Many well-fleshed-out bodies of knowledge purport to have made
sense of life, to have solved life, to have figured it
out, to have made it more livable, to have made it bearable, to
have made it palatable. Many purport theirs is the handle
on life. Some may purport theirs is
"The Truth".
We run to them to get their "A-Ha!" insights. We collect
them like merit badges, one then the next. We're serial
disciplinarians,
ever hopeful that they'll provide
the "answers".
So I ask: with what's now available, why try on one more,
the work of
transformation,
when there's already a smorgasbord of
religions,
disciplines,
paths, and schools-of-thought out there to be
interested
in? If you can start your own
religion,
why sign up for another
programthang? Why bother with one more?
Werner
Erhard's
work of transformation
isn't merely one more of those journeys to embark on, to try on, to
take on in order to make life more livable, to make it bearable, to
make it palatable before moving on to the next one. It's not an
undertaking to take on in addition to all the other undertakings you've
taken on in your life. Remarkably, it doesn't promise to make anything
in your life easier to understand. It's not the same kettle of fish as
browsing items on a menu, and then trying them all on until you find
one or more which makes your life more enjoyable. This is a different
order of things entirely. It really is.
Participating in
Werner's magnum
opus
ie
the work of
transformation,
is distinct from participating in any other
program.
In essence, what it does is tease out a new paradigm for being,
a new paradigm that
shifts
what's possible for
all endeavors we undertake to make life more worthwhile.
Even more than that, it's this new paradigm that renders astonishingly
crystal-clear who we're being (ie the context
we live from) in the matter of our participation in all
endeavors we undertake to make life more worthwhile. Indeed we could
say
Werner's work of
transformation
teases out a
contextual
shift
in the way we relate to everything we do in life,
including our efforts to make sense of life, to make it more livable,
to make it bearable, to make it palatable - in a word, it
recontextualizes
(I love that word) the way we aspire to make it all
better (the way a Daddy kisses his baby's owie,
saying "There! All better now ...").
If there was one thing you did which would give you
hands-on access
to who you're unknowingly being (ie the context you're unknowingly
living from) no matter what else you do or
intend
to do, it would
shifteverything, yes? And that would be a flagship
program
worth participating in, a
source
experience worth having. That would be an experience which,
transforming everything you are, will consequently transform everything
you do. It will
rock your world.