Your Survival Strategy
You have a Survival Strategy. You are not your Survival Strategy.
Survival is a specific orientation to life where your entire purpose and focus is to simply get by, to make it through.
Surviving takes everything you have to maintain your status quo. It is designed the way so you have no surplus Presence, no abundance of Being or Being With.
This is why surviving is exhausting. At the end of the day - or the end of each moment - there is no surplus.
The objective of many Survival Strategies is to create enough surplus (money, food, fame, love...) that you can finally feel safe enough to relax.
But you must stay in survival so that your Survival Strategy works, and you have no other options for your life, so the safety created by having properties, cars, bank accounts, investment portfolios, lovers, 'friends' in high places, etc. is all superficial, and in the end useless, because your overall objective is still survival. The unconsciously terrifying fear-based inner-world of survival still prevails.
An excellent reason to learn about various types and functionalities of Survival Strategies (that is, if you need a reason...) is to become a more relational human being. Every human being has a Survival Strategy.
Every human being is potentially NOT their Survival Strategy.
To whatever degree a person is still identified with their Survival Strategy and relating to the world and others (including you...) from their Survival Strategy, it pays to bigtime to understand how the various types of Survival Strategies work so that you can work around them and experience some human to human connection.
It does not matter what kind of survival Strategy you use because they all more-or-less work. You have survived.
Human being are astonishingly inventive with the diversity and inconceivable cleverness of the Survival Strategies we create. The only problem with your glorified circus side-show act is that even the most successful Survival Strategy only creates the same outcome as any other: mere survival.
I Observe that parallel to the "looking good" strategy, I also use a "looking bad" strategy.
Looking bad is being upfront about being hooked, having an emotion, being sucked into low drama, etc..
After I state these things, I look good (by looking bad) and very often I am not asked further questions and no action has to occur.
Thus, I set up a space in which I am accepted by the team by manipulating them: They think that I "do my work" while I take care with my Gremlin that they do not catch me, so no transformation occurs.
In case the Team points me out, I have lots of Reasoning and disguise-confetti, and only rarely is their Sword Of Clarity steady and sharp enough (and their Conscious Gremlins big enough) to reach me.
I got into a huge Liquid State, when Devin Gleeson and Benedikt Betz Navigated Space for me and did not put their Swords down. It was intense with all the confetti in the room.
My Gremlin roared and tried all of his strategies. Even now, 3 months after this space, I am still Liquid, and I live with a question Anne-Chloé Destremau asked on the Possibilitator DACH call a few weeks ago: How can I take care that I consciously use my own Gremlin to take my Gremlin apart into a Liquid State?
This is my new Practice. It keeps me quite awake!
You cannot be Present as yourself.
Not being present as yourself cuts you off from connection with others, communication, intimacy, teamwork.
You are restricted to having only one purpose: survival.
Having only the survival purpose means you cannot Take A Stand, you cannot Commit, you cannot Shift Identity, you must dedicate your Gremlin to your own survival and cannot, for example, use your Gremlin to Go Nonlinear or Go Unreasonable.
Having only the survival purpose means you cannot advocate for anything other than your own survival. You cannot be your Archetypal Lineage in action, you cannot serve something greater than yourself.
In the condition where protecting yourself is necessary in order to keep being able to serve your Archetypal Lineage, the situation is temporary. Once you are out of the situation then surviving is put back in its proper place and you can continue to Live Full Out.
THE FLIP OVER FROM SURVIVING TO LIVING
Isn't it strange that questions such as, "What is life about?" "How should I live?" "What is the meaning of life?" "What does it mean to really live?" are understandable and perhaps even considered important?
The questions indicate the state of the questioner.
Without being shown or given any other options besides merely surviving, the 'how to live' questions make sense. "What is life really about?" "Is this all there is?"
The Context of modern culture does not permit further distinctions to be made. But this restriction in that Context does not prevent additional distinctions being made in other Contexts.
This is where the Context of next culture - archearchy - begins to shine. Its Distinctions provide whole new domains of perception, experience, inner navigation, skillfulness, responsibility and awareness.
Leaving behind Survival by shifting into Living does not happen by itself. Yes, you are designed for the transition from Survival to Living to take place, beginning about 18 years of age. But several factors weigh unfairly against you.
First, you are born and raised in a culture that does not prepare you for this great life transition. Schooling only emphasizes intellectual development, and your mind has been distorted out of proportion to such a degree that you may think that you will die if you stop thinking.
Second, authentic Healing and Adulthood Initiatory processes that are formidable enough to cause Transformation have been banished from modern culture some 6000 years ago. Any ideas you may have heard about 'initiation into adulthood' have probably come from indigenous or mass-religion traditions that are not founded in and do not relate to the rapidly changing conditions on Earth at the beginning of the 21st Century.
Third, cultures that welcome and support you becoming a Living Initiated Adult Being are only partially established so far. Small pockets of archearchal 'next cultures' thrive in certain project spaces, consciously-contexted nanonations, and intentional communities. These operate well-below the radar of mainstream news so - due to you being terrorized by big government and corporate media - you assume anything so 'abnormal' must be a dangerous cult or sect. The injunction is that you must be crazy if you are attracted to anything like that.
