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Interview with Dr. John Hanley - Page 12 INT: What are the central distinctions intrinsic in the whole philosophical concept of transformation? What are the building blocks of that? JH: Well, there's a course that I recently found out about called Millionaire Mind which I thought was a clever name for a course. INT: Who put that up? JH: I don't know, but I just recently heard about it and I thought, "Well, if that's Millionaire Mind, then what we are is Billionaire Being," if you will. So being is the number one abstraction that we want to give people--a real opportunity to experience their own being. You know, we live in a society that's really oriented to consumption and to having and to lots doing and activity. But, you know, the being part is just sort of taken for granted, and what we do is sort of reverse the order: if doing and having are primary in the real world and in most people's thinking, then, when they come into the training, we want to present the idea that maybe being has a lot more to do with their ability to do and have than we've previously thought. So that's number one. Number two, we want to open up the possibility (not like we know this is so but we have strong indications that it's valuable, for people to look at this question) that really what we see out there and what we hear come through a filtering system. We call it a paradigm, and that's not a new word now--it was some years ago when we started, but now it's sort of taken for granted. Paradigm. And really, what paradigm means is that we have a set of beliefs and values through which we see the world. That's all fine and well, and when I say we, I mean all of us and, therefore, we don't have some perfect access to truth. So, if we don't have to deal with truth, then we don't have to deal with a fixed being, then we can deal with being and possibility. And, ultimately, the third and most important distinction, in my opinion, is that yesterday has very little to do with tomorrow. What the trainings try to do--what transformational technology is about--is separating the past from the future, and that's what opens up possibilities when people can begin to see that there's not a cause-effect relationship between the past and the future. That means that everything I did up untill now isn't necessarily what I'll continue to do or isn't necessarily an extrapolation of what I have been doing. In fact, I could take a 180º turn up, down, or sideways because I'm not lashed and tied to the past. So those are the three that I see, and we could talk about that for a long time because the first course is five days and the second is five days. So that's a long conversation, but I'd say those three are, to me, primary. |
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