About This GameEnlightenment is an action-shooter Roguelike game with a unlinear narrative. Players will venture into a Wasteland-inspired dungeon known as the Ark and experience a risky journey plagued by crisis.

The original inhabitants of this dim underground complex and those who have dared to enter it have either died or have lost their mind. Will you be the exception to the rule?

"...the asteroid hit the Earth in the end anyways, and fxxked everybody up."

"So let's cut this short: An asteroid wiped out civilization as we know it. Some wasteland tramp discovered that the asteroid shards grant possessors unexplained powers; so they founded this cult, calling it the 'Scientific Church of Enlightenment' and this 'Church of Enlightenment' built the Ark and they built a whole city around it. It's gonna be where the restoration of humanity starts, they said. But just look around you; these streets are all empty, not a soul to be seen at all now."

"Sounds worthy of your life to have a look... right?"

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Grant Cardone Automotive Sales Training -

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I will say this entire program has taught me so much and has already made me a better salesman even though I've been in the motorcycle industry 24 years selling product (parts, accessories, service and most recently the bikes themselves). I've only been in Unit Sales for a few years but this has been my best season yet. I look forward to continuing my training."

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- Aaron Zeigler | President | Zeigler Auto Group | Kalamazoo, Michigan

This year our dealership has seen a 50% year over year gain and the Cardone On Demand program is a large part of the growth. By using the training on a daily basis our sales staff as well as management team have become more motivated and confident. I would strongly encourage others in the automotive industry to give the system a tryyour bottom-line will thank you.

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With a team as big as ours we used to have one guy doing things one way and another guy doing things his own way and managers had to adapt. Now guys come to the desk and we get the same information.

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It's awesome hearing salespeople using what they've learned

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- Marco Bernini | General Sales Manager | Luther Toyota Brookdale

In December, we re-launched the program and now require our sales staff to watch 10 segments a week. Our sales have gone up each month consistently since.

- Xander | Sales Manager / Cactus Auto

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- Alisa | Sales Manager / Hellbender Harley Davidson

Our appointment set rate is up 20%

- Jordan | Sales Manager / Kia Country of Savannah

Steve had real motivation issues... was going to be let go. He sits in his car and watches videos before he comes in now he's ready to go! Did 16 deals this month.

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SPIRITUALITY / NEW THOUGHT

Within society there exists a silent war. The battlefield is our everyday lives: our education, our work, our leisure, our emotional and spiritual well-being, and our thinking and perceptions. Our very sense of reality is deliberately engineered to work against conscious evolution and preserve social norms. In short, we are all part of a war of consciousness. And the opportunity is at hand for us to win.

Assessing the ways modern societies limit consciousness and keep humanity obedient and distracted from their inner lives, Kingsley Dennis presents an eye-opening investigation of the way our minds have been programmed to preserve incumbent power structures and their rules. He exposes the tactics employed for thousands of years by the elite to control our minds--misinformation and propaganda, debt systems, consumerism, religious doctrine, scientific authority, economic uncertainties, fear of terrorist attacks and armageddon, distraction through entertainment and technology--as well as the false belief that we are separate from Nature and the Divine. Despite these obstacles, humanity is awakening to cultures imposed limits on perception through an accelerating rise in collective empathy and awareness.

Exploring the biology of consciousness, Dennis reveals the emerging mechanisms for neurogenetic evolution within the brains of gifted individuals, psychics, and visionaries and the coming increases in solar and magnetic energies that will activate them within all of us. Explaining how we can free up mental and emotional energy to break through the barriers inhibiting conscious evolution, he shows that by taking back our minds and changing the way we think, we can restore our connection with Nature and the Divine and lead humanity into a new age of harmony and awareness.

KINGSLEY L. DENNIS, Ph.D., is a sociologist, writer, and cofounder of WorldShift International. The author of New Consciousness for a New World, he spends his time between Andalusia, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

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Daniel Goleman on how meditation can help us flex the different muscles of attention.

One of the important things I learned from writing Focus was the new science of retraining an attentional habit, thereby resculpting the brain. The work of people in contemplative neuroscience where theyre brain imaging people while they do a basic meditation, or a range of meditations, is really impressive.

