As with most of the material you will find here, because these posts tend to be quite long, you can find an audio version of this page HERE. If what 2EQ brings to light really is what's going on in life then a very dramatic possibility for both individual and collective change rests easily within our reach, and yet it remains completely hidden. We just didn't know it was there. This is the bizarre combination we will come up against here again and again - the scale and depth of what is being proposed, and just how concealed it was. Really, if you don't look at it and immediately think it is insane and absurd, then you probably didn't really see it yet. But then you look at the core anatomy that defines this potential and realise that it all makes sense, and also happens to explain a great many previously mysterious enigmas. It's not even that complicated, not in outline. It's just that the impacts of having overlooked something so fundamental can be difficult to accommodate at first. We really would need to rethink almost everything we know about human life if this was true. And this is not an exaggeration. It really is an upstream insight that has massive downstream implications both for the individual and for the world. The issue we are left with, then, is how something so epic might have been standing right in front of us all along, and yet somehow remained completely invisible to us. But this is no accident, as you will see. The nature and significance of this transformative potential will obviously be the focus here, and - if it turns out to be correct - it certainly creates a dramatic moral imperative. It crushes things beneath its weight. This is once again something we will bump up against throughout what follows. It can be polarising not only philosophically, but also practically. The path it suggests we take is rather novel, to say the least. But this does not make it the only thing to focus on in life - it just makes it the first thing. The resulting situation is revealed to be a sort of trap, a maze that really only has one exit. And what this does is that it defines that exit as being a necessary precursor to all other sustainable paths we might take. It is the one thing that - if we do it - will mean that everything else will basically work out okay, but that - if we don't - will mean we will forever remain trapped in our current spiral of conflict and struggle. It really is overwhelming in its depth and scope once you are able to truly comprehend all of its broader anatomy, and here we see the challenge associated - it is very difficult to see, at first anyway. You really don't see it at all, and then suddenly you do. It can be a bit like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the final picture will be - there is just a process of gradual assembly, bit by bit, without really knowing what the outcome will be. But then, almost in a flash, the underlying image comes into view in your own mind, even though the puzzle is far from finished. So that will be the task in the first instance, and quite a clear recipe is now emerging in that regard. In which case you will only need to follow the very clear instructions associated. Perhaps a shorty will say this more clearly - Up in the tree, right at the very top, way over to one side, hangs a single golden apple. And I am going to draw you a map here, a map about how to get to it: which branches to climb, which turns to take etc. What does it really mean, this apple? Is it really there at all? You will know for yourself once you get hold of it, that’s sort of what this apple is - the first of many actually. It’s a ‘see it for yourself’ kind of thing. This is a very big part of what we will be doing here, I will not be telling you my story, you will really only be grasping what is shared here insofar as you come to see that it is actually your own story, and that you have to know it for yourself. This one aspect is special, however, because it represents the first moment you truly grasp what is going on here overall. It is the moral crux of the matter, the meaning of it all. And that's what makes it golden. It tells you what’s at stake, where we are going, and what’s going to happen if we don’t get there. But you will never reach this first one unless you actually listen to what I say here, because if you take even one wrong turn then it won’t matter how far you climb after that - you will never reach the apple. And we have had a few really smart people try this now, imagining that they know better, only to end up completely empty handed. There is no apple! They scream from the top. Are you dumb or what? We shout back. You just didn’t listen!!! In particular there is one part you simply cannot skip, and you will find that outlined in the shallow end INVITE document, so that is where you will need to begin. You simply must have this ‘orientation’ chat with me before you go too far up this tree, if you are not going to completely waste your time here. So you can consume all manner of introductions and primers etc, as you will see listed below in various forms, or perhaps see the NEW PRIMERS for the most recent iterations, but sooner or later you will need to heed the warning just offered and take that plunge with me. You would certainly be wasting your time reading any of the big books prior to doing that. They will all just go straight over your head in that case. Nevertheless, you will of course not actually believe this at first, imagining that we are just being dramatic. But no - as I say, we have even tested this on some of the brightest minds on the planet now. And it is completely unequivocal: if you don't get initiated into all of this - directly and in person - then no amount of skill, knowledge, or intellect will save you from the very dire downstream consequences. You simply won't get it, and the results of that will generally be catastrophic. And what this basically means is that if you are not at least prepared to sit down with me for a few hours, to break all of this down - and if you already know this for certain - then you should probably stop right here. Because in that case there is nothing here for you. Go well. But that is not the first thing, there are a couple of branches before you reach that critical fork. You will certainly need to have already made your way through the various introductory materials indicated before we sit down to assemble those parts correctly in our brief conversation. I say ‘brief’ here in relative terms, considering just how massive all of this emerging framework really is. The point, however, is that it really can be captured relatively simply, and that for most people that's all they will need to do. For the rest they can generally just sit back and watch after that. Just to be clear, then - you really don’t need to read any further here if you are okay with the prescription just offered, because it’s all there. That’s all you need to know. So just follow those links, and if you are interested to see more then I will meet you at the gate and walk you in. That way you can join the party without getting lost in the garden, as so many tend to do. But just to be clear, this is not some typical FB online seminar scam that will have you join some fake zoom chat with a whole bunch of other people. I am actually talking with people, just a few people at this stage, one on one, in real life, just