manifesting, the power of secrecy

Manifesting, The Power of Secrecy

If you have a very important goal

that you are aiming for,

I recommend not telling ANYBODY.

Keeping it a secret will help you

to create the results faster.

Don't take my word for this. Test this

for yourself.

See if this is true.

Let's say you want, more than anything,

a new car.

How about a Jaguar sports car, a two-door?

By the way, I pronounce this JAG-gwar,

with my American accent. My wife is from

England and pronounces it JAG-yu-AR.

The car drives the same, no matter how

mistakenly you pronounce it.

Okay, so let's say you want a Jag :-)

And you are doing the 100-to-1 visualization

technique.

And you did the Magic-27 correction to make sure

there was no self-sabotage getting in the way.

And you are doing breathwork to clear away

any remaining internal blocks.

Maybe the Release Technique as well.

If you do the above steps daily, you'll notice

that your world changes.

Funny coincidees will happen, like you see the

car more often, or a car pulls up next to you

and the driver asks for directions, and you

notice the car is the one you want.

When these little markers show up, it will

tempt you to tell someone else about these

coincidences. But don't.

Not until you've reached your goal: The

specific goal that you want, down to the

very last detail. Not just seeing the car,

not just touching or even driving the car,

but owning and enjoying the car, the way you want.

IMPORTANT: Pick your own goal. I am

mentioning the car only as an example.

(With fuel prices soaring, maybe you

don't want a sports car anyway. Maybe

you'd rather have...an oil field.)

Why is secrecy so effective?

I will tell you tomorrow, along with

a little technique to boost

your results faster than anything

I know of.

Remember: If the goal matters to you,

then don't tell anyone until the

results show up, just the way you want.

Talk with you soon,

Sean

p.s. One reason why secrecy is so powerful is hinted at by

the word itself. "Secrecy" comes from an old French term for

"set apart." Why does this matter? I'll tell you in the next post.

Affirmation Success Newsletter

This issue: Secrecy, Part 2

Secrecy, part 2

Here's part 2 about the value of secrecy.

This is NOT meant to be theoretical.

Test this notion for yourself. Instructions

for a do-it-yourself experiment are at the

bottom of this note...

Sincerely,

Sean

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Secrecy is powerful, part 2

True Story: About four years ago I was

at my desk in Hollywood (Florida) realizing

how utterly disorganized my website files were.

Since I had just started a consulting business

for online marketing, this was a problem.

Then I remembered a workshop I attended

in Pasadena, Maryland the year before.

It was a Win Wenger conference on creativity,

held in a beautiful house, and during a break

one of the attendees borrowed a house computer

to check on his website.

I'd like to be organized just like that guy was,

I thought to myself. His website files were perfectly

set up, I remembered.

I stopped thinking about this, got up from my desk and

walked into my living room. I picked up a magazine that

I had been meaning to read.

I leafed through it and laughed outloud when

I saw the picture.

In this magazine was a feature about the

house I was JUST thinking about. The one

where the creativity workshop was held.

Surprise, there was even a photo of the

workshop area where the computer was, the one

where the guy showed his website files!

Let's think about the coincidence factor here.

What are the odds that a house in Pasadena,

Maryland would be featured in a magazine

-- with a photo of ONE particular countertop --

and I would see this article and photo a minute

after thinking about it?

Have you had experiences like this?

You think of someone and the phone rings

and it's them. (And you haven't heard from *them*

in 8 years!)

You know, really WILD coincidences like that.

(Don't worry if you haven't had those experiences.

Just road-test the things I'll be emailing you and

watch what happens.)

Do you know why these 'coincidences' happen?

My theory is this...

This is a dream you're having.

Really.

And your mind and attention CAN change the content

of your 'dream.'

Just like you can (with practice) change the content

of a dream when you are sleeping.

In my experience there are two conditions for this:

1. You mustn't let this dream convince you it's real.

Fear and greed (and greed is really just another form

of fear) are two ways that you get hooked into this

dream and forget how changeable it is. This is why

mental hygiene is so crucial -- through EFT, NLP,

Silva Method, Sedona Method, Energy Medicine,

SOMETHING to rinse off the fear and greed

that gathers like dew on the outside of your mind.

Win Wenger's Beyond OK material is ESPECIALLY good

for staying energetically 'clean':

http://pavlovpublishing.com/beyondok/

By the way, if you are saying, "What is all this

'dream' crap? There is real suffering here in this

world, we're facing global warming, my car payment

is late, my friend has a disease, and...."

(That reaction is natural, but it's also what I mean

when I say don't let the dream convince you it's real.

You can still be aware and compassionate and let this

be a changeable dream.)

2. Don't ask the dream to change itself, or ask anyone

IN your dream for permission (or cooperation) to change

YOUR dream.

This second part is why secrecy is so powerful.

When you are secret about your intentions for

changing your 'dream' you are removing yourself

from the content of the dream.

Stepping out, like an actor practicing a role steps

off the stage to talk with the playwrite about changing

a scene.

It's not the CHARACTER talking, it's the actor.

Last week I was on the set of the tv show CSI:Miami.

(My brother is a stunt-double for the red-headed guy.)

One of the fun things about being on the set of a TV show

is how you see something so real is actually so make-believe.

What if your life were actually a show?

If you never stepped out of character and got off the

'set' you would never be able to talk with the

writer (another part of your mind) about changing the

content of your show.

The word "secret" originally comes from an expression

meaning "set apart."

If you step out, or "set yourself apart" for a little while, to

make changes you want to make, what would you change

first?

Can you imagine that change happening in a way that ONLY

makes things better and happier for everyone else? For the other

actors in your show?

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do it yourself experiment...

Make a goal up in your mind, an intention that you

REALLY want to have happen. I would recommend a

m-o-ney goal, but you could pick anything.

Don't tell ANYONE until the goal shows up. Not even me.

Not anybody. No one. Not your Priest or Rabbi, or your

"Success Coach."

Do the 100-to-1 technique (you can find this at

pavlovpublishing.com/archive somewhere) and picture

the benefit to OTHER people through your goal coming

true.

Watch what happens.

Sean Collins


This issue: One Secret to faster manifesting

Okay, say you want something.

Let's say money. Or a new relationship.

You COULD use techniques I've taught in previous issues of this newsletter. Those

techniques -- 100-to-1, Aah meditation, Mantra, pink bubble, electric manifesting, to

name a few -- really work. (Especially electric manifesting.)

The formula for manifesting works for skeptics and it works for believers.

The formula is this:

1. Get specific about what you want. 2. Let go of your inner blocks to having what you want. 3. Contemplate the item from step 1 WHILE relaxing your physical body. 4. To the extent that you can do number 3 without ANY conscious or

unconscious awareness of lack OR obstacle then the item from step 1 will

show up.

The above steps are of course easier said than done. And the DETAILS of each step vary

according to your custom and belief. (Religious science, Huna, Silva Method, DynaPsyc -

- you name it.)

DOING the above steps of the master formula are what this newsletter is all about, so that

your life is more enjoyable for yourself and for people you care about.

To me the crucial step is step 2. When you can let go of your inner blocks (and EFT will

do, as will NLP, hypnosis, self-hypnosis, Silva, Sedona Method, Release Technique, you

name it), the results just plain show up.

But I noticed that people who get stellar results from prayer and visualization and even

electric manifesting -- share a certain trait, and it's one that surprised me because it's SO

simple, and yet so easy to NOT do.

When I use this principle, I find that MY goals happen faster and easier as well.

I can sum up the principle in a sentence...

That which serves the larger system thrives.

If you can use your mind to plug YOUR want into a larger completed system, then you

will satisfy your want even faster and easier.

This isn't just pollyannaish thinking, this is a law of nature. But don't take my word for it.

Test this principle personally. I'll show you an experiment you can do.

But first a little background...

My old newsletters float around the internet a lot, and often wind up in sites that are

related to two things...money and sex. Which is good! (I think it's a great thing for people

to have plenty of both, and if I can help make that happen, then great!)

