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Chapter Four
The Highest Evolution

Many people do not like to think they are fundamentally alone in existence. They like to comfort themselves with thoughts of being inextricably linked to other human beings. This notion relieves them from thinking about their own real aloneness in the world. But this fundamental aloneness is a fact of reality for each conscious being. One could be in a room with hundreds of other people, but one still is one's own unique self.

This concept, however, is not undesirable or terrible. It is a fact. And when acknowledged as such, it can be incredibly liberating. When one grasps this concept, one is ready for authentic union with people. This may sound like a paradox. But, in reality, it is not a paradox. Each person has to go through a process of individuation—i.e., discovering one's own identity—in order to become a mature, independent adult. This process can be emotionally painful and difficult. And nobody can do this for another person; it depends on each person's own effort.

But what happens upon becoming one's own person is a beautiful thing. One blossoms into the world like a colorful butterfly emerging from its cocoon. Only then is one ready and able to build meaningful, valuable, and enduring relationships. These relationships provide the appropriate contrast to one's metaphysical aloneness. In other words, one accepts one's ultimate aloneness in the world and even learns to enjoy one's relationship with reality. Then one can use relationships with other people to complement one's metaphysical aloneness rather than to escape from it.

If asked to rate their own sexual attractiveness, few people would provide a realistic answer. This is because those who have a pseudo self-esteem would say they are more sexually attractive than they really are. And those who have a low self-esteem would say they are less sexually attractive than they really are. But those who have a healthy self-esteem would be accurate in their assessment of their sexual attractiveness. In the anticivilization, however, the person with a healthy self-esteem is rare.

By objectively rating oneself, one is better able to choose potential partners who are at or near the same level of sexual attractiveness as oneself. People that have a large difference in their sexual attractiveness rating probably will not have long-range compatibility.

The following is an objective scale for rating one's sexual attractiveness.

Even greater long-term problems result from blaming others for one's own problems. Work is the process of overcoming problems along the road to achievement. Problems are an inherent part of work, and, thus, life. Problems are also continuous—they never end. A mistake some people make is blaming life's problems on other people. This is destructive because as soon as a person blames others for his problems, he loses the power to successfully deal with the problems.

One also accomplishes nothing constructive doing this. It amounts to a waste of time, thought, energy, and opportunity. If others cause one's problems, then they must be held accountable. But if one's problems arise from one's own defaults, one must deal with these problems responsibly—through one's own effort. This means dismissing the mystical "easy way out" by blaming others. It also means exerting rational effort to solve one's own problems—especially when one does not feel like it.

One fundamental difference between Traditional Man and Advanced Man is that the latter is fully aware of his thought processes and emotional processes—not just his emotions. Traditional Man is aware of his emotions, but he is not aware of their source...or how to effectively deal with them. Advanced Man knows the nature, source, and what-to-do concerning his emotions. Chapter six of this work reveals a complete description of emotions.

Each person can be categorized as having a net life-enhancing capacity or a net life-destroying capacity. Some people have a higher natural capacity than others, just as some people have a higher natural intelligence than others. But people can raise their level of life-enhancing capacity through consistent productive effort. Or they can lower their level of life-enhancing capacity by defaulting to laziness. Those who have genuine power—the honest value producers—have a high degree of life-enhancing capacity: people like Donald Trump and Lillian Vernon. Those who have false power—the dishonest value destroyers—have a high degree of life-destroying capacity: people like Rudolph Giuliani and Fidel Castro.

All authors of personal development books and tapes have a mixture of Platonic and Aristotelian elements in their soul. But the degree of Platonic influences varies among these personal development authors. The degree a person has Platonic influences in his psyche is the degree that person holds mystical beliefs, approves the use of initiatory force, and values the group over the individual. The degree a person has Aristotelian influences in his psyche is the degree that person holds rational beliefs, rejects the use of initiatory force, and values the individual over the group.

The following is a list of popular personal development authors. Those at the top have the most Aristotelian influences and the least Platonic influences in their psyches and works. Those at the bottom have the most Platonic influences and the least Aristotelian influences in their psyche and works.

Many people have heard the sarcastic remark "You act as if the whole world revolves around you." In reality, it does. Each individual is the fixed center of existence. One's consciousness—when used rationally—integrates and controls the matter and energy fields of existence. In short, one does control reality. But this does not imply anything mystical. In fact, the degree a person is mystical is the degree that person is out of control of reality and life. This is why highly mystical people rely on bizarre illusions and fantasies such as prayer, ESP, and psychic readings. Such people are unable to genuinely control anything. The mystic-free individual, by contrast, is the center of his or her world. Thus, children under age six—and everyone who removes their personal mysticism—become the center point of existence.

How does one get in a position where the world revolves around oneself? One simply needs to develop the perfect mind and perfect body. One will then evolve into Advanced Man and harness exquisite control over life and existence.

The philosophy of Objectivism promotes several virtues such as rationality and independence. But it does not consider toleration as a virtue.

In this unique, transitory period between the anticivilization and the Civilization of the Universe, toleration is necessary. It may not be a virtue by Objectivism's standards, but it is helpful during this time in history. Toleration, in this context, implies no breach with objectivist principles; nor does it imply sanctioning evil.

When one learns a new subject, one is in a state of confusion and chaos. After much perseverance, however, one's confusion and chaos give way to clarity and order. One masters the subject, e.g., using a personal computer. One then proceeds to deal with the subject without great conscious effort. One can function almost unconsciously in this area because one has mastered the material. One then makes the subject look surprisingly easy.

With a mastery of the material and the ability to function unconsciously in that area, one can easily forget the confusion, chaos, and intense struggles one experienced while learning the new subject. However, anyone who is new to this subject is going to encounter about the same confusion and chaos that one experienced. Because one has already mastered the subject, others' confusion and awkwardness can appear pathetic. "What is wrong with you? Why don't you do it the way it's supposed to be done? Can't you understand?" These or similar words are easy to spout out. Yet, if one honestly recalls the difficult times one experienced while learning the subject, one will grasp the value of toleration.

Even in cases where one becomes frustrated with others because of their mistakes, one should recall one's own struggles with the now-mastered subject. By becoming conscious of this, one can more easily determine when a person is experiencing genuine struggles or when that person is being dishonest or evil. In the former case, toleration is beneficial to everyone concerned. In the latter case, toleration is wrong; one should (1) uncompromisingly reject evil and (2) seek justice.

Consistency is a virtue. Like all virtues, it is neither automatic nor effortless. All virtues require volitional choice and self-effort to exercise them.

There are two basic forms of consistency: good and bad consistency. Good consistency is grounded in productive activities. Such consistency is a never-ending exertion of effort. The result of good consistency is forward momentum—a momentum that brings one to success faster and easier than if one started from scratch. This is why, for example, people say that if you write, you need to write every day. Or if you play the piano, you need to play every day. Consistency and momentum are master keys to success.

Bad consistency, in comparison, is grounded in destructive activities. Such consistency also requires non-stop effort. But the results of bad consistency are diametrically opposed to good consistency. It delivers constant destruction to self, others, the economy, and civilization. Primary causes of bad consistency include envy and the desire for the unearned—the desire to destroy or usurp the values of others.

