What would you do with your Authority if you had it anyway?

Only you can rightfully answer this question.

We think it is a useful question for you to answer.

It is similar to already having a plan for what you would do if the Universe gave you one-hundred million Euros.

If you do not have a clear plan for what you would do with €100 million, then why should the Universe give it to you? It would probably be a total waste.

We repeat. What would you do with your Authority if you had it? It is time to make your plan.

1. This Experiment starts by getting out your Beep! Book. It should not be far. If you are a Possibilitator your Beep! Book is almost never farther away than one arm's reach... as would be your Possibility Stone...
2. Title a new page: MY AUTHORITY PLAN.
3. Make sure you are Centered, Grounded, and Bubbled.
4. Take a deep breath. Close your eyes. Sink down into your core.
5. Start letting your vision come to life.
   You have a vision.
   It is deep within you. Over and over again, ask yourself this question: "If I had Authority, I would..."
6. Then write out whatever answers come, big or small, wild or mundane, understandable or beyond your imagination. Write the answers in exquisite detail of how your vision comes alive.
7. Write for 20-30 minutes without stopping.
8. Do this three different times, preferably on 3 different days.
9. What might come out are: things to change, boundaries to make, assignments to give, things to create, questions to ask, projects to complete, tasks to delegate, invitations to make to others, things to destroy, or end, or finish, new kinds of decisions to make, more Experiments to try, and so on, and on, and on...
10. Give each plan a number.
11. By the end of your three sessions, aim to have at least thirty plans for what to do with your Authority if you only had it.
12. Now this Experiment gets interesting: Choose three of your plans. Take back that specific Authority and implement your plans fully.

After implementing your three plans, please enter Matrix Code AUTHORIT.01 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. This Experiment (all the parts) is worth 3 Matrix Points.

When you were a baby, everything you did was Experimenting. You did not know what would happen if you tried to stand. You did not know how dirt tasted. It was all a risk.

The secret to discover here is that, it is STILL ALL A RISK. Becoming the kind of Experimenter who takes back your own Authority depends on you learning to guess, learning to estimate consequences, learning to figure out a strategy to try and then trying it, staying aware enough to Notice what the results are, what worked and what did not work about your Experiment so that you can use these insights and clarifications to make your next Experiments go even better.

Go! Beep! Shift! Go! This is the life of an Experimenter.

Without developing your Experimenter skills you will not get far in the StartOver.xyz game, which is the game of opening up and inhabiting a new future for yourself.

'Experimenter' is an identity. Taking back your Authority for being an Experimenter begins by taking back your Authority to take intelligently calculated risks... just like you were doing as a baby and a child.

You are already to some degree good at taking intelligent calculated risks, or you would not be alive enough to be exploring StartOver.xyz.

This Experiment is to go to your Possibility Team (and when we say 'Possibility Team' we actually mean any Team that you are in...) and ask them to give you three risks that would be valuable, in their opinion, for you to take now.

Under the heading THREE RISKY EXPERIMENTS in your Beep! Book, write down exactly the words they use to describe the risky Experiments. Ask clarifying questions if you need to.

After you have done all 3 Risky Experiments and reported back to your Possibility Team how they went and what you Noticed, please record Matrix Code AUTHORIT.02 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. This Experiments is worth 3 Matrix Points!

The quality and degree of authority you can take is determined by the quality and degree of specific distinctions you have integrated into your Being as Matrix.

Matrix is built with distinctions that land in your Being.

By integrating new distinctions into your Being, you make it possible to take new Authority. This evolutionary work is the most entertaining experience in the Universe.

This is a valuable HINT: If you are unable to take back any particular aspect of your Authority, look into the related matrix and see to what degree you have not built it.

This Experiment is to face the breakdowns and un-successes of your current life and ask yourself the question: "What Distinctions could I explore in practical new behaviors to build my Matrix out in ways that would make a difference in my life?"

Such a question is not usually one that you can answer for yourself because our awareness is guarded against new realizations by our Gremlin-guarded Box that is dedicated to keeping things the same so we can continue to survive.

