The Cult of Done isn’t as scary as it sounds. The manifesto is really just a list of concepts related to the importance of taking action. All my life I’ve been rather analytical, and that will often freeze me into inaction.
This happens even with my spiritual practice. What do I mean by “practice”? Meditation. Projection work. Surrender. Study. So when I break this down, remember that it can apply to just about anything.
While it’s not an Absolute Truth, it is conducive to stimulating action which promotes progress.
The Cult of Done Manifesto
- There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
- When it’s time to practice, don’t hesitate. The longer you wait, the harder it gets.
- Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
- If you wait for the “right” conditions, you’ll never get going. Accept that it won’t necessarily be ideal and get going.
- There is no editing stage.
- When you’re going to practice, don’t fuss with the details. Do the necessary planning, but keep it to a minimum. Don’t get paralyzed.
- Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
- Since you’re not an expert meditator, you shouldn’t meditate at all, right? You’re not a world-class psychic, so there’s no point trying to get readings of people and objects. You have never managed astral projection, so you can’t do it now, right? Yeah. Wrong. There is a delicate line to be walked. While avoiding arrogance, try to cultivate the awareness that you can do these things, because as long as you hold on to the belief that it’s futile, you’ll self-destruct any attempt at progress.
- Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
- I’d say table rather than abandon. If you want to try astral projection, and you don’t take action within a week, then set it aside for now, and move on to something that you will do.
- The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
- Remember that just because you got it done (and good for you!) that isn’t the end. It sets you up for higher achievements. Every meditation moves you higher. Every exercise of your sixth sense strengthens it.
- Once you’re done you can throw it away.
- Congratulations! You won! See how much better you feel? Notice how alive and expansive your senses are? Chalk it up as a win and move on.
- Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
- Things go wrong. A lot. My cat just loves to cuddle up to Daddy when he’s meditating or trying to project. Does that mean I throw up my hands and say it was impossible? Many of my best meditations happened when I resisted the urge to give up in the middle.
- People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
- Actually doing something small is lightyears better than doing nothing. The fact that you’re practicing moves you forward, regardless of the immediate results.
- Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
- Even if you don’t get a “win” where you have a great experience, it’s still a win because you overcame all the programming keeping you back. Even what seems to be the greatest failures are still wins.
- Destruction is a variant of done.
- If you absolutely, positively, can’t work yourself up to the practice you were planning, then pick a smaller step and take that. Can’t go for a long meditation today? Do a short one rather than skip it. Even the smallest of steps are better than inaction.
- If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
- If you come up with an idea for practice, share it with someone even if you don’t feel up to it yourself. Someone may benefit from your inspiration.
- Done is the engine of more.
- The more you work with your spirituality, the easier it gets. When I’m on a roll (which is where I try to be), the idea of not meditating seems both ludicrous and unattractive. Why would I want to give up this level of awareness?
When I’m on the bubble about practicing, I remember my Cult of Done brainwashing and (with few exceptions) hop to it. Remembering what’s at stake, and what’s to gain keeps me going.