to help them over this initial threshold. It’s not scary, but it’s also not fake at all. There is one thing that you will see there that you have definitely never seen before - that being the metaphorical golden apple mentioned above. And yes, it is quite a bombshell. All I will basically be doing there is checking that you have all the ducks lined up correctly, at least all those you have already collected at that point, which will generally be more than enough. It’s not difficult, and can be quite fun, there can even be beer involved! I’m very friendly, just an ordinary person you might bump into in the queue at the supermarket. Nothing strange. But yes, it is a real conversation that will be occurring in a very fake world, and that’s why you will need to have been invited by someone who has already had this brief chat with me, and who I trust. I'm certainly not setting myself up to repeatedly waste 3-4 hours of my life talking to random strangers. So the only question is - do you trust that person? I mean, imagine how embarrassed they would be if they recommended this to you and it turned out to be a terrible experience. But then think about the opposite - the outcome if it was singularly one of the most amazing things you ever did, and if you were very grateful to have been given the opportunity to see what you saw. In any case if you were invited - and you should have been - then whoever did that will already have given you my direct email. Which means you have a dedicated seat here if you want it. There is only one rule in that regard - pass it upwards, always only upwards. And the seats are very limited. So you might feel flattered I guess. 2EQ IN OUTLINE For now, and just in case you are new here, we might start off with just a few outlines of what all of this is even about - 2EQ essentially explains what ‘Spiritual Enlightenment’ is. And not only what it is, but how it works, and even how to ‘achieve’ it - although that probably isn’t quite the right terminology. Even that name isn’t quite right actually, and you might also use any number of other names it has been given over the ages, but none of them will accurately represent the actual potential they are referring to. This is what 2EQ is all about - it not only explains it, but in the process also dramatically redefines it. A very important possibility for dramatic individual change does indeed exist, it really is currently available to all of us as a potential, but it is not at all what we have been led to believe it is. In particular, science is going to own this, but it is obviously going to take a bit of careful manoeuvring in order to break the whole possibility out of all the ‘mystical’ historical misrepresentation it has been mired in for so many millennia. In actuality, the state being referred to in that case is just the summary removal of a pre-existing complex of subversive activity, one that is presently defining a huge amount of human behavior and motivation - not to mention some very dark subjective experience. I say ‘just’ there, but actually when you get to see the full nature and extent of this underlying complex you begin to understand how dramatic this possibility really might be. It turns out that it is not actually ‘spiritual’ at all, but that in many other senses it might be far more significant than we have previously understood. Therefore, the ‘positivity’ being indicated when people refer to this rare and mysterious human potential is actually just the absence of the complex ‘negativity’ 2EQ so clearly defines - that being a singular and integrated body of active and dynamic concealment. But here we see the essence of the dilemma, along with the solution that is gradually emerging - The most significant thing to know about being human is literally a process of active concealment. It is like a secret that we are all keeping, and not only from each other, but also from ourselves. There really is a vast and psychologically submerged event that is basically hiding something, and in the process hiding itself, with the downstream results being a huge amount of mysterious internal conflict and suffering. So we all experience this undercurrent of struggle and pain and confusion, but we just can’t find the origin. It is invisible to us, and not just accidentally. This is its very purpose for existing. Concealment is its nature. Therefore, whenever it is removed (currently very rare) the result is both singular and permanent, if only because that event is singular in nature - a bit like an organism. So when it dies, it is gone - for good. It pops like a balloon. But in just the same way, right up until that point it will firmly resist all efforts to fundamentally affect it. You can push it and squish it, and it will always just bounce back. And for most people this is their life. But then, poke it in just the right way, with just the right tool, and pop. Gone. All the way gone. A balloon is basically a balloon, right up until the moment it is not a balloon anymore. And this is sort of what we will be explaining here, among other things. It’s like that moment at a party when there is a loud bang, and everyone looks around to see the balloon that popped, but nobody can find it, if only because it is no longer a balloon! This explains the mystery. Because the existence of this concealed event is not generally known or understood - either beforehand, or afterwards - there is then no way to explain the newfound liberation. Of course this event is currently somewhat rare, most balloons still survive the party, which is another symptom of not really grasping what is happening. Bearing in mind here that the balloon being used here in this metaphor is an intense and enclosed process of very profound personal suffering and struggle. This sudden and very deep positive shift in state is, therefore, always perceived as being completely mysterious, or perhaps even miraculous. And when people look for what was ‘gained’, in order to ‘find’ what those rare individuals ‘found’, nothing is actually discovered. Which is correct of course, because the only thing that makes sense of all of this is the anatomy of what fell away - which was hidden when it was there, clearly missing once it is gone, and not presently known in any cultural sense. So it remains an enigma, but actually it is merely a lack of critical insight into the true nature of what is really going on. As in so many instances in life, the answer was to be found hidden inside the problem itself - which in this case is not something people can see. And here we see the bind: this very dramatic potential for personal transformation has nothing to do with what is found - it is entirely about what is present in the current state, but which we cannot see, and won’t generally look at, even when it is clearly pointed out. Therefore, the potential 2EQ points to is very dramatic, but the one thing you need to see in order to make sense of that entire picture is also profoundly hidden. It is deeply concealed, both psychologically as well as culturally. Which is a bind because it is only this concealed anatomy that explains how it might be removed - essentially how ‘Spiritual Enlightenment’ works, and also how it might become available to anyone before too long, if even just a few are brave enough to take a look. But yes, that would obviously demand a deep exploration of this body of