by Leo Volont » Wed Dec 09, 2015 1:40 pm
Dear Arne,
Of course I will call you Arne, and of course you can you can call me Leo.. and I feel honored by the informality that you extend to me.
Still, Arne, we have a Problem with Time. You yourself said it took more than a Decade to Get Where You Are... for me it is something like 3 or 4 decades. Ammie Mann, a very talented Song Writer wrote "sometimes it takes a Lifetime to get what you Need".
But, having taken so Long yourself, you seem to be arguing that Other People could go much more swiftly... yes, if they Only Had a Better Idea of How to Go About It. Yes, I See your Point, BUT, YOU ARE REALLY VERY SMART AND I THINK YOU WEREN'T SO STUPID AS TO WASTE SO MUCH TIME. Yes, granted, you probably wasted some time... we all do... but More than a Decade being Stupid... NO! I do not See You Being That Stupid.
AND! Consider, AS MUCH AS WE WOULD LIKE, we are NOT Spiritual Beings with Infinite Capabilities. As BODIES and BRAINS we are FINITE BEINGS. Yes, we can find ways to go Incrementally Faster, but there is no way we can go Infinitely Fast. We have Limitations. I have seen this in my Dream Work, my Mathematical Studies, and my Music Practice. NOTHING happens instantly... Just on a Hope and a Prayer.... In the Material Physical World, we need to Appreciate TIME and PROCESS.
Now, Yes, I looked at your Website, and you obviously IN THE BUSINESS of making grandiose promises to People, with the expectation that they will subscribe to your ... well... it is not MILLION DOLLARS... but for many People it might just as well be. You Promise BIG in order to get BIG compensation.
But, ask yourself, Arne, is your SELF INTEREST in this matter distorting your Common Sense?
Hey, I have no Iron in the Fire here... it doesn't matter at all to me... and SO I Can Think Clearly On the Subject. But I wonder whether you are too distracted by the sound of the clink clink clink of the Cash Register. Well, that does sound mean... doesn't it? BUT, you have to admit that you said IT TOOK YOU THE BETTER PART OF 20 YEARS, but with your thought out and well conceived method... it TAKES PRACTICALLY NO TIME AT ALL. How COULD YOU KNOW SUCH A THING!? You would Need a Crowd of Perfect Saints and Avatars to testify that they were Made Perfect using Your Methodology. Well, Where Are These Perfect Saints and Avatars that you have Trained to Perfection, in, what, 5 or 10 Minutes... after their Check Cleared...
Anyway, it might be a good Business Plan, Arne. But, for myself, I study Math. I might tutor or teach someday... if I live long enough. I Practice Music, and it is fun, but, I realize that Music, as a Business, is sordid, dependent upon a great many technical details which requires the Best Other People, who are difficult to Find... or to Pay For, Once Found, and then the Actual Business of Music.... Going To Work and playing the same Sets night after night... well, It would not be as GOOD as just Doing It on my Own, where, after a 3 hour practice, playing the songs I like, well, I am In Heaven with the Angles... Or rather, the Angels Come down to Me. Angels love Music and apparently they don't get much New Stuff up in Heaven....
Anyway, I don't care much about Money. yes, when I had a great job before I was 'retired' I enjoyed a large income. But, believe me, I EARNED Every Penny, in putting up with all of aggravation. Poor and Content is much better than Rich and Morally Conflicted and Disingenuous. Indeed, Arne, haven't you noticed that your Financial Self Interest somewhat distorts your Judgment and shades all of your Programmed Pronouncements toward the Sunny and Optimistic Side.
Well, if you still doubt me, think about this... If your idea is So Great, and Billions of People Live on the Planet, Now, and even More before you came along... Well, WHY DIDN'T THEY THINK OF IT? Are you the First No-Stupid Person Ever to be Born, in the history of the World. it just does not seem plausible, does it? You know, when I am congratulating myself on being such a skilled and competent amateur musician... I make myself consider that there may be Thousands of People around just like me. I remember the writings of an English Traveler in Bavaria... Germany.. more than a hundred years ago. He loved Music and thought he knew the Standard for Great Musicians... then found that in Bavaria, EVERY FIDDLE PLAYER at some Barn Dance could play with more acumen than any of the Best Violin Players that he knew of in London.
Oh... this leaves me with an Argument against my Argument... and I am Honest Enough not to conceal it... That I, like that English Traveler, knows only what he Knows. You May Be Entirely Correct! You Might Indeed have Cultivated a 'Colony of Genius Bavarian Fiddle Players', so to speak, but I have not seen them, or heard them, and don't really Know.
We only have your Word for it... but we Know that comes at a price.
We should just wait until one of your Students comes forward and decides to Give it All a way for Free... shouldn't we.
that is what I did with my own Guru. I paid for it myself, but had too much moral self-respect to ask anybody else to pay for what should be simple Man to Man... Person to Person advice... for the Good of Humanity.
and unless it is Free... well, isn't just 'snake oil' ... at What Point Will You Not Claim ANYTHING... if your Landlord is banging on the Door demanding the Rent. At what Point are you no Longer Philosopher and a Guru, and become just sleazy Salesman out to screw all of the Suckers out there out of enough money to make your house and car payments?