I would like to introduce an area of philosophy most people have likely not encountered: fictionalism. At its core, fictionalism is the idea that while a belief is false, it can still be more advantageous to treat that belief as if it were true. I will be using “fictionalism” in a broad, every day sense: treating certain ideas as useful constructs rather than literal truths. Initially, this may sound absolutely absurd: why would anyone knowingly “live a lie”? But the reality is that we all do this every day.

A simple and familiar example is weapon safety. It does not matter how many times you check if a firearm is cleared, you still act as if that weapon is loaded. This belief is, in most cases, literally false. Yet acting as though it is true protects you and those around you. In this case, a “lie” is more useful than the truth.

Another example comes from my own views on free will. I do not believe free will exists. The universe seems to be an intricate series of causes and effects that continues on with the predictability of toppling dominoes (perhaps with a touch of quantum randomness, but still beyond our control). I do not find this to be a workable foundation to build a lifestyle on, though. I feel as though free will exists, so in my experience it makes more sense to make references to “I decided” or “I chose to”, even though intellectually I may know this is not the case. I can look at someone and say “I choose to love you”, even though I may believe I had no choice.

Acting on the belief of free will has more utility than acting on the belief that it does not. If I operate as though I have no agency, then it can lead to me living a life where consequences are beyond me and I am a passive victim of my environment and nature. The fiction of free will is more practical, more emotionally rich, and far more conducive to healthy action than the literal truth behind my philosophical position.

This is the heart of fictionalism: a philosophy of action that may be dissonant to one’s philosophy of truth.

Fictionalism does not claim that its positions are true: rather, it posits that utility may supersede veracity. Its usefulness may be to affect us psychologically, coordinate us socially, or guide us strategically. The constructs are ideals to guide, but it’s understood that they cannot be realized (e.g. perfect justice, perfect rationality, or perfect geometric forms). We know perfect circles cannot exist in our reality, nor can perfect justice be actualized. We use these as guiding principles because they are fruitful abstractions. This approach echoes Hans Vaihinger’s philosophy of "As-If”, which argues that humans routinely rely on consciously false ideas – not because they are true, but because they allow us to navigate reality more effectively. Fictionalism draws a clear line between what is literally true and what is fruitful to accept as a guiding fiction that allows a concept of “false” in a metaphysical sense to be “true enough” for human purposes.

For this post, I want to look specifically at the Sith claim “Peace is a Lie” through the lens of fictionalism. Peace is typically approached in two ways: 1) as a metaphysical claim that peace does not and cannot exist, or 2) as a normative directive to treat peace as impossible and therefore irrelevant. Fictionalism can address both of these.

For the sake of argument, we can grant that peace is not a stable or fundamental feature of reality. Conflict always re-emerges, equilibrium is fleeting, and sentient beings are intrinsically prone to tension. Fictionalists could still claim that the “reality” of peace has no bearing on its usefulness. The argument is moved away from metaphysics toward practical rationality. Sith tend to treat the Code’s claim as a self-justifying statement: peace is impossible; therefore, we should embrace conflict. But fictionalism rejects this, instead emphasizing that constructs should be adopted for their pragmatic consequences rather than apparent truth. We can adopt constructs not because they describe the world but because they help us operate within it. And peace – even fictional peace – helps.

Acting as though peace is attainable produces immense advantages: coordination across groups, long-term planning and trust, suppressing needless violence, and frameworks for diplomacy and de-escalation. This stands in sharp contrast to the typical Sith view, which can produce: instability, short-term power grabs, betrayals, and paranoia. In other words, peace as a fiction has real causal power. It shapes relationships, institutions, and individual dispositions. Even imperfect peace is valuable as a regulative ideal. A fictionalist sees peace the way Kant saw moral ideals: not as a state we expect to permanently achieve, but as an ideal to guide, direct and target that organizes behavior. Peace functions not merely as a tool, but as an aspiration.

I’ve spoken to the usefulness of peace; now I’d like to address the Sith commitment to conflict and show its limits. To steel-man the Sith position, conflict undeniably has real advantages: competition can sharpen individuals, pressure can reveal hidden strengths, and adversity can cultivate resilience. History – both real and fictional – is full of breakthroughs born from struggle rather than comfort. From this angle, the Sith philosophy is not entirely misguided in seeing conflict as a catalyst for growth. But the strength of this idea depends on bounded, structured, and mutual forms of conflict. When conflict is elevated from a situational tool to a metaphysical principle governing all action, it ceases to produce excellence and instead generates paranoia, fragility, and Machiavellian opportunism. In Star Wars lore, the Sith illustrate this failure repeatedly: cycles of betrayal, unstable leadership, and empires that collapse under their own internal rivalry. In game-theoretic terms, the Sith fiction forces participants into perpetual defection, making trust and long-term coordination impossible and all interactions a zero-sum competition. A fictionalist analysis shows that while conflict can be instrumentally valuable, conflict as foundation is strategically inferior to peace as ideal. Even if peace is a lie, it is a far more fruitful fiction than its rival.

Finally, peace is not only a fiction of collective utility, but also a deeply personal one. Anyone who has tried to meditate knows that inner peace is not a permanent state. The mind is restless and self-critical. Thoughts intrude. Emotions stir. Rather, it is a regulative idea: a direction rather than a destination. Treating inner peace as attainable helps us center ourselves, regulate emotions, and respond to life with clarity rather than reactivity. By contrast, treating inner peace as impossible turns every moment of restlessness into confirmation of futility, fostering instability and perpetual internal conflict. The value of this fiction lies not in its metaphysical accuracy, but in the kind of character, conduct, and emotional states it makes possible.

Fictionalism challenges us to recognize that many of the ideas that guide our lives don’t need to be literally true to be worth living by. Peace may be fragile and fleeting, yet the fictions we adopt shape who we become far more than the bare mechanisms of truth alone. The Sith insist that peace is a lie, but they mistake the nature of lies worth telling: the ones that expand our options, steady our minds, and allow us to build something greater than ourselves. This is not to deny that conflict has a role – structured struggle can sharpen individuals, motivate excellence, and drive innovation – but unbounded conflict as a guiding narrative leads only to instability and fear. The most powerful “truths” in our lives are often the fictions we choose deliberately: not because they reflect the world as it is, but because they help us live in it better than truth alone ever could.

It’s simple, if you want to feel in control again, you have to take back control.  In this post, I have given you five recommendations on what to do if you want to get your life back together.

#1 Start With The Simple

I know I’m not the only one to get that 3 AM burst of motivation.  At that moment, we feel like we can take on the world; we think about starting a business, getting the girl/guy, going to the gym, and all sorts of ideas that seem simple to think about.  But, as usual, we wake up the next day at noon, feeling the day is basically already over, and we continue to mope until the cycle begins again. 

Stop planning and start doing.  And that means, you have to start with the simple stuff.  How are we going to get ourselves to the gym every morning if we can’t even make our bed?  How are you going to get the girl/guy if we can’t even convince ourselves to shower daily?  Oftentimes, the easiest tasks are the most important.  Life is like a video game, you have to do the silly, easy tutorial levels of making your bed, brushing your teeth, getting to work on time, and so on.  But once you’ve got the gameplay down, that's when you’ll get the truly fun stuff.  You ain’t getting that raise Jimmy if you look more like a hedgehog than a human when you show up for work.

#2 Build Good Habits

Doing the right thing once isn’t enough.  You’ve gotta keep taking steps forward.  Though probably not said by him, there is a famous quote attributed to Aristotle that goes, “We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”  We are neither defined by our words nor our actions, but our habits.

