Let me explain them both to
you, and then you can decide which one you choose to adopt for yourself,
keeping in mind that what you impress upon your subconscio us mind is
what the universal one subcons cious mind will offer you in your waking
hours. Your subconscious mind is indifferent to what you want or what is
best for you. It cannot make a distinction between what you are feeling as a
result of all that happens to you throughout your waking hours, or what you
feel as a result of what you are imagining for yourself as having already
transpired while you are in bed preparing to doze of f to sleep.1. Choosing to Review the Day’ s Frustrations and Disappointments
As you lie in bed, you can use this time prior to entering your
subconscious mind to review everything that transpired throughout the day
that caused you to feel unhappy , dejected, frustrated, angry , and so on. You
can think sad thoughts about all of the people who disappointed you, and
review in your imagination (via inner dialogue with yourself) how unhappy
all of that made you. You can spend these critical moments worrying about
all of the things that didn’ t work out the way you wanted them to, and
projecting onto your subconscio us mind evidence for things continuing to
transpire in the same way that they always have. You can go over the
arguments you had with others, and conclude that those peop le really do
make you unhappy . You can use your mind to relive how fearful you are
that things are not going to improve. You can even predict that a great
calamity is about to befall you and your family , and there is nothing to be
done to stave it of f.
You can picture in your mind the worst possible outcome concerning your
own health or the health of a loved one. You can imagine yourse lf filing for
bankruptcy , or not getting the job you desire, or a natural disaster striking
you, or you feeling even sicker when you awaken. The potential disasters
that you can entertain with your thoughts as you prepare to go to sleep
could fill the next 100 pages. Whatever you opt for—such as these examples of thoughts that make you
feel bad—is a choice  to send those messages to your subconscious just as
you are about to go to sleep. In ef fect, you are imprinting your subconscious
with I am unhappy , frustrated, pessimistic, afraid. Your subconscious mind,
unable to distinguish between what you are telling it through your presleep
conditioning ritual and what is actually happening in your everyday world,
says to you, “Okay , I’ve got it.”
Your thoughts are on what you do not want and what you despise, and
your feelings in your body bring you worry , fear, anxiety , hate, sadness, and
the like. Your subconscious mind responds with no desire to change your
conscious waking state, because it only reacts to what you place there. So it
will proceed to offer you experiences from the universal one subconscious
mind that aligns  with what you’ve programmed it to do. You placed your
thoughts in your subconscious, when it would most likely have at least eighthours of sleep to work on them! The subconscious can’t be faulted for
assuming that you must want them very , very much. Alas, you awaken befuddled by all of the things you don’t want that keep
showing up in your life, not understanding that by assuming the feeling of
what you don’t wish for and then going to sleep with those thoughts in your
mind, you are programming your subconscious mind to take over, just as it
did when you were first learnin g to drive. The difference is that then you
were creating what you desired, and now you are using the same  strategy to
attract what you do not desir e. And this is why you so often fail to attract
the ideal in your life. Neville puts it this way:
Whatever you have in consciousness as you go to sleep is the measure of your expression
in the waking two-thirds of your life on earth. Nothing stops you from realizing your
objective, save your failure to feel that you are already that which you wish to be, or that you
are already in posses sion of the thing sought. Your subconscious gives form to your desires
only when you feel your wish fulfilled.40
You can train yourself to do this in the precious five minu tes before
slumber overtakes you. If you decide you do not want to go to sleep with this first choice in your
consciousness, you can develop a new habit for your habitual mind to latch
onto. You do have an alternative—those last five minutes of the day are
your five minutes and yours alone. Consider the second option  using your
last waking moments before sleep, programming your subconscious mind
in a new way . 2. Choosing to Assume the Feeling of the W ish Fulfilled
As you lie in bed, feeling drowsy and knowing that you are about to go to
sleep—where your subconscious mind is most at home—use  these final
preslumber moments to align with your Source of being and become a
wishes fulfilled spiritual being. In these presleep moment s, you can
program your subconscious mind to automatically present you with fulfilled
wishes. You wouldn’ t train your subco nscious mind to repeatedly slam on the
brakes or to make a turn into a driveway without safely slowing  down. You
also don’t want to train your subconscious mind to focus on and attract thekinds of things that make you unhappy or create unnecessary pain. These
last five minutes  awake, then, are your final pep talk to your subconscious
mind. You want to focus on assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled that
you’ve placed into your imagination. Here’ s what Neville offers on this topic—it may be the most valuable
information you’ve ever received:
The feeling which comes in response to the question “How would I feel were my wish
realized?” is the feelin g which should monopolize and immobilize your attention as you relax
into sleep. You must be in the consciousness of being or having that which you want to be or
to have before you drop of f to sleep.41
So this is what you must ask yourself as you get closer and closer to
dropping off into the unconsciou sness of sleep— If my wishes were realized,
how would it feel right here right now in my body? Stay with that thought
until you begin to feel your body shift into what that feels like. This is not an empty exercise—it is a programming tool for reteaching
your subconscious mind to act on what you intend to manifest, rather than
on what you are worried, angry , or fearful about. In this semi-somnolent
state, go to the I am that you are now putting into your imagination. For
example, if you are worried about your health—whether because of a
common cold, a pulled muscle, or a fearful diagnosis of a potentially life-
threatening sickness—declare, “I am God in action.” Or you could
contemplate my favorite quotation from Saint Germain in The “I AM”
Discourses:
I want so much to have you feel that you are the Only Authority in this world or any other ,
so far as your world is concerned. Do not ever fear that the perfecting of your world is going
to disfigure anyone else’s world, so long as your intent is not to harm anyone. It does not
matter what the world about you says, or how much they try to intrude upon you their doubts,
fears and limitations. You are the Supreme  Authority in your world and all you have to do is
to say, when you are beset by those conditions, “‘I AM’ the Mighty , Magic Circle of
Protection about me that is Invincible and repels from me every discordant thought and
element which seeks to find entrance or intrude itself. ‘I AM’ the Perfection of my world and
it is Self-sustained.”42
This is very powerful advice. When he says it does not matter what the
world about you says, he is also talking about all of those self-limiting
thoughts that you yourself have proclaimed regarding your ability to be
healed.As you lie in bed, affirm: I am perfect health, or use the words of Saint
Germain above about being mighty and the perfection of your world—then
notice how that feels in your body. At first you will be calling upon your
ego, which believes that it is separate from God or the universa l Source of
all, and an inner voice will say, This is silly, I am sick, I am sore, I am
dying, and I am only fooling myself. So simply dismiss these mind viruses
and cond itioned memes, since you are free to use these five minutes in any
way that you choose. Repeat a new I am that shifts you to the state of the realized wish. Repeatedly tell yourself that I am God in action , and immediately check in
with your body to feel the shift from fear and anxiety to peace, love, and
contentment. After a little practice, you will find that repeating I am in your
mind begins to impact how you are feeling. Sensations of worry and pain
slowly dissolve as you assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, and it is at
this point that you allow yourself to drop of f to sleep. Use these precious presleep moments to assume the feeling in your body
of whate ver wishes you desire as already fulfilled. Refuse to go to sleep
being upset or disturbed about anything, regardless of how momentous it
may appear to be in your life. The natural state of your subconscious is
sleep, and it sees you as you believe yourself to be. It matter s not to the
habitual mind of yours whether  what you believe and consequently feel in
your body is harmful, moral, good, bad, or indifferent. It will faithfully take
on your belief and provide you with an array of experiences and seemingly
synchronistic events that give form to what you believe and have placed
into the programming of your subconscious mind. On many occasions I’ve gone to bed feeling somewhat sick or concerned
about what course my body will take with its diagnoses. I’ve faithfully
practiced what I am writing about, and I’ve awakened symptom-free. The
key is to keep checking in with my body until I can say in all honesty that
I’m feeling that my desire is a present fact. Feelings are the tools that the
subconscious automatic mind uses. You can quite readily break the habit of using your resting time before
sleep reviewing things that are frustrating and upsetting. Make this a sacred
satisfying time to nurture thoughts that align with the I am thoughts that you
have placed into your imagination. When you see a tendency toward
negativity , simply pause and gently remind yourself in your sleepy state thatyou do not wish to enter your unconscious world with these feelings. Then
assume that feeling in your body of your wish fulfilled. You want to enter
your sleep with reminders to your subconscious to automatically  fulfill your
life-enhancing wishes. Your Subconscious Mind Never Sleeps
The validity of a universal subconscious mind that is the only one mind is
a conce pt that ego struggles to understand. It is of the highest order of
importance if you want to master the art of manifestation. “This infinite intelligence, then, is the only mind there is; we are all using
it; we can’t help using it; for it is one and everywhere and is the stuff from
which all things are made.” This quote is from one of my favorite books:
Three Magic Words, written by Uell S. Andersen, which I’ve referred to
earlier in this book. This one universal mind is infinite in time, space, and
substance; and as the author  concludes, “One mind only, which is
everywhere and everything; this is the Subconscious Mind.” And finally
here’ s a descript ion of what takes place in the subconscious mind while you
sleep: “In other words, this Subconscious Mind attempts to create in form
and circumstance that which  the Conscious Mind suggests to it.”
Contemplate these insights throughout your day and particularly before
going to sleep. Your conscious mind, as you go to sleep, is capable of impressing your
great I am upon your subconscious mind, which is a sliver of the one all-
creating subcon scious mind. This one mind never sleeps because it is
infinite and therefore everywhe re and in everything—it is always in the
process of creating and manife sting. Throughout those hours while your
conscious mind is resting, your subconscious mind is receiving and
processing all that you’ve down loaded into it, and getting ready to turn its
impressions into form and circumstances. In his book The Biology of Belief , my friend Bruce Lipton puts this
phenomenon of the conscious and subconscious mind into the language of
modern technology , using this metaphor: “In reality , the subconscious is an
emotionless database of stored programs, whose function is strictly
concerned with reading environmental signals and engaging in hardwired
behavioral programs, no questions asked, no judgments made. Thesubconscious mind is a programmable ‘hard drive’ into which our life
experiences are downloaded.”
So here you are lying in your bed, about to enter into your unconscious
state where your subconscious mind is most at home. In Lipton’ s analogy ,
there’ s a computer ready and waiting to get to work as soon as you doze off
and leave your conscious mind behind. As you lie there, what you say to
yourself as an I am is what you download into the computer . The computer
I’m using to stand in for one universal subconscious mind is so vast that it
has no beginnin g and no end and everything exists within it. If everything
exists within it and it is infinite, that means you exist within it as well, and it
must respond to what you load into it. It cannot sleep; it is too busy turning
conscious impressions into form and circumstances. All you have to do is
understand this power is within  you and be in a state of gratitude for your
highest self, which is God. Remember those three magic words: You are God. There is only one
subconscious mind, and your own subconscious mind is a part of that one
mind. That invisible part of you is really the mind of God at work—as long
as you don’t edge God out (ego), which is what your conscious mind has
probably been trained to do. If your subconscious mind receives your conviction that you have money ,
you will have money . If it receives the conviction that I am happy , I am
healthy , I am content, I am love, I am wise, or any other statement
downloaded with conviction, the subconscious mind will bring it into your
physical reality . I am not suggesting that you have hope , or tell yourself
maybe , or use the last five minutes awake to say “I will be happy ,” “I will
be prosperous,” “I hope to one day be content.” Use the name that God
gave to Moses as he described who he is: I am that I am. This is where faith plays a decisive role. You must extinguish any thought
that being one with God is impossible. That is the false self at work—the
contaminated personal subconscious that receives toxic self-lim iting ideas
and turns them into your unfulfilled reality . You are one with the one
universal subcon scious mind of God that never sleeps, and works for you
while your conscious mind slumbers. You want it to work for you using
what you download into it—even as you are in deep sleep. While Y ou Sleep, Y our Subconscious Mind W orksOne of my spiritual teachers, Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov—the Bulgarian
mystic philosopher and teacher of the Universal White Brotherhood—has
this to say about your preparation for sleep and what transpires while your
sleep: “It is the experiences of the last minutes before you go to sleep that
are more  important, more significant, than everything that happened during
the day.” He speaks eloquently on the importance of entering the
subconscious mind with a purity of spirit because each night we die—and if
we don’t know how to prepare for our nightly death, we will be unprepared
for our true departure to the other world. “Take care, therefore,” he urges
us, “never to go to sleep with negative thoughts in your mind, for they will
destroy all the good you may have gained during the day .”
