Building a Prosperity Engine
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.
