YOUR DESTINY 
The Nine Spiritual Principles 
for Getting Everything 
You Want 
WAYNE W, DYER | The New York Times Bestselling Author . USA $23.00 
CANADA — $32.50 
“Within you is a divine capacity to manifest 
and attract all that you need and desire. . . In international bestsellers from Your Sacred Self to the 
classic Your Erroneous Zones, inspirational leader and 
author Wayne W. Dyer established new ideas that 
changed people’s lives. In Manifest Your Destiny, he 
explores his most astonishing subject yet: the power of 
attracting one’s needs and desires into one’s life. Manifest Your Destiny is a stunning work that 
focuses on the ancient principle of manifesting 
through the timeless art of meditation. With char- 
acteristic insight and clarity, Dyer teaches the process 
of meditation as a way to streamline our thoughts, 
desires, and goals, and to bring what we most desire 
into our lives. Whether we realize it or not, we all 
struggle with built-in societal barriers that obstruct 
our inner potential. When we fall into a dream state— 
either in sleep or during a down moment of the day— 
we conceive of goals and desires that are more 
spectacular than those we entertain when “awake,” yet 
we always wake thinking, “I can’t do that.” It is this 
conditioned response that prevents us from achieving 
what we want, and it is this response that Dyer teaches 
us to overcome through the Nine Spiritual Principles 
of Manifesting. From “Becoming Aware of Your 
Highest Self” to “Trusting Yourself Is Trusting the 
Wisdom That Created You” to “Meditating to the 
Sound of Creation,” the Nine Spiritual Principles of 
Manifesting clear away what constricts us and 
illuminate a new path to achieving our truest goals. Manifest Your Destiny is Wayne W: Dyer’s most 
exciting and accessible work, a remarkable guidebook 
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YOUR DESTINY 
The Nine Spiritual Principles for 
Getting Everything You Want 
WAYNE W. DYER 
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Shri Guruji 
Thank you for the inspiration to explore 
the world of manifesting. NAMASTE! Is it not written in your law, 
“I have said, You are gods”? —JOHN, 10:34 
On that day, you will know 
that I am in my Father, 
and you in me, 
and I in you. —JOHN, 14:20 
Introduction 
THE FIRST PRINCIPLE 
Becoming Aware of Your Highest Self 
THE SECOND PRINCIPLE 
Trusting Yourself Is Trusting the Wisdom That Created You 
THE THIRD PRINCIPLE 
You Are Not an Organism in an Environment: 
You Are an Environorganism 
THE FOURTH PRINCIPLE 
You Can Attract to Yourself What You Desire 
THE FIFTH PRINCIPLE 
Honoring Your Worthiness to Receive Contents 
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CONTENTS 
THE SIXTH PRINCIPLE 
Connecting to the Divine Source with Unconditional Love 92 
THE SEVENTH PRINCIPLE 
Meditating to the Sound of Creation it 
THE EIGHTH PRINCIPLE 
Patiently Detach from the Outcome 130 
THE NINTH PRINCIPLE 
Reacting to Your Manifestations with 
Gratitude and Generosity 148 
A Summary of the Nine Principles 169 
Introduction 
ou have the power within you to attract to yourself all that 
you could ever want. This is the central theme of Manifest Your 
Destiny, which is unlike any book I have previously written. I have 
chosen to write about this subject of manifesting because I have 
been drawn to it, rather than because it is the next logical step in the 
progression of books that I have produced over the past two 
decades. I-seem to have been drawn to the subject by a force that 
will not allow me to ignore it. As I began writing, I felt a kind of humility, along with a feeling of 
arrogance, about taking on this subject matter. These feelings created 
questions such as: Who am I to write about this capacity to manifest? xi 
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What do I really know about manifesting in the first place? Isn’t this 
territory reserved for divine beings? What gives me the authority to 
tell others about an ability that is unique to the gods? These ques- 
tions swirled around inside me; I was motivated by more self-doubt 
than I like to acknowledge. As I began the task of writing these spiritual principles, | had no 
idea what I would be saying and how I would say it, nor how many 
principles were involved. And then I did what I have encouraged my 
readers to do in my most recent book, Your Sacred Self: I banished all 
my doubts and began listening to the inner voices that kept telling 
me I would receive the guidance I needed, and that I would not be 
alone in this project. In other words, I surrendered and went deep 
within in my meditations and allowed myself to release all fear and 
doubt and, simply, to trust. A part of me knew that the ability to manifest into the material 
world from the unseen world of spirit is possible for all of us. I 
believed this because the words of all the great spiritual teachers 
encourage us to see ourselves as unlimited and to know that even the 
least among us has the divine power of God available at every 
moment of our lives. But to actually write this in a book, and provide 
the spiritual principles that one must learn and master in order to do 
so, seemed a daunting task. It was at this time, as I was considering writing these principles 
even though I had no clear idea what they were precisely, and in what 
order they should be presented, that I received 2 message from a 
teacher named Guruji, to whom this book is dedicated. In this mes- 
sage, Shri Guruji instructed me to listen to a tape on the power of 
manifesting and to practice, in my own life, what I was being taught, 
and then to present this manifesting technique to the world. He 
explained that the ability to manifest had been known and practiced 
by great sages and teachers in the East for thousands of years and has 
continued in much secrecy for centuries. xii 
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I listened with great interest, and began to practice, just as they 
are presented in this book, the manifestation principles in my daily 
meditations. I experienced astonishing results almost immediately. I 
then began to include a discussion of these results in my lectures and 
to teach these spiritual principles, which I had begun practicing in 
my life, though without cataloguing or organizing them in any way. A few months later I produced a compact disc/cassette tape titled 
Meditations for Manifesting, and thousands of people began to use these 
principles and practice the manifesting meditation techniques. The 
results have been mind shattering. People who are using these tech- 
niques and sound meditations have written to me from all over the 
world. The sound meditation, described in this book, has produced 
amazing manifestations in the lives of many people. I have heard sto- 
ries of manifesting job promotions, having a baby, which was suppos- 
edly an impossibility, selling a home that had been on the market for 
years without potential buyers, and other stories of prosperity and 
healing that border on being miracles. I know that these principles work. Their miraculous power is not 
based on a belief, it is a knowing. I know that we have divine power 
that has gone untapped primarily because of our conditioning. | 
know that you, if you practice these nine principles studiously, can 
begin to manifest for yourself virtually anything that you are capable 
of conceiving in your mind. I am aware that entering this realm of manifesting is like walking 
down an unfamiliar path. When you decide to enter the unknown, 
you obviously cannot know for sure what is ahead. I ask you, there- 
fore, to avoid cluttering this path with preconceptions. Make an 
effort to read these principles and begin to apply them in your daily 
life, without judging them based on what you have been conditioned 
to believe about yourself as a person who is “only human” and, 
therefore, limited. Preconceptions will only serve to contaminate 
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your unlimited potential for manifesting your heart’s desire. What 
you desire is of central importance, though you may never before 
have thought of desire and higher spiritual awareness as compatible 
