AS I see it, the overriding message of The Secret is that our lives can be so much more than what they are today. Especially for those who are stuck in the middle class Rat Race, and who perceive their lives to be mediocre.
So we see the results that some others have obtained, and quite naturally we want those same results for ourselves. This is not a bad thing. All positive change begins with the desire for something better. This desire should be cultivated, not ignored.
And yet we do not have to go too far down the path to our dreams before we realize that it ultimately must start with us building or buying some kind of business, or creating something else, because true financial freedom does not come until we can be paid some on other people's efforts, or off of royalties, or until we have amassed enough of a stockpile ourselves to just live off the interest. The problem with the latter is that it takes 40 years or so, and you may have been wanting something a little quicker.
And soon after that, we find out that building that business or marketing that book is not as easy to do as it seemed like at first, and we also find that out there in the business world with the big bears and the gorillas and the sharks that the market is very unforgiving of mistakes that we make along the way. Some people find that this puts them in piles and piles of debt, ruins their credit, threatens their home and generally messes with their life.
Does the movie The Secret say that you can just focus on the end result, visualize it, be grateful for it in advance, and then by doing all of that you can just skip the pesky part where you actually have to make mistakes and learn something? I think not.
What it does say, is that if you keep your focus on the end result, if you do not get so caught up in the mistakes along the way, as in just learn from them and move on, that you will with this focus finally get to the end result.
But who is willing to do it?
If I guaranteed you that you could be a millionaire, and that the only price was that you had to be homeless for some undetermined amount of time first, would you be willing to do it? You might ask Neale Donald Walsch that question, because this is pretty much what happened to him.
But here is the real kicker. . . He went into being homeless as a displaced worker who had been living a quiet middle class life.
He came out of it with the inspiration that turned him into a millionaire; namely the Conversations With God books.
Would he have ever received that inspiration if he had not been homeless? Who knows? But my guess is probably not, because he would have not perceived the great and dire need for something better.
If we only sorta want something better, is that enough to get us along the crooked and difficult path to fame and fortune? I think not. We must have a gut renching feeling that something has to change, or we will not do anything different, and as such we will not get any different results.
And to any who would argue that it does not have to be a crooked and difficult path to fame and fortune, I would allow that most of the work is within your head as opposed to without, but if the path were easy then everybody would already be there . . .
And it would not mean as much.
So I do not wish to sound harsh here, but rising to fame and fortune is not for the timid. We will make mistakes along the way, and those mistakes will be costly. Knowing this beforehand helps a little . . .
But not much.
But it's even worse to go into any kind of new venture thinking that we have all the answers and that we are smarter than all of that. We just set ourselves up to fail (which is going to happen a number of times regardless), and we are not able to deal with the failure because we think we were too smart to have had one. So we quit. The only way to ultimately fail in this life is to quit. Those who do not quit eventually get there.
100% of the time.
And that should not be a Secret to anyone.
So I say show your mettle. Everyone and that means everyone should be trying to build some kind of business or create some kind of a new thing in their after work time. We seek to get rich through Creation, not competition. What are you good at? Write that book! Start that home based business!
And understand that when you meet failures, that you see them for what they really are . . .
Signposts that prove that you are on the right road to fame and fortune.
Because there is one and only one group of people who never fail, and you know exactly who they are . . .
Yep. The ones who never try.
Don't be one of them.
Joseph
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Real and Imagined Literacy
These two things exist . . .
There is knowing something.
And then there is doing something.
The one does not imply the other.
In fact it was Aristotle who said "the things we must learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them".
Sound Circular? So many things in life are. There is the vicious cycle; there is also the virtuous cycle, which is just the opposite. Either one can make your head spin.
In the movie The Secret it may seem that they are talking mostly about knowing something, or at least thinking or believing something.
But some people miss the emphasis on doing something. When the inspiration is there; ACT!
And that is all you have to do . . . (Joe Vitale).
In many parts of the world, the populations are not literate. They have little chance of being able to rise out of poverty because they are unable to read.
In the rest of the world, many are Unliterate. They know how to read . . .
But they choose not to. . . At least not to read anything that might expand their horizons.
And as a result they have little chance of rising out of whatever life they have already made for themselves.
So I feel to ask this simple question . . .
Which group is worse off? The group who can't?
Or the group who won't?
What kind of a message is that to send to your subconscious?
It is not going to make the connection that one might be trying to make, that's for sure.
The connection between a person ----
And their real power.
Which is their power to learn. That is the key to all of the rest of it.
Joseph
There is knowing something.
And then there is doing something.
The one does not imply the other.
In fact it was Aristotle who said "the things we must learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them".
Sound Circular? So many things in life are. There is the vicious cycle; there is also the virtuous cycle, which is just the opposite. Either one can make your head spin.
In the movie The Secret it may seem that they are talking mostly about knowing something, or at least thinking or believing something.
