For men are good in but one way, but bad in many

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If you are like most of the people that visit my site, you came here in search of the best way to get what you want.

Healing yourself, feeling better about yourself and your life. Making money, finding love, or raising your vibration. Or maybe even becoming an Expanding Human Being.

And you, like myself, probably cannot tell one system from another.

• good from bad,
• effective from ineffective,
• efficient from inefficient,
• real or a fraudulent… we have no criteria by which to judge.

So you have been choosing by what you like, what makes sense to you, or what other have liked.

There is a piece that is missing for you, the piece that makes it much easier to choose the right solution, to do the things (and only those things) that will produce results.

This piece is not new, but it is probably new to you. I found a youtube video on it… a silly one at that, but it can work to explain.

This piece of information is called The Anna Karenina Principle. It’s called that because it was first distinguished as a principle in the long Russian novel Anna Karenina. It was just one sentence in a 900 page book…

Then an astute man, Jared Diamond wrote a whole library of interesting books using the Anna Karenina Principle as the frame through which to look at evolution, at society, and society’s way to destroy itself.

It’s a principle. Because if a principle is true, then you can look at everything through its lens, and see things that are invisible without that lens.

Like Alan Turing did, the breaker of the Nazi’s Enigma code, the inventor of the computer, theory on the different stripes and spots on animals… Alan Turing‘s theory explains much of the miracle of life. The miracle that a cell knows what to develop into: an hand, a brain, a heart…

Yeah, some theories are true through and through, while others don’t fare quite as well.

The Anna Karenina principle

The Anna Karenina principle is: good systems must meet simultaneously a number of requirements. All good systems are alike, bad systems are bad in their own way.

Tolstoy said: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

Aristotle said:  …it is possible to fail in many ways, while to succeed is possible only in one way ( to miss the mark is easy, to hit it is difficult).

Evil belongs to the class of the unlimited, the Pythagoreans conjectured, and good to that of the limited. For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

When you set out to dramatically improve…

…maybe even become successful in an area of life, not surprisingly the Anna Karenina Principle will tell us if you can become successful with the elements, habits, practices you’ve chosen.

If you can only focus on one thing. if you have a one-track mind, your chances are not good, unless you expand your brain to deal with the 3-4 requirements. the 3-4 practices. the 3-4 mindset changes that are required for the change.

If you have participated in self-development programs, self-realization programs, even self-healing programs, and you didn’t get the results, the answer lies in the Anna Karenina Principle: to achieve the result you need to apply the required capacities and habits, or no change will happen.

In my approach the required elements are:

1. Become ordinary… i.e. humility.
2. There is nothing wrong in reality. Not with you, not with anyone, not with anything.
3. You need to look in reality not in your mind
4. Become cause…
5. Take your self-concern out of your eyes… self-concern is a version of wrong-making

If you even miss one… no growth. And admit that you have bet on someone waving a magic wand… Right?

What I didn’t include in the list, because it should be self-evident, is that you need to intend to do the work to achieve what you want to achieve… growth, change, excellence, money, grace and ease… Or you won’t do what there is to do.

And not surprisingly, humanity is not intending and not willing… But you may. If you do, you may want to learn that intention is actually a built in capacity. It doesn’t come from the mind. Never.

And it actually has a switch… that you either turn on or not.

I am teaching people to turn on the switch… and use the intention on each of those five required elements…

Let’s turn on your intention and humility

Jared’s example: domestication of animals.

The six criteria for picking a species to domesticate… are humans one of them?

For an animal species to be good for domestication, it needs to fulfill, simultaneously, six criteria. The six criteria that each can make a species fail… Just one failure creates a whole failure.

Diet

To be a candidate for domestication, a species must be easy to feed. Finicky eaters make poor candidates. Non-finicky omnivores make the best candidates.

Growth rate

The animal must grow fast enough to be economically feasible. Elephant farmers, for example, would have to wait perhaps 12 years for their herd to reach adult size.

Problems of captive breeding

The species must breed well in captivity. Species having mating rituals prohibiting breeding in a farmlike environment make poor candidates for domestication. These rituals could include the need for privacy or long, protracted mating chases.

Nasty disposition

Some species are too mean and nasty to be good candidates for domestication.

Farmers must not be at risk of life or injury every time they enter the animal pen. The zebra is of special note in the book.

It was recognized by local cultures and Europeans alike as extremely valuable and useful to domesticate. but it proved impossible to tame.
Horses in Africa proved to be susceptible to disease and attacked by a wide variety of animals. The very characteristics that made the zebra hardy and survivable in the harsh environment of Africa also made it fiercely independent.

Tendency to panic

Species are genetically predisposed to react to danger in different ways. A species that immediately takes flight is a poor candidate for domestication.
A species that freezes, or mingles with the herd for cover in the face of danger, is a good candidate.

Deer in North America have proven almost impossible to domesticate and have difficulty breeding in captivity. Horses, however, immediately thrived from the time they were introduced to North America in the 17th century.

Social structure

Species of lone, independent animals make poor candidates. A species that has a strong, well defined social hierarchy is more likely to be domesticated.
A species that can imprint on a human as the head of the hierarchy is best. Different social groups must also be tolerant of one another.

Conclusion

• There are lots of faulty or incomplete healing modalities, but unless all elements necessary for healing, healing doesn’t happen, i.e. all successful healings are similar.
• There are millions of faulty or incomplete theories with regards to the Universe, but each of them that are accurate are similar
• I have seen a few, but I assume there are hundreds of faulty or incomplete theories of how to connect to Source… the ones that work are similar
• There are countless of faulty or incomplete theories on amassing opulence, but all the ones that work are very similar
• And of course there are thousands of faulty or incomplete methods to raise your vibration

When I examine a method or modality, I now examine, through empathy, whether the method worked fully for the person who teaches it. You can see many of my assessments in my vibrational reviews…

Author: Sophie Benshitta Maven

True empath, award winning architect, magazine publisher, transformational and spiritual coach and teacher, self declared Avatar View all posts by Sophie Benshitta Maven