Articles on Idenics
Idenics is delivered on a one-to-one basis, addressing an individual’s personal unwanted conditions. A personal unwanted condition is something about the individual that he or she doesn’t like, wants to handle, resolve, change or improve.
The name “Idenics” was coined from the word identity. An identity is defined in Idenics as a way of being that a person assumes in order to accomplish some goal, purpose or intention.
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The Philosophy of Idenics
Much of what has been written about Idenics has dealt with the concepts and techniques of the subject. At this time, I would like to address the philosophy of Idenics. Herein lies the key to the successful application of this system.
Most methods of self-improvement and therapy have, as an underlying belief that the authority delivering or teaching the system knows more about, knows what is best for, or in some way is above the person coming to that system for help. There is the guru, for example, who lays out the path for his disciples to follow. Or the case of the therapist who decides what is the best subject for a patient to take up. Such ideas may be openly expressed or tacitly agreed upon, but the basic assumption on the part of such an authority is that he knows what the client really needs to undertake.
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The above is not written with the purpose of criticizing other systems. I am certain that the basic intent behind most systems is to help people. However, in order to better understand the Idenics philosophy, it is useful to see how what is done in other methodologies compares to what we do in Idenics.
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With Idenics’ application there is no altitude assumed by the practitioner over the client; the altitude is always with the client. In Idenics we consider that every person is unique and their viewpoint is unique, and that no one else can accurately say how it is or should be for any other individual. In Idenics we agree with the idea that everything a person wants or needs to know about themselves is within them. Therefore, there is no laid out path that people must follow in Idenics. The Idenics practitioner never assumes that he knows anything about a client, nor does the practitioner choose the subject to be addressed in a session. Through a unique form of questioning the Idenics client is able to inspect a subject from new perspectives – an activity that usually produces great insights into a troubled area. But it is the client who originates the area to be addressed, does the inspecting, and has the realizations. The Idenics practitioner is simply a facilitator in this process.
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We can only assist people to the degree that we recognize the true nature of that individual without arbitrary assumptions that limit our understanding. Application of this philosophy has proven beneficial not only to the client but also to the practitioner, who can be quite relieved not having to carry around the burden of pretended knowingness.
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In Idenics we have no fixed beliefs about you; no predetermined goals for you to achieve or ideas of how you should be. In Idenics we respect your ability and trust you implicitly on your path of self-discovery.
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~ Mike Goldstein
The Simplicity of Idenics
Since all of the information about people exists within them, some may wonder why a person couldn’t just deal with mental and emotional impediments on their own. It is not that they can’t, but handling one’s issues themselves can be extremely difficult. The expression, “You can’t see the forest for the trees,” applies to the difficulties of going it alone. Submerged in the confusion of one’s condition, it is hard to take an outside or objective perspective in order to ask oneself the right questions. This difficulty is most often demonstrated by clients from the beginning – when they first go into a session.
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A client usually comes into a session with some personal unwanted condition they consider bad and want to get rid of – an understandable and logical viewpoint under the circumstances. But I don’t know that a person gets rid of anything except for the automatic nature of the condition. For example, anger is neither good nor bad; it is only a matter of whether it is appropriate or not in a particular situation. If one is getting beat up by three guys it might be appropriate to get angry. But if a person whacks his kid across the room for spilling his milk, that anger would be inappropriate. For the person with an anger problem who is losing his family because of it, there aren’t two sides to the issue. For this individual anger is of no use and must be eliminated. Although it may be of some benefit to inspect the apparent value of the condition; how he may have used anger or how it might have served him, such questions would probably never occur to the person on their own who was so vehemently objecting to his condition.
John Galusha used to give an example of a person coming to him with an issue where every time he goes outside, he must count every second story window in town. The condition is not debilitating, but it causes the client to be late for appointments. The condition is addressed in session and it gets handled. But this does not mean that the person can’t count second story windows if he chooses. Resolution means that he doesn’t have to perform this action whenever he goes outdoors.
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As an Idenics practitioner, it is my purpose to assist the client in achieving true freedom with regards to an unwanted personal condition. True freedom means freedom to as well as freedom from. In other words, when a condition is fully resolved, the individual then has a choice with regards to that condition. Some previously compulsive action can now be done or not done at the person’s discretion.
