It is my choice to 
live with the God force flowing unrestricted through me, and it is the 
way of co-creating my life at this moment. Trust, then, is the corner- 
stone of my praying, and with it comes the peace that is the essence 
of manifesting. PEACE: THE RESULT OF TRUST 
The highest self wants you to experience peace, which is a defini- 
tion of enlightenment. You may recall that I wrote earlier in this book 
that I define enlightenment as being immersed in and surrounded by 
peace. The more you trust in the wisdom that creates all, the more 
you will be trusting in yourself. The result of trusting is that an enor- 
mous sense of peace becomes available to you. When the ego insists on winning, comparing or judging, you will 
be able to soothe and calm the ego’s fears with the peacefulness born 
of trust. When you are able to trust, you know that God and you are 
one, like the glass of ocean water and the ocean itself. You are what 
the God force is doing, just as a wave is what the ocean is doing. As this awareness grows you will discover that you are a more 
peaceful person and, consequently, that enlightenment becomes the 
way of your life. Being independent of the good opinion of others 
and being detached from the need to be right are two powerful indi- 
cators that your life is shifting toward a consciousness of trust in 
yourself and trust in God. Yet there are many people in our lives who 
disturb our state of peacefulness. Then, the question is how to han- 
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dle those who consciously or unconsciously disturb our experience 
of trust and peace. I once wrote an essay in a somewhat facetious tone titled “Your 
Soulmate Is the Person You Can Hardly Stand.” The essence of the 
essay was that the people in our lives who we agree with and share 
similar interests with are easy to accept and actually teach us very lit- 
tle. But those who can push our buttons and send us into a rage at 
the slightest provocation are our real teachers. The person who is most capable of disturbing your state of peace 
is a person who is reminding you that you are not truly in the state of 
peace or enlightenment that results from trust. At that moment, this 
person is your greatest teacher. This is the person whom you want to 
treasure and thank God for sending into your life! When you can 
transcend the rage, anger and upset which that person appears to 
provoke, and instead say, “Thank you for being my teacher,” you have 
acknowledged a soulmate relationship. Everyone in your life who can still push your buttons and send you 
into that frenzied state is a master teacher disguised as a manipula- 
tive, inconsiderate, frustrating, non-understanding being. The peace 
that is enlightenment means that you are not only at peace with those 
who share your interests and agree with you, and with strangers who 
come and go, but also with those master teachers who remind you 
that you still have some work to do on yourself. Give thanks for those great spiritual masters who have arrived in 
your life in the form of your children, current or former spouses, 
irritating neighbors, co-workers, obnoxious strangers and the like, 
for they help you stay in an enlightened, peaceful state. They let you 
know each day how much more work you truly have to do and in 
what ways you have not mastered yourself. Peace occurs when your highest self is dominant in your life. When you begin to feel peace as the result of trust, you are enjoying 
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your personality is a vehicle for the whole. You cannot divide the infi- 
nite. There is no division. You must trust this awareness. When you divide, you have moved out of identification with the 
God force and have taken up shelter in the ego. It is here that you 
will find an absence of peace and also an absence of trust in the wis- 
dom that created you. There are many things that you can do ona regular basis to make this 
second principle of trusting in the oneness a reality in your life. Here 
are a few suggestions to nurture trust in yourself and in the oneness. HOW TO TRUST IN YOURSELF AND THE WISDOM THAT 
CREATED YOU 
Begin by admitting your confusion or failures. When you do this, 
you are dismissing any illusion of trust, which is in reality a false 
self-trust. Remind yourself that genuine trust involves letting go of 
all conditioning that teaches you that trust in yourself is based on 
being special or separate. When you are honest with yourself about every aspect of your 
life, you discontinue identifying with separateness. You then become 
ready for the insight that trust in yourself and trust in ultimate truth 
are one and the same. Remind yourself often that you are a child of 
God and that you have the God force within you. Let the statements 
“T am it” and “It is me” rise from your inner being. Keep in mind that you cannot go to a higher ground if you are 
hanging onto a lower level. You cannot leave the physical world if 
you are so attached to it that you refuse to let go. The concept of 
trust involves surrendering and trusting the God force. Imagine yourself falling from a precipice while clinging to a huge 
rock, believing that it will protect you. Letting go of the rock is a 
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and breathe in the physical earth plane, but you realize that you are 
not only your body and mind, and that the rock is not your salva- 
tion. Your needs and demands cease, and you are one with the man- 
ifest consciousness. ; 
Of course, you are literally still in the body, but you have also 
joined the manifest consciousness. This trust allows you to partici- 
pate in the act of creation. Your current world will be experienced 
anew. The freedom and respect you receive from God will be 
bestowed by you on the circumstances of your world. Acquire a rebellious attitude toward the philosophy that preaches a 
style of God-as-boss who is authoritarian and a benevolent tyrant. Rejection of this model does not mean that you are an atheist, but 
rather a believer in the true meaning of divinity. You are not required to feel inferior, to view yourself as a sinner 
and to prostrate yourself before idols and dogma in order to believe 
in God. Study St. Paul in the New Testament where he says, “Let 
this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who being in 
the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.” 
This is the kind of trust you must adopt in order to know your 
divine self. Trusting does not mean you never experience life’s valleys. There 
will be peaks and valleys as long as you live on this physical plane. There is no happiness without the opposite experience of unhappi- 
ness. Opposites are the way it is in the physical plane. Expect that 
this is also your reality. Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be dif- 
ferent than they are. It is better to embrace trust when darkness is 
present, knowing that light will follow. Begin to look for the lesson 
in the darkness rather than cursing it. Trust allows you simply to 
observe the dark and unhappy times rather than identifying totally 
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with those aspects of life. From this perspective you are not at the 
mercy of your ego energy, insisting that everything must be perfect, 
and that when things are not, you have reasons to give up your trust 
in the divine. The valleys are merely the way of the physical plane, but they are 
not who you are. You are part of the unseen wisdom that created 
this entire physical plane and you can trust in it uncategorically. There is timeless wisdom in this old idea of trust. Any person can 
sense that problems are within, but the spiritually trusting person 
realizes that the solution is also within. When you trust in yourself, you are not looking for solutions to 
your life problems in someone or something outside yourself. Instead, 
you remain in a state of trusting. Then, in a trustworthy manner, you 
can proceed to attract the energy to you that provides the solution. Take your most serious problems and turn them over to God. Say 
something like the following: “I have not been able to resolve these 
issues in my life and I have used every technique I know. I would 
like to show my trust in the divine force by simply turning them 
over to your divine hands. As I do this I know that the divine force 
that is you, God, is also me, and I trust that this action will lead to a 
resolution of these problems.” 
I can assure you that this method puts you into direct contact 
with a higher power than can ever be found in a bottle, a bank state- 
ment, a contrary partner, an illness or anything on the earth plane 
that you believe is external or separate from you. I left all of the 
addictions of my life behind me with the simple words “I’ve tried 
everything else, now I am trusting God.” 
It was not as though something outside myself was now doing it 
for me. I simply trusted that force, and it began showing up in my 
daily abstinence program. I trusted in the eternal wisdom and I also 
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trusted in myself to receive that wisdom and apply it. This same 
process has been the source of all of the manifesting that has 
occurred and continues to transpire in my daily life. , 
The presence of complete trust is evident in your life when what 
you think, feel and do are all balanced and in harmony. The pres- 
ence of a distinction between your thoughts and your emotional 
state as well as your behavior tends to move you away from the 
trusting attitude I am encouraging you to adopt as you practice this 
second principle of manifestation. Examine your thoughts carefully. See if those thoughts are totally 
congruent with your actions. To say “I believe in a healthy body” 
and to practice eating in unhealthy ways dissolves trust in yourself. Congruent thought, emotions and behavior are strong indicators of 
your self-trust. And keep in mind that when you trust in yourself, 
you are trusting in God at the same time. When you are incongruent with your thoughts, you are showing 
a lack of trust in the divinity that is your essence. Be honest about 
any incongruency. Identify it and trust in your ability to transcend 
it, and the energy that you need for this transformation will be 
attracted to you. But if you hang onto the incongruency, thinking 
one thing but behaving in disingenuous ways, you will sabotage your 
ability to trust in yourself and in the infinite wisdom as well. As you practice surrendering, acknowledge your fundamental 
richness rather than bemoaning the imagined poverty of your being. When you practice spiritual trust you are surrendering your ego, 
and all of its hallucinatory beliefs, to a higher power. You are just 
letting go and knowing that divine guidance is always with you. Begin a meditation practice of contemplating the supreme principle 
that is beyond the pettiness of this world. Yes, it is in this world, but 
it is not blemished by this world. The mind needs and craves seren- 
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ity. Meditation is not merely making the mind think that it is medi- 
tating. Meditation is, literally, the embodiment of truth and trust. It 
is in the purification of the mind that liberation reveals itself. The practice of meditation is a powerful tool in my life. As a 
writer, I sometimes write for hours and everything flows magically. Then a time comes when there are no more words. I want to write 
and nothing happens. No matter how hard I want to write, there is 
no writing taking place. At these moments I have learned to leave the typewriter and to 
sit quietly, closing my eyes and surrendering. I don’t know what I 
surrender to, but I simply let go and attempt to purify my mind. Then, after some time of simply surrendering meditatively, I seem 
to tap into something that is a source of inspiration, and I write 
page after page with no idea where it is coming from. This process 
of closing my eyes and becoming serene gives me the ability to tap 
into that source of inspiration. And the word “inspiration” comes 
from “in spirit.” 
