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(This is an excerpt from an upcoming release – “Freedom Is – “. Hope it can help you improve your understanding and knowledge of this classic.”
Wallace Wattles authored the “Science of Getting Rich” as one of his last books. He had already tested and proved the results of this book and is reported to have had no want or lack in his life.
And as Wattles summized, this can make a person rich – and can also bring anything that person wants into their lives by the same token. He wrote this in a style and manner such that even the miners in his home town would be able to easily read and understand these basics.
As we continue through this book, you start seeing various datums reinforced by these authors – which is the basic premise of “Go Thunk Yourself!” – that there is one, common, underlying system of laws and principles which govern all self-help and personal development.
With this book, we are taking a slightly different approach. Namely that you already have and know everything you need to make your life a success. You only have to uncover all that knowledge. Then every good thing you’ve always been able to have will start showing up around you.
In this chapter, we see that what Wattles covers stays true to our central concept: all the Freedom, Happiness and Peace already lies within you. While many have held that his book is a path all on it’s own, I’ve found that he really just tells you some very non-inclusive principles which can be added to any other belief system – or vice versa.
Even today as I write this, I find in reviewing him that his Summary covers all the key points Wattles wanted to make from his book. In conjunction with Carnegie, Hill, and Haanel, you can see exactly why this book continues to be passed around, shared, and sold nearly 100 years later.
Looking over his work in that light, it has a whole new flavor. Again, don’t take this essay as a gospel understanding to swallow wholesale. Rather, use what you can and what makes sense to you. Refer to the original book as you need to, if more clarification is needed:
“THERE IS A THINKING STUFF FROM WHICH ALL THINGS ARE MADE, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.”
A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.
A person can form things in his thought, and by impressing his thought upon formless substance can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.
Here is the underlying basic to this book. This aligns with our three earlier authors completely. You are in control over your own life and whatever you want to do with it. You can think in your mind whatever you want. And from this, all you want shows up around you.
In order to do this, a person must pass from the competitive to the creative mind. Otherwise he cannot be in harmony with formless intelligence, which is always creative and never competitive in spirit.
This point of creative vs. competitive can’t be understated. Competition is a fiction, practically. Look it over and you’ll find that competition has to be created. Whether it is on a “level playing field” of sports, or the unequal struggle of similar companies offering similar products to a shared public. But to “compete” by offering nearly identical products to the same people is to give up the idea that you can create something different. And so the idea of commodity markets.
A person may come into full harmony with the formless substance by entertaining a lively and sincere gratitude for the blessings it bestows upon him. Gratitude unifies the mind of man with the intelligence of substance, so that man’s thoughts are received by the formless. A person can remain upon the creative plane only by uniting himself with the formless intelligence through a deep and continuous feeling of gratitude.
The idea of achieving a “full harmony” in your life is a key point. And here is the idea of gratitude, which keeps you “in tune” with the Universal, so you can know your own Freedom, Happiness, and Peace. This is also “the Zone” which people strive to get into and stay in.
A person must form a clear and definite mental image of the things he wishes to have, to do, or to become, and he must hold this mental image in his thoughts, while being deeply grateful to the supreme that all his desires are granted to him. The person who wishes to get rich must spend his leisure hours in contemplating his vision, and in earnest thanksgiving that the reality is being given to him. Too much stress cannot be laid on the importance of frequent contemplation of the mental image, coupled with unwavering faith and devout gratitude. This is the process by which the impression is given to the formless and the creative forces set in motion.
Here the certainty of your own ideals, goals, and purposes show up again. Holding these in a concentrated effort or approach to life, along with the gratitude of thanksgiving that you already have it, then aligns your life. What you concentrate on then shows up around you. It’s much wider than just getting rich – it’s getting all the Freedom, Happiness, and Peace you could ever ask for and more.
The creative energy works through the established channels of natural growth, and of the industrial and social order. All that is included in his mental image will surely be brought to the person who follows the instructions given above, and whose faith does not waver. What he wants will come to him through the ways of established trade and commerce.
The world around us is simply the composite of all of our thoughts put together. It’s no more mysterious or cause-effect induced than that. It’s not this big materialistically-organized complex of stuff which is overpowering and cannot be controlled or managed by any one person. It is simply the composite of all our past thinking assembled in one place. Really too simple.
So any thought in this area simply brings about the manifestation through these “ways of established trade and commerce.” Because miracles are one thing, but when most people don’t “believe” in them, the next fall-back is to have whatever you really conceive and concentrate on to come from the “real world” around us.