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As an Idenics practitioner, it is my job to ask the right questions, but these questions are not based on any preconceived ideas I have about a client or anything that I think I have figured out about the individual. All that I can know about a client is what that person tells me. My know-how is in the general area of how people take on and get stuck with unwanted conditions, and the questions that I ask are based on these concepts. But I never base my questions on anything that I think I know about any individual. The purpose of every question is simply to get the client to look, but what they see is what they see. The best I can usually hope for is that a question will be close to the mark; that it gets close enough to how it actually is for that person so that the individual is able to look at what they really need to see in order to reach a resolution.
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Our questions were hard-won, taking more than fifty years to develop. But the best question only produces results about eighty percent of the time. Fortunately we have enough questions, as well as an expertise at creating new questions during a session. Combined, those resources enable us to achieve good results about ninety-five percent of the time.
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In Idenics every question is just another way of saying, “Have a look.” The complete job of the Idenics practitioner can be described as follows: to get the client to look, and keep their noses in what they are looking at long enough for them to fully inspect what is there. This makes the client’s job equally as simple. The entire job of the Idenics client is to look.
Most people have done a lot of thinking about their issues. They have probably spent quite a bit of time cogitating and ruminating about their conditions to no avail. It is not that the activity of thinking is bad. Thinking is appropriate when one is trying to solve a problem in math, but it is not too useful when it comes to resolving one’s unwanted personal conditions. This endeavor requires looking.
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When we talk about “looking” in Idenics we simply mean “noticing what is there.” It is as uncomplicated as my asking you to look at the floor and tell me what you see. You look and see an ant and a piece of string. That’s looking. When the practitioner asks a question the client looks and sees what pops up. It is really just that simple. Any realization, epiphany or “letting go” experience a person ever had was preceded by simply taking a look.
~ Mike Goldstein
Survival Services International: A Brief History
I began my quest for personal growth in 1969. Two years later I started my career in the arena of self-improvement and alternative therapy. In 1980, at the age of thirty, I decided to start my own company, Survival Services International, to deliver such services to the public. Needing a partner with more experience than I had and being aware of John Galusha’s reputation, I sought John out and asked for his assistance. He agreed, and we began a very special partnership and adventure that would continue for the next sixteen years.
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During the first six years of operation, Survival Services continued to expand by delivering different forms of self-improvement services to clients from all over the globe. We brought others on board who specialized in various areas of personal growth, and by 1985 we had a thriving company with more than fifteen additional staff. We were successful, and the results we achieved with our clients were as good as those of others in our field, and most of our clients returned for additional services. But a successful company, passable results, and clients who continued to do services with us were not good enough. These things might be good enough for a company producing some tangible product, but not in the business of helping people.
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People originally get involved in self-improvement and therapy in order to resolve their issues, so that they can get on with their lives. Unfortunately, most find that it is not that simple. Once started on that road, one can be confronted with years of therapy, hundreds of seminars, and dozens of different courses of study. Decades later, seekers may have gained lots of information and explanations about their conditions, but still find themselves wrestling with the same issues they had in the beginning. Most end up just coping and learning to live with their unwanted conditions.
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Acutely aware of this dilemma for years and armed with clues to its resolution that he had accumulated over his forty-five years of experience, from 1985 to 1987 John Galusha embarked on two years of intense research and development. During this time both John and I became engrossed in this new direction, paying less and less attention to our previous run-of-the-mill services. Since I was no longer willing to promote, sell, and deliver our bread-and-butter programs, the company’s income began to suffer. Our other staff members became increasingly disillusioned.
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In 1987 John made some astounding breakthroughs that made everything we had known or been doing obsolete. This was the beginning of the system that we now call Idenics. We kept the name of the company, Survival Services International, but the only service we would deliver from that point on was Idenics.
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Unwilling to give up their previous ideas and training, unwilling to learn a new system, all but two of our technical staff quit. No longer able to support our administrative staff, we had to let all but one go. We were soon forced to move out of our luxurious five thousand square foot office space into smaller and less lavish quarters.
