The Divine CEO: Creating a Divine Covenant

by Geoff Thompson

The Divine CEO is a no-nonsense, pragmatic book about the hierarchy of spiritual ascent. It comes from the pen of acclaimed writer Geoff Thompson; former bouncer, world ranking martial arts guru, and BAFTA winning screenwriter. This is a masterclass on how to contract your ego, expand your conscious awareness, and build a powerful internal hierarchy, through mastery of mind, body and senses. For anyone looking to break their negative associations with the world and create a divine covenant with their Greatest Potential (their own internal Chief Executive Officer), this empirical, muscular and direct study of spiritual ascension is the perfect companion. It is the essence of the author's fifty year apprenticeship in practical spirituality, and high end Budo martial arts.

466 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 31, 2020

About the author

Geoff Thompson is a BAFTA-winning writer, filmmaker, spiritual teacher, and martial artist with a prolific career spanning multiple disciplines. He has authored books on self-help, spirituality, self-defense, and martial arts, while also writing for film and stage.
Beginning as a martial artist, Thompson specialized in reality-based self-defense, drawing from his experiences as a nightclub doorman. He co-founded the British Combat Association and taught seminars internationally, including for Chuck Norris. His self-defense innovations include "The Wall" and "The Fence," practical techniques for real-world confrontations.
His transition into filmmaking brought critical acclaim. His short film Bouncer (2002), starring Ray Winstone, earned a BAFTA nomination, and Brown Paper Bag (2003), inspired by his brother’s struggles with alcoholism, won the BAFTA for Best Short Film. He later wrote the feature Clubbed (2008), based on his autobiography Watch My Back, as well as The Pyramid Texts (2015) and Romans (2017), starring Orlando Bloom.
Beyond martial arts and filmmaking, Thompson has established himself as a spiritual teacher and self-help author. His works, including The Divine CEO and Live Your Dreams, focus on personal transformation and overcoming fear. He has delivered a TED Talk on conquering fear and hosted a popular podcast on spiritual growth.
In 2020, he released his autobiography Notes from a Factory Floor, chronicling his journey from factory worker to internationally recognized author and teacher. Through his writing, coaching, and filmmaking, Thompson continues to inspire others in the pursuit of self-improvement and personal mastery.

Reviews

[Ellie Mitchell · Rating 4 out of 5]

~About

The Divine CEO: Making A Divine Covenant explores the power of our thoughts, emotions and actions on our personal realities. Additionally, it discusses how material goods are always vying for our attention, leaving us constantly craving more from the external world, while leaving us feeling unfulfilled within.

Some of the main points discussed in The Divine CEO are:

.To be mindful of the thoughts and emotions we engage with and allow to steal our focus
.To understand that hate feeds hate and fear feeds fear
.To work on yourself as an individual, to grow and expand your conscious awareness
.To accept the flaws you have and be aware of them, knowing they make you human
.To be kind and compassionate to others.


~Likes & Dislikes

The author’s writing style is informative and wonderfully conversational, inviting you in to learn more. His inspiring tone kept me reading, although I did take breaks in reading, to fully absorb what was being said.

The author gives useful, practical advice on how to live a more virtuous life, through being more aware of our thoughts, emotions, and actions in an everyday context.

My only concern was that at times, some claims made by the author sounded more idealistic than objectively true and I worried that, if taken literally, may cause people to completely abandon medicine used to treat serious illnesses.



~Memorable Quotes

With so much useful wisdom imparted in one book, it was notoriously difficult to settle on only a few quotes, however I did eventually manage to select just three, which I feel speak volumes.

1) ‘Perception is all.’

From political opinion, to our subjective views of other people, our perception colours everything we see and experience in a particular way. Our past experiences have a crucial role in shaping our perceptions and it’s important than we reflect on such experiences, in order to move on from them and resolve anything that may be holding us back in life.


2) ‘We can only change our future position if we alter our present actions.’

This quote reminds me of the old saying about madness being defined as repeating the same thing over and over, and expecting different outcomes. That being said, if we’re stuck in a rut and never make any changes, be they in our behaviour or environment, then we’re hardly likely to have the ideal future we want.


3) ‘Fear was my only enemy- the anxiety line chalked on the floor; a terror barrier-‘

Having struggled with anxiety all my life, I’ve come to see how debilitating it can be. It really does form this terror barrier around you, however, the only way I’m learning to beat it is to confront it, to push myself into slightly uncomfortable situations for brief periods and to become more accustomed to this feeling. The point being that the more we succumb to, or run away from our fears, the stronger a hold they’ll have on us.


~Overview

Overall, The Divine CEO was a memorable, enlightening read, although I’d encourage you not to take everything too literally, but metaphorically, as advice to consider, in order to assess your current life situation and whether or not you’re fulfilled within.

Rated: 4 stars.
Recommended to lovers of self improvement reads that lean toward the spiritual.

[Elaine Habernig]

The Divine CEO: Making A Divine Covenant explores the power of our thoughts, emotions and actions on our personal realities. Additionally, it discusses how material goods are always vying for our attention, leaving us constantly craving more from the external world, while leaving us feeling unfulfilled within.

[david drury]

I need to pause after each chapter to really digest what I’ve read. A mind blowing piece of work so far.