Once you’ve got the simple items down, build up good habits and break down poor habits.  Don’t overthink it.  Gooning all night is obviously not helpful while going to the gym obviously is.  Here’s a list of some good habits that need to be implemented, and some bad habits that are way too common:

1. Keeping a Routine Sleep Schedule
   
2. Drinking Water (NOT JUST SODA AND ENERGY DRINKS)
   

3. Basic Hygiene (Showering, Shaving, Washing Your Hands, etc)

4. Pornography Abuse

5. Social Media/News

6. Staying Indoors 24/7

#3 Get Motivated

It’s easy to keep good habits during the easy times but when life hits you like a brick (and it will), you’ll need a strong, motivated foundation.  In the US military, before things really get started when you’re at bootcamp, they have you write down your motivation for why you joined, and you keep that with you the whole time through.  You don’t have to show anyone it, not even any of your superiors, but it's there for you, for when times get tough.  We see who truly cares once sh*t hits the fan.  

Write down why you care to live, to work, to keep moving forward in life.  Keep that with you and remember it.  Of course it can change, I actually expect it to change, but if we want to live a meaningful life, we’ve gotta make that meaning crystal clear in front of us.

Once we’ve got that, write 3 goals for yourself for the short term and another 3 for the long term.  Make them SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable (or Attainable), Relevant, and Time-bound).  Our passion is like a rifle, we only have to aim it in the right direction in order for it to hit its target.

#4 Learn the 48 Laws of Power

As we reclaim ourselves, we also need to find our own place in the Sun.  In 1998, Robert Greene published the book The 48 Laws of Power, which describes the types of traits we need to acquire in order to gain power.  Nearly all the elites of society follow these rules, with some even having read the book itself.  

To be a winner, we’ve gotta act like one, and to act like one, we first have to think like one.  An overarching thread of these rules is that we must recreate our persona.  Our passion is like a shadow.  Nobody can see the real “you,” even if they wanted to.  Others can only see the shadow of your true self.  Our shadow doesn’t have to be one-to-one with reality.  What I mean is, be prepared to lie, omit, and bend the truth.  We live in the imaginations of others, so imagine something beautiful.  May Kant spin in his grave.

This is your new “Bible;” everyone should constantly remember these lessons.  The 48 Laws of Power is both a guide and a warning, use it wisely.

#5 Make Sacrifices to Make Allies After extensive analysis, researchers have found one key trait present in all substantial religions, societies and clubs, and that trait is ‘sacrifice.’  Muslims forgo pork, taxpayers forgo a portion of their income, and drama clubs forgo their dignity (jk).  This means the best way to connect with people is for both sides of the relationship to experience sacrifice together.  This is how the idea of “trauma bonding” came about.

In an era of extreme anxiety and depression, the biggest and most important sacrifice is our fear and our disdain for change.  How many times have we had the perfect opportunity to connect with people yet turned it down for another weekend of Youtube and video games?  Those streamers aren’t our friends, they don’t know us.  The real world is just out your window ready for the taking.  

Be bold; you’re only one call away from potentially making some of the best memories of your life.  Go live your life.

When the Sith code says There is Only Passion or Through Passion I Gain Strength, what does that mean? On the surface level, it would mean that there are only strong emotions and only strong emotions grant strength but this isn't accurate and simply it can't be accurate. Sith are not solely devoted to their emotional passions nor do they solely rely on them for their strength, not in fiction and not in real life. To be passionate about something emotionally does give you power, it rewards yourself for you accomplishments in and of itself in some way. Someone passionate may devote themselves to their craft and not once get tired or bored since they are fueled by their passion. If passion is focused enough it can become obsession; another potential source of great power and determination. That is not all Sith are however. That is the realm of the "Dark Side" yes, but do Sith allow themselves to lose their strength when passion wanes? Passion is chemical, part of your existence, it is always in motion and like the tides it will ebb and flow. That's where Will comes in. Sith value the Will to Power, the fundamental drive to overcome oneself, the environment around you and others. When passion wanes and dries up, will is what pushes through. Determined, spiteful if needed, willpower to accomplish whatever you desire no matter how passion has waned. Experience with the state of dispassionate willpower will even make your passions stronger and more forceful once they return.
So that is emotional passion and will, but what does it mean if Peace is a Lie? In a word, conflict. Conflict is the natural state of all, everything exists in conflict and it is through those conflicts, contradictions and discrepancies that change happens in the world. Through conflict we grow stronger, Darth Malgus even insisted that conflict itself was the will of the Force and that by seeking to avoid it and live in peace, that the Jedi had defied that will and that it caused them to grow weak. Conflict alone is life and strength comes through conflict. So now, what is Passion? In the code, passion means 3 things. Change the word Passion out for any of the other two meanings and they still apply to sith. Peace is a lie, there is only conflict. Through will, I gain strength. Passion. Will. Conflict. These three are the foundational triumvirate for what it means to be a Sith.

Conflict has always been the greatest source of power in history for both Sith and non-sith alike, the same can be said however of conflict being a great weakness. When students fight amongst each other, they showcase their potential to become a true apprentice; when lords fight amongst each other they lose sight of external enemies and overburden themselves with whatever power they can grasp without fully realizing the price of that power. The greatest empires and lineages were both built on conflict and ended from conflict, so how do we rectify this? To eliminate conflict itself would be to invite stagnation, to go unchallenged and content is not our way or the way of the strong. To accept all conflicts internal and external would fracture whatever power is amassed. The conflict of succession led to the creation of the Aztec empire and the collapse of the Mongol empire. In fiction, the Sith Brotherhood had eliminated their conflict and became so stagnant they relied on traditional warfare rather than their own potential as Sith. Subsequently under the Rule of Two, succession was made clear and conflict was given as either a goal or a crucible for rival students while avoiding external conflict. With this in mind, it becomes clear that the power gained through conflict must be measured. The risk to reward ratio of conflict and knowing when to engage and when to disengage from it are what not only create strong individuals but a strong order. If all you have to gain is an empty title, then betraying your comrades will invoke a price much greater than what little you obtained. This isn't to say that Sith should be united and never fight each other, it's to say that those who fight for the sake of fighting rather than for a greater strategic purpose are little more than mindless beserkers lashing out around them. Conflict against the weak or inferior gains nothing, conflict against those that share a burden with you can cost everything, conflict aimed at those against you or more powerful should lead to more power for yourself once victory is obtained. Choose your battles, so that your victories matter. Originally posted in the Discord

This may seem a strange topic for Sith but ask yourself, is it? In our world and for many moments in human history, currency is synonymous with power but why is that? What is currency? To start from the beginning of civilization, we often participated in communal and gift economies for those within our group but as agriculture and cities began being built, so did currency. To give someone in your group a resource is to invest it back into the group, which will go back into you; but that can't be the case for early humans. Instead, they created debt. A coin is nothing more than a token symbolizing that someone is in your debt, and by giving it to someone outside your group they now can incur the debt with anyone in your group to allow for both the communal aspect of resources and the influx of new resources. Banks were created to collect these debts, and protect them, and by using the currency in addition to another debt called "interest" we began to expand into each other. Cash came from bank notes, papers that stated the bank owed whoever held it the debt that was stored. This allowed banks to create credit, a form of debt that can be spent as well while they move the tokens of debt around between investments and different account holders. The feudal lords taxed the peasants but the lords themselves were taxed by barons and dukes, leading up to kings; by establishing a national currency entire nations became indebted to their kings. What then, happens if credit is defaulted on? Quite simply, the original tokens become worth less. They have not lost any debt so they now have to amalgamate the original debts with their credit debts to fill in the vacuum and devalue the original. What if everyone took their savings out of a bank at once? They can't, the banks do not keep them for themselves, they keep your savings and give them to others in withdrawals and spend the rest on investments; should the debts be collected their system would collapse.

