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Prosperity Engine — Update — Conquering the Past

[image error]A woman overwhelmed by time and the past. Symbolically, this represents our need to conquer the past in order to build our Prosperity Engine. Image: #1739629 by Geralt (CC0) Pixabay.

We all have some desire for the future. Some desires are stronger than others. Most people don’t realize that there are two desires at work in each individual, and the desire in conscious thought is the weak one. The hidden, subconscious desire is the one that’s in control. And it’s usually, by default, based on the past.

Some people are aware of the notion that roughly 1% of the population knows something the rest of us don’t. That’s why they’re so rich. But that’s changing. Humanity was introduced to such awareness with the likes of Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 1937) and Rhonda Byrne (The Secret, 2006). Refinements keep being made. New discoveries are added to our base of common knowledge with each passing year.

And some people may say that the super rich are that way because of “connections,” “born that way” or “corruption.” Certainly, there are some of these things involved with some people. But how did the “connections” happen? How did the originator of a fortune get there in order to hand it down to their children? A big part of it is attitude—subconscious attitude.

I grew up with the “everybody knows” idea that the subconscious can’t be touched. It remains the unknown. Well, that former “truth” is being destroyed. It takes work to increase our awareness of the subconscious, but more and more people are doing it. More and more people are changing their subconscious.

And because the subconscious is the powerhouse that controls the future, some people are no longer baffled by conscious thoughts that want to go in one direction, and a life that goes in an entirely different direction.

The subconscious has been the source of great self-sabotage, but only because we have not taken responsibility for it. When we do take control of the subconscious, we can then get it to work for us, rather than against us. This is the primary work of building our Prosperity Engine. Being in the “Creative Now” and clarifying our “Designed Future” are relatively easy by comparison.

The dark and dirty subconscious is one of the key reasons the Law of Attraction doesn’t seem to work for a lot of people. Ironically, the Law of Attraction is always working, but always from the hidden subconscious—hidden until now.

As best as I can figure, the subconscious (attention or feeling) mind is closest to the gateway leading from the physical “awareness unit” and the true spiritual self. Whatever sits in the subconscious is the text of our prayers to God. So, we have to shake our head in wonder at the disconnect between our conscious prayers and the results we invariably get. But now, we know why, and we have a way to fix that disconnect.

Built of the Past



[image error]Old wooden bridge carrying us to where we want to go. Photo: #2769777 by JerzyGorecki (CC0) Pixabay.

The subconscious mind is an accumulation of “feeling” memories of past events. Most of us have a mixed bag of good and bad experiences. But we tend to focus more on the bad, because they seem more important for our survival. After all, the subconscious is part of the survival strategy of this life form called Homo sapiens.

Inspired by the work of David Bayer, I realized that all of the beliefs stored in the subconscious are the result of a specific sequence:
Event > Emotion > Decision > Belief

And our work, here, will involve another sequence to interrupt the old beliefs, so we can replace them with new, more empowering ones.
Observe > Extract > Inspire > Decide > Belief

This starts with the observation of an old belief, or the feeling and the meaning attached to it. This is followed by extracting the meaning from our observation. Then, we use inspiration to sculpt a new meaning on that type of event or topic. And finally, we decide to implement that new meaning, which gives us our new, more empowering belief.

Most of the subconscious was built up by the age of 4, or possibly as late as age 6. This period—from conception just past infancy—contains very little in the way of conscious memories. Our analytical minds had not yet become fully formed to understand such things.

There are exceptions, of course. I was startled to remember an incident where I knew I didn’t understand much of the language being spoken—my first language this lifetime: English! In other words, I was very young. I remember a set of white shelves near a door, a toy that had been left several feet away in the darker part of the room, and my mother standing over me, yelling and pointing. Toy—bottom shelf—not returned—guilt—confusion. I had thought I was being good and conscientious, but the evidence burned into my young brain: incompetence! I asked my mother about the white shelves and the space reserved for my toys on the bottom. She said I was 9 months old when we lived there. February 1951, I was still not proficient with English, but I had a vivid memory of the event.

That feeling of “incompetence” had haunted me for years. It had made my work more difficult, blinded me to opportunities, trashed my ability to get along with people, made me more critical of others and more defensive about my own mistakes. Ouch! Nasty stuff. And the only way to resolve such a mess is to take full responsibility for it.

“But, but, but,… my mother!” Bull! Life will always give us things to learn, but we are the ones pulling in the opportunities to learn. When we assume this more powerful viewpoint, then we can no longer be a victim; only then can we start creating a brilliant future.

So, how do we clean up the past so we’re not tripping over our own hidden intentions?

Meditation



[image error]Lighthouse, signal and Moon. A message from the past concerning our Prosperity Engine. Image: #2651524 by PIRO4D (CC0) Pixabay.

One of the simplest ways to start cleaning the past is through meditation.

There are a number of methods for meditation. The simplest is to “be here” in the “Creative Now.”

With all potential distractions removed, sit comfortably and clear your mind. Don’t force it. And don’t become frustrated by thoughts that interrupt your mental quiet. In fact, be grateful for each interruption. Simply cast your awareness in the direction of the unruly thought and let it go, reasserting the quiet awareness of the present moment.

Our objective is not to clean up the past, but simply to be aware of the interrupting thoughts. By doing this we are actually doing some preliminary cleaning, but this is a byproduct of the simple exercise of being in the “Creative Now.”

Another form of meditation is somewhat more aggressive. This actively looks for interrupting thoughts and examines them thoroughly for their feeling and any meanings attached to them, and then assigns them a newer, more empowering significance.

The Daily ‘Work’

Coach and business consultant, David Bayer (Mind Hack), describes this approach as “the work.” It involves interruptions in our daily life that cause a negative emotion—frustration, worry, anger, resentment and the like.

Whenever anything like this occurs, we need to stop, mentally, look at the feeling and any meaning attached to it, and to give it a new, more empowering meaning. If we’ve been doing this awhile, we likely have an assortment of positive feelings and meanings all set up to help us with this task. Once the feeling has its new meaning, we need to activate it with gratitude.

Remember, the subconscious doesn’t understand conscious thoughts; it only understands feelings. The more deeply we can feel the gratitude, the more traction we have with the subconscious.

A New Power Tool



[image error]Out of the past we find secrets for building our Prosperity Engine. A steampunk clock. Image: #1636156 by 3209107 (CC0) Pixabay.

David Bayer warns his clients not to use questions that begin with “why” or “how” because they are so open-ended and quite often too negative. Bayer points out that the brain is a wonderfully powerful search engine which produces lots of results for every question we give it—the good, the bad and the ugly. And, quite often, such questions return potently negative answers which are not helpful. The answers usually weaken or burden us, instead of empowering us.

But think about this. The subconscious is dark and mysterious—difficult to examine. Finding all of the negative beliefs, which send our life in the wrong direction, remains a thorny challenge. Why not use these “prohibited” questions as tools for getting the subconscious to reveal its secrets?

Asking such questions from the viewpoint of frustration could make our life more difficult, but asking these questions from the clever viewpoint of strategic self-empowerment, we should produce only positive results.

So, here’s the strategy. In order to scrub the subconscious entirely clean—and yes, it will take lots of work—we can do the following:

Find an area of our life which bothers us,Ask, “Why is my life this way?” or some other more specific question to ensure we get more specific answers,Write down every answer our brain gives us. Expect a flood of answers.Examine the feelings and write down, as specifically as possible, the emotions generated by the question.For each feeling, write down any meaning which seems to be attached to it. Example: if we feel dread, the meaning might be something like, “My life will end tomorrow.” And there may be more than one meaning attached; so write them all down.For each of the meanings and answers on our list, let inspiration deliver an empowering, new meaning to replace it. The best new meaning will frequently be opposite in its intent, but not always.Find a way to be deeply grateful for the new meaning of each one. The powerful feeling of gratitude is what makes this work.

Remember, feeling is the language of the subconscious (attention) mind, while thoughts are the language of the conscious (awareness) mind.

Trying Out the ‘Why’ Experiment

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I’ll start this with a MINOR barrier so I can concentrate on streamlining the “Why-Question” process of digging out the “dust” of the past.

So, what’s a real, light-weight problem?

I’m noticing a fear that I’ll discover my light-weight problem to be my largest “monster.” But that’s okay; I’m committed to this task, no matter what happens. One way or another, it will be a learning experience.

Here’s the question that came to mind:

Why can’t I stay on top of all my responsibilities, to keep the room clean, to do my exercises regularly, to do my work on-time, etc.?

And here are the answers which came to me:

Because I’m dumb and stupid.Because I’m ignorant.Because I’m weak.Because I’m easily distracted.Because I’m hiding a dark secret.Because, if I’m successful, I’ll pull in (attract) the karma I’ve been avoiding.



Analysis and Thoughts

Goosebumps!

That hit a nerve! And there it is: the dark secret of “bad” karma I’ve been avoiding: my betrayal, brutal murder, selfish greed, selfish attachment, insistence on pampering “me” even if others suffer, suppressing guilt as a sign of weakness and love and generosity as signs of stupidity.

In the past, my writing has been confrontational, at times, and in part, it seems, because I wanted to provoke someone into “assassinating me.” What a curious idea that is. One might think I had watched too many crime movies. And while such input could be the source of such a “hidden” thought, belief or feeling, it’s also possible that such input (movies) could be “evidence” to back up the belief which came far earlier.

Now, some who read this may not believe in reincarnation. But such beliefs are a form of implied omniscience. They remain an implied claim that the disbeliever “knows everything,” so their dismissal of reincarnation is accurate and right.

Well, I don’t know everything, and I’ve benefited from erasing the trauma from hundreds of past lives. Reincarnation is also a part of the traditions of the Jews (Christ’s disciples talked about it; the Kabbalists talk about it even today), the Cathars and the Celts (Julius Caesar marveled at such a belief), and we even have scientific evidence (not yet proof) that strongly supports reincarnation as a fact and reality of life.

But let us keep our focus on what we are really after. If the idea of reincarnation is in any way false, but using it produces the results we are after, then the idea acts as a placebo or leverage toward our goal. We can hammer out the actual details later, if we are interested.