This could be a time to go to your friendly neighborhood Possibility Coach and arrange for a session about this question. Regardless of whether they do an Emotional Healing Process with you, or Memetic Engineering with you, or something entirely different, you now have a strategy for building new Matrix. Ask for specific actions to take, Experiments to try.

After you do these actions, please record Matrix Code AUTHORIT.03 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. This Experiments is worth 2 Matrix Points!

Without taking your 5 Energetic Centers into your ongoing conscious possession, you will not be able to take back your Authority for anything. You cannot be in Authority whenever you are not Centered.

You will need a partner to do this Experiment. Bring your Beep! Book and pen.

1. Before starting, spend half an hour reviewing together the definitions and distinctions of what your 5 Energetic Centers are, at the Become Centered website. Be sure you can Experientially distinguish one Center from each of your 5 Bodies: Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Energetic, and Archetypal.
2. Take a two hour-long walk together in any combination of: the shopping zone, the business district, the beach full of sun-bathers, the ghetto, the forest, or at an amusement park.
3. As you begin your walk, exchange Beep! Books so that each of you has the other's Beep! Book to write in.
4. While you are walking, take turns back and forth for approximately 10 minutes each, one being the Walker, the other being the Observer.
5. The Walker: walk as usual. Do not be rigid, tight, or controlled. Be natural.
6. The Observer: put almost ALL of your attention on the Walker, and Notice from your 5 Bodies each and every incident the Walker gives away one of their 5 Centers (which is the same thing as giving away their Authority for that Center). Use your Center Scanner to detect exactly what the Walker gives one of their Centers to.
   
   Write down:
   • which of their Centers do they give away? (It could be more than one at a time.)
   • exactly what triggers their Adaptive Behavior?
   • what do they do when they are Adaptive. What changes? What stops? What starts?
    
7. Each for 10 or 15 minutes, then change roles.
8. At the end of the two hours walking, sit down together at a Café and review all the notes. Look for patterns of triggers. Is it words? Is it stories? Is it emotional fears? Is it assumptions or expectations? It is male or female? Is it moving or still? Is it child, or animal, or advertisement, or fears?
9. Develop one or two further Experiments or Processes that each of you can do to take your next step being more Centered. Write them down clearly in your Beep! Book.

After writing down the future Experiments, please record Matrix Code AUTHORIT.04 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. This Experiments is worth 2 Matrix Points!

Life is change. Anything alive is ongoingly changing.

Any original action is a creation that makes change, because it is new. This means that any original action is life happening.

Any action that tries to duplicate what you just did, or to copy what you did before now, stops change, and therefore stops your aliveness.

Doing the same thing destroys the possibility of doing something different in that moment. Repeated behaviors keep you in a circular pattern where you do the same thing over and over, or a rut where you cannot perceive or go anywhere different.

Repeated patterns may seem safe, but it is the illusionary safety that comes from blocking aliveness. The aliveness is still in you, but it is suppressed. You repress your own aliveness with your physical movements.

You have the power to do something different in each next moment.

This Experiment is to start a heading PATTERN RECOGNITION in your Beep! Book and write out personal answers to these questions (This is not school! There are no 'right' answers!):

1. What are your patterns? What to you repeat as a physical gesture, movement manifestation, speech pattern, food eating pattern, avoidance pattern, buying pattern, problem solving pattern, etc.
2. What are you angry, sad, glad, and scared about when you are implementing a pattern?
3. What are you doing with your aliveness power in that moment? Where do you put your aliveness then? Exactly how do you put it there?
4. If you were giving a Workshop called PATTERN RECOGNITION and the skills needed for duplicating patterns, what are the considerations you would want people to understand and practice to be better Pattern Followers? Please be clear and neurotically detailed in your descriptions and instructions.
5. Why are you suppressing your aliveness? What is your benefit?
6. What is the result of suppressing your aliveness by duplicating physical movements, actions, problem solutions, speech patterns, proposal patterns, and habits? Again, please write these out in embarrassingly self-revealingly painful detail.