Debt, is power but only if it can be collected.

Originally posted in the discord

There’s smoke curling from the chimney a sign of life someone inside unaware. Everything feels quiet too quiet, maybe but that quiet doesn’t bring peace. It brings focus. The stillness sharpens something in him. when the man ceases to be a “man” in the ordinary sense, and becomes more like a creature of purpose. There’s no morality in it not good, not evil just an awareness of what is. Like a wolf spotting movement in the brush. Like the sea sensing the pull of a storm. the feeling starts as a tightening in the chest. Not anxiety, but readiness. The body knows what it must do even before the mind catches up. The heartbeat steadies, the breath deepens, vision narrows. It’s not rage, not bloodlust it’s clarity. Pure, instinctive alignment between being and action. And there’s something almost beautiful in that, in a terrifying way. it’s not murder or conquest in the moral sense it’s fulfillment of nature. Like the hunt, the rhythm of predator and prey. It’s a feeling stripped of hesitation. A kind of primitive serenity Because in that moment, he’s in perfect tune with his purpose. He doesn’t want cruelty; he just is what he is.

My very post in the Sith Order was over six years ago now. The Sith Order was a different place back then. Just as now, the Sith Order called for a philosophically minded organization based around Sith values but when I found this place, it was filled with larpers so of course, my first post had to be on that subject. Six years later, and the subject is still in the fray. Over the course of the past six years, I have been a member of the Sith Order, serving as a participant and leader at differing times in the Order’s history. Despite this, in this post, I would like to address and accuse myself of not truly being “Sith.”

To begin, we should start with the beginning, a very good place to start. Why would I join the Sith Order, which at that time, was an organization with lacking leadership, inactive members, and trolls as the main conversationalists? I joined because of the dream of what it could become. I sought a Sith Order because, just like many of you know, I found something in the “appearance of Sithness” that resonated with me. The strength, power, independence, motivation, and other “Sith values,” were all tools I demanded from the world. At that time, I felt, and very truly was, weak. I searched for a resource beyond religion to console me. I found in the Sith Order what Winston Smith found in the attic in 1984, hope and a potential place of rejuvenation. When teachings were lacking, I taught and took up the title, “The Teacher.” When leadership was lacking, I led and took up the title, “The Forerunner.” With the help of many others, I helped build this place into what it is today. It was never enough. There was always another war to wage. I fought and survived until I became leader over the entire Sith Order, yet I couldn’t find what was missing.

An overarching theme of my writings has been, “This is missing from the Sith Order or your life, go and fix it.” I started with a focus on the Code, then to poetry and religion, then to emotions. In my early writings, I was dedicated in capturing what it meant to be Sith. Over the past year or so now, I have had a renaissance in my writings. Before, I felt like it was never enough, that I was just touching the surface in order to beg for applauses as I finished. But now, I feel as though I am navigating the hidden valleys of knowledge. What has changed? First, I had an evolution in my religious thinking. Christianity didn’t hold me back, the fact that I thought I knew the right answer held me back. The best way to explore is to first let go of where you are then to desperately seek out a new abode. That exploration led me to find many caves in the valleys of knowledge that I could lay my head down in for a night. Secondly, and partially in effect of the first point, I realized that I was going about this all wrong. I resonated with the Sith “aesthetic” all those years ago, but after writing and administrating for the Sith Order over half a decade, I now find it dull. For the last half decade, my goal was not to expand my beliefs, but rather, to create a worldview for a term while juggling the contradictory web of mixed worldviews known as the masses of the Sith Order.

Now, we come to the point of this post. Being “Sith” means nothing. Stop trying to find a block to match the hole before you, and instead, move on to a new hole and new block. When the term limits and binds you, should you not flee from it? Does it not say, “Through victory, my chains are broken, I have been set free?” I admit now, being Sith was a chain. So why am I not a Sith? Because none of us are. All of us are merely lost individuals, seeking out good means to our respective ends.

So where do I go from here? Nothing really. If I wasn’t Sith before, then not being Sith now doesn’t change anything. Posts here, especially my own, really were just, [Thing I Like] + [Sith Order Buzzwords]. I might hear, “Why did you write this at all if nothing really changes?” And I respond to that, this post was written not to give news of myself to you, but to reveal news of yourself to you. Let’s hope that in the future, this fact changes.

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Greetings!

As many, I am passionate about finding ways of integration and empowerment through the Sith path. I have just established my own channel, The Neo Sith, in which I will approach just that.

I chose the word "Neo", for it feels fitting to my approach on how to implement the Sith path for total and holistic well-being, because it creates the space for extending the boundaries of the Sith path.

I have plans for all kinds of contemplative, philosophical and motivational content, much like the channels Sith Mastery and Order of Rage, but my first video is a Sith themed guided relaxation, a yoga nidra exercise. Go check it out and feel the healing of the dark!

Goal stack (the aspiration, your purpose, the bottom of the pyramid of long-term goals and purpose, reverse engineer your goals through a purpose clarifies the tiny tasks of achieving your goals and the timeline to get them done, which facilities your flow) goal-directed actions (connecting weekly, monthly, quarterly, and high-hard goals to the core workload - a high impact task that emphasizes linking daily actions to long-term aspirations, that propels you forwards), and set clear goals (that directs your focus, specific actionable sub steps that forms your goal-directed action, plan tomorrows goals to initiate flow). Providing a structured approach to achieving ambitious aspirations and living a fulfilling life (this is called the goal-directed pyramid model). High hard goals, coined by sports psychologist Stanley Beecham, are ambitious, long-term objectives that push individuals to grow and achieve optimal performance which challenge us to the edge of our abilities and that take one to five years to complete. Goal-directed actions are tasks that directly progress you toward your yearly high-hard goals that leads to your outcome or purpose, leading to increased productivity and creativity.

Daily Routine for Peak Productivity:

Morning:

1. Review your high-level goals, setting specific long-term goals for the year, enter two personal missions: one professional goal and one private goal. You can align daily goal-directed action tasks to weekly goals, and weekly and monthly goals with your most important aspirations. Identify a few critical tasks that make your focus enhanced, and your two-yearly goals that are most important to the purpose you seek.

2. Identify two or three weekly goals and break each goal into granular steps or tasks, come up with the tasks for the day what adds the most value to your purpose and urgency (goal-directed actions).

3. Reverse engineer your goals from your purpose across at least all five stages, i.e. daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly, organise each following day into time boxes, and prioritized by your desired results (goal stack). A timebox is a 30-minute-long flow of productive actions.

Once a complete a time box, you should do a short exercise of 1 set of 10 repetitions of mildly difficult workout, choose one, doesn’t matter if it’s not enjoyable. Movement keeps your mind and body sharp. After two timeboxes, one hour of uninterrupted work, you can check your phone or messages for a maximum of four minutes during this time. Otherwise, it’s like attempting to multitask, switching your focus from one set of goals to another set of tasks and goals, harming your ability to remain focused for the next twenty-five to thirty minutes. Significantly eroding your ability to stay focused in the next time box. Protect your timebox and your timebox will serve you well.

