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A Four Forces Overview - 2020

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  1. START HERE

    Assessments
  2. Four Forces of Everything Book
  3. WEEK 1 - OVERVIEW & THE STANCE
    Introduction
  4. The Desires
  5. Exercise: What Do You Want?
  6. Exercise: Fear Flipping
  7. Assessment: Why Do You Hold Back?
    1 Topic
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    1 Quiz
  8. The MetaSkills
  9. Ecstatic & Peak States
  10. The Stance
  11. The Stance in Relationships
  12. WEEK 2 - PERCEPTION, CONNECTION & CONSCIOUSNESS
    Connection Assessment
    1 Quiz
  13. A Deep Inquiry Into Connection
    1 Quiz
  14. Connection & Perception
  15. Sameness Points the Way
  16. Perception and Consciousness
  17. The Channels of Perception
  18. 3 Types of Focus
  19. The Subtle Senses & Imagination
  20. Perception Experiments
  21. WEEK 3 - PERSPECTIVE, EXPRESSION & UNIQUENESS
    Expression Assessment
    1 Quiz
  22. Who are you?
  23. A Deep Inquiry into Expression
    1 Quiz
  24. You-ness, Uniqueness
  25. Identity vs. Facets & Parts
  26. Sliding Perspectives
  27. Three Perspectives of Power
  28. Power Exercise
  29. Anger & Vulnerability
  30. Bruce Lee and The Art of Expressing Yourself
  31. Cow Bell & Two Experiments
  32. WEEK 4 - SENSE-MAKING, PURPOSE, SYNERGY
    Purpose Assessment
    1 Quiz
  33. Deep Inquiry into Purpose
  34. Purpose and Roles
  35. Purpose & Order
  36. Intention & Choice
  37. The Meaning Underneath
  38. EXERCISE: Listening Underneath
  39. Belief Buckets
  40. Morphic Fields
  41. Synergy, Fields & The Third Thing
  42. Exercise: Routines, Habits & Rituals
  43. EXTRA MATERIAL: 50 Cognitive Biases
  44. EXTRA MATERIAL: The Conversational Nature of Reality
  45. EXTRA MATERIAL: Boes-Einstein Condensate - A New State of Matter
  46. WEEK 5 - LIFEFORCE, GROWTH, EMERGENCE
    Growth Assessment
    1 Quiz
  47. A Deep Inquiry into Growth
    1 Quiz
  48. Growth & LifeForce
  49. Growth / LifeForce Indicators
  50. "The Force" Explained
  51. Eros is LifeForce
  52. Greed
  53. 3 Aspects of Managing Your LifeForce
  54. Turn Up Your LifeForce
  55. EXERCISES: Feeling Energy (Chi)
  56. EXERCISE: Kundalini "Breath of Fire"
  57. EXERCISE: Wim Hof Breath Exercise
  58. BONUS: Chaos & The Butterfly Effect
  59. BONUS: Living as a Jedi
  60. WEEK 6 - PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
    Common Polarities by Force
  61. Transcending Polarity
  62. EXPERIMENT: Shifting Polarity
  63. EXERCISE: Consciously Working with Polarities with Others
  64. Improvisation - What Wants to Happen
  65. The Infinite Game
  66. Murmuration - Emergent Flow
  67. Qubits & Superposition
  68. SILLINESS: Putting it together - Sesame Street Style
  69. Wrap Up Call
    Last Call - June 2nd

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Greed

The Expression/Growth Axis

We don’t need deep Connection and deep Purpose in order to manifest, make money and get ahead. In fact, our Western culture often puts Connection and Purpose at odds with what we commonly consider success.

When we want what we want and we don’t care what we have to do to get it, we can accumulate power (life force) and use it from a power-over perspective (Expression). We are not part of a greater whole, we have a single focus—our desire. Our Purpose from this perspective becomes Growth, power, and getting what we want. Our relationship to the whole is simply how it can serve our personal desire. Connection becomes your smaller tribe, or how others can help you get what you want, rather than really experiencing others. There is an inability to feel empathy.

Expression/Growth can be a feedback loop that generates greed and reinforces over-expression as narcissism and psychopathy. We accumulate life force (power) through money, charisma, influence, and resources—so we can get more of what we want. As we increase our capacity for life force and power, more of it moves through us and creates more desire. More desire creates more capacity for lifeforce, and it feeds itself. This is great momentum when we are also connected and in relationship with others. However, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely—when that power is only about filling personal desire. Greed is fueled by a large capacity for life force that amplifies desire and our ability to create.

Life force and the ability to impact the world around you, is power and power feels good. It can be intoxicating!!! It also generates more sense of individuality and a sense of separateness because it amplifies Expression.

In the western world it is rewarded. The idea of the survival of the fittest, winner take all, and the iconic image of the wall street tycoon that we have a love hate relationship with. In the 1987 movie, Wall Street we see the glorification of greed, and the hero/villian aspect of being powerful.

Without the deeper question of “Why?” and “What is my relationship to the whole as I do this?” that Purpose brings, it can easily turn into self-perpetuating, never-satisfied greed. The quote by an unknown author states: “Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.” I don’t believe that being rich is the problem, it is simply Growth and Expression without Purpose and Connection.

In the video below it illustrates how “winning” creates a tendency to move towards the over dominance of Expression/Growth, in a feedback loop. It also shows how even a small addition of Connection/Purpose is able to undo the negative impacts.