Karma (what Christ called “reaping what we sow” or “dying by the sword by which we have lived”) is merely an opportunity to take responsibility for what we have created. It’s a learning exercise. If we learn it fully, without getting “whacked” as we had whacked others in a past life, then we can skip the suffering. That’s my current take on it. But if we get stuck on “avoiding” the suffering, we will end up creating the suffering. The guiding principle, here, is that whatever sticks in our attention we tend to get more of.

Tikkun Olam—‘Healing the World’



[image error]Reality as chipped paint peeling off of a wall, extracting information needed for building our Prosperity Engine. Image: #470798 by Mysticsartdesign (CC0) Pixabay.

The Jewish tradition of Tikkun Olam—“Healing the World” or “Perfecting the World”—is one of the key purposes of the Sabbath or holy day. The more I learn, the more it seems that the true purpose of the Sabbath was not about resting in the sense of laziness or idleness, but more about the idea of putting aside earthly distractions to concentrate on spiritual awakening.

The “healing of the world” involves cleaning up our own darkness. And yes, darkness is another word for “evil.” Darkness, in this sense, is a lack of awareness and also a lack of responsibility.

The light of awareness makes us conscious of that which hides in the darkness so that we can take responsibility for it. And while writing my book, Four Elements of God, I came to realize that responsibility and the persistence of time are opposites. When we take full responsibility for something—find the “truth” of it—we find ourselves free of it, because we have removed the time dimension from it. Thus, Christ’s statement that the truth shall set us free takes on an entirely new meaning—one far more profound and empowering.

What we handle in the “Work” David Bayer talked about is the same mechanism and energy which powers karma. The subconscious, by default, is a reservoir of stuck attention. When we do something bad, we feel imbalanced; our dichotomous ego struggles toward finding balance. The result of that is karma. Quite often, karma isn’t triggered until the next lifetime, when our hardened heart has become softened by a new viewpoint.

“The Lord is longsuffering [patient], and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation” (Numbers 14:18).

Even the disciples in Christ’s time misunderstood this, thinking that the innocent children would pay for the crimes of their ancestors. But this is wrong thinking. A passage found in Ezekiel clears up any confusion.

“As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

“Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.

“The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him” (Ezekiel 18:18–20).

Only the guilty pay for their own crimes. The reasoning is clear: the Bible is talking about reincarnation. Even Jesus, when he said that those who live by the sword shall die by the sword, we know this is not the case, literally. Too many criminals die peacefully of old age, never having suffered as they made others suffer. But remember, God is “longsuffering” (patient). The guilty will frequently pay for their crimes three or four generations hence—when they’ve had sufficient time to live our their life of crime, die, be born again of the flesh, and grow up to the point where they can appreciate the “boomerang” they had thrown decades earlier.

Implications

If you’ve been paying attention, here, you may be realizing about now that the work of cleaning up the subconscious involves more than the physical memories of the current body. In order to obtain a sparkling clean subconscious, with a broad, wide-open pipeline from conscious thought, directing its every feeling, we may need to clean up hundreds, thousands or even millions of years of beliefs, intentions and karma.

Yikes! That sounds like a lot. But trust me, it gets easier with practice. In fact, each one of us can get so good at doing this “work” that we clear up entire chains of similar incidents merely by casting our conscious awareness in their direction.

Karma can only exist in darkness.

So long as we don’t look at the negative past, we keep the darkness and the bad karma alive. Eventually, something in our environment will trigger the karma with disastrous results, especially if we resist it. If we maintain gratitude for the opportunity to learn from the lessons of karma, then we will dissolve the victim-perpetrator cycle and will have, to that degree, taken responsibility for it.

But why wait to trigger the karma? Why not be proactive and take responsibility before the karma is triggered?

And this gives me an idea for a new book. One more to add to my long list. What’s interesting, though, is that my interest keeps shifting as I do my own work on my subconscious. Some of the book and video projects on my list are becoming less interesting and less important. They were borne out of a different set of values and beliefs. I’m finding it easier and easier to trash dozens or even hundreds of hours of work, simply because I’m no longer that person.

Finishing the Exercise

But let’s get back to my “Why-Question” experiment. Now, I need to take the negative beliefs (answers to my “Why” question) and build a more empowering base.

Because I’m dumb and stupid.NEW: Humility helps me maximize the intelligence I’ve been given.Because I’m ignorant.NEW: Humble confidence to do the “work” of cleaning up the past is allowing me to keep improving my awareness of where I am and what needs to be done.Because I’m weak.NEW: Persistence and repetition is making me stronger every day.Because I’m easily distracted.NEW: With humility and confidence, and by taking responsibility for everything that touches me, I am mastering my focus.Because I’m hiding a dark secret.NEW: With each passing day, the darkness in my subconscious is disappearing, being replaced by the light of awareness and responsibility.Because, if I’m successful, I’ll pull in (attract) the karma I’ve been avoiding.NEW (first attempt): I’m committed to the success no matter what the dangers.NEW (second attempt): I can have the success without the dangers of karma. [Still too negative.]NEW (third attempt): I have both the success of which I’ve dreamed and the grateful responsibility for completed karma.

Of course, I followed each one of these with gratitude for the “new” meaning.

More Discussion and Implications



[image error]An old hallway, perhaps somewhere we’ve been before, but now a needed clue to building our Prosperity Engine. Photo: #4058017 by Tama66 (CC0) Pixabay.

“Completed karma” is a new idea which needs both exploring and explaining.

One way to complete karma is to suffer a karma-driven tragedy, followed by humble gratitude and forgiveness. This is not recommended. I don’t wish suffering on anyone, even though none of us is without “sin.”

Another way is through self-discovery and faith—to take full responsibility for the source of the karma before it is reactively triggered. If a person attempts this approach out of fear of suffering, they will end up suffering, for that is where we find the focus of their attention. Remember, Christ said not to resist evil. Dismiss it; be determined not to participate; but never resist it.

Even then, if suffering happens, the person needs to be grateful for the suffering, for that releases all attachments to the victim-perpetrator chain of karmic (egoistic) action.

I feel relatively certain that suffering is not a necessary ingredient for “karmic release” (the result of completed karma). But the level of commitment, faith and responsibility likely needs to be equivalent to the level of true forgiveness that would otherwise be required with the suffering which would otherwise accompany the karmic triggering. In other words, we can’t be flippant and offer a half-hearted nod of pseudo-responsibility in the direction of the karmic source. This doesn’t mean effort or difficulty, but it does need to be open, and complete (paramita, perfect, spiritual). We have to do this from the level of miracles—utter humility to the possibility of paying for the crimes of making others suffer with our own suffering in the present, but confidence that such physical tit-for-tat isn’t entirely necessary—confident that God will accept our pure-hearted responsibility as “payment in full.”

Could I be wrong about this? Absolutely, but I don’t think the objective of this universe is to balance every crime with another crime, for that would become a never-ending dance.

Suffering is not the purpose of this universe, but it is a tool to help us measure our distance from God. And yet there are other methods—more positive ways—to measure our closeness to God. Performing miracles is one. Generosity and acts of anonymous, unconditional love are another.

The bottom line here is that we work toward cleaning up the past in order to help us build our Prosperity Engine.

Coming Up Next

In the next article, we look at polishing the future by adding clarity to our goals.

Prosperity Engine — Update — Turmoil in the Now

[image error]Storm clouds epitomize the essence of mental turmoil, part of the process in building our Prosperity Engine. Photo: #3440450 jplenio (CC0) Pixabay.

On the path toward building our own Prosperity Engine, each one of us will have our own special set of challenges. Each of us is different in many respects. But some strategies are applicable to virtually everyone. Our experiences may vary, but the goal is the same—greater control over our subconscious so we can control the direction of our life.

In this Prosperity Engine series, I will be exposing many of my own raw experiences as I work through this material myself. This series will document both the ups and the downs so that you, the reader, can understand the types of things anyone might experience when building their own Prosperity Engine. Again, there will be differences, but also similarities. In the end, I want everyone who reads this to have their own, powerful Prosperity Engine.

My goal, as I mentioned in the first of this series, is to maintain at least $5 million in my bank accounts. That’s a short-term goal for this series of experiments and the exercises involved. Another short-term goal involves writing a book about this Prosperity Engine so that even more people can benefit. But I don’t want to be like so many other self-help gurus, getting rich solely on the hope and promise of getting rich. I don’t want a planet full of self-help mentors. Instead, I want to create a tool that can help anyone in any field make more to maximize their potential. I want to add value so that this world can have greater prosperity:

A Billion Millionaires,A Million Billionaires,Thousands of Trillionaires, andAt least one Multi-Quadrillionaire.

I don’t want fluff—everyone selling each other’s “get rich quick schemes;” that adds no value to civilization. Instead, I want a Prosperity Engine that works off of added value.

My long-range goals make this $5 million amount look like pocket lint (less than pocket change). To most people, such an outlandish goal could prove overwhelming. And on some days I do feel that overwhelm. But now, I’m learning to feel gratitude for any such negative feelings. I know that I’m stirring up the dust enough to reveal one of the barriers standing in my way.

One of the three areas of our work in building the Prosperity Engine involves the present. The other two, of course, are the past and the future.

Even before I had heard of The Secret, the Law of Attraction, Joe Dispenza or David Bayer (Mind Hack), I had figured out a lot of this stuff for myself. That type of success can make us cocky and even a bit reckless or lazy. Years ago, I had written an article called, “Now is so Passé” (originally 2013:0524), which talks about much of the same stuff Dispenza mentions in his interviews and lectures. There, I was talking about the past-driven “now” and working on getting into the future-biased “now”—the position of “cause,” as opposed to “effect.” In that article, I was struggling to describe what I was seeing with spiritual eyes.

Determination and Commitment

To build our own Prosperity Engine, we need to have ironclad determination. We need to be 100% committed—not 50% in and wait to see if it works. This stronger attitude is like, “I don’t care how long it takes. I don’t care what I have to do. I’m going to change this for the better.”

This is not the “importance” of urgency (egoistic, selfish, victim), but the determination of decision (cause, confidence, humility). This says, “I don’t know, but I’m interested in finding out.” This is us letting down all barriers, all defense mechanisms, all forms of self-concern. This is us baring our souls for cleansing with the bright light of calm, grateful awareness.

