The Finders

Sometimes they make the decision that the best option is pleasure in the moment. Other times, they might sacrifice for what they perceive to be a more substantial or durable gain in the future. Every moment involves a carefully calculated move in an overall strategy to minimize fundamental discontentment.

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.

Each of these are, essentially, taken to the max, with the goal typically being to surrender to the present moment without any psychological triggers arising.

One of the central stories the weaver has spun is that it is your invaluable caretaker. Over time, this part of the narrative becomes so strong that a belief forms at the very heart of ‘you’ that the Narrative-Self and its essential, guiding, and trusted voice must survive at all costs.

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

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

Our data suggests that Fundamental Wellbeing has started spreading much more widely, and rapidly, since around 1995 and the dawn of the digital age.

The simplest way to sum it up is that the peace is what replaces its opposite, fundamental discontentment, when that disappears. Examining the average person’s relationship to fundamental discontentment speaks volumes about how a Finder navigates their relationship to peace.

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.