But some people miss the emphasis on doing something. When the inspiration is there; ACT!
And that is all you have to do . . . (Joe Vitale).
In many parts of the world, the populations are not literate. They have little chance of being able to rise out of poverty because they are unable to read.
In the rest of the world, many are Unliterate. They know how to read . . .
But they choose not to. . . At least not to read anything that might expand their horizons.
And as a result they have little chance of rising out of whatever life they have already made for themselves.
So I feel to ask this simple question . . .
Which group is worse off? The group who can't?
Or the group who won't?
What kind of a message is that to send to your subconscious?
It is not going to make the connection that one might be trying to make, that's for sure.
The connection between a person ----
And their real power.
Which is their power to learn. That is the key to all of the rest of it.
Joseph
Monday, February 11, 2008
The Accidental Business
I have obtained a couple of (free) audio programs that can be obtained from the website of Bob Proctor, one of the teachers on the book and movie The Secret. I enjoy listening to it because it makes and explains two very important points:
1. You are generally paid in this world according to the value that you provide, so if you wish to be paid more you have to find a way to provide increased value, or the same value to more people. Combine this with the following quote from Robert Kiyosaki: Money always flows to the Leader. If you want more money, become more of a Leader.
2. You can and should have multiple streams of income. Your creative thought should be placed on how you could develop your next one without adversely effecting any of the current one(s).
Well, with these ideas flowing around in my mind, I have been sort of keeping my eyes open for something that I might enjoy doing that could become an additional source of income for me.
And I attribute the fact that I was looking for what happened next. Now I had been looking for a while, and I had run across a couple of things, but the learning curve was too high and I did not really know how to do them.
Then one day, about a month ago, I saw someone posting in our community group about how they were looking for someone to help them with their computer, because they were at their wits end! I had seen messsages like this before and kind of ignored them, but this time I thought I should reply.
So I did. I replied stating that I had a business where I helped people with their computers, and that I had a special rate for the group members per hour. I was not necessairly expecting anything to come of it, but I did reply.
Well I got my first call the very next day. The next call that same day as well. Neither call was from the person who had posted at first asking for help, but both had learned about me from this community mailing list. It helps that this community mailing list has more than 1000 members.
Since I have 17 years of experience in all kinds of tech support, and currently work supporting network operating systems and other very complex pieces of software, helping folks with their home computers is like a breath of fresh air. I am really able to do something for them that they are not able to do for themselves, I can make some money at it, but the most important part of all is how I go home from every job feeling great because I have used my talents and provided some real value to other folks which they were only too happy to pay me for.
You see, I had my doubts about whether I had much to offer folks that they would be willing to pay for. I grew up in the work for someone else world and almost everyone else I know is militantly in the work for someone else world and it took some effort on my part to change my thinking some to believe that people would actually be willing to pay me.
Well I have ten customers now, less than 30 days later. All of them have been very happy to pay me for what I have been able to do for them. I guess when you save their data that they thought was lost it makes them really happy. But again the best part is that I have a blast doing it! I am meeting neighbors in my area that I would have never had a chance to meet otherwise.
Now I could not start this so successfully if I did not have some clue what I was doing, and this is where the things I have learned as a result of my wife's Network Marketing business are paying off. I never figured out how to sponsor anyone, but I did learn several things that one needs to do to run their own business. Like how and when to follow up with someone.
I share all of this to make two points. This has worked so well for me for two specific reasons:
1. I was looking for something
2. I was learning the basics of running a personal business before I had found one I could do.
I believe that everyone, and that means everyone, should be looking for a business that they could do from their home on a part time basis to start. Something that they are talented in and enjoy doing. There are things that we need to learn that just cannot be learned in any other way.
So what are you good at doing?
Joseph
1. You are generally paid in this world according to the value that you provide, so if you wish to be paid more you have to find a way to provide increased value, or the same value to more people. Combine this with the following quote from Robert Kiyosaki: Money always flows to the Leader. If you want more money, become more of a Leader.
2. You can and should have multiple streams of income. Your creative thought should be placed on how you could develop your next one without adversely effecting any of the current one(s).
Well, with these ideas flowing around in my mind, I have been sort of keeping my eyes open for something that I might enjoy doing that could become an additional source of income for me.
And I attribute the fact that I was looking for what happened next. Now I had been looking for a while, and I had run across a couple of things, but the learning curve was too high and I did not really know how to do them.
Then one day, about a month ago, I saw someone posting in our community group about how they were looking for someone to help them with their computer, because they were at their wits end! I had seen messsages like this before and kind of ignored them, but this time I thought I should reply.
So I did. I replied stating that I had a business where I helped people with their computers, and that I had a special rate for the group members per hour. I was not necessairly expecting anything to come of it, but I did reply.
Well I got my first call the very next day. The next call that same day as well. Neither call was from the person who had posted at first asking for help, but both had learned about me from this community mailing list. It helps that this community mailing list has more than 1000 members.