Part of my own turmoil has come from past successes butting up against current mental flabbiness. In a way, this is like being out of shape, physically, but wanting to get back into an exercise regimen. In our youth, we may have been in great shape—running every day, doing 50 push-ups, 100 sit-ups and more. Now, decades later, the memory of past success is making it difficult to start over. Impatience kicks in and we do too much too quickly. But like a strict yet kind teacher, we need to keep our body and mind on course. Like Dr. Dispenza says, treat the body like an animal we’re training: “Stay. Stay. Good dog!”

My Own Struggles



[image error]Statue of Liberty in storm clouds, symbolizing the world in turmoil. Image: #1922168 ParentRap (CC0) Pixabay.

When I first heard Dr. Dispenza talk about his own healing experience—correcting a damaged spine by concentrating a healing attitude so that he could walk again, I knew I had found what I had long known I had needed.

It’s not easy. But in my case, it may be a bit more difficult because I have to overcome the cocky (egoistic) certainty of past successes so I can keep still.

My past successes had allowed me to refine my intellectual clarity on what had happened, but now I need to reclaim that old spiritual viewpoint without the excess baggage of the past—the darkness of subconscious, negative beliefs. I need to scrub the subconscious clean so that it shines with the light of conscious awareness. Together, the conscious mind (thought) and subconscious attention (feeling) can create any logical future we desire.

I say “logical future” to clarify the boundaries of the impossible. Any logical thing is possible—levitating mountains, moving entire galactic clusters, or funneling $5 million into a bank account. All of these are logical and possible.

Let me give you an example of the opposite (the illogical): Forcing another free will person to love me romantically is illogical. Free will takes precedence over my own desires. Besides, I already have the love of my life, so this example doesn’t apply to me. But this should give you the idea.

Another example involves running our Prosperity Engine while being attached to what we’ve already acquired. This is like pressing the right foot on the accelerator of our car, while pushing hard with the left foot on our brake. The two actions are contradictory. It’s impossible to focus our attention on scarcity and lack while focusing our attention on prosperity and abundance. See? Impossible!

Three days ago I wrote a blog article, but didn’t publish it. Something didn’t feel right about it. This happened last week, too, with a client’s book project. My viewpoint is changing so rapidly that I’m no longer satisfied with my old ideas and viewpoints. Yet, the past beliefs powering those old viewpoints still persist, though they are weaker.

This morning, before doing my daily meditation, my mind felt a storm of turmoil. My “now” was a mess with the litter of past confusion, pain, discomfort and frustration. It took me a few moments, but I was able to find the gratitude in this. I was immensely grateful for discovering this storm—this mental turmoil. Each one of these negative things that I discover puts me that much closer to perfecting and fine-tuning my own Prosperity Engine. But that only works with the gratitude to view the turmoil with the peace, patience and confidence of spirit.

While changing my perspective on this turmoil, I caught a glimpse of another negative attitude—one which viewed the turmoil as “another setback in a never-ending chain of setbacks.” Interesting. I was also instantly grateful for seeing this.

For the “turmoil”—which seemed to be a confused mess of dozens of beliefs and attitudes—I didn’t worry about pinning down each one. Not right now. I merely looked at them as something that is making me stronger and more alert. Thank you, storm of turmoil!

For the negative idea of “setback,” I merely reasserted my determination that I didn’t care how long it took. I’m moving ahead toward my short-term and my long-term goals. It doesn’t matter how many setbacks there are. I know that each setback can teach me something. Thank you, setbacks!

Long-Range Goals and Fear



[image error]Thunderstorm symbolizing powerful potential. Photo: #3625405 FelixMittermeier (CC0) Pixabay.

My long-range goals are insanely huge. Well, that’s how the “old me” would describe them. The notion of “insane” anything provokes a degree of fear. But I don’t normally shy away from things like that. I eat fear for breakfast, when necessary (cause over effect). Still, I want to be more clever—more intelligent—about where I place the focus of my attention and the attention of others.

For one form of revenue, I’m setting up a patron account at SubscribeStar. The more time I can spend doing this work, the more progress I can make toward helping others. Some people are shy about asking others to finance their work. I used to have such reservations, but not anymore. Websites like Patreon and SubscribeStar make it possible for individuals to become patrons in support of people whose work of which they’d like to see more. This is like the Medici family supporting Galileo Galilei—the father of science, back in the late 16th and early 17th centuries—only today’s patrons can add their support for as little as a dollar a month. The internet makes it easy to grow the numbers substantially. Anyone who excites others with their past and potential (future) output can make it work.

Setting up that account had remained a stalled project for months. I had written several versions of the script for the introduction video, but didn’t feel satisfied with any of them.

Yesterday, I dusted off the project and looked again at the script. I even looked for potential voiceover artists who could read the script for the audio portion of my SubscribeStar video.

That script contained the words “insanely huge” right at the beginning. I had become uncomfortable with this wording, but now it seems to work. My long-range goals are big enough to provoke in some people a sense of “impossibility” or even judging them with the term “insanity.” Snatching that automatic reaction from them, before they can have it form in their own minds, works to help set their mind at ease. It recognizes the automatic reaction and explains how I will overcome the seeming impossibility of it all. I do this with the evidence of my own accomplishments.

Despite the crazy turmoil which greeted me this morning, I feel stronger than ever, and even more determined. This is despite the thoughts that crashed through my mind in the midst of that turmoil. For a few moments, I had lost hope. The future seemed, in those fleeting seconds before rediscovering gratitude, to be dark and full of danger. Perhaps you won’t have such a bumpy ride, but even if you do, don’t despair for long. Simply find the gratitude for discovering another source of darkness. By becoming aware of it, you are shining the light of awareness on it. And that is equivalent to you taking more responsibility for it. Like Christ said, know the truth and the truth will set you free. Isn’t it interesting that Absolute Truth involves responsibility?

[image error]Fishing boat and sunset, symbolizing effortless relaxation. Photo: #5541327 K_Malik (CC0) Pixabay.



Coming Up, Soon

Today’s breakthrough has helped me become more focused. Nice how that works. For now, I’ve scheduled the upcoming blogs to come daily, starting this Sunday. That’s for two weeks. After that, we’ll see how it goes. The list of topics include,

Past—Tools for cleaning up the subconscious (Sun:0913),Future—Tools for adding clarity to our goals (Mon:0914),Humility—The power of being a perpetual student (Tue:0915),Negative—Leveraging the power of pessimism (Wed:0916),Vocabulary—Clearing up the terms used in this work (Thu:0917),Change—Getting comfortable with the unpredictable (Fri:0918),Paramita Abundance—The ultimate goal for our Prosperity Engine (Sun:0920),Space—Exercises to build our spiritual mastery over physical reality (Mon:0921),Time—More exercises to build our spiritual mastery over physical reality (Tue:0922),Energy—Even more exercises for spiritual mastery (Wed:0923),Mass—Fourth set of exercises for spiritual mastery (Thu:0924),Four Elements—Summary and perspective on the previous four articles (Fri:0925), andMisguided Logic—How to handle skepticism on this work (Sun:0927).

Prosperity Engine — Update — Perspective

[image error]An upbeat perspective for our Prosperity Engine: sunrise above distant hills. Photo: 889131 skeeze (CC0) Pixabay.

We start with a premise: For everything we experience in life, we are responsible.

What we do with that responsibility determines our direction in life.

Some people find it easy to reject this idea. They have a lifetime of evidence. So, they blame others, blame circumstances or blame the government.

This fact reminds me of one famous quote:

“The man who thinks he can, and the man who thinks he can’t, are both right.”—Henry Ford



[image error]Maldives paradise. Symbol of success: living a tropical lifestyle with effortless ease. This is part of the attitude behind the Prosperity Engine. Photo: 1993704 by 12019 (CC0) Pixabay.

Building a Prosperity Engine

[image error]Images of prosperity, including (clockwise from top left) an executive jet, a Mercedes 500SL in mint condition, an ocean-worthy yacht, a Mediterranean-style mansion.

Over the next several weeks, I will be documenting here the results of a new set of experiments. These experiments will be designed to test and to refine a set of hypotheses of creating prosperity from spiritual action.

I suspect that I will be discovering many of the barriers we humans can create for ourselves on mastering prosperity. Hopefully, I will discover all of those barriers and find ways to dissolve them.

My Background

As a scientist*, I have had years of experience experimenting with miracles. I have approached the use of this power with a modest degree of caution, humility and patience. For one thing, I wanted to use this power to explore spirituality. Instinctively, I knew that selfishness can trap us by putting ego above spirit. I also instinctively knew that prosperity, by itself, need not be selfish. So long as we remain unattached to things, including money, we remain in control over ego.

My first experiments with miracles were spiritual action with a high degree of safety and a low level of egoistic importance. As a pre-teen, I experimented with “whistling up the wind” on a hot day with a modest amount of success, but a low degree of certainty that my spiritual action was at work.

In 1967, while studying at the main Scientology church in Washington, DC, I learned of various scales with which the founder, Hubbard, had documented his observations. One of those scales was the emotional tone scale, with death at zero, moving up through apathy, propitiation, sympathy, anger, covert hostility, boredom, conservatism, enthusiasm, exhilaration and up to serenity of beingness. I also learned of the “Know-to-Mystery” scale which had “know” at the top—knowing everything—and just below that a most peculiar creature called “not know”—not knowing everything. That one level had me confused for more than an hour. Ultimately, I found the confusion not in the words and their definitions, but the precedence levels within the phrase.

In mathematics, 3 x 5 + 7 is an expression which has a meaning quite different from 3 x (5 + 7). The first expression has a value of 22, while the second expression has a value of 36. The parentheses used in the second expression force a different sequence of precedence in the calculation. Normally, multiplication has a higher precedence than addition, so the multiplication is done first. But the parentheses have a higher level of precedence than even multiplication, forcing the addition to be performed first.

A similar strategy was at work with this phrase—“not knowing everything.” Originally, I had read the phrase as “not (knowing everything)” which meant anything other than “knowing everything” (the top slot on the chart).

Somehow, I could not see how something which seemed so much in opposition to the highest spot on the scale could reside so close to that top slot. Also, this seemed to have a meaning similar to “anything other than ‘knowing everything’,” which was too general for a specific level.

