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November 24, 2020
Prosperity Engine — Update — Prosperity Paradox
This entire universe is full of apparent paradoxes. One of the largest such ironies involves God’s purpose for this universe. He created us to receive, but, as Christ said, it is more blessed to give than to receive. So, God created something—us—which was imperfect. Why would He do this?
The answer is rather simple. If God had created us as givers, instead, then we would not have had the free will to decide such generosity on our own; God would’ve decided for us.
Another question: “Who would there be to receive if there were no one but givers?” This raises an important question: “Is a receiver even necessary if we have the attitude of giving?” I suspect that the answer is “No,” for the attitude is the desired end result—the honorable inclination to do loving, responsible, humble and confident things.
The Prosperity Paradox involves something discussed in past articles—namely the darkness required to make something persist. A creation remains timeless if we do not add the dimension of time. So, for any being living in the physical universe, a creation would exist only for an instant, and then would promptly disappear as everyone else moved on to the next moment in time.
The negative element involved in getting something to persist has been called at various times, “resting,” “allowing,” “Not-Knowing” or “manifesting.” The manifestation of a creation is achieved by adding “darkness” or “blocking awareness.” We’ve also seen that such added persistence comes from shirking responsibility—blocking our awareness of our responsibility for that creation. And while the very idea of “shirking responsibility” comes with a host of negative stigmas, creating and making something persist remains a relatively “high-level” activity—arguably, the highest level in the physical universe. The key is that, by practicing this activity, we become more aware and more capable—much more so that remaining a Homo sapiens body, unaware of spirit.
Once we master this technique—clear, mental image followed by Not-Knowing that image, all with perfect humility and confidence—there is no reason ever again to feel scarcity or to act as though we have any limitations. So, we need to remain alert to the old habit of feeling scarcity.
We no longer have to hold onto the funds we currently have, hoarding them for some imagined “rainy day.”
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Matthew 6:19–21).
Hoarding focus attention on the “rainy day,” so that rainy day is created by your constant focus.
But how do we overcome the Prosperity Paradox? How do we justify adding “darkness” to gain physical prosperity? The answer may not be satisfying to those who seek prosperity. Don’t make prosperity important. Don’t stay attached to it; don’t hoard it. Simply let it flow. Be the responsible manager of the flow, rather than the “owner” of a hoard.
Accuracy and Clarity in Defining Our Destination
[image error] A clear day in the mountains, a cow eating grass on a hillside. Photo: #3578103_1920 PhotosForYou (CC0) Pixabay.
We want to achieve such a perfect state of mind, body and spirit that we create prosperity without becoming trapped by it. Christ was perhaps the most prosperous man in the universe, but he didn’t have the outer trappings of such prosperity. He was not the physical being stereotype of prosperity, but the one capable of infinite prosperity who also had comfortable restraint and a keen focus on his mission.
Someone with a fully-operational Prosperity Engine doesn’t need to have palaces, yachts and vaults full of gold. That is not what defines them. Instead, they are master creators who focus on what is most valuable, given their individual purpose in life.
Thus, one master of prosperity may be a teacher of young children, living in a simple cottage. Another master of prosperity may be an Emperor who loves his people with a passion rare in world leaders. And if someone ever threatens their positions or their possessions, their lack of attachment does not suck them into doing evil to protect those things. This is because they are not attached.
An Emperor may go to war to protect his people, but he will rely on God to protect his people, just as King Asa did against the one million Ethiopians, or just as young David relied on God against the giant, Goliath. These were instances of the Prosperity Engine in action.
Prosperity Engine Progress
[image error] Two wolves in a dark forest, a symbol for the “dangerous” unknown. Photo: #2864647_1920 Comfreak (CC0) Pixabay.
Friday night, as I was meditating in bed, I felt again a deep, dark blanket of despair. It was an old, familiar feeling, but was also ironic because my conscious outlook isn’t that at all. I thought to myself, “This isn’t me.”
Was this a case of “split personality?” Not really. It’s not a vacillation between two identities. It’s more like listening to fine music while ignoring screeching noise.
But as I noticed this noise from the subconscious, I became aware of a hidden layer of resistance from me that was holding the noise in place.
Oops!
This required a closer look.
I remembered that Dr. Joe Dispenza recommends no negative feelings toward the negative things we discover in our body or our mind. In other words, when we’re faced with emotional noise, pain or negative beliefs, don’t be frustrated or impatient. Merely observe without negative aversion against the intrusion or positive desire for something else. Nudge self back toward zero ego.
[image error] A calm pond on a still night signifying peace and balance. Photo: #838667 Bessi (CC0) Pixabay.
As Christ said, don’t resist evil. But that’s exactly what I had been doing. My hidden layer of resistance was keeping the noise alive.
When I discovered this, I felt a flood of gratitude wash over me. Finally, I had discovered this thing.
With this breakthrough, I now feel a new level of awareness and certainty—a brighter awareness ready for more discovery.
What led to this breakthrough was a set of new, empowering questions which have primed the brain and mind to search for solutions. Here’s one of my new favorites:
“What does it feel like to have an entirely clean subconscious feeding me empowering beliefs?”
Because our brains are so helpful, like a powerful search engine, I keep getting new insights which are making this “feeling” more and more real. But the real power is in finding the right feeling. The subconscious, prayers and God do not speak in the language of thoughts; they speak in the language of feelings.
Another one:
“What does it feel like to have effortless accomplishment, cooperation and prosperity?”
Self-indulgence of any kind must be done with restraint and with greatly reduced frequency. This is because such self-indulgence—especially the kind that you may tend to hide from others (that extra donut in the morning)—carries with it a measure of extra darkness—an inability to see the barriers in the mind.
Various kinds of self-indulgence had led me astray for much of the last 40 years. What a detour! But I gained value from the contrast.
Now, I can feel my spiritual self turning in my mind to face a different direction—a more prosperous one.
Today, I had another breakthrough inspiration involving marketing my books. Instead of me writing guest blogs to entice buyers (a time-consuming approach which could still be good, in the long run), I thought of sending major opinion leaders free copies of my books. If only a few of them mention my books to their own followers, they will have done far more than I could have with dozens of guest blogs.
Coming Up Next
Next week, we will look at why guilt is the wrong attitude to have, no matter what you’ve done wrong.
November 17, 2020
Prosperity Engine — Update — Is Time Itself Evil?
Is time itself evil?
Why would I ask such an odd question? And what made me even consider this bizarre idea?
As a mathematician, former Hollywood artist, and former, professional software engineer, I’ve long been interested in patterns—patterns of behavior, patterns of physical effects and even patterns in programming code. Patterns can sometimes give us clues as to the consequences of our actions. We know, for instance, that people who are obese tend to have poor eating habits. We also know that they tend to be at risk for dangerous, life-threatening diseases. And this pattern and correlation have a basis in health science.
Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, I experimented with miracles with startling results. But I only dimly understood the patterns involved. After a few decades of reflection, I keep seeing more and more in the patterns of creation itself. My intelligence, alone, is not enough for such discoveries. I now know that humility is a key ingredient in making any discoveries.
But time, evil?
Think about this for a moment: God created everything. This includes all of the good, the bad and the ugly in our universe. Some Christians have attempted to distance God from evil by saying that individuals create evil; God doesn’t. Okay. Let’s assume for the moment that this is true. Why would God create the potential to do evil? Why would he allow such a thing, enabling the monsters to do their thing?
Why would God put a “Forbidden Fruit” in the Garden of Heaven? What is God’s purpose?
The Darkness of Time—A Key to the Prosperity Engine
[image error] Christ in Heaven, inspiration for our Prosperity Engine. Illustration: #3210234 AD_Images (CC0) Pixabay, cropped and edited.
When you use the power of spirit, and what some people call the Law of Attraction, you are getting the object of your desire to persist in the physical universe. You start with a mental image (similar to the “Word” God used in the beginning). With the transcendental action of your own spirit, you “ask” for the mental image, and “receive” the physical manifestation of the object of your request.
Getting the object of request to persist (the time dimension) is a function filled with “darkness”—turning awareness and responsibility away from that object. That is the only way it will ever persist. That’s how creation works. In fact, every aspect of the physical universe is opposite the traits of God.
In the Garden, God needed His son to eat the Forbidden Fruit. This is the only way His son could ever learn, on his own, to become a giver, rather than a receiver. Remember, God created us in His image, but it was an obverse image—like a plaster cast of a person’s face. The original face is convex, while the cast is concave. The metaphor beyond this simile is one of equating protrusion to “giving,” and depression (in shape) to “receiving.” As Christ said, it is more blessed to give than to receive.
Only through temptation and suffering can the pieces of Adam (that’s us) ever learn to choose, on our own (free will), between the physical (temporary pleasures) and spirit (timeless pleasures).
It’s ironic that the Leftist media, in at least one of their movies, portrays the “timeless realm” as evil (Dr. Strange). The opposite is true. Time is the evil; the timelessness of spirit is pure, perfect good.
In the physical realm, there are no absolutes. Nothing is perfectly evil, though some things come awfully close. And nothing is perfectly good, either. You have to leave the physical to reach perfection of the good.
This means that we are wallowing in varying degrees of “evil” for every moment we remain in the physical. What a sobering thought that is.
But what does this mean to our Prosperity Engine project?
The Value of Time and the Imperfect Physical Universe
[image error] Yin and Yang, fire and ice, symbols of this dichotomous universe. Understanding these forms the basis of our Prosperity Engine. Illustration (Yin-Yang symbol): #29650 Clker-Free-Vector-Images (CC0) Pixabay. Illustration (hands with fire and ice): #1947878_1920 Comfreak (CC0) Pixabay.
Evil is a tool of contrasts. With evil in the world, we can see more clearly the relative good that exists. And time is a useful tool for helping God’s children learn the lessons for which the physical universe was created in the first place.
Prosperity itself is not any more bad or evil than a rock or a cloud. A person’s attachment to any possession, including symbols of prosperity (money and other objects), deserves the label “evil.” Prosperity, and even time, are tools we can use either responsibly or irresponsibly. Attachment makes us physical and vulnerable. It also focuses our attention on scarcity, instead of infinite abundance. People who are attached (judge the objects as “important”) are frequently pulled into protecting their possessions—even committing crimes to do so. From such attachments, all manner of evils may spring.
Imagine, for a moment, a multi-quadrillionaire who is not attached to their fortune. Instead, they donate and manage their funds for the betterment of others. A Leftist, physicalist may try to tempt the rich man to give away his funds to prove he is “unselfish.” But proof would be selfishly motivated. This is why Christ told those who taunted him not to tempt the Lord God, because asking God for proof of miracles is an attempt to get God to be egoistic (physical). Naughty, naughty!
The multi-quadrillionaire could give away his entire fortune to help others, but only from the viewpoint of responsible spirit, because his actions rest on the infinite prosperity of spirit. And, as spirit, he would be better able to see the intent of the non-spiritual individuals to trick him.
Using money, using these human bodies, and using any of the resources in this physical universe can have an evil purpose or a good purpose. Such actions could even have a divine purpose, so long as people are not attached to their things.
The objective is not to become the richest person and to hold onto that prosperity. The objective is to use the tools of this universe to gain the ultimate in freedom for everyone.
Everything in this universe has a bit of darkness attached to it. The darker it is, the more evil it is. Darkness is a “lack of awareness” and a “lack of responsibility.” Darkness leads to entrapment; responsibility and awareness lead to the ultimate in freedom.
Prosperity Engine Progress
[image error] Girl with gorilla, laughing with delight. Composite Photo: #2925179_1920 Kellepics (CC0) Pixabay.
I can only laugh out loud at the bumps in the road I continue to experience. While my conscious mind relies on strong feelings of confidence, love, humility and responsibility, my subconscious has reached “Category 5” levels of egoistic storms. Still lots to clean up.
This morning, I had a dream that included someone cutting me off in traffic. I had to screech on my brakes to avoid slamming into them. In the dream, I zoomed ahead of them and positioned my vehicle in front of theirs facing them. The driver was a middle-aged Asian female and the front passenger was a graying senior. Both looked Chinese or Thai, in a white van with children in the back seats. The driver couldn’t face me directly and kept avoiding my angry gaze. Then, I woke up.
Nasty business, this egoistic conflict. I’m guessing that my dream was revealing to me that I still have a lot of work to do with this topic of conflict and confrontation. I still have a lot more work to do on practicing perfect forgiveness.
With a fully functional Prosperity Engine, I would always operate with abundant time and space, and such confrontation would never happen, because the people around me would never create such situations. Whenever we run into difficulties, we have created those difficulties. If we shirk our responsibility for those difficulties, they will continue to persist!
More and more, I’m finding myself being aware of being aware. Doing this while living my day-to-day life is an interesting challenge, but it acts as a form of “active meditation”—meditation while working and doing other things.
The subconscious continues to spit out all manner of negative thoughts and physical discomfort. But I remain committed to finishing my Prosperity Engine and to helping others build their own. No matter what it takes, I’m going to see this through for the good of everyone in this universe.
Coming Up Next
In the next article, we will look at what I call the “Prosperity Paradox”—overcoming every layer of negativity concerning prosperity. And there is one layer that is powerful—the very act of creation itself has a negative element involved, as we’ve seen discussed in this week’s article. All the more reason not to become attached to any of the prosperity we create. Hoarding clogs up the Prosperity Engine, especially the intake valve.
November 10, 2020
Prosperity Engine — Update — The Illusion of Free Will
To scratch or not to scratch, that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of an outrageous itch,
Or to take up Fingers against a Skin of irritations,
And by scratching end them: to relieve, to relax;
No more; and by a relaxation, to say we end
The aggravation, and the thousand natural shocks
That Flesh is heir to?
—Soliloquy inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Philosophers have debated for centuries whether or not we have free will. We now have the answer, but most people won’t like it at first glance.
In most cases, free will is an illusion. But there is one slender thread of free will. Jesus Christ described it.
“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves” (Matthew 7:13 –15).
Every choice most humans make is driven by deterministic, action-reaction ego. That means, there is an entire absence of free will at work. Sure, the person has lots of choices within the machine, and that looks like free will, but it isn’t. Every one of those choices are usually and only made by ego for one or another selfish purpose.
Free will, on the other hand, comes when we act as spirit, rather than as ego.
