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A Stage
A Self-Actualization Program of
Cinemagraphic Proportions
Adapted by
Victoria C. DePaul
From the works of
Thomas Michael Powell
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Take 1 .................................................................................................................................1
Beginning Concepts.........................................................................................................8
Drama ............................................................................................................................20
Exercise: Identify The Changes You Wish to Make Introduction to Psycanics:… ......35
Polarities ........................................................................................................................44
Week 3 ..............................................................................................................................48
Week 4 ..............................................................................................................................79
THINK...........................................................................................................................79
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The Creation of Good and BAD ....................................................................................81
Programs ........................................................................................................................86
Week 5 ..............................................................................................................................93
Exercises ......................................................................................................................103
Week 6 ............................................................................................................................108
Response-ability ..........................................................................................................114
Exercises ......................................................................................................................141
Week 7 ............................................................................................................................147
Week 8 ............................................................................................................................169
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All The World’s A Stage
From
As You Like It
William Shakespeare
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All the World’s A Stage
Yes, all the world’s a stage and you are the Lead Actor in your movie⎯indeed, of your life.
You are the producer, the director and the screenwriter. Take a minute and review your
current movie set⎯ where you are right now. Take a look at the props that are surrounding
you. What are you wearing? What costume have you selected for yourself in this current
scene? Don’t stop there. Consider your supporting actors. Who are they? What role are they
playing in your current drama? Or perhaps your current movie is a comedy? Does it include
juicy love scenes with the occasional side trip to adventure? Is your life a nail-biter with
never-ending drama⎯ or are you thinking about your next bag of popcorn? Perhaps you are
living a mystery, waiting for someone to come along and figure things out for you. Is your
story a Grade B horror flick, with danger lurking around every corner?
Doesn’t matter. Regardless of the genre⎯ it is yours. And that’s the good news.
As director, producer and screenwriter, you are in full control. Regardless of what is currently
playing at your cinema, you can re-write your script at any moment. You are at liberty to
change the direction of your role. You can change your movie set. You may decide that some
supporting actors in your movie are no longer necessary, while you may choose to add others.
As director and screenwriter, you have the final say on how others will
participate in your screen production. So take a moment and really, really
consider your current movie. What changes are you prepared to make to
your script? When you are ready, click the picture below. As you watch
this video, make note of some of the portrayals here and see what thoughts
and emotions are generated. So grab your bag of popcorn and let’s go!
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So what do you think? Did you spot yourself and your current situation in any of these
familiar plot lines? More importantly, did you get any ideas on where to go next? Did you see
any leading roles that you are ready to write into your script?
If so, put the popcorn down. It’s time to get started on your own Oscar winning production⎯
after all, you are the star. This is your production. Welcome to Your World, Your Stage.
Hollywood awaits.
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In order to live your script as your write it, you must understand the universal
truths that govern the nonphysical elements of you (consciousness, will, thought,
principles of your nonphysical universe⎯ you, as spirit⎯ provides you with the
knowledge you need to fully understand YOU⎯The Lead Actor. Armed with this
knowledge you can now eliminate negative emotions and character traits and create
yourself and your screenplay as you desire—essential for success and happiness. You
will prove the validity of these universal truth principles as you explore your current
are energies. All human experience (e.g. thought and feeling) is the impact of
experience—that is, to avoid pain and find happiness so that you can live that happy
ending. As you move through the process of re-writing your script, it is the
nonphysical energies of mind, spirit and emotion that will fuel your desires and
change in your emotions, and therefore in your behavior. You can use this same
energy as fuel for the re-creation of your Self and your life according to your highest
ideal. This ensures that you, the Lead Actor, create a screenplay chock full of
personal power, love, joy and success. Your newfound knowledge and understanding
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of the truth principles of the nonphysical universe and its impact on your nonphysical
energies will facilitate your ability to produce, direct, and write your ideal screenplay
as it:
• Identifies the cause of any negative emotion (anger, fear, grief, guilt, etc)
• Constantly reduces your mental and emotional reactivity until you, the
Lead Actor, are able to remain in serenity no matter what happens around
you.
• Shows you the root cause of addictions (food, tobacco, alcohol, drugs, etc).
This program will provide a specific application for personal growth and
universe equips you with the tools necessary to write a script that presents:
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others. As Lead-Actor, you can only love others to the degree that you
to increase it.
(remember a time when you “fell in love” and check how happy you were).
Here you will fully embrace your starring role and create the joyful ending
• How you will move from WHO YOU ARE now (your current script) to WHO
YOU WANT TO BE (your new screenplay). With deliberation, you will create
yourself as you wish to be, as your highest ideal. Since life is BEÆDOÆHAVE
higher quality of action (DO) that naturally produces better results (HAVE).
(your BE) and your thoughts, which determine your actions and your
results. You will learn how to create your Identities and thoughts so that
you manifest life according to the perfect screenplay that you write and
direct.
