Destiny is not pre- 
ordained. Destiny is ordained totally by you. Every single moment of 
your NOW existence is the result of your previous thought. The idea 
that everything is already laid out for you in advance is a hallucina- 
tion. You can and do manifest your own destiny. Your free will is your gift of unconditional love. You create your 
destiny with this free will, and when you venture off the path of 
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unconditional love, you are simply living an illusion. The illusion is 
that the thoughts that you have of your separateness from God’s will 
put you into an obsequious position, that God is something you must 
fight or fear. Obviously, if this were true, God could not at the same 
time be all loving. Once this illusion takes hold, you become a victim of life rather 
than a co-creator within it. You lose your ability to extend the uncon- 
ditional love that is your beingness, and instead project your condi- 
tioned ego. In other words, you give up your power to be at one with 
the God force that created you, and you lose your power to manifest 
or co-create the life that you desire. Life is in conflict with your 
higher power. You begin to fear this higher power and act in servile ways toward 
it. You become disenchanted with your own ability to attract anything 
positive and you feel weak and powerless. You have lost the joy and 
ecstasy that is the accompaniment to a life of unconditional love. KNOWING THE JOY OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE . The most important thing that you will gain from cultivating 
unconditional love will be freedom from hate and violence. When 
these thoughts are removed, you discover the presence of joy and 
peace. This is an automatic reaction to unconditional love, because 
you are in harmony with the creative source. One of the lessons that you will be unlearning as you gain access to 
unconditional love is the mistaken belief that joy is of the ego and 
misery is of the spirit. The truth lies in reversing this supposition and 
getting to the source of spiritual joy. Simplistically stated, experienc- 
ing joy, from the point of view of the ego, is always getting what we 
want, and being spiritual is associated with meditating, being gener- 
ous, extending kindness to others. The path to true joy and bliss in 
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Saying to yourself that the ego is an illusion provides you with a 
. powerful tool for manifesting. The ego identifies you as primarily a 
physical body, separate from God, and in need of constant stroking to 
massage your self-importance. When you simply say this is an illusion 
and it doesn’t really exist, those ideas are replaced with uncondi- 
tional love, and the joy that you experience is really the denial of the 
false and an affirmation of the truth of your being. You are absolutely free when you are not consumed with your self- 
importance. You are free when you no longer need to be stroked, 
coddled and approved of by everyone you meet. You are free when 
you are no longer offended by the actions of others. Freedom allows 
you to extend your inner self to the outer world, and that is love. There is a great sense of joy in feeling free. Think of times when 
you have felt the freest in your life. When the pressures to perform 
are off. When you are walking in nature. When no one is badgering 
you to meet deadlines. When you are in solitude and communing 
with God. If you have made the connection to your inner life, these 
are the most joyful times. When you are experiencing this kind of 
joyful freedom, you feel inspired, and, of course, this means that you 
are “in spirit.” 
The most creative times of my own life are when I allow myself to 
be free. This freedom produces a great joy within me that manifests 
as new ideas to expand my work and be more purposeful, to be a 
better writer, teacher, father and husband, to share this love that I 
feel with all who care to know about it. Joy, freedom and unconditional love are inseparable; they flow 
from the experience of each other. To be joyful is to hold onto noth- 
ing and to have no restrictions. This is also the feeling of freedom, 
and it is a result of embracing the unconditional love of the divine 
energy that is the center of your being. Authentic joy is not merely the pleasure of the moment. These ego 
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pleasures are fleeting and transient. They demand more, just like a 
drug, in an attempt to be fulfilled. But fulfillment is mostly an illu- 
sion with fleeting pleasures. All of the pleasures of the body are not 
evil, they are simply temporary. This is not to say that one ought not to enjoy a massage, a deli- 
cious meal, lovemaking and all of the pleasures of the body. But, that 
one should know that true joy is not in the bodily pleasure. It is in 
the mind, which is processing and allowing you to experience the 
pleasure; the body is simply neutral, as are all things. It is the mind 
that makes it real, not the reverse. The body cannot make us real any more than it can heal the mind. Nor does the body, in and of itself, give us joy. It is in the mind that 
the healing of the body originates, and it is in the mind where joy 
also originates. Your purpose is to align your mind with the uncondi- 
tional love that is the divine source of all material things, including 
your body. That source is love. With that alignment comes joy and 
power. When one drop of water separates from the ocean it becomes a 
speck that is, essentially, powerless and weak and unable to sustain 
itself. But, when it aligns with its source, the ocean itself, it is power- 
ful beyond what is possible as an individual drop of ocean. So it is 
with you. Alone, separated from your divine source, you are a skin- 
encapsulated ego living the illusion that you are important and pow- 
erful. But, realigned, you know the joy that comes from this partner- 
ship. And what you are aligning with is pure, unconditional love and 
acceptance of all that is. You abandon your fear of anything. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AS AN ABSENCE OF FEAR 
All fears stem from the idea that we are alone and separated from 
the one divine source that we give many names to, including God or 
Holy Spirit. When you adopt a stance of unconditional love, you 
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automatically abandon fear. In the absence of fear and in the pres- 
ence of unconditional love you find the solution to the mystery of 
manifestation. Once you truly know that you are ‘not separate or 
alone, fear is replaced by unconditional love and you have gained 
access to the Holy Spirit. The ego is where fears originate, with constant messages that you 
are incomplete and need more, that you need to win to be better in 
comparison to others. With its unceasing pressure, the ego keeps you 
in a constant state of turmoil and anxiety. Here is where all fears are 
birthed and nurtured within you. . To accept unconditional love as your premise for living, you will 
have to tell the ego that there is no need to prove anything and that 
all you want or hope for is already here. The ego, moreover, needs to 
be taught that you are connected to a creative source that is far more 
powerful than the ego. You are able to detach from how it has to show up, and you can 
send out the energy of unconditional love with your thoughts wher- 
ever you go, trusting that it is all in order. No demands, no pressure. A simple knowing accompanied by an unconditionally loving atti- 
tude. With this kind of declaration, fear is removed from your life 
and is replaced with love. Remember the biblical quote, “Perfect love 
casteth out all fear.” 
Fear and love are unable to reside simultaneously within you. If 
you are afraid, you have cast out love. If you are experiencing perfect 
love, which is within your free will, then you have cast out fear. This principle of unconditional love as a prerequisite to manifest- 
ing your own destiny is a tough one to put into practice full-time. Yet 
you can begin this process by working on it one step at a time, begin- 
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SOME WAYS OF PUTTING UNCONDITIONAL LOVE INTO 
PRACTICE go 
Keep uppermost in mind that love transforms. Every single act of 
love releases blocked energy in your body. Unconditional love heals 
the body and the mind. Keep reminding yourself of this truth until 
it becomes your reality. Love is a frequency that you can choose to 
tune into, just as you tune into a frequency on the radio. The polarity of love is fear. Fear is a current of energy that literally 
runs through your body and is produced when you feel cut off from 
the source of unconditional love. Every time you experience fear, 
ask yourself, “What is going on that I have substituted fear for love 
in this moment?” This kind of self-talk will bring you back to an 
awareness that fear is running through you because you have lost 
your alignment with love. In this moment of insight, send the fear energy out of your body 
by embracing unconditional love. In those moments of fear, your 
anxiety about failing, not receiving approval, your appearance, your 
grades or whatever can be traced to the absence of unconditional 
love. Go to your source when you are experiencing fear and you will 
find fears dissipating almost instantly, 
Remember that love is experienced in your thoughts and in your 
acts of oneness. The more you consider yourself connected to the 
divine source, the more you will act in loving ways to all others. Acquire a private, nonpublicized and regular habit of meditating. With every breath you take, feel yourself taking in unconditional 
love. With every exhalation, expel thoughts of fear. This personal 
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When you go outside for a walk, use your breath to bring in the 
essence of love and feel it flowing throughout your body. Simply use 
your breath as a means of inhaling love from the divine source, and 
exhaling fear in the next breath. You will feel yourself relaxing and 
knowing more joy and freedom. Pick one day to practice this exercise with a partner of your choice. Make a decision to think, act and radiate nothing but unconditional 
love for the entire twenty-four-hour period, including your dreams. Every moment of this mutually agreed upon day will be infused 
with only love. This means that the moment a moralizing or judgmental thought 
enters, you immediately shift it out of your inner field and replace it 
with one of unconditional love. If this works for you for one day, see 
if you can extend it for another day or two. The longer you can stay 
with this exercise, the more dramatic the changes. You will begin to notice synchronistic events showing up and you 
will feel as if God is taking special care of you. You will notice an 
increase in energy; an interesting shift in your dreams as they 
become more intense and spiritual; you will observe yourself 
attracting things that previously seemed to stay away; you will most 
assuredly note an increase in joy, bliss and a growth in your relation- 
ships as well. Make a decision to turn over your most difficult challenges in the 
area of unconditional love to God. Simply turn them over with a 
request such as, “I have been unable to bring love into my life in 
these areas, and I am asking for your divine guidance in accomplish- 
ing this. I still think angry and hateful thoughts toward these peo- 
ple, and I am asking you to show me the way to unconditional 
love.” 
By acknowledging that you feel powerless, you admit that your 
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conditioning and life experiences have not given you the tools to 
radiate love in these places. But you are also acknowledging that you 
know there is a higher energy and you ask that higher force to guide 
you. By turning it over, you place your complete trust in the God 
force and admit that you cannot break the ego’s stronghold. In your silent moments of prayer do not be afraid to ask for help. If 
you want to remove fear and hatred in the spirit of wanting peace, 
help will be forthcoming. Place no restrictions on how that help is 
to show up in your life. Simply ask honestly, and when it does show 
up, give thanks. Know the connection between manifesting your heart’s desire and 
unconditional love. Unconditional love is the energy of the uni- 
verse, it is what God is, and, therefore, what you are as well. Without your connection to this love, you lose your connection to 
the creative processes. You cannot attract to yourself that which you are already con- 
nected to if you have short-circuited the connection. The presence 
of unconditional love is in all things that you wish to attract as well 
as in you. Keep it honestly, and you keep your ability to “know that 
ye are a god.” Lose it, and you lose your godliness. It is that simple. Remind yourself of this when you ask why your desires aren’t 
showing up in your life. The answer will invariably have something 
to do with an absence of unconditional love someplace in your 
inner world. You do not need to fool yourself with unconditional love. If you do 
not love the personality of another, be open and honest about it, but 
you can still love the essence, the truth of everyone on this planet 
and beyond. See the unfolding in everyone, even if their behavior 
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conflicts with what you know to be divine and holy. Know that their 
egos have gotten a stranglehold on them and twisted their divine 
essence right out of their behavior, but still send love to the essence 
that is behind that action. The more you are able to see past the personality and the indi- 
vidual behavior, the more you will be a beacon of light for the entire 
planet. It is through a change in consciousness that our world is 
going to be transformed, and that new consciousness is one in 
which love is going to triumph over the passions of the ego. Send 
love out past the appearance with which you are in disagreement 
and it may shift right before your eyes. Make your word law! Keep this harmony within yourself and you 
will experience love in virtually ail settings. If you say it, live up to it 
lovingly. This gives you a sense of inner balance that is missing in 
those who live with self-repudiation and guilt. The more you prac- 
tice “My word is law. I must keep it,” the more balanced your life 
becomes. The universe runs on balance, and the energy that keeps it in bal- 
ance is love. By declaring yourself as a person who keeps his word, 
you align yourself with the loving essence of the world. I have witnessed unconditional love in action in the story of Kaye 
O’Bara, who has been caring for her comatose daughter for twenty- 
seven years. On an hourly basis—I (along with my wife Marcelene) told 
her story in a short inspirational book titled A Promise Is a Promise and I 
urge you to familiarize youself with this truly astonishing saga of uncon- 
ditional love in action—you will feel the inspiration as you read this 
remarkable story and you will know that you will be helping them out as 
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This concludes the sixth principle for manifesting. Unconditional 
love is the cornerstone of your mental picturing. You refuse to allow 
any contrary, ego-driven thought to enter the inner kingdom of love. If you activate this principle you will have revealed a truth that 
eludes most people. It is with unconditional love that you find your 
true connection to the divine energy that is in all things. It is a choice 
you can make. You were given the choice to express your free will. It 
is your gift from God. When you express love, you align with that same love that was 
granted to you with the gift of your free will. When you express 
anger, hatred, envy and violence, you have allied yourself with the 
ego, and have prevented yourself from truly being a co-creator of 
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The Seventh Principle 
his seventh principle of manifesting will challenge your con- 
ditioning more than any of the other eight principles. However, while 
it contradicts your beliefs about how you fit into the universe, it also 
expands your ability to create and attract the objects of your heart’s 
desire. This principle describes a very practical application of mani- 
festing at the same time that it invites you to open up to a new idea 
and a very different practice each day. I can assure you that there is much to learn and gain from this 
practice of sound meditation. I have been using it with wondrous 
results. Others who have done this meditation on a regular basis have 
experienced dramatic shifts in their lives, and have been able to man- 
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As you begin opening yourself to this soul-nourishing practice of 
chanting to the sounds of creation, spend some time carefully reread- 
ing the other eight principles. When you begin to practice these two 
daily manifestation meditations, you need to trust in your highest self 
and meditate with unconditional love. Reviewing the other eight prin- 
ciples will help to make trust and love available. I carefully studied a great deal of spiritual literature before writ- 
ing this seventh principle. Using sounds to change the vibrations of 
our frequency is a spiritual practice that has remained obscure over 
the centuries. Many of the ancient masters kept these secrets of 
manifesting hidden because of the fear of misuse. In this time of 
spiritual revolution, individual and collective receptivity is causing 
these spiritual practices to reappear and reveal their value to us. Meditating with sound can work dramatically in your personal life 
and can also facilitate a new awareness of our collective abilities to 
manifest a world free of the demands and petty issues of the ego. I feel blessed to have a spiritual teacher, Shri Guruji, make these 
meditations available to me to teach to others who are open to these 
ideas. I have written about them as I have come to know them, and 
I present this seventh principle knowing that many of my readers 
will find it contradictory to their conditioned life experiences. Nevertheless, I know it to be valid and I encourage you to open your 
mind to your unique capacity to become a manifester for yourself, 
and more particularly, for the entire planet’s evolutionary spiraling 
upward out of the grip of the ego, which emphasizes separating our- 
selves from the very force of creation. This seventh principle is about using sound as a tool for opening 
to the potential and power of your creative force. Sounds have the 
power to generate your ability to attract to yourself that which you 
desire. Three key words describing this principle are the title of the 
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SOUNDS HAVE POWER 
Sounds are a powerful energy. Every sound is a vibration made of 
waves oscillating at a particular frequency. The frequency range of the 
human ear is approximately sixteen thousand vibrations, up to 
roughly forty thousand vibrations, per second. Higher up on the 
scale, with increasingly faster vibrations, is electricity, at about one 
thousand million vibrations per second. At two hundred billion 
vibrations per second we find heat. Light and color are at five hun- 
dred billion vibrations per second, and an X ray manifests at two tril- 
lion vibrations per second. It is theorized that thoughts and the 
unknown etheric and spiritual dimensions are in the realm of 
increased vibrations beyond anything that is calculable at this point in 
time. Vibrational frequencies are very clearly the very nature of our 
material universe. Sound as we hear it is low on the scale, just above forms, or solids, 
in its speed of frequency. Sound is the intermediary between the 
abstract idea and the concrete form of the material world. Sounds 
literally mold the abstract world of thought and spirit into shapes. “Let there be light, and there was light” is the biblical description of 
creation. Or in other words “Let the vibrations of light emanate from 
my command.” 
