The vastness and 5 Body complexity of human potential is widely recognized (outside of the mind-dominated modern culture schooling environment).

A key used in Mage Training is that the majority of human potential lies on the far side of a Doorway called the Adult Ego State.

What the Adult Ego State is, and how you get there, is well understood.

Going through the Adult Ego State Doorway and entering the Extraordinary and Archetypal Domains is another matter... It is not complex. It is not even difficult. But it is does require a different way of Being that emerges as a consequence of relocating your Point Of Origin to the archetypal context of Radical Responsibility.

And yet, this is where Mage Training begins: on the other side of the Adult Ego State Doorway.

Next culture is powered by skillsets and values that modern culture knows nothing about.

Each person has a piece of the puzzle to contribute.

Mage Training is a specialty of Possibilitator Training.

During Mage Training you build mage skills for providing your services to next culture.

The Space determines what is Possible.

In one particular Space it is possible to create the Possibility that others in the Circle can create Possibility for you to create Spaces of even greater Clarity and Possibility.

This is a Mage Team Space. This is where we are going.

Our intention is to take creative liberties to build up Noticing, Attention, Confrontation, and Communication skills to Originate, Hold, and Navigate Spaces.

In particular, we aim at Spaces where Nonlinear and Unreasonable offers are more abundant and have less resistance and greater effectiveness for Healing and Transformation.

These skills are then yours to apply in Possibility Coaching, Possibility Mediation, Possibility Psychology, Memetic Engineering, Possibility Team, WorkTalks, WorkShops, and Transformational Training Spaces.

Mage Training is extraordinary tools, practices, and awareness-building for Transformational-Trainer Trainers.

What you learn here is what you can deliver to others.

The global Team of Mage Trainers enhances the efforts of those building bridges to the initiation-centered cultures of archearchy - the human culture that naturally emerges after matriarchy and patriarchy have run their course.

The Mage is a builder of gameworld-builders.

The Mage becomes the keys that unlock extraordinary and archetypal spaces of healing and transformation for individuals and groups.

Application to participate and co-create Mage Training includes your agreement to the following:

1. Mage Training is not a space for Emotional Healing Processes. At the same time, each of us during Mage Training will take our next steps along the Path through doing ongoing Emotional Healing Processes (at least one or two EHPs per week!) For this reason, we will be using 'The Purple Card'. Please go to The Purple Card website, do the Experiments there, and bring a Purple Card with you to the first and every succeeding Mage Training Space. Without your Purple Card you will not be welcomed into the Space.
2. At each meeting, have your Beep! Book and pen, a hand towel, a barf bucket, and tissues at hand.
3. For at least the 8 weeks of Mage Training, use each and every emotional Reactivity - both during meeting and in between meetings - as a Doorway to your own personal Emotional Healing Process. We will not let treasures like this go to waste.
4. Mage Training is a drug-free and alcohol-free space. This does not mean during the calls. This means for every 24 hour day during the 13 weeks. This is Mage Training! What this means specifically is that for at least the 13 weeks of Mage Training (two weeks before and three weeks after, that is: from the moment you wake on 27 December 2021 until the moment you go to sleep 21 March 2022, you will remain drug and alcohol free. This is for you to remain Present enough in your 5 Bodies for Mage Training to do its work on you. If you have doubts about being able to keep to this commitment, then Mage Training is not for you. 
5. You have been or begin NOW to do the specific and clear processes of Adult Ego State Decontaminations to Decontaminate your Adult Ego State from your Child Ego State, from your Parent Ego State, from your Gremlin Ego State, and from your Demon Ego State. You should be aware that Gremlin Transformation is a required prerequisite for Adult Ego State Decontaminations, so it would be wise to get started with Gremlin Transformation right away. Contact Devin Gleeson for Gremlin Transformation and Vera Franco for Adult Ego State Decontaminations.
6. You choose and wear one Archetypal Lineage Talisman for at least 10 hours each day during the same 13 weeks that you are drug-free and alcohol-free in Mage Training. This is for you to build up collaborative resonance with your Archetypal Lineage. Please send us a 400x400 pixel close-up in-focus front-face looking-into-the-camera color-photo of you that includes your Talisman.
7. That you subscribe to STARRs, SPARK Experiments, General Memetics News, and Possibility Management News.
8. That during the 13 weeks of Mage Training you watch these 13 videos (together with others, somehow, so you can discuss the Mage Lessons afterwards...):
   1. The Sorcerer's Apprentice
   2. Doctor Strange
   3. Accepted (in German the title is S.H.I.T.)
   4. King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword
   5. The Matrix #1
   6. How To Train Your Dragon
   7. As It Is In Heaven
   8. V for Vendetta
   9. My Dinner With Andre
   10. Earth Sea Episode 1 and Earth Sea Episode 2
   11. Peaceful Warrior
   12. Groundhog Day
   13. The Edge of Tomorrow 
9.  That you read every word in these 13 websites during these 13 weeks:
   1. Being A Trainer
   2. What Now
   3. Become Magic
   4. 9 Gaps
   5. Hold Space & Navigate Space
   6. Torus Technology
   7. Become A Seed & Riftwalkers & Edgeworker
   8. 13 Tools
   9. New Refugees
   10. Memetics & Memetic Engineering & Memetic Speaking & Memetic Writing
   11. Thoughtware & Thoughtware Upgrade & 50 Thoughtware Upgrades
   12. Possibility & Create Possibility
   13. Gameworld Theory & Gameworld Builder & Gaian Gameworlds
10. That you start reading the Mage Book List:
    1. Alvin Maker Series by Orson Scott Card
    2. Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert H. Heinlein
    3. Time Enough For Love by Robert H. Heinlein
    4. Treason by Orson Scott Card
    5. The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card
    6. Of Water and The Spirit by Malidoma Somé
    7. Original Wisdom by Robert Wolff. Clinton interviewed Robert Wolff in 2015, before he died, and the interview can be listened to here: https://www.nextcultureradio.org/blog/robert-wolff-talking-to-myself-for-my-own-healing
    8. Mount Analogue by René Daumal
    9. In Search of The Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky (a studen of Gurdjieff)
11. That your watch all 8 Episodes of Mage Training Season One, posted below. As you watch each Episode, make notes in your Beep! Book to formulate questions about anything you do not understand. Also formulate every-day practices for yourself to share with others, and areas of Mage Work that you would like to practice and deepen during our journey together in Mage Training Season Two.
12. In addition to the specific 'Challenge Experiments' that we co-invent during Mage Training Meetings, you continue your Mage Training Preparations from the list of Preparations given below.  This means, you seriously experiment with actually being a Mage by doing useful Mage Work for individuals, couples, and organizations. 