Then, I realized that the phrase might mean, instead, “(not knowing) everything.” Suddenly, I had goosebumps all over me. I still didn’t understand why, but I sensed that time would reveal to me the full meaning of this phrase. But this different meaning at least told us something specific. The action was “not knowing” and the target of that action was “everything.”

[image error]Symbolic representation of our Prosperity Engine: Space Shuttle launch, generating dollars. Photo: NASA (PD).

In early 1974—seven years later—I struggled with this phrase in a new context. A technical bulletin compared the emotional tone scale with the “Know-to-Mystery” scale, matching up each emotion with its associated level of awareness. The more negative was the emotion, the less aware was the person having that emotion. That much of the comparison made sense. But what puzzled me, now, was the match-up between the second slots on both scales. Just below “know” was “not know.” On the emotional tone scale, just below “serenity of beingness,” was “postulates.” In the Scientology vernacular, the word “postulates” referred to the power to make things happen by intention alone—miracles, or the product of spiritual action.

What confused me, at the time, was how such power could be equivalent with such intellectual darkness or “oblivion”—the curious beast known as “not know.”

I didn’t know at the time that this was the secret behind The Secret, a book and movie which would not be produced for another thirty-two years.

In my own book, The Science of Miracles, I describe in more detail the experiment which followed. But that was my first test of the hypothesis that getting an idea and then “not knowing” it would manifest the idea in physical reality.

Years later, I realized that the “not know” part of the miracle procedure was equivalent to God “resting” from His creation. Yes, the very same divine behavior mentioned in Genesis.

“And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made” (Genesis 2:2).

This was also equivalent to the Buddhist or Taoist action of “allowing.” This was, in essence, the spirit creating something and then allowing it to run along (persist) in physical reality as if it were creating itself (persistence, inertia).

From the standpoint of the “Law of Attraction,” this was the feeling of attainment that “attracts” the desired thing or condition into our life.

Over the years, I discovered a number of problems and barriers to the manifesting of miracles. One, I call the “Crime of Importance.” If we make something important, we are defining it as separate from us and something we want to have happen in our life. When that thing or condition enters our life, it is no longer important, because we now have it; there is no longer a need to go out and get it.

This is equivalent to the Old Master telling his young student, “If you need something urgently, it might take several hundred years. But if you give up that importance, it might happen immediately.” This seems counterintuitive, because we are so used to dealing with force and inertia in this physical realm. The spiritual realm doesn’t work that way. Effort equals “doubt”—the opposite of the faith required to perform miracles.

Preparing for These Experiments



[image error]A Florida mansion. Another possible product of our Prosperity Engine.

Several months ago, I figured it was time to kick things up a notch in my life. I now had sufficient knowledge and experience to test a new set of hypotheses.

One of the readers of my book, The Science of Miracles, commented that they had tried Dr. Joe Dispenza’s work, but had little success with it. They had an urgent health concern and liked the distinction I had made about “importance.” Later, in correspondence, they mentioned a dangerous setback with their health and mentioned how they had “freaked out” when going to the hospital.

By fully applying the lesson on “importance,” they would not have “freaked out.” Such a reaction can only make things worse. While fear can produce some pretty strong reactions to motivate us into action, we each need to exercise our self-restraint from “reacting” and from treating any danger as “important.” Otherwise, we become a pawn to the physical universe, instead of its master. Of course, if we get a cut, we use a bandage, so long as we have not yet mastered the art of instantaneous healing. I can only guess, but perhaps their impatience prevented them from benefiting from Dr. Dispenza’s work as I already have in these few short weeks.

This topic strikes at the heart of God’s purpose in creating the physical universe to begin with. This is our boot camp—our school of “hard knocks” for learning not to treat these physical things as “important.”

Later, I attracted into my life a client who wanted me to ghostwrite several books on gratitude. He particularly wanted me to include the work and philosophy of Dr. Joe Dispenza, and the philosophy of Kabbalah. This was the second time I had heard of Dispenza’s work, but now I was being paid to learn more about him. “Lucky” me. (Side Note: There truly is no such thing as “luck;” only the product of what we create for ourselves.)

My client also wanted me to learn from the work of David Bayer, author of the popular ebook, Mind Hack. As a consultant, Bayer has multi-million dollar clients, including CEOs of major corporations. And my client is consulting with David Bayer on a new enterprise.

The Hypotheses and the Experiments

Hypothesis #1: We each have the ability to create for ourselves and our families any level of prosperity.

Hypothesis #2: Before manifesting such prosperity, we need to dissolve all of the negative “postulates” (creations) that block or hinder the manifestation of that prosperity; and such dissolution is possible.

Hypothesis #3: In order to manifest a specific level of prosperity, we need to perfect two skills—(1) The ability to be in the present moment as our starting point for creation, and (2) The ability to sculpt with precision the image of, feeling of, and gratitude for the desired level of prosperity.

Hypothesis #4: In order to activate (manifest) such prosperity, we need to eliminate any sense of importance (selfishness) from our creation.

Fact: The essence of ego is one of separation, vulnerability and lack. All physical attainment is temporary.

Fact: Any judgment of “importance” is a function of egoistic attitude toward an object or condition. We might say that “food is important for survival,” but this is not the same meaning. Here, food merely IS a part of physical survival. The moment we judge good to be important, we become selfish (egoistic) and such selfishness can manifest itself as theft, murder or even war.

Premise: Based on these two facts, any judgment of prosperity as “important” automatically makes that prosperity egoistic—separate from self and reinforces the state of “lack.” This acts as a barrier to spiritual action.

Fact: Spirit resides outside of time, so every image (creation) of spirit remains in the timeless “now.”

Fact: In order to get any creation to persist, that creation must gain the added dimension of physical time, so that the limited, human self can see the object or condition from moment to moment—past the initial moment of creation.

Premise: Based on these facts, time is added to our prosperity by giving up ego, having spirit create it, and then “resting” from that creation (“not knowing”).

In other words, we would need to stop fussing over whether or not our creation has manifested (a lack of faith). Instead, we need to be grateful that it already has. This gets timeless spirit to “have” prosperity in the “timeless now,” but the giving up of our awareness (not our attention) on that creation “allows” it to persist.

Initial Objectives

As I write this, I have already started on the preparation and experimentation. So, this blog article is part “catch-up” with the experiment already in progress.

Already, I’ve noticed several aspects in my life become easier.

Relaxed meditation with calmer, more focused mind,
Greater enjoyment of life and attracting creature comforts without even asking for them,
Greater ease in my hourly exercises (at 70, this helps me stay relatively limber),
The sense of prosperity is easier to maintain,
Picturing myself as a world-class contributor to civilization is becoming easier, and
My excitement and energy level has become more enhanced.

Initial Results

Some of my attitude improvements have been accompanied by some emotionally “bumpy” reactions. One big breakthrough during meditation was followed by extreme depression and overwhelm. During that onslaught, I merely observed the feeling and admired its display of apparent “power.” After an hour or so, that storm dissipated and I was left feeling far more powerful and excited about life. I have begun calling the negative effects that result from these efforts, the “dust” being kicked up by my “cleaning house” mentally.

I have enlisted the help of my niece, Niña, to offer positive goal suggestions from time to time, to get me to exercise more in that direction. And I have been doing the same for her. Each time, we are to participate in a 3-step process:

Offering the positive suggestion for a prosperity goal,The other person accepting and feeling the goal as done, andHandling (cleaning up) any “dust” that is kicked up (brought into our conscious awareness).

This “dust” is merely the negative attitudes we’ve defined for ourselves—decisions about past, negative events—attitudes which persist into the present. These negative beliefs can hold us back, or even get us to create (and manifest) negative setbacks.

Some people reject even thinking about such negative things, because they know that such negative things can be uncomfortable or even dangerous. But, like Christ said, we should not resist evil. Resisting negative things only makes them stronger and helps them to persist longer. The darkness of hiding such things from awareness only turns them into perfect “not know” elements for creation. Ignoring or resisting them only shoves them from conscious awareness (thought) into subconscious attention (feeling).

I remember one time “creating” a moving violation ticket in Beverly Hills, California. One moment, I had a niggling little feeling of getting a ticket, but I suppressed the idea. Instead, if I had merely shone the light of calm, non-resistant awareness on it, I likely would not have created the situation that generated a traffic ticket.

Having control over our thoughts is a good thing, but we should never fear the negative. So long as we shine the light of awareness on a negative, it will shrivel up and die.

Physical Creation vs. Spiritual Creation of Prosperity



[image error]Rocketing to prosperity. Photo: NASA (PD).

In the physical side of reality, we can create prosperity by working hard and adding value to society. The more value we add, the greater the potential prosperity. But there’s a catch. If we have old, negative ideas (“dust” in our mental attic), then all the hard work and added value will produce very little prosperity. In fact, we could end up, like Nikola Tesla, having our ideas stolen and the unscrupulous amongst us taking our work for their own benefit.

On the flip side, we could create prosperity through spirit without adding any physical value. One prime example of this is that of winning the lottery. One student of Tony Robbins did this twice—won thousands of dollars, two times in a row, to prove that they had a good handle on the procedure. As an exercise, this could prove beneficial, but there remains a grave danger in feeding ego—the heart of selfishness—and having the exercise ultimately backfire. In other words, this could create more clouds of separate egoism, rather than greater spiritual clarity and ability. But is this idea true? Based on my own experience, so far, with ego, selfishness and developing spiritual ability, it seems true enough to include this wisdom in my procedures: To avoid egoistic gain by adding value in order to earn any prosperity achieved.

It must be pointed out, here, that there are absolute truths. Some goals are impossible because they remain oxymoronic—self-contradictory ideas. For instance, having the goal of entering Heaven while maintaining an egoistically selfish lifestyle. This proves impossible because ego is physical (time and energy) and Heaven is spiritual—incapable of holding anything physical.

Any attachment is egoistic. The old biblical claim tells us that the root of all evil is the love of money. Behind this warning resides the truth that attachment to any desire, or aversion to any pain or discomfort, can be evil. People have killed for a loaf of bread. Some have killed for an unintended insult. Both remain examples of great evil borne out of egoistic attachments.

