The Finders

One simple observation is that none of these occurrences get rid of the problem finder; they only offer it new opportunities. There’s more to the story, of course, and for that we need to meet another character that makes up the Narrative-Self. The Story Weaver

The voice is intimately tied to a narrative that it creates to reinforce the feeling that you are a separate and isolated individual.

a Fundamental Wellbeing protocol developed by our research project called the Finders Course helped just over 70% of the hundreds of people who completed it become Finders.

towards the end of his life, Maslow began to both experience and explore persistent forms of Fundamental Wellbeing, referring to them as high-plateau experiences.

Any observation of the running narrative in your head will almost immediately reveal that it is not simply an around-the-clock problem seeker. It also situates everything about you as well as the world around you within a story. It weaves a chronicle with you in the starring role.

We soon discovered there was no detectable pattern or commonality to how they arrived at Fundamental Wellbeing.

There is one promising technology that is being explored, transcranial focused ultrasound (FUS).

an overall story that is constantly mulled over, questioned, probed, and reworked with the hope of it becoming increasingly true. With each revision, the story weaver tries to pass its narrative off as accurate enough to believe in and act upon.

One of the things most Finders notice first is a reduction in their interest in nearly all stories.