But these are two areas that foster more secrecy and privacy than others, and so the

mindset around getting these goals TENDS to be private and self-serving in SOME

people. (Not you, of course.)

Using your mind (and/or language, which is just a tool of your mind) to MAKE others

give you money, or attention, or to MAKE them sleep with you, or propose to you. (Who

wants to be on the receiving end of outright manipulation?)

Sure, these techniques of intention and language CAN work for getting you what you

want. But only when the larger system is served by the outcome coming true. Serving the

larger system accidentally, versus serving the larger system intentionally, makes a BIG

difference.

Criminals serve the larger system by keeping cops and judges and prison guards

employed. (I know firsthand about this because my father was a cop and we always had

food when I was growing up.) Illness serves the larger system by keeping the doctors and

pharmaceutical companies employed.

In other words, the larger system is going to benefit in some way no matter WHAT you

do, no matter how sleazy or life-damaging.

So here is what I am recommending instead...

FOCUS on the gains to the larger system in way that ONLY enriches others, and the

POSITIVE benefit to the larger system. We already know that YOU will gain from the

goal being true, or you wouldn't be wanting it in the first place. But who ELSE will gain?

If you can mentally attach YOUR goal to the better interests of the larger system, then

YOUR outcome will happen faster.

I call this the Law of Completion, and you can test it immediately.

Think of a goal you have right now.

Maybe it's money. Or maybe you want a relationship with that new cutie in the office. Or

a promotion. Or a new car. Please think of something specific.

Got one?

Now play along with me for a moment. See the pattern in the following examples..

Your heart is in your chest because it serves a useful function to other parts of

your anatomy.

Your refrigerator is in your kitchen because it serves a REALLY important

function to your household.

Your stereo is in your car (home) because it serves an important function in its

environment.

If your goal comes true, it will come true BECAUSE it serves a larger function that is for

the good of others.

What is that larger function? Be specific!

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Here is an example that may help...

I recall needing to reach an income goal to pay for a trip, and mentioned this to a friend

of mine. She asked me how much money I needed, and how many clients that would turn

out to be.

I said six new clients. By the following week!

I knew all about the Silva Method and visualization, but didn't understand this bit about

systems and the Law of Completion.

She and I sat and did a meditation together. We described outloud how the phone would

ring and the new clients would call and make the appointment and would benefit SO

much from their appointment that they were delighted. Then we pictured how they were

SO delighted they told OTHER people about their gains, and those people were energized

in a positive way. The gains spread outward to more and more people, inspiring

confidence and insight to a network of people throughout the city, the region, the state,

the country, the globe.

The six people called and I made the income goal in time.

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Do-it-Yourself experiment...

Don't just assume that others will benefit from your goal being true. SPECIFY in your

mind, and visualize (describing aloud) the gains that OTHERS will have FROM your

goal being true.

If you are selling something, see specifically how the customers are enriched from buying

your product or service.

No matter HOW selfish a goal you think you have, whether it's to have a one-night-stand,

a spouse, a batch of new clients, a new car, a new house, a cure for an illness, there is

ALWAYS a way to connect THAT goal to OTHERS' gain. Do that, and watch what

happens!

Next issue...

Manifesting with the golden ratio


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Issue Three/Part one October 1998

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IN THIS ISSUE...

Prayer/how a man in New York won millions in the state lottery not

once but twice/what science has found about prayer

1. Success Stories:

a. Two-Time New York Lottery Winner

b. One-Time Lonely Newsletter Editor

2. Do-it-yourself Techniques: Praying for a change

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Success Story...

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A man in New York won the state lottery not once but twice. The odds

are against winning the lottery one time. Twice is close to

statistically impossible.

Asked by reporters how he accomplished such a thing, the man said the

answer was simple: He prayed.

(My first thought upon reading this was how, exactly, this man phrased

his prayers the SECOND time he won millions of dollars. "Dear God, I

know I won a few million recently, and thanks, but I really need to

win this next one.")

You might counter that a lot of people pray to win the lottery, but

that not everyone who prays wins.

The question is, HOW are they praying? What are they doing when it

DOES work?

One of the blessings NLP has let loose on humanity is the core notion

that if ONE person can do something with an adequate neurology, then

anyone else with an equally adequate neurology ought to be able to

duplicate that result.

Southern Medical Journal published a study on the effects of prayer.

Cardiac patients at a California hospital were randomly divided into

two groups. One group was prayed for, and the other group was a

control group (not prayed for). It was a double-blind study, so the patients,

doctors, and nurses did not know which group was which. Prayer groups

around the country did not know the patients personally, only their

names.

The results were startling. The group prayed for had fewer

complications than the control group, had zero fatalities (unlike the

control group), and fewer post-op complications over-all. They also

left the hospital earlier, on average, than the control group.

If there were a drug that produced results like these, people would

line up around the block to buy the pills at their local drug store!

Wait, though, it gets better...

A group in Scotland did studies on the effects of prayer on rye

seeds. Seeds placed in a petrii dish were prayed for to grow better. The dish

of seeds was divided down the middle. One side was prayed for and the

other side was not.

The seeds prayed for grew better than the control group.

Saline (salt water) was added to the soil, making growth even more of

a challenge. The difference between the group of seeds prayed for and

the seeds not prayed for was even more dramatic with the presence of

saline!

What is exciting about an experiment like the one above is that it is

completely replicatable! Test it yourself. If you really don't want

to experiment with rye seeds (or bacteria, as some researchers have),

then experiment with your office. Pray for some co-workers to have

wonderful things happen to them, and then notice what happens. Or pray

for your sales calls on Tuesday and Thursday to go beautifully, then

check results those days against results the rest of the week.

Researchers also found that among those who prayed for enhanced growth

of seeds, the results of people who had more experience praying was

greater than with people who were less experienced. This is important

to notice because it means the more you pray the better results you

are likely to get! (Also consider that the people perhaps MOST experienced

in saying prayers objected to participating in the research, objecting

to "putting God in a laboratory" and therefore were not included in

the studies.)

Distance did not make a difference, nor did putting the prayed for

item in a sealed-up safe. Something outside of space and time caused

beneficial changes. How it works is a mystery. THAT it works is

proven.

The question, though, is...

What is prayer?

You might think of it like tapping into electricity.

If you have to iron a shirt, and you are inserting the plug of the

iron into the electrical socket in the wall, you TRUST that the electricity

will be available. You don't have knowledge or certainty that the

electricity will be there. The electricity is, strictly speaking, a

matter of faith.

(Interestingly, your faith in the existence and power of electricity

is so strong, that even if there were no power to your iron after you

plugged it in and turned it on, you would sooner think that something

was wrong with the circuitry of your iron, or the circuitry of your

home, than wonder about the existence of the electricity! Imagine

having THIS kind of faith with your prayers!)

My upbringing was Catholic, and prayer for me ever since childhood had

been of two kinds:

1. Reciting memorized prayers (such as the Our Father, the Hail Mary,

and Grace before meals)

2. Prayers for results in the world, such as "Dear God, I have a

soccer game this Thursday, so please help us win over the other team.

I'll really appreciate it, God..."

A third way of thinking about prayer I first learned from an amazing

book called A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson.

She is a student and teacher of something called A Course in Miracles,

and the approach from the Course is that prayer is about changing

troublesome ways of thinking. Prayer plugs you into a healing source

that changes what and how you perceive your world.

The universe is literally reflecting your beliefs and expectations

back to you, and the function of Prayer (aligning with Infinite

Intelligence you might say), is correcting your perceptions so that the world as it

is reflected back to you reflects the harmony of your thoughts.

True Story: Two friends of mine (a man and a woman) and I went to a

bar where another friend works. We walked in and found our way to a pool

table and weren't there more than a few minutes when our friend who

worked there came over to the pool table. She said with a smile, "I

have already had someone ask me about you (pointing to the woman) and

you (pointing to the man)."

I remembered that these two people I had come in with were always

being flirted with when we all went out to clubs together.

