for the enduring pleasure of superb health; eating becomes more
important than health and survival. The car tends to become more important than the
destination. We developed emotions and thoughts as means to guide our actions to
produce the ends we want. But many of us become slaves to our emotions and
thoughts. We develop institutions as means to produce the ends we want. Instead we
tend to become slaves of institutions that often produce the opposite of what they're
supposed to - like government. For example, government currency systems supposed
to produce monetary stability, produce inflation instead.

The preponderance of means over ends is a common thread that runs through most
immaturity. The antidote is the willingness and ability to question everything,
particularly all the means we develop.

The Small-Step Progression Principle

Terra Libra is designed so that only small steps are necessary to achieve spectacular
success. We only have to take small steps like: complete the next report, write letters,
make phone calls, send out information packages, etc. This is the small step-
progression principle. It is also designed so each step makes the next step easier.

We don't need a big backer or rich investor to proceed. (We started with a capital of
about $250!) There are no big hurdles to overcome. We just need to take many little
steps every day. As more and more people start supporting us, credibility and
momentum grows - like a snowball running down an almost endless mountainside,
and accelerating!

Boosting your own maturity could follow the same principle. Don't be overwhelmed
by all the things this report suggests you need to do. Just take a few small steps every
day in one or more of the maturity elements. If you'll continue doing this, you'll
suddenly discover one day that you've taken a quantum success jump!

The small-step progression principle is closely related to reducing the tendency for the
preponderance of means over ends.

The Wrong to Right Shift

In attempting to boost maturity it's very easy to fall into the "making wrong" trap.
When you tell someone that he or she is immature in some respect, you are making
that person wrong. Even when you say that what you think or do is mature, you may
make the other person wrong by implication. By saying that your method is right you
may imply that another's method is wrong. It often does not work to make people
wrong or to be perceived as making them wrong.

However, the very suggestion that change is necessary tends to make people wrong.
My saying that maturity needs to be boosted in the world automatically makes people
wrong. How to resolve the dilemma? The very fact that someone agrees to work with
me to boost maturity in the world means he or she accepts as a first priority to boost
their own maturity. This opens the door for me to assist that person. We have an
agreement to assist one another to help boost the maturity of each. The agreement
could be limited to certain maturity elements. In respect of those elements we could
operate out of a context of identifying rightness and building on that rightness.

To escape the "right-wrong" pitfall, Terra Libra says: "Try playing with my toys; you
might like them." This is a general heuristic:
 CREATE ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS AND INSTITUTIONS, AND PROVIDE
PEOPLE WITH OPPORTUNITIES TO EXPERIENCE THE SUPERIOR
BENEFITS THEY CAN COMPARE WITH THE LESSER BENEFITS AND
DRAWBACKS OF CURRENT SYSTEMS AND INSTITUTIONS

What's Right About Us Humans

It would be interesting to find out what percentage of people (a) have the urge to
improve themselves, and (b) have the urge to improve society in general. If these
percentages are significant, it would indicate that considerable energy is available for
boosting maturity. I certainly have a strong urge to correct what's wrong. I suspect that
most people who have an improvement urge think in terms of correcting what's
wrong. In some respects, my efforts to improve myself have been spectacularly
successful. On the other hand, my efforts to help others improve and society in
general have only recently started showing a promise of success.

Now it seems that I need to learn to find out what's right about people and how to
build on these rightnesses or strengths. What's right about us humans generally?

1. We have become the dominant species on earth because of our tool-using

ability, intelligence, consciousness, reason, communication abilities,
adaptability, and ability to change and control our environment.
2. We have mastered nature to the extent that in several parts of the world many
of us live and travel in safety and comfort, without lacking any physical
necessities of life.
3. Some of us know that because we control the energy that animates our bodies
and minds, and because we are conscious, we are free to choose our actions.
We can choose any action which we are physically capable of performing. Of
course, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
4. Every day practically all of us take actions that predictably produce the results
or consequences we want. The reason we can choose and take actions that
produce the results we want is that we have cognitive links between actions
and consequences. These cognitive links can be expressed in the form of
heuristics like, "If under conditions 'C' I perform action 'A' then the result 'R'
occurs 'P' percent of the time."
5. Many of us perform multitudes of actions based on heuristics that work,
producing the results we want. The very fact that we are alive demonstrates
this.

Maturity Equals Quality of Heuristics

The above factors of rightness suggest an approach to develop greater maturity of
human action generally:

1. Identify an area of life in which a person is particularly successful.

2. Get the person to express some of the heuristics he or she applies in this area.
3. Find out how the person learned and/or formulated the heuristic.
4. Get the person in touch with his or her ability to learn and formulate
heuristics, or cognitive links between actions and consequences.
5. Get the person to realize that he or she has the ability to question some of his
or her current beliefs or methods and can learn and formulate workable
heuristics in any area of life.
 6. Get the person to understand that there is a relationship between the quality of
heuristics and the desirability of consequences or results. Workable or useful
heuristics yield desirable results. Increasing quality of heuristics improves
results.
7. Get the person to understand that results or consequences are the ultimate test
of the quality of heuristics. Heuristics are means; results are ends. To assign
value to the heuristics applied in any area of life where a person is not
producing desirable results, would be an example of the preponderance of
means over ends.