This is trust. This is grace. It is knowing that I can literally con- 
front myself in a spirit of serenity and that what I seek will be 
attracted to me. This is the energy of manifesting, and it comes 
most frequently when the mind is quiet. It is the quiet mind that 
comes in contact with the truth. _ 
When we meditate, we come into contact with the part of us that 
is truth. The surrendering process helps us to use this truth in our 
daily pursuits. It is the same with trust. Surrender to it through 
your quiet moments of serenity and you will know the truth of this 
principle. This second spiritual principle of manifesting leads us to a higher 
place within ourselves. It gives us the confidence to trust in some- 
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thing other than that which we perceive with our senses. It illumi- 
nates within us the knowing that there is far more to this journey 
than what we observe, and we come to trust in this knowing to a 
point where peace serves as a serene substitute for doubt and anxiety. When you trust, you know. And a knowing cannot be silenced by 
the contrary opinions of anyone you encounter. You will be indepen- 
dent of the good opinion of others when this trust becomes your way 
of life. You will not need to prove yourself to anyone, or to convince 
anyone of the rightness of your views. You will be a silent sage, moving through this material plane with a 
knowing that you have tapped into a source of inspiration that pro- 
vides you with all the sustenance you need. Indeed, you will begin to 
see how this earth plane is really a very big part of you, more so than 
you might ever have imagined. And this is the subject matter for the 
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YOU ARE NOT AN ORGANISM IN AN ENVIRONMENT: 
YOU ARE AN ENVIRONORGANISM 
The Third Principle 
ne of the reasons the idea of being able to manifest is so 
foreign to most of us is because we have been brought up to believe 
that as individuals we are separate from our environment. We think it 
is our role to dominate our environment and describe ourselves as 
individuals within the environment. Armed with this kind of logic, 
we are diminished in our ability to sense our connection to our envi- 
ronment. : 
Because of our sense of disconnection we believe we do not have 
the power to attract what we want from our environment. Consequently, we feel it is merely a matter of luck or happenstance 
when we succeed in manifesting. When we change this idea about 
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ourselves, we activate our ability to manifest and see it as a function 
of our divinity rather than as being an impossibility or an incident of 
luck or coincidence. This third principle of manifesting begins with the understanding 
that it is absolutely impossible to describe ourselves as separate from 
our environment. I am coining a new word, a neologism, for the pur- 
pose of articulating this principle. For the rest of this chapter con- 
sider yourself as an “environorganism.” This word signifies that there 
is absolutely no difference between you and your environment. You 
are your environment, and even more significantly, for the purposes 
of this book, your environment is you. OUR NATURE AS AN ENVIRONORGANISM 
Try thinking of the external world, your environment, as your 
extended body. That is, you are not separate from the external world 
you see. In this concept it is impossible to describe yourself without 
including your surroundings. In fact, it is not even possible to see or 
hear yourself as a separate entity apart from your environment. For example, describe yourself walking, just you walking. There 
cannot be walking without also describing whatever it is you are 
walking upon. Without the floor or the ground, there would only be 
your legs moving back and forth, and, of course, that is not walking. Your experience of walking also includes the air you are breathing 
while you are walking, the gravity that keeps you from floating off 
into space, the pebbles, or carpet, or sand, or cement that you walk 
on and the makeup of these elements in the pebbles and carpet, and 
on and on. In addition to your walking as an example of you as an environor- 
ganism, examine the page that you are reading in this moment. What 
do you actually see? Black ink formed into words that you are read- 
ing. Try to imagine these words without the presence of the back- 
ground upon which they are printed. The white page on which the 
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words are printed does not receive your primary attention, yet this 
page you are holding as a unit of a book creates a meaning in combi- 
nation with the individual units of print called words. The environ- 
ment in which those words are inseparably enmeshed is the page 
itself. In this analogy, you are the words and your background is every- 
thing upon which you are imprinted. This principle is important to 
understand if you are going to become a manifester. Just as the stars 
in the sky would be impossible to perceive without the background 
of the dark sky, and you couldn’t see your own body or the body of 
anyone else without a background that is in contrast to that body, so 
does this principle apply to you. You cannot be described independent of your environment, and I 
invite you to shift your awareness away from yourself as an organism 
in the environment to yourself as an extension of your environment 
and always inseparable from it. The result of this thinking will be that 
you begin to see that everything in your environment is a part of you 
and vice versa. Your environment is not something that you must 
either push or it will push you around. It is an extension of yourself, 
just as you are an extension of the environment. This is a unique concept to grasp. It is imperative, however, for 
understanding the premise of this book. You are both distinct and 
inseparable from your environment. BEING AN INDIVIDUAL AND AN ENVIRONMENT 
SIMULTANEOUSLY 
Have you ever seen a person with a front but without a back? Have you ever seen a person with an outside but without an inside? These rhetorical questions are meant to stimulate you to consider 
how you can be differentiated and undifferentiated at the same time, 
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The nature of this physical world is essentially that of waves. Each 
wave of energy that makes up a physical mass has a crest or a peak 
and a nadir or a valley. These tops and bottoms of the wave are always 
easy to identify as separate, yet they are always together. You cannot 
ever get a bucketful of peaks and observe them independent of their 
corresponding valleys. This is the fundamental feature of nature. The 
north and south poles of a magnet are always together, yet always dis- 
tinct. Your front always has a back, your inside always has an outside, 
and now ycu must extend this understanding outward as well. Of course you are an individual who functions within this environ- 
ment, and it is possible to describe both you and your environment 
with separate identifying terminology that all of us would under- 
stand. But, you must also remember that you cannot separate you 
from your environment either. You are distinct, just as the tops of the 
waves are distinct from the bottoms, but you are irrevocably con- 
nected to the outer world just as that bottom of the wave always has a 
top. When you begin to see this simple truth, mystical experiences of 
manifesting also open up to you as a genuine possibility. Most of us 
have failed to grasp this little truth, and it has led us on a disastrous 
course of feeling that because we are separate from our environment, 
we must exercise control over it. When we do this, we, of course, are 
showing not only a lack of respect for our environment, but for our 
own basic nature as an environorganism as well. PUSHING NATURE AROUND OR SEEING IT AS OURSELVES 
When we think of ourselves as distinct from our environment, we 
take on a posture of exercising control over it. This kind of thinking 
leads us into destructive behavior on both the collective and the per- 
sonal levels. We destroy forests, swamps, mountains, rivers, wildlife or any- 
thing else that obstructs profit and convenience or for something we 
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call “advancing” civilization. We defend these activities without 
understanding that we are also destroying ourselves. Ultimately we 
will make earth uninhabitable if we fail to ‘see that we are killing a 
part of ourselves with this wanton disregard for nature. We all need to begin to experience ourselves as part of our total 
environment. Then perhaps we will discontinue trying to beat that 
same environment into submission. We fail to treat it with love, gen- 
tleness and respect because we are convinced that it is something 
other than ourselves that we are defeating. As we have seen, we can- | 
not be described independent of our environment any more than our 
outside can be described without our inside. The idea of ourselves as an environorganism commands our 
respect for everything that we encounter. When we can respect that 
which appears to be external to us, we will build to live in harmony 
with, rather than in control over, our environment. In our personal lives, recognizing nature as ourselves opens up an 
entire new world of manifestation. We see ourselves in an intelligent 
world. Thus, the intelligence that is in myself is also in my environ- 
ment. With this awareness we tend to see the connection to everything 
much more clearly. We know that whatever appears to be lacking in 
our lives is really due to our having been misinformed when we were 
taught that what seems to be missing can be found outside us. As an environorganism, I know that the energy of what appears to 
be missing in my personal environment and the energy of my own 
body (inside and outside, front and back) is all the same. So, anything 
I view as lacking is because I see myself as removed from what I want 
rather than as connected to it. This is the beginning of the awareness that you can attract every- 
thing to yourself because you are already inextricably attached to it at 
an energy level. The notion of viewing it as unavailable begins to dis- 
appear and you see manifesting as nothing more than materializing 
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You will see yourself not only in your environment, but in every- 
thing and everyone that is a part of that environment. Your new faith 
will no longer permit you to see anything as separate. The separate- 
ness will always be there, just as the peak of the wave is separate from 
the trough, but they will remain inseparable even though separate, 
different yet undifferentiated at the same time. You will have fused 
the dichotomy that prevents you from putting this connective energy 
to work. You will begin to view yourself as an organic part of this 
world rather than as a separate entity in this world. SEEING YOURSELF AS AN ORGANIC PART OF THIS WORLD 
There is a popular belief that we “come into this world.” Thus we 
are continuously embracing the idea that who we are and where we 
come from are two different worlds. The essence of this third spiritual 
principle for manifesting your destiny is that there is no separation, 
and rather than coming into this world as a construction project, that 
you actually grow out of it. Take a look at a plum tree and examine how plums appear in our 
world. You plant a seed and the tree grows, ultimately blossoming 
and producing plums. The intelligence that is in the plum is in this 
world, and so, too, is it in the seed, the blossom, the trunk, the 
branches and the roots. Every single element of the plum tree has 
plum intelligence built into it. We do not say that plums show up 
from the spiritual world of plum essence, and then become physical 
earth-plane fruit. In fact, as we look at a plum tree, we could say with 
all candor that it plums. Every year the thing just plums. In the same way that a plum tree plums, you, too, grow out of this 
world, with the same energy that is in every aspect of your being. Were you to look at the earth from a distance you would observe that 
it has rocks, oceans, vegetation, and that the thing actually peoples. You are a result of what the universe is doing on a conscious level, 
just as a wave is what the ocean is doing and a plum is what the plum 
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tree is doing. The intelligence that is you, unseen as it may be, is you 
in every stage of your creation and life experience, and it is also the 
same in every other person as well as in all things in our physical 
world. Most of us were taught quite the contrary. Creation is generally 
thought of as divided into the spiritual realm of the unseen and the 
physical world of matter. Also, that we are the result of an act of con- 
struction, and rather than growing out of the world, we were put 
into it. This, of course, reinforces the idea of powerlessness in having | 
anything to do with the act of creation. To empower yourself’ to, 
become a co-creator in the affairs of your life, you will have to leave 
these old ideas behind, but mind you, they do not die easily. The 
conditioning process is embedded in the bedrock of your existence. When you come to see yourself as growing out of this world, you 
see that the native intelligence that was in the very seed of your pro- 
creation is an energy flowing through everything in your world. You 
and the environment of that growth process are distinctly identifiable 
but always connected. Inseparable in the same way as your breathing 
and the air you breathe, your walking and the ground upon which 
you walk and your thoughts and the organism with which you think. » Notice that everyone breathes the same air, walks on the same 
ground and thinks as an organism, just like you. You are, indeed, 
connected to all of these beings. It is not an accident that someone 
living in a distant country, with different outward physical character- 
istics and a separate language, could die and donate his or her liver or 
kidney or cornea to you, and it would accommodate the life force 
flowing in you. This idea of growing out of the world or being a result 
of the earth peopling as a plum tree plums is advantageous to the 
process of manifesting your own destiny. It empowers you with the 
wisdom of creation rather than making you a puppet whose strings 
are controlled by external forces. When we believe that what is outside me is not me, and that we 
