Damn this is exactly the type of reviews I was wanting to read.
anything more you can share or expand on this:
It often feels like you change course by just 1-2 degrees, not much changes from day to day but looking back months you ended up in completely different waters.
Do you mean like level up in life overall?
In a way, yes.
Closer to where I’m meant to be.
Inner and outer world finding consonance.
Still some miles to sail.
Did you run KB 2 times and Alchemist beforehand?
I love AEON but it needs one stack slot reserved for a couple of years to fully bloom, at least for me.
Never tried Alchemist, KB continuously since launch. It (KB3) is now in a custom with AEON (St. 4).
I can see why Alchemist makes a lot of sense. AEON would probably be great for spiritual development.
Yeah its difficult to keep to just 3 subs in a stack,theres crucial health n energy subs and then theres subs for romance, wealth, skillsets, cognition etc,
True.
@SaintSovereign described AEON as an everything sub, so it would make sense to keep it in stack.
I like longterm custom updated every couple of months with a few exchanges/additions.
It means you shouldn’t just jump to ST4 without running the previous stages. There are things that need to be worked through so that you can start benefitting properly from ST4.
Now, how you proceed after you’ve run through all the stages, is up to you. You could stay longer on specific stages, or re-run it from the start. Both are valid options. But if you haven’t run it yet, don’t do a disservice to yourself - run it from start to finish at least once.
To me, Aeon looks a bit like a end game sub,
I believe I read on the forum that titles are made to be run for at least a year,
if that’s so, then it’d mean we’d need at least 12 years to master it.
4 years for the 4 stages of KB, 4 years for the 4 stages of alchemist 9 + KB again for the second run), 4 years for Aeon (alongside KB4 + Alchemist4 for good measure)
so if I consider that I’ll die at 73, and if I wanna stay at least 10 years with Aeon4 in my stack (+ KB4 + Alchemist4), then I’ll need to start at the latest at 51 (so, in 18 years, not that much)
These sound like they’d be great titles to run in my later years, to prepare for when I’ll die, for one last great adventure! and yeah in 18 years I’ll have the chance to run all the titles I need to run.
Na, it doesn’t take that long.
Pretty sure it was cycles, not years. You could run KB and Alchemist stages side by side. So, prep could be done in ~7 months.
Thank you very much for this clear answer Fire! Much appreciated. Also thanks to everyone else who replied to my question! 
Going to start AEON and Paragon on Monday. I‘m very curious to see what will happen with these two.
A quick question: was AEON the first product that used adaptive scripting?
This passage of the description made me wonder about that:
„This new technology, based upon the features we desire to see in the new Into The Wonder season, is much less rigid and flows significantly better with the user, ensuring a steady development and progression at all times that is as gradual, inevitable and natural as the changing of the seasons.“
The first one is Emperor: C&C.
Thanks. I still think the adaptive scripting was derived from the NSE and the breakthrough was achieved while working on AEON. Anyway, it doesn‘t really matter. I‘m going to run this and see what happens.
This reads indeed like a precursor to Adaptive Scripting Technology.
Since Saint stated, that C&C was the first title with it though, I think it’s like with the revelation titles and NSE scripting.
They discovered a new scripting style (in the Revelation Titles as well as in AEON) and then refined it over the next couple of releases until they publicly announced the new tech (NSE/Adaptive Scripting).
Good eye.
What changed with adaptive scripting?
Hard to tell because I don‘t have any comparison to it without adaptive scripting. I‘m going to write a longer review of stage 1 after next week when I‘ve finished my first cycle of it.
But in short as an image I would use as of now:
You are a piece of iron with dulls and cracks and deformations.
Without adaptive scripting the sub is heating you up and hammering onto you and trying to bring you into a new mold.
With adaptive scripting the sub is like a warm high viscosity liquid that flows over you, covers you, fills your holes and pores and shows you feasable ways how to bring warmth and glow from within into your life.
Don‘t know if this is AEON doing its thing (I somehow suspect it at least partially, AEON in my opinion is a HECK of a sub, the best I‘ve ever used!! - and I‘m saying this as someone who doesn‘t give early and highly enthusiastic impressions) or the adaptive scripting or both in conjunction.
From my journal - AEON st1 healing.
Here’s my impression of AEON st1 after five weeks (one cycle, solo); I was doing a Mo-We-Fr listening schedule, weekend always rest and now I’m on a short washout from Thursday until next Wednesday. After that I’ll continue with AEON st2, although I was contemplating really hard if I should go with a second cycle of st1 because I liked it so much. In every case, next cycle I’m going to stack AEON with Hero:Earth.
In one sentence, what AEON st1 does, in my experience: it sharpens awareness.
This very much is self-centered awareness. It’s not so much about being aware of others, their behaviour, their emotions, social cues etc. - it’s all about self awareness.
So what does that mean?
Awareness of energy held within. I really was able feel and comprehend the difference between KB st3 and AEON st1 in this regard. While KB st3 builds up a lot of energy in the lower dantian, AEON does not necessarily generate it, it made me aware of the energy that I’m already holding there. I think I wasn’t able to use this energy more or better than before, but at least it made me so clearly aware that I do hold a lot of energy that can be translate to a lot of potential waiting to be used.
Awareness of energy leakage. I wasn’t expecting that, because this reads very much like the “Energy Preservation” feature of stage 3 but I knew intuitively where I was spending energy on things that don’t serve me. I guess this is from the “Inner Intuition Development” of st1, because it was a some kind of knowing that some behaviour does not serve me. And the best thing: I was able to reduce this kind of behaviour.
Similar to my second point, I was massively made aware of routines that I already have and also those I could implement, that serve my health, my wellbeing and my development. I was able to pick up some new routines very quickly and after one month, I still have no problem to stick to them - it feels very natural to do so. These routines are revolving around workout, nutrition and sleep.
Because of these routines - and this is an indirect consequence of st1 - I felt more energetic, more clarity, more presence. This then translates into awareness again. So it’s kind of self-feeding or self-maintaining, a positive feedback cycle.
The grounding effect in difficult social situations is real. I never lost my temper nor my cool. Amazing result for me, because some people or events can trigger me in certain situations and although I have had some of these situation, I stayed calm and centered. So this could be called awareness in stressfull events.
And, last but not least: AEON st1 really felt great all the way! Light, good mood, no recon. I started with 30s → 40s → 50s in the first week, then 1min → 1:30min → 2min, 2min → 3min → 3min. When I reached 5 min in the fourth week, I clearly felt the recon as thought like “Subs don’t work at all” - the interesting part is that I immediatelly knew that this is recon and lowered my exposure the next listening day back to 3 min and everything was fine again. Did 5 min on my last listening day again and didn’t get this kind of recon again, but I’m on the short six-day washout now anyway.
So this is it. AEON st1 has helped me to make tangible changes in my everyday life and practice, more so than in many years before. Groundbreaking stuff!
Thank you Fire and Saint for this gem!