Examples of free will in action include,
True forgiveness—completely letting go of any and all attachment to the source of potential resentment.Inspiration—non sequitur ideas that come from spirit, rather than from an unbroken chain of observation and logic.True altruism—Giving to others without any concern for self.Unconditional love—The only True form of love; all other forms are a variety of selfish need.Utter humility—Putting the needs of others first. Putting the Truth of God above our own ideas of what is true or not. And remaining open to learn no matter how much certainty others have that they are right.Perfect responsibility—Being responsible for everything in the universe—not only what we create ourselves, but also what others do to us, what others do to others, and every other event in the universe.Fearless confidence—Perfection of certainty. We can be certain in the power of God, but not necessarily know “how” He does it all. This is not certainty of our own ideas or beliefs.Faith—Humble confidence. Confidence without humility frequently descends into arrogant blindness or blind belief. Faith is never blind.
[image error] Jesus in wilderness, building his own Prosperity Engine. Russian Painting: 1872, Ivan Kramskoy. From #1023419_1920 Timeship (CC0) Pixabay.
Those who say they “forgive but cannot forget” are betraying their lie. Obviously, they do not know what forgiveness is all about. True forgiveness is forgetting—not the forgetting of “memory loss,” but the forgetting of “losing importance.”
Look at that dust speck sitting on your computer keyboard. There may be lots of them, but look at “that one.” See how “important” it is? Doesn’t it infuriate you the sheer arrogance of that tiny strand of dust by the fact that it exists, mocking your own existence? (Do you detect a note of sarcasm, here?)
The memory of hurt you suffered should be as “important” as that speck of dust you had not noticed until only a few moments ago. That is part of True forgiveness.
The “altruism” pursued by the political Left is toxic, and full of self-concern; they want others to sacrifice their selves for the good of the group. They “hate” selfishness, but cannot see their own selfishness. Secular Rightists, like the late Ayn Rand, are correct in rejecting such toxic, fake altruism. But both groups are missing the Truth, entirely. They remain stuck in the physical machine. They ignore the spirit. True altruism is frequently anonymous, for it does not need the praise of others. And true altruism can sometimes seem to betray a group by delivering to it a far more valuable lesson, nudging it away from corruption and oblivion.
Perfect responsibility is never a burden; blame is the burden. Blame is evil; True responsibility is divine.
Certainty without spirit is merely imperfect belief. It can be wrong and frequently is. Such imperfect, physical certainty reduces awareness and thus also reduces intelligence. Some of those with the highest IQs have fairly low levels of Effective Intelligence.
Free Will and the Prosperity Engine
[image error] Jesus walking on the storm-tossed Sea of Galilee, helping his disciple, Peter. Christ’s Prosperity Engine, here, is working fully.
The creation of a Prosperity Engine involves utilizing the only slender thread of free will available to us. If we approach building our own Prosperity Engine from the viewpoint of “importance” or “self-concern,” we turn our backs on that narrow gateway which leads to spirit, and we end up pursuing a fantasy in the so-called “real” world.
Any logical goal is possible. Creating a Prosperity Engine without spirit and selflessness is like baking a cake without flour, eggs and sugar; it’s illogical.
God created this universe as the complete opposite of His own traits. If we choose to follow the physical, we choose death, for physical matter does not contain the spark of life—only spirit has that. If we choose the temporary, selfish fix of finite prosperity for the sake of self, we risk fleeting satisfaction and long-term suffering. If we choose God and the infinite prosperity of spirit, we can have unending prosperity and life, because they are not tarnished by physical decay.
God created “man” in his inverse image. It is the image of God, but convex instead of concave (think plaster cast of your own face). He created us to “receive” all that He wants to “give” to us. But the key thing He wants to give us are His own traits which are entirely opposite those of the physical universe.
Space—The opposite of Love, for space separates us.Time—The opposite of Responsibility, for persistence only occurs by shirking responsibility for a creation (think God’s day of rest).Energy—The opposite of Humility, for power is a braggart which claims the ability to do anything.Mass—The opposite of Confidence, for the ultimate in mass does not allow even light to escape.
Prosperity Engine Progress
[image error] Here, Cypher, in The Matrix, contemplates being placed back into the machine as an “important” cog. Copyright 1999 Warner Bros.
It’s amazing how we can remain blind to things for years, or even decades. We’re simply looking in the wrong direction or thinking we already know some aspect. That “certainty” narrows our ability to see. After my period of strong, experimental miracles (1974–1986), I hadn’t merely taken a break in order to learn something new, as I once thought, even as recently as a week ago. I realized this last week that I had abandoned the spiritual and had taken up again the physical viewpoint. Like The Matrix (1999) and its character, Cypher, I had forsaken the Red Pill and had plugged myself back into the physical, action-reaction universe. I had decided—unknowingly—to become, once again, a cog in the machine. Ouch!
This had not been a conscious decision, but merely one of subconscious forgetfulness or creeping darkness, like the crepuscule of evening as Earth rotates away from the bright light of day.
My writing about these things, over the past decade, has helped to bring me back. And this series of blogs has helped to accelerate the process.
Meditation, Self-Sacrifice, True Altruism and Politics
I’m still having difficulty with the morning meditation. Pinpointing the specifics of a dark belief—or barrage of dark beliefs—is still relatively difficult. Underlying these feelings, though, is a solid confidence in the power of spirit to overcome all barriers, plus a willingness (most of the time) to give up this separate viewpoint for the benefit of others. The willingness to sacrifice self is part of the vital ingredient of humility. This does not mean we actively pursue self-destruction. Quite the contrary. But it does mean that we sever all attachments to the physical self and its needs, as we might detach ourselves from a wrecked automobile.
Ironically, one group of freedom seekers rejects such humble altruism, declaring it to be evil Leftism. I’ve already mentioned this, above, but it bears further exploration.
Farthest Left = 100% Government; 0% Individual Liberty and Responsibility;
Farthest Right = 0% Government; 100% Individual Liberty and Responsibility;
Americanism ~5–10% Government.
Rejecting valid altruism? This is particularly true of the followers of Ayn Rand. Despite her genius and logic, she could never rise above the physical to include spirit in her equations.
There are some aspects of Leftism which “look like” the more spiritual attitudes, but they remain a lower level copycat with the wrong motivation—and pointing in the wrong direction. For example, Leftists and even some Rightists conflate responsibility with blame; they are not the same thing. In fact, responsibility and blame are opposites.
Leftism operates from fear—fear of individual freedom. In other words, they want Big Government to protect them from the evil others might do with their freedom. But they forget that governments are made up of fallible humans, and that evil people tend to crave power far more than do the good people among us.
The selfishness of those on the Left is driving us right into the hands of the ruthless psychopaths who would destroy civilization and remake it in their image of “Nirvana”—a Neo-Feudalistic New World Order, run by a few thousand “elites,” and assisted by a few million “serfs,” with most of humanity disposed of as “excess population”—the great “culling” that one “royal” female bragged was starting.
Let’s not lose sight of the goal, however. This dark reality is merely more fuel for our fire to launch our own Prosperity Engine. Remember, the Globalist-Leftists think of their goal as “important” enough to lie, steal and murder. And “importance” like theirs is physical—forcing them to remain cogs in the machine of physical reality. They have no spiritual power; they only use darkness or evil. Ultimately, they will lose because of these things.
But the lessons of God need to move forward. For this entire turmoil is part of the “birthing process” of our “Spiritual Rebirth.” Like physical birth, our Spiritual Rebirth will involve pain to help wake us up. I don’t like the fact that others will suffer. This is all the more reason for us to build our Prosperity Engines to help wake up others to their own spiritual nature, and to turn their backs on physical, selfish needs.
Spirit depends on the freedom that the Left fears. Their version of altruism is fake—forced generosity for the Collective, rather than for the oneness of spirit. Their version is physical, leading deeper into physical territory, rather than offering freedom from physical entrapment (think: Islamic suicide bomber, as an example of fake altruism).
Leftism is motivated by the dangerous selfishness of others (thieves, murderers, conquerors, corporate criminals, etc.), plus the Leftists’ own unwitting selfishness to protect themselves from such dangers. Thus, they fight against the American 2nd Amendment, which guarantees that the government will not infringe on their God-given right to self-defense. But too late! The government has already infringed countless times.
But the far Right isn’t the answer, either. The far Right—wrongly defined by Leftist Academics and their friendly Dinosaur Media—is still on the physical level. Far Right is 100% individual freedom and 0% government; not the chaos and violence represented in the political cartoons of the last century and a half.
Physicalists, like Rand and her followers, are missing the fundamental purpose of this universe. The purpose is not to win for individual freedom, and to be a prosperous, physical cog in the machine of physical reality.
The fundamental purpose of this universe is to get us to choose spirit over both sides of the Left-Right dichotomy. In other words—to walk away from both sides, and to choose spirit.
But the best position may well be on the Right of the political spectrum, so long as we don’t lose sight of the overall purpose.
The problem is, most people on the Right have lost sight of this purpose, so they may require a stiff dose of Leftist tyranny to kick them out of their spiritual laziness and intellectual blindness.
Prosperity Engine and the Political Perspective
[image error] Tricky Vice President, Joe Biden, who bragged about Ukrainian collusion, and President Donald Trump, acquitted of Russian collusion. Part of the Left-Right paradigm. Official Photos: (PD).
What does this political discussion have to do with building a Prosperity Engine? Quite frankly, everything. The patterns of motivation found in society-at-large can be found within each individual’s subconscious. One mirrors the other. This is why the act of “not forgiving” the Globalist-Leftists will make us also “not forgiven.”
When we are generous and loving enough to give forgiveness to our enemies, then we deserve infinite forgiveness for ourselves—including the forgiveness of ancient karma that has not yet been triggered on us. This one point is huge for our future health and prosperity. Being stingy or hoarding tends to dry up the source of infinite abundance. These are related concepts.
The problems in society are very similar, and connected to, the problems we face in building our Prosperity Engine.
Ego has figuratively kicked me in the teeth over the last few weeks. This series of articles is full of the bumps, pitfalls and warts from me doing my own internal work. I include all of these dark details in these articles for two reasons:
To let you, the reader, know that you are not alone in your quest for self-improvement of any kind—your struggles are not unique, andTo document for myself the details of my own journey so that I may make more sense of it all.
But there is also a seemingly selfish reason, too. Later, I hope to distill all this learning process into a more efficient, pre-packaged batch of wisdom for a book to help others.
How could this last idea be selfish? Some people might view it that way, especially if I make lots of money helping other people make lots of money. But it only seems selfish from that viewpoint. Perfecting the Prosperity Engine makes individual prosperity a shared, altruistic prosperity—a responsible prosperity.
Ego would want from us one or more of a number of conflicting behaviors:
Hoarding the prosperity (Silas Marner stinginess).Giving away some to appear “good” to others.Giving all of it away to appear “good” to others.
Doing any of the above to satisfy ego would be motivated by various forms of selfishness or self-concern.
Doing any of the above as fully responsible spirit might look like selfishness, but would be entirely devoid of selfishness.
Social ‘Goodness’ vs. Responsible Management of Prosperity
[image error] Gold treasure. This is okay, but it is not the real prosperity of the Prosperity Engine. Photo: #1633073_1920 TimCGundert (CC0) Pixabay.
Even seemingly “hoarding” wealth honestly earned can be entirely loving and altruistic. This is because the motivation is one of responsible management for the benefit of others.
And yes, ego can fake this last one, too. Only God and the individual know for certain the true motivation. And perhaps others who are operating as spirit—the Enlightened, like Christ, Buddha and perhaps Lao Tzu—may also know who has the pure heart.
When a selfish individual asks a rich person for help, the one with the fully operational Prosperity Engine needs to use care in relinquishing funds.
Sometimes, the person asking needs a different kind of help—a “No” answer, for instance. Such a person may accuse the rich man of being selfish, but this is their ego talking. This is the poor person being selfish and resentful.
“For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath” (Matthew 13:12 ).
For the truly worthy person, whether or not they ask, the rich man, with a fully operational Prosperity Engine, may reject the request in public, but in private will see that the needy person is helped anonymously. And a worthy person who asks and who is publicly rejected, will remain grateful for the opportunity to ask. Thus, he remains worthy.
Can ego fake this “gratitude?” Of course it can. Thus, the rich man with the Prosperity Engine needs to see into the heart of those who ask, in order to know for certain. Operating as spirit, this becomes easy. Remember, Christ could even see that Peter would renounce his master three times on that fateful night. Christ could see that Judas would be the perfect betrayer needed for Christ’s mission. And despite knowing the wisdom of “living by the sword leading to dying by the sword,” Christ could also attract a disciple with this fatal flaw, which helped to galvanize the temple guards against Christ on the night of his betrayal.
And if the righteous need ever becomes great enough, the rich man with the Prosperity Engine may give up his entire fortune to help others. After giving away the physical wealth, he is still a rich man, for his prosperity is not based on physical continuity—like interest-bearing savings accounts or rent-generating property—but based on the Source of infinite prosperity.
Coming Up Next
Next week, the article will tackle the rather odd question: “Is time itself evil?” The creation of time involves the application of “darkness.” Oh, boy! This is going to be good!
Coming after that, the next article will look at what I call the “Prosperity Paradox”—overcoming every layer of negativity concerning prosperity. And there is one layer that is powerful—the very act of creation itself has a negative element involved. All the more reason not to become attached to any of the prosperity we create. Hoarding clogs up the Prosperity Engine.
November 1, 2020
Prosperity Engine — Update — Back to Basics
Between 1971 and 1978, I experienced a flood of miracles that changed my life forever. Many of these events were premeditated miracles—cause-and-effect “coincidences”—the kind sought by scientists in their laboratories. Directed intent led to predicted results. While many of those results were not visually spectacular, they yielded a proof-of-concept for my early work on this topic. The more visually startling miracles involved traffic—one of them producing a result similar to that of Moses parting the Red Sea.
The techniques I used back then were applied to relatively unimportant tasks. This avoided several “thorny” or “sticky” hurdles. “Importance,” as we learned in recent articles can foul up our Prosperity Engine.
This week, we return to the basics of what we know works. By doing this, the hope is that we may spot even more of the discrepancies—hidden barriers to accomplishing the effortless manifestation of our goals.
Miracles 101
In early 1974, I suddenly realized that the emotional level of “manifesting” or “miracles” was equivalent to the knowledge level of “Not-Know.” This is from the research of L. Ron Hubbard into the human-spiritual condition. He was pretty keen on recognizing patterns—a talent I had discovered for myself.
