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Freedom Step #5 is PLEASURE - Discovering that you are FREE BY NATURE

The next Freedom Step is a very big step. In all of human history, very few have taken it. This is the step where you discover that you are free by nature. You are free in that you control the energy that animates your body. You choose the thoughts you think. You make decisions that move your muscles. You and only you. In fact, you are free whether you know it or not. You cannot be anything but free.

If you decide to lift your finger, it's your decision that lifts your finger. If someone points a gun at you and says, "Lift your finger or I'll shoot", it's your decision to lift or not lift your finger. It's always your decision. You decide whether or not you vote. You decide whether or not you pay taxes.

Your actions (and inactions) have consequences. Step 5 Freedom means you control your actions - but you don't control the consequences of your actions. This is where responsibility comes in. You learn, more and more, to choose those actions that produce desirable results.

To discover that you are free you need to experience this freedom. You may need to be in a bad, even hopeless, situation. Then you realize deep down that you are free to choose. You feel the exhilaration and ecstasy - pure profound pleasure - of being free. Then you take the necessary steps to create a wonderful situation.

It's very difficult to take Freedom Step #5 by only reading about it. You need to experience your freedom. My (Fredrick Mann's) military experiences, described in an earlier step, laid a foundation for me to later discover that I was free. After reading Harry Browne's How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World, I decided to live as free as possible from government interference. I had many experiences of outwitting the tyrants. This had much to do with discovering that I was free, that I always chose my own actions, that I never had to obey tyrants - unless I chose to do so.

How to Discover that You Are Free

• Read the online (and free) book by Delmar England, Mind and Matters, The World in a Mirror.
• Study the book, How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World, by Harry Browne.
• Study the book, The Discovery of Freedom, by Rose Wilder Lane.
• Read any books by Friedrich Nietzsche or Robert Anton Wilson.

The Benefits of Freedom Step #5

• You will free yourself from the urge or compulsion to change others - one of the most enslaving debilitating urges or compulsions of all.
• You create the potential to vastly increase your personal power - because, instead of trying to change others, which is almost impossible, you focus your efforts on improving yourself, which though still difficult, is vastly easier.
• Instead of fighting negatives, you create positives - strategically and tactically vastly more powerful than trying to change others or systems you have no control over.
• Enjoy a great deal of freedom, wherever you are.

IN ORDER TO CREATE
ANYTHING YOU NEED TO
FIRST CREATE THAT PICTURE IN YOUR
MIND

Personal power is the freedom and the ability to create. When you've taken Freedom Step #5, you've discovered a muscle. Then you need to develop that muscle to achieve personal power.

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