One of the pieces of research that stuck with me was by Wendy Hasenkamp who is now Research Director at Mind and Life Institute. She looked at the basic move in meditation. It doesnt matter if youre doing a visualization or compassion or mindfulness, the basic movement is this: when your mind wanders off, notice that its wandered, remove it from where its gotten attached, and put it back on your point of focus.

The basic repetition is noticing that your mind has wandered, that youve gone back to the default pattern in attention and bring it back to the chosen new habit of attention. And what the research shows is that there is different circuitry for each of these four points:

Every time you go through that motion, youre flexing the muscle of attention. Those are the basic repetitions in a mental gym. You strengthen that circuitry every time you do that, just like you would with a muscle on an exercise machine at the gym. A meditator or someone doing mindfulness is actually changing the shape and function of their brain. Its neuroplasticity, and I think thats very compelling research. It says that what we experience as something very minorOh! My mind wandered. Im bringing it backactually has profound significance for the very wiring of the brain.

This article was adapted from a video interview with Daniel Goleman and Mindfuls Editor-in-Chief, Barry Boyce. If you want to watch the interview, click here.

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Start by following Friedrich Nietzsche.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche

That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. Friedrich Nietzsche

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. Friedrich Nietzsche

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! Friedrich Nietzsche

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. Friedrich Nietzsche

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. Friedrich Nietzsche

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing. Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no facts, only interpretations. Friedrich Nietzsche

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Friedrich Nietzsche

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. Friedrich Nietzsche

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. Friedrich Nietzsche

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone. Friedrich Nietzsche

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind. Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is the cruelest animal. Friedrich Nietzsche

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man? Friedrich Nietzsche

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. Friedrich Neitzsche

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler. Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is. Friedrich Nietzsche

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night. Nietzsche

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Net Worth:$350 MillionAge:60Born:March 21, 1958Country of Origin:United States of AmericaSource of Wealth:EntrepreneurLast Updated:2018Introduction

Grant Cardone has overcome many obstacles in his journey towards real estate fame. His passion and endurance have lead him towards a large net worth, and a large following of clients. Cardone is proof that you are not bound by your current situation.

As of 2018, Grant Cardones net worth is roughly $350 million.

Grant Cardone was born on March 21, 1958 in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Grant has four siblings, including a twin brother named Gary. Cardone and his father would frequently visit real estate properties as a family outing, and this sparked his interest in real estate. At the age of 15 he began studying the real estate process.

Grant had a relatively normal childhood and graduated from McNeese State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting. Shortly after graduating Grant found himself in drug rehab and jobless. He found himself working in the automotive sales industry and saving money.

At the age of 29 Cardone bought his first property, a single-family home that he rented out. However, that property failed after a few months and he quickly sold it, vowing to never buy a single-family home again.

Five years later he bought his first multifamily complex in San Diego, and a month later he acquired his second multi-family property. By 2012 Cardone Acquisitions had one of Floridas largest private party acquisitions portfolio.

Cardone is now the owner of Cardone Enterprises, Cardone Real Estate Holdings, and the Cardone Group, all of which are multi-million-dollar companies. His sales programs been sold to thousands of companies and he speaks to CEOs, leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs.

In 2011 Cardone gained further popularity with a shortlived show on National Geographic called Turnaround King. In the show he used his skills and techniques to help struggling business owners revive their businesses.

Today, Grant Cardones net worth is roughly $350 million.

Never fear the haters.You cant reach your potential without them. Grant Cardone

Youll never be admired without being criticized first. Grant Cardone

Approach every situation with a whatever-it-takes-mindset. Grant Cardone

Your greatness is limited only by the investments you make in yourself. Grant Cardone

Focus on creating and producing a future, notwhat happened yesterday. Grant Cardone

Show up early.Treat people with respect. Perform at the highest levels. Grant Cardone

I dont go to work to work. I hate that saying! I want you to go to work to prosper. Go to work for freedom. This is what wealthy people do different than anybody else. Wealthy people work for freedom. Theyre not working for comfort items, not for a weekend, theyre working for freedom. Grant Cardone

Commitment isnt measured by doing the things you want to do but doing the things you dont want to do when you dont want to do them. This is how you get FREEDOM sacrifice a few years for a life! Grant Cardone

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Grant Cardones net worth is reflective of his large real estate portfolio and his multiple businesses. His expertise has been used by numerous Fortune 500 companies and will continue to be for decades. His current net worth is $350 million, but will continue to climb.