Both of these levels were one step down from the top—Serenity of Beingness and Knowing. When first I had learned about this relationship between the two scales that Hubbard had discovered for two separate properties of the spiritual being, I was puzzled. The power of miracles—or as he referred to it, “postulates”—seemed right to be so close to the top, but “Not-Know” seemed too oblivious to be so powerful. Then, I realized that getting a picture of the desired object or condition, followed by “Not-Knowing” it was all that was needed.
As I was writing this, looking back at the memories and analyzing them once more—especially from my new viewpoint of greater knowledge—I just now realized that the picture or template of creation is built from that upper, emotional level—Serenity of Beingness—and then the object or condition in that picture is “Not-Known.” In other words, I had come down from the highest emotional level to manifest the object or condition.
More recently, I also realized that the “Not-Know,” second step is “applied darkness.” In other words, I had applied the “darkness” of a lack of awareness in order to get the idea in my spiritual mind to become physical on this lesser half of reality.
Step-by-Step: First Miracle Experiment
[image error] Man and fluorescent light bulb — symbolic of my first experiment with miracles. Photo: #2598985_1920 by StockSnap (CC0) Pixabay.
I wanted a challenge which would test my new understanding of miracles. That challenge needed to be something that would tell me that my understanding was valid. It needed to be some spiritual action manifesting itself in the physical realm that would confirm the connection. I wanted to show a cause-and-effect connection that would not be an accidental coincidence.
In the common bathroom in the Martin home in Flagstaff, Arizona, the fluorescent light above the bathroom sink had become unpredictable. Flipping the light switch would sometimes turn on the light right away. Sometimes, the light would never come on. And other times, the light would come on after a variable amount of time—anywhere between a tenth of a second and a minute or two. This had been quite infuriating, but now it was the source of great curiosity and joy.
I went to the bathroom with the Serenity of Beingness of Knowing that I am a spiritual being who has the power to bend or break the laws of physical reality, just as Jesus had done, and just as he had taught others to do.
After entering the bathroom, I physically looked at the light switch, and imagined in my mind “seeing” the wires from the switch, through the wall, up to the light fixture, into the ballast circuitry and into the light bulb itself.
Now, I realize that this anchored me in physical reality. This helped to put me in the “Creative Now,” rather than being in delusion.
Then, I created in my conscious mind the picture of the light bulb being on. With that done, I physically flipped the switch to the “on” position.
Happily, I observed that the light did not come on.
Then, I searched my mind for some other activity which would help me “Not-Know” the picture of the light bulb being on. After a second or two, I settled on reaching for my toothpaste and toothbrush. I focused my conscious awareness on picking up the toothpaste tube, opening the cap, setting the cap down and the applying a pea sized dollop of toothpaste onto my brush.
About this time, I felt in my conscious mind all awareness leave the picture of the light being on. At that instant, the light popped on. I don’t remember the exact number of seconds between flipping the switch and the light actually coming on, but it was somewhere between 10 and 20 seconds.
The likelihood that the light would accidentally come on the moment my conscious mind abandoned the creation seemed exceedingly slim. The coincidence was within a tenth of a second. In other words, the “Not-Knowing” of the creation and the manifestation of the light being on were separated by such a small span of time, it was essentially zero seconds.
This commensurability confirmed to me that my hypothesis had worked.
Here are the steps more concisely written:
Move to Serenity of Beingness—an emotional state at the highest possible level, as spirit (see my book Taking Charge for techniques to do just this).Create a mental image of the desired object or condition with the highest possible clarity.Ground yourself in physical reality by becoming critically aware of the present moment and the current condition of the challenge.Find some other activity to busy the conscious awareness so that you go down into “Not-Know” regarding the creation. This is done all the while the subconscious (feeling) attention remains fixed on the creation.
A Different Starting Point?
[image error] A runner at the starting block of a race. A starting point closer to the finish line would give a runner an advantage. Photo: #4338240_1920 Hasselqvist (CC0) Pixabay.
A week ago, as I had been planning this article, I considered the idea that I may have had a different starting point in my life. An unfair advantage, perhaps?
But just a few minutes ago, as I was writing this, I thought of a different “starting point”—the point only moments before the miracle is manifested. I realized that I had been in Serenity of Beingness—a calm, poised, blissful state of being—right before each miracle. Sometimes, the bliss was self-induced, using the techniques I discuss in my book, Taking Charge, and other times they were accidental in the sense that I did not see the bliss coming; it came to me as an inspiration triggered by some question, or some state of humility about which I had become curious.
So, it seems I can still learn more about the experiments performed nearly half a century ago.
But did I have an advantage this lifetime over some of my fellow humans? That’s possible, but that is not a barrier to others. Anyone with the interest and persistence can learn these things.
I started this lifetime, 70 years ago, with profound questions about self, spirit and our connection to miracles. Even at age 3, these concepts seemed quite familiar, if not downright ancient.
Achieving Serenity of Beingness
[image error] The inspired mind taking off — a metaphor for the elevated emotion of Serenity of Beingness. This is the highest possible emotion for spirit or man. Image: #4758080_1920 Tumisu (CC0) Pixabay.
This is a state which is achieved quite often in the spiritual counseling of Scientology, or at least used to be achieved with regularity, when I was a member—1967–1986.
I see now that the same thing is happening with the work of Dr. Joe Dispenza and others, with simple meditation and knowledge about the mind.
Dispenza also discovered that sharing experiences and doing meditation in a group setting is also accelerating the process. One person’s breakthrough makes it “okay” for others to do the same thing—like Chuck Yeager breaking the “sound barrier,” or Roger Bannister breaking the “4-minute mile barrier.”
This is also being made more possible with the work of David Bayer and his “Mind Hack” program. By cleaning up the negative “darkness” of the subconscious mind, the individual is able to get rid of many of the beliefs and forces which hold him back.
Prosperity Engine Progress
After writing my last article on “Tracking Down the Dark Negatives,” I had some additional ideas which could prove valuable.
I wrote down some empowering decisions to replace some of my own dark negatives.
“I am a worthy conduit for God’s infinite abundance.” This statement wins high marks for remaining positive in all aspects.
“I remain unattached to all prosperity—letting it flow to where it is needed.” This has a moderately high level of positivity. “Unattached” and “needed” are slightly negative elements. Remember, we have certain ideas about our words that are not realized in our maintenance of reality. For instance, we commonly use the word “want” to describe an intention or goal. But this word creates a lack of the desired object or condition, rather than an abundance of it. “Want” means “lack.” “Want” means “you’re not there, yet.”
“I allow prosperity to flow through me to help others.” Even the word “help” suggests a negative need. Perhaps our human languages are full of such spiritual landmines. But this need not be a problem. We merely remain aware of the inadequacies of our languages and work around the shallow, unspiritual meanings to imply the truer, more spiritual meaning.
We can use imperfect statements like these because they point in the direction of spiritual perfection that language cannot describe with accuracy.
Directionality of Awareness and Cleaning Up the Darkness
[image error] Heads up display (HUD) on an F/A 18 Hornet, showing critical sensory input to the pilot. Photo: US Navy (PD).
While meditating this last week, I became curiously aware of a quality within the awareness I call “directionality.” This is me looking in a certain direction in multi-dimensional concept space. This is not only different directions in physical space—like moving out of the head and looking back at the body from forward 38 centimeters, up 64 centimeters and right 19 centimeters, but looking at various ideas from different conceptual locations.
Several times, I felt that I was in what I call the “saddle of now.” I was squarely in my head looking straight forward, without flutter or squirming. Calm, poised and looking straight forward at the back of my eyelids.
Now, most people might think they’re looking straight forward at the backs of their eyelids, and they’d be exactly right on the physical level. But on the mental level, they may be looking at some skewed angle. They’re not yet focused in the “Creative Now” or “saddle of now.”
But this brings up an idea for further study. We might explore this idea of “directionality of awareness” and using it to explore not only the mental space during meditation, helping us to clean up the darkness which makes the “Creative Now” seem elusive, but we might also use it to see ideas from different viewpoints, or body parts that need healing from different perspectives.
We also need to realize that all too frequently we become biased by our directionality and forget to look behind us.
The first time I became aware of this concept was in 1968 trying to overcome early afternoon grogginess. I got outside my head and looked back in the direction of the source of awareness. Suddenly, I felt nothing of the grogginess; I felt powerful and energized.
We need to become more critically aware of such constraints that we put on ourselves.
In a sense, this is an extra measure of humility—not arrogantly insisting on the “me” viewpoint—the ego.
And we can ask, “God, what else am I missing?”
Coming Up Next
In the next article, we will look at the illusion of free will. How much free will do we actually have? The answers may surprise you, but the reason behind those answers are even more profound—revealing a very specific and focused purpose on the part of God.
And the article after that will tackle the rather odd question: Is time itself evil?
Looking even further ahead, another article will look at what I call the “Prosperity Paradox”—overcoming every layer of negativity concerning prosperity. And there is one layer that is powerful—the very act of creation itself has a negative element involved.
October 28, 2020
Prosperity Engine — Update — Tracking Down the Dark Negatives
All of my life, I have toyed with miracles, building my awareness and strength in that area. But then something seemed to stop. For a long while, I sensed that progress was no longer being made in this area, but I was wrong. It took me more than three decades to understand the miracles on Wilshire Boulevard. Now that I’ve comfortably exhausted the need to clarify what actually happened there, I was ready for the next phase of my spiritual growth.
I started running into people who mentioned Dr. Joe Dispenza. I even had a client who had me ghostwrite several books, insisting that I include Dispenza’s work, and that of David Bayer (Mind Hack).
After taking one of Bayer’s courses, I started having a flood of ideas that made writing difficult for a few weeks. How embarrassing! But the client was cool about the process. He had a clear vision for the books he wanted and merely helped me past my own “flood mode” toward clarity. But even as I was learning and relearning Dispenza’s and Bayer’s ideas and methods, I was able to see beyond their work—not only making their methods my own, but expanding on them.
The Big Caution: Avoiding the Deadly Question
In his Mind Hack course, David Bayer recommends against asking “why” and “how” questions. This wisdom is nothing new. Mentors and coaches have long known that questions which start with “how” or “why” tend to be disempowering—they produce toxic or clumsy answers that don’t help. They cause the brain to go around in circles, as if chasing its own tail (if it ever had one).
“Why am I getting such poor results?”
The mind will generate a flood of answers like, “Because you’re stupid,” “Because you don’t deserve any better,” “Because you’re selfish and evil,” and other unsavory reasons.
“How can I make a 7-figure income?”
Again, the human brain will deliver lots of answers, very few of which are very useful—things like, “Rob a bank,” “Trick the Tooth Fairy with a giant tooth,” “Write a bestselling book,” and others. The last item could actually work, even if you don’t yet know how to write a book, but the motivation for writing it is all wrong. Working on any project from a position of egoistic weakness will not help you get to where you want to go.
The Template for Our Prosperity Engine
There are four key aspects of our work in building our Prosperity Engine:
Cleaning up the past so it’s no longer triggering self-sabotage.Cleaning up the present with gratitude and presence of mind so you have a solid foundation in the Creative Now.Gaining crisp clarity on the future by stating the goal with all of the right, positive details, plus gratitude to activate the “Not-Know” (allowing, shirking responsibility, manifesting) part of the creation.Asking empowering questions to give your brain some juicy, truly helpful work to do.
Past, present, future and empowering questions—that’s the combination—the Power Toolkit for our Prosperity Engine.
The Greatest Barrier—Subconscious Past Beliefs
[image error] Trapped by a ball and chain, the dark negatives of the subconscious can seem inescapable, but they’re not. Illustration: #1013600_1920 Peggy-Marco (CC0) Pixabay
Of the four, the most difficult, by far, is the element involving the past. This is the area where the greatest darkness resides. The other three are largely training issues—for instance, learning the difference between an empowering question and one that sucks the energy right out of you. Once you learn the difference, coming up with the right type of question becomes relatively easy.
David Bayer, Joe Dispenza, and others recommend staying alert during the day to catch the negative attitudes when they show up. Bayer goes a little further, recommending that we tackle the negative feeling and follow it back to the undermining belief that caused it in the first place.
Bayer points out that our self-emasculating beliefs are decisions to give some event in our past a specific, but negative meaning. That meaning defines one of our beliefs. The solution is simply to give the event a new meaning—a more empowering meaning.
Say for instance, that when you were nine months old, your mother made you feel utterly stupid, bad and wrong for not putting your toys away. She yelled at you, but you were still not old enough to understand English. The event, at such an early age, might not have left a conscious memory, but the feeling is drilled into your bones, anchored into every fiber of your body and locked in place by that part of your brain which takes care of survival in life-threatening situations. This is the primitive brain—the fight-or-flight system that kicks in and overpowers the body before the conscious mind knows what’s happening.
So, you grow up feeling stupid, or that you will make a mistake at any moment, or that you are never very far from another blunder that defines who you are. Sounds wonderful, huh? Yikes!
Well, this happened to me. I was able to build a set of feelings in parallel to this—feelings of competence, accomplishment, talent, skill and intelligence. But this pesky critter was always there, lurking in the shadows. I ended up feeling as though I were hurtling into the future, pushing hard down on both the accelerator and the brake at the same time. Sometimes, either foot would get tired, so I lurched forward toward my goals with an unpredictability that was frustrating.
Tracking Down the Dark Negatives for Conversion
[image error] Taking the dark negatives out of the subconscious is a bit like weeding a garden. Photo: #2432111_1920 Summa (CC0) Pixabay.
Finding these annoying animals during our meditation, or during the daily work, when we become critically aware of a negative reaction or feeling, can be quite problematic. If we’re doing a critical action, we don’t want this type of junk wrecking our performance.
Instead of waiting, why not develop a plan to “search and destroy?” Or better, “search and convert!”
So, instead of standing in front of a large audience and finding the “I’m so stupid” animal gnawing at our stomach, why not discover this beast in the safety of our own home? Why not deal with it on our own terms—during quiet time, when we can give ourselves the few minutes necessary to track this down, and to give it a better meaning?
David Bayer’s suggestion to avoid “why” and “how” questions should not be ignored lightly. Though not dangerous, they can waste a lot of time and energy.
