Your outer masterpieces will come from your inner self-mastery. Your self-mastery will require your time, effort, and focus. Clarify your mission, identify what you’d love to be, do and have in all areas of life, and then whatever happens, become a master and student of persistence and do what it takes to accomplish it. To obtain self-mastery, you must embrace both sides of life, as well as the full vision of your future that you hold, knowing that there will be people who like your plans and those who don’t.

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[Inaudible].

Hi everyone. This is Dr. Demartini.

I hope that you have a lovely setting that you're sitting in and we have a very,

very important topic today that I'd like to have, share a session on.

And that is on self-mastery. You know, that's a,

I don't know about your life and you will have to look inside and self reflect

on this.

But I know for myself that when I was around 18 years old,

particularly 18 to 20,

I heard the term mastery and I heard of master's degree.

I've heard of various terms applied with the term mastery,

but inside myself, I had a desire to master my life.

It just sounded cool. I didn't really know what it was immediately,

but I wanted to master my life.

As I went on the pursuit of wanting to master my life,

had to define what the hell that was. What on earth is that?

And I gradually over time came to the realization that there were

certain areas that I wanted to be proficient in and masterful

at.

I knew initially that I wanted to overcome my learning problems.

Cause I had learning challenges when I was young and I wanted to master

reading. I wanted to master learning.

I wonder master my vocabulary.

I wanted to master knowledge, I wanted to master a number of ologies,

in fact when I was 18, I read European Philosophers of the Western World

by, from Nietzsche, Descartes to Nietzsche, Nietzsche

And when I read Descartes, René Descartes background,

he was a man of letters. And I, I knew that I wanted to become knowledgeable,

polymathic and disciplined in many disciplines.

So I knew I wanted to master that.

That was my first area that I wanted to master, learning, education,

knowledge, vocabulary, reading and things of that nature.

That led me to the second one that I wanted to master. And that is health area.

I wanted to master physiology and all the disciplines

revolving around the health area. That led me to study embryology,

physiology, gross anatomy, biology,

cardiology, everything about the body, down to the quantum level.

So from 18 to 20 early twenties, it was mainly about learning.

And then it started moving really more into the physical body learning.

And there was a time and it's still pretty fresh in my mind that I could take

gross anatomy and break it down all the way to the quantum level. Every,

every body, the body, the systems, the organs the tissues, the cells,

the molecules, the atoms,

the subatomic particles to the quantum level to theoretical atomic physics.

I wanted to master that.

I wanted to master my mind capacity to absorb that and use that.

Then I hit around 23 and I realized that I got to pay for

school.

And so I had a yearning to kind of learn a little bit about business

and figure out a way of paying for school and paying for everything,

apartment, books, everything I wanted to buy. Cause I wanted to buy books.

I'm gonna learn about health books. A lot of health books.

I was buying 40 to 70 books a week on average and had to pay for that.

So I was now wanting to master the teaching process,

even though I'd been doing some tutoring and teaching up to that point freely

and with a little tutoring income,

I wanted to now master a little bit about business and teaching and

presenting.

So I wanted to master my ability to start speaking and learn how to make some

money doing it so I can pay for everything.

And that went on to around 27. 27, opened up my practice.

And I realized that I wanted to master not only my, my,

my mind, I still didn't throw that away. My body, didn't throw that way.

I was practicing now.

My business was now learning how to flourish and I pick up Alec Mackenzie's

book. I learned how to manage time and, and use my time effectively.

But at age 27, 28, I met a,

I had a gentleman come into my office that inspired me to want to master now

finance.

And I knew somehow innately that I wanted to be financially independent,

but I didn't have any idea how the hell that was going to happen.

But I had this assumption that it was destined for me,

but I didn't know what that meant. And I,

so I set out to master that.

So now I've got from intellectual pursuits to physical pursuits,

to business pursuits to now financial pursuits. Well right about that time,

I realized that a female came into my life and it became my

first wife and man,

I had a real learning curve there.

