The Teaches Of Beaches-The Power Of New
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🧠 BREAKING: Ed Reif releases "The Teaches of Beaches" consciousness manifesto! 💡 "Go away Picasso, I want to learn how to paint" - originality over imitation! 🎨 Education system accused of strip-mining minds for one-dimensional view! ⚡ "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original!" 🔬 Neuroplasticity proves aging not side effect of being alive! 🌟 "Normal is setting on washing machine" - conformity declared dangerous! 🃏 Poker courage defined as doing it with heart, creating perpetual crisis! 💊 Genetics don't control life - perception of environment controls gene activity! 🧠 Brain colonized by suburbia - little Clayton loading Glock 9 for homeroom! 💡 YOUniverse not narcissism but interconnected creativity! 🎨
THE TEACHES OF BEACHES
Ed Reif's Consciousness Manifesto - Putting The Odd Back Into God
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." - Marianne Williamson
🎨 Creativity & Learning
🎨Go Away Picasso - Originality Over Imitation
In 6th grade art class, Mr. Clancy asked: "Nervous Gervous! What on earth are you drawing?" "I'm drawing a picture of God, Ole' Man Clancy." "Nobody knows what God looks like," he said like the Vatican. "They will in a minute," I schooled him.
"Go away Picasso, I want to learn how to paint...I like saying that when I find myself not willing to co-presence with the power of NEW. New is the new NOW. If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original. Therefore—Always make new mistakes because you are not your mistakes. Doing things right the first time is an obscenity."
🧠 Education & Consciousness
⚡Strip Mining The Mind
Education today is like strip mining, mining the mind for that one dimensional view from the neck up, the drill of standardized testing, the rote of ranking and yanking. "We live in our head" paradigm and slightly to the left (brain).
"We do not know who we are until we know what we can do. That should be the job of education. We want our kids to be 'change agents,' but we teach by force-feeding them an unchanging meal. This too is your brain on french fries. The real irony is that our true nature is to be creative—it is who we are yet we are often quite successful at educating ourselves and others out of it. Therefore: an unlearning must take place—don't worry, the brain has plasticity."
🃏 Poker as Metaphor
🃏Poker Courage - Living In Tension
Courage is heart, and poker courage is doing it with heart, and it starts with the courage to create crisis. If a baseball game is a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings, then a NLH poker game is the in to your sane.
"Losing holdem A.S.A.P. is about being normal. It is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful and unimaginative. Normal is the setting on your mother's washing machine. Normal isn't a virtue. It denotes a lack of poker courage. It's a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. You don't want to be normal. Normal people spend their lives avoiding tense situations. Poker players spend their lives getting into them."
🧬 Health, Aging & Consciousness
💊Genetics Don't Control Life
Like DNA, genetics opens the door to human variability. Medicine - you don't want to know about cancer, you want to know about YOUR cancer. Cancer stem cells make you think that stem cells are a trip wire when things go wrong.
"Conventional science has held that genes control life, a concept known as genetic determinism. Leading edge research in epigenetics reveals a completely different truth. Genes do not control life. It is the environment, and more specifically, our perception of the environment that controls gene activity. In the end, it comes down to 'mind over matter' in controlling the fate of our lives. Aging is not a side effect of being alive. We can live to be 120 easily."
🌍 Society & Normalcy
🏠Brains Colonized By Suburbia
Our brains have been colonized by Suburbia. It is a cartoon...a 24/7 TV show broadcasting "we are normal. we are normal..." Meanwhile little Clayton is loading his Glock 9 getting ready for homeroom, and his big sister Donna is turning tricks to support her drug habit.
"Marinated in normal, the middle of the road is not the safest place to drive. You are now banished—as an exile from mainstream. Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. The ability for our brains to change with experience is called plasticity. It's only too late if we don't start now."
🌟 The YOUniverse Philosophy
🌌Not Narcissism - EGOomics
The YOUniverse is not narcissism—the inability to think of another. It's EGOomics, the ability to service the needs of everybody so you can have anything. The YOUniverse is a school of thought.
"The difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment. Self-realization isn't about more, it's about less. The only construction required for awakening is demolition. Let's take the wrecking ball. There are no universals in the YOUniverse—only variables. If you are a MATH ATHEIST, then 1 plus 1 equals infinity."
🏃 Movement & Consciousness
🌊Motion Creates Emotion
Something is not moving—Everything is moving. There's no on/off switch to movement. We want to express our innate ability and desire to move. Movement is what we are, not something we do.
"Motion creates emotion and your life is matter in motion. Everybody and every BODY is a portal to something greater. It goes beyond gravitational pull and all our so-called terrestrial limitations. How can we awaken the body's own biological intelligence? The quest is in the questions: Where are you experiencing this feeling in your body? What are the specific sensations you are feeling?"
🍟 The United States of Unconscious Eating
🍔S.A.D. - Standard American Diet
In the United States of Unconscious Eating, the food is terrible and the portions never enough. Yet we Star Strangled Bastards can't get enough of what we don't want, don't need and don't know.
"S.A.D. the Standard American Diet, Uncle Sam's unhappy default mode of eating the same stuff over and over again; and expecting a different result. That's the in to our sane. The menu has replaced the meal. We eat what we are—American. Meat and potatoes is the glue that holds our country together. Meat now kills more Americans than tobacco. The American diet is pornographic—cheap and nasty, processed and dead."
💡 Consciousness Revolution
⚡Ten Second Detox
Things were so much better when things were so much worse—because there was less choice. The reality of our times is that we are all condemned to freedom—The freedom to choose.
"Let's begin the ten second detox... It's less about letting go, more about letting come. Don't let go of uncomfortable thoughts—question them, and then they let go of you. Ask yourself, 'What thought am I going to think of next' to slow things down. Stay completely away from all things average, bland and safe. They are dangerous."
"You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be." - Marianne Williamson
🔬 The End of Aging
🧬Neuroplasticity & Cellular Malleability
Biography is biography. But we are not our genes. Genes behave differently in different environments. So, it's never too late to have a good childhood.
"We're not the prisoners of our genetics: our cells are malleable, and we can mold them with what we believe. Belief controls biology. We see the world through our beliefs much like a set of glasses with a prescription. It's filtered. Neurons that wire together fire together—You can make the connections again. The future of healing is not going to be a resolution of the past, it will be the emergence of the future moving in the present."
"Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here." - Marianne Williamson
🎯 Final Consciousness Call
🌟Putting The Odd Back Into God
From tourist victim to cruise worker to teacher to LOST actor to love philosopher to cosmic space cadet to consciousness revolutionary - the complete Hawaiian transformation reaches its intellectual peak.
"All children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist when we grow up. Growing old AND growing up is optional. Those who can't do teach, those who can't teach become poker players. Expressions of creativity is the meal that gets fed playing poker...not just the appetizer or the dessert. There are no universals in the YOUniverse—only variables."
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." - Marianne Williamson
The "Teaches of Beaches" - where every wave carries wisdom, every sunset brings enlightenment, and every moment offers the choice between conformity and consciousness. Ed Reif has officially put the odd back into God, the rebel back into revelation, and the punk back into punctuation!