Such negative or open-ended questions generate answers from our brains that contain all manner of negative meaning.
But isn’t this what we want to handle? Isn’t this what we would like to clean up far more efficiently? In order to clean up our past, don’t we want to be proactive, rather than reactive?
By asking a “why” or “how” question, we trigger all manner of answers that could disempower us. Normally, we don’t want to do this, but if we are prepared for the flood of negative answers, then it’s all good.
How do we prepare?
We need to be certain we have a block of time that will not be interrupted. We need a quiet space where we can write down all of the answers our brain gives to us, without interruption or distraction. Cell phone, off! Computer screen, off! Computer sound, off! If necessary, put a “Do Not Disturb” sign on your door, or let others in the household know that you are not to be disturbed unless there is a dire emergency.
When you do this, if suddenly your mind is blank, then simply start writing. Anything! This will prime the pump in your mind. Write down what you ate for breakfast, describe the shape and color of your desk, describe the back of your hand. Literally, anything.
The direction you want to be going is to think of negative attitudes that disempower you, and the negative beliefs attached to them.
Step-by-Step: Search and Convert
The procedure, here, is fairly simple and straight-forward.
Find in your memory a condition in life that you don’t like.Ask a “why” or “how” question about it.Write down every answer your mind gives you. If it takes an hour for you to write them all down, do it. This is a gold mine of knowledge about your own subconscious. Be grateful for all the muck you dig up.With each negative answer, find the negative belief attached to it, and write that down, if necessary. Sometimes the answer will be the negative belief.Write an empowering replacement for each one.Decide that this is your new reality.Feel a deep sense of excitement and gratitude as you read aloud the more positive, empowering belief.
If you are stalled at the first step, simply ask yourself, “What don’t I like about my life?” That should start the ball rolling.
Prosperity Engine Progress
[image error] A race car prepares to go, tackling the sticky problem of distance within a limited time. Photo: #3415413_1920 Papafox (CC0) Pixabay.
This last week, I’ve been playing with time. Part of this last week, time was also playing with me. Let me explain.
One common, negative belief is, “I don’t have enough time.” Intellectually, some people will deny this for themselves, but they feel it, nonetheless.
For several years, I procrastinated completing my second novel because I didn’t have a large enough block of time to work through the details with which I was struggling. Finally, I created a block of time and finished the novel.
For years, I also had a fixation on being late and on finding justification, after the fact, for that tardiness. You name it, I likely created them all—power outage, equipment failure, car troubles, thick traffic and no nearby parking spaces. On that last one, when I realized the game I had playing with myself, I was excited to find a parking space right next to work. Ah, the power of Truth and Responsibility. And then, I found a surprisingly low-cost, moderately nice apartment only two blocks from work, so I could walk instead of drive. No more excuses involving parking. But old habits die hard. One time, when I had been working on a project for 36 hours straight, I went home for a 2-hour nap, but woke up 4 hours later with my arm draped over the top of the alarm clock. Ouch! So, I set two alarm clocks—one next to the bed, and a louder, more obnoxious alarm clock on my dresser, across the room.
That’s why the daily exercise of repeating Empowering Decisions with Gratitude is so wonderful. This helps to dissolve those old, bad habits of excuses and back-sliding into other old, bad habits.
This last week, I found myself working overtime on my next book. Everything seemed to be taking far longer than I had expected. As I did the required research, I discovered new, unexpected wrinkles in the information that required far more work than I had expected. I was happy to do the work. The entire book is a “labor of love.” But this made me aware of a different problem with time—sort of opposite to that of procrastination. This problem involved spending too much time on a project, to the exclusion of most everything else.
This is one “reason” for this article coming out on Wednesday, and not on the desired Sunday. Excuse? Naw. Observation.
I realized that one hidden belief is that, “I don’t have enough time to do this project.” So, I ended up stealing time from other responsibilities. I got pleasure from doing this, but it was “selfish” pleasure, instead of righteous (divine) pleasure. It made me place “importance” on time, which is contrary to the work of building my own Prosperity Engine.
I can decide to do anything. I have that freedom. But the best approach is to do it without the darkness of being guided by negative beliefs.
I also realized that I had become impatient to finish this book, because I was so certain it would sell a lot of copies. In reality, I don’t know how well it will sell; it could produce zero sales.
And this brings up another observation about the “how” question. Fussing over finishing this project earlier, instead of relaxing and treating it as unimportant, I am implying that I know “how” my $5 million will happen.
The beauty of the Prosperity Engine is that we don’t need to know “how” it produces the money. We merely give God the request, and He delivers. If we insist on telling God “how” to produce the money, then we may block the accomplishment with too many requirements. The audience which would eat up this current book project may not exist. Creating that audience may take several months, or years, or centuries! So, insisting on my own “how” may create delays I don’t want to have.
By leaving the “how” to God, I leave open the door (humility) to receive the inspiration which will lead me to the project which will produce the income in a shorter time span. In the meantime, while building my Prosperity Engine, I’m enjoying a project which may not produce any income, but will give me some interesting, and possibly much-needed, experience.
I’ve noticed flurries of subconscious, negative “dust” kicking up more often. But I’ve also noticed bright flashes of enthusiasm, confidence and well-being bubbling to the surface of my subconscious, as well. Gratitude truly is working. And like a muscle, the more I exercise it, the stronger the gratitude gets.
I am getting better at doing my half-hourly breaks during the day. It was amazing how my body, at age 70, thought it was still in fairly good shape, only to discover that it wasn’t. The half-hourly light exercises and stretching are helping to return some of that “good shape.”
And now, taking the time to do other, “responsible” things, takes the “importance” off of time. That feels good.
Coming Up Next
In the next article, I go back to my original experiments with miracles and examine what actually happened from my new position of knowledge. Has my understanding changed? Are there any new distinctions which will help in finalizing my own Prosperity Engine?
October 20, 2020
Prosperity Engine — Update — Toxic Importance
Why does a man cheat on his wife? Why does a robber break into someone else’s home to steal their valuables? Why does a child hit their sibling with dangerous force? Why does a grown man pick his nose? Why do we do anything that we do?
There is one common denominator underlying every single action, taken by every human being throughout all of history. Behind every act there is a sense of “importance,” otherwise we would never do it. The decision to define something as “important” is largely done on automatic. This is part of what makes us action-reaction cogs in the machine of physical reality. This is what kicked us out of Heaven in the first place. We “ate”—took in or assimilated—the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. This wasn’t physical “fruit,” but merely the product of all dichotomous intentions—ego.
The writer of the Ten Commandments understood these things. Breaking any one of these commandments erodes society and your connection to God. This is just simple mechanics. If you step off a building without a parachute, you go splat. However, following the Ten Commandments mechanically, without critical self-awareness, doesn’t help much. A rock does not commit adultery or murder, but we don’t heap praise on the rock for not breaking the Ten Commandments. The same goes for a “spiritless” Homo sapiens body. Following rules so as to appear “good” to other, fellow bodies is its own brand of evil. Such a person follows the rules because they are “important” egoistically. We need to get beyond “importance.” We need to do such things as spirit where there is no importance or scarcity.
Becoming self-aware of our urges and itches is a critical first step. Becoming deeply grateful for accomplishing that self-awareness helps to make it a habit.
Importance and Self-Concern
[image error] Lipstick on this man’s collar tells us a story of infidelity = toxic importance.Photo: #379565_1920 Tumisu (CC0) Pixabay.
Deciding that something is important sucks us out of the spiritual realm and locks us into the deterministic fabric of physical reality. Remember, Adam and Eve thought that “eating” the forbidden fruit was “important” enough to disobey the rule prohibiting it. Adam and his mate went from being pure spirit—nothing dichotomous: no space, no time, no energy, no mass, no scarcity, no suffering—to purely physical ego, with the true spiritual self “dead” asleep.
Our mission is to be born again as spirit—to wake up our true self so we no longer need the continuity of physical methods for perception, memory, analysis and action.
Any form of self-concern gives power to ego and robs it from spirit.
What do we do?
Practice restraint and humility. Practice dismissing anything that seems “important.”
Say for instance, you haven’t eaten in hours and your stomach is growling. You smell delicious food and your mouth waters up like crazy. Mentally, look at yourself perceiving the sensations. Look at the mechanisms that bring the sensations to you. Look at the thoughts and other biological machinery which tend to make those signals of hunger “important.”
Play with the idea of ignoring the “importance.” Take all self-concern about hunger and dismiss it as you might an unruly employee.
Naturally, you will take the time to eat, because that is the responsible thing to do, but look carefully at your motivation for eating. Stop being the physical cog doing what the physical universe tells you to do. If you eat, do it as spirit being responsible, not as a body giving in to physical urges. See the difference?
Empowering Questions
[image error] Doing what seems impossible, like surfing a huge wave, requires that we give up the fear of toxic importance. Photo: Free-Photos (CC0) Pixabay.
Most everything we do in life is based on a reason. We stretch and yawn because of a biochemical buildup in our body. We scratch because of an itch. We cheat because we think we can get away with it and something about that makes it important.
Instead of giving in immediately—reactively—consider not doing the “important” thing right away—or at all. Take the opportunity to be grateful for another discovery and another opportunity to get back more of your spiritual power.
To help leverage us closer to spirit, we need to “see” its direction and see its value, we need to be more squarely in the creative “now,” and we need to clean up the “dust” of the past so it no longer controls us.
Asking empowering questions can help.
“From where could I accomplish this task that says it’s ‘important’?”
The “where” in this question can be a location, but it can also be an attitude.
“What can I do to gain more control over self-concern?”
There are countless possible questions that you can ask yourself. But beware of the structure and wording. Some questions trigger negative answers. That can be useful when you want to find negative beliefs in the subconscious as part of your internal cleaning. Asking the right questions will produce feelings and information which empower you. Asking the wrong questions won’t hurt, but they can slow you down.
The power of self-restraint has been greatly overlooked by many, but the most successful in society instinctively know the value of restraint.
Having a goal that includes giving in to self-indulgence and importance may not serve you well in the long run. That’s like playing basketball, and instead of scoring, settling for a few, well-executed dribbles. Or it’s like entering the dating scene, but instead of finding a mate, settling for a weak smile in response to your insecure “hello.”
We can include physical things in our goals, but our motivation needs to change. We need to eliminate self-concern and importance.
Don’t worry about any of this. Simply play with it. Have fun.
Refinement of Our Definition of ‘Important’
[image error] Crossed fingers behind your back signify “lying” and the toxic importance behind the need to lie. Photo: #1562272_1920 TSwedenSky (CC0) Pixabay.
Am I making the Prosperity Engine “important?” This question reveals the possibility that there are different, but overlapping, definitions for our word. Let’s explore this for a moment.
In one sense, it seems that I have made this project important. Otherwise, why would I do it? But there are two viewpoints at work, here. One is negative, egoistic and physical; the other is positive, spiritual and non-physical.
important adj.—Strongly affecting the course of events or the nature of things; significant (American Heritage Dictionary).
important adj.—A quality or state of being of some object or condition which is vital for some purpose (my own, ad hoc definition).
Okay, that’s the standard, human idea of “importance.” These definitions include some of the physical universe’s sense of lack, scarcity or struggle, and cause-and-effect, dichotomous relationships. Now, let’s take a look at the other side of “importance” from the perspective of our work, here.
important adj.—Having the correct viewpoint, attitude or behavior for accomplishing a righteous, non-selfish task.
I will have to revisit this definition, later, and refine it if necessary, but it seems closer to a spiritual viewpoint than the other definitions.
The difference is a matter of viewpoint. The difference is also a matter of leverage. Last week, we looked at the leverage of imagination and how gratitude can add power to that viewpoint. But behind the scenes is the stirring from spiritual slumber that provokes the true spiritual self into participation in creating more than the status quo. The only true leverage in changing our direction in life is one of spirit, because the lever and fulcrum need to reside outside of the thing being moved. You cannot move a car by using a lever and fulcrum inside that vehicle.
So, egoistic or selfish “importance” is what we need to avoid. We need to become critically aware of our own inner motivation. This determines whether or not we are doing something from the required spiritual viewpoint—outside the “vehicle” of physical reality.
Clarity on ‘Importance’ vs. ‘Responsibility’
As you can see, this avoidance of “importance” doesn’t mean we should never eat or never have sex. It does point out, however, that we can do a physical action as spirit or as a cog in the machine of deterministic, action-reaction physical reality. Most people sleepwalk through life as cogs in the machine.
But this points out the real reason to avoid sin and helps us to sharpen our awareness of what truly is “sinful.”
There are varying degrees of sinfulness—all of them subject to forgiveness. All except blaspheming against the Holy Spirit. But what’s that about? In a nutshell, the only unforgivable sin is not subject to forgiveness because the individual is pretending the target of forgiveness does not exist. They are pretending their own true, spiritual self is a “fantasy.”
You can’t repair a piece of equipment if you keep hiding it from the repairman, and lying about it “not existing.”
We can do all the things other humans do, but do them for a different reason—for the reason of being a responsible, loving, generous, compassionate and humbly confident child of God.
The ‘Importance’ of Messing Up
When you mess up or make a big mistake, it may be more sinful to berate yourself repeatedly than was the original infraction. Both incompetence and berating self can be extremely selfish or egoistic.
Sinfulness might be defined as anything which takes us further from God, while righteousness is anything which, for its own sake, takes us closer to God.
Viewed from this perspective, clinging to the physical universe or anything in it, can be viewed as sinful. Yet, we need to use this physical existence in order to work our way toward the spiritual graduation originally intended for us. And this was the original purpose of all these galaxies and planets—including our beloved planet Earth.
Doing ‘Important’ Things With Attitude of Unimportance
[image error] Monk meditating. The practice of meditation can sometimes help eliminate toxic importance. Photo: Phra Ajan Jerapunyo-Abbot of Watkungtaphao, by Tevaprapas Makklay (CC-BY-3.0) via Wikipedia.
If you normally attack your food and wolf it down when you are starving hungry, then try looking at your food as a “tedious chore,” while your stomach is growling and your mouth is squirting saliva. Find other ways to play with the “importance” of eating. Use restraint while eating. Observe your body’s reactions. And pay even closer attention to what happens in your mind as you play with this common habit. Be aware not only of the activity, but also your motivation in doing the activity, and also be aware of you being aware of these things. Shining the light of awareness on every aspect of your activity helps you gain some distance from being the dutiful cog in the machine.