Your time while asleep, when  you leave this house and yet are still
attached to it, is to be thought of as a sacred journey that you take daily to
connect to the one universal subconscious mind and experience the
bewildering wonder of what transpires there. Once again, Aïvanhov tells us:
“Before going to sleep, you must get ready as though for a sacred
pilgrimage … never go to bed with a negative thought in your head, for it
will wreak havoc in your subconscious.” In those eight or so hours that you
are embedded in your subconscious mind, you receive instruction. The
feelings you brought to your sleep time will be expressed tomorrow and in
all of your tomorrows. This is a time when you leave behind the
constrictions of your physical world and the limitations of your physical
body . You allow  the one subcon scious mind to create your wishes without
active participation from your solid material self. I cannot  describe to you precis ely how your subconscious mind works
while you sleep , nor can anyone give you this kind of detail. As Neville
puts it, “The subconscious receives impressions only through the feelings of
man and in a way known only to itself gives these impressions form and
expression.”43
Who can describe the intricacies  of a caterpillar weaving its own chrysalis
and then emer ging as a beautifu l butterfly? It is a mystery known only to
the one mind, as is how a subconscious impression turns into a hardened
fact. But you can be cognizant of the many mysterious things you do while
asleep, all the while believing them to be true and experiencing them in
your body even though you are unconscious. I only ask you to enjoy themysterious and know that it is full of potential. Wallow in it, and when you
do, you open yourself up to infinite possibilities. While asleep you dream, entering a totally unique dimension that feels
absolutely real for all the time you’re dreaming. During dream  time, your
subconscious mind takes over, presenting you with a magical world where
everything occu rs without your active participation. You don’t have to get
up and do anything, you don’t need to move, and you don’t need the
assistance of anyone. You don’t need money , luck, tools, transportation of
any kind, your family , your church, an education, a book—nothing. It all
takes place while your physical self is in bed, unconscious, out of your body
—yet still attach ed to it. How does all of this stupendous manifestation take
place, in a way known only to itself? There are some things taking place while you slumber that might give you
pause. One-third of your life is lived in a reality that offers you clues as to
what is possible for you when you are in your dreams awake. You can get a
glimmer of how the one universal subconscious mind works if you can look
back, from a waking state, and examine what is taking place during the
sleeping third of your life. In your dream state, you are able to create anything that you desire simply
by using your powers of though t to make it happen. You don’t have to get
out of bed, get dressed, set a goal and then an intention, go to a car
dealership to test-drive the car you love, write a check, and drive away with
your new purchase. All you need do is place the idea into your sleepy
imagination, feel it in your body (your heart rate goes up, your breathing
increases, you are feeling the joy in your smile), and voilà! There it is—you
are drivi ng in your new car. It is all very real, and all you had to do was
have the though t, live from the end, and feel it. Your subconscious mind,
now fully connected to the one subconscious mind, has allowed you to
participate in the true art of manifestation. And as long as you stay in your
dream state, unconscious in your slumber , “then He opens the ears of men,
and seals their instructions,” as it is revealed in the book of Job. In Anita Moorjani’ s NDE report quoted earlier , she speaks about the
absence of time, and the sensation that everything seemed to be happening
at once. No time experience, only now. And so it is in your dream state as
well. You can be five years old and fifty years old all at the same time inyour dream. You can be with the same person simultaneousl y alive and
dead in your dream. Albert Einstein’ s study of quantum physics was devoted to the simple
message that we live in a compl eted universe, and that time is an invention
of man and essentially an illusion. Anita’ s NDE uncons cious state
reinforces Einste in’s idea of no time. Anita said that past lives did not exist
in those momen ts. Everything was happening now. The only way she could
describe it was that what we call past lives appeared to be parallel  lives,
and that everyth ing was simply all one. In your unconscious sleep state, you
can be anything and everything; you can be yourself and someone else or
something else—even an animal—simultaneously . Linearity  seems to
disappear . Anyth ing that you can imagine is yours. Nothing is impossible. Want to fly? Then imagine it and feel it, and of f you go. While asleep and dreaming, you’re not restricted to cause and effect. In
your dreaming body you can come and go as you please. Things do not
have to follow the same rules that seem to apply to your waking world. If
you imagine and feel it as a present-moment fact, it is there for you
instantaneously . Everything you need for the dream is created  by you in
harmony with your subconsciou s mind. You don’t have to do anything but
allow your thoughts to create what they desire and to feel it in your sleeping
body . Think about all of the things that take place in the one-third of your life
while you sleep. There is no time, no cause and effect—eve rything you
experience is created by your imagination. The people and events are all
illusions, simply figments of your imagination. There is no beginning and
no end, no linea r progression, and it all seems to make perfect sense as long
as you’re in the dream state. I’m reminded of Henry David Thoreau’ s observation that “Our truest life
is when we are in dreams awake.” It seems only logical to me that if during
one-third of our life on planet Earth, we are capable of manifesting anything
that we place our attention on—without having to expend any physical
effort, only by allowing ourselves to transcend time and space—then why
not in the other two-thirds of our life? This is what I believe Thoreau is
suggesting when he urges us to be true to our authentic self by being a
waking dreamer .As you look back at it from your “awakened” state, the time while you are
in deep slumber provides you clues as to what is possible when you begin
to awaken from this dream as well. You have experienced oneness,
timelessness, miracle-making, and having your wishes fulfilled
instantaneously for one-third of your life. Become a waking dreamer and
begin to apply this same awareness to the entirety of your life. All of the
things I have written throughout this book, you are capable of achieving
while asleep. Make them your personal reality in all of your waking hours
as well. Remember , the only way you can be sure you were dreaming is to
awaken. If you never awakened, it would all be the unlimited reality of your
dream state. And so it is with the two-thirds of your life as well. The only
way you will ever know you were dreaming is to revive while you are still
alive, and look back at your dream from this awakened perspective. Remind
yourself that you can indeed do as Thoreau suggests and find your truest
self by being in your dreams awake. Neville of fers you these words on what takes place while you sleep:
Sleep is the door through which the consci ous, waking mind passes to be creatively joined
to the subconscious. Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In
sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself.44
Each night as I drift off to sleep , I adamantly refuse to use this precious
time to review anything that I do not want to be reinforced in the hours of
being immersed in my subconscious mind. I choose to impre ss upon my
subconscious mind, and therefore the mind of God to which I am eternally
joined, my conc eption of myself as a Divine creator in alignment with the
one mind. I groggily reiterate  my I ams, which I have  placed in my
imagination, and I remember that my slumber will be dominated  by my last
waking concept of myself. I am peaceful, I am content, I am love, I am
writing, I am the governing power of the universe, and I attract only to
myself those who ar e in alignment with my highest ideals of myself. This is my nightly ritual, always eschewing any temptation to go over any
fear of unpleasa ntness that my ego might be asking me to review . I assume
the feeling in my body of those I am statements already fulfilled, and I enter
my sleep inviting the instructio n that my subconscious mind welcomes. I
know that I’m allowing myself to be programmed while asleep, for the nextday I rise knowing that I am a free agent. I understand that every  action and
event of the day is essentially predetermined by my feelings as I prepared
for sleep, and while I was in that place of warmth and trust in the arms of
the one universal subconscious mind. Waking Up
It is my intentio n to live in my dreams awake, as much as is humanly and
spiritually conce ivable. I look back upon my dream state, and I realize that
everything that I needed for my dream I was able to create with my
subconscious mind—without effort, and with no need for involving my
physical body at all. And so I know that manifesting the person I wish to be
while awake also involves effortless perfection and that I have my
imagination—or my intentions, my attention, and my feelings—to use
while awake as well. My sleep  time fully embedded in my subconscious
mind is providin g clues for me to put those mental activities into practice
when I leave my slumber . I further  look back at my dream  time from a place of wakefulness, and I
see that everything and everyone that was in my dream was created by me
with my imagination. I keep this in mind as I gaze at who and what I have
created in my awake dream. I look back from my wakeful perspective and
realize that I lived in a world where time is an illusion, where  nothing is
unavailable to me, where cause and effect are total illusions , where all
obstacles are turned into either opportunities or revealed as illusions, where
there is no beginning and no end, and where my body experien ces feelings
even though the thoughts that resulted in those feelings are all illusions and
were totally devoid of judgments by my dreaming self. And finally , I look back and realize that the only way I know for certain
that I was dreaming was to awaken. I remind you here as well that you do
have within you these amazing powers of manifestation, and you use them
on a regular basis every night and for one-third of your entire time in this
incarnation. I suggest that while you are awake, you view this two-thirds
portion of your life as a dream as well, and realize that the only way you’ll
know you are dreaming is to awaken. Awaken to a new consc iousness in
which distance and time constraints can be overcome just by a change ofstate. An awakened state that knows and trusts in the power of your
thoughts and feelings to live a wishes fulfilled life. In all of your waking hours, I encourage you to stay closely aligned to
your originating Source of being. Practice thinking like God (your highest
self) thinks. As I pointed out in a previous book, Excuses Begone! , when
your contemplations are a vibrational match to originating Spirit, you are
synchronized with Divine mind, attracting and fulfilling your desires. You
have the same power as originat ing Spirit, as long as you don’t replace your
Divine nature with ego’s thoughts, which are essentially the mental
meanderings of your false self. While awake, use your mind to repeatedly remind yourself of your true I
am that I am nature. Remember that universal one subconscious mind
creates in a way known only to itself. It is the great mystery . Learn to live in
that mystery , making every effort to use all of your mental and feeling
powers to manifest the life you desire, all the while staying in an
uncompromised state of love. Here is what Erich Fromm wrote on this
subject of living the mystery : “Rather than be confronted with an
overwhelming proof of the limitations of our understanding, we accuse the
dreams of not making sense.”
You needn’ t be concerned with how it will all work out; all you need to
know is that you are always connected to your Source of being, and that
you and God are truly one. Just as no scientist can tell you how a caterpillar
knows how to turn itself into a butterfly and then migrate thousands of
miles without the benefit of a brain, you must simply accept the great
mystery of life and death and stay as closely aligned with this miraculous
thing we call creative Source of all being as you possibly can. You don’t
have to understand it all; all you need do is remain in a state of love while
reprogramming your subconscious mind to develop the habits  of a God-
realized being, rather than an ego-dominated person. As the Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran observed in his classic book The
Prophet , “Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity .” I
urge you to follow the poet’ s advice and open up that gate and come to
know a new external you, in your dreams awake, and never forget your own
Divine magnificence. Three Suggestions— As you lie in bed preparing for your nightly slumber , reme mber that
the last thought  you have in your mind can last up to four hours in your
subconscious mind. That’ s four hours of programming from just one
moment of contemplation prior to going into your unconscious state. Create
a reminder like a prayer or mantra to place by your bed. Write these words
and read them as you get comfo rtable: I am going to use these moments to
review what I intend to manifest into my life. Keep that sign there to remind
you how to spend your presleep moments nightly . — Reproduce this quotation from Saint Germain in The “I AM”
Discourses  and repeat it at least three times  as you prepare to go to sleep as
a daily/ nightly reminder that you are sending forth the greatest decree
possible: “‘I AM’ the Governi ng Presence, governing in Perfect Divine
Order , commanding Harmony , Happiness, and the Presence of God’ s
Opulence in my mind, my home, and my world.”45 Make a serious effort to
feel the sustaining power of this in your body . — If before dropping off to sleep you are assailed by worry , distress, or
fear, do not stay in bed. Get up, turn on the light, take a few deep breaths,
read from a spiritual text, medi tate for a few moments in front of a white
candle, say a prayer—do anything other than staying there lying  down. You
cannot defend yourself against these onslaughts while remain ing snug in
your bed. If distressing feelings come back when you return to bed, get up,
turn on the lights, and try someth ing else. When you finally do feel peaceful
back in bed, repeat the I ams  from suggestions one and two on the previous
page and drift off to sleep ready to have your ears opened and your
instructions sealed. OceanofPDF .comCHAPTER NINE
MAKING  IT ALL COME  TOGETHER
“Turn back to the higher planes and plunge into the cosmic ocean once
again … People think that it is in the details that they will find the light, the
precision, they ar e looking for , but this is an illusion: you will find far mor e
light in what is vague and indistinct … The human soul needs immensity;
only in immensity can it be happy and feel fr ee to br eathe.”
