Coach Ted discusses Lawlor’s concepts on transformation and the essence of the moment.
The Leap of Transformation
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The Leap of Transformation
Season 4/Episode 29
April 7, 2022
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This is the Ted O’Neill Program, where we explore the science of philosophies for performance optimization and the elevation of the human experience, from the mind of Ted O'Neill, with Jon Leon Guerrero.
0:23 Jon
Welcome to the Ted O'Neill Program. We are exploring Robert Lawlor’s Sacred Geometry and enjoying its parallels to Paraphysical training, and to our training practices in general. And so, you have a past chair that has to do with transformation, which of course we discuss a lot.
0:32 Ted
Jonny, one could say that we're drunk on geometry, and we have no idea what that is. That's the truth. Because this goes into such a different run would be accurate. I'm really curious to see the feedback of our listeners and members, and so if you're not at Diablo—actually, which is more as we speak into Lifted Academy—if you're listening from afar, we'd love to get some feedback, particularly on this week, because at Diablo people are going to come in there and ask me a bunch of questions. We're going to go over this in great detail as to what this means they're going to have that “aha” moment to take these concepts and integrate them into their bodies, and in their minds, and into their awareness, and be able to use this stuff—but if you're not here, are you getting any of this? It's making sense, right? Because I obviously also have the Emotional Sobriety curriculum and get the intensive workshops. I'm going to have the practicum, and we have a booster course coming out, and advanced practices, and all these other ways to take these massive concretized concepts, to drop them into our brains and into our lives. So, if you’re a listener, hit us up—let us know how this has landed in you and what effect it is having—or does it just sound like we're saying a bunch of random words and putting it together?
1:37 Jon
How would you describe driving concrete into your brain?
1:40 Ted
This is what this feels like sometimes, so here's a piece that struck me particularly, like a big drop of concrete into the brain—is essentially what I was talking about as being present and transformation. And to me what this really is, is to distally have a moment of choice. This to me is the moment where you say, “When I have these chemicals in my body and I feel a certain level, I kind of freak out.” And you say, “No. Here's how I become who I choose to be.” That's the 90/10 moment: the access point. It's that moment of clarity. It's that moment where you redefine by choice who you are. Alright, here's Lawlor. “Transformation is a ubiquitous condition of the worlds and their evolution, from mineral to plant to animal, kingdom emerging out of kingdom, volume forming itself out of the converging vector extensions of a preceding volume. There is a periodicity rhythm, oscillation, pattern, frequency, all measurable in time and space units. This is the genesis of sequential appearances, but the moment itself a transformation from one state to another, from one quality of being to another, from one form or level of consciousness to another, is always a leap, a jump, and incomprehensible velocity as it were, outside of time, as when one cell divides into two. If we approach life or evolution with only the sequential intelligence, only the rational measuring facility, the reality of genesis will always elude us. This transformative moment is all that really exists. The phenomenal worlds are a transitory reflection. They are the year of this one ever-present eternity, the only possible eternity without duration, which is the present moment.”
3:31 Jon
Magnificent.
3:33 Ted
That's a great paragraph to pause on for a moment. And those who train at Diablo, think about that particular paragraph or what you can glean from that, and maybe you need to listen to it a few more times, maybe I need to write it on the wall or something. Right, because it's a pretty weighty thing. You know, he's talking about this as all that ever exists, which is the present moment. So, the consciousness movement and metaphysics—that's our new way of looking at things. The way he describes it, I think gives us a different density in the physical reality, to embrace this. These are all things that are happening, and we talk about this all the time. Because I believe with great regularity, we have demonstrated at Diablo that we can operate outside of time. When you have people, who have been stuck previously for years at a certain level of development, and then come in, and within maybe a year, double their performance, where before it took four, five, six years to get to a certain place; now in one year, they would double that. And then the next year they continue to move forward. We're not doing this by doing the same thing they were doing before. We're doing this in moments of transformation. And if the transformation is all that exists in the present moment by choice, if you can choose that from that access point, then you can essentially, in theory—and we're going to help prove this over time—you can have a rate of transformation that would defy what we would consider to be potential or possible. Because if all potentials exist in the now, then it's simply that our most transformative moments are those access points, those 90/10 moments, continuing to choose in the new and grab the thing which is at the center of our highest choice. That's it.
6:08 Jon
I need a dustpan so I can gather my brains. You know, we could easily end that episode on that sentence. But I want to say that if I'm understanding that principle, or what the weight of that principle upon me was, that he's talking really about applying it to the way we do things, seeking the 10 in the 90/10 at all times, in every moment.
