Begin Your Quest!

THE CALL is upon you — an ache of discontent, a crisis, a constant deep nagging that there is more to life — demanding more than comfort ever could. This is your summons to go beyond your old life. The horn has sounded, the path is open and your new life awaits. I stand ready to serve as your guide to navigate the treacherous lands of change – of the unknown.

Answer The Call — Begin Your Quest!

As A Guide

Whatever change you want, I am a powerful guide and ally on your journey, Your Quest, to achieve what you may have never achieved before. I have worked with many individuals facilitating change professionally since 1995. I am very good at it, and have developed dozens of highly effective processes.

Answer The Call!

The Call to Adventure is the shattering of your ordinary. Something is calling to you, demanding more than comfort ever could. You may feel it as a persistent ache of discontent, or the sudden crisis before. It is not a curse, but a summons.

A summons to go beyond the boundaries of your old life, and the old you. Something deep within can no longer be bound by the greatness growing within. Do not let fear lock you in the shadows of your comfort; refusing your quest only guarantees stagnation, malaise and a quiet suffering.

Every epic journey requires a guide before the threshold is crossed — the threshold from your old world, the known, to your new world, the unknown. 

I stand ready to serve as your guide, offering highly effective strategy and hidden tools, along with the resolve and support needed to navigate the treacherous lands of the unknown ahead. 

The path before you can be long and the trials will be real, but you possess strengths yet untapped. 

The horn has sounded, the path is open, and your Living Purpose, your Destined Life awaits — rise, take up the mantle, and let us face the unknown together!

Demand excellence, brilliance and integrity from who you entrust to guide your transformation!

I encourage you to expect brilliance, demand excellence, and explore the magnificence within yourself. I ask you to take a small leap of faith that I can be a guiding force for you, helping you discover a world within you that you can access and confront the challenges (hurts, wounds, fears, issues) that hold you back from your full potential.

However, this is a two-way street. I demand excellence from those who choose to work with me, and I show up exquisitely for each individual I work with. This means I expect you to show up for yourself and put in the work to make the changes you desire.

Additionally we become co-investigators of the obstacles that have been holding you back throughout your life. While I can aid you to quickly identify these obstacles, the challenge lies in confronting the horror of how much they have stopped you, for how long, how you have suffered, and the huge amount of life those obstacles have stolen. But confronting all of that is where the rubber meets the road — you MUST show up for yourself by doing your work. 

Before Meeting For The First Time

Before meeting for the first time, I ask you to reflect and answer four questions — my Life Choices Assessment™.

Over the years I have discovered that these four questions initiate a journey that aids individuals to uncover their true desires.  Consider that there is a chasm between what you think you want, and what you truly WANT and NEED.

  1. What works in your life?
  2. What does not work in your life?
  3. What do you want to change
  4. What in your past has supported you to make big changes?

 

How Do You Best Choose A Path, Course, Or Guide?

How Do You Assess If An Offering Will Give You What You Want?

Do you know why you are really here?  Do you know what you want and/or need?

When we visit a website for the first time, most of us ask, “what is here for me?”  We want something, even if we don’t know exactly what we are looking for.

Often we look at websites and articles to get clarity of what we want, and the options available.

Eventually you will face making a choice.  How Do You CHOOSE?

Do you know how you assess and make choices?  

This is what I educate and train people on with Inner Authority.  These questions and skill sets are at the core of cultivating our ability to discern information, assess, and make the best life choices for ourselves.  You learn how others attempt to manipulate you into doing what they want, and how to easily spot and avoid  disinformation.

Ask Better Questions

Asking better questions, and truly assessing and verifying any offering you are considering leads to higher quality choices.  The ability to make better life choices leads to the opportunities for higher quality jobs and careers, relationships, health choices, purchases, education, and so many overall better life choices.

Consider These Questions, Because You Can Get Higher Quality Answers:

  • What do you truly want?
  • How do you know that you want that?  Did a friend or social media post say this is what you should want?
  • How will you know when you get that?
  • How are you making choices?  Are you clear on your selection criteria — what areas in your choices are you focusing on?
  • How are you comparing different offerings?  And do you have clear measures on measuring the differences?
  • When someone says something is better, how much better exactly?  And how much of a difference does that measured difference really make?