By becoming conscious of the two forms of consistency, one can protect oneself from the destructiveness of bad consistency. For example, one can see the precise consistency of news broadcasts exemplified by National Public Radio as nothing more than harmful machinations designed to perpetuate the anticivilization. One can then dismiss this journalistic stream of crime, murder, and death as nothing.

Commanding one's self is the natural mode of human survival. Each human being has the faculty of consciousness to control his or her own life. Using this powerful faculty, human beings can command their self, life, and destiny. Each individual can become the ruler of his or her own life. Moreover, external authorities are the default of self-command.

The inescapable choice every human being faces is to exercise self-command or be commanded by others. Who rushes in to control those who fail to command their self? Criminal-minded leaders, specious authorities, and force wielding agents fight each other to control those who default on self-command.

For anyone who is not familiar with self-command, it might feel alien at first. But if one perseveres in self-command, it begins to feel natural—and incredibly liberating. Eventually, one can no longer allow external authorities to command one's life. When that happens, one will have taken total control over one's life.

What are the requirements to command one's self? One needs to remove impurities of the mind and then one needs to learn how to do reality-based principled thinking. In other words, one needs the perfect mind. Such a mind delivers supreme control over one's self, the future, and all life.

Picture a supercomputer that performs large mathematical calculations at lightning speed with consistent accuracy. People are in awe of such a machine that can function so effectively. Now picture a mystic-free mind that learned how to integrate knowledge. That mind performs lightning-like integrations of facts and data with astonishing accuracy. In fact, it integrates all available knowledge—rapidly, precisely. Errors are rare. When errors do arise, that mind swiftly corrects them.

The mind described above is the perfect mind. It functions via a valid epistemology—reality-based principled thinking. The perfect mind is pristine: the conscious mind knows exactly what it is doing and the subconscious is well organized and super-efficient. The perfect mind performs integrations of knowledge like calculators perform integrations of numbers: quick, precise, and consistent.

To most people alive today, the perfect mind is from another world. But soon, this mind will permeate planet Earth. Cyberspace guarantees that permeation.

Self-control is the natural mode for conceptual beings. This mode requires the honest, independent use of one's own consciousness. With self-control, all of an individual's thoughts and actions derive from his or her thinking.

Throughout recorded history, man has defaulted on his responsibility to control his own self. Lacking a valid philosophical and psychological base, man has not been able to consistently employ self-control. What happens when individuals lack self-control? External authorities rise to control everyone with their force-backed frauds.

External authorities are an anomaly of conscious life. Such an aberration arises solely because people everywhere default on self-control. When people default on self-control—when people relinquish control over their own life—certain people mutate into external authorities to control others. These unnatural external authorities manipulate others using various dishonest but good-sounding assertions to usurp wealth, power, values, esteem, and praise. In other words, external authorities exist by stealthily draining productive people.

But Advanced Man corrects that anomaly: Advanced Man creates an environment based on competitive effort rather than force and fraud. Such an environment requires that everyone exercise self-control to survive and prosper. As a result, every external authority goes out of business. External authorities have no base on which to operate in the presence of Advanced Man.

Almost anyone can change his or her life for the better. In essence, one needs to (1) imagine exactly how one wants one's life to be, (2) visualize the step-by-step tasks needed to achieve that dream life, and (3) take consistent action on those identified steps every day. The results are guaranteed.

For example, consider a person in a highly specialized profession. Specialization limits his income to a low level—perhaps $25,000 per year. With the escalating cost of living in the anticivilization, he is forced to live without things and circumstances he really wants. In short, he is limited in every area of life.

Fortunately, when he grasps that he is not living the life he wants, he can make the decision to change his life. He can learn about various life options. Then he can choose the exact life he wants to live. Next, he can begin setting and achieving goals that will one day let him live the life he wants. The process of setting and achieving goals brings his dream life into reality.

Profound changes take place in his life. His thinking becomes clear. His health becomes superb. His emotional experiences become pleasant most of the time. He controls all the situations in his life. He chooses what he does from moment to moment, hour to hour, day to day, week to week, and year to year. And he has laid the foundation that will enable him to enjoy limitless prosperity.

This person's life will be much different—better—than it ever was as a result of creating a vision, formulating specific tasks to fulfill this vision, and taking continuous action on these tasks.

What does one need to develop a new life? One needs (1) motivation to change one's life, (2) an uncompromising commitment to change one's life, and (3) continuous self-effort to understand reality and take productive actions. If one really wants to live a new life, one can do it. Changing one's life is hard work. But such work definitely is worth the effort. One gets to live the life one chooses. And that means one does what one wants, has the relationships one wants, and enjoys the things one wants.

Many people erroneously believe that man is sex-driven or greed-driven. Yes, some people are. But that is not the fundamental drive of man. What is the fundamental drive of man? Happiness.

Rational human beings strive to be happy. They base their decisions on their implicit or explicit hierarchy of values. They do this in order to achieve their values. And when they achieve their values, they experience happiness.

To make sex or money the sole drive of one's life is to severely limit oneself. Once one has more than enough sex or money, then what? Can one really maintain the drive and motivation needed to continue seeking a narrow—but important—aspect of life? Probably not. One will probably quit exerting high energy to get more of what one already has in abundance. But if one is driven to be happy, which requires achieving one's self-chosen values, one will probably remain motivated to achieve and grow.

One does not need to force love to happen. But one does need to do certain things in order to have a romantic-love relationship. What are these things? One needs to develop a plan to experience lasting romantic love. And one needs to create the context in which to experience a romantic-love relationship.

First comes the plan. To begin with, one needs to thoroughly understand and develop oneself. The self is the starting point for all romantic-love relationships. Upon developing oneself, one needs to decide what one wants in a relationship. Setting a goal to experience romantic love is important but not enough. Being more specific, one might set a goal to have a long-term, non-marriage relationship with a compatible partner that has similar life interests. One might choose to live with the partner, but not have any children. If, over time, one's relationship grows into an expanding universe of love, happiness, and fulfillment, one might decide to get married. But one starts the relationship with the expressed notion of having a non-marriage love relationship.

After one knows oneself and knows specifically what one wants, one needs to set goals in order to achieve what one wants. For example, one sets a goal to go out and meet some potential romantic-love partners. One might attend parties, introduce oneself to potential love partners at work, and chat with the opposite sex at stores. Another example is that one sets a goal to learn how to increase one's own sexual attractiveness. One might read books about love and sex, study audiocassette programs on this subject, and attend relationship seminars. One might also get a new hairstyle and new clothes. One might even learn how to approach the opposite sex with self-confidence and poise. Then one might develop conversation skills to genuinely hold the interest of potential partners.

Creating the context for the love relationship means developing a setting where romantic love can flourish. This means, first and foremost, one produces more values than one consumes. One also becomes independent through the rational use of one's own mind. Upon becoming psychologically, financially, and materially independent, one can create the physical setting to grow a romantic-love relationship. For example, one can get one's own apartment or house. One decorates the place in a style that reflects one's own personality. One also gets one's own transportation that reflects one's personality. In fact, one arranges not just one's apartment but one's entire lifestyle to reflect one's soul or spirit.