In ancient ceremonial rites, words, sounds and shapes combine to 
achieve certain ends. Each letter in a word signifies a sound and 
records the expression of a particular sound. Differing sounds were 
written out for their own purposes. Sounds have an impact on us in myriad ways. An eidophone is an 
instrument constructed of a tightly stretched drum surface upon 
which a pasty substance is spread. Sounds and words are then uttered 
below the surface, and different sounds produce different shapes and 
forms in the paste. Some of these are replicas of animals, flowers and 
other creations of nature. When sand is used rather than paste, the 
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sand forms geometric shapes and designs that correspond to the let- 
ters of the alphabet. When the sounds are strident and unpleasant, 
they produce displeasing patterns. Experiments of this nature illus- 
trate the impact that sounds can have on us. The discordant and harassing sounds of machines, such as thud- 
ding, screaming and grating noises bombarding our consciousness, 
make it difficult to be serene and peaceful. Discordant sounds can 
cause internal illness. But sound has healing properties when it is 
harmonious and soothing. Healing takes place to the accompaniment 
of soothing harmonies and nature’s music interspersed with spiritu- 
ally nourishing silence. In addition to healing, sound is used in the creation process, 
which is the central concern of this seventh principle of spiritual 
manifestation. When we use the sounds of nature that are most con- 
sistent with the act of creation, we begin to attract the material form 
that we desire from those much higher frequencies that our senses 
cannot process. Keep in mind that sound is the vibrational frequency between the 
world of solid matter or form as we know it and the higher vibra- 
tional frequencies of the formless world of universal spirit. Learning 
how to use sound is a way of harnessing its power for manifesting 
thought into the world of form. Manifesting is knowing how to make 
contact with that spiritual vibrational frequency while we are living 
inside a body in a materialized world. Sound is the only vibrational frequency that we can utilize and 
change with our senses. All other frequencies are beyond our ability 
to harness and experience to change our vibrational frequency. Pay 
attention to words and sounds because they can attract positive or 
negative influences into your life. Harmonious sounds are the ones 
that most contribute to a balanced and creative life. But before going into the actual use of meditation sounds it is nec- 
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essary to learn how to prepare yourself to use sounds in your daily 
meditation. Manifesting is not done by the mind. You need to gain 
access to a method that will take you beyond the mind to a state of 
consciousness that transcends your thoughts. This higher state of 
consciousness beyond the mind is called siddhi awareness. UNDERSTANDING SIDDHI CONSCIOUSNESS 
Siddhi consciousness is a perfect state of awareness in which there 
is a complete absence of doubt and no delay between the origination 
of a thought and its materialization into the world of form. It is an 
unlimited state of being in which creation occurs instantly, without 
any time lag from thought to form. When we contemplate this state 
of grace, our minds immediately begin to challenge this idea and pro- 
vide us with many reasons as to why it is impossible. Siddhi consciousness, however, has absolutely nothing to do with 
the mind. Let that sink in. Siddhi consciousness is beyond the mind. This state of graceful being has nothing to do with the mind, whose 
nature is a constant inner monologue. The mind frets continually 
about an unlimited number of desires that can never be adequately 
fulfilled. You can give your body great pleasures with booze and sex; 
give it fancy automobiles and delectable gourmet meals; body mas- 
sages and every other imaginable delight. The next morning, when it 
recovers, your mind has a new list of demands taped to your fore- 
head, asking for more and more of what it can never get enough of. This is the nature of the mind, which is ruled by the ego. Your mind, then, is only a barrier to experiencing siddhi conscious- 
ness wherein you are in a state of bliss and complete acceptance and 
your desires are the same as your experience of life. Your mind blocks 
the vision of your highest awareness. Deep within you is the awareness 
of the perfect state, in which your ability to attract to yourself the 
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object of your desires is more immediate and less left to chance than 
when your mind is in charge. With siddhi consciousness you are at 
peace and your inner knowing begins to replace your thoughts. Using sound at the level of siddhi consciousness is like using a differ- 
ent language. Your highest self has its own language. When your body is 
stilled and totally in the present, thoughts disappear. Then you can 
start the exquisite process of meditating with sound. It is the magic of 
this sound meditation that I am going to explain in the seventh princi- 
ple. This is a technique to take you beyond the constraints of the ego 
and the mind, to a place within yourself where you can change your 
vibrational frequency through the use of the sounds of creation. The act of creation itself is a sound. When understood and put to 
use, sound will heighten your awareness of the siddhi consciousness 
within you. THE MAGIC OF THE SOUNDS OF CREATION 
As you begin to incorporate these ideas of the power of sound into 
your consciousness, going beyond the darkness of your mind to the 
light of your highest self, think about these words that open the book 
of John in the New Testament: “In the beginning was the Word, and 
the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” 
The word “God” has the same sound that is in virtually all of the 
names for the original creator. All recorded history of humankind, 
including primitive cultures, Eastern and Western religions and other 
traditions, describes a creator of the word and humankind. Here is a 
list of names used for the creator. Can you identify the sound that is 
consistent in all of these names? Ra Tat 
Krishna Sugmad 
Rama Gaiana 
Buddha Mahanta 
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Waaken Tanka Mahavira 
Ahdonay Anu 
Brahma Khoda 
Siddha Akua 
Ahura Mazda Atva 
Shiva Nanak 
Jehovah Osenbula 
Maheo Yahweh 
Kami Sama God 
Nagual Ato 
Kali Durga Allah 
The obvious sound that is in all of these names for the creator is 
the sound aaah. This sound is the sound of creation, and it is the 
sound of joy. Aaah expresses a feeling of bliss and joy. The sounds of 
creation and joy are synonymous. It is not an accident that the name for the creator in all languages 
contains the sound aaah. The sound aaah is the only sound that 
humans make effortlessly by simply taking in a breath, and without 
moving the lips, tongue, jaw or teeth, letting the sound of aaah flow 
out. If you move any of these, the sound changes. Aaah is the sound 
of effortless perfection, as is creation itself effortless and perfect. This sound of aaah, the sound of creation, is one that you will 
want to use as you practice the language of siddhi consciousness. The 
sound takes you beyond the incessant self-dialogue that characterizes 
your mind. When you repeat the sound of aaah in connection with 
your manifestation meditation practice, you are literally repeating the 
name of God. In Reflection of the Self Swami Muktananda gives these words to his 
devotees who desire to know more about the state of siddhi con- 
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Every bird and plant 
will reveal itself to you as Brahman. The knowledge of Vedanta will manifest everywhere. O dear one, keep chanting God’s name 
while sitting, or standing, 
or involved in the world. Never forget Him. Unite your mind with the Self. He explained that these names for God have specific combina- 
tions of inherently powerful syllables that have the ability to call forth 
the experience of God within us. Ancient sages vocalized the sounds 
vibrating in the different chakras of the body during meditation. Making these sounds acquaints us, perhaps for the first time, with 
the subtle God force within ourselves. Over two thousand years ago, Patanjali set down his highly cele- 
brated yoga sutras, which were designed to guide seekers to the high- 
est state of awareness, known as siddhi consciousness. Patanjali is 
considered, by millions of people who have studied his yoga sutras, 
to be the greatest scientist of the inner world to have ever lived. Patanjali offered this advice to students seeking the power of the 
highest state of consciousness: “Repeat and meditate on Aum.” Aum is 
a symbol for the universal sound of creation. Patanjali explained that 
when the body is left, the mind disappears and what is heard is the 
sound of aum. Repeating this sound causes the disappearance of 
obstacles and an awakening of a new higher consciousness that is the 
creative energy. When we practice we actually become the universal 
sound itself. It is the yoga (the coming together) of the observer and 
the observed. Continually chant God’s name is the advice of the masters of self- 
awareness to those who seek to participate in the act of creating and 
manifesting. The sound of aaah is the sound of God. Repeat it sev- 
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eral times and you will immediately feel the sense of joy and nour- 
ishment that occurs. Make the repetition of the name of God a daily 
meditation practice and you will literally transform yourself into this 
universal sound of creation. You will become one with the sound 
that mediates between the world of form and the highest frequen- 
cies of the spiritual world. The aaah sound meditation will benefit from your developing a 
mental picture of your own creation capacities for manifesting. One 
way to accomplish this is to see yourself as a generator projecting 
energy vibrating with the aaah God sound. Picture the sound emanat- 
ing through chakra openings in your body, connecting with what you 
want to attract or create in your world of form. THE CREATION MEDITATION AND THE TWO MANIFESTING 
CHAKRAS 
Of the total of the seven chakras of the body there are two that 
are significant in learning this manifesting technique. The base 
chakra, or the sex center, is one, and the third eye chakra, or the 
mind chakra, located between the eyebrows, is the other. Imagine a 
channel that exists in your body between the base chakra and your 
third eye. You are going to clear this imaginary passageway between 
these two chakras and feel yourself open the third eye so that you 
can imaginatively project your manifesting energy out of the new 
opening. / 
The base chakra is the center of procreation. The third eye chakra is 
the chakra for the purpose of manifestation. Think of your third eye, 
which is invisible to the naked eye, as the part of you that makes 
extended contact with the physical world. This third eye chakra can vol- 
untarily register or see the vibrations of dimensions beyond the physical 
plane, but only when you can convince yourself of this truth and can 
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unclog this opening. You are attempting to open this third eye through 
the language of your siddhi consciousness, using your rational left brain, 
which maintains that this is nonsense, and impossible as well. Now remembering that the sound of aaah is the sound of joy as 
well as the God sound (“and the Word was God in the beginning”), 
think about the sound that accompanies the process of procreation. The sound of aaah is the most common sound heard in the very act 
of procreation, and more often than not, God’s name is repeated as a 
soul arrives from the world of the unseen into the world of material- 
ized form: “Oh God!” “Oh my God!” “Aaah!” 