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order and designed to give you an experience of Who You Really Are. As you
proceed through this program and increase your knowledge of these nonphysical,
spiritual principles of how life works, you will increase your personal power and your
ability to write your life script according to your desires. The universal laws of life
introduced in this program are not the only universal principles that govern the
nonphysical universe⎯ but they are the most significant for creating an immediate
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POLARITY
Most experiences in life are both physical and nonphysical; they are of two opposing
poles and include a range of variations between the two poles. In the physical realm
some examples are: hot < > cold, up < > down, light < > dark, big < > little, rich < >
poor, strong < > weak. In the nonphysical universe you have positive < > negative,
Good < > Bad, pleasure < > pain, Cause < > Effect, happiness < > unhappiness,
success < > failure, Joy < > Suffering, Love < > Anti-Love.
EXPERIENCE
Everything that you perceive, feel, and live. Life is experience; you have experiences
on many levels. Your mental experience is your thoughts, ideas, dreams and memory.
Your feelings are your experience of your emotional energies. Through your body and
the five senses you experience the physical universe.
ENERGY
Everything that exists is made or formed of energy. This includes solid matter as well
as your thoughts and emotions. Your thoughts and emotions are masses of energy;
they are objects. Because they are objects and have mass you can control them.
Understanding how you control them is what gives you power over your mind and
your emotions. This is where your power in life (and therefore your power to rewrite
your script) comes from. As you rewrite your script your focus will be on your
understanding and control of your nonphysical, human energies.
Your word rules in your nonphysical universe. Example: If you believe that you are
weak, you will BE. The Causal Sequence is this: Your self-created BE of WEAK will
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make you FEEL weak, FEEL bad about yourself for BEing weak. Your mind (THINK)
will work to either compensate or counteract for BEing weak. Your actions (DO) will
become anxious and fearful as you attempt to convince yourself and others that you
are not weak. All of this activity will sabotage your ability to produce your desired
results (HAVE). A negative Identity (BE) always creates a negative Causal Sequence.
Your power to create the results you want in life (your positive HAVE) depend on
creating and living a positive Causal Sequence.
Everything, in both the physical and nonphysical universe, operate according to the
principle of Cause and Effect. In your life, you are either at Cause or you are at Effect.
If you are at Effect, your creations are impacting you and causing your experience,
but you are not aware of (or you are denying) creating them. At Effect you believe and
feel that you are a victim of life with little control over what happens to you. You are
either Cause (Creator) or Effect (Victim) in life.
Life is energy. Like energy attracts like energy. Positive energy attracts positive
energy. Positive results are the manifestation of positive energy. You decide whether
you vibrate with positive energy or negative energy. Your vibration, your Energy, your
BE, is your communication tool to the universal Life Energy. More than likely you
are familiar with the “Law of Attraction” ~ your thoughts create your reality. Your
results in life flow directly from your thoughts; however you must fully understand
where your thoughts come from. Your thoughts are made of your THINK which
include your programs, paradigms, should and should not bes, beliefs, and ideas.
Manifestation is more than your thoughts; manifestation is the outcome of who you
BE. Instead of using the Law of Attraction to create your life script, you will use the
truth principle of Magnetism the foundation of the Law of Attraction.
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SPACE
As a verb, the ability to allow others and events to BE as they are and to BE as they
are not. SPace is the absence of energy, particularly negative energy; free of the
judgment of right < > wrong or Good < > Bad. SPace is the ability to understand⎯ it
is, what it is, as it is.
The External Quest is the search for happiness outside of self. The External Quest
consists of an enormous range of negative behaviors including addictions,
attachments, conflicts, egoism and the neurotic compulsion to seek success, fame,
fortune, position, power, relationships, and the hoarding of material things. The
External Quest is a great illusion. Nothing external will ever bring you happiness. The
best you can hope for is a Moment of Pleasure. Happiness can only be found by
returning to ESSENCE and that, the Kingdom of Heaven, is within.
Our own happiness is the ultimate motivation of ALL human effort and behavior.
Everybody always acts for what they consider is the path of most happiness for them.
There are no exceptions to this law. The law does not say that we do always brings
happiness as our actions often backfire, only that happiness was our subconscious
motivator. What you seek in life is your Happiness. Every action, thought and
behavior has happiness as its ultimate outcome. What is essential for you to achieve
happiness is an understanding of the Laws of Happiness, summarized below:
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the path of most happiness for them. There are no exceptions to this law.
This doesn’t mean that what people do will always bring happiness (our
actions often backfire), only that happiness is the subconscious
motivator. What we all seek in life is Happiness. We always act for our
own happiness as we perceive it at that moment. (Consider self-sacrifice
and altruism. How does this new information influence your previous
understanding?)
