What The New Simpleology Book Can Do For You

If I could sum up in one word what this book will give you, it’s this:

Choice.

It will expand your choices in life, and help you to go from being thought, to thinking for yourself.

But first, full disclosure, and a notice of my relationship to the Simpleology program:

I’m a Simpleology affiliate. Although I won’t make a dime if you purchase the book using the links provided in this article, I will make a commission if you purchase either Simpleology 102 or 103 through the links on this page. Simpleology 101 is completely free, so I (obviously) won’t make any money off of that one.

I’m also a Simpleology practitioner (how’s that for culty sounding???), and have been (on and off) for a couple of years now. Simpleology 101 is one of the things that I credit with getting me to take the actions necessary to climb up out of the muck and mire of addiction and depression, move to California, reunite with my wife, hold a steady job for over a year and a half, keep working away at my blogging, and learn how to be a productive, useful member of society, when before I was a drain and a danger to myself and those around me. It’s not the only thing that helped me to do this, but it sure is on the short list of what I would credit with my turn around.

Simpleology didn’t DO these things for me. What it did was teach me that I had to take the actions necessary to get these things done, and it showed me the way to take these actions.

And the new Simpleology book has brought all of this to a new level.

So here are my thoughts on it.

Book I: The Asylum

You can check out a previous post of mine that tells you how to get a preview copy of this first section of the book. (Here’s a hint – sign up for Simpleology 101, then check out the lower right hand corner of your Web Cockpit). This section has been changed a bit in the hardcover edition, with some new information added, but the preview gives you a good overview of the entire book, and has some tasty tidbits that lead into…

Book II: The Invisible Walls

This is where we get into the real nitty gritty of just how you are being directed, and sometimes outright controlled, by those around you. Now please don’t run off thinking that I’m a conspiracy nut… if anything I’m too forgiving of people’s motives, unless their manipulation of me is completely blatant.

The ideas in this section brought to mind my past opinions of Joe Vitale’s book “Hypnotic Writing”… opinions that I had just from the title (I’ve never read the book… interesting). God… I hated that title, and immediately assumed that the book was, well, EVIL. The marketers want to control us by using hypnosis!

Well, duh! But the title obviously appealed to a lot of people (mostly marketers, I bet), because the book became a huge hit.

My opinion’s of Mr. Vitale have changed quite a bit over the years, both because of his explanation of what he means by hypnotic (it’s about getting their attention and getting the message though, not about control), and because of his more spiritually based works like “Spiritual Marketing” and it’s descendant “The Attractor Factor”.

But back to the book that this article is about…

One of my favorite parts of this section is it’s explanation of our perceptions, and how what we see is not really what’s out there. But he doesn’t explain this in the same way that proponents of things like The Law of Attraction do… he doesn’t deny that there is an objective reality beyond our direct control. What he does do is he expand on the idea that “when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” It’s a very rational take on the subject, something that I found myself nodding my head to as I was reading. He explains that there is an objective reality out there, but that we can’t, with our natural senses and modern equipment, know what that objective reality is independent of our observation.

He also takes the movie “What the Bleep Do We Know” to task as well, and exposes some of the pseudoscience behind it. I did find it interesting, though, that he didn’t mention the huge phenomenon that is “The Secret” directly (although there are what may be underhanded references to it); it’s possible that because of the timing of the writing and publishing of the book the Secret hadn’t really hit as big as it has. It’s also possible that he didn’t touch it because at least one of his associates and friends (once again, Dr. Joe Vitale) has a major role in the movie. Or, a third possibility is that because The Secret doesn’t use nearly as many “scientists” in it’s explanation of it’s model of reality that What the Bleep does, it didn’t warrant the same amount of criticism. Or… (you get the idea…)

But he doesn’t criticize with spite… he encourages us to look at things from a rational viewpoint. And he slams the militant atheists as well, with just as much gusto. It’s truly fair and balanced. He says in the book that he isn’t against any belief; he’s against the I’m Right and You’re Wrong mentality. And the solution he provides is…

Book III: Disposable Reality

This is the section that really got my attention. In it, Mark talks about how different views of the world and of reality can assist us in different situations. He discusses different methods of thinking that might be useful, and let’s us know that it’s actually OK to switch your view of reality depending upon the situation. Here’s how I took this: it doesn’t matter what is really out there (to an extent), but what matters is how it will serve or not serve me. For instance, going back to The Secret – if believing that what you focus on is what you get motivates you to action because you feel good and want to do something, then the belief has served you. If it motivates you to sit on your butt and chant until a million dollars drops in your lap… well, that may not be such a great belief to hold.

He compares it to the various operating systems out there that we can use to run a computer. Use Windows for business, use a Mac for art and music, and use Unix to run your servers. They are all valid operating systems, but each does certain things a little better than the others. So he explains how to change your operating system on the fly to one that will serve you.

This really hit me hard. All of my life, I’ve been searching for the One True Way. If I go to AA, I must stop accepting the tenants of Rational Recovery. If become a Christian, I can’t learn from Buddhism. Or I work Simpleology and feel I have to drop everything from Bob Doyle’s Wealth Beyond Reason program.

This gave me the permission (that I could have given myself) to use what works!

So what do I know works?

Book IV: Simpleology: The Simple Science of Getting What You Want

Briefly, there are 5 Laws of Simpleology:

1) The Law of Straight Lines.
2) The Law of Clear Vision.
3) The Law of Focused Attention.
4) The Law of Focused Energy.
5) The Inescapability of Action/Reaction.

If you read the book before starting the online course, this section will be brand new to you. If you’ve already started the course, it will be a review. Either way, it’s timeless wisdom that is so… SIMPLE… that it’s amazing how often we forget it and wonder “Why am I not getting what I want?”

General Observations

Did you really think we were going to come to the end of this article with me not recommending the book? Like I said in my previous post, I was really expecting this to just be a rehash of what I had already read and was practicing in my daily life. But it wasn’t… it gave me a deeper understanding of why I was practicing the Laws of Simpleology, and helped me to see some tripping points within myself.

Do you need to buy this book? I don’t know.

Do you need to sign up for Simpleology 101? I don’t know that either.

Has Simpleology helped me to grow as a person and to get the things done that are necessary to achieve my goals?

Absolutely.

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