concepts. It is impossible to imagine a world without desire. To create is to 
desire. Even the wish to be desireless is a desire. The process of cre- 
ating anything begins first with a desire. Your desires, cultivated as 
seeds of potential on the path of spiritual awareness, can blossom in 
the form of the freedom to have these desires in peace and harmony 
with your world. Giving yourself permission to explore this path is allowing yourself 
the freedom to use your mind to create the precise material world 
that matches your inner world. That inner world is the one which is 
the catalyst for determining your physical world experiences. You will 
have to abandon the idea that you are powerless over the circum- 
stances of your life. You will need to shift out of the group mentality 
that says you are incapable of manifesting. Group thinking inhibits 
your natural abilities to co-create your life as you desire it to be. Examine the pressures. and beliefs you have bought into, which 
reflect the thinking of your immediate family, your extended family, 
your community, your religious grouping, your ethnic grouping, your 
educational/business grouping or any, of a multitude of specialized 
units of people. Determine the areas of your life that are jammed up 
with the teachings of those mind-sets, causing your personal evolu- 
tion to be slowed down because what you truly desire or believe is 
not getting any energy from your unique individuality. When you stay plugged into group consciousness, you are really 
saying, “I choose to evolve slowly.” Furthermore, that mind-set 
always gives you permission to be weak and impotent. You choose to 
evolve with a group rather than spontaneously, as your inner con- 
sciousness dictates. If you truly understand the ability to manifest, you realize you can 
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control the speed at which change occurs in your life. A practicing 
mystic will manifest quickly because he or she is plugged into the 
world behind his or her own eyes rather than seeing the world as dic- 
tated by the eyes of the group and all of its forebears. As you experience unplugging your circuits from those external 
forces, you will see the speed of your evolvement increase drastically. If you hear a voice behind your eyeballs that says, “Move forward,” 
you no longer wait for everyone else to make a move forward before 
you take your first step. You no longer have to run your suggestions 
through the group mind, which is meant to keep you safe and to dis- 
courage your individuality. I was able to begin my journey of enlightenment only when I fully 
recognized that the group agreement to keep me safe, and to love me 
inadequately, allowed me to seek something of a greater measure. If 
you wait for everyone else to learn how to manifest their hearts’ 
desires, you will not have enough time in this lifetime to even begin 
your journey. You must unplug from your conditioning and know in 
that private space behind your eyes that you can and will take on the 
challenge of manifesting your destiny. When you cultivate the inner conviction to manifest from the 
world of the unseen into the material world, you understand that 
there is a universal God force that is in all things in the universe. There is not a separate God for each individual, each plant, each ani- 
mal, each mineral. They are all one. Therefore, the same God force 
that is within you and causes you to think and breathe is simultane- 
ously in everyone and everything else as well. It is universal. Thus, 
there is no place that it is not. Consequently, that which you perceive 
to be missing from your life also contains the same God force or uni- 
versal intelligence that is within you. Manifesting, then, becomes the business of doing nothing more 
than bringing into form a new aspect of yourself. You are not creating 
something from nothing. You are learning to align yourself with an 
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aspect of your being that your senses have not known they could acti- 
vate. This is a very important part of this understanding. You and that 
which you want to manifest into your life are one! As I wrote this book, I had the most peaceful experience of writ- 
ing that I have ever enjoyed. What you now hold in your hands is the 
result of these nine principles. Each day I would do precisely what I 
have written about in these nine principles. As I practiced the nine principles, I realized that I was manifesting 
a handbook for spiritual manifesting that anyone could pick up and 
begin to apply in the very moments that they were reading the words 
in this book. I knew that I did not need to fill this book with hun- 
dreds of examples of these principles and how they had worked for 
me and many of my students as well as readers around the world. I 
knew that it was unnecessary to include a large number of quotes and 
affirmations as I have done in many of my previous books. This was 
to be something quite different. The key word I kept in mind as I wrote and allowed these princi- 
ples to manifest through me was the word “tight.” That meant to 
me, no extraneous verbiage, no case studies and a minimum of quo- 
tations. I was dedicated to a style of writing that I characterized as 
“Say what you want to say. Say it simply. Say it directly. Say it from 
your heart and resist any temptation to overwrite.” This is what I did 
in producing this book. There are no chapters, simply nine principles. Each principle is 
explained in as straightforward a manner as I know how. Each came 
directly from my heart and not my head. I listened to my own guid- 
ance, and then I wrote it out. When I felt that I had said what was 
needed to be said, and when I had provided specific suggestions for 
implementing these principles, I stopped. You are holding in your 
hand the “tightest” handbook I know how to devise to teach the fun- 
damental principles for spiritual manifestation. My internal knowing is that when you practice these nine princi- 
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ples you will be given guidance. You will not be alone on this journey, 
and you will see your desires manifest as your destiny in your daily 
life. Finally, you will know that your job is to say “Yes!” rather than 
“How?” I send you all green lights. WAYNE W. DYER 
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BECOMING AWARE OF YOUR HIGHEST SELF 
The First Principle 
ithin you is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all 
that you need or desire. This is such a powerful statement that I sug- 
gest you reread and savor it before you begin this journey. Most of what we are taught to believe about our reality conflicts 
with this statement. However, I know it to be so true and valuable that 
I encourage you to surrender any hesitation and let this thought enter 
your consciousness: I have a divine ability to manifest and attract what I 
need or desire! Becoming aware of your highest self does not happen through physi- 
cal effort, nor can one rely upon supernatural techniques such as invok- 
ing angels to do this heavenly work for you. What is essential is that you 
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learn that you are both a physical body in a material world, and a non- 
physical being who can gain access to a higher level. That higher level is 
within you and is reached through the stages of adult development. The developmental stages of infancy through adolescence have been 
explored by many writers, but very little has been written about the 
developmental stages of adulthood. There are four stages that each of us 
seem to traverse once we reach adulthood. These stages of our lives rep- 
resent a way of thinking, although they are not necessarily associated 
with age or experience. Some of us proceed rapidly through these 
stages, learning at a young age that we are both a physical self and a 
higher self. Others remain in one of the earlier stages for a lifetime. Carl Jung, writing in Modern Man in Search of a Soul, provided some 
critical insight into the developmental tasks of adulthood. He 
believed that an awareness of a higher self is a developmental task of 
adulthood. In the next section I am offering my interpretation of Dr. 