Consider the idea of eating delicious food without enjoying it the same way you always do. Try different approaches. One might be that of an alien being ignorant of taste buds and cuisine. Take the viewpoint of that alien hitching a ride in your brain while you eat, dismayed by the flood of olfactory sensations and the curious behavior of salivation.
By taking uniquely different viewpoints about ordinary things, you may well come up with some powerful ideas. But you will certainly gain a deeper perspective on what it means to be a sentient being in this physical universe.
By becoming more critically aware of that which is aware, you take a step closer to knowing the mental and spiritual direction of the true self.
Prosperity Engine Progress
It’s easy to lose track of progress, sometimes. I have several people who are helping to hold me accountable for my Prosperity Engine goal—$5 million (2019 USD) in the bank. This, of course, is only a short-term goal. This is a “proof of efficacy” goal. It’s a goal to create the ability to “see” that my Prosperity Engine is working properly before I give it larger tasks.
Projects, deadlines, emergencies, barriers, difficulties—lots of things can seem “important” or distracting. I welcome the “chore” of this weekly blog to help restore my focus on this project.
During this last week, I found myself struggling with “importance” on the vector of time. Translation: “impatience.” I looked at my current book project, Pangaea Sister Sites, and wondered about it gaining a lot of press and going viral. Then, I realized that I had slipped into egoistic, “struggle” mode, or Effect Mode. I had made the project “important” for the sake of separate, selfish self. Naughty boy!
Such a “problem” can prove sticky. I’ve invested hundreds of hours of work on this project. Suddenly, I pictured someone else stealing the idea and then my book selling only one or two copies. I pictured me including material in the book that would make it socially toxic so that people avoided it. I pictured the book becoming a ripe target for the “cancel culture.”
Amazing, the creativity of the mind, even when it is in destructive mode.
Part of my problem had been focusing on egoistic “importance” of the project, rather than simply having fun with it. If it sells well, that’s okay, but if it doesn’t, that’s okay, too. I pictured a future where the book flops royally—not selling even one copy. I did not create this negative picture out of weak reaction or fear, but out of active intention and decision. I was committed to dislodging the grubby fingers of selfish ego from my project, and committed to removing my own “attachment” to the project and attachment to some desired outcome.
Remember: Humility is the antidote to ego. Giving up can help us return to the spiritual viewpoint. Suddenly, we have the power to create success. But if we hold a feeling of panic and one of forced “giving up” with the purpose of stealing our way into Heaven in order to find that success, we will find our path blocked. We cannot cheat; we have to remain genuine and clean. The humility needs to be pure and complete. We need to be perfectly willing for success to take an infinite amount of time—in other words, never! And we have to hold the viewpoint of perfected, fearless confidence that it is already done. And that’s where gratitude and delight can help.
Cleaning up my past is progressing. Keeping the present clean and “being here” are both becoming more stable. I keep waking up with a flurry of “dust”—negative emotions begging for my awareness, for they already have my subconscious attention. And I’m finding it easier to discover delight in the uncovering of each new glob of mental “dust.” It’s still a chore in cleaning up that mental darkness—giving it a new, empowering meaning. This is largely because it’s still difficult for me to pinpoint the exact meaning behind a feeling. Quite often, I get a number of overlapping feelings. The wisdom, there, is merely to pick one and, for the moment, forget the others. I know that, as I become more proficient at this, the cleaning will become easier and easier. I have already had experience with as-ising (vanishing) large chunks of mental darkness by merely casting my awareness in its direction. That’s a talent I need to “dust off” and reacquire.
Creating a clear picture of the future is also progressing nicely, when I’m not sliding back into egoistic “importance.” The morning exercises were skipped for a few mornings in a row, and the results were predictably dark. So, I nudge the routine back into place, grateful for the experience of “apparent failure.”
I also realized that accomplishing my first Prosperity Engine task may well have nothing to do with my current book project. And that brings us back to the wisdom of never asking, “How am I going to achieve my goal?” God knows “how.” Our job is merely to prepare our inner selves so that we are ready to receive.
Coming Up Next
The negative beliefs lodged in the subconscious, along with the latent residue of past sins, known as “karma,” sit there, in the darkness of our unconscious mind, waiting to be triggered. Instead of waiting, perhaps it’s time to go on the offensive. We have a method for coaxing the negative beliefs and karma to reveal themselves to us. In the next article, we will explore how to take advantage of this new technique.
October 13, 2020
Prosperity Engine — Update — Leverage of Imagination
To some people, a “problem” is a challenge that is either insurmountable or one that puts us at effect. Naturally, this is the wrong viewpoint. That’s “victim-speak.”
When you view any challenge as a fun puzzle to solve, you tend to solve them more quickly. Remember: Time flies when you’re having fun. And, corollary to that, more gets done per unit of time when you’re not struggling against the mental friction of worry, frustration, resentment or annoyance.
Blasting through barriers can be fun, especially when you find the right viewpoint concerning those barriers. And that’s the beauty of any supposed “problem.” You tend to get exactly the type of problem you need in order to learn your next lesson, spiritually. When you are grateful for the lesson, you learn quickly and move on to the next level. In this sense, there is no such thing as a “problem.” This is because you are at cause rather than at effect. And gratitude is far more fun as an emotion than dread. Again, obvious!
But think about this: You can also have fun with dread, frustration, resentment and worry. I call this the “Shooter Video Game” attitude. One of the genres of video games involve shooting an enemy in order to score points or to reach an objective. But here, you’re zapping negative feelings with gratitude in order to brighten up your subconscious. Do I detect a sudden smile in my reader?
[image error] Line drawing of the power of leverage, the magnitude of power we get from imagination. Drawing: #148273 OpenClipart-Vectors (CC0) Pixabay.
This can be extended to what I call “mind-flutter.” During meditation, the mind will sometimes flit from one vector to another. This doesn’t necessarily involve thoughts or even specific, well-defined feelings. The mind merely jumps to “facing” in one mental direction to another. And sometimes, it does this several times a second. It’s a bit like rapid eye movement (REM) during sleep. So, the objective is to be aware of the mental jump and to insert a blast of gratitude aimed right at the mental behavior. Flit—gratitude! Flit—gratitude! See?
But why would you be grateful? For one, you can be grateful for the discovery. Every time you become more aware, you gain back a little bit more of your power. Jesus said that the truth will set you free. Awareness opens the door toward truth; gratitude includes responsibility which cinches the acquisition of truth—the truth of the mental behavior and possibly even its source. And when you take responsibility for an object or condition (including mental behavior), you suck the time (persistence) right out of that object or condition.
More Pleasant Fiction—Using Imagination as Power Leverage
[image error] Imagination is powerful, like pretending we are the Emperor of the Virgo Supercluster traveling on Earth incognito. Awareness on reality, attention on the possibilities. Photo: #5381812_1920 Victoria_Borodinova (CC0) Pixabay, and PGC 9074 and PGC 9071 galaxies, Judy Schmidt, ESA, Hubble, NASA (PD).
We saw in an earlier article how we could imagine ourselves to be the Emperor of the Virgo Supercluster, so that the $5 Quadrillion value of this planet is less than “pocket lint” to you. This is not fanciful delusion. This is exercising your imagination to stretch your mind. Also, it helps you explore the feelings that such a viewpoint would provoke. This helps in self-discovery. But it also helps in exercising a new habit—one of comfortable prosperity, rather than lonely lack.
All negative emotions can be vaporized with a similar use of imagination.
One of my readers confided that they had tried Dr. Joe Dispenza’s approach, and couldn’t get it to work. They had read my book, The Science of Miracles, and liked the distinction I had made about “importance” being a barrier to miracles. But later, when health concerns reached a critical point, requiring a visit to the emergency room, they couldn’t see how they were making the visit “important.” They confided that they had freaked out and needed help with what seemed to be a life-threatening health “problem.”
Quite often, ego gets in the way, and people cannot see the forest for the trees. Freaking out made the situation “urgent,” “important,” a “big problem”—putting them at effect, rather than at cause. That attitude likely also made it difficult for them to have Dispenza’s routines work. When I first learned about Dispenza’s methods, I rejoiced. It was exactly that for which I had been looking.
But what can you do in a situation that could end up killing you?
First of all, “freaking out” solves nothing. It only makes it worse. Joe Dispenza taught this. I teach this. Just about every self-help coach and mentor I know about teaches some version of this.
[image error] A crescent wrench provides us with a perfect example of leverage. Our efforts are magnified to turn a bolt head that a human hand alone cannot turn. Photo: #1551456_1920 by 41330 (CC0) Pixabay.
The lesson of Apache raiders comes to mind. When a team of raiders would climb a cliff to attack their enemy, if one of their party fell, that individual would not scream. Period! Why scream? Would screaming get a quick rescue? Would screaming stop their fall? Would death be any less traumatic with a quick scream in the send-off? Of course not!
For the same reason, it remains entirely idiotic for people to honk their automobile horns in slow, bumper-to-bumper traffic. Madness!
On the flip side, doing the opposite of “freaking out” might actually save your life.
I’ve mentioned this story elsewhere, but it bears repeating: It concerns an avid skydiver who had both of his chutes fail during one of his jumps. On the way to the ground, he gave up his life to God. He had the humility to accept his impending death, but had the foundational faith that God has infinite power. There was no urgency in asking God to do anything. Only the light, background confidence that God could save him, if the skydiver asked. And he also had the humility that God could say, “No.” This combination package of humble confidence gave him the two ingredients constituting faith—the power of miracles. Moments later, he dusted himself off, walking away from his collision with the ground, with only a few scratches and bruises.
When circumstances threaten to overwhelm you, give up! Give the request to God. He has the power to help if you ask properly. Fear of death, doubt, arrogance and other negative attitudes will give undesirable results. Always!
One trick I’ve used with negative emotions is to take the driver’s seat on the source of the fear. If I were choking to death and happened to remember this trick, I would imagine that I’m choking on a hippopotamus, or Mount Everest, or even on the Moon. Imagine a 2,100 mile orb stuck in my throat! I would make it impossible to clear the obstruction, for in that willingness to make it impossible, I open the door to miracles. I reach for a different viewpoint than that the pitiful victim.
The skydiver could have changed his attitude in the last tenth of a second to one of fear, panic and an arrogant demand from God to save him. Then, he would not have lived to tell his tale.
That’s why this work is so important. Doing an occasional miracle when all the right attitudes fall into perfect alignment is one thing. But being able to do miracles on demand—having that level of mental and spiritual stability—is the sweet spot we’re ultimately after. That’s when we get to go home. That’s when we’ve graduated with our Super-Turbo 9000 Prosperity Engine.
Prosperity Engine Progress
[image error] Imagination benefits from the inspiration of scenes like this — a church in a scenic, mountain valley. Photo: #4984899 Alexvi82 (CC0) Pixabay.
Human activity masks the flutter in the mind that meditation reveals.
This is one perfect reason for the Sabbath as a day of rest, but too few take real advantage of this. They do too much, instead of resting. I’ve done that blunder most of my life.
Instead of improving their minds and awakening their own spiritual self, they go through the motions of church or temple and other activities. They spend too much time looking outward from the separate, selfish self, instead of looking from the whole as spirit connected to all people through God.
But we can move beyond this. Meditation can help, but we must learn to meditate on the fly, as well—to be poised in mind and spirit while doing other things. We need to be critically aware of where our subconscious is pointing at all times. This is not something we “worry” about, but something for which we create gratitude with every bit of awareness. We keep nudging awareness toward greater and greater insight. We keep nudging “frustration” and other negative emotions into the dustbin of mental oblivion—with gratitude for the lessons learned.
During meditation, the mind tends to flit from one vector to another. Mostly, this can be vague feelings, but occasionally a conscious thought. With each flit, add gratitude for the awareness of the mental movement. Within one single second, I sensed at least 2-3 flits. With most of them, I was able to insert an intention of gratitude. Powerful stuff, this.
I suspect that some people are not motivated enough to meditate like clockwork. I’ve long been curious of the individual by whom someone else could set their own clocks.
I suppose that such an ability is part habit and part skill. So far, my own inability in this area has caused only moderate problems, but eventually, I’d like to handle it.
For those who want progress, but still haven’t been able to muster the interest or will to meditate like clockwork, don’t despair. Any meditation is progress. And becoming aware of mental activity while living life is also progress. You don’t have to stop in the middle of work to meditate on a negative feeling which came into mental view. Merely smile, with gratitude, and continue your work, or whatever other activity in which you’re involved.
But here, we need to make a distinction. By “awareness,” I’m talking about attentiveness with “neutral affinity”—neither aversion (negative attitude) nor desire (positive attitude). For instance, being aware of mental noise and responding with something like, “I’ll never make it. I hate this noise. I wish I could make it all go away.” See the two attitudes? One is negative—“hate”—and the other is positive—“wish.” Both are not neutral, and thus corrosive to progress. At neutral affinity, the door to the infinite opens up. This is an infinitely thin discontinuity where ego is perfectly zero.
Yeah, love that zero!
Lately, I’ve become more aware of a flurry of emotions when I wake up in the morning. These have ranged from strong to mild. Some have included flitting between reluctant negative to hopeful positive feelings.
These morning situations could have been frustrating, eroding progress, but I chose gratitude. I was grateful for each point of awareness—zapping each feeling and each mental jump with the emotion of delight.
Effortless Cooperation vs. Conflict
[image error] Chess is the type of conflict game that can benefit from both intelligence and imagination. Photo: #1215079_1920 Devanath (CC0) Pixabay.
I have had a growing realization in the last few years that I really have liked conflict. But I’ve also dreaded it. Talk about conflicted!
I have long known, as a writer, that a story needs conflict to be interesting. The slice of life movie that contains no internal or external conflict is the extreme of boring.
But there is also the element of learning. By attempting to help others understand something, I also learn. That’s the fun part. But coming up against a snarky ego can be painful. That’s the person who won’t listen to any logic, but has a toxic put-down for everything you could possibly say. It’s like taking a long hot bath in battery acid. Yikes!
I delayed publishing this article. Something didn’t seem complete. This noon, 2020:1013 [PHT], I realized that my decades-long delight with conflict and showing how someone else is logically wrong, is itself wrong. To some people, this may have been obvious, and that’s okay. But they may not know why it’s wrong—not all the reasons. The big breakthrough that just hit me is the powerful realization that conflict—or “resisting” evil—is itself a sin. Any action that is not filled with love of others is sinful. It sticks the attention on egoistic separation, rather than on generosity and gratitude. The enthusiastic young adult frequently becomes outraged at the passive attitude of wiser elders.
