 municipality of Ungkaya Pukan, in the province of Basilan. Its population as determined by the 2020 Census was 2,504. This represented 10.43% of the total population of Ungkaya Pukan.
The household population of Materling in the 2015 Census was 2,296 broken down into 362 households or an average of 6.34 members per household.
According to the 2015 Census, the age group with the highest population in Materling is 5 to 9, with 410 individuals. Conversely, the age group with the lowest population is 75 to 79, with 4 individuals.
The population of Materling grew from 588 in 1990 to 2,504 in 2020, an increase of 1,916 people over the course of 30 years. The latest census figures in 2020 denote a positive growth rate of 1.84%, or an increase of 208 people, from the previous population of 2,296 in 2015.
Materling is situated at approximately 6.4803, 122.1089, in the island of Basilan. Elevation at these coordinates is estimated at 325.4 meters or 1,067.6 feet above mean sea level.
"John.
JH: Are you speaking about self-esteem?
Foster: Yes. I am definitely talking about
self-esteem. That's what it boils down to. The individual with
low self-esteem isn't going to attract anything more than a mere
sustenance, nothing more than mediocrity.
JH: So, you are saying that one of the blocks to
prosperity is a poor or non-existent self-esteem?
Foster: Just call it low self-esteem.
JH: How do you think that happened? Some of these
people are extremely successful in certain areas of their lives.
Foster: Some are brilliant and some of them
have degrees that go on forever after their names and yet they
have no money.
JH: Please explain.
Foster: In many instances low self-esteem
came from their upbringing. For most males it is extremely difficult
to exceed the father, even though the father is long dead. It
does not seem to matter if their fathers may have done fairly
well, or perhaps, just average. There is the feeling as if the
father is in some way with them and if they exceed their father,
their father may not love them any longer, which is of course
absurd, but extremely valid. So they will do everything imaginable
to short circuit themselves. They will study, listen to motivational
tapes and go to inspirational seminars. They will buy every book
available on success, motivation, inspiration, prosperity and
they'll start moving in the right direction. And then, when it
starts falling into place, they will do something to short- circuit
the whole thing so that they won't have the responsibility that
comes with greater affluence and they won't offend or displease
a living or a dead father. Of course, there are many exceptions
to this.
JH: Since most people are not aware of these things,
they (these things) must be deep in the subconscious.
Foster: Oh, very deep in the subconscious
but the effect, nevertheless, is devastating.
JH: Are there other obstacles that are very apparent
to you?
Foster: The number one block, as I see it,
is guilt. Guilt has one message deep, deep within, so deep that
you don't hear it consciously, but it is constantly saying throughout
a lifetime, "You don't deserve, you don't deserve."
This is guilt's only message. There are no others. Just as the
drip, drip, drip of water could wear away a rock, the repetition
of an idea imbeds it into the subconscious mind and it gradually
takes over. Can you imagine, John, that one brief sentence, "You
don't deserve, you don't deserve," all day, every day, week
in, week out, month in, month out, year in, year out and on and
on, how it builds in the individual? That person, therefore,
won't make the effort. Or, if the effort is made, the feeling
of, "I don't deserve" prevents the accomplishments
possible.
JH: Don't you think that there are many other reasons
just as important for a lack of money besides guilt? Also, how
do we deal with guilt?
Foster: No. I think that the number one reason
is guilt, I really do. And I am totally convinced by all the
studying and research I have done since the age of eight on mind
attitudes, motivation, inspiration, etc., that the greatest personal
proof and technique ever to come down through 6000 years of recorded
history is "forgiveness."
JH: Forgiveness? Did I hear you say, "forgiveness?"
Foster: Yes. Forgiveness is like a roto-rooter.
It will rid the subconscious mind of a lifetime of accumulated
negativities. This will permit a flow from within of love, praise,
motivation, joy, gratitude, inspiration, and enthusiasm and the
gates of guilt cannot stand up to this mighty flow. Yes, John.
Forgiveness of self, forgiveness of all others. Forgiveness done
in a silent manner will work itself through fear, anger, resentment,
irritability, guilt or any negative you can think of. At the
moment, we happen to be speaking about guilt. Forgiveness is
the answer.
JH: How strange, Foster. We started talking about
money and we end up discussing some very spiritual things like
love, joy, inspiration and forgiveness.
Foster: We are still talking about money even
though it doesn't sound like it. Money, you see, is God in action.
God, as you know better than most people, John, is all there
is in the universe. There is nothing that is not God. Therefore,
money couldn't possibly be the one exception in the universe
that is not God. And I like the expression, "Money is God
in action," because money is energy, money creates, money
motivates, money builds everything that has ever been built.
Furthermore, and I like this, money is freedom, freedom to do,
freedom to be and freedom to have what you want when you want
it.
JH: So, we find that true spirituality is more than
just happiness, love etc. It even ties in to money. What is it,
Foster, that transforms money from the invisible to the visible?
Foster: Loving service to other human beings.
When we give loving service, it is spirit that flows through
us into the world, then returns to the place from whence it came
in the form of physicality or money. So, when money comes to
me I know that it is my own energy that went out in the form
of loving service coming back to me. It's my money, my children
returning home. Or, in other words, my own energy transformed
into matter.
JH: How do you relate giving loving service to giving
to charity or helping others by giving money?
Foster: I was talking about giving service
in your own business or profession and I see giving as another
form of the same thing. In putting out loving service, there
is an expectancy of money coming back. That expectation is extremely
necessary because expectancy is a magnet that draws to you whatever
you are expecting. Giving is like planting a seed. The farmer
stands in his field and gives the seed to the soil and he expects
a manifold return in the form of a harvest. Similarly, giving
money is like planting "money seeds." It doesn't matter
whether you are giving to a church, a charity, a brother, a human
being standing on the street corner or a panhandler, because,
all is universal, all is one great soil waiting for the seeds.
JH: There is a Catch-22 here, Foster. I have met
many people who say that when they get more they will give. Isn't
it the other way around?
Foster: Precisely so. When you are worst off
financially is when you most need to be giving, even if it's
only the widow's mite. Whatever amount you have, give some of
it.
JH: This seems to be simplicity itself. Is it really
that simple, Foster?
Foster: Yes, very definitely. I've never seen
it fail. NEVER. As the individual increases his giving and loving
service, he gets a larger return of money. It's like the farmer.
The more seeds he puts in the soil, the larger his crop.
JH: Why then do more people not follow this process?
Do they need more inspiration or motivation? The process seems
simple enough.
Foster: Because most people think, "This
is all the money I have, and if I give some, I will have less.
Seeds? I can always go to the seed store and buy more seeds,
that's no big deal. But money? Take anything but don't take my
money."
JH: Simple, but not easy. Foster, I understand that
you are one of the very few people who spent time with the famous
Dr. Napoleon Hill. Is this correct?
Foster: Yes.