Initially this may seem amusing, yet it is valid and incontrovertible 
that these are universal clues to the process of manifestation. The 
energy released through the root or base chakra brings about procre- 
ation. And what has taken place? A release of energy from the base 
chakra received by another base chakra, and a soul connects to form 
from the unseen to the manifested, all accompanied by the sound of 
aaah. There is no doubt about this one. The energy released through 
the third eye chakra is called re-creation, or manifestation. Learning this technique of sound manifesting involves really noth- 
ing more than opening up the channel that exists between these two 
chakras in your body. By repeating the sound aaah in the manner | 
have described at the end of this seventh principle, and feeling that 
energy moving up from the procreation center of your being to the 
third eye, and then ultimately opening that third eye with your own 
etheric energy by using this sound, you put out into the world an 
unconditionally loving energy that will bring about the creation of 
your heart’s desire. With manifesting, you send out a release of 
energy from the “mind chakra,” or third eye, and connect it to that 
which you desire. As Muktananda repeatedly reminded his followers, “Catching a 
glimpse of the beauty of reality is a gift made possible through 
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Shaktipat (divine energy that is transferred directly) and through the 
power of repeating God’s name, whether through chanting, prayer, 
or mantra repetition.” And with steadfast practice, as the great 
teachers tell us, we will be free of everything that keeps us from living 
constantly in the awareness that “all this is God, all this is God.” 
(Darshan Magazine, September 1994, p. 3.) Opening the third eye is an inner exercise of putting your attention 
at the third eye, or mind chakra, and projecting through it, feeling the 
joy that is associated with the sound. You experience it leaving the 
limits of your physical body and embracing that which you want to 
manifest and bringing it back to you. It is tuning into the vibration of 
creation by leaving the constraints of your body/mind and opening up 
the channel between your procreation center and your manifestation 
center. With this passageway cleared of obstacles, you are immersed 
in the grace of soul-nourishing bliss with the daily repetition of the 
aaah meditation. Implement this sound meditation in your morning practice. You 
will be harmonizing with a sound of peace and joy, as well as partici- 
pating in the idea that you and God are one in the universal sense. The sound brings you to that awareness since it is not a word that the 
mind can then take and distort into an ego-dominated blueprint. It is 
a sound that transcends the rational workings of the mind. I have created a cassette tape and a compact disc called Meditations 
for Manifesting, which guides you through this morning meditation 
using my voice to help you stay focused on the sound. In addition, 
this recording guides you through the second meditation, which 
takes place in the evening and also places the emphasis on the third 
eye chakra. However, the emphasis of the evening meditation for 
manifesting is different. Here you put your attention on gratitude for 
all that has manifested into your life. This is also the subject matter of 
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THE SOUND OF THAT WHICH IS MANIFESTED 
There is a second sound that reflects the vibrational frequency of 
manifestations in the physical plane. This sound is om. If you reduced 
anything that you can observe on the physical plane to its ultimate 
sound vibration, you would hear the sound of om. This is the sound 
that women of ancient times meditated to while bringing their babies 
into the world. Whereas aaah is the sound of creation, om is the 
sound of that which is already created. Om expresses gratitude for all 
that has manifested. There is a basic relationship between our level of awareness and 
the vibrations of the universe. Being aware of this makes it possible 
to tune these vibrations to the state of mind that you desire. This is 
why I include the om meditation in the manifestation process. Repeating the om sound in the evening tunes you to a higher state of 
awareness and to gratitude for all that has manifested into your life. You will then be in sync with your immediate surroundings. Repeating this sound as a mantra of gratitude is one of the most 
joyous feelings you will ever experience, causing you to be in har- 
mony with your environment rather than in opposition to it in any 
way. You will feel strongly connected to your life rather than experi- 
encing the ego-based feeling of controlling your environment. Using the om sound is a way of bonding to all that manifests for 
you, in whatever form it shows up. It creates a peaceful space and 
contributes to your identifying with the manifesting principle. You 
feel as if you and God are finally on the same team rather than in a 
boss-employee relationship. Your ability to do this om meditation 
regularly will help you to value what you are manifesting, and to feel 
spiritually connected. The sound of om while meditating is also centered at the third 
eye chakra. Project the energy of thanksgiving from this chakra and 
you will feel an opening at the third eye. Then extend your etheric 
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energy vibrating to the sound of all that is in the physical world 
through the imaginary opening in the area of the third eye. As you 
make this sound and become familiar with it, you will coalesce with 
the joy that is associated with it. You will feel lighter, more 
refreshed and more connected to all that is in your world and all 
that has manifested for you. On the tape and compact disc I have 
included affirmations of gratitude that I repeat while you are medi- 
tating. At this point I hope you are aware of the importance of, and the 
need for, using the om meditation in the evening and the aaah mani- 
festing meditation in the morning. These two sounds, used on a daily 
basis, preferably in the morning and the evening, form the basis for 
your becoming adept at connecting with what you desire, and under- 
standing totally the message of this book, which is that you indeed 
manifest your own desires and destiny. I would not even consider sitting down to write without first sit- 
ting in quiet meditation for twenty to thirty minutes of doing the 
aaah meditation. It is in this space that I gather the energy of creation 
by repeating continuously the aaah sound of joyous creation. Then, 
in the evening, when I have completed my writing for the day, I do 
the meditation of gratitude, employing the om sound, which is the 
sound of all that I have created on my typewriter that day. This simple ritual puts me in a state of grace, and provides me 
with an inner knowing that I am in relationship with the creative 
God force of the universe, and that I am exceedingly grateful for such 
a divine relationship. It is what I call the sacred relationship. Without 
it I would be unable to manifest this or any other book. Once you understand these two sounds, and you know the power 
of these vibrations, you will want to put this awareness into practice. You will find a detailed account of precisely how to do these mani- 
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THE PRACTICE OF MEDITATING FOR MANIFESTING 
Manifesting and meditating cannot be separated. They are like the 
crest and the trough of the wave, separate and distinct from each 
other, but always together. You cannot become adept at manifesting 
the desires of your heart if you are unwilling to devote time to the 
practice of meditation. Meditation is simply the act of being quiet with yourself and shut- 
ting down the constant monologue that fills the inner space of your 
being. It is stopping the constant bombardment of thoughts and the. seemingly endless chatter filling your inner world. That inner noise is 
a shield preventing you from knowing the highest self. Engaging in sound meditation is a useful way of accomplishing 
inner silence and removing the influences of the constant chatter that 
is largely produced by the ego. The attention of the mind is diverted 
from the millions of scattered thoughts and is brought back to the 
awareness of the sound itself. The sound serves as a mantra, keeping 
you centered and silencing the chatter. The best times for meditating using this manifesting technique of 
repetitive sounds are at sunrise and sunset. If you are unaccustomed 
to arising at or before sunrise, make an effort to establish this disci- 
pline for a trial period of ninety days. If this is impossible, then use 
whatever your time of awakening is for the aaah meditation. However, I would encourage you to challenge any preset, condi- 
tioned belief you may have concerning your ability to get up before 
sunrise for the manifesting meditation. Your beliefs about requiring a 
certain number of hours of sleep, or not being able to get out of bed, 
or treasuring sleep more than anything and similar reasons are the 
result of your conditioning and often represent nothing more than 
excuses. What you want to do is to establish yourself as a disciplined per- 
son. Early morning, particularly prior to sunrise, is the best time of 
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day to awaken. The silence allows you to feel close to God. It is the 
time when your mind and heart are the clearest and least distracted. You can feel the energy of healing and solutions in the silence of the 
early morning, particularly between the hours of three and six A.M. 
Use specific acts of personal courage to awaken during these hours, 
knowing that the time spent in a manifesting meditation will provide 
you with far more rest than the remaining hours of your scheduled 
sleep. The sun is a gigantic source of energy for our planet and every- 
thing that grows on it. When the sun first begins to show itself in the 
morning, the energy of the sun breaking out of the darkness is most 
intense. This is the ideal time to begin your manifesting meditation. I 
recommend that you find a comfortable place to sit, without regard 
for a particular posture or position. What makes you feel most 
relaxed and at peace is the perfect posture. If at all possible, it is 
advisable to do this outdoors; however, this is by no means a require- 
ment. Gently place your forefinger and thumb together on each 
hand. Close your eyes and allow yourself approximately twenty min- 
utes for this morning practice. Take in a few long, deep breaths and exhale, becoming aware of 
the pattern of your breathing and the feeling of filling your lungs. Then place your attention on the root or base chakra (the sex center) 
and move your attention up the passageway between your root 
chakra and your third eye chakra. Think of this as a channel that has 
been clogged, and think of the third eye space as an opening that has 
been sealed for a long time that you are going to open with your 
inner etheric energy. Now take a deeper, longer, breath of air, filling 
your lungs, and as you release the breath say out loud the sound of 
aaah with as much emotion and volume as you can manage. Place your attention on clearing the channel with this sound of 
aaah. While you are doing the aaah meditation, add to your mental 
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picture what it is that you would like to be able to create or manifest, 
without being at all attached to how it will surface in your life. (I have 
explained in detail in the eighth principle the importance of not 
making demands on the how.) What you are doing is focusing on the 
feeling that you will have as this desire manifests in the concrete 
world of your life. . While you meditate for approximately twenty minutes in the 
beginning of your day, repeat the sound of aaah as your mantra for 
the entire time. However, only do it out loud and with emotion 
for approximately the first one third of the time. Move your atten- 
tion up and down the inner passageway between the root chakra 
and the third eye chakra using the sound of aaah. Then remain 
focused on the third eye chakra. You are now going to open up the 
third eye. With the inner energy that you are feeling from the sound of cre- 
ation resonating within you, open the third eye in your mental pic- 
ture, and propel the creative force through it into the world of 
form. Imagine its release from your inner being to a point at which 
it circles the world and surrounds the objects of your desire. Trust 
that this energy will connect with the universal energy that is the 
God force and will send the object of your desire into your immedi- 
ate world. This must be done in accordance with all nine of the 
principles of manifesting that are explained in this book, which 
means you have an absence of doubt, complete trust, unconditional 
love and a knowing that this power of attraction is within you and in 
all things. Gradually you will begin to experience an overwhelming sense of 
bliss and peace in the sound of creation. Then you will feel the need 
to lower the volume. For the next approximately one third of the 
morning meditation say the aaah sound softer and _ softer. Stay 
focused on the third eye, which is now open and sending out this 
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creation energy, and the feeling of your desire manifesting. If you feel 
distracted or your attention shifts, return to the third eye and the 
feeling of your manifestation materializing for you., Remember, you 
are not demanding anything, you are not telling God how to do this 
work, you are experiencing in the third eye the strong feeling of 
knowing and the bliss of this sound repeated in a quieter and quieter 
fashion. For the final one third of your morning meditation, repeat the 
sound of aaah to yourself silently as a mantra, and keep your atten- 
tion on the third eye and the glorious feeling of gratitude that you are 
already experiencing for having this manifest, however it will, into 
your life. When you have completed approximately twenty to thirty 
minutes of this manifesting meditation, your morning session will be 
complete. The objects of your desire can be unlimited, and they can run the 
full gamut of human potentiality. Some people have used this medi- 
tation to manifest peace for themselves or those they love, to center 
themselves on a healing, or to bring a relationship into their life. Others have used it for such matters as selling a house, getting a 
promotion, overcoming an addiction, attracting money or whatever. The possibilities are unlimited. I have received hundreds of letters 
from people describing the success they have had with this medita- 
tion when they practice it, using all nine of these principles with 
integrity. If you have read this far into this book, you are demonstrating 
your interest in learning to become a spiritual manifester. If you 
know that the power to manifest is within you, then do this ancient 
practice of repeating the name of God in an almost chantlike ritual 
each and every morning, with your attention on the feeling and the 
third eye. What you are really doing when you do this morning aaah 
meditation is resonating with the words “In the beginning was the 
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word, and the word was God.” The act of manifesting is the begin- 
ning of something being created in your life. The word is God, which 
is to say, the aaah sound is the sound of God. The evening meditation is best practiced at sunset if possible. Once again, as the sun sinks below the horizon there is a coronalike 
expression of energy that is greatest just as the sun leaves the horizon 
and for a few moments immediately after the sun disappears from 
our vision. Now you practice the sound of.om, which is the medita- 
tion of gratitude. I have detailed this principle of gratitude in the 
ninth and final principle explained in this book. Briefly, the practice is identical to the morning meditation, with 
the exception that you are not now asking to manifest anything. Instead, at the end of your daylight, or as you retire, you are simply 
saying thank you to the universal intelligence that we call God for all 
that has manifested in your life. Take in deep breaths just as you did 
_in the morning, clear the channel between your base chakra and 
your third eye chakra, and mentally picture all that you have 
received and project that energy out forcefully through the opening 
of the third eye. You are expelling into the universe beyond your 
immediate body an energy of gratitude, using the affirmations that I 
have included in the ninth principle, and which I say aloud during 
the guided meditation on the cassette and compact disc titled 
Meditations for Manifesting. The sound of om is said aloud for the first third of your medita- 
tion, then gradually more quietly, and ultimately silently, always 
focusing grateful attention on the third eye and feeling that energy 
going back to the universal source of energy that we call God. The 
sound of om is the sound of the material world. It is the sound that 
makes us feel most at home here in the material world since it is the 
essential sound of all experience in this phenomenal world. When 
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The final part of this meditation is the last sound you hear before you 
go to sleep each night. The very first sound you hear in the morning is 
generally one of aaah. It is the sound that you make when you yawn or 
stretch. Be aware of this first sound and be willing to acknowledge it as 
your own vibrational frequency of the new day that you are manifesting. However, the final sound you hear within yourself before going to sleep 
can be a combination of these two sounds of aaah and om. You may recall that I defined enlightenment earlier in this book as 
the ability to be immersed in and surrounded by peace. “Peace” is 
the key word here. It is not an accident that the sounds of aaah and 
om, when combined, translate to the word that means peace or 
enlightenment, Shalom. Shaaah ... looom. The sound of that which 
you wish to manifest, and that which is already manifested, equate to 
peace. By saying these two sounds to yourself as you drift off to sleep, 
you are beginning the act of enlightened siddhi consciousness. You are 
becoming at one with all that is peaceful and all that provides for us. It is also not an accident that the primary sound of spiritual joy is the 
sound of aaah in hallelujah, and it is the sound found in the word that 
ends every prayer, “amen.” 