3. Events are never the cause of your emotions, and therefore are
never the cause of your happiness or pain. Two people often feel
oppositely about the same event. If the event were the cause, it would
cause the same experience in all the people every time. Nothing could be
farther from the truth about human experience: it varies immensely for
any given event. The cause of such variation must be in that which varies,
the people, and not in that which does not vary, the event. Most people
never see through the illusion that events cause their emotions and so
waste their lives trying to achieve happiness by controlling external
events (including other people). For this reason, most human beings
never achieve any significant increase in the level of happiness
throughout their life.
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Your emotions are your love or anti-love for Self according to the Essence
IDentity that you activate in relation to the events. Your emotions, the
only Happiness or Pain that exist in life, are generated around the
Identities, not the events. You can not control many events of your life;
you can not control your emotions; your point of power in life where you
have perfect control is your Identities.
6. You can love others ONLY to the extent that you love yourSelf.
Your relationships will work naturally and effortlessly to the degree that
you control yourSelf, your Identities; and will be stormy to the extent that
you do not love yourSelf.
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THE MOVIES
So how does an evening at the movies sound to you? Just about everybody likes movies and
will occasionally take time out of their real-world experience to enjoy a good (or not-so good)
screenplay.
It’s simple: they are experience, albeit vicarious. Experience is the purpose of existence and
what we all seek. Experience is life and the more experience that you have, the more life you
live. Movies are a way to experience more than we can live personally. They are a way to
experience events and adventures not otherwise available to us. They are a way to crowd
more life into our lives. Some even tell the stories of the complete lives of others, at least in
the important details.
Keep in mind that the movies that you view at the Cinema have a limitation as experience.
They are not totally real as they lack actual physical experience⎯ specifically your physical
experience. You do not really go to those places nor do you perform those specific actions.
While at the Cinema, your physical experience remains that of a seat in the theater or on the
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sofa in front of your plasma TV. In most cases, you will not reach the intensity of emotion by
just watching the actors as you would were you actually living that experience.
The lack of physical experience is not always a disadvantage; movies are a way to experience
dangerous activities without the danger. And by not having to actually do the thing
physically, we save a lot of time – time for more movies, no doubt. Furthermore, physical
experience is not the most important element of your ‘movie’, as you will learn.
Computer technology has already created “virtual reality”: three dimensional worlds for
computers games and training simulators of all kinds (e.g. flight training). Virtual reality
gives you the experience of actually being in and moving about inside a three dimensional
universe. (A good example is Mission: SPACE, a motion simulator ride at Disneyworld in
Florida.1)
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I was visiting the theme park shortly after this ride premiered. At that time only the intense version was
available for park goers. If you have ever wondered if black persons can turn green let me remove all doubt. For
two hours after the ride concluded, I lay flat on the ground, mumbling, “Get me an attorney”. After my
equilibrium returned, I no longer had a need for legal counsel. Years later, recollection of the event still causes
light headedness. Way too much experience for this author.
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How about total, absolute reality? How would it be if you could go to a theater where the
movies are solid, four dimensional reality? How would you like a theater in which you did not
just sit back and watch the actors, the hero and heroine, but actually became them? How
would it be to really do and think and feel, fully live in real space-time, everything that the
protagonists in your favorite movies do?
If you have seen the “The Never Ending Story” you know that it tells the story of a boy who
finds an attic and starts to read a book about a fantasy world, full of strange creatures. The
fantasy world is in danger of disintegration if someone does not save it. Reading the book, he
merges into the story to find himself in that fantasy world, now as solid and real as the world
he emerged from. He becomes the hero that saves the fantasy world.
How would it be to be able to go to a theater like that, merge into the movie and actually
live everything in solid reality? And then, no matter what happens, even if you get killed in
the movie, come back out to your “real” life?
Well, look around you. You are in such a movie. You call it, “My Life”. Your life is a movie
set where you come to act and live out four dimensional, solid-matter-level- reality movies.
As the Lead Actor of “My Life”, you act out the full polarity spectrum of experience from
positive to negative. Life is a combination game field, amusement park and movie set where
spirits come to experience whatever they would like to experience.
And what do spirits like to experience? Anything and everything. Just observe the differing
tastes in stories and books: there exists every kind of book and novel that you can imagine:
romance, horror, adventure, mystery, detective, political, gothic, war, business, historical,
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fantasy, fairy tales, or educational. There is no limit to the variation or individual taste in
literature, film or stage.
The nonphysical, spiritual you craves experience. The here and now of your life is a movie set
equipped for all kinds of experience not available in the spirit realms. Experience is the
purpose of existence. Earth is a movie set for spirits. It is also a game field⎯ for the game of
life. It is an amusement park with all kinds of rides, natural such as mountains and oceans,
and man-made such as cars and trains, planes and parachutes, boats and submarines. And then
there are even amusement parks within this amusement park such as Disneyworld or Six
Flags.