We were quickly faced with another business challenge. Our clients were now getting such fast and stable results that we had to have a much larger flow of clients to survive financially. We soon completed working with clients who had engaged in our previous services and had to make our new service known to new clients. In many ways, as a company we were starting over. Moreover, explaining Idenics to potential clients was quite the challenge. But the word-of-mouth from the clients receiving Idenics enabled us to survive.
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Over the next eight years we made numerous breakthroughs and thoroughly developed the Idenics methodology. By 1995 the one-to-one facilitation which we called “Idenics processing” was developed and we were capable of competently training Idenics practitioners to deliver the procedures to others. John was fully satisfied that his work was done. A year later at the age of seventy-seven, John Galusha passed away. I had not only lost a business partner, but my best friend.
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Since John’s death I have continued our work alone. But every time a client makes a breakthrough, or has a realization or epiphany, I think of John and I am thankful for having known him.
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Over the years the Idenics procedures have been streamlined and simplified, and we are now able to get the same quality of results over the phone as we have always gotten in person. Our clients can now work with a practitioner from the comfort of their own homes.
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Over the years I have continued to enhance our training program. We must continue to improve our ability to impart our know-how on to our students and new practitioners so that they have the same opportunity to take their skill level to the same heights as a practitioner working with Survival Services.
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As well as being a great boon to Idenics awareness internationally, the book, “Idenics: An Alternative to Therapy” has proven to be a great asset to our training lineup. It has become a perfect step; a perfect gradient to the Idenics course. Students having a thorough understanding of the concepts in the book find it much easier to grasp the materials on the Idenics Practitioner Training Course.
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The Idenics book, combined with better ways of communicating the subject to our students, have contributed to our now offering the theory section of the training course long distance; previously a service only available to individuals at our location in Colorado. Not only can an individual anywhere in the world receive Idenics processing in the comfort of their own home, but they can also get the same personalized training always done in person without leaving the house.
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As of the writing of this article the magnitude and results of our work has still only begun to be realized. But with the word-of-mouth from an ever-expanding list of satisfied customers, increasing book sales, and present availability of Idenics processing and training, the future is looking very bright indeed.
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~ Mike Goldstein
17th of April, 2012
Man's Search for Meaning
Man’s search for meaning – a journey that has many roads; many paths – some rewarding; some strewn with fool’s gold. A continuing thread in this quest seems to be the seeker’s looking for understanding and answers from sources outside of themselves.
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Self-awareness is the defining characteristic of human beings. If nothing else, people usually know that they exist as individual entities. People are each unique and have their own interpretation of the universe and individual way in which they perceive it to be. There seems to be an inimitable aspect of a person that is always there, no matter what new concepts are grasped or what new insights are gained.
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An individual’s life is a composite thing; made up of many different interests and relationships, such as a job, a family, and different groups to which one belongs or is affiliated. These components may blend, enhance or detract from one another, but they are definitely separate parts of a person’s pattern of existence. Likewise, people themselves are composed of separate and distinct parts; different “ways of being” – different “selves” they adopt, depending on the situation or circumstance they find themselves in. In Idenics we refer to these separate parts as “identities,” and define an identity as “a way of being in order to accomplish something.” Simply stated, an identity is a separate self created by the individual; a separate self consisting of ideas, beliefs, conclusions, decisions, etc. which is there to carry out some goal or purpose. An identity is a package of rules and laws dictating how to be in given circumstances. Examples of identities are a husband or wife identity; or a job-related identity such as a teacher or taxi driver.
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There is apparently a basic individual or basic being, the “I,” which generates these identities, experiences life via these identities, and shifts in and out of them automatically; without much thought. For example: the computer salesman who at work is in his salesman identity, but when he comes home to the wife and kids he shifts into his husband or parent identity. As a salesman, his primary purpose is to sell more computers than anyone; a purpose and activity that would be inappropriate when he is at home with his family, so he shifts into the parent or husband identity with a different goal or purpose. But what does all this talk about identities have to do with a person’s search for meaning?