hidden anatomy, something that has so far been completely impenetrable due to a combination of deep individual aversion and pervasive cultural denial. There is not even any language with which you might begin to discuss such territory in any meaningful way. This is the irony - the solution we have all been looking for also happens to be coincident with the deepest of all cultural taboos. But doesn’t that make a certain kind of sense? Does it sound bad, or does it sound good? This is one of those ‘glass half empty’ or ‘glass half full’ questions, and in just the same way we see people falling into two basic groups here - On the one hand we see a potential for individual and collective change that is basically unprecedented in all of recorded history - literally a very big shift in the basic motivational foundations of the average person. That is what it suggests, and what will become available before long if it is correct. The scale of the potential is not easy to grasp at first, and cannot really be fully appreciated until you see the anatomy of the event that is removed - but let’s just say, it is big. So that is the glass half full - this is a very sudden and previously unnoticed possibility for change that is essentially coming right out of the blue. The vast event that is removed, well - we didn’t even know it was there. So it is a shock, and the glass half full person will immediately be punching the air in celebration. Eureka! Unstoppable deep level global change driven by free access to individual human happiness!!! But this is the other side of the coin here - that is in the long term. In the immediate short term all of this clearly requires becoming aware of something that is essentially a very powerful process of active unawareness. It is basically like taking the bandages off a very deep psychological wound. And here we see the glass half empty aspect - the price of the entire view is to accept that we might first of all be suffering from an issue that is far more serious than we might ever have imagined, and secondly that generally we are currently in the position of knowing nothing at all about that. And the more arrogant or conceited amongst us will not find that particularly flattering. So rather than punching the air, the glass half empty person is a lot more likely to want to punch the person who is explaining all of this to them. You bastard! How dare you ask me to look that hard in the mirror, assume that there is anything important that I might have overlooked, or especially to even imply that there might be something wrong with me!!! And yet, this is simply the price here. You obviously can’t have the cure if you can’t even entertain the idea that you might have the disease. In order to be able to separate these two events - the natural human system from this added complex - we need to first of all construct a basic model of the intrinsic functioning, and then add this subversive complex over the top of that. It is a dynamic picture. The subversive event has many possible forms of expression, and each person will manage the whole thing in a way that is unique to them. And so people can appear on the surface to represent huge variation, when actually the overall structure is basically identical. And once again this is why this brief chat right at the start can be so important - it is because each person is like a rubiks cube that has been jumbled up slightly differently. So it’s always easier if someone sorts it out for you just once, in order to get you started. This ‘functional differentiation’ aspect alone should not be underestimated. The fusion and confusion of these two quite different events ends up being able to explain the complex enigma of typical human behaviour in great detail, thereby resolving thousands of longstanding conundrums and historical debates. So this functional separation is a big deal, not only looking forwards, but also looking back. Clearly, however, the fact that this ‘teasing apart’ also so clearly defines the possibility of simply removing that entire complex is the really important thing here, the really big news, and so that will always remain the primary focus for this reason. What we thought was one giant unconscious process is actually two unconscious processes in a constant and dynamic struggle for power - and one of them, if you know how, can be strategically assassinated. Bad octopus!!! So this tells you what we are doing here - we are pointing to a massive blind spot. And it is not only a blind spot that exists in culture, but also in the individual mind. But in this case the parts of life that are resting inside this blind spot happen to be both the very roots of all our pain and struggle, as well as the source of pretty much all the peace and happiness we have been seeking. Does that make sense? The problem is the answer. It is like a giant splinter that is festering away, and that we all like to cover up and not talk about - but it can also be removed, if only we are prepared to open it up and take a look. Removing it might even be painful (the dark night of the soul etc), but the results are also effortlessly permanent, and boy what a relief! I am not speaking about myself here by the way - I am not a guru. This is far bigger than that. This is not ‘retail enlightenment’, which focuses on the answer, and as a result goes nowhere. A dead end street every time. This is ‘wholesale enlightenment’, which focuses instead on the problem, and that is the part we will be seeking to offer here. This is all 2EQ is really - it is all just to see what might happen if we place that dark and twisted missing part right up front, and in a way that prevents it from immediately being swept under the carpet again. This avoidance is the part we will seek to change here - this is the point of the ‘capture’ we are indicating above. And this is also why this aspect still requires that personal touch - it is because this is literally something you are presently hiding from yourself, and because everyone does this in a slightly different way. But it is not only this most elementary fact that needs to be pulled forward in this way, even more important is what it all means for this to have been so profoundly overlooked. I mean, the fact that there is ‘something’ down there has been well established now, with entire psychological theories such as TMT having proved that pretty clearly already. But what they don’t do - any of them - is provide the detailed anatomy required to either make sense of all the various dynamic components, nor very clearly indicate the origins and singular nature of that complex. Basically, they don’t capture the entire thing in quite enough resolution to be able to first of all place it within the broader framework of natural human functioning and evolution as a distinctly added presence - tending instead to pose it as ‘just a natural aspect of who we are’, and therefore something we just have to live with, something that can only be managed as best we can. And they also don’t manage to capture all the dynamic interplay between all its various forms in high enough resolution, which would not only indicate how it might be overthrown, but also provide direct leverage in that regard. So those pictures are basically so pixelated that they haven’t been able to quite see what it is that they are actually looking at, and as a result they really