Since I have 17 years of experience in all kinds of tech support, and currently work supporting network operating systems and other very complex pieces of software, helping folks with their home computers is like a breath of fresh air. I am really able to do something for them that they are not able to do for themselves, I can make some money at it, but the most important part of all is how I go home from every job feeling great because I have used my talents and provided some real value to other folks which they were only too happy to pay me for.
You see, I had my doubts about whether I had much to offer folks that they would be willing to pay for. I grew up in the work for someone else world and almost everyone else I know is militantly in the work for someone else world and it took some effort on my part to change my thinking some to believe that people would actually be willing to pay me.
Well I have ten customers now, less than 30 days later. All of them have been very happy to pay me for what I have been able to do for them. I guess when you save their data that they thought was lost it makes them really happy. But again the best part is that I have a blast doing it! I am meeting neighbors in my area that I would have never had a chance to meet otherwise.
Now I could not start this so successfully if I did not have some clue what I was doing, and this is where the things I have learned as a result of my wife's Network Marketing business are paying off. I never figured out how to sponsor anyone, but I did learn several things that one needs to do to run their own business. Like how and when to follow up with someone.
I share all of this to make two points. This has worked so well for me for two specific reasons:
1. I was looking for something
2. I was learning the basics of running a personal business before I had found one I could do.
I believe that everyone, and that means everyone, should be looking for a business that they could do from their home on a part time basis to start. Something that they are talented in and enjoy doing. There are things that we need to learn that just cannot be learned in any other way.
So what are you good at doing?
Joseph
Monday, February 4, 2008
The Secret to Winning the Super Bowl ??
Given how good a game it was, millions of you probably watched the entirety of the Super Bowl this year, Patriots vs. Giants. Ever since seeing The Secret for the first time, I have often wondered if the Law of Attraction could be used to will your sports team on to victory, or whether it could be used by the players on the team to attract the victory to themselves?
It becomes complicated because of the number of attractive creators involved. In a tennis match for instance it would not be possible for both players to attract a victory, because someone has to lose, even if they are both plugged in and are powerful attractors.
Also while we do define our entire world with our thoughts, I am not understanding how we could define our world with a win by a certain team when others who share the Earth with us define their world with the victory of the opponent team.
Just to check, as any of you were watching the Super Bowl yesterday, did any of you see the Patriots win ??
Just checking.
I watch these types of things with a feeling that I really have no control over the outcome from my couch. Therefore I have no control over the outcome. I am not sure what would happen if I felt I had full control over it, but it is difficult for me to see how that would change anything?
Talent wise, I do not believe that the Giants were the better team, but they had the X factor that is required to win games of this type. They were in "the zone". You would have to believe that in seeing the way that they won the game.
As for the Patriots, you could argue that it was their pride that was their undoing. Hear me out on this one.
Prior to playing the Patriots in week 17 of the regular season, the Giants were a good team but not a great one. They were a distant second behind the Cowboys in their division, with the Cowboys having beaten them twice. Now their best receiver was not in either of those two games, but the games were not that close.
Meanwhile the Patriots would have normally rested all their starters in a meaningless week 17 game like this. If they had previously had one loss on the season then they would have certainly done so.
But they wanted regular season perfection. It had never been done on a 16 game season (The Dolphins did it in a 14 game season).
And it cost them the Super Bowl. Why?
Because the Giants came into Week 17 thinking they were a great team but not having proved it. They played all their starters as well (game was also meaningless for them), and they played the Patriots very well and were close to winning the game.
They took a mantle from that game. I have never before seen a team so inspired by a loss. They saw themselves as being equally as good as the Patriots, and that being the case, the Bucs, the Cowboys, the Packers, all became road kill on their way to a rematch with a team that they believed that they could beat. The fact that no one else could did not matter to them.
So they had the inspiration, and the Patriots did not.
If instead the Patriots had rested their starters in week 17, then the Giants would not have had the opportunity to become so inspired. Beating the second string Patriots would not have proved anything, and the Giants would not have know exactly what to prepare for in the big game.
Ask any Patriot fan . . . would they rather be 15-1 in the regular season and win the Super Bowl, or 16-0 and then lose it? you have to win the Super Bowl, it is more important than your regular season record, and the worst thing you can do is tip your hand to a potential super bowl opponent in week 17 of the regular season.
OK enough armchair quarterbacking. The game proves that the X factor is everything, and it was obvious that the Giants had it. The movie and book The Secret try to teach us how to get into the zone ourselves.
So we we can celebrate our life like the Giants are celebrating today.
Joseph
It becomes complicated because of the number of attractive creators involved. In a tennis match for instance it would not be possible for both players to attract a victory, because someone has to lose, even if they are both plugged in and are powerful attractors.
Also while we do define our entire world with our thoughts, I am not understanding how we could define our world with a win by a certain team when others who share the Earth with us define their world with the victory of the opponent team.