Now one seeks the partner of one's dreams. One knows oneself. One knows what one wants. One has plans and goals. And one has created the context in which a romantic-love relationship can flourish. What is the next step? Should one go out in the world and make it happen, force something to happen? Not at all.

One simply allows the love-relationship to happen. That's right. One has laid the foundation. One knows what one wants and one has been working to get it. Now, rather than going out and attempting to make something happen, one casually lets something happen. And if one has done one's homework in advance, one will attract that special someone into one's life. Yes, the law of attraction works for those who are prepared. This does not imply anything mystical. Nor does it mean that one does not have to exert continuous effort to develop a romantic-love relationship. But one does not need to force a relationship to happen. By creating the appropriate context, one will be prepared for love and one's self-confidence and ease will radiate out and attract that special someone. Then one can expand one's romantic-love relationship to ever-greater levels of growth, happiness, and fulfillment through rational thought and consistent effort.

Many people want to attract a beautiful love partner, but they do not know how. One attracts such a person—a physically beautiful lover—to oneself by developing oneself. The following are some things one can do to attract a physically beautiful lover.

First, one can develop one's mind. An honest, integrated, principled mind is a powerful mind. And the opposite sex notices—and is attracted to—this real power.

Second, one can develop a moral character. An honest person with rational principles and integrity is an evolved human being. Such a person is attractive and is pleasurable to be around.

Third, one can produce values consistently. When one becomes a producer of genuine values, a few things happen. One becomes the master of one's own destiny, one radiates competitive strength, and one becomes prosperous. The opposite sex admires these qualities.

Fourth, one can enhance one's physical appearance. A carbohydrate-moderate diet, regular aerobic exercise, daily personal hygiene, and pleasant attire will boost one's physical appearance. The opposite sex cannot help noticing such an attractive appearance.

Beautiful women desire men with the above attributes. And handsome men look for women with the above traits. These principles for attracting physically beautiful people are timeless; they have worked in the past, they work now, and they will work in the future.

Individuals can benefit enormously from various self-help products and techniques. Such products include books, audiotapes, videotapes, and more. Such techniques include sentence completion exercises, relaxation techniques, thinking exercises, and more.

However, today, many self-help products lack a valid philosophical base. Self-help products that are based on a primacy-of-existence philosophy are valid. Self-help products that are based on a primacy-of-consciousness philosophy are invalid. In other words, self-help techniques that logically arise from the facts of reality are valuable. But self-help techniques that arbitrarily arise from mystical notions are worthless—and may even be harmful.

For example, praying is based on a primacy-of-consciousness philosophy. Using mystical notions and mind-willed realities, one "solves" one's problems through prayer. In reality, however, praying does not and cannot solve problems. Instead, prayer prevents the conscious mind from exerting the effort needed to perceive reality and solve existing problems.

Choosing one's values, by contrast, is based on the primacy-of-existence philosophy. Using reality-based principled thinking, one consciously discovers and ranks the values one wants to achieve in one's life. This is a tremendously valuable self-help technique. It leads to clarity of thought, clear-cut decisions, and confident action, since one knows what one wants to achieve. Choosing values is not dependent on mystical notions or supernatural dimensions. It simply requires integrating the facts of reality into rational thoughts and ideas.

By differentiating valid self-help techniques from invalid self-help techniques, one can boost the quality of one's life. One can bypass losing techniques and apply winning techniques to make one's life joyful rather than painful.

What is an autodidactic? It is a person who teaches oneself new knowledge. A ravenous autodidactic is a person who aggressively teaches oneself all fields of knowledge.

Such a person teaches oneself all imaginable fields ranging from accounting to zoology. And the more this person learns, the quicker he or she can learn new fields of knowledge.

The following are a few hints for those who want to become a ravenous autodidactic for pleasure and profit. They are as follows:

• Carefully peruse Self-University by Charles Hayes.


• Master philosophy, especially valid epistemology.


• Master the field that most interests oneself.

The first hint consists of reading the book Self-University. This book reveals helpful principles and techniques for educating oneself. It is the bible for those who seek to educate themselves. One will learn valuable ideas and methods for self-learning that are really very simple.

The second hint consists of mastering philosophy, or more specifically, epistemology. Studying philosophy is definitely not an end in itself. The purpose of studying philosophy, in this context, is to learn how to think. Such knowledge is vital if one wants to control one's own destiny. Mastering the principles of valid epistemology enables one to break into wide-open thinking. This gives one unparalleled power—not only to integrate new knowledge, but also to identify and reject fallacies. Deadly fallacies permeate the upside-down world.

The third hint consists of mastering the field that most interests oneself. By knowing the principles of self-education and a valid method of thinking, one can breeze through one's chosen field with great efficiency and pleasure. One might even want to learn other fields beyond one's chosen field. With a valid epistemology, this becomes much easier and incredibly rewarding.

Finally, what is the purpose of being a ravenous autodidactic? Is it just for personal pleasure? No. The primary reason for abundant self-learning is to gain liberating prosperity. That prosperity allows one to gain abiding happiness—to have the resources one needs to achieve one's values. By continuously teaching oneself, one can forever grow in one's career and personal relationships.

Romantic love offers the greatest pleasures available to conscious beings. It also is the greatest celebration of a successful life. However, an abiding romantic-love relationship requires certain conditions before it can flourish. Each romantic-love partner needs to:

1. Develop the conceptual faculty. This means that both partners need to advance from the perceptual mentality to the conceptual mentality. Each partner has to work to develop his or her mind via concentration and effort. Anyone can raise his or her level of consciousness from the concrete-bound level to the conceptual level by developing the perfect mind.
2. Develop a moral character. Once a partner develops the conceptual faculty, he or she can build a moral character. How? The partner can incorporate virtues into his or her character while eliminating any vices he or she might have. Examples of virtues include honesty, integrity, and productiveness. Examples of vices include dishonesty, being unprincipled, and destructive behavior.
3. Develop a valid psychology. Acquiring a valid psychology means removing irrational thoughts and repressed emotions from one's mind. This also demands that each partner becomes a separate, unique individual who has a healthy self-image and genuine self-esteem. In short, each partner needs to develop a unique identity apart from parents, siblings, friends, mentors, and so on.
4. Develop excellent physical health. Regular aerobic exercise and a carbohydrate-moderate diet enable both partners to enjoy super health. Major benefits from aerobic conditioning and a healthy diet include increased physical attractiveness and the ability to fully enjoy sexual pleasures.
5. Consistently produce values. Productive work provides the base for self-esteem, which is vital for a healthy psychology. Also, productive work is the source of prosperity, which provides independence for each partner. Independence is crucial for an enduring romantic-love relationship.
6. Become financially and materially independent. Each partner has to be able to live independently before he or she can experience abiding romantic love. Romantic love can not endure parasitism or codependence. It requires two healthy, independent individuals who voluntarily choose to build a shared universe of excitement and fulfillment.
7. Develop communication skills. The above requirements would be useless in a romantic-love relationship if each partner could not effectively communicate his or her thoughts and feelings. A romantic-love relationship can grow only when both partners communicate their thoughts and feelings to each other.