The ‘Mage Interface’ is a name given to that ‘cubic centimeter of chance’ where productive action can be made in this particular time and circumstances. Exactly there, in the multitude of fine details where potential meets reality, that is where transformation is caused or avoided, healing is either blocked or augmented.

Without conscious intervention, things will evolve at the ordinary speed of evolution. For life on Earth, evolution occurs mostly between generations, causing what is sometimes referred to as ‘the generation gap’. Yes, something completely different from ordinary is possible, but only through clear awareness and skillful means.

Try to imagine what an intense place the Mage Interface must be. Time is focalized into a very small NOW, exactly where potential meets detail. Evolution in any direction is imminent. Current conditions cannot remain stable, yet the instability is not apparent because the NOW is so small. Aliveness thrives conducted by a million volts. It is a fine line to walk, yet capable of causing beautiful outcomes, similar to being the conductor improvising an orchestra with an orchestra assembled out of masterful musicians. Think of how much High Level Fun they generate by collaborating together.

At this thin but resilient interface any decision can be made, but only some of those decisions can be implemented in reality. Some decisions have valuable impact.

The Mage Interface is the exact place where Nonmaterial Value can be delivered as healing or transformation. Here is the circuitry where Bright Principles deliver their intelligence and energy in the world.

The world is what the world is, without stories attached. The Bright Principles can only work on what is. This means that Bright Principles work at the Mage Interface, but Bright Principles have their own agenda. Since as an initiated adult you are the space through which your Bright Principles do their work in the world, you can also work at the Mage Interface.

Tools that function at the Mage Interface are your Attention, your Split Attention, your Conscious Will, your Conscious Intention, your Center, Grounding Cord, and Bubble Of Space, your Point Of Origin, your Transformed Gremlin, your Archetypal Lineage, and the energetic tools from your Possibilitator Toolbelt.

Forces that may interfere with your ability to work at the Mage Interface are Assumptions, Conclusions, Stories, Expectations, Projections, Resentment, Revenge, etc.

Actions you can take at the Mage Interface include: Memetic Engineering, Sewing Up Brain Splits, Bypassing Mind Machines, Rewiring Fear, Removing Energetic Blocks, Retrieving Parts Of Your Being, Relocating your Point Of Origin, detecting Purpose, creating Space, Navigating Space, landing Distinctions in the Space, Pulling The Rug Out, etc.