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The one thing that people who have been perusing the fields of therapy and self-improvement have in common is that they all have something about themselves that they want to handle, resolve, change or improve. In Idenics we refer to such things as “unwanted personal conditions;” which can be expressed by a person in two different ways: (1) something that is present but is not wanted, such as an individual’s issue with anger or fear, or (2) something that is not present but is wanted, such as an ability that a person desires. It may not make sense categorizing a desire to attain an ability as an unwanted condition, but usually, if a practitioner asks a client if there is anything that holds them back or gets in their way from achieving or demonstrating that ability, the client comes up with more than one unwanted condition to be addressed. One of the primary discoveries in Idenics is that an unwanted condition is the “property” of some identity, and that by properly addressing the identity the unwanted condition can, in most cases, be easily resolved.
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Having identities is not in itself aberrant to the individual. The assumption of identities as given in the examples above does not usually cause a person any difficulty. But the unknowing assumption of certain identities that people get stuck in, believing the identities to really be them, can create all sorts of trouble for the individual.
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We can liken an identity to a suit of armor. When the knight puts on the armor it limits his movement but it is useful in certain circumstances. But imagine that once the man dons the armor he forgets that it is not him, and he believes that the armor is part of his skin. In other words, there is no longer any separation between him and it. In battle all is well, as he is protected by the heavy, metal covering. Later, though, walking by a lake he sees people swimming and decides that he, too, would like to swim. He jumps in and he sinks. Someone pulls him out of the water, and as he lies on the bank he thinks to himself, “What’s wrong with me? Other people can swim but I can’t.” Here is the unwanted condition. And all that he would have to do is to take off the armor, but he doesn’t know that it is not him.
The above analogy may be a bit simplistic, but it does serve to demonstrate how an unwanted condition is the property of an identity. People are “sunk” by identities that they think themselves to be and from which they cannot get themselves unstuck. A good definition of “stuck” in these circumstances is “being without noticing.” Unaware of identities people may believe that they are limited, and can invent a myriad of reasons and explanations that might make sense, but do not resolve their unwanted personal conditions.
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The idea of identities in not new; many names have been given to them and lots of explanations of how they come to be. Many schools of thought mention identities and have for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. But much about identities, how and why they are formed, their characteristics and make-up, their relationship to people’s problems, how to deal with them, and their relative importance in a person’s search for self-actualization was not known prior to Idenics. Finding out who you really are may be as simple as discovering who you are not.
Idenics is a new system, and not a rehash of some earlier subject or subjects. Most people find that the Idenics concepts and application in no way conflict with their own beliefs and reality. On the contrary, most individuals are quite pleased to discover that Idenics is complementary to their own way of thinking.
~ Mike Goldstein
Additives: Less is Better
In an arena as vast as the self-improvement field it is difficult to determine who has the right answers. It is fair to say that there are plenty of answers out there. Thousands of ideas and concepts have been put forth for you to choose from. There is, however, one subject that has never really been discussed; a subject referred to in Idenics as “additives.”
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Certainly one’s fixed or stuck ideas, beliefs, and decisions, things that a person would most probably be better off without, are additive to the basic individual. But when we talk about additives in Idenics, we are primarily referring to the explanations that people take on when they are hurting and searching for answers to explain their unwanted personal conditions. These explanations usually produce only a temporary relief, but because they had some workability, even if that workability was short-term, the individual holds on to them. The person still has the condition but also now has the explanation, which adds on to that condition.
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The primary source of additives for a person in these circumstances is the person themself. The amount of garbage people can heap on themselves trying to figure out what is wrong can be staggering. Our own responses to the questions we ask ourselves, such as “What’s wrong with me?” and “Why do I do that?” can be a source of continual misery. Most of the answers we come up with are only speculative; derived from our thinking rather than from our looking. The liability of self-inquiry is getting stuck with a speculative answer or explanation.
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Unable to resolve issues on their own, people turn to others for assistance, hoping to get the answers from someone else. A foray into the fields of therapy and self-improvement will provide one with an almost unlimited supply of theories to explain their conditions. It is a common notion that a person suffering from some unwanted personal condition is vulnerable, and therefore easy prey for charlatans. But when people are suffering, they are susceptible to something far more insidious than con men. People who are suffering are prone to taking on additives.