I had a massive learning curve there cause I was used to being by myself and

occasional dating and stuff like that. But was now learning how to self reflect,

communicate,

manage a house and doing business and finance,

and now putting on relationships. And it was like,

that was a real hurdle for me. Learning how to communicate effectively.

Cause I've kind of had a reclusive life before that.

And then obviously I had to go and network myself and expand myself and

socially network myself.

So I was out socially networking in order to grow my practice.

More people you meet and greet the more you treat kind of thing.

So then I became more intrigued by that. All along

I was interested in spirituality and during my twenties,

I was also studying comparative religions.

I wrote a book on the tree of life on comparative religions,

which I didn't publish, but I used another programs. So

slowly but surely from age 18 to around 28,

all seven areas of life emerged as important to me.

And I got clearer as that decade went on how important it was

for me to go and master all of them.

Right around that time, 83, 84,

I started teaching a human quest series and I learned that

if I, if I wanted to learn something and master something, if I teach it,

it helps.

Cause it kind of forces me to research and find out what the great mentors in

those areas are and what their knowledge is.

And I wanted to know what the most universal principles are in each of these

areas to try to distill it down, because every time I'd go to a seminar,

go to seminar on relationships and it didn't match business,

it was disjointed as heck. And so I,

I was looking for seminars that could put it all together to master my life all

areas. And no matter what I did, I couldn't find exactly that.

And I realized it wasn't something I was going to find it was something I was

going to create

and I created the human quest series where I put a one day program

together for each of the seven areas of life for two purposes,

one, I wanted to share what I,

cause I had learned already proven to myself that the faster I give out

information, the more I retain it.

So that means if I teach it to somebody and I give what I'm learning to

somebody, I tend to re recall it more.

And so I had a motive for my own self to learn and to teach,

but I had the absolute inspired fulfillment of

information and gradually making an impact on their life. And they're saying,

thank you. And it's meaningful for me to go make a difference in people's lives.

So I got the win.

I got the win of making a difference in people's lives and learning.

And so I then realized that mastery was not just me isolating

as an Island, by myself, learning how to do all this.

It's also sharing that and doing what I can help other people.

And I realized that if I help other people get what they want to get life,

I get what I want to get life, kind of like Zig Ziglar taught me.

And so self-mastery became the mastery of all seven areas and the

human quest series, somebody came down and would come to the one day program,

then have to go back. And eventually somebody said, 'well, John,

can't you just put them all together.

We can come down one time and just spend a week with you?'

And that's how the Prophecy 1 Experience came about.

And the Prophecy 1 Experience started in 1984 as the human quest series and

then in 1989/90,

it got correlated into a seven day program.

And so ever since then I've been adding and refining.

So that program has been evolving since before 1984

because the gathering of information started before that.

So I've been refining and updating that program all these years,

over 30 something years, almost 40 years. And what's interesting is

every time I find something along the journey that I find that helps

me understand another piece of the jigsaw puzzle,

on mastery of life. I put it into that,

that program into the other programs I do to try to share that because of the

realization that if I help other people learn the information,

it helps me and I have a narcissistic need to want to master my own life and

have an altruistic need to want to serve other people, master theirs,

because it is absolutely inspiring to share information and then get thank you

letters and go, Hey,

this worked and this is what's happening and everything else. I,

most of my gratitudes on a daily basis,

I'm not only what I get to do and what I set out to do,

but also the feedback I'm getting from students around the world.

And that's the most, I mean, that's purely inspirational at times.

So self-mastery became all seven areas.

And every one of my programs that I teach today is a dual purpose.

One for me to master, keep mastering my life because I had a dream to,

and you may have this, I hope you do.

I had a dream to create original ideas that serve humanity.

I wanted to come up with a originl frigging ideas.

Cause every time I studied great minds and I've studied thousands of them,

great philosophers, the great Nobel prize winners, a great well,

the religious leaders are great inventors, et cetera,

anybody that did exceptionally amazing life changing work

world changing work. I want to know what they're doing.

I want to own the traits of those individuals.

I want to stand on their shoulders and I want to contribute that way. So to me,

I started to clearly define in my own master plan

what it looked like and kept typing and refining what it looked like

about mastery. So I knew that I wanted to create original ideas.

