When Mentalism Intersects with Relative Reality

When Mentalism Intersects Relative Reality

All over Key West and other places in the continental United States there are monuments to Ernest Hemmingway. You know, the Noble Peace prize winner for his collection of literary work and the Pulitzer price winner for Old Man and the Sea. Big pimping Papa from Cuba all the way to hunting aficionado, the God of fishing seas in the keys, the myth the legend aka Ernest Hemmingway. The big burly over-bearing macho machine of masculine entitlement to be highly celebrated, praised, and least we do not forget marketed. After three months of being immersed in his books, tour guides who would debate his life, and bathed in the energy of the room directly below his writing studio this is the takeaway: without the women in his life Ernest would not have had the financial support to take the trips he wrote about and became so successful for and he was ahead of his time for putting to use the second Hermetic Principle, of Mentalism.

There are two major uncommon thought threads that had the power to alter my thought processes and ultimately the way I live. The first is, that behind many men’s and certainly behind Ernest Hemmingway’s success there are women. These women included Pauline his second wife and Martha his third wife, who supported him financially during his hunting trips and writing career. The other majorly impactful point is that the stories we believe about ourselves create our life even more so than, the objective truth. Only when Ernest chose to ignore this principle of Mentalism did he choose to take his life, or perhaps that is how he wanted to go out, on his terms.

This is the first time I endeavor to tackle the first point, least I seem like an ungrateful traitor to the hand that fed my fledgling naïve landing on the island of Key West. I am grateful for the success and myth of Ernest Hemingway it created so much wealth that generations later a trust is set up that employs people like myself who wander upon the island and need to make a living. While the reason most people part with a piece of their resources is because they like the idea of the myth, the truth is so much richer and a reason to celebrate. Please understand this, the popular story of Pauline his second wife taking his last penny to build the pool at the Key West House maybe fun to tell amongst men who feel burdened or scorned by previous lovers and resources it is not the reality at all.

The story about the last penny is told on the tours at the house and hopefully the truth that Pauline’s uncle Gus bought the house and funded several of Ernest’s hunting and fishing trips is told as well. It is even less common knowledge that she paid the taxes for his earnings during the time of their divorce. Also, Pauline kept the home fires burning and kept his sons while he was off gallivanting and having an affair with Martha the third wife. To be supported by such love and devotion can not be dismissed as a major influence in someone’s life. So, if you look at the situation from an outsider objective perspective you can clearly see that Pauline only enriched Ernest Hemmingway’s life financially and based upon his success at this time in a more holistic way as well providing stable family life and inspiration to explore his hobbies and career.

Secondly, and most importantly there are principles that govern and structure the manifestations that govern and structure the manifestations that we label “reality’. The Hermetic Principle of Mentalism is what Hemmingway used to manifest his glory and the legend of Papa that would change the voice of literature for a generation reaching into future generations also. Old Man and the Sea is still a popular reading requirement for high school students all over the United States of America. This is the pure worth of Ernest Hemmingway. He was a master of applying the Principle of Mentalism. He manifested a life of fishing, drinking, hunting, while being supported by beautiful, successful, high-society women. He did little for these women and was more than happy to receive all they had to give him. He also was not keen on putting the record straight when the public reversed the facts making him appear to be supporting everyone with his writing.

Who is to say what the reality or truth to this or any situation is? Dictionary.com defines “reality” as a noun with two entries. The first meaning of reality is: “the world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.” The second entry defines reality as the state or quality of having existence or substance.” So, in the broadest sense anything we can manage to create and manifest int the material is reality. Now the perspective of these things is the grey area of wiggle room that natural born story tellers or those who have mastered the application of Mentalism can exploit.

When going about life you can receive epic, legendary, and prize-winning results if you trade

relative “reality” for the story you create into existence for yourself. There are seven billion plus people on the planet, and they all have ideas that they subscribe to in varying degrees. You could be the villain “Karen” type in one person’s story the best mom ever in your child’s eyes, and still yet a sexy high-heeled corporate ladder climber in your own mind. It all depends on the strength and proximity of the thinkers in this world that are creating reality as we speak. If you have a clear vision and can put enough focused emotion behind it to create it will take life animation and become reality.

The takeaway from Ernest Hemmingway’s life and his execution of the principle of Mentalism is simple yet so profound much like Hemmingway’s style. When your self-talk is an epic story and you surround yourself with people who support this, it becomes the “reality” you desire.

Peace and joy may all your highest aspirations manifest for and through you.