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Whether correct or incorrect, explanations need only to be accepted to provide one with temporary relief. For example, Jim goes to a psychic and says, “Why do I feel mentally exhausted all the time?” The psychic explains, “When you fall asleep at night aliens are beaming rays into your head that weaken you.” Jim thinks to himself, “I do feel unusually lethargic in the morning. Yeah, that makes sense!” Jim may feel better as the answer explains his condition to him; but he still has the condition.
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Here’s another example: Jane has a low self-image. She buys a book, “How to Improve Your Self-Esteem.” The author writes, “The reason you have low self-esteem is because of ideas that your parents foisted on you when you were young.” Jane thinks to herself, “My father did tell me that I was worthless. Yeah, that makes sense!” It may be that her father telling her that she was worthless is connected to the low self-image, and her spotting this probably contributed to her improvement, but since there is more to be looked at before she can entirely let go of the condition, her relief is short-lived. Jane feels better for the rest of the day but the following day, when her boss yells at her, she falls back into the same old condition of low self-esteem.
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Some may argue that at least the person felt better for a while. And if that is all there is to it, there is no problem. But because of the “feeling betters,” people tend to hold on to, defend, and live their lives by the explanations that seemingly created those results, without ever examining those explanations again. In these circumstances people still have the condition but they also now have something they didn’t have before: the explanation which is now connected to that condition – additive to that condition.
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If you have ever spoken with someone who had spent years in therapy, you might find that they could sit and talk with you for hours, explaining all the reasons why they have the conditions they do while still being plagued by those same unwanted conditions. What you were listening to were additives.
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People seem to gravitate to and even crave additives. What is at the foundation of the problem has become desired in the solution. For this reason, professionals in the fields of self-improvement and therapy who sell the most explanations and answers will probably be the most prosperous. Ironically, these people are being rewarded for providing more chances for their clients to take on additives. But such people wouldn’t be in business if they didn’t fulfill some demand. In this case the demand is for answers and explanations.
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There is a philosophy that has been around for ages that has been given lots of lip service but very little application: that people are unique and different, and that the answers they seek about themselves are within them. Most people would probably agree with this philosophy. Yet wherever we look for help, people have answers for you. But if you are unique and different and the answers that you seek about yourself are within you, how would someone else have your answers?
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If the answers are within the individual, then it is only a matter of that person being able to access those answers. The Idenics practitioner is a facilitator in this process, assisting people to access what they have previously been unable to see. The questions and techniques used to accomplish this, including the concepts that these processes are based on, are the tools of the practitioner. In Idenics we refer to these tools as the “mechanics” of the subject. But in order for practitioners to understand the real scope of these mechanics they must fully comprehend the Idenics application. And only by applying Idenics’ mechanics with this application will a practitioner’s clients experience the true magic of this methodology and receive the full benefits.
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In Idenics we strive to provide as little opportunity for people to accumulate additives as possible, an activity which translates into Idenics’ nonjudgmental application. A person would have no hope of understanding the Idenics application without first fully grasping the Idenics concept of additives; a concept that is quite far-reaching. Let me give you an example: A lot of importance has been put on a client’s trusting the practitioner. I certainly agree that it is important for the client to trust the practitioner, but just as important, if not more important, is that the practitioner trusts the client. I completely trust my clients to have all of the information we will ever need to resolve any of their issues. Who else would have this data? No one else lived their lives, had their experiences, or could know how this other individual responded at a time of confusion. This information may not be at a client’s fingertips, but together we can usually get it. In twenty-five years I’ve never had to ask a client to trust me. If I trust them they have just trusted me.
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People find it hard to imagine how our clients so quickly resolve issues that have been bothering them for years and through so many previous systems and methods. Here are some observations I have made from working with thousands of people for a quarter of a century with Idenics: people are not as screwed up as they have believed or others would have had them believe. Most can do this work quite easily if we don’t get in their way. And what I mean by “don’t get in their way” is not giving judgments, evaluations, suggestions, opinions or advice – all of which, for the most part, only provide a person with more opportunities to accrue additives.
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In Idenics we trust our clients, believe our clients, and respect their uniqueness and self-determinism. We put the integrity of what we are doing above our own desires for expansion and financial success. It is not always an easy road, but our clients do well, and that is the best pay one can get in this business.
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Whether you come to us for services or not I hope that what I have said about additives will be of some assistance to you.