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are not a part of the peopling process of the earth, we cultivate an 
attitude of estrangement and hostility. This mentality leads us to talk 
of our conquest of the environment, which means: that we cannot 
capitalize on the awareness of being a connected being. The need to 
conquer puts us at odds with the world. A profoundly important Native American saying is: “No tree has 
branches so foolish as to fight among themselves.” Imagine the result 
of such behavior by the tree! The tree and all of its parts would die 
from such an absurdity. Yet that is precisely what we do when we see 
ourselves as divided from all of the other people who are being peo- 
pled from the same divine intelligence. We grow out of our world and are the result of what the divine 
intelligence is doing, and we can never lose that connection. You 
might think of yourself as a symptom of the universe rather than asa 
stranger in this universe. What we have all come to think of as the spirit within us is actually 
that divine, unseen intelligence that caused you, and continues to 
cause you to grow out of this world. It, too, is separable from your 
physical essence, your environment and everyone and everything else 
in this universe. If you think otherwise, then you reinforce your 
inability to influence your destiny and to manifest or attract anything 
to you. When you know that you grow out of this world just as an apple 
does from an apple tree, then you identify with this spiritual essence. It is in identification with this inner essence that you make your con- 
nection to everything else. And it is with this connection that you 
begin to attract your desires to your physical world. This power of 
attraction will be the subject matter of the fourth principle described 
in this book. For now, I want you to gain a clear sense of how you are actually 
growing out of the world. I want you to perceive the difference in 
this concept from one that promulgates our arrival here from a sepa- 
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rate world by a power that is outside us. You are not a momentary 
flash of embodied consciousness between two eternal blacknesses. You are an essence that is eternally growing in this world, a world in 
which the spirit and the manifestation of that spirit appear to be dif- 
ferent to the senses, and indeed they are, but they are also con- 
nected. You are both of these essences at once. | 
It is this awareness that is crucial as you proceed along this mani- 
festing path. It is a power, but make no mistake about it, contrary to 
what your ego might tell you, you do not get to own this power 
exclusively. THE POWER IS IN YOU BUT IS NOT YOURS ALONE 
The power and the magic of this world cannot be reserved for the 
exclusive use of anyone, including you. It is available at all times; 
however, it does not belong to anyone. What you are doing as an 
environorganism is making contact with an energy that is beyond the 
dualism of the earth plane, and yet is connected to it at the same 
time, separate but distinct. The way to make this contact is to understand this energy. Everything on the physical plane experiences lightness and darkness. If it were always light we would not have a concept of dark. But there 
is something that could never know darkness. That is the source of all 
light, the sun. The source is beyond the duality of the physical plane. It is this source of energy that you want to contact when you are 
empowering yourself. You do not own the energy of the sun, but it is always available to 
you. That energy is not subject to the laws of duality, nor is your 
spirit, which is the source of your divine power. But it is still you, and 
yours to use. You cannot own this power any more than you can own and con- 
trol the environment. To own it means you separate from it. There 
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becomes an owner and that which is owned, and this violates the 
principle of you as an environorganism. You are a holistic being with 
both nondualistic energy and the energy of the physical plane as a 
part of your being at your disposal. - 
You are a whole being. You therefore need a holistic view of your- 
self as an environorganism in order to understand yourself. To con- 
ceptualize yourself as a spiritual and physical being separate from 
your environment is to remove any potential for knowing your holis- 
tic state. As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separate- 
ness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in 
a way that the ego-driven self could never contemplate. SEEING YOURSELF AS A HOLOGRAM 
One of the most intriguing ways to see yourself in the way that I 
am describing in this third principle is to look at a hologram and 
then project yourself into this viewpoint. If, somehow, you were able 
to see all of humanity along with everything else that exists simulta- 
neously, you would have a vision of the hologrammatic nature of the 
universe. As it is, you are stuck being able to see only tiny segments 
of the earth at one time. A hologram is a three-dimensional photographic image obtained 
with laser beams. The unique thing about a hologram is that one 
small segment contains the entire picture. When one tiny piece of 
the hologram is broken off and projected, it shows an image of the 
entire object. The hologram is a perfect representation for you as an environorgan- 
ism. Your environment includes everyone, alive and dead, and you can 
draw their energy to you because, from a hologrammatic viewpoint, 
they are you. You are one little physical image that reflects all of human- 
ity when projected spiritually upon the cosmic screen. Each and every 
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The understanding of holograms can be applied intrinsically and 
extrinsically. One tiny segment of your body can be cut off and pro- 
jected through a laser beam, and your entire body will be reflected 
from that one tiny piece. Each and every cell of your being contains 
the energy of your entire being. On an extrinsic level, you are one of 
those segments that reflect all of humanity as a hologram. Unfortunately, the peoples of the world have yet to apply this 
hologrammatic understanding to their living. Seeing ourselves as 
connected to all of humanity is an idea whose time will come, and 
it will not be stopped. History shows us how we have carved our- 
selves up into nations with various ideologies such as capitalism, 
socialism, totalitarianism, communism, monarchism and democ- 
racy that often transcend the importance of humanity itself. We 
have classified ourselves on the basis of physical appearance and 
nationalistic identifications such as Italian, American and Japanese. We have further subdivided ourselves into classes based upon our 
economic levels or the colors of our collars. Countries are further divided between the political right and left 
and religious beliefs, and the division continues right on down into 
families and, eventually, into individuals. The process of division is 
the opposite of the hologram model of our reality. Essentially, like it or not, human beings are the same everywhere. We share the emotions of fear, love, hate and jealousy. We also share 
our life-giving blood, intermingling it for the survival of those who 
need it, and we have the same internal organs and thoughts. Yet our 
egos persist in the work of division. When we look at our individual selves there is also the inclination 
to divide ourselves, which leads us away from our divine nature and 
removes us from the world of manifesting our destiny. We need to 
monitor the internal conflict with which we divide ourselves. The 
ego creates divisive thoughts such as the following: the difference 
between what I am and what I should be; how I behave and how I 
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should behave; how I used to be and how I am today; what I have 
been told by others is what I should be; how messed up I am in real- 
ity; what I think and how I feel; how I look and how much better 
others look; how much I make, how much others make and how 
much I need. The list is potentially endless. All of this conflict as a result of our propensity to divide and sub- 
divide ourselves at the world, national, social or individual level is an 
expression of chaos. We cannot bring order to the world or to our 
lives as long as we fail to recognize that, in reality, all human beings 
are holograms of humanity. We all reflect the whole, and it is essen- 
tial for us to begin to think in this way. When you perceive yourself in the hologram that is humanity, you 
connect on an energy level to everyone else in your environment. An 
environorganism most truly is a reflection of it all, and this energy 
that you share is shared by all. This awareness gives you the option to 
tap into this universal energy anywhere, at any time, by metaphori- 
cally projecting yourself to reflect the whole. When you can do this 
projecting without doubt or reservation, you can literally see how 
your inner thoughts and desires are not only within you, but are 
within the whole of humanity, which is abundantly boundless. This is 
accomplished by simply changing your beliefs from a separate ego to 
that of an environorganism. As an environorganism, you are a single individual who is only a 
part of the picture at the same time that you contain the whole 
panorama. Moreover, the content of your consciousness, which dif- 
fers from person to person, is also hologrammatic in nature. Consciousness is the mental condition of being aware. Your individ- 
ual thoughts, while they form only a part of the total picture of 
human consciousness, simultaneously contain the whole of human 
consciousness. » Like a hologram, your thoughts reflect the thoughts of all. The 
power of your thoughts in this hologrammatic view can be projected 
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in such a way as to connect to all of humanity. Your thoughts are, lit- 
erally, connected to the thoughts of everyone else, as are your emo- 
tions, your desires, your total inner world. You can learn to use this 
connection to nurture your own divinity and, therefore, by defini- 
tion, the divinity of all of humanity. The nature of a hologram and the nature of you as an environor- 
ganism are one and the same. The energy that comprises your 
humanity is in everything around you. You are it, it is you. You are 
not separate from it. The Bhagavad Gita summarizes this point of 
view as profoundly as I’ve ever found. Commit these holy words to 
memory as you practice the art of spiritual manifesting in your daily 
life. They will serve you well wherever you are, and in whatever way 
you believe your current life circumstances are incomplete. He who sees that the Lord of all is ever 
the same in all that is—immortal in the field of 
mortality—he sees the truth. And when a man sees 
that the God in himself is the same God in all that is, 
he hurts not himself by hurting others. Then he goes, 
indeed, to the highest path. The key phrase in this profound passage is “in all that is.” This 
includes you and me and everything that is. It is you. You are not sep- 
arate from it. Use some of the following suggestions to implement 
this understanding and truly experience this third principle of spiri- 
tual manifesting. SUGGESTIONS FOR LIVING THIS PRINCIPLE 
Make a conscious effort to check yourself when you begin to 
think in ways that reflect separateness. Imagine yourself as a part 
of all that you see and make an internal attempt to project the 
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energy of your thoughts into all that is alive on the planet. Substitute the pronoun “us” for the pronoun “them,” and 
send sacred energy to co-workers, family, strangers and people 
that you only see in faraway places on television. Silently say, “I 
am these people,” “I am also in those trees and clouds,” “We 
truly are the world and I am not separate from anyone or any- 
thing.” This inner practice will help you to embrace the concept 
of you as an environorganism rather than an organism in an envi- 
ronment. Contemplate the energy that is your life force. Forget about your 
body and your thoughts, and focus attention on the invisible life 
force that sustains your very being, which is also known as chi or 
prana. See if you can sense it objectively and also try to do the same 
thing with the energy of someone close to you. Watch that person 
and forget about his or her body. Center your attention on the idea 
that you share the same energy, and so you are the same person at 
that energy level. Becoming an observer of your energy and the energy of those 
around you is a way of putting you into contact with the spiritual 
essence of everyone and everything. Awareness of this connection 
will help you begin to use this energy to attract the objects of your 
desire, since this life force is also present in all that you wish to 
manifest into your life. Trust in the wisdom of your feelings. If you feel it, it is true for you. You can avoid being controlled by attitudes that belong to others by 
not placing your trust in something your heart does not feel. This is accomplished by trusting the wisdom of your inner feel- 
ings, which flow from trust of your experience of life. When you 
trust your feelings, you trust the energy that is the life force of the 
universe. Those feelings you know to be true are the contact with 
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that life force and should never be ignored in favor of a belief that 
your heart wisdom contradicts. Practice being gentle, respectful and loving toward the life force in 
all things. In other words, behave as if the God in all life really mat- 
tered. I live near the ocean for most of the year, either in Florida or 
Hawaii. I was walking along the beach in Florida one morning when 
thousands of small, silver fish washed up on the shore. They were all 
jumping around and gasping for water. I began throwing the fish 
back into the ocean, which was now a bit calmer after the waves 
that had beached the silver fish. As I was throwing the fish back into the water, a man walked by 
and laughed at my efforts. He said something like, “Can’t you see 
how hopeless your task is? There are thousands of fish on the 
shoreline, and your efforts are not making any difference at all.” | 
bent back down and threw in another fish and responded, “It made 
a difference to that one.” Remind yourself that your efforts do 