The purpose of existence is experience. The purpose of your life is to immerse yourself in
situations of all kinds, physical and nonphysical, and to explore the totality of experiences that
result. Physical experience of itself is great, but it is of secondary importance. Its primary
purpose is to stimulate nonphysical, spiritual experience: joy, beauty, fear, hope, satisfaction,
horror, etc. Recall the formula of life, the Causal Sequence of:
Life succeeds to the degree that it makes you THINK and FEEL; it offers you opportunities
to expand your Creator Essence, your Actions, which in turn, create your Results.
Many will argue that there is no way that they would choose a life full of difficulty, sadness,
failure, or suffering. But just as we are fascinated by movies of villainy or terror, and news
reports of disasters and evil; so too are we, as spirits, fascinated by the entire spectrum of
possible experiences, including the negative ones. There are multiple factors that affect this:
1. Polarity: Experience is polar. You cannot know and appreciate positive, “good”
experiences without also knowing negative, “bad”, experiences. Existence is the
exploration of all possibilities of experience.
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2. Spiritually, there is no “good” or “bad”; there is only experience. Good and Bad are
just labels created by the mind.
3. Experience is your greatest opportunity for growth. These opportunities are possible
because of obstacles. Deep inside, spiritually, you want big challenges, big obstacles,
big problems, to cut your spiritual teeth on.
4. Spiritually, you come from realms of light and love. You enter onto the stage of life
for the vast opportunities for experience that await you.
You are the Creator, the Lead Actor, of your life. You have written the script for your life and
you are now living it out. It is time that you explore your power and ability to change and
rewrite your script. Meanwhile, a good start is to stop resisting your current experience (life).
What has shown up is what you, as screen writer, have devised. You chose it for your own
good reasons at the time, no matter how it looks now. Furthermore⎯ Resistance causes Pain
and Persistence, an important point that will be explored later in greater detail.
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And remember the really good news: You are not only the actor and the hero⎯ you are also
the writer, the director, and the producer. You have caused all that you have experienced so
far whether you accept that responsibility or not. The game here is to learn how you cause it
so you can take control of the process and take center stage. To start writing better movies
with outcomes that you enjoy you must understand the following:
The cause of your emotional energies: what triggers both your positive and negative
emotions.
How to control your emotions: how to live eliminating the negative emotions and
increasing the positive ones.
How to re-write your script and eliminate Unhappiness, Pain & Suffering from your
life.
The true nature of self-esteem: how to eliminate your negative self-image and self-
esteem and re-write your scenes, fully re-claiming your Oscar-winning performances
as Lead Actor.
How to grow in the experience of Love for Self and for Others.
The true nature of Happiness: what it is, where it is, and how to weave in into your
screenplay.
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How to free yourself of the External Quest for Happiness and Success by continually
playing the supporting role in someone else’s drama, instead of claiming your star
status in your own screenplay.
And most importantly ~ How you can incorporate all of these so you can write your
screenplay with the outcomes you desire.
POWER:
This program is POWERful. That means it gives you, Power over life, a tremendous amount
of power. This program will show how you, as Lead Actor, screenwriter, director and
producer, create your life movie. Once you understand the dynamics of how you write your
life script, you will have the power to create a new Academy award-winning screenplay with
scenes where you show how, as Lead Actor you have learned to:
♦ Avoid most pain in life, and to quickly discreate that which you can not avoid.
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♦ Free yourself of any compulsion to try to control others or the world to be happy.
However, your decision to take the lead in your movie⎯ and therefore claim your
power⎯ comes at a price. That price is your attention and dedication to study, learn, and
reflect. The price to ‘write’ your life script to fully become the Lead Actor of your screenplay
is your commitment to ‘get real’ with yourself. The price is your willingness, readiness and
ability to confront you⎯ all of you. You must be willing to decide which supporting actors no
longer support your screenplay and how you will rewrite their roles. You will not get this
level of power out of this program just by reading these materials. You must understand how
life works, how you write your dramas and then take responsibility for your life scenes. The
next step is to apply these concepts directly to your circumstances and re-write your script.
You are a sophisticated, spiritual, and complicated life entity,—much more so than any
drama that someone else has written for you. Therefore, you should not expect any program
that proposes to show you how to reclaim the lead in your own screenplay to be overly
simple; the truth is that it will require some effort on your part to absorb the new concepts you
will learn and their application. Understand this— you are not going to achieve much power
over your life script (and therefore your life) with platitudes, a positive attitude or
affirmations. Real power over life requires real knowledge, and that requires real effort— first
to understand it, and then to apply it. The support tools available to you in this program are:
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• Religious means “related to a registered brand of dogmas, doctrines, and rituals about
God”.
These words, spiritual and religious, are confused as the same by most people. However, this
is not the case: they are not the same. Not only are they not the same, but are sometimes
opposites. Something can be very spiritual and not at all religious, e.g. meditation and
mysticism; or very religious and not at all spiritual, e.g. inquisitions, crusades, jihads and
other “holy” wars. This program is highly spirit-ual in that it deals with you as a spirit and
how you function spirit-ually. You may very well include religion and religious concepts in
your life script. Just understand the difference. For now, understand that you are a
nonphysical, Life-Energy entity spirit; you are as a unit of the ONE, infinite Energy,
operating within the Creation, in this moment, in a physical body.
