MYTH

Nothingness is the context for everything. Creation can only occur out of 
nothingness 
Beings begin as pure context and manifest themselves through content 
Every being is coextensive with all existence and therefore has created everything 
else. Everything that exists arises from the self. There is no other reality. "This is it, 
and that's that." 
All beings operate within two distinct types of reality 
true reality, which is experiential (accepting, observing, participating, 
sourcing)  
   
ordinary reality, which is illusory and involves non-experiential 
concepts (e.g., beliefs, values, attitudes, and rules)
The truth originates as experiential reality but because the mind operates through 
symbols rather than immediate experience, communicating with others involves 
concepts rather than experience. 
While ordinary reality is compelling, its concepts are no more than agreements 
about what is true rather than experiential truth. 
As soon as concepts (beliefs) become detached from experience, they lose their 
experiential truth value because truth can only be experienced. The truth believed is 
a lie. 
Since the individual creates everything that is real, all concepts through which life is 
organized ultimately are the product of individual agreement. This means that the 
normative order on which society is based actually is a set of agreements to which 
the individual subscribed at some prior point. Every aspect of individuals' lives was 
chosen at some time. 
Since individuals have chosen the rules governing the social order, they should 
embrace those rules as their own choices. You should choose what you have got 
because you have got what you chose. 
The conclusion is that the world and individual beings are perfect just the way they 
are because they have been chosen 
The problem of humanity is that beings operate through concepts and develop an 
investment in them, treating them as true reality. Behavior is therefore shaped by 
beliefs that in turn condition behavior. Individuals then justify their beliefs and 
behavior, creating the illusion that they are free when in fact they are trapped in 
their own concepts 
The mind, which is a being's survival mechanism, ends up undermining the 
individuals' capacity for direct experience and hence for survival 
To make life work what is necessary is to keep one's agreements, and keeping 
agreements requires making them on the basis of experience rather than concepts 
The standard by which acts should be measured is aliveness, which is defined in 
terms of such individual qualities as spontaneity, naturalness, centeredness, 
wholeness, awareness, and fulfullment. 
Most people trade aliveness for survival 
When individuals recognize that they have in fact chosen their own circumstances,  
then it makes little sense to blame others and conflict vanishes. The method for 
achieving this recognition is fully experiencing the source of conflict 
Individuals "get it" when they recognize that they are ensnared in their own beliefs 
and that they are free to create their own experience. Getting it means being able to 
discover that you are holding a position (a context) which costs you more in 
aliveness than it is worth and being able to choose to give up (or transform) that 
position 
Getting it is therefore not learning new facts (additional content), it involves 
understanding those facts in a new way (a change of context). The result is that 
previously experienced conflicts simply disappear 
The test is whether an individual is able to experience living so that the situations 
you have been trying to change or have been putting up with clear up just in the 
process of life itself 
Once a sufficient number of individuals have transformed their lives, a societal 
transformation will occur