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6/28/2005

I walk across the soft white sand at the beach.  A baby stroller 
or two stand by the ramp, a person sits before me watching the 
surf.  There seem to be few people around, and the day feels 
calm.  I watch the surf rolling, the swells going out to the 
break way out offshore, and I know that this ocean is part of 
all the oceans.  I have touched it in Venezuela, in the 
Philippines, even in Greece.  One liquid envelope covering this 
ball of rock called the Earth.  Then I reflect that this one 
Earth supports all the dry land I have visited, that all 
foreign lands are connected beneath this sheet of water.  I 
touch the ocean, knowing that I touch all lands everywhere 
through it.  I look down the shore, and I see hundreds of 
people.  They are walking along the beach, looking out at 
the ocean, playing with their children and their pets.  Just 
within view, hundreds of people, who were not obvious when I 
looked across the sand.  Further, out of sight, there must be 
hundreds of thousands of people.  Around the world, watching the 
ocean in daylight, in moonlight, in starlight, millions of 
people.  And I have touched them through the land, through the 
ocean, today.  


6/27/2005

Confidence:  certainty in a positive outcome.  Nice.  I use 
that word a lot.  Now I understand why.  My knowledge that the 
Universe supports me and that I always have more than enough is 
confidence.  


6/26/2005

Thoughts held in mind produce after their kind.  While this 
production can be instantaneous, usually it is not.  Every 
little thought does not produce a completed result; it is our 
action over time that produces the result.  How much time depends 
on what result is desired, and how much energy is directed to 
its manifestation.  Energy direction need not be effortful; where 
attention goes energy flows.  But a declaration that a specific 
result will appear on or before a specific date will not 
necessarily manifest that result on our schedule.  When we pick a 
date, what we are doing is giving ourselves a reason to take some 
constructive action on or before that date.  There is our time 
and God's time, some teachers say.  What they mean is that our 
schedule may not be absolutely authoritative.  But holding a 
thought is mind does, at some point, cause the result to 
manifestat.  


6/25/2005

Today in the Clearing to Create seminar, Margaret came up with a 
solution to the puzzle, "what is peace?"  As we went over the 
exercises that created the feeling of peace, Margaret observed 
that it is a feeling.  We had a yogin present who explained to us 
that the yoga class next door was going through the same kind of 
exercise.  Through a long-term intensive meditation, the yoga 
students were getting in touch with their feeling bodies.  All 
repulsion and attraction, the yogin said, boiled down to a 
physical sensation in the body.  So kinetic memory, muscle 
testing, and gut feeling all have to do with getting in touch 
with your intuition through feeling your body.  There is a 
physical path to the Higher Self.  If something "doesn't feel 
right," or "just feels right," pay attention.  Spirit is talking.  


6/24/2005 

In Enlighened Warrior Training Camp I saw the most amazing 
phenomenon.  As each person faced a challenge, he or she rose to 
it.  That person's age, size, gender, even apparent disability, 
did not hamper his or her ability to rise above the challenge 
and to conquer it.  Everyone had the capability of tapping 
Infinite Power within, on demand.  Today, months later, I am 
sometimes reminded of this observation, even in my everyday and 
apparently mundane life.  The Infinite Power is inside everyone 
and is accessible to everyone, at every moment he or she breathes 
the breath of Life.  

Education and the news are full of success stories.  We have seen 
them all our lives, and we see them every day.  Alexander the 
Great, Cleopatra VII, Napoleon, Victoria, Copernicus, Joan of 
Arc, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Bobby Unser, Sally Ride, 
Martin Luther King, Jr., Maria Theresa, Winston Churchill, 
Boudicca, Simon Bolivar, Condoleeza Rice.  The message is not 
that these people were any greater than we, nor that they had 
access to more power than we.  The message is that the Infinite 
Power is accessible to each of us.  New names appear on the list 
every day, and whether ours is listed or not, we have the same 
power and we use it every day.  


6/23/2005 

My Warrior name is Lightning Spider, and I bring integrity and 
wisdom to the Tribe.  