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This book will give a person the confident to reach the Millionaire status! In this book it is the mindset and the attitude that Grant Cardone imparts to the reader and those who would settle for nothing less than their potential to become rich even super rich!!! It's a recipe to achieve an amazing life!!!

This book is one of the most simple yet profound books about finance I have ever read. I will keep re-reading it until I become a millionaire, thanks so much Grant!

The best part about the booklet is that it gives you every step. It's a process like anything else and it can be broken down into what you should do at any stage of your life. THIS is what I wish I was taught in school.

Best 45 Min read EVER! This is the road map on how to become a millionaire.

If you don't know how to play checkers, what are your chances of winning? If you don't know how to create wealth, what are your chances of having it? This uber easy read is Grant laying out the plan of attack to secure yourself and your family's financial future. This booklet has helped to add to my purpose and give me tools to work with. When you know you can act

My only complaint is that I didnt get this booklet sooner.

It should be in every high school in America.

Perfect sized booklet, doesn't take a lot of time to read and very readable with lots of good content

This booklet is the road to a more prosperous way of living and thinking. Everyone who I've passed it along to has seen tremendous enlightenment and a more productive 24hr day since reading it.

I recommend it whole heartedly. Quick read, life changing booklet full of gold!

This content is seriously under priced. Anyone who is looking for that edge, that advantage, and that strategy to get to the next level in their career, finances, and business... this content is not an option! What are you waiting for? I bought this when I realized the only thing separating me from growing was KNOWLEDGE and that there was no other content in the world that delivered this information. Thanks Grant!

This program will assure you path to success.

Grant breaks down simple steps to becoming a millionaire in todays marketplace!

Thanks G!

Easy read. POWERFUL strategy! This book gave me a track to run on.

If there is one thing to take away from this booklet, is that you can follow this formula, see immediate improvements in your wealth and have a continued battle plan for not only keeping your millionaire mindset right, but also repeat these actions and continue to build your wealth. All of which can be carried in your back pocket.

A must have simple read on the path to becoming a millionaire. Never before has the path been laid out for you to follow and create your future.

A few months ago I was watching, for probably the hundredth time, Alec Baldwin's Glengarry Glen Ross speech and there was a suggested video from your channel. I had never heard of you but found immediate inspiration from your videos. Then I bought the millionaire booklet. I keep it with me and read it over and over.

I've been a millionaire for sometime know but not a hectomillionaire!! Your booklet in my back pocket, on a daily basis, is still my roadmap when I hit roadblocks!

It's amazing how this book has so much gold in it a must get !

I just wanted to compliment you on the millionaire book let. The content is really powerful. I sat down and read the first few pages and ended up reading the whole thing. I'm my a reader at all as well. I high lighted the important sentences and almost high lighted the whole book! Really really inspirational. Hope you wake up and see this to start your day. It's always great to get feed back from clients in my point of view. I love how you talk about your youth. I was in the same boat.

I just finished reading The Millionaire Booklet, and I wanted to reach out and say thank you for the information. I am a 27 year old aspiring entrepreneur that recently graduated Chiropractic College in December, and I look forward to using that knowledge in my future to build the life I have always wanted. I will definitely contact you when I bank my first million.

This is the best $10 you should spend. The content is amazing, drive you directly to the idea and a soon as you get started, you won't stop until you finish. This little book of 42 pages will help you to improve your actual situation and go every single day for more. The little book can help you in a Big way.

Thanks to Grant Cardone for Sell or be Sold and 10X, then this book, I reach one of my dreams. A soon you reach one, you will go for more.

Buy it, read it, live it. At that price, Grant is giving these things away, considering the value inside.

