The Art of Escaping Black Holes

Respecting Your Event Horizon

There comes a time when you look into the mirror at night and see nothing but emptiness. You’re exhausted, and you’re not sure what exactly it is that you’re chasing anymore. By this point, you’ve devoted too much of your life to dare question why you are doing what you do - that ship had sailed many years ago. The best answer that you can muster to the question that keeps creeping up is that everybody else is doing it, and so you must stay the course and march along with them. You have convinced yourself that there simply is no alternative.

Hopefully, you will outperform or outmaneuver the others, get ahead, and clinch that promotion to Director, Vice President, Managing Director, Senior Vice President, Chief (of something something), and ultimately, CEO. But wait, lo and behold, when you become a CEO, there are higher bosses in the form of the Board of Directors, and ultimately, the Chairman of the Board. And it doesn’t end there, because the Chairman reports to the largest shareholders, and those shareholders report to their funders, and the cycle continues on.

That’s a whole of lot carrots to dangle in front of your face, and they all lead to a supermassive black hole - one that devours something other than matter and particles.

Imagine a black hole that consumes souls.

If you ask yourself, exactly what is it that you are offering up in exchange for the chance to bite at the next carrot, you will conclude that it is some combination of your effort and abilities. Which is essentially your life force - your attention, your will, your thoughts, and even your physical health. These valuable assets are offered up at the altar of productivity for corporations to consume in exchange for currency to satisfy material desires, bragging rights, and a superficial definition of your worth as a human being along with a false identity.

Have doubts? When you meet people for the first time, one of the first questions they will ask you is “so what do you do?” And you will spit out your job, either with triumphant pride, or with tepid shyness. Most of us will rarely say something like, “I’m parenting a teenage boy and a baby girl” or “I’m the caretaker of my elderly parents.” even if those are the ends to the means.

Then just take a look at the faces of “successful” people - all the way from corporate politicians who have become senior executives, to presidents and prime ministers of nations. They have expended their life force to get to where they are.

At the end of our lives, the inevitable question will arrive: did you expend your life force in a meaningful way, or did you waste it? Depending on how you’ve lived your life, this question can either haunt you, or satisfy you.

On this planet, there are concentrations of people chasing carrots together, egging each other on, and forming high densities of souls jockeying with each other for position. One can easily mistake such gatherings as the Olympics of the Rat Race as hopefuls rush for a chance to compete.

Little do they know that they are being pulled, not pushed, into the black hole that consumes countless of souls.

Perhaps the largest black hole of them all exists in the city of New York, a place known for its hustle and the saying that if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. Manhattan is a place that has been labeled as the “center of the universe” for good reason: much of the planet’s activities are controlled from there. That control comes in the form of currency, and Wall Street runs much of the global financial transactions.

If you know how black holes function, then you may be familiar with what an Event Horizon is. It is the point at which, if passed, there is no escape - not even for light, from the black hole. My wife and I approached our Event Horizon while living in New York, and we were lucky enough to escape before it was too late.

Watch our story of how and why we escaped the New York city black hole in this video:

It shouldn’t come as a shock to you that New York City isn’t the only place where black holes exist. In fact, most metropolitan cities around the world are manifestations of black holes. They are like swirling galaxies found around the universe, attracting and drawing millions of stars - or souls - towards their centers where the black holes reside. The closer you get to the center, the denser the collection of stars and the faster the pace and volatility is as you approach the Event Horizon.

Know where your Event Horizon is and set the boundary for it. Otherwise, next thing you’ll realize when you look up is that you’ve become a “lifer” and you’ve gone way too deep to extract yourself out of the black hole.