If you pretend to be one thing but you actually are something else then you cannot open yourself for connection with other Beings or with the Universe. This means both your heart and your soul are starving for connection. If you open yourself they will see that you are pretending. You have to keep the show going. It is a trap.

The self that you built as an adolescent produces a certain result. If you want to keep that result, don’t read this further. For your life to change you need to start over again from the beginning. If this does not work for you, then transformation does not work for you. This is a transformational path. There are plenty of other paths. Being afraid of having to start over again from nothing is an intelligent fear. Fear has intelligence. Trying to know what to do is pointless. Anybody who ‘knows what to do’ is not grounded in reality. Nobody knows what to do. Saying or thinking, “I don’t know what to do,” is a symptom of unconscious fear.

On the way from one place that is dry to another place that is dry is the middle place where you are wet lonely cold scared. Once you have started on your way, the only choice to do is to keep taking the steps. You could go back, or you could go forwards. Being afraid of being wet and cold

Mixed emotions is not our natural condition. Mixed emotions is not adulthood. If you still experience mixed emotions you did not unmix them.

By many measures, staying on the imminent edge of multiple possible creations is completely insane. But this is what you get. You get to be at this edge. You do not ever have to leave this edge. There are plenty reasons to stop, to go away from the edge, to pretend, to put the show back on.

Pain occurs at the mage interface between what is possible and what is now in current reality. It is a special sort of pain called longing, wistfulness, a sense of the miraculous in every day life.

Locating the Mage Interface requires slowing down, shrinking how big your here is, actually being with exactly what is, as it is, without stories attached. This is where you have leverage. Speak from your own experience even if you never had the experience before, speaking in present time experiential reality. This is not self-referenced. It is experience referenced. Let the experience speak for itself.

You have internal impediments blocking you from finding and working with the Mage Interface. Most of these can be bypassed by Decontaminating your Adult Ego State. For example, when urges come such as, "I want everything. I want to be everywhere. I don’t want to miss anything. These come from the Child Ego State contaminating the Adult Ego State. What is required is fierce Decontamination.

There is a way to notice what is really going on, to notice what you are noticing, and share it. Fine sensing in five-bodies is the basis of encountering the Mage Interface. Don’t try to do anything about it at this point. Simply sense the interface between what is and what is possible. It is where two media meet, where the waves meet the shore, where the rubber meets the road.

"Indirect work is building the capacity in people to consistently think at higher levels in order to create innovations for advancing specific contexts and streams of activity. This capacity allows us to become instruments for the regeneration and evolution of the living systems within which we are nested—to become effective change agents.

"For example, every time we try to solve a problem, dividing it into its components to understand it better, seeking to figure out its causes in order to address them, we fall under the spell of classical mechanics. Every time we translate something into a replicable (and therefore scalable) procedure or recipe, we’ve stepped into a machine universe. This is so pervasive in Western and now global culture that it becomes invisible to us. It can be very difficult to get our minds to shake off this continually reinforced pattern in order to question our fundamental shared beliefs about how the universe works.

 

"Earlier I said that this book was addressed to well-intentioned people who seek to make the world a better place through the instruments that are available to them, such as business, social activism, or creation of policies and institutions. I also said that most of these efforts are likely to be compromised or fail because they still operate from an old paradigm, within which the world is assembled from discrete pieces, each playing its part in a cosmic machine. Our machine-based metaphors are so pervasive that we hardly notice them: input, output, feedback, leverage, rewiring, reprogramming, metrics, ideal state, and on and on.

A living or regenerative paradigm has a very different character and uses correspondingly different metaphors. It starts with an image of the living, dynamic, and unfolding universe, in which each entity is endowed with the spark of life and an innate capacity for growth and evolution with regard to how it expresses itself. Working from this paradigm, one doesn’t attempt to push the world and its inhabitants to an ideal state—that would be coercive and life denying. Rather, one encourages and enables living beings to discover and express their innate potential as contributors to living communities. For those of us who truly want to transform the world, it is the regenerative paradigm that will enable us to do so.

 

"This confronts us with an important question. Are the underlying beliefs, assumptions, patterns, and language that characterize my culture derived from a machine or a living systems paradigm? And if I want to cultivate a living systems culture, what must I do I to help with the shift? (note – Carol answers this question in our conversation!)