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DRAMA
Is your life full of drama? What do the words “drama” and “dramatic” mean? Take a
couple of minutes and watch this film, paying careful attention to the dialogue:
(To View Film, while depressing the CTLR button, Mouse Click.)
Too much drama? For far too many people, the scenes that they have written into
their script contain more drama than they care to experience⎯particularly negative
experience. To further define drama:
Drama is a highly emotional situation, full of tension and suspense, where the final
outcome is in doubt and where the next turn of events is often surprising, but always
challenging. The opposite polarity of dramatic is boring. Some people believe that
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“drama” refers only to situations with negative outcomes, for example, tragedies. This
is not always so: any situation or event can be dramatic including positive outcomes.
For example, how dramatic would your life be if you won tonight’s multi-million
dollar lottery?
Throughout history, all the best stories⎯ whether tales, books, movies or history
itself⎯ are dramatic. Dramatic is almost a synonym for “highly interesting”.
Most people will answer that question, “Yes, my life has been dramatic.” Those that
say no, usually say that their lives are boring. However, even boredom can be
dramatic if you make a soap opera out of it. Spirits love experience and drama is the
maximum, the richest, the juiciest experience possible. Where does drama come
from? What makes something dramatic; what causes or creates drama?
Drama comes from pushing the polar envelope, from exploring polarities to their
limits. Drama springs into existence when you go far into the negative before moving
to a high positive – or you stay in maximum negative in spite of your best efforts to go
to positive (tragedy). Drama is maximum uncertainty, maximum suspense about the
outcome, about reaching the goal, about winning. It exists when you are challenged to
your limits⎯ when you experience maximum doubt about your ability to achieve
your goal. It comes as a result of facing big obstacles⎯ obstacles at the limit of your
powers to overcome. Goal and obstacles are the stuff that drama is made of!
Think of any dramatic movie that you have seen and observe that the hero faced a big
problem or threat (the negative pole) that pushed him or her to the limits⎯ only to
finally conquer the obstacle and win (the positive pole), usually at the last moment.
Drama is the struggle against a big obstacle that seems insurmountable. Drama is
struggle with negative situations before ultimately overcoming it and reaching a
positive situation.
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If you want a tragic drama, then either you never get out of the negative or you fall
back into it at the end. In the tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, for example, the
protagonists first overcome great obstacles⎯the family feud (negative); to find great
love (positive)⎯only to lose it at the end and die (negative). Shakespeare takes his
characters up and down polarities scales – and you with them.
Notice what makes a dramatic sports match: a very close game where the outcome is
in doubt until the last moment. In such a match, each team must employ its
maximum effort against an equal or better adversary. Win or lose, this type of game is
much more dramatic and enjoyable than a game where one team just walks over the
other to victory – even if that team is your favorite. The most dramatic of all games
occur when the underdog beats a top-ranked team after a superb struggle – and at the
last moment.
The determining element of drama is the emotional experience. This too is a polar
exploration of the emotional spectrum. When winning appears doubtful, almost
impossible, we get maximum negative emotion: frustration, anger, desperation,
uncertainty, fear, etc. The negative emotions set the stage for the appreciation of the
positive emotions that accompany victory. You can only savor the victory to the
degree that you were tested to your limits with all the intense negative emotions
involved. This is polarity in operation; this is drama.
Polarities are essential to Drama: You can savor victory only to the extent
that you almost failed.
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evil, horror or failure (notice the drama). But where is the drama, the “juice”, in an
easy life with few problems or challenges, always getting what you want? The truth is
we spirits come here for experience and one of the juiciest forms of experience is
drama.
You are here as the Lead Actor, screen writer and director of your screenplay to
experience all that you can. Life is experience; the purpose of life is experience. There
is nothing else.
Which way you define drama affects how your write your script, and
therefore how your life manifests. If you define the struggle as dramatic, you
get a lot of struggle. If you define getting what you want as dramatic, you get
a lot of what you want. This is why some people’s lives appear to be
magical⎯ they have written their script so they win easily and often.
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SUMMARY:
The prime experience of Drama is emotional. All emotion is how you feel about
yourself according to the Identity that you have activated at the moment. Drama
occurs as you struggle to maintain your Power against the obstacle (counter-Power).
This activates your Power Identities (I CAN and I CANNOT); and your Value
Identities (I AM GOOD and WORTHY; I AM BAD (a failure) and UNWORTHY.
These identities are the source of your emotions and therefore the Drama in your life.
(More on Identities later.)
So when you find yourself up to your eyebrows in drama, try to remember not to take
it so seriously. You must write drama into your script. Your ability to write and
experience positive outcomes depends on your ability to understand the universal
Truth Principles of Life. Without this knowledge your script is a never-ending soap
opera with actors, scenes and meaningless props that lead nowhere.