This concludes the meditation practice of learning to vibrate to the 
sound of creating and creation. It is a part of the ancient wisdom that is 
being practiced and revealed more and more as we move into the spir- 
itual revolution. Give this glorious, peaceful, enlightening manifesta- 
tion meditation practice a three-month trial period in your life, using 
each of the nine principles outlined in this book, and see if you do not 
experience your heart’s desire appearing without your putting any 
demands or rules on the universal God force. The willingness to allow 
it to manifest as it will, permitting creation to reveal itself by and by, is 
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The Eighth Principle 
n the seventh principle, on the use of the sound meditation, I 
emphasized the importance of placing your attention not on the out- 
come and how it will show up in your life, but on the feelings that 
you are experiencing as you picture your desire manifesting. The 
eighth principle of spiritual manifesting has at its heart the experi- 
ence of that feeling. The manner of how and when what is desired 
shows up is something that you must not try to control. During the time I have taught this meditation I have often been 
asked questions like this one: “If I do this meditation as you suggest, 
can I really win the lottery?” My response to this question is, “How 
would you feel if you won the lottery?” The answers are something 
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similar to “I would feel blessed, secure, ecstatic, content.” It is this 
feeling picture that is crucial for one to have in order to activate the 
eighth principle. It is an illusion that you must have some thing like a 
winning lottery ticket in order to feel blessed, secure, ecstatic or 
content. Manifesting is not about making demands of God and the uni- 
verse. Manifesting is a cooperative venture in which your intention is 
aligned with divine intelligence. That intelligence is in all things and 
in you simultaneously. You are not separate from that which you 
would like to manifest. It is you, you are it. There is only one power 
in the universe, and you are connected to that power. Demanding 
that God send your desire according to your timetable and design 
reinforces the incorrect idea of God as a separate energy. Imagining an intelligence in the universe that is devoid of individ- 
ual personality is a way of beginning to understand this eighth princi- 
ple. This unusual and perhaps difficult concept will help to make the 
eighth principle more manageable. INTELLIGENCE APART FROM INDIVIDUALITY 
Most of us believe that the recognition of any other individual 
affirms a point at which our own individuality ceases and the other’s 
begins. This belief is part of our conditioning, and it imposes a great 
deal of limitation on us. Early on we learned that “I am not that 
other because I am myself.” 
If this pattern were ascribed to the universal mind it would 
describe a God that at some point ceased and something else began. The description of universal would not apply because the God energy 
would not include all things. To be universal and to recognize any- 
thing as being outside itself would be to deny its very being. So, the 
nature of universal intelligence is an absence of individual personality. The all-pervading spirit is an impersonal life force that gives rise 
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to all that is manifested. The universal spirit permeates all space and 
all that is manifested and we all are a part of that. You are in an 
impersonal and intensely intelligent ocean of life that is all around, 
under and in everything, including you. Though you have been con- 
ditioned to believe that you are individual, you are actually a part of 
the grand universal nature that is infinite in its possibilities. This undifferentiated intelligence responds to you when you rec- 
ognize it. If you believe that the world runs by chance, or by your 
personal demands, then universal mind will present you with a 
hodgepodge of reactions without any recognizable order. However, 
when you cease believing that you are a separate personality with 
individual intelligence, you begin to have a new clarity. From the perspective of an intelligence that is universal and undif- 
ferentiated, ask yourself what the relationship of this universal mind 
is to you. It cannot have “favorites” if it is the root and support for 
everything and everyone. Lacking individuality, it cannot be in con- 
flict with your desires. Being universal, it cannot be simply shut off 
from you. ; 
All these statements characterize this all-producing mind as 
responsive to you when you understand your relationship to it. This 
universal, all-pervading principle has nature in common with you. When you solve this riddle of the ego, you have a new wisdom 
regarding your ability to apply this eighth principle of manifestation. You cannot exhaust the infinite, so your possession of it means 
that you have the ability to differentiate it as you desire. Your task is 
to bring the universal within your grasp by raising yourself to the level 
of that which is universal rather than bringing the universal down to a 
level of misperceived individuality that is separate from the universal. You need only to recognize it to attract it to yourself rather than ask- 
ing it to recognize you and bring you to it. Having learned a different 
set of principles, all of this may sound a bit confusing. Yet it is cru- 
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cially important for you to know this before moving along on the 
path of manifesting. Recognize the universal as a part of all that you’ are, and that all 
that you are is undifferentiated from all that is. Keep repeating this 
new awareness. Then know that if you fail to recognize the universal 
as undifferentiated, it will present itself to you in exactly that fashion, 
as a mishmash of energy that you cannot grasp, as chaos rather than a 
cosmos, and as a system in which you are separated from all that you 
desire. So, remove any and all demands from your desires, and shift to 
the inner, knowing that you are bringing the universal intelligence 
into your life, and that you will leave the how and when up to that 
intelligence, without judging, demanding or insisting upon your own 
personality’s prerequisites. Your knowing is enough. Then, cultivate 
the power of patient detachment from the outcome. THE POWER OF INFINITE PATIENCE 
This provocative line is from A Course in Miracles: “Those who are 
certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and without anxiety.” This 
is the mainstay of infinite patience. The notion of certainty and 
patience go together. When you trust and know that you are con- 
nected to that universal, all-providing intelligence, then you simply 
allow yourself the virtue of patience. You place no time constraints 
on your manifestation and you go about the affairs of your life with 
an inner awareness that says, “I’ve got all the time that I need, and I 
am certain of the outcome, so I will allow it to show up as it will, in 
due time.” 
The secret to being patient is in the certainty of the outcome. When that certainty is manifested in you in the form of trust and a 
knowing, you can then turn your thoughts away from the desired 
outcome. Without anger or anxiety, you are able to turn your atten- 
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tion to whatever it is that occupies your daily life schedule. Your knowing and your infinite patience put you at ease. You have 
practiced all of the principles of spiritual manifestation, and then you 
have allowed the universe to handle the details. Your inner sense is 
that what you want to manifest is already here, and your inner atten- 
tion is on the feeling of well-being that you are already blessed with 
what it is you seek. Consequently, there is no pressure for you to 
make it show up immediately. This inner bliss is a function of the power of your infinite patience. Later on in A Course in Miracles we are reminded that “Patience is nat- 
ural to the teacher of God. All he sees is certain outcome, at a time 
perhaps unknown to him as yet, but not in doubt.” I love this idea of 
having a certainty about the outcome and being unconcerned about 
the details. When we become impatient, we literally devalue ourselves and 
our connection to the divine Holy Spirit. Impatience is a failure to 
trust in the universal intelligence, and it implies that we are separate 
from the all-providing spirit. Impatience implies that our ego is the 
boss of desire. This form of self-importance needs to be addressed. When you are certain about the outcome, and unconcerned with 
the how and when, you have cultivated the power of infinite 
patience, and simultaneously you have detached yourself from the 
outcome. When this detachment takes place, you are able to go 
about your daily business of raising your children, doing your work 
or training, meditating and communing with God and just patiently 
observing. Patience is natural when you trust in the oneness of the 
universal intelligence. One of the ways to develop patience is to contemplate how patient 
God has been with you. When you were in times of denial, or self- 
abuse, or self-absorption, or hatred, God was infinitely patient. God 
does not scold or punish you when you are off the sacred path, nor 
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does God desert you. This is the same kind of patience that you want 
to develop. Infinite patience is a sign of trust, and it calls upon infinite love to 
produce results in your life. When you let go of impatience, you are 
aligned with the God force, and all of the anxiety that tells you what 
is lacking and missing in your life is gone. Anxiety produces fear and 
self-pity and attaches you to time. When fear-based impatience takes 
over, you lose your infinite self and become once again subject to the 
ego, which has no patience with anything about infinitude. The ego wants what it wants, and it wants it now. If it is not satis- 
fied, it will convince you of what a rotten place this is and how you 
cannot trust anything but your differentiated self, even though that 
self has produced the feelings of lack all along. If you do satisfy the 
ego, a new list of demands will appear the next day. The anxiety level 
will increase as you complete these new demands. This continues as 
long as the ego is in charge of your life. But when you recognize the connection between your infinite self 
and the God force, you will know that God has been patient with you 
no matter how long it took you to come around, regardless of how 
far you may have wandered and no matter how much you may have 
refused to listen. Infinite patience produces almost immediate results in your life. You become free when you relax your insistence to have it now, and 
you increase your awareness that you actually do have it now, already, 
even though it may not have shown up as you would like it in your 
immediate surroundings. As an infinitely patient person you know 
that you are already where you want to be, that there are no acci- 
dents and that all that appears to be missing is nothing more than an 
illusion perpetrated by your ego. With this awareness, impatience leaves, and you stop looking for 
results of your manifestation meditation. You turn your thoughts to 
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the affairs of your life, knowing that you are not alone. Your patience 
allows you to remain in silent appreciation for all that is manifested 
in your life. This practice of patient detachment from outcome is a 
foreign concept to those of us who have been taught that goals, suc- 
cess symbols and the accumulation of merit badges are the ways to 
feel important and fit into our culture. You have achieved peace with 
your infinite patience, and peace is what enlightenment is all about. What follows is a guide for living with: the seeming paradox of 
attempting to manifest something into your life, and at the same time 
not being attached to when and how it shows up. A STEP-BY-STEP PLAN FOR PUTTING PATIENT DETACHMENT 
INTO YOUR MANIFESTATION PRACTICE 
Understand the essence of what you desire. What you desire is not 
necessarily in the realm of things. If you want to manifest money, for 
example, notice if your attention is centered on the dollars or on 
the experience and feeling of financial security. Ask yourself what 
you want this money. for. Put your attention on the joyous experi- 
ences that you associate with what you are desiring rather than 
focusing on a new automobile or a new boss or a different partner. The experience is the essence of your desire. The essence is always located where you experience your feel- 
ings. By putting your attention on the inner feelings, you shift from 
being gratified by externals to the experience of gratification. The 
essence of your desire is a feeling of well-being and joy and an align- 
ment with the universal spirit. Then you will see many things show- 
ing up in your life that will lead you to the inner-directed path. They may have nothing to do with what you originally thought you 
wanted or needed. You may feel that you truly want to manifest more income and a 
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promotion, but if you find the essence of this desire, it may revolve 
around more security and a sense of well-being. Detach yourself 
from the in-the-world promotion and increase in pay: Instead, put 
your manifesting energy around the very essence of your wanting to 
feel more secure and less stressed. You will probably begin to see 
things arriving in your life and reducing your anxiety. Again, they 
may seem to have very little to do with what you originally thought 
you wanted. Banish the doubt and enter into the realm of certainty. Remove all 
doubts concerning your ability to manifest the essence of your 
desires. Review what you have read up until this point and remind 
yourself, whenever any doubt creeps in, that you and the universal 
intelligence are one and the same, and that this universal intelli- 
gence is in all things.