This just in, ladies and gentlemen:  I have found the key to 
success, and it is fun.  Well, maybe the message comes in over 
and over again.  Edwene Gaines said it.  Bijan said it.  Between 
all the lectures on integrity, Harv Eker said it.  Elouise 
Oliver said it, and Dick Bolles said it.  Read between the lines, 
and the Dalai Lama said it.  

Whether the topic is money, health, relationships or your Life's 
Calling, the way to find it is to have fun.  When you're having 
fun time passes quickly, tasks that would seem hard become easy, 
opportunities and assistance flow to you naturally, and everyone 
recognizes there is something special about your life.  And the 
Universe actually pays you to do it!  

OK, I'm having fun.  My home is happy, my friends are happy; we 
are prosperous and healthy and loving.  I do what I want to do, 
when I want to do it.  I am a warrior:  I have finished porting 
the Village at Petrini Place web site.  I have fulfilled my 
promise to the Home Owners Association.  When was I finally 
motivated to fulfill my promise?  When I discovered that porting 
the site was fun!  Once it became fun, the job was finished in a 
day, and I was happy all the way through the project.  


6/22/2005

The Prosperity Salon lives!  We are all receiving tremendous 
insight as we persevere in the 40-day program.  Today Margaret 
sent me a pointer to Emerson's essay on self-reliance.  I would 
quote Emerson, and he would frown on it, for he believed that we 
should all acknowledge the original intuition within us for what 
it is.  Emerson was not happy with our tendency to document 
quotes with authority, for he felt that a statement of the truth 
should stand on its own without ad hominem association.  Indeed, 
he felt that we should ignore other persons' opinions, for our 
intuition would lead us to success regardless of whether anyone 
else had succeeded in our style of endeavor before.  

At first I thought it was hard to follow Emerson's train of 
thought.  One paragraph didn't seem to follow from another.  Then 
I realized Emerson's paragraphs were each self-contained.  What 
has been published as an essay are really his journal entries!  
He would write down a thought and go away.  When another thought 
came to him, he would come back and write that down.  He 
published his journal!  


Tuesday, June 21, 2005 10:11:18 PM

While Robert Allen teaches us about multiple streams of income, 
Harv Eker teaches us to use the jars, which give us multiple 
streams of outflow.  No one outflow takes all our cash.  There is 
always enough cash to provide what we need or desire, if we know 
how to categorize our behavior.  What may be obtained through 
long term savings for spending in one instance may be 
recharacterized as education in another.  What might be a 
necessity in one case may be play in another.  As I look at the 
multiple streams of manifestation available to me, I am forced to 
examine what I desire, why I desire it, and how it will serve me.  
The jars are a very powerful little tool.  


6/20/2005 

There is a certain contentment that comes with the knowledge that 
I am constantly creating my reality.  If wealth is what I desire, 
then wealth is what I create.  If growth is what I desire, then 
opportunities for growth will appear.  If self-expression is my 
true desire, then I will find ways to express myself.  All comes 
from within; there is no need to fear anything in the physical 
world.  I rejoice that the physical world, which is but one part 
of the Universe, acts to support my every desire.  I rejoice 
that the Universe acts to support me in the physical, the mental, 
and the spiritual realms.  


6/19/2005

I am rich.  A beggar on Haight Street declared me rich as I 
strolled past him in the warm evening air.  Beggars are asking my 
wife for more money than ever before.  The Universe is telling us 
that we are rich.  Whatever gives people this impression is 
coming from our own consciousness.  The abundance of the 
Universe is flowing through us, and we appear to others, as well 
as ourselves, as rich.  So I know that our mansion is on the way.  
I know that our cars are waiting for us.  I know that the world 
is eagerly anticipating our visits.  I know that all we desire is 
just on the other side of a very, very thin veil, waiting for us 
to step through.  


6/18/2005 

Everything I truly desire is accomplished.  The past provides no 
limitation on my ability to accomplish new things.  What I have 
now is simply the result of my past desires.  If my desires 
change, my circumstances change.  Anything is possible.  


6/17/2005

Just by being alive I create my experience, and I create it to 
the degree that I wish to experience it.  My inner world creates 
my outer world, and I create the exact degreee of my success.  


6/16/2005 

If I desire something, I will act to fulfill that desire.  If I 
declare a desire, the Universe will act to fulfill that desire.  
Sometimes it seems as though the Universe were acting without my 
participation; at others my participation is essential.  How do I 
know the difference?  Only in retrospect can I tell.  