I sat there feeling like Quasimodo, wondering why no one asked about

me.

This wondering didn't go away either, and my brain did a good job of

reminding me of all the times I had felt or been rejected by the

opposite sex all the way back to Colleen Leahy in the 2nd grade.

Feeling unattractive, undesirable, insecure, I was already having a

crummy time.

New to this notion of prayer as a way to heal my thinking, I got up,

walked to the men's room, went into a stall, and said outloud in my

mind (I may have also whispered aloud) "God, there is no area of my

life where I am more neurotic and insecure than in feeling attractive

to the opposite sex. I surrender all of this to you. Please heal my

thinking about this..." I felt a little petty praying about such a

topic, but it was a comfort nonetheless to admit in this brief prayer

exactly what I was thinking and feeling. (Whether or not a Being was

listening, I certainly FELT more peaceful as a result of this

time-out.) I left the men's room, and on my way BACK to the pool

room, incredibly, a woman got up from the table where she was sitting, stood

right in my way, and said, "I know you from somewhere."

I looked at her and smiled. I didn't know her. She was attractive,

friendly, and we spent two hours chatting and UNsuccessfully finding

out where we knew each other from. Finally we exchanged phone numbers

and made a date for the following night!

Now, if I had gone to the restroom and said, "Okay God, here's what I

want: Arrange for an attractive woman to stand in my way and insist

that she knows me from somewhere. Also, make sure she is a brunette,

and is free for dinner tomorrow night."

That would have been absurd.

A Course in Miracles is about changing your thoughts. The metaphor in the Course is that

this experience of your life is a lucid dream you are having while asleep in God's house.

God is not in the dream, but your mind is literally manifesting the circumstances of your

life.

Your beliefs and expectations are orchestrating events BEFORE YOU

EXPERIENCE THEM.

This is consistent with the "map is not the territory" basis of NLP.

If your map is richer, so are your travels. There you are, map in

hand, looking out at the terrain, and someone is with you, next to

you. Your Divine Travel Guide, you might say...

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Do-it-yourself Experiment #1: Spoken Prayer

-----> How to do it: Think of whatever is the WORST problem on your

mind, the secret problem you don't tell others about and wish you

could press the cosmic "delete" button and remove from your life. Whatever

is between you and Peace of mind is worthy of attention here. (As you can

tell from my example above, NOTHING is too vain, petty or small to

include in the category of troublesome. If it hurts you, it needs

resolving.)

Find a private place and say, even if you feel silly, some variation

of the following:

"Dear God, I am (frightened/bothered/upset) about X and don't know

what to do. Please heal my thinking about this. Please guide me to learn

through joy instead of pain. Heal my thinking, cleanse my perceptions,

that I may resolve X and be your joyful child again. I surrender this

to you completely. Thank you, God."


IN THIS ISSUE...

1. Success Story: My brother the stuntman, my aunt the lottery winner

2. Do-it-yourself Technique: the 100 to 1 method.

3. Experimental products (coming in future issues)

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Success Story....

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(Note: Some success stories I will include in this newsletter I have

personally experienced, some I personally witnessed, and some I was

personally told. Every story is shared not to impress or entertain but

to invite you to explore what results you can create for yourself.

Test the processes! You didn't know what your favorite foods were until

you tasted them. So I invite you to taste the processes in these

newsletters and use them to help yourself and people you care about to

live more happily. I would like to hear YOUR success stories, and with

your permission, include them here. -- Sean Collins)

In 1989 a friend invited me to go to a Church carnival. There was a

used book sale there, in the parish hall, where I bought --for 25

cents-- a tattered little paperback called the Silva Mind Control

Method. The book said that if you want something to happen, then you

ought to do a specific visualization technique that would quiet your

brainwaves down to a more creative level of mind. It made a case for

attending the Silva Method course, but said that until you attend you

can do the 100-to-1 visualization technique. (Described later in this

newsletter.)

I liked that Jose Silva presented the material as more scientific than

metaphysical, at least it seemed so to me, since his techniques had to

do with brainwaves and cycles per second and brain hemisphere

lateralization.

So I decided that I would test this information. Once a day for two

weeks I would do the instructions as he described and "program" an

event to happen.

The funny thing was, I didn't have anything that I knew I wanted. So I

asked my brother if he could have anything in the world, what would it

be? He said that he wanted to be stunt coordinator of a movie coming

to Ft. Lauderdale.

Suddenly I had a project I could work with. I didn't tell my brother

that he would be a part of my experiment. For the next two weeks,

once each day, I did the 100-to-1 method and at that quieter level of mind

pictured him wearing a shirt that said "Stunt Coordinator" on it.

Jose Silva's instructions did not say to do this, but spontaneously I also

pictured in the mental image my brother's heart opening and filling

the scene with color. This aspect happened pretty much intuitively, and

may have been my unconscious way of making sure this project was in

line with what he would love to experience. (If you are familiar with

the idea of "chakras" I was imagining love from his heart chakra

filling the mental picture.)

What I had not learned from Jose Silva was for how long I ought to

picture the desired result. (In an upcoming issue I'll share what

scientific research on prayer has found about how length of time

affects the results of mentally intending something.) I decided to

maintain the image in my mind for as long as 'felt' good to do so. It

was never for more than a few minutes, and usually the signal I felt

in my body that I had done enough visualizing for one session was that I

would start laughing.

As a routine, I did the visualizing in the bathroom, because I was

already seated, and also I wanted to make sure I did the process on a

daily basis, once a day for two weeks. (Jose Silva mentions this

also. For people who say that can't get away from work or family to sit and

visualize, do it while sitting in the bathroom.)

At the end of the two weeks, I stopped. "Oh well, let's see what

happens," I thought.

Three days later my mother called my apartment. "Sean, you'll never

guess what happened to your brother."

"What?" I asked.

She said that he was in a parking lot in Ft. Lauderdale, and a man

told him that he would be perfect for a movie that is coming to town and

would he like to audition? At the audition, Martin Scorsese and

Robert DeNiro picked him out of 11 people to do stunt work in the film.

That movie, "Cape Fear", features my brother as one of three guys

hired to beat up Robert DeNiro's character. He is the one wielding the

motorcycle chain.

My visualization was for him to be stunt coordinator, which he was

not. As he had never been a movie stunt coordinator, or even a stunt man

for a film before, then the auditions (there were two) and selection to

appear in a stunt scene are still extraordinary. Short of the intended

outcome, but still extraordinary!

Another story about this 100-to-1 technique:

My aunt is a generous, kind person but with the most astonishing

ability to be critical and pessimistic about any topic of

conversation. (Think Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh.) She was visiting from New York

for many weeks and bought Florida lottery tickets every day.

One day during her visit she mentioned that she wants more than

anything to win the lottery. So I told her, "If you would like to

win, all you have to do is this 100-to-1 visualization process and picture

the result." (Again, details for your own experimenting are at the end

of this newsletter.) "Do it once a day for two weeks and then stop,"

I told her. (Ordinarily I recommend experimentation, but in her case I

said it with as much certainty as I could muster.)

She listened carefully, without criticizing, and surprised me by

saying she would do it.

Four weeks later she saw me at a relative's house and kiddingly

smacked me on the arm. "I thought I was supposed to win the lottery," she

said.

"Did you do that visualization?" I asked. She said yes. "Oh, then

you'll win," I said matter-of-factly. "Just put it out of your

mind."

Three days later she won.

Here is where it gets really interesting. The first words I heard her

say when she verified that she had the winning numbers were, "Watch,

the prize probably won't be that much."

She won on a Wednesday. The jackpots on Monday, Tuesday, Thurday and

Friday were all between 25 and 30 thousand dollars. The Wednesday

prize, mysteriously, dipped to 5,000. "Watch, the prize probably

won't be that much." She was right!

Funny follow-up to this story: When she went to the lottery office to

redeem her winning ticket, she said that the lotto office looked just

like what she had visualized, even though she had never been to the

office before. Her visualization was of herself redeeming the winning

ticket at the booth in the local lottery office. (More in future

newsletter issues about "peeking" into the future with alpha and theta

visualization.)

