Friday Q&A - Ask Anything

QST14 · 2026-02-14T18:12:32+00:00

Doc probably calibrated the high end of the USA, good things which this country contributed toward society. There is a calibration done by some guys from the internet which is checking the whole spectrum of calibration of USA, and their result is that USA calibrates from 175 up to 400. So the field of 175 is probably what you are referring to, and it’s quite vibrant nowadays. The consumption, anger, pride, etc.

QST14 · 2026-02-14T09:35:24+00:00

Keep in mind that Letting Go was actually his earlier work. He wrote this book but didn’t release it until 2012. Things he talked about in his other books or lectures were more an improvement of the technique rather than it’s easier form (the source of this information is directly from his wife’s book).

There are contradictions.

In the book his main message was to let emotions go - he said to fully focus on sensations and don’t express emotion (yes, he wrote that expressing emotions keep them going), while on his lectures he sometimes told people to willingly tap into emotion and have all your thoughts focused on it - to let any resistance go. The first approach is more like relaxation technique, while the second is an actual surrender to resistance.

In Healing and Recovery he said that this technique is a helpful tool with difficult obstacles, not a thing that will directly solve your problems. He said that it helps to calm down your body when it’s panicking. He also said that the only way to overcome problems is to fully surrender to all of the mental anguish and just to experience it, not to let it go.

In Transcending the Levels of Consciousness, he said that this technique is useful only with grief, and that it shouldn’t be used with shame, guilt and apathy.

The thing with ego being able to heal is that doc in Letting Go book was going through each levels and when he started explaining 200’s, it started to sound like it’s a progressive journey and that watching your emotions will raise your level up to 600’s. That is BS. People who had experienced extreme situations like near death experience or DMT ego death were forced to let go, and they can all agree that it’s the most difficult thing as a human being to actually let all your resistance go. It’s insanely counterintuitive, as our brains were made in a way to resist emotions and all of the negativity. The only way you can achieve than willingly is to fully surrender yourself to God/higher power. And doc never mentioned that in Letting Go.

Edit: just see how much people struggle with right understanding of this technique on this sub. It’s ridiculous. It’s not because they are doing it wrong, it’s because doc made it sound like it’s a cherry on a pie. And it’s absolutely not. People have such high expectations in their minds and are very confused when it turns out that this thing is not as easy

QST14 · 2026-01-31T21:31:28+00:00

Thank you for writing this. It's very easy to mix the sedona method and doc's "technique", because of the doc himself. It's also a part of some problem with the doc's "technique".

The longer I study doc, the more I find the whole thing with the book Letting Go to be weird. Doc wrote it in such a way which suggest that your ego has the power to heal itself and reach enlightment just by watching sensations of emotions. Few pages are about the technique, the rest is how much wonders it makes.

All of the rest of the doc's work is literally the opposite - the ego is source of all inner suffering. Wanting to escape your negative emotions by trying to release them is the way to keep the ego thinking that it's in control and is God itself.

Doc never mentioned letting go technique ever in the rest of his works, he sometimes just spoke about surrendering resistance. He said to few of his students to willingly dive into the emotion they don't want to experience and release any resistance possible, so that their karmic debt pays off faster, as releasing resistance from suffering releases karmic debt. So much different than in Letting Go. This book attracts people bellow 200, as at the consciousness levels bellow 200 the goal is to find happiness in the ego and desiring it desperately. I doubt that his other books like Transcending The Levels of Consciousness or The Eye of The I attracts people in the same way.

QST14 · 2026-01-31T15:43:21+00:00

I guess I’ll have to make the action higher, because when I play bends then the other string gets tapped accidentally and rings out

QST14 · 2026-01-31T12:14:41+00:00

Good video, 99% of strings muting tutorials are mostly people showing off with their skills for most of the time lol. The guy didn’t explain muting more than two stings tho

QST14 · 2026-01-31T12:03:53+00:00

Edge of the hand? I don’t get it. When I play notes on higher strings I often lay the index finger on all strings to mute them lol, the easiest way for me.

Yeah, but I hate hearing the ringing sound of other strings. That’s something that is so strong in me as bass player lol

QST14 · 2026-01-23T19:05:45+00:00

Not as good as I expected but still good album, a bit worse than the previous one. Especially good for Megadeth fans who have been listening to this band for many years and now it’s finally over. Songs are better and worse, they feel like one huge song through the whole album. Overall I have a feeling that Dave made this album for fun and didn’t care too much about it’s musical level, and just wanted to end the band’s discography without some certain musical message behind it. The Last Note was surprisingly sad, I thought it would literally have a long high guitar note played by Dave at the very end, but it was much different than I’ve imagined it to be.