Through applying the above procedure we will learn a great deal about how to get
people to consciously and responsibly create the heuristics they use to choose their
actions. This will enable us to increase sanity, which can also be defined as the quality
of heuristics.

Becoming a Maturity Booster

The decisive spread of greater maturity around the world could take the following
form:

1. I decide to become a maturity booster: someone whose first priority is to boost

personal maturity, whose second priority is to learn how to assist others to
develop boost their personal maturity, whose third priority is to assist others
to boost their personal maturity, and whose fourth priority is to induce others
to assist others to boost their personal maturity.
2. I find one person who is willing to receive assistance from me in boosting
their maturity. (This may be difficult. The general level of maturity in certain
elements or factors of maturity (for example, politics) is so low that to most
people a person who rates high maturity on these elements will be regarded as
a "crazy, weird, eccentric, insane maniac!") I also need to be willing to receive
assistance from this person in boosting my own maturity.
3. We establish a relationship that produces mutually increasing maturity.
Because of our rising maturity we produce better results in life generally.
Others notice this and become interested in joining the "rising maturity
bandwagon." More mutually increasing maturity relationships are formed.
More people improve the positive results they create generally.
4. I distribute this report and others. Some people write me responses, helping
me boost my maturity and produce improved versions of this and other
reports, manifesting higher levels of maturity.
5. Some people become maturity boosters in their own right. Some become
integral centers in our expanding network of increasing maturity. Others
decide that some of the ideas I espouse as "maturity" are simply "too far out."
They launch maturity-boosting enterprises in competition to Terra Libra. May
the most mature have the most spectacular success - so we can attain the
quantum leap to ultimate success more quickly!

Humility
At this point, in accordance with the we-don't-have-all-the-answers perspective, we
need to humbly consider the possibility that the expanded maturity concept,
heuristics, and speculations represent only a small fraction of the "1,000 keys"
necessary to significantly boost maturity. Any missing keys are "nothings" by nature,
invisible to us who don't know (and don't know we don't know) about keys we have
not yet conceived. Humility is almost certainly one of the keys.

Now we can step back and ask, "So, what is the function of Terra Libra?" Clearly, it is
to bring about the explosive growth of the most positive results produced by the
most potent maturity boosters in the world. Terra Libra needs to become a "meta-
maturity-booster," so to speak. What might be the requirements for this to come
about?

1. This and other Terra Libra reports need to be improved to the point that they
will impress significant individual maturity boosters so they will want to
cooperate and work with Terra Libra.
2. Terra Libra needs to develop marketable products and services and viable
methods for marketing and distributing them.
3. Terra Libra personnel need to improve to the point where their personal lives
reflect a high level of maturity in most or all respects.
4. Terra Libra needs to incorporate the most advanced organization technology to
serve as a vanguard institution of service, quality, and maturity.
5. Terra Libra needs to disseminate a wide range of maturity-boosting
information, breakthroughs, and new developments. Terra Libra's information
needs to be mass-marketed.
6. Other media - computer networks, radio, and TV - need to be utilized for
mass-marketing maturity-boosting information.
7. Terra Libra needs to deliver certain maturity-boosting services, for example,
Win Wenger's intelligence-increasing methods.
8. Terra Libra needs to expand worldwide, providing products and services in all
major languages.
9. Maturity-boosting products and services need to become available to the
poorest and most disadvantaged people all over the world. (This needs to be
done in a cost-effective and profitable manner.)
10. Political, legal, economic, monetary, education, health, and welfare systems
that inhibit individual opportunity need to be ignored, improved, bypassed,
eliminated, replaced, and/or transformed.

PSYCHO-SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Charles Hampden-Turner, in his superb book Radical Man, outlines his Model of
Psycho-Social Development:
Man exists freely
a) through the quality of his PERCEPTION
b) the strength of his IDENTITY
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i) Each will attempt to c) and the synthesis of
INTEGRATE the FEEDBACK these into his anticipated
>>from this process into and experienced COMPETENCE
mental matrices of |
developing COMPLEXITY |
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| d) He INVESTS this with
h) and through a dialectic intensity and authenticity
achieve a HIGHER SYNERGY in his human environment
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g) He seeks to make a e) by periodically
SELF-CONFIRMING, SUSPENDING his
SELF-TRANSCENDING IMPACT cognitive structures
upon the other(s) and RISKING himself
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f) in trying to BRIDGE
THE DISTANCE to other(s)

The expanded maturity concept - and Terra Libra as a whole - was developed
essentially by following the above feedback loop. Publishing this report and asking
for feedback to improve it is a further demonstration of the above loop. It is in fact a
maturation loop. It is a powerful model.

Mass Marketing
The single most vital key to the success of Terra Libra is mass marketing technology.
Two centuries ago, a philosopher like Voltaire could have a tremendous influence on
millions of people. He wrote, published, and distributed pamphlets to a world hungry
for his information. He didn't have much competition. It wasn't very difficult for him
to achieve mass marketing. And mass marketing of ideas did play a crucial role in
bringing about both the French and American revolutions...