6/15/2005 

Wealth is not a number, it's an attitude.  I have a warm, dry, 
happy home, work I love to do, and a beautiful, brilliant spouse.  
I am already wealthy.  


Tuesday, June 14, 2005 7:19:00 PM

Not only do I have to think I am powerful, I have to feel it.  
The activation energy behind creation is emotional.  I can 
attend any number of seminars, read any number of books, and 
still not see my desires manifested.  When I am charged with 
emotion, I act and manifest my desires swiftly and effortlessly.  
Thoughts lead to feelings, which lead to action, which yields 
the results.  Without feelings, the thoughts are never translated 
into action, or the action is weak, or halfhearted.  


6/13/2005

When I know I am powerful, then I act in my power.  It is not 
the acting powerful that makes me powerful, but the inner 
knowledge.  Donald Trump once said, "If you're going to be 
thinking anyway, you might as well think big."  


6/12/2005

Here we are back at "the meaning of life."  42, people, 42.  The 
infinite power of the Universe is manifested as me, myself, and 
I.  The power to change lies within me here and now, and that is 
the power not only to change myself, but also to change 
everything and everyone around me.  When I change, the Universe 
changes with me.  

Harv Eker points out that thoughts are neither good nor bad, 
neither right nor wrong.  It is more useful to look at thoughts 
as either supportive or unsupportive, and to choose to think 
thoughts that are supportive.  In the Religious Science class on 
Financial Freedom we are taught to ask, "would believing this 
make me feel more free?"  In the absence of a clear consensus of 
"what is what is," I choose to believe that the Reality behind 
all existence, what is Real, is supportive of my every ambition.  
I feel more freedom believing this, I choose to believe this, and 
so it is.  


Saturday, June 11, 2005 4:55:38 PM

I decide that I am hungry and head for the cafeteria.  My goal of 
the moment is to eat.  The cafeteria is full of food, and I pick 
a slice of pizza and a diet Coke.  OK, maybe it's not the most 
enlightened food, but it will satisfy my goal.  I have expressed 
a desire, and the Universe rushes up to serve me.  "Meya hep 
you?" it asks.  Yes, I'd like lunch.  "Hee hipty hee," it 
declares, and for $3.63 I compensate the Universe for:  the 
farmers that raised the wheat, mushrooms, peppers, onions and 
tomatoes.  The millers.  The pickers and truckers who got the 
ingredients to the distribution center and to the cafeteria.  The 
baker who made the pizza in its final form.  The bottler who 
packed the Coke into a pressurized can so that I could pour it 
into my glass.  The makers of the can, the glass, the plate and 
fork.  The company that compressed the gas for the bottler.  The 
staff that cleans the utensils after I am done, and the 
manufacturer of the machine they operate.  The water district 
that provided the water for the Coke and for the dishwashing  
machine.  The electric company that generated the power for the 
pizza oven.  The manufacturer of the soap.  The manufacturers of 
the tables and chairs.  The staff that cleaned them so I could 
eat in a tranquil and clean environment.  The contractor and all 
the subcontractors that built the office building.  My client, 
who is now the tenant, for subcontracting the cafeteria operator.  
The cafeteria operator, who hired all the nice people who baked 
me the pizza, cleaned the dining area, and will clean my 
utensils.  The list goes on.  All this support to satisfy a 
simple desire.  

The Universe becomes self-aware through many points of 
consciousness, and I am one of them.  Something Big is looking 
through my eyes, something with infinite power and compassion.  
The ability to create is manifested through constant creation, 
and It constantly creates to my order.  


6/10/2005 

Turning away from the chaos of circumstance, I look inward to my 
continuous power to create through intuition and insight.  My 
insight operates more efficiently as I look to it for guidance, 
letting go of news and analysis in the press.  Letting go of the 
opinions and politics of the people I meet in business, I follow 
the inner voice and deal with everyone I meet with unconditional 
love, letting the creative flow move between us unrestricted.  