Jung’s stages of adult development. I write about these stages with some degree of expertise because I 
have spent many years in each of them. They have been stepping 
stones to my awareness of my higher self. Each stage involved experi- 
ences that permitted me to move ahead in my thinking and my aware- 
ness. Ultimately, I reached the level at which I could use these nine 
principles to co-create my life. That is, to manifest my own destiny, 
As you read these, examine the personal and unique stages of your 
adult development that parallel Dr. Jung’s archetypes. Your objective 
is to become aware of your highest self as a dimension of your being 
that transcends the limitations of the physical world. THE FOUR STAGES OF ADULT DEVELOPMENT 
THE ATHLETE 
The word “athlete” is not meant to disparage athletes or athletic 
behavior. It is intended as a description of the time in our adult lives 
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when our primary identification is with our physical body and how it 
functions in our everyday world. This is the time when we measure 
our worth and our happiness by our physical appearance and abili- 
ties. Those abilities are multitudinous and uniquely personal. They can 
include such things as how fast we run, how far we throw a ball, how 
high we can jump and the size of our muscles. We judge the worthi- 
ness of our physical appearance by a standard of attractiveness based 
on the shape, size, color and texture of body parts, hair and com- 
plexion. In a consumer culture like ours, judgment even extends to 
the appearance of our automobiles, houses and clothes. These are the concerns one has when he or she is in the earliest 
stage of adult development. This is the time when life seems impossi- 
ble without a mirror and a steady stream of approval to make us feel 
secure. The stage of the athlete is the time in our adult development 
when we are almost completely identified with our performance, 
attractiveness and achievements. Many people outgrow the stage of the athlete and make other con- 
siderations more significant. Some of us, depending on our personal 
circumstances, move in and out of this stage. A few stay in the athlete 
stage for their entire lives. Whether or not you have moved beyond the athlete stage is deter- 
mined by how fixated you are on your body as your primary source 
of self-identification. Obviously, it is healthy to take good care of your 
body by treating it kindly and exercising and nourishing it in the best 
way your circumstances allow. Having pride in your physical appear- 
ance and enjoying compliments does not mean you are body-fixated. However, if your daily activities revolve around a predetermined 
standard of performance and appearance, you are in the stage that I 
am calling “the athlete.” 
This is not a stage in which you can practice the art of manifesting. To reach the ability to know and use your divine inner energy, you 
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must move beyond your identification as being exclusively a physical 
body. THE WARRIOR 
When we leave the athlete stage behind, we generally enter the 
stage of the warrior. This is the time when the ego dominates our 
lives and we feel compelled to conquer the world to demonstrate our 
superiority. My definition of ego is the idea that we have of ourselves 
as important and separate from everyone else. This can be an - 
acronym for Earth Guide Only since ego represents our exclusive 
identification with our physical selves in our material world. The ego-driven warrior objective is to subdue and defeat others in 
a race for the number-one spot. During this stage we are busy with 
goals and achievements in competition with others. This ego- 
dominated stage is full of anxiety and endless comparison of our suc- 
cess. Trophies, awards, titles and the accumulation of material 
objects record our achievements. The warrior is intensely concerned 
with the future and who might be in his way or interfere with his sta- 
tus. He is motivated with slogans such as: “If you don’t know where 
you’re going, how will you know when you get there?”; “Time is 
money, and money is everything”; “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the 
only thing”; “Life is a struggle”; “If I don’t get mine, someone else 
will.” 
In the warrior stage, status and position in life are obsessions. Convincing others of our superiority is the theme of this other- 
centered time of life in which the ego is the director. This is the time 
when we are attempting to do what warriors do: conquer and claim 
the spoils of our battles for ourselves. The test of whether you have left this stage is to examine what it is 
that is the driving force in your life. If the answer is conquering, 
defeating, acquiring, comparing and winning at all costs, then it is 
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clear that you are still in the warrior stage. You can probably regularly 
shift in and out of the warrior stage as a way of effectively functioning 
in the marketplace. Only you can determine how intensely that atti- 
tude dominates your existence and drives your life. If you do live pri- 
marily at this level, you will be unable to become a manifester in the 
sense that I am describing. THE STATESPERSON 
The statesperson stage of life is the time when we have tamed our 
ego and shifted our awareness. In this stage we want to know what is 
important to the other person. Rather than obsessing over our quo- 
tas, we can ask what your quotas are with genuine interest. We have 
begun to know that our primary purpose is to give rather than to get. The statesperson is still an achiever and quite often athletic. However, the inner drive is to serve others. Authentic freedom cannot be experienced until one learns to 
tame the ego and move out of self-absorption. When you find your- 
self upset, anxious or feeling off purpose, ask yourself how much of 
your emotional state has to do with your assessment of how you are 
being treated and perceived. When you can let go of your own 
thoughts about yourself and not think of yourself for a long period of 
time, that is when you are free. Shifting out of the warrior stage and into the statesperson stage of 
life was an extremely freeing experience for me. Before I made the 
shift I had to consider all of my ego needs when I gave a public lec- 
ture. This meant worrisome thoughts about how I would be received 
and reviewed, whether people would want to purchase my books and 
tapes, or fears about losing my place and becoming embarrassed. Then came a time when, without any concerted effort, I began to 
meditate before my lectures. During my meditation I would silently 
recite a mantra asking how I might serve. My speaking improved sig- 
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nificantly when I shifted away from my ego and entered the stage of 
statesperson. The statesperson stage of adulthood is about service and grateful- 
ness for all that shows up in your life. At this level you are very close 
to your highest self. The primary force in your life is no longer the 
desire to be the most powerful and attractive or to dominate and 
conquer. You have entered the realm of inner peace. It is always in 
the service of others, regardless of what you do or what your inter- 
ests are, that you find the bliss you are seeking. | 
One of the most touching stories I have ever heard is of Mother 
Teresa, who even in her eighties ministers to the downtrodden in the 
streets of Calcutta. A friend of mine in Phoenix was scheduled to do 
a radio interview with her. As they spoke before the interview, Pat 
said to her, “Mother Teresa, is there anything I can do to help you 
with your cause? Could I help you raise money or give you some 
publicity?” 
Mother Teresa replied, “No, Pat, there is nothing that you need 
do. My cause is not about publicity, and it is not about money. It is 
about something much higher than that.” 
Pat persisted, saying, “Isn’t there anything I can do for you? I feel 
so helpless.” 