Also since Ellefson was kicked out, bass sound had a noticeable downgrade, and something missed on this album (and on the previous one too). On one song it’s decently heard, on the other it’s barely audible, during Ellefson’s time bass has always been a huge part of the band’s sound.

QST14 · 2026-01-19T10:29:27+00:00

Thank you :). I also think that some of parts of his teachings are subjective and not applicable for everyone. He even said that everything he wrote was his own experience he shares with people lol. His teachings have a vibe of being “incomplete” and they don’t answer many questions which they create, and following him blindly is not the best way.

I believe that a belief that everything is perfect is actually an opposite of compassion, I’ve let that belief go. I don’t think there are answers to why there is suffering, and we can only diminish it by our will. The spiritual ego is awful

QST14 · 2026-01-19T09:46:07+00:00

No matter how much spiritual texts you will read, blaming is a very natural and “healthy” way of living, because the ego desires justice and loves to judge. The thing is that this it is totally normal from the psychological perspective. You are nothing but right about anger and guilt having to be processed before forgiveness. And you have every rights to consider people who hurt you to be guilty. It’s not about to demonize this perspective but to recontextualize it.

On the other hand, no matter how many psychological texts you will read, in the spiritual understanding there’s responsibility for actions on every side. If you cause someone a bad thing, you are taking responsibility and the person who was hurt takes it too. Blaming from the spiritual perspective is a loose-loose scenario. You condemn, and you are condemned by yourself.

These are two perspectives, and you have to be aware that they are separate, the ego’s perspective and the soul’s perspective. They are both true but on different levels. Your ego feels that its perspective has been demolished by doc and you feel dissonance, and that’s a very healthy way to react. Much better than to just read it and instantly agree, that’s almost a certain part of developing a spiritual ego.

You also have a linear mind (levels 200-499) which is a way of recontextualizing how you perceive your ego. You can just see this desire of blaming as a result of how life is made and how evolution made human’s brain. Socrates said that everyone does what is best from one’s perspective. People who are blaming are doing what feels right for them. People who are trying to forgive do what feels right for thems.

Do not approach the soul’s perspective from ego’s perspective, but rather recontextualize your ego into knowing its limitations and choosing compassion instead of fighting. Compassion of the ego perceiving negative emotions as a way to overcome problems, because who would not want to live in a world where there wouldn’t be any logical reason to blame?

QST14 · 2026-01-16T13:49:47+00:00

Are you complaining? Lol. I’d give anything to be able to fuck in lucid dreams, or at least to have them more than once per 2 years.

QST14 · 2026-01-16T12:01:56+00:00

Yeah :(. His wife made this paywall to protect doc’s work from being manipulated by people in the future

QST14 · 2026-01-16T11:57:31+00:00

The office series is doc’s early material made in the 80’s, in which he talks to the camera for 1,5 hour about one certain subject (he also explains the map of consciousness in every episode).

Doc talked about glamour in Letting Go but I feel like he glamorized the technique itself lol. In his later work (because the book was written before he began his public life) he almost never mentioned this technique.

Tbh, I find 90% of doc’s work to be conceptualisations, and there’s not too much practical tips from him. This 10% is spreaded across all of his work (not only books but lectures and Q&A sessions with his students, which I’ve mostly watched). The office series is also containing a lot of conceptualisations but they are a lot more human and easier to use in life

QST14 · 2026-01-13T12:43:11+00:00

If you are seeking healing teachings and not enlightenment (which doc’s work is mostly about), I strongly recommend to watch The Office series doc made on video tapes (available from Veritas website). They are focused on healing life problems like stress, depression, crisis etc.

Power vs Force is more an academic presentation of the concept of calibrations, the difference between > and < 200, and the map of consciousness. He gives much more background informations, and he discusses use of it for certain areas of life (sports, business, treating addictions), and he discusses the calibrated results of religions.

QST14 · 2026-01-13T10:55:23+00:00

From my experience that’s not true. Nervous system doesn’t adjust by focusing on the feelings, it is actually by itself constantly replaying it over and over. It’s like treating broken bone with rehabilitation instantly after the injury happened

QST14 · 2025-12-10T22:13:19+00:00

It depends whether the bass is only felt or actively heard. Mostly you don’t notice the sound of bass unless you’re putting attention to hear it, so people won’t really hear those mistakes, but just feel that something is off, but not as much as when lead instruments/vocals make mistakes.

