Get Out of Here Alive Quotes

“In today’s mesmerizing digital landscape, our attention is madly sought after. Algorithms are ingeniously designed to keep us hooked like addicts by feeding us mainlines tailored to hold us captive—in mind and perhaps eventually even in body.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“If you want your physical, mental, emotional and eventually spiritual circumstances to transform completely, perhaps even beyond your wildest dreams, be willing to step out of your comfort zone onto the dance floor of your own mindfully chosen life.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“For most of the population these days, the only thing that ever dances is a pair of thumbs texting. No wonder people are aging so fast on the Ship of Fools sailing Titanic-like through today into no tomorrow.

As people’s souls shrink through lack of movement, their connective tissue hardens and their bones turn brittle. This isn’t metaphoric. This is the mind-body-spirit connection on full display, for anyone who cares to contemplate its cause and effects, in real time.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“To have a knee-jerk reaction to technology is to think like a victim. This is how the Dragon wants you to think—in all ways at all times. Its entire control apparatus is predicated on your tacit or explicit acceptance of victim mentality.

I’d argue that this even applies to the world’s predatory class, the so-called elites, those puffed-up minions who, while they may get a rush out of preying on others, must on some level suspect they themselves are ultimately just Dragon food.

But we, not technology, and not even the Dragon, are the real creators here. The Dragon knows this. That’s why it uses us to build its world for it, since apparently it can’t do so on its own—and it’s high time we figured this out for ourselves.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Based on its clear energetic signature as new technologies are breathlessly rolled out following a blatantly prewritten script, the current era might best be described as that of ‘Technotranshumanism.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“By mastering the slow art of nonreaction, we transform conflict into an opportunity for maturation. We learn to regulate our emotions, communicate far more effectively, and build stronger, more harmonious relationships.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“When we resist the urge to respond impulsively, and plant ourselves in our center as opposed to grasping at straws outside ourselves, we tap into a wellspring of inner fortitude.

Such mindful silence allows us to detach from the heat of the moment and respond with clarity rather than reactivity. Choosing silence more and more, we lose less and less energy to ‘dumb shit,’ as I like to say, while intelligently reclaiming our power faster and faster.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“To be or not to be? Is that really the question? Or should it be: To dance or not to dance?

Dancing is being in this quantum disco we call reality. So what does that make not dancing?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Always bear in mind that the only person whose judgement matters is yourself. If you can learn to transform self-judgment into good judgment, a.k.a. wise circumspection, you’ve clearly shaken off some of the Dragon’s spell and already have one foot halfway out the door of this construct.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“In an era where so many are intent on retreating into their heads, dance remains a vital link—one worth revitalizing even if it means looking stupid—connecting us to the heart of our physicality.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Mental illness is an underreported epidemic today as social media addiction and less than optimal mental states quietly go hand in hand.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“This may be old hat to some, but in the quantum realm, the things we take for granted aren’t really things at all.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“The possibility of waking up from (or even in) the dream offers a glimmer of hope, a sense that there’s more to existence than this mundane rat race. It suggests that we’re not just NPCs, non-player characters in a preprogrammed reality—but that, instead, we’re capable of becoming truly conscious players with the power to shape our own destinies.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Forget rage, we don’t even have to ‘fight back’ against the machine. But we do have to perform one, all-important mind maneuver:

We must reclaim our attention and consciously choose a new way to focus it that is both self-directed and empowering.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“My position is that, on at least a subliminal level, even many of the most benighted sheeple (the really stubborn ones I think of as the ‘consciously clueless’) secretly suspect that they’re corralled in a system designed to control them, to keep them in check.

But I’m here to tell you it doesn’t have to be this way. We have the power to change our circumstances individually and maybe, just maybe, collectively.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“The Matrix can feel like a pretty hopeless place. I get that. Nobody in his or her right mind (a tiny minority, admittedly) wants to be caught in an endless digital labyrinth like a techno lab rat.

My position is that, on at least a subliminal level, even
many of the most benighted sheeple (the really stubborn ones I think of as the ‘consciously clueless’) secretly suspect that they’re corralled in a system designed to control them, to keep them in check.

But I’m here to tell you it doesn’t have to be this way. We have the power to change our circumstances individually and maybe, just maybe, collectively.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“But even if we ignore the Dragon’s energy harvesting through cultivation of varying levels of mental illness in its human herd, we can safely say there’s a complex web of tech companies, advertisers and governments all trying, spider-like, to trap our attention for a variety of reasons—most of which probably aren’t in our best interests.

