Prosperity Engine — Update — Getting Comfortable With Change and the Unknown
Change can be fun and exciting, like a pleasant vacation to a place we’ve never been before.
Change can also be horrifying and painful, like a major accident or an unexpected, life-threatening illness.
Change can be full of betrayal, like a presidential election turned into broken promises.
And change can be full of hope and empowerment, like discovering the secrets to creation itself.
There is one guiding principle in all this talk of change and the unknown: We tend to get the types of things upon which our attention is focused. Notice that this last phrase doesn’t say, “our awareness.” Attention is different in our discussion of building our Prosperity Engine. Attention is the “rocket fuel” which powers our future; awareness is the “bright light” which can help us steer in the right direction.
Part of the trick in building our Prosperity Engine involves shining the light of awareness into the darkness of our subconscious (feeling) attention. This is one area where the unknown can betray us. This is an area of potential self-sabotage. Using awareness can help us convert that self-sabotage into self-empowerment.
[image error]The self-sabotage of unexpected change. This poor guy is working from an unknown subconscious. Image: #73326 PublicDomainPictures (CC0) Pixabay.
Because there has been so much mystery, until now, about taking charge of our future, we have tended to want more predictability. We have wanted to know “how” we were going to create our prosperity or to heal our illness or to find the love of our life. But this is wrong. Certainly, there are things we need to do, but the precise how, the precise identities and the precise sources should be unknown, at least for now.
The reason is simple. We don’t know everything in the universe. We are not omniscient. We don’t know the optimum source, the optimum path or the optimum person to help us achieve our goals. That’s where God comes in handy. He is omniscient and omnipotent. When we ask for His help, He gives it willingly and without reservation. The only problem with prayers is that we frequently think we’re asking for one thing, but our subconscious (feeling) attention is asking for something entirely different. The active ingredient in prayers resides in the usually dark subconscious. Until now, there has, all too frequently, been a huge disconnect between conscious (thought) awareness and subconscious (feeling) attention.
With fearless confidence in God and humble to His word, we can let Him deliver miracles from the Great Unknown—that Undiscovered Country called the Future.
We can’t let the Prosperity Engine do its thing if we keep squeezing off the fuel supply with a fear of the unknown. This reminds me of my learning in a different field—politics—where a certain type of individual, fearful of freedom, attempts to control others by pushing for a bigger, more powerful government. These are the control freaks who love tyranny and the fake sense of security it promises. And to think! I used to be one of those control freaks!
[image error]Symbol of change: butterfly emerging from cocoon. One enterprising child felt sorry for the struggling butterfly and cut open the cocoon to “help.” That butterfly couldn’t fly. The struggle was part of the preparation. Photo: #1518060 KeiBlack (CC0) Pixabay.
We need to let go of “how” and to trust that God will deliver. The only caveat here involves our accuracy in asking. We need to make certain that we remain confident and clear on the target of our request. If we get fuzzy or doubtful, then we will end up disappointed. We also need to ensure that the details of our request—both the clear picture and the positive feeling—go into our subconscious. Gratitude can help accomplish this, but the actual active ingredient is the powerful spiritual state of “Not-Know.” Yes! The unknown! By shoving the clear picture of our desire (and feeling we already have it) into the unknown of the subconscious, we turn the “instantaneity” (zero time) of creation into the “Not-Know” (persistence; potentially infinite time) of manifestation.
This is the secret recipe for baking up an entire universe or anything in it. This is the Mechanics of Creation that allows us to perform miracles like Christ did and even greater. Of course, this all goes through God—the Prime Source of all creation. We owe it all to Him.
Our utter (perfect) humility to Him, and fearless (perfect) confidence in His ability to deliver, are the active ingredients in the ancient act of “Faith”—that attitude which allows all miracles, including healing, forgiveness, inspiration, walking on water, moving mountains, and even the illusion of “luck.”
