Nomad

Today I want to share something that still takes my breath away. In my view, it’s absolutely mind-blowing: a journey through time, into the depths of self-discovery, and an exploration of social structures—all in one package. I don’t think there are enough words to fully capture and describe the spectrum of possibilities that GSR opens for us. A direct, all-encompassing awareness—rooted in the self and beyond time and space. A way of perceiving everything simultaneously, across all layers and timelines… This will be a long read. With personal elements woven throughout. But I’d like not to miss a single detail. And try to clearly convey what has amazed me so deeply and what I’m still working to understand.

It started in a way so simple it almost felt banal: I was looking at my suitcases waiting to be packed yet again, and I sensed within myself the resources for the upcoming trip and several steps beyond. And I thought: how strange that I never suspected that relocations and a nomadic lifestyle were “my thing.” Before GSR, my childhood dream of “living in different parts of the world for extended periods” seemed at odds with reality. I enjoyed traveling—any kind of journey greatly inspired me—but at the same time, having a home was very important to me, and I was eager to create my own cozy nest.

Once I began working with GSR, everything changed. I “uprooted” myself. Flights, trips, and relocations became my everyday reality. Changing countries in a single day, arriving and immediately settling in—no problem. Early on, I discovered that my resource was precisely this: to live without a permanent base, no lasting attachments. I remember being upset about this at the time. But as I progressed deeper, thanks to working on myself, this resource stopped feeling like mere vagrancy; I began to appreciate its flavor more, to grow with it.

Tuning into this resource again, I began searching for certain social parameters to identify it. Yes, I personally travel to different places. But, for instance, to which part of society does this resource connect me, how can I use it more universally? Why do I possess it at all? Simultaneously, another stream was circling within me, one for which I couldn’t find the right piece of the puzzle: overseeing groups, like a shepherd tending their flock, ensuring no one strays or gets lost. At some point, I started looking not at each resource separately, but seeking their intersection deep within myself, and simultaneously deep across centuries—who were these people who combined such types of resources within themselves? After all, all our resources eventually, like small streams, gather into broader channels and ultimately converge in our deepest flow—the Flow of Self-Realization. Therefore, the merging of these resources at some point is inevitable.

And suddenly the puzzle pieces clicked together: ancient nomadic peoples. Nomads are more commonly known to us through their raids and devastation, like the Golden Horde. But their original occupation long before that was raising livestock while constantly moving in search of better pasturelands. Something clicked inside me. I began to contemplate the lifestyle of such people, and the more I observed, the more secondary streams were drawn toward the main current: simplicity in clothing, housing, and food; readiness to “set off” anywhere at a moment’s notice; a certain minimalism; the ability to create necessities from available resources; physical endurance for long-distance travel; a special love for walking or operating vehicles; establishing connections between different points—a kind of intermediary. Even the whip, oddly enough, had its place as a tool for managing external dynamics and resources (the herd). Through this system of ancient resources, my current ones became more clearly visible. And I saw myself better, in a completely new light. And I shed multiple labels from myself all at once.

One thing we often forget — but it matters: At our core, we are still those same stripped-back, primal humans who lived tens of thousands of years ago. But we are humans endowed with a system of resources that has brought us to where we are now. A resource always manifests in its characteristic way. By delving into the essence of your resource, you can apply it in life in its pure form, bypassing superficial frills and flourishes. And through this, more clearly understand the essence of what’s happening. And consequently, be more effective in your actions.

As we work through ourselves with even just the first module of GSR, our resource base begins to crystallize, compensatory impulses fade away, and we experience more pleasure from ourselves, from who we are and how we’re structured. You get to live as yourself. Fully.