Mother Teresa’s response was, “If.you really want to do some- 
thing, Pat, tomorrow morning get up at four A.M. and go out on the 
streets of Phoenix. Find someone living there who believes that he is 
alone, and convince him that he is not. That is what you can do.” 
This is a true statesperson, giving of herself each and every day. When we help others to know that they are not alone, that they 
too have a divine spirit within them regardless of the circumstances 
of their lives, we move to a higher self that provides us with a sense of 
peace and purpose unavailable in the athlete and warrior experi- 
ences. It is here that we might recall the words of Mother Teresa: “I 
see Jesus Christ every day in all of his distressing disguises.” 
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There is one stage even higher than the statesperson. The fourth 
stage is where I have been carefully leading you on this journey of 
awareness development. THE SPIRIT 
When you enter this stage of life, regardless of your age or posi- 
tion, you recognize your truest essence, the highest self. When you 
know your highest self, you are on your way to becoming a co-creator 
of your entire world, learning to manage the circumstances of your 
life and participating with assurance in the act of creation. You liter- 
ally become a manifester. The spirit stage of life is characterized by an awareness that this 
place called earth is not your home. You know that you are not an 
athlete, a warrior, or even a statesperson, but that you are an infinite, 
limitless, immortal, universal and eternal energy temporarily residing 
in a body. You know that nothing dies, that everything is an energy 
that is constantly changing. As a soul with a body you are passionately drawn to your inner 
world. You leave fears behind and start to experience a kind of detach- 
ment from this physical plane. You become an observer of your world 
and you move into other dimensions of consciousness. This inner 
infinite energy is not just in you, it is in all things and all people who 
are alive now and have ever lived. You begin to know this intimately. In order to evolve beyond the earth plane, you need to learn to 
leave it at will by finding the source of this infinite energy that is 
responsible for filling your lungs, beating your heart, growing your 
hair and making it possible for you to read the words on this page. You the physical being are not growing your hair, your nature is doing 
that for you. The energy that is you is handling all of the details. That 
spirit that is you is not contained by the physical domain at all. It has 
no boundaries, no form, no limits to its outer edges. You are aware of 
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the real source of your life, even though you have been conditioned 
to believe otherwise. When you reach this level, you are in the space I think of as being 
in this world, but not of this world. This energy that is you, call it what you will—spirit, soul— can 
never die and has never died in the past. Most people think of the 
spiritual world as a future occurrence that they will know after death. Most of us have been taught that the highest self is something that 
you cannot know as long as you are trapped in a body on this planet. However, the spirit is now. It is in you in this moment, and the 
energy is not something that you will ultimately come to know but is 
what you are here and now. The unseen energy that was once in Shakespeare or Picasso or 
Galileo, or any human form, is also available to all of us. That is 
because the spirit energy does not die, it simply changes form. Even though our rational left-brain mind has been trained to 
believe that when a person dies his spirit is gone, the truth is that you 
cannot destroy energy. Your highest self is the spirit presently within 
you. The energy that was Picasso was not his body, nor was the 
energy that was Shakespeare his body. It was the inner feelings and 
the creative genius that took the form of a body and a creation on 
canvas or paper. That has never died. It can’t die because it has no 
boundaries, no beginning, no end, no physical characteristics that we 
call form. That energy is within you. If you want to know it, you can tune 
into it, and when you do, you leave the limitations of this earth plane 
and enter a dimension of limitlessness that allows you to create and 
attract to you whatever it is that you want or need on this journey. At this level you loosen your emotional attachment to what you 
view as your reality. This detachment is followed by a knowing that 
the observer within you who is always noticing your surroundings 
and your thoughts is in reality the source of your physical world. This 
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awareness, along with your willingness to enter this domain, is the 
beginning of learning to attract to yourself that which you desire and 
need while you are in a physical body. Up to this point, you probably have been unable to loosen your 
attachment to the material world. You may believe that there is no 
other world. If so, you have actually abandoned your divine capabil- 
ity, which is the cause of the sensory world you so assiduously 
embrace. Gaining the awareness that you have a higher self that is 
universal and eternal will lead you to gaining access to that world 
more freely and to participating in the act of manifesting your heart’s 
desire. THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN 
Consider for a moment the world of form that you see around 
you, including your body. What is the cause of all that you observe? Contemplate who it is that observes and notices all of the “stuff.” 
Who is that invisible “I” inside all of the tubes, bones, arteries and 
skin that are your physical form? To know yourself authentically, you 
must understand that everything that you notice around you was and 
is caused by something in the world of the unseen. That something is 
the world of the spirit. When you look at a giant oak tree, ask yourself what caused that 
tree to become what it is. It started from a tiny acorn, a seedling that 
grew into a mighty tree. Your logical, rational mind says that there 
must be something resembling “treeness” within that acorn. But 
when you open the acorn you find nothing resembling a tree. All you 
find is a mass of brown stuff, quiet dust. If you further examine the 
brown stuff that makes up the acorn, you will find smaller shreds of 
brown stuff, until ultimately you discover distinctly “acornish” mole- 
cules. Then you find atoms, then electrons, then subatomic particles, 
until you finally go as small as is possible with a microscope at full 
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magnification. Here you will find that there are no particles, but 
waves of energy that mysteriously come and go. Your conclusion will be that the acorn and the tree itself have a 
creator that is unseen, immeasurable and called by those of us who 
need to classify such things the spirit or soul. The source of all there- 
fore is no-thing, since it is not in the dimension of the measurable. This unseen world that is the source of the world of the seen is 
also the cause of you. Observe yourself scientifically and you will dis- 
cover that you are not your creation. If you did not create yourself, 
what was it that created you? | 
We can go back to conception and explain creation as one drop of 
human protoplasm colliding with another, resulting in your appear- 
ance in the form of a tiny speck that grew into the body that is you 
today. But, if you delve further into those drops of human proto- 
plasm and turn up the magnification on the microscope, and if you 
do the same with the speck that was your first experience of form, 
you discover the same truth that described the acorn. In the begin- 
ning is energy, energy that has no dimensions, energy that is not in 
the visible world. This is our original self. It is a potentiality, not an 
object. A “future pull,” if you will, that is a potential to become a 
something and no-thing more. The general concept of soul or spirit is that you have one, but it is 
not that important to daily life. It may become really significant, 
though, after your body dies. I am taking a different position here, 
and it is the core of this first principle of manifesting. It will lead you 
to your highest self, and then on to the ability to live a miraculous life 
of co-creating with God your ideal state of being. Furthermore, this 
spirit is permanent and incapable of being lost or removed. Your destiny is to become a co-creator with God and to treasure 
the sanctity of all that comes into this world of form that we call 
home, but which is only a transitory stopping place. Your creative ability originates in the unseen mind. It begins in the 
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unseen world of waves and energy. So, too, do the planets, the stars, 