I’ve seen numerous methods for “getting rich quick,” including some unscrupulous individuals selling kits that tell others how to sell the kits. In other words, there was nothing of value in the enterprise—merely getting rich by teaching others how to cheat people out of their money. Such efforts are a sign of desperation.

By adding value, we create balance on the physical side of things. And by adding value, we are giving more than we are receiving. And, as Christ said, it is more blessed to give than to receive.

Objective Refined

My objective is to find some way to add such value that I am able to maintain a balance of $5 million in my bank accounts. This is $5 million in 2019 dollars, so we can clarify that such a modest number is not the product of hyper-inflation, but of added value and the voluntary payment of others for that added value.

There are a number of ways to achieve this, including,

Writing several worldwide bestsellers,Producing videos that go viral,Becoming hired to speak with 6-figure fees, orGhostwriting a book for a celebrity with hefty, up-front fees, plus a piece of the royalties on the back end.

But the beauty of this is “not knowing” how such prosperity will happen. The beauty of this Prosperity Engine is that we don’t need to know “how” it will produce specific results.

In the end, I have a Prosperity Engine that will work no matter what the current economic state of the world. That Prosperity Engine will generate any desired level of wealth, even if I’ve recently given away all my money to some charitable enterprise.

Such generosity defines my prosperity as permanent and limitless (no scarcity or lack). Fear of losing prosperity through generosity is counterproductive at the very least. Such a negative attitude thwarts or clogs up the Prosperity Engine. And this engine works by funneling prosperity from an infinite source.

I’m planning to write one blog article per week on this topic, but there may be more frequent articles, if any breakthroughs or other discoveries are achieved. Even the discovery of barriers can prove helpful, especially if a method of overcoming those barriers can also be included in the discussion.

*scientist n. A person who studies or practices any of the sciences or who uses scientific methods.

Responsibility, Time and Miracles

[image error]Woman farmer in Chad, Africa, demonstrating responsibility by growing crops. Photo: Ambbox (CC BY-SA 4.0).

When praying, we can have all the right ingredients in place—humility and confidence, which together equal faith—but a certain kind of barrier can foul up the works for us.

It’s long been known that whatever our attention is fixed on we tend to get.

My late father helped to clarify this by pointing out that we have three vectors at work, each with their own purpose. Confusing or conflating them has been the source of great difficulty. The three are,

Attention,Awareness, andIntention.

For miracles, we need attention and intention to be aligned, but awareness to be pointing in a different direction. That’s the trick that allows a creation (prayer) to persist in the current time stream.

Karma can fix our attention on things that tend to block miracles from going according to plan. That’s where responsibility comes into play as a solution.

Christ said that knowing the truth will set us free. That’s one clue.

Another clue was given to us when Jesus advised us to turn the other cheek.

Still another clue can be found in Genesis 2:2–3. It involves God resting from His creation. And here we find the powerful, spiritual technology which makes our universe possible. This is where a creation, which initially exists outside of time—essentially persisting for merely an instant—gains infinite potential persistence. In other words, this is where the time dimension is added to a creation.

The Buddhists refer to this as “allowing.” And this is where a pure idea—the “Word” of God—gains the darkness or taintedness of dichotomous, or action-reaction existence.

(I know that’s a mouthful, but bear with me. With this article, I’m compressing 70 years of spiritual insights into one tiny article. Hopefully, it will be clearer by the end. Regardless, please let me know if you have questions about any of this.)

Thus, resting (or “allowing”) is one end of a creation’s existence—at the beginning.

Finding the truth of a thing resides at the other end of a thing’s existence—at the moment of Truth, where the thing ceases to persist and returns to the timeless realm.

[image error]Pocket watch, savonette-type. Photo: Isabelle Grosjean (CC BY-SA 3.0).

In a way, Truth “sucks” the persistence, or time, out of a thing. And a thing can be a physical object, a natural phenomenon, or a condition or state of existence (e.g. turmoil, hatred or confusion). Another way to look at this disappearing act is to view the object’s time dimension as an infinitely thin sheet of paper parallel to the time stream while it persists, but turning 90° to the time stream when its truth is discovered. Thus, the infinitely thin “object” lasts only for an infinitely thin slice of time and is then gone as time moves forward.

But what is this “Truth?” How do we nurture and develop it? How do we control it?

Look again at the nature of creation—the specific pattern of actions.

God gets an idea and then rests from it. In a sense, He’s walking away from it. He’s allowing it to run along on its own as if it created itself. Perhaps, inside the object is a kernel of the creative impetus itself—a sort of inertia or endless loop of creation as the object rolls along from the past into the future.

And if we stand back and look at the conceptual shape of this last paragraph, we see that God is abdicating responsibility for His creation. This is what gives it persistence.

Thus, taking responsibility is the same as finding an object’s Truth.

The Four Elements of God

While working on my current book, Four Elements of God, I realized that those four elements can be combined to define or describe other, more complex conditions, states or attitudes. The initial four elements are,

Unconditional Love,Perfect Responsibility,Utter Humility, andFearless Confidence.

For instance, combining humility and confidence gives us faith, as in the faith to move mountains.

Combining responsibility and confidence yields competence. Thus, we come to realize the profound truth that incompetence is an effect of egoistic selfishness. When we understand this idea on a deeply spiritual level, this can be quite liberating and empowering.

This approach to understanding is similar to the four natural elements, which were misinterpreted by the Ancient Greeks, like Empedocles, and which are used in our modern, technological world to measure the physical realm.

Space (air),Time (water),Energy (fire), andMass (earth).

Using and combining these elements gives us things like distance, area, volume, density, power, force, velocity, acceleration and others.

Opposites in More Ways Than One



[image error]Wooden hourglass as a measure of time. Photo: S. Sepp (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Philosophers have long considered the idea that spirit and physical nature were opposites. Some have characterized this physical world as a training ground for the spiritual children of God.

Working on my current book a couple of days ago, I suddenly realized that the four physical elements may indeed be opposites of the four spiritual elements. Consider the following comparisons:

Love is closeness; space is distance.Responsibility is freedom; time is entrapment.Humility is stillness; energy is motion and a braggart.Confidence is go or accomplishment; mass is stop or failure.

Do you see this? If not, remember that our human languages were not built to discuss such spiritual things. Virtually all of our vocabulary and definitions are based on physical things, relations and conditions. Take these comparisons from a spiritual viewpoint and “see” the intended meaning behind the words. Still have questions? Ask!

Learning these ideas on an intellectual level is insufficient. That is as good as getting a rock to pray or attempting to get a computer to build a real universe instead of merely a virtual one. Such things are not going to happen.

Instead, we must learn these things spiritually. We must exercise these spiritual muscles, practicing and perfecting God’s four elements so that we can come closer to Him.

God is a constant force of Loving Generosity, but we cannot receive His gifts if we remain a universe away from Him. This is the big lesson from this physical university.

So, it seems to me, now, that this physical realm was built to be a mirror, negative image of God—opposite in every way possible. Our examination comes in the form of a simple choice.

Physical reality seduces and lies. It holds out the promise of pleasure, but it’s all entirely deterministic (a trap), with fleeting pleasures and far more common suffering, because of our distance from God.

Hungering for the pleasures of this world traps us in the natural realm as a cog in the machine of physical reality. While we decide to be a cog, we are driven only by desires, fears and pains.

Only when we decide to give up our pursuit of physical pleasures and flight from physical pains can we move into the unattached viewpoint of spirit—pure freedom.

This is our only dimension of free will—To be or not to be—and choosing to remain a human—a slave to physical commensurability—we are choosing not to be. For the physical ego was the death we chose in the Garden of Heaven. Ego is the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Ego is the dichotomous, action-reaction bone and blood of our false, physical identity.

Only by being reborn of the spirit can we truly be. Sadly, too many Christians have a dim understanding of being “born again.” For many of them, their feelings remain glib and shallow and not truly spiritual. A conversation with them reveals the attachment to ego, rather than to the humility of perpetual learning.

Being a human is spiritual death. Being spirit while operating a human body, we still risk falling back if we give in to the temptations of ego.

The solution to this problem remains one of combining all four elements of God. The foremost element, of course, is one of Unconditional Love, focusing outward away from self. This is our spiritual desire to give to others. The solvent to any barrier is Perfect Responsibility, for with it, we find Truth and gain freedom. The antidote to ego is Utter Humility. And the power that drives it all is Fearless Confidence, tempered by Utter Humility, an unquenchable Responsibility and an undying Love of others.

Self-Discipline: The Road to Freedom

[image error]We don’t need to be a military officer in order to exercise self-discipline. But we can take inspiration by their example. Photo: by the Marine Corps of Marine officers at the christening of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer Jason Dunham (DDG 109) at General Dynamics, August 1, 2009 (PD).

In life, we seem to have choices. For the most part, it’s all illusion. But where we truly have a choice, we must remain diligent. This choice is between being physical (ego or Homo sapiens body) and being spiritual (a child of God awakened).

This is not an easy task. And it’s not easy to discern. Virtually every choice we seem to have in the physical realm reduces down to one kind of selfishness versus another. Freedom is in the other direction—away from all forms of selfishness.

Self-discipline can be used by ego for a limited, but hollow success, or it can be used by spirit for the only true success.

Self-discipline is freedom—freedom from distraction and temptation.

We can’t get healthy if we keep eating junk food and never doing exercise. We can’t accomplish our goals if we never take action on them with persistence, and the proper amount of self-examination and course corrections.

As spiritual beings, we are held to a higher standard. Incompetence is a form of selfishness and is thus evil. Some may quibble about this and resist accepting this truth, but theirs is a viewpoint of darkness—essentially, spiritual blindness. We would never believably accuse God of incompetence. Everything He has created is perfect. Even the evil of the world has its perfect purpose. We cannot anneal spirit on the anvil of God without the fire of adversity.

When one of my readers asked for help, they told me how, in a moment of life-threatening danger, they had freaked out. Freaking out is perfectly human and entirely egoistic (selfish). It is an attitude built of physical incompetence, which shouts, “I can’t!” It also shouts, “This is important!”

Self-discipline strengthens us against such selfish reaction.

My advice is this: Simply don’t freak out.

When Christ saved the adulteress from being stoned, he told her to stop sinning. This is the same type of advice.