~ Mike Goldstein
John Galusha: My Remembrance of an Extraordinary Man
On the morning of October 23, 1996, my best friend and partner for sixteen years, John Galusha, passed on. In a life dedicated to helping others, John not only touched the lives of thousands of people, but he also had a profound affect on all who knew him, whether they knew him well or just briefly. I do not know of a single person encountering John whose existence was not bettered through their association.
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John Galusha was born seventy-seven years ago in Pueblo, Colorado. He was raised on a farm, in a time and community where life was simple; where people were not sure where their next meal was coming from let alone have the comforts that so many of us now enjoy. One either worked on a ranch, a farm or in the local steel mill. Life was hard, but nothing hardened or embittered John. He took pleasure in all things around him. With great interest he drank in everything. I know this by the way he would talk to me about that period of his life.
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I remember John once describing the making of barbed wire at the steel mill, a subject that I would have previously found completely boring. Yet the way he talked about his experience I found myself not only interested, but actually fascinated. It was not so much the subject, but the enthusiasm with which John observed the world around him that intrigued me. The overpowering image I got from his stories was of a strong, lean, tough young man who embraced life; whose attention was ever outward, and not stuck in the introverted “head chewing” that so many of us spend so much of our time doing. But what interested John the most was people. John loved people. He enjoyed watching them, listening to them and observing them; but not from some judgmental perspective. He was like a child watching a butterfly.
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In the methodology of Idenics, a system that John and I developed many years later, the cornerstone of the subject is its nonjudgmental application; something that takes most practitioners a while to gain proficiency at doing. How John was able to do this so effortlessly has always amazed me. The application of Idenics is just an extension of the way John was naturally. He operated this way before Idenics, not only in the previous facilitations that he delivered, but also in how he dealt with people in life. He did not have to learn to be this way or to discover it. It was the way he always was. But it took time for him to recognize something that was as natural to him as breathing; and then learn to communicate this to others living in a world where such an application is so unnatural – so alien.
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Having such an intense interest in people, John could not help noticing the misery and mental anguish that people were experiencing and he wanted to help. But part of his unique character was that he did not consider that he knew anything about people. This consideration, as well as his non-judging attitude may be in part attributed to the fact that John did not have much personal reality on the mental difficulties that most of us experience. I remember once talking with John and bringing up for discussion the struggles people have with what others think about them. He said that he was aware that people had such issues, but at the same time he had trouble imagining this problem since he had never experienced such a condition himself. I recall being severely taken aback by his casual comment, and remember thinking to myself, “What planet is this guy from who’s never experienced feeling bad about what others thought of him?”
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Wanting to help people but not considering that he knew anything about them, John looked to others for answers. Perhaps someone else knew what made people tick, and he could learn from them how to help others. John then embarked on a career that would span the next forty-five years. He learned all that he could, continually applying what he had learned to assist people. John learned and mastered a particular alternative form of therapy that came into broad popularity in the early 1950s. He had great success with it and became a widely respected leader and teacher in the field, working at the center of the movement. He and his new wife Millie ultimately returned to his home state of Colorado, where John established and ran his own training and counseling practice for many years.
I met John in 1980, although I had been aware of his reputation and accomplishments for almost ten years. I went to him and asked for his assistance with a project that I was working on. He agreed, and we began a very special partnership and adventure that would continue for the next sixteen years.
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My father once told me that a partnership was the most difficult relationship to maintain; even harder than a marriage. I do not doubt this as I have seen the trials many people in partnerships have had to go through. But I feel blessed in this regard. In the sixteen years that I worked with John there was never any real disagreement, argument, or upset. He did his job and I did mine.
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I always completely trusted John to do his job. I not always trusted the way that I was doing my job, but somehow John trusted me. I cannot tell you the number of times that I confided in him about doubts I had in my work, desperately wanting advice. But never did I get feedback or advice. That sort of help or opinion was not in the man. What I got was a question; a facilitation that encouraged me to take a look, and things got better.