And, as I was proofreading this for publication, I realized that my new focus on effortless cooperation opens the door to the entire planet helping me achieve my goals. So, “thanks” in advance for that. I appreciate all the help I receive so effortlessly. Now, I realize why my book sales had been stalled. And I can be grateful for even that lesson.
In Scientology, we learn that when the client becomes critical of something—logically pointing out some error or deficit—they have what is called a “missed withhold.” Emotionally—subconsciously—their attention is stuck on some crime of their own, and they remain unconsciously afraid someone will discover it. Somehow, something in the client’s environment triggered the attention shifting to the withheld (suppressed memory of the) crime.
What has been my crime—my “sin?” Quite simply, it’s this: Looking toward separation and ego (hate or other negative emotion), rather than toward oneness and spirit (love). It is also me dwelling on conflict and problems, rather than on cooperation and solutions.
“Oh,” my ego says, “but I am right, and I can prove it. Logic and science are on my side.” And ego would be perfectly right as far as that goes. But that “rightness” is a dagger murdering others for selfish reasons. Ego loves to be “first,” and Christ said that the “first” shall become last, and the “last” shall become first. This wisdom is becoming more and more obvious.
Each of us has some blind spot, and we cannot discover what that is if we ever think we have it all figured out. Humility is the cure for self-imposed blindness. This is a lesson I have needed to learn repeatedly. And I’m grateful each time.
Multi-Dimensional Concept Space vs. 1-Dimensional Intelligence
[image error] A great deal of imagination went into creating the Space Shuttle and its support systems of technology and people. Overcoming conflict! Space Shuttle launch overcoming gravity. Photo: NASA (PD).
I’ve also realized that goals can be in the wrong direction. Reversing direction can also be wrong. This type of problem occurs when we think only 1-Dimensionally—in dichotomies or 2-sided opposites. This is like a mathematical line, with one direction pointing toward some positive idea (love, compassion, generosity, wisdom), while the other direction is pointing toward the opposite idea (hate, indifference, selfishness, stupidity). And neither direction is ultimately right. Only the perfect (“paramita”) of each positive idea is right, and it is nowhere to be found within that dichotomous (“two-sided”) line.
When I was shy, I had the unspoken goal to avoid conflict and to avoid criticizing others. To engage in either activity was to open my wound of painful shyness so that others could shovel in the “salt” of ridicule.
Later, when I overcame much of my selfish shyness, I had the goal to confront others for their poor logic and to criticize their poor conclusions. I really thought I was helping. Imagine that! Both occasions—the period of shyness and the period of brave “teaching”—my focus had been on conflict. Both attitudes were egoistic—selfish!
Now, I have the goal of finding effortless cooperation and focusing on what people do right. Lots of work to do there, but one approach includes asking probing, laser-focused questions. Not everyone is going to be helped by this, but it’s far better than telling others what to think, especially when they don’t want to listen. Asking questions tends to get them to do the work—something which involves them in creating more awareness and solutions. This Big new goal includes finding more people with whom to exercise effortless cooperation. When I find people who respond well to the questions, I might well have another “cooperation partner.”
No more conflict. No more arguments. No more frustration. No more lame time spent correcting the logical fallacies of others. If you see me doing any of these, help me to snap out of it. But by asking the right questions, the other person is left with a decision. Most will likely choose to ignore the idea of learning. They don’t yet have the humility for learning, so any more effort spent by me would have been wasted.
Boy, am I going to have fun practicing this! Just imagine the different flavors of questions we can ask to get another person interested and motivated, especially about becoming more self-aware.
And those who are not yet awake enough to be interested will have to come later. We can still care about all of humanity, but remain focused on helping those who are ready to be helped.
Helpful Hint
If you ever find yourself assaulted by a niggling little worry, and your attempts with gratitude don’t seem to dissolve it, then try the following:
Imagine the worst extreme that the worry has to offer. Facing such a tiny evil is not the same as fixing your attention on it. By wresting control over the worry from whatever dark, subconscious automaticity is feeding it to you, the source of that worry loses its power, and you regain your own power. Try this sometimes when you feel unavoidably stuck. You might be surprised by the powerful results.
Coming Up Next
In the next article, we will take a different, more in-depth look at “toxic importance,” exploring various ways to eliminate the strong habit to make things important, and thus “impossible.” Improving this skill can help you home in on doing miracles, either for the first time, or to make it a regular part of your life.
October 5, 2020
Prosperity Engine — Update — What a Fully Operational Engine Looks Like
I wrote most of this article on Saturday, but had to let it sit a day, because more needed to be said and inspiration needed a little more time. I’ve long realized that time has been one of my weak areas—impatience, frustration, procrastination, etc. Exercising my skills with time feels good—like a good stretching routine in my morning, physical exercise.
In this article, we explore what it’s like to have a fully operational Prosperity Engine—a day in the life of a prosperity master.
Fully Operational Prosperity Engine in Physical, Human Terms
[image error]Executive business suit. Looking sharp enough to have a fully operational Prosperity Engine. #690048_1920 Free-Photos (CC0) Pixabay.
In the simplest human terms, a fully operational Prosperity Engine would be manifested by a monetary amount compatible with our current, personal definition of “prosperity.” Of course, this will be different for each individual and their current needs.
For example, a head-of-household with monthly obligations of $5,000 would be relatively prosperous making $6,000–10,000 per month. The extra would come in handy for discretionary spending, equipment (maintenance, replacement or upgrades), anonymous donations, and quality vacations.
The key focus is never on money, scarcity or lack. In fact, the focus never shifts to a specific amount of money, but always dwells on the feeling of unlimited abundance.
This might well be an accountant’s nightmare, especially because their focus is on physical, cause-and-effect relationships. Bean counters and other control freaks cannot understand such disconnected freedom. Those are the type of individuals who always need to know “how” something is possible, and remain incapable of faith in a higher power. They remain incapable of the spiritual “Not-Know” required to operate a Prosperity Engine.
Fully Operational Prosperity Engine in Terms of the Mind
[image error]Executive learning. A Prosperity Engine attitude. Photo: #3071110_1920 Geralt (CC0) Pixabay.
Mention the word “money” to someone with a fully operational Prosperity Engine and they would only have delightful happiness regarding the subject—a pleasant, comfortable gratitude for abundance.
Tempt such a person with worry about not having enough or similarly negative “What-Ifs,” and they will merely smile. They may even laugh and shrug their shoulders, shaking their head “no,” and reply something like, “You can create lack, if you want to, but I’ve moved beyond that. Far beyond.”
If a greater need arises, there is no “transition period” of emotional adjustment where the current rate of income is found lacking. No. The individual with a fully operational Prosperity Engine merely feels confident that the infinite Source of all prosperity has already covered the new requirements. There is never an emotional “bump in the road.” And if the increase doesn’t “seem” to come right away, the individual remains grateful and humble, searching for the new lesson they need to learn.
This way, growth of desire, responsibility and resources go hand-in-hand, smoothly increasing to meet our goals.
Fully Operational Prosperity Engine in Spiritual Terms
[image error]An executive office that says, “Prosperity Engine fully operational, here.” Photo: #730681_1920 MagicDesk (CC0) Pixabay.
There is a biblical basis for this attitude. This is not to say that we cannot create without a biblical precedent. It merely means that the Ancients have long knon about this divine state of being.
“For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath” (Matthew 13:12 ).
Throughout all of the work on, and benefits from, building a Prosperity Engine, the primary active ingredient is spirit. Changing the wiring in our brains helps. So does changing the habitual chemical releases within the body. Overdoing anything—sex, stress, chocolate, etc.—can upset the body’s ability to heal itself and to produce the chemicals of neutrality and balance compatible with the mental and spiritual requirements for a Prosperity Engine.
I suspect that each person will have a different set of results, but don’t be surprised if you get any or all of the following:
Nearly non-stop inspiration.Frequent gifts of so-called “serendipity,” “synchronicity” and other cause-and-effect coincidences.Out-of-body experiences (OBE), also known as “remote viewing” or erroneously, “astral projection.” Let’s be clear: The body does not project spirit from itself. Quite the contrary, body is but a tool of formerly “sleeping” spirit—“dead” from the egoistic fruit of dichotomous physical reality. The moment spirit took on a physical nature (ego), it could no longer fit in non-physical heaven.Smiling and feeling happy as the new standard operating basis.No more reactivity, but calm observation and responsibility for all input. No more giving in to the temptations to be guilty, angry or egoistically protective of self.Perfect mental quiet except for the thoughts you create by interest and intention.An end to worry—replaced with a constant glow of gratitude.No more need for sleep, or a greatly reduced sleep schedule as the body becomes used to life without the emotional friction of worry.Frequent and instantaneous delivery of prayer requests for the benefit of others and self.Rapid healing and rejuvenation of the body.Repair and replacement of worn out cells and organs, with potentially infinite longevity.Acquisition of full spiritual awareness so that the human body is no longer needed for awareness, conscious thought, and the creation of physical effects. If, for instance, the body becomes blind, the individual can still see clearly through spiritual perception or remote viewing.
Proactive Karma Handling—Prosperity Engine Maintenance
[image error]Futuristic sports car. Another Prosperity Engine symbol. Photo: #49278_1920 Lipetkd (CC0) Pixabay.
There is no need to handle all karma and all subconscious, negative feelings before running our Prosperity Engine. But it’s recommended to handle all karma before it is triggered by circumstances.
Ego is physical. Ego is attached to both the spiritual and physical minds. One of the primary functions of ego is that of karma and action-reaction or victim-perpetrator thinking.
Our only dimension of free will is that of deciding whether or not to be ego or spirit.
As ego, we have no free will, because we remain a cog in the deterministic, action-reaction world of physical reality—the Big “Software” Program.
As spirit, we have far more freedom—infinite dimensions of choice.
As ego in denial of spirit, we suffer the second “Great Death” which reduces us from the 1-Dimensional choice between spirit and ego, to the 0-Dimensional choice of self-inflicted oblivion.
This “second death” state is mentioned in the Bible as the only “unforgivable” sin. The reason why it is unforgivable is because the individual has chosen the illusion of the physical self over the true, spiritual self. The spirit cannot be repaired if the individual denies it even exists. Forgiveness requires responsibility; denial is complete negation of responsibility. So, Pope Francis was lying when he suggested that atheists could ever get into heaven—a most evil lie.
Each of us is “old” in the sense that we were all born from the fracturing of God’s original son—Adam. This is not the “Adam” of human lineage, or the eponymous tribe he generated—the tribe of Genesis 5.
You, Jesus, your mother and father, Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, Lau Tzu, Confucius, Elijah and every other human, are merely fragments of the Adam of Genesis 1–3.
When Adam adopted an egoistic viewpoint, then that fruit (product) of the dichotomous (two-sided, opposition, action-reaction) Tree of Knowledge fractured the one being (Adam himself) into potentially billions of individuals—each uniquely isolated from one another in selfish separateness. Each individual acquired a unique package of egoistic desires. Every individual shares some desires with others and opposes everyone in at least one vector of desire. Thus, the totality of the spiritual group gives us every possible combination of the limited number of egoistic desires. These are the lessons that we must collectively work through. We are each individually and collectively responsible for these.
Some may be shackled with the egoistic selfishness of shyness, while others are shackled with the egoistic selfishness of arrogant confidence.
Some of us have experienced thousands of lifetimes and are more readily attracted to spiritual ideas. With all of those lifetimes, the “Old Souls” have far more direct karma—crimes for which the reaction to the original action has not yet matured. The “boomerang” of sin has not yet returned to us.
But our ultimate freedom depends on each of us taking full responsibility for everyone’s crimes. After all, we are each only pieces of the one, true son of God—Adam. And as creations of God, we are all connected to each other through both Adam and God. These lifetimes we experience are Adam’s dreams.
Greater spiritual awareness must be exercised regularly—scanning, with neutral affinity, not only our physical space, but also our mental space, our spiritual “space,” our egoistic space and the intentions of others.
With this kind of “awareness exercise,” we should be more capable of taking full, grateful responsibility for our own, individual karma, before it becomes triggered.
John the Baptist was Elijah reincarnated. Christ told us this. But John did not remember his identity as spirit connected to karma. He forgot his mission, and thus became a stumbling block to the mission of Christ. And he did not take full responsibility for his own past karma before it was triggered, and thus suffered at the hands of corrupt, Jewish “royalty.”
How do we handle karma?
First, it helps to understand God’s perfect purpose for karma. It is a tool for learning—for helping spirit awaken or gain more awareness.
Christ said that we should know the truth and the truth will set us free.
In the physics of creation, time is a function of inverse responsibility.
Pn = n/R01
where P = persistence, n = an object or condition, and R = responsibility. The subscript and superscript (0–1) indicate the range of possible, integer-only values.
When we use the high-level knowledge state of “Not-Know,” we are shirking our responsibility as spirit, for an object or condition.
Pn = n/0
This signifies infinite potential persistence. Never mind the mathematical purists who declare such an equation invalid with its “divide-by-zero” error. We’re not talking physical mathematics; we’re discussing Creational Mechanics.
This is the condition of manifestation or persistoring (making to persist). This is also the state of a fully operational Prosperity Engine. So, in this sense, shirking responsibility can be a good thing, so long as we don’t fall too far to the lower levels of attachment and degraded awareness or “knowledge.”
To “vanish” or “as-is” (make disappear) a manifestation, we merely need to find its “truth.” And this “truth” is neutral awareness of our responsibility for it.
Happily, this works for any physical creation, including karma and the “boomerang” of karmic, action-reaction intent.
If John the Baptist had been more spiritually aware, he would have seen his outstanding karmic debt, taken full responsibility for it, and thus would have received full “forgiveness” for that debt.
Christ, on the other hand, was more fully aware. His death on the cross was not the result of karma, but was the creation by loving intent of a powerful spiritual lesson—a gift to all humanity. Christ was leading by example—by demonstrating an unforgettable lesson in taking responsibility for everyone’s crimes.
This is the ultimate lesson in freedom.
This means that we do not need to die at the hands of selfish others in order to handle or to fulfill karma. But we should not seek to escape such death for our own selfish sakes. Both attitudes—irresponsibility and escape from pain—can be blindly egoistic and selfish.