Just to check, as any of you were watching the Super Bowl yesterday, did any of you see the Patriots win ??
Just checking.
I watch these types of things with a feeling that I really have no control over the outcome from my couch. Therefore I have no control over the outcome. I am not sure what would happen if I felt I had full control over it, but it is difficult for me to see how that would change anything?
Talent wise, I do not believe that the Giants were the better team, but they had the X factor that is required to win games of this type. They were in "the zone". You would have to believe that in seeing the way that they won the game.
As for the Patriots, you could argue that it was their pride that was their undoing. Hear me out on this one.
Prior to playing the Patriots in week 17 of the regular season, the Giants were a good team but not a great one. They were a distant second behind the Cowboys in their division, with the Cowboys having beaten them twice. Now their best receiver was not in either of those two games, but the games were not that close.
Meanwhile the Patriots would have normally rested all their starters in a meaningless week 17 game like this. If they had previously had one loss on the season then they would have certainly done so.
But they wanted regular season perfection. It had never been done on a 16 game season (The Dolphins did it in a 14 game season).
And it cost them the Super Bowl. Why?
Because the Giants came into Week 17 thinking they were a great team but not having proved it. They played all their starters as well (game was also meaningless for them), and they played the Patriots very well and were close to winning the game.
They took a mantle from that game. I have never before seen a team so inspired by a loss. They saw themselves as being equally as good as the Patriots, and that being the case, the Bucs, the Cowboys, the Packers, all became road kill on their way to a rematch with a team that they believed that they could beat. The fact that no one else could did not matter to them.
So they had the inspiration, and the Patriots did not.
If instead the Patriots had rested their starters in week 17, then the Giants would not have had the opportunity to become so inspired. Beating the second string Patriots would not have proved anything, and the Giants would not have know exactly what to prepare for in the big game.
Ask any Patriot fan . . . would they rather be 15-1 in the regular season and win the Super Bowl, or 16-0 and then lose it? you have to win the Super Bowl, it is more important than your regular season record, and the worst thing you can do is tip your hand to a potential super bowl opponent in week 17 of the regular season.
OK enough armchair quarterbacking. The game proves that the X factor is everything, and it was obvious that the Giants had it. The movie and book The Secret try to teach us how to get into the zone ourselves.
So we we can celebrate our life like the Giants are celebrating today.
Joseph
Sunday, January 27, 2008
What if a Much of a Which of a Wind
what if a much of a which of a wind
gives the truth to summer's lie;
bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun
and yanks immortal stars awry?
Blow king to beggar and queen to seem
(blow friend to friend: blow space to time)
- when skies are hanged and oceans drowned,
the single secret will still be man
e e cummings
Yes, if we could figure man out, then it seems that we would really know The Secret.
I have some questions that have not been answered about this:
1. Why do so many not seek knowledge? It is one of only two things we will leave this world with.
2. Why do so many fear change? Change happens because things happen for us to understand our life better. Change happens for us to learn and have new experiences. Without change we could not learn anything at all. Until we are all knowing, we *need* change.
3. Why do so many ignore their vibration? Because they do not understand the question? Perhaps. But why are there some who see a movie like The Secret and then not be interested in researching further? Our vibration is the other thing that we will leave this world with.
4. Why are men born? Why do they die? Why do they spend so much of the time in between wearing digital watches? (Could not resist: Douglas Adams)
OK scratch the last one, I am in one of those moods.
Just some things I have been thinking about recently:
The movie The Secret talks about how to attract the money you need into your life . . .
but your decision to be happy and joyful can only be made right now, before you attract the money.
The movie talks about how to improve or attract better relationships . . .
but your decision to be happy with your current relationships can only be made right now, before you have a chance to apply the secret.
The movie talks about how to attract better health . . .
but your decision to be grateful for the health you have can only be made right now, before you attract greater health.
The movie talks about how to attract the things or the people that you need to succeed . . .
but your decision to be happy with what you have achieved can only be made right now, before you attract greater success.
Does anyone see a pattern forming here? Maybe even a disconnect?
Behold the power of now. Now is created for you and refreshed at every moment by what your conscious and subconscious minds are doing. Your conscious mind is the rudder, which steers the ship that your subconscious mind powers.
At every moment you can steer it towards joy and gratitude.
If you are paying attention that is.
You can also consciously decide not to steer the ship at all, in which case you will be driven about on the waves and tossed; or you can decide to steer the ship towards anger, revenge and competition, which will run you right into Hurricane Consequences.
Hurricane consequences can be category one or category five. You should know; you created it.
So what will your life, starting from this very moment on, be like?
I'll decide that after I have attracted a few things that I want or need?
Nada.
Put off the decision, and be tossed by the waves.
Decide right now, and reach the Harbor of Contentment.
So what exactly what are you waiting for?
