WHY ATCE IS GOOD FOR YOU

 

By

Byungwook Bob Yu

ATCE Participant and a Lover of Integral and Evolutionary Philosophy

 

Authentic Thinking for Creative Evolution (ATCE) powerfully benefits intelligent people from all walks of life.  I can sincerely attest to its tremendous benefits from my own experience and the experience of my fellow participants.  ATCE is a one-of-a-kind integral and evolutionary course for those serious students who want to explore further reaches of their developmental potentials and evolutionary possibilities.  Here are the reasons why:

 

For a business person:

The business book Blue Ocean Strategy promotes a strategy for making competition irrelevant by avoiding "Red Ocean" market where the rules and boundaries are well-defined and the competition is fierce and by creating a "Blue Ocean" market where there is no competition and ripe space for further growth.

As appealing as the metaphor is, the book has been criticized as being descriptive and not prescriptive. The book interprets the successes of various innovations through the lens of Blue Ocean, but it does not show how to actually come up with successful innovations in the first place.

Is there a way to create a Blue Ocean market, away from low-cost copiers from emerging market nations and fierce rivals in the first world markets?

A mega-bestseller Good to Great by Jim Collins, talks about a three-circle concept where one's passion, talent and market come together to enable one to make the leap from a good company to a great one.  Collins wrote how it does not take more time, energy and genius to make that transition.  Yet as simple as the concept is, not many companies actually know what their three-circles are and more importantly make the leap from good to great.

In ATCE, you will learn how to create a different kind of a Blue Ocean, where the very attempt by the others to move in will result in their failures because this is the market that can only originate from you.  Also, you will discover what your passion and vision are and learn what the sticky barriers are from making that leap from good to great.  Indeed there is a tremendous gap between good and great, and through passionate dialogues, reading amazing books and personal joyful practice, you will see the gap and make the jump authentically and assuredly.

 

For painters, musicians, and writers:

Here is a quote from Johannes Brahms in Talks With Great Composers:

“Straight away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies and orchestration.  Measure by measure, the finished product is revealed to me when I am in those rare, inspired moods, as they were to Tartini when he composed his greatest work — the Devil's Trill Sonata.

I have to be in a semi-trance condition to get such results — a condition when the conscious mind is in temporary abeyance and the subconscious is in control, for it is through the subconscious mind, which is a part of Omnipotence, that the inspiration comes.  I have to be careful, however, not to lose consciousness, otherwise, the ideas fade away.”

Here is another quote from Truman Capote about his book Other Voices, Other Rooms:

“It is unusual, but occasionally it happens to almost every writer that the writing of some particular story seems outer-willed and effortless; it is as though one were a secretary transcribing the words of a voice from a cloud.  The difficulty is maintaining contact with this spectral dictator.”

Artistic world is overflowing with such stories. An amateur painter admitted that when she finishes a painting, she is reluctant to sign the work with her name because it came from some place else.

What is actually happening when this creative moment occurs?  More importantly, many creative artists, writers and musicians experience these moments, but they do not automatically translate into timeless masterpieces that last for centuries.  What are the barriers between the original inspiration and the actual expression of that inspiration?

In ATCE I, you will learn about the nature and source of that creativity and learn to remove those barriers to let great works to emerge.  You will learn to create your own artistic work based upon your deepest and truthful intuition about your work and your life.

 

For an “integral” person:

You entered the world of integral theory through the massive works of the great philosopher and prolific writer Ken Wilber.  You absorbed his brilliant insights and embarked upon a comprehensive and disciplined integral life practice.  You engaged in thought-provoking discussions about integral theories with other like minded people.

Yet, after a while, for some reason, nothing has changed.  You know more than before (in fact tons more), yet deep inside, you feel that you have not evolved to what you know.  It may be a classic case of cognitive line developing way ahead of other lines, such as emotional, physical and above all spiritual.

In ATCE I, you will engage in a unique integral life practice (ILP); you will read profound philosophical and spiritual books that are as inspiring and challenging as Wilber's books are; you will engage in passionate and intellectual inquiries on these ideas with other similar-minded people.  But above all, you will actually experience real-time evolution in many lines.  The thrill of actual real-time evolution is the biggest gift that you can receive from your conscious participation in ATCE I.

What secret ingredient does ATCE give you?  Nothing and Everything.  Nothing, for there is no secret, for you are the one who decided to evolve and you alone can evolve.  Everything, for in ATCE, the place from which you engage in your ILP is not the same place where you engaged in your ILP before.

Before you were trying to evolve completely into an integral level, but in ATCE I, you evolve integrally from day one. And in ATCE II, we will all evolve into the holistic or Turquoise level as in Spiral Dynamics, through a omnicentric dialogue practice.

Come and join us for this joyful integral evolutionary journey.

 

For an intellectual, book loving person:

Reading deep and dense intellectual books is an activity that only a few can understand. Many read, but what they read is superficial. Masterpieces written by past and present intellectual giants are your typical cup of teas.

In How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren, four levels of reading are defined: elementary, inspectional, analytical and syntopical.

Elementary reading is the kind of reading that we engage with the common print media - newspapers and magazines.

Inspectional reading involves skimming and pre-reading the titles, tables of contents, and index before reading the entire book.

Analytical reading is what book reviewers do, in which the reader reads the book carefully, evaluates the message and places the book in comparison to other works.

The highest level of reading, synoptical reading, is what researchers do.  The researchers have a topic to investigate, create a bibliography, and then reads the books in order to gain a broad and deep understanding on that topic.

In ATCE, we engage in a fifth kind of reading: transformational.  The books we read are written not only by the highest intellectual geniuses, but they are written from a perspective that is rare and far beyond the level of ordinary intellect.

These books are difficult to understand, not because they use rare words or present ideas that are so far out.  They are difficult to understand for the following reasons:

1) The books are written by minds that go beyond ordinary conceptual level of understanding.

2) The books demand self-transformation from the reader to be understood.

In order to get something out of a book, it is imperative that one has understood clearly something, no matter how small.  But the readers of these books will get something despite the lack of clarity because the goal of transformational reading is not only understanding but self-transformation, leaving the readers forever changed.  And no matter how much you know and understand, you will never lose a sense of wonder.  In fact, it increases as your understanding unfolds.

 

For a regular person:

You consider yourself a regular person, with a nice job, a loving family and a circle of warm friends.  Yet life is losing its luster.  Activities and hobbies that used to excite you no longer do so.  You seek for something more exciting, but nothing else seems like a right choice at the moment.  If you were sick or had problems at work or had relationship issues, then your current malaise would make sense, but there is nothing like that happening.  The picture of life is changing from color into a black and white one.

There is a reason for what you are going through.  In ATCE I, you will discover what that reason is and find out why it is a good news; for it is a great signal for you to make a conscious shift from a life in which you are led habitually, reactively, and repetitiously to a life in which you lead authentically, passionately, and courageously.  ATCE I will restore those lost colors to make your life once again sparkling.

 

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