Tech companies want to keep us super-glued to our screens at all costs, advertisers want to sell us stuff we don’t need, and governments … Well, let’s just say that these artificial entities explicitly designed to govern the mente (mind) aren’t exactly hiding (except in plain sight) their primary agenda.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“It can’t be denied that most people today are voluntarily plugged into the Matrix—except instead of being jacked in and hardwired, they keep mindlessly taking hits on the virtual crack pipe of Instagram, TikTok, Meta, etc.

The most disturbing part of this web junkie scenario is that the overwhelming majority have absolutely no idea to what extent their thoughts and opinions are being mimetically manipulated, day after day, by the technology they take for granted.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“My advice is to feel free to play in the Matrix by using
technology basically however you see fit to bring your ideas to life for the benefit of yourself and, with any luck, others. The only guideline, if I may suggest one, would be as in the Hippocratic oath: ‘First, do no harm.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“To think that we can or should all ‘go Amish’ and stick our heads in the sand with regard to technology is wishful thinking, but so too is the black-pilled fantasy that we can’t and shouldn’t use technology in our own projects and creations.

In the end technology is just a contemporary iteration of Prometheus’s fire. It can burn, yes, and its smoke can blind our eyes.

But it can also revolutionize our creativity and aid those of us employing it for higher than material purposes to shine a light through the shadows for anyone capable of seeing and following our freedom beacon.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“According to numerous schools of shamanic thought,
each era has its own energy signature that we must align with to be fully in it and effective in whatever role(s) we choose to play.

But this doesn’t mean we have to be totally of our era. We can—and ought to, for our own benefit at least—think above, outside and beyond it.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“If you’re sensitive to the flow of energy and semantics, you can unambiguously feel the Dragon at work in all things internet, blockchain, and AI.

Quite literally, like a control freak of leviathan proportions, the Dragon is casting a ‘net’ over humanity to keep our minds ‘chained’ to the ‘block’ as our ‘intelligence’ becomes more and more ‘artificial,’ or not our own.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Where we direct our attentive focus shapes and informs—literally and materially—our experienced reality. Prolonged attention creates greater intensity. Like a magnifying glass intensifying the sun’s rays, our attention amplifies whatever it focuses on.


If we’re to be responsible creators of our experience, as opposed to haphazard victims of it, it’s incumbent on us to … attentively choose our path through the Matrix with utmost … attention to detail.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“The fight for freedom, relatively and ultimately speaking, begins and ends with our attention: where we place it and how we use it.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Attention is what harnesses the primal creative power of our thoughts, emotions and beliefs (which, to oversimplify, combine to form our imagination) in such a way as to build tulpas and egregores, to make dreams come true, and even to create brave new worlds and realities.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Consider the telling expression ‘pay attention.’ Attention, as I see it, is the original currency. If you look closely enough at this divine sense with your sixth sense, you can actually see its powerful current flowing. And let it be noted that you almost always end up seeing whatever you’re currently paying for.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Our attention, the focalization of our own imaginative capacity, is a precious natural resource. From the standpoint of energy cultivation and manipulation, which encompasses both inner alchemy and many types of shamanism, attention is the most valuable commodity there is.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“By embracing the principles of wu wei, we tap into a
deeper wisdom that guides us toward harmonious
solutions. We learn to trust the natural layout of the situation and find peace in the now, regardless of the challenges we face.

If you want to have a bit of lighthearted fun with this
oftentimes new-agey concept, and avoid taking it too
seriously in its own rather playful spirit, imagine your
‘woo’ simply getting out of your ‘way.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Wu wei teaches that genuine strength lies not in forcing our way through life like the proverbial bull in the china shop, but in moving with the current, adapting to changing circumstances, and finding peace even when surrounded by swirling eddies of chaos. As such it’s a powerful reminder that sometimes the most effective action is … none at all.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“In the context of conflict resolution, wu wei encourages us to approach disagreements with a sense of controlled (but not controlling) detachment. Instead of imposing our will or trying to micromanage the outcome, we learn to flow with the present moment and allow the situation to resolve itself naturally.

This doesn’t mean being passive or indifferent. The practice of wu wei … is about finding a delicate balance between action and inaction. We speak our truth when necessary, but we also recognize when silence is the more prudent and persuasive course of action.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality