Behavior Modification Quotes

“When conflict is inescapable and it has been learned that making a "wrong" decision can have severe emotionally or physically painful consequences, then we have the makings of stress, anxiety, and aggression.”
― Brenda Aloff, Aggression in Dogs: Practical Management, Prevention and Behavior Modification

“When it comes to our habits, there are many ways to intervene. In most cases, we have to be aware of them first.”
― Jessica Dore, Tarot for Change: Using the Cards for Self-Care, Acceptance and Growth

“Mental illness is an underreported epidemic today as social media addiction and less than optimal mental states quietly go hand in hand.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Always bear in mind that the only person whose judgement matters is yourself. If you can learn to transform self-judgment into good judgment, a.k.a. wise circumspection, you’ve clearly shaken off some of the Dragon’s spell and already have one foot halfway out the door of this construct.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“In today’s mesmerizing digital landscape, our attention is madly sought after. Algorithms are ingeniously designed to keep us hooked like addicts by feeding us mainlines tailored to hold us captive—in mind and perhaps eventually even in body.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Based on its clear energetic signature as new technologies are breathlessly rolled out following a blatantly prewritten script, the current era might best be described as that of ‘Technotranshumanism.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Assertive behaviors are often associated with "dominant" dogs but are, in fact, often used by dogs who are extremely insecure or under-socialized.”
― Brenda Aloff, Aggression in Dogs: Practical Management, Prevention and Behavior Modification

“The Facebook business model is mass behavior modification for pay. And for those who are not giving Facebook money, the only — and I want to emphasize, the only, underlined and in bold and italics — reward they can get or positive feedback is just getting attention. And if you have a system where the only possible prize is getting more attention, then you call that system Christmas for Asses, right? It’s a creep-amplification device.”
― Jaron Lanier

“If you’re a mark of social media, if you’re being manipulated by it, one of the ways to tell is if there’s a certain kind of personality quality that overtakes you...It’s this kind of highly reactive, thin-skinned, outraged single-mindedness.”
― Jaron Lanier

“The world brought into being by people through their (installed) belief systems can be manipulated by anyone—or anything—powerful and knowledgeable enough to pull the right emotional strings to produce … the desired beliefs!”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Society’s members are psychically pressured into defining ‘true’ and ‘right’ based not on personal experience or direct gnosis (inner knowing), but on what the creators of social discourse put forward as ‘true’ and ‘right’—in other words, what to believe in—even in the absence of genuine logic or compelling evidence.

This situation leads—almost inevitably, it would seem—to the creation of a certain kind of top-down, pyramidal structure that controls society, culture and, given enough free rein, eventually the world itself.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“By succumbing to external conditioning and looking outside ourselves for answers, thus denying the power of our imagination and ignoring the only viable path forward into the future (that of internal transformation), we’re bound to just keep pouring gasoline on a world already on fire.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Just because your chains are only in your mind doesn’t make them less binding. ‘Free your mind’ is more than a proverbial movie line; it’s urgent advice to those shackled to complexity here in the Matrix.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Having us lose ourselves in asinine arguments, activities, careers, etc., designed to disconnect us from our deeper spiritual nature and purpose promotes the creation of powerful emotions connected to our thoughts and beliefs. In turn, our own externally elicited emotions help shape and direct the controlled chaos of the world.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“The Dragon doesn’t sleep. It doesn’t need to because humanity provides it with a limitless source of energy. The creature’s lidless eye, like Sauron’s, is forever fixed on us, controlling (indeed, mimetically programming us with) our every thought, emotion, and belief—that is, until we awaken ourselves from its spell by going inward on our way out of here.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Used skillfully, silence becomes a shield against negativity and manipulation.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Consider the telling expression ‘pay attention.’ Attention, as I see it, is the original currency. If you look closely enough at this divine sense with your sixth sense, you can actually see its powerful current flowing. And let it be noted that you almost always end up seeing whatever you’re currently paying for.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“It can’t be denied that most people today are voluntarily plugged into the Matrix—except instead of being jacked in and hardwired, they keep mindlessly taking hits on the virtual crack pipe of Instagram, TikTok, Meta, etc.

The most disturbing part of this web junkie scenario is that the overwhelming majority have absolutely no idea to what extent their thoughts and opinions are being mimetically manipulated, day after day, by the technology they take for granted.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“But even if we ignore the Dragon’s energy harvesting through cultivation of varying levels of mental illness in its human herd, we can safely say there’s a complex web of tech companies, advertisers and governments all trying, spider-like, to trap our attention for a variety of reasons—most of which probably aren’t in our best interests.

Tech companies want to keep us super-glued to our screens at all costs, advertisers want to sell us stuff we don’t need, and governments … Well, let’s just say that these artificial entities explicitly designed to govern the mente (mind) aren’t exactly hiding (except in plain sight) their primary agenda.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality