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Sergio Monteiro, Oporto, Portugal
 
Fantastic work without a doubt, and I was really surprise with your ebook. It was like opening a door and finding that the door never really existed and the only thing that was suppressing me was my beliefs and judgements and I thank you for that!

Deborah Rohrlach, Ardross, Western Australia
 
WOW, what an amazing book. I have just devoured part one, and had to write and tell someone (it's lonely in my cocoon)! This was exactly what I needed at the right time, having spent so many years on 'self discovery' I now understand more fully what I was doing, and why I was feeling isolated and 'resisting' the cocoon.
 
Thank you for making it available and free, I am continually amazed how much deeper and unfathomable our experience is, I can't adequately describe it in words, but you have done a brilliant job.

Susan J Kirk, Forreston, Illinois
 
Butterflies Are Free was recommended reading somewhere along the line. When I discovered it was a free 300+ page book I was impressed because in the Movie Theater very little any more comes w/o a price tag. That was my first indication that the book was going to represent a different view point from the modern Gurus. I was not disappointed. I appreciated the footnotes and view them as a mark of a serious writer. I also appreciated the honesty with which the author approached his very controversial view of all of life. He made it clear that as a "scout" he had found a path through the mountains, not necessarily THE path through. That was another hopeful indication that his work had substance. Again, I was not disappointed. The fact that he made it clear that he was not finished with his cocoon work was encouraging as well because there was no ego wrapped up in that statement! Humbling in fact, because the title of the book leads one to suspect that a Butterfly has arrived in the form of the author!

I have read the book once. Now, I plan to print it and study it. It has become for me a cherished work already because the author is the first person I feel honestly has been where I have been. I am extremely encouraged to think that maybe the cocoon time will produce something beautiful and freeing.

Thank you so much Stephen for this valued work.

Sabeen, North Cyprus
 
This book makes a really exciting read; I finished it in two days which is a record for me. I didn’t have to write about it, but I had a strong feeling that I should. Read what Sabeen wrote here.

Irma, New Mexico, USA
 
Thank you Stephen. Such wonder, illuminating my way out of the movie theater. I do not mind being in my cocoon for as long as it takes to transform into a butterfly. The journey will be interesting, painful and insightful. I have been at the back of the theater many many years and am excited about finally stepping out the door and knowing I can not go back. I am already experiencing the transformation but know I have a long long way to go. Thank you, let me know when you do become a butterfly. But most of all thank you for opening my eyes that I am not the only one who sees "the rubberband is about to snap" and that others see things as I do. Wonderful book, thanks for taking the time, the energy and even the financial burden of providing for those of us who are tired of the theater knowing there has to be a better way. Looking forward to my own metamorphosis.

Sean Clarke, UK
 
Just listening to your audio program for the second time and felt called to be in touch RE the closing parts of chapter 8; "this may only be for the baby boomers". Recently turned 33 and I'm deeply into the ultimate resolution, whatever it is, had many tastes and periods of the resounding simplicity of it, and spend a good twelve hours a day (at least) in the clasp of "spiritual autolysis" as you put it, between the intensity of the catalyst and the breakthough of pure truth entering the cocoon, right on the edge of that most of the time. I dunno, maybe I "popped early" as it has been my interest and focus for about seven years or more now, realising there is no solution in the movie theatre, and will likely become (maybe already am) a guide much like yourself, as my process flows into words each day, which are forming into books, which I now realise are just echoes of where I once was expressed for people to follow me into nowhere, whenever they're ready. Thanks for your efforts of clarity and expression, its very helpful and supportive to another intending to "go all the way" in this life cycle!
 
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Patrick, Vilcabamba, Ecuador
 
I don't wish to be overly dramatic here, but let's just say that an almost completed manuscript is about to be tossed in the trash can as a failed effort ….... after reading only the first five chapters of your Butterflies Are Free To Fly PDF. Your introduction was brilliant! And your thoughtful preface was something that all writers would be wise to include in their own offerings, if they intend to be properly understood. Through your own writings, I am getting a much needed master-level lesson in the art of clear communication. For literally the first time in my 83 years, I have discovered someone whose science-oriented writing seems like a conversation directed precisely to me, and in a manner that resonates strongly enough for me to be able to suspend any skepticism that I might have had about yet another book on Quantum Physics and its ilk.

Sandra, Walpole, Massachusetts
 
I love your book and want to thank you (and my infinite I) for it appearing. I am out of the movie theater and look forward to getting it done.

Bongekile Mthembu, Johannesburg, South Africa
 
Wow. I haven't finished reading the book yet - I am on Chapter 12. Stephen's metaphors and analogies are amazing. I have tried reading so many "naive metaphysics" books and I just give up after the first couple of pages because really they sound like a load of bull.... "My body is not real, the world is not real....bla bla bla". But this book makes so much sense to me. I have been standing at the back of the movie theatre for a couple of months now - not belonging in any group. Just standing there not knowing what to do next. I suppose I was in the library trying to find out where to go from here. Whew....I am through the door, I am in my cocoon - on my own - and I am relieved to be on my own. The chaos and the madness in the movie theatre was driving me mad!!! I have so much to say - but in short....THANKS STEPHEN, YOU MAKE SO MUCH SENSE!!!!