don’t know how to catch it. It is basically a very slippery octopus, and those historical approaches don’t quite get hold of it fully. But in this instance what we see is a capture that not only makes a lot more sense of it, thereby being able to predict its behaviour with far greater accuracy, but also allowing us to grab hold of it at last, and at the very least to begin to push it around. Indeed, once you do see the entire structure you realise it actually has limbs that you didn’t even suspect were part of this thing, and also that each of its various expressions can quite easily be manipulated using various different approaches. So what might happen if you applied all of these different practical modalities at once, and in a manner that took into account the extremely dynamic nature of that whole complex? BREAKING NEWS This is the real point here, and we should never overlook this critical distinction - Awareness of all this, or even the sudden ability to predict and manage it a lot more effectively, is not the same thing as removing it. Merely having this missing part placed on the table for all to see can be a kind of sudden liberation in a sense, it can certainly change the way you relate to yourself - as well as how you relate to others who also see this core aspect of life - but it does not remove it. That ‘undoing’ part is a far more significant potential that will require a far more significant process of collective development and input over time, if it is ever going to be made reliably accessible to most people. But the main point is how big this potential is, and how hidden it has been, and the way this suddenly places such an epic process of individual and collective change within the reach of just a few really smart and brave individuals. Importantly, and what all those fuzzy scientific views have failed to grasp in high enough resolution, is that this removal is ultimately singular in nature. The transition event is a profound one, clear and unequivocal. You can't miss it, and you can't mistake it for anything else. It is a bombshell, a shockwave, a sudden and radical collapse. Like the demolition of a tower. Conversely, if you do not quite manage to reach this point of summary collapse, then the entire thing will simply rebound again and grow back. And even if you manage to prune it constantly with some kind of mindfulness practice etc it will only interpret this as pruning and grow back even faster the moment you stop. So all such shallow views are essentially futile and miss the only really important point. It can be undone - entirely. Once. And this is also what has led to all such views failing to include, or even notice, quite a bit of evidence for this sort of singular and profound potential in at least a few individuals. They have failed to make the connection, if only because their partial views do not account for such a possibility, so they aren't even looking for such. All they offer, at best, is some kind of wishy-washy surface level manipulation. And this omission is a profound shame, because this fact would be very easy to establish directly based on research - that these people do not have ‘the worm at the core’, as TMT defines it. Completely gone. Not mitigated, not managed, not shrunk, not pruned - GONE. At the other end, then, we have all the ‘spiritualists’ who have encountered this enigmatic potential in some individual, and without any understanding of what it might actually be have just built their entire theoretical foundations around what the person said it ‘feels like’. But in this case, as we have already seen, that is not exactly a reliable source of information. So once again, we have half a view here, the other half of the coconut, so to speak. In any case, this is what both sides of this coconut miss - in one case that this transition even exists, wherein the release of that event might occur in a singular unequivocal manner, but on the other side, where this resulting state is accepted as ‘real but generally unattainable’, that this transition might have precursors. There are causative factors at play. Of course. After all, something changes right? It was ‘stable bad’ and now it is ‘stable good’ and in between a very particular ‘series of things’ occurred. The story is always the same. So what is the crux here? What does this offer that is otherwise missing at present? The whole coconut. It provides a scaffolding that stands to not only explain what this transition event is, but more importantly orient the development of increasingly powerful and targeted interventions that will inevitably make this ‘mysterious’ potential realistic and accessible - and thereby repeatable. And the moment that happens, even once - BOOM! We sometimes use powered flight as a metaphor in this regard - in many ways the possibility was sitting right in front of us all along, but in the end it took a demonstration in order to unlock the entire process of development that has now resulted in global air travel becoming commonplace. And it's possible this will be a bit like that. It will probably go from complete obscurity to being ...well, we don't really know what in this case. We might guess, but only time will tell that story. Something big, and it will probably arrive very, very fast. But once again we need to clarify the distinction here between theory and practice. The Wright Brothers moment being indicated relates only to the much deeper potential 2EQ points toward, that is when that possibility becomes firmly established as not only real, but culturally enabled. At that stage there will be no going back, and the great wave of transformation will have begun. At first, however, all we are talking about is aviation theory. Just the map. It is all about just seeing what is coming, and beginning to prepare accordingly. First the map, then the journey, etc. But for most people just seeing the map - and I mean really seeing it - is a very big deal just in itself. And you will get that right up front here, assuming you have what it takes to actually listen. Anyone who is too full of themselves obviously need not apply. You do not already know this. Believe me, I would definitely not be saying any of this if there was even a remote possibility of that. It is all emerging here for the first time, and once again if you don’t believe that then you simply haven't seen it yet. You have yet to reach this ‘capture’ in that case, so we need to chat. As indicated. Try it, and you will see. This, then, is the true essence of the ‘capture’ we will be checking for when we initially chat. It is not only to be able to recognise this activity within yourself that matters. That is only primary, and in some sense not even necessary in any detail. Just to acknowledge that you are not quite as happy as you could be is enough at the initial stages. Just basic honesty. But the real thing to see is what it all might mean for this missing information to be coming to light for the first time. To not only see that this singular and permanent release is possible, but also to view all of that through the lens of a body of structural anatomy that also stands to make that release directly accessible before long. The scope and nature of the downstream implications are just so vast that nobody naturally reaches for them at first. But when you do finally see it, and really connect with what it means, the result