— O MRAAM  MIKHAËl  AÏVANHOV
This final chapter will assist you in achieving that immensity  that your
soul is seeking. It is comprised of seven questions for you to contemplate
and explore as you begin your wishes fulfilled life. The questions are based
on the five wishes fulfilled foundations and the three opening chapters. These questions, along with my ideas and suggestions, are in no particular
order of importa nce—they are offered in the hope that as you finish reading
this book, you have a strong aura of all things are possible  swirling around
in your consciousness. Once you decide to live from this Divine awareness,
your life takes on an air of appreciation for the mysterious and a belief in
the miraculous. All of your God-realized wishes will indeed be fulfilled. Question #1: Does It Feel Natural? There will be times when you doubt your ability to attract into life the
successful fulfillment of your wishes, including the ideal person you would
like to be. I realize these words appear to contradict what I’ve written
earlier in this book. However , I’m addressing this question from the
position of the overly conditio ned ego that’s been trained to believe it’s
preposterous to think you can become what you would like to be by simply
assuming the feeling in your body of your wishes being fulfilled. Neville alerts you to this disruptive influence with these words:
The time it takes your assumption to become fact, your desire to be fulfilled, is directly
proportionate to the naturalness of your feeling of already being what you want to be—ofalready having what you desire. The fact that it does not feel natural  to you to be what you imagine yourself to be is the
secret of your failur e. Regardles s of your desire, regardless of how faithfully and intelligently
you follow the law , if you do not feel natural  about what you want to be, you will not be it.46
Think about what you plan to manifest—then use your imaginat ion to feel
what that feels like in your body . Does it feel natural to you? I mean, does it
really feel like this is the you that you are deciding to be? If you’ve been
sickly for most of your life and you are assuming the feeling of a healthy
body , does it feel natural to see yourself as a picture of perfect health? Do
you feel that with your imagination and God, all things are possible? If
you’ve been overweight, or addicted, or poor, or victimized, or unlucky , or
weak, or anything at all that is incongruous with your perfect well-being,
can you feel natural when you assume the feeling of your new ideal? Do you feel entitled to prosperity , health, happiness? If that feels
unnatural, you must take on this task that Neville defines in this way: “The
essential feeling of naturalness can be achieved by persistently filling your
consciousness with imagination— imagining yourself being what you want
to be or having what you desire.”47
I readily admit that there are some things that you might desire or wish for
that will never feel natural to you. This came up in an interview  I recently
did on a telecas t for a national television network. The interviewer asked,
“Do you mean to tell me, Dr. Dyer , that if I do all that you recommend, and
follow the Law of Assumption to the letter , I can become a linebacker for
the New York Giants?” Now this man was about 5 feet 7 inches tall and
weighed maybe  150 pounds—a small man imagining himsel f in a very
large man’ s physical position on a professional football team. I asked him, “Does it feel natural for you to be playing that position on
the Giants?” His immediate response was, “Not at all.” And thus, I
reminded him that the time it takes  your assumption to become reality is
proportionate to the naturalness of being it. In my opinion,  the interviewer would be doomed to failure  with his
assumption. However , I’ve seen professional basketball players who were 5
feet 7 inches tall, in a professio n populated by giants—and not only could
they play at an all-star level, but they could jump high enough to dunk abasketball. Whe n interviewed, they said without hesitation, “It feels natural
to me, even though no one else can imagine it happening.”
This is relevant to you, because it’s actually rare to desire what simply
feels unnatural. If being healthy , prosperous, happy , successful, strong,
intelligent, and so on feel unnatural, then naturalness may be achieved by
persistently using your imagina tion and your subjective attention to make
this feeling stick. Throughout my life it’s felt natural to achieve prosperity , heal my body ,
teach self-reliance, and simply be happy . When I was a schoolteacher , most
people said (and I still hear it to this day), “You can’t make any money as a
schoolteacher; after all it’s a low-paying profession.” Yet being prosperous
and making money has always seemed natural to me. When I was a schoolteacher , I taught extra courses at night school,
worked every summer , started a driver -education business, gave public
lectures for a fee on Monday nights, became a consultant on how to attract
government grants, started a tutoring business, wrote books, took additional
college credits to maximize my salary , and on and on. Eventually , because it
all felt so natural to me, I made teaching a very lucrative profession. At one
time I was restricted to a classr oom as a teacher; today I’m still a teacher ,
only my classroom has now become the entire globe. Whatever it is that you want to manifest for yourself, do not be afraid to
place it into your imagination, assume the feeling of that wish fulfilled, and
by all means, make it feel as natural as apple pie. Today we have a man who eleva ted his life to become the President of the
United States. Given his posit ion in life—as the child of a mixed-race
marriage, raised partially in a Muslim country , with the name of Barack
Hussein Obama—virtually everyone would have said that this young boy’s
aspirations were unnatural, plain and simple. But he didn’ t see it that way,
and neither should you. Move your highest dreams to a rightful natural place in your imagination,
and then do as Ralph Waldo Emerson, the man whose portrait I’m looking
at as I write, advised: “Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you
conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great
proportions.”
It is my long-held strong belief and knowing that you are never  given the
power to dream without the equivalent power to manifest that dream andmake it your physical reality . And this is also from Emerson to chew on:
“Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and
beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you. For
you is the phenomenon perfect. What are we, that only can we see.”
Question #2: Am I W illing to Command My I Am Presence? It is totally unnecessary for you to be subtle or obsequious with your
highest self. Y ou are God—not the ego-oriented model of a deity superior to
everyone and everything, but the God Who is spoken of in the New
Testament: “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love” (1
John 4:8), and “We are of God” (1 John 4:6). Therefore, as long as you stay
in a state of love, you must be God—“and everyone who loves is born of
God and knows God” (1 John 4:7). This is not the concept of God that you
were probably raised with, even though this couldn’ t be more clearly
delineated in the scriptures of virtually all faiths. View your I am presence as an invisible energy residing within and
around you at all times, which is yours to use as you see fit. It is not an
external power residing out there somewhere that you can’t see or touch, or
that you must beg to serve you—it is your very highest self. I encourage
you to make use of this God-power by insisting upon it serving you in the
manifestation of your highest aspirations for yourself and all of humanity . In The “I AM” Discourses , Saint Germain says it this way: “Therefore,
when you say: ‘I AM the Conquering Presence! I command  this I AM
Presence to govern perfectly my mind, home, affairs and world,’ you have
sent forth the greatest Decree possible to be given.”48 Notice the word
command. This is in sharp distinction to the teachings that counsel us to
treat God gingerly in our prayers and discussions, to be careful not to insult
God, and to be fearful of Him. I’m not suggesting you adopt an attitude of arrogance in your relationship
with the Source of all being—that would contradict the quote from the book
of John,  that God is love. This second question is about you having absolute
faith in your own I am presence and a willingness to be insistent on the
cooperation of the God force—to which you are eternally connected
because you are of God.When you place an intention in your imagination, do not allow a question
mark at the end of your prono uncement. See your statement ending in a
grammatical exclamation point. “I bring this into my reality!” is easy to say
if you’re already living from that declaration in your imagination and have
assumed the feeling in your body of that wish being fulfilled. As Saint Germain advises, “Put all your power back with God, and then
when you command—no matter what it is you want—you have all power
instantly on hand to bring forth the fulfillment of your Decree.”49 Another
favorite observation from The “I AM” Discourses  is this: “Say to your
Divine Self: ‘See here, God! come forth and take care of this.’  God wants
you to set Him to work. This releases a flood of the God-Ener gy,
Intelligence and Substance which flows forth to do the command.”50
Here’ s one final offering from The “I AM” Discourses  regarding your
insistence on having your physical body live from a place of Divine
perfection and well-being: “You must take the unconditional stand with
your body that: ‘“The I AM Presence” governs this physical body
completely and compels it into obedience.’ The more attention you give
your body , the more it is the master, and the more it will demand and keep
demanding from you.”51 And then to bring this point home to you, Saint
Germain offers you these encouraging words regarding your ability to have
the I am comma nding presence work for your perfect health: “You can
positively produ ce whatever you want in your body if you will fix your
attention upon the Perfection of it—but do not let your attention rest on its
imperfections.”52
If what I am writing here makes you feel a bit squeamish, ask yourself
why in the world would you feel threatened by commanding your God-
presence to go to work for you? Do you believe that God is truly love as it
is reported over and over in all of the spiritual texts, particularly the New
Testament, the Koran, the Bhagavad Gita, and the T ao Te Ching? Be persistent in the use of your I am presence. More than that—be
insistent  and command your highest self to set in motion all of the forces of
creation that will result in the hardening into fact that which you have
placed into your imagination as an already realized fact. I want toreemphasize  that commanding your I am presence to manifest your heart’ s
desire is not in any way contemptuous or arrogant. If you are not coming from a place of radical humility , then you have
invested your efforts in your ego—and that means, of course, that you have
edged God out of the entire process. Insisting upon your highest self serving
you in the act of manifestation means that you have absolute, total faith and
conviction in your intention. It is much like your everyday act of breathing,
eating, beating your heart, and digesting your food. Of course you are in a
profound state of gratitude for all of these, and millions more, everyday
miracles. And at the same time you demand and insist upon everything that
is involved in all of these activities. Y ou are enabled to obey the original fiat
of God, as reported in the book of Genesis, to take dominion over the earth. Taking dominio n means that you insist on it—and remember at all times
that you can ask that love take dominion over you and the entire world. Be in a deep state of gratitude for all that you are currently experiencing
and all that you are in the proces s of manifesting, and remain humble for all
that comes your way. At the same time, be 100 percent insistent upon
having your wishes fulfilled with the Divine assistance of your spiritual
Source of being. Simply know , beyond all doubt, that your desires are in the
midst of hardening into objects, circumstances, facts, and events—along
with a new, Divinely inspired you—as long as those desires are consistent
with the third question that you are about to ponder . Question #3: Are My W ishes in Alignment with My Highest Self? This principle invites you to choose which possibility you identify with
and, as has been stressed throug hout this book, to live as if it has already
occurred. If you place into your imagination wishes that are misaligned
with your highest God-realized  self, you will find yourself frustrated and
immobilized. God is love —if your aspirations in any way are outside of this
mantra, you will feel lost and you will not succeed. If God is one, then God is incapable of being divided. If your desires
involve conflict for yourself or anyone else, then you have brought two into
the picture: that is yourself, as well as the second party who might be
harmed by the fulfillment of your wish. God, being only oneness wherein
all things are connected, and God (your highest self) being love cannot evenrecognize the dichotomy that you bring to the picture. If God acknowledged
a desire  that would bring harm to anyone, God wouldn’ t and couldn’ t be
God. How could that which is all one recognize two (which is needed in
order to have conflict) and still be God? This is what happens when you attempt to manifest from a place of
selfishness or potential harm to anyone else. You invoke the ego, which is
always about winning, overpowering, being better than others,
accumulating for the sake of feeling superior , achieving for adulation or
recognition, improving your status, and so on. And again—ego is edging
God out. I love the way Neville speaks to this point: “You never draw out
of the deep of yourself that which you want; you always draw that which
you are, and you are that which you feel yourself to be as well as that which
you feel is true of others.”53 So in this manifestation activity , the secret is
to feel yourself as already being and having what you desire, and to keep
the entirety of it all wrapped up in a spirit of love. By all means place into your imagination the idea of living a prosperous
life, but this in no way implies from a God-realized position that you desire
a fancy watch, a luxury automobile, a large infusion of cash, a palatial
home, or anythi ng else that is for the purpose of elevating your position
among your peers. This immedi ately involves conflict—twoness—you and
those you are attempting to impress with your being in some way superior . Staying aligned with your Sour ce of being means no one is, in any way,
better than anyone else regardless of the monetary value of their stuf f.