Leonard, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
 
  I was primed for the three of you (you, Robert Schienfeld and Jed McKenna) partly through my work in A Course in Miracles, and especially Gary Renard’s The Disappearance of the Universe – which did a great job of spelling out the dynamics behind who we really are, and that everything that’s impermanent is nothing – an illusion. I was introduced to Robert’s 2nd Busting Loose book through several synchronicities, and like you, got into Jed’s books through Robert. For me, Jed’s books are impeccable.
Although I’m no longer involved with Oneness University, I spent nearly 2 years working with them. They had one teaching (Anything that’s experienced fully and completely transforms to joy.) that I found to be quite powerful, and it set me up to immediately resonate with Robert’s incredible tool, The Process.
What you’ve done for me is to make it all so accessible – really nice work. Thanks, Stephen. For me, I do find the Course’s metaphysics to be more plausible (and it’s not important) – that the ego got us into this mess of an illusion because of our “feelings” of sin, guilt and fear, and it seems all are agreed that it’s the fear – terror, really – of no-self, or loss of our indiviDUALITY, that’s the granddaddy of all fear. What Robert refers to as Phase 2 is basically what the Course calls “choosing another teacher”. It’s too bad the Course is such a heavy-duty slog as well as using all of that biblical terminology. By the way, you did a great job explaining the quantum physics of how this is all a holographic universe, and then bringing in The Field.

Keith, Dallas, Texas
 
  Thank you for sharing your model. Yours is one of the few books that I am immediately beginning a 2nd reading cover-to-cover. As a musician, I've always taken pride in taking an emotional perspective on life. Who knew? (Well, you did...) I've already caught myself in opinions/emotions and stopped to work down to a possible underlying judgment. I rejected it and instantly got back to joy. The model is still a little difficult to grasp, but I can't argue with initial success. I am determined to see the Pacific! Thanks to your Infinite I and mine.

Scott, Orange County, CA
 
   Your book has changed my Life. It has opened my mind and "I" will never be the same. Free at last, free at last! This IS the New Paradigm for a new world. Thank "you" and your Infinite I.

Shamim, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
 
   I am most grateful for your book. I cannot recall how I came across your beautiful book, but I had saved it on my desktop and kept seeing it daily wondering what it was I had saved. Finally, as I was cleaning up my computer desktop, I opened your book and couldn't stop reading. Everything you say in it resonates with me, and I thank you for it from the bottom of my heart. My own Infinite I had made me save your book for this very reason, that I needed to read it and see the concept of complete submission from another vantage point. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Marisa, London, England
 
   I really feel so grateful to my Infinite I that has given me the opportunity to read your book as part of my holographic experience!    I am a Spanish girl aged 29, living and working in London.    I would like you to know that I have really enjoyed your book and  that - even though I have never been able to express it on words - I have experienced myself many of the feelings you describe both for the first and the second half of the Human Game. I think I have been in my cocoon now for a couple of years, since I realized reality was not out there but inside me and directly related with my reactions to every situation. What I didn’t know is that that reality came in wave length form to be processed by my brain, an amazing point that, considering my scientific background, makes the whole story much more consistent! But the point is, whatever you call it, I reached the same point or very close to what you describe in the book (feeling joy and abundance etc).   It is so great to be alive, and it is such  a gift to be able to realize !

Winifred Potenza, Santa Rosa, California
 
Love your book.... am re-reading it now. Four years ago I painted this.... 6 feet high.... called ""Metamorphosis...Butterflies are free."

(To see more of Winifred's art, visit her website.)
 

Adriana Minińo, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
 
I am in the middle of a 3-week retreat in my own bedroom, focusing on reducing every thought and idea, in dismantling the falsehood of my opinions, beliefs and fears. Your book came as a real GIFT to me. I found it while browsing a blog about Jed's work. I just finished his third book and I will start all over. I am planning to send your ebook to all my friends and family. They think I am crazy; this will confirm it. Thank you for taking the time to produce such a wonderful trip into the theater and the unreality of it. I think I am in love with you.

Hector Jorge, Benicassim , Spain
 
I wanted to thank you for your fantastic book. It came in a 'perfect' moment for me. I've been doing the Jed McKenna process for 8 months now. What a trip it has been so far! Your book has sped up the process tremendously. Thanks for putting so much time, energy and effort in sharing your thoughts.

Robert Mace, Colorado City, Texas
 
I [too] have been a scout for quite a while. And, as you relate in a very early chapter, it can be quite a lonely job, with few who will even understand your report when you return from your adventures. I think the greatest benefit of Butterflies Are Free To Fly, to me, was realizing that I am not so alone on the journey. I could laugh openly at the many common areas of experience that we have both had. I could recite your reading list throughout the decades as if it were copied from a list of my own. My almost-60-years in this incarnation so far have brought me many miles, even while never leaving the geographical miles of the U.S. I've endured both the idiots and the avatars, the frauds and the frontiersmen. Many years ago, I had a very pleasant acid experience. I called it a mental enema. Your book was, for me, a metaphysical enema. As I read, I "wow"ed a few times, and "whew"ed at others. A lot of clarity through cleansing. A hearty "Thanks" transmitted from my Universe-I to yours.