Your Life is a movie; you are the screenwriter, Lead Actor, director and producer.
You decide if you will play the lead (Creator) or if you will relinquish the leading role
to someone else (Victim). You write the scenes. You decide what supporting roles are
necessary and who will fill those roles. You decide what props are necessary and what
resources you will use to support your script. Your human life is to your real, spiritual
existence what a movie is to your human life. To paraphrase Shakespeare: All the
universe is a stage, and upon it, each spirit plays in many movies. We are all playing
in our own movie, while simultaneously playing supporting roles in the movies of
others.
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Everything in your life falls into one of these six areas or arenas. Your life is
your experience in these six areas. In this exercise, you will look at each area to
identify the negative things you wish to eliminate from your screenplay, and to
envision the positive things you wish to create. If you take a closer look at your life
you will find that you waste much of your energy resisting, struggling, fighting
against, what you BE FEEL THINK RELATE DO or HAVE in the present that you
don't want, against the negative things in your life. Negative energy actually energizes
and strengthens what you are resisting, activating the universal law,
As you begin to rewrite your script you must begin your with an image of
what you want, of where you want to go. You must have a vision of the
positive things, of the BE FEEL THINK RELATE DO and HAVEs that you
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wish to experience. The most powerful action you can take to reclaim your
through them. In this way you will increase your own personal power and
This increase in personal power will fuel your Creator spirit, moving you
forward in all areas of your life. As you grow in your personal experience of
WISDOM, POWER, and VALUE, you may find that not everyone wants to
grow with you. These are the supporting roles that you will either re-write,
passions according to your script, a shift to a new way of life will more
often than not, change the way you perceive others and how they perceive
you.
Regardless of the changes required as you re-write your script, begin with
the knowledge that if you are to achieve success you must first establish a
vision. Without a vision, neither you, your family, your business, your
community—will have any idea of how to play their assigned roles. A clear
you to outline each characters development and story⎯ how you will
produce your screenplay: who will play what roles, how scenes will unfold,
and what props you will need to complete your motion picture.
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A fully developed script can pinpoint which roles need to be further
defined and expanded. Visions allow you to identify possible blocks and
Remember⎯ we are all the Lead Actor in our own screenplay. As parent,
remember that they are also Lead Actors in their own production. At the
same time that you are the Lead Actor in your screenplay, you play a
Everyone is living their script; those with a vision have a head start with
role as Lead Actor), identify people who can help you (develop
supporting roles and cast actors), find the resources that are available to
you (identify necessary props and scenery), or focus your time and energy
so you know how to live on purpose (develop your plot). Without a vision
Visions are mental images of something that you wish to create, manifest,
or achieve. You create your life twice: first in the nonphysical universe of
spirit, mind and emotion, and then in the physical universe. The first is the
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People are creative; you are Creative. You are the Creator, the Lead
vision of what you wish to create. To manifest a vision all you have to do is
negative emotion, you are energizing and therefore creating and attracting
what you don’t want. This is how the creative process works.
Consider your own life—what percentage of your time and energy is spent
positive or negative polarity. When you don’t understand how the creation
process works you will live life in the supporting role of someone else’s
script, wondering why you have so much less of what you do want and a lot
the creative process works⎯ and how to use it to create your script. In
order to achieve power in life you must understand how to control your
emotions, how to control energy, and how to control the contents of your
nonphysical, spiritual Universe. When you live the life that you want, your
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screenplay will include scenes of enthusiasm, desire, passion, and joy.
Through the operation of the Causal Sequence, your visions have power.
They have the power to motivate and move you to action, they have the
power to direct the universe and move the events (scenes), people
(supporting actors), and resources (props) into your life (screenplay) that
you need to manifest your visions. The universe is alive and responds to
the passion, THE LIFE ESSENCE energies of your visions. Your visions are
your communications to the universe of what you will create. Your vision
communicates to the universe what to manifest around you. The end result
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Always remember that your vision is powered by the first element of the Causal Sequence, your
BE.
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(To View Film, while depressing the CTLR button, Mouse Click.)
Now stop and consider this: Where are you going in life? Do you have a
clear, precise, specific vision for your life? Who is directing your
screenplay? To find out we will begin here. This week’s exercises will assist
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In each of the six areas, identify the negative things that you would like to
change or eliminate. Write these down on the negative side, the left side,
of the forms on the next pages. Then imagine, envision, what you would
like to experience in that area. Describe how you would like that area, or
specific things in that area, to appear in your script. Write these down on
The list does not have to be exhaustive at this time; and you can add to it
at any time. In fact, just three important things in each area are adequate
to start. By the end of this program you will be well on your way
You will have acquired power over your BEing and your life, over the six
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The next page uses a table format to help you with this exercise. The first
page/table has questions to help you identify your items. The following
pages are blank tables where you can note your items. The pages following
The purpose is that you can envision your life, as a first step in re-writing
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These questions can help you identify the negatives and envision the
positives.