the flowers, the animals, the rocks, you, your possessions, your cre- 
ations—all of it, no exceptions. Examine everything and anything 
and you find that at the core there-is no form, only an unseen quality 
that brings it from the world of the unseen to the world of the 
observable. It is this world of the unseen that I would like you to consider as 
you read these words. Imagine that there are two worlds in which 
you co-exist at all times. Look around you now at the world of form. Then look within and realize that it began in the unseen dimension 
that we are not even close to comprehending. Then, make the big leap to the awareness that you are both of 
these worlds simultaneously. You are not separate from the world 
of the unseen any more than you could be separate from the 
world of the seen. You are a combination of both at all moments 
of your life, even if you have come to believe that you reside 
exclusively in the world of the seen, and that the unseen is some- 
thing other than you. It is you, all of it. Right now! The problem that faces most of us in becoming manifesters and 
learning to manage the circumstances of our lives is that we have for- 
feited our ability to oscillate between the world of form and the unseen 
world. Imagine that there is a line down the middle of the room that 
you are in at this moment. Pretend that everything to the right of the 
line represents the world of the seen. To the left of the line is every- 
thing that is the cause of everything on the right. The unseen world is 
on the left, the seen world is on the right. Now, question your belief that you (the whole you) cannot enter 
the world to the left of the imaginary line. If you were to cross that 
line every now and then, you would be entering the world of the cre- 
ator. Have you been taught that the creator is something outside 
yourself? (I will deal with this more thoroughly in the second princi- 
ple.) If so, your inner world (the world of the unseen) is full of 
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notions that prohibit you from participating in the creative process. There are dogmas that represent participating in the creative 
process as blasphemy, or foolishness, or thinking too highly of your- 
self. But go back to the opening sentence of this first principle and 
reread it until it resonates within you: Within you is a divine capacity to 
manifest and attract all that you need or desire. It is more than within you. It is you, and you must overcome your 
conditioning and give yourself permission to enter this world. Cross 
the line that separates the physical you from the you that is just as 
real, but unseen. When you overcome the obstacles of your mind 
that prevent you from crossing the line, your unseen self will be your 
ticket to creation in your life. TRANSCENDING YOUR CONDITIONING 
Like it or not, all of us have been conditioned to think and act in 
ways that have become automatic. We need to figure out how to get 
past this conditioning if we want to gain access to our highest self. You can be sure the ego will not take well to this kind of effort. Asking the ego to help diminish its own significance so that you 
might have access to your higher self is akin to attempting to stand on 
your own shoulders. Ego is as unable to move aside in deference to 
spirit as your eye is able to see itself or the tip of your tongue able to 
touch the tip of your tongue! Your task thus becomes a quagmire of paradoxes. If you rely upon 
your ego to get past the influences of the ego, it will only strengthen 
its hold on you. You must figure out how to emancipate conscious- 
ness from the limitations of your mind and your body. In the ego state you generally experience yourself as a separate 
entity. To move past this conditioning you want to begin to see your- 
self as humanity itself rather than as a separate form in a body. Very 
simply put, if you feel that you are disconnected from the rest of 
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humanity and truly a separate entity needing to prove yourself and 
compete with others, you will be unable to manifest your heart’s 
desire. Manifesting is not about getting things that are not here. It is 
about attracting what is already here and is a part of you on a spiritual 
level. If you remain separate, that which you wish to manifest will 
forever be unavailable to you. If you shift that awareness around and 
are able to see yourself as a part of what you desire, you will have 
transcended the conditioning of your ego, and of all the other egos 
who have contributed to this process in your life. With the realization of God within yourself, you not only dissolve 
your ego’s identification as separate from God, but you leave behind 
the old ways of seeing yourself. As you awaken to your highest self, 
your conditioning as a separate being will be overcome with practice. Below are a few of the conditioned thoughts that will keep your 
ego in charge of your life and prevent you from materializing what 
you desire and what desires you. 1: I am not in charge of my life. That force is outside me. This kind of 
conditioned response to the circumstances of your life puts the 
responsibility on something outside you and becomes a handy 
excuse when your life is not going as you would like it to. You can change this perception in any given moment, and 
begin to trust that the vital force of the universe is exactly what 
you are. Entertain this notion every day by noticing the life force 
flowing through you. Turn your attention away from the ego- 
dominated thoughts about the circumstances of your life to the 
present moment by ‘ consciously noticing your breath, the 
sounds, textures, smells and scenes that the life force is experi- 
encing through you. Practice stepping away from the thoughts 
about your life in any given moment, and step into the experience 
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People cannot manifest, it is all a function of the cosmic throw of the dice. This is a very popular idea, particularly for those who are in less 
than propitious circumstances. Blaming luck or some external, 
invisible force that controls the universe is a habit of condition- 
ing that leads to disempowerment and, ultimately, defeat. You 
will have to rid yourself of this hallucination that you are power- 
less to attract what you desire. Keep in mind that you are not 
playing magic when you learn to manifest, you are simply mani- 
festing a new aspect of yourself that has been hidden. You are the universe. It is not something outside you. You are 
that force which is in everything, even the things that have previ- 
ously failed to show up in your life. Remember, as you think, so 
shall you be. If you think you can’t, you are right, and that is pre- 
cisely what you will see showing up in your life. The results of “I 
can’t” lead to the next conditioned response. I have tried before and it has never worked for me. Here, the condi- 
tioned response is believing that once having tried and failed, 
further efforts will yield the same results. A key word in this 
thought is “try.” Trying means struggling, working at it, giving it 
a lot of effort, setting goals and so forth. Just for a moment, stop and try to pick up a pencil from the 
table. Just try to pick it up. You will find that there is no such 
thing as trying. You either pick it up or you don’t. Period. What 
you call trying to pick it up is simply not picking up the pencil. Let go of your obsession with the past and with trying, and 
instead remain relaxed and casual and in the moment, noticing 
your life force minus your judgments and explanations. You will 
see good multiply as needed, when you come to know that you 
are not powerless to make it happen. The universe is rich with 
abundance that will be provided to you when you let go of rea- 
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The reason that you have been unsuccessful in manifesting 
what you want is because you are attached to an idea that is erro- 
neous. Your past is an illusion. It is the trail left behind you, and 
a trail behind you cannot drive you today, regardless of what you 
choose to believe. All you have is now, and you have never tried 
anything. You have simply not done it yet. You can now shift that 
reasoning right out of your inner world. 4: Only highly evolved beings can manifest. This is the ego saying that 
you are separate and distinct from your spiritual teachers and 
others who live at the highest levels. Even though every spiritual 
practice encourages you to see the divine within yourself, to 
know you have in you the same mind as your master, and to dis- 
cover the kingdom of heaven within yourself, your ego cannot 
buy it. It is sold on separateness, and convinces you that you are 
less than those highly evolved beings you’ve heard about. Relinquish those thoughts and replace them with seeing your- 
