'The Behavior Ops Manual' (Chase Hughes)

The Behavior Operations Manual: Neuro-Cognitive Intelligence

The Behavior Ops Manual

Chase Hughes has 4.7 out of 5 stars (with 301 reviews). Why? This is allegedly the most powerful textbook on human influence trusted by the world's elite.

Very few truly understand how power works. In a world where every decision, every success, and every relationship is dictated by human behavior, The Ops Manual offers readers the tools that the elite use to rise to power.

The strategies and frameworks within will transform how readers interact with others, enabling them to influence, inspire, and control outcomes with scientific precision.

The Most Powerful People Don’t Play the Game—They Control It

In the coming decades, The Ops Manual will be a must-have tool for every serious leader, executive, and strategist. From controlling social interactions to shaping the environment, readers will have in their hands the knowledge and techniques that separate the world’s most powerful individuals from the rest.

The World’s Top 1% Understand the True Source of Power: Behavior.

Every breakthrough in human influence can be traced to three key pillars: self-mastery, observation, and communication.

These pillars of the exclusive NCI (Neuro-Cognitive Intelligence) System, form the backbone of this Ops Manual, creating a power far beyond anything available today.

This manual offers the deepest understanding of behavior, allowing readers to determine the outcomes in their life.

Control the Invisible Forces that Dictate Success.

Master these inside this textbook:

• The FATE Model: Unlock the primal instincts that govern human survival through F.A.T.E. (Focus, Authority, Tribe, and Emotion).
• Tap into deeply-rooted survival mechanisms, making influence not just possible but inevitable.
• The Six-Axis Model of Influence: Master suggestibility, focus, openness, connection, compliance, and expectancy to subtly and effectively influence behavior at any level, from personal conversations to high-stakes negotiations.
• The Authority Triangle: A revolutionary tool to command respect and establish authority in any environment by mastering behavior, effect, and habits.
• The Behavioral Table of Elements (BTE): Decode human behavior with pinpoint accuracy.
• The NCI system is trusted by intelligence operatives [assets and agents] to profile and predict human behavior.
• Mastering the Social Frame: Take control of every interaction by understanding and leveraging social frames—expectations, beliefs, perceptions, and definitions that define human behavior.
• Neurology of Influence: Dive deep into the brain’s structure and chemistry to understand how biological triggers drive decision-making, making your influence more potent than ever before.

Who Needs This Manual?

This is not for the casual reader. The Ops Manual is designed for those who understand that success and leadership are driven by a deep understanding of human behavior. Leaders, sales experts, negotiators, and anyone who thrives on precision influence will find this manual indispensable.

Why The Ops Manual Stands Alone

Unlike any other resource on human influence, The Ops Manual combines real-world techniques with cutting-edge science, covering everything from influencing neural pathways to decoding micro-expressions and body language.

By mastering the art of behavioral influence, join the 1% who can truly guide and shape behavior. This is not just a book. It’s a key to unlocking ultimate influence.

The Ops Manual stands as the most elite resource available on human influence and behavior. This is not a casual purchase, and it isn’t meant for everyone—but it’s reserved for those who are truly committed to mastery.

Join the ranks of world leaders who know that true power is found in understanding and leading human behavior. #OpsManual

• Chase Hughes, amazon.com,, paperback, Oct. 2024; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Fishy school shooting pretext for GIDEON

Another school shooting: Why the "facts" don't add up!

How phony is this "straw man" being attacked?

(Kim Iversen) American trans school shooter Robin (formerly Robert) Westman, 23, who is not Russian, somehow manages to write a whole "manifesto" in the Eurasian Cyrillic script and/or in the Russian language? How fake and transparent can special ops agents get with these false flag mass shootings and the make-believe history of these "shooters"? Rense.com

• Minneapolis school shooter ID’d as trans woman Robin Westman — as apparent manifesto included ‘kill Trump’ - NewsBreak

What's "GIDEON" spying tech?

GIDEON: an AI system to flag "threats" before the next attack

• What's GIDEON? It's the new AI about to be launched to flag anyone who dares to criticize the state of Israel, its genocide, or anyone trying to FREE Palestine or launch a BDS movement...
• Dr. Todd Grande analyzes the perpetrator of this spectacle, giving a psychological assessment of the alleged killer
• America's first AI threat-detection platform. Scrapes the internet...
• Trans, Free Palestine vaper, Russian sympathizer, Catholic school graduate and churchgoer, Trump foe, gun lover, medicated on Big Pharma mental illness pharmaceuticals...phony
• The Young Turks Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uyghur criticize Israel

Mag 6.0 quake hits off Oregon coast today

Run! A tsunami could be headed this way!

