A manifesto for living

"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees"

Emiliano Zapata

When one adopts a spiritual practice, which becomes the basis of their existence, this becomes more than power words from Emiliano Zapata. It becomes an empowering way of living.

Our souls have been polluted with meaningless work and lack of mission.

Bodies weakened with pharmaceuticals and impotent foods.

Minds are being used as leashes with which the mainstream and consumerist narrative tethers us along with.

Politics subverted.

Religion and values perverted.

Male female relations being destroyed.

A plethora of created gender situations are creating confusion in kids.

Women bathe in veiled promiscuity by promoting their wares through online platforms.

Men self-pleasure to a girl on the screen they'll never meet and go through life with numbness to what is happening around them after they ejaculate the life out of them.

Initiation into manhood has gone away.

And all while we still think we have our independence, rights and free thinking.

Such is the weakness of human behaviour relaxing into matriarchal power in times of comfort. Look no further than the Bonobos to see how man, when he is not at his most potent, can be tossed aside as sexual fodder for the female of the species.

There is a natural order to life systems which creates healthy existence cycles. Forces in our society have long tried to play god by operating behind the scenes and using mainstream media as their mouthpiece that tragedies and pandemics seem like unfortunate coincidences. The average man laps this up in his already apathy laden mind and trudges on even more beaten down.

At the time of writing (during the 2020 lockdown) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Dr. Rashid Butttar, Judy Mikovitz and others have all started to challenge the mainstream narrative around the cause, agenda behind the pandemic to the point that some of their content is being removed from public consumption. They are becoming the voices to show cracks in the Matrix.

But should we gather behind them as if we need them to save us. As if the best people can do is post comments to social media and all of a sudden call for a saviour before returning to mind numbing escapism in fast foods, films and gossip?

No.

This should ring as a wakeup call.

How have we let ourselves get to this point unchecked?

To fight the mainstream media, Hollywood or popular culture narrative is a futile battle. To have a protest or march against something you don't like is slipping into a victim mindset and there is no power there.

The very thing that is being fought against is given power and the deeply established media machine will turn this against you.

You have power. Use it for what you want. Not fighting what you don't want.

A problem since the dawn of time has been that a gang of men on a mission and in their true masculine power cannot be fucked with.

They are a real threat because it is hard to corrupt them.

No, nobody can and should hide behind any of these "truth sayers". They are fighting their own good fight and so should everyone.

The fight is to start with changing yourself.

The real fight is between your own ears.

To challenge your own narrative through devotion and endeavour to cultivate grit and an iron mind.

At times when the world seems like a crazy place and not very much makes sense, the best skill to have is to be able to think independently from a point in the now.

During such times when you feel you are being lured into someone else's frame and the narrative being played out seems all too much like a play, you need to be able to think independently from a point in the now.

The last few years have been filled with terms like "fake news" and social media platforms are awash with videos which challenge everything we thought had true and honest intentions.

Who do you believe?

This will be an evolving post and include ideas for living a life of independent thought.

We are in times of gender fluidity fatherless families. Strong male role models are often not valued until their presence is sorely missed. Below are ideas to help cultivate grit and an iron mind during a time when comfort and laziness is making men weak and impotent. It is a guide for taking the long route and cultivating a disciplined life.

In discipline is freedom and power.

The underlying theme here is to practice what is hard as often as you can.

Your mind will seduce you into comfort.

Learn to love the long way round. It will set you free.

Physical endeavour

A man needs to find that intersection between aggression and discipline all the while knowing it is all a game.

• Keep your body strong and in shape: Lift heavy things and often.

• Learn to hit and get hit: Take up boxing.

• Learn to work with and challenge other men (verbally and physically) in heated situations: Take up a team sport.

• Get cold water on your skin.

Self-mastery

Challenge the mind and those limiting beliefs to keep self-mastery on point. If sharpened incrementally and properly, you may not even realise the small steps you've taken to walk a thousand miles.

• Wake up earlier than you need to.

• Read books. Something inspiring and written on paper. Preferably from before you were born.

• Quit porn.

• Quit jerking off.

• Massively reduce screen time.

• Meditate.

• Practice fasting.

• Try as many different activities as possible until you find one which gets you into flow.

• Don't be a nice guy.

• Create a routine and stick to it.

• Cultivate self-sufficiency: Learn to cook, work out and do DIY.

• Quit mass social coercion (Netflix, the News, popular culture, Facebook, YouTube and other social media - as a consumer).

• Leave your phone at home for at least one outing a day.

• Become a producer (not just a consumer): No government, state aid, corporation or person skilled in marketing is going to save you (remember self-sufficiency).