This third quest ion is asking if you love as you are loved by the creative
Source of all. Can you ask out of love, live and feel as if what you desire is
already a present fact, and then allow the universal Source of all to provide,
with no concern about appeasing the demands of your ego? If demanding and insisting is your style, do it from a place of pure love. Be willing to give it all away in the name of that love. Stay in that place of
pure humility . If you desire to purify your body and live from a disease-free
place of perfect health, simply assume the feeling of love throughout your
body and live as if it were your reality . Not to impress others, not to have
special privileges bestowed upon you because you are more special and
thus more deserving of this healing, but purely out of your humble sense of
gratitude for being in a state of well-being.Albert Einstein once famously observed that all he wanted to do was to
learn to think like God thinks. This means living and manifesting from a
place of all-encompassing desire to serve others, to be love, to ask nothing
in return for what you give; in other words, to simply be love. Get your ego
out of the picture and “draw out of the deep of yourself,”  as Neville
expresses it. And the “deep of yourself” is truly your highest self, which is
of course God. Let the God that you are, the God that Jesus said you are, the
God that is your very essence, your deepest self—let this be the energy you
draw upon to fill your imagination, and then know that you are fully aligned
with the only Source that is responsible for all of creation. As you begin to see your Divinely aligned manifestations show up in your
physical world, think like God thinks and share any munificence with
others with no expectation of anything back, including even a thank-you if
it is not forthcoming. As you place your intentions into your imagination
and assume the feeling of those intentions being fulfilled, ask not for
anything that is outside the great umbrella of love that is God. The words of Jesus in the book of Luke sum up all that I am saying here:
But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those
who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. … But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for
nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For
He is kind to the unthankful and evil. Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is
merciful (Luke 6:32–36). Similarly , Lao-t zu, some six centuries or so earlier , reminds you that the
great sage is kind to the kind, and kind to the unkind, because  kindness is
his nature. If you can make  your desires harmonize with the messages of the above
passage, while practicing humility and keeping your ego at bay, you will
come to see the truth in Neville ’s observation that “You never draw out of
the deep of yourself that which you want; you always draw that which you
are.” The key here is “the deep of yourself”—that is your highest self, and
you will also see the significance of the fourth question, which follows. Question #4: Am I Free of Judgment, Condemnation, and Criticism?Several months ago, my desire to manifest something into my life did not
appear to be registering with the God force that brings all things into being. It is not that I was being impatie nt, for I have come to know in my heart of
hearts that all things arrive in Divine time and that it is not the job of my
ego to say when what I desire should show up. I have come to fully accept
that “Infinite patience produces immediate effects” as A Course in Miracles
tells us. The immediate results are the sense of inner peace that I feel when
I trust in the Divine, and infinite patience is just another way of saying pure
faith. The point I’m making here is that I wasn’ t experiencing anything
remotely close to inner contentment. In fact, the more I focused on what it
was that I wishe d to see fulfilled—even though I was practicing  everything
that I’ve written here in the first eight chapters of this book—the more I felt
anxious, sad, worried, frustrate d, and even mildly angry at times. It just
didn’ t seem to be working. Then one day I was rereading for the umpteenth time the third volume of
The “I AM” Discourses —the little book that was left at the yoga studio all
wrapped up in gold and that influenced the creation of this book. And I
came upon something that made me realize why my feelings in my body
were so discordant when it came to the fulfillment of one of my greatest
wishes:
The studen t should constantly look within  his human self and see what habits or creations
are there that need to be plucked out and disposed of; for only by refusing to any longer allow
habits of judging, condemning and criticizing to exist can he be free. The true activity of the
student is only to perfect his own world , and he cannot do it as long as he sees imperfection in
the world of another of God’ s children.54
Reading this paragraph was like having a bucket of cold water thrown in
my face, to shock me from the coma that had defined my life in relation to
the lack of fulfil lment of my wishes regarding this particular thing (which I
choose to have remain private). All the while I was using my imagination to
have a clear picture of what I wanted, I practiced living from that mental
position, I assumed the feeling of the wish fulfilled, I used my subjective
attention to keep that vision alive in my inner world, and I alwa ys used the
last few moments of my awake time to go over and over what I wished tomanifest before entering my unconscious state of sleep where my
subconscious mind was most at home. During all that time, I was also seeing imperfection in another of God’ s
children. I lovingly criticized, not so lovingly condemne d, and my
judgments frequently overshadowed my spiritual visualizations and
intentions. I had to learn that every single one of God’ s childr en is doing
what they know how to do, and I need to be able to love them, all of them,
as our Source  of being loves them. Without judgment, without
condemnation, and without criticism. If I’m to be a being of love living from my highest self, that means that
love is all I have inside of me and all that I have to give away . If someone I
love chooses to be something other than what my ego would prefer , I must
send them the ingredients of my highest self, which is God, and God is
love, as I have reiterated over and over throughout the pages of this book. My criticism and condemnation  of the thoughts, feelings, and behavior of
others—regardless of how right  and moral my human self convinces me it
is—is a step away from God-realization. And it is God-consciousness that
allows for my wishes to be fulfilled, as long as they are aligned with my
Source of being. I can come up with a long list of reasons why I should be judgm ental and
condemnatory toward another of God’ s children and why, damn it, I am
right. Yet if I want to perfect my own world—and I so want to do so—then
I must substitute love for these judgments, or take the consequences of not
having my wishes fulfilled. I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us
several thousand  years ago that when we are steadfast—which means that
we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others
—then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence. Now I know
that we are all human: you, me, all of us. We do occasiona lly slip and
retreat from our highest self into judgment, criticism, and condemnation,
but this is not a rationale for choosing to practice that kind of interaction. I can only tell you that when I finally got it, and I sent only love to
another of God’ s children whom  I had been judging and criticizing, I got
the immediate result of inner contentment—and my wishes have definitely ,
assuredly , been fulfilled. I ur ge you to send love in place of those judgments
and criticisms to others when you feel they impede your joy and happiness,and hold them in that place of love. Notice that if you stay steadfast, when
you change the way you look at things, the things you look at do change. Question #5: Do I Pray as If My Prayers Are Already Realized? The traditional means of prayer that I was exposed to throughout my life
involved asking  for something and hoping that an external God would
provide me with the answers for my wishes. A close friend and colleague, Gregg Braden, who is also a student and
admirer of Neville, writes in his penetrating book The Isaiah Effect:
Rather than asking  that the outcome of our prayer come to pass, we acknowledge our role
as an active part of creation and give thanks for what we are certain that we have created. Whether we see immediate results or not, our thanks acknowledge that somewhere in creation
our prayer has already been fulfilled. This may appear to contradict the “Ask and you shall receive” version of
prayer that you were likely exposed to. It may feel new, but it is so
important that you acknowledge  your own Divine role in the fulfillment of
your spiritually aligned desires for yourself and others. A vision is within your imagination as you enter into your sacred practice
of prayer , one that is so strong you can already feel its fulfillm ent in your
own body. To once again quote Neville: “The moment you accept the wish
as an accomplished fact the subconscious finds means for its realization. To
pray successfully then, you must yield to the wish, that is, feel the wish
fulfilled.”55 Being a piece of God, and therefore altogether God as a part of
the entire process of creation, you become an active participant in your own
private prayerful moments. Consider shutting out your senses  completely ,
along with all of the evidence they continually place before you—because
you are, in your prayers, going to attempt to feel what they (your senses)
will most assuredly deny . Perhaps describing what I do will help you. When I pray I always yield to the wish that I have for myself, my loved
ones, and the entire planet and all of its inhabitants, rather than attempting
to force my wish or to have God take over and do my bidding for me. In my
mind I see my wishes as accom plished, and I experience what that feels
like, savoring the feeling in my body . I stay in a profound state of gratitude. My prayer is without ef fort; rather , it is felt as an already accomplished fact.I then act as if what it is I am praying for is my truth, even if my senses
and all of those about me give evidence to the contrary . I am not asking for
special favors, because I do not believe in an ego-constructed deity who
plays favorites, or has the ability to heal everyone yet withholds these
favors because he or she is looking for something from me. I am a part of
the entire business of creation. I am Divine consciousness and I never for get
it. I know I have  the capacity to make conscious contact with my source of
creation—there’ s no fear of insulting a mythical god. In The “I AM” Discourses , Saint Germain says, “I say to the students in
all sincerity , there is no possible way of attaining a quality or a desired
attribute withou t claiming it.”56 With this in mind, I claim peace, health,
happiness, joy, prosperity for everyone I know in my life. I claim  peace and
contentment for myself, for humankind, and the entire world. In my
prayers, I give thanks for my mysterious role in all of this, and I reprogram
my subconscious mind so I feel this in my body . I leave my sacred prayer
time and go about the activities of my life, whatever they may be, with this
feeling within me. I am not discouraged by what my senses might be
reporting. I have left all ideas of time and timing behind, and I trust in the I
am presence that is my true identity . Often at night I engage in prayerful visualization. I visualize faces of
people I know who have crossed over and left the outer world, people I’ve
seen in the media but have never met, and people I knew as a child. I
surround them with love. I see the love, and I feel it for them and myself—I
am calling in the I am presence. As The “I AM” Discourses  teach, “The undesirable moves out and the ‘I
AM presence’ moves in; and you find that you have truly entered into a
new world, filled with the Happiness and Perfection you have always
known existed somewhere within your own heart.”57 This is prayer to me,
and when I emerge from these moments of prayer , it is as if I have attended
a movie and seen the successful end of the film, even though I may not
have been shown precisely how that ending was achieved. This is not only the great power of prayer , it is also the power of a wishes
fulfilled life. No ego, no force, no special privileges; simply an awareness
of the power that exists within us when we assume that what we pray for,always aligned with our highest selves, is a completed fact. We are, each
and every one of us, a participant in this dance of creation. Question #6: Is My Mind Open to Infinite Possibilities? You live in an infinite universe that includes all of existence. Because this
field is unlimited in dimension, nothing can happen outside of it. Everything that occurs within this field is completely influenced by it, and
consequently , nothing accidental is possible. This field of consciousness—
and your role in it—is, as I stated at the beginning of this book, omniscient,
almighty , omnip resent, and a fragment of God. “With God all things are
possible,” which is infinitely exciting when you are convinced that means
there’ s nothing left out. Living from this perspective, if your wishes align with this one universal
God force, miraculous occurrences become the norm. The universe seems
to consp ire in ways that are hidden from your intellectually inquiring mind,
which seeks specific scientific answers as to why this or that seems to be
taking place. While your cognitive apparatus remains totally befuddled,
mysteriously benevolent forces begin to come to your aid. Synchronistic,
unexplainable happenings become more easily accepted, and things that
you were taught are impossible and outside the realm of reality show up. I’ve had to address this questio n of being open to infinite possibilities
during some meaningful and unanticipated events in my recent life. Since
I’ve been practicing what I’ve written about throughout this book, and
living from this God perspective, I’ve experienced many things and events
that I probably would have rejected without this awareness. Then again, I
very likely wouldn’ t have been able to permit these new awarenesses to
penetrate my ego-dominated shell. I am choosing three examples  of my personal experiences that have
recently occurred as I’ve progressed on this path—as a man, a teacher , and
a spiritual being. The First Personal Experience
As I reported earlier in this book, there have been a significant number of
unexplainable orbs showing up in photographs taken of me, particularlywhen I’m speaking before audiences on the subject matter that comprises
the totality of the information in this book. Similarly , these orbs have also
been appearing in photographs  when I’m surrounded by people at these
events—either signing books or simply enjoying the loving, friendly , and
compassionate conversation that occurs at these gatherings. I have no idea
what these orbs are, why they appear now and apparently haven’ t at earlier
times, or if they have any hidden meanings. (See photo insert.) I have read Klaus and Gundi Heinemann’ s book Orbs: Their Mission and
Messages of Hope , and I encourag e you to do the same. They’ve included
their commenta ry on many photographs taken of these orbs at various
functions throughout the world. Klaus holds a Ph.D. in experimental
physics and has taught at Stanford University , and his wife is a respected
educator in California. Obviously , these are thoughtful, informed people,
whose inquiry into this phenomenon comes from a well-grounded
perspective. The orbs began appearing in my life recently during speeches and
subsequent conv ersational groups. They seem to me to coincide with my
decision to help myself and others live from a higher place of God-
realization throu gh exploring, living, and writing about aspects of God-
consciousness. If you look at the pictures of the orbs in this book’ s photo insert carefully ,
you see that a larger one appe ars above my head, and often the room is
filled with small er orbs, almost as a confirmation that the messages of love
that infiltrate the occasion are being witnessed by these mysterious circles
of light. I do not pretend to know what they are or why they are now
making themselves known to me in the manner that they are appearing in
my life. They could be emanations from spirit beings that could be
surrounding me with new energy to heighten my awareness and help me to
clarify my messages. I have no idea—all I know for certain is that all things
are possible , and I’m open to what they may or may not be about. My frien d Linda Millek first acquainted me with these photographic light
emanations during a Hay House Caribbean cruise not long ago. She told me
that 18 years ago, her son had died while saving a friend in an auto
accident. Her son communicat es with her in a channeling fashion, and
circular orbs and other orb shapes appear in her photos when she feels he’s
close to her. As she was telling me this, she said she could feel his presencethere on the ship docked at St. Maarten. She took my picture, and there on
my left and right hips was a megaphone-shaped orb identical to the ones she
had seen in photos at her home. It was on this cruise that the first orb
appeared, which I wrote about earlier in this book. (See photo insert.) While I reiterate  that I do not pretend to have an intelligent explanation
for the continui ng appearance of these orbs in my life, I love what Saint
Ignatius of Loyola once told his followers: “For those who believe, no
words are neces sary. For those who do not believe, no words are possible.”