is a kind of shock, to say the least. It really is a world changing insight. So we always know when someone hasn't quite seen it yet - it is because they are still sitting down. This is what can tend to make the moral impetus here so powerful - it is because nobody knows this entire possibility is even there, so nobody is even working on it. So people really need to know! And yet, here is the paradox and the challenge - the very same body of awareness that might liberate us all (if only that can be placed in the hands of the few who have the required abilities and interest) is exactly the same body of awareness that would immediately collapse the entire psychological state of millions of people (if it was forced upon the average person in any broadcast manner). So the question is - how to use this newly emerging flame of insight safely, but somehow also without burning the house down along the way. And the answer to that is quite simple - don’t tell everyone. Only tell the few who might be both able as well as keen to take a look into such a profoundly epic consideration, and perhaps even be willing to explore that together with others who have likewise been inducted into it. Very few will need to know, so that is the obvious solution - just tell very few. This also turns out to be very easy to do in this instance. The whole thing has an almost miraculous ability to avoid public detection. You could place it on a pedestal right in the middle of the market square, with flashing red lights all over it, and still nobody would take any notice. It is beautiful in a sense, just how blind this thing has made people. It will all stay under the radar just naturally, given its nature, which sort of makes it the philosophical version of an ‘invisibility cloak’. So this is why I say - if you have been made aware of this at all, then it will most likely have been by some friend who has already had this chat, and subsequently assessed your capabilities and interests as being even higher than their own. Because nobody else will have seen this. You need to know the secret knock before this door will open, etc. And this is how it needs to be, for now. What comes later will be completely different, but that will be later. Therefore, a necessary boundary must always exist between the world we see today and this very strategic alternative culture. These two types of people always need to be kept apart, and the particular awareness associated must never be foisted on anyone who is not entirely prepared for such, because so many people would simply be crushed by it, rather than empowered. With this in mind, we always need to put up this fence. Nobody should ever be able to say that they entered this isolated cultural space by accident, or that they were not aware of what they were doing. This is why we will sometimes make a bit of fuss right at the outset, as I am doing here. So yes, I'm sure it all sounds a bit overblown and self-important, but actually the events being pointed to are a lot more dramatic than most people immediately grasp. As we say. This active concealment within every individual is how something so dramatic managed to remain hidden, but the epic scale of what it all points toward is also what causes all the trouble. It is all because it is the biggest thing ever on the one hand - but at the same time the single most impossible thing to communicate on the other. And this is where we get stuck. This is the delicate line that 2EQ must tread, and why you can’t simply broadcast all of this out into the world. It is because we really only need to get this into the hands of the few who will be able to take it from theory (which is where it is now) through to practice (which is where it needs to end up). Only at that later practical stage will everything this points to be of any value to the average person, because only at that stage will they be offered what they need in order to simply release this internal bind, but also in a way that does not needlessly inflame it. So until that stage we really need to keep all of this under our hats, so to speak. Mum’s the word, as they used to say. So we are really only aiming at a very particular person in the first instance, and this is important to know. As indicated. This is not a public event. Only a few will need to know - just the right few. And those few will blow the entire thing open for all the rest. So we just need to provide them with all the information required, to make sure they all see what’s at stake, and what it all means, and to then support them to the hilt as they increasingly extract the obvious applications from the theory here over time - or even just explore the territory more, as a group. Just like in the old wild west, we are putting a posse together here, to ride out in search of the menace that has been terrorizing the town. Not everyone is going to come on the ride, but everyone stands to feel the impact in due course, so if everyone can at least support those brave few then that will surely be something. And yet, even those most qualified also seem to have a bit of trouble crossing over this initial hurdle, which is precisely where all of this had remained stuck for so long. It was not always understood just how rarified the intellectual and moral and practical capacities are that combine to make any person truly capable in this emerging arena. And what this resulted in was a kind of dry firing of the gun - where we only ever caught a decoy rather than an actual duck etc. The ‘capture’ indicated above was initially seen as a kind of breakthrough when it first became obvious just how reliably achieved that can be now, but to what end? That ended up being like getting a whole bunch of passengers really excited about flying, but without a plane in sight, and with not a single pilot or engineer amongst them. The result was merely the beginnings of a social movement, and that is simply not what 2EQ is all about. It is far bigger than that, and will only require a few - just the right few - to do the heavy lifting for everyone else. And this is why a far more targeted approach is now being taken, ever since the importance of this ‘quality of audience’ aspect has become so clear. Essentially, it was not obvious in the beginning just how few all of this might take. Nor was it obvious just how toxic the core body of awareness might be to all the rest. So it all started off very broad, and the target audience was considered to be the public at large. And this stance was only natural given the way all of this relates to everyone - it was simply assumed that everyone might want to know. But no, quite the opposite, not only did they not want to know, but for the most part couldn't even grasp what was being said, which led to a great deal of confusion and a kind of literary paralysis as the whole thing confronted a mysterious deafness in all directions. And even when this general deafness was able to be securely overcome in the way we are suggesting here, the result was still not anything particularly fruitful, not unless you just want a whole lot of devotees - but there are no gurus here, as I say. This is science, not religion. Eventually this mistake became clear, and all attempts at providing some kind of public account were halted, with the result at this point being that almost all of the major works associated with 2EQ remain in a largely