These are even juicier questions, and speak more to feeling life:

  • How do you know who to listen to?  Read?  Learn from?  Ask for guidance?
  • How will you know when someone speaks to your truth?  Your Heart and Soul?
  • How will you know when you stumble upon a path that is right for you NOW?

I cannot answer these questions for you, and I won’t pretend that I could (though many do).  I don’t think it works when anyone else answers those questions for you!  When someone else answers these personal questions for you, you only end up with more negative consequences that outweigh any of the potential positive consequences.

But I can educate and train you how to ask better questions, and think and assess way better!

Q & A on Dave As An Ally & Guide For Your Quest

Interview from 2011. Updated To Reflect Past 15 Years.

Why should I trust you to do good work?

I work to trust myself and accept myself.  This might be a hard thing for you to believe — that I may accept you more than you accept yourself.  That is why you should trust me – the heck with my credentials.

I can guide you to learn how to deeply trust yourself.   The better question you probably have is whether you can trust yourself, not whether you can trust me.  Isn’t that the biggest thing you want, to trust and accept yourself?

Give me 3 reasons why you are able to achieve impressive results beyond many others?

One — I invested a massive amount of time, money and energy, over $220,000 and thousands of hours answering one question since age 17 – “What drives all human healing, growth and transformation?”  This has been the main focus of my life since then.  Because I pursued that question, it sets me apart from many in my field — in a big way.

Two — I did not accept what anyone told me as truth.

I question people all the time, which does not feel good to many because of their egos. I do not accept what anyone tells me as truth — just as part of a puzzle. Almost everyone is missing parts of a puzzle, from a few pieces to many. Most people in any field latch onto one thing, one modality, one way, etc that they think is awesome.  I have more pieces of different puzzles than most in my field.

Three — I am not afraid to make a fool of myself.  

I don’t care how I look.  For some reason I do not have an ego in the way most do, most likely because of the intense suffering over 15+ years in my dark-night-of-the-soul.

I ask the questions that most people are afraid to ask.  Like, “Why does xyz work when all other people say it does not?”  Or, “How can you justify saying this works when people superior to you in skill and experience say it does not work?”

I publicly question things as they are. I am a voice for people who are afraid to risk looking foolish, and ask the question that needs to be asked.

Bonus!  Four — I loathe wasting time and energy!

I have sought the most effective ways to heal, grow and transform — fast, effective lasting and meaningful.  I have always sought to learn how to fish instead of just being given the fish.  I look for the underlying process, the mechanism of action, instead of just the content.  For example,  I didn’t want to memorize and learn 20 ways to change — I wanted to know how transformation works at its core so I can generate over 200 methods to create change.  And I did!!!

Talk about a defining moment from your life.

I have so many — I used to categorize and track them.  The most defining moment of all was at age 17, my first spiritual awakening after I read a book by Richard Bach —  “Illusions”.

See, ever since I was young, I knew something way more interesting, beautiful and mysterious played out in life.  BUT no one mentioned this.  No one alluded to it.  No one talked about anything mysterious occurring.  Illusions affirmed and confirmed that what I sensed in the world was not my imagination, but a reality — human potential, beauty, unseen realities, awe and magic.

I woke up to my life purpose, which has remained constant, clear and consistent to this day — to heal, grow and transform then inspire and aid others to do the same.  My secondary purpose came years later — to love and be loved.

Do you believe you created your purpose or were you given it? Tell me about your experience.

I did not create my purpose.  It became clear, like a veil lifting.  That’s the best way I can describe it.  I wasn’t actually excited by it.  I didn’t go “Yippee!”  In fact, I knew I would be lonely on this path — maybe I created the loneliness, but not the purpose.

I talked about the most defining moment of my life, at 17 when I read Illusions.  What happened in the following two weeks, this book confirmed what no one else confirmed or talked about or alluded to — that, basically, WAY more is going on and most of us are oblivious to it.

