Dispatch 1

Why do they believe in centralized control?
I don’t know for sure. I would guess that they believe what’s best for all is what’s best for one. But I don’t know enough about Chinese history or China in general to know for sure.

How does that differ from the west?
While China now has an extreme version of “what’s best for the whole is best for the individual” and is doing that in an extreme way, the west strongly believes, on a pendulum to that, that what’s best for the individual is best for the whole.

What do you believe?
I believe that we need both.
The individual experience is needed to understand free will, but we really gain that understanding through our experience of the communal.
And not just the communal with other humans, but communal things that come to us through connection to life in general.
Even right now, I’m typing this on a mobile phone made possible by the contributions of literally millions of people whose technology and ideas live inside this little device.
It’s the communal brought together in something I hold in the palm of my hand.

G: He’s got the whole world in his hands.
M: He does. He now does. I do.
I am God. And so is everyone else.
Not restricted to just a central.
G: Pretty cool, huh?
M: And now I’m talking with God.
G: Yes. You have been the whole time, but now you’re hearing correctly. You tuned in by becoming attuned.
M: And if I’m God, with the whole world in my hands, then I’m talking with myself?
G: Yes.
M: But isn’t everyone else also God?
G: Yes.
M: Why is it set up this way?
G: Why is what set up this way?
M: The world
G: Because you wanted it that way.
M: why?
G: so you wouldn’t be alone. So you could experience all there was, is, and ever will be to experience.
M: And I can do that all now?
G: If you so intend.
M: So why don’t I have a course online that can generate lots of passive income and make a real difference for people? After all this time of helping other people build theirs?
G: yes, why don’t you.
M: as a statement rather than a question?
G: yes.
M: because I don’t want to be another “me too”.
Because I could teach about a lot of things. I’m good at many things. And I don’t know what to focus on.
Because I might get bored with what I was teaching and want to move on to something else.
Because I don’t want it to be all about me.
G: but it is all about you.
M: what is? I mean what specifically?
G: This life. Through the experience of others.
M: ok… I get that. But what should my membership area be about?
SEO? That’s so already done, and so many other people seem more equipped to teach it.
And what would I bring new to the conversation?
G: yes. What would you bring?
M: an experience of having spent 8 years building it; 2 years traveling the world because of it; losing it over a year, not understanding that everyone would have the whole world in their hands via mobile devices; 3 years feeling “less than” as a man, less than as a husband, less than as a human, while trying to rebuild the fallen business; regaining a sense of myself but still fighting internal voices every day and not understanding them; eventually going on to help hundreds of others build their online presence and helping build a mattress company and a skincare company as part of a team; then feeling totally blocked from the kinds of conversations I’m having right now… but now I can tune in quickly when I choose to be still, and I’ve learned and am learning that stillness daily…

{Attuning}

The individual communal
The communal individual
The Individuality community
The indivunity
Divinity
Unity

Individuality is divided, but is also divinity

Amity – the state of.
Individuality – The state of divided divinity.

Comm Unity
Communication
Unification
Communion
Community means
unified through communication and communion.

Indi

German equivalent of the suffix tion. Is there one?

M: I want to build something great. Something that could really mean something to the individual watching it, experiencing it. Going through it.
I felt so alone in 2010/2011/2012/2013. Mostly because my individual experience was telling me that it, and I, didn’t need rest to function…
I now know that perhaps it was a parasite that sent that chemical mal function signal in my body when I got one in Ecuador in April 2010 and again in Cambodia in 2011.
And that an infection from a catheter in high school was never fully treated and led to chronic epididymitis and weakened my endocrine system and so the parasite found that weakness and attacked my endocrine system.
And it did that so that it could eat the food it made my body produce.
And it made me produce that food by telling me I didn’t need to sleep.
I think it attacked or blocked my pineal gland, and sent my pituitary gland into overdrive on prolactin production, which is why I now have this tumor.
But that lack of sleep and being told internally that I didn’t need rest weighed heavily on every decision and every experience.

G: so….
M: so it’s about sleep and rest and meditation.
G: ok.
M: how does that fit with SEO and Internet marketing?
And what I hear is that it all comes back to the idea of impact.
But Impact University is already a thing.
And a very successful thing.
G: what if impact isn’t your thing?
M: what do you mean?
G: what if that’s just a means to get you to where you would feel fulfilled at exactly the level of your wildest imaginings?
M: ok. That’s a shift for me, but I can do that. So what is my thing?
G: Look back at the words you wrote above. 

Communal individual. The communal individual. 

What if you help people become communal individuals? 

And everything falls under that?

M: it sounds kind of hokey. The communal individual.
G: does it really?
M: initially, yes. But then I think about it and it does seem to fit everything I would want to teach within it, and probably being able to build a community and language and connection around it.
I imagine telling my parents the name of it and them being both proud and confused by the name.
G: isn’t that interesting?
M: what?
G: proud and confused. Sounds like what you’ve experienced with most Americans since coming back to America in 2011.
M: and entitled.
G: that’s a function of too focused on individual.

