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Jed McKenna

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Jed micro-rant on free (dumb)
« on: December 10, 2014, 10:40:33 pm »
Dear Members:

I remember many years back listening to a presenter who talk about his marketing experiences. He put together a tape series (you remember, tape recordings, that's right). He had 30,000 produced and sold them all. Then a staff member discovered that tape 7 was blank. OMG, what to do? Well, there didn't seem much he could do so he let it be and replaced them on request.

Of the 30,000 tape sets sold, six people noticed that tape seven was blank and requested a new tape. I have no reason to believe that his material was not good for it's time. The point is that human beings have a nature. They have a fairly predictable way of behavior in given situations. Perhaps I am not so human because I can remember getting a similar type of tape set (we are talking an embarrassing number of years ago) and listening to it until the tapes either broke or wore out. I sucked it up and sucked it up. 

Let's suppose you wanted a particular tape set and you got a complimentary copy for free. How many times would you listen to it? Remember, you already have a value established in your mind... nothing. Maybe, just maybe, you would get through the first tape before putting it aside. You are a human (sorta) so don't kid yourself, this is what 99% of you would do despite your ego screaming that you are different. Indeed, there is a very good chance that you would give it away or sell it in a garage sale come spring.

Given the same hypothetical tape set, what if you found that there were only, say... 300 copies in the world and they were being sold for $3,000 a set. You just got to have one and shell out the funds. Now, how many times are you going to listen? Are you going to extract every possible drop of juice out of it? I would think so, it's certainly much more likely.

While on the topic of discounts, what ever happened to free love, an invention of my generation? We grew old and realized, if we are smarter than the average bear, that there is no such thing. All of what we consider to be love, comes at a cost. That's because we have no idea what free love really is. It's not sex, drugs and rock and roll, even though they were a hell of a lot of fun, love is what you are and that is where the confusion come in.

In this world of polarities we are prevented, by the mental jails we live in, from seeing we are that love, always there and always free (with a catch of course). So, we accept a reasonable facsimile, a version of human love. But what if your love of an another cost you everything, your very soul, (yeh, you smart one's got it, $3,000) how would you treat that other person? Cherish is a word that comes to mind.

Now, let's stretch this a little, or a lot. What if every person you met you fell in love with? Not just the beautiful sexy ones, everyone. Not even ones of the appropriate sex (because sex has very little to do with love, it's just more fun with a loved one). Could this be your everyday experience, just endlessly falling in love with everybody you meet? Could you stand it? Or, let me put it another way, how can you not stand it? How can you not want it with all your heart?

Remember Tape #7, you are no different from any other human being. The only thing in your way is.... you. The catch is this particular free love costs everything you think you are and have. Let all go and it's right there in your face. It's been there all along, but you can't see it because you think you are soooo important and sooooo special. What if you aren't though, what if there is nothing special about you because there is no you, just a series of memories, limitations and habits, all based on an illusion that you continually reinforce by various Maya/ego methods? How to do it... it's on Tape #7.

Love ya, Jed.
 


« Last Edit: June 13, 2017, 02:49:35 am by Jed McKenna »

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Re: Jed micro-rant on free (dumb)
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2014, 10:54:13 pm »
synchronicity!

Jed McKenna

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« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2014, 02:34:56 am »
The 'missing tape' is a chapter in the Nav Series.

Love ya, Jed.

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« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2014, 02:46:54 am »
As usual, I am not sure if I get what Jed meant to express. Anyway, I conclude, no matter what it is, the Nav Series is worth getting. Smart ass, aren't I?

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« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2014, 02:55:34 am »
Don't worry smiling. I'm confident that many other's don't understand me much, you have the courage to admit it.

Love ya, Jed.

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« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2014, 03:10:07 am »
That's quite comforting and encouraging to this little me, Jed. I will follow the project until one day...I fall in the void, or you kick me out, or I am tired of you and don't want to work with you anymore.

Wait, you said it requires commitment, does it mean I have to stick with it until one day you let me go? Well, even that's the case, I am still in as by now you are the most attractive person I want to work with. I know you won't misunderstand me as I've told you I prefer women.

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« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2014, 04:00:40 am »
 It (7) IS always playing. Nothing to hear, see, do, figure out, destroy, construct. No smoke no mirrors. Simply no game to play. NOTHING. Just a resting area for the seeker. Blah. The watcher IS no fun. 

Infinite games are the way to play. "I'm with ya all the way daffy" - reference from a different movie.
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« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2014, 05:00:20 am »
the cost of truth is everything, I neither know what truth means, nor what everything is; that's tape 7 I suppose - a blank.

and I'm going to buy this ?  I must be out of my mind..   


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Re: Jed micro-rant on free (dumb)
« Reply #8 on: December 11, 2014, 05:26:51 am »
No "need" for tape #7, I am tape 7!

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« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2014, 06:59:32 am »
G, sometimes "I" play Richard (Dick) searching for paradise. Sometimes "I" play Daffy and try to destroy it. Sometimes "I" realize that its just a movie and "I am" playing a role. 8)

Good show...

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« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2014, 07:08:23 am »
  That is true... :/ I remember pirating once Marie Forleo's business thing that costs like a thousand dollars, and I ended up never watching the damn thing!

Man... May be if I had watched it anyways, I could have had 3000$ now... :D

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« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2014, 07:42:10 am »
Don't understand the last part: How to do What? What is on tape 7? Probably don't understand everything before it either, but that didn't raise a question in this somnambulistic mind.

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« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2014, 10:20:43 am »
I'd supply a link to the definition of "micro" here but it's against the rules. Being verbose means I sense verbosity intrinsically, without a word counter.

Many moons ago I was sucked into a "cheap" 4 day seminar, best thing that ever happened to me as it was a great vehicle for waking people (me) from the slumber of Human Childhood. Then came the sales job from unpaid adherents to move further, to sign up for the 7 day $2,500 version and then the 10 day $4,000 version.

I was broke, going through a divorce and yet somehow I saw great value in what I had gained and knew I wanted to go further. I scraped together the funds to go and the commitment I made to that endeavor (to myself) completely changed my life. Notice I didn't say the seminars changed my life, they were just the vehicle, vehicles are everywhere, what you bring to the vehicle is what you will get out of it. Sadly, as Jed has stated, we often need to commit a perceived value i.e. cash value, before we will throw ourselves completely into the flame (think college, cost = commitment).

So it is with Jed's little play ground here, people come and swing around a bit, climb on the monkey bars, some sit and critique others who are "swinging wrong"  ::)  Many just watch others having fun and making fools of themselves from the safety of the grass.

And then there are some who can't believe their luck, having stumbled onto something that is worth a million bucks and they get to do it for free, they spend every spare minute here immersing themselves, making fools of themselves and when not here they are contemplating it. The 1%er's who don't need a price tag waving in their face to see value.

If you think Jed's vehicle will change your life, get out now, ain't happenin' and you'll be p***ed, if you think you've got the cajones to bring everything you've got to Jed's vehicle, perhaps there's something you'll gain (lose), and maybe Jed's vehicle is a '76 AMC Pacer with no transmission... We shall see.

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Re: Jed micro-rant on free (dumb)
« Reply #13 on: December 11, 2014, 12:49:01 pm »
I prefer the yellow pacer, sorta bumble bee look. Ugly as sin...

Love ya, Jed.

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« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2014, 07:44:59 pm »
Speaking of which, well, I probably won't be buying a new car in the spring anymore (sigh)... 3k$ is exactly what I had in mind for an old peugeout or something... :D

It was a beautiful analogy, tho, thanks know :)