COOS BAY, Oregon (USA Today) - An earthquake shook off the Oregon coast Wednesday (Oct. 30, 2024) afternoon.

The earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean, more than 170 miles west of Bandon, Oregon, at exactly 1:15 pm local (Pacific) time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

The temblor, which was recorded at a depth of over 6 miles, measured a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 [just the 6th to do so in recent memory. Lord Poseidon must be mad.] More

• Magnitude 6.0 earthquake recorded off Oregon coast Wednesday afternoon
• 6.1 magnitude earthquake rocks Oregon coast (The Daily Mail)
• VIDEO: Japan’s earthquake-triggered tsunami (MSN)
• Anthony Robledo, USA Today via MSN.com; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Boy Buddha found on Australian beach

EssaNews.com, Jan. 11, 2024; CC Liu, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Shark Bay’s natural wonders that turn one snap happy | So Perth

The baby boy Buddha (actually Bodhisattva) being ceremonially bathed on Vesak

Boy Buddha on Bimaran

What is a baby boy Buddha? It should not be confused with the Buddha Boy (Ram Bahadur Bomjon) now steeped in the quagmire of controversy. It is a figurine, usually ceramic and golden, of Prince Siddhartha Gautama just after he was born, raising his finger, speaking a declaration of his impending great enlightenment and final rebirth, and taking seven steps as the earth quakes, surrounded by devas and his mother's female attendants. It is used in a popular bathing ceremony usually performed during Mahayana Buddha Day and Theravada Vesak celebrations.

Buddha from the beach, two friends find $100K Ming Dynasty artifact in Australia

The statuette is worth a fortune. Images source: © YouTube ABA 10:47 AM EST, Jan. 11, 2024

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Shark Bay’s Monkey Mia Reserve dolphins

[Buy a metal detector, and hit the beach. There's no telling what treasures abound.] In 2018, Leon Dechamps and Shayne Thomson visited Shark Bay's coast in Australia.

Equipped with a metal detector, they serendipitously discovered a small Buddha figure, oblivious to the fact that they had unearthed a genuine treasure.

Vesak (Buddha Jayanti) is Buddhist Xmas

• [WHAT IS IT? The figurine represents the baby Bodhisattva, Prince Siddhartha before he became the Buddha Gautama, celebrating his birth in Lumbini garden as his mother, Maya Devi (iconically represented as a salabhanjika), gave birth standing up holding the branch of a sal tree, and it was twin sal trees the Buddha chose to lie down between when he passed into final nirvana, a statue commonly used in bathing ceremonies, commemorating how when he was born, the sky devas rained down to rinse him off, a ritual that is performed every Vesak, the thrice blessed day of his birth, great awakening, and reclining into final nirvana. Although it might be tempting to think Theravada Buddhism is just trying to be efficient by lumping all three events into one celebration day, the ancient texts say these three occurrences took place on the same month (Vaisakha) under the full moon.]
• Mahayana Buddhism does not recognize Buddhism, instead dividing the three events of the Buddha's life into three events (birth, awakening, passing): Buddha Day, Bodhi Day, and Parinirvana Day.
• The Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BSWA) with British Thai Theravada Abbot Ajahn Brahm
• Monkey Mia dolphins (not only sharks) | Australia's Coral Coast (australiascoralcoast.com)

Beachside fortune

The red and white sand beaches of the coast Shark Bay, Western Australia | Roadtrippers

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I wish I were on a beach all alone meditating.

Following five years and numerous expert analyses, it was determined that the Buddha figure hailing from the beach of the Indian Ocean has its origins in China from the Ming Dynasty period.

The petite Buddha statue made from bronze dates most likely back to the 15th century. A specialist in Asian art validated that the item could fetch a price of up to $100,000.

"I was astounded when I discovered it was from the Ming Dynasty. This makes it the oldest Chinese artifact in Australian history," Dechamps stated on the Antiques Roadshow program.

Baby Buddha (Bodhisattva) being bathed

• Around the Buddhist world (such as Maui, Hawaii, USA) the community celebrates Vesak Day. Vesak celebrates the birthday, enlightenment day, and final nirvana day of the Buddha (Shakyamuni), all three events having happened on the full moon of the ancient Indian month of Vaisakha. In addition to guided sitting meditation and Dharma talks, there is usually a bathing ceremony of the baby Buddha and a joyful vegetarian meal. In the Chinese Mahayana Buddhist tradition, April 8 of each year is "Buddha Day," which celebrates the birth of Gautama Buddha.