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I realized early on in our relationship that John was a very rare individual. I knew that it was not only a privilege to know him, but an honor to be able to work with him. I knew that I might accomplish my purpose of helping others by connecting up with this unique person. I believed that if I could create an environment where John could do his work, unabated, then great things might be achieved. This proved to be a correct action. John blossomed and made astounding breakthroughs. Unfortunately, at the time of his passing, the magnitude and results of his work have only begun to be realized in the world. But I will continue to do my utmost to communicate with, service and deliver to people only in a manner true to the integrity of John’s work.
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John Galusha was a simple man. He had his simple pleasures in life. He liked reading, and read a lot, gobbling up nearly everything he could lay his hands on. He immensely enjoyed working with his hands on almost anything from fixing an engine to welding a several ton piece of machinery, and was always interested in how the material things in this universe work. He did not strive for wealth and success or for fame and recognition. He really did not care about any of these things. But what he did care about was his life’s work, which was helping others.
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In all the years I knew John, he never had a vicious or bad thing to say about anyone. Sure there were things people said and did that he did not agree with, but not once did I hear him verbally attack any of these individuals. Among all the people I’ve known in my life, I have never met anyone as devoid of ego as John Galusha. John would never have said this about himself, which just proves the point.
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Looking back, I can see that John tried for many years to prepare me for his leaving. Eight months ago John became unexpectedly ill. Those close to him tried desperately to figure out what was wrong and help in his recovery. John accepted all assistance graciously and without question or resistance. He also accepted his illness in the same manner. He did not complain, nor did he desperately seek to find an explanation or cure. For those who were trying so hard to get him well, his laid back response to his sickness was a little puzzling, and somewhat frustrating. But I can see now that at the end of John’s life, his concern for others was as unwavering as it had been throughout his life. He let us scamper around, doing what we had to do; allowing us to prepare, each in our own way, for his eventual passing.
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It is never easy to accept the loss of someone you are close to. A quick and unexpected passing can spare an individual the pain of an impending death, but it can also be quite a shock. I once asked John for some advice on raising children. What he told me was one thing that he had done as a parent. He said, “I tried to always take those actions that I thought they would best respond to.” Perhaps he also tried to accomplish this with the people he was leaving.
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From time to time over the past few days I would find myself weeping. Partly I cry out of loss of my friend. But most of all I cry because of the deep and profound affect that this wonderful man has had on my life. I will greatly miss you my dear friend, and I wish you the very best.
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~ Mike Goldstein
25th of October, 1996
A Letter from Frederick Mann
The following is a letter from Frederick Mann, internet marketing pioneer and founder of the international company Terra Libra. This letter was sent out monthly for several years to Terra Libra’s ever-increasing client lists, and then published regularly in Mr. Mann’s online company newsletters.
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“Dear Terra Libran,
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Perhaps you remember my mentioning in Terra Libra a new method of self-actualization called Idenics. Since I feel this method is worthy of more mention, I am writing you this letter.
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Idenics is a powerful, straightforward and effective system that addresses an individual’s ‘unwanted conditions’ on a one-to-one basis. About three years ago I experienced Idenics for the first time. I started with a list of about thirty unwanted conditions in my life – things I didn’t like about myself – mainly fixed and more or less compulsive emotional behaviors. It took about thirty-five minutes to handle the first unwanted condition.
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The second one took about fifteen minutes. I handled each successive unwanted condition in less time. It was truly amazing how certain long-standing problems disappeared in minutes! About nine months after the first few sessions I had a few more Idenics sessions. There were only a few minor unwanted conditions to handle and I handled them very quickly.
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Before Idenics I was never particularly successful at anything for very long. Every venture or business I tried to start failed quickly or never got off the ground. I found it extremely difficult to get others working with me. Since Idenics all that has changed. Now there are people from all over the world working with me. Hundreds of thousands read my writings. People are changing their lives because of my influence. Companies are being reorganized according to my suggestions.
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I feel that I’ve become spectacularly successful and that much greater success is coming in the future! I doubt if there is even one person on earth who couldn’t become more successful through Idenics!
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It is for this reason that I would like to introduce you to Mike Goldstein, the president of Survival Services International, the company that exclusively delivers Idenics. While in Colorado last month I met with Mike. I brought two other Terra Librans who found that meeting extremely enlightening. I urge you to call and talk with Mike Goldstein. It may be the most important call you ever make.
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Sincerely,
Frederick Mann”