(I thought so)
Joseph
gives the truth to summer's lie;
bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun
and yanks immortal stars awry?
Blow king to beggar and queen to seem
(blow friend to friend: blow space to time)
- when skies are hanged and oceans drowned,
the single secret will still be man
e e cummings
Yes, if we could figure man out, then it seems that we would really know The Secret.
I have some questions that have not been answered about this:
1. Why do so many not seek knowledge? It is one of only two things we will leave this world with.
2. Why do so many fear change? Change happens because things happen for us to understand our life better. Change happens for us to learn and have new experiences. Without change we could not learn anything at all. Until we are all knowing, we *need* change.
3. Why do so many ignore their vibration? Because they do not understand the question? Perhaps. But why are there some who see a movie like The Secret and then not be interested in researching further? Our vibration is the other thing that we will leave this world with.
4. Why are men born? Why do they die? Why do they spend so much of the time in between wearing digital watches? (Could not resist: Douglas Adams)
OK scratch the last one, I am in one of those moods.
Just some things I have been thinking about recently:
The movie The Secret talks about how to attract the money you need into your life . . .
but your decision to be happy and joyful can only be made right now, before you attract the money.
The movie talks about how to improve or attract better relationships . . .
but your decision to be happy with your current relationships can only be made right now, before you have a chance to apply the secret.
The movie talks about how to attract better health . . .
but your decision to be grateful for the health you have can only be made right now, before you attract greater health.
The movie talks about how to attract the things or the people that you need to succeed . . .
but your decision to be happy with what you have achieved can only be made right now, before you attract greater success.
Does anyone see a pattern forming here? Maybe even a disconnect?
Behold the power of now. Now is created for you and refreshed at every moment by what your conscious and subconscious minds are doing. Your conscious mind is the rudder, which steers the ship that your subconscious mind powers.
At every moment you can steer it towards joy and gratitude.
If you are paying attention that is.
You can also consciously decide not to steer the ship at all, in which case you will be driven about on the waves and tossed; or you can decide to steer the ship towards anger, revenge and competition, which will run you right into Hurricane Consequences.
Hurricane consequences can be category one or category five. You should know; you created it.
So what will your life, starting from this very moment on, be like?
I'll decide that after I have attracted a few things that I want or need?
Nada.
Put off the decision, and be tossed by the waves.
Decide right now, and reach the Harbor of Contentment.
So what exactly what are you waiting for?
(I thought so)
Joseph
Friday, January 18, 2008
WELCOME to the Grail Quest
I have not gone crazy. I know that Dan Brown was not in The Secret. What Dan did do was to get a lot of people talking about subjects that are important to us all, and the Book and movie The Secret did the same thing.
So what is the grail quest?
I leave it to the historians and authors to debate about whether the grail was a cup or a bloodline. Either idea does not change the right now occurrance of my life. It just illustrates that there are still so many things that we do not know . . .
And we would be ignorant if we did not expect that there are not some surprises in what we do not know which will eventually be revealed. When the Lord comes again I imagine that He will set that record strait. I would not count on a difinitive answer much before that time.
But I speak today about the modern day grail quest, or the quest to understand the natural laws of the Universe in which we live.
You see, understanding a law gives us power over it.
But the understanding must come first.
We came to understand the law of gravity, and then we proceeded to defy it with the invention of the airplane and the rocket ship. You could argue that since we understand it that we now have control over it. Want to go up instead of down? Get a hot air balloon. It works.
And so we begin to have some understanding of another natural law, namely the law of Attraction, which is really the law of vibration.
But do we understand the power that we are dealing with?
If someone were to truly master the Law of Attraction, they they would be,
essentially . . .
God.
At least of their universe. And their universe is the only one that matters, because it is the only one in which they can live. We cannot create in another's reality.
What is your universe? Is it what you see, hear, touch, taste, or smell?
You think it is.
But it's more like the holodeck as portrayed on Star Trek. None of it is real.
Before I lose you, please allow me to explain what is really happening.
You see something, and a picture appears in your mind. What has really happened is that your optic nerve is sending impulses to your brain that are forming the general specifics of a picture. But the brain clarifies the picture based on a set of rules that is taught to us from our childhood on up. Many of those rules are stored in the subconscious.
So it is our own set of rules that forms the picture. We see a table top and we believe it is "solid".
And yet if you whip out a proper electron microscope and look at the exact same thing, you will see that 99% of the table top is made up of space.
Oh and by the way, of that 1% that is perceived to be solid, we have now looked further and found that 99% of that 1% is also just empty space.
We have not had the technology to check this next one yet, but it seems possible that the 1% of that first 1% is also 99% space. It would not surprise me in the least.
So we have proven essentially that the table top is hardly solid, but appears to barely exist at all!
So why does you hand (which is also 99% space at the very least) not just pass through the table when you come in contact with it?