There was a Silva Graduate class here in South Florida not long ago

and a young woman got up in front of the room and showed her tax returns

because she figured no one would believe her story. She had pictured

herself in front of the television circling each number on her lottery

ticket until every number was circled. She said that it happened just

as she pictured it. I don't recall the exact amount she had won.

If you do experiment with lotteries, I want to mention that if your

outcome is money, there are many, many easier avenues for money to

find you than through a state lottery.

One technique I learned from NLP/Hypnosis teacher Carolyn Deal of

North Carolina is that your consciousness is a cash MACHINE when you picture

your customers, clients and/or boss so delighting in your service that

more money comes to you as a natural consequence of their increased

satisfaction.

I recall a few years back being in a financial pinch, and needing a

windfall. So I pictured receiving money and trusting it would find

its way to me. Sure enough, following a week or so of daily

visualizations, I found an insurance check in my office from SIX years prior that I

had never cashed. I called the insurers and they said they would write a

new check for me if I mail them the one I found.

This kind of picturing CAN work, but doesn't resolve the deeper issue

of BEING attractive to money in an ongoing way.

(More on this topic, in great detail, in a special business issue of

this newsletter which I will call Intuitive Marketing. My research on

this so far has AMAZED me, and I am eager to share it with you once I

have it written and organized.)

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Do-it-yourself Technique: the 100 to 1 method.

-----> How to do it:

With your eyelids closed, turn your eyeballs upward slightly --about

20 degrees up or as far as is comfortable -- and mentally see and say the

numbers 100 to 1. Even if you are an experienced meditator -- whether

Silva, TM Siddhi program, or some other, give this a test run and see

what effect it has.

You may feel a slight tingling in your head as you do this, especially

as you get nearer to the number 1. (Be sure to do this while sitting

up, as lying down may cause you to go to sleep.) This process takes

you to an alpha brainwave level, even theta territory, which is why it

may be useful to explore even if you are an experienced meditator.

Once you have seen and mentally said the number 1, you are at the

level to visualize.

Picture in your mind what you would see if the desired outcome were to

happen. See it clearly and vividly. If what you are picturing

involves a personal goal, see yourself in the mental picture. (If you are

someone not too aware of your inner pictures, you may find that

keeping your eyeballs turned upward slightly -- with your eyes closed --

during the 100 to 1 countdown gives you even greater awareness of your inner

pictures. Don't take my word for it though, please check for

yourself.)

After some length of time picturing the desired outcome, whatever

length of time feels appropriate to you, count yourself to waking

consciousness from 1 to 5, mentally seeing and saying each number. At

the count of 5, open your eyes, feeling relaxed and refreshed.

Bonus: Before counting yourself awake, you might also repeat some of

your personal affirmations! This is a wonderful use of this deeper

level of mind. The best metaphor I have heard about this is that your

mind, like cold wax, responds very little to impressions. Press a

cold candle with your thumb and no imprint appears. But if you WARM the

wax (WARM your mind by quieting your brainwave levels), then your thumb

easily makes an impression that remains after the wax has cooled

again.

Pointers I have learned from people who get superb results:

1. Picture something good for yourself and good for all concerned. If

you want more profits in your business, picture increased gain to your

customers and the fortune flowing from that. If you want a happier

love-life, picture the increased delight for your partner (or

prospective partner), picture both of you enjoying each other's

company in an ever-increasing way.

In other words, not just win/win, but

win/win/win/win/win/win/win/win/w

in/win.... with a win for everyone concerned.

I sometimes am asked about picturing in this manner to help resolve an

issue with someone who is causing trouble, or acting in a hostile

way. (i.e., stalking, threatening, complaining unreasonably, hassling.)

If someone is hassling you, or bothering you, picture them with so

much increased joy that hassling you (in any form) is not even a viable

option anymore. If results aren't apparent, then increase the amount

of joy you picture for them.

Applications of this approach are far-reaching. My father, a Police

Detective for an organized crime unit, used a similar sort of

picturing technique to visualize suspects cooperating with undercover

investigators in an important operation.

My father, not just a Police Detective but also an ex-Marine Corps

Major, used a variation of the exact technique in this newsletter to

see meetings with new informants going smoothly, and would even see

accurately what an informant looked like BEFORE he met with them!

(My father's willingness to personally explore the farther reaches of what

a mind can do continually inspires me!)

Now back to the pointers...

1. Win/win/win/win/win/win/win....for the good of all concerned.

2. Picture something you really really want, NOT something you think

you ought to want, or are expected to want.

3. Have expectancy, like this: Suppose you go to Sears to buy a

dishwasher. You pick one out, pay for it, and give the salesperson

your address. You are told that it will be delivered in three days.

Three days later a Sears truck backs up in your driveway. What do you

expect will come out of the back of the truck? Of course, you expect

a dishwasher!

Have THAT kind of expectancy for your goals.

4. Let the universe handle the details. Carolyn Deal of North

Carolina told me of a student of hers who did a process like the 100-to-1

technique to buy a Mercedes. She knew exactly what she wanted, and

even specified that she wanted to pay only $500 for it, which is a

price that sounds absurdly low for a recent model Mercedes. One day

driving in her car she saw a parked Mercedes in front of a house. It

was exactly the Mercedes she wanted, and even had a for-sale sign on

it!

She went to the door and a woman answered. How much for the car? The

woman said that her husband had run off with his secretary and said to

sell his car and that he would split with her (his wife) any amount

received for it. "So I'll sell it for $500," the woman said.

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What you think about expands.

That is, whatever you are thinking about is not stagnant or shrinking

in your awareness but is actually growing in your awareness UNTIL it appears

in some obvious way in your world.

For example, here is a true story of what happened to the husband of

a teacher of mine:

He was a contractor who wanted to make more money, so he put an

oversized picture of a 1,000 dollar bill on his refrigerator. (I am not sure

if they are still around, but the US treasury used to make $1,000 bills. It

looks like a regular bill, but with a picture of Grover Cleveland on it,

and the number 1,000 in the corners.)

Whenever he went to the refrigerator he would imagine himself

receiving money, in multiples of $1,000.

Then he was hired to do some repair work on a person's home. The

client paid him, no kidding, with two $1,000 bills.

Have you ever received (or even seen) a $1,000 bill? This man was

given two of them soon after pasting a picture of one on his refrigerator and

imagining himself receiving multiples of $1,000!

Recently I saw in a store a pad of oversized $1,000 bills and decided

to experiment with this. (The above story with the contractor happened

about three years ago.)

I gave out the oversized $1,000 dollar bills to the secretaries and

to other friends here in the office building, and I told them the story about

the contractor. "Just for fun, would you like to experiment?" I asked.

Just this past weekend I went with a friend who was selecting an

engagement ring for his girlfriend, and there, pasted on the wall of a jewelry

store in downtown Miami, were two $1,000 bills! (Just as some stores have a

dollar bill pasted behind the register, this store had thousand dollar bills

pasted right on the wall.)

In other words, for the first time in my life I saw $1,000 bills --

soon after pasting a picture of one on my refrigerator!

By the way, I hadn't done the picturing, as the contractor had done,

of myself RECEIVING multiples of 1,000 dollars! (There's an experiment

worth conducting!)

But the thought of the 1,000 dollar bill had been growing so much in

my awareness that it showed up in my world.

What would YOU like to show up in your world?

What would make you REALLY smile if it showed up in your world? Put

your thoughts on that, keep your thoughts on that, and watch what happens.

Sean


This issue: How to double your reading speed in seconds...

with BETTER comprehension

If you feel overwhelmed with things to read, and wish

you could read faster, and suck information into your

brain like an industrial-strength vacuum cleaner, then

print out and save this email.

Actually you won't have to. It's so simple you can read

this email ONCE and you'll always remember how to

do this method.

By the way, this is N-O-T a product pitch. This is the

whole technique.

Be skeptical enough to test it out personally.