[image error]Cutting the “t” out of “can’t.” Sometimes changing our subconscious is this easy for building our Prosperity Engine. Graphic: #4505837_1920 Mohamed_Hassan (CC0) Pixabay.
So, take care of the unknown in the subconscious—cleaning up the negative past which has clogged up our Prosperity Engine until now—but delight in the unknown of finding out from where the next inspiration, the next breakthrough or the next million is coming.
Somehow, I know that everyone who uses the materials in this Prosperity Engine series will be helping me achieve my long-range goals, including adding sufficient value to our civilization to allow for at least one multi-quadrillionaire.
Prosperity Engine Progress
I thought of a new “daily question” to add to my morning routine. After doing meditation to get me into the Creative Now (instead of the Effect-Based Now), I will be asking a question in the following format:
How would the [Name of the current body I’m wearing] of [Long-range goals] act and feel today?
For myself, using this format looks like this:
How would the Rod Martin of galactic exploration, terraforming Mars and InDyn University campuses act and feel today?
[image error]The only thing more dangerous than quitting on a Big Goal, is never dreaming Big in the first place. Loving hands shelter our planet Earth, symbolic of our powerful Prosperity Engine attitude. Image: #1222866 CocoParisienne (CC0) Pixabay.
This adds specifics from the viewpoint of that future self. It considers the notion that all those long-range goals have been achieved. So, the person who achieved those goals is now asked to look at today and upgrade the current attitude and viewpoint to that level which is required to create those future goals as “done.”
I have to admit, I had some misgivings when I started this series of articles. I was hanging myself out to dry, so to speak—exposing myself—making myself more vulnerable. And there have been some bumps in the road, but this is also becoming far more fun than I had imagined.
Well, gee whiz! This stuff really works! Intellectually, I knew that. But it’s super nice to feel the evidence of it working.
Another addition came late yesterday. After my bumpy visualization two days ago, where I imagined conflict with one of my future team members, I now add the following “Feeling Affirmation”—“I’m so grateful for the effortless cooperation of my team.” That feels so much better.
Added Power: Prosperity Engine Turbo-Charged Rocket Thrusters
In 1975, I used one of my most powerful, negative emotions to boost my confidence in performing two, back-to-back miracles. These were a test of my hypothesis at the time. And both of them worked like a charm (Leveraging the Negative).
Fast forward forty-five years to today, and suddenly I had another brilliant idea bout harnessing my negative emotions and my counterproductive desires.
[image error]Parent and child connect on a single finger tip. Homage to Michelangelo’s painting of Adam and God in the Creation story. Photo: #71282 PublicDomainPictures (CC0) Pixabay.
Sculpting my subconscious means whittling away all the undesirable stuff so that only the desired “statue” or “art” remains, like Michelangelo chipping away at that slab of marble to reveal his most famous tatue, David. All that is required is the time it takes to look, and the bright light of conscious awareness aimed at the undesirable decisions (beliefs) about life. Also, a potent dose of the “Gratitude of Dismissal” helps. But by harnessing all of the egoistic desires I’ve accumulated (including doubt, incompetence, procrastination and distraction), and putting them to work, I can turn the feeble glow of a 10-watt incandescent light bulb (my past efforts on this) into a billion-watt thermonuclear searchlight. Talk about overkill! Wow! This has the potential to make “short work” out of building and implementing my Prosperity Engine. I can even use this to power my stamina in being consistent on keeping this searchlight powered and aimed.
From a sputtering engine that has mostly lain dormant, to a warp-driven starship powerhouse, I can feel the stars, like dust, flying by in the universal wind.
Simply by deciding, I have harnessed ALL of the power that I have used against myself, and against my goals, to help me toward my goals.
I am deeply humbled by this realization—by this breakthrough.
Now, share your own breakthroughs and let’s reclaim this civilization!
Coming Up Next
Tomorrow, we look at the concept of “paramita” (spiritual perfection) aimed at abundance. The Buddhist “perfections” are all about spiritual traits, and spirit knows nothing of scarcity. This is going to be interesting.