I leave you to make up your own mind, and I remain open to learning more
about these mysterious occurrences. The Second Personal Experience
My second example that defies any rational explanation involves my
recent experienc e with a man who lives in the small village of Abadiania in
Brazil. He goes by the name John of God. My friend Rayna Piskova, a
medical doctor and eye surgeon  who lives in California, has visited John of
God in Brazil on several occasio ns. She asked me to go with her to receive
his healing after learning of my diagnosis of leukemia.
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you, and then you can decide which one you choose to adopt for yourself,
keeping in mind that what you impress upon your subconscio us mind is
what the universal one subcons cious mind will offer you in your waking
hours. Your subconscious mind is indifferent to what you want or what is
best for you. It cannot make a distinction between what you are feeling as a
result of all that happens to you throughout your waking hours, or what you
feel as a result of what you are imagining for yourself as having already
transpired while you are in bed preparing to doze of f to sleep. 1. Choosing to Review the Day’ s Frustrations and Disappointments
As you lie in bed, you can use this time prior to entering your
subconscious mind to review everything that transpired throughout the day
that caused you to feel unhappy, dejected, frustrated, angry, and so on. You
can think sad thoughts about all of the people who disappointed you, and
review in your imagination (via inner dialogue with yourself) how unhappy
all of that made you. You can spend these critical moments worrying about
all of the things that didn’ t work out the way you wanted them to, and
projecting onto your subconscio us mind evidence for things continuing to
transpire in the same way that they always have. You can go over the
arguments you had with others, and conclude that those peop le really do
make you unhappy. You can use your mind to relive how fearful you are
that things are not going to improve. You can even predict that a great
calamity is about to befall you and your family, and there is nothing to be
done to stave it of f. You can picture in your mind the worst possible outcome concerning your
own health or the health of a loved one. You can imagine yourse lf filing for
bankruptcy, or not getting the job you desire, or a natural disaster striking
you, or you feeling even sicker when you awaken. The potential disasters
that you can entertain with your thoughts as you prepare to go to sleep
could fill the next 100 pages. Whatever you opt for—such as these examples of thoughts that make you
feel bad—is a choice  to send those messages to your subconscious just as
you are about to go to sleep. In ef fect, you are imprinting your subconscious
with I am unhappy, frustrated, pessimistic, afraid. Your subconscious mind,
unable to distinguish between what you are telling it through your presleep
conditioning ritual and what is actually happening in your everyday world,
says to you, “Okay, I’ve got it. ”
Your thoughts are on what you do not want and what you despise, and
your feelings in your body bring you worry, fear, anxiety, hate, sadness, and
the like. Your subconscious mind responds with no desire to change your
conscious waking state, because it only reacts to what you place there. So it
will proceed to offer you experiences from the universal one subconscious
mind that aligns  with what you’ve programmed it to do. You placed your
thoughts in your subconscious, when it would most likely have at least eighthours of sleep to work on them. The subconscious can’t be faulted for
assuming that you must want them very, very much. Alas, you awaken befuddled by all of the things you don’t want that keep
showing up in your life, not understanding that by assuming the feeling of
what you don’t wish for and then going to sleep with those thoughts in your
mind, you are programming your subconscious mind to take over, just as it
did when you were first learnin g to drive. The difference is that then you
were creating what you desired, and now you are using the same  strategy to
attract what you do not desir e. And this is why you so often fail to attract
the ideal in your life. Neville puts it this way:
Whatever you have in consciousness as you go to sleep is the measure of your expression
in the waking two-thirds of your life on earth. Nothing stops you from realizing your
objective, save your failure to feel that you are already that which you wish to be, or that you
are already in posses sion of the thing sought. Your subconscious gives form to your desires
only when you feel your wish fulfilled. 40
You can train yourself to do this in the precious five minu tes before
slumber overtakes you. If you decide you do not want to go to sleep with this first choice in your
consciousness, you can develop a new habit for your habitual mind to latch
onto. You do have an alternative—those last five minutes of the day are
your five minutes and yours alone. Consider the second option  using your
last waking moments before sleep, programming your subconscious mind
in a new way. 2. Choosing to Assume the Feeling of the W ish Fulfilled
As you lie in bed, feeling drowsy and knowing that you are about to go to
sleep—where your subconscious mind is most at home—use  these final
preslumber moments to align with your Source of being and become a
wishes fulfilled spiritual being. In these presleep moment s, you can
program your subconscious mind to automatically present you with fulfilled
wishes. You wouldn’ t train your subco nscious mind to repeatedly slam on the
brakes or to make a turn into a driveway without safely slowing  down. You
also don’t want to train your subconscious mind to focus on and attract thekinds of things that make you unhappy or create unnecessary pain. These
last five minutes  awake, then, are your final pep talk to your subconscious
mind. You want to focus on assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled that
you’ve placed into your imagination. Here’ s what Neville offers on this topic—it may be the most valuable
information you’ve ever received:
The feeling which comes in response to the question “How would I feel were my wish
realized. ” is the feelin g which should monopolize and immobilize your attention as you relax
into sleep. You must be in the consciousness of being or having that which you want to be or
to have before you drop of f to sleep. 41
So this is what you must ask yourself as you get closer and closer to
dropping off into the unconsciou sness of sleep— If my wishes were realized,
how would it feel right here right now in my body. Stay with that thought
until you begin to feel your body shift into what that feels like. This is not an empty exercise—it is a programming tool for reteaching
your subconscious mind to act on what you intend to manifest, rather than
on what you are worried, angry, or fearful about. In this semi-somnolent
state, go to the I am that you are now putting into your imagination. For
example, if you are worried about your health—whether because of a
common cold, a pulled muscle, or a fearful diagnosis of a potentially life-
threatening sickness—declare, “I am God in action. ” Or you could
contemplate my favorite quotation from Saint Germain in The “I AM”
Discourses:
I want so much to have you feel that you are the Only Authority in this world or any other,
so far as your world is concerned. Do not ever fear that the perfecting of your world is going
to disfigure anyone else’s world, so long as your intent is not to harm anyone. It does not
matter what the world about you says, or how much they try to intrude upon you their doubts,
fears and limitations. You are the Supreme  Authority in your world and all you have to do is
to say, when you are beset by those conditions, “‘I AM’ the Mighty, Magic Circle of
Protection about me that is Invincible and repels from me every discordant thought and
element which seeks to find entrance or intrude itself. ‘I AM’ the Perfection of my world and
it is Self-sustained. ”42
This is very powerful advice. When he says it does not matter what the
world about you says, he is also talking about all of those self-limiting
thoughts that you yourself have proclaimed regarding your ability to be
healed. As you lie in bed, affirm: I am perfect health, or use the words of Saint
Germain above about being mighty and the perfection of your world—then
notice how that feels in your body. At first you will be calling upon your
ego, which believes that it is separate from God or the universa l Source of
all, and an inner voice will say, This is silly, I am sick, I am sore, I am
dying, and I am only fooling myself. So simply dismiss these mind viruses
and cond itioned memes, since you are free to use these five minutes in any
way that you choose. Repeat a new I am that shifts you to the state of the realized wish. Repeatedly tell yourself that I am God in action, and immediately check in
with your body to feel the shift from fear and anxiety to peace, love, and
contentment. After a little practice, you will find that repeating I am in your
mind begins to impact how you are feeling. Sensations of worry and pain
slowly dissolve as you assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, and it is at
this point that you allow yourself to drop of f to sleep. Use these precious presleep moments to assume the feeling in your body
of whate ver wishes you desire as already fulfilled. Refuse to go to sleep
being upset or disturbed about anything, regardless of how momentous it
may appear to be in your life. The natural state of your subconscious is
sleep, and it sees you as you believe yourself to be. It matter s not to the
habitual mind of yours whether  what you believe and consequently feel in
your body is harmful, moral, good, bad, or indifferent. It will faithfully take
on your belief and provide you with an array of experiences and seemingly
synchronistic events that give form to what you believe and have placed
into the programming of your subconscious mind. On many occasions I’ve gone to bed feeling somewhat sick or concerned
about what course my body will take with its diagnoses. I’ve faithfully
practiced what I am writing about, and I’ve awakened symptom-free. The
key is to keep checking in with my body until I can say in all honesty that
I’m feeling that my desire is a present fact. Feelings are the tools that the
subconscious automatic mind uses. You can quite readily break the habit of using your resting time before
sleep reviewing things that are frustrating and upsetting. Make this a sacred
satisfying time to nurture thoughts that align with the I am thoughts that you
have placed into your imagination. When you see a tendency toward
negativity, simply pause and gently remind yourself in your sleepy state thatyou do not wish to enter your unconscious world with these feelings. Then
assume that feeling in your body of your wish fulfilled. You want to enter
your sleep with reminders to your subconscious to automatically  fulfill your
life-enhancing wishes. Your Subconscious Mind Never Sleeps
The validity of a universal subconscious mind that is the only one mind is
a conce pt that ego struggles to understand. It is of the highest order of
importance if you want to master the art of manifestation. “This infinite intelligence, then, is the only mind there is; we are all using
it; we can’t help using it; for it is one and everywhere and is the stuff from
which all things are made. ” This quote is from one of my favorite books:
Three Magic Words, written by Uell S. Andersen, which I’ve referred to
earlier in this book. This one universal mind is infinite in time, space, and
substance; and as the author  concludes, “One mind only, which is
everywhere and everything; this is the Subconscious Mind. ” And finally
here’ s a descript ion of what takes place in the subconscious mind while you
sleep: “In other words, this Subconscious Mind attempts to create in form
and circumstance that which  the Conscious Mind suggests to it. ”
Contemplate these insights throughout your day and particularly before
going to sleep. Your conscious mind, as you go to sleep, is capable of impressing your
great I am upon your subconscious mind, which is a sliver of the one all-
creating subcon scious mind. This one mind never sleeps because it is
infinite and therefore everywhe re and in everything—it is always in the
process of creating and manife sting. Throughout those hours while your
conscious mind is resting, your subconscious mind is receiving and
processing all that you’ve down loaded into it, and getting ready to turn its
impressions into form and circumstances. In his book The Biology of Belief, my friend Bruce Lipton puts this
phenomenon of the conscious and subconscious mind into the language of
modern technology, using this metaphor: “In reality, the subconscious is an
emotionless database of stored programs, whose function is strictly
concerned with reading environmental signals and engaging in hardwired
behavioral programs, no questions asked, no judgments made. Thesubconscious mind is a programmable ‘hard drive’ into which our life
experiences are downloaded. ”
So here you are lying in your bed, about to enter into your unconscious
state where your subconscious mind is most at home. In Lipton’ s analogy,
there’ s a computer ready and waiting to get to work as soon as you doze off
and leave your conscious mind behind. As you lie there, what you say to
yourself as an I am is what you download into the computer. The computer
I’m using to stand in for one universal subconscious mind is so vast that it
has no beginnin g and no end and everything exists within it. If everything
exists within it and it is infinite, that means you exist within it as well, and it
must respond to what you load into it. It cannot sleep; it is too busy turning
conscious impressions into form and circumstances. All you have to do is
understand this power is within  you and be in a state of gratitude for your
highest self, which is God. Remember those three magic words: You are God. There is only one
subconscious mind, and your own subconscious mind is a part of that one
mind. That invisible part of you is really the mind of God at work—as long
as you don’t edge God out (ego), which is what your conscious mind has
probably been trained to do. If your subconscious mind receives your conviction that you have money,
you will have money. If it receives the conviction that I am happy, I am
healthy, I am content, I am love, I am wise, or any other statement
downloaded with conviction, the subconscious mind will bring it into your
physical reality. I am not suggesting that you have hope, or tell yourself
maybe, or use the last five minutes awake to say “I will be happy,” “I will
be prosperous,” “I hope to one day be content. ” Use the name that God
gave to Moses as he described who he is: I am that I am. This is where faith plays a decisive role. You must extinguish any thought
that being one with God is impossible. That is the false self at work—the
contaminated personal subconscious that receives toxic self-lim iting ideas
and turns them into your unfulfilled reality. You are one with the one
universal subcon scious mind of God that never sleeps, and works for you
while your conscious mind slumbers. You want it to work for you using
what you download into it—even as you are in deep sleep. While Y ou Sleep, Y our Subconscious Mind W orksOne of my spiritual teachers, Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov—the Bulgarian
mystic philosopher and teacher of the Universal White Brotherhood—has
this to say about your preparation for sleep and what transpires while your
sleep: “It is the experiences of the last minutes before you go to sleep that
are more  important, more significant, than everything that happened during
the day. ” He speaks eloquently on the importance of entering the
subconscious mind with a purity of spirit because each night we die—and if
we don’t know how to prepare for our nightly death, we will be unprepared