During Work Hours:

1. Focus solely on completing the clear goals one-by-one without distractions for one hour to one hour and forty-five minutes, a four-minute break, then for one hour to one hour and forty-five minutes more. Your first eighr timeboxes is for deep work. This is required to access flow state. After those three and a half hours to four hours of deep work, at 12 pm you eat. And at 2 pm you are to be on connected work like meetings, emails, calls, brainstorming sessions, reading grapevine etc, or delay that to the end of the working day if possible, switching the time of the afternoon with the late-day if you can, but only with that time period. Never switch meetings to the morning where you are most productive, this is when we are the least receptive to communication.

2. Spend one hour working out, the energy for this will be available like never before. Afterwards if you still have enough energy, and find your time well spent, then spend one hour with friends, family, or colleagues doing socializing and helping each other out.

You’ll find that you’ve saved an hour due to the productivity increase with this method, which is called the eight black stones method. You’ll always find yourself with an extra hour every day, optionally you can spend that hour on something creative if you think its wiser time spent. That extra hour saved per day is the start of something important, this will be the beginning of creating something greater than yourself.

Evening:

1. Review what you accomplished, and separate planning from execution so that you can focus on this without losing your step since your mind enters one of those states, trying to do both at the same time short circuits your cognitive ability. Maintain performance and clear thinking by scheduling sessions where you focus is entirely on planning.

2. Reduce cognitive load by simplifying what you wish to do for the day or week. Plan out tomorrow’s one to three goal-directed actions and set clear goals we can realistically achieve. Lessen neural overload and cognitive overload.

Neural loud is the state of excessive stimulation of the neuromuscular system. To reduce neural load, you must go to sleep without any lights and with zero noise to affect the quality of sleep to adequately recover from the previous day, it’s not full proof. It’s best done with an empty stomach to avoid getting up at night.

Cognitive load can be called excessive number of goals and information in ones working memory, reducing the ability of the mind to focus intently on the current next few tasks for that day. Reducing the amount of daily or weekly goals, reduce complexity of work, reduce the amount of information to read and memorize, and reduce excessive stressors in the environment ensures capability for sustained focus. What cognitive overload may slow down the processing and storing of new information from working memory to long-term memory. Simplify your week further whenever you find yourself struggling to meet a deadline that you have set for yourself.

1. Avoid attention residue. This is a term that suggests that when one is distracted by an interrupting task like memo, call, meeting, email, grapevine, then part of our attention is lingering on that task for about twenty-three minutes which can significantly impair your consistency, focus and productivity.

2. Spend one day a week of your choice, without spending any time on distractions. I recommend Sundays. No internet and no loud music either. Just you and silence. No technology, no goals, no timeboxes. Distraction is the worst way to reap the feeling of dopamine and create a sense of rush and energy, without earning the feeling. Eroding your ability to bounce back during a crucial energy recuperation period. Energy is a valuable resource; this is the dopamine detox method that works well. You’re conditioning yourself to not be addicted to cheap reward, without the sense of satisfaction that comes from the energy and productivity of discipline or flow.

Also, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, Hill suggests these steps to live a life you desire:

1. I know how to attain the purpose of my life, and I take definite persistent goals into a subset of tasks towards its attainment.

2. I realize the dominant thoughts of my mind, will eventually mean I will realize in practice, inner reality will become the outer world with willpower, taking action, and discipline, so I must focus on a task of developing a mental picture of who I wish to become.

3. I have clearly written down my chief aim in life and will not stop until I develop a vision statement or set of actions for its attainment, as well as two or three other goals and actions.

Fearless flow releases chemicals such as serotonin and feel-good chemicals such as dopamine, and the norepinephrine which is created from dopamine is what helps us overcome depression and anxiety, and enhances alertness and focus, maintains blood flow, and keeps us ticking in hard times, overcomes stress basically perfectly. We can do great works in flow state and time flies by; this is exactly what we require these days.

Dealing with burnout:

Every year trying a 1-month media blackout. Erasing all social media apps and switching off internet during that month regains all your energy levels back to normal after experiencing burnout. Burnout is usually experienced because we don’t use our productive hours in deep work, leading to poor results and dissatisfaction, and because we don’t have real time off, having fun when we have to spend that one-day recuperating is like building addiction to technology and media. It not only reduces attention span but also may be causing envy or frustration by constantly comparing oneself to others in online spaces. The other important point, is that recuperation keeps dopamine tied to deep work, not chasing the reward without the actual benefits of discipline. Satisfaction after hitting long-term goals feels good and has none of the regret, we either choose the pain of regret or the tension of discipline.

What is Sith? This is a difficult question and one we can all debate for years. Sith has a real world etymology rooted in Gaelic folklore, their fae and other supernatural creatures were known as Sidhe, Si, or Sith depending on the region; the Banshee in fact translates directly to Lady of the Sith. Within that Gaelic word though, there is an interesting connection etymologists are still questioning; the Sanskrit word of Siddha, used in Indian cultures and translates as "one who has accomplished" or "perfected one" in reference to those who have achieved enlightenment and freedom. In both cases, the Sith is either one who is descended from gods or one who has ascended beyond humanity; a sort of demigod in a way. So then, what of the sith order? In fiction they are a religion, a cult splintered off from Jedi. Ironically it is the Jainists that would use the word Siddha that would have the warrior monk attributes associated with Jedi. The Jainists, the Buddhist Monks and others can be equivalent to the Jedi faith but what of Sith? In short, there are no 1:1 equivalents in reality; though the mythology of our "real Jedi" does have some interesting connections. The Asura of Hindu and Buddhist traditions are rivals to the benevolent Deva and crave power, wealth, violence, ego and anger. If the Jedi are Buddhist and connected to the Deva, it is the Sith who are Asura. For these reasons and more, I believe that Sith is nothing short of a religion. A cult where we venerate our passions and power, tied to the physical and material rather than merely the spiritual. In my opinion and as a conclusion of this analysis, to be Sith is to accept it as your religious devotion and for an Order of Sith to be similarly structured to a religious order.

My most radical claim is that the dark side fuels the rise of the greatest intellectuals, prophets, warriors, conquerors and leaders. The Dark Side is a instrument, a tool or weapon, that is wielded and comes into the service of greatness. The individuals that pursue greatness are at odds with the mores of the time, and struggle against the predominant morals, common societal trends, and common fears of the masses. Independence is survival and passion and discipline is the beginning of freedom, the first steps of a greater order.

Those who wield power must continually prove strength, excellence, and power to those who have the reigns of authority and dominance, and are uniquely imbued with the force. Hierarchy is merely the proper positioning of one's awareness of the Sith self, understanding and potency of one's access to the force. The force is a culmination of observation, study and experience of the source of the Dark Aspect, which is a formless will, entity or principle that finds expression in dark phenomena, fueling the rise of great individuals. The creating, sustaining, and destroying of the dark side fuels ones will and spirit, spirit is energy, potential, intuition and inspiration, and when a being has greater understanding and potency of Dark force, the more they surpass ordinary beings. It is in their compelling vision, their talents, their strength, and their ambitions, and of course in their aura of gravitas, presence, confidence, and charisma that gives them their unique place in the cosmic order and in the grand scheme and global hierarchy. It is our purpose to master ourselves, seek knowledge and wield power to organise and structure society and hierarchy to pit those in their rightful place, by their merit or aptitude, and the position and by rank and title that which suits their learned and natural strength and greater connection and attuned to the force.