Danica Jo, Nashvile, TN
 
I am only 19 and have been waiting for years for my Infinite to deliver me your book. After reading it I've been putting the ideas to practical use. Thanks a bunch for scouting for me. So far this is the most amazing path I have been on over the Rockies - like really you have nooooo idea.

C. R. Ravi Chandran, India
 
I think I got to read your book just when I had realized that I was watching the biggest movie and wanted to find a way out of the theatre. As you point out there are many 'gurus'. There has been no solace to me either from the living ones and the dead. You will appreciate that not all of us are abreast of the developments in science, especially when people have to rush about just to exist as in India from where I write.
 
I was in such a mess (am still so) but have realized that I have left the theater and entered the cocoon, and my bigger I just put your book in my hand so that I won't feel tormented by the change.
 
Your greater I has done a great service to all us holographic creatures.

Jace P., Canada
 
This has been an incredible read and I can't stop thinking about it. I'm definitely recommending it to others.

G. Almestica, U.S.A.
 
I wrote a small essay long ago on how I was putting on layers upon layers of "titles" since birth, how I never knew "me" because all we do is to conform to what society wants. Something has never felt right.
 
I remember being very little and telling a life teacher "how do you know your red is my red? You show me a red square, but I see what you'll call green...so from now on my (visual) green is called red.
 
This book explains my "weirdness" if only just a little, of feeling "it's all a game" and welcoming all experiences with little resistance. Working "just enough" because I'm certain it will be ok, and enjoying having virtually nothing. I'm glad I found my way to that door in my 30's...and walked into my cocoon.
 
Thanks to my Infinite I for allowing this amazing experince, what an amazing book!

Harmeet Singh Sokhi, Belgium
 
I have read the book and I must say that I have never ever been so absorbed in a book.
 
Your viewpoint is so fresh and logical. The way you have incorporated the quantum physics aspect is spellbinding.
 
I am simply overwhelmed by your imagination and the ability to communicate so clearly. Must have come straight from the heart - or should I say nothingness that remains when all layers of ego are removed.
 
Looking forward to more of your work.

Andy Buss, Thailand
 
It would appear that there are so many experts out there in the world, each making great amounts of money. Yet from my experience I have found that each so-called expert only held a single piece of the puzzle and not all the answers.
 
Your work explains for free so much truth in simplicity that I know to be correct. The quantum physics material is brilliant. I am just entering the cocoon stage in that I know every belief that I currently hold is limiting me from the Infinite I. At least I know what lies ahead. Thank You
 
Your work may not earn you money or public appreciation but it is helping a lot of people discover answers within themselves - as opposed to the so called experts that each have the answer, well they do for themselves financially.
 
Your goal was to advise others from the wisdom of your personal journey and you are doing that through your book around the world. I have a 10-year-old son. Your life experience - the ups and down - will serve as the basis of his understanding.
 
Your wisdom and work is inspiring others to the truth within themselves. Nothing can be more satisfying; and is that not the true purpose of life? Congratulations & Thank You.

Kenneth Hershberger
 
Thanks for the free book. Best book I have.

Mike Chandler, Oregon
 
Loved the book. After reading Scheinfeld and McKenna many many times, I finally get it.

Nancy Heimstra, California
 
Thank you Stephen. I devoured your book. It tied up a few "loose ends" for me regarding my Busting Loose work. I have been so joyful reading it and recognizing that it is a truth that resonates deeply with me. I appreciate your personal insights and sharing. Thanks again for a brilliant read. Keep writing!!!

Gary Rutz, Alberta, Canada
 
Stephen has written an original and well designed book of the mind that offers the reader the path to understanding the true nature of our reality and therefore the real path to peace.
 
I would love to go on and on about the model as Stephen describes it or a comparison to my beliefs (or other belief systems) but that is not what is important about this book. And Stephen has written an important book. Whether it works for you or not, Stephen has given you a detailed plan, a detailed model, that, at the very least should be added to the Core lexicon of “who are we” and “what we are” literature
 
Stephen has brought a lifetime of learning to his book . From worldwide travels; time in the military; Scientology and a lifetime of searching through a wide variety of scientific and new age alternatives, Stephen has made a detailed and determined path to peace that he calls the Model. Starting with quantum physics and building on it with the pieces of his reading that he has found have worked for him and a few others that He calls the Scouts (scouts that-have gone ahead and lead the way in trying the model), Stephen collects it all together in a very new and original way.
 
For me, I stand by my belief system, but more importantly Stephen has reminded me of the Concepts we agree with and as I had fallen asleep - in the spiritual sense - I am very grateful for Stephen’s book. Thanks to Stephen, I can see peace again and should his model work for you, you will see peace too.
 
Stephen's comment: Gary has written his own book that also offers a path to understand reality, called You Are The Answer, which is available at Globusz.com.