make a difference, even if you think they are minuscule compared 
to the magnitude of the problem. Being gentle, respectful and loving to one other person or crea- 
ture has major significance for you and the other. The energy of love 
is sent out into the universe and connects with the same loving 
essence that is in all things. This does not deny a natural food chain, 
but extends love, thanks, respect and gentleness to all, even when it 
is a part of your diet. The energy of that food is also life sustaining, and eventually, 
every creature and every being becomes food for other beings, 
including yourself. In essence, we are all tomorrow’s food. The uni- 
verse gobbles up all form and turns it into new form, while the 
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Determine that you will spend some time each day alone and in 
silence, meditating on this principle. Repeat the principle over and 
over as a silent mantra: “I am not an organism in an environment, I 
am an environorganism.” By repeating these words to yourself you 
will eventually begin to project this reality outward. This is the beginning of your manifestation project, because man- 
ifesting is nothing more than materializing a new aspect of yourself 
to which you have always been connected on a spiritual level. Make the spaces of your life as sacred as possible. In your living 
space bless all that surrounds you, and fill your space with the life 
that plants, flowers and animals bring. Spend some time contem- 
plating your living space as a holy place. The more you bring your environment alive with sacred thoughts 
and feelings, the more you will feel spiritually connected. An atti- 
tude of sacred space automatically attracts more to your world than 
an attitude of indifference or hostility. A hostile environment breeds 
discontent and keeps what you need and desire from manifesting in 
your life. This is uncomfortably obvious in large cities, where very little 
respect has been paid to the immediate environs, where trees have 
been cut down, parks removed, and most of it replaced with con- 
crete, stores, high-rises and freeways. The soul is removed when the 
space is not honored by builders or residents. What manifests is a hostile, frightening, non-loving world with 
people to match. Restoring nature and all that is natural to your life 
and to the places where it has been forfeited in the name of growth 
and profits in our larger social living areas is one way of bringing 
back the energy that will manifest love, happiness and prosperity. The Sufi poet Rumi wrote a poem, almost a millennium ago, 
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The Seed Market 
Can you find another market like this? Where, 
with your one rose 
you can buy hundreds of rose gardens? Where, 
for one seed 
you get a whole wilderness? For one weak breath, 
the divine wind? You’ve been fearful 
Of being absorbed in the ground, 
or drawn up by the air. Now, your waterbead lets go 
and drops into the ocean, 
where it came from. It no longer has the form it had, 
but it’s still water. The essence is the same. This giving up is nota repenting. : 
It’s a deep honoring of yourself. When the ocean comes to you as a lover, 
marry, at once, quickly, 
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A perfect falcon, for no reason, 
has landed on your shoulder, 
and become yours. —FROM The Essential Rumi 
TRANSLATIONS BY COLEMAN BARKS WITH JOAN MOYNE 
Become aware of how your judgments prevent you from connect- 
ing to whatever you are judging. A judgment is a definition of your- 
self as separate from that which you are judging. Remember that it 
is possible to look out on the world and not condemn it, to have 
absolutely no judgment or interpretation of it but to just allow it 
to be. The ego is the part that keeps you attached to an idea of separa- 
tion which, of course, inhibits your awareness of this third princi- 
ple. Your ego analyzes, condemns, defines, evaluates, interprets and 
judges almost everything. Work hard each day at just letting go and 
seeing yourself as a part of all of those people and things that you 
are judging. When the judgment disappears, it does so because you 
have realized that you are really a part of that which you are judging. Your judgment is only a definition of yourself. As an environorganism you will find judgment almost impossible 
and this will free you to use that energy in a far more productive 
and loving way. That is, to manifest what you desire rather than to 
judge others. Have fun with the idea of yourself as a hologram. If you remember 
that you are a tiny piece of humanity, reflected in your own little 
image and personality, then you have a green light to reflect the 
humanity that you would like in your world. You are one tiny bit of 
a six-billion-or-so-piece hologram, and you reflect all of those six 
billion pieces at every given moment of your life. This is a difficult concept for your rational brain to grasp but, on 
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the other hand, take a look at a three-dimensional hologram some- 
time and try to figure out with your rational mind how one little 
sliver can reflect the whole. This is not a knowing for your left 
brain. It is for your heart. View yourself in this way, from your 
heart, and you will create a scintillating experience of how powerful 
you really are in this big hologram of a world. This is the third principle of spiritual manifestation. We are all simul- ° 
taneously our own beings and all that is outside us as well. We cannot 
ever separate ourselves from our environment while we are in a phys- 
ical body. Knowing this puts us in touch with the energy of attraction 
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The Fourth Principle 
he central notion of manifesting is the understanding that 
you have within yourself the ability to attract the objects of your 
desire. This idea may still seem to you to be out of your power. But, 
if you have understood the previous three principles, then you are 
beginning to know that this power is within you. Being able to attract 
your desires may seem more likely when you consider how things are 
created from the spirit world of the formless seemingly moving into 
the material world. In one of the most intriguing sentences in the New Testament, St. 
Paul addresses this process of creation. He said it this way: “Things 
which are seen are not made of things which do appear.” St. Paul is 
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telling us that the creative energy is neither solid nor restricted. The 
physical world of form originates in something other than form itself, 
even though we know it is all one world, when viewed from a holo- 
grammatic perspective. St. Paul’s words form the basis for my writing about this principle 
and for several of those to come in this book. I believe they suggest 
how energy informs our ability to attract what we desire. St. Paul is 
giving us a clue about manifesting our desires into the world of matter. ENERGY AS A FORCE WE CAN TAP 
In a film about his boyhood, Albert Einstein describes picking up 
a compass and watching in fascination as the needle moved when he 
changed direction. He said that he became obsessed with under- 
standing the invisible force that moved the compass needle. Where 
was the force located? Who controlled it? Why did it always work? What was it made of? Were there places where it didn’t operate? These are the natural questions of an inquiring genius. This force has many characteristics that are quite impossible to 
detect with our physical senses. We call the force energy. Energy is in 
all things in our universe and has an impact upon objects around it 
with something that we describe as the power of attraction. In mag- 
netic fields we can easily see it at work, yet we are unable to detect 
the formless energy with our sensory apparatus. The force is there, 
attracting and repelling, and it is everywhere on our planet. If it is everywhere, then it is also within us. It seems unlikely that 
our senses will inform us any better than they help us comprehend 
how a magnetic pole works. We can see the results, but the force 
itself is always elusive and in motion. Our planet is in a perpetual state of spinning, orbiting and hurtling 
through space. Everything on the planet is a part of this movement, 
even though it appears to our senses that we are motionless. You are 
on the planet. The energy that moves it moves you. The energy that is 
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in the very essence of the planet is in you. It is magnetic and electri- 
cal in nature, with the force of attraction built into it. The essence of the fourth principle of manifestation is that we can 
utilize this energy because we are this energy. We can use this univer- 
sal energy to bring to us objects of our desire, because the same 
energy that is in what we desire is also in us and vice versa. It 
becomes a matter of alignment and will that allows us to tap into this 
force. Bringing things into the physical world is a process that we call 
creation. What we create involves the use of the same power in all 
that is created. It is only a matter of degree. There is absolutely no 
difference in the power that brings anything from the world of waves 
into the world of particles, and the power that brings your thoughts 
or mental pictures into form. I encourage you to reread that previous 
sentence and commit it to memory. The world of spirit from which all matter derives and the world of 
matter literally comprise one harmonious whole. They are separate but 
always together, just like the peak of the wave and its base, separate but 
forming an inseparable whole. To put this into perspective, think of 
manifesting as nothing more than transforming waves of possibilities 
into particles of reality. The transforming process requires energy. This 
energy is invisible but is always in everything, including us. Your thoughts and visualizations are your source of manifesting. It 
is this energy that you want to activate and make work for you. The 
mental-picturing process and its application to the manifesting 
process are something that you can experience when you are in a 
state of complete faith. There is a part of you that knows you can 
attract what you desire with this energy. oa YOUR MENTAL PICTURES AND THE POWER OF ATTRACTION 
There is a power within you that allows you to form a thought or 
picture. This mental-picturing power is the energy of attraction that 
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is in all creative processes. Moreover, it is identical with the power of 
attraction. This power is the very substance of life. You can’t see, touch or hear this power, but it is within you. In 
using this power you are not in any way attempting to change or 
interfere with the laws of nature. You are fulfilling the laws. This 
undifferentiated power is the basis for the mysterious attraction that 
draws your desires to you. It may help to think of yourself as a way that God has of particu- 
larizing. Then see your ability to formulate mental pictures as the 
divine creative power energizing through you. Can you see that the 
same creative energy that particularizes as yourself is what you use to 
manifest your desires? This power thrives on happiness, love, joy, 
contentment and peace. The more blissful and loving you are, the 
more the divine spirit particularizes within you and the more Godlike 
you become. It is through your thoughts (or how you use your power to create 
a thought) that all creative energy is attracted to you. If your mental 
pictures are of being surrounded by things and conditions that you 
desire, and they are rooted in joy and faith, your creative thoughts 
will attract these surroundings and conditions into your life. This 
may sound a bit too much like wishful thinking, but, trust me, it is 
far more than wishing or hoping. What is different is that you recognize that the power to even have 
a thought is a divine power, and then with this recognition of its 
sacredness you form a vision or a mental picture. Finally, you hold it 
lovingly in place with the inner knowledge that the God force that 
brought everything in the universe into existence also created you. The form that this energy will take will be controlled and directed by 
your will or your mental picturing. It is waiting to take any direction 
that you decide. It is important to be able to think in terms that are beyond our 
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senses. Energy is the creative life force that allows us to do the things 
that we observe with our senses. It is an invisible force that supports 
the substance of our material life. This energy gives us the power to 
have thoughts, and it is the same-as the energy of everything that 
appears to be external to us. Your mental pictures are integral to this power of attraction, and 
to the subsequent authentic experience of creative energy when you 
are able to put these images into practice. THE PRACTICE OF MENTAL PICTURING 
The most important thing to remember as you practice mental 
picturing for the purposes of manifesting your desires is that humans 
never create anything. Our function is not to create, but to attract, 
combine and distribute what already exists. Creations are really new combinations of already existing mate- 
rials. I am not speaking here of creating energy, but of transforming one 
form of energy into another. Our creative power is the ability to con- 
vert the energy of our thoughts into a newly materialized form. Manifestation is the result. There is one indispensable condition for the manifestation of that 
picture into the visible and concrete world. The world of spirit is 
immune to the concept of time and space. Therefore, the picture 
must either be formed here and now or not at all. Once you have this 
awareness you will understand the necessity of picturing the fulfill- 
ment of your desire as if it is already accomplished on the spiritual 
plane. './ That’s right, you must know within yourself that on the invisible 
level of your being, what you desire is already in place. You must 
know that the energy is here and let the how take care of itself. That 
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is, if the end is secured, the means is also handled and you let go, 
knowing that success is guaranteed. j This is not a prescription for idleness, but for letting go of worry, 
anxiety and fear. You will work on the formulation of your mental 