6/9/2005 

More important than the number of dollars I move around in my 
accounts, more important than the square footage of my property, 
more important than the brand of car I drive, is the awareness, 
understanding and knowledge that I can always increase.  Once I 
know that I am a creative force, that my energy precipitates in 
my reality as my environment and my experience, I know that I can 
create anything.  It is this knowledge that allows me to dare to 
be great, to go ahead and create in spite of any appearance or of 
any comment I may hear.  "I can do this" is my most powerful 
affirmation.  


6/8/2005 

A very interesting thing about intuition and the ability to 
recognize opportunity is that it is powerful enough to overcome 
any apparent setback, including starting at square one with 
nothing.  

The phrase, "restore the years the locusts have eaten" always 
prompts a request for an explanation.  In ancient Egypt and 
Babylon civilization was subject to the flood and drought cycle.  
Joseph managed the storehouses of Egypt, saving during the "fat" 
years to provide for the "lean" years.  The old agrarian 
treasuries were granaries, not strongholds full of gold and 
jewels.  When the "lean" years appeared, the greater countries 
would rely on the storehouses to provide the food for the nation.  
If there wasn't enough, famine could decimate the population and 
political unrest could topple the government.  

A plague of locusts was a swarm of billions or trillions of 
insects.  Plagues of locusts would sweep an entire subcontinent, 
and still do; one swept through Egypt and Somalia this year.  
The locusts would consume not only all the grain and edible 
material in the farms and fields, they would also get into the 
storehouses and eat the national reserve.  When the locusts were 
through, nothing would be left.  The nation had nothing, zero, 
nada, had to start from square one.  

"Restore the years the locusts have eaten," then, is to restore 
wholly, as if no setback had occurred.  This is how powerful the 
inner guidance of a confident person can be.  Donald Trump has 
lost fortunes and made them back again, billions of dollars at a 
time.  

I don't recall any time at which I was completely devastated, in 
the sense that a nation's food reserve could be decimated by a 
plague, but I do remember a few times when I had very little to 
my name.  Once I drove into Norfolk, Virginia, with just a 
sleeping bag, a tent, an ice chest, and a three-burner propane 
stove packed in the back of a Volkswagen beetle.  A visit here, 
a conversation there, and a night or two of sleeping in friends' 
living rooms, and I was on my feet.  I had a job in a couple of 
weeks, and I was good to go.  I never doubted I had the 
capability.  


6/7/2005

The power of intuition operates at an unconscious level.  
Conscious thinking cannot coerce it into action.  It is after I 
let go of conscious coercion that the unconscious is freed to 
act.  It is in my best interests to take a happy, grateful 
attitude, to forget any anxieties I have chosen heretofore, to 
create, and to trust that intuition will lead the way.  
Inspiration and "gut feeling" lead me constantly, and all I need 
to do is recognize it and continue to follow.  


6/6/2005

I am always creating.  Whatever I create comes from my thoughts, 
which include my expectations and my fears.  Whatever I focus on 
expands, and whatever I imagine becomes my experience.  


Sunday, June 05, 2005 11:04:50 PM

There is an infinite power within me, connected to the Infinite 
Power of the Universe, that recognizes opportunities in my life 
to express myself more fully in ways that contribute to the 
manifestation of wealth in my circumstances.  Call it intuition, 
call it instinct, call it clairvoyance, call it what you will, 
the power I have is inherent in my existence and expands 
continuously.  This same power exists in everyone, and it is 
easier to use when stress and worry are not in the picture.  So 
I relax and trust, and more opportunities avail themselves every 
day.  

Sometimes I'm tempted to hope that other Prosperity Salon members 
really get this; then I am reminded that it is none of my 
business whether they do.  My business is to insure that I get 
this, myself.  So as I furrow my brow over the cryptic words of 
John Randolph Price, I am inspired to look up the article on 
metaphysics in the Encyclopedia Britannica.  Then I am up all 
night!  I thought I didn't like to read, but here I am reading 
article after article, page after page, and on philosophy, no 
less!  When I read the article on the history of philosophy a few 
years ago, I was searching for issues and answers that are 
directly addressed by this one!  And as an added treat, Prof. 
Bruce Wilshire has written the article in plain English!  I find 
that metaphysics is a fascinating subject, even laughing at the 
note that one major issue is the question of "What is what is?"  