Give your PATTERN RECOGNITION WorkTalk online or in-person for 2 hours. Have participants pay at least €15 for joining. During your WorkTalk, read out your self-revealing notes that you wrote while you did this Experiment.

Then ask people to get in groups of 3 and help each other write out answers to the same questions, giving them 15 minutes for each person. You may need to offer extra notebooks and pens for anyone who did not bring theirs.

Remember, the purpose of this Experiment and of this Workshop is NOT TO TRY TO CHANGE ANYTHING. The purpose is to Notice with all 5 Bodies what has been happening, what the people have been creating, and why. The increased awareness will create its own pathway for people to take back their Authority for aliveness they are ready for. You too.

After delivering your WorkTalk, please record Matrix Code AUTHORIT.05 in your free Account at StartOver.xyz. This Experiments is worth 4 Matrix Points!

What your Intellectual Body uses to think with is your Thoughtware.

You adopted your current Thoughtware primarily from your parents or caretakers when you were very young, as a way to survive in their company.

How do we know? Because you could have been born in any country, any culture, any time in the last 300,000 years, and you would have adopted the Thoughtware of your birth culture. You could have been an open-pit gold-mining slave in Congo, a castle-inhabiting Princess in Scotland, a goat herder in Afghanistan, a tech company employee in China, a fisherman on the coast of Argentina, a Tapa Cloth weaver in Tonga, on and on. The adaptability of the human being is nearly inconceivable.

And yet, here you are... you... using the Thoughtware that was used by your parents, which they received from their parents, even right now to understand these words.

It is important to realize (as shocking as it may be...) that NO ONE has EVER taken Authority for the Thoughtware you are using. Not you. Not your parents. Not the 'authorities'.

The Thoughtware you are using has simply been passed down from generation to generation, powered by the false Assumption that your Thoughtware is the only possible Thoughtware that anyone could use.

Not only that, if your Thoughtware is thought about at all, then your Thoughtware is considered by its users to be the BEST Thoughtware that human beings have ever invented.

Just think about this...

If every human being is using unexamined Thoughtware that they absentmindedly assume is the BEST thoughtware that human beings have ever invented, and yet, the people do not get along, meaning they are using incompatible Thoughtware versions... then there are different possible Thoughtware variations to be used!

This means you could examine the Thoughtware you are using, compare each bit of it to other available bits of Thoughtware, and consciously choose which Thoughtware YOU actually WANT to use to create the world your heart knows is possible!

Ahah! This is an astonishing possibility that you can now make use of, because exactly that is this Experiment!

1. Start a Thoughtware Research Team - or dedicate five meetings of whatever weekly Team you are in now - to document your Thoughtware. Start simple, but be very clear. Make a list of each individual's Thoughtware.
2. Compare each person's bit of Thoughtware with every other person's bit of Thoughtware about each thing that you discover you have Thoughtware about.
3. Remember, you are not trying to decide which Thoughtware is more correct or best. Your are simply documenting possible options for Thoughtware that you (or every other person in the world!) can then later choose from.
4. Make a website that is a Distinctionary - a dictionary of descriptions of the distinctions out of which each bit of each member of your Team's Thoughtware is constructed.
   
   (AFTER CREATING YOUR DISTINCTIONARY ONLINE... you can take a look at creating your Distinctionary online. There is a sample Distinctionary online you can check - the Distinctionary of Possibility Management Thoughtware Distinctions).
    
5. The way you take Authority for your Thoughtware is to consciously choose the various bits of Thoughtware you would personally prefer to use. You assemble for yourself a custom set of non-contradictory non-belief-centered Thoughtware codes, and then use it, and refuse to use old thoughtware simply because it is familiar or customary.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Your Team does not have to agree to use a common set of Thoughtware. This Experiment is simply to inspect your Thoughtware as a Team Project together, to make your inspections shared through discussion and public through your website. Choosing to use agreed-upon Thoughtware would be a choice made by people who are co-creating a gameworld in which the shared Thoughtware is documented in their Codex and Rules Of Engagement of their Gameworld.