If we become reasonable and make excuses, then we are bowing down to the master of this world—physical continuity—the inertia of tangible existence.

But if we pick ourselves up by our spiritual bootstraps and simply decide not to do that anymore, then we are suddenly on the right path, back to being who we really are.

Self-discipline, done as spirit, lifts us out of the machine of physical reality, no longer driven by its laws toward the illusion of free will, but truly free, as a child of God no longer chained to separate, selfish ego.

Humble Confidence — Critical Distinctions

[image error]Humble confidence of an angel, parting the clouds. Image by by Kellepics (CC0) Pixabay.

Some time ago, I wrote an article on humble confidence that created its share of confusion and disagreements. This revealed several things:

The inadequacy of the human language to discuss spiritual things,The lack of skill of the writer, andThe lack of sufficient creative intelligence of the reader to bridge the communication gap.

Even here, some may take this last item as an insult. That’s not the intent. Every physical thing is inherently imperfect from a certain viewpoint.

Communication is the challenge and the above three elements are key barriers. We can let those barriers confound our intent to communicate spiritual concepts, or we can rise to the challenge and see past the barriers to the truer, hidden intent. By “hidden,” I mean concealed to physical eyes, ears, brains and literal reasoning.

Spirit is not like our physical realm; spirit is perfect in one very sublime way: Spirit is timeless, just like God.

Not Yet Complete

None of us have achieved God’s level of knowledge. That should seem obvious. None of us are omniscient—all knowing. But some people don’t act as though they realize this truth; people don’t act as though they realize this truth; they betray this by their certainty in their own beliefs. I’ve done this many times, myself.

The fact is, we all have far more to learn! Again, this should seem obvious, but too many are not ready to learn more. They are too comfortable in their position on the road to Truth. They have sat down, blocking the road and attracting others to their attractive and shaded place. But they have not yet arrived. They don’t have omniscience or omnipotence.

Jesus promised us everlasting life and the power to do the miracles he did and even greater. Most of us haven’t gotten there.

Yet, they have confidence in their current knowledge. They remain humble to the logic and interpretations of others.

I am not here to tell others what to think, but to provoke them into questioning their current beliefs—all of them! Even the most sacred beliefs can be tainted with lies. Even our most cherished of relative truths can be distorted by human or egoistic distinctions.

Humility must not be aimed at our own beliefs or the interpretations of others, but toward the Mind, Will and Word of God. And we are not there, yet.

Just as much, we must not be confident in our beliefs. Confidence must be aimed at the Mind, Will and Word of God, for He is the source of all Truth. Certain ideas seem true and can be used until we find a better relative truth. But just as science should hold “truth” as a direction instead of a destination, the spiritual folk of the world must do the same, holding “Truth” as a destination only as the last step toward being fully at-one with God.

Baby Gods?

One friend balked at the idea that we are each inherently “baby gods,” an idea mentioned in the previous “Humble Confidence” article. I don’t blame him. That’s a very scary notion, especially with so much evil in the world.

But evil can never hold onto the power of spirit, because evil is anti-spirit. It is based on ego—the false, “physical” self. I say “physical,” because it is made of time and energy. It is also made of the dichotomies of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. And its physical nature is why Adam and Eve could no longer remain in the Garden of Heaven—a spiritual place where nothing physical can exist. Physical things simply won’t fit in a place with no physical space. Trying to shove the “dirty rags” of egoism into Heaven would be like attempting to drive a camel through the eye of a needle.

But Baby gods? Let’s look at this idea more closely. Certainly, we’re not talking about ego; it is physical, and God is non-physical spirit.

The true self is non-physical spirit—the part of man created in God’s image:

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness” (Genesis 1:26).

And that image is certainly not “dust” or “human.”

Homo sapiens was created in the physical realm (Genesis 2:7)—from the dust of the ground (chemicals).

Just as the human children of Adam (of the eponymous Adam tribe) looked like him, in his human image, the spiritual children of God look like Him—neither human nor dichotomous ego—non-physical, immortal spirit with the ability to create, just like the Heavenly Father.

Holy Spirit



[image error]Fierce confidence and utter humility of a guardian angel protecting the city. Image by Kellepics (CC0) Pixabay.

Some in Christianity equate the Holy Spirit as a part of God through the trinity—a concept which is never named in the Bible. In fact, one of the strongest verses in support of this “trinity” idea was a scribal note which was later elevated into scripture. Sacrilege! But the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost has many far more legitimate references, some of which point to this spiritual element—not as some nebulous, outside force, but as the parishioner himself.

“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?” (1 Corinthians 6:19).

The Holy Ghost is the true self—the child of God, created in His image. It is not the false, ego self.

An immense gulf had been placed between humans on the one hand, and God and Jesus on the other—placed there by early church leaders, in general, and two Roman emperors, in particular. Perhaps the strongest indictment against the “trinity” concept, and against the false gulf between Heaven and humans, involves the one unforgivable sin.

“And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come” (Matthew 12:32).

Why? We can blaspheme against God and Jesus, but not the Holy Ghost. Why!? The answer lies in the identity of the Holy Ghost—not as a separate part of God, doled out to the believers, but as an integral part of the individual, him or herself. How can a spiritual child of God be forgiven, if the child declares that the spirit does not exist? This shows the pope’s invitation to atheists into Heaven to be a horrible lie. Good works will not get physical ego into Heaven—ever! Only spirit can get through that gate.

So, “Baby gods?” Were we not created in God’s image? Did not Jesus promise us everlasting life—the one thing prohibited us when Adam and Even were kicked out of the Garden, lest they become like God? Did not Jesus promise that we could do the things he did and even greater? Did not Jesus intend that we follow him into spiritual action? Are we not inherently the Holy Spirit created in the image of God? The answer to each of these is unequivocally, “Yes!”

So, it seems obvious that we are indeed Baby gods, made in His image, with the mandate to mature—to cease being babies—to stop being egoistic, human bodies—to stop being “of the world” and to start being of spirit:

Unconditionally loving,Fully responsible for everything (never a victim),Utterly humble, andFearlessly confident.

For these are the four obvious elements of God, and only by being like Him can we ever return to Him. Only by being like Jesus Christ can we find our way back to the Heavenly Father.

“And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life” (Genesis 3:22–24).

So, we have known egoism—the fruit of the dichotomous, physical self. And Jesus promised us the forbidden “everlasting life”—so that we can become like God—humble and loving spirit.

Our Spiritual Graduation



[image error]Humble confidence of an angel standing in judgement at the final hour. Image by TheDigitalArtist, Comfreak (CC0) Pixabay.

God said that he would not always strive with man for he is also flesh (Genesis 6:3). This means that as soon as God’s spiritual children have abandoned their “childish” (egoistic, selfish) ways, God will no longer have any use for Homo sapiens or its physical civilization.

What does that matured spirit look like? It will look like one entity—all the broken pieces of Adam in the Garden, joined once more—each part melding into the whole, unconditionally loving to one another, utterly humble to each other’s needs, perfectly responsible for each other’s actions and fearlessly confident—just like God.

The Heavenly Father will finally have a companion—a fully conscious (with continuity of consciousness as spirit, which equals “everlasting life”) and fully active spirit.

What will happen to the physical universe at that point? I do not know. Will it serve another purpose? Or will God’s fully-matured spiritual companion have other duties in Heaven? Only God knows these things.

Statement of Purpose: Rod Martin, Jr.

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Big goals should not scare us. Failing should not scare us, either. With failing, we learn and get better. With goals, we have direction and a challenge to push us to excel.

My goals are insanely huge. My life experience over the last few decades has not only prepared me for this, but has given me additional goals that complement the ones I’ve kept. Along the way, I’ve sometimes modified goals so that I may help more perfectly the rest of humanity.

I remember too well motivational coaches cautioning their clients and my fellow students to create goals that scare us a little, but are at least realistic. I didn’t listen. What does “realistic” mean, anyway? If a goal is “realistic” by the criteria of our current viewpoint, then we could be cheating ourselves. Unrealistic goals force us to think outside the proverbial box—to imagine what might be necessary for anyone to achieve such goals.

Let me give you an extreme example:

For me, money has always been a tool to use for creation. If I wasn’t buying books, I was buying equipment—bookshelves, paintbrushes, computers and other ways to create the effects on my “to do” list. But then someone challenged me with a “money goal.” How much money could I use? What kind of goal would I set for myself? The first answer that popped into my mind was outrageously unrealistic:

[image error]A fictional, one quadrillion dollar bill. If it were real, you could buy several nations, including these United States of America.

I am the world’s first multi-quadrillionaire, with $5 quadrillion in 2005-value dollars.

See? Unrealistic!

But thinking of this as a possible goal, got me to wonder how such a goal might be achieved. Currently, there is not enough money on Earth to support this kind of goal. And then it hit me. The only way to achieve a goal like this would be to add so much value to the world that poverty, as we know it, would cease to exist. Even the least intelligent among us would be taken care of by a groundswell of compassion. Earth gains hundreds of millions of millionaires, millions of billionaires, and thousands of trillionaires, putting the quadrillion dollar mark within the realm of possibility. In other words, helping others become insanely rich could boost at least one individual over the quadrillion dollar hurdle.

This kind of goal would also require a different mindset toward prosperity—one that gives up greedy selfishness and smug attachments. No longer would the toxic, Globalist-Leftist corporate owner thrive, but would be phased out in favor of a different economic paradigm. Instead of a fetish for centralized power and collectivism (Leftism), new entrepreneurs would create a new breed of voluntary cooperatives. The look would be similar to today in many respects, but the underlying intent would be entirely different. Instead of today’s Leftist Capitalism (pretending to be on the political right), we have more Free Market Capitalism run by honorable, high-integrity and creative individuals. No longer would a corporation commit crimes against their host nation, its people or the environment just to satisfy the overriding mandate of shareholder profits. No longer could such a corporation get away with wholesale slaughter and merely a slap on the wrist. The new paradigm would be one only of adding value to civilization.

There are two key dynamics involved in revealing to the world these intentions of mine—first as “purposes” and later as detailed “goals” with plans, programs, projects, tasks and individual actions. The first dynamic is the attack by those who like to ridicule others, or who feel a need to attack anyone who may be jeopardizing their own, less savory plans. The second dynamic is the support from those who agree with the purposes listed here, and who would love to see the goals accomplished. Naturally, this statement of purpose is aimed at those of the second dynamic—the new friends who have similar goals or intentions and want to help in this endeavor.