The purpose of a romantic-love relationship is to provide each partner with (1) psychological visibility, (2) a confirmation of each partner's value, (3) personal growth, and (4) the emotions of love, sex, pleasure, comfort, joy, and happiness. Romantic love does not occur effortlessly. It is a profound value. Like all values, it requires thought and effort to achieve and enjoy. The seven requirements listed above provide a rock-solid foundation on which individuals can build an abiding romantic-love relationship. A love relationship based on the above requirements will provide each partner with the most fulfilling emotional experiences available to conscious beings.

Human beings have different aspects to their personality and character. For example, each person has unique values, hopes, plans, sexual desires, eating habits, daily routines, mental capacities, moral traits, and emotional patterns. During brief meetings, a person can not possibly reveal all his or her unique characteristics.

Some people make powerful first impressions with their physical appearance or mental abilities or developed skills. Additionally, some people display admirable qualities in public while concealing negative or destructive traits. The trap that catches many people is falling in love with one aspect of a person—typically a striking aspect—and remaining blind to the bad or harmful aspects of that person.

When one meets a potential love partner, one usually sees only a part of that individual's entire personality and character. And when one is initially impressed with a potential love partner, one usually focuses only on the attractive qualities of the potential partner. But one needs to learn most or all aspects of the potential love partner to gain a comprehensive understanding of this person.

In most cases, people do not reveal all their traits—especially their bad traits. Thus, one needs to take note of everything a potential lover reveals and then figure out his or her personality and character. How? One can carefully induce general qualities from exhibited traits and habits. One can also predict future actions by the potential lover via deduction from known characteristics. However, one should always remain open to new information that might modify one's conclusions.

Remaining blind—either intentionally or unintentionally—can only lead to pain and the loss of passion or the relationship itself. Breaking free from the trap of focusing only on one aspect of a person can be difficult, especially if one senses unpleasant characteristics beneath a person's impressive facade. But this is vital if one wants a compatible lover for a long-term romantic-love relationship. Knowing as much as possible about a potential love partner is the key to making a sound decision to develop or avoid a romantic-love relationship with that potential partner.

Pragmatism is the doctrine that urges people to act without principles. The problem with pragmatism is the destruction it brings to oneself and others.

For example, a person who lacks principles acts expediently. This is a pragmatic person. He determines which actions to take based solely on the situation he is in. If he believes a specific action is expedient, regardless of the long-term damage it may cause, he takes that action. If he can gain short-term advantages by acting in a different manner, he does so. His actions are not guided by valid principles derived from the facts of reality. Rather, his actions are guided by each separate situation he encounters.

People might wonder, "What is wrong with that?" The problem is that an unprincipled person will readily violate individual rights. Such a person might initiate force, threaten to use force, or use fraud to get what he wants. A pragmatic individual lacks rational principles. As such, he is guided not by rational thought and action, but by the expediency of the moment.

Yet reality cannot be contradicted; it never "goes away." Instead, reality boomerangs back with interest and hits the unprincipled person, inflicting long-term damage on him. The unprincipled person may win the little battles, but he loses the war. He ends up as a pragmatic cipher—a zero, a worthless person.

The unprincipled person ends up missing the best life has to offer: abiding happiness. In reality, there is no higher purpose in life than to achieve happiness. But for an unprincipled person, abiding happiness becomes elusive.

So, what is the remedy for an unprincipled person? The remedy is to become principled. This means that the person needs to discover valid principles that are grounded in objective reality, not in mysticism. And the person can adhere to these principles until they become habituated into his psychology—until they become part of his character. When that happens, the person will have integrity; he will be loyal to his principles. Moreover, the person will eventually capture the security and happiness known to young children who are a part of the Civilization of the Universe.

Babies come into the world lacking control. They are unable to control their eating, urinating, defecating, body muscles, and so on. As babies grow into toddlers, they flounder all over the place as their leg muscles periodically weaken, which leave them lying on the floor. Later, while learning to talk, toddlers muddle words and simple sentences. They lack control of language and communication. When toddlers grow into young children, they are still out of control, at least partly. Emotions dictate actions, such as crying when they are hungry or tired.

As children grow into young adults, they begin to take control over their lives. They control their ingestion, excretion, muscles, thoughts, communication, and so on. At a certain point in a person's development, usually after two decades of life, the person has acquired enough control to live independently. Such a mature person can live independently of parents, guardians, family members, teachers, mentors, and bosses.

But growing into control does not need to end in early adulthood, i.e., at twenty years of age. After a person gains control of his bodily functions, he can continue to grow into magnificent control. He can develop his mind to its fullest extent and gain total control over his body. The result is that he controls his mind, body, and surroundings—the way conscious beings are meant to live.

For example, say there is a mature person in his twenties. Such a person can fully develop his conceptual faculty. He can also develop a valid psychology. And he can develop a moral character. After he does this, which probably will take him a few years, he will transpose from being controlled by outside events to controlling every event that affects his prosperity and happiness. This person will be acting in accord with reality, since conscious beings control existence.

With a fully developed mind, psychology, and character, this person consistently grows in knowledge and control—not neurotic control where he has to control everyone else, but healthy control where he becomes the controller of his own destiny. Endless riches and excitement result.

The most effective way to exercise control over reality is through value production. By producing more values for others than one consumes, one can exercise stunning control over reality. From an outsider's perspective, one's work may appear to be chaotic, even unintelligible. But by working with the laws of nature and exercising unyielding honesty, one can produce ever-increasing values to the benefit of oneself and everyone else.

Many physically beautiful people have not matured into fully evolved human beings (see Neo-Tech Advantage #55). This principle cannot be applied randomly to any given beautiful person. One would have to know a person's character before applying this principle.

To understand why many physically beautiful people fail to evolve into mature human beings capable of experiencing genuine love and happiness, one needs to look at what happens in their life. Take, for example, an incredibly attractive girl. Men fiercely compete among each other to win this girl's attention and affection. Several men may court this attractive women, do favors for her, give her things, say sweet things to her, and so on. The most competitive male will be the one to win the affection of this attractive girl.

This girl gets what she wants without exerting constant high effort. By keeping herself looking pretty, she attracts successful men who strive to please her, to woo her, to win her love. In other words, she gets what she wants without exerting commensurate effort. In short, she becomes spoiled.

This beautiful girl never experiences the intense competitive pressures to attract a mate—a pressure that non-beautiful people continuously feel. In some cases, physically beautiful people live and die without ever experiencing the severe pressures to earn their survival, prosperity, and love. Those who vie for the beautiful person's affection eagerly offer these values.

Thus, many physically beautiful people do not exert the constant high effort required to develop their character in order to evolve into mature human beings. If someone approaches a beautiful person and tries to convince him or her of the importance of maturing into a fully developed human being, the beautiful person might go blank. He or she might think, "Why should I go through all that effort when I get what I want now?"