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        Destiny is not pre- 
ordained. Destiny is ordained totally by you. Every single moment of 
your NOW existence is the result of your previous thought. The idea 
that everything is already laid out for you in advance is a hallucina- 
tion. You can and do manifest your own destiny. Your free will is your gift of unconditional love. You create your 
destiny with this free will, and when you venture off the path of 
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unconditional love, you are simply living an illusion. The illusion is 
that the thoughts that you have of your separateness from God’s will 
put you into an obsequious position, that God is something you must 
fight or fear. Obviously, if this were true, God could not at the same 
time be all loving. Once this illusion takes hold, you become a victim of life rather 
than a co-creator within it. You lose your ability to extend the uncon- 
ditional love that is your beingness, and instead project your condi- 
tioned ego. In other words, you give up your power to be at one with 
the God force that created you, and you lose your power to manifest 
or co-create the life that you desire. Life is in conflict with your 
higher power. You begin to fear this higher power and act in servile ways toward 
it. You become disenchanted with your own ability to attract anything 
positive and you feel weak and powerless. You have lost the joy and 
ecstasy that is the accompaniment to a life of unconditional love. KNOWING THE JOY OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. The most important thing that you will gain from cultivating 
unconditional love will be freedom from hate and violence. When 
these thoughts are removed, you discover the presence of joy and 
peace. This is an automatic reaction to unconditional love, because 
you are in harmony with the creative source. One of the lessons that you will be unlearning as you gain access to 
unconditional love is the mistaken belief that joy is of the ego and 
misery is of the spirit. The truth lies in reversing this supposition and 
getting to the source of spiritual joy. Simplistically stated, experienc- 
ing joy, from the point of view of the ego, is always getting what we 
want, and being spiritual is associated with meditating, being gener- 
ous, extending kindness to others. The path to true joy and bliss in 
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Saying to yourself that the ego is an illusion provides you with a. powerful tool for manifesting. The ego identifies you as primarily a 
physical body, separate from God, and in need of constant stroking to 
massage your self-importance. When you simply say this is an illusion 
and it doesn’t really exist, those ideas are replaced with uncondi- 
tional love, and the joy that you experience is really the denial of the 
false and an affirmation of the truth of your being. You are absolutely free when you are not consumed with your self- 
importance. You are free when you no longer need to be stroked, 
coddled and approved of by everyone you meet. You are free when 
you are no longer offended by the actions of others. Freedom allows 
you to extend your inner self to the outer world, and that is love. There is a great sense of joy in feeling free. Think of times when 
you have felt the freest in your life. When the pressures to perform 
are off. When you are walking in nature. When no one is badgering 
you to meet deadlines. When you are in solitude and communing 
with God. If you have made the connection to your inner life, these 
are the most joyful times. When you are experiencing this kind of 
joyful freedom, you feel inspired, and, of course, this means that you 
are “in spirit. ” 
The most creative times of my own life are when I allow myself to 
be free. This freedom produces a great joy within me that manifests 
as new ideas to expand my work and be more purposeful, to be a 
better writer, teacher, father and husband, to share this love that I 
feel with all who care to know about it. Joy, freedom and unconditional love are inseparable; they flow 
from the experience of each other. To be joyful is to hold onto noth- 
ing and to have no restrictions. This is also the feeling of freedom, 
and it is a result of embracing the unconditional love of the divine 
energy that is the center of your being. Authentic joy is not merely the pleasure of the moment. These ego 
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pleasures are fleeting and transient. They demand more, just like a 
drug, in an attempt to be fulfilled. But fulfillment is mostly an illu- 
sion with fleeting pleasures. All of the pleasures of the body are not 
evil, they are simply temporary. This is not to say that one ought not to enjoy a massage, a deli- 
cious meal, lovemaking and all of the pleasures of the body. But, that 
one should know that true joy is not in the bodily pleasure. It is in 
the mind, which is processing and allowing you to experience the 
pleasure; the body is simply neutral, as are all things. It is the mind 
that makes it real, not the reverse. The body cannot make us real any more than it can heal the mind. Nor does the body, in and of itself, give us joy. It is in the mind that 
the healing of the body originates, and it is in the mind where joy 
also originates. Your purpose is to align your mind with the uncondi- 
tional love that is the divine source of all material things, including 
your body. That source is love. With that alignment comes joy and 
power. When one drop of water separates from the ocean it becomes a 
speck that is, essentially, powerless and weak and unable to sustain 
itself. But, when it aligns with its source, the ocean itself, it is power- 
ful beyond what is possible as an individual drop of ocean. So it is 
with you. Alone, separated from your divine source, you are a skin- 
encapsulated ego living the illusion that you are important and pow- 
erful. But, realigned, you know the joy that comes from this partner- 
ship. And what you are aligning with is pure, unconditional love and 
acceptance of all that is. You abandon your fear of anything. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AS AN ABSENCE OF FEAR 
All fears stem from the idea that we are alone and separated from 
the one divine source that we give many names to, including God or 
Holy Spirit. When you adopt a stance of unconditional love, you 
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automatically abandon fear. In the absence of fear and in the pres- 
ence of unconditional love you find the solution to the mystery of 
manifestation. Once you truly know that you are ‘not separate or 
alone, fear is replaced by unconditional love and you have gained 
access to the Holy Spirit. The ego is where fears originate, with constant messages that you 
are incomplete and need more, that you need to win to be better in 
comparison to others. With its unceasing pressure, the ego keeps you 
in a constant state of turmoil and anxiety. Here is where all fears are 
birthed and nurtured within you. To accept unconditional love as your premise for living, you will 
have to tell the ego that there is no need to prove anything and that 
all you want or hope for is already here. The ego, moreover, needs to 
be taught that you are connected to a creative source that is far more 
powerful than the ego. You are able to detach from how it has to show up, and you can 
send out the energy of unconditional love with your thoughts wher- 
ever you go, trusting that it is all in order. No demands, no pressure. A simple knowing accompanied by an unconditionally loving atti- 
tude. With this kind of declaration, fear is removed from your life 
and is replaced with love. Remember the biblical quote, “Perfect love 
casteth out all fear. ” 
Fear and love are unable to reside simultaneously within you. If 
you are afraid, you have cast out love. If you are experiencing perfect 
love, which is within your free will, then you have cast out fear. This principle of unconditional love as a prerequisite to manifest- 
ing your own destiny is a tough one to put into practice full-time. Yet 
you can begin this process by working on it one step at a time, begin- 
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SOME WAYS OF PUTTING UNCONDITIONAL LOVE INTO 
PRACTICE go 
Keep uppermost in mind that love transforms. Every single act of 
love releases blocked energy in your body. Unconditional love heals 
the body and the mind. Keep reminding yourself of this truth until 
it becomes your reality. Love is a frequency that you can choose to 
tune into, just as you tune into a frequency on the radio. The polarity of love is fear. Fear is a current of energy that literally 
runs through your body and is produced when you feel cut off from 
the source of unconditional love. Every time you experience fear, 
ask yourself, “What is going on that I have substituted fear for love 
in this moment. ” This kind of self-talk will bring you back to an 
awareness that fear is running through you because you have lost 
your alignment with love. In this moment of insight, send the fear energy out of your body 
by embracing unconditional love. In those moments of fear, your 
anxiety about failing, not receiving approval, your appearance, your 
grades or whatever can be traced to the absence of unconditional 
love. Go to your source when you are experiencing fear and you will 
find fears dissipating almost instantly, 
Remember that love is experienced in your thoughts and in your 
acts of oneness. The more you consider yourself connected to the 
divine source, the more you will act in loving ways to all others. Acquire a private, nonpublicized and regular habit of meditating. With every breath you take, feel yourself taking in unconditional 
love. With every exhalation, expel thoughts of fear. This personal 
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When you go outside for a walk, use your breath to bring in the 
essence of love and feel it flowing throughout your body. Simply use 
your breath as a means of inhaling love from the divine source, and 
exhaling fear in the next breath. You will feel yourself relaxing and 
knowing more joy and freedom. Pick one day to practice this exercise with a partner of your choice. Make a decision to think, act and radiate nothing but unconditional 
love for the entire twenty-four-hour period, including your dreams. Every moment of this mutually agreed upon day will be infused 
with only love. This means that the moment a moralizing or judgmental thought 
enters, you immediately shift it out of your inner field and replace it 
with one of unconditional love. If this works for you for one day, see 
if you can extend it for another day or two. The longer you can stay 
with this exercise, the more dramatic the changes. You will begin to notice synchronistic events showing up and you 
will feel as if God is taking special care of you. You will notice an 
increase in energy; an interesting shift in your dreams as they 
become more intense and spiritual; you will observe yourself 
attracting things that previously seemed to stay away; you will most 
assuredly note an increase in joy, bliss and a growth in your relation- 
ships as well. Make a decision to turn over your most difficult challenges in the 
area of unconditional love to God. Simply turn them over with a 
request such as, “I have been unable to bring love into my life in 
these areas, and I am asking for your divine guidance in accomplish- 
ing this. I still think angry and hateful thoughts toward these peo- 
ple, and I am asking you to show me the way to unconditional 
love. ” 
By acknowledging that you feel powerless, you admit that your 
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conditioning and life experiences have not given you the tools to 
radiate love in these places. But you are also acknowledging that you 
know there is a higher energy and you ask that higher force to guide 
you. By turning it over, you place your complete trust in the God 
force and admit that you cannot break the ego’s stronghold. In your silent moments of prayer do not be afraid to ask for help. If 
you want to remove fear and hatred in the spirit of wanting peace, 
help will be forthcoming. Place no restrictions on how that help is 
to show up in your life. Simply ask honestly, and when it does show 
up, give thanks. Know the connection between manifesting your heart’s desire and 
unconditional love. Unconditional love is the energy of the uni- 
verse, it is what God is, and, therefore, what you are as well. Without your connection to this love, you lose your connection to 
the creative processes. You cannot attract to yourself that which you are already con- 
nected to if you have short-circuited the connection. The presence 
of unconditional love is in all things that you wish to attract as well 
as in you. Keep it honestly, and you keep your ability to “know that 
ye are a god. ” Lose it, and you lose your godliness. It is that simple. Remind yourself of this when you ask why your desires aren’t 
showing up in your life. The answer will invariably have something 
to do with an absence of unconditional love someplace in your 
inner world. You do not need to fool yourself with unconditional love. If you do 
not love the personality of another, be open and honest about it, but 
you can still love the essence, the truth of everyone on this planet 
and beyond. See the unfolding in everyone, even if their behavior 
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conflicts with what you know to be divine and holy. Know that their 
egos have gotten a stranglehold on them and twisted their divine 
essence right out of their behavior, but still send love to the essence 
that is behind that action. The more you are able to see past the personality and the indi- 
vidual behavior, the more you will be a beacon of light for the entire 
planet. It is through a change in consciousness that our world is 
going to be transformed, and that new consciousness is one in 
which love is going to triumph over the passions of the ego. Send 
love out past the appearance with which you are in disagreement 
and it may shift right before your eyes. Make your word law. Keep this harmony within yourself and you 
will experience love in virtually ail settings. If you say it, live up to it 
lovingly. This gives you a sense of inner balance that is missing in 
those who live with self-repudiation and guilt. The more you prac- 
tice “My word is law. I must keep it,” the more balanced your life 
becomes. The universe runs on balance, and the energy that keeps it in bal- 
ance is love. By declaring yourself as a person who keeps his word, 
you align yourself with the loving essence of the world. I have witnessed unconditional love in action in the story of Kaye 
O’Bara, who has been caring for her comatose daughter for twenty- 
seven years. On an hourly basis—I (along with my wife Marcelene) told 
her story in a short inspirational book titled A Promise Is a Promise and I 
urge you to familiarize youself with this truly astonishing saga of uncon- 
ditional love in action—you will feel the inspiration as you read this 
remarkable story and you will know that you will be helping them out as 
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This concludes the sixth principle for manifesting. Unconditional 
love is the cornerstone of your mental picturing. You refuse to allow 
any contrary, ego-driven thought to enter the inner kingdom of love. If you activate this principle you will have revealed a truth that 
eludes most people. It is with unconditional love that you find your 
true connection to the divine energy that is in all things. It is a choice 
you can make. You were given the choice to express your free will. It 
is your gift from God. When you express love, you align with that same love that was 
granted to you with the gift of your free will. When you express 
anger, hatred, envy and violence, you have allied yourself with the 
ego, and have prevented yourself from truly being a co-creator of 
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The Seventh Principle 
his seventh principle of manifesting will challenge your con- 
ditioning more than any of the other eight principles. However, while 
it contradicts your beliefs about how you fit into the universe, it also 
expands your ability to create and attract the objects of your heart’s 
desire. This principle describes a very practical application of mani- 