Original thought is seldom found in books of today. Old ideas are continually being repackaged and sold as revolutionary as we evolve into new mediums of working.

Learning

It pays to not settle for learning tips and tricks, but to explore the void.

If you have trouble courting girls - don't just settle for pick up or approaching techniques. Ask instead what you are being confronted with about women.

If you want to make money, don't look at tips and tricks to day trade, flip property, sell via FBA, (or other scheme). Don't run towards the next thing that you are seduced into thinking can earn you riches. Explore work that resonates and stick with it.

• If you have strong beliefs, explore the opposite and what its merits are.

• Don't get lured by courses that teach techniques or tricks. Instead learn the principles beneath them.

• Read, then apply, apply, apply. Read and learn (20%) : Application (80%).

• Mentors are useful, but temporary.

• There are no living gurus, just great ideas preached by normal men. Love the ideas, not those on the stage who preach them.

• Don't rely on one source for news and opinions on world events.

• The winners write the history books. What you learn at school may be a version. of events to flatter the winner(s). Not necessarily the truth.

Data ownership

Much is being made in the 2020 pandemic of the power exercised by social media giants and their ability to censor content. This had long been happening with red pill content (mainly the truth about modern female behaviour and how to avoid their traps). The truth is that, in taking a life of comfort and laziness, people collectively accept terms from app developers and social media platforms to harvest their data and to pimp it out. Data has been sneaking up on the world as the new form of currency and the big tech giants are flush with it. It takes mass data points to create effective predictive learning models. So, if you're not comfortable with the tech giants having so much power, take your data elsewhere.

• Search engines: Give up using Google and replace with Duck Duck Go or Firefox.

• Operating systems: Give up IOS and Microsoft and use Linux.

• Work: Give up Microsoft Office and use Open Office.

• Email: Give up Hotmail, Gmail and take up Proton mail.

• Messaging: Give up WhatsApp and take up Telegram.

• Leave your phone at home.

• Switch to a basic (i.e. no front facing camera) phone.

Spiritual alignment

This is not for or against any religion. This is for a belief in something bigger than we are. Belief in an idea that is common amongst eastern and western spirituality that we are all connected. You are not your mind or your body. The oneness is the only thing there is. Start by devoting to something infinite. The source of oneness and power.

"When you develop a spiritual power, nothing in the material world can touch you"

John Joseph

• Hollywood and the modern-day popular narrative have made Morgan Freeman into god. Bin the concept that god is a man, outside of you and sitting in the clouds.

• Make friends with death and meditate on it.

• Get comfortable that when you say goodbye and are leaving the company of people (including partners, kids) it will be the last time you see them. One day this will be true and you don't know when that is.

• Wake up early and do something that engages you to connect with this spiritual source.

• Find balance between passion and not being attached. The latter is not the same as apathy.

• Pursue wealth and the good life, but don't become a slave to the external.

• The cure for loneliness in old age is not helplines and networks. It is to cultivate a genuine spiritual practice at a young age.

Mission

Your mission (purpose) is everything. Cultivate mastery and strive to break free from working for the man. Sharpen your skills under mentors, but break away from them too. Ultimately you need to be delivering your mission on your terms and with your unique way of doing it.

Life is a people's game and most people suck at sales, negotiation and persuasion. Worst of all, people avoid rejection. Get good at all of the above.

• If you work a corporate job, learn as much as you can about managing people and expectations through digital domains.

• Talk to clients, colleagues, suppliers and identify voids or unmet needs and go fill them.

• Use social media as a producer and create a professional social media presence. If you don't, people will be left to assume whatever they want. They will assume.

• You will need to dedicate times of your life to accepting mass rejection. Great sports people have often said they score the most because they are prepared to fail the most.

• Selling isn't dirty. It's life. You've been doing it since you were a baby. Keep it up.

Politics

They might seem like a group of dinosaurs complicating life and talking in circles, but do not completely ignore people in political power. These are the rule makers charged with governing the country and are the party the majority voted into power. They determine how much tax you will pay, framework for security, education, roads and transport, housing and business. People invest in countries with strong and peaceful political regimes. People die getting out of one country to live another of more agreeable rules and regime.

You don't need to agree with what the politicians are saying. Just keep an eye on what is going on.

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum"

Noam Chomsky

• Understand the history of the regimes of where you live. History has a habit of repeating itself.

• Be wary of governments offering out too many free handouts: often they are trying to buy votes.

• Understand how the popular media narrative is being played out in politics and vice versa (the two have long been in bed with each other).

Take what of the above you find useful and be mindful of what you are giving up when a comfortable life is presented to you.

On the surface, the long and challenging way will present itself as difficult, but I am reminded of something a university lecturer once said to me:

"Nothing worth doing is easy"