I wanted to create something cause I saw so many people out there rehashing the

same stuff, putting in a few different words, but it's the same stuff.

I wanted to create original ideas that never been thought of or never been

packaged the way it is and deliver that, original ideas that serve humanity.

That's been my affirmation literally before I was 20 years old,

I had that affirmation right at 20

of I create original work that serves,

I create original work that serves humanity, I create original work

that serves humanity.

I hope you say the same thing because it does make a difference.

Cause it keeps you alert to refresh and to getting new information from whatever

source and putting it together and integrating it

that's new. Something that's filling a need that, like

when I,

when I saw people grieving and I found a solution for grief in the

Demartini Method Side C,, that's what I'm looking for.

I'm looking for solutions. I had a dream to take physiology,

psychology, sociology theology,

and make a hard science out of it because it was such a pseudoscience.

It was such a wishy washy thing. it's so many diversities and there's opinions.

I want to make a reproducible,

duplicatable scientific objective mechanism in each of those areas.

Why do we create illness and what do we do about it? What do we,

how do we dissolve our emotional baggage and how do we clear it and how,

what emotions are? I wanted to know, I wanted to make it a science out of it,

the same thing in sociological function. So there's no disorder going on,

there's an apparent, in the apparent chaos there's a hidden order.

I wanted to help people see the hidden order so they understand why things are

happening in their life and what they're doing to create those and why they're

manifesting those. And theology, I wanted to get rid of the,

the bullshit that's out there, excuse the expression,

the opium for the masses that sells the fantasy of the afterlife and an

eschatology that has no basis in reality at all.

But it sells to the dopamine needs.

I wanted to wake people up to what their, their thing is.

So I set out to master that area and read every single freaking thing I could

get my hands on on that area and learn as much as I can from mentors, et cetera,

in that area.

I wanted to create the broadest most in depth information I could in that area.

And I want you to do the same in whatever that area.

You want to be an expert in whatever the area that is deeply meaningful to you,

because you will spontaneously want to learn what's most important to you.

And whatever's highest on your values is what's most important.

You want to become excellent at that. Be the greatest at that, whatever that is.

And I don't know what that is, but it may be social things,

that may be relationship things, health things. I wanted, I wanted it all.

I didn't, I didn't think that mastery is mastering one area and then being,

you know, an idiot in others,

I see people that do really well in their business and have just flubbing

relationships. I see people doing really well in their finances,

but can't maintain their health and have diabetes and overeating. And I mean,

I wanted to go and exemplify a mastery in all areas

and I'm absolutely certain it can be done.

I also wanted to create a global business. I knew since I was 17,

that I wanted to step foot in every country on the face of the earth.

I knew I wanted to teach in every country.

I knew I wanted to have my information out there.

I didn't know how it was going to be done. I didn't have, there was no internet.

There was no even computers back then.

But now with the technology, we can do that,

but I've been traveling extensively, just so I can go there.

I even live on the ship,

The World so I can travel to those countries so I can

So mastery is, whatever's true for you.

What do you want in your business? And everybody's in a business.

Even if you're not in a formal business, you're,

you're raising three kids or two kids or something, or even one child.

That's a business,

that's a product you're putting out into the world that's going to give you a

return. So everybody's in some form of business.

And creating how you want it. You may not want a global business,

but today it's almost impossible not to have it because it's the internet world,

but I wanted to have a global impact. I want to have something. I defined it.

I wrote it out. I clarified it. I worked on it. I refine it.

I gradually take steps towards it. And time X intensity gives results.

The more intensity you focus on it, more, you get it. So I wanted to do that.

You have to decide what you want because any area of your life,

you don't decide and you don't empower,

someone else is going to over rule you and decide for you and rob the power.

So I, I wanted to create original ideas,

serve and grow my mind. I wanted to grow a big business around the world.

I didn't, I didn't want to be trapped.

I wanted to do what I loved doing and be achieving at it.

And I didn't want to compare myself to somebody that's got, you know,

an Amazon business or something that I didn't have a love for doing.

