I have come across a wide variety of materials when it comes to self-development, understanding our minds, and figuring out our roles in this Universe. It started for me with the Unlimited Power by Anthony Robbins and now I am studying The Science Of Mind by Ernest Holmes. While I find both extremely useful and powerful, they have very different scopes.
I view the entire field of self-study as a circle – a circle of self-mastery – and Unlimited Power would be on the circumference while The Science Of Mind would be near the centre, if not not the centre itself. Tony Robbins and speakers/authors like him offer phenomenal material and incredible value, but they are working with easy-to-follow personal development strategies. They have wide appeal – hence they are on the circumference of the circle of self-mastery – and are easier to grasp and understand.
Ernest Holmes, on the other hand, is not a celebrity and does not have an enormous following. The Science Of Mind is a challenging book to read and is difficult to understand. It, however, deals with the inner-workings of the Universe and tries to drill as far down as possible into how we, as humans, relate to the Universe at large. Ultimately it explains exactly how, and why, the easy-to-follow personal development strategies work.
The interesting thing here is that it is rather challenging to start at the core and work your way out – it is simply too difficult to understand what the heck the core of the circle of self-mastery is all about. I have had an experience where I heard a speaker (don’t remember his name at this time) and thought that he was off the wall. A couple years later, after learning a considerable amount about the Universe that we live in, I heard him speak again and, this time, he made a lot more sense. So I had to work my way from the outside of the circle of self-mastery towards the core, step by step. That way, I built on materials that I learned previously and understood what I was learning at the time a lot better.
And now that I have explored more material near the core of the circle of self-mastery, it makes the materials closer to the edge much more spectacular and mind-blowing. But I do find that working with the core materials is much more effective and much more rewarding.
I wonder if you have had similar experiences?
Until Monday,
V
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