The answer to the above question is that by defaulting on one's supreme responsibility to develop one's character, one inexorably lives a sad, lonely, unfulfilled life. Such a person is not capable of generating real power, limitless prosperity, enduring love, and abiding happiness. By defaulting on his or her supreme responsibility, the beautiful person misses the greatest values of life. No wonder that some of the most physically beautiful people spend their lives on specious, unfulfilling activities such as "save the poor" or "save the animals" crusades.

To better understand this principle, one can witness those who do not have great physical beauty. Such people must exert high effort if they want to earn love. They must exert the effort necessary to fully develop their mind and character. This enables each person to earn power, money, love, sex, and happiness. And anyone—including physically beautiful people—can evolve into a mature human being to capture the greatest reward of conscious life: abiding romantic love.

Those with extensive investments in the anticivilization strive to pervert the concept of control. Why? By perverting the meaning of this concept, they can make individuals want to avoid it. For example, by spreading misinformation such as "A person in control is cold, calculating, harsh, and mean," people implicitly or explicitly decide that control is a bad thing. People decide they do not want to be in control because of its negative connotation.

Who controls people that surrender control over their own life? Parasitical-elite leaders, their dishonest intellectual apologists, and their criminal-minded agents of force.

The nature of conceptual conscious beings requires that each person be in control of his or her own life. The only alternative is to have external authorities control one's life. Who are the external authorities? They are criminal-minded people.

When a person is not in control of his or her own life, that person is not living in accordance with human nature. Such a person does not fully integrate with reality. He or she does not wield the awesome power inherent in conscious beings. This person tragically misses a life of genuine power, riches, romance, and happiness.

A person in control, by contrast, is not mean or cold. Such a person controls and directs every area of his or her life. This culminates in boundless power, wealth, love, happiness and benevolence.

How does one switch from being out of control to being in control? Simple. One can implement a two step process. The first step consists of developing one's conceptual faculty—learning how to think abstractly, rationally, clearly. The second step consists of using one's developed mind to direct every aspect of one's life: the mental, physical, emotional, work, financial, material, and relationship aspects of one's life.

In reality, the choice to be in control of one's own life is a choice that each person has to make. No one else can make that choice for another person. Other people cannot choose to put oneself in control of one's own life. And that control does not come at birth; nor is it effortless. Every individual must decide at some point in his or her life to take control over every area of his or her life...or else default to the external authorities.

Why would a person want to go through the tremendous effort to develop his or her conceptual faculty and then direct every area of his or her life? Two reasons: survival and prosperity. In the anticivilization, everyone is guaranteed to survive—only if they relinquish control over their own life and let criminal-minded "leaders" control them. The problem is that everyone pays for this survival with death. Those who give up control over their own life die quickly, usually within a few decades after surrendering control. But now, with the Perfect Mind/Perfect Body breakthrough, people have to choose between gaining magnificent control over their own life or committing suicide. Upon the discovery and spreading of Perfect Mind/Perfect Body, external authorities and all other criminal-minded people become obsolete. Individuals then take control over their own life for limitless prosperity and happiness...or they perish along with the criminal mind.

Human beings begin life as helpless infants. They require much care to survive and grow. Children are dependent on others—especially parents and teachers—for their survival and growth. After adolescence, human beings are capable of becoming fully independent adults, which usually occurs around twenty years of age.

The problem is the anticivilization. Every young child depends on adults. Yet, adults relentlessly draw each young child into that insane civilization. Why? So, the anticivilization and its humanoid rulers can continue to survive. But what happens as each child is drawn into that crazy world? Each child's capacity to grow into a mature man or woman becomes crippled.

The anticivilization blocks everyone—garbage men and philosophers alike—from maturing into genuine men and women. As children begin compulsory education, they become part of the Pericles-and-Plato-created world of elaborate illusions—the world that Henry David Thoreau left behind in 1845 to 1847 by living alone at Walden Pond. When children become an integral part of the insane world, growth slows down and, in many cases, stops within a few years. This is a tragedy and it is entirely unnecessary.

As people become integrated in the anticivilization, they do not make the transition from child to man or from child to woman. As identified by poet Robert Bly, no ritual exists for a boy to become a man. The result is that the boy, upon becoming an adult, lacks an inner sense of masculinity. The boy's soul does not evolve into a mature man.

The anticivilization consists of illusions. It encourages each person to live a life of illusions, as playwright Tennessee Williams reveals in The Glass Menagerie. Thus, boys and girls can and do fake their manhood and womanhood. These are people who live and die without ever going through the intense struggle to mature into fully developed men and women. The ability to produce offspring does not mean a person is a mature man or woman.

The only way to capture authentic power, prosperity, romantic love, and happiness is to become a real man or woman. A real man does not fake his manhood and a real woman does not fake her womanhood. Such people live their life in accordance with the nature of human beings. These people have earned their maturity; they enjoy life (the effect) because they exerted intense effort to mature into adults (the cause).

If the anticivilization blocks nearly everyone's path to maturity, how can one become a real man or woman? One can become a real man or woman by (1) dismissing that ridiculous world as nothing, (2) fully developing one's mind and character, and (3) taking control over every area of one's life. This three-step process enables individuals to mature into real men and women.

On becoming a fully evolved man or woman, one realizes the profound beauty available to conscious beings. Immature actions such as manipulating others, misleading others, harming one's self and others, wasting time, and criminal actions become ridiculous, impotent, obsolete. Once a person becomes a real man or woman, he or she discovers the rich joy that comes from controlling his or her own life and destiny.

There is no doubt about it: life is an active process in which one cannot stand still. A person is either growing or deteriorating. The choice to grow or deteriorate is made by each person throughout his or her entire life.

In terms of personal development, this reduces to a fundamental fact that no one can escape, despite clever rationalizations: a person's actions either develop or destroy the mind and body. Ultimately, the choice to take productive or destructive actions is up to the individual.

Actions that destroy the mind and body include consuming sugar, caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, pot, cocaine, LSD, heroin, as well as praying, promiscuity, lying, manipulating, stealing, and killing. These and other destructive actions always lead to the disintegration of the mind and body. The immutable laws of nature see to it that destructive actions beget destructive consequences. Reality cannot be contradicted.

Examples of actions that develop the mind and body include stretching, aerobic exercise, muscular workouts, and carbohydrate-moderate diets, as well as de-mystifying the mind, de-repressing buried emotions, developing the conceptual faculty, developing a moral character, setting and achieving rational goals, growing a romantic-love relationship, and engaging in productive work. These and similar productive actions lead to the full development of the mind and body.

The seductive nature of destructive actions lies in the fact that they require little or no effort in the short term. But they always lead to losses, suffering, and pain in the long term. The pragmatic, range-of-the-moment mentality sees destructive actions as a way to avoid integrated thinking and high effort. Rationalizations and non sequiturs abound before and during a destructive act. Yet, such mind-created scenarios cannot stop the inevitable destruction that must and will appear in the long term. Then, over time, as self-destruction accumulates, one has to exert far more effort to survive and prosper than if one never took any destructive actions in the first place.