The net result is that up until now it is very unlikely that you have built much Matrix in your Being so support Living.
The necessity of, and procedures for, Building Matrix are neither understood nor promoted in modern culture.
Matrix is built out of new Distinctions that land in your Being and catch more consciousness.
There is a problem you create by Building Matrix. When you have enough Matrix - you experience 'evolution by reflex'. What this means is that, almost without warning, when you have built the proper quantity and quality of Matrix, your awareness and values suddenly evolve to the next level of complexity, elegance, and sophistication. You can suddenly create things you could never create before. You suddenly understand, connect, and relate in ways you could never understand or relate in before. You can suddenly take responsibility for things you could not take responsibility for before. Your previous world suddenly dissolves as if it did not actually exist, and you find yourself in an entirely new world. Nothing changes but everything is different. If you have not heard of this before it can be violently unsettling. For example, you might assume that you are going insane. (You are not.) Now that you have heard of it, when it occurs, you have your little 'X' on the map that tells you what is actually going on. You are evolving simply because you had enough Matrix for this particular evolution to occur.
Seeds sprout when they are in proper conditions. Caterpillars emerge from their cocoon when they are sufficiently formed. Humans evolve into new orders of awareness when they have build enough Matrix. This is pretty straightforward stuff, the mechanics of Transformation.
The experience is what you might come to recognize as: Radical Adventure. Evolution by reflex is Radical Adventure.
Those people we know who have made the flip over from Surviving to Living report a significant Liquid State in every dimension of themselves and their life. What this means specifically is unique for each person (because each person is unique), but in general this Mega Liquid State seems to have several characteristics in common.
For example:
Phase 2 of Feelings Work.
Phase 2 of Gremlin Work.
Stop waiting around for someone else to cause Transformation in you.
Stop waiting around for someone else to cause Transformation in your circumstances.
Stop waiting around for someone else to cause Transformation in your organization.
STARR - White Widow Strategy
Survival Strategy Experiments
Painful awareness is a catalyst that allows your Being to escape from deep patterns into bigger Presence and Connection.
Consciously Enter Your Brain Split To Make Yourself Psychotic
Consciously Control Others Using The Parent Ego State
Consciously Control Others Using The Child Ego State
Consciously Let Your Gremlin Do Its Hidden Purpose On Others Or Yourself
Consciously Do Bullshit To Distract People From Presence
Consciously Be Adaptive To Not Be A Problem
Consciously Be An Unconscious Asshole
Consciously Give Your Center Away To Not Be A Threat
Consciously Break Your Commitment To Receive Scorn
Consciously Do Not Use Your Disk Of Nothing And Get Offended
Consciously Stay Identified To Defend Your Box
Consciously Stay In Your Illusions
Consciously Feed and Stay In Your Fantasy Worlds
Consciously Get Fiercely Offended About Someone Using What You Created
Consciously Refuse To Change Your Mind
Consciously Avoid Being Present
Consciously Avoid Authenticity
Consciously Stay Filled Up And Fully Occupied
Become a block instead of a Space so there is no room for anything but your ideas, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors where you are. Do not get off it. Be stubborn about it.
Consciously Contaminate Your Adult Ego State With Your Child Ego State To Avoid Responsibility
Consciously Contaminate Your Adult Ego State With Your Parent Ego State (RELIGION) To Avoid Responsibility
Consciously Contaminate Your Adult Ego State With Your Parent Ego State (CORPORATE BRAND FIDELITY) To Avoid Responsibility
Consciously Contaminate Your Adult Ego State With Your Parent Ego State (POLITICAL PARTY BELIEFS) To Avoid Responsibility
Consciously Contaminate Your Adult Ego State With Your Parent Ego State (YOUR PARENT'S RULES AND BELIEFS) To Avoid Responsibility
Consciously Refuse To Learn Anything To Protect Your Status Quo
Consciously Refuse To Practice Anything To Avoid Building Matrix
Consciously Make Only CHILD Offers For Intimacy To Avoid Being Adult In The Present
Consciously Make Only PARENT Offers For Intimacy To Avoid Being Adult In The Present
Consciously Make Only GREMLIN Offers For Intimacy To Avoid Being Adult In The Present
Consciously Make Only GREEN BRAIN Interactions To Feel Safe And Connected
Consciously Make Only RED BRAIN Interactions To Feel Safe And Taking Actions
Consciously Make Only BLUE BRAIN Interactions To Feel Safe And Right
Consciously Make Only YELLOW BRAIN Interactions To Feel Safe In The Unconcerned Big-Picture Overview
Consciously Create Only "I Win, You Lose" Competitive Interactions To Make Yourself SUPERIOR
Consciously Create Only "I Win, You Lose" Competitive Interactions To Make Yourself INFERIOR
Consciously Be The Problem
Consciously Make Someone Else The Problem
Consciously Always Have A Problem Conversation
Consciously Avoid Putting The Poop On The Table
Consciously Avoid Noticing Details To Keep Your Fantasy World Bubble From Being Popped By Reality
Consciously Use "I Know" Torpedoes
Consciously Use "I don't know" Torpedoes
Consciously Fail So The World Sees What Horrible Parents You Had
Consciously Generate Sleep Waves
Consciously Generate Confusion Waves
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