unfinished state. Writing was not the path, and the public was not the audience. Anyway, the ultimate reason for this logjam in communication was a long term failure to understand just a single overriding fact about the territory that is opening up here, which is what we have been saying here - that very few people will be able to confidently grasp it. For the most part people won't even be able to see it, let alone do anything meaningful about it. Indeed, most will struggle immediately at this depth, and generally just start to drown. But then there are the few who can do both, they can both see it and immediately know what needs to happen next, and for them it all seems to be the complete opposite experience. So we have two completely different types of people here, and you will see me grappling with this realisation in some of the introductory works. It is an interesting situation that requires some rather awkward and uncomfortable boundaries to be established. The fact that so very few might need to see this at first also brought one other downstream mistake to the fore - that seeking to make it accessible to most people in any comfortable form would probably be impossible. And this is why the books have not been finished - the whole idea of making all of this public has now come to be seen as not only unnecessary, but perhaps even detrimental to forward movement. So if they remain a bit difficult for many people, then that is now seen as a good thing. "If you want to reach a large audience, appeal to idiots." -- Arthur Schopenhauer "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe." -- Albert Einstein Just to be clear, then, a very small audience will be fine here. It turns out that there is going to be little point in making most people aware of what 2EQ is pointing at, at least prior to its release to the public in practical form. But the way things have worked out, there has also ended up being a very particular form of the story that needs to be developed and made available to just the right people. And once again this will be a process of in depth exploration with just the right people at just the right level - except this time with a few more people, in a few more chats (probably about ten), and all at a much higher level of depth and detail. You will see this much deeper dive discussed more fully on the ICEBREAKER page, but for the most part participation in that will be very limited. We really are looking for a very particular high flyer at that stage, in order to open up this territory once and for all for everyone at that higher level. None of that will be occurring in public, but if you chat with me at the front end, you will at least have access to these deeper materials as they emerge. That’s part of the deal. Everyone who takes that plunge gets a backstage pass. HARD NUTS But here is the lasting conundrum - In many ways those most qualified for the very dramatic events being defined end up being the hardest nuts to crack. At that level, perhaps due to the scale and gravity of the insight, and how deeply it cuts through existing assumptions, what you get most often is a kind of smug and haughty arrogance that very loudly claims that ‘there couldn't possibly be anything that big that I don’t already know’. For these people that entire prospect is just not conceivable, it is simply out of the question. And yet, here we are. You definitely don’t know this, and this is absolutely certain, if only because it is not just an idea. The whole thing comes packed with very obvious practical imperatives, and so those would already have been extracted if this had emerged anywhere else. You certainly won’t miss them. This is why some people will always avoid the initial ‘orientation’ chat. It is because they already know what’s going to happen there. They just don’t want to face it. They don’t want to look, because they don’t want to see. But all that means is that those people aren't ready, which is totally fine. Each to their own, etc. Nobody is being pushed. It is only an invitation to take a look, if you want. Some people, however, are a little more qualified than that. Some people are ready to look, and when they see, are more than ready to step into the fray. They are basically ready to change the world, all they were waiting for was the chance - thereby embodying a level of stature that not only signifies intellectual development, but also clear practical vision, not to mention moral courage. But it is remarkable how rare this actually is, and no amount of credentials will ever outweigh a personal deficit in this particular sense. In particular, and especially when we start to consider who might actually be qualified, there is a strange phenomenon where high intellectual development tends to erode away moral engagement over time. Which is only natural in a sense, in that with power comes responsibility, and intellect is nothing if it is not power. But so it is that people tend to increasingly put their foot on the moral clutch as their intellectual engine gets more developed, if only to prevent them from taking on the entire weight of the world. And you see this no more clearly than in academia. But what this does result in is a world populated by a lot of really smart people who are incredibly adept at skirting around ethical imperatives, which means that we have the other end of the same stick in relation to the typical person who has reached this point of capture - here we see people who might be eminently qualified, but not even slightly interested. Indeed, they might even be dramatically dis-interested, and not because they don’t really understand it, but precisely because they do. So here we see the challenge. Hedgehogs are easy to capture. But eagles not so much. And at least a few high flyers are going to be required here at first. But you can’t have any impact in the world if you can’t basically take your ideas and plant them in the minds of others, like little seeds, that will then sprout and grow all on their own. Really, how would you capture the imagination of someone who is suffering an ‘imagination block’ in relation to the very thing you are seeking to convey? Welcome to 2EQ! On the other hand, and if you can break through this barrier, the significance of becoming aware of this hidden aspect of life is also very dramatic - as indicated. It might even be the most important thing of all to know, and these might be the most important people to know it. So even though the hardest nuts might be the most difficult to crack, we are bound here to continue to find ways of getting at least a few across this elementary threshold. And once again, the solution to that has already been discovered - albeit a rather uncomfortable one perhaps. To just take a moment to chat about it, right up front - a single long-form conversation, and the earlier the better. It is the one thing we learned here, and which you will see outlined at great length in some of the introductory works, but it is just amazing how many people will imagine they might be immune to this requirement. As if they are above such somehow. Better than the rest of us etc. But actually - and as we just explained - the bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the smartest people of all are the most resistant by far. We have been talking about this recently here, trying to figure out what it is - what it is that