Resistance to productive action occurs because such action requires high effort up front. The very nature of productive action is such that one cannot first reap benefits and then exert effort. Everything must be paid for up front before one can cash in on one's productive efforts. This requires foresight and action—even when one does not feel like taking action. However, if one exerts productive effort every day, one will eventually overcome resistance to taking beneficial actions.

As a living organism, a person either advances in life or moves toward death. There is no way to stand still as a living organism. Productive actions, which require high effort, develop the mind and body; they deliver growth and life. Destructive actions, which require little or no effort, destroy the mind and body; they deliver deterioration and death. But every action, whether productive or destructive, is a choice each person ultimately makes. Thus, the cumulative choices an individual makes across his or her entire life determine the development of his or her mind and body.

Check one circle per row to find out if one is growing older or younger. (Reference: Neo-Tech Advantage #98)

More checks in the left column indicate that one is growing toward old age and death. More checks in the right column indicate that one is growing toward youth and life.

Personal development is a valuable activity where the individual exerts effort to improve one or more areas of his or her life. Those areas include the physical, mental, emotional, financial, material, and romantic realms. The pay-off for using personal development techniques is an enriching, happy life.

The traditional approach to personal development is a mixture of mystical notions and valid ideas, usually blended together pragmatically. Using the traditional approach to personal development will lead to noticeable improvements in one's life. But, many such improvements are limited, short-lived, and unintegrated with the rest of the personal development techniques. This prevents most people from gaining open-ended benefits from their self-development efforts.

The Local Group is radically different. It creates and advances the most widely integrated, mystic-free personal development techniques in existence. These techniques are applicable to all conscious beings at all times. And the validity of these techniques is assured; they arise from reality, rationality, and unyielding honesty.

The following chart reveals the difference between the traditional approach and the Local Group approach to personal development. (Reference: Appendix D: the Neo-Tech Discovery)

Volitional conscious life requires self-direction. Each person has the ability and responsibility to direct one's own life. But, in many cases, people live the life that parents, relatives, peers, or establishment intellectuals urge.

What is the net result of living a life someone else has prescribed? Long-range unfulfillment and unhappiness. Why? Because the person never experiences internal motivation that inevitably leads to success. Anyone who has made the decision to take charge of one's own life has experienced internal motivation. Many such individuals have gone on to achieve major success in their life. Examples include George Eastman, Chester Carlson, Lillian Vernon, and Jenny McCarthy. Such people's internal motivation provided the fuel that enabled them to continue moving forward in their life despite difficult circumstances. And anyone who has started from scratch to become a multimillionaire—such as Anthony Robbins, Russ Whitney, and Don Lapre—knows the great fulfillment that results from overcoming all obstacles to achieve spectacular success.

Inventing oneself means deciding how one wants to live one's life. This requires that one know one's likes, dislikes, assets, and liabilities. It is a personal balance sheet that contains one's strengths, weaknesses, values, and disvalues. With such information, one will be prepared to decide the best way to live one's life. Then one can create a life strategy that will enable one to live one's dreams.

To be sure, inventing oneself involves risk. For example, one's self-prescribed plans might not work out the way one initially thought. But, this is not the end of the world. If one lives consciously, one will see where one needs to modify one's plans. Sometimes these modifications—which could not have been made if one never initiated self-directed action—lead to the most spectacular success and mind-boggling prosperity. This is because no one is omniscient. Therefore, no one knows every single event that could possibly occur in one's life. By taking consistent action on one's plans, one can make adjustments for unseen obstacles. If one perseveres, one will wake up one day to discover that one is living one's dream life.

Yes, inventing oneself and living one's self-invented life entails risk. However, the rewards are tremendous. By dumping tradition and other people's plans for oneself, one can tap into beyond-belief power, wealth, romance, happiness, and fulfillment. Relatively few people have lived such a life. Yet today, with the discovery of the perfect mind and body, anyone can step into a life of boundless prosperity. Anyone who chooses to invent oneself can say good-bye to the endless losses that everyone experiences with the traditional mind and body.

The key to inventing oneself is developing the conceptual faculty: the perfect mind. Once one breaks into wide-open principled thinking, one can think in principles about oneself and one's life. Such principled thinking lets one think in the widest ranges about one's entire life—from one's childhood through one's teenage years to one's adulthood and future. One can use one's consciousness to envision various scenarios to determine which will bring oneself the greatest amount of happiness. Then, armed with self-knowledge, one can craft a plan that integrates one's attributes with one's vision of the future. Over time, one can refine this plan as one grows in knowledge and experience. Finally, instead of dying unfulfilled, one will live an ecstatic life.

Integrating with one's own survival means integrating with reality. Disregarding one's own survival means integrating with mysticism. The bottom line always comes down to the issue of life versus death. And only volitionally conscious beings can choose between life and death.

Choosing life implies that one chooses growth. In fact, life requires growth—mentally, physically, emotionally, romantically, financially. If one is not growing, one is stagnating, which leads to death. Even if one stagnates at the same level of personal development, other people are growing. Thus, one will constantly fall behind other people even if one is "standing still".

Human beings—and only human beings—can choose between life and death. A person who chooses life will consistently grow personally, professionally, and intellectually. He or she will continuously produce values for other people and remain physically fit and competitive in all areas of life. A person who defaults to death will stagnate or decline personally, professionally, and intellectually. He or she will avoid producing values for other people and let himself or herself become unfit and uncompetitive. The former person will experience increasing prosperity and happiness while the latter will experience increasing poverty and unhappiness.

The choice to continue growing is highly personal; it is based on one's previous actions and defaults, as well as one's present thinking. Giving up on growth and life is perhaps the greatest tragedy because it yields a zero: death. Even with the nonstop flow of losses, pain, and destruction in the anticivilization, giving up on life is a tremendous waste. No one—including professional criminals who orchestrate the hoaxed anticivilization—can force another person to give up on life. Giving up on life is a highly personal decision.

While other people can have an influence on one's choice to grow or stagnate, each person ultimately makes that choice himself or herself. The crucial question is this: is one willing to exert the constant effort required to understand reality and act on it? Or does one default to laziness and let others—authorities, family, lovers, friends—run one's life? The answer to the above question underpins each person's present and future. 

Those who choose life over death eventually break into integrated thinking and action. They learn through their own hard effort that prosperity and happiness come from each person's own productive actions. Upon breaking into integrated thinking, the individual realizes how ridiculous is the notion of waiting for other people to make oneself prosperous and happy.

Personal growth leads to the values of life. Stagnation leads to death. The former requires hard work; the latter requires no work. But if one values one's own self—and one wants to be moral to one's self—then the hard work required to grow is well worth the effort. One will continually advance in personal power, wealth, and happiness.

Sages have sought the elixir of life so they could bring happiness and well-being to everyone. People have searched for the elixir of life in water, food, alcohol, drugs, and mysticism. But they have not found it there. Why not?

The elixir of life is not something external; neither is it mystical. The elixir of life comes from within oneself. It is self-generated. What is the elixir of life? It is productive effort.