Email me if you any questions. (But only email

me AFTER you do it please.)

Enjoy.

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"I took a speed reading course and read War and Peace

in twenty minutes -- It involves Russia." Woody Allen

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I've always found speed-reading courses to be irritating.

Maybe tantalizing is a better word.

I WANTED to increase my reading speed and comprehension,

but the strategies never felt like they matched my reading style.

I'm already a pretty fast reader, but the techniques -- internal

silence, vertical eye-tracking patterns, or "photo-reading"

the page (and then accessing the data "intuitively" later!) never

really became natural to me.

They were too far-out to be practical, so I stopped using them

consistently.

Then I learned this EASY trick from Win Wenger.

By the way, WHY -- in a newsletter about "manifesting" and other

mind miracles -- would I share this technique on increasing your

reading speed?

Because more reading means more possibilities to your imagination.

(Jim Rohn, the guy Tony Robbins used to work for, has a great

line that people who don't read are no better off than people

who can't read.)

Before we get started I have to tell you this: It definitely WON'T

do anything if you ONLY read the steps.

Just as reading about your favorite chocolate and eating

your favorite chocolate are two completely different experiences.

Also, this MAY work on fiction to make novel-reading faster.

But I have only used this on nonfiction material. I see no reason

why it wouldn't work with fiction as well as it does with nonfiction.

Anyway, here are the steps

Step 1. Get a tape recorder or a person who will listen to you.

While either one will work, I would STRONGLY recommend a

tape recorder. For a bunch of reasons that I don't have time

to explain in this email.

Those little micro-cassette recorders are good.

I just got a digital tape recorder and love it.

Your computer may also work as a sound-recorder, but I would

suggest you get something more portable.

Step 2. Get a book that you want to read (or need to read).

Step 3. Say the following outloud, even if you feel a little silly.

(The sillier you feel about saying this outloud the greater benefit

you will probably find.) "Subtler faculties, please reveal to me an

image that will allow me to better and more quickly understanding

AND use this material I am about to read."

IMMEDIATELY describe to your listener/tape-recorder the images

that show up in your imagination for whichever length of time

is SHORTER:

a. two minutes

or

b. until you feel a feeling of completion that you've

described enough imagery outloud.

Step 4. IMMEDIATELY jump right in and start reading.

Reminders about this process

The imagery may have NOTHING to do with the reading material!

In fact, the less conscious connection to what you are about to

read, the better!

Like this

Let's say you have to read four chapters of a law book for a

business law school class tomorrow. (You know, something

FUN to read like that.)

So you do this process - you ask your subtler faculties to

show you some mental pictures and the imagery is Big Bird

of the children's TV show Sesame Street skateboarding with

Elvis Presley around the Eiffel Tower.

Good! Go with whatever imagery is there. For the two minutes

or until you feel like you've described enough. (You'll know the

feeling when you have it, and if you aren't 100% sure, then just

go for two minutes.)

For the two minutes, I would recommend using a timer. Two

minutes is longer than you think, especially when you are

describing mental imagery.

The more often you do this, the FASTER your brain will give you

imagery. A few seconds will be enough after you practice

this a few times.

Why does this technique work? I don't know exactly, but I do

know that it makes your mind more "adhesive" to the

information somehow.

Of course, don't take my word for it. Test it out.

I mentioned that you ought to use a live listener or a tape

recorder. That makes a BIG difference.

Speaking to a listener - either a live person OR a tape

recorder - changes the way you organize the material

you are describing, and this makes YOUR brain more

organized about the subject you'll be reading.

Somehow this translates into better, faster reading,

I am not sure exactly why.

But explanations are nothing compared to experience.

Test it for yourself.

Sean


This issue: How to turn on the coincidence machine

(Or: The Universe is out to get You...Happy)

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Dear Friend and Subscriber,

I get emails regularly from people who want to use the tools

of visualization by themselves to "make" money results happen.

That's great and I encourage it. With two reminders...

1. Don't stop taking purposeful physical action toward consciously chosen goals, and

2. Be open to pleasant surprises happening.

Seriously, you have NO idea the kind of spontaneously

good things that can happen.

NO idea.

And if you think you know all the good that can happen,

then be open to something happening that is even better

than THAT.

Here, listen to this one. True story.

A long time ago I used to teach weight loss workshops.

My brother was heavy, and had tried EVERYTHING to

reduce his weight. (This brother is not the stuntman

that Robert DeNiro beat up, this is a different brother).

One day at Christmastime, he was visiting South Florida,

and told me that it was outright deception for me to teach

people to reduce their weight, since real long term weight-loss

is impossible.

Nothing really works, he says.

I pointed out that people DO get results, and that in fact

I had taken off 30 pounds quite easily, and kept it off for

years with no effort, struggle or willpower.

He said that HE had tried lots and lots of things, including

pills, exercise, aversion therapy (don't ask, this was a

1970's fad involving electroshock), you name it, but still he

didn't get results, so he knew for certain that really nothing

worked.

I said that I understood WHY he felt that way, but his experience

was different from mine, or clients I worked with. "That hasn't

been my experience," I told him, and we changed the subject.

(By the way, that phrase "That hasn't been my experience" can

be MAGIC when you are dealing with an opninionated person

who disagrees with you. I learned it a long time ago from

Roger Dawson.)

Now, fast forward a few weeks.

(Again, this is a TRUE story. It sounds like fiction, but it's true.)

My brother was Vice President of a popular retail store chain,

and his corporation was bought out by another firm. The new

CEO flew in from out of the country for a board meeting. (It

was a Canadian firm that did the buyout, but I think the CEO

was actually British. I'm telling you this so you can imagine the

accents. My brother has an Archie Bunker Brooklyn New York

accent, and the CEO sounds like Phil from EastEnders.)

At the end of the meeting, the CEO approached my brother

and said to him privately, "You need to lose weight."

(How's that for a conversation starter?)

My brother got a little defensive, as most would. "No, I don't

need to lose any weight," he said.

"Look," the CEO replied. "You're big and so am I. How much

weight would say that you need to lose?"

Disarmed by the man's candor, or sincerity, or something, my

brother said -- VERY conservatively -- "Well, I could lose 40 pounds."

The CEO made a wager: "I'll tell you what....If you lose all forty

pounds by my birthday in April, I will pay you 150 dollars per pound.

But here's the catch: If you lose LESS than 40 pounds I won't pay

you anything. Of course, for each pound over 40 I will pay you

an additional 150. But if you lose less than 40 you will get nothing."

My brother had a new motivation. Probably two of them -- the money

and the personal challenge from someone he didn't want to disappoint.

He knew he needed help with this project, but he didn't call ME. He

called my mother instead. (Remember that he just told me two weeks

prior that I was misleading people that weight loss was possible!)

So he asked her, "Hey, how did Sean lose that weight back in 1989?"

She told him that a key element was food combining. Also called

Natural Hygiene. Made popular in the US through a book called

Fit for Life.

With nothing more than that, he got busy.

The wager started in January, and was set to end in April at the man's birthday.

Long story short, my brother tried food combining, excercized faithfully,

took off 46 pounds within the time frame (what is that, four months?)

and received a check for $6,900!

Better still, he called me to say that this food combining wasn't really a diet,

it's just a new way of eating with no deprivation at all. Plus he had more

energy all the time (one of the REALLY nice things about food combining)

and could lift more weight in the gym as a happy and unintented by-product!

This was a win/win/win.

Did I mention he got paid 6,900 dollars?

That's not a fortune, but remember that he got paid to lose weight, in a "diet"

that required no willpower!

Follow-up to that story: This eccentric CEO actually renewed the offer

with a second deadline (my brother had more than 40 pounds to lose,

remember) and ultimately paid my brother $10,500 dollars total -- to be

slimmer than he ever was in his adult life.

My brother was so happy to have this happen, he thanked me with

a fancy new watch.

So what's the lesson in this?

Great unexpected things happen, so let them. Be open to them.