In order to receive his own when it is ready to come to him, a person must be in action in a way that causes him to more than fill his present place. He must keep in mind the purpose to get rich through realization of his mental image. And he must do, every day, all that can be done that day, taking care to do each act in a successful manner. He must give to every person a use value in excess of the cash value he receives, so that each transaction makes for more life, and he must hold the advancing thought so that the impression of increase will be communicated to all with whom he comes into contact.
This is the key to the entire book, Wattle’s philosophy summed up in a single paragraph. The real successes which have been created with the Golden Rule are built on this one point: that when you work for others and get across to them that when they work in abundance for others, this is the exact way abundance shows up for themselves.
To the exact degree we act on this single concept, that we actually get the bulk of everyone we come into contact with into this same idea of natural abundance, it will be just to that degree which we meet with success in our own lives. Period.
While abundance is a necessary concept to spread to others so that both they and you can get rich, imagine the concept being spread about being Happy all the time. Or the idea that anyone can be and use all the Freedom they want. Or even the idea that Peace is internally generated (we don’t have to wait around for governments to act) and so spread Peace through out the world by everyone being internally at peace with themselves…
The men and women who practice the foregoing instructions will certainly get rich, and the riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.
Boil this all down, and you get to the same ideas which Carnegie, Hill, and Haanel (plus the other authors later in this book) all hold as vital: to the extent that you consider you can change and control what you think and what you would like to have show up around you – it is exactly to that extent, plus your faith in yourself, that your world will change.
So, if you haven’t guessed already, it’s entirely up to you to change the world you live in.
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But I don’t mean to get really “heavy” and serious here. We still have some other authors with different viewpoints to review. And these have a lot to say about how you can live a life that has you natively calm and cheerfully expectant about all the great things coming your way.
Let’s move on to our next author, who just happens to talk about this… (Stay tuned for upcoming posts.)
One of the harder-to-pin-down subjects is truth.
Because it’s entirely personal. You can study all the various books and tapes and CD’s and videos you want – but all you’ll get are other peoples’ versions of what they found to be true.
What is true is, and always has been, entirely within yourself.
And as a matter of fact, it comes from within you and spreads out into the world.
I’ve been working recently with the Golden Rule and found too many actions and consequences which trace back to a person’s using it. It just can’t be anything other than a general rule used by everyone – a Law, if you will.
But actually, that’s just my take on it. So your mileage may vary.
My use of the Golden Rule is to improve my own well-being, my own health, my own abundance in life. Treating others as I would like to be treated obviously improves my personal relationships with others.
Of course, you really have to apply it to yourself, IMHO, in order to get the best results. You can’t be self-critical, or anxious, or “stressed out” in order to live a peaceful life.
In fact, any peace you find is always personally generated – just like your own joy and happiness (as Lester Levenson pointed out with his Sedona Method).
And here is where competition comes in. Now, just for good exercise and experiencing the joys of good teamwork, sports are an incredibly useful action. And as entertainment, there can probably be nothing better than being in the stands with others watching talented athletes perform at their best.
But most competition is a lie.
First, we are not all created equal in abilities or attitude or other capabilities. So to put us on “a level playing field” is just hobbling the best so the worst can keep up.
Seccond, when applied to commerce, it’s just a way to keep you riveted on someone else’s actions so that you become just like them. The industry leaders are that way because they are following a vision and listening to their clients in order to improve their products and services.
Third, what you are here for is to improve your own abilities, your own situation. (And of course you do this by helping others – using one version of the Golden Rule: you have to give before you can get.) So your own “evolution” lies solely within the decisions you make for yourself.
Trying to “beat someone at their own game” forces you to think and act within narrow constraints and actually try to become someone else – you start playing by their rules instead of on your own terms.
So the truth you are trying to find is – and always has been – within yourself.
And you are only going to find more truth by taking some quiet time for yourself and listening to what you find there.
Try it and see. It’s helped me a lot, as well as some of the greatest in history.
But you are only going to know if you can touch that truth within.
A lot of releasing lately, and some substantial study to boot. This has led me to gradually see that there’s something “The Secret” missed.
I can’t say I’ve got it all nailed down write now, but I know there’s a loophole (or several) in the old authors which the Secret teachers have been quoting.
1. They say to control your feelings to control your thoughts – as thoughts become things.
There is a partial truth here. Not that this doesn’t work as stated. Feelings and emotions actually lie below the thoughts. Thinking is to justify or figure out why and/or how a person feels a certain way at a certain time.
But practically, thoughts and feelings are generated according to overly-complex patterns a person has saved in order to respond to their environment. The idea was to prepare by saving old memories so that one could have a ready response to any life-threatening situation.
However, there’s a difference between this and instinct. Instinct and Intuition are probably the same point. And both are better metaphysically and spiritually explained than any Science can. Essentially, these are direct connections to the Universal which bypass our thought processes.