How simple. Yet, productive effort is not easy. In fact, harnessing the elixir of life requires that one exert continuous productive effort across the entire span of one's life. That is not easy.

By wielding the elixir, one gains an endless cascade of benefits. Such benefits include self-esteem, prosperity, happiness, and benevolence. Avoiding productive effort leads to a pseudo self-esteem, poverty, envy, and malevolence.

The elixir—continuous productive effort—is the most powerful dynamic to experience a growing mind and life. With it, one can gain the maximum benefits from business, relationships, sex, music, art, and relaxation. Through unbreached productive effort, one earns one's survival. Moreover, one takes control of one's destiny. That feeling of seizing control over one's future is one of the most intoxicating experiences available to human beings.

Also, while benefiting oneself, one benefits other people. Using the elixir causes one to produce goods or services that improve the lives of other people. Constant productive effort is the dynamic that delivers the values other people need, want, and willingly pay for. This enriches oneself and other people.

The key to the elixir is consistency. And that is hard. An uncountable number of situations—both imagined and real—crop up all the time. One could easily rationalize the avoidance of constant effort. To keep moving forward in life, one needs to make the decision to act on reality and exert consistent productive effort. The elixir never comes automatically. However, its rewards are tremendous: real power, wealth, romance, and joy. It requires that one exert rational effort all of one's days: there is no short cut to genuine power, wealth, and happiness.

The elixir is universal. That is, anyone from any country at any time can apply it. Cultural, language, and financial barriers do not impede the elixir. It is available to all. People who embrace it will flourish. People who avoid it will eventually suffer. And that suffering is unnecessary. Why? Because human beings are not designed to be lazy. They are designed to be productive—to benefit self and other people. The elixir of life is a perfect match for human beings. It brings great values to everyone it touches.

After five million years of physical evolution and three thousand years of conscious evolution, man is finally evolving into perfection. He can now develop the perfect mind and body—a godlike mind and body.

Yes, any man or woman can be a knockout—rapidly, forever. How? By harnessing key knowledge, any man or women can quickly develop a super mind, a super body, and super happiness. Amazing, perhaps. But starkly real.

Consider that the human mind and human body are one; they are an integrated whole, a unity of matter and consciousness. By improving the mind, the body improves. By improving the body, the mind improves. For example, when a person becomes physically fit through aerobic exercise, his thinking becomes clearer and he can concentrate for longer periods of time.

First, the perfect mind: this is the mystic-free, honest integrating mind—a super mind. It functions by using the perceptual material from one's surroundings to form rational concepts. One can then integrate those concepts into rational thoughts. Such rational thoughts can be integrated still further into valid principles, which are fundamental generalizations about reality. In order to come up with powerful breakthroughs, one can use lateral thinking—crossing known paths to discover new perspectives, concepts, and ideas. One can then use reason to check the validity and worth of these new ideas. This combination of lateral thinking (creative thinking) and vertical thinking (logical thinking) lets one constantly break into new vistas of competitive knowledge. Such a wide-ranging, no-limit mind epitomizes the perfect mind.

Second, the perfect body: this is the human body at its optimal functioning, appearance, and weight—a super body. One achieves this body through regular aerobic exercise and a carbohydrate-moderate, protein-adequate, low-fat diet. With valid stretching techniques and proper body use, one's body becomes graceful like a cat. One's percentage of body fat and weight quickly fall within the ideal range for one's physical size. Suddenly, one looks and feels beautiful.

With the perfect mind and body, one becomes a knockout. This combination makes one irresistible to the opposite sex. Why? Because one captures a genius-like mind, a great character, an intriguing personality, a shapely body, and an irresistibly sexy aura.

Stated simply, this combination of a perfect mind and body makes one smart, powerful, rich, sexy, happy—and unconquerable. No one—friend, foe, or competitor—rules the man or woman with a perfect mind and body. Such a man or woman rules self, life, reality. Nothing and no one—not even natural disasters, professional criminals, or mass-murderers—can harm those with the perfect mind and body. With a perfect mind and body, each human being advances to the next stage of living to quickly capture unprecedented power, wealth, romance, fun, and fulfillment.

Now that the perfect mind and perfect body are available to everyone, man can evolve into Advanced Man. What is Advanced Man? Advanced Man is man at his highest evolution—with powers beyond those assigned to God.

Powers greater than God? Yes. Traditional Man used the God concept as a way to assist man's transition from a preconscious mentality to a conscious mentality. Then, clever people learned how to maneuver the God concept to usurp tremendous destructive power, such as in the Roman Catholic Inquisition.

But man is evolving into the next stage of life. Those who develop the perfect mind and perfect body will become the perfect example of human life. They will leave behind pseudo concepts such as the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, Angels, Devils, and God. Ironically, many of the qualities that Traditional Man attributes to God—almighty, supreme, most wise, immortal, perfect, patient, benevolent, loving, just, and provident—apply to Advanced Man. More than that, Advanced Man has powers far beyond God.

How can that be? Advanced Man has the power to peer into the future, see the outcome in his mind before it happens, and then control reality to make the future happen according to his time schedule. Moreover, Advanced Man is the controller of not just the universe, but of all existence—which includes this universe and all other universes. Relative to Traditional Man, Advanced Man has mind-staggering powers.

Advanced Man also enjoys escalating prosperity, exciting romance, super sex, growing happiness, and magnificent fulfillment. Advanced Man not only has a super mind; he has a super body—and an awesome love life.

Essentially anyone can develop the perfect mind and perfect body to become Advanced Man. Today, that evolution has begun. People who want more from life than the status quo and stagnation are evolving. Tomorrow, everyone will evolve in order to survive—to keep up with the competition for power, wealth, and romantic love.

Like the switch from Prehistoric Man to Traditional Man, today's switch from Traditional Man to Advanced Man will dramatically change the world. Gone will be the days of fraudulent religions, destructive governments, and criminal rulers. Plato-like "live for the state" modes will be gone, never to return to planet Earth. Wide-open capitalism—driven by rational self-interest and backed by the prohibition of initiatory force, fraud, and coercion—will launch every individual into a dream life barely imagined during childhood. Rather than experiencing a lack of power, money, love, sex, happiness, and fulfillment, essentially everyone will experience these in ever increasing amounts.

The concept of independence means that one lives by the use of one's own mind. It means that one relies on one's own self to survive and produce values rather than relying on other people.

The independent man does not allow other people to control him—nor does he seek to control other people. He understands the parasitical and destructive nature of letting other people direct his thoughts and actions. At the same time, he understands the harmful nature of controlling other people, despite any good sounding rationalizations such as "it is for their own good" or "they will thank me later." In essence, the independent man or woman relies on self for his or her own survival.

This does not mean that the independent man lives and works in a vacuum or on a desert island. Not at all. In fact, the independent man has the greatest capacity to work with others; he has the most to exchange with other people. The independent man knows that he has to work with others to produce and achieve. He does not and cannot do everything himself. But the independent man has a much different approach toward life than does the dependent man.

