November 12th, 2008 — 12:51pm
The cry for enlightenment and salvation has been heard throughout human history. Yet what good is enlightenment or salvation if they don’t bring about lasting peace, health, and happiness for the whole of humanity? This age requires a Truth that will lead to enlightenment and salvation that can be shared by all, and not be confined by the limitations of religious dogma and national boundaries. Our age demands that we think and take action for ourselves. We can no longer afford to wait for fruitless preaching of mythical wise men.
For thousands of years, humanity has espoused countless truths. However, these truths have remained dormant, underutilized and unexplored for their real world possibilities. Actualization of the truth should be our ultimate goal. For what good is truth if it cannot be communicated to others in order to bring about constructive change in society? Thus far we have been caught up a feel good fantasy about the pursuit of truth, becoming experts in linguistic obfuscation and Monday morning quarterbacking of truth instead of its master. Even if some individuals succeed in achieving a certain level of awareness that can be termed enlightenment, what good is it if it is limited to just that one individual? Should he or she be content to remain in the throes of sanctimonious self-congratulation while the world is falling apart around them? Just as truth is useless if it cannot be communicated, enlightenment is worthless if it cannot be shared with many, many others.
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November 5th, 2008 — 9:45am
With Brain Mastery, you can break free from the unrealized goals of your past. You become a new person with new perspectives and a new ability to harness the creative and reasoning powers of your brain. Free from past fears, prejudices and preconceptions, you can create a new future and do after seventy the things that you wanted to do at thirty-five. Have you read about those men and women in their seventies and beyond who are climbing the Himalayas, winning literary awards, and starting world-changing charities? There’s nothing in them that is not in you. You cannot go back and rewrite chapter one, but you can start now to make a fantastic finale.
Brain Mastering makes maturity what it should be: a prime time of life when you are free of the constraints of work and children and are free to pursue a rich, rewarding existence. So many older adults miss out on this time because they cling to old grudges or let their minds become frail and halting, but that is a fate to which no one need be consigned. Science is showing us that our minds, emotions, and attitudes affect how long and how well we live as much as, or more than, what we eat or how much we exercise. A positive, hopeful, curious mind is a resource for exploring all the wonders that later life has to offer: Want to travel? Go back to school and get your master’s degree? Start a company? Volunteer? Learn to meditate? Do it. When you are master of your brain, you are master of your life.
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November 2nd, 2008 — 4:54am
This story is universal. By opening their minds and seeking beyond themselves, wanderers come to a wider wisdom, a larger view not only of the world but of themselves. They learn to give and to be enlarged by the act of giving. Others may scoff and misunderstand their intentions, but in the end, they are transformed.
This is the essence of your journey. As someone who has lived five, six, seven decades or more, you have probably found that you were expected to adhere to a set of predetermined ideas. But all the while, you have wondered if there was a way you could escape the limitations of your thought habits and become a larger person with greater vision. There is.
A Spiritual Quest
BEST is a spiritual quest—a quest to become a person of greater enlightenment as you make the transition into the mature years of your life. You have plenty of goals: to heal from the traumas of the past, to find peace, to develop a healthier body, and even to discover a new purpose for your life. Brain Mastering is discovering the life you want to live and developing a mental discipline that allows you to turn your brain into a tool to create that life. It is a continual process of improving your brain to become a better human being.
Essayist Sidney Smith said, “Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” Many of us struggle with regrets about the things we have not done in our lives. These regrets become more acute and painful as we age, like a disease that eats away at the peace and serenity of many older people, turning what should be a time of exploration, vitality, and joy into a shadowy country of unfulfilled promises and resentment.
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