Wattles approached this in his “Science of Getting Rich” (the actual inspiration for “the Secret”). While he talks about thought, he also points out that you have to get into a full harmony with this “formless substance” by getting a deep feeling of gratitude for whatever you are visualizing.
This brings up our second loophole:
2. Have good feelings and these will replace the bad.
Well, yes and no. While practice can create a practiced positive attitude, as Dale Carnegie and William James point out, this can also just layer itself on top of your other practiced and habitual thinking processes. So you’ll then have a negative thought and then immediately put a postive thought on top of it.
This just builds more thought on top of older patterns.
What you want to do is to use the Sedona Method to simply release or let go the original thinking. However, when you do this, you no longer actually have to create the positive thought on top of it. Releasing lets go of all thoughts and the feelings that created them.
So does this then screw up what we learned from the Secret about how to get things showing up in our life that we want? No. It actually simplifies them.
When you calm the mind of all these seemingly random and recurring thought patterns, you start to live a life of acceptance and peace. You no longer re-act to things around you, but see them as they are. Then you can simply act responsibly according to what is actually there, what is actually occurring.
Every person is constantly creating. And what you conceive occurs. Action is always before thought. You want to ignore (release) your thinking and get back to simply creating. Thinking only tends to stop action. Creation and Intuition prompt action.
Of course, this is where imagination comes in. Napoleon Hill talked about the difference between creative thinking and analytical thinking. Analytical was simply recombinations, while creative was actually new and original – closer to intuitive.
Now, we can use what these older authors have said if we simply discard their use of terms like “mind” and “thoughts” or “thinking”. Consider that when you release, you calm the mind (both conscious and subconscious) so that you no longer have to use this as a tool. What you are left with is quiet and acceptance and a profound peace. Imperturbability, as Levenson liked to refer to it.
Everything around you is just fine. At this point, nothing actually bothers you and you can change pretty much anything you like – if you actually consider that it needs to be changed. And anything you actually need will show up. Consider that you have something and it appears. Get the idea that you’d like to see something additional in this experience called life – and it shows up.
Once you get the mind out of the way, then anything and everything you consider is there.
Look this over, and you’ll see that the conditions which Haanel, Hill, Wattles, Nightingale, Carnegie, and all the teachers of “the Secret” – all these conditions they say must be met or dealt with are all now solved. Without the mind, you are constantly in harmony with the Universal.
You simply have to calm the mind, quit habitual thinking, and get back to your native creative and successful Self. By staying connected with the Infinite Universe at all times, you then have instant answers to any questions. You are connected to everyone around you at all times and so can deal with them on their level. Whatever you concentrate on creating becomes your new reality around you.
And concentration is easy, because you don’t have distractions. You’ve quit amassing all these records of thoughts and feelings, so you now can simply create your life the way you want it.
It’s just too simple, actually.
Where you start restudying these classics, as well as the Secret DVD which was based on them, you’ll find that they all back up this idea. You just have to get this “thinking” out of the way. And while you’re studying these, keep an eye open for all the historical mentions of people simply “letting go” of their old thought patterns and whatnot. You’ll find that this simple approach is present in our oldest philosophies and spiritual texts. (For instance, one translation of Huna’s first principle is that “Our ideas create reality.”)
Steps to do this:
Essentially, because we make it so.
Lester Levenson discovered that Freedom is always present and native to any and every individual — back in 1954. And it had such a profound effect on him that he had to spend the next 18 years studying various Western and Eastern philosophic, spiritual, and religious texts to figure out what he had found and how to teach others what he had found.
His conclusion: the reason Freedom is so difficult a subject is due to the thoughts, opinions, rationales, and internal commentary that we heap on top of it in our own minds.
The only thing that really keeps you from being Free is you.
And once you start looking down that datum, you’ll find all manner and types of well-known philosophers, playwrights, and self-help guru’s, as well as ancient prophets and visionaries, who have long said the same thing. They told all about it in their bestseller books, plays, movies, songs, and parables. While they each observed this fact, they also told their own recipes and steps people could take to get their own Freedom.
That is what this book is all about.
The reason I’m writing it in this manner is to help you find your own “path up the mountain” by being able to choose those steps which agree with your own concept of life and Freedom. Because no one can do it for you, and no two paths are the same.
There is no “one route out” that fits everyone. Just as no two people are the same, even “identical” twins, no two paths are going to be exactly the same. You have to match the tools you need to use against your own background and experiences and lessons.
I’m here to point out common ideas and to try to give understanding of these key authors’ concepts in ways that are easy to digest. And so you’ll see that even my explanations can fail for any given situation, depending on what you take away from what I give here.