people just never grasp about all of this at first, and really won’t get even if they make their way through all of the associated materials on their own. What is the missing leap? And why does that need to be assisted in the manner being suggested here? Why do we need this ‘orientation’ chat? It might not always be necessary in the end, not now that this critical aspect is becoming so clear, and as we do that a few times and work out how to navigate the territory associated in some kind of universally applicable sense. And yes - this is something we are currently working on, I just added an appendix onto the end of Out With The Old for this very purpose, as a toe in the water in that regard. And some kind of ‘orientation book’ might even be the next thing to emerge here. But even in order to develop or refine such works we will first of all need to have this chat many different times, with many different people, at many different levels. So it is possible that all of this will at some point be able to be communicated in a better way, that would be great for me also, believe me. The need for direct personal dialogue will have then been overcome, at least at that initial doorstep moment. And yet, when you do get to finally see the nature of the path ahead, you may not be quite as relieved as you imagine. I will take a small section from that appendix for you here, just to explain what I mean - "The main thing to see is that there are a series of interconnected thresholds associated, like a kind of domino cascade in a sense, which explains how the end state can be so massively epic in nature - but also just how comparatively tiny the first little domino might be, and how - once that one small trigger is pulled - all the rest will immediately begin to unfold. It will basically be unstoppable right from the start. And once again, this is one of the things that come together in that ‘capture’ moment for people. It really is all about this cascading series of events, and where they lead. It is about the small actions in the present, and the big consequences they lead to, as well as just how fast they will go there. Most especially, and in relation to the one very clear path all of this continues to indicate - it is to see very clearly that actually talking, directly and in person, will be the only path forward here. And not only with me of course, that is almost an irrelevance overall, but just in general. I mean, we have been looking at all of this on the vertical axis here, in relation to who might be qualified at different levels etc. But we could just as well examine the whole thing on the horizontal axis, in terms of how the entire process will roll forward over time - all the stages it will move through as it progresses toward that final ignition of the great practical wave that will leave all people everywhere so fundamentally changed. First there will be people listening or reading a few introductory odds and ends, leading ultimately to the ‘orientation’ chat - a process of direct personal dialogue. Then (for a select few) there will be more reading etc, ultimately leading to the ‘icebreaker’ sequence being recorded and made available to the right people, but that recording itself will only ever occur within - a process of direct personal dialogue. Then that ‘icebreaker’, as a primary resource, will seed a wider possibility of collective exploration and interest, that being - a process of direct personal dialogue. From within that isolated cultural hotbed will emerge a few people who will begin tampering with possible applications of various kinds, which will once again mostly be - a process of direct personal dialogue. Eventually, as those practical modalities begin to be deployed or experimented with, we will see the first emergence of something that is not just talk, or the sort of intellectual development associated. At this stage the event will be a culturally embedded process of energetic manipulation and active management pertaining to the achievement of a very specific transition in a target individual. What this will actually look like in any instance will differ greatly depending on the particular person associated, the types of loading they carry, and the skills they already have. But it will basically be a strategic combination of powerful modalities, all working together in a synergistic manner, and with a very particular aim in mind - that being the successful and stable release of the entire subversive agenda we have been indicating, and all via the shortest and most effective and most comfortable path possible. And yet, in the end, it seems inevitable that the kind of support and engagement required by the very intense support system associated with managing this transition for any individual is probably going to be the most intense process of direct personal dialogue of all. Prior to that, and in preparation for such, the target person will clearly have been appropriately primed and oriented by those supporting the intervention, in relation to what to expect - in what can be presumed to be some sort of process of direct personal dialogue. And after all of that has concluded, once they are in their newly found liberated state - and because no specific understanding will have been required prior - the person involved may obviously wish to begin to unpack their newfound freedom and want to understand everything that has occurred, and what it means etc. So they will need to be welcomed immediately by at least some sort of cultural framework that has the ability to help them make sense of all that, which may in some cases mean reading some stuff, but mostly that will once again be - a process of direct personal dialogue. Are you beginning to see a pattern here, or not? It’s going to be: talk - talk - talk - talk - and then there will be something that is not entirely talk but that will probably still involve a fair bit of very intense talk - and then there will be more talk - and talk - and then a bit more talk. Then someone will go home and probably want to talk about 2EQ for the rest of their lives. I'm just saying. For all those lofty intellectuals who are trembling in fear at the thought of just a few hours of chat with me - right at the beginning - you might not actually be as qualified for this as you think! That's only the very small beginning. You simply must be prepared to talk. At every stage. And I mean really talk, with real people, in real life. Actual conversation, and in enough depth to satisfy the requirements associated at each progressive stage - to get to the bottom of it, whatever that takes for you. Or at least to engage with people on a forum etc, in a natural and energetic way. And above all else, this one chat right up front is the most important of all, so as to provide the branches upon which all the other leaves will hang, and without which all you will get is just a big pile of leaves on the ground. A total mess. The statistics leave little room for doubt - 0% via that solo path. Not one. Ever. So if all you are prepared to do is read, then you are intentionally knocking on the door marked closed for business and expecting someone to answer. Let's just say that's none too smart, and that you probably don't qualify for any of this if you do that. Whereas, in the wake of that single long form conversation, the statistics currently stand at 100%. So you can