for our true departure to the other world. “Take care, therefore,” he urges
us, “never to go to sleep with negative thoughts in your mind, for they will
destroy all the good you may have gained during the day. ”
Your time while asleep, when  you leave this house and yet are still
attached to it, is to be thought of as a sacred journey that you take daily to
connect to the one universal subconscious mind and experience the
bewildering wonder of what transpires there. Once again, Aïvanhov tells us:
“Before going to sleep, you must get ready as though for a sacred
pilgrimage … never go to bed with a negative thought in your head, for it
will wreak havoc in your subconscious. ” In those eight or so hours that you
are embedded in your subconscious mind, you receive instruction. The
feelings you brought to your sleep time will be expressed tomorrow and in
all of your tomorrows. This is a time when you leave behind the
constrictions of your physical world and the limitations of your physical
body. You allow  the one subcon scious mind to create your wishes without
active participation from your solid material self. I cannot  describe to you precis ely how your subconscious mind works
while you sleep, nor can anyone give you this kind of detail. As Neville
puts it, “The subconscious receives impressions only through the feelings of
man and in a way known only to itself gives these impressions form and
expression. ”43
Who can describe the intricacies  of a caterpillar weaving its own chrysalis
and then emer ging as a beautifu l butterfly. It is a mystery known only to
the one mind, as is how a subconscious impression turns into a hardened
fact. But you can be cognizant of the many mysterious things you do while
asleep, all the while believing them to be true and experiencing them in
your body even though you are unconscious. I only ask you to enjoy themysterious and know that it is full of potential. Wallow in it, and when you
do, you open yourself up to infinite possibilities. While asleep you dream, entering a totally unique dimension that feels
absolutely real for all the time you’re dreaming. During dream  time, your
subconscious mind takes over, presenting you with a magical world where
everything occu rs without your active participation. You don’t have to get
up and do anything, you don’t need to move, and you don’t need the
assistance of anyone. You don’t need money, luck, tools, transportation of
any kind, your family, your church, an education, a book—nothing. It all
takes place while your physical self is in bed, unconscious, out of your body
—yet still attach ed to it. How does all of this stupendous manifestation take
place, in a way known only to itself. There are some things taking place while you slumber that might give you
pause. One-third of your life is lived in a reality that offers you clues as to
what is possible for you when you are in your dreams awake. You can get a
glimmer of how the one universal subconscious mind works if you can look
back, from a waking state, and examine what is taking place during the
sleeping third of your life. In your dream state, you are able to create anything that you desire simply
by using your powers of though t to make it happen. You don’t have to get
out of bed, get dressed, set a goal and then an intention, go to a car
dealership to test-drive the car you love, write a check, and drive away with
your new purchase. All you need do is place the idea into your sleepy
imagination, feel it in your body (your heart rate goes up, your breathing
increases, you are feeling the joy in your smile), and voilà. There it is—you
are drivi ng in your new car. It is all very real, and all you had to do was
have the though t, live from the end, and feel it. Your subconscious mind,
now fully connected to the one subconscious mind, has allowed you to
participate in the true art of manifestation. And as long as you stay in your
dream state, unconscious in your slumber, “then He opens the ears of men,
and seals their instructions,” as it is revealed in the book of Job. In Anita Moorjani’ s NDE report quoted earlier, she speaks about the
absence of time, and the sensation that everything seemed to be happening
at once. No time experience, only now. And so it is in your dream state as
well. You can be five years old and fifty years old all at the same time inyour dream. You can be with the same person simultaneousl y alive and
dead in your dream. Albert Einstein’ s study of quantum physics was devoted to the simple
message that we live in a compl eted universe, and that time is an invention
of man and essentially an illusion. Anita’ s NDE uncons cious state
reinforces Einste in’s idea of no time. Anita said that past lives did not exist
in those momen ts. Everything was happening now. The only way she could
describe it was that what we call past lives appeared to be parallel  lives,
and that everyth ing was simply all one. In your unconscious sleep state, you
can be anything and everything; you can be yourself and someone else or
something else—even an animal—simultaneously. Linearity  seems to
disappear. Anyth ing that you can imagine is yours. Nothing is impossible. Want to fly. Then imagine it and feel it, and of f you go. While asleep and dreaming, you’re not restricted to cause and effect. In
your dreaming body you can come and go as you please. Things do not
have to follow the same rules that seem to apply to your waking world. If
you imagine and feel it as a present-moment fact, it is there for you
instantaneously. Everything you need for the dream is created  by you in
harmony with your subconsciou s mind. You don’t have to do anything but
allow your thoughts to create what they desire and to feel it in your sleeping
body. Think about all of the things that take place in the one-third of your life
while you sleep. There is no time, no cause and effect—eve rything you
experience is created by your imagination. The people and events are all
illusions, simply figments of your imagination. There is no beginning and
no end, no linea r progression, and it all seems to make perfect sense as long
as you’re in the dream state. I’m reminded of Henry David Thoreau’ s observation that “Our truest life
is when we are in dreams awake. ” It seems only logical to me that if during
one-third of our life on planet Earth, we are capable of manifesting anything
that we place our attention on—without having to expend any physical
effort, only by allowing ourselves to transcend time and space—then why
not in the other two-thirds of our life. This is what I believe Thoreau is
suggesting when he urges us to be true to our authentic self by being a
waking dreamer. As you look back at it from your “awakened” state, the time while you are
in deep slumber provides you clues as to what is possible when you begin
to awaken from this dream as well. You have experienced oneness,
timelessness, miracle-making, and having your wishes fulfilled
instantaneously for one-third of your life. Become a waking dreamer and
begin to apply this same awareness to the entirety of your life. All of the
things I have written throughout this book, you are capable of achieving
while asleep. Make them your personal reality in all of your waking hours
as well. Remember, the only way you can be sure you were dreaming is to
awaken. If you never awakened, it would all be the unlimited reality of your
dream state. And so it is with the two-thirds of your life as well. The only
way you will ever know you were dreaming is to revive while you are still
alive, and look back at your dream from this awakened perspective. Remind
yourself that you can indeed do as Thoreau suggests and find your truest
self by being in your dreams awake. Neville of fers you these words on what takes place while you sleep:
Sleep is the door through which the consci ous, waking mind passes to be creatively joined
to the subconscious. Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In
sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself. 44
Each night as I drift off to sleep, I adamantly refuse to use this precious
time to review anything that I do not want to be reinforced in the hours of
being immersed in my subconscious mind. I choose to impre ss upon my
subconscious mind, and therefore the mind of God to which I am eternally
joined, my conc eption of myself as a Divine creator in alignment with the
one mind. I groggily reiterate  my I ams, which I have  placed in my
imagination, and I remember that my slumber will be dominated  by my last
waking concept of myself. I am peaceful, I am content, I am love, I am
writing, I am the governing power of the universe, and I attract only to
myself those who ar e in alignment with my highest ideals of myself. This is my nightly ritual, always eschewing any temptation to go over any
fear of unpleasa ntness that my ego might be asking me to review. I assume
the feeling in my body of those I am statements already fulfilled, and I enter
my sleep inviting the instructio n that my subconscious mind welcomes. I
know that I’m allowing myself to be programmed while asleep, for the nextday I rise knowing that I am a free agent. I understand that every  action and
event of the day is essentially predetermined by my feelings as I prepared
for sleep, and while I was in that place of warmth and trust in the arms of
the one universal subconscious mind. Waking Up
It is my intentio n to live in my dreams awake, as much as is humanly and
spiritually conce ivable. I look back upon my dream state, and I realize that
everything that I needed for my dream I was able to create with my
subconscious mind—without effort, and with no need for involving my
physical body at all. And so I know that manifesting the person I wish to be
while awake also involves effortless perfection and that I have my
imagination—or my intentions, my attention, and my feelings—to use
while awake as well. My sleep  time fully embedded in my subconscious
mind is providin g clues for me to put those mental activities into practice
when I leave my slumber. I further  look back at my dream  time from a place of wakefulness, and I
see that everything and everyone that was in my dream was created by me
with my imagination. I keep this in mind as I gaze at who and what I have
created in my awake dream. I look back from my wakeful perspective and
realize that I lived in a world where time is an illusion, where  nothing is
unavailable to me, where cause and effect are total illusions, where all
obstacles are turned into either opportunities or revealed as illusions, where
there is no beginning and no end, and where my body experien ces feelings
even though the thoughts that resulted in those feelings are all illusions and
were totally devoid of judgments by my dreaming self. And finally, I look back and realize that the only way I know for certain
that I was dreaming was to awaken. I remind you here as well that you do
have within you these amazing powers of manifestation, and you use them
on a regular basis every night and for one-third of your entire time in this
incarnation. I suggest that while you are awake, you view this two-thirds
portion of your life as a dream as well, and realize that the only way you’ll
know you are dreaming is to awaken. Awaken to a new consc iousness in
which distance and time constraints can be overcome just by a change ofstate. An awakened state that knows and trusts in the power of your
thoughts and feelings to live a wishes fulfilled life. In all of your waking hours, I encourage you to stay closely aligned to
your originating Source of being. Practice thinking like God (your highest
self) thinks. As I pointed out in a previous book, Excuses Begone. , when
your contemplations are a vibrational match to originating Spirit, you are
synchronized with Divine mind, attracting and fulfilling your desires. You
have the same power as originat ing Spirit, as long as you don’t replace your
Divine nature with ego’s thoughts, which are essentially the mental
meanderings of your false self. While awake, use your mind to repeatedly remind yourself of your true I
am that I am nature. Remember that universal one subconscious mind
creates in a way known only to itself. It is the great mystery. Learn to live in
that mystery, making every effort to use all of your mental and feeling
powers to manifest the life you desire, all the while staying in an
uncompromised state of love. Here is what Erich Fromm wrote on this
subject of living the mystery : “Rather than be confronted with an
overwhelming proof of the limitations of our understanding, we accuse the
dreams of not making sense. ”
You needn’ t be concerned with how it will all work out; all you need to
know is that you are always connected to your Source of being, and that
you and God are truly one. Just as no scientist can tell you how a caterpillar
knows how to turn itself into a butterfly and then migrate thousands of
miles without the benefit of a brain, you must simply accept the great
mystery of life and death and stay as closely aligned with this miraculous
thing we call creative Source of all being as you possibly can. You don’t
have to understand it all; all you need do is remain in a state of love while
reprogramming your subconscious mind to develop the habits  of a God-
realized being, rather than an ego-dominated person. As the Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran observed in his classic book The
Prophet, “Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. ” I
urge you to follow the poet’ s advice and open up that gate and come to
know a new external you, in your dreams awake, and never forget your own
Divine magnificence. Three Suggestions— As you lie in bed preparing for your nightly slumber, reme mber that
the last thought  you have in your mind can last up to four hours in your
subconscious mind. That’ s four hours of programming from just one
moment of contemplation prior to going into your unconscious state. Create
a reminder like a prayer or mantra to place by your bed. Write these words
and read them as you get comfo rtable: I am going to use these moments to
review what I intend to manifest into my life. Keep that sign there to remind
you how to spend your presleep moments nightly. — Reproduce this quotation from Saint Germain in The “I AM”
Discourses  and repeat it at least three times  as you prepare to go to sleep as
a daily/ nightly reminder that you are sending forth the greatest decree
possible: “‘I AM’ the Governi ng Presence, governing in Perfect Divine
Order, commanding Harmony, Happiness, and the Presence of God’ s
Opulence in my mind, my home, and my world. ”45 Make a serious effort to
feel the sustaining power of this in your body. — If before dropping off to sleep you are assailed by worry, distress, or
fear, do not stay in bed. Get up, turn on the light, take a few deep breaths,
read from a spiritual text, medi tate for a few moments in front of a white
candle, say a prayer—do anything other than staying there lying  down. You
cannot defend yourself against these onslaughts while remain ing snug in
your bed. If distressing feelings come back when you return to bed, get up,
turn on the lights, and try someth ing else. When you finally do feel peaceful
back in bed, repeat the I ams  from suggestions one and two on the previous
page and drift off to sleep ready to have your ears opened and your
instructions sealed. OceanofPDF. comCHAPTER NINE
MAKING  IT ALL COME  TOGETHER
“Turn back to the higher planes and plunge into the cosmic ocean once
again … People think that it is in the details that they will find the light, the
precision, they ar e looking for, but this is an illusion: you will find far mor e
light in what is vague and indistinct … The human soul needs immensity;
only in immensity can it be happy and feel fr ee to br eathe. ”
— O MRAAM  MIKHAËl  AÏVANHOV
This final chapter will assist you in achieving that immensity  that your
soul is seeking. It is comprised of seven questions for you to contemplate
and explore as you begin your wishes fulfilled life. The questions are based
on the five wishes fulfilled foundations and the three opening chapters. These questions, along with my ideas and suggestions, are in no particular
