WELCOME
21ST CENTURY MENTAL HEALTH
REFORMATION
TRANSFORMATION
REVOLUTION
EVOLUTION
We are here together through allowing ourselves to follow our bliss.
Let’s re-imagine and re-create how the world perceives mental illness and
mental wellness and more importantly how those of us with these experiences
perceive our selves.
Thrive Your Own Way
The Paths Are Many
The Journey Is YOURS!
Follow Your Crazy
Now, I came to this idea of bliss because in Sanskrit, which is the great spiritual
language of the world, there are three terms that represent the brink, the
jumping-off place to the ocean of transcendence: sat-chit-ananda. The word
“Sat” means being. “Chit” means consciousness. “Ananda” means bliss or
rapture. I thought, “I don’t know whether my consciousness is proper consciousness
or not; I don’t know whether what I know of my being is my proper being or not;
but I do know where my rapture is. So let me hang on to rapture, and that will bring
me both my consciousness and my being. I think it worked.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments
when you really are happy not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This
requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it,
no matter what people tell you. This is what I call, ‘following your bliss.’ if you do follow
your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting
for you. And the life that you ought to be living, is the one you are living. Wherever you
are, if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you,
all the time. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your
bliss, and they open doors for you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors
will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
Joseph Campbell
Transforming Perceived Mental Illness Into A Blessing
Transforming Perceived Mental Illness Into A Blessing: A Personal Story For A Collective Journey
Transforming Perceived Mental Illness Into A Blessing: A Personal Story For A Collective Journey
Bret's Bipolar Cure (and journey)
Envisioning the Alternative Reality Summit For Mental Health Reformation
Mission
The Liberation Foundation (aka The Moksha Foundation) is an Institute for the Advancement of Transforming Perceived Mental Illness Into A Blessing; creating and sharing integral lifestyle choices for balancing and flowing with the diverse states of being heretofore called "Mental Illness". The Foundation provides new lifestyle options, trainings, and designs programs for transforming perceived mental illness into a blessing. Key elements to include mental wellness for individuals and groups to facilitate the expression and empowerment of the passion and genius that resides within every person who is a ‘subject’ of the 'Mental Illness' perception. A major component of this reformation is introducing diverse, holistic, and synergistic methods towards leading lives beyond hope and surviving into inspiration and thriving.
The Liberation Foundation serves as an incubator/community/foundation for gifted people to innovate and prosper together outside of the box and without being forced to conform to the status quo. The Foundation will eventually ‘franchise’ out to become a synergistically decentralized networked community of praxis around the planet and therefore a leading voice and model and embodiment of mental health reformation.
This networked community will appear in many shapes and sizes from drop in centers to full blown villages and cities. From urban to rural, from high tech to off-grid and beyond our imaginations, the Liberation Foundation will be a phenomenon.
The products, goods and services of the first Center and subsequent 'franchises' will be freely accessible to all, according to the level of resources available which match the needs of the public. This health and wellness care will be freely accessible and scalable due to the innovative business and organizational models being implemented. We will capitalize on related entrepreneurial efforts which work in co~creation with this platform to be its sustainable source of funding, resources and capital. We are more than nonprofit, for profit or similar. We are for purpose, which transcends and includes all models based on free markets and philanthropy.
We will generously take care of and support all staff members at every center. There is more than enough to be both practical and audacious, to be strategic and loving.
Ultimately, my vision is to participate in a complete reformation of the mainstream mental health paradigm as it stands now.
Obviously, this reformation is well under way and leaderless (so to say) already; unfolding in many ways through many initiatives. Nonetheless, for me, until there are free (Patch Adams style) regenerative holistic healing centers around the world that anyone can access... my mission is incomplete. These must be state of the art, well crafted, diverse and amazing healing centers where the staff are well taken care of and nourished in following their bliss in supporting people who are on this journey of Transforming Perceived Mental Illness Into A Blessing.
His Story
Several short articles about my journey and the fruit of my labors.
About Me
'The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.'
-- Joseph Campbell
I am a neo-generalist, which can be described in part as 'encompassing rather than rejecting, the neo-generalist is both specialist and generalist; a restless multi-disciplinarian, who is forever learning.' In these regards it would be fair to say that after 25 years and more than ten thousand hours practicing conscious evolution and co~creation, I am here on Earth to contribute in many ways.
While I have many creative outlets, my life’s work includes two specific missions: (1) to help spark a rebirth and renaissance for philanthropy leading to a new paradigm for how we produce and share the products, goods and services of the world, and (2) to catalyze systemic mental health reformation.