I'm not interested in that. That's, I'm appreciative.

I respect him for doing amazing business, but that's not the business I want.

I wanted to be a teacher and the teaching business of, of sharing information.

You need to define what it is you want to do in your business, whatever that is.

Then I wanted to have financial independence. That's one

28, and I was determined to figure out how to do that.

And I finally came up with a strategy,

which I call the forced accelerated savings technique and forced accelerated

investment technique.

And that single handedly changed my financial destiny.

I saved like clockwork. I I've been disciplined on that.

I've consistently do it.

I've reached a point where the money is now making the money and passively

exceeding the income that is active and I'm absolutely certain that

that's doable if you're patient, persistent, automated,

electronically, and focus on serving people, you can't,

you're not going to do that.

And I know you can master your life in that area too,

but you have to have a value on it.

So I had to teach people how to raise this six steps to wealth,

to raise up the value of wealth building so you automate it and structure it and

serve people. If you don't want to serve people,

you don't want to structure it where it's put into investments and buy assets

and you're not, and you keep wanting immediate gratification.

You're not going to get there.

And then that one holds you back in so many areas. Some people say, 'well,

I'm not into that financial and that's not my thing.' It's foolish.

God, wake up.

All seven areas to me are necessary if you want to master your life, all seven.

That's why I teach all seven.

That's why every seminar I do is around those seven areas,

because I I'm absolutely certain people who master all those seven areas have a

more fulfilled life than people that got two of them,

because they're struggling on the other areas all the time and distracted by

these other areas. Then relationships. There's no reason why,

what I explained to people is nothing's missing in your life. It's always there.

It's in a form that's based on your values,

knowing your values and knowing how you're creating what you want in life and

nothing's ever missing in relationship area, to me, empowering

that is extremely powerful. That's the, that's the,

that's the most important one actually,

because your relationship is going to be with people and, and your loved ones.

You're going to have people in your social life, people, your colleagues,

clients, learning the art of that and the,

the science of living according to values is essential.

So that's an area that we all have to master. We can't avoid that.

We can't live it reclusively. I mean, there's been a few people,

Sir Isaac Newton was very reclusive, but at later on,

he became one of the most famous individuals in all of Europe,

but he had thousands of people around him,

but he had to master relationships over time, cause it,

initially he had that reclusively.

Now you've got a lot of work done during that time.

A lot of research done that time,

but it wasn't until he interacted with people that he actually got his message

out into the world significantly.

So you want to be able to master the art of communicating in people's values and

have the love and intimacy and realize it's always there and identify the form

it is according to your values and know that if you want to shift your values,

you can change the form. So to me, that's, that's essential.

And obviously social influence.

If you're not remembered and there's no legacy and you didn't do anything,

you're probably not gonna make the biggest difference in the world.

Everybody I've spoken to, no matter where it is,

whether it's a prison or it's a government or whatever. If I ask them,

'How many of you want to make a difference?' Every hand goes up.

We want to make a difference and we want to stand out. We want to contribute.

And there's no reason why we can't,

but we have to awaken our leadership,

which demands us we living by our own highest values and priorities and be

authentic with it. And so I wanted to exemplify leadership in my area.

I didn't want to be a leader in sales or a leader in marketing.

I wanted to be a leader in knowledge. I wanted to have the broadest, vastest,

most comprehensive, most in depth knowledge on human

That's my dream. And I'm, by God,

not going to stop until that's real and it's manifesting, like it is now.

So when it comes to that topic,

that's the area you want to find out what that is that you want to lead in and

give yourself permission to lead. I'm not the greatest in marketing like I said,

I'm not the greatest in technology and stuff like that,

I don't want to compete in that area. I don't have a desire to,

I have a desire to take the area that inspires me and fill my day with what

inspires me. And I want you to do the same.

I want you to live your life with an inspiration,

not out of duty to what you think it should be or ought to be,

supposed to be by society.

I want you to go and fulfill your life and master your life the way it is

designed by you. If you don't design it,

other people design it and you live by duty. And

physically, I wanted to have a vital, youthful, energized body.