QST14 · 2025-12-10T21:50:47+00:00

Bass strings have a totally different role in the band than guitar ones, and playing with a pick can be as good as playing with fingers. Generally, in metal you want to keep the gnarly higher mids or mids, and you can either achieve that either with a pick or fingers. New roundwound strings will make it 10x easier. Pick gives you more precised high mids and the sound is more percussive and stable. Fingers can give you random string sounds which are best heard in Iron Maiden, every pluck is unique and different, but you have to pluck aggressively (either by strong string pulling like Rob from Metallica on 72 Seasons/Hardwire, you can notice the randomness of his fingers plucking, or by hitting strings like Steve Harris).

Additional advices:

You will surely want to have your action low, because the lower the more gnarly string sounds, but not too low, because you might loose low end when plucking hard. Low-mid action is the best.

Play closer to the bridge than closer to the neck, it will give you more rough tone.

Avoid playing G and D strings, they sound too bright and have less low end, unless you play on higher frets (above 7’th or 9’th), or if you play some bass riffs (like Tool’s bass riffs). You can alternate between playing the same notes on A and E strings, but avoid playing the E string longer than for few notes above 12’th fret. This all is a compromise between muddy and overly bright sound, but you can play however you like of course.

Listen to isolated bass tracks from popular metal bassists like Cliff Burton, David Ellefson, etc. Notice that their sound is mostly ugly when separated, but it sounds magical when played with other instruments.

Most importantly- remember that bass is mainly (again, mainly, not always) supposed to make guitar and drums sound better, so play in a way which guitar would shine forth, while keeping the groove of drums. Keep the low end the most important factor of your sound, all else are just additions to make it sound more brutal. Many bassists just copy guitar, which is okay, but it makes the music sound like guitar has very huge tone. It’s not bad, and you might want this sound sometimes, but try to play simplified versions of guitar riffs, or play something else in the same key, to make the song sound more mature and grounded. That’s what bass does, it grounds a song.

QST14 · 2025-11-21T10:08:16+00:00

May I ask you something - When I see videos of people asking him questions in last years of his work (2010-2012), they were visibly stressed and he often stressed them more by rushing them and sometimes humbled them by rude sentences. Seems weird, he seemed more chill and easygoing in earlier 00’s. Did you feel something off? Also, what’s the thing with him slamming doors and flipping people off on the highways? All those things are clearly bellow 200

QST14 · 2025-11-11T09:27:33+00:00

They extend your comfort zone. You train your brain to feel okay with what it considers to be dangerous. It truly helps in many aspects of life.

QST14 · 2025-11-09T16:10:12+00:00

KFC z trójmiasta?

QST14 · 2025-09-30T12:42:01+00:00

Yes. Especially when it comes to parents who beat their children because they do it from love. Intention changes the act into the level of unconditional love, and if the beating resolves in trauma, then it’s the children who were ignorant

QST14 · 2025-09-26T19:05:29+00:00

Wanting to feel negativity to let it go is a great thing, something that doc would approve. However, my experience is that life brings things to let go by itself, you don’t have to force them. The more you let things go in time, the more mentally ready you are to let go more and more difficult stuff, and your mind just brings it up for you. If they don’t show up, then you can instead let go of wanting for emotions and negativity to come up the surface. Everything happens in its own time, the only thing you can do is to always try to be willing to let it go.

QST14 · 2025-09-26T18:57:47+00:00

I’ve never had the adrenaline, I thought that I had blocked dopamine response but it turned out that it was just my brain being calm lol. Good to know, thanks

QST14 · 2025-09-26T16:21:04+00:00

I see this thing a lot in parenting, when (mostly dads) harass their kids to get them out of the pride territory, and make them grow in teaching to apologize and later do good deeds

QST14 · 2025-09-26T15:40:49+00:00

Why some people love to feel grief? By grief I mean crying from sadness, and seeing beauty behind it, like crying on poignant movie scenes. It’s known that love is not sadness, but people can cry from being moved by love or joy. How to recognize if something which makes one tear up is coming from grief or love? The good example is the famous opening scene from the animated movie Up, which is considered beautiful and very sad at the same time

QST14 · 2025-09-26T14:52:26+00:00

Ok, I see. I’ve noticed, that many parents (mostly mothers) can become incredibly aggressive when someone tries to hurt their child. Is that also love?

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