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Our Mission at the Van Tharp Institute: Part III of Trading through a Financial Metaphor
In the last two weeks, I have written about the mission of my company: transformation through a financial metaphor. The Van Tharp Institute actually offers three levels of transformation with the first two being transformation of the trading game and transformation of Self. Now we come to the final level of transformation: Changing Your Level of Consciousness. This kind of transformation is initiated during the Oneness Awakening Course, the Advanced Peak Performance 202 Workshop, and Peak Performance 203: The Happiness Workshop. Transformation at this level allows people to move toward a level of consciousness in which happiness and abundance are the norm.
I think this third level happens in two stages, so I broke it down into two sub-levels:
1. Raising one’s consciousness dramatically, which I have seen already in some of my Super Traders.
2. Actual awakening, which I have yet to see.
Level IIIA: Raising Your Consciousness
Dr. David Hawkins was one of the most successful psychiatrists in the world. He had a very high level of consciousness and performed miracle cures on his patients. He eventually closed his practice to pursue a Ph.D. in psychology in which his thesis was on levels of consciousness.
In his book Power Versus Force, Hawkins describes human consciousness using a log scale from 1 to 1,000, with 1,000 being the highest level of consciousness achievable by a human being.
I’ve included Hawkins’s consciousness scale from Power Versus Force here.
Hawkins postulated that only a few (i.e., Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, etc.) ever achieved the 1,000 level. He goes on to say that human consciousness as whole is just below 200—200 is the level that separates the positive from the negative. According to Hawkins, Gandhi had a consciousness of 700 and was able to defeat the British Army whose collective consciousness was 175. That’s the power of the log scale difference between power (high consciousness) and force.
Our goal at the Van Tharp Institute is to help traders take large leaps forward in consciousness. Think about last week’s article on beliefs and imagine again the impact of getting rid of around 5,000 non-useful beliefs in a year. That probably would raise your consciousness several hundred points.
A few of my Super Traders have reached such levels. Without going into too much detail, I’d like to share some of their experiences.
Super Trader Transformations
I had one Super Trader—through an exercise in one of our workshops—reach a deep, profound state of mind. When she told me about it, I suggested that she trade through that state. Just by trading in that state, she was able to make 134R in the month of November 2010. During that month, she made money on 86% of her trades and she made no mistakes.
Another Super Trader entered the program with a Ph.D. in engineering. He completed the psychological portion of the program in less than a year and through his personal evolution his concepts of trading became simpler. Furthermore, his purpose totally changed from making money as a full time trader to spiritual evolution with trading success being a metric for his spiritual advancement.
One of our Super Traders also became one of the first Oneness trainers and he was a co-trainer for the first Trading in the Now Workshop during the Super Trader Summit last year. After becoming a trainer, he went from 70% efficiency in his trading to better than 95% efficiency. He fulfilled his longtime desire to quit his job and trade full time.
There are a number of others I could talk about, but I just selected these three as examples.
Level IIIB: Awakening
I once had dreams of forming a company with a few other like-minded people to change the world; however, those dreams faded quickly. At some point, I realized that nothing would change until I changed; this is the basic idea of performing well in the matrix and going beyond it.
In the process of my personal transformations over much of my adult life, I have pursued many directions and methods of personal development. Most recently, I became a Oneness Blessing giver and Oneness trainer a few years ago. Nothing I’ve done in my 30 years of personal transformation has been as powerful as my experiences with the Oneness Process over the last few years. Now, most of my staff members are blessing givers and while all this has been happening, the business has grown in success
I originally had no intention of making Oneness part of the VTI curriculum. All this seemed very “far out” to me when I started, but for some reason I was drawn to it. I’m constantly looking for what works and helps people. And as I’ve watched the transformations that have occurred as a result of the process, I’ve been amazed. The few articles that I have written on the topic were among our best received articles ever. In addition, most of our Oneness Awakening workshops have sold out and some traders are making it the first VTI workshop they have ever attended. Moreover, people are reporting significant changes through the blessing and that’s why I offer it for those who are interested.
The final level of transformation is simply a state that I aspire to attain: awakening. In this state, the following are true:
- Thoughts occur but you do not identify with the thoughts at all.
- Seeing and listening occur but there is no one there as the seer or the listener.
- Doing occurs but it is automatic, there is no doer.
- The body is there but you realize that it is not you. You are not your body.
- The mind is there but you realize that it is not you. You are not your mind.
- Everything happens automatically.
- You understand that you have (or had) many personalities (what Libby Adams calls little i’s) but none of them are you. In fact, you now understand that there is no person there at all.
- You are existence, consciousness, bliss.
- The whole world is your family.
- And when I say “you” in this statements, it is misleading because that is just who you formerly thought you were. You no longer exist because you are one with everything.
If you want a perfect example of how an awakened being lives, read Byron Katie’s A Thousand Names for Joy.
I am now a Oneness trainer and we offer the Oneness Awakening Course through VTI. Through it people become Oneness Blessing givers—meaning they are channels for the energy (from the divine), which accelerates transformation. Right now I know of about 20 people who have permanently awakened through this process, although I am sure there are many more. I feel like I’ve seen glimpses of awakening in myself as well. My internal guidance, which has become very strong and personal, assures me that I will be awakened through this process.
What’s important about this level of transformation is that anyone who achieves this (and it’s not so much an achievement as a realization) will be able to trade effortlessly and make money easily. However, by then, money will no longer have any importance.
My next book will be about trader transformations. The book will cover the three levels of transformation and include stories from five or six different people who have accomplished a major transformation on each level. We are accepting submissions now, and we’ll be paying $250 for any chapter that we publish in the book. If you think you’ve made a major Level III transformation, as described in this article and would like to write a chapter-length article (3000-6000 words), we would love to see it. Submit articles in MS Word to book@vantharp.com.
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