The sellouts sell out and thereby become possessed. Most humans are pawns in a game they don't even see let alone understand, auctioned off to the highest bidder. It's a rare human who can survive the bidding and temptation and emerge a free person.
It's like being Neo and seeing the code in the Matrix.
Some of the exceptionally strong can last a few years, but still cave once the bidding goes on long enough or gets high enough. If given the choice between all the material wealth in the world and your own soul, what would you choose?
Money is just an example, an especially useful example because it acts a means to other examples. For what would you sell out? For what would you sell your soul? For what would you exchange your spiritual freedom (a.k.a. self-discipline)?
Sex? Fame? Alcohol? A good reputation? Longevity? Good physical health? A cure to a viral disease or a cancer that will otherwise take your life within the year? The comforting high of some tasty food in your mouth? Heroine? Some bodily safety? A nice big house with locks on the door and cameras out front and a private security team, and some in-house medical doctors just for you?
You can't be free if you have a price.
Some say everyone has a price. Those who say that see the game more and better than most, but they still aren't seeing and understanding it fully. They are seeing it only from the side of one of 'The Two Yous. They are seeing it like a philosophical zombie would see it. They are seeing it like Agent Smith would see it. They aren't seeing the capacity for true spiritual freedom (a.k.a. self-discipline and self-determination) in the truest, most meaningful, and deepest sense of the words, meaning in the sense of what my book calls the real you, or the true self.
You determine the price of your own soul. If you would sell yours for a billion dollars, then yours is worth an infinitesimal fraction of mine. Then mine is worth infinitely more than yours. Mine is priceless. You can take all the sex, drugs, money, fame, good food, hunger-alleviation, comfort, medical care, and private security forces in the world, put it all together, multiple it by ten trillion, and I wouldn't even consider selling my soul for that for a second. Not a damn thing in this material world or playful game of humans is worth my spiritual freedom and inner peace. And when you walk around with something so infinitely valuable and priceless, as such a uniquely empowered and spiritually wealthy human, as one of the very few who can be trusted to not sell out, it's amazing how all those others things bend over backwards to throw themselves at you. The bids get higher and higher. They start paying you even without you asking or accepting their offers, perhaps just in hopes that by giving you a taste of the crack you'll get addicted. The longer you hold steady, the more The Matrix throws bigger and bigger free samples at you, free samples of what most would eagerly sell their soul to get, but they already sold it and so you get what they envy without even asking and without even selling, while they remain with empty envious hands wishing they had more soul to sell. Even if you could give them more soul, they'd just sell it as quickly as possible and dig themselves even deeper into the dream and slavery, embedded even deeper into their Matrix. Generally speaking, all humans are on the addiction spectrum, and thus typically the best way to destroy a human is to give the human more of what he thinks he wants. Some are slaves to hunger for food, some hunger for sex, some to fear or anger, some the desire for a longer human life to grow even older by some number of years, some to drugs, fame, or youthful appearance. The props vary for which they sell their souls for and for which they choose to give up their spiritual freedom (a.k.a. self-discipline and self-determination). What they choose to sell their souls for varies, and thus their slave-masters vary, but the general pattern is the same. But you can be one of the tiny few who chooses differently and thus who really lives, meaning who lives as a free spirit, as a self-owned self-determined person whose soul and spirit is therefore infinitely more valuable than most and who is therefore infinitely more wealthy than most. Then you'll have more life in one second than they could have in a million years.
Live life free.
With love,
Eckhart Aurelius Hughes
a.k.a. Scott
- "You determine the price of your own soul. If you would sell yours for a billion dollars, then yours is worth an infinitesimal fraction of mine. Then mine is worth infinitely more than yours. Mine is priceless. You can take all the sex, drugs, money, fame, good food, hunger-alleviation, comfort, medical care, and private security forces in the world, put it all together, multiple it by ten trillion, and I wouldn't even consider selling my soul for that for a second."
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In addition to having authored his book, In It Together, Eckhart Aurelius Hughes (a.k.a. Scott) runs a mentoring program, with a free option, that guarantees success. Success is guaranteed for anyone who follows the program.