6:43 Ted
And it's the recognition of large and small. Yes.
6:45 Jon
And but it's really seeking out the release of the mundane in favor of the pupil breaking the chrysalis all the time. So, you said it all there—large and small. And this is why fractals are one of the levers in PPT—because as you begin to dive deeper into this type of work, and as you begin to apply it into the physical, and really get after these concepts, you start to realize: large-to-small is a humanly-contrived scale. Fractals demonstrate that; if you zoom in on one thing and look at it under the same level of magnification, you would see the fact: that there's no scale; it's just another thing. This is what people miss. I think so frequently that we spend so much time, so much “pre-occupation”—meaning it's attached to a series of things that have happened before in our self-beliefs—a preoccupation with certain events at the exclusion of many other events, in fact, an infinite number of other events, moment by moment. This is exactly how we end up in a place of dissatisfaction with our life. If we're preoccupied with all the things that we don't want, and we're placing all this level of import on something we consider to be a quote, “big event,” we're missing the entirety of the point of what was said in that last passage: that every single moment has equal weight and meaning; it's how we choose to use those moments. Because the transformation literally happens in the moment. It's not something—you know, when people say, “It took me five years to learn how to squat.” No, it didn't. It was the moment in time you released the attachment to the old ways that you were doing things. It's the moment of time where you begin to start the old construct, the old mental playbook, on, “Here's how I do it,” and put all of your attention only into the right now, and, “This is how I do it now and here's how.” That's the moment. So, if you can learn anything from all of this, that's what it would be. If we continue to have an attachment to the way we did things in the past, and we keep replaying that over and over and over—this is where I say, nothing from the outside world is going to collide with you to knock you out of that orbit. You have to do it yourself. And guess what kids? Most people don't. They spend their whole life saying the same things. In fact, we even have early observation in a very rudimentary way: people say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. That could be an observation of what neuroscience might say would be the deep neurological grooves, the deep neural grooves, in a brain, from thinking in a patterned way. It seems like it's more challenging only because the repetition—anything that you repeat time after time you're going to get good at so if you're stuck in a mental—
9:08 Jon
Even if it's getting good at repeating the same thing time after time.
9:12 Ted
Yeah, it's a skill. the more accurate way to express that sentence is, “For five years, I mostly neglected to find the moment to learn the squat,” right? That's exactly what it is. In fact, for five years I defied what actually ultimately got me there, by putting my attention and my energy and paying my attention toward the very thing that wasn't going to make me progress. It cost something: in that case, five years.
Welcome to the Ted O'Neill Program. We are exploring Robert Lawlor’s Sacred Geometry and enjoying its parallels to Paraphysical training, and to our training practices in general. And so, you have a past chair that has to do with transformation, which of course we discuss a lot.
0:32 Ted
Jonny, one could say that we're drunk on geometry, and we have no idea what that is. That's the truth. Because this goes into such a different run would be accurate. I'm really curious to see the feedback of our listeners and members, and so if you're not at Diablo—actually, which is more as we speak into Lifted Academy—if you're listening from afar, we'd love to get some feedback, particularly on this week, because at Diablo people are going to come in there and ask me a bunch of questions. We're going to go over this in great detail as to what this means they're going to have that “aha” moment to take these concepts and integrate them into their bodies, and in their minds, and into their awareness, and be able to use this stuff—but if you're not here, are you getting any of this? It's making sense, right? Because I obviously also have the Emotional Sobriety curriculum and get the intensive workshops. I'm going to have the practicum, and we have a booster course coming out, and advanced practices, and all these other ways to take these massive concretized concepts, to drop them into our brains and into our lives. So, if you’re a listener, hit us up—let us know how this has landed in you and what effect it is having—or does it just sound like we're saying a bunch of random words and putting it together?
1:37 Jon
How would you describe driving concrete into your brain?
1:40 Ted
This is what this feels like sometimes, so here's a piece that struck me particularly, like a big drop of concrete into the brain—is essentially what I was talking about as being present and transformation. And to me what this really is, is to distally have a moment of choice. This to me is the moment where you say, “When I have these chemicals in my body and I feel a certain level, I kind of freak out.” And you say, “No. Here's how I become who I choose to be.” That's the 90/10 moment: the access point. It's that moment of clarity. It's that moment where you redefine by choice who you are. Alright, here's Lawlor. “Transformation is a ubiquitous condition of the worlds and their evolution, from mineral to plant to animal, kingdom emerging out of kingdom, volume forming itself out of the converging vector extensions of a preceding volume. There is a periodicity rhythm, oscillation, pattern, frequency, all measurable in time and space units. This is the genesis of sequential appearances, but the moment itself a transformation from one state to another, from one quality of being to another, from one form or level of consciousness to another, is always a leap, a jump, and incomprehensible velocity as it were, outside of time, as when one cell divides into two. If we approach life or evolution with only the sequential intelligence, only the rational measuring facility, the reality of genesis will always elude us. This transformative moment is all that really exists. The phenomenal worlds are a transitory reflection. They are the year of this one ever-present eternity, the only possible eternity without duration, which is the present moment.”