pictures, and you will do it knowing that the end has been secured. The intelligence of the spirit or the great impersonal power is 
acknowledged. You, too, are intelligence. What you are doing is 
allowing one intelligence to cooperate with the other. It will not do it 
for you, it will do it with you. You impress upon the universal mind the object of your desire, 
and you calmly and knowingly proceed to act upon that picture, 
allowing the greater intelligence, and your own, which is a part of 
that greater intelligence, to work through you to produce the results. You abandon all fear and return to the affairs of your life assured that 
the necessary conditions will soon come into view or are already 
there. Stay alert for any small circumstance that indicates the first 
sprouting of the seed that you have planted in the universal mind, 
and allow it to form in your life as a growing materialization. I admit that this is not something that is consistent with our con- 
ditioning. But in order to make ourselves manifesters, we have to 
shed old beliefs and adopt an inner wisdom that helps us to stop 
manifesting the circumstances we want to change. The more you do this mental picturing with faith and enthusiasm, 
the more likely you are to see it manifesting. What you are doing is 
literally visualizing in detail what it is that you want to manifest. You 
detach from the outcome and how it will be accomplished. You are 
not in the business of creating, but of attracting to yourself what is 
already in creation, and allowing the energy of the spirit to transform 
into the energy of matter. You see in great detail what it is that you 
want, and you repeatedly affirm this picture with faith in the absolute 
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You can picture yourself healthy, your business thriving, your sales 
quotas being met, your relationships healing, your house selling, 
finances coming your way or anything you desire. The key is to 
repeat these mental pictures until the truth of what you are affirming 
resonates within you without an ounce of doubt. I find the best times for doing this deep work are early in the 
morning and just before I retire for the night. I also find the use of 
specific sounds and affirmations very useful. They are described in 
the seventh and eighth principles. I am certain that a key question in your mind at this point is, “Yes, 
but what if it doesn’t materialize as I picture it?” This is worthy of 
your attention. WHEN IT APPEARS THAT IT ISN’T WORKING 
It is the way of the ego to try to force things when they are not 
going our way. We all know the folly of getting down on our knees 
and tugging away at the new vegetable shoots as they start to appear 
in the spring. They need to grow at their own pace, and they will 
flourish at precisely the right time. If your picture does not manifest in the time span that you have 
designated, relax and retreat to your knowing that it is already in 
place in the spiritual realm. The energy is there by virtue of the 
power of your visualizing. Time is simply not a recognizable feature 
of the all-creating wisdom. Another facet that explains why your pic- 
tures are not showing up in the material world is the frequency with 
which you may be changing your pictures. The power you are work- 
ing with is a sensitive force requiring dedicated and consistent mental 
picturing. — 
You may also be attempting to misuse your power by placing 
restrictions and contingencies on the universal intelligence. This all- 
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creating wisdom, the originating principle, is not in any way depen- 
dent on specific people or things. It has no past, and it knows no 
future. It is in the eternal now, and most important for you to know, 
it creates its own vehicles through which it operates. If you begin 
ordering it around and making demands or insisting that it work 
through a specific channel, it will not accede to your requirements. You will find it impossible to manifest if you are visualizing with- 
out an authentic will that is sufficiently steady to overcome any con- 
trary idea or lack of faith in your own divine connection to God. The 
second principle in this book was about faith and trust. Reread that if ; 
you feel it needs to be reinforced. Your trust in the power of attrac- 
tion is absolutely necessary. All of this is most effectively done in a 
private manner. THE VALUE OF SECRECY 
Making conscious contact with the highest all-creating infinite 
power is a very private matter. The naguals (a Native American term 
for spiritual masters or sorcerers) and mystics who practice and teach 
these methods guard their privacy. Moreover, they consider it a viola- 
tion of their sacred trust to talk to others about their abilities and the 
“coincidences” of good fortune. When we speak to others about our efforts to manifest, our power 
is weakened. In general, when we describe these activities it is 
because the ego has entered the picture. This kind of approach con- 
siderably dissipates our power of attraction. It is human nature to talk to others about problems because we 
want to alleviate their influence in our life. By sharing, we hope to 
relieve some of the pressure of the problem. So, too, when we artic- 
ulate our power to attract something, our attention shifts to the reac- 
tions of those in whom we are confiding. Energy is dispersed in the 
direction of their reactions in the same way that it is when we share 
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problems. The moment a thought is presented to another it is weak- 
ened. Maintain privacy concerning your own unique, possibly myste- 
rious to others, powers to attract to you what you desire. Your etheric energy body is yours-and yours alone. You can learn to 
project your energy outward and have an impact on the external world 
in ways that you have perhaps never even considered before. However, 
in order to tap into this extraordinary energy and use it in the co-cre- 
ation process, it must remain yours and yours alone. The moment you 
discuss it with anyone who is alive today is the moment it diminishes. Your energy shifts to an interest in the good opinion of the other. This higher energy, which is infinite, must create its own vehicles 
for manifesting, and it does so in the privacy of those vehicles. This 
highest infinite, all-knowing wisdom is a life force that you will rec- 
ognize when you become familiar with its nature. THE NATURE OF THE VITAL FORCE 
It is difficult to comprehend a force that we cannot see, touch, 
hear or smell and still know that it exists. It is similar to electricity. You plug in your appliance and you cannot see, touch, smell or hear 
anything happening, but your electric hair dryer responds when you 
press the On switch. The life force is electrical in nature, regardless of where it appears 
to be localized. In our own bodies, the chi, or prana, the life force, 
flows in tiny charges along our nerves from cell to cell. Ancient 
Hawaiian healers known as kahunas believed that thought forms 
could be carried back and forth on this current. They believed that 
thoughts had shadowy, microscopic and almost invisible bodies. This 
kind of knowing permitted the kahunas to participate in phenomenal 
healing practices. They were abte to transmit the will to heal along 
these currents and to facilitate health where disease had existed. I have visualized a current flowing between my thought and a 
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painful or ill area of my body. Using my will and visualizing the cur- 
rent, I sent messages from my will to those areas to be free of the 
pain, or to heal the wound. I have had stunning results. The shadowy 
bodies of my thoughts became things I could send along this invisible 
current, and because I knew it would work, it did. This is a good way to think of the vital force that is the all-creating 
God force as well. It is invisible, electrical in nature, always flowing 
and always attracted to that which plugs into its source. A second 
characteristic of the life force energy is that it is always expanding, 
and it is unlimited in supply. The nature of the universe is abundance. It goes on beyond our con- 
cepts of beginnings and endings and boundaries. When we think we 
have it categorized and locked into a time-space boundary, it expands 
beyond our awareness almost as if it must move farther away from 
observation. This force is always moving, ever expanding and unlimited. You are an aspect of that force, and therefore you, too, are flowing, 
ever expanding and unlimited. If you study yourself under a microscope 
with high magnification you will see that you are empty spaces with ever 
moving particles that have no material form. When you turn up the 
magnification on the particles, you see that they are moving at incredi- 
ble speeds, beyond your capacity to measure them. When you look out- 
ward through the telescope, you see the same phenomena. That is, the 
universe within you and outside of you work in the same fashion. It is your nature to be able to attract, to expand, to be unlimited. The force is in you, and the force is outside you. The force is you.
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        It is my choice to 
live with the God force flowing unrestricted through me, and it is the 
way of co-creating my life at this moment. Trust, then, is the corner- 
stone of my praying, and with it comes the peace that is the essence 
of manifesting. PEACE: THE RESULT OF TRUST 
The highest self wants you to experience peace, which is a defini- 
tion of enlightenment. You may recall that I wrote earlier in this book 
that I define enlightenment as being immersed in and surrounded by 
peace. The more you trust in the wisdom that creates all, the more 
you will be trusting in yourself. The result of trusting is that an enor- 
mous sense of peace becomes available to you. When the ego insists on winning, comparing or judging, you will 
be able to soothe and calm the ego’s fears with the peacefulness born 
of trust. When you are able to trust, you know that God and you are 
one, like the glass of ocean water and the ocean itself. You are what 
the God force is doing, just as a wave is what the ocean is doing. As this awareness grows you will discover that you are a more 
peaceful person and, consequently, that enlightenment becomes the 
way of your life. Being independent of the good opinion of others 
and being detached from the need to be right are two powerful indi- 
cators that your life is shifting toward a consciousness of trust in 
yourself and trust in God. Yet there are many people in our lives who 
disturb our state of peacefulness. Then, the question is how to han- 
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dle those who consciously or unconsciously disturb our experience 
of trust and peace. I once wrote an essay in a somewhat facetious tone titled “Your 
Soulmate Is the Person You Can Hardly Stand. ” The essence of the 
essay was that the people in our lives who we agree with and share 
similar interests with are easy to accept and actually teach us very lit- 
tle. But those who can push our buttons and send us into a rage at 
the slightest provocation are our real teachers. The person who is most capable of disturbing your state of peace 
is a person who is reminding you that you are not truly in the state of 
peace or enlightenment that results from trust. At that moment, this 
person is your greatest teacher. This is the person whom you want to 
treasure and thank God for sending into your life. When you can 
transcend the rage, anger and upset which that person appears to 
provoke, and instead say, “Thank you for being my teacher,” you have 
acknowledged a soulmate relationship. Everyone in your life who can still push your buttons and send you 
into that frenzied state is a master teacher disguised as a manipula- 
tive, inconsiderate, frustrating, non-understanding being. The peace 
that is enlightenment means that you are not only at peace with those 
who share your interests and agree with you, and with strangers who 
come and go, but also with those master teachers who remind you 
that you still have some work to do on yourself. Give thanks for those great spiritual masters who have arrived in 
your life in the form of your children, current or former spouses, 
irritating neighbors, co-workers, obnoxious strangers and the like, 
for they help you stay in an enlightened, peaceful state. They let you 
know each day how much more work you truly have to do and in 
what ways you have not mastered yourself. Peace occurs when your highest self is dominant in your life. When you begin to feel peace as the result of trust, you are enjoying 
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your personality is a vehicle for the whole. You cannot divide the infi- 
nite. There is no division. You must trust this awareness. When you divide, you have moved out of identification with the 
God force and have taken up shelter in the ego. It is here that you 
will find an absence of peace and also an absence of trust in the wis- 
dom that created you. There are many things that you can do ona regular basis to make this 
second principle of trusting in the oneness a reality in your life. Here 
are a few suggestions to nurture trust in yourself and in the oneness. HOW TO TRUST IN YOURSELF AND THE WISDOM THAT 
CREATED YOU 
Begin by admitting your confusion or failures. When you do this, 
you are dismissing any illusion of trust, which is in reality a false 
self-trust. Remind yourself that genuine trust involves letting go of 
all conditioning that teaches you that trust in yourself is based on 
being special or separate. When you are honest with yourself about every aspect of your 
life, you discontinue identifying with separateness. You then become 
ready for the insight that trust in yourself and trust in ultimate truth 
are one and the same. Remind yourself often that you are a child of 
God and that you have the God force within you. Let the statements 
“T am it” and “It is me” rise from your inner being. Keep in mind that you cannot go to a higher ground if you are 
hanging onto a lower level. You cannot leave the physical world if 
you are so attached to it that you refuse to let go. The concept of 
trust involves surrendering and trusting the God force. Imagine yourself falling from a precipice while clinging to a huge 
rock, believing that it will protect you. Letting go of the rock is a. metaphor for surrendering and trusting. You will continue to live 