One gift that Prof. Wilshire has for me is a description of the 
debate about the topic of mind.  I have often wondered why, when 
Ernest Holmes called his discipline the Science of Mind, he did  
so little to clarify and explain what he meant by the word mind, 
itself.  It seems that at the time he wrote his original studies, 
Holmes' world was entrenched in the discussion of mind, and he 
did not need to explain what he meant.  Now that the topic is out 
of vogue, we sometimes wonder what the heck was going on, as 
definitions seem to be sparse.  Look to metaphysics, and its 
discussion in the late 19th Century, and the topic of mind is 
everywhere!  

So yes, I am getting it.  


Saturday, June 04, 2005 2:46:47 PM

Does space exist?  Is space a thing?  As a condominium owner I 
have legal dominion over a space.  But space is the absence of 
things.  Space is the distance between things.  Does distance 
exist?  It is measurable, therefore scientifically it does exist.  
Wittgenstein help me!  

Einstein decided that space exists, because by giving space shape 
and properties it was easier to model things like 
electromagnetism and gravity.  Einstein clarified the unity of 
energy and matter, so energies became things in the classic 
sense.  By extension space became a thing.  

What is a thing? 

thing n: 1. An entity, an idea, or a quality perceived, known, or thought to have its own existence.
-- American Heritage Dictionary

exist vi: 1. To have actual being, be real.
-- American Heritage Dictionary

Thus the dictionary leaves the question open for metaphysical 
discussion, and thoughts are things, by definition.  

Plotinus also had a model of space.  The physical realm was only 
one piece of the model.  Mental and spiritual realms coexisted 
with the physical.  The statement that thoughts were things was 
a consistent, natural part of this model.    

Substance, what is that?  

substance n: 2a. Essential nature, essence.
-- American Heritage Dictionary

And abundance?  

abundance n: 3. Affluence, wealth.
-- American Heritage Dictionary

So here we go:  The thought of abundance in me is the essential 
nature of my wealth; that which I imagine within is brought out 
into my existence on the physical plane because I picture it.  
That which I imagine I create.  The thought in me is the cause of 
the creation of wealth about me.  And thought, or mind, is the 
bridge between the spiritual world of ideas and the physical 
world of effects.  


6/3/2005 

The Highest God and the Innermost God is One God.  Opportunity 
knocks constantly, and an opportunity may present itself at any 
time.  My Higher Self knows opportunity and recognizes that which 
I accept.  There is no cap on wealth.  The Queen of England, the 
Sultan of Brunei, Bill Gates -- and I -- may always become 
richer.  My path to becoming richer lies in allowing my Higher 
Self to speak to me, to say, "Hey! This is an opportunity!"  My 
recognition of Prosperity is my claim to Prosperity.  


6/2/2005 

We are Beings of light and energy.  Energy flows through us as 
water, food, exercise and sleep.  God flows through us like 
water flows through a river.  Money flows through our accounts as 
energy or a part of God.  Like a stream overflows its banks, can 
there be too much money?  Yes -- this is runaway inflation.  The 
Fed absorbs some of the excess through the Discount Rate.  God is 
good; all my good is God.  Healthy cash flow is good, is part of 
the Universe, which we call God.  

~~ ooOOoo ~~

God is all that is.  The Living Spirit is incarnate in everything 
and everyone.  The Living Spirit is incarnate in me.  I am part 
of all that is; everything in the Universe is connected with me.  
All that I desire is already connected with me.  Therefore, I now 
possess it.  


6/1/2005

This day, the 1st of June, 2005, I cease in believing in visible 
money as my supply and my support, and I view the world of effect 
as it truly is ... simply an outpicturing of my former beliefs.  
I believed in the power of money, therefore I surrendered my 
God-given power and authority to an objectified belief.  I 
believed in the possibility of lack, thus causing a separation in 
consciousness from the Source of my supply.  I believed in mortal 
man and carnal conditions, and through this faith gave man and 
conditions power over me.  I believed in the mortal illusion 
created by the collective consciousness of error thoughts, and in 
doing so, I have limited the Unlimited.  No more!  This day I 
renounce my so-called humanhood and claim my divine inheritance 
as a Being of God.  This day I acknowledge God and only God as my 
substance, my supply, and my support.  

-- David R. Dull 

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