The dependent man relies on other people's minds—those that have lived throughout history and those currently alive—to meet his survival and productivity needs. Such a man interacts with people by forcing, threatening, or conniving others into fulfilling his needs. In reality, the dependent man is an immature person. He is not able to experience genuine power, earned wealth, awesome romance, and increasing happiness...unless he grows up.

The independent man, by contrast, meets his own survival and productivity needs, no matter how difficult this may be. Such a man interacts with people through persuasion—by offering them values in exchange for what he wants. He earns his own survival. The independent man is a mature person who is capable of experiencing genuine power, wealth, romance, and happiness.

Independence is among the greatest virtues of man—truly an admirable quality. Those who become independent clearly see the insanity of letting other people control one's life. One has a brain and mind to use for producing values and enjoying life. Letting other people control oneself is an act of giving up one's own mind. Doing so is to live a subhuman existence.

Equally important, the person who becomes independent clearly sees the insanity of controlling other people. No matter what the reason, controlling other people deprives them of the independent use of their own consciousness. And that deprives them of living a human existence. A person can rationally guide someone else—such as one's child—to independence. But purposely controlling other people eventually harms everyone involved, including the controller. In this way, everyone becomes parasitically dependent on each other and personal growth stagnates. If one's goal is to enjoy life, then becoming an independent human being is an indispensable route to that goal.

Which knowledge products are the foundation for Perfect Mind/Perfect Body? There are twelve products that are the foundation for this breakthrough. Six of them pertain to the human mind; six pertain to the human body.

The following table reveals twelve knowledge products from which Perfect Mind/Perfect Body arose.

What is the purpose of the self-help industry: the countless books, tapes, and seminars pertaining to self-improvement and personal development? What is the reason why personal development books consistently occupy spots at the top of the sales charts? And why now? A century ago, the self-help/personal development movement was virtually nonexistent. Today, there are hundreds of self-help titles and millions of these books circulate around the world. Why?

Right now, at the dawn of the third millennium, mankind is evolving into a superior being. But that superior being is not a criminal-minded person as characterized in Feyodor Dostoyevsky's novels. In fact, this superior being is just the opposite. He or she is a business-minded person possessing supreme powers to control life via business.

World populations are knowingly or unknowingly at the threshold of a new stage of living. Men and women from all over the world are about to undergo a personal evolution. Today marks the beginning of that personal evolution, which will intensify during the early part of the 21^st century.

People everywhere are reaching for self-help/personal development products to capture a better life—more power, money, romance, happiness, fulfillment. Millions of people want to improve their life. They are implicitly groping for the perfect mind and body.

The Perfect Mind/Perfect Body breakthrough is one of the most widely integrated personal development products ever to arise on planet Earth. It integrates and builds upon hundreds of personal development products, as well as a vast selection of works in philosophy, psychology, business, literature, the arts, politics, science, health, relationships, and more. The one thousand titles from which Perfect Mind, Perfect Body arises provide a crucial backdrop. That backdrop makes a dozen titles stand out above the rest. Those dozen titles, in turn, are the foundation for the Perfect Mind/Perfect Body breakthrough.

Anyone with knowledge of Perfect Mind/Perfect Body can rapidly evolve into the next stage of life—a super life made possible by a perfect mind and body. People with this knowledge can easily bypass the twin traps of the self-help movement. Those twin traps comprise endless truth seeking and myriad dead ends, which are caused by mysticism-tainted products. Perfect Mind/Perfect Body, by contrast, is free of mysticism. Thus, today, it is among the most potent products one can use to evolve into a higher life form.

The following diagram reveals one's personal evolution into the next stage of life.

Check one circle per row that best describes one's present situation.

The primary way to convey ideas to other people and persuade them of the worth of one's ideas is through verbal communication. This is an indispensable form of conveying ideas and persuading others.

Effective communication, whether oral or written, requires that the communicator be explicit and economical. Both of these requirements are rare commodities in today's irrational world. Yet, they comprise the most powerful method for transferring ideas between people.

Explicit communication means that one articulates what one wants to communicate. Explicit communication first requires that one know what one wants to say. It then requires that one communicate exactly what one wants to say. This contrasts sharply with the style of communication in today's irrational world. In the irrational world, people—on purpose—fail to articulate what they mean. Instead, people use innuendoes, gestures, unfinished sentences, and similar techniques as a means of communicating. They do this to conceal the full meaning of their communications, hoping that others will accept such communications without resistance. These "suggestive" forms of communicating work with non-integrating minds. But they are futile with integrating minds.

In an era when more and more people break into integrated thinking and communicate throughout cyberspace, explicit communication will become immensely important. People who resort to manipulative communication will eventually be left behind. Integrated individuals will pass them by, refusing to waste time deciphering unclear communications.

Economical communication means that one uses verbal economy. That is, one uses the precise words one needs to communicate one's thoughts and ideas. This requires that one think about what one wants to say, and then say it in the least amount of words while still conveying the essential message. In an age when information bombards everyone from every angle, verbal economy is a blessing. This markedly contrasts with the endless ramblings in the irrational world: telephone conversations that drag on for an hour about a minor point, a fifty-word sentence expressing an idea that can be conveyed in ten words, and so on.

As the information age dominates the 21^st century, effective communication will become more important than ever. Those who develop the skills to communicate effectively will hold advantages over ineffective communicators. Furthermore, as tomorrow's rational world overtakes today's irrational world, people who communicate effectively will rise farther and faster in power, influence, and wealth.

Essentially everyone can transform into the perfect mind and body. Nothing unusual is required. Aside from those who have gross physical deformities, which comprise a minute percentage of people, anyone can have a perfect mind and body. Furthermore, developing such a mind and body is not very hard.

Basically, one needs to understand the perfect mind/perfect body combination. Then, by repeatedly using this new combination, it will become part of oneself. That is really all there is to it. One simply learns about the perfect mind/perfect body combination, and then, through repeated use, it automatically becomes part of oneself.

The perfect mind comprises a new way of thinking. No one on earth has ever used this mode of thinking before now. Ironically, it is not difficult to use. Actually, due to its open-ended nature, it is pleasurable to use. And it is efficacious; it produces effective results in nearly every situation. Since it is grounded in the facts of reality, one can take any thought or situation to its logical conclusion and know far in advance what will happen. In this sense, one will appear omniscient and godlike. In reality, one will have powers beyond God. Those powers let one accurately predict and then control one's future to capture supreme riches, romance, and happiness.

In order to transform into the perfect mind, one also needs to transform into the perfect body. They go hand in hand; they cannot be separated. The perfect body comprises a new way of using the body, which culminates in superb health and pleasurable feelings. With such a body, one gains unshakable confidence and a genuine sense of pride in one's appearance. Later, with breakthroughs in genetic engineering, one will be able to keep one's beautiful appearance...not for a long time, but forever.

In short, the time has come for everyone to transform into the perfect mind and body. Today, there is no reason to remain encumbered by the traditional mind or unhappy with the traditional body. Transforming into the perfect mind and body delivers the maximum benefits with the minimum amount of effort. By doing this, one will accrue benefits not for just a few days, weeks, or months, but for the rest of one's life.

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