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and breathe in the physical earth plane, but you realize that you are 
not only your body and mind, and that the rock is not your salva- 
tion. Your needs and demands cease, and you are one with the man- 
ifest consciousness. ; 
Of course, you are literally still in the body, but you have also 
joined the manifest consciousness. This trust allows you to partici- 
pate in the act of creation. Your current world will be experienced 
anew. The freedom and respect you receive from God will be 
bestowed by you on the circumstances of your world. Acquire a rebellious attitude toward the philosophy that preaches a 
style of God-as-boss who is authoritarian and a benevolent tyrant. Rejection of this model does not mean that you are an atheist, but 
rather a believer in the true meaning of divinity. You are not required to feel inferior, to view yourself as a sinner 
and to prostrate yourself before idols and dogma in order to believe 
in God. Study St. Paul in the New Testament where he says, “Let 
this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who being in 
the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. ” 
This is the kind of trust you must adopt in order to know your 
divine self. Trusting does not mean you never experience life’s valleys. There 
will be peaks and valleys as long as you live on this physical plane. There is no happiness without the opposite experience of unhappi- 
ness. Opposites are the way it is in the physical plane. Expect that 
this is also your reality. Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be dif- 
ferent than they are. It is better to embrace trust when darkness is 
present, knowing that light will follow. Begin to look for the lesson 
in the darkness rather than cursing it. Trust allows you simply to 
observe the dark and unhappy times rather than identifying totally 
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with those aspects of life. From this perspective you are not at the 
mercy of your ego energy, insisting that everything must be perfect, 
and that when things are not, you have reasons to give up your trust 
in the divine. The valleys are merely the way of the physical plane, but they are 
not who you are. You are part of the unseen wisdom that created 
this entire physical plane and you can trust in it uncategorically. There is timeless wisdom in this old idea of trust. Any person can 
sense that problems are within, but the spiritually trusting person 
realizes that the solution is also within. When you trust in yourself, you are not looking for solutions to 
your life problems in someone or something outside yourself. Instead, 
you remain in a state of trusting. Then, in a trustworthy manner, you 
can proceed to attract the energy to you that provides the solution. Take your most serious problems and turn them over to God. Say 
something like the following: “I have not been able to resolve these 
issues in my life and I have used every technique I know. I would 
like to show my trust in the divine force by simply turning them 
over to your divine hands. As I do this I know that the divine force 
that is you, God, is also me, and I trust that this action will lead to a 
resolution of these problems. ” 
I can assure you that this method puts you into direct contact 
with a higher power than can ever be found in a bottle, a bank state- 
ment, a contrary partner, an illness or anything on the earth plane 
that you believe is external or separate from you. I left all of the 
addictions of my life behind me with the simple words “I’ve tried 
everything else, now I am trusting God. ” 
It was not as though something outside myself was now doing it 
for me. I simply trusted that force, and it began showing up in my 
daily abstinence program. I trusted in the eternal wisdom and I also 
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trusted in myself to receive that wisdom and apply it. This same 
process has been the source of all of the manifesting that has 
occurred and continues to transpire in my daily life. , 
The presence of complete trust is evident in your life when what 
you think, feel and do are all balanced and in harmony. The pres- 
ence of a distinction between your thoughts and your emotional 
state as well as your behavior tends to move you away from the 
trusting attitude I am encouraging you to adopt as you practice this 
second principle of manifestation. Examine your thoughts carefully. See if those thoughts are totally 
congruent with your actions. To say “I believe in a healthy body” 
and to practice eating in unhealthy ways dissolves trust in yourself. Congruent thought, emotions and behavior are strong indicators of 
your self-trust. And keep in mind that when you trust in yourself, 
you are trusting in God at the same time. When you are incongruent with your thoughts, you are showing 
a lack of trust in the divinity that is your essence. Be honest about 
any incongruency. Identify it and trust in your ability to transcend 
it, and the energy that you need for this transformation will be 
attracted to you. But if you hang onto the incongruency, thinking 
one thing but behaving in disingenuous ways, you will sabotage your 
ability to trust in yourself and in the infinite wisdom as well. As you practice surrendering, acknowledge your fundamental 
richness rather than bemoaning the imagined poverty of your being. When you practice spiritual trust you are surrendering your ego, 
and all of its hallucinatory beliefs, to a higher power. You are just 
letting go and knowing that divine guidance is always with you. Begin a meditation practice of contemplating the supreme principle 
that is beyond the pettiness of this world. Yes, it is in this world, but 
it is not blemished by this world. The mind needs and craves seren- 
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ity. Meditation is not merely making the mind think that it is medi- 
tating. Meditation is, literally, the embodiment of truth and trust. It 
is in the purification of the mind that liberation reveals itself. The practice of meditation is a powerful tool in my life. As a 
writer, I sometimes write for hours and everything flows magically. Then a time comes when there are no more words. I want to write 
and nothing happens. No matter how hard I want to write, there is 
no writing taking place. At these moments I have learned to leave the typewriter and to 
sit quietly, closing my eyes and surrendering. I don’t know what I 
surrender to, but I simply let go and attempt to purify my mind. Then, after some time of simply surrendering meditatively, I seem 
to tap into something that is a source of inspiration, and I write 
page after page with no idea where it is coming from. This process 
of closing my eyes and becoming serene gives me the ability to tap 
into that source of inspiration. And the word “inspiration” comes 
from “in spirit. ” 
This is trust. This is grace. It is knowing that I can literally con- 
front myself in a spirit of serenity and that what I seek will be 
attracted to me. This is the energy of manifesting, and it comes 
most frequently when the mind is quiet. It is the quiet mind that 
comes in contact with the truth. _ 
When we meditate, we come into contact with the part of us that 
is truth. The surrendering process helps us to use this truth in our 
daily pursuits. It is the same with trust. Surrender to it through 
your quiet moments of serenity and you will know the truth of this 
principle. This second spiritual principle of manifesting leads us to a higher 
place within ourselves. It gives us the confidence to trust in some- 
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thing other than that which we perceive with our senses. It illumi- 
nates within us the knowing that there is far more to this journey 
than what we observe, and we come to trust in this knowing to a 
point where peace serves as a serene substitute for doubt and anxiety. When you trust, you know. And a knowing cannot be silenced by 
the contrary opinions of anyone you encounter. You will be indepen- 
dent of the good opinion of others when this trust becomes your way 
of life. You will not need to prove yourself to anyone, or to convince 
anyone of the rightness of your views. You will be a silent sage, moving through this material plane with a 
knowing that you have tapped into a source of inspiration that pro- 
vides you with all the sustenance you need. Indeed, you will begin to 
see how this earth plane is really a very big part of you, more so than 
you might ever have imagined. And this is the subject matter for the 
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YOU ARE NOT AN ORGANISM IN AN ENVIRONMENT: 
YOU ARE AN ENVIRONORGANISM 
The Third Principle 
ne of the reasons the idea of being able to manifest is so 
foreign to most of us is because we have been brought up to believe 
that as individuals we are separate from our environment. We think it 
is our role to dominate our environment and describe ourselves as 
individuals within the environment. Armed with this kind of logic, 
we are diminished in our ability to sense our connection to our envi- 
ronment. : 
Because of our sense of disconnection we believe we do not have 
the power to attract what we want from our environment. Consequently, we feel it is merely a matter of luck or happenstance 
when we succeed in manifesting. When we change this idea about 
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ourselves, we activate our ability to manifest and see it as a function 
of our divinity rather than as being an impossibility or an incident of 
luck or coincidence. This third principle of manifesting begins with the understanding 
that it is absolutely impossible to describe ourselves as separate from 
our environment. I am coining a new word, a neologism, for the pur- 
pose of articulating this principle. For the rest of this chapter con- 
sider yourself as an “environorganism. ” This word signifies that there 
is absolutely no difference between you and your environment. You 
are your environment, and even more significantly, for the purposes 
of this book, your environment is you. OUR NATURE AS AN ENVIRONORGANISM 
Try thinking of the external world, your environment, as your 
extended body. That is, you are not separate from the external world 
you see. In this concept it is impossible to describe yourself without 
including your surroundings. In fact, it is not even possible to see or 
hear yourself as a separate entity apart from your environment. For example, describe yourself walking, just you walking. There 
cannot be walking without also describing whatever it is you are 
walking upon. Without the floor or the ground, there would only be 
your legs moving back and forth, and, of course, that is not walking. Your experience of walking also includes the air you are breathing 
while you are walking, the gravity that keeps you from floating off 
into space, the pebbles, or carpet, or sand, or cement that you walk 
on and the makeup of these elements in the pebbles and carpet, and 
on and on. In addition to your walking as an example of you as an environor- 
ganism, examine the page that you are reading in this moment. What 
do you actually see. Black ink formed into words that you are read- 
ing. Try to imagine these words without the presence of the back- 
ground upon which they are printed. The white page on which the 
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words are printed does not receive your primary attention, yet this 
page you are holding as a unit of a book creates a meaning in combi- 
nation with the individual units of print called words. The environ- 
ment in which those words are inseparably enmeshed is the page 
itself. In this analogy, you are the words and your background is every- 
thing upon which you are imprinted. This principle is important to 
understand if you are going to become a manifester. Just as the stars 
in the sky would be impossible to perceive without the background 
of the dark sky, and you couldn’t see your own body or the body of 
anyone else without a background that is in contrast to that body, so 
does this principle apply to you. You cannot be described independent of your environment, and I 
invite you to shift your awareness away from yourself as an organism 
in the environment to yourself as an extension of your environment 
and always inseparable from it. The result of this thinking will be that 
you begin to see that everything in your environment is a part of you 
and vice versa. Your environment is not something that you must 
either push or it will push you around. It is an extension of yourself, 
just as you are an extension of the environment. This is a unique concept to grasp. It is imperative, however, for 
understanding the premise of this book. You are both distinct and 
inseparable from your environment. BEING AN INDIVIDUAL AND AN ENVIRONMENT 
SIMULTANEOUSLY 
Have you ever seen a person with a front but without a back. Have you ever seen a person with an outside but without an inside. These rhetorical questions are meant to stimulate you to consider 
how you can be differentiated and undifferentiated at the same time, 
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The nature of this physical world is essentially that of waves. Each 
wave of energy that makes up a physical mass has a crest or a peak 
and a nadir or a valley. These tops and bottoms of the wave are always 
easy to identify as separate, yet they are always together. You cannot 
ever get a bucketful of peaks and observe them independent of their 
corresponding valleys. This is the fundamental feature of nature. The 
north and south poles of a magnet are always together, yet always dis- 
tinct. Your front always has a back, your inside always has an outside, 
and now ycu must extend this understanding outward as well. Of course you are an individual who functions within this environ- 
ment, and it is possible to describe both you and your environment 
with separate identifying terminology that all of us would under- 
stand. But, you must also remember that you cannot separate you 
from your environment either. You are distinct, just as the tops of the 
waves are distinct from the bottoms, but you are irrevocably con- 
nected to the outer world just as that bottom of the wave always has a 
top. When you begin to see this simple truth, mystical experiences of 
manifesting also open up to you as a genuine possibility. Most of us 
have failed to grasp this little truth, and it has led us on a disastrous 