self as connected to everyone by that unseen life force that is 
your divine essence. Refuse to put others either above or below 
you, but instead see them as you. It is necessary to grasp this idea 
firmly before you can experience true manifestation. These are a few of the thoughts that swirl around in your head 
whenever you contemplate the idea of having what you want and 
need want and need you. This first spiritual principle directs you to overcome your condi- 
tioning. It requires you to adopt a new attitude about yourself, and 
then to put this attitude into daily practice. I am encouraging you to 
know the highest self rather than read about it. To know it in the 
deepest reaches of your being, and then to never again doubt it. Having a philosophy is useless if it is simply an awareness of rituals 
and the teachings of experts. To make your philosophy work for you it 
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must become an energy pattern that you use in your daily life. It must 
have both an eternal truth to it as well as a utilitarian quality that makes 
you feel , yes, I know this to be true because I apply it and it works. You do have a highest self. You can know this highest self in both 
the seen and the unseen dimensions of your life. Once you are con- 
vinced of this, the belief that the ego is the dominant motivating 
force in your life will lose its power. I encourage you to follow these suggestions for developing this 
first principle as a permanent part of your total awareness. This plan 
of action worked for me. If I encounter doubt, I return to this four- 
point plan. It always reacquaints me with the highest self. HOW TO KNOW YOUR HIGHEST SELF WITHOUT ANY DOUBT 
16 Here is a great definition of enlightenment: to be immersed in and sur- 
rounded by peace. Your highest self only wants you to be at péace. It does not 
judge, compare or demand that you defeat anyone, or be better 
than anyone. It only wants you to be at peace. Whenever you are 
about to act, ask yourself this question: “Is what I am about to say 
or do going to bring me peace?” If the answer is yes, then go with 
it and you will be allowing yourself the wisdom of your highest self. If the answer is no, then remind yourself that it is your ego at work. The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate 
your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push 
you in the direction of judgment and comparison, and cause you 
to insist on being right and best. You know your highest self by 
listening to the voice that only wants you to be at peace. Go beyond the restriction of the physical plane. The purpose of the 
highest self is to assist you in this effort. You do this by creating 
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an inner sanctuary that is yours and yours alone. Go to this silent 
inner retreat as often as you can, and let go of all attachments to 
the external world of the ego. As you go to this sanctuary, a light will be born within you 
that you will come to know and respect. This light is your con- 
nection to the energy of manifestation. It is like taking a bath 
in pure light; you wiil feel this energy as you go silently within. This light is not of the earth plane. It will help you go beyond 
the physical world. Remember, you cannot go beyond the 
earth plane if you are still in it. The real you, the unseen you, 
can attract the energy of the sun, the wind and all that is celes- 
tial. Refuse to defend yourself to anyone or anything on the earth 
plane. You must learn to stay within your higher energy pattern 
regardless of what goes before you in the material world. This 
means that you become like an unknown sage who refuses to 
lock horns with anything on this physical plane. This is the challenge of the highest self. It is beyond the reality 
system that you identify as material and as form. Use your inner 
light for your alignment and allow those who disagree with that 
perspective to have their own points of view. You are at peace. You never explain, and you refuse to flaunt your energy. You 
know it, and that is enough for you. Finally, surrender and trust in the wisdom that created you. You 
are developing a faith that transcends the beliefs and teachings of 
others. This trust is your corner of freedom, and it will always be 
yours. In fact, it is so important that it is the subject of the sec- 
ond spiritual principle of manifestation, which you will read 
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Your highest self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It 
is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to 
understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that 
which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you 
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TRUSTING YOURSELF IS TRUSTING THE WISDOM 
THAT CREATED YOU 
The Second Principle 
earning to trust may be difficult in the beginning. It will 
be an exercise in futility if you rely upon your mind to create trust. This is because the mind works on material problems by interpret- 
ing sensory data. When turned toward spiritual matters the mind 
attempts to come up with intellectual answers by using proofs, logic 
and theoretical reasoning. It demands assurance and proof to estab- 
lish tangible results. In contrast, the method of the heart, focused on spiritual under- 
standing, is an intuitive recognition of the value of love. Whereas 
the mind attempts to know the spirit by setting up conditions that 
must be met logically for there to be a release of love, the heart 
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employs intuitive love as its way. It is not a. conclusion of reasoning. It is the way of spontaneity, not the result of bargaining with the 
intellect. The heart trusts the inner wisdom that it feels and spon- 
taneously knows, whereas the mind demands scientific evidence 
before it will trust. Most of us in the West have been taught that the center of our wis- 
dom is in our heads. If you ask people where their ability to process 
thought and experience is, they will generally respond that it is in the 
brain. Ask consciously spiritual persons the same question and they, 
will indicate the heart. When the mind seeks corroboration through specific proofs as an 
aid to spiritual understanding, it is encroaching into an area far more 
suited to the heart. For this reason, it is necessary to trust what the 
heart knows. Without total trust, it is impossible to know the mira- 
cles of the higher self and become a manifester. Spiritual life does not grow in the soil of intellectual information 
gathering. Spirituality needs the fertile ground of feelings, which the 
unseen dimension provides. Trusting your heart space is imperative 
for the growth of a healthy spiritual life. This means cultivating a harmony between mind and heart, and 
for most of us this means terminating the intellect’s domination. The 
mind must surrender its role as full-time judge and allow the heart to 
contribute its wisdom. It is with this oe process that trust 
begins to flourish, replacing doubt. Mistrust begins early in most human beings’ lives. It is helpful to 
realize why it is that the heart space has not been permitted to be 
the center of our being. Here are two theories describing our place 
in nature. I think you will agree that the first theory illuminates 
why mistrust of ourselves and our divine abilities is so deeply 
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TWO THEORIES OF NATURE THAT AFFECT OUR ABILITY 
TO TRUST 
First Theory: Nature as a Mechanism 
In the mechanistic view of nature, everything is an artifact made 
by a boss who has many different names. In the Western view, the 
boss is called God. This God is often depicted as a white-bearded male who roams 
around the sky creating the natural world. In this theory, the world is 
a construct and God the constructor. This biblical God is paternal, 
authoritarian, beneficent and, in many ways, tyrannical. He keeps 
track of all things and knows precisely what everyone does and when 
his laws are being broken. One of the operatives of this theory of nature is the idea of pun- 
ishment for one’s sins. This God/father holds us accountable for 
transgressions. The transgressions are judged by various interpreters 
of his laws who throughout history have claimed access to the divine. Essentially, the universe is a monarchy, God the king and we the sub- 
jects. All subjects are considered born with the stain of sin as a part 
of their nature and are therefore untrustworthy. This theory of nature makes many people feel estranged, creating 
an attitude of separateness from the boss. The more we feel sepa- 
rated from this God, the more we feel the need to create some way 
of feeling worthy. So we create an idea of our importance based on 
externals and call it “ego.” 