GET YOUR HANDS ON ANYTHING GRANT PUTS OUT THERE! HIS BOOKS ARE AMAZING! HELPED ME PUT A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON MY ENTIRE LIFE. YOU WANT TO SEE MASSIVE ACTION IN ACTION GET GO ON ANY OF HIS SOCIAL MEDIA AND YOU'LL SEE! UNCLE G PUTS AMAZING FREE CONTENT DAILY!! TAKE TIME OUT OF THE EQUATION AND GET STARTED ON BECOMING A MILLIONAIRE!

-BE GREAT!

The Millionaire Booklet gave me huge dose of motivation and great guide to reach my goals. The eight steps presented in this booklet will most certainly help you also to change your mindset, increase your income and reach financial freedom.

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Transhumanism

JUN 23, 2017GARY POTTER

Having fouled Earth with the works of their modern substitute for religion, science and technology, liberals imagine they can build a perfect world in outer space by means of science and technology that are now more advanced than they were in the past, or so it is boasted. It is what NASA has been about since the agencys inception. The effort has been joined in recent years by billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos with space projects of their own financed by them. However, there is a fly in the liberals ointment.

It is that their planned perfect world would be inhabited by imperfect human beings, men and women who are often irrational, some to the degree that they persist in holding to the preposterous notion that a Palestinian peasant two thousand years ago was God, and all of them subject to emotions which can be unruly and lead to messy situations. This, despite liberalism with its belief in the perfectibility of man, having long ago replaced religion as the core around which the life of society is lived.

Some very rich and powerful men, not to speak of scientists and technologists of like mind, think there is now a solution to the problem (as they see it) of human imperfection. It is called transhumanism. Perhaps you have heard of it. The literature of transhumanism is quite extensive. Heavily funded foundations promote it. References to it show up regularly in mass media. Persons under forty are apt to talk about it at social gatherings when they want to appear to have intellectual interests.

Like Christianity ever since the so-called Reformation shattered the unity of the Faith, sectarian differences exist within transhumanism, but all its adherents believe in, work toward, or otherwise support an undertaking of the kind that could only be conceived in a post-Christian age like ours: melding human beings and computers. The idea is to upload artificial intelligence (A.I.) into men so they will become, transhumanists say, more than human. Christians would say it will make them, if successful, less so, but were not going to get into that here.

Not all Christians would say it anyway. Although most transhumanists are atheists, they recognize the Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin as a precursor. To anyone looking for clarity of thought and expression the woolly verbiage of Teilhards writings make them difficult to read, but it is possible to get his drift. It appeals to the kind of Catholics who strive to reconcile truths taught by the Church with science and technology in order to rationalize their dependence on machines to transport them, cool them, make things for them, entertain them, keep them alive in some circumstances, do more and more of their thinking for them.

Being a paleontologist, Teilhard was a great believer in evolution. What he envisioned, decades before the development of the internet and worldwide web, was all machines linked in a network by which, and in which, human minds would merge, all consciousness becoming unified so that it would eventually break through the material framework of Time and Space and arrive at what he called Omega Point the Divine, Christ. Of course at that point human beings would not be as we know them and as they have always existed.

Julian Huxley, the famed British eugenicist, was a close friend of Teilhard, but a non-believer. In a 1951 lecture he presented a secularized version of Teilhard: Such a broad philosophy might perhaps be called, not Humanism, because that has certain unsatisfactory connotations, but Transhumanism. It is the idea of humanity attempting to overcome its limitations and to arrive at fuller fruition

Oh, those irksome limitations! (i.e., irrational beliefs and emotions.)

Many transhumanists see Christian belief in particular as positively threatening. Simon Young, one of their leading thinkers, has written: The greatest threat to humanitys continued evolution is theistic opposition to Superbiology in the name of a belief system based on blind faith in the absence of evidence.

Perhaps the most influential transhumanist thinker is Ray Kurzwell, a director of engineering at Google. A book he wrote in 1999, The Age of Spiritual Machines, is a kind of bible of the movement. The twenty-first century will be different, he said therein. The human species, along with the computerized technology it created, will be able to solve age-old problemsand will be in a position to change the nature of mortality in a postbiological future.

Change the nature of mortality? He means his spiritual machines will live forever, their bodies incorruptible, immune to disease and decay. To acquire knowledge, all theyll have to do is upload it effortlessly to their brains.