3:31 Jon
Magnificent.
3:33 Ted
That's a great paragraph to pause on for a moment. And those who train at Diablo, think about that particular paragraph or what you can glean from that, and maybe you need to listen to it a few more times, maybe I need to write it on the wall or something. Right, because it's a pretty weighty thing. You know, he's talking about this as all that ever exists, which is the present moment. So, the consciousness movement and metaphysics—that's our new way of looking at things. The way he describes it, I think gives us a different density in the physical reality, to embrace this. These are all things that are happening, and we talk about this all the time. Because I believe with great regularity, we have demonstrated at Diablo that we can operate outside of time. When you have people, who have been stuck previously for years at a certain level of development, and then come in, and within maybe a year, double their performance, where before it took four, five, six years to get to a certain place; now in one year, they would double that. And then the next year they continue to move forward. We're not doing this by doing the same thing they were doing before. We're doing this in moments of transformation. And if the transformation is all that exists in the present moment by choice, if you can choose that from that access point, then you can essentially, in theory—and we're going to help prove this over time—you can have a rate of transformation that would defy what we would consider to be potential or possible. Because if all potentials exist in the now, then it's simply that our most transformative moments are those access points, those 90/10 moments, continuing to choose in the new and grab the thing which is at the center of our highest choice. That's it.
6:08 Jon
I need a dustpan so I can gather my brains. You know, we could easily end that episode on that sentence. But I want to say that if I'm understanding that principle, or what the weight of that principle upon me was, that he's talking really about applying it to the way we do things, seeking the 10 in the 90/10 at all times, in every moment.
6:43 Ted
And it's the recognition of large and small. Yes.
6:45 Jon
And but it's really seeking out the release of the mundane in favor of the pupil breaking the chrysalis all the time. So, you said it all there—large and small. And this is why fractals are one of the levers in PPT—because as you begin to dive deeper into this type of work, and as you begin to apply it into the physical, and really get after these concepts, you start to realize: large-to-small is a humanly-contrived scale. Fractals demonstrate that; if you zoom in on one thing and look at it under the same level of magnification, you would see the fact: that there's no scale; it's just another thing. This is what people miss. I think so frequently that we spend so much time, so much “pre-occupation”—meaning it's attached to a series of things that have happened before in our self-beliefs—a preoccupation with certain events at the exclusion of many other events, in fact, an infinite number of other events, moment by moment. This is exactly how we end up in a place of dissatisfaction with our life. If we're preoccupied with all the things that we don't want, and we're placing all this level of import on something we consider to be a quote, “big event,” we're missing the entirety of the point of what was said in that last passage: that every single moment has equal weight and meaning; it's how we choose to use those moments. Because the transformation literally happens in the moment. It's not something—you know, when people say, “It took me five years to learn how to squat.” No, it didn't. It was the moment in time you released the attachment to the old ways that you were doing things. It's the moment of time where you begin to start the old construct, the old mental playbook, on, “Here's how I do it,” and put all of your attention only into the right now, and, “This is how I do it now and here's how.” That's the moment. So, if you can learn anything from all of this, that's what it would be. If we continue to have an attachment to the way we did things in the past, and we keep replaying that over and over and over—this is where I say, nothing from the outside world is going to collide with you to knock you out of that orbit. You have to do it yourself. And guess what kids? Most people don't. They spend their whole life saying the same things. In fact, we even have early observation in a very rudimentary way: people say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. That could be an observation of what neuroscience might say would be the deep neurological grooves, the deep neural grooves, in a brain, from thinking in a patterned way. It seems like it's more challenging only because the repetition—anything that you repeat time after time you're going to get good at so if you're stuck in a mental—
9:08 Jon
Even if it's getting good at repeating the same thing time after time.
9:12 Ted
Yeah, it's a skill. the more accurate way to express that sentence is, “For five years, I mostly neglected to find the moment to learn the squat,” right? That's exactly what it is. In fact, for five years I defied what actually ultimately got me there, by putting my attention and my energy and paying my attention toward the very thing that wasn't going to make me progress. It cost something: in that case, five years.
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