festing at the same time that it invites you to open up to a new idea 
and a very different practice each day. I can assure you that there is much to learn and gain from this 
practice of sound meditation. I have been using it with wondrous 
results. Others who have done this meditation on a regular basis have 
experienced dramatic shifts in their lives, and have been able to man- 
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As you begin opening yourself to this soul-nourishing practice of 
chanting to the sounds of creation, spend some time carefully reread- 
ing the other eight principles. When you begin to practice these two 
daily manifestation meditations, you need to trust in your highest self 
and meditate with unconditional love. Reviewing the other eight prin- 
ciples will help to make trust and love available. I carefully studied a great deal of spiritual literature before writ- 
ing this seventh principle. Using sounds to change the vibrations of 
our frequency is a spiritual practice that has remained obscure over 
the centuries. Many of the ancient masters kept these secrets of 
manifesting hidden because of the fear of misuse. In this time of 
spiritual revolution, individual and collective receptivity is causing 
these spiritual practices to reappear and reveal their value to us. Meditating with sound can work dramatically in your personal life 
and can also facilitate a new awareness of our collective abilities to 
manifest a world free of the demands and petty issues of the ego. I feel blessed to have a spiritual teacher, Shri Guruji, make these 
meditations available to me to teach to others who are open to these 
ideas. I have written about them as I have come to know them, and 
I present this seventh principle knowing that many of my readers 
will find it contradictory to their conditioned life experiences. Nevertheless, I know it to be valid and I encourage you to open your 
mind to your unique capacity to become a manifester for yourself, 
and more particularly, for the entire planet’s evolutionary spiraling 
upward out of the grip of the ego, which emphasizes separating our- 
selves from the very force of creation. This seventh principle is about using sound as a tool for opening 
to the potential and power of your creative force. Sounds have the 
power to generate your ability to attract to yourself that which you 
desire. Three key words describing this principle are the title of the 
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SOUNDS HAVE POWER 
Sounds are a powerful energy. Every sound is a vibration made of 
waves oscillating at a particular frequency. The frequency range of the 
human ear is approximately sixteen thousand vibrations, up to 
roughly forty thousand vibrations, per second. Higher up on the 
scale, with increasingly faster vibrations, is electricity, at about one 
thousand million vibrations per second. At two hundred billion 
vibrations per second we find heat. Light and color are at five hun- 
dred billion vibrations per second, and an X ray manifests at two tril- 
lion vibrations per second. It is theorized that thoughts and the 
unknown etheric and spiritual dimensions are in the realm of 
increased vibrations beyond anything that is calculable at this point in 
time. Vibrational frequencies are very clearly the very nature of our 
material universe. Sound as we hear it is low on the scale, just above forms, or solids, 
in its speed of frequency. Sound is the intermediary between the 
abstract idea and the concrete form of the material world. Sounds 
literally mold the abstract world of thought and spirit into shapes. “Let there be light, and there was light” is the biblical description of 
creation. Or in other words “Let the vibrations of light emanate from 
my command. ” 
In ancient ceremonial rites, words, sounds and shapes combine to 
achieve certain ends. Each letter in a word signifies a sound and 
records the expression of a particular sound. Differing sounds were 
written out for their own purposes. Sounds have an impact on us in myriad ways. An eidophone is an 
instrument constructed of a tightly stretched drum surface upon 
which a pasty substance is spread. Sounds and words are then uttered 
below the surface, and different sounds produce different shapes and 
forms in the paste. Some of these are replicas of animals, flowers and 
other creations of nature. When sand is used rather than paste, the 
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sand forms geometric shapes and designs that correspond to the let- 
ters of the alphabet. When the sounds are strident and unpleasant, 
they produce displeasing patterns. Experiments of this nature illus- 
trate the impact that sounds can have on us. The discordant and harassing sounds of machines, such as thud- 
ding, screaming and grating noises bombarding our consciousness, 
make it difficult to be serene and peaceful. Discordant sounds can 
cause internal illness. But sound has healing properties when it is 
harmonious and soothing. Healing takes place to the accompaniment 
of soothing harmonies and nature’s music interspersed with spiritu- 
ally nourishing silence. In addition to healing, sound is used in the creation process, 
which is the central concern of this seventh principle of spiritual 
manifestation. When we use the sounds of nature that are most con- 
sistent with the act of creation, we begin to attract the material form 
that we desire from those much higher frequencies that our senses 
cannot process. Keep in mind that sound is the vibrational frequency between the 
world of solid matter or form as we know it and the higher vibra- 
tional frequencies of the formless world of universal spirit. Learning 
how to use sound is a way of harnessing its power for manifesting 
thought into the world of form. Manifesting is knowing how to make 
contact with that spiritual vibrational frequency while we are living 
inside a body in a materialized world. Sound is the only vibrational frequency that we can utilize and 
change with our senses. All other frequencies are beyond our ability 
to harness and experience to change our vibrational frequency. Pay 
attention to words and sounds because they can attract positive or 
negative influences into your life. Harmonious sounds are the ones 
that most contribute to a balanced and creative life. But before going into the actual use of meditation sounds it is nec- 
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essary to learn how to prepare yourself to use sounds in your daily 
meditation. Manifesting is not done by the mind. You need to gain 
access to a method that will take you beyond the mind to a state of 
consciousness that transcends your thoughts. This higher state of 
consciousness beyond the mind is called siddhi awareness. UNDERSTANDING SIDDHI CONSCIOUSNESS 
Siddhi consciousness is a perfect state of awareness in which there 
is a complete absence of doubt and no delay between the origination 
of a thought and its materialization into the world of form. It is an 
unlimited state of being in which creation occurs instantly, without 
any time lag from thought to form. When we contemplate this state 
of grace, our minds immediately begin to challenge this idea and pro- 
vide us with many reasons as to why it is impossible. Siddhi consciousness, however, has absolutely nothing to do with 
the mind. Let that sink in. Siddhi consciousness is beyond the mind. This state of graceful being has nothing to do with the mind, whose 
nature is a constant inner monologue. The mind frets continually 
about an unlimited number of desires that can never be adequately 
fulfilled. You can give your body great pleasures with booze and sex; 
give it fancy automobiles and delectable gourmet meals; body mas- 
sages and every other imaginable delight. The next morning, when it 
recovers, your mind has a new list of demands taped to your fore- 
head, asking for more and more of what it can never get enough of. This is the nature of the mind, which is ruled by the ego. Your mind, then, is only a barrier to experiencing siddhi conscious- 
ness wherein you are in a state of bliss and complete acceptance and 
your desires are the same as your experience of life. Your mind blocks 
the vision of your highest awareness. Deep within you is the awareness 
of the perfect state, in which your ability to attract to yourself the 
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object of your desires is more immediate and less left to chance than 
when your mind is in charge. With siddhi consciousness you are at 
peace and your inner knowing begins to replace your thoughts. Using sound at the level of siddhi consciousness is like using a differ- 
ent language. Your highest self has its own language. When your body is 
stilled and totally in the present, thoughts disappear. Then you can 
start the exquisite process of meditating with sound. It is the magic of 
this sound meditation that I am going to explain in the seventh princi- 
ple. This is a technique to take you beyond the constraints of the ego 
and the mind, to a place within yourself where you can change your 
vibrational frequency through the use of the sounds of creation. The act of creation itself is a sound. When understood and put to 
use, sound will heighten your awareness of the siddhi consciousness 
within you. THE MAGIC OF THE SOUNDS OF CREATION 
As you begin to incorporate these ideas of the power of sound into 
your consciousness, going beyond the darkness of your mind to the 
light of your highest self, think about these words that open the book 
of John in the New Testament: “In the beginning was the Word, and 
the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ” 
The word “God” has the same sound that is in virtually all of the 
names for the original creator. All recorded history of humankind, 
including primitive cultures, Eastern and Western religions and other 
traditions, describes a creator of the word and humankind. Here is a 
list of names used for the creator. Can you identify the sound that is 
consistent in all of these names. Ra Tat 
Krishna Sugmad 
Rama Gaiana 
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Waaken Tanka Mahavira 
Ahdonay Anu 
Brahma Khoda 
Siddha Akua 
Ahura Mazda Atva 
Shiva Nanak 
Jehovah Osenbula 
Maheo Yahweh 
Kami Sama God 
Nagual Ato 
Kali Durga Allah 
The obvious sound that is in all of these names for the creator is 
the sound aaah. This sound is the sound of creation, and it is the 
sound of joy. Aaah expresses a feeling of bliss and joy. The sounds of 
creation and joy are synonymous. It is not an accident that the name for the creator in all languages 
contains the sound aaah. The sound aaah is the only sound that 
humans make effortlessly by simply taking in a breath, and without 
moving the lips, tongue, jaw or teeth, letting the sound of aaah flow 
out. If you move any of these, the sound changes. Aaah is the sound 
of effortless perfection, as is creation itself effortless and perfect. This sound of aaah, the sound of creation, is one that you will 
want to use as you practice the language of siddhi consciousness. The 
sound takes you beyond the incessant self-dialogue that characterizes 
your mind. When you repeat the sound of aaah in connection with 
your manifestation meditation practice, you are literally repeating the 
name of God. In Reflection of the Self Swami Muktananda gives these words to his 
devotees who desire to know more about the state of siddhi con- 
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Every bird and plant 
will reveal itself to you as Brahman. The knowledge of Vedanta will manifest everywhere. O dear one, keep chanting God’s name 
while sitting, or standing, 
or involved in the world. Never forget Him. Unite your mind with the Self. He explained that these names for God have specific combina- 
tions of inherently powerful syllables that have the ability to call forth 
the experience of God within us. Ancient sages vocalized the sounds 
vibrating in the different chakras of the body during meditation. Making these sounds acquaints us, perhaps for the first time, with 
the subtle God force within ourselves. Over two thousand years ago, Patanjali set down his highly cele- 
brated yoga sutras, which were designed to guide seekers to the high- 
est state of awareness, known as siddhi consciousness. Patanjali is 
considered, by millions of people who have studied his yoga sutras, 
to be the greatest scientist of the inner world to have ever lived. Patanjali offered this advice to students seeking the power of the 
highest state of consciousness: “Repeat and meditate on Aum. ” Aum is 
a symbol for the universal sound of creation. Patanjali explained that 
when the body is left, the mind disappears and what is heard is the 
sound of aum. Repeating this sound causes the disappearance of 
obstacles and an awakening of a new higher consciousness that is the 
creative energy. When we practice we actually become the universal 
sound itself. It is the yoga (the coming together) of the observer and 
the observed. Continually chant God’s name is the advice of the masters of self- 
awareness to those who seek to participate in the act of creating and 
manifesting. The sound of aaah is the sound of God. Repeat it sev- 
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eral times and you will immediately feel the sense of joy and nour- 
ishment that occurs. Make the repetition of the name of God a daily 
meditation practice and you will literally transform yourself into this 
universal sound of creation. You will become one with the sound 
that mediates between the world of form and the highest frequen- 
cies of the spiritual world. The aaah sound meditation will benefit from your developing a 
mental picture of your own creation capacities for manifesting. One 
way to accomplish this is to see yourself as a generator projecting 
energy vibrating with the aaah God sound. Picture the sound emanat- 
ing through chakra openings in your body, connecting with what you 
want to attract or create in your world of form. THE CREATION MEDITATION AND THE TWO MANIFESTING 
CHAKRAS 
Of the total of the seven chakras of the body there are two that 
are significant in learning this manifesting technique. The base 
chakra, or the sex center, is one, and the third eye chakra, or the 
mind chakra, located between the eyebrows, is the other. Imagine a 
channel that exists in your body between the base chakra and your 
third eye. You are going to clear this imaginary passageway between 
these two chakras and feel yourself open the third eye so that you 
can imaginatively project your manifesting energy out of the new 
opening. / 
The base chakra is the center of procreation. The third eye chakra is 
the chakra for the purpose of manifestation. Think of your third eye, 
which is invisible to the naked eye, as the part of you that makes 
extended contact with the physical world. This third eye chakra can vol- 
untarily register or see the vibrations of dimensions beyond the physical 
plane, but only when you can convince yourself of this truth and can 
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unclog this opening. You are attempting to open this third eye through 
the language of your siddhi consciousness, using your rational left brain, 
which maintains that this is nonsense, and impossible as well. Now remembering that the sound of aaah is the sound of joy as 
well as the God sound (“and the Word was God in the beginning”), 
think about the sound that accompanies the process of procreation. The sound of aaah is the most common sound heard in the very act 
of procreation, and more often than not, God’s name is repeated as a 
soul arrives from the world of the unseen into the world of material- 
ized form: “Oh God. ” “Oh my God. ” “Aaah. ” 
Initially this may seem amusing, yet it is valid and incontrovertible 
that these are universal clues to the process of manifestation. The 
energy released through the root or base chakra brings about procre- 
ation. And what has taken place. A release of energy from the base 
chakra received by another base chakra, and a soul connects to form 
from the unseen to the manifested, all accompanied by the sound of 
aaah. There is no doubt about this one. The energy released through 
the third eye chakra is called re-creation, or manifestation. Learning this technique of sound manifesting involves really noth- 
ing more than opening up the channel that exists between these two 
chakras in your body. By repeating the sound aaah in the manner | 
have described at the end of this seventh principle, and feeling that 
