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.

SURVIVAL STRATEGY COMPONENTS

1. Believing and committing to the view that "I am okay."
2. Believing and committing to the view that "I am not okay."
3. Installing Energetic Blocks around your heart, your voice, your sexuality, your mental acuity.
4. Splintering-off parts of your Being during trauma and keeping the part of you disconnected so you are never whole again.
5. Using the smallest shred of evidence to make the same Stories over and over to support your Survival Strategy worldview.
6. Create Mind Splits.
7. Create Mind Machines.
8. Creating Major Victim Circumstances to be rescued and/or to get revenge.
9. To escape into Fantasy Worlds.
10. To escape into Confusion.
11. To escape into Delusions (self-generated illusions about what is and what is not).
12. To flood yourself with Voices from external authority figures that judge and criticize you.
13. To try to be Perfect and either imagine that you succeed and are 'The Chosen One', or that you fail and that you are 'The Hopeless One'.
14. To Control everyone and everything around you using Perfectionist ideals which they may or may not subscribe to, but you do, and you are RIGHT.
15. To drop out of society and become a hippie surfer vagabond bum. Make society wrong, or make yourself WRONG in the eyes of society.
16. To join as a follower in any kind of sect (such as a church with a belief system...) to avoid having to take responsibility for your life in the world. 
17. To Contaminate your Adult Ego State with your Child Ego State so you can rule the world around you as a child with neediness and tantrums.
18. To Contaminate your Adult Ego State with your Parent Ego State so you can rule the world around you as a parent, with rules and commands.
19. To Contaminate your Adult Ego State with your Gremlin Ego State so you can rule the world around you with Shadow Principles.
20. To Contaminate your Adult Ego State by making a Contract with some kind of Demon which takes over in stressful situations.
21. To become invisible and powerless so you are not perceived as dangerous and others to not have to attack you.
22. To mix your Emotions and live addicted to emotional states of aggressivity, nostalgia, depression, sentimentality, hysteria, isolation, despair, jealousy, shame, greed, resignation, carelessness, self-pity, self-hatred so people cannot connect with you.
23. To stay addicted to unnecessary risks, investments, gambling, spying, lying, cheating, stealing, fighting in gangs, competing against other businesses in win-lose games.
24. To become 'uglier' or 'more beautiful' than all those around you.
25. To saturate your interactions with sexual energy as a White Widow, Grey Widow, or Black Widow.
26. To become cheerful, bright, and happy all the time so as not to be a burden.
27. To become unpleasable so as to constantly punish anyone who might want to love you or care for you.
28. To be socially or intellectually inferior or superior to all others, regardless of the evidence.
29. To voraciously climb the ladder in any hierarchical organization to gain the maximum power over all the others so as to command them to do your bidding.
30. ...and on and on and on. 

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.

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.

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.

1. Take A Stand for entering a Life Of Learning by entering a Life Of Practice.
2. Become Centered.
3. Become Grounded.
4. Become Bubbled.
5. Become Present.
6. Minimize your NOW.
7. Avoid making Judgements, even about other people's Judgements.
8. Avoid making Conclusions, even about other people's Conclusions.
9. Avoid making Stories, even about other people's Stories.
10. Avoid making Assumptions, even about other people's Assumptions.
11. Avoid making Expectations, even about other people's Expectations.
12. Avoid making Resentments, even about other people's Resentments.
13. Hold Space for something other than Survival.
14. Navigate Space into Extraordinary and Archetypal domains in all parts of your life.
15. Have your Sword Of Clarity to hand.
16. Start entering your Matrix Points in your free account at StartOver.xyz.
17. Upgrade your Thoughtware from Standard Human Intelligence Thoughtware.
18. Learn to Consciously Feel.
19. Participate in a 4-or-8 week online-or-offline Rage Club. Consider also doing Rage Club Spaceholder Training to deliver Rage Club yourself.
20. Create enough Value to quit your corporate job.
21. Make Distinctions.
22. Read all of the Recommended Possibilitator Books, preferably with someone else or better, in a weekly Study Group.
23. Make Boundaries. Say what you want. Say what you don't want. Unleash your Real Voice.
24. Take Radical Responsibility for your life.
25. Avoid Low Drama. Consciously feed your Gremlin with your High Drama requests.
26. Create an official weekly Possibility Team, online or offline.
27. Watch all of the Recommended Possibilitator Videos, preferably in your Possibility Team.
28. Negotiate 5 Body Intimacy Journeys.
29. Relocate your Point Of Origin to archearchy.

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.

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