I remember one of the first things I learned from a meditation

teacher a long time ago.

You can test it too.

He said that if you quiet your brain each day for a little while,

and make sure it's a daily habit, you will find fortunate coincidences

happening in your life. Regularly, like clockwork. Happy things

will happen.

Like maybe a CEO paying you to take off the weight you thought

was impossible to lose? Sure!

Do a daily routine and find out for yourself.

The most powerful routine I know is from Win Wenger.

Win is a grad of the Silva Method in the 70's, and a brain researcher.

He lifted the hood (bonnet) of the Silva Method "engine" and found

ways to generate even better results.

He even shared his findings with the Silva International organization,

but they didn't want to make any changes to their course material, since

they were already getting impressive results around the world.

That doesn't mean YOU can't benefit from Win's research, though!

If you are a Silva grad, go and download Win's Beyond OK. You'll

see what I mean.

If you are not a Silva grad, or you are brand new to the whole idea

of meditation or visualization, then you will REALLY benefit, since Win

makes the steps simple to follow. Take a look.

www.pavlovpublishing.com/beyondok

Best wishes to you, and happy coincidence-making.

Sean


This issue: Manifesting with the golden ratio

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Is there is a secret to making miracles happen? Yes, and it's NOT what you think.

Dear Friend and Subscriber,

Before we get started, please think about ONE thing that you want to have happen in

your life. If you could snap your fingers and it would happen, you would choose THIS.

What would "THIS" be?

Okay, got it?

Seriously, stop and pick something. (Don't worry. This website will still be here when

you get back.)

An article in a recent Scientific American magazine mentioned how three-dimensional

reality (the room you're in, the computer you're looking at, your bank balance, your love-

life, your favorite dessert -- EVERYTHING) is not really 3-d, but only SEEMS that way.

The REAL reality is 2-dimensions, or flat like a sheet of paper, and this (your life) is a

reflection of that sheet.

This might SEEM far-out, but consider movies. They are a flat piece of film that light is

shone through, and THAT seems like 3-d reality. It has movement and depth and music.

A better analogy is a website.

Websites can LOOK like colorful 3-d experiences (not mine, of course -- OTHER

people's websites), but they are actually expressions of the source code that tells your

computer how to display things.

What if your life is simply a reflection of a "source code"? Like the way your computer

translates the source code into sights and sounds on your computer screen, your mind

translates source code into sights and sounds of your life.

Let me explain...

On most websites you can aim your cursor anywhere on the page and right-click your

mouse. When you do you'll see an option that says "View source." (For Mac users I'm

told it's ctrl+click to select view source.)

Click on "view source" and you'll see line and lines of computer language, probably html.

The things you see and hear on ANY web page are simply the by-product of the

instructions written in source code. Whether it's vatican.com, or playboy.com, or

rathergood.com

No matter WHAT website. The code doesn't care! (This is a very important point, by the

way.) The pictures and music of the site are just BY-products of theinstructions of what

to see and hear at the site. Simple cause and effect.

If you change that source code, the site changes immediately.

Let me repeat that: What you see and hear will change instantly -- as soon as you modify

the source code.

Now what on earth does this have to do with changes in your own life? Maybe you want

a happier love-life, or more customers, or more money. Maybe you are trying to sell your

house and don't know how to find someone to buy it.

Maybe you are in the middle of a disagreement and want to work things out.

Whatever is playing on the website of your life is fair game for this process.

Now, let me ask you to do a little thought-experiment. Look away from the computer and

look around the room where you are now. (I am assuming you're in a room. Maybe you're

outdoors with a laptop. If so, this will still work.)

What if you could aim your mental "cursor" at whatever is around you and right-click

(ctrl-click of you're a Mac user) on what you see?

In other words, what if you could see into the source code of your life?

And if you could change that source code, how long would it take for the "web site" of

your life to change?

I know that I'm getting into Matrix territory with this, but bear with me. It'll be worth it.

Seriously, how long do you think it would take to change? (If there WERE a source code

of your life...) Right, the change would be instant.

Okay, that leaves a BIG fat question. How DO you change this source code?

The answer in a moment.

First, I want to tell you about a wildly successful young woman who is in the real estate

business. I met her at an advanced Silva Method course. She told me that her absolute

favorite book, hands down, for manifesting results in her life was a little paperback that's

no longer in print.

I didn't recognize the title when she told me, but then she lent me her copy and I

recognized it right away. David St. Clair's Lessons in Instant ESP.

When I was much younger I used to read every mind-development book I could find

(literally I used to spend lunch money on metaphysical and mind-training books) and this

was a favorite. It was so clear and easy to understand.

I was shocked to find it's no longer in print. When I checked Amazon it was available as

a used paperback book for as much as 250 dollars!

I didn't want to buy it again for such an inflated price, so I just intended to find it in a

secondhand bookshop at the right time. (I found it in a quiet little bookshop for two

bucks.)

One of the techniques in this book is a technique for attracting physical circumstances

into your life. You do it by drawing symbols into a five-pointed star, and then mentally

charging the star with energy.

The author David St. Clair doesn't say WHY it works, but just that he learned it from

studying the cabala (his spelling, typically you find cabala spelled Qabala or Kabbalah,

depending on which flavor of cabala appeals to you).

He says that it works for attracting material items only.

Why on earth would drawing little symbols on a 5-pointed star (or pentagram) make

material results happen?

Good question...

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In ancient Greece there was a teacher named Pythagoras who had a unique theory of

numbers (some say he learned this over in Egypt). He believed that everythingbeautiful

has at its root a certain balance that can be measured mathematically, through a certain

number .

He felt that architecture that reflected this ratio would be more pleasing and make people

FEEL good. (He must have been a VERY influential guy. Architecture and art in ancient

Greece constantly reflects this secret and powerful number.)

Pythagoras also had a theory that music should reflect mathematical balance, and that any

ill health -- physical or emotional -- could be remedied by making the body more

balanced through the right kind of music.

It was 2100 years later (yes, 2100 -- Pythagoras was alive a LONG time ago!) that

scientists started verifying his findings about the magical number being everywhere in

nature. It took 500 MORE years before scientists started verifying that music can have a

remedial effect on mind and body.

Wait, it gets even stranger.

The number Pythagoras referred to is called many things: It's known as the Divine

Proportion, or the Golden Ratio, the Golden Section, or the Golden Mean. (The official

word for it, though, is Phi (pronounced "fee" -- not to be confused with "pi.")

The ratio expressed as AB/BC=BC/AC

The number, by the way, is infinite, and starts with ...

1.618033988749894848204586834365638117720309180...

Flowers grow according to this number. (Have you ever wondered how a seed knows to

grow? When you open a seed there's nothing in it except for a little dust. Somehow,

though, the path of growth is set already. It's set according to this number.)

Patterns on butterfly wings follow this ratio. It shows up in music. (Music that makes you

feel good, anyway.) It's a surprisingly constant number on planet earth. It shows up in

animals, plants, insects, even in the growth of a human from single cell through birth. It

shows up as a pattern within our DNA, and in the structure of galaxies.

If you were to make a perfect symbolic expression of this number it is --surprise -- a

pentagram.

Pythagoras and his followers (in 600 b.c.) used a secret symbol to identify their group.

The symbol was a pentagram. He knew that the expression of this number (in an icon

such as a pentagram) was a gesture of acknowledgement to the deeper order that

produces health and harmony.

Remember I told you about the "cabala" book that includes a technique in which you use

the symbol of a pentagram?

Well, I was raised Catholic, and as a reflex felt funny about the use of a pentagram for

"manifesting" what is wanted. The shape itself seemed to be part of traditions so distinct

from my Catholic upbringing that no matter how "enlightened" or new agey I got, it still

seemed to produce a continual fear reaction in my body. That it was somehow the wrong

use of magic. (Say what you will, those Catholic grade schools have a lingering effect on

young minds.)

So then I started writing up this article about pentagrams and manifesting in December

'03, just before Christmastime, and sure enough those panicky irrational "Is this of God or

is this not of God?" fears started showing up in my mind.