energy moving up from the procreation center of your being to the 
third eye, and then ultimately opening that third eye with your own 
etheric energy by using this sound, you put out into the world an 
unconditionally loving energy that will bring about the creation of 
your heart’s desire. With manifesting, you send out a release of 
energy from the “mind chakra,” or third eye, and connect it to that 
which you desire. As Muktananda repeatedly reminded his followers, “Catching a 
glimpse of the beauty of reality is a gift made possible through 
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Shaktipat (divine energy that is transferred directly) and through the 
power of repeating God’s name, whether through chanting, prayer, 
or mantra repetition. ” And with steadfast practice, as the great 
teachers tell us, we will be free of everything that keeps us from living 
constantly in the awareness that “all this is God, all this is God. ” 
(Darshan Magazine, September 1994, p. 3. ) Opening the third eye is an inner exercise of putting your attention 
at the third eye, or mind chakra, and projecting through it, feeling the 
joy that is associated with the sound. You experience it leaving the 
limits of your physical body and embracing that which you want to 
manifest and bringing it back to you. It is tuning into the vibration of 
creation by leaving the constraints of your body/mind and opening up 
the channel between your procreation center and your manifestation 
center. With this passageway cleared of obstacles, you are immersed 
in the grace of soul-nourishing bliss with the daily repetition of the 
aaah meditation. Implement this sound meditation in your morning practice. You 
will be harmonizing with a sound of peace and joy, as well as partici- 
pating in the idea that you and God are one in the universal sense. The sound brings you to that awareness since it is not a word that the 
mind can then take and distort into an ego-dominated blueprint. It is 
a sound that transcends the rational workings of the mind. I have created a cassette tape and a compact disc called Meditations 
for Manifesting, which guides you through this morning meditation 
using my voice to help you stay focused on the sound. In addition, 
this recording guides you through the second meditation, which 
takes place in the evening and also places the emphasis on the third 
eye chakra. However, the emphasis of the evening meditation for 
manifesting is different. Here you put your attention on gratitude for 
all that has manifested into your life. This is also the subject matter of 
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THE SOUND OF THAT WHICH IS MANIFESTED 
There is a second sound that reflects the vibrational frequency of 
manifestations in the physical plane. This sound is om. If you reduced 
anything that you can observe on the physical plane to its ultimate 
sound vibration, you would hear the sound of om. This is the sound 
that women of ancient times meditated to while bringing their babies 
into the world. Whereas aaah is the sound of creation, om is the 
sound of that which is already created. Om expresses gratitude for all 
that has manifested. There is a basic relationship between our level of awareness and 
the vibrations of the universe. Being aware of this makes it possible 
to tune these vibrations to the state of mind that you desire. This is 
why I include the om meditation in the manifestation process. Repeating the om sound in the evening tunes you to a higher state of 
awareness and to gratitude for all that has manifested into your life. You will then be in sync with your immediate surroundings. Repeating this sound as a mantra of gratitude is one of the most 
joyous feelings you will ever experience, causing you to be in har- 
mony with your environment rather than in opposition to it in any 
way. You will feel strongly connected to your life rather than experi- 
encing the ego-based feeling of controlling your environment. Using the om sound is a way of bonding to all that manifests for 
you, in whatever form it shows up. It creates a peaceful space and 
contributes to your identifying with the manifesting principle. You 
feel as if you and God are finally on the same team rather than in a 
boss-employee relationship. Your ability to do this om meditation 
regularly will help you to value what you are manifesting, and to feel 
spiritually connected. The sound of om while meditating is also centered at the third 
eye chakra. Project the energy of thanksgiving from this chakra and 
you will feel an opening at the third eye. Then extend your etheric 
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energy vibrating to the sound of all that is in the physical world 
through the imaginary opening in the area of the third eye. As you 
make this sound and become familiar with it, you will coalesce with 
the joy that is associated with it. You will feel lighter, more 
refreshed and more connected to all that is in your world and all 
that has manifested for you. On the tape and compact disc I have 
included affirmations of gratitude that I repeat while you are medi- 
tating. At this point I hope you are aware of the importance of, and the 
need for, using the om meditation in the evening and the aaah mani- 
festing meditation in the morning. These two sounds, used on a daily 
basis, preferably in the morning and the evening, form the basis for 
your becoming adept at connecting with what you desire, and under- 
standing totally the message of this book, which is that you indeed 
manifest your own desires and destiny. I would not even consider sitting down to write without first sit- 
ting in quiet meditation for twenty to thirty minutes of doing the 
aaah meditation. It is in this space that I gather the energy of creation 
by repeating continuously the aaah sound of joyous creation. Then, 
in the evening, when I have completed my writing for the day, I do 
the meditation of gratitude, employing the om sound, which is the 
sound of all that I have created on my typewriter that day. This simple ritual puts me in a state of grace, and provides me 
with an inner knowing that I am in relationship with the creative 
God force of the universe, and that I am exceedingly grateful for such 
a divine relationship. It is what I call the sacred relationship. Without 
it I would be unable to manifest this or any other book. Once you understand these two sounds, and you know the power 
of these vibrations, you will want to put this awareness into practice. You will find a detailed account of precisely how to do these mani- 
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THE PRACTICE OF MEDITATING FOR MANIFESTING 
Manifesting and meditating cannot be separated. They are like the 
crest and the trough of the wave, separate and distinct from each 
other, but always together. You cannot become adept at manifesting 
the desires of your heart if you are unwilling to devote time to the 
practice of meditation. Meditation is simply the act of being quiet with yourself and shut- 
ting down the constant monologue that fills the inner space of your 
being. It is stopping the constant bombardment of thoughts and the. seemingly endless chatter filling your inner world. That inner noise is 
a shield preventing you from knowing the highest self. Engaging in sound meditation is a useful way of accomplishing 
inner silence and removing the influences of the constant chatter that 
is largely produced by the ego. The attention of the mind is diverted 
from the millions of scattered thoughts and is brought back to the 
awareness of the sound itself. The sound serves as a mantra, keeping 
you centered and silencing the chatter. The best times for meditating using this manifesting technique of 
repetitive sounds are at sunrise and sunset. If you are unaccustomed 
to arising at or before sunrise, make an effort to establish this disci- 
pline for a trial period of ninety days. If this is impossible, then use 
whatever your time of awakening is for the aaah meditation. However, I would encourage you to challenge any preset, condi- 
tioned belief you may have concerning your ability to get up before 
sunrise for the manifesting meditation. Your beliefs about requiring a 
certain number of hours of sleep, or not being able to get out of bed, 
or treasuring sleep more than anything and similar reasons are the 
result of your conditioning and often represent nothing more than 
excuses. What you want to do is to establish yourself as a disciplined per- 
son. Early morning, particularly prior to sunrise, is the best time of 
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day to awaken. The silence allows you to feel close to God. It is the 
time when your mind and heart are the clearest and least distracted. You can feel the energy of healing and solutions in the silence of the 
early morning, particularly between the hours of three and six A. M. Use specific acts of personal courage to awaken during these hours, 
knowing that the time spent in a manifesting meditation will provide 
you with far more rest than the remaining hours of your scheduled 
sleep. The sun is a gigantic source of energy for our planet and every- 
thing that grows on it. When the sun first begins to show itself in the 
morning, the energy of the sun breaking out of the darkness is most 
intense. This is the ideal time to begin your manifesting meditation. I 
recommend that you find a comfortable place to sit, without regard 
for a particular posture or position. What makes you feel most 
relaxed and at peace is the perfect posture. If at all possible, it is 
advisable to do this outdoors; however, this is by no means a require- 
ment. Gently place your forefinger and thumb together on each 
hand. Close your eyes and allow yourself approximately twenty min- 
utes for this morning practice. Take in a few long, deep breaths and exhale, becoming aware of 
the pattern of your breathing and the feeling of filling your lungs. Then place your attention on the root or base chakra (the sex center) 
and move your attention up the passageway between your root 
chakra and your third eye chakra. Think of this as a channel that has 
been clogged, and think of the third eye space as an opening that has 
been sealed for a long time that you are going to open with your 
inner etheric energy. Now take a deeper, longer, breath of air, filling 
your lungs, and as you release the breath say out loud the sound of 
aaah with as much emotion and volume as you can manage. Place your attention on clearing the channel with this sound of 
aaah. While you are doing the aaah meditation, add to your mental 
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picture what it is that you would like to be able to create or manifest, 
without being at all attached to how it will surface in your life. (I have 
explained in detail in the eighth principle the importance of not 
making demands on the how. ) What you are doing is focusing on the 
feeling that you will have as this desire manifests in the concrete 
world of your life. While you meditate for approximately twenty minutes in the 
beginning of your day, repeat the sound of aaah as your mantra for 
the entire time. However, only do it out loud and with emotion 
for approximately the first one third of the time. Move your atten- 
tion up and down the inner passageway between the root chakra 
and the third eye chakra using the sound of aaah. Then remain 
focused on the third eye chakra. You are now going to open up the 
third eye. With the inner energy that you are feeling from the sound of cre- 
ation resonating within you, open the third eye in your mental pic- 
ture, and propel the creative force through it into the world of 
form. Imagine its release from your inner being to a point at which 
it circles the world and surrounds the objects of your desire. Trust 
that this energy will connect with the universal energy that is the 
God force and will send the object of your desire into your immedi- 
ate world. This must be done in accordance with all nine of the 
principles of manifesting that are explained in this book, which 
means you have an absence of doubt, complete trust, unconditional 
love and a knowing that this power of attraction is within you and in 
all things. Gradually you will begin to experience an overwhelming sense of 
bliss and peace in the sound of creation. Then you will feel the need 
to lower the volume. For the next approximately one third of the 
morning meditation say the aaah sound softer and _ softer. Stay 
focused on the third eye, which is now open and sending out this 
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creation energy, and the feeling of your desire manifesting. If you feel 
distracted or your attention shifts, return to the third eye and the 
feeling of your manifestation materializing for you. , Remember, you 
are not demanding anything, you are not telling God how to do this 
work, you are experiencing in the third eye the strong feeling of 
knowing and the bliss of this sound repeated in a quieter and quieter 
fashion. For the final one third of your morning meditation, repeat the 
sound of aaah to yourself silently as a mantra, and keep your atten- 
tion on the third eye and the glorious feeling of gratitude that you are 
already experiencing for having this manifest, however it will, into 
your life. When you have completed approximately twenty to thirty 
minutes of this manifesting meditation, your morning session will be 
complete. The objects of your desire can be unlimited, and they can run the 
full gamut of human potentiality. Some people have used this medi- 
tation to manifest peace for themselves or those they love, to center 
themselves on a healing, or to bring a relationship into their life. Others have used it for such matters as selling a house, getting a 
promotion, overcoming an addiction, attracting money or whatever. The possibilities are unlimited. I have received hundreds of letters 
from people describing the success they have had with this medita- 
tion when they practice it, using all nine of these principles with 
integrity. If you have read this far into this book, you are demonstrating 
your interest in learning to become a spiritual manifester. If you 
know that the power to manifest is within you, then do this ancient 
practice of repeating the name of God in an almost chantlike ritual 
each and every morning, with your attention on the feeling and the 
third eye. What you are really doing when you do this morning aaah 
meditation is resonating with the words “In the beginning was the 
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word, and the word was God. ” The act of manifesting is the begin- 
ning of something being created in your life. The word is God, which 
is to say, the aaah sound is the sound of God. The evening meditation is best practiced at sunset if possible. Once again, as the sun sinks below the horizon there is a coronalike 
expression of energy that is greatest just as the sun leaves the horizon 
and for a few moments immediately after the sun disappears from 
our vision. Now you practice the sound of. om, which is the medita- 
tion of gratitude. I have detailed this principle of gratitude in the 
ninth and final principle explained in this book. Briefly, the practice is identical to the morning meditation, with 
the exception that you are not now asking to manifest anything. Instead, at the end of your daylight, or as you retire, you are simply 
saying thank you to the universal intelligence that we call God for all 
that has manifested in your life. Take in deep breaths just as you did 
_in the morning, clear the channel between your base chakra and 
your third eye chakra, and mentally picture all that you have 
received and project that energy out forcefully through the opening 
of the third eye. You are expelling into the universe beyond your 
immediate body an energy of gratitude, using the affirmations that I 
have included in the ninth principle, and which I say aloud during 
the guided meditation on the cassette and compact disc titled 
Meditations for Manifesting. The sound of om is said aloud for the first third of your medita- 
tion, then gradually more quietly, and ultimately silently, always 
focusing grateful attention on the third eye and feeling that energy 
going back to the universal source of energy that we call God. The 
sound of om is the sound of the material world. It is the sound that 
makes us feel most at home here in the material world since it is the 