The veil did not just lift from my purpose — the veil lifted on the world!  As I trusted myself and my inner knowing, I saw and experienced way more than I had before – unseen influences, synchronicities, signs, meaning.  Not meaning I made up, but inherent meaning from something other than this world — a sort of cosmic order.  At one point I was even okay with my death, which has only happened a few times since.

Upon witnessing this veil lifting, it became scary as well as magnificent.  It was like I opened myself up to a lot of people who did not have good intentions, or who were just messy and chaotic in their life.  I attracted some of those people, but thank god, or thank whatever, I had an inherent sense of protecting myself.

Realize I felt alone and did not know who to trust, because no one was talking about this stuff.  Many people who I attracted that were talking about it, I could feel that they were off, and something was not okay.

I realize now that what I needed was a mystery school mentor.  I eventually got it at Avalon Institute where I did my Masters in Counseling Psychology.  At the mystery school for my masters I studied Jungian, Artchetypal, and Transpersonal Psychotherapy.

This was a real deal mystery school, and my mentor was the late Charles Bebeau and his wife.  He had similarities to the character Socrates in the book, “The Way of the Peaceful Warrior”.

Do you believe that our purpose is to grow?

Yes, is our natural state of being, though we cover it up with resistance.  Life yearns to grow and evolve.  That is the natural state of all life.  Evolution is the adaptation to an ever-changing environment.  Everything changes.  All life adapts to that change.  When life stops adapting, it dies.  Get the logic?

Why do you care about people's experience now? Why do you do what you do?

I care because I want what I did not get — competent highly effective help to heal, grow and transform.

I invested a lot of time, energy and money screaming for help.  Not only did I NOT get much help, I hurt even more.  I kept throwing resources into people who said they could help me, but actually made it worse for me.

Though helping professionals are usually well-intentioned, often they do more harm than good.  And they SHOULD be way more effective.

Examples:  a nationally renowned yoga instructor who I gave a bunch of my time, money and energy to, I did his program and individual sessions but I kept hurting more as time went on.  Or with Pilates – they were part of the problem, not the solution.  I hurt while doing Pilates, and even more after.  Both the Yoga instructor and Pilates instructors said they could help me, but only hurt me more through their modality.

I NEEDED HELP BUT GOT HURT.  People said they could help and they didn’t.  Another prime example – the Alpine air purifier — it made me sick. I kept telling the salesperson how bad it was, but he just told me to turn down the setting.  I gave it back.  Now it is scientifically proven that the O3 it outputs is toxic to the human body.

First, I want to say F U to all the professionals who told me what I could not do, instead of inspiring me to go for it and giving me the proper tools to do it.  I still deal with day-to-day pain and low energy — I have to expend a lot of my resources on healing, healing I should have gotten decades ago!  What a waste of resources!

I don’t want my suffering for all these years to be wasted.  I want my suffering to be worth something, to count.  I do not want others to waste their time, energy and money on things they desperately need and want — with well-intentioned people doing more harm than good and being considerably less effective than they could.

Almost all paths, tools and methodologies to personal change and development take WAY too much time, money and energy, rarely last and often are not even meaningful.  It does NOT have to take that much time, money or energy to make changes!!!

BOTTOM LINE:  The Way of the MAGI path is my answer to all the well-meaning people who tried to help but actually hurt me, and still try to help others but do not, or help in a far less effective manner than they could.

Do you have to be healed to be a healer?

No. No one is fully healed anyway.  As soon as you stop healing, you are stagnant.  You are dead.  You are no longer growing, evolving and changing.

All growth, healing and transformation is a form of change — any change involves a type of healing.  If you are not changing, you are not healing.  Healing is a natural state of our magnificent essence evolving us to greater potential.

How do you go beyond most personal growth paths?

Most personal growth paths actually hinder our ability to remember and access our magnificent essence — our TRUE self.  They obstruct our understanding, living, and expressing our true selves by adding layers of resistance over the essence of who we really are. 