Within the historical “truth” of the past few generations, there were no nomads in my family. But thinking about it carefully, my father, for example, worked as a driver his entire life and, broadly speaking, was constantly nomadic, daily. And his father was a military man who regularly transferred from one unit to another. I didn’t even remember this immediately. In other words, if you trace the resource through certain known points, you can see that it flows connectedly from generation to generation, just realized in different ways. And in the end, based on the totality of observed resources, I turn out to be a descendant of a nomadic herder. And in fact, within the framework of consciousness, the intermediate generational links between myself and the first ancestor are insignificant—consciousness connects straight to the root. If we consider consciousness as a cross-section of a tree, then from its surface, from the bark, I’ve carved a path inward, toward the very core. And I began to see this area not in torn fragments, as before, but as a cohesive whole. Just as one might holistically see one’s mother or father within oneself, for example. Now I see someone else in myself, a complete, coherent character—sitting in the kitchen typing something on a laptop. A nomad!

This realization alone is invaluable. In essence, I’ve been playing this character my entire life without even knowing it. And I must say, as a nomadic herder, I was hilariously unequipped for it. But the good news is that going forward, I don’t need to conform to this role at all, but can use my existing resources more broadly and for other purposes. Yet at the same time, I can also grow within this spectrum of resources. At this point, I gained a choice.

I began looking further and asked myself: what if this resource of mine, so powerful and useful, is actually compensatory? For instance, if we dig deeper into destinies and examine it not from the perspective of personal use, but more broadly as a kind of social resource. What if a nomad goes somewhere not because their resource calls them, but because they were sent? This approach allowed me to view people, society, and my place in the world in a completely new way.

Let me start from a bit further back. Generally, all people can be divided into nomadic and sedentary. Animals also have a division into migratory and non-migratory species. Humans are one animal species. And in the animal kingdom, there are no species that are simultaneously migratory and non-migratory. Each species is honed for its own survival method. Sedentary life wasn’t characteristic of ancient humans. Their settlements were temporary; agriculture didn’t exist. Obtaining food through gathering and hunting, people migrated following animals or ripening berries. In other words, the nomadic lifestyle appears to be the basic survival method for our species. What is a nomadic lifestyle? We rise, gird ourselves, and go. We don’t carry anything unnecessary; we go where we’re going, or rather, where our resource goes. And our resource is the migrating herds of potential prey.

Now for an interesting point. There’s a certain historical marker when it became possible to say that people ceased being merely walking herds and showed the first signs of civilization. This milestone is considered to be the first skeleton of an ancient Chinese nomad with signs of a broken and, more importantly, healed femur, recorded in archaeological remains. This means that during the healing period of the fracture, someone was caring for this person—as such an injury would completely eliminate any possibility of independent survival. This event may also indicate the emergence of sedentary life.

It’s quite possible that at some point, the sick and lame, unable to move with their nomadic tribe, began establishing longer stays, which later evolved into settlements, and further into cities and countries. Agriculture and husbandry of non-migratory animal species developed in these stationary locations, and it was also easier to develop crafts and arts under stationary conditions. Who knows, perhaps the desire to decorate dwellings resulted from the fact that sedentary people couldn’t replenish their impressions as intensely as nomads could, so they added colors and variety to their lives through painting and various crafts and decorations. Nomads, continuing to move along their routes, could begin using such points as storage locations for excess resources, which created meaning in accumulating them. Considering there was more than one such tribe, and there could be many permanent camps of different tribes, trade, currency, and warfare began developing: after all, one could not only create one’s own camps but also capture others’, or defend one’s own. Determine the value of various resources, deliver them to different points as quickly as possible…

The most striking thing is that I sense all of this from my nomadic resource. I’m not inventing or fantasizing; I have no idea how it actually was, and I certainly don’t remember it from history lessons. I simply feel this resource within me and see where I would direct it, what I would do with it, what would be useful through it, what processes could be initiated through it and where, what would be important to consider. In a very concentrated way, I sense the entire dynamics of social development from ancient tribes to modern society. As if I had lived through all these millennia. But if we more or less check against historical references and some logic, it would likely prove very consistent. The same resource can be traced in the present and its unfolding predicted for the future. The flow continues ever onward and triggers various social processes, boundary revisions, resource redistributions, group reshufflings, the creation of something new. For example, in recent years, human migration, telecommunications development, and remote work opportunities are consequences of this resource unfolding in its non-personal form, and it is as global as the movement of tectonic plates. But we often notice only the consequences of the flow and don’t manage to engage with its active dynamics.