I still have more energy than most people. And I'm 60 going on 66 now.

And and I went surfing on my 65th birthday on the North shore of Oahu,

which is a goal I had for 49 years waiting for the 65th birthday to surf right

there, Lanikai, Haleiwa and North shore pipeline, ikai beach park area.

And I did it.

And so I just went jogging this morning and I did a little exercise this morning

and I, and I'm a firm believer that you can have a vital, healthy body.

I have some challenges at 66, like most people do, but that's,

that's part of the 50 and over stage.

But the reality is that you can get a lot out of this body and you can do a lot

with it.

You can feel energized and feel youthful and and

appreciate each stage of your life. But,

I believe that your vitality is directly proportionate to the vividness of your

vision, the clarity of your vision.

And if you're clear about your values and there's no reason why you can't do

that. I also, and I eat wise, I don't live to eat.

I eat to live. I eat moderately,

very little volatilities and I drink a lot of water and I breathe deeply and I

do those things.

And I'm a firm believer that you can maximize your performance there. And also,

I'm a firm believer that I have no interest,

in my teens and twenties all the way to 30 I subordinated

to religions and religious leaders. And I,

and I would go and I studied at the harikrishna temple. I'd go to the mosque,

I'd go to the synagogue. I'd go to the churches.

I'd go to the meditation retreats. I'd go to the Yogi centers.

I was studying comparative religion and philosophy at the time and studying the

traditional spiritual traditions.

And I just a subordinated to it and just thought, 'Oh,

these things know because they've been around here now.' Then I started at age

30 when I realized that there's a lot out there as Dirac said,

'It's not that we don't know so much,

we know so much that it isn't so.' I realized that some of the stuff out there

was not grounded. It was,

it was kind of airy fairy and it was basically delusional.

And pardon me if that offends you, but it's freaking true.

It's an opium of the masses and it sells fantasies and it uses guilts and fears

and karmic rules and all this other stuff that in my opinion,

rob people of their empowerment in the mastery, in the seven areas of life.

So I wanted to create a spiritual questing vehicle

that anybody,

from any faith or belief system could use that can help them have a spiritual

experience without having to be caught in any dogma and universal panpsychic

realization that we live in a magnificent universe and we're a part of that

magnificent universe and that there really is nothing but love and all else's is

illusion.

And there's a way of living congruently and in alignment in an inspired

fashion daily in that way. And I'm absolutely certain that's doable and it's,

and it's a very inspiring and grateful place to be. And there's no you know,

shoulds and ought to's and supposed to's and imperatives and rights and wrongs

and moral and hypocrisies associated with it, there's no,

this is the sacred place. And this isn't, and my groups better than your group.

None of that tribal thinking,

it's a universal design and a universal expression of,

of inspiration for people.

And I believe that if you're doing all those areas and empowering all those

areas, you can have that.

There's no reason why you can't master all areas of your life. To me,

self-mastery is the empowerment of all seven areas of life.

And if you don't like the seven and you'd divide life into six or eight or nine,

fine, it's just a model. Cause everybody puts things in different categories,

but those are the categories I use and that doesn't make them right.

It just means that those are the categories I've used,

but I'm a firm believer that you can do that. And I'm damn sure living it.

And I'm exemplifying. I know it's possible.

And it's inspiring to get up in the morning and know

expand and empower all areas. And

there's no reason why you can't and don't let anybody tell you, you can't,

because it's not true.

There are principles and there are methods that help. If you learn them,

they help, you know, there's certain principles. Every,

every one of those mastery areas have principles and methods that you

can follow. And if you follow them, you get there. You know,

in my master planning program,

I put the questions to help awaken and I put the actions to do and

owning the traits in Breakthrough,

I put how to level that and realize that at the level of soul nothing's missing

in you, at the level of the senses things are missing in you,

in your perception. You think they are anyway,

because you're too proud and too humble to admit,

cause you're comparing yourself to other people and judging them instead of

loving people. So I'm absolutely certain.

If you understand those principles and methods,

it can catalyze an expansion of who you are in all those areas.