Bipolar is an especially interesting experience because of the spectrum of mood swings, and the depths some of them can take, which means I am an expert in states of being, states of consciousness and more. Because of these extremes, I also have had temporary experiences that would be classified as schizophrenic, obsessive compulsive, dissociative, etc. As well, on another hand, these experiences also include states of being known as enlightenment, unity consciousness, and similar.
First and foremost (which is not usually the case with a majority of health practitioners), I have direct experience with what I speak including involuntary hospitalizations, participating in day programs and the overall legal, insurance, medical, etc systems that make up the entire mental health institution. This includes experiencing the incredible dogma, arrogance, cruelty and ignorance that pervades these institutions. Thank god, I am coming through a healing process which includes developing the empathy muscles to understand that I was treated terribly because people didn't and still don't know any better.
Now, it's my response ability to share with the world what I have learned, what I understand, and how we can make systemic, scalable, global changes. It is my calling to make sure people do ‘know better’ and that especially includes people who think of themselves as experts through studying and observing and interacting but hardly ever knowing first hand what they are dealing with. It's my calling to help provide new solutions and completely different response on this planet to perceived mental illness.
I have traveled the world the past decade+ on my own healing and hero’s journey. I have inquired with many people who have experienced these things. I have learned first hand what seems to be common among perceived mental illness, as well as how incredibly individual each case is in the face of civilization’s attempts to reduce these experiences to a pathological phenomenon which can be treated from the ‘outside in’ or with a silver bullet regimen.
As a neo-generalist, I have expertise in many fields which I bring into the Global Community as part of this Mental Health Reformation. I am uniquely positioned as I have spent the last decade, in research, design, and praxis-based experiential and iterative development of whole systems innovations. Areas of expertise, insight and experience include new organizational models, internet technologies, futurism, art + activism, social impact entertainment, philanthropy, community building, marketing, speaking, concept, strategy and systems designs, as well and new economic, business and investment models. I have been deeply engaged in new governance inquiries and self organizing and self managing models from Holacracy to Sociocracy and decentralized organizing like DAOs.
My experience with Bipolar and the journey (clearly never-ending) of storyliving into my highest potential through conscious evolution and co~creation has given me priceless experiences and a unique ability to imagineer disruptively humane innovations that can change landscapes across sectors.
FURTHER BIO:
I was a co-founding steward of the S7 Foundation (creators of the ´Noomap´ prototype platform), and currently he is co-creating the Together Life System through Symphonics, and catalyzing the Togetherland Social Impact Entertainment Project. He is also a part of the Web3 Perspect3vism Project.
Bret was also a key initiator of the Synergy Hub 1.0 Social Experiment in Rotterdam, NL circa 2016 where a band of pioneering innovators came together for a year to experiment living together in a huge gifted building to experience the flow of passion, innovation and self organization.
Autodidactography of a Psychepath
2010 - Present
Following My Bliss
A nomadic visionary troubadour journey around the world with my wife and our army of elite friends pollinating radical change through spirit-motivated social action. Through our explorations and praxis, I have become an undercover thoughtles leader on topics such as self organization, new economics, gifting, sociotechnologies, activism, co-creation and conscious evolution. As a futurist, I love to explore new concepts, new possibilities and positive sum realities for our life on Earth. From there, I report back with my findings and thereby invite others into the new emerging story and Age of Co-creation.
2008 - 2010
Screenwriter
2006 - 2008
Student
I have been on nearly all sides of the equation, including completing a well known 2 year college degree program in NJ when I was 30 for Psychosocial Rehabilitation. I was lucky enough to do a 1 year intensive internship at a day program where I implemented 'The Happiness Agenda' - inspired by Patch Adams. I especially learned about the ‘other side’ of the fence, what it means to be servicing the ‘consumers’ and all of the bureaucracy, handcuffs and stress that these brave souls take on to help people having these life-defining moments of perceived mental illness.
1994 - 2006
Student
The School of Visual Arts in NYC, Brookdale Community College, Spiritually Transformative Experience(s).
11 KEYS
For people who want off pharmaceuticals and/or to reduce their consumption and not just survive with a ‘diagnosis’ but unlock their heart/minds/imaginations and realize the genius they may be perceiving now as deficits.
For people who know deep down that they are unique and special spiritual beings with a gift to share (first with themselves, then the world).
5 Foundations
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Healthy Diet
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Exercise
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Meditation/Detachment
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Discover Your Passion(s)
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Find Mentors
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The 6 Steps To Awesomeness (By Vishen Lakhiani )
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Know WHAT You Want
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Be “In Flow”
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Establish Embodiment Practices
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Listen To Your Intuition
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Seek Out The Right Environments
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Take Action
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LUCKY FOR YOU
I AM NOT A LICENSED PROFESSIONAL OF ANY KIND
Out Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
There is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
Doesn't make any sense.
RUMI