This is the second amazing point. How through a system of personal resources, one can access resources underlying the world order. And see a different logic and ways of fitting into it, moving along a resource that isn’t personal but deeper, and thus more accurately tapping into new trends. Many already do this at an intuitive level, but don’t consciously manage these processes. And if you don’t have such intuition, you won’t be able to track global trends at all. With GSR, you can connect with this and consciously ride the wave.

At this point, I could have stopped. And I pondered for a long time whether to describe the third step I took in this direction. But I’ll share it anyway. Next, I conducted a small GSR self-diagnostic. Just to explore it. I examined the nomadic resource and sedentary life. The first focus that this diagnostic highlighted showed that mere contact with this resource of mine strengthens my Life Flow. And this corresponds to what I know and observe about myself. But the separate focusing proved useful because, in fact, it gives me clearer keys for life processes at any level. Previously, I hadn’t correlated these resources in this way or used them so purposefully.

Next, the diagnostic highlighted the importance of examining what triggers my nomadic resource. In other words, what serves as a deeper foundation for this well-developed resource of mine, clear from many angles. And the foundation turned out to be my self-realization flow—the Flow into the Future. Generally, I had previously felt the connection between my main flow and nomadism. But I couldn’t grasp more precisely what the essence of this connection was; perhaps I even confused them. Now, having separated the figurative perception of the flow from its true properties, I saw that it’s nothing other than a mechanism for triggering dynamics/changes.

Various completely disparate parts of myself began coming together. Their foundation is my self-realization flow. In other words, I sensed the connectivity of everything with a deeper part of myself. For me, this is the first experience of connecting with my own flow step by step. Spontaneous, intuitive, chaotic—that was before. But there was no conscious contact with my own flow, as if the path hadn’t been trodden, and now through another strong resource, I managed to touch it and separate one from the other. This is one of the tasks I’ve been striving to accomplish lately. Having established this resource connection once, I can probably do it again in the future.

With this small investigation, I took a significant step toward myself. In my self-perception. Where previously I saw only myself, now I can also see the “nomad.” But I also now see a deeper part that can manage and use it for its intended purpose. Can I find someone else within myself? Or create someone? In a certain sense, I’ve discovered my own key to managing my personal resources from a deeper flow, to trigger dynamics where I need them, including in areas of “sedentary life.” And if previously the nomad was completely me, now I’ve expanded beyond its boundaries.

A summary of what I’d like to convey.

People know very little about themselves. There are frankly few ways to understand oneself adequately, without drifting into fantasies or going crazy along the way. And even fewer ways to use the results in real life in a clear, simple manner.

And the point isn’t about nomads, or about the images that emerged. The point is in the set of resources and the interconnections between them that I discovered. I didn’t arrive at this through some magical, esoteric means. I wasn’t struck by a sudden insight or illumination. GSR’s huge advantage is its clearly established and developed scheme for journey toward oneself. And I’ve adhered to it throughout my time with GSR. Each step can be tracked, verified, and deeply understood. Growth in the effectiveness of self-exploration. And for this purpose, the system has created an extensive set of proven tools.

As a result, we don’t just get descriptions of an esoteric nature that we don’t know what to do with, but specifics that can be used in the most practical way in everyday life. Our resources aren’t fantastical; they’re all very practical, even the most irrational ones. And this significantly increases our overall life effectiveness.

The journey begins with GSR’s first module. This is a technique for working with oneself, with one’s states. As we master it, we gradually transition to flows, resources, working with other people. All of this can be learned. Each person is unique in their own way. The entry point and importance differ for everyone. But on the path to oneself, everyone attains themselves, understanding of their place in this world, and the opportunity for self-realization.

And beyond all that—it’s simply a profoundly beautiful journey.