And by God, since I was young teenager,

I've had a dream to master the areas of life.

And I did not start out at that mastery. You know,

I had learning problems as a child. I was living on the streets as a teenager,

I lived in a tent, almost died and my health almost died. Teenager.

I did not start there, but I'm damn sure finishing there.

I'm absolutely certain that you have the capacity,

no matter what you've been through, what you're going through,

what you're experiencing, you have the capacity to master those areas.

And I love doing that. I love sharing that.

I love researching that I love imparting that I love

engaging people with it because it it's so rewarding to know that

you can do it and watch people do it.

So don't let anybody on this on planet keep you,

or subordinate to them thinking you can't.

And there are many people living in mediocrity that have accepted conformity.

And lived in the shadows of people that are going to

naysay you and you can't let the voices on the outside,

interfere with the dream you have on the inside to go do something extraordinary

with your life. Your life is your life,

and nobody's going to dedicate their life to your life. You're it.

So please give yourself permission to shine and

let yourself master all areas. And let me help you do that.

And I'd like to share something here.

I was speaking in South Africa a few years back in a planetarium

to a white PO group.

And I was doing a presentation, as it says here,

Awaken Your Astronomical Vision.

We go through here and many of us live with a small narrow mindedness.

And we look out in the world and we feel overwhelmed by the world around us.

Instead of having a broad mindedness, a celestial vision, looking down,

I learned from Rupert Murdoch when I was having dinner with him one night you

know, I asked him how he built his media empire. And he said,

he takes a globe in his hand and he spins it around and he goes,

what message do I want to bring to what country today,

he had a celestial is looking down on the earth and earth is a tiny little thing

he was playing with. Well, I've had an astronomical vision. I study astronomy.

I'm I'm finishing up a 750 page textbook right now in astronomy that I'm

writing.

I believe that having an astronomical vision gives you a global

life, but if you, you're not going to outgrow your size of your vision.

So I'm going to give you this gift. I want you to take it.

I want you to listen to it multiple times because I know it'll make you think

it'll make you stretch and make you get creative and make you come up with new

ideas.

It will help you as a catalyst to start thinking,

maybe outside the box and to give yourself permission to maybe go and expand all

seven areas. So it's, it's Awaken Your Astronomical Vision.

It's a live presentation to very successful individuals,

achieving people at a planetarium as a metaphor to think

outside the confines like, like Richard Branson's doing, Elon Musk is doing,

they're thinking astronomically. That's why they're creating global effects.

I want you to do that because you capable of doing it.

It takes no more effort to do that than it does to do something small.

So I want you to be able to have a profound impact and this little video I

know this little audio gift, pardon me, will help you.

So please take that, watch it, or listen to it. A number of times I say,

watch it cause I'm seeing it in my mind as I'm presenting it, but,

but listen to it multiple times and think about how you want your life.

If you dominate your thoughts, your vision, your internal dialogue,

your feelings,

and your actions on what it is that you would love in each area,

you will move in that direction and you will notice the opportunities around you

and synchronize to help you get there.

So hopefully this little 15, 20 minute or however long,

I've been 30 minutes presentation here will be a catalyst to start your

day with and please take advantage of the free gift. Use it,

listen to it over and over and over again and join me for these programs and any

of the programs I'm doing, because I can't help you if I can't reach you.

And if you know somebody that that is not knowing

about this, if you, while you're listening to this, in fact,

if you're hearing in your head, God, I wish my friend would have heard this.

Then share it with them,

please let this get out to people because there's people out there that don't

even know. They don't even know they can do more with their lives.

And they're just going through a routine instead of setting a routine

that they dream about. So thank you for spending the time with me,

take advantage of the gift. Take advantage of my 47,

almost 48 years of research. And I look forward to seeing you at the next

presentation, we have another webinar coming up just in a couple hours,

please take advantage of it. And also all the programs I do,

please take advantage of don't reinvent the wheel. When you can have,

you can stand on the shoulders of other giants.

I've been standing on giants for all these years.

You can stand on my shoulders and go farther.

And then I get to have the fulfillment of watching that happen.

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