What has the CTMU done for you?

Ever since I can remember, even as a baby; I felt that I've been faced with fundamental issues that no one around me could ever seem to acknowledge properly. Let alone solve, or guide me through with any satisfaction on my part. I feel that as trauma and misfortune pressured me -pushed me further and further into the corner in which these fundamental issues formed- I became quite literally: mentally and emotionally ill.

The world was tearing my life apart from the outside-in; while I was tearing -it- apart, from the inside-out.

What led me back to the CTMU was actually the following these words from Mike Mentzer and Ayn Rand, which explained the issues I felt within myself as a human being.

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"Examples of fundamental issues are:

Is the world knowable or is it mysterious and unknowable?

Are reason and logic mans sole means of gaining knowledge? Or are our emotions superior means of cognition?

Is man a rational efficacious being capable of success and happiness?

Or is he a congenital incompetent, doomed to perpetual doubt and despair?

Is the struggle to gain knowledge and learn how think for myself worth it?

Or is obeying and pleasing others more important?

Should I passively accept the dominant cultures values or should I look outside the culture to the grand scale of context of the history of ideas for something better?"

-Mike Mentzer

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"The real role of philosophy is to help a man make choices. As long as man is confronted with choices he is going to need a philosophy."

-Mike Mentzer

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"Your only choice is whether you define your philosophy by a conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought and scrupulously logical deliberation. Or let your let your subconscious accumulate a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, undefined contradictions, undigested slogans, unidentified doubts, wishes, and fears thrown together by chance; but integrated by your subconscious into a kind of mongrel philosophy, and fused into a single solid weight of self-doubt -like a ball and chain where your mind's wings of confidence should have grown."

-Ayn Rand

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"Confusion, self-doubt and uncertainty can be monstrously intolerable. Most assuredly incompatible with self-esteem, confidence, and happiness."

-Mike Mentzer

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"The practical result - is that you become: a more efficacious individual with considerable dominion or control over your being."

-Mike Mentzer

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I feel that studying the CTMU takes care of much of these problems for me, at the very least in a therapeutic manner.

Studying CTMU does not just relieve nearly all of these symptoms, but it gives me a new tool or mechanism in my mind and spirit each time I dive into its details. It makes me do and feel perplexing better - about everything I must do on a day to day basis.

I feel righteously and spiritually driven. The CTMU does not forbid me to investigate other philosophies. It insted explains to me why some are flawed, how some can be utilized and approached, and how they exist within the CTMU's encompassing lenz of unity.

Since studying the CTMU I have been the least confused in my life. I can gain more understanding of all other subjects more easily, and more rapidly.

I believe that studying the CTMU has helped me cure myself of bipolar disorder(which I am absolutely sure I've had, was clinical diagnosed with among other disorders(others I'm rather unsure that I had), and now don't... to the point of assiduously tracking my progress with the symptoms of bipolar disorder over time; and concluding -with reference to the DSM 5-that I am 80 to 90% outside the symptomatic criteria for bipolar disorder.) I am about as far away from bipolar as one can be. I've taken no medications of any kind for the past 12 years.

I'm not making an argument that bipolar disorder exsists or doesn't. That doesn't matter. The symptoms exsit, and the criteria exsist. And they were wreaking havoc on my ability to function as a human being. Yet here simply through study on the fundamental nature of reality and a re-orentation of my thoughts. I was able to overcome it and reduce the occurrence of my syptoms every week.

From there I was able to work hard, play hard, and save up 17k in 3 years.

Then I moved out to the mountains were I belong.

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