What and Who am I now that I no What and Who do I wish to BE?
longer wish to BE?
Write down any noun or adjective
BEing:
When you say: “I am… ”, what are that describes who or what you
you? (that you don't like BEing?) want to BE.
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What are my negative thought What positive thoughts would I
patterns that I wish to eliminate? like to be entertaining?
THINK What does my negative self- What positive self-esteem would I
esteem feel like? How can I like?
describe it?
Illnesses?
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Some necessary concepts to aid in your understanding of these Universal
Principles:
POLARITIES:
experience between the two poles—for example between hot and cold
there is the range of all temperatures possible. Both poles are essential for
without having known, at least once, its opposite. It is not possible to have
or even to understand the concept of hot without cold, light without dark,
there is only one temperature and you will see that the concept of
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temperature could not even exist. Imagine a universe in which there is
only one color: the concept of color, much less the experience of color
could not exist. Try writing a screenplay where these elements do not exist.
Your emotions, like all energy, are a polarity; they have spectrum
with a negative scale and positive scale. The positive emotions are
pleasurable, they are happiness. The negative emotions are pain and
you must have experienced the negative emotions at least once – but only
most people do. As you proceed over the next few weeks you will learn
how to apply CDT to eliminate negative emotions from your life, both at
comes from knowing that you, as Lead Actor, can handle any negative
emotional state. If you are like most people, your life is a variety of scenes
where you experience everything from depression to divine bliss and all
sorrow and grief. Sometimes you aren’t sure if you are living your version
What you will learn—and wherein lies your strength and security—is that
you can end any negative experience quickly. Yes, life is about drama⎯and
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you need plenty of it for growth and experience. It just isn’t necessary to
your life, are Polarities. When the concept of Polarity is important to the
term being discussed, the symbols of +/- will be added before or after the
word. Examples:
The term "Anti" may be used to express the negative polarity, for
examples:
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Life is experience. Your screenplay is the manifestation of the
scenes of your Life. Life is experience; the king of all experience, of all life,
of your movie, is the emotions. To check this statement, try to imagine that
emotions, no feelings; in which every thing, every person and every action
to defeat as to victory: life is just events without value (emotions are value,
emotions you would just be going through the motions of living and not
What makes your movie worth living, what gives it its color and
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3- Emotions Are Happiness
you feel; whether you are in positive or negative emotion at any given
enthusiasm, love and joy; and the absence of the negative emotions that
what happens to you, as it is what you feel about it. Feelings are
everything. For example, who is better off, a poor, happy man or a rich,
time when you really felt bad: shocked, grief-stricken, anxious, scared,
depressed, etc. Would you really accept feeling like that most of the time
just to be rich?)
whether you are happy or unhappy, not the external conditions. You may
want to say that the external conditions determine your emotions, but this
is not true, as you will learn as you progress through this program.
4- Love Is Happiness
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The relationship between Love and Happiness is causal and simple:
use your own experience. Simply remember a time when you "fell in love".
How did you feel? Did not your whole world kind of glow? Did you not
"walk on air"? Did your heart not dance? Was that not a time of great
happiness? Have you ever experienced more happiness than when you
loved most? You are most happy when you most love. Love causes the
people should seek to love. Seek love, not happiness. And, as we will
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Furthermore, given that emotions are a polarity and that happiness is a
energy.
Just as there are positive energy and actions; so too are there negative
a spectrum of emotional energy is like white light. When you pass light
different frequency of light. Love is like white light. Its spectrum is the
Many people think that the feeling of love is just one of the
emotions, and that the other emotions have little to do with love. Not so:
diagram below. The spectrum of love runs from the negative pole of apathy
the positives of interest, enthusiasm, joy and ecstasy. The positive half of
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the spectrum is positive-love (pos-love); the negative half, anti-love. The
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The pos-love emotions such as interest, satisfaction, optimism,
enthusiasm, joy, etc., feel good: they are the foundation of happiness.
emotions of anger, fear, grief and apathy. Anger (includes resentment and
hate) is an energy that motivates you to attack and change or destroy its
target, that which should not be. Obviously, anger is not pos-love and is
destroy.)
Therefore, anti-love is not BAD; it just is, and is an essential part of the
universe and your life script. As with all polarities, anti-love must exist
and be experienced –at least once, but only once—in order to know and
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LOVE AND ANTI-LOVE
To better show how the emotions are love and to improve your
understanding of anti-love, review this comparison of five properties of
LOVE in both polarities (pos-love and anti-love).
1. Value
2. Experience
3. Affinity
4. Energy
5. Action
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PROPERTY POS-LOVE ANTI-LOVE
VALUE GOOD: You have positive BAD: You have negative feelings
emotions about GOOD about things or people with a
Value is the worth, things: things or people that negative value for you; that is,
the GOODness or are worthy, deserving, and about BAD things or people.