There is this disclaimer and caveat from the outset: Don’t believe anything I say. It won’t do you any good to swallow this wholesale as a gospel. You can “take it for checking” and see if it works out for you. But what I say here is only taken from my own view of things, my own half-century of living showing through. It’s really a reflection of the path I’ve found for myself. It’s not your path – though you might like and use parts of it.
Your path is entirely your own – and you’ll have to test every single step you take, building it one step at a time. :You have to prove each datum as true and then use that datum to find others. This is what you’ve been doing this entire lifetime. Nothing new.
This book, this post, my blogs – these are all just to tell you that you are doing this, that you can take control over this process, that you can and will achieve your own personal Freedom to the exact degree that you believe in yourself and cast off those beliefs you’ve swallowed over the years which don’t help you toward that Freedom goal.
It’s true, though – you are already Free. The following pages in this book are simply designed to help you get rid of any limiting thoughts (like those which just passed in front of you) – that are telling you that this isn’t so.
And once you start seeing that you can achieve complete Freedom in the remainder of the lifetime you have in front of you, then you’ll probably also see that you want to help others attain their Freedom – and that this is also one of the steps on your path.
But don’t, please don’t take my word for it.
Do read on. Do find your own path. Do find your own Freedom.
Good Hunting!
They are simply continuing to promote the same old way they learned years ago. And years, on the Internet, is a lifetime, if not an eternity.
The most major change was social media networks. This actually took all marketing back to the original roots of the neighborhood marketplace or bazaar. There, you saw the person and his wares and could inspect to see what you were getting. If you didn’t like it, or if it wasn’t good enough quality – you simply took it back the same or next day.
And now, people have the same attitudes toward marketing online. They’ve taught themselves to ignore ads and people who constantly pitch stuff at them. Now they only go to people they trust – people who have given away free samples with valuable content.
But the old Madison-Avenue marketers haven’t learned this. They still deal in their spammy info-mercials to deal with low-percentage click-through rates. No clue. Stuck in the past.
So I put all my notes into the form of a book so you could have what I had to learn the hard way over the last few years. Sure, I had all this data and talked about it in various forms. But it took getting ripped off and seeing the underbelly of this beast before I could really see the light.
But frankly, this isn’t my main line of work. So I’m almost giving it away to whoever can use it.
Today, it went live on Lulu as a book of its own. But I’m not going to do much marketing about it, other than blogging.
But you can. Contact me if you want to use this stuff commercially. Otherwise, share and share-alike. Every word is going up on that blog – so feel free to use those ideas and links as they show up.
Check it out: Online Sunshine Plan – the book; and Online Sunshine Plan – the blog.
And may all your radical, massive changes be happy ones….
There is a certain amount of Truth out there – and from where we sit, it looks to be infinite, or at least infinitely larger than what we think we can conceive.
Our responsibility in this is to publish that Truth – to talk about it, to forward conversations – that we can see as we see it.
Beyond that, our job is to constantly be searching for the Truth in all things around us and to improve our conditions by applying what we find to our own lives and in helping those around us.
Just like something as simple as making a better cup of coffee. Lots of people like coffee. It’s one of those little addictions which help improve our human existence. If you know the tips and tricks to making better coffee – and share these ideas – everyone who likes coffee can improve their lives just that little, tiny bit.
Larger things (such as the underlying unifiying philosophy of Life) might be harder to find. But when we do find a way which makes sense to us, that we test and find useful – that is exactly what we should be telling others about to help them anyway we can.
At least that is what my approach to life is.
But I’m a publisher. I publish things.
You might be a blogger or other conversationalist. Your idea might be to find what others are saying and then push this along. Or you may simply like talking to people.
Either or any way, truth is still the stuff that works – or as the ancient Polynesians would say, “Effectiveness is the measure of truth.”
Our job in this is to let people know what we have found.
Now, there’s a funny thing that happens with the mind when we don’t. Often you can feel physical pain or discomfort when you don’t work at getting this known. When you sit on something you know would help someone else (even if you don’t know who that someone else might be) – it can result in physical pain in a joint, or your back, or a headache, or some other somatic sensation. The trick is to be in tune with yourself enough to simply find, uncover, and start broadcasting this truth that you just found.
And you can see in this how famous authors suffer their angst through those stories they write which ultimately become best-sellers.
Just wanted to let you know all about this – sure, it’s 2am and I just got up from a not-unplesant sleep. But my dreams said you need to tell this story. And my body then said, “I’m not going back to sleep until you do…”
So here I sit, and now you’ve heard this story.
The next point for me is to figure how to get these to come during normal waking hours – but that is chasing the line of thought which winds up with following my passion more closely, doesn’t it?
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So one thing you can count on from me with this point forward – we’re going to be getting a lot of useful data out which can help you with your own life purpose. Because we all want to live less-painful lives, don’t we?!?
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