I use business and science metaphors, techniques and processes to create and map my spiritual growth and understanding. I've been recently pondering about bell and "S" curves. I'm constantly learning and trying to "get to the next level" while understanding and explaining myself and my world. I come across plateau's, places where I feel like I'm not "moving forward". And I'm desperately afraid of hitting the downward slope of the bell curve. (Does the Bell curve even apply to spiritual growth?! Maybe not.)
When it comes to enlightenment, I am not interested in the long tail. There are plenty of long tail religions, practices, cults, extinct and yet uninvented. I'm not interested in discovering, hypothesizing, explaining and proofing a Theory of Everything. (Luckily for me, Ken Wilbur has taken on that monumental task.)
My objective is track/create and then map the path. A path. From here to where I will go. To track the Bell curves, in fact, to hack the bell curves. To find the turning point, plateau, and then head up again... a Kurtweilian S curve. A stairway to Heaven. (An S curve includes the first half of a bell curve.) It's not a hard task and yet a very complicated subtle manoeuvre.
I'll tell you the secret of the manoeuvre and how to do it. When you reach the top of the highest point of the bell curve, jump. Abandon your grounding, focus on your goal and leap. (Innovate!) The net need not appear, but you can visualize it, if it makes you feel better. Your jump will fail, if you do not abandon the weight of the knowledge you just received. (Transcend.) Use the knowledge as a boost - a springboard, and catch the upswing, the rising thermals.
Congratulations, you've crossed the chasm. You've hacked the metaphorical bell curve. You're on your way to walking.
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