order of importa nce—they are offered in the hope that as you finish reading
this book, you have a strong aura of all things are possible  swirling around
in your consciousness. Once you decide to live from this Divine awareness,
your life takes on an air of appreciation for the mysterious and a belief in
the miraculous. All of your God-realized wishes will indeed be fulfilled. Question #1: Does It Feel Natural. There will be times when you doubt your ability to attract into life the
successful fulfillment of your wishes, including the ideal person you would
like to be. I realize these words appear to contradict what I’ve written
earlier in this book. However, I’m addressing this question from the
position of the overly conditio ned ego that’s been trained to believe it’s
preposterous to think you can become what you would like to be by simply
assuming the feeling in your body of your wishes being fulfilled. Neville alerts you to this disruptive influence with these words:
The time it takes your assumption to become fact, your desire to be fulfilled, is directly
proportionate to the naturalness of your feeling of already being what you want to be—ofalready having what you desire. The fact that it does not feel natural  to you to be what you imagine yourself to be is the
secret of your failur e. Regardles s of your desire, regardless of how faithfully and intelligently
you follow the law, if you do not feel natural  about what you want to be, you will not be it. 46
Think about what you plan to manifest—then use your imaginat ion to feel
what that feels like in your body. Does it feel natural to you. I mean, does it
really feel like this is the you that you are deciding to be. If you’ve been
sickly for most of your life and you are assuming the feeling of a healthy
body, does it feel natural to see yourself as a picture of perfect health. Do
you feel that with your imagination and God, all things are possible. If
you’ve been overweight, or addicted, or poor, or victimized, or unlucky, or
weak, or anything at all that is incongruous with your perfect well-being,
can you feel natural when you assume the feeling of your new ideal. Do you feel entitled to prosperity, health, happiness. If that feels
unnatural, you must take on this task that Neville defines in this way: “The
essential feeling of naturalness can be achieved by persistently filling your
consciousness with imagination— imagining yourself being what you want
to be or having what you desire. ”47
I readily admit that there are some things that you might desire or wish for
that will never feel natural to you. This came up in an interview  I recently
did on a telecas t for a national television network. The interviewer asked,
“Do you mean to tell me, Dr. Dyer, that if I do all that you recommend, and
follow the Law of Assumption to the letter, I can become a linebacker for
the New York Giants. ” Now this man was about 5 feet 7 inches tall and
weighed maybe  150 pounds—a small man imagining himsel f in a very
large man’ s physical position on a professional football team. I asked him, “Does it feel natural for you to be playing that position on
the Giants. ” His immediate response was, “Not at all. ” And thus, I
reminded him that the time it takes  your assumption to become reality is
proportionate to the naturalness of being it. In my opinion,  the interviewer would be doomed to failure  with his
assumption. However, I’ve seen professional basketball players who were 5
feet 7 inches tall, in a professio n populated by giants—and not only could
they play at an all-star level, but they could jump high enough to dunk abasketball. Whe n interviewed, they said without hesitation, “It feels natural
to me, even though no one else can imagine it happening. ”
This is relevant to you, because it’s actually rare to desire what simply
feels unnatural. If being healthy, prosperous, happy, successful, strong,
intelligent, and so on feel unnatural, then naturalness may be achieved by
persistently using your imagina tion and your subjective attention to make
this feeling stick. Throughout my life it’s felt natural to achieve prosperity, heal my body,
teach self-reliance, and simply be happy. When I was a schoolteacher, most
people said (and I still hear it to this day), “You can’t make any money as a
schoolteacher; after all it’s a low-paying profession. ” Yet being prosperous
and making money has always seemed natural to me. When I was a schoolteacher, I taught extra courses at night school,
worked every summer, started a driver -education business, gave public
lectures for a fee on Monday nights, became a consultant on how to attract
government grants, started a tutoring business, wrote books, took additional
college credits to maximize my salary, and on and on. Eventually, because it
all felt so natural to me, I made teaching a very lucrative profession. At one
time I was restricted to a classr oom as a teacher; today I’m still a teacher,
only my classroom has now become the entire globe. Whatever it is that you want to manifest for yourself, do not be afraid to
place it into your imagination, assume the feeling of that wish fulfilled, and
by all means, make it feel as natural as apple pie. Today we have a man who eleva ted his life to become the President of the
United States. Given his posit ion in life—as the child of a mixed-race
marriage, raised partially in a Muslim country, with the name of Barack
Hussein Obama—virtually everyone would have said that this young boy’s
aspirations were unnatural, plain and simple. But he didn’ t see it that way,
and neither should you. Move your highest dreams to a rightful natural place in your imagination,
and then do as Ralph Waldo Emerson, the man whose portrait I’m looking
at as I write, advised: “Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you
conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great
proportions. ”
It is my long-held strong belief and knowing that you are never  given the
power to dream without the equivalent power to manifest that dream andmake it your physical reality. And this is also from Emerson to chew on:
“Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and
beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you. For
you is the phenomenon perfect. What are we, that only can we see. ”
Question #2: Am I W illing to Command My I Am Presence. It is totally unnecessary for you to be subtle or obsequious with your
highest self. Y ou are God—not the ego-oriented model of a deity superior to
everyone and everything, but the God Who is spoken of in the New
Testament: “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love” (1
John 4:8), and “We are of God” (1 John 4:6). Therefore, as long as you stay
in a state of love, you must be God—“and everyone who loves is born of
God and knows God” (1 John 4:7). This is not the concept of God that you
were probably raised with, even though this couldn’ t be more clearly
delineated in the scriptures of virtually all faiths. View your I am presence as an invisible energy residing within and
around you at all times, which is yours to use as you see fit. It is not an
external power residing out there somewhere that you can’t see or touch, or
that you must beg to serve you—it is your very highest self. I encourage
you to make use of this God-power by insisting upon it serving you in the
manifestation of your highest aspirations for yourself and all of humanity. In The “I AM” Discourses, Saint Germain says it this way: “Therefore,
when you say: ‘I AM the Conquering Presence. I command  this I AM
Presence to govern perfectly my mind, home, affairs and world,’ you have
sent forth the greatest Decree possible to be given. ”48 Notice the word
command. This is in sharp distinction to the teachings that counsel us to
treat God gingerly in our prayers and discussions, to be careful not to insult
God, and to be fearful of Him. I’m not suggesting you adopt an attitude of arrogance in your relationship
with the Source of all being—that would contradict the quote from the book
of John,  that God is love. This second question is about you having absolute
faith in your own I am presence and a willingness to be insistent on the
cooperation of the God force—to which you are eternally connected
because you are of God. When you place an intention in your imagination, do not allow a question
mark at the end of your prono uncement. See your statement ending in a
grammatical exclamation point. “I bring this into my reality. ” is easy to say
if you’re already living from that declaration in your imagination and have
assumed the feeling in your body of that wish being fulfilled. As Saint Germain advises, “Put all your power back with God, and then
when you command—no matter what it is you want—you have all power
instantly on hand to bring forth the fulfillment of your Decree. ”49 Another
favorite observation from The “I AM” Discourses  is this: “Say to your
Divine Self: ‘See here, God. come forth and take care of this. ’  God wants
you to set Him to work. This releases a flood of the God-Ener gy,
Intelligence and Substance which flows forth to do the command. ”50
Here’ s one final offering from The “I AM” Discourses  regarding your
insistence on having your physical body live from a place of Divine
perfection and well-being: “You must take the unconditional stand with
your body that: ‘“The I AM Presence” governs this physical body
completely and compels it into obedience. ’ The more attention you give
your body, the more it is the master, and the more it will demand and keep
demanding from you. ”51 And then to bring this point home to you, Saint
Germain offers you these encouraging words regarding your ability to have
the I am comma nding presence work for your perfect health: “You can
positively produ ce whatever you want in your body if you will fix your
attention upon the Perfection of it—but do not let your attention rest on its
imperfections. ”52
If what I am writing here makes you feel a bit squeamish, ask yourself
why in the world would you feel threatened by commanding your God-
presence to go to work for you. Do you believe that God is truly love as it
is reported over and over in all of the spiritual texts, particularly the New
Testament, the Koran, the Bhagavad Gita, and the T ao Te Ching. Be persistent in the use of your I am presence. More than that—be
insistent  and command your highest self to set in motion all of the forces of
creation that will result in the hardening into fact that which you have
placed into your imagination as an already realized fact. I want toreemphasize  that commanding your I am presence to manifest your heart’ s
desire is not in any way contemptuous or arrogant. If you are not coming from a place of radical humility, then you have
invested your efforts in your ego—and that means, of course, that you have
edged God out of the entire process. Insisting upon your highest self serving
you in the act of manifestation means that you have absolute, total faith and
conviction in your intention. It is much like your everyday act of breathing,
eating, beating your heart, and digesting your food. Of course you are in a
profound state of gratitude for all of these, and millions more, everyday
miracles. And at the same time you demand and insist upon everything that
is involved in all of these activities. Y ou are enabled to obey the original fiat
of God, as reported in the book of Genesis, to take dominion over the earth. Taking dominio n means that you insist on it—and remember at all times
that you can ask that love take dominion over you and the entire world. Be in a deep state of gratitude for all that you are currently experiencing
and all that you are in the proces s of manifesting, and remain humble for all
that comes your way. At the same time, be 100 percent insistent upon
having your wishes fulfilled with the Divine assistance of your spiritual
Source of being. Simply know, beyond all doubt, that your desires are in the
midst of hardening into objects, circumstances, facts, and events—along
with a new, Divinely inspired you—as long as those desires are consistent
with the third question that you are about to ponder. Question #3: Are My W ishes in Alignment with My Highest Self. This principle invites you to choose which possibility you identify with
and, as has been stressed throug hout this book, to live as if it has already
occurred. If you place into your imagination wishes that are misaligned
with your highest God-realized  self, you will find yourself frustrated and
immobilized. God is love —if your aspirations in any way are outside of this
mantra, you will feel lost and you will not succeed. If God is one, then God is incapable of being divided. If your desires
involve conflict for yourself or anyone else, then you have brought two into
the picture: that is yourself, as well as the second party who might be
harmed by the fulfillment of your wish. God, being only oneness wherein
all things are connected, and God (your highest self) being love cannot evenrecognize the dichotomy that you bring to the picture. If God acknowledged
a desire  that would bring harm to anyone, God wouldn’ t and couldn’ t be
God. How could that which is all one recognize two (which is needed in
order to have conflict) and still be God. This is what happens when you attempt to manifest from a place of
selfishness or potential harm to anyone else. You invoke the ego, which is
always about winning, overpowering, being better than others,
accumulating for the sake of feeling superior, achieving for adulation or
recognition, improving your status, and so on. And again—ego is edging
God out. I love the way Neville speaks to this point: “You never draw out
of the deep of yourself that which you want; you always draw that which
you are, and you are that which you feel yourself to be as well as that which
you feel is true of others. ”53 So in this manifestation activity, the secret is
to feel yourself as already being and having what you desire, and to keep
the entirety of it all wrapped up in a spirit of love. By all means place into your imagination the idea of living a prosperous
life, but this in no way implies from a God-realized position that you desire
a fancy watch, a luxury automobile, a large infusion of cash, a palatial
home, or anythi ng else that is for the purpose of elevating your position
among your peers. This immedi ately involves conflict—twoness—you and
those you are attempting to impress with your being in some way superior. Staying aligned with your Sour ce of being means no one is, in any way,
better than anyone else regardless of the monetary value of their stuf f. This third quest ion is asking if you love as you are loved by the creative
Source of all. Can you ask out of love, live and feel as if what you desire is
already a present fact, and then allow the universal Source of all to provide,
with no concern about appeasing the demands of your ego. If demanding and insisting is your style, do it from a place of pure love. Be willing to give it all away in the name of that love. Stay in that place of
pure humility. If you desire to purify your body and live from a disease-free
place of perfect health, simply assume the feeling of love throughout your
body and live as if it were your reality. Not to impress others, not to have
special privileges bestowed upon you because you are more special and
thus more deserving of this healing, but purely out of your humble sense of
gratitude for being in a state of well-being. Albert Einstein once famously observed that all he wanted to do was to
learn to think like God thinks. This means living and manifesting from a
place of all-encompassing desire to serve others, to be love, to ask nothing
in return for what you give; in other words, to simply be love. Get your ego
out of the picture and “draw out of the deep of yourself,”  as Neville
expresses it. And the “deep of yourself” is truly your highest self, which is
of course God. Let the God that you are, the God that Jesus said you are, the
God that is your very essence, your deepest self—let this be the energy you
draw upon to fill your imagination, and then know that you are fully aligned