 

"Consciousness is the necessary antidote to our overwhelming tendency to engage in automatic habits of thought and behavior. In its absence, these habits extend to the most general reaches of our collective understanding of the universe, itself, conceived of by Western Europeans in the time of the Renaissance as a giant clockwork. This peculiarity of regional imagination has now become the dominant paradigm of reality worldwide. As such, it has created a self-reinforcing loop in which the mechanistic universe is reflected in the conceptualization of our bodies and minds as biological machines and our institutions as social machines. Thus, we invent mechanistic metaphors and processes for educating and healing ourselves. In other words, we resort to conditioning, a default approach that is precisely the opposite of living free, self-determined human lives. And, in a mechanical feedback process, this conditioning reinforces the already prevalent tendency toward automatism.

 

"But the process of accretion of information and action, no matter how comprehensive, will never on its own generate the shift in perspective that allows us to engage with a living whole. If anything, the tendency to aggregate and integrate only serves to reinforce the problems associated with fragmentation. This is because it derives its raw materials from the underlying practice of breaking things down into parts in order to understand them before attempting to reassemble them into something that makes sense.

 

"I could see that nearly all of the world’s conflicts grew out of a binary or polarized view of reality: good/evil, right/left, male/female, white/black, profit/loss, owner/worker, wealth/poverty, future/past, energy/matter, ones/zeros. Business, politics, psychology, and even religion were all busy trying to shift things from one column to the other within a zero-sum universe where one person’s gain was inevitably another’s loss. Or, when they weren’t seeking to win the game, they were seeking to maintain its equilibrium through careful compromises and the balancing of powers—complementarity rather than polarity.

 

"Faced with the ubiquity of this way of thinking, I realized that the way out of its dead ends had to do with the power of three-ness in a two-force world. In my flash of insight, genuine creativity came from not accepting the rules of win and lose. Rather, one had to see the dynamic tensions between opposing forces as the sources of evolutionary energy. This required stepping outside of the polarity in order to recognize its potential within a larger context. Stepping outside introduced a new, third force, one that was not bound by the terms of the conflict but could embrace both sides (or multiple sides, for that matter) as contributors to a new possibility."

- Carol Sanford, from her book, Indirect Work.

Mage Training is so much the opposite of schooling or other workshops. It is not even the opposite, or differing in certain ways. It starts off at a startlingly new Point Of Origin and keeps venturing further and deeper into new territories.

Mage Training does not build you up. It does not give you anything.

Mage Training opens Doorways to Discover and Practice in places most people never go.

Why do I want to go there? Because it turns me on to discover how things work, how to un-do some things, then StartOver.xyz and do more interesting Experiments in new ways. I get to be with other people who also like these kinds of Experiments, and we can arrange to do even further Experiments like this together. I am in ecstasy, the ecstasy that Shannon said: "Let's practice together!"

From my perspective, a Mage is 'built down' instead of being 'built up'. A Mage is 'built down' to Nothing.

After Mage Training I do not 'know more' than I did before. I am not more famous, more powerful, more clever, more cool.
Did I 'get it'? Did I figure it out? Am I 'certified'? No.

I do have clear feedback about what works and what does not work.

I think that what is, is. I think that human beings create beliefs and constructs about what is, and then we inhabit our beliefs and constructs thinking that it is something. But I don't think it is something, any more than a tornado is something. There is certain kinds of wind going in a certain direction. We call it a 'tornado'. But where is the 'tornado' now? 'Tornado' is a construct.

I think Mage Training is about letting the beliefs, the self-image, the idea of 'having the solutions to the problems of life', the false sense of 'I have got it now! I know!"... all fall away, bit at a time is a gradual way, until we are small enough to fit back through the Eye Of The Needle http://eyeoftheneedle.mystrikingly.com returning to our original insignificance with a capacity to be the space through which our Bright Principles and Muse and Pearl and Conscious Gremlin and Archetypal Lineage and Being can be alive in the world. It is about living... without 'living as something'. It is about...

After Mage Training we have more of 'nothing', more nothingness.

This means less blocks, fewer interpretations. More options are available to choose from. More is possible.

I notice more of what I notice and do not notice, and I notice more of what others notice and do not notice, including those in partnerships and organizations.

I have less resistance to surrender the illusion of 'security' of being in the Space I am in with everyone else. I have more willingness to suddenly cavitate new Space with a different context, to Hold it and occupying it and make it real, (I can commit to it before it exists) and then Navigate the Space for others, for Gaia, for E.C.C.O.

Being able to originate new Space is a completely different Value than building up 'my self', having 'more' or having 'something'.
Raw Nonlinear creation force is a Nonmaterial Mage Value.

Yes, it leaves us with more questions than answers.

I think we are only beginning to recognize the astonishing Value of Questions.