We can be simultaneously humble enough to die for the benefit of our friends, as Jesus did, and confident enough that we don’t need to die in order to take full responsibility for our own sins, the sins of others against us, and the sins of others against others. We can even take full responsibility for the original sin—that of self against self in the Great Fall from grace (nephilim or fallen angels)—from immature spiritual wholeness to maturing egoistic separateness.
With the perfect state of humble-confidence (faith), we can receive that for which we ask. The only wild card in this is awareness (or the lack of it). If we exercise our awareness to become more and more knowledgeable of our own karmic debt, then we can dissolve karma before it solidifies—or “explodes” into our lives.
This is, after all, the purpose of karma—prompting the improvement of spiritual awareness and responsibility—key components of forgiveness.
Missed Karma, Triggered
Whenever karma is triggered, we tend to suffer. With ego, this triggers a reaction which lashes out to create more karma, perpetuating the cycle of suffering.
Gratitude—which includes awareness and responsibility—dissolves the karmic debt, stopping the karmic wheel dead in its tracks.
When we are grateful for triggered karma, despite the physical harm or pain, we are not offering happiness for suffering. No. We are grateful for the discovery and the lesson learned. From this, we mature a bit more as spirit. We are grateful for stopping the karmic cycle so that future incarnations will not suffer from it. In a sense, this is the “gift of karma” for our future “selves.”
Other Required Lessons?
Not everything we may define as “negative” is a result of karma. Sometimes, we need a certain viewpoint in order to “see” the next spiritual lesson.
When Christ’s disciples stopped their master at the gate of Jerusalem to ask about the man born blind, they wondered about the possibility of reincarnation and inter-lifetime karma. Jesus told them that the reason was instead so “that the works of God should be made manifest in him.” In other words, these were lessons about how God works that did not involve karma, reincarnation or the “sins of the fathers.”
In order to make the journey less “bumpy,” we might help eliminate the need for certain types of suffering by asking empowering questions, like, “What do I need to learn in order to take the next step, spiritually?” or “What viewpoint would help me see more clearly?”
‘Impossible’ Goals Made Easy
Some people give up before they even start. They assume that certain goals are automatically “impossible” because,
I’m too old or too young.There are not enough resources to pull it off.I don’t know enough.I have this or that character trait which makes it impossible.I wouldn’t know what to do or where to begin.The “globalists” would prevent me from ever doing something that big.That goal is too selfish, and thus goes against {God | decency | society | natural balance}.It’s a man’s world… or… it’s becoming a matriarchal world, so I’d never be able to accomplish it.There’s not enough money in the world for my goal to be possible.Zero sum game tells us that for any person to win, others must suffer and lose.
Each of these “barrier” attitudes contains at least one lie or half-truth. A far greater truth tells us that a goal can become impossible the moment we refuse to dream it in the first place.
If a goal is logical, it is possible. If a goal contains a logical flaw, then we can modify the goal so it becomes logical.
For example, fictional character Johnny Goodstuff has a crush on fictional Wilvia Wontfart. Johnny has a goal of marrying Wilvia, but she has an equally illogical goal of marrying Brad Pitt, the actor. Johnny is not Brad. And Wilvia has no interest in Johnny.
A far more logical goal for Johnny would be that of having an attractive and loving wife who wants, and is capable of having, children. His deeper, more fundamental goal is one of “familial bliss.” He won’t find that with vain Wilvia. His attachment to Wilvia sets up an impossibility—desire for familial bliss with a vain, celebrity fanatic who doesn’t want to be bothered with children. The two people have incompatible goals.
Another example involves a topic covered before in these articles—the supposed “impossibility” of a financial goal. Here, the goal is logical, after all, and the judgment of “impossibility” is false.
The current value of civilization on Earth was recently calculated to be about $5 Quadrillion. That’s $5,000 Trillion or $5 Million-Billion. A goal of $10 Quadrillion would be impossible now, but not necessarily in the future.
Civilization didn’t always have this value, especially when it first started. Back with the first Egyptian dynasty (~3200 BC), or even with the ancient site of Göbekli Tepe, Turkey (~9500 BC), the value of civilization was likely measured in single-digit millions—far below billions or trillions.
Humanity has gained in prosperity by individuals adding value—some far more than others. Get the hint? What if one individual added $10 Quintillion in value to human civilization—multiplying the total value of humanity’s possessions by 2,000 times?
What if we ended up with thousands of Trillionaires, millions of Billionaires, and billions of Millionaires? What if extreme poverty vanished entirely? What if the poorest individual on Earth, in that near future, lived like a king would have a millennium ago?
All logical goals have specific requirements. Those requirements need not make a goal “impossible.”
Prosperity Engine Progress
This series of articles has been meant to document my own progress in building and running my own Prosperity Engine. My own desire, here, includes thoroughly exploring the potential barriers to building a Prosperity Engine so that others will have less difficulty in building and maintaining their own.
I have observed a tendency for successful actions to produce diminishing results. This reduces enthusiasm to continue and reduces the energy of self-motivation.
Varying activity can help us become more aware of the barriers, but quitting altogether is wrong.
If a goal was valuable and logical to begin with, then we must not simply quit.
From the work of Dr. Joe Dispenza, David Bayer and others, we learn that the body has built up habits. When we begin to make changes, we may experience initial successes that give us hope. But as we continue, we run into the “dust” of the dark corners of our subconscious. This region of darkness won’t clean itself. We have to roll up our sleeves and persist—even if one of our core egoistic traits is some flavor of laziness.
Our best tools can become dulled by the crude, initial work of slogging through the thick, negative junk of egoistic desire and tragedy-generated beliefs. A short break may help us see what we might be missing. By inspecting not only self, but also self’s intentions, self’s use of mental tools, and the tools themselves, we may discover the reasons for a tool becoming dulled so quickly.
Sometimes, we merely need to persist while maintaining a neutral “affinity” (mental awareness) of our desire to persist. “Slugging it out” with the darkness of the subconscious while reducing our sense of “effort” or “struggle,” we will find a breakthrough. In fact, some of the biggest breakthroughs occur after some of the thorniest barriers.
After we’ve stacked up a sufficient number of breakthroughs, we will find the process becoming far easier. There may still be bumps in the road, but they will tend to become more rare and less bothersome. I have experienced some of these things.
I have also experienced years of neglect—not doing this spiritual work—resulting in a spiritual “calcification,” making it more difficult to pick up where I left off more than 30 years ago.
Taking a short break might be okay, on occasion, but I think we need to do so more with a sense of constructive purpose than one of abandonment—intentional or “accidental.”
My new favorite gratitude affirmation takes on the form of an Empowerment Question.
What would the Rod Martin of galactic exploration, terraformed Mars, and InDyn University campuses feel right now?
I find myself asking this question repeatedly throughout the day. It helps me “see” the viewpoint of that future self, after the accomplishment. It helps me feel the unavoidable gratitude of doing all those things, and for adding all that value to civilization.
I can see me in one of those many starships, entering a new star system for the first time, and using computerized “blink” photography from various locations within the system to spot its many planets, dwarf planets and planetoids.
I can see me having lunch with the crew, discussing the new worlds and the possibility of successfully terraforming any of them to expand the reach of ethical human creativity.
With this Empowerment Question, I can see me returning home, but stopping off at one of the new Martian cities and visiting its local InDyn University campus with its world-changing grad students.
Part of my reason for this series of Prosperity Engine articles and for building my own Prosperity Engine was borne out of a rekindling of these and other long-range goals I had developed over the last 50 years.
From that rekindling, I had explored numerous avenues for achieving those goals—including,
Writing books,Producing YouTube videos,Creating online courses, andAllowing people to become patrons of my work (SubscribeStar and Patreon).
On this last item, I have developed a “welcome” video for my new SubscribeStar account.
The video can also be found on YouTube at Rod Martin, Jr. – SubscribeStar Welcome.
Though I don’t mind making a small fortune off helping others with their own prosperity, if others find this material valuable, I would prefer to make most of my prosperity from other types of “adding value” to civilization. Making money off of the idea of making money does not feel like adding substantial value to civilization. It’s more like a launderer taking in their own laundry, or a farmer eating all his own produce. But helping others become more aware and capable could add lots of value.
A Small Example of Adding Value—Pangaea Sister Sites
[image error]One of my many Prosperity Engine projects: Pangaea Sister Sites, a book about Earth’s past and present. This is the book cover showing the link between New York City and Dakhla, Western Sahara during the period of dinosaur rule. Cover: Copyright © Rod Martin, Jr.
My current Rod Martin book project is called Pangaea Sister Sites: Celebrating Connections Across Time. The book contains dozens of pictures and maps, including Paleomaps by Dr. Christopher Scotese, professional geologist.
My hope is that the book helps to stimulate more interest in geography, geology, maps, history, climate and other sciences. The book is about half done and includes detailed maps of Pangaea from 180 million years ago.
This book combines many of my lifetime interests—cartography, human civilization, cultural diversity, history, science and dinosaurs.
The Natalie Wood Syndrome
[image error]Robert Wagner and his wife, Natalie Wood in 1960. Perhaps a perfect example of how a poorly constructed Prosperity Engine can misfire. Photo: (PD).
That upon which our attention remains stuck tends to be that of which we get more. But there’s a wrinkle to this and I discovered it on Sunday (yesterday).
If we remain actively afraid of something, we remain fairly safe, but suffer the damage of extreme stress. I say the word “safe” guardedly, because there are many vectors of intention involved in any danger, any one of which could lead to our demise or otherwise the triggering of karma.
In 1981, actress Natalie Wood (born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko, 1938) died of drowning. Natalie’s sister, actress Lana Wood (Svetlana Gurdin), said that Natalie had suffered a lifelong fear of the water and could not swim.
In a 2012 article discussing the recent discovery of the Higgs Boson (“god particle,” 2012:0704) and the possible connection to our mind controlling matter, Susan Borowski stated, “One possible example of this is the death of Natalie Wood, something which is still shrouded in mystery. Her fear of water was well-documented throughout her lifetime. Her fear of death by drowning was something she was focused on anytime she was near water. So when she drowned after falling off a yacht, she died in the way that she feared the most. One could argue that it was coincidence; bad luck; a premonition on her part; or a self-fulfilling prophecy. But the Law of Attraction theory fits as well. ‘You bring about what you think about.’”
Active, conscious fear fouls up the “Law of Attraction” because it blocks the “Not-Know” or “resting” or “allowing” that activates a creation. Taking a creation out of conscious thought (awareness) while keeping our attention (subconscious feeling certainty) on that creation is what gives the creation persistence or manifestation.
Let us say a person lives in fear of a specific threat—like Natalie Wood’s fear of drowning. That fear is not always at the same strength. Sometimes we forget about the fear when we are distracted by happiness or by some dark emotion on a different topic. This is when the individual runs into the “sweet spot” of activating the creation—when the subconscious attention is still on the dread and the conscious mind is on something else.
Did this happen with the actress in 1981? Was her argument with her husband enough of a distraction while on their yacht, surrounded by the Pacific Ocean? We may never know for certain, but the possibility of this cause-and-effect connection is very real. And this mind-spirit-physical universe connection does not eliminate the possibility that foul play might have been involved.
This is the same type of syndrome which led to a “surprise” traffic citation in Beverly Hills some 35 years ago. I should’ve known better, but I let a light “fear” of a traffic ticket slip into “Not-Know” while my conscious awareness was on the clean beauty of that high-class, California city. I had noticed a police car, felt a brief, but light fear, suppressed the idea, and turned my awareness onto my surroundings. Oops!
Sunday, I received another example of this “Natalie Wood Syndrome” while drinking my morning coffee.
The coffee was getting cold, so I merely sipped, leaving only a tiny bit in the bottom of the cup. I noticed a spider on the wall behind my desk—a tiny thing, about half a centimeter across (1/4 inch). I felt a memory being triggered of waking up with a spider bite and other spider-related inconveniences, but then took my awareness off of the tiny creature, and went to take an exercise break.
When I got back, I took one last swig of coffee and felt something solid in the midst of the liquid. I spat it out into the cup and went to the kitchen to poor the remaining liquid into my cup’s saucer. There it was: the spider! How did he get from the back wall, 5 centimeters (two inches) from my desk, all the way across my large desk, and into my coffee cup? All in less than 5 minutes! And why?
Then, I remembered. And then I took full responsibility for the unwitting creation and persistoring (act of causing to persist) of the “spider attack.”
Creating and having that creation persist is effortless. The reason we don’t see more of it is because two things:
We are creating the status quo—maintaining the existing reality, or
We are efforting (using effort instead of effortlessness), and thus preventing, a creation from manifesting.
Both of these appear “invisible” to the unobservant (confident but non-humble) human. Both of these tend to help us remain “comfortable” in our ignorance of the power we possess. Both of these help the atheist and secular “unbeliever” remain safe in their security blanket of logically fallacious denial.
This is power that God gave us—the power to ask and to receive. All power flows from Him, but we have the free will whether or not to be spirit or to be ego. We have the freedom to ask with our whole being or to be divided—conscious mind pointing one way and subconscious mind in another.
Mostly, we humans remain “safe” from such power because we remain in the rugged toughness of “effort” (effect) instead of the “effortlessness” of creation (cause).
We have the opportunity to improve on one other ingredient which will help us remain relatively safe while we improve our ability to create. That other “safety” ingredient is awareness—greater clarity in precision perception of exactly what we are asking from moment to moment. When we can take full responsibility for that awareness, then we can safely control anything in the universe. Like Christ said, faith the size of a mustard seed can move mountains. It can even move entire galactic clusters—or even the entire universe.
When we fully realize that miracles are created and persistored without any effort at all, we realize that such infinite power should not surprise us. When we realize that effort equals doubt—the opposite of the faith to perform such miracles—then we also realize that considerations of size or difficulty do not matter.
Coming Up Next
In the next article, we look at the “Leverage of Imagination.” No matter what the apparent problem we face, or how big or thorny is the barrier in our way, we have the tools to blast right through them, if we remain humble enough and hungry enough to see them.