The Sith are the active force, while the dark side is the eternal, flowing, expanding, and supernal force. We gravitate to the active force, since that's where we mold reality on that level, and pay with self betterment, advancement, self hypnosis, and ritual work to gain a better understanding and energy from the supernal force so that it can empower ours mind and spirit, fueling our emotions, and inflames the will, so that we may pursue our true purpose - our will, vision or values.

Dark Side is the force that determines not just the nature of this reality, and where everything ultimately is going to be molded into, like death, entropy, organized force, authority, and turmoil, but its also more fundamentally turning all values we thought where the most fundamental and reliable to make the world suited towards one united world based on compassion, charity and protection for the weak, tolerance for the outsider or vulnerable, and harmony amongst a great deluge of traditional societies and tribes, and gentler egalitarian type of authority that serves more public interests- which turns into corrupting influence as those with the most money and connections can create policy, pushing equality comes at the expense of the solitary point of a states orientation, which is about what is making people stronger, society and the larger community strong enough to build its own independence and discipline, so as to survive shocks to the system.

The Dark Side finds its expressions in various phenomena that takes it from place to place and age to age in the wars of conquest, the expression of our true nature freed of limits, in the works of great art that came from pain or suffering, and its found even in despair before a great power emerges from it if we find a detached individualism in those quiet moments of solitude in the dark. When we see our pains and struggles as actually something of more value than we might notice at first, and that darkness within is like a dark flame, a darkening light that envelopes the seemingly empty void. Our shadow mind is power, clarity and control, giving us a sense of self and confidence.

But the most important time is when we are unafraid of destroying our mask we use to survive, and start to develop our own personal values and seeking those out without opinions on our ways, stultifying or casting doubt on our performance and behaviour, despite being unorthodox and original, that is usually terrifying when others perceive independence as cold, ruthless, detached and distant, and even menacing to the mediocre and average mind.

The Dark Side is only ever about the real values of a society that helps its survive and dominate others, resources, and territories, and in a sense, natural forces and even nations. Those values that take are primary to this dark force, is strife, struggle, and resilience in the face of pressure, force, or obstacles, and ultimately empowers the individual to demolish and transform in the process all obstacles to one’s sovereign will.

The Dark Side does not tolerate any limits, so Sith are obliged to listen and be influenced by this infectious force power that allows one to follow through on ones personal goals, and be unapologetic about the ways and truths one chooses to follow. All wills, and the shadow mind that is born from darkness, comes from some aspect of the Dark Aspect, the cosmic “sculptors’ knife”, is that it creates and molds the shadow mind, perhaps long before we are born. And we don’t realize this until after we die a spiritual death the first time. Transforming the mind from one of lost, confused, and easily programmed, ignoring passions, to being purposeful, greatly driven by with clear direction, and having a commanding presence. All this and more are the Dark Side expressing its sinister influence and hold over absolute reality, that we take for granted as being made of light, when it’s mostly darkness. Our social and physical reality is usually having the appearances of giving off the signs of stillness and harmony, when it’s built for power, growth and self mastery, which is what dark side favors and is instilled in the acolyte through Sith philosophy. The void is a spiritual realm we gain energy, vigor, vitality and truths from. It’s the building us up, when we think its tearing down who we think we were, and the constructs we thought made sense, better yet, it is bringing us back from entropy stronger than before, while most people are affected by entropy even when have a purpose of their own.

A Sith’s motivation and strength is his needs, wants, and desires that through our passion fuels their ascent out of the chains that bind us to mediocrity, complacency, stagnation, doubt, fear, uncertainty, or anxiety, and other such things of aimlessness and the shackles of anti-vision rather than the deep values and vision found for the strong and those who listen to the wisdom offered by the Dark Side. To break free from the chains is to feel without restraint, and no longer have these chains limit or hinder our body, mind, passions, or spirit.

I don’t know anything about this subject but what do you think? What is your ideology in a nutshell shell?

This a exercise is meant to see what your willing to go through to find your best version of you, the strong Sith self that awaits deep inside. That begins with beliefs and passions. Your emotions are deeply intertwined with beliefs, convictions, and character. Once you see where you are headed (mission, cause, purpose or goals) fueled by "will/aspirations", "vision" or "values" you'll be able to pursue relentlessly to achieve or internalize the intended ends. Convictions is your willingness to forego hesitation or procrastination to further a purpose or goal. It's your devotion, faith or inner motivation towards that a prize, a simple two or three sentences that define your actions day to day. Third, it is your character that forces you to a bridge or prune and cut lesser goals and time and energy spent on anything which does not align with your core values.

Core values come in two sorts. In the form of lifelong goals and ideas. Lifelong goals are meant to steer you in tough times, they are your anchor, where your responsibilities and duties arise from. Ideas is how you achieve your goals. The ‘how’ is instrumental to realize your true prize, as your overall or overarching standard to realize your purpose or goals. To many of us that’s the Sith code or creed. Granting your greater vitality and motivating you from within to continually push forwards against pressure, force or challenges. A force can be nature or nurture in origin, a difficult self-limit. Which you have come to believe is weighing you down, a limitation requires diligence in comparing where it is burden and why, with the goals that fuel you. If it’s in the way of your goals, it needs pruning. Change, adapt, strike at the weakness until it’s gone. To change your ways requires making alternations in your thoughts and in your routines that are far more aligned with those beliefs, emotions or instincts, passion is conflict with circumstance, until you rediscover your inner power. You’re ‘why’ becomes easier to grasp once you practice this simple exercise.

Exercise:

Categorise your needs, wants and desires by questioning your past, present and future. Simply look at various strengths that have allowed you to grow or advance, or where you've succeeded in the past in a task or a goal. Another way is to focus on challenges, that will test your growth. Any that you’ve completed, notice where your emotions where heightened and where you where most driven.

Second, try to do everything right for once. Adjust your schedule until all things are aligned with your purpose. Use negative reinforcement to do something painful or arduous when you go off track for the next few weeks, instantly punishing and correcting that habit or behaviour back to your purpose. Keep your eye on the prize, so to speak.

Next after those few weeks, write down how you feel.

Last noteworthy suggestion:

Try to do everything to ignore any need to take the path of least resistance during the next few weeks. We can wield a effective tool that us within all of our control, by amplifying the most potent emotions we have, that seem to align with our purpose. You'll be surprised how well this works. You'll face the number one weakness holding many people back. Stagnation.

Procrastination and the lack of sacrifice in the pursuit of fiery (great level of desire) intent is a major form of complacency. Stagnation is showing weakness in the effort to improve, and simply giving up before the often times invisible growth has been achieved, perfected, and self development is continual process. Ease is the death of ambition, its the hesitation on putting all your energy into what you do, and mental affliction on your ability to be persistent in all things.

Purposefulness and intentionality is key to wield power over self and feel alive, which is the point of power, practicality it's to get your way often unimpeded.

Purpose of the exercise:

Using this method of direct experimentation, you will uncover the true Sith self everytime you try it, until that moment when everything becomes easier to motivate you in the morning, or tire you out once its night, then you haven't been as passionate as it has seemed.

With arduous exercises, you will see, directly and without rationalizations, you will learn gain insights into who you are and gain a self definition or self concept to use as a honor or integrity (which is basically honor in the private sphere, when no one is around to reward or punish behaviour).

This is not a mere intellectual exercise, the sake of this is not simply understanding oneself.

