You're Not A Fish In The Stream, You're A Whirlpool In The Stream

Hopefully, around April of next year, I will enter into the third phase of my life, the Self-Actualization Phase.

For review, there are three life phases of the Alpha Male 2.0, which are:

• The Breakout Phase (age 18-34 or so) when you break away from the authority figures of your parents, boss, and girlfriend (if you have one).

• The Empire Building Phase (age 27-35 to older years, whatever “older years” means to you) where you build the life infrastructure you need to live a full and happy life (financially, business, physically, five flags, your dating/relationship life, etc).

• The Self-Actualization Phase (older years to death) where you focus on becoming the best you can be and expressing yourself in the world the way you were always meant to, without having to worry about survival or logistics.

When I enter this phase, I will keep working, because the entire concept of retirement is stupid and based on false Societal Programming from the elites. (The German government invented the concept of retirement in the late 19th Century just to get old men out of the work force to ensure young men would have jobs so they wouldn’t revolt against them. But the problems of German elites from 1885 have nothing to do with you.)

Instead, I will continue to work, but on things I want to work on rather than those with the highest income potential. I won’t really care how much money I make at that time.

This is as opposed to today (and the last 35 years of my life), where pretty much all I’ve thought about is/was how much money my work produced.

One of the things I would like to do next year is write a book about philosophy, specifically the nature of the universe, who you are, who you are not, morals and ethics, spirituality, and a bunch of other aspects.

I’ve already started writing this book in my spare time and I posted a rough draft sample chapter on one of my YouTube channels.

One concept that I will fully explore in the book is that you are not separate from the universe, but a part of the universe. This is not a new concept and I’m sure you’ve heard it before, but I don’t think people realise what this means.

This means you are not a salmon struggling to swim upstream. That salmon is, or at least feels separate from the stream, like the stream is working against him.

But that’s not how this works. Instead, you are a whirlpool in the stream. You ARE the stream. You are a visible component of the stream, but you’re still the stream. The stream isn’t working against you because the stream is you.

Saying you’re separate from the world trying to make your way in the world is like saying your hand is separate from your body and it’s struggling against your body.

No.

You’re simply a part of the universe that is looking at yourself through this temporary construct you call Joe Smith. When you die, most likely (and we don’t know this for sure, it’s just the most likely theory), you go back to the oneness of the universe, just like when the whirlpool vanishes from the stream or when a drop of water hits the ocean.

There’s a tremendous amount of benefit in looking at your life this way which makes success and happiness much easier. I’ll delve more into that in the book.

But the problem this creates is a great amount of fear, in that what is “you” (your ego) will likely vanish forever once you, the drop, goes back to the ocean.

You and I have built up a lot of time and energy into the thing you call you. And we don’t want that to go away.

Christians and Muslims reconcile this terror by stating that “you” don’t die when you die, you just go to Heaven and just keep on living, just in a different environment that is 100% awesome for the rest of your life.

The problem is that we have literally no real data to back this up (whereas the whirlpool/stream system has a lot more evidence) and the Heaven concept sounds extremely convenient and fantastical, like humans scared to die just made that shit up to make everyone feel better.

Anti-aging and living a long life are strong parts of who I am, and have been for a long time. Unlike most people in the collapsing era in which we live, I have a really great life that I really like, so I want to keep this party going for a long as possible.

It’s nice to know that I’m a whirlpool in the stream while I’m alive, but it really bothers me that the whirlpool I am will just merge back into the stream at some point in the next few decades.

I really like being one with the stream. Knowing this and living this way makes me happy, at peace, and successful. (More on that in the book.)

But I also really like being a big, brash whirlpool named Caleb Jones who lives in Dubai and Paraguay, who owns a few exciting companies, and has several women in his life he really cares about.

This is one of many life and existence dichotomies we have to wrestle with. I’ll talk more about this in the book. Maybe next year you’ll be able to read it.