Reliance on ego ultimately leads to more separation as life 
becomes a contest and a competition with designated others. But the 
sense of estrangement is partially assuaged with an ego-directed atti- 
tude of “us against them.” People are categorized and evaluated on 
the basis of “egonomics,” which includes appearance, tradition, lan- 
guage and physical characteristics. \ I believe that the most troubling thing built into this theory of 
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nature is the impact it has on our ability to operate from a strong 
position of self-trust. Once convinced that you are untrustworthy 
and basically a sinner, you are quite lost. If you are untrustworthy, 
how can you trust in even your untrustworthiness? You can’t! Everything becomes subject to doubt when God is a vindictive 
boss. This leads to the confusion of doubting everything because our 
opinions, feelings and beliefs are untrustworthy. In this scenario, one 
cannot even maintain trust in God because of a basic mistrust of our- 
selves. And not trusting in that God may be breaking one of his laws. It is a no-win situation. This theory of the untrustworthiness of nature, popular as it is, is 
absolutely incompatible with the second principle of manifestation. You cannot tune into the power and energy of the universe to create 
and attract an abundant life if that energy and power is outside you. Second Theory: Nature as Spontaneous and Nonjudging 
In this spontaneous view, God is universal intelligence flowing 
through everything, inspiring the natural process to unfold. The 
emphasis is on awareness of the divine nature in everything rather 
than managing and controlling the natural world. The life force is 
nonjudgmental and is responsible for all creation. In this theory, nature is an unforced unfolding of life forms and there 
is no “boss.” Rather than learning to manage and control the natural 
world, the impulse is to trust it. God, in this theory, loves all things. Human beings are an aspect of this God and are, therefore, carri- 
ers of divinity. Generally, in this theory, human beings are considered 
the highest level of life form. Trusting this most evolved natural 
human includes trusting the paradox of behavior described as good 
and bad, selfish and unselfish, greedy and generous in the same man- 
ner as we respect other life forms by trusting their processes. There is no need to invent an ego that is separate from the divine 
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if our basic human nature is trusted. If we trust ourselves, we know 
how to avoid interfering with nature and how to live in harmony. When we know God as an unseen, loving and accepting power at the 
heart of everything, allowing us to make our own choices, then God 
is a trusted part of our nature. I believe that our nature is much more reliable than our thoughts. This second principle directs us to develop an inner knowing so that 
the natural process of what we desire also desires us. Consider how 
our biological system attracts what is needed for hair to grow, food to 
digest, fingernails to be hard or breasts to be soft without our 
thoughts directing the process. Thinking can often lead us astray, 
while our nature unfolds in the form of amazingly well-functioning 
bodies and minds. When you trust this natural process, you begin to 
trust the nature of all things. The God within all informs your trust- 
ing response to life. The order of nature itself is sometimes crooked and sometimes 
straight. It is wiggly and unorthodox, as seen in the shapes of clouds 
or mountains. They are not in any pattern that we can perceive, and 
they are perfect. When we insist on controlling nature, we are inter- 
fering with nature. The need to straighten out nature shows distrust. But when we 
relax and embrace the infinite variations of the universe, we are 
allowing the divinity of nature to flow and unfold through our life. We have tuned in to the divine. Think of yourself as a consciousness being played out by God just 
as a wave is a part of the ocean that is being played out by the ocean. This theory of nature will promote the kind of trust that you need to 
attract to yourself all that belongs to you in the universe. This unseen, 
divine energy is the ocean that your wave form is a part of. You can 
call it God, ocean or, for that matter, anything else. This is a profoundly exquisite realization because with it you bring 
to your consciousness the inner awareness that you are actually in all 
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things. This leads to miraculous manifestations, in that you are actu- 
ally connected to all that you desire to manifest, and finally you know 
this to be your truth. BEING IN ALL THINGS AT ONCE 
- Authentic trust is only available through the knowing heart. When 
you enter this trusting space, everything: will come to you that 
belongs to you because you have created the inner capacity to receive 
it. The irony is that what you wish to receive is a part of you. This can 
be a troublesome concept to grasp because of the ego’s attachment 
to being separate and special. Nothing in your rational mind could ever convince you that water 
is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. It appears to be 
a fluid that flows and has nothing to do with gases. But when we sub- 
ject water to scrutiny, its constituent elements become manifest. And 
so it is with the idea of being in all things at once. Nothing in our everyday experience gives us much reason to 
believe that our mind has as one of its constituents something invisi- 
ble that is in all living things. Yet when we examine our life force, 
using quantum mechanics, we find that this energy is, indeed, not a 
particle but a wave that is the same in all life. You trust in the universal energy when you accept this “irrational” 
fact: At your basic core you are not only worthy of trust, but you are 
the life force that exists everywhere. If you truly trust in this notion, 
you realize that everything that you perceive as missing in your life is 
a part of the same energy that you are. Manifesting becomes the art 
of bringing to yourself that which is already you. In a sense it is like thinking of the things you want as being on a 
string that is infinitely long, but is nevertheless attached to you in 
some invisible way. It is only a matter of trusting that you can bring 
that string to you and that whatever is supposed to come to your life 
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will be there when you have developed the capacity to receive it. But 
the trick is, you cannot receive it or even come close to manifesting it 
if you have an absence of trust in yourself as an extension of God. I like to think of God as the ocean and myself as a glass. If I dip the 
glass into the ocean, I will have a glass full of God. No matter how I 
analyze this, it will still contain God. Now, the glass of God is not as 
big as the ocean, nor is it omniscient or omnipotent, but it is still 
God. This metaphor allows me to trust both in myself and simulta- 
neously in the wisdom that created me, and to see the oneness. I have deliberately chosen not to use many quotations in this 
book. But I want to emphasize that every spiritual master and all of 
the saints, teachers, gurus or priests throughout history have 
espoused similar advice. This perennial philosophy connects all 
humanity, from tribal and ancient to civilized and present times. It is 
the message that God is within and outside every living thing. Also, 
there is a world we are a part of that is not subject to the changing 
world of time and space. Moreover, we are presently a part of that 