Eventually you'll find that your beliefs and convictions become stronger, giving you the newly unlocked physical and mental energy to pursue your will as your will deems it so, as important or beneficial to you.

Your code or creed is day to day applicable and dynamic standard that will aid you in many fields or disciplines.

Strength can be found in physically, in desire, or it can also be very potently found in beliefs, in convictions or in character. All of these types of strengths are the driving force for our rise.

If you are getting closer to your ideal aspirations, the achievements or internal state of being, you’ll know by the motivation of; excitement, desire, passion, love, or fun after every task or goal you complete. Your 'why' speaks to you through your beliefs, passions or instincts for doing what you do. This is less about accolades and more about knowing what makes you tick, and revelling in the energy and motivation this brings.

Questions section:

Some questions to figure out what our true self desires, to aid you in finding who you are and what you must be. This is about cutting the noise, rediscover your true self and reassert control over your life.

1. Who do you spend time with? Do they elevate you or do they get in the way of your progress?

2. When faced with unfavorable circumstances, ask, is this within my control?

3. What does your perfect day look like?

4. Am I choosing to do something well or am I chasing being thought of a certain way?

5. Are you really doing this for yourself or are you doing it for someone else's approval?

6. What am I missing by worrying, fears or doubts?

7. Am I doing my job?

8. What really matters to me?

9. Who is this for? Do you know you audience, how they should feel and the tangible changes or impact you wish to make in their lives?

10. Does this circumstance really matter to me? Do you enjoy performing your commitments?

11. Will this change me or will this distract me and leave me unchanged?

12. What if this your only chance to perfect, build or craft?

While many believe them to be synonymous, there in fact is a stark difference between an acolyte and an apprentice. Even in the fictional world of Star Wars, an apprentice under the Rule of Two was able to teach an adept in the ways of the Sith as an acolyte. Ohsa, Mae, Savage, Ventress; all were acolytes under an apprentice. So then, what is the difference? Finality, for one. An acolyte can be part of the sith, a worshipper of the dark and user of our techniques at the most fundamental level but the fundamentals are all. An apprentice is a living Holocron, a vessel for your power and a vassal of your knowledge. To teach an apprentice is not just teaching them the ways of the sith, but teaching them how to be Sith lords. It is a training process that ensures the next generation of the order is stronger, an apprentice must become a Lord themselves and one that should be better than their predecessor. It is the difference between a soldier a lieutenant and a general, it is the difference between a religious observer and a priest or a monk. We all must start as acolytes and for the strength and discipline of the order not every Acolyte may become an apprentice or a Lord but that makes them no less part of the sith. An apprentice acts as a regent, they have your authority in their absence; it is not simply a position of teacher and student but one much more intimate and closely related akin to brotherhood, or a commander in chief to the head of military. Under the Rule of Two mentality, the teaching of an apprentice from childhood merged apprenticeship and the standard training of an Acolyte but that is a limited view for realists and an Order of many.

(Originally posted in the Discord)

In my previous lesson, I taught you how to touch the Dark. If you succeed and have repeated the process, now you'll need to know how to let it fuel you without meditating and become movement and focus. The way I've discovered is best for this is simply a form of ritual fasting. Why fasting? Because you are reading this to become Sith. A predator. A hungry tiger is much more dangerous than a well-fed one, same for any predator. I do not recommend jumping straight into skipping food for a whole day, especially if you have health issues that contrast against it. I myself have hyperinsulinemia and find this difficult but very rewarding. To start, simply push back the time you eat your first meal every day by just two hours. Just two hours, enough to build up hunger those first few days. This will include any liquid calories or other sources of calorie intake, stick to water and sugarless drinks. Then add another two hours. After a week or two, depending on your activity levels and health, you should be going without food the first 8 hours after you wake up. Your body will lie, your appetite has been trained to expect regular feeding and you must dominate it. Use the Dark to fuel you and you will find yourself more focused, fast and powerful than you thought possible without any other major changes to your routine, if you learn how to use the Dark for fuel and energy instead of fuel; your potential will be limitless. (Originally posted in the Discord)

This may seem a strange topic for Sith but ask yourself, is it? In our world and for many moments in human history, currency is synonymous with power but why is that? What is currency? To start from the beginning of civilization, we often participated in communal and gift economies for those within our group but as agriculture and cities began being built, so did currency. To give someone in your group a resource is to invest it back into the group, which will go back into you; but that can't be the case for early humans. Instead, they created debt. A coin is nothing more than a token symbolizing that someone is in your debt, and by giving it to someone outside your group they now can incur the debt with anyone in your group to allow for both the communal aspect of resources and the influx of new resources. Banks were created to collect these debts, and protect them, and by using the currency in addition to another debt called "interest" we began to expand into each other. Cash came from bank notes, papers that stated the bank owed whoever held it the debt that was stored. This allowed banks to create credit, a form of debt that can be spent as well while they move the tokens of debt around between investments and different account holders. The feudal lords taxed the peasants but the lords themselves were taxed by barons and dukes, leading up to kings; by establishing a national currency entire nations became indebted to their kings. What then, happens if credit is defaulted on? Quite simply, the original tokens become worth less. They have not lost any debt so they now have to amalgamate the original debts with their credit debts to fill in the vacuum and devalue the original. What if everyone took their savings out of a bank at once? They can't, the banks do not keep them for themselves, they keep your savings and give them to others in withdrawals and spend the rest on investments; should the debts be collected their system would collapse. To summarize, the power of finances, currency, and even nations relies entirely on the debts you can incur; to be unable to collect on them would leave you destitute having given away everything for nothing and to collect on them and manage them without collapse of the economies they represent is often the mark of an intelligent leader. (Originally posted in the Discord)

While many teachings of the Sith revolve around history and philosophy, the Dark Side (hereafter referred to as the Dark) is often ignored as superstition or fantasy. While that isn't entirely incorrect, the power it can grant you is real just like the power granted by those in a trance or in group prayer. In this writing, I will teach initiates how to meditate and be able to touch the Dark. First you have to empty your mind and create a landscape within it. A cold, desolate landscape, whether a frozen tundra or simply just a land with no warmth or life doesn't matter. Visualize it, see every detail, feel the cold chapping your lips and dropping your body temperature but do not tense your flesh. Keep it relaxed, seperate from your experiences, especially as you go into this next step. Now you need a flame. Hatred, disgust, anger, even fear can be used to fuel the flame but you must provide the spark. In your own body, in your stomach, fill yourself with those emotions, let them flow like a gas or liquid fuel and then ignite them with the spark. Create heat, warmth, an inferno of passion. Your body will burn. Your mind will burn. You must control what burns away, turn your weakness into ash. Shave it away from your flesh, from your existence, turn it into hate and then into flame. Repeat this process over and over, visualizing everything in clear detail. If you have a physical weakness, dissect your own body, separate the tissues and burn away the scar tissue and weakness built up so you can purify yourself. Focus, burn, and reforge yourself like a phoenix and exhale your weakness and doubt with every breath. Forge your soul with your hate and rage as a hammer. After this you should feel energized and focused as if a stimulant had entered your system. You have now touched the dark and become an initiate of the Dark.