Reference:
Borowski, Susan. (2012:0716). “Quantum mechanics and the consciousness connection.” Retrieved on 2020:1004 from https://aaas.org/quantum-mechanics-and-consciousness-connection
September 27, 2020
Prosperity Engine — Update — Misguided Logic of the Skeptics, and How Hollywood Gets Spirituality All Wrong
Skeptics like to point out certain narrow forms of logic to dismiss this kind of work. They tend to use “name calling” and other logical fallacies to ridicule such ideas. Thus, miracles and the Law of Attraction are “woo” philosophy—a pejorative term of flaccid dismissal. These tactics work really well with the weak-minded and the intellectually blind. What their brazen ridicule actually says about them is that they imply for themselves an omniscience that the facts don’t support. They claim to “know” that such things are impossible, but don’t know everything in the universe. See the problem?
Quite often, such skeptics will suggest alternate explanations about an event as if to say that their explanation proves the supernatural explanation is wrong. While they may be right to condemn the Divine Fallacy when believers ignore logic, they are revealing their own lack of logic and critical thinking when they use the Natural Fallacy (opposite of the Divine Fallacy).
The original purpose of skepticism was to keep scientists from jumping to the easiest conclusion before they had all the facts on a topic. And since having “all” the facts means gaining the omniscience of God Himself, scientists need to hold any and all conclusions as “temporary” or “tentative” because of that lack of omniscience. This does not mean that science cannot find useful answers or “relative truths;” it does mean, however, that skeptics should not dismiss so easily things for which they have insufficient evidence, or insufficient creative imagination.
What remains truly sad is that some people with extremely high IQs can prove their own stupidity by remaining blindly certain of their conclusions. They use logical fallacies to bolster their ideas, but don’t see their own perversion of logic. Their alternate ideas for why something may have happened may be true, but they never take the time, or do the work to prove their hypothesis, or to disprove the hypotheses of others. Read that last line again; it’s critical to understanding the weakness of the skeptics’ frequent arguments. They use Appeal to the Stone to “prove” their assertions, using what I’ve called “unsupported dismissiveness.” It’s like they’re saying, “Well, the stone doesn’t disagree with me, so I must be right.”
Clever ideas are not necessarily proof. This should be obvious, but millions of self-described “skeptics” don’t realize their own weaknesses. They are not sufficiently self-skeptical.
But skepticism is itself an imperfect tool for discovery. When you understand why this is so, it becomes painfully obvious that nearly the entire planet is suffering from intellectual blindness. So, this is no trivial problem.
Scientific method declares that the observer (researcher, scientist) needs to give up all bias. But if we look up the definition of “skepticism,” we immediately see the heavily negative bias of “doubt” in both key definitions. Doubt may work to counteract the positive bias of youthful enthusiasm, but it rarely works to counteract the positive bias of a senior scientist whose ego has grown sufficiently large to blind their own self awareness and humility.
The far better paradigm for scientific discovery is the dynamic duo of restraint and humility. But too often ego loves to quash the viewpoints of “lesser minds.” Thus, we get some scientists making regular use of “self-indulgent ridicule”—an Ad Hominem logical fallacy. Ridicule has no place in science, and it reveals in the person who uses it a dark evil in their hearts. Yes, I’ve been there and done that. So, I’m as guilty as the rest of them. But being guilty in the past does not mean we’re stuck there. Yet, ego tends to stick people to an idea so they cannot let go.
We know that the Law of Attraction sometimes works. What interests us is how do we increase the percentage of time that it does work? The self-certain skeptics will never investigate this question, or approach it honestly. They can’t. They’ve crippled themselves with arrogant certainty—a conviction which blinds them to contrary evidence.
And we can improve our chance of improving on the application of things like the Law of Attraction by understanding more deeply how it works.
To handle skeptics and their logical fallacies, we need to become more fully aware of the various kinds of logical fallacies and how they can be used. Once we have this knowledge, our best approach is to point out the logical fallacy and to return the discussion to the topic.
Inaccuracies in the Self-Help Industry
[image error]Quantum reality represented by a fractal graphic. Image: #1280084_1920 Insspirito (CC0) Pixabay.
This is an “industry,” and as such requires a steady flow of funds to keep each business afloat. Therefore, the practitioners of this industry tend to use the latest buzz words to keep people flocking to their doors (or internet portals). Sorry, but I don’t need the money that much. I’m not going to stoop to making my approach all about the latest fashion. I’m after the truth. I will use buzz words to attract attention, but my lesson will be one of finding the proper context, rather than blindly following the “spirit is a frequency” or “spirit is energy” memes.
Is quantum mechanics involved in this work? Of course it is! Anything in the physical universe uses quantum mechanics merely to exist. But are quantum-level processes directly involved in attracting the things we desire? That I don’t know. But “quantum” is not the entire answer. Spirit is non-physical and thus is not “quantum” anything.
Even so, we need to keep in mind that all “truths” are “relative truths,” except those facts that make the object or condition disappear. So, there is some imperfection in everything we say. Yet, we make progress despite the imperfections—and perhaps even because of them.
Prosperity Engine Error Avoidance and Hollywood’s Frequent Goofs
[image error]The late Vincent Schiavelli as the “subway ghost” in the movie, Ghost. Copyright Paramount Pictures.
We can’t use Hollywood movies as our basis for understanding the universe and especially not for understanding spirit and spiritual action (miracles).
A prime example of this can be found in the motion picture, Ghost (1990), with Patrick Swayze (1952–2009), Demi Moore (1962–) and Whoopi Goldberg (1955–). In that movie, a subway ghost, played by Vincent Schiavelli (1948–2005), teaches the newly dead Sam Wheat (Swayze) how to move physical objects. He says that we have to build up all our hate and passion deep down inside and let it explode outward. Here’s the dialogue from that scene:
“It’s all in your mind. The problem with you is you still think you’re real. You think you’re wearing those clothes? You think you’re crouched on that floor? Bullsh*t! You ain’t got a body no more, son. It’s all up here, now,” pointing to his own head, “You want to move something, you gotta move it with your mind. You gotta focus. You hear what I’m saying?”
“How? How do you do you focus?”
“I don’t know how you focus. You just focus.” The subway ghost knocks a bottle cap several meters.
“How’d you do that?”
“You gotta take all your emotions. All your anger. All your love. All your hate. And push it way down here in the pit of your stomach,” pointing to his abdomen, “and let it explode like a reactor.”
While it’s wrong that the elder ghost points to his head and his stomach, because he no longer has a human body, the lesson is even more wrong, because spiritual action does not occur by effort or strong emotions; it occurs by the superior perfection of confidence and humility, the combination of which is called “faith.”
The Hollywood Zeus Idea, Clogging Up the Prosperity Engine
[image error]A Hollywood-like version of Zeus, holding lightning bolts in his right hand. Photo: #4912734 Travelspot (CC0) Pixabay.
Every movie I’ve ever seen which had some form of mind-over-matter ability, got it wrong in one fashion or another.
The idea of Zeus sitting on Olympus consciously throwing lightning bolts is a bit misleading. I have no doubt that we can develop our skill so that it looks that effortless and seamless.
Spiritual action is always effortless, but early on we need to sneak up on the accomplishment. The reason for this counterintuitive requirement involves the nature of creation and persistence.
Creation is easy. We each do it all the time. Quite often, we don’t realize what we are creating, for it occurs in the darkness the subconscious. But the really tricky part involves giving that creation persistence; and this requires the deeper, apparent oblivion of “Not-Know.”
A god levitating, or some mortal suddenly imbued with godlike powers, looks simple in the movies. The god or powerful mortal merely thinks something, waves a hand (or a wand) and the thing suddenly happens.
When people are successful using the Law of Attraction, the active ingredient of effortless “Not-Know” is hidden by the powerful feeling of gratitude, or some other positive emotion which elicits in the true spiritual self a request (prayer) that is always answered in the affirmative and always instantly. Any apparent delay is merely a product of the exact specifics of the request.
Without this deeper understanding, no one is going to be doing the Zeus-lightning bolt trick any time soon, unless it’s through computer-generated imagery.
Lucy and the Evolution of the Physical Self
[image error]Actress Scarlett Johansson, who played the title role in Lucy. Photo: Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 3.0).
In the 2014 film, Lucy, Scarlett Johansson’s character uses some drug to evolve into a superhuman who can break the laws of physical reality to time travel and other nifty tricks. That’s like having someone use a giant lever to move a car, but both the lever and the fulcrum reside inside the car. Oops! That isn’t going to work; a lever and fulcrum need to be outside the object being moved. A physical being cannot bend or break the laws of physical reality.
The movie, Lucy, gets a failing grade for poor logic. Only spirit can bend or break physical law, because spirit resides on the only truly “permanent” platform—the realm of spirit.
Like Christ said, a house built on sand will not last. Depending on physical reality is like building on sand.
Lex Luthor Logical Fallacies
[image error]Actor Jesse Eisenberg, who played Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman. Photo: Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 3.0).
In an earlier article, we already looked at the Hollywood habit of atheism and using poor logic to bolster that viewpoint. In the 2016 film, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Superman’s arch enemy, Lex Luthor, utters a clever jab at God, but his words are full of faulty reasoning.
To recap, Lex Luthor said, “If God is all-powerful, he cannot be all good. And if he is all good, then he cannot be all-powerful.”
To the self-assured atheist, this may seem like a slam dunk—unavoidable logic which proves God cannot exist. But the logic is shallow and fractured. It assumes things about God and His purpose which have never been proven.
What humans declare to be good does not necessarily match what God declares to be good. Atheists will frequently point to the reality of suffering as proof that God doesn’t exist. We see this as a theme in many Hollywood (and other) movies. In the thought-provoking, 2020, Irish-European production, Marionette, the flawed protagonist rails against belief in God, because the Heavenly Father hadn’t stepped in to prevent the death of her late husband.
One of the primary methods of learning is through stress. One of the primary motivations to get people off their butts, in order to learn, is some stressful event.
God only cares about these Homo sapiens bodies to the degree that they help His true children—the ones who look like Him—mature to the point where they can be like Him—fully awake, non-physical, timeless beings with the ability to create. Thus, Noah’s Flood was an act of love, protecting the purpose for his non-physical—non-human!—children.
Dr. Strange and Dormammu
[image error]Actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who played the title role in Dr. Strange. Photo: Prishank Thapa (CC BY 2.0).
In the 2016 film, Dr. Strange, the title character, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, learns of a Dark Dimension, ruled by a horrid, but powerful being named Dormammu. Dr. Strange also learns that the Dark Dimension is timeless, and thus “evil.”
Well, this is flat out backwards. The timeless realm is the half of reality known as the “spiritual.” Time is the “soft” evil that makes persistence possible. And time is created by shirking responsibility for a creation. This is why a problem or conflict persists—no one has yet discovered the truth. The moment the truth of a conflict is discovered, the conflict ceases to exist. And this is why a hidden third party can keep two nations or individuals constantly at war with one another. Time—persistence—is built on the lie of irresponsibility.
We can use this fact to help us make prosperity persist, but that becomes a double-edged sword, in a manner of speaking. If we become attached to the persisting prosperity, we become trapped by it. That weakens us, and our Prosperity Engine sputters to a halt.
Instead, we need to ride the crest of the wave—never becoming the wave.
Prosperity Engine Progress
[image error]An artist’s impression of what a terraformed Mars would look like from space. Image: Daein Ballard (CC-BY-SA 3.0).
I seem to be getting the most traction—both emotionally and spiritually from my new, empowering question (one I mentioned a few days ago):
How would the Rod Martin of galactic exploration, terraforming Mars and worldwide InDyn University campuses act and feel today?
Of course, my goals are likely very different from your own, but let’s look at what works with this question.
Remember the Virgo Supercluster Emperor Identity exercise a few days ago? If you didn’t yet read that article on energy, I recommend you do.
That exercise was inspired by a scene from the television series, Person of Interest, where the rich protagonist, Harold Finch (Michael Emerson), holds a minor position, in one episode, as a programmer in the company he owns. What better way to see how things work in your own company than to work incognito as a low-level employee. It also looks like good exercise for developing our own humility. In that television series, also starring Jim Caviezel as former Green Beret and CIA agent, John Reese, Finch had been thought killed in a false flag terrorist attack by the American government to eliminate all outside knowledge of their secret surveillance program using a superior artificial intelligence, created by Finch, allegedly to prevent another 9/11 from occurring. Ironically, we now know that 9/11 itself was a false flag joint operation by the American Deep State, possibly Israeli Mossad and other players.
Now imagine you achieving your own, long-range goals. And imagine your future, successful self using a time machine to come back to the present. But instead of inhabiting the body of your older self, the future persona invades your current, younger body, taking over full operation of not only the body, but also conscious thought. What is useful about this concept is that the question triggers us to consider that future viewpoint. It triggers in us the possibility that we already know how it is done, and that our future self, coexisting in our current body brought all those exciting memories back with him. However, the details of those memories are not nearly as important as the viewpoint of “done.” After all, insisting on specific actions or paths toward a goal may foul up our success in getting there. But the attitude that it is “done” will help us see the best actions to take along the way, even if foreknowledge foils the effectiveness of some of those formerly successful details.
One of the things I like most about this empowering question is the sense of removing “importance” or “scarcity” from the long-range goals mentioned in the question. The goals are no longer impossibly huge, because they’re done. This is not delusion (because our awareness is still firmly planted in the present reality), but our attention is firmly planted in that future possibility. Thus, this is not delusion, but instead creation. Does this ensure our success? It could, but we could change our mind, along the way, through simple decision or through clumsy incompetence. And my bet would be on selfish incompetence, but both remain possibilities. Yet, success is still a possibility. And that’s why your author is still working on his own Prosperity Engine.
Coming Up Next
In next week’s article, we take a break from the theoretical to look at what a fully operational engine looks like.
And, in an upcoming article, we look at “Toxic Importance,” and how two people can do exactly the same actions, but get remarkably different results. It all hinges on the attitude presented to spirit, for that is what governs the content of the prayer.
September 25, 2020
Prosperity Engine — Update — The Four Elements of Physical Reality
Article in development. Coming soon…
[image error]The four elements of physical science — space, time, energy and mass can be exemplified in most any photograph. Here, we see space delineated by the perspective of the pier, clouds and horizon; time represented by the apparent motion of the waves, frozen at the moment of the photograph; energy from the wave motion, the obvious warmth of the water (being liquid) and the warmth of the sun; and mass from the pier, the water and the beach. Photo: #1803877 Engin_Akyurt (CC0) Pixabay.
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