Our Mission
We are here to retire suffering as the human default.
We are a paradigm, a body of research, and a growing community of people across sixty-nine countries who have decided that the ordinary human condition of fear, lack and inner struggle is a correctable error rather than the price of being alive. We are correcting it within our lifetime, and we are bringing evidence.
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REFUSE
We inherited a world that treats suffering as the entry fee.
Every method humanity has ever invented rests on the same quiet assumption, that you are a fixed self who must be repaired, disciplined, healed, motivated or improved until life finally becomes tolerable. Billions of people have paid that fee honestly, for decades, with real effort and real sincerity, and most of them arrived at the end of it still afraid, still lacking, still working on themselves.
We refuse to hand that inheritance to another generation. We refuse the idea that a human being should spend a lifetime managing an inner life that was never supposed to feel this way. And we refuse the polite agreement, held by nearly every teaching before ours, that the self who suffers is the only self available to you.
An improved false self is still a false self.
Found
The self that has the problems is the problem.
We spent more than twenty years working on this in the only place it can be tested, which is directly inside human beings, and what we found reverses the entire architecture of self-improvement. Problems are produced by a perception of who you are, so no amount of work performed from inside that perception will ever end them.
To dissolve a problem, you must dissolve the “I” that generates it.
What remains when it dissolves is neither an emptiness nor an achievement. It is a self that was dormant in you the whole time, complete before you ever went looking, carrying no fear, no lack and no problems to solve. We call it the Meta Self, and the whole of our work exists to move people from one to the other, without practices, without meditation, and without substances.
Measure
We are the ones who put our own teaching on trial
Spirituality has never had to prove anything, and that is precisely why so little of it has changed anyone. We decided at the beginning that we would hold ourselves to the standard used for medicine, so every program, course and book we offer has been through a randomized controlled trial before we asked a single person to trust it.
Belief is cheap and evidence is expensive, and we chose the expensive road because everyone who gives us their attention deserves to know what actually happens to people who do this, in numbers, published, including the parts that were inconvenient for us.
20+
YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT
4
RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS
2,004
READERS IN A SINGLE-READING TRIAL
69
COUNTRIES REACHED
Belief is cheap and evidence is expensive.
Build
A paradigm that changes one person at a time is a hobby. We are building this at the scale of a civilization
We are training facilitators on every continent so that this work reaches people in their own language, in their own city, from someone they can look in the eye. We are taking a one-day version of the protocol into mental health centers, where the people who need it most have the least access to it. We are writing it for children, because a generation that never installs the false self will never need to spend thirty years dismantling it.
And we are extending the same principle outward, since a species that stops producing suffering internally has no appetite for producing it externally either.
Our Foundation restores forests, protects marine life and cleans what previous generations left behind in the ocean. We restore the self, and we restore the living world, and we consider these one project rather than two.
We believe that a worldview is more powerful than a technique, which is why our work takes hours where other paths take decades.
We believe that what is true should be free wherever it can be, and rigorous everywhere it must be.
We believe that the end of suffering is a teachable skill rather than a rare gift.
Believe
What we hold to be true
We believe that anyone who asks for your trust owes you evidence.
We believe that the Meta Self is already present in every person alive, dormant and complete, waiting to be actualized.
We believe that this generation is the one that gets to end it.
Begin
We are not a club, and there is no waiting list.
Everything we have built is designed to be tested by you, inside your own life, starting today. Read the book and see what has changed by the time you put it down. Walk through The Process and let the shift be measured rather than assumed. Get certified and carry it to the people around you, which is how sixty-nine countries became sixty-nine countries in the first place.
The version of you that has no problems is two hours from where you sit.
A paradigm for ending suffering at the level of identity, tested in four randomized controlled trials.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
Meta Spirituality programs, books and protocols are educational and are not medical care, psychotherapy or a substitute for either. They are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition. If you are in crisis or under the care of a clinician, please speak with a qualified professional before making changes to your treatment.
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The trials are carried out by Meta Spirituality Foundation Inc., the nonprofit, and reported in full in the linked preprints. Meta Spirituality Institute LLC delivers the paid programs and the facilitator certification. Individual results vary, and outcomes reported for a group are not a promise of an outcome for any one person.
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