A VERY Brief Intro to Reality Transurfing
Most systems for changing your life begin with lots of effort - you know: work harder, visualize harder, want it harder.
Reality Transurfing, a philosophy created by the Russian Vadim Zeland, looks at change from a different perspective. Zeland suggests that reality is less like a machine you must force into motion and more like a vast landscape of possible paths. You don’t conquer the world…you choose your own version of the world. The core of Transurfing is the idea of the Space of Variations. Imagine a library that contains a book detailing every possible version of your life—past, present, and future. Every choice, every outcome, every alternate path already exists somewhere in these library stacks.
Reality is not something you build from scratch. It is something you tune into - you check out the book you want from this library.
Your life then begins to look like a radio dial (old-fashioned but appropriate). Turn the dial and change the frequency and you are on a different station.
But Zeland writes that most never get to that point in their life because their attention is captured by a thing he calls pendulums (and this terminology is what causes a lot of problems when you read the text). Pendulums are thought structures formed by groups, institutions, trends, memes, government, politics…the list could go on and on but you get the idea.
Simply put a pendulum is anything that grabs your emotional investment and changes your worldview to match that of the group.
Pendulums are solely based on attention. Any sort of attention will do - love or hate doesn’t matter. Admiration and anger both feed the machine. The more emotionally entangled you become, the more difficult it is to hear your own signal beneath the noise.
The solution provided is deceptively simple. Observe but don’t become absorbed. You’ll get bombarded by politics, by opinions, by the news etc. - watch it but don’t get caught up in the manipulation inherent in it. In other words, don’t let the pendulums get their hooks into you!
Another recurring theme is the danger of assigning too much importance to things which Zeland calls excess potential.
We’ve all had times when we’ve desperately wanted something - a person, sex, money, event…could be anything. We made that WANT so important that it distorted your thinking and your reality. You got anxious, tense. I WANT THIS (insert your thing). That’s excess potential.
In Transurfing, that tension creates imbalance in you. The more you cling, the more reality seems to resist. We’ve all experienced this. Just think about all the times in your life when this has happened. The solution: simply hold the goal but don’t grip it too hard! Treat extraordinary ambitions as though they belong naturally in your life.
Intention is another fundamental concept of Transurfing. To a Transurfer there are two types of intention - inner intention and outer intention. You already know inner intention - you likely do it daily. Inner intention is trying to get your WANTS through sheer willpower.
Outer intention?
A whole other ballgame. Somewhat strange and in my view Zeland often dances around what it actually is.
Outer intention is the concept that reality will gradually rearrange events and circumstances when your thoughts (conscious mind) and feelings (subconscious mind) align. In the book this is referred to as the heart and the mind. And when they agree magic begins.
And then there are the concepts of slides and frailing. Whew.
The book is huge and the terminology gets obtuse at times. I’ll cover slides, frailing and the dual mirror (and its “laws”) in a subsequent article.
If you aren’t familiar with Reality Transurfing, then I’ve just (barely) scratched the surface.
Begin your own reading based on the taste I’ve given you here. I’ll be diving deeper.
BTW, If you haven’t already read Reality Transurfing by Vadim Zeland I’d encourage you to read it for yourself! Affiliate link to the book if you are interested.