Western Australia Marine Park is full of sharks

Upon discovering the figure, the friends endeavored to uncover how it ended up on the beach. Various services and institutions were consulted, including the Maritime Museum of Western Australia, the ambassador in China, antique dealers, art historians, various Chinese associations, and independent archaeologists.

The statue likely arrived in Australia in the 15th century during Admiral Zheng He's global voyages, which included the Indian Ocean basin.

Another theory posits that it was brought to Australia by Chinese traders in the 19th century. Similar statues were fairly popular and were crafted to commemorate the Buddha's birthdays [Vesak].

Great white sharks of Australia love the Bay

According to Australian law, the statue belongs to the finders. The figure is flawed, missing several elements, which were possibly deliberately removed and replaced with a more prestigious material such as ivory.

No other Chinese or Ming Dynasty-related items were discovered on the beach. However, Dechamps and Thompson are hopeful that they will find the missing portions of the Buddha statue in the future [and will likely spend $100,001 or die doing so because something else must be on that beach after six centuries]. More

• Australian beaches littered with cocaine; concerned police call for vigilant residents [to keep the sharks away from this human treasure]

Space Archaeology with Sarah (TED Talk)

Dr. Sarah Parcak (TED Talk, March 2012); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Archaeology From Space

In this brief and exciting talk, TED Fellow Dr. Sarah Parcak introduces the field of "space archaeology" -- the use of satellite imaging to search for clues to lost sites of past human civilizations. More "I wish for us to discover the millions of unknown archaeological sites" around the world, says Parcak. "By building an online citizen science platform and training a 21st century army of global explorers, we'll find and protect the world's hidden heritage, which contains clues to humankind's collective resilience and creativity." VIDEO: Presented at an official TED conference. Featured by TED editors on the TED home page.

• Crowdsource: Become a Citizen Scientist Global Xplorer!

LIDAR reveals ancient Mayan(?) civilization under the Amazon jungle (lidarmag.com).

Become a space archaeologist on your break. Yes, you can do it today (TED).

PBS: American Edgar Allan Poe (video)

#PoePBS (pbs.org/video), Sept. 27, 2017; Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Tonight (Oct. 25) in NoHo, North Hollywood, is Los Angeles' Lit Crawl 2017

(PBS) AMERICAN MASTERS | Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive: Official Trailer
  

Best known for his Gothic horror tales and narrative poem “The Raven,” Poe’s stories are the basis of countless films and TV episodes, and have inspired even more, as has his name and image. Determined to re-invent American literature, Poe was an influential -- and brutally honest -- literary critic and magazine editor, who also invented the detective protagonist with his character C. Auguste Dupin.

• Monday, Oct. 30, 2017 at 9 PM/8 Pentral
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The Raven

By Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—

    While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—

            Only this and nothing more.”

    Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

    Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow

    From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—

For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—

            Nameless here for evermore.

    And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain

Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;

    So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating

    “’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door—

Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;—

            This it is and nothing more.”

    Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,

“Sir,” said I, “or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;

    But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,

    And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,

That I scarce was sure I heard you”—here I opened wide the door;—

            Darkness there and nothing more.

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,

Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;

    But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,

    And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?”

This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, “Lenore!”—

            Merely this and nothing more.

    Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,

Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.

    “Surely,” said I, “surely that is something at my window lattice;

      Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore—

Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;—

            ’Tis the wind and nothing more!”

    Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,

In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore;

    Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;

    But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door—

Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door—

            Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,

By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,

“Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven,

Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—

Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”

            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

    Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,

Though its answer little meaning—little relevancy bore;

    For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being

    Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door—

Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,

            With such name as “Nevermore.”

    But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only

That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.

    Nothing farther then he uttered—not a feather then he fluttered—

    Till I scarcely more than muttered “Other friends have flown before—

On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before.”

            Then the bird said “Nevermore.”

    Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,

“Doubtless,” said I, “what it utters is its only stock and store

    Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster

    Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore—

Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore

            Of ‘Never—nevermore’.”

    But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling,

Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door;

    Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking

    Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore—

What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore

            Meant in croaking “Nevermore.”

    This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing

To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core;

    This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining

    On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o’er,

But whose velvet-violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o’er,

            She shall press, ah, nevermore!

    Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer

Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.

    “Wretch,” I cried, “thy God hath lent thee—by these angels he hath sent thee

    Respite—respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore;

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!”

            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

    “Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!—

Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,

    Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted—

    On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore—

Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!”

            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

    “Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!

By that Heaven that bends above us—by that God we both adore—

    Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,

    It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore—

Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.”

            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

    “Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting—

“Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!

    Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!

    Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”

            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

    And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting

On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;

    And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,

    And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor

            Shall be lifted—nevermore! Source