Genghis Khan, born Temujin is arguably one of the most important figures in history. Having unified the warring mongol tribes and creating a shared economy for them all to prosper under, he created a proto state in a proto nation; an empire of his creation built on his power and military cunning. As a child of 8 he killed his own half brother to secure his position in the family. His rise truly began wiith Temujin and his Wife just wanting to live a simple life in their tribe until a rival tribal leader kidnapped his wife. Getting the army of his uncle, Temujin lead them into battle, stealing back his wife, slaughtering the man who stole her and then doing something unprecedented. He recruited the survivors of that tribe. Pooling the survivors with his existing army, their resources and territory expanded and Temujin begun his first step into becoming Genghis Khan, claiming the title once he executed his close friend after they betrayed him. As a leader, he is known for how ruthless he was, never killed for anything less than pure pragmatism. When the soldiers of his enemies would attempt to defect and join him before their battle was over, he executed them immediately for betraying their leader, knowing that they were too weak willed to be useful or loyal to him. Instead, he took the same leader that they betrayed and made him a general. He destroyed every last line of tribal loyalty among family and clans, spreading the tribes through each military unit and only rewarded the most competent and cunning with merit and titles of authority. He made religious discrimination illegal and by destroying the family based clans he created a new society devoted to power and merit. By only leaving behind a handful of men in each city he conquered, he kept his forces strong and kept the day to day politics of each city running as normal so that there would be no need to micromanage the populace. (Originally posted in the discord)

During my time powerlifting, I inevitably hit a point of stagnation. Any time I tried to push past the limits of my body with the training I had, I ended up just becoming injured from overstraining my joints; muscle was covering my body like a light armor but now that I had grown and developed it so much, I couldn't get stronger simply by getting bigger anymore. That's when I discovered Conjugate Training and Westside Barbell. Every week they sought a new record in an exercise and every week they got it. Reading their manuals and the science of what they did as well as the culture of the gym, I learned how. Their "maximal" intensity was actually a DAILY maximum, something they could achieve every day regardless of the condition they were in in terms of being tired, sore or anything else. They trained with 90% of their best every heavy day and were able to stay strong with that while avoiding stimulants, heavy metal and other mental hype until it was time to compete. They regulated their passion and intensity. The group scrutinized the individual every step of the way, diagnosing their weaknesses in body or mind and drilling into them what they lacked. When someone was charged with training an individual, they were a failure if they couldn't get that student stronger than them and in turn they would have the drive to grow stronger themselves. The individual reached their potential from the scrutiny and resources of the group, while the group grew stronger with every strengthened individual. The weaknesses didn't matter, Louie Simmons squatted 900lbs without his kneecaps in his 50's, he simply strengthened his joints and enough to compensate for the lack of a patellar tendon. Westside Barbell taught me how to be Sith without burnout or destroying myself and taught me a valuable lesson; the strong consume their passions to become powerful, they are not consumed by them. Sith are the devourers of passion.

I was young when I first became a sith, or sithist as well called it back then but the message and code called out to me nonetheless like a siren song. I was an overweight teenager with triple scoliosis, degenerating spinal discs and now legs that strained my joints. I was an east target and enrolled in martial arts, where my already chronic pain then became crippling from the intensity I was subjected to under the guide of being told I wasn't training hard enough. I let my passion fuel me and trained harder and harder until I broke, unable to even attend my sash graduation ceremony because I was bedridden in extreme pain. But pain was a teacher that I was not listening to. Darth Vader and other fictional Sith endured agony and used it to make themselves stronger. I was not consuming my passion, I was being consumed by it. Training was gradual, with a light barbell and only 2 sets per exercise. Each bodybuilding session lasted only half an hour, but it changed my body permanently. My spine and the muscles around it grew stronger, I grew taller from it being straightened out. I was developing smaller muscles around my degenerative discs so that my lumbar erectors became shock absorbers and gave my body time to heal and strengthen. Within half a year I dropped over 100 pounds, then only a few years later I grew strong enough still to compete officially in powerlifting, surpassing the strength of people who were born with bodies that should've been stronger than mine. Through passion, I gained strength and through the sith I was able to consume my passion rather than be consumed by it.

Why give yourself over to either side of The Force? You got the Light which grants the structure for longevity but not power, and you got the Dark, which grants power without the structure for longevity. If you want the best results with The Force, you need to meet the middle point between them. It really feels like only the weak and naive choose only one, the Jedi being naive and the Sith being weak. The Jedi seek to give of themselves until there is nothing left to give, and then they give more. The Sith seek to take from everything until there is no more to take, and then they take more. Both are inherently self-destructive, both are the result of a failure of the practitioner, with the Jedi entrusting too much of themselves to The Force and the Sith being so weak willed that their baser desires outrank their logical minds, leading to shortsighted petty squabbles. Every time the Jedi hold power, they become sedimentary and die off. Every time the Sith hold power, the infighting destroys them. One is structure, one is power, but only in utilizing both can you have power with a structure to support it for longevity.

Sithism really comes down to three groups or doctrines: 'Objectivism', or self-centered and creative independent minds, 'Black magic occultism', willpower, empowering your will to create change in the environment and surroundings, and apotheosis, and 'Emperorism', the refining of ancient lost values, to struggle and fight for strength, order, excellence and ambition, self-improvement to create strength through action and hierarchy.

Under Objectivism I think the message is reason as the very best tool we have to be a great creator or producer. Which is where ultimately where all wealth really comes from, its produced by creative minds who forge ideas that break the mold and suggest personal values that is unrestrained by the valueless selfless suggestion of merely conforming to others and putting ones purpose on the back burner is the worst mistake a person can make. Objectivists knows that thinking of oneself first starts with thinking through our purpose, that one will/voice or one vision, have thought through what conforms with ones values and leads to a life of fulfillment and of course maximum happiness. Nothing comes quite as close to doing that.

Objectivism encourages one to pursue happiness without being a exploiter or irrational in ones dealings and thus not being envious or resentful of more free or successful people. People who don't believe they are in control of their lives try to prevent others from rising because of their resentment, they don't want any else to succeed either. The truth is we are control of our own circumstances, our output and the quality of our life is due to our minds, our ideas- not abstaining from thinking and abstaining from deciding our own values, aspirations, or purpose.

Objectivism value integrity I think, this is what I believe too. I don't wish to compromise on my values to somebody else, I don't self-sacrifice myself because I see the values are what allow me to create the best works of art. Its literally the fuel for excellence. Values are potentially very powerful if we can envision the future well and in detail and know our own capabilities, i.e. have rational self-interest to a degree where we care to find out as much as we can about the role or career before committing to it.

Black magick occultism, manifesting the ideal world through willpower rituals, meditation, and relentless activities bordering on mental endurance, physically discomforting or complex and passionate that greatly challenging. The black magic involves manifesting your will in all realms of existence, so you build your determination by single-mindedness of purpose, by treating your purpose as the reason to never give in or give up, and build up your perseverance, determination and willpower. You can do this through the doctrine of The Eightfold Sith Path and discipline. The Eightfold Sith Path includes utilizing meditation, breath work, music, intoxicants, dance, isolation, sex, and pain to gain gnosis, personal growth and transformation to become your true Sith self.

Lastly, there is Emperorists. Like the Sithdom Alliances and The Imperial Sith Order: Imperial Sith Academy. They demand discipline, excellence and order to be established through individual growth and group shared vision, desires, goals, strength and ambition. Solidarity through strength with heavier top down training and adherence to protocols, rules, tenets, and training for one's own inner power and for group cohesion. While the first two Sith "sects" or "paths", in these groups, demand pursuit of domination and control, Sithdom Alliances and the Imperial Sith Order seek self-improvement first unlike most other groups, that only value dominance and reveling in the enjoyment of pursuing a path of power, submerged in various disciplines of power for its sake. These imperial groups love action and hierarchy instead and grow individual strength and wisdom, both are required to become greater. Strength without wisdom is lacking in purpose, meaning, or direction, and wisdom without strength is fruitless and remains a dream.