Because you come in contact with the one thing in the picture that is real, and that is the energy field and its state of vibration. A "solid" table has a very slow vibration. Your solid hand would also typically have a very slow vibration. The energy fields repel each other, and your hand is not able to pass through. You also receive the sensation of feeling the table as another impulse sent to your brain that is deciphered with the same set of rules that what you saw was done with.
Here is the Earth shattering revelation that is really coming out of the book and the movie . . .
You can change those rules.
And when you change those rules, then your whole universe changes.
Just like changing the program on the holodeck . . .
And giving the actors within different scripts.
Did you know you were paying these actors for their work?
Did you know that since you are paying them . . . you get to tell them what to do?
When one of them does something that you do not expect, you might ask yourself:
Why did I give you that script ??
And if you can find the reason that you did, you will have learned something about yourself that you could have not earned in any other way.
OK you say, that is all fine and dandy, but I do not get the Law of Attraction to work for me consistently . . .
Good!
Because you are not supposed to be a master of it at this time.
We were born into this Earthly existence with a BIG disconnect. Two pronged.
Prong One: We do not remember our previous existence, how powerful we were, how cool we were, how great things were. How cool our family was.
Prong Two: The powers of attraction are generally controlled by our subconscious mind, and not our conscious mind.
We are essentially conducting an experiment. What would happen if you took a powerful and immortal being and placed them in a situation where they did not have a clear connection to their power, and no memory of how powerful that they had been.
What would happen?
You can easily tell me, because you are living that experiment right this very moment.
You see, if we had a clear connection to our subconscious, as well as a restored memory of who and what we really are, we would be extremely powerful.
And are we ready for that power?
I think not.
Or else it would have already been given.
Some of the teachers in the Book and Movie, especially Joe Vitale in a recent book, are claiming to help you get in touch with your subconscious to help you reclaim your power. They share what may work for them.
And it may work for you, or it may not.
So what is the modern day grail quest?
To come in contact with our own subconscious.
Some would say that we are trying to come into contact with our "higher self".
I cannot tell you how to do that, in any way that is guarenteed to work for you.
And neither can anyone else.
I recommend that you do your own study, because there is clearly much more power available to us than what we are currently exercising . . .
And as we take the steps to unlock that power, we will at the same time prepare ourselves for the responsibility of having that kind of power; for unto whom much is given, much is required.
And we will want to be ready for that.
Or we could just decide to wallow in the disconnection from our power.
We get to decide.
So decide already.
Joseph
So what is the grail quest?
I leave it to the historians and authors to debate about whether the grail was a cup or a bloodline. Either idea does not change the right now occurrance of my life. It just illustrates that there are still so many things that we do not know . . .
And we would be ignorant if we did not expect that there are not some surprises in what we do not know which will eventually be revealed. When the Lord comes again I imagine that He will set that record strait. I would not count on a difinitive answer much before that time.
But I speak today about the modern day grail quest, or the quest to understand the natural laws of the Universe in which we live.
You see, understanding a law gives us power over it.
But the understanding must come first.
We came to understand the law of gravity, and then we proceeded to defy it with the invention of the airplane and the rocket ship. You could argue that since we understand it that we now have control over it. Want to go up instead of down? Get a hot air balloon. It works.
And so we begin to have some understanding of another natural law, namely the law of Attraction, which is really the law of vibration.
But do we understand the power that we are dealing with?
If someone were to truly master the Law of Attraction, they they would be,
essentially . . .
God.
At least of their universe. And their universe is the only one that matters, because it is the only one in which they can live. We cannot create in another's reality.
What is your universe? Is it what you see, hear, touch, taste, or smell?
You think it is.
But it's more like the holodeck as portrayed on Star Trek. None of it is real.
Before I lose you, please allow me to explain what is really happening.
You see something, and a picture appears in your mind. What has really happened is that your optic nerve is sending impulses to your brain that are forming the general specifics of a picture. But the brain clarifies the picture based on a set of rules that is taught to us from our childhood on up. Many of those rules are stored in the subconscious.
So it is our own set of rules that forms the picture. We see a table top and we believe it is "solid".
And yet if you whip out a proper electron microscope and look at the exact same thing, you will see that 99% of the table top is made up of space.
Oh and by the way, of that 1% that is perceived to be solid, we have now looked further and found that 99% of that 1% is also just empty space.
We have not had the technology to check this next one yet, but it seems possible that the 1% of that first 1% is also 99% space. It would not surprise me in the least.
So we have proven essentially that the table top is hardly solid, but appears to barely exist at all!
So why does you hand (which is also 99% space at the very least) not just pass through the table when you come in contact with it?
Because you come in contact with the one thing in the picture that is real, and that is the energy field and its state of vibration. A "solid" table has a very slow vibration. Your solid hand would also typically have a very slow vibration. The energy fields repel each other, and your hand is not able to pass through. You also receive the sensation of feeling the table as another impulse sent to your brain that is deciphered with the same set of rules that what you saw was done with.
