From: Dr. Jeffery A. Martin
Director, Center for the Study of Non-Symbolic Consciousness
Research Professor, Transformative Technology Lab
RE: The Finders Course
The next course starts December 5th, 2020. Registration ends November 29th. Seats are available on a first come, first served basis until the class is full. View the following video for full details.
Applications reviewed on a 1st come 1st served basis and we will close registration at capacity.
From: Dr. Jeffery A. Martin
Director, Center for the Study of Non-Symbolic Consciousness
Research Professor, Transformative Technology Lab
RE: The Finders Course
Hi,
It's finally time for the next Finders Course! I know that many of you have been anxiously awaiting this, and we deeply appreciate your patience.
It still amazes me that the folks who successfully completed the first class only took from about 5 weeks to 17 weeks to enter Ongoing and Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience (O.N.E./PNSE = enlightenment, nonduality, persistent mystical and unitive consciousness, extraordinary wellbeing, and so forth).
The statistics from previous experiments can be viewed in a recording from a presentation I gave at The Science of Consciousness conference in 2018. 70% of people who completed the experiment reported Ongoing Non-Symbolic Experience. Another 19% reported temporary forms of the experience, lasting from a moment to a few weeks. Many of these people were having experiences that were solidly heading in the direction of Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience.
The Finders Course solves the 4 key problems that people encounter when attempting to transition to so-called higher-levels of consciousness.
1.) Reliability. Course after course, a high percentage of people who complete the program report being in ongoing non-symbolic experience by the time it ends. On average, over 70%.
2.) Time. Traditionally, time has been a major issue in transitioning to PNSE. Some religious systems say that their methods take as long as thousands of lifetimes to work! At best, most modern programs talk in terms of decades or years of earnest practice being needed.
During the Finders Course experiments that have been run to date over 70% of participants who complete the program transitioned in under 4 months! Not years, not decades…MONTHS! That is how accessible higher-levels of consciousness truly are when you use a reliable, research-backed program.
3.) Safety. We've worked very hard to avoid negative problems you may have heard about, like dreaded "dark night of the soul" and similar issues. Periods of negative emotion aren't required to transition to higher-levels of consciousness. Not only that, we highly advise against them based on our research findings!
We had to delay our experiments by a year to make sure they were safe and had the necessary degree of psychological protection built into them, but we happily did it to ensure you a safe journey towards higher-levels of consciousness. If you've heard the horror stories and are wary about other programs, this is the program to use.
4.) Post-Transition Support. While most programs promising to help you transition to higher-levels of consciousness never come close to achieving that result, it can be a big problem when one or two people do actually have success with them here and there. The people behind most programs consider the transition so difficult that its where they spend all their time. As a result, they never develop an expertise in what to do after the transition. In other words, they don't know how to help you settle in and adjust to living from a higher-level of consciousness.
Our over decade of research has focused not only on how to get there, but what it is, how to settle in and live from it, and much more. We like to say that people go from being Seekers to Finders, and from being Finders to Explorers. Our Explorers Course covers much of this ground, but more importantly we have a vibrant alumni community that has "been there" and "done that." If you choose to participate in it, you'll be amazed at the wealth of knowledge, experience, and helpfulness you'll find there.
These results continue to amaze and excite us! I'm not aware of any program on earth with this degree of success. It's exciting and deeply humbling to be able to offer this amazing program to help people transition to extraordinary, and fundamental, levels of wellbeing.
The level of impact this has on one's life is unimaginable, until you experience it. No description even comes close, because you truly do have to experience it.
As a reminder...the Finders Course is a 17 week online program that puts the Center for the Study of Non-Symbolic Consciousness' 10+ years of scientific research into Ongoing and Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience to the test.
Over their time in the class, very happy people get even happier (and realize how different, and incredible, PNSE-style wellbeing is from what is traditionally considered happiness). On the opposite end of the spectrum, participants who come in at the lowest point in their lives have them completely turn around.
Psychological data from course participants show consistent and dramatic increases in wellbeing, with sharp reductions in anxiety, stress, and so forth at both the middle and conclusion of the course. These effects occur even before someone reached PNSE!
For years now we've been conducting the most successful "publicly supported" experiment in higher-levels of consciousness. Thanks to you, we've been able to successful "crowd fund and crowd source" this incredibly important line of research that major research funding organizations like the NIH simply will not touch. Through you, we've steadily proven that higher-levels of consciousness are "a thing," that they are real, with huge psychological benefits, neurological changes, and so on. I hope you will join us, change your life/consciousness, and help us continue the mission for what we hope will be millions of others.
The rest of this page contains the details for the upcoming course and how to register for it. As always, we'd love to accept everyone, but the reality is that we can only support very limited numbers of people. Hopefully you'll be one of them! I look forward to helping with your transformation to lasting and deep wellbeing.