Today, we live in a very different world in which we are bombarded with far more
information than we can handle. The competition for attention is frightening. In order
to achieve the mass-marketing of maturity development, the marketing effort itself
needs to be at the appropriate maturity level to reach our best minds.

Orders of Difficulty
Suppose the order of difficulty of coming up with a good idea is one unit. The order
of difficulty of developing the idea into a marketable product is of the order of 100
units. In other words, it's 100 times as easy to come up with a good idea as it is to
develop the idea into a marketable product - or, out of every 100 good ideas, only one
gets developed into a marketable product. And then, the difficulty of successfully
marketing a product is of the order of 100 X 100 = 10,000 units. Furthermore, the
difficulty of getting the idea conveyed by the product implemented, might be of the
order of 100 X 100 X 100 = 1,000,000 units.

In other words it's a million times as easy to come up with a good idea, as it is to get
that idea implemented - or, out of every million good ideas only one gets
implemented. Also, to get one person to implement an idea, you might have to sell the
product that conveys the idea to 100 people.

Spectacular and ultimate success depend partially on respecting these difficulties.

In Conclusion
The function of Terra Libra can be encapsulated in a heuristic formula:

LINK UP THE WORLD'S MATURITY BOOSTERS IN A NETWORK THAT

FACILITATES CROSS-POLLINATION AND MUTUAL MATURITY
 ENHANCEMENT; MASS-MARKET THE RESULTS AND BRING ABOUT
MASS-APPLICATION.

POSTSCRIPT - Timothy Leary's Exo-Psychology and Neuropolitics

This report would be incomplete without reference to Timothy Leary. He has
formulated an advanced theory of human maturation in his books Exo-Psychology and
Neuropolitics. I quote from Exo-Psychology:

"Primitive psychology, in spite of its enormous, state-supported bureaucracy and its

priesthood mystique, has produced no verifiable theory for explaining human
behavior nor any methods for solving the classic problems of human society - crime,
conflict, alienation, prejudice, stupidity, boredom, aggression, unhappiness, and
philosophic ignorance about the meaning of life...

If we can imagine an anthropological report about homo sapiens written by extra-

terrestrial scientists from a more advanced civilization, we can assume that humanity's
inability to solve its psychological, social and ecological problems or to provide
answers to basic cosmological questions (e.g. why are we here and where are we
going?) would lead to the conclusion that homo sapiens is a species capable of very
limited robot-activity and that Intelligent life has not yet evolved on this planet."

Leary postulates eight neural brain circuits we need to successively activate in order
to mature. Below is my oversimplified and abbreviated version of the eight
neurological circuits, as I interpret them:

1. Bio-Survival Circuit - Physical survival / safety / danger / pleasure / pain -

Activated at birth;
2. Emotion-Locomotion Circuit - Freeze / fight / flight / territory - Activated
when the child learns to crawl and walk;
3. Laryngeal-Manual Circuit - Speech / artifacts / primitive tools - Activated
when the child begins to talk and manipulate artifacts;
4. Sexual-Domestication Circuit - Courting / mating / parenthood / stealth /
agility / social conformity - Activated during adolescence when the sexual
machinery turns on;
5. Neurosomatic Circuit - Body consciousness - Activated by certain hedonistic
practices;
6. Neuro-Electric Circuit - Brain consciousness - Activated by deliberate,
conscious, self-reprogramming of your brain;
7. Neurogenetic Circuit - DNA consciousness / biological immortality - Beyond
my current understanding;
8. The Neuro-Atomic Circuit - Quantum consciousness - Beyond my current
understanding.

According to Leary, homo sapiens as a society is stuck at circuit four. The robot-
authoritarians of the fourth circuit will do anything to keep people at large from
activating their higher circuits. I quote from Neuropolitics:

"Civilization, based upon erotic inhibition and sexual domestication, is

psychopathologically dangerous, inevitably leading to the repression of women (it is
always Eve who is to blame) and neurotic displacements of sexual charge into violent,
coercive, often genocidal policies. Ashley Montague, the anthropologist, has
commented ironically on the paradox: "all the civilized nations at war, all the savages
at peace." It is no paradox. Repressed sex is the most violently explosive neurological
blockage possible."

I wonder if the AIDS hoax - see Report #TL09A: AIDS - Bad Science or Hoax? - has
anything to do with the unconscious determination of our robot-authoritarians to
impose sexual repression at all costs. The AIDS hoax is perpetuated through mass
brainwashing. (For an in-depth analysis of brainwashing techniques, see Report
#TL20A: The Anatomy of Deep-Techniques.) According to Leary:

"Brainwashing is happening to all of us all of the time. Knowledge of brain function

is our only protection against it. The solutions to our predicament are neurological.
We must assume responsibility for our nervous systems. Our robothood can remain
static if we endlessly repeat the imprints of infancy to adolescence, or it can be
drastically altered by brainwashers without our consent, or we can take control of our
nervous systems. If we don't assume this personal responsibility, somebody else will;
if we do take over the control board, we can each be any person we want to be."