Then a funny thing happened.

That week I was invited to a special mass at the school where my wife teaches. It was an

authentic Filipino Christmas Mass called the "simbang gabi." The mass was in English

and in Tagalog (language of the Philippines), presented by a Catholic Archbishop from

the Philippines. I had never been to one of these before, and it was a special invitation to

my wife and me from someone who celebrates this tradition.

It really seemed like a Catholic mass in every way but one. There were big pentagrams

all through the church! Then at one point in the mass, people throughout the church took

out these big homemade pentagrams they made and brought them to the front of the

church near the altar. Then everyone in the church did a prayer and aimed their

outstretched hands toward the pentagrams to "send energy" to them!

Turns out that the Filipino tradition of the "simbang gabi" is to do nine masses over nine

days, and to hand-make a LARGE lantern in the shape of a pentagram to symbolize the

star that the wise men followed to the birth of Jesus. The point of the nine masses is to

help manifest some special intention that you want to create in your life.

Now, in 30+ years of conscious memory, including some years living in Asia, I have

NEVER seen a Catholic ritual of making pentagrams, or for that matter ever saw a

pentagram in a church! The coincidence was funny.

But the use of a pentagram predates Christianity by about 600 years that we know of.

(I know that you want to apply this to a personal manifesting project, and I promise we'll

get to that shortly.)

A student of Pythagoras (well, two hundred years later) was Plato. Plato had some far out

ideas about how the world works.

Remember that idea from a recent Scientific American? That the world that SEEMS 3-d

is really just a reflection of some kind of "source code"?

Plato said something VERY similar. That the world your senses show you ISN'T the real

world, but is only a reflection of the real world.

How do you change the reflection-world so that it's more pleasing to you?

You might want more money, more love, better health, more joyful relationships. You

may want that business deal to happen the way you want, or that upcoming test to be

easier to pass. Maybe you need a job?

The trick is to get to the feeling place that the outcome would produce in YOUR BODY.

You do that not by USING a pentagram, but by BECOMING a pentagram.

A Pentagram is kind of shaped like a person, if you look at it. It has a head, two arms,

two legs and a torso. I already mentioned how mathematically the shape is a superb

expression of the number which represents order in the universe. What ELSE does it

represent?

RECENT studies on something called HRV show something useful.

HRV is a method of measuring the rate of heartbeats in your body. Your heart when it

beats at, say, 65 beats per minute, is not beating with the same amount of time between

each beat. On AVERAGE there may be 65 beats per minute, but there are tiny

fluctuations in the amount of time between beats, and HRV measures that heart activity.

It turns out that very specific states of consciousness correspond to HRV, and when you

are in a state of loving compassion, your HRV rate is reflecting the Golden ratio!

Brainwave activity of someone in an ecstatic state ALSO reflects -- on an EEG -- the

ratio of phi, or the Golden ratio.

I read recently that measured breath rates of someone in an ecstatic, loving state also

reflect phi, or the Golden Ratio. The tempo of one's breathing!

Does that mean that if you intentionally step into loving, compassionate ecstasy, your

body would resonate the numbers that correspond to order and balance?

Some scientists (-- not new agers but scientists!) call the Golden Ratio the blueprint of

mother nature. In their case (this was an article on the BBC website) it's because of the

pattern of genetics shown to follow the Golden Ratio.

What gives birth to plants, animals and people gives birth to your deepest wish as well.

Adjust the blueprint by feeling and being in love. Love others. Love what you are

intending. But most of all, BE in the place of feeling love. (You don't have to be all

"sensitive" and tree hugging, unless you want to. This can be a very strong and

committed proactive love. The point is your PREFERENCE for what is wanted and

enjoyed and beneficial to all involved.)

Neville Goddard has a good reminder to think FROM your goal (rather than OF your

goal). That alone can produce the state I am referring to.

Remember the item from the opening paragraph? You know, the ONE thing you want

now?

How would it FEEL to have your goal be true? What would your mind and body be

doing if you were in that place now?

How would it feel? Wouldn't you love it?

Speaking of love, did you know that the movement of the planet Venus across the sky

creates a perfect pattern of a pentagram over the course of 7 years?

You may not be into astrology, but isn't it funny that the planet representing Love (Venus

in astrology represents many things related to love, and love IS involved with the act of

creation) should create a pattern constantly over your head that is in the shape of a

pentagram*?

Okay, enough of this new agey stuff for now.

Next issue will tell you an EASY way to double your reading speed in 27 seconds FLAT.

(If you are AT ALL interested in learning, this is something you won't want to miss!)

Sean

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Why is Love called a magician?

Because all the force of magic consists in Love.

The parts of this world,

like the members of one animal,

depend all on one Love

and are connected by natural communion.

Love is the common drawing together,

and this is the true magic.

---Marcilio Ficino

*Marcilio Ficino was an astrologer and Catholic priest in the 1500's in Italy. He was also

a devoted student of Plato and Hermes (he translated both of them) and used to do

magical rituals to affect his horoscope.


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Issue Three/Part Two

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IN THIS ISSUE...

Issue #3 part two: Guardian Angels/The art of visual prayer/Lonely

Lawyer and the Single Girl

1. Success Stories:

a. Lonely Lawyer and the Single Girl

b. Hearing a little whisper

2. Do-it-yourself Techniques: The art of visual prayer/The pink bubble

technique

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Ram Dass recommends picturing God as an imaginary friend you speak to,

and that, after a time, you come to appreciate God as the real being

and YOU are the imaginary friend.

Some people think of prayer like Angels listening to you personally

and helping you out whenever possible.

In 1992, following an NLP Master Practitioner training in Colorado, I

was meeting numbers of people who had extraordinary experiences.

A 'feeling' of a loving presence. "Coincidences" that were downright

miraculous. The stories were amazing. Even outright skeptics had

stories to tell. My girlfriend at the time, whose posture was that

such talk was a lot of new age crap, said that SHE even had one experience

beyond explaining, of a feeling of a loving being comforting her while

she was (physically) alone in a room.

I learned quickly that you can mention the word Angels to people

pretty much anyplace, yes even at an NLP training, and you'll hear either a

personal experience, or a friend's personal experience, in no time at

all.

People would take me aside and privately tell me of things that

sounded like an episode of "Touched by an Angel." Whether I was in North

Carolina, Colorado, Florida, the stories were quite similar.

True Story #1:

My home in 1992 was being fumigated (tented), and for one night I

stayed at a friend's house. He is a successful attorney in Miami.

That night he mentioned to me that he had a problem. He had a

contract to work at a law firm and that contract had recently ended. A young

woman he worked with at that firm also was under contract and her

contract also ended. The problem was that he wanted to call her but

had no reason to. He said that he felt silly calling her just to say

hello.

Knowing that I had been accumulating an extraordinary number of

stories about Guardian Angels, he asked me: If there are such things as

Guardian Angels, would they help, and if so, how? (I found it

extraordinary that he would ask me such a question!)

I said that I am not an expert on the subject, but from what I had

learned it seemed you need only ask aloud, as if they are around you

and can hear you, and that's pretty much it.

He said thank you and that was the end of the conversation.

That was on Sunday night. On Thursday afternoon I saw him again. I

asked if any new developments had happened with that woman. He said

that a funny thing had happened: A stranger had called him on the

phone to tell him that he (the stranger) had found a purse belonging

to a woman (the woman from the law firm!). The stranger looked inside

the purse and found a wallet and other things, including my friend's name

and phone number on a piece of paper. He called my friend to ask him

if he would please contact the owner of the purse to let her know the

purse had been found.

This was amazing to me. I pointed out to my friend what he had asked

me just four nights prior. He had forgotten! "Oh my God, I forgot about

that!" he said. (What happened next was also startling: he and I were

having the conversation at my parents' house, and that VERY minute my

mother walked in the front door holding a bakery box. She said that

she bought something that she'd not gotten in years, a favorite dessert of

mine when I was younger. She opened the box and it was...chocolate

covered Angelfood cake!)