Kurzwell calls the point in evolution where this happens Singularity. It is analogous to Teilhards Omega Point.

Some transhumanists, including Kurzwell, talk about resurrecting the dead. Theyll do it, they think, using the DNA we all leave behind. This is where space travel comes back into the picture, though in a way unforeseen by the men who launched NASA: What with the dead being brought back to life and everybody living forever (as spiritual machines), it wont take long before Earth really is overpopulated. Migration to other planets will be necessary.

The billionaire Elon Musk identifies as a transhumanist. Besides developing the Tesla electric automobile, he is best known for Space X, a project for developing reusable rockets with a view to their eventually transporting men and material to Mars for human colonization of the Red Planet. (Since there is no oxygen on Mars, vehicles on the planet will have to be powered by electricity. Hence the Tesla.)

Peter Thiel is another billionaire transhumanist and financial angel to enterprises like Future of Humanity Institute and Singularity University. Although he was given a speakers slot at last years Republican National Convention, he is less well known to the public than Elon Musk. Born in Germany and now a citizen of New Zealand, he was a co-founder of PayPal and early investor in Facebook, is openly gay, a huge fan of Tolkein (he says he has read Lord of the Rings more than ten times), was a member of the Libertarian Party until 2016, and seems to have an unerring instinct for placing himself where power and influence can be had. His membership on the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group shows that. So did his being named to the executive committee of Donald Trumps transition team after Trump won last Novembers election (he had contributed $1.25 million to the Trump presidential campaign). It is known that he is a partner of Jared Kushner in one of the latters investment operations. Oh, he also describes himself as a Christian but acknowledges that his beliefs are not orthodox. His financial contributions to transhumanism are weighted toward life-extension and age-reversal projects. (At one point, pre-PayPal, Thiel was a speech-writer for William Bennett when the former drug czar and U.S. Secretary of Education was marketing himself as a morality guru with books like The Book of Virtues and The Childrens Book of Virtues, but grew tired of the job and quit before the public learned that Bennett was a compulsive gambler who had blown millions of dollars at Las Vegas casinos.)

The defense of civilization requires vigilance, but guarding against treachery from within is hard. Western Christian civilization has been undone by leaders who were really Judases, beginning with the priests, bishops and princes who led millions out of the Church at the time of the Protestant revolt commonly called the Reformation. They were followed by the Revolution which first overthrew Christian government in France in 1789 and has continued to unroll so that it does not now exist anywhere. More recently there were the culture wars, which Christians could never have won, not with the weight of modernity against them.

Why? The Judas factor again. Christianity demands sanctification for entrance into Heaven; and self-denial, self-abnegation, self-discipline are requisite to it. Too many modern Christians, faith and belief run out of them, including belief in Heaven except maybe as a place where everybody will go anyway, have preferred self-aggrandizement instead. What they want is all that will make things easier for self or, better yet, enhance it. What could do that to a greater degree than the promise of immortality, especially immortality without pesky emotions and irrational beliefs to mar its perfection?

The trouble is that only a computer could see such a state of things as perfect.

Footnote: Transhumanists argue among themselves as to whether the right of anyone to stay human, especially for religious reasons, should be respected and protected. If these people ever exercise more power and influence than they already do, the argument will probably prove pointless. When most remaining Christians arent Christian enough to face life without the benefits of modernitys existing appurtenances smartphones, processed foods, automobiles, television, air-conditioning, etc., etc. how many will choose Heaven in whose existence they can believe only by faith over the scientific certainty of life in the here and now forever and ever?

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The year was 1907. The freedom movement in India was gathering momentum. Its leader was detained by the police. The poet Rabindranath Tagore paid him a visit after his acquittal, and wrote the now famous lines:Rabindranath, O Aurobindo, bows to thee! O friend, my countrys friend, O Voice incarnate, free, Of Indias soul! The fiery messenger that with the lamp of God. Hath comeRabindranath, O Aurobindo, bows to thee.

In the year 1928, the leader had now left politics and had gone to Pondicherry, where he plunged himself into the practice of Yoga.

The poet Tagore once again paid him a visit and declared: You have the Word and we are waiting to accept it from you. India will speak through your voice to the world, Hearken to me!