This statement of purposes leads to some insanely huge goals! This includes things like a new educational system geared to graduating world-builders, not just the next Einstein, but also the next Disney or next Steve Jobs.

How do we get there? What a question! And that is the beautiful challenge!

Sound interesting? The information, below, will help convince you that this is a worthy set of purposes.

Rod Martin, Jr.
January 28, 2020
Cebu, Philippines

Here Are Rod Martin’s Purposes:



Purpose #12: To terraform Mars so that it is a prosperous and habitable world, and trading partner with Earth, increasing the prosperity for all of humanityPurpose #11: To create the Infinity Dynamics (InDyn) University which provides young people with the tools to become competent citizens of the world and of their home countries, and to become innovators and world-builders in their own fields. To make InDyn University self-sustaining and self-replicating from income generated by new technology developed in its research laboratories and from companies hatched from its business incubator.Purpose #10: To discover Atlantis and all its secrets, or to prove once and for all that it never existed. By doing this with the new scientific paradigm, this project will act as an inspiration to future scientists on how science should be done, especially on controversial topicsPurpose #9: To create a Civilization Restoration Kit so that if the sources of evil ever get the upper hand, we can reduce the length of any Dark Ages after the dust has settledPurpose #8: To help others discover the Mechanics of Creation so that they may perform miracles to help othersPurpose #7: To inspire others to use their own intelligence, humility and creative skills to discover wisdom and natural insights all around us, that others have long overlookedPurpose #6: To help discover far more about humanity’s long history and to include evidence that the so-called ‘consensus’ has attempted to suppressPurpose #5: To help the religious and spiritually inclined find the humility to discover the non-literal truths hidden in the BiblePurpose #4: To help transform the purpose of individual humans, by their choice, toward greater spirituality, unconditional love, generosity, perfect responsibility, humility to the needs of others and fearless confidence that God will take care of us and our needsPurpose #3: To help transform science toward greater maturity and away from childish egoism, and to help reduce or eliminate academic arrogance (blindness).Purpose #2: To use the talents and insights God has given to him in order to help all of humanity thrive and to grow spirituallyPurpose #1: To add so much value to the world that a non-greedy, multi-quadrillionaire is possible



Who is this Rod Martin, Jr. character, anyway?

Rod Martin, Jr. is a Renaissance Man—scientist, bestselling author, videographer, Hollywood artist with screen credit, former college professor, software engineer with a degree summa cum laude, and more. With barely a genius-level IQ (139), he’s in the top 1% of Earth’s population, in the realm of intelligence. But having the lowest IQ in his family helped to nurture in him a healthy dose of humility. And that combination—humble intelligence—gave him a powerful combination to achieve some startling results.

Discovering the huge flaw in science’s key paradigm —skepticism. If you think skepticism is how science is done, then you’re not thinking clearly. Science is not supposed to be biased, but skepticism contains in it the potent bias of doubt. Look up the definition in the dictionary and be startled that the entire planet could miss this. And now imagine science done by the more benign restraint and humility, instead of the heavily biased skepticism. No more “Clovis First” like dogma. No more rejecting evidence to cling to “scientific consensus.”Discovering embedded in the Bible’s first book, Genesis, the Kabbalists’ “Tree of Life” matrix, proving that Kabbalists did not originate in the Middle Ages, as some scholars claim, but that the Kabbalists actually wrote the Bible nearly 3,000 years ago.Discovering a biblical timeline compatible with those of science that reveals the Flood’s actual target—a species which went extinct at the new Flood date—27,970 BC.Discovering in the prime factors of the patriarch ages found in Genesis 5, a clever, hidden link between Genesis 5 and Genesis 4, plus a far deeper meaning to the number 7.Discovering the Mechanics of Creation, experimenting with miracles, very much as a scientist will experiment with chemicals in a laboratory, including replicating miracles —dozens of times. Proving that a cause-and-effect connection exists between each of us and God, superior to the laws of nature.Discovering strong evidence from three different scientific disciplines which show that an Atlantis-like event occurred right when Plato said the lost island empire collapsed into the northeast Atlantic Ocean. Though we still don’t have proof that Atlantis, existed, evidence like this holds open the door to the possibility that it did exist, right where and when it did, according to the Ancient Greek philosopher.

Rod Martin, Jr. has also accomplished a number of more “mortal” successes:

A Hollywood artist with screen credit, proving his legitimacy as a source of creativity.A software engineer with a degree summa cum laude, working for some big corporations and small ones—Control Data, Ceridian, Bank of America, Global Database Marketing and IPRO Tech. He has also developed 3D astronomy space software, Stars in the NeighborHood. These prove his intelligence and professional competence.A #1 bestselling author—weather category, Amazon, 14 weeks, for Climate Basics: Nothing to Fear. Two other of his climate books have been in and out of the Top 50, numerous times over the last year—Thermophobia and Red Line — Carbon Dioxide.Ghostwriting over 50 books for his clients and writing over 20 titles in his own pen names. Martin has written nearly 2 million words in print and online.A college professor—teaching computer technology, computer programming, database management, logic, critical thinking and professional ethics.As a videographer, he has had two of his YouTube videos gain over a quarter million views each. While this is no record, it is a considerable achievement in its own right. Only a small percentage of videos achieve such a large viewership.

Rod Martin, Jr. is not the kind of guy you can easily categorize. Like the polymaths of old, his interests are not constrained to a single field.

The following is a more in-depth discussion of each of the purposes listed above.

Purpose #1: To add so much value to the world that a non-greedy, multi-quadrillionaire is possible

Who is Rod Martin, Jr. to have such a purpose?—to imagine it possible that anyone could have such an insanely huge goal? The above purpose is only nominally about money, only because it is easy to understand such a purpose by its measurable effect. But how can someone be non-greedy and create that much wealth? It all has to do with the purpose behind it all. The “love of money” (egoistic attachment) is what makes the topic frequently evil. If a person is not attached to money, but merely responsible, then they will not necessarily be evil, no matter how big their riches. It is possible for someone to own 28 septillion planets and still be a down-to-earth kind of guy. It’s all in the attitude.

Purpose #2: To use the talents and insights God has given to him in order to help all of humanity thrive and to grow spiritually

This may seem to leave atheists out in the cold, but this is not necessarily the case. They need our compassion for their inability to see the spiritual reality all around us. Though the only unforgivable sin is that of blaspheming against the Holy Spirit, atheists have a way out of their predicament: Decide not blindly to believe something they can’t prove and to consider the fact that they “don’t know.”

If you’ve ever wondered why this is the only unforgivable sin, the answer is very simple, and a short analogy can help anyone understand.

Imagine a man with a broken-down car. Long ago, he parked the car in his garage and then forgot about it. When an out-of-work mechanic noticed the garage and the car within it, he asked the owner if he could repair it. But the owner insisted that there was no car. Therefore the car could not be repaired. See? He was “blaspheming” (rejecting the existence of) the broken-down car.

Spiritually, the repair is our complete forgiveness of all the sins we’ve ever committed. It is the awakening of our own true self—the child of God within. That inner, sleeping child of God is the Holy Spirit. Denying that we are a spiritual being wearing a Homo sapiens body only makes it impossible for the repair—the forgiveness—that will heal us as an immortal spirit.

This second purpose is thus fully compatible with the underlying purpose of the entire Bible, the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama and Lao Tzu, and of Christ’s lessons to us all.

Purpose #3: To help transform science toward greater maturity and away from childish egoism, and to help reduce or eliminate academic arrogance (blindness).



[image error]Accomplishments like this launch of the space shuttle Columbia have been made possible by science and engineering. And they “think” skepticism was involved. Photo: NASA (PD).

For more than half of his life, Rod Martin could never have imagined that scientists could act so childishly as to prefer dogma to evidence. Discovering this behavior was like a slap to Mr. Martin’s mind. He took a critical look at this type of behavior in his first-place, award-winning essay, “Outsiderness in the Scientific Community” (Krupnick Award, Los Angeles).

Overcoming such behavior will require better education and a better economic paradigm. Solutions like these come in big packages.

Purpose #4: To help transform the purpose of individual humans, by their choice, toward greater spirituality, unconditional love, generosity, perfect responsibility, humility to the needs of others and fearless confidence that God will take care of us and our needs

Jesus Christ once said that the meek shall inherit the Earth. There is great wisdom in this. Helping to make this happen remains a most righteous quest.

Purpose #5: To help the religious and spiritually inclined find the humility to discover the non-literal truths hidden in the Bible



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Throughout human history, a know-it-all arrogance has crippled people in every walk of life, but none more so than in the religious fields. This comes from ego—the equal opportunity destroyer of minds and possibilities.

In religion and spirituality, too often the believer is humble to the interpretations of other men, but not to the Truth that God created. This should have been obvious, but arrogance is, after all, a form of blindness. True humility is not humble to the viewpoints of men, but to the Mind of God. Men remain fallible.

The solution is humility to God—the antidote for ego. Only then will men be able to read the spiritual truth in the Bible, for it is not written in ink or literal words (2 Cor. 3:3–6).

Resource: https://tharsishighlands.wordpress.com/books/bibles-hidden-wisdom-noahs-flood/

Purpose #6: To help discover far more about humanity’s long history and to include evidence that the so-called ‘consensus’ has attempted to suppress

There is one rowdy group on planet Earth bent on suppressing evidence of supremely early man. Anyone familiar with logical fallacies would instantly spot their reasons for dismissing such evidence as shoddy and logically fallacious. This alone does not mean that such evidence proves early man—1 million to 10 million years BC—but it does shred their sloppy rejection of that evidence.

How will we ever discover the truth if we never look? Scientists ridiculing their peers or threatening them with the loss of their careers is far too childish to consider sane. We citizens of planet Earth deserve far better from our scientists and researchers.

Purpose #7: To inspire others to use their own intelligence, humility and creative skills to discover wisdom and natural insights all around us, that others have long overlooked

Training the mind, imagination and awareness, to see the clues that are all around us, is a key part of this purpose. Mr. Martin has proven his own ability to use such talents to discover a great many of Earth’s profound secrets (listed above). His next quest on this topic is to discover how to teach others to do the same.