with the only Source that is responsible for all of creation. As you begin to see your Divinely aligned manifestations show up in your
physical world, think like God thinks and share any munificence with
others with no expectation of anything back, including even a thank-you if
it is not forthcoming. As you place your intentions into your imagination
and assume the feeling of those intentions being fulfilled, ask not for
anything that is outside the great umbrella of love that is God. The words of Jesus in the book of Luke sum up all that I am saying here:
But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you. For even sinners love those
who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you. For even sinners do the same. … But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for
nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For
He is kind to the unthankful and evil. Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is
merciful (Luke 6:32–36). Similarly, Lao-t zu, some six centuries or so earlier, reminds you that the
great sage is kind to the kind, and kind to the unkind, because  kindness is
his nature. If you can make  your desires harmonize with the messages of the above
passage, while practicing humility and keeping your ego at bay, you will
come to see the truth in Neville ’s observation that “You never draw out of
the deep of yourself that which you want; you always draw that which you
are. ” The key here is “the deep of yourself”—that is your highest self, and
you will also see the significance of the fourth question, which follows. Question #4: Am I Free of Judgment, Condemnation, and Criticism. Several months ago, my desire to manifest something into my life did not
appear to be registering with the God force that brings all things into being. It is not that I was being impatie nt, for I have come to know in my heart of
hearts that all things arrive in Divine time and that it is not the job of my
ego to say when what I desire should show up. I have come to fully accept
that “Infinite patience produces immediate effects” as A Course in Miracles
tells us. The immediate results are the sense of inner peace that I feel when
I trust in the Divine, and infinite patience is just another way of saying pure
faith. The point I’m making here is that I wasn’ t experiencing anything
remotely close to inner contentment. In fact, the more I focused on what it
was that I wishe d to see fulfilled—even though I was practicing  everything
that I’ve written here in the first eight chapters of this book—the more I felt
anxious, sad, worried, frustrate d, and even mildly angry at times. It just
didn’ t seem to be working. Then one day I was rereading for the umpteenth time the third volume of
The “I AM” Discourses —the little book that was left at the yoga studio all
wrapped up in gold and that influenced the creation of this book. And I
came upon something that made me realize why my feelings in my body
were so discordant when it came to the fulfillment of one of my greatest
wishes:
The studen t should constantly look within  his human self and see what habits or creations
are there that need to be plucked out and disposed of; for only by refusing to any longer allow
habits of judging, condemning and criticizing to exist can he be free. The true activity of the
student is only to perfect his own world, and he cannot do it as long as he sees imperfection in
the world of another of God’ s children. 54
Reading this paragraph was like having a bucket of cold water thrown in
my face, to shock me from the coma that had defined my life in relation to
the lack of fulfil lment of my wishes regarding this particular thing (which I
choose to have remain private). All the while I was using my imagination to
have a clear picture of what I wanted, I practiced living from that mental
position, I assumed the feeling of the wish fulfilled, I used my subjective
attention to keep that vision alive in my inner world, and I alwa ys used the
last few moments of my awake time to go over and over what I wished tomanifest before entering my unconscious state of sleep where my
subconscious mind was most at home. During all that time, I was also seeing imperfection in another of God’ s
children. I lovingly criticized, not so lovingly condemne d, and my
judgments frequently overshadowed my spiritual visualizations and
intentions. I had to learn that every single one of God’ s childr en is doing
what they know how to do, and I need to be able to love them, all of them,
as our Source  of being loves them. Without judgment, without
condemnation, and without criticism. If I’m to be a being of love living from my highest self, that means that
love is all I have inside of me and all that I have to give away. If someone I
love chooses to be something other than what my ego would prefer, I must
send them the ingredients of my highest self, which is God, and God is
love, as I have reiterated over and over throughout the pages of this book. My criticism and condemnation  of the thoughts, feelings, and behavior of
others—regardless of how right  and moral my human self convinces me it
is—is a step away from God-realization. And it is God-consciousness that
allows for my wishes to be fulfilled, as long as they are aligned with my
Source of being. I can come up with a long list of reasons why I should be judgm ental and
condemnatory toward another of God’ s children and why, damn it, I am
right. Yet if I want to perfect my own world—and I so want to do so—then
I must substitute love for these judgments, or take the consequences of not
having my wishes fulfilled. I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us
several thousand  years ago that when we are steadfast—which means that
we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others
—then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence. Now I know
that we are all human: you, me, all of us. We do occasiona lly slip and
retreat from our highest self into judgment, criticism, and condemnation,
but this is not a rationale for choosing to practice that kind of interaction. I can only tell you that when I finally got it, and I sent only love to
another of God’ s children whom  I had been judging and criticizing, I got
the immediate result of inner contentment—and my wishes have definitely,
assuredly, been fulfilled. I ur ge you to send love in place of those judgments
and criticisms to others when you feel they impede your joy and happiness,and hold them in that place of love. Notice that if you stay steadfast, when
you change the way you look at things, the things you look at do change. Question #5: Do I Pray as If My Prayers Are Already Realized. The traditional means of prayer that I was exposed to throughout my life
involved asking  for something and hoping that an external God would
provide me with the answers for my wishes. A close friend and colleague, Gregg Braden, who is also a student and
admirer of Neville, writes in his penetrating book The Isaiah Effect:
Rather than asking  that the outcome of our prayer come to pass, we acknowledge our role
as an active part of creation and give thanks for what we are certain that we have created. Whether we see immediate results or not, our thanks acknowledge that somewhere in creation
our prayer has already been fulfilled. This may appear to contradict the “Ask and you shall receive” version of
prayer that you were likely exposed to. It may feel new, but it is so
important that you acknowledge  your own Divine role in the fulfillment of
your spiritually aligned desires for yourself and others. A vision is within your imagination as you enter into your sacred practice
of prayer, one that is so strong you can already feel its fulfillm ent in your
own body. To once again quote Neville: “The moment you accept the wish
as an accomplished fact the subconscious finds means for its realization. To
pray successfully then, you must yield to the wish, that is, feel the wish
fulfilled. ”55 Being a piece of God, and therefore altogether God as a part of
the entire process of creation, you become an active participant in your own
private prayerful moments. Consider shutting out your senses  completely,
along with all of the evidence they continually place before you—because
you are, in your prayers, going to attempt to feel what they (your senses)
will most assuredly deny. Perhaps describing what I do will help you. When I pray I always yield to the wish that I have for myself, my loved
ones, and the entire planet and all of its inhabitants, rather than attempting
to force my wish or to have God take over and do my bidding for me. In my
mind I see my wishes as accom plished, and I experience what that feels
like, savoring the feeling in my body. I stay in a profound state of gratitude. My prayer is without ef fort; rather, it is felt as an already accomplished fact. I then act as if what it is I am praying for is my truth, even if my senses
and all of those about me give evidence to the contrary. I am not asking for
special favors, because I do not believe in an ego-constructed deity who
plays favorites, or has the ability to heal everyone yet withholds these
favors because he or she is looking for something from me. I am a part of
the entire business of creation. I am Divine consciousness and I never for get
it. I know I have  the capacity to make conscious contact with my source of
creation—there’ s no fear of insulting a mythical god. In The “I AM” Discourses, Saint Germain says, “I say to the students in
all sincerity, there is no possible way of attaining a quality or a desired
attribute withou t claiming it. ”56 With this in mind, I claim peace, health,
happiness, joy, prosperity for everyone I know in my life. I claim  peace and
contentment for myself, for humankind, and the entire world. In my
prayers, I give thanks for my mysterious role in all of this, and I reprogram
my subconscious mind so I feel this in my body. I leave my sacred prayer
time and go about the activities of my life, whatever they may be, with this
feeling within me. I am not discouraged by what my senses might be
reporting. I have left all ideas of time and timing behind, and I trust in the I
am presence that is my true identity. Often at night I engage in prayerful visualization. I visualize faces of
people I know who have crossed over and left the outer world, people I’ve
seen in the media but have never met, and people I knew as a child. I
surround them with love. I see the love, and I feel it for them and myself—I
am calling in the I am presence. As The “I AM” Discourses  teach, “The undesirable moves out and the ‘I
AM presence’ moves in; and you find that you have truly entered into a
new world, filled with the Happiness and Perfection you have always
known existed somewhere within your own heart. ”57 This is prayer to me,
and when I emerge from these moments of prayer, it is as if I have attended
a movie and seen the successful end of the film, even though I may not
have been shown precisely how that ending was achieved. This is not only the great power of prayer, it is also the power of a wishes
fulfilled life. No ego, no force, no special privileges; simply an awareness
of the power that exists within us when we assume that what we pray for,always aligned with our highest selves, is a completed fact. We are, each
and every one of us, a participant in this dance of creation. Question #6: Is My Mind Open to Infinite Possibilities. You live in an infinite universe that includes all of existence. Because this
field is unlimited in dimension, nothing can happen outside of it. Everything that occurs within this field is completely influenced by it, and
consequently, nothing accidental is possible. This field of consciousness—
and your role in it—is, as I stated at the beginning of this book, omniscient,
almighty, omnip resent, and a fragment of God. “With God all things are
possible,” which is infinitely exciting when you are convinced that means
there’ s nothing left out. Living from this perspective, if your wishes align with this one universal
God force, miraculous occurrences become the norm. The universe seems
to consp ire in ways that are hidden from your intellectually inquiring mind,
which seeks specific scientific answers as to why this or that seems to be
taking place. While your cognitive apparatus remains totally befuddled,
mysteriously benevolent forces begin to come to your aid. Synchronistic,
unexplainable happenings become more easily accepted, and things that
you were taught are impossible and outside the realm of reality show up. I’ve had to address this questio n of being open to infinite possibilities
during some meaningful and unanticipated events in my recent life. Since
I’ve been practicing what I’ve written about throughout this book, and
living from this God perspective, I’ve experienced many things and events
that I probably would have rejected without this awareness. Then again, I
very likely wouldn’ t have been able to permit these new awarenesses to
penetrate my ego-dominated shell. I am choosing three examples  of my personal experiences that have
recently occurred as I’ve progressed on this path—as a man, a teacher, and
a spiritual being. The First Personal Experience
As I reported earlier in this book, there have been a significant number of
unexplainable orbs showing up in photographs taken of me, particularlywhen I’m speaking before audiences on the subject matter that comprises
the totality of the information in this book. Similarly, these orbs have also
been appearing in photographs  when I’m surrounded by people at these
events—either signing books or simply enjoying the loving, friendly, and
compassionate conversation that occurs at these gatherings. I have no idea
what these orbs are, why they appear now and apparently haven’ t at earlier
times, or if they have any hidden meanings. (See photo insert. ) I have read Klaus and Gundi Heinemann’ s book Orbs: Their Mission and
Messages of Hope, and I encourag e you to do the same. They’ve included
their commenta ry on many photographs taken of these orbs at various
functions throughout the world. Klaus holds a Ph. D. in experimental
physics and has taught at Stanford University, and his wife is a respected
educator in California. Obviously, these are thoughtful, informed people,
whose inquiry into this phenomenon comes from a well-grounded
perspective. The orbs began appearing in my life recently during speeches and
subsequent conv ersational groups. They seem to me to coincide with my
decision to help myself and others live from a higher place of God-
realization throu gh exploring, living, and writing about aspects of God-
consciousness. If you look at the pictures of the orbs in this book’ s photo insert carefully,
you see that a larger one appe ars above my head, and often the room is
filled with small er orbs, almost as a confirmation that the messages of love
that infiltrate the occasion are being witnessed by these mysterious circles
of light. I do not pretend to know what they are or why they are now
making themselves known to me in the manner that they are appearing in
my life. They could be emanations from spirit beings that could be
surrounding me with new energy to heighten my awareness and help me to
clarify my messages. I have no idea—all I know for certain is that all things
are possible, and I’m open to what they may or may not be about. My frien d Linda Millek first acquainted me with these photographic light
emanations during a Hay House Caribbean cruise not long ago. She told me
that 18 years ago, her son had died while saving a friend in an auto
accident. Her son communicat es with her in a channeling fashion, and
circular orbs and other orb shapes appear in her photos when she feels he’s
close to her. As she was telling me this, she said she could feel his presencethere on the ship docked at St. Maarten. She took my picture, and there on
my left and right hips was a megaphone-shaped orb identical to the ones she
had seen in photos at her home. It was on this cruise that the first orb
appeared, which I wrote about earlier in this book.
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