invisible spiritual world. Since it is everywhere, it is not only within you, it is you. The 
meaning of this is that God is not to be found so much as discovered 
within yourself. The statement “You and the Father are one” is more 
than an ecclesiastical admonition. It is a statement of your reality. With practice, you can learn to know this reality. You can learn to 
see the aura around all living things. You can learn to assist others by 
projecting your energy and giving them strength and sustenance. Actually, it is not a skill to learn so much as it is trusting the energy to 
be part of you. It may be that the most effective way to trust your reality is 
through the power of prayer. Prayer and trust offer us seemingly 
magical methods for manifesting the divine desire. But, first you may 
have to shift old perceptions concerning prayer and discover a whole 
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PRAYER AND TRUST 
In the matter of prayer it seems that we often view God as a gigan- 
tic vending machine in the sky who will grant us our wishes when we 
put in the proper tokens in the form of prayers. We expect to insert 
prayers, then pull on the knob and hope that God will dispense the 
goodies. The God vending machine becomes the object of our vener- 
ation. We tell the machine how good it is and how much we worship 
it and expect it to be good to us in return. The basic premise here is that God is outside us and therefore, 
what we need and want is also outside us. This form of prayer is like 
practicing the absence rather than the presence of God. If we believe 
that we are separate from God, the vending machine approach to 
prayer reinforces and deepens that belief. I prefer to promote the idea of prayer in its essence as a commu- 
nion with God. Praying at the spiritual level then becomes com- 
muning with and knowing that God is as close as our breath. What 
we seek in prayer is the experience of co-existing with God. Prayer is 
our communication of readiness for the desires of this sacred energy 
to manifest through our human form. No separation, no absence of 
God within, simply the presence of this force within ourselves. Therefore, the true experience of God does not change or alter 
God, but it changes us. It heals our sense of separation. If we are not 
changed by prayer, we have denied ourselves the opportunity to 
know the wisdom that created us. The search for happiness outside ourselves rekindles an idea that 
we are not whole and relegates prayer to the status of a plea to a 
boss/God. We are then asking for favors rather than seeking a mani- 
festation of our invisible, inspired self. Prayer, at the spiritual level I am writing about, is not asking for 
something any more than the attempt to become a manifester is ask- 
ing for something to show up in your life. What I call authentic 
prayer is inviting divine desire to express itself through me. It is a 
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prayer for what it is that is for my highest purpose and good, or for 
the greater benefit of all mankind. Prayer at this level expresses my 
experience of oneness with the divine energy. This may sound like a radical or even blasphemous notion to you, 
but it is the source of all spiritual traditions. Here are a few examples. Christianity: The kingdom of heaven is within you. Islam: Those who know themselves know their God. Buddhism: Look within, you are the Buddha. Vedanta (part of Hinduism): Atman (individual consciousness) and 
Brahman (universal consciousness) are one. Yoga (part of Hinduism): God dwells within you as you. Confucianism: Heaven, earth and human are of one body. Upanishads (part of Hinduism): By understanding the self, all this 
universe is known. Overcoming your conditioning in this area is crucially important. At first, you may be able to accept this idea on an intellectual level, 
but be unable to make it your authentic experience. So, I suggest you 
make prayer your.experience by using it to replace the random, con- 
tinuous thoughts that you have all day. Use your trust to commune 
with God rather than to be in a constant state of chatter. Replace thoughts about your experiences with the experience of 
prayer. For instance, praying in this sense can be a sentence such as 
“Sacredness guide me now” or “Sacred love flow through me now” 
silently recited instead of thinking thoughts. Prayer in this form is 
tilling and clearing the inner self of ego chatter so that what you 
desire and what desires you can grow. My personal practice of prayer 
is participating in a communion with God wherein I see God within 
me and ask for the strength.and the inner awareness to handle what- 
ever confronts me. I know that I am not separate from this vital force 
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that we call God. I know that this force connects me to everything in 
the universe and that by placing my attention on what it is that I want 
to attract to myself I am really doing nothing more than manifesting 
a new aspect of myself. I then let go of the results and let the universe handle the details. I 
retreat in peace and keep reminding myself that heaven on earth is a 
choice that I must make, not a place I must find.
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acteristic insight and clarity, Dyer teaches the process 
of meditation as a way to streamline our thoughts, 
desires, and goals, and to bring what we most desire 
into our lives. Whether we realize it or not, we all 
struggle with built-in societal barriers that obstruct 
our inner potential. When we fall into a dream state— 
either in sleep or during a down moment of the day— 
we conceive of goals and desires that are more 
spectacular than those we entertain when “awake,” yet 
we always wake thinking, “I can’t do that. ” It is this 
conditioned response that prevents us from achieving 
what we want, and it is this response that Dyer teaches 
us to overcome through the Nine Spiritual Principles 
of Manifesting. From “Becoming Aware of Your 
Highest Self” to “Trusting Yourself Is Trusting the 
Wisdom That Created You” to “Meditating to the 
Sound of Creation,” the Nine Spiritual Principles of 
Manifesting clear away what constricts us and 
illuminate a new path to achieving our truest goals. Manifest Your Destiny is Wayne W: Dyer’s most 
exciting and accessible work, a remarkable guidebook 
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Also by Wayne W. Dyer 
Your Sacred Self 
A Promise Is a Promise 
Real Magic 
You'll See It When You Believe It 
What Do You Really Want for Your Children. No More Holiday Blues 
Gifts from Eykis 
The Sky’s the Limit 
Pulling Your Own Strings 
Your Erroneous Zones 
MANIFEST 
YOUR DESTINY 
The Nine Spiritual Principles for 
Getting Everything You Want 
WAYNE W. DYER 
& HarperCollinsPublishers 
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Who is the author of the book "Manifest Your Destiny"?
The power of attracting one's needs and desires into one's life through meditation and the nine spiritual principles.
What is the main focus of the book "Manifest Your Destiny"?
The author has experienced "astonishing" results and has used the principles to manifest his own destiny.
What is the author's experience with the principles he is teaching?
The author suggests replacing random thoughts with silent, intuitive prayer, and using it to connect with the divine energy within oneself.
What is the author's approach to prayer?
The author emphasizes that there is no separation between the physical and spiritual worlds, and that we are all connected to the divine energy that is within us and in all living things.
What is the author's message about the nature of the universe?