Much Love,
Jeffery
The course was designed based on two important research findings...
First, that it is extremely important, though difficult, to find the most reliable methods available to reach extraordinary wellbeing. Our research project put us in an amazing position. It provided data on what had actually worked to assist over a thousand people around the world with their transition to PNSE.
Second, that you also need to be able to determine which of these methods work best for YOU. Experimentation with the 'greatest hits' methods we'd uncovered led to a precise order that seemed to maximize their effectiveness. This order is used in the course.
At a minimum, by the end of the program you should have successfully identified the method or methods that work best for you, right now. You should also have learned to discriminate which methods are and aren't best suited for you, both now and in the future.
We also expect you to have significant increases in wellbeing, with reductions in stress, anxiety, depression, and similar negative life experiences.
And, if you apply yourself diligently and follow the course instruction carefully, you may even transition to PNSE during or not long after the program...like most of those who came before you!
From the beginning, all designs of the course have been primarily methods and practice, not theory, based. During the first Finders Course the method instruction portion of the course was taught live, but recorded. This was initially done so that the participants could view it again. However, now it also provides the opportunity for future courses to mostly use the same instruction as the incredibly successful first class.
Each week we recreate the previously successful versions of the program as closely as possible using either video taken from a previous class session, or an updated version. Most of the videos used will be the actual ones from the first version of the course.
It's important to keep in mind that this is an ongoing experiment. We cannot guarantee how many times it will run, so if you want to get in, you should do so now. This is an extraordinary opportunity that may very well never be available again.
The class is divided into an initial six week section, a two week practice intensive, and a second 9 week section.
Everyone will go through the course as part of a small group. New instruction is delivered each Saturday by video, except for the first two weeks. These initial weeks have instructional sessions on Saturday and Wednesday.
The first two weeks involve 5 to 15 minute practices upon waking and just before going to sleep. Each day you must set aside one hour for additional practice, at a time of your choosing. Each session also has an additional 'one off' exercise that can take as long as an hour.
Group assignments are made in week 3, and a once or twice weekly group practice is added to the above at that time. Week 4 remains the same, but adds an additional half hour practice every day. This practice regimen remains the same through week 8.
Week 9 begins the second half of the course. The morning, evening, and one hour practices remain. Each week until the end of the course, a new technique is added. It is practiced only for that week.
1. You must commit to the complete the full course. We cannot afford to have people dropping out, as it may affect the success of the program for others in their small group. You must make a completely firm commitment to work through and complete the entire course.
2. You must be serious about increasing your baseline happiness level. This must be extremely important to you, and something that deeply motivates you.
3. You should have a desire and strong commitment to experience not only increased happiness, but ongoing fundamental wellbeing. Put simply, you should be focused on enlightenment, nonduality, persistent mystical experience, and so forth (Ongoing or Persistent Non-Symbolic Consciousness/Experience; O.N.E./PNSE).
4. You must be able to devote sufficient time to the course each week:
5. You must complete a series of psychological tracking measures prior to the course, at the half way point, and upon its conclusion; and agree to have your data used in our research study.
6. You must agree to all terms and conditions and research study consent documents prior to your admission to class being finalized.
7. You must pay a $2,997 USD enrollment fee prior to the course start date to help cover the expense of putting on the course.
You should not have any serious psychological problems or psychiatric history that did or does require substantial medication or hospitalization. Depression is acceptable, and medication for depression is acceptable, but more serious conditions or combinations of depression with other significant psychiatric disorders are not. Suicidal-level depression is also not recommended at this time. Feel free to check with us if you're not sure if this requirement applies to you.
That's it for now…! Be sure to RSVP quickly to reserve your slot. Many people wound up waitlisted for the previous Finders Courses because they didn't check email fast enough and the available seats were already filled by the time they replied!
I Look forward to personally helping you attain levels of wellbeing that you can't even begin to imagine right now!
Much Love,
Jeffery
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After years of experimentation, we've been able to create a protocol that is more effective, takes less time and costs 83% less than our original Finders Course protocol.
Over 7+ years the Finders Course helped over 1,000 people to transition to Fundamental Wellbeing.
However, the Finders Course program had one major issue. It took about 3 hours per day for 4-months, which was simply too much time for the average person to be able to use it. It also cost around $3000US.
In 2020 we took everything that we learned from the original Finders Course experiments and began a new series of experiments.
We created a three part modular program, involving:
For a long time, there was nothing even close to the success of the Finders Course protocol. Though costly and time intensive, it's 70% success rate was unrivaled in modern times, and maybe even throughout history.
Now, something even more effective, less time consuming and highly affordable has been discovered. Over 1800 people used it in the first 12 months alone. It worked for them, and it will work well for you. You can take it online, from anywhere in the world.
There's simply no reason to not reach Fundamental Wellbeing. Science has solved it. You can learn more and register here: https://45DaysToAwakening.com
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