course of feeling that because we are separate from our environment, 
we must exercise control over it. When we do this, we, of course, are 
showing not only a lack of respect for our environment, but for our 
own basic nature as an environorganism as well. PUSHING NATURE AROUND OR SEEING IT AS OURSELVES 
When we think of ourselves as distinct from our environment, we 
take on a posture of exercising control over it. This kind of thinking 
leads us into destructive behavior on both the collective and the per- 
sonal levels. We destroy forests, swamps, mountains, rivers, wildlife or any- 
thing else that obstructs profit and convenience or for something we 
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call “advancing” civilization. We defend these activities without 
understanding that we are also destroying ourselves. Ultimately we 
will make earth uninhabitable if we fail to ‘see that we are killing a 
part of ourselves with this wanton disregard for nature. We all need to begin to experience ourselves as part of our total 
environment. Then perhaps we will discontinue trying to beat that 
same environment into submission. We fail to treat it with love, gen- 
tleness and respect because we are convinced that it is something 
other than ourselves that we are defeating. As we have seen, we can- | 
not be described independent of our environment any more than our 
outside can be described without our inside. The idea of ourselves as an environorganism commands our 
respect for everything that we encounter. When we can respect that 
which appears to be external to us, we will build to live in harmony 
with, rather than in control over, our environment. In our personal lives, recognizing nature as ourselves opens up an 
entire new world of manifestation. We see ourselves in an intelligent 
world. Thus, the intelligence that is in myself is also in my environ- 
ment. With this awareness we tend to see the connection to everything 
much more clearly. We know that whatever appears to be lacking in 
our lives is really due to our having been misinformed when we were 
taught that what seems to be missing can be found outside us. As an environorganism, I know that the energy of what appears to 
be missing in my personal environment and the energy of my own 
body (inside and outside, front and back) is all the same. So, anything 
I view as lacking is because I see myself as removed from what I want 
rather than as connected to it. This is the beginning of the awareness that you can attract every- 
thing to yourself because you are already inextricably attached to it at 
an energy level. The notion of viewing it as unavailable begins to dis- 
appear and you see manifesting as nothing more than materializing 
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You will see yourself not only in your environment, but in every- 
thing and everyone that is a part of that environment. Your new faith 
will no longer permit you to see anything as separate. The separate- 
ness will always be there, just as the peak of the wave is separate from 
the trough, but they will remain inseparable even though separate, 
different yet undifferentiated at the same time. You will have fused 
the dichotomy that prevents you from putting this connective energy 
to work. You will begin to view yourself as an organic part of this 
world rather than as a separate entity in this world. SEEING YOURSELF AS AN ORGANIC PART OF THIS WORLD 
There is a popular belief that we “come into this world. ” Thus we 
are continuously embracing the idea that who we are and where we 
come from are two different worlds. The essence of this third spiritual 
principle for manifesting your destiny is that there is no separation, 
and rather than coming into this world as a construction project, that 
you actually grow out of it. Take a look at a plum tree and examine how plums appear in our 
world. You plant a seed and the tree grows, ultimately blossoming 
and producing plums. The intelligence that is in the plum is in this 
world, and so, too, is it in the seed, the blossom, the trunk, the 
branches and the roots. Every single element of the plum tree has 
plum intelligence built into it. We do not say that plums show up 
from the spiritual world of plum essence, and then become physical 
earth-plane fruit. In fact, as we look at a plum tree, we could say with 
all candor that it plums. Every year the thing just plums. In the same way that a plum tree plums, you, too, grow out of this 
world, with the same energy that is in every aspect of your being. Were you to look at the earth from a distance you would observe that 
it has rocks, oceans, vegetation, and that the thing actually peoples. You are a result of what the universe is doing on a conscious level, 
just as a wave is what the ocean is doing and a plum is what the plum 
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tree is doing. The intelligence that is you, unseen as it may be, is you 
in every stage of your creation and life experience, and it is also the 
same in every other person as well as in all things in our physical 
world. Most of us were taught quite the contrary. Creation is generally 
thought of as divided into the spiritual realm of the unseen and the 
physical world of matter. Also, that we are the result of an act of con- 
struction, and rather than growing out of the world, we were put 
into it. This, of course, reinforces the idea of powerlessness in having | 
anything to do with the act of creation. To empower yourself’ to, 
become a co-creator in the affairs of your life, you will have to leave 
these old ideas behind, but mind you, they do not die easily. The 
conditioning process is embedded in the bedrock of your existence. When you come to see yourself as growing out of this world, you 
see that the native intelligence that was in the very seed of your pro- 
creation is an energy flowing through everything in your world. You 
and the environment of that growth process are distinctly identifiable 
but always connected. Inseparable in the same way as your breathing 
and the air you breathe, your walking and the ground upon which 
you walk and your thoughts and the organism with which you think. » Notice that everyone breathes the same air, walks on the same 
ground and thinks as an organism, just like you. You are, indeed, 
connected to all of these beings. It is not an accident that someone 
living in a distant country, with different outward physical character- 
istics and a separate language, could die and donate his or her liver or 
kidney or cornea to you, and it would accommodate the life force 
flowing in you. This idea of growing out of the world or being a result 
of the earth peopling as a plum tree plums is advantageous to the 
process of manifesting your own destiny. It empowers you with the 
wisdom of creation rather than making you a puppet whose strings 
are controlled by external forces. When we believe that what is outside me is not me, and that we 
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are not a part of the peopling process of the earth, we cultivate an 
attitude of estrangement and hostility. This mentality leads us to talk 
of our conquest of the environment, which means: that we cannot 
capitalize on the awareness of being a connected being. The need to 
conquer puts us at odds with the world. A profoundly important Native American saying is: “No tree has 
branches so foolish as to fight among themselves. ” Imagine the result 
of such behavior by the tree. The tree and all of its parts would die 
from such an absurdity. Yet that is precisely what we do when we see 
ourselves as divided from all of the other people who are being peo- 
pled from the same divine intelligence. We grow out of our world and are the result of what the divine 
intelligence is doing, and we can never lose that connection. You 
might think of yourself as a symptom of the universe rather than asa 
stranger in this universe. What we have all come to think of as the spirit within us is actually 
that divine, unseen intelligence that caused you, and continues to 
cause you to grow out of this world. It, too, is separable from your 
physical essence, your environment and everyone and everything else 
in this universe. If you think otherwise, then you reinforce your 
inability to influence your destiny and to manifest or attract anything 
to you. When you know that you grow out of this world just as an apple 
does from an apple tree, then you identify with this spiritual essence. It is in identification with this inner essence that you make your con- 
nection to everything else. And it is with this connection that you 
begin to attract your desires to your physical world. This power of 
attraction will be the subject matter of the fourth principle described 
in this book. For now, I want you to gain a clear sense of how you are actually 
growing out of the world. I want you to perceive the difference in 
this concept from one that promulgates our arrival here from a sepa- 
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rate world by a power that is outside us. You are not a momentary 
flash of embodied consciousness between two eternal blacknesses. You are an essence that is eternally growing in this world, a world in 
which the spirit and the manifestation of that spirit appear to be dif- 
ferent to the senses, and indeed they are, but they are also con- 
nected. You are both of these essences at once. | 
It is this awareness that is crucial as you proceed along this mani- 
festing path. It is a power, but make no mistake about it, contrary to 
what your ego might tell you, you do not get to own this power 
exclusively. THE POWER IS IN YOU BUT IS NOT YOURS ALONE 
The power and the magic of this world cannot be reserved for the 
exclusive use of anyone, including you. It is available at all times; 
however, it does not belong to anyone. What you are doing as an 
environorganism is making contact with an energy that is beyond the 
dualism of the earth plane, and yet is connected to it at the same 
time, separate but distinct. The way to make this contact is to understand this energy. Everything on the physical plane experiences lightness and darkness. If it were always light we would not have a concept of dark. But there 
is something that could never know darkness. That is the source of all 
light, the sun. The source is beyond the duality of the physical plane. It is this source of energy that you want to contact when you are 
empowering yourself. You do not own the energy of the sun, but it is always available to 
you. That energy is not subject to the laws of duality, nor is your 
spirit, which is the source of your divine power. But it is still you, and 
yours to use. You cannot own this power any more than you can own and con- 
trol the environment. To own it means you separate from it. There 
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becomes an owner and that which is owned, and this violates the 
principle of you as an environorganism. You are a holistic being with 
both nondualistic energy and the energy of the physical plane as a 
part of your being at your disposal. - 
You are a whole being. You therefore need a holistic view of your- 
self as an environorganism in order to understand yourself. To con- 
ceptualize yourself as a spiritual and physical being separate from 
your environment is to remove any potential for knowing your holis- 
tic state. As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separate- 
ness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in 
a way that the ego-driven self could never contemplate. SEEING YOURSELF AS A HOLOGRAM 
One of the most intriguing ways to see yourself in the way that I 
am describing in this third principle is to look at a hologram and 
then project yourself into this viewpoint. If, somehow, you were able 
to see all of humanity along with everything else that exists simulta- 
neously, you would have a vision of the hologrammatic nature of the 
universe. As it is, you are stuck being able to see only tiny segments 
of the earth at one time. A hologram is a three-dimensional photographic image obtained 
with laser beams. The unique thing about a hologram is that one 
small segment contains the entire picture. When one tiny piece of 
the hologram is broken off and projected, it shows an image of the 
entire object. The hologram is a perfect representation for you as an environorgan- 
ism. Your environment includes everyone, alive and dead, and you can 
draw their energy to you because, from a hologrammatic viewpoint, 
they are you. You are one little physical image that reflects all of human- 
ity when projected spiritually upon the cosmic screen. Each and every 
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The understanding of holograms can be applied intrinsically and 
extrinsically. One tiny segment of your body can be cut off and pro- 
jected through a laser beam, and your entire body will be reflected 
from that one tiny piece. Each and every cell of your being contains 
the energy of your entire being. On an extrinsic level, you are one of 
those segments that reflect all of humanity as a hologram. Unfortunately, the peoples of the world have yet to apply this 
hologrammatic understanding to their living. Seeing ourselves as 
connected to all of humanity is an idea whose time will come, and 
it will not be stopped. History shows us how we have carved our- 
selves up into nations with various ideologies such as capitalism, 
socialism, totalitarianism, communism, monarchism and democ- 
racy that often transcend the importance of humanity itself. We 
have classified ourselves on the basis of physical appearance and 
nationalistic identifications such as Italian, American and Japanese. We have further subdivided ourselves into classes based upon our 
economic levels or the colors of our collars. Countries are further divided between the political right and left 
and religious beliefs, and the division continues right on down into 
families and, eventually, into individuals. The process of division is 
the opposite of the hologram model of our reality. Essentially, like it or not, human beings are the same everywhere. We share the emotions of fear, love, hate and jealousy. We also share 
our life-giving blood, intermingling it for the survival of those who 
need it, and we have the same internal organs and thoughts. Yet our 
egos persist in the work of division. When we look at our individual selves there is also the inclination 
to divide ourselves, which leads us away from our divine nature and 
removes us from the world of manifesting our destiny. We need to 