BADness, of
lovable.
something or You anti-love (anger, fear, hate)
someone. You love GOOD things or BAD things or people: you have
people: you have positive negative feelings about them.
feelings about them. Love
and positive emotion both Anti-love and negative emotion
imply positive value: imply negative value: BAD
GOOD.
2. You can not separate how you feel, your emotions, from your
LOVE. They are the same thing.
EXPERIENCE⎯ for To love something means Anger, grief, fear, resentment and
our purposes these that you have a positive hate: these are negative energies
are your feelings, experience for it: interest, and negative experience. They
your emotions. caring, affection and are also anti-love for their object.
enthusiasm, that you They are also clearly the negative
Positive Experience is celebrate it. What are these emotions and they are negative,
Happiness. but love? What are these painful experience, the essence of
Negative Experience but the positive emotions suffering.
is Unhappiness. that are happiness?
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Conclusion LOVE and emotion are the same experience. Positive emotions
are pos-love and positive experience. Negative emotions are anti-
love and negative experience.
ENERGY
Pos-love is any form of Anti-love is any negative
Here energy refers to positive energy, not just the energy. It is any energy
forms of energy other positive emotions. Positive which is harmful for the
than emotion; that is energy is any energy which well-being or comfort of
to physical forms of supports, helps, builds or the other. Thus to shoot or
energy. grows that which is loved. bomb someone is to send
For example: money is them a destructive energy:
energy and a gift of money a bomb is anti-love.
is an act of love.
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Anti-love (negative emotion)
Pos-love (pos-emotion) motivates negative actions against
ACTION initiates positive behaviors the other. Such actions include
and actions towards the violations of the Universal
Action is another
beloved, actions which do Principles of Integrity: lie, cheat,
form of energy:
good to and promote the steal. They include actions to
energy at work, in
well-being of the beloved. damage or harm the other or to
movement.
For example: helping obstruct their legitimate goals.
another is a form of love. They include damaging the trees,
Working with attention and the earth, the environment, etc.
quality is love. Pos-love
leads to positive actions and
positive results.
Conclusion
As forms of energy other than emotion, and in actions as energy
in motion, love and anti-love have a dimension beyond emotion.
However, this only affirms LOVE as energy, positive and negative,
and in no way reduces the equivalency of LOVE and emotion.
Emotion is the nonphysical (mental, emotional,
spiritual) energy and the experience of LOVE.
Summary
The emotions are the internal experiential component
of your love-energy. Love has two polarities: pos-love
and anti-love corresponding to the positive and
negative emotions.
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Here is a simple chart that compares pos-love and anti-love:
The properties of emotion and LOVE are identical. They both are or have:
• Energy
• Polarity, positive and negative.
• Value: good and bad
• Experience: how you feel, positive or negative.
This is:
• Happiness or unhappiness
• Affinity: attraction or aversion
• Motivation for action: impulse to support or to
harm.
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It is very important to understand that the emotions, all the
presented here you can understand neither emotions, nor love nor
how life works and how these factors can influence your script.
spirit; a “son or daughter of God“ ⎯ a “chip off the old block”. As such,
you are of the same essence: LOVE. You are a spirit energy. You are made
of energy, made of LOVE. You are LOVE. LOVE is the raw material of your
Your frequency, your "glow", moves up and down the spectrum of love
from apathy to ecstasy. Imagine a light that can change colors, for
example: red to blue to white to yellow to green, etc, and does so at any
moment. Now think of yourself as a globe of light and imagine that you,
the globe, are constantly changing colors. Those colors represent your
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love changes constantly according to factors you will learn as your proceed
(“colors”) all the time. You experience these changes as your emotions.
Your emotions are your experience of LOVE at any moment. Since you are
Your emotions are your LOVE for yourself, your experience of yourself as
LOVE. Your positive emotions are pos-love for self; your negative emotions
are your anti-love for self. Your emotional experience is your experience
that is your emotions and therefore your happiness or suffering. You live
and feel your pos-love or your anti-love in every moment of your life; this
is your happiness or your pain. Thus there is perfect experiential justice for
every BEing as you live your own love or anti-love in each scene of your
motion picture. And there is (or can be) perfect control: it is your own love
that is your happiness or your pain—your heaven or your hell, your tragic
To help you re-write your script, complete this exercise so you can see
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Fill in the following table:
BAD THINGS: List at How much are you What is the polar opposite
least the 10 (worst) RESISTING those that you would like to
things in your life now. experiences? What experience; the GOOD thing
(Events, things, people, negative emotions you desire?
situations, are you generating
circumstances, and experiencing in
conditions, etc.) relation to each BAD
thing in your life?
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Fill in the following table.
Principle: We grow and progress more in life by using the negatives than
we do when everything is going good. When things are positive, we tend to
grow complacent and stay in our comfort zone. If you use a negative
event to grow, is it really negative?
1.
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Fill in the following table.
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List all the good things and blessings in your life now. To identify them,
compare your life to that of
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