After creating your Team's online Distinctionary, please share the link with us at General Memetics (annechloe dot destremau at gmail dot com), and ask each person to record Matrix Code AUTHORIT.06 in their free account at StartOver.xyz. This Experiment is worth 5 Matrix Points per person!

Taking back your Authority for what you Notice and what you do not Notice starts with Noticing what restricts or directs the focus of your Attention.

Factors that manage your Attention can be diverse.

1. This Experiment is to Notice what you are Noticing with.
2. Notice why you have chosen (consciously or not) to sculpture your Noticing in this way. What do you get from this? What do you hide yourself from by Noticing this way?
3. Start a list in your Beep! Book titled MY NOTICING and during the next week, write down many times during the day what affects your Attention. For example, explore and write down these areas:

• Your intentional Purposes for your Noticing.
• Your absent minded Purposes for your Noticing.
• Your Gremlin Purposes for various kinds of Noticing.
• Your beliefs.
• Your fears.
• Your fantasy worlds.

After a week, record Matrix Code AUTHORIT.07 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. This Experiment is worth 3 Matrix Points.

Take the risk to defend your Presence.

Get Present. Defend it for an hour.

Defend it for two hours.

Defend it for four hours.

After each of these three time spans that you defend your Presence, for at least 20 minutes, write about it in your Beep! Book.

After your third entry, record Matrix Code AUTHORIT.08 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. This Experiment is worth 2 Matrix Points.

Your energy is swiftly devoured by countless distractions. Without paying attention to your attention, your precious energy is easily sucked away. Like a sieve with a thousand holes you can be drained in a matter of seconds. No wonder we can be so tired halfway through the day. Without realizing how, we frivolously spend our daily energy allotment. Then we have little patience for Edgeworker Experiments.

For three days, for three different hours each day, put some of your Attention on taking back your authority for your Attention.

After each hour, make notes about this in your Beep! Book, under the heading: Authority for My Conscious Attention.

When you have made 9 entries, (3hours x 3 days), record Matrix Code AUTHORIT.09 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. This Experiments is worth 2 Matrix Points!

There was a moment in your life, or perhaps several moments, that you decided to give up your own Authority about what your feelings said, about what you wanted and about what you wanted to take a stand for.

The decision to forsake your Authority in order to blend into what your environment presented as the only correct or existing option, is drilled into the tissues of your physical body like hooks in flesh. The substance that is keeping that decision there, maintaining it alive and active, is an Emotion - a stuck Feeling.
That Emotion is therefore also the gateway into finding the Point of Origin of this old decision.

1. For this Experiment, ask for a spaceholder.
2. Ask the spaceholder to do Completion Loops with you while you start speaking, starting each of your sentences with 'I gave up my authority over..' 'What I do not have authority over is..' 
   'What I need to ask permission for is..'
3. Let yourself get liquid.
4. Let the arising emotions guide you back to a previous time of your life, and find out what decisions you made.
5. Feel deeply into your incomplete emotions. Complete them with your spaceholder.
6. Sense if it is the time to make a new decision.
7. The next day, take notes of the gems of this process. What insights or distinctions did the process bear? Take them with you throughout the week.
8. Self-Observe what changes in your relationship to your Authority.
9. In the following week, make public or private use of your newly recovered Authority more than once, and write a few words about what different results you could create now that you actually - not theoretically - took back that authority.

After completing this experiment, record Matrix Code AUTHORIT.08 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. In the Proof section, please include the words you wrote in point 9 of this Experiment. This Experiment is worth 2 Matrix Points.

One of the most fundamental distinctions that is offered by Possibility Management and that does not seem to be offered anywhere else is the distinction between a Feeling and an Emotion. The distinction is: Feelings are for handling things. Emotions are for healing things.

A Feeling is a source of energy and information provided to you naturally by your body. It comes up in the small here and a small now, in your Adult Ego State, providing you with the clarity and fuel needed to create intimacy, realize your purpose, be of service, set boundaries, make outrageous invitations and transformational proposals and anything else that you might want to handle in your life as an Adult.