essential sound of all experience in this phenomenal world. When 
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The final part of this meditation is the last sound you hear before you 
go to sleep each night. The very first sound you hear in the morning is 
generally one of aaah. It is the sound that you make when you yawn or 
stretch. Be aware of this first sound and be willing to acknowledge it as 
your own vibrational frequency of the new day that you are manifesting. However, the final sound you hear within yourself before going to sleep 
can be a combination of these two sounds of aaah and om. You may recall that I defined enlightenment earlier in this book as 
the ability to be immersed in and surrounded by peace. “Peace” is 
the key word here. It is not an accident that the sounds of aaah and 
om, when combined, translate to the word that means peace or 
enlightenment, Shalom. Shaaah. looom. The sound of that which 
you wish to manifest, and that which is already manifested, equate to 
peace. By saying these two sounds to yourself as you drift off to sleep, 
you are beginning the act of enlightened siddhi consciousness. You are 
becoming at one with all that is peaceful and all that provides for us. It is also not an accident that the primary sound of spiritual joy is the 
sound of aaah in hallelujah, and it is the sound found in the word that 
ends every prayer, “amen. ” 
This concludes the meditation practice of learning to vibrate to the 
sound of creating and creation. It is a part of the ancient wisdom that is 
being practiced and revealed more and more as we move into the spir- 
itual revolution. Give this glorious, peaceful, enlightening manifesta- 
tion meditation practice a three-month trial period in your life, using 
each of the nine principles outlined in this book, and see if you do not 
experience your heart’s desire appearing without your putting any 
demands or rules on the universal God force. The willingness to allow 
it to manifest as it will, permitting creation to reveal itself by and by, is 
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The Eighth Principle 
n the seventh principle, on the use of the sound meditation, I 
emphasized the importance of placing your attention not on the out- 
come and how it will show up in your life, but on the feelings that 
you are experiencing as you picture your desire manifesting. The 
eighth principle of spiritual manifesting has at its heart the experi- 
ence of that feeling. The manner of how and when what is desired 
shows up is something that you must not try to control. During the time I have taught this meditation I have often been 
asked questions like this one: “If I do this meditation as you suggest, 
can I really win the lottery. ” My response to this question is, “How 
would you feel if you won the lottery. ” The answers are something 
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similar to “I would feel blessed, secure, ecstatic, content. ” It is this 
feeling picture that is crucial for one to have in order to activate the 
eighth principle. It is an illusion that you must have some thing like a 
winning lottery ticket in order to feel blessed, secure, ecstatic or 
content. Manifesting is not about making demands of God and the uni- 
verse. Manifesting is a cooperative venture in which your intention is 
aligned with divine intelligence. That intelligence is in all things and 
in you simultaneously. You are not separate from that which you 
would like to manifest. It is you, you are it. There is only one power 
in the universe, and you are connected to that power. Demanding 
that God send your desire according to your timetable and design 
reinforces the incorrect idea of God as a separate energy. Imagining an intelligence in the universe that is devoid of individ- 
ual personality is a way of beginning to understand this eighth princi- 
ple. This unusual and perhaps difficult concept will help to make the 
eighth principle more manageable. INTELLIGENCE APART FROM INDIVIDUALITY 
Most of us believe that the recognition of any other individual 
affirms a point at which our own individuality ceases and the other’s 
begins. This belief is part of our conditioning, and it imposes a great 
deal of limitation on us. Early on we learned that “I am not that 
other because I am myself. ” 
If this pattern were ascribed to the universal mind it would 
describe a God that at some point ceased and something else began. The description of universal would not apply because the God energy 
would not include all things. To be universal and to recognize any- 
thing as being outside itself would be to deny its very being. So, the 
nature of universal intelligence is an absence of individual personality. The all-pervading spirit is an impersonal life force that gives rise 
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to all that is manifested. The universal spirit permeates all space and 
all that is manifested and we all are a part of that. You are in an 
impersonal and intensely intelligent ocean of life that is all around, 
under and in everything, including you. Though you have been con- 
ditioned to believe that you are individual, you are actually a part of 
the grand universal nature that is infinite in its possibilities. This undifferentiated intelligence responds to you when you rec- 
ognize it. If you believe that the world runs by chance, or by your 
personal demands, then universal mind will present you with a 
hodgepodge of reactions without any recognizable order. However, 
when you cease believing that you are a separate personality with 
individual intelligence, you begin to have a new clarity. From the perspective of an intelligence that is universal and undif- 
ferentiated, ask yourself what the relationship of this universal mind 
is to you. It cannot have “favorites” if it is the root and support for 
everything and everyone. Lacking individuality, it cannot be in con- 
flict with your desires. Being universal, it cannot be simply shut off 
from you. ; 
All these statements characterize this all-producing mind as 
responsive to you when you understand your relationship to it. This 
universal, all-pervading principle has nature in common with you. When you solve this riddle of the ego, you have a new wisdom 
regarding your ability to apply this eighth principle of manifestation. You cannot exhaust the infinite, so your possession of it means 
that you have the ability to differentiate it as you desire. Your task is 
to bring the universal within your grasp by raising yourself to the level 
of that which is universal rather than bringing the universal down to a 
level of misperceived individuality that is separate from the universal. You need only to recognize it to attract it to yourself rather than ask- 
ing it to recognize you and bring you to it. Having learned a different 
set of principles, all of this may sound a bit confusing. Yet it is cru- 
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cially important for you to know this before moving along on the 
path of manifesting. Recognize the universal as a part of all that you’ are, and that all 
that you are is undifferentiated from all that is. Keep repeating this 
new awareness. Then know that if you fail to recognize the universal 
as undifferentiated, it will present itself to you in exactly that fashion, 
as a mishmash of energy that you cannot grasp, as chaos rather than a 
cosmos, and as a system in which you are separated from all that you 
desire. So, remove any and all demands from your desires, and shift to 
the inner, knowing that you are bringing the universal intelligence 
into your life, and that you will leave the how and when up to that 
intelligence, without judging, demanding or insisting upon your own 
personality’s prerequisites. Your knowing is enough. Then, cultivate 
the power of patient detachment from the outcome. THE POWER OF INFINITE PATIENCE 
This provocative line is from A Course in Miracles: “Those who are 
certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and without anxiety. ” This 
is the mainstay of infinite patience. The notion of certainty and 
patience go together. When you trust and know that you are con- 
nected to that universal, all-providing intelligence, then you simply 
allow yourself the virtue of patience. You place no time constraints 
on your manifestation and you go about the affairs of your life with 
an inner awareness that says, “I’ve got all the time that I need, and I 
am certain of the outcome, so I will allow it to show up as it will, in 
due time. ” 
The secret to being patient is in the certainty of the outcome. When that certainty is manifested in you in the form of trust and a 
knowing, you can then turn your thoughts away from the desired 
outcome. Without anger or anxiety, you are able to turn your atten- 
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tion to whatever it is that occupies your daily life schedule. Your knowing and your infinite patience put you at ease. You have 
practiced all of the principles of spiritual manifestation, and then you 
have allowed the universe to handle the details. Your inner sense is 
that what you want to manifest is already here, and your inner atten- 
tion is on the feeling of well-being that you are already blessed with 
what it is you seek. Consequently, there is no pressure for you to 
make it show up immediately. This inner bliss is a function of the power of your infinite patience. Later on in A Course in Miracles we are reminded that “Patience is nat- 
ural to the teacher of God. All he sees is certain outcome, at a time 
perhaps unknown to him as yet, but not in doubt. ” I love this idea of 
having a certainty about the outcome and being unconcerned about 
the details. When we become impatient, we literally devalue ourselves and 
our connection to the divine Holy Spirit. Impatience is a failure to 
trust in the universal intelligence, and it implies that we are separate 
from the all-providing spirit. Impatience implies that our ego is the 
boss of desire. This form of self-importance needs to be addressed. When you are certain about the outcome, and unconcerned with 
the how and when, you have cultivated the power of infinite 
patience, and simultaneously you have detached yourself from the 
outcome. When this detachment takes place, you are able to go 
about your daily business of raising your children, doing your work 
or training, meditating and communing with God and just patiently 
observing. Patience is natural when you trust in the oneness of the 
universal intelligence. One of the ways to develop patience is to contemplate how patient 
God has been with you. When you were in times of denial, or self- 
abuse, or self-absorption, or hatred, God was infinitely patient. God 
does not scold or punish you when you are off the sacred path, nor 
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does God desert you. This is the same kind of patience that you want 
to develop. Infinite patience is a sign of trust, and it calls upon infinite love to 
produce results in your life. When you let go of impatience, you are 
aligned with the God force, and all of the anxiety that tells you what 
is lacking and missing in your life is gone. Anxiety produces fear and 
self-pity and attaches you to time. When fear-based impatience takes 
over, you lose your infinite self and become once again subject to the 
ego, which has no patience with anything about infinitude. The ego wants what it wants, and it wants it now. If it is not satis- 
fied, it will convince you of what a rotten place this is and how you 
cannot trust anything but your differentiated self, even though that 
self has produced the feelings of lack all along. If you do satisfy the 
ego, a new list of demands will appear the next day. The anxiety level 
will increase as you complete these new demands. This continues as 
long as the ego is in charge of your life. But when you recognize the connection between your infinite self 
and the God force, you will know that God has been patient with you 
no matter how long it took you to come around, regardless of how 
far you may have wandered and no matter how much you may have 
refused to listen. Infinite patience produces almost immediate results in your life. You become free when you relax your insistence to have it now, and 
you increase your awareness that you actually do have it now, already, 
even though it may not have shown up as you would like it in your 
immediate surroundings. As an infinitely patient person you know 
that you are already where you want to be, that there are no acci- 
dents and that all that appears to be missing is nothing more than an 
illusion perpetrated by your ego. With this awareness, impatience leaves, and you stop looking for 
results of your manifestation meditation. You turn your thoughts to 
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the affairs of your life, knowing that you are not alone. Your patience 
allows you to remain in silent appreciation for all that is manifested 
in your life. This practice of patient detachment from outcome is a 
foreign concept to those of us who have been taught that goals, suc- 
cess symbols and the accumulation of merit badges are the ways to 
feel important and fit into our culture. You have achieved peace with 
your infinite patience, and peace is what enlightenment is all about. What follows is a guide for living with: the seeming paradox of 
attempting to manifest something into your life, and at the same time 
not being attached to when and how it shows up. A STEP-BY-STEP PLAN FOR PUTTING PATIENT DETACHMENT 
INTO YOUR MANIFESTATION PRACTICE 
Understand the essence of what you desire. What you desire is not 
necessarily in the realm of things. If you want to manifest money, for 
example, notice if your attention is centered on the dollars or on 
the experience and feeling of financial security. Ask yourself what 
you want this money. for. Put your attention on the joyous experi- 
ences that you associate with what you are desiring rather than 
focusing on a new automobile or a new boss or a different partner. The experience is the essence of your desire. The essence is always located where you experience your feel- 
ings. By putting your attention on the inner feelings, you shift from 
being gratified by externals to the experience of gratification. The 
essence of your desire is a feeling of well-being and joy and an align- 
ment with the universal spirit. Then you will see many things show- 
ing up in your life that will lead you to the inner-directed path. They may have nothing to do with what you originally thought you 
wanted or needed. You may feel that you truly want to manifest more income and a 
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promotion, but if you find the essence of this desire, it may revolve 
around more security and a sense of well-being. Detach yourself 
from the in-the-world promotion and increase in pay: Instead, put 
your manifesting energy around the very essence of your wanting to 
feel more secure and less stressed. You will probably begin to see 
things arriving in your life and reducing your anxiety. Again, they 
may seem to have very little to do with what you originally thought 
you wanted. Banish the doubt and enter into the realm of certainty. Remove all 
doubts concerning your ability to manifest the essence of your 
desires. Review what you have read up until this point and remind 
yourself, whenever any doubt creeps in, that you and the universal 
intelligence are one and the same, and that this universal intelli- 
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Destiny is not pre-ordained, but rather is ordained by each individual's thoughts and choices.
What is the author's perspective on destiny?
Unconditional love, which is the energy of the universe, and the absence of fear.
What is the source of true joy and peace?
The ego is a barrier to manifestation, as it creates an illusion of separation and fear, and prevents the connection with the divine source.
What is the role of the ego in the manifestation process?
To connect with the divine source, transcend the ego, and align with the universal intelligence, allowing for the manifestation of desires.
What is the purpose of the meditation practice described in the book?
Recognizing the connection with the universal intelligence and the illusion of separation, and trusting that the universe will provide what is needed, rather than trying to control the outcome.
What is the key to infinite patience and peace?