Years ago I saw Aurobindo in the atmosphere of his earlier heroic youth and I sang to him: Aurobindo, accept the salutations from Rabindranath. Today I saw him in a deeper atmosphere of a reticent richness of wisdom and again sang to him in silence: Aurobindo, accept the salutations from Rabindranath!

How does one describe or speak about such a personality? Sri Aurobindo has been called a scholar, a literary critic, a philosopher, a revolutionary, a poet, a yogi and a rishi. He was all these and much more. To have even a glimpse of the true Sri Aurobindo, we have to turn to the Mother: What Sri Aurobindo represents in the world's history is not a teaching, not even a revelation; it is a decisive action direct from the Supreme.

In fact, Sri Aurobindo declared, in no uncertain terms that nobody could write his biography and added: Neither you nor anyone else knows anything at all of my life; it has not been on the surface for men to see.

But he was not altogether averse to this effort and even made corrections when some biographers made the attempt. In the process the veil that hid the divine mystery was lifted a little.

The Collected Works of Sri Aurobindo are available for download on Sri Aurobindo Ashram's website.Each volume can be viewed and downloaded in PDF format.

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Fulfilling Your Dreams

Counseling is often thought of as a form of repair work applied to deal with something wrong. Few people recognize the potential person-centered counseling offers to improve your life, even when your life isnt broken. Whether your goals have to do with your education, your career, your relationships, or your sense of stability and control in your life, counseling can provide both guidance and support.

While counseling can certainly help resolve a range of serious problems in peoples lives, it may serve most effectively as a way of empowering yourself to become the person you dream of. If you feel youre not focused, that you self-sabotage, that youre not reaching out for a bigger, better life; the many forms of personal growth counseling could be just what youre looking for.

Going into counseling to improve your life skills can be a matter of simple training in technique, or it can be a matter of profound self-examination. Which you become involved in will depend on your goals, your personality, and more. Much counseling aimed at personal development goals can be less involved and intensive, because many counselors in this area are focused on practical changes in behavior and self-presentation.

Life coaches come in all forms and styles. Often a blend of career counselor, surrogate mom helping you sort your life into shape, and cheerleader, life coaches focus on finding the bits of your life that arent working quite right, the parts that are, and trying to improve the first while expanding on the second. Life coach counseling is focused primarily on where you want to go in your life. Goals are set, plans laid out, skills worked on. Some degree of self-examination is involved, but in a very goal-oriented, directed sense. Life coaching may ultimately lead you to choose personal growth counseling, as you determine you want or need deeper examination of your own nature.

One of the most common forms of personal growth counseling, career counseling is used by men and women, young and old, those just entering the job market, those looking for career changes, and those simply wanting to advance within their current careers. Career counselors focus on your strengths and weaknesses in the job market, your goals, and the options open to you. Career counseling is seldom the intense self-examination personal growth counseling can be.

Hypnotherapy can be a direct, goal oriented process aimed at dealing directly with minor problems, or it can be a supplemental form of therapy for those involved in more broad-reaching forms of counseling. Underestimating the value of hypnotherapy to support life change and self-realization is a mistake. An equal mistake, however, is to treat the process as a sort of magic wand which allows you to change your life without the examination and conscious exploration true change demands. Under most circumstances, hypnotherapy supports and augments other counseling functions, serving as reinforcement rather than as a fully developed form of counseling in its own right.

Perhaps the most traditional of the growth and development counseling forms, personal growth counseling involves a classic evaluation of your life, your goals, and the tools youve assembled to proceed in life. A good personal growth counselor, while future-oriented and focused on helping promote growth, takes the time to integrate past and present in the service of a better future. This form of counseling is often offered by classic psychiatrists, incorporating the techniques and approaches of life and career counseling into the more exploratory work done in traditional personal counseling.

Whichever approach to growth you choose, finding a capable and effective counselor for you can be a challenge. Try to put together a list of possible counselors, and several different approaches you would consider. Getting a referral from a reliable referral service can help. By making use of referral services you can ensure that potential counselors have been filtered for professionalism at least once before you make contact. Once youve got a good selection to choose from, interview them carefully and choose the one with whom youre most confident.

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