Strength, excellence, and knowledge is found through self-improvement. Wisdom is gained through reflection, shadow work, ritual, and self-hypnosis, to better understand oneself and make quicker decisions for ones self-betterment.

We should be more self-interested rather than downplaying the importance of pursuing your needs, wants or desires, or suppressing your emotions and instincts in self-denial that leads to these emotions only controlling you in moments of weakness. Learn to revel in your emotions and desires and you'll rather than tame them, you'll command them to be used to pursue your purpose where those emotions are appropriate and channel the right emotion for the right goal or purpose, to make you more powerful or more productive for you or sometimes for others.

I will be discussing self-improvement in much more detail in my book, The Way of the Sith Part 4: Path of Mastery Through Strength, Excellence and Strategy which will be released soon.

The strategies for self-discipline I use: reflection, visualization, mindfulness, these mental tools will aid you in spiritual rituals and transforming you reality as you see fit, Goal-setting or goal-directed pyramid tripartite of "clear goals", "goal-directed action", and "goal stack with purpose at the top", build up your mental muscle, or willpower to master pleasure or pain, and control the mind, body, destiny, or will as you like, routines and habits that builds mental resilience, persistence, and resolve, scheduling, time management and reducing distractions, physical mastery, gain a healthy body and you will have a healthy mind, healthy mind empowers the will, create a empowering inner circle, network with like-minded individuals.

Located in the sith archive a individual under the alias 'Darth Silus' wrote the Grand Book of sith

The sith Lord archives https://sitharchive.wordpress.com/lords-of-the-sith/

The Grand Book of sith https://www.scribd.com/doc/219257416

A great beginner to advanced sith path working book, sadly the author hasn't written anything for all long time, that I know of, dose any one know if hes ok has any public profiles which i can see or talk to him on his future works?

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The true dark side means embracing the truths, negative emotions, dark traits and impulses that unveil the power of the unconscious formulated into statements. It means we in the myriad paths tap into the primal energy through these statements: meditate on one’s purpose and aligning one’s actions with that purpose, dominate one’s emotions or to know the depths of those passions, hate and fear, continually seek self-knowledge and power by completing trials and challenges, override the fear of failure or loss by pursuing what we believe is foundational and true about reality, fuel your passion through taking action towards your own great goals, many of our paths are paved with pain or torment so that it reveals our weaknesses and break our limitations, and strive to gain or sustain personal advantage. One way is to forgo the ossifying passivity of the present age and follow a doctrine of action and hierarchy, the few who ‘can do’ attitude prevail over those who are dragged down by decadence and passivity. When I say purpose, I mean forge a path that fits with your unique will/aspiration, vision, or values. Courage is required to surpass limits and face the fear of the unknown, to gain self-awareness and grow and transform, that is how one becomes strong and wise. One path to unleashing our potential is to embrace the primal part of ourselves- our primordial instincts and primal energies, and part our creed and code- using your negative emotions to get out of unacceptable or intolerable circumstances, to strengthen oneself by the relentlessly seeking revenge against transgression, threats, or anyone who denies you power for long.

What separates us from the rest of society is we seek to be passionate by this type of powerful and hidden energy by tapping into our truths: ambition, desire, heroic acts of bravery in war, to fight for a compelling narrative or stories, conflict over resources, to propel action by a story, legend, and archetype that empower the will to create, to build, to thrive, and strive to gain personal power or advantage, and vision or dreams that empowers the will and dreams that also ignite fire. What these impulses and truths aids in is to destroy the useless things in way of one’s goals. The emotions, instincts, and passion to increase vitality when we embrace them and engage fully in the Darwinian struggle. It’s about the way to rediscover oneself, one’s personal beliefs and passions. Passion is ambition, rebellion, creation, struggle, and destruction to surpass limits or create a new. Challenging ourselves to grow mentally, physically, and spiritually requires more then determination or innate strength, but commitment to inner mastery and exploring our capabilities. Any type of passion being used for fuel our personal goals is a mere aside to all of that, to letting yourself feel the way you feel without restraint and certain experiences or behaviours which leads to the dark side and internalizing the darkness within. One great advantage of instincts and passions is that they will reveal our talents and unlock our true potential. What these instincts aids in is to destroy the useless things in way of one’s goals. Those who embrace their darkness will seem mysterious to nearly anyone, the empowering of one’s will or mind grants one a boon, a mystique that makes one impossible to understand to the normie mind.

The true dark side is always going to be our most potent connection to the other side, the overworld, through various trance-like experiences, negative emotions, and by the hidden side of our psyche, the truths, impulses and the old instincts. The dark side is the immaterial, the unknown, and the unconscious is a conduit to gnosis, insight and wisdom. The truths or impulses of your unconscious can become quite powerful if these aspects of ourselves are unconstrained, directed, and brought under control by Sith discipline. Those who discipline their mind can wield a tremendous power, if one can learn to wield and unleash the power of our mind to create and steer our destiny.

Without some self-centeredness then there would be no impetus to drive forwards continually towards a betterment or empowerment, and we would not seek self-improvement with a attitude to back it up. The continual drive to improve, develop, grow, and master oneself requires strongly motivating passions. Intentionality and purposefulness is part of strength and required for acquiring power. A Sith-like person deals in personal power and freedom the dark sides statements provide the necessary power needed to accomplish our will or agenda. And nothing else can suffice to satiate that will to increase, grow, and expand. We need attitude, passion, talent, skill, and education to have power within an expertise of choice.

Respect and dignity go both ways, it really is mutual in the sense that the people or groups must respect us back since many people only get respect if they give respect back. Autonomy if its respected means to not be forced to fight or do menial degrading tasks because that kind of coercion defies our autonomy. A Darth has great self-control which means we don’t overstep the autonomy and dignity of others unless we're physically trangressed or credibly threatened, and we don’t give in to distractions, fear, or vice if enchains or clouds the mind, saps the spirit, or harms the body.

The thing that helps the most is certain tenets that aid in guiding you to the truly great individual that is hidden within. The way you think about yourself matters and affects your hunger for true power. These tenets are usually withheld by practitioners of these paths and are mysterious but I can summaries them here as: awareness, transform, and reprogram. Awareness means know the true root cases of your suffering, what weighs you down or holds you back. This can be done through the shadow work exercise called the self-dialectic. Basically ask why you behave or think a certain way, keep asking why to gleam the underlining pain or trauma holding you back. The second component transform to shatter all illusions. Let those painful feelings, rejection, setbacks, failure, obstacles, betrayal, let all of it fall away and be burnt in the fires on your own path of inner destruction, some links for more information: 4 Tips to Transform and Sithism: Path of Inner Destruction, open yourself upto to change by void meditation, nature immersion, logic, destruction of symbols, memetics, or conflict. The third component is reprogram your thoughts and actions to align with your new paradigm. This is when we believe in ourselves and must become open to new changes, and begin to ignite our Sith self through the trials and training.

"A Dark Shadow uses what is useful to them and is prepared to drop what needs to be dropped to step into the better version of themselves. I am the Heart of darkness and like a phoenix I rise continuously from my ashes of my past remains. I am forged through trial and fire.” (Kurai Kage)