Here is the Earth shattering revelation that is really coming out of the book and the movie . . .
You can change those rules.
And when you change those rules, then your whole universe changes.
Just like changing the program on the holodeck . . .
And giving the actors within different scripts.
Did you know you were paying these actors for their work?
Did you know that since you are paying them . . . you get to tell them what to do?
When one of them does something that you do not expect, you might ask yourself:
Why did I give you that script ??
And if you can find the reason that you did, you will have learned something about yourself that you could have not earned in any other way.
OK you say, that is all fine and dandy, but I do not get the Law of Attraction to work for me consistently . . .
Good!
Because you are not supposed to be a master of it at this time.
We were born into this Earthly existence with a BIG disconnect. Two pronged.
Prong One: We do not remember our previous existence, how powerful we were, how cool we were, how great things were. How cool our family was.
Prong Two: The powers of attraction are generally controlled by our subconscious mind, and not our conscious mind.
We are essentially conducting an experiment. What would happen if you took a powerful and immortal being and placed them in a situation where they did not have a clear connection to their power, and no memory of how powerful that they had been.
What would happen?
You can easily tell me, because you are living that experiment right this very moment.
You see, if we had a clear connection to our subconscious, as well as a restored memory of who and what we really are, we would be extremely powerful.
And are we ready for that power?
I think not.
Or else it would have already been given.
Some of the teachers in the Book and Movie, especially Joe Vitale in a recent book, are claiming to help you get in touch with your subconscious to help you reclaim your power. They share what may work for them.
And it may work for you, or it may not.
So what is the modern day grail quest?
To come in contact with our own subconscious.
Some would say that we are trying to come into contact with our "higher self".
I cannot tell you how to do that, in any way that is guarenteed to work for you.
And neither can anyone else.
I recommend that you do your own study, because there is clearly much more power available to us than what we are currently exercising . . .
And as we take the steps to unlock that power, we will at the same time prepare ourselves for the responsibility of having that kind of power; for unto whom much is given, much is required.
And we will want to be ready for that.
Or we could just decide to wallow in the disconnection from our power.
We get to decide.
So decide already.
Joseph
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Let's Talk About Money, and it's no Secret
I took quite a few notes as I was watching The Secret for the first few times, and especially when it came to their take on the secret of money.
And yet while all of that sounded true to me, I have not as of yet cracked that one. I am pretty well informed on financial things, but that is because I have read piles and piles of financial books, not because I watched the secret and cracked the code.
There are some tricks for those who know what they are doing. To get into our current home, which is our dream home, we neither made a down payment, qualified for a loan, nor paid any closing costs. I wrote a small eBook on how to do that and you can read about it here.
I want to say something on this money thing, and this is something that was not really discussed in the movie The Secret. I want to talk about retaining your money, not making it.
If you have any kind of a job or profitable business or return on investments, then you make enough money to eventually be rich. Sound strange? Well it's true, at least until you come to the point where you have spent it all (and possibly more) and not saved any of it.
In an earlier post, I talk about how focusing on spending less as opposed to focusing on making more is lack thinking, and I still believe that. But there is a fine line here, because if we do not learn to spend a little less prior to our figuring out how to make more then we increase our debt, and that is just the opposite of the direction that we want to go.
What I am sayting here is that there is just no substitute for a good financial education. You could learn to attract a million dollars using the law of attraction; but if you have no real financial education, how are you ever going to keep it? If you do not know how to make $100.00 work for you in some positive way, then how can you make larger amounts work for you?
Here's hint number one, courtesy of Dennis R. Deaton. The best hedge against inflation begins with not losing a fortune. I know far too many people, including myself, who have learned valuable financial lessons the hard way by losing five digit sums of money. Mostly lost on investments where I thought I knew what I was doing when I did not. Nothing is more dangerous than an investor who thinks he has it figured out.
If you really do not understand the markets and what moves them, if you do not understand and use stop and limit orders, then I have to say that you will be much better off parking all of your savings in cash vehicles, despite what all the other financial "experts" say. All of those "experts" are never around to take responsibility when they help you to lose a lot of money.
Second point. You will never make money by paying large sums of money to someone else so that they can tell you what worked for them. There is no guarentee that it will work for you. In fact, there is hardly any chance at all that it would work for you. If you matched with them on all talents and attitudes then maybe, but when is that going to be true?
No, you have to find your own way. Some people may have different opinions, but I am not big on life coaches or any kind of coaches or paying anyone a large sum of money to help you. They can only tell you what works for them, and nothing works for everybody. I especially do not like the fact that they all want they money up front and if they fail to help you earn any additional money, then it is your fault, not theirs. I have direct experience with this.
Yes, you should educate yourself based on what successful people have done in the past, but all you have to do to begin and continue this process is to obtain and read a book. If you go to the library then the books are free. It need not cost a lot of money.