Emotions do not emerge from the present situation and therefore have nothing to do with what is happening in reality. Emotions are when the information and energy of your Feelings got stuck in your body in a recent or distant past, because you suppressed the Feelings then they happened.

Since current Thoughtware considers Feelings are bad, you suppress most of your Feelings, often starting with this already at a very young age.

The result of this is that most of the time, when you find yourself feeling angry, sad, afraid, glad, depressed, ashamed or isolated in the present, you think the state you are in is a consequence of your present circumstances when actually what you are experiencing is a reaction from your past.
 

Although both Feelings and Emotions at first feel the same and fall into one of the four categories of anger, sadness, joy or fear, it is very easy to experientially distinguish Emotions from Feelings. Here is how: Feelings are triggered, they arise, the energy and information get used, and then, within a minute or so, they are completely gone from your body. Emotions on the other hand, are triggered, they arise, and then no matter how you seem to express them, they persist in your experience.

Did you ever feel scared and then an hour later you were still scared? That is emotional fear. Did you ever feel angry and then a day later you were still angry? That is emotional anger. Did you ever feel sad and then a week later you were still sad? That is emotional sadness. If you feel a feeling and five minutes later you are still feeling that feeling, it is not a feeling at all. It is an Emotion.

Knowing the difference between a Feeling and an Emotion is huge. It enables you to create a gap between you and the state you find yourself in. It allows you to not blame another person or an aspect of your circumstances for what you are feeling. Instead, it enables you to ask for an Emotional Healing Process to restore and integrate the stuck Feeling as a resource in your body, and retrieve from it the information it held. The healing occurs through recognizing and understanding the emotion from the Adult perspective. The redeeming value of emotional pain is when the pain becomes conscious.

The result of Healing through navigating your Emotions is that you can experience the present more neutrally and you gain an expanded number of possibilities for interacting with your world, instead of being stuck in the linearity of your reactivity.

This Experiment is to take back your authority for navigating your Feelings and Emotions. For this:

1. Join a Rage Club.
    
2. During 1 whole week, be aware of every emotional sensation in you. In your Beep! Book, title a page 'Feelings' and a page 'Emotions'. Every time you feel something, list it either under Feeling or Emotion. Describe what you felt and what this Feeling was related to or triggered by.
   
   For Example:
   
   - Anger because I wanted to get up and go to the toilet. Anger built up because I kept working and disappeared when I went to the bathroom (Feeling).
   
   - Depression and isolation that started in the morning and faded away around 4 when I had coffee (Emotion).
    
3. Create regularity in your tending to your Emotions. For 1 month, choose one or several of the following options and commit to what you chose for one month and for as long as you choose after that. Maybe the rest of your life:
   
   - Join the Emotional Healing Process Collaboration Group on Telegram and ask for at least one EHP each week.  
   - Join an EHP Dojo or EHP Warmup Dojo that meets weekly.
   - Empower a Next Culture EHP Spaceholder and pay them to hold space for you at least once a week.
   - Block 7-10 days in your calendar where you do 1 EHP every day, or do an EHP every time you have an Emotion come up. Ask for your team of Spaceholders in the EHP Collaboration Group.
   - Do all of these.
    
4. Create more awareness of your Feelings. During 1 whole week, start every sentence with: "I feel...(anger/sadness/fear/joy) because.."
   Connect to the feeling or emotion you are having and let it speak.
   If it is an Emotion, tell the person you are having an emotional reaction right now and that you will take care of that Emotion later.
   If it is a Feeling, discover what action step is connected to this Feeling and take responsibility for what you discover.
    
5. After completing this Experiment, please write an Article or record a video in which you share about what you did, what you learned, what difference it made in your life and what you can create now that you are consciously navigating your Feelings and Emotions. Publish your article or your video on Medium.com, on Instagram or anywhere else where people can find it.

After completing this experiment, record Matrix Code AUTHORIT.11 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. In the Proof section, please include a link to your article or video. This Experiment is worth 10 Matrix Points.

In 2010 Possibility Managers discovered it is possible to Stellate your Feelings Archetypes.

The term 'Stellating' means 'to change a planet into a star'.