Purpose #8: To help others discover the Mechanics of Creation so that they may perform miracles to help others

In his book, The Science of Miracles, Mr. Martin shows how science can be used to study spiritual phenomena and how miracles can be replicated. Teaching others how to do such things is his aim on this topic. Discovering how others make this difficult is part of this purpose, so those difficulties can be avoided.

Resource: https://tharsishighlands.wordpress.com/books/science-miracles-scientific-method-spiritual-phenomena/

Purpose #9: To create a Civilization Restoration Kit so that if the sources of evil ever get the upper hand, we can reduce the length of any Dark Ages after the dust has settled



[image error]Civilization Restoration Kit: The Parthenon as seen from the south. This building is an icon of civilization and its fragile nature. Photo: Thermos (CC BY-SA 2.5)

If Atlantis ever existed, its administrators were foolish to depend so heavily on their homeland—to put all their “eggs” in the one basket, and then to have that basket sink. Even if Atlantis was never real, the wisdom, here, is what is important. We need to protect humanity and all its hard work and accomplishments from the shortsighted foolishness of the extremely rich Globalist-Leftists who would destroy civilization in order to possess its resources. Their reckless selfishness could undo even their own clever plans and could risk the extinction of Homo sapiens. We need to ensure that this endangerment doesn’t happen—through due diligence, hefty prayer and spiritual action (miracles).

Failing that, we need to have a plan and resources, like this Civilization Restoration Kit, to bring sanity and order back to the world.

Resource: https://rodmartinjr.wordpress.com/2017/04/02/civilization-restoration-kit-dark-ages-short/

Purpose #10: To discover Atlantis and all its secrets, or to prove once and for all that it never existed. By doing this with the new scientific paradigm, this project will act as an inspiration to future scientists on how science should be done, especially on controversial topics

Mr. Martin is nearing completion of his primary work on this topic—Mission: Atlantis—a book that is already nearly 300 pages long and a little past halfway done. The years of research have been completed, and the writing is within weeks of being done.

Resource: https://missionatlantis.wordpress.com/

Purpose #11: To create the Infinity Dynamics (InDyn) University which provides young people with the tools to become competent citizens of the world and of their home countries, and to become innovators and world-builders in their own fields. To make InDyn University self-sustaining and self-replicating from income generated by new technology developed in its research laboratories and from companies hatched from its business incubator.

This new educational system will prioritize the students’ needs rather than the needs of the faculty or administrators. A prime example of this is that of eliminating the “school year,” and letting students learn at their own pace, but to mastery of the subject—never to “barely passing.”

Students are thus never failed for an entire semester or an entire year. They are only ever flunked for a single concept which they can relearn with a minimal of lost effort.

Students learn hard core critical thinking skills, learning how to spot sloppy thinking and logical fallacies. They also learn how to use knowledge, creativity and imagination to explore all the possibilities to a given objective in science, technology, business, economics, civics, art and more.

The objective of this school is to turn out Einsteins, Disneys, Thomas Jeffersons and Picassos by the truck load.

Resource: https://infinitydynamics.wordpress.com/

Purpose #12: To terraform Mars so that it is a prosperous and habitable world, and trading partner with Earth, increasing the prosperity for all of humanity

Naturally, this last purpose requires a number of earlier steps, including generating the funds to finance such a world-changing project, and developing the technology that will make terraforming an entire world relatively easy.

Resources: https://ancientsunsblog.wordpress.com/

https://globalwarmthblog.wordpress.com/2017/05/13/ice-age-solution-terraforming-earth/

[image error]Terraformed Mars globe, realistic by Daein Ballard (CC-BY-SA-3.0).

If you’ve made it this far, you better have some questions or comments; enter them below.

If Mr. Martin pulls off even half of the goals intended by these purposes, he will have made civilization a far better place. Wouldn’t you want to be a part of this? You can be, and in a number of ways possible. You can support his work by buying his books and courses, subscribing to his YouTube channel and to this blog, and by telling others. And you can support him monthly with as little as $1 per month at https://subscribestar.com/rod-martin-jr

Atlantis Quest — Relocated Website

[image error]Temple of Ceres (Athena), 500 BC, Paestum by Dave & Margie Hill (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Cumulus humilis clouds by Toby Hudson (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Besides ghostwriting books and articles for my clients, and writing my own books, I try to produce educational videos, while longing to get back to some of my software development—namely, my 3D astronomy software, “Stars in the NeighborHood.” The billion-plus, star catalog has been out for nearly a year (data release 2), and I haven’t yet used its superior distance information and millions of additional, nearby stars for my software. With so many projects, that one has to take a back seat for awhile.

Nearly two years ago, while continuing to work on my tome, Mission: Atlantis, a non-fiction book about science, evidence and myth, I noticed that one of my sources had disappeared.

The website, Atlantis Quest, was created by a friend of mind—the life’s work of an anthropologist from Oklahoma—R. Cedric Leonard. That website contained a treasure trove of facts, ideas and evidence, plus sources, for information related to Plato’s lost island empire.

[image error]R. Cedric Leonard, Oklahoma anthropologist and founder of the Atlantis Quest website.

R.C. Leonard and I have corresponded perhaps over a hundred times over the last decade. While I never met the man, in person, I consider him a good friend. So, it came as a sad surprise to find his website gone from the internet.

Well, he and his wife, Geneva, are in their 80s and not doing as well as they used to. My heart goes out to them. Their age and website maintenance expenses were concerns in his decision to let the website lapse into nothingness.

I don’t know what his web traffic had been, but there were certainly many visitors. One of those visitors had pointed me in his direction nearly a decade ago. The site had been an educational resource for many people.

Weeks later, I recommended to my Oklahoma friend that I set up the website on a free hosting platform—WordPress. I would handle all the transferring, formatting and links. I simply didn’t want all his hard work to disappear from the web.

Well, I had volunteered, so now I had to deliver. And now, it’s done. The new home for Atlantis Quest by R. Cedric Leonard is,

http://AtlantisQuestScience.WordPress.com

If the notion of scientific evidence about Atlantis intrigues you, please visit his relocated website. While you’re at it, consider visiting mine at,

http://MissionAtlantis.WordPress.com

Being There

[image error]The movie of the same name, Being There, involves a meek individual who, by his very presence helps to solve the world’s most pressing difficulties. Scenes from movie and movie poster © 1979 Lorimar Productions.

One of the most spiritually profound movies I’ve ever seen was the 1979 comedy named Being There, with Peter Sellers (1925–1980) as the star. The movie poster suggests its spiritual nature, but the scene-by-scene depiction of Chauncey Gardiner (a.k.a. Chance the gardener), masks the true power of this meek individual.

The ironic humor of this film is that this mild mannered man, simply by being there, leads to solutions to some of the world’s key problems. Before long, Chauncey has the ear of world leaders. His simpleminded answers to their difficult questions are misunderstood, but therein lies the rub. The simplicity of his gardening metaphor opens their own minds to solutions that become incredibly obvious.

There is a magic to this film which is somewhat destroyed by the comical outtakes during the end credits. The director had insisted; Peter Sellers, the star, had dreaded their inclusion.

Even more ironic is the powerful idea that this movie reveals the shirttail of Truth—a glimpse of God’s face.

God’s Fifth Element



[image error]Book cover: Four Elements of God. Available soon.

In several of my books, I reveal what I had discovered to be four elements of God that had been required to perform miracles.

Unconditional Love,Utter Humility,Perfect Responsibility, andFearless Confidence.

In an upcoming book titled, Four Elements of God, I not only discuss each of these in detail, but I also expand on them, combining them much as science combines the four elements of the physical world—space, time, energy and mass—to derive other, derivative dimensions, like area, volume, density, pressure, force, power, velocity, acceleration and many others.

[image error]Four elements of the physical universe: time (water), energy (fire), mass (earth) and space (air). From these we can derive virtually every other measure.

Recently, however, I realized that a fifth element is required that was too obvious to be realized earlier on, because—like air and gravity—we usually pay no attention to it. This fifth element is God’s beingness, or state of “being there.”

Exercising the State of ‘Being There’

In Scientology, one of the painful drudgeries involved the drill used to exercise our ability to “Be Here.” This was Training Routine Zero, or TR-0.

Only years later did I learn that people had been doing it incorrectly. The founder of Scientology discovered this and attempted to set people straight on the fact that they were making it entirely too difficult.

Still, I gained a great deal of benefit from doing TR-0 incorrectly. I was able to blow through mountains of “not being there” that manifested itself as pains, discomforts, pressures, twitches, drowsiness and more.

When most humans first hear about this amazing drill, they tend to scoff at it, thinking, “Everyone is ‘being here.’ What’s the big deal?”

Well, the big deal is that not everyone is “being here,” especially when faced with difficult problems or scary situations.

Facing thorny circumstances takes the ability not to react to them. Most people freak out when faced with imminent, immediate death. That is being a meat body—a cog in the machine of physical reality. Solving such problems requires being free. And such freedom only comes from finding Truth.

Finding Truth only comes when we are acting as spirit. In other words, “Being There!” Not being last Tuesday’s car accident, or last lifetime’s indiscretion.

[image error]Puzzle of chickens: Which came first? Adults: Klimkin; Egg: Myriams-Fotos; Chicks: CongerDesign. All (CC0) Pixabay.

Sometimes, it may seem a bit like the “chicken or egg” question—Which comes first?

On the “chicken or egg” question, it’s the egg that came first. That which laid the egg was an “almost chicken”—a 99.999999% chicken on its way to becoming a 100% chicken with the freshly laid egg. That may have occurred a million or more years ago.

On the topic of “spirit or freedom,” the answer is somewhat different. Both happen at the same time. By gaining freedom, we achieve the Holy Spirit. By achieving the Holy Spirit, we gain freedom—we are suddenly viewing the world-at-large through the viewpoint of our true self—the usually sleeping child of God within.

The Position of Strength—Being There

Like the balanced position in martial arts, sometimes called “the horse,” we need to find this middle ground between overreaching and flinching—between desire and fear.

This is the humble position of being without ego. This is confidence without arrogance. This is love that is unconditional, generous and never selfish.