Someone who understands insurance, and who understands what you really need versus what you do not, can save tons of money buying insurance. The understanding must come first.
If you do need someone to help you, see if you can find someone who does consulting like I do.
I do financial consulting in the facts and figures world of finance. I cannot and will not attempt to teach you how to attract one million dollars, but I guarentee that I can work your family spending plan so that you come out at the end with more money. What do I charge for a fee? I charge a percentage of what I have saved you. So you win with the savings, I win with the percentage of the savings, and everyone wins. What a refreshing change versus coach always wins and the coached person might win something.
If you have a coach, ask them if they would be willing to charge you on a model of a percentage of the increased income you earn because of their coaching. In my experience not one of them has been willing to do this. Why should they have to take any responsibility for all that money that they are being paid?
It seems like the new Information Age race. Who can make the most money while providing only dubious value and not taking any responsibility whatsoever ?? I am here to tell you that there are a lot of people around who are good at this game, and you want to avoid them like the plague!
So we search together for the key to the code of attracting a big pile of money . . . but in the meantime let's improve our financial education so that we are ready for the windfall when it comes.
Because you would hate for it to all blow away.
Joseph
And yet while all of that sounded true to me, I have not as of yet cracked that one. I am pretty well informed on financial things, but that is because I have read piles and piles of financial books, not because I watched the secret and cracked the code.
There are some tricks for those who know what they are doing. To get into our current home, which is our dream home, we neither made a down payment, qualified for a loan, nor paid any closing costs. I wrote a small eBook on how to do that and you can read about it here.
I want to say something on this money thing, and this is something that was not really discussed in the movie The Secret. I want to talk about retaining your money, not making it.
If you have any kind of a job or profitable business or return on investments, then you make enough money to eventually be rich. Sound strange? Well it's true, at least until you come to the point where you have spent it all (and possibly more) and not saved any of it.
In an earlier post, I talk about how focusing on spending less as opposed to focusing on making more is lack thinking, and I still believe that. But there is a fine line here, because if we do not learn to spend a little less prior to our figuring out how to make more then we increase our debt, and that is just the opposite of the direction that we want to go.
What I am sayting here is that there is just no substitute for a good financial education. You could learn to attract a million dollars using the law of attraction; but if you have no real financial education, how are you ever going to keep it? If you do not know how to make $100.00 work for you in some positive way, then how can you make larger amounts work for you?
Here's hint number one, courtesy of Dennis R. Deaton. The best hedge against inflation begins with not losing a fortune. I know far too many people, including myself, who have learned valuable financial lessons the hard way by losing five digit sums of money. Mostly lost on investments where I thought I knew what I was doing when I did not. Nothing is more dangerous than an investor who thinks he has it figured out.
If you really do not understand the markets and what moves them, if you do not understand and use stop and limit orders, then I have to say that you will be much better off parking all of your savings in cash vehicles, despite what all the other financial "experts" say. All of those "experts" are never around to take responsibility when they help you to lose a lot of money.
Second point. You will never make money by paying large sums of money to someone else so that they can tell you what worked for them. There is no guarentee that it will work for you. In fact, there is hardly any chance at all that it would work for you. If you matched with them on all talents and attitudes then maybe, but when is that going to be true?
No, you have to find your own way. Some people may have different opinions, but I am not big on life coaches or any kind of coaches or paying anyone a large sum of money to help you. They can only tell you what works for them, and nothing works for everybody. I especially do not like the fact that they all want they money up front and if they fail to help you earn any additional money, then it is your fault, not theirs. I have direct experience with this.
Yes, you should educate yourself based on what successful people have done in the past, but all you have to do to begin and continue this process is to obtain and read a book. If you go to the library then the books are free. It need not cost a lot of money.
Someone who understands insurance, and who understands what you really need versus what you do not, can save tons of money buying insurance. The understanding must come first.
If you do need someone to help you, see if you can find someone who does consulting like I do.
I do financial consulting in the facts and figures world of finance. I cannot and will not attempt to teach you how to attract one million dollars, but I guarentee that I can work your family spending plan so that you come out at the end with more money. What do I charge for a fee? I charge a percentage of what I have saved you. So you win with the savings, I win with the percentage of the savings, and everyone wins. What a refreshing change versus coach always wins and the coached person might win something.
If you have a coach, ask them if they would be willing to charge you on a model of a percentage of the increased income you earn because of their coaching. In my experience not one of them has been willing to do this. Why should they have to take any responsibility for all that money that they are being paid?
It seems like the new Information Age race. Who can make the most money while providing only dubious value and not taking any responsibility whatsoever ?? I am here to tell you that there are a lot of people around who are good at this game, and you want to avoid them like the plague!
So we search together for the key to the code of attracting a big pile of money . . . but in the meantime let's improve our financial education so that we are ready for the windfall when it comes.
Because you would hate for it to all blow away.
Joseph
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