This document discusses how to hack into the "flow state" to accelerate human development. It is divided into three parts. The first part explains that flow is a universal human experience that occurs when we are fully immersed in an activity. The second part argues that we can learn to hack into the flow state. The third part suggests that achieving flow could help lead us to greater abundance by allowing people to operate at their full potential when challenges arise. The document aims to provide tools to help transform temporary insights into lasting growth.

1. From Altered States to Altered Traits:
Hacking the Flow State to
Accelerate Human Development
Jamie Wheal
Executive Director

2. This is the story of how we begin to remember
Anamnesia—the forgetting of the forgetting

3. This is the story of how we begin to remember
1801-Cane Ridge, Kentucky, Second Great Awakening

4. It’s easier than ever to get high
(and just as hard as it’s always been to stay that way)

5. So why do we keep falling back to Earth?

6. ‘Cause there’s a hole in my bucket…

7. But what if we could fill the holes and turn the colander into a
chalice?

8. What if we could learn to transform our passing illuminations
into abiding Light?

9. The Three Big Ideas
Flow is a universal
We can hack it
We can learn to learn faster and do more

10. Part I:
Flow is universal

11. While the lingo is endless, the experience is timeless
peak experience
runner’s high
being “in the zone”
or “in the pocket”

12. Everything slows down, the Self vanishes.
Action and awareness merge. You enter Flow.
(and then spend the rest of your life trying to find it again)

13. Tap the wisdom of the crowd—what’s it like for you?

14. What’s your Flow-file?
Age 3-10
Age 12-18
Age 21-Now

15. Answer each question with only one breath of air
Where was I?
Who was I with?
What was I doing?
How did it feel?

16. Part II:
We can hack it

17. Ditch the Tar Baby of ego

18. Lead the witness—the Flow Genome Matrix
Category Flow Genome Matrix
Cognitive
Pre-Conventional Conventional Post-Conventional Integrated
Development
Neurologic Delta Beta Alpha Theta/Elective
Cardiac Catabolic Anabolic
Endocrine Cortisol/Adrenaline Testosterone/Estrogen Serotonin/Oxcytocin Tryptamines
Respiratory Parasympathetic Thoracic Abdominal Dynamic
Chronologic Achronic Diachronic Synchronic Polychronic
(temporal awareness) (No Time) (Linear Past-Present) (Present) (Functional Adaptive)
Postural Frontal Sagittal Transverse Multi-axial
Inverse

19. Part III:
Flow could get us
to Abundance

20. From Flow to Abundance: (A Tale of Two TEDsters)

21. Because when times are at their worst,
we’re going to need people at their best
Don't ask yourself what the
world needs. Ask yourself what
makes you come alive and then
go do that.
Because what the world needs is
people who have come alive.
--Howard Thurman

22. From Altered States to Altered Traits:
Hacking the Flow State to
Accelerate Human Development
Jamie Wheal
Executive Director