take your pick, but the odds are pretty clear. It's an intelligence test I suppose. To be clear, then, most people will not like all of this. But that’s actually great, in many ways that’s sort of what we are saying. It is not for most people, not at first. The downstream part that will impact all people will only come later, once this small upstream aspect has been cracked open, by just a very rare few. So we should not be wasting our time here bothering with all the rest who don’t quite make the cut in this sense. That would only be to steal energy from those who have actually earned it. So in many ways this up-front aspect is also a test, as I say - like the minimum height requirement for a ride at Disneyland. Many people will stop just short of this chat and go no further, they won’t actually listen, because for them listening is simply not one of the available options. The proverbial ‘full cup’, from the old zen parable, etc. Which is precisely the point. This changes everything, so if you already think you know the answer, then that's going to disqualify you. And the idea here is to trim the audience down a bit right at the outset, after all the very last thing we want here is a tree full of monkeys. I have to assume, however, that if you are reading this then perhaps you are a rare exception! And yet, as Carl Sagan always said, in his own echo of David Hume - “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”. Show me. It's easy enough. So yes, in the end there is actually quite a big menu here, with many different costs associated. There are many stages of the vast event being indicated, and at each stage many levels at which you might engage with it. But this walk up to the lookout together is the only part that isn't currently optional - that’s a bit like checking your harness before you bungee jump. Therefore, we are always going to need to go for a little walk together. We have simply had far too many accidents now to ever skip over that part. But it’s also a nice view, as I say, and safety first etc. So anyway, what will you see up there, at that initial lookout? An entirely new world - and a completely different self. Of course that sounds mad, but once again - that's only because you didn’t take that little journey yet. It’s not exactly difficult to find out, right? Try it first. Then you can say." This was the eventual conclusion we came to in that regard. This is what we learned - there are people out there who are truly ready for this, who will engage with it immediately. It will be what they have waited their entire lives for, and they will recognise it almost instantly. And those people will also have fought hard in order to maintain and develop the characteristics that define them. So it is those people who deserve our time and energy here. Those people only. And if you can’t even bring yourself to jump this one little hurdle right at the gate, then you are definitely not one of them. This is what any degree of casual ambivalence means here - it means you have yet to achieve this ‘capture’ being indicated. Because to see that, and not be moved by it, is simply impossible. So maintaining this high standard will be the main deal here now. Below a certain level there is nothing, and we have proven this many times now. We really don’t need any more evidence for that. But hopefully, and in general, you won't really need to worry about this aspect now, if only because none of this is openly promoted in any broadcast sense. So if you are even reading this then you will probably have been invited, and for that you will already have been deemed some kind of ‘superperson’ by whomever did that. So you really should be able to relax in that regard, and just cruise into it. For the right person, all of this is just too easy. For the right person this is the best thing ever. And as I say, if you were invited you will already have my direct contact details. But if you are very keen and really don’t want to simply pay me for my time, then you can always just email us here and tell us a story, as briefly as possible. What might make you the perfect candidate, etc. You never know your luck. Or you can just jump onto the forum here and demonstrate your aptitude for this sort of territory. If you can lift, you can lift, etc. That will always be noticed. In many ways that’s what this forum is for - nobody directly involved will need it. They are already talking to each other in private, as most friends tend to do. In the meantime there is really only one thing we need to be focused on here, which is to prepare the way for a far bigger event when the applications arrive rather suddenly at some point. With this in mind this website is just kind of a placeholder at this early stage, a blank slate, an empty stage upon which all manner of things might emerge over time. The show has yet to begin, and only you can say what it will become in that regard. Feel free to login and have your say. Until then, and if you would like a peek at what is coming, you might start off with a few of the basic resources available a this point - The Wonky Weeble (the simplest overview of what 2EQ is all about). (free video) The first half of Something Else (the original ‘shallow end’ chat Invite). (free audio) The Snapshot Overview from Something Else (a first attempt to capture the shallow end chat sequence in writing) (free audio) Deep End Epilogue from Something Else (explaining the stages) (free audio) The Easy Book (paid audio) The Hard Book (the ‘Magnum Opus’ of 2EQ - several candidates being discussed, some already published as indicated below) For further orientation about what - and who - this forum is for, you might also see some of the items linked from some of the posts in the Orientation and Resources sections. Several books can also be found here in print copy and eBook formats. But as I say, if you have not already read the INVITE then you will basically be wasting your time with all of that. The books will be like locks with no keys. These books are in most cases also only early unedited manuscripts, and will no doubt be significantly tidied up before long, so if you want to get one in its original raw state then now would be the time. Overall, the purpose of this website is not to broadly promote the paradigm associated - it is simply not that sort of thing. This is not a social movement, it is not a club to belong to, it is not even a philosophy to adopt. There is nothing to believe here. Only a few will need to know all of this in order to make the insights available in practical form to everyone. And yet, those few will indeed need to know, and with that in mind we are doing everything we can here to prepare the way for them. Please be aware, however - and as we have hopefully already indicated here throughout - that some people are always going to find the subject matter more than a little challenging, in which case some sort of negative reaction can be expected. Apart from anything else 2EQ is a very fierce mirror, and some people simply don't like that sort of thing. With all of this in mind, it might eventually be necessary to approve all posts - leaving them in a moderation queue by default. That would be regrettable, but I suppose we will find out before long. We will start by leaving the General Forum open and see how it goes. We remain open to any suggestions. HR PS - no real names please.