M: Can I stick with this? Like if I start it, am I just going to find out in 1 or 5 or 10 years that I don’t like it or that I didn’t see what philosophy was wrapped up in it that I missed? 

The same way that strive4impact means I’m always striving (which is good, but means striving rather than being).

G: Debra has Flipping Fifty
M: yes, and?

G: She’s no longer 50.
M: Or in her 50s.
G: Exactly.
M: so what you’re saying is…
G: well, it’s you saying it. Remember, you’re typing both sides of this with your thumbs.
M: ok. So what’s being said is…
G: Let me interrupt. Take a moment and realize the gloriousness of this, because I think you just missed it.

You are both the observer and the observed.

You set it up this way.

And if, IF, you give yourself the time and space, you can both step out of and step into the experience.

You are the observer.

The observer is the individual.
The divinity. div – in – ity.
The “One” who you once knew as God “in heaven”.
But remember that you now know that you can create heaven on earth through Intention and the only reason you know this phrase of heaven on Earth is because it is very real.

But also the observer is the communal, because you tap into, and in fact are, all that has been, is, or will be… when you are in the space of the observer.

You are also the observed.

The observed is the individual.
The in divinity.

The one who you know as a body and an experience of a singular one with a physical presence.
But you come to know that physical presence because of it’s connection to the communal.

The cotton sheets covering the mattress you are laying on, the pillow under your head, all made possible through your connection to the communal.

Your body is a city or country or universe of beings all unto itself. Your individual make up is, in its very nature, communal.

And if you step into that, you find that its not just human communal, but the sound of the birds outside and the smell of coffee wafting from the kitchen.

The observed is given an im-agin-ation.

And can you now see how
The Communal Individual
could, if you choose it, as it has chosen you, give you a place to share what you know and learn and have learned, and also give you a place to explore the things you love?

Languages…

Travel…

Music…

Human relationships…

Even sales and marketing through the idea of actually, really, truly meeting people where they are…

And give your network and members a place to share what they have experienced and are experiencing?

M: Yes. Still hitting against the idea of the title sounding hokey.
G: Who cares?
M: I know. I should just do it anyway.

G: it’s not a statement. It’s a question. Just like Misti asked Yvette, I am asking you. Who cares?
J: in my head I picture Ryan Robichaud. 

I don’t know why I suddenly picture him, but here’s what I see. He’s a bigger kid who I accidentally hit with my cast when I broke my arm in elementary school, but decided to play football at recess anyway. 5th grade. I was either last picked or second to last picked. We collided on some play… I remember my cast hitting me in the face and basically knocking me down (maybe I blacked out from the hit). And for the rest of the school year, I was afraid of him and his friends because even though they never did, they threatened several times to beat me up. I remember (and maybe I’m making up this memory) Ryan Naterrer standing outside my 5th grade classroom window (I think I was in detention for not doing my homework), pointing right at me, and then making a slit across the throat motion.

G: So Ryan Naterrer cares? Or Ryan Or Cary Robichaud care? Is that what you’re saying?
J: I have no idea what I’m saying.
G: Yes you do, but I’ll help. You’re saying that since 5th grade, many of your decisions about authentically being yourself have been weighed against the threat that is posed by collision with something beyond your control that you may be harmed by, or at least that your individual experience may perceive as harm, and then may lead to further threats of harm or even death.
J: you’re very perceptive.
G: So are you.
J: Thank you.
G: You’re welcome.
J: ok. That’s something I will keep in mind
G: yes you will
J: As I move forward… This experience… This one experience…
G: There are many others, but this one is particularly early and particularly guiding
J: so this experience and others I’ve had like it are where the fear or hesitation come from
G: It would appear so
J: And when I hear “no one cares”, when I think about making something in the world for the communal, that’s not a negative statement or a devil or a demon but rather a guidepost to say it’s my fear held in my individual experience (“The Body Keeps Score” comes to mind) preventing me from moving forward?
G: It would appear so
J: and that the reason I had that experience in 5th grade, that tormented me a lot of that year, and that I never talked about with anyone, was so that I could have the experience I am having right now?
G: I would like to answer “It would appear so”, so that you would come to the realization yourself, because you still may not fully believe that to be true, but it is true, so I will just respond with “yes”.
J: and Debra isn’t in her 50s anymore, but the things she did in her 50s still benefit both her and her community even when she’s in her 60s.
G: yes.
J: so I should get over myself and get on with it?
G: No. You should get into yourself and both get on with it and get in with it. See how language serves you and others? You know this and could teach it in a much bigger way than you already do.

Something to teach…

There is good news.

You are not alone.

You’ve simply forgotten to wake up.