Prometheus Unbound

This is the first email of a 6 day email course I have for free at my website here. This technique has changed my life. I hope it can improve even one of yours. Thank you for reading.
Gods exist.
The Gods are stories every civilization has created to represent the universal motivations of our species. Our drive to lead, and how it can corrupt us, is represented by Zeus, our drive towards aggression and conflict is represented by Ares, and our drive to lust and passion is represented by Aphrodite. The Gods represent aspects of our nature.
Prometheus is the God of Metaprogramming. His name means Forethought, and he represents our ability to envision the future.
Forethought is defined as “careful consideration of what will be necessary or may happen in the future.” It is easy to overlook how fucking monumental this ability is. First, it means humans discovered the future. Second, it means we can project mental avatars of ourselves into the future to see what would happen.
This is a super power. You do this everyday when you think about where you want to eat, or if you want to go out that night, or what movie you want to watch. These are superpowers of the highest magnitude that we take for granted because we perform them effortlessly.
But the discovery of the future, and the ability to project avatars into, changed the course of our evolution. It led to the discovery of “our potential” and the idea of sacrifice.
There is a potential you who you know you could become if you did everything you know you should do, and you stopped doing everything you know you shouldn’t. That potential you sits in the future, and watches you. It judges. It’s gaze, if you really wish to realize your potential, will burn away your rotten parts; the habits, relationships, and thoughts you know weaken you.
There is a mythological motif that God could never reveal his true form to mortals because they’d burst into flames. Our highest potential is exactly like that. If we really gave proper attention to who we know we could become, we’d burn away almost all that we currently are.
But this self-killing is better than the alternative; to come to the end of your life looking into the disappointed eyes of your potential.
“Sacrifice who you are for who you could become.” — Jordan Peterson
The fire that Prometheus stole from the Gods and gave to man represents the idea of sacrifice.
Fire gives light and transforms materials, but it demands offerings. The more attention we feed our potential, the brighter it glows, the more it inspires us, and the more it demands we sacrifice.
Your potential, if you choose to honor it, will burn away your rotten and useless parts. If you honor Prometheus’s gift and step into his flame, what survives his fire is that part of you that is more aligned with your highest potential.
As we’ll explore in this course, Prometheus and his fire have been quantified scientifically, it has been found to be the most important human trait that can be improved, and we’ll learn the most effective way to improve it.
The measurable scientific aim of Metaprogramming is to improve this trait called Willpower. The subjective mythical aim of Metaprogramming is to teach you to summon Prometheus and wield his fire.
These emails will teach you an empirical path to achieving this.
The backbone of the first four emails is a scientific technique called “The Best Possible Self Exercise.” As you’ll quickly see, this is a scientifically-sanitized Prometheus Invocation Ritual.
Created by Dr. Laura King, and replicated in multiple studies, this technique will ask you to envision your best possible future, for 20 minutes, 4 days in a row.
This will be the exercise I end each of the first 4 emails with. The last email will be a scientific guide to begin manifesting that best possible future you envision.
If you are ready, invite Prometheus and his fire into your life.
Note: If you’ve read to this far and don’t do the technique below, the rest of the emails will be a waste of your time. Maybe you aren’t ready, or maybe I didn’t do a good enough job explaining the importance of this skill. Please reply to this email and let me know what kept you from action.
Technique: Day 1 of the Best Possible Self Exercise or Invoking Prometheus
Get paper and pen, or open a fresh word program.
Dr. Laura urges:
“Think about your life in the future. Imagine that everything has gone as well as it possibly could. You have worked hard and succeeded at accomplishing all of your life goals. Think of this as the realization of all of your life dreams. Now, write about what you imagined.”
Don’t worry about grammar or spelling. Let whatever comes to you to flow through you. Be as specific as you can. The more specific you are, the better you will respond to this exercise.
For the next 20 minutes, write continuously about what you imagine this best possible future self to be.
Take 5 breaths, where you breathe in for 5 seconds and breathe out for 5 seconds, then begin.
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In the next email, we will explore how modern scientists have quantified, measured, and explained Prometheus.
Happy Metaprogramming,
Erick Godsey
If you’d like to take the course, it is free here.
