Hi. I downloaded your “Life Transformation formula” on Friday, and read it over the weekend; I wanted to drop you a note and share with you my feelings about the formula.

I will be 35 in April, and I’ve spent a great deal of my adult life in search of “self-actualization” or whatever you want to call it. I’ve read dozens of books from people like Ken Wilber, Sri Aurobindo, Krishnamurti, Lao Tzu, Freud, Gurdjieff, R. A. Wilson, L. Ron Hubbard, Plato, Gregory Bateson, Bandler & Grinder, Tony Robbins, Erik Erikson, Aleister Crowley, Stephen Covey, James Redfield, Helen Palmer, Carlos Castaneda…I’ve taken martial arts and yoga classes, gone through the Silva training, done Personal Power II, meditated…I’ve tried herbal cleanses, macrobiotic diets, Body for Life, running, Bikram, fasting, juicing…I’ve attended workshops or read books about or tried: chanting, est, Holodynamics, tantra, flotation tanks, huna, psychedelics, Taoism, zen, psychic cleansing, chi kung, the enneagram, Bikram…I tried the Marine Corps for six years, and spent six months alone in the desert. Most recently I’ve begun using the Holosync technology for daily meditation.

I’ve found all of it to be useful in one sense or another. However, I must say that I have never come across a piece of work which I’ve found as valuable, as succinct, and as immediately life-changing as your book.

I began reading on Saturday, and finished (including all the exercises) on Sunday, and by today (Monday), I’ve already come up with clear plans for several of the ’12 areas of existence’. And, while the plans are somewhat extravagant, I have no doubt of my ability to realize them (at least in my own universe ?). In fact, it’s quite interesting…during my time in the desert – about four years ago now – I came up with similarly far-reaching, seemingly unattainable plans. And yet here I am living several of them! But, as you say, it is quite easy to create results without noticing or appreciating them as such, particularly when they occur over a timeframe of months or years.

As I read your book, it all made complete sense to me. Many of your ideas seemed to me like the best Western explications of particular zen koans that I have ever come across; when I re-read it I will make an effort to find those koans and correlate them – I will pass those along if you like. Most such attempts I’ve read – Western ‘interpretations’ of Eastern thinking – typically seem forced or fluffy or overly mystical, but your writings seemed rather to be simple, concise explanations of the core concepts, without trying to reference the Eastern methodology or viewpoint at all.

I am doing the lists. I am doing the lists. I am doing the lists. I am doing the lists. And, yes, I am doing the lists. I will continue doing the lists, and look forward to doing more lists.

I will probably join your membership program soon.

With regard to interpreting your book and your message…as I read, and had an astonishing level of clarity about what you were saying, it seemed to me that many many ideas I had exposed myself over the years were coalescing, or were more properly coalesced by you in your book. It was as though I had finally spent enough time preparing myself, laying the groundwork, opening my mind, so that at last I could receive the message/system that would bring me to that which I have long sought.

I don’t yet know if that is true or not; certainly I have felt similar ‘aha!’ moments in the past…but this feels different somehow.

I am curious to see how someone without a similar background interprets the work…I have a friend who, although interested in personal growth, is a bit of a neophyte, and I’ve mentioned your book to him and hope to have him read it soon. I doubt he will be willing to do all of the exercises, but hopefully I can get him to do the daily lists at least and see how the system works for him.

I’m going to keep up the Holosync meditations, as I find them particularly useful and I like the theory behind the system; also, I feel it is no coincidence that I found your book a mere month after beginning Holosync (which I have put off for two years). Combined with your book, I believe my self-actualization ‘efforts’ (though that’s not the word I mean) will begin to bear fruit in a very apparent manner, and hopefully one so rapid that I won’t be able to help but note my results.

Again, thank you, and I look forward to sharing more of my process with you as it occurs.
J. P.