monitor the internal conflict with which we divide ourselves. The 
ego creates divisive thoughts such as the following: the difference 
between what I am and what I should be; how I behave and how I 
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should behave; how I used to be and how I am today; what I have 
been told by others is what I should be; how messed up I am in real- 
ity; what I think and how I feel; how I look and how much better 
others look; how much I make, how much others make and how 
much I need. The list is potentially endless. All of this conflict as a result of our propensity to divide and sub- 
divide ourselves at the world, national, social or individual level is an 
expression of chaos. We cannot bring order to the world or to our 
lives as long as we fail to recognize that, in reality, all human beings 
are holograms of humanity. We all reflect the whole, and it is essen- 
tial for us to begin to think in this way. When you perceive yourself in the hologram that is humanity, you 
connect on an energy level to everyone else in your environment. An 
environorganism most truly is a reflection of it all, and this energy 
that you share is shared by all. This awareness gives you the option to 
tap into this universal energy anywhere, at any time, by metaphori- 
cally projecting yourself to reflect the whole. When you can do this 
projecting without doubt or reservation, you can literally see how 
your inner thoughts and desires are not only within you, but are 
within the whole of humanity, which is abundantly boundless. This is 
accomplished by simply changing your beliefs from a separate ego to 
that of an environorganism. As an environorganism, you are a single individual who is only a 
part of the picture at the same time that you contain the whole 
panorama. Moreover, the content of your consciousness, which dif- 
fers from person to person, is also hologrammatic in nature. Consciousness is the mental condition of being aware. Your individ- 
ual thoughts, while they form only a part of the total picture of 
human consciousness, simultaneously contain the whole of human 
consciousness. » Like a hologram, your thoughts reflect the thoughts of all. The 
power of your thoughts in this hologrammatic view can be projected 
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in such a way as to connect to all of humanity. Your thoughts are, lit- 
erally, connected to the thoughts of everyone else, as are your emo- 
tions, your desires, your total inner world. You can learn to use this 
connection to nurture your own divinity and, therefore, by defini- 
tion, the divinity of all of humanity. The nature of a hologram and the nature of you as an environor- 
ganism are one and the same. The energy that comprises your 
humanity is in everything around you. You are it, it is you. You are 
not separate from it. The Bhagavad Gita summarizes this point of 
view as profoundly as I’ve ever found. Commit these holy words to 
memory as you practice the art of spiritual manifesting in your daily 
life. They will serve you well wherever you are, and in whatever way 
you believe your current life circumstances are incomplete. He who sees that the Lord of all is ever 
the same in all that is—immortal in the field of 
mortality—he sees the truth. And when a man sees 
that the God in himself is the same God in all that is, 
he hurts not himself by hurting others. Then he goes, 
indeed, to the highest path. The key phrase in this profound passage is “in all that is. ” This 
includes you and me and everything that is. It is you. You are not sep- 
arate from it. Use some of the following suggestions to implement 
this understanding and truly experience this third principle of spiri- 
tual manifesting. SUGGESTIONS FOR LIVING THIS PRINCIPLE 
Make a conscious effort to check yourself when you begin to 
think in ways that reflect separateness. Imagine yourself as a part 
of all that you see and make an internal attempt to project the 
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energy of your thoughts into all that is alive on the planet. Substitute the pronoun “us” for the pronoun “them,” and 
send sacred energy to co-workers, family, strangers and people 
that you only see in faraway places on television. Silently say, “I 
am these people,” “I am also in those trees and clouds,” “We 
truly are the world and I am not separate from anyone or any- 
thing. ” This inner practice will help you to embrace the concept 
of you as an environorganism rather than an organism in an envi- 
ronment. Contemplate the energy that is your life force. Forget about your 
body and your thoughts, and focus attention on the invisible life 
force that sustains your very being, which is also known as chi or 
prana. See if you can sense it objectively and also try to do the same 
thing with the energy of someone close to you. Watch that person 
and forget about his or her body. Center your attention on the idea 
that you share the same energy, and so you are the same person at 
that energy level. Becoming an observer of your energy and the energy of those 
around you is a way of putting you into contact with the spiritual 
essence of everyone and everything. Awareness of this connection 
will help you begin to use this energy to attract the objects of your 
desire, since this life force is also present in all that you wish to 
manifest into your life. Trust in the wisdom of your feelings. If you feel it, it is true for you. You can avoid being controlled by attitudes that belong to others by 
not placing your trust in something your heart does not feel. This is accomplished by trusting the wisdom of your inner feel- 
ings, which flow from trust of your experience of life. When you 
trust your feelings, you trust the energy that is the life force of the 
universe. Those feelings you know to be true are the contact with 
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that life force and should never be ignored in favor of a belief that 
your heart wisdom contradicts. Practice being gentle, respectful and loving toward the life force in 
all things. In other words, behave as if the God in all life really mat- 
tered. I live near the ocean for most of the year, either in Florida or 
Hawaii. I was walking along the beach in Florida one morning when 
thousands of small, silver fish washed up on the shore. They were all 
jumping around and gasping for water. I began throwing the fish 
back into the ocean, which was now a bit calmer after the waves 
that had beached the silver fish. As I was throwing the fish back into the water, a man walked by 
and laughed at my efforts. He said something like, “Can’t you see 
how hopeless your task is. There are thousands of fish on the 
shoreline, and your efforts are not making any difference at all. ” | 
bent back down and threw in another fish and responded, “It made 
a difference to that one. ” Remind yourself that your efforts do 
make a difference, even if you think they are minuscule compared 
to the magnitude of the problem. Being gentle, respectful and loving to one other person or crea- 
ture has major significance for you and the other. The energy of love 
is sent out into the universe and connects with the same loving 
essence that is in all things. This does not deny a natural food chain, 
but extends love, thanks, respect and gentleness to all, even when it 
is a part of your diet. The energy of that food is also life sustaining, and eventually, 
every creature and every being becomes food for other beings, 
including yourself. In essence, we are all tomorrow’s food. The uni- 
verse gobbles up all form and turns it into new form, while the 
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Determine that you will spend some time each day alone and in 
silence, meditating on this principle. Repeat the principle over and 
over as a silent mantra: “I am not an organism in an environment, I 
am an environorganism. ” By repeating these words to yourself you 
will eventually begin to project this reality outward. This is the beginning of your manifestation project, because man- 
ifesting is nothing more than materializing a new aspect of yourself 
to which you have always been connected on a spiritual level. Make the spaces of your life as sacred as possible. In your living 
space bless all that surrounds you, and fill your space with the life 
that plants, flowers and animals bring. Spend some time contem- 
plating your living space as a holy place. The more you bring your environment alive with sacred thoughts 
and feelings, the more you will feel spiritually connected. An atti- 
tude of sacred space automatically attracts more to your world than 
an attitude of indifference or hostility. A hostile environment breeds 
discontent and keeps what you need and desire from manifesting in 
your life. This is uncomfortably obvious in large cities, where very little 
respect has been paid to the immediate environs, where trees have 
been cut down, parks removed, and most of it replaced with con- 
crete, stores, high-rises and freeways. The soul is removed when the 
space is not honored by builders or residents. What manifests is a hostile, frightening, non-loving world with 
people to match. Restoring nature and all that is natural to your life 
and to the places where it has been forfeited in the name of growth 
and profits in our larger social living areas is one way of bringing 
back the energy that will manifest love, happiness and prosperity. The Sufi poet Rumi wrote a poem, almost a millennium ago, 
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The Seed Market 
Can you find another market like this. Where, 
with your one rose 
you can buy hundreds of rose gardens. Where, 
for one seed 
you get a whole wilderness. For one weak breath, 
the divine wind. You’ve been fearful 
Of being absorbed in the ground, 
or drawn up by the air. Now, your waterbead lets go 
and drops into the ocean, 
where it came from. It no longer has the form it had, 
but it’s still water. The essence is the same. This giving up is nota repenting. : 
It’s a deep honoring of yourself. When the ocean comes to you as a lover, 
marry, at once, quickly, 
for God’s sake. Don’t postpone it. Existence has no better gift. No amount of searching 
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A perfect falcon, for no reason, 
has landed on your shoulder, 
and become yours. —FROM The Essential Rumi 
TRANSLATIONS BY COLEMAN BARKS WITH JOAN MOYNE 
Become aware of how your judgments prevent you from connect- 
ing to whatever you are judging. A judgment is a definition of your- 
self as separate from that which you are judging. Remember that it 
is possible to look out on the world and not condemn it, to have 
absolutely no judgment or interpretation of it but to just allow it 
to be. The ego is the part that keeps you attached to an idea of separa- 
tion which, of course, inhibits your awareness of this third princi- 
ple. Your ego analyzes, condemns, defines, evaluates, interprets and 
judges almost everything. Work hard each day at just letting go and 
seeing yourself as a part of all of those people and things that you 
are judging. When the judgment disappears, it does so because you 
have realized that you are really a part of that which you are judging. Your judgment is only a definition of yourself. As an environorganism you will find judgment almost impossible 
and this will free you to use that energy in a far more productive 
and loving way. That is, to manifest what you desire rather than to 
judge others. Have fun with the idea of yourself as a hologram. If you remember 
that you are a tiny piece of humanity, reflected in your own little 
image and personality, then you have a green light to reflect the 
humanity that you would like in your world. You are one tiny bit of 
a six-billion-or-so-piece hologram, and you reflect all of those six 
billion pieces at every given moment of your life. This is a difficult concept for your rational brain to grasp but, on 
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the other hand, take a look at a three-dimensional hologram some- 
time and try to figure out with your rational mind how one little 
sliver can reflect the whole. This is not a knowing for your left 
brain. It is for your heart. View yourself in this way, from your 
heart, and you will create a scintillating experience of how powerful 
you really are in this big hologram of a world. This is the third principle of spiritual manifestation. We are all simul- ° 
taneously our own beings and all that is outside us as well. We cannot 
ever separate ourselves from our environment while we are in a phys- 
ical body. Knowing this puts us in touch with the energy of attraction 
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The Fourth Principle 
he central notion of manifesting is the understanding that 
you have within yourself the ability to attract the objects of your 
desire. This idea may still seem to you to be out of your power. But, 
if you have understood the previous three principles, then you are 
beginning to know that this power is within you. Being able to attract 
your desires may seem more likely when you consider how things are 
created from the spirit world of the formless seemingly moving into 
the material world. In one of the most intriguing sentences in the New Testament, St. Paul addresses this process of creation. He said it this way: “Things 
which are seen are not made of things which do appear. ” St. Paul is 
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telling us that the creative energy is neither solid nor restricted. The 
physical world of form originates in something other than form itself, 
even though we know it is all one world, when viewed from a holo- 
grammatic perspective. St. Paul’s words form the basis for my writing about this principle 
and for several of those to come in this book. I believe they suggest 
how energy informs our ability to attract what we desire.
Trust
What is the cornerstone of the author's praying?
An enormous sense of peace becomes available to you
What is the result of trusting in the God force?
God is not a boss or a tyrant, but rather a loving and infinite power that is always with you
What is the author's perspective on the concept of God?
Acknowledge them as teachers and respond with love and respect
What is the author's advice for dealing with people who disturb your peace?
The universe is a holistic, interconnected system, and everything is connected and part of the same energy.
What is the author's view on the nature of the universe?