Maybe it is all the NLP training, but my curiosity was instantly

aroused as to the STRUCTURE of what happened:

1. Notice Problem.

2. Think of a solution.

3. Ask aloud for help in reaching the solution. (Very important to

ask

outloud.)

4. Forget about the problem.

Is there something about brain structure that makes this process

work?

Picturing things involves certain regions of your brain,

creating/speaking/hearing words involve still other regions, feeling

emotion involves still another region. Is there some combined effect

when calling ALL these regions into play? A future issue of this

newsletter will go into much more detail on this topic as it relates

to Image Streaming and "bridging" regions of the brain, but for now the

question is this: Are there infinitely wise/capable elements of OUR

psyches so out of awareness that their form is only perceivable to

conscious selves as Guardian Angels or some form of Divine

Intervention?

True Story #2

I was in traffic in downtown Miami, and it was hot. My car's air

conditioner was broken so I sat with the windows open, in traffic,

feeling hot, sticky and irritable. It was the middle of the afternoon,

I had a frustrating day, and nothing was going right.

So I sat.

I heard what sounded like a whisper behind my right ear. "Put on the

radio station, 103."

Oh great, I'm insane.

The voice really was like a whisper, NOT like me talking to myself. I

say this with some degree of certainty, because I had JUST returned

from NLP Comprehensive's month-long Master Practitioner Program, in

which we explored EXTENSIVELY the qualities of inner sounds and

pictures. This gentle whisper was NOT the same as the inner sounds you

can move about in your imagination. It just had a totally different

quality to it.

So I sat in my car, sweating, considering this gentle suggestion to

change the station. At the time, 103 was a hard rock station, so I

literally said aloud (people in cars nearby may have thought I was

bonkers), "It's hot and I'm uncomfortable, and I don't usually listen

to that station, and I especially don't want to hear that kind of

music right now."

"Put on 103."

So I did. It was a loud hard-rock song. It sounds a little weird to

admit, but I actually said aloud in the car, "THIS is what you wanted

me to hear?"

The whisper said: "The next song." (Again, the voice was especially

noticeable to me for its gentleness, considering how irritated I

felt.)

So I sat, in 90-plus degrees, in a downtown Miami Summertime

mid-afternoon traffic jam, waiting for the next song on the radio

because I heard a gentle whisper suggesting I do so. (I made a mental

note to have a CAT scan soon.)

The next song was a song by Aerosmith, "You're my Angel." I laughed

outloud. My mood, which had been irritated and uncomfortable, had

shifted to joy instantly.

Was that a voice of an angel, or my brain being clever enough to

orchestrate this experience? Intuition is a real thing, even

scientists have proven the time-traveling ability of attention, so it

is not beyond imagining that my brain could have accessed the future

playlist of that station, then created what seemed like an external

voice telling me to put on that station. This is possible.

The Huna psychology of Hawaii and Polynesia, mentioned in a previous

newsletter, includes a facet of the mind which is all-knowing. Some

call it a super-consciousness, some call it a higher self, some

(perhaps) call it a Guardian Angel. The theory is that there is a

Divine element within your mind which has an infinite, all-knowing

quality to it.

Perhaps speaking aloud -- as if to one's Guardian Angel -- gets the

attention of the Omniscient part of oneself and THAT's what generates

seemingly miraculous results.

NOTE: This is a quick intro to Huna Model. Furthermore, it is ONE

interpretation of Huna, and mentioned very quickly to set up the

Do-it-Yourself experiment to follow.

In the Huna model, there are three parts to your mind

1. Conscious: everyday sense of self, decider/chooser, very little

memory

2. Subconscious: keeper of all memory, seat of all emotion and

gut-instincts, creator of dream and trance imagery

3. Superconscious: seemingly infinite, all-knowing, timeless,

limitless.

According to ONE understanding of Huna, prayer works like this:

Your conscious mind has no direct access to the Superconscious portion

but can only speak to it through the Subconscious.

Like this:

conscious ---> subconscious ---> Superconscious

Recall the idea of votes in your mind from newsletter #1? That each

thought has a vote and then the majority wins? According to the Huna

model, the Superconscious ALWAYS says yes to the subconscious. So if

you want a relationship, and you're lonesome, and no part of your

subconscious has any blocks to having a relationship, then your

request from conscious to subconscious to Superconscious will go right through

and you will meet someone at 7-11 the next time you stop for a Yoo-

Hoo.

If you have some contrary thoughts kicking around, from back when your

stepmother told you at age 5 to never ever get married (and you

believed her), then your superconscious is getting mixed signals from

your subconscious mind. You want a relationship, you swear, but

something in your mind is a little anxious about it, thanks to a

thought/belief/memory about this.

(NLP provides many ways to be congruent again, and this newsletter in

future issues will also deal specifically with becoming congruent in

pleasurable ways.)

The important thing to notice, for now, is that prayer may be the

communication between one area of your unconscious mind to ANOTHER

area of your unconscious mind in a way that changes your life's

circumstances.

The degree to which you have rapport and communication with your

SUBconscious is the degree to which you will be clearer in your

manifestation.

According to the Huna Model, one very unmistakeable way to get your

message from your conscious self to the subconscious part of your mind

is through imagery.

Think of how much clarity is necessary in getting a message to a young

child, and you'll know what kind of specificity I mean. (A friend of

mine was setting a table, and a young child was helping him. "Here,

put this where daddy sits," the child was told, so she carefully put the

plate on the seat!)

Realizing that this part of your mind will take language so literally,

you want to be very specific in your requests. Since it is this

literal and childlike part of your mind which will be taking the request to

your Superconscious, then what you are desiring must be understood by

your subconscious if it is to be manifested.

That is why mental pictures are very good for programming events to

happen.

Do-it-yourself Experiment #1: Visual Prayer with the pink bubble

technique...

Imagine something you deeply and truly desire. It could be a new job,

a new relationship (or a new way of relating in a current relationship),

a new car, a resolution of some health challenge, you name it. Create

an image in your mind of that end result. (If you are unaware of your

mental pictures, you can just "sense" the image and that will work

just as well.) Picture the outcome just the way you want it, in a way that

is of course harmless and a pleasure for all concerned. (If the

intention is a relationship, keep in mind that someone even better

than the one you're thinking of may come along instead, so be willing to

have the "someone even more wonderful" instead as a default.) Also,

there is the fact that the universe can be a smart-aleck. Pretend that

you will get EXACTLY what you picture.

Allow pink to surround the image entirely, symbolic of the Love behind

this intention. You are surrendering this thought, with the full

knowledge that this or something better will happen in a way that is a

harmonious blessing to all concerned.

Keep the image in your mind for a moment, and then let it go and see

it rising higher away, farther and farther away from the earth, See the

image traveling farther and farther away from the earth all the way to

the edge of the universe. Then put the thought out of your mind

entirely. That's the whole process. This is best done lightly,

matter of factly, with willingness to HAVE the outcome and yet no attachment

to having the outcome.

It will literally take you less time to do it once than to read the

steps. Allow an image to be surrounded with pink and a feeling of

love and surrender. Let the image go farther and farther and farther.

Trust that the result, or something better, will happen in a

harmonious way.


At Christmastime a few years ago, I was giving out Christmas gifts to

friends. At the local bar (which I made a beeline for every Friday

and/or Saturday) I made friends with some of the regulars, including a young

woman -- the sister of the female bartender (do people say 'barmaid'

anymore?) -- who was always there in the bar every weekend.

I wasn't THAT close with the sister, but wanted to give her a little

something, so I gave her a copy of a little book by Stuart Wilde

called "Miracles."

That little book, in case you haven't read it, is about how with your

attention you bring into your world what you desire, and how to do so

deliberately. (You can find it at or through any Barnes and

Noble/Borders bookstore, or online.)

I thought anyone with a desire would enjoy that little book, and

wished her a Merry Christmas.

Fast forward three months.

I visited the bar, and the Bartender was busy. She shout