The difference between a planet and a star is that a planet absorbs more energy than it gives off, whereas a star radiates more energy than it absorbs.
 

Stellating is feeling your Conscious Feelings at a 100% intensity. In so doing awakening the Archetypal forces built into your body that have been waiting to be turned on and accompany you in your life as an adult ever since you were 15-18 years old.

Taking back your authority for Stellating your Feelings Archetypes means taking back your authority for being an empowered Adult. The cost of humans not knowing about the possibility of creating this access to your inner resources is huge. The benefit of remaining a disempowered human being is also huge - for the parts in you that are committed to survival.

This experiment is about taking back your authority for Stellating your Feelings Archetypes.
For this, first:

1.  Read the Stellating website. Let it dawn on you what the cost has been for you and humanity to not stellate their feelings.
2. Go to an Expand the Box Training. After completing this, you get to go to a Possibility Lab.
3. Go to a Possibility Lab. Ask for a Stellating process. The first one to Stellate is Anger.
4. Watch the results in your life. 
5. Write an article or record a video about how your life was before and after Stellating one of your Feelings. (Just 1 out of 4 and still 3 to go!)

You might experience the act of Choosing as a dangerous, thorny thing. You have the story that it is scary to be responsible for the outcomes of your Choosing.
 

There are many strategies to not face into the Fear that is generated by the act of Choosing.

One strategy is to pretend there is no other Choice than what you are Choosing, so as to pretend there is no choice to make. Another strategy is to choose what others choose, in an attempt to not get singled out and questioned about what you chose.
 

Rather than focussing solely on what you choose, you could shift and use part of your Attention to see what you are choosing with.

Which forces are you allowing to influence your choosing?
Which Parts of you are choosing for you?
Which amount of freedom are you allowing yourself to Self-Observe and Notice which forces you are allowing to influence your Choosing?

For example, in choosing the way you are earning your income right now, which default decision forces have been at play? Did you choose the job that was available to you where you live? Did you choose a job that matches what you studied, because that is what you studied? Did you choose a job you hate but generates money? Did you choose a job that makes you look good to your environment? Did you choose a job in which you are most fully at service for your Archetypal Lineage?

Without making ongoing efforts to become more awake and aware, your daily Choices remain mostly unconscious... that is, they serve Unconscious Purposes.

In other words: your choices serve habitual Gremlin / Box / Survival Purposes.

Instead of pretending you have no other options or letting your Choosing be influenced by forces unknown to you, you can take back your Authority for increasing your capacity for conscious Choosing.

For this Experiment:

1. For 3 days, observe the choices you make. Anytime the making of a Choice triggers an Emotion in you, Notice which parts in you are at play and competing for making the Choice. 
2. Write down the dialogues between these different Parts of you. Describe: 
   - Who is talking?
   - What are they saying? The literal words as well as the subtitles; the communication between the lines.
   - How are they saying it? what Emotion or Feeling does their communication carry?
   
   For example:
   
   - "It is really late now. You should go home." (admonishing, parent-like voice with frozen fear and anger. The message is I should submit right now because otherwise things will go wrong).
   - Fear mixed with sadness: "But what if right now all the fun starts happening and I miss out? (child sadly rebelling because it has already given up on getting its way or being listened to).
    
3. Notice which Part of you gets to make the choice in the end. Who submits to who? How did this Part of you get its way? Do not beat yourself up or try to change anything. Just get to know yourself (selves).
4. Read Spark 199: 'You can choose about the forces influencing your choices.'
5. Do the Experiments there.
6. Hold space for a WorkTalk or write an Article about Choosing in which you offer value in the form of the Clarity you obtained about what else is possible when it comes to Choosing.

Keep building your muscles to stay there in Radical Authority.

Make notes in your Beep! Book about:

1. The exact time you enter Radical Authority.
2. How you created the Extraordinary Space in which to obtain Radical Authority.
3. What you create in Radical Authority.
4. What contracts you or knocks you out of Radical Authority.
5. The exact time you exit Radical Authority.
6. The total time you stayed in Radical Authority: seconds, minutes, hours...