Our educational systems, governments, most religions, money systems, and those with significant wealth and power all have a vested interest in our continued resistance to our essence, our inner power. They want us to remain unaware of our inner knowing, which allows us to easily discern what aligns with us and make choices differently from what they want us to make. 

 We are subtly taught various ways to resist at a subconscious level. The manipulation is insidious.

Consider Madison Avenue with its slick marketing tactics. They manipulate our perceptions by highlighting how our bodies smell, making us believe we need certain products. They also exploit our fear of aging, convincing us to buy specific products. Additionally, they create a sense of inadequacy by suggesting that we need certain things because we are not cool, rich, attractive, fashionable, fit, skinny, strong, or smart enough.

I am not suggesting a conspiracy. I am simply pointing out that Western and modern civilizations have evolved (or rather, de-evolved) to maintain power and economic systems, even though humanity as a whole experiences significant negative consequences. Climate change is just one of many worsening consequences.

Imagine educating and training individuals to embrace their inner authority, inner power, and inner knowing? This is precisely what I do. 

I educate and train individuals and organizations to accept deeper truths about who they are at their core. This gradually dissolves the taught and accumulated resistance that covers our magnificent essence.

What else sets your work apart from many in your field?

One thing that sets my work apart is that I begin by assigning homework when you sign up for any of my services. This facilitates you uncovering elements that motivate you to persevere through the most challenging phase of the self discovery processes. 

There are few things in this world that fill me with more joy than witnessing the transformative impact I have on someone’s life.

I implore you to take the first step and sign up to work with me. I am confident that you can complete this journey when you commit and show up 100%. I will be there to support you every step of the way, shining the light and guiding you. However, it is crucial that you contribute your own efforts and dedication, by again showing up 100%!

Many have faced similar challenges and emerged stronger. Some have achieved remarkable success, while others have made significant progress. I have been a support, guide and powerful ally.  The most important factor on why I can guide you to success where you have not yet succeeded is the incredible length, intensity of suffering and depth of my journey — a 15+ year dark-night-of-the-soul — to reach this point.

A Message To You, Dear Ones, That Feel Life

Watch!  Listen!  Sense!  Reach!  Keep Reaching …

To you dear ones that feel life ...

WATCH!

Watch for the wise ones who point you to shine light on YOUR truth,

and you cry as they illuminate what was once dark.

 

LISTEN!

Listen for the elders who train you to whisper to your Soul,

and you resonate as they sing a song you hear in your heart of hearts.

 

SENSE!

Sense the perceptive ones who teach you to know your true Self,

and you laugh as they notice how you evade your magnificence.

 

REACH!

Reach for the leaders who implore you to seize the inner knowing you feel in your bones,

and you tremble as they loosen your grip on the lies you held so tight.

 

KEEP REACHING

There are those of us who wait — calmly alert, and alertly calm.

Some of us not so calm.

 

We poke and evoke, inform and transform.

We are really good at it!

 

And we are among you — the good ones!

But you must keep reaching,

Enough to stumble when you really want to find us.

 

And when you look, open your eyes — really wide.

Try a very cold shower, a dawning sun, or a lot of caffeine.

Stop eating for a couple of days.

Or be alone in nature for three — that will open.

 

And do the unexpected.

 

Start small.

Reverse your toilet paper roll.

Take a route to work you never take.

Eat what you never eat.

Watch what you never watch.

 

Go bigger.

Call the friend you never call.

Forgive that person you never forgave.

Say you are sorry to that person you didn’t.

Visit that person you never visit.

 

If you keep reaching, open your eyes wide, and do the unexpected,

You WILL stumble.

 

You HAVE to stumble!

 

You can only find us when you are not looking in the ways you always do.

If you look as you always look, you will find what you always find.

We, the good ones, are not found where you always look.

 

Why?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Silly!  You would have already found us!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So reach.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So really reach.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keep reaching.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now open your eyes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Open them really wide.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do the unexpected.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, you can start small.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But you may need to go bigger at some point.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And stumble.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You MUST stumble.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Really stumble!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Are you reaching?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Really reaching?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh.  THERE!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi.  We got you!