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Beginnings
The first step, my son, which one
Makes in the world is the one
On which depends the rest of our days.
Voltaire

I began my journey into the understandings of greater things as a fresh-faced sixteen year old during the summer of 1969. 1969, a number seven year in numerological terms, a spiritual year, came packed with first and last time events.

In 1969 the Beatles gave their last performance atop Apple Records; James Earl Ray pled guilty to the assassination of Martin Luther King; Golda Meir became the first female prime minister of Israel; Dr. Denton Cooley implanted the first artificial heart; the battle of Hamburger Hill began during the Vietnam War; Give Peace a Chance was first recorded live in a bed-in by John Lennon and Yoko Ono; astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first men to walk on the moon; the Woodstock concert in upstate New York broke attendance records with a peaceful crowd of more than 500,000 people; the first ATM machine went live in New York; the Chicago Eight trial began; astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean become the third and fourth humans to walk on the moon and both the New York Jets and Mets won their respective titles that year.

For me it was a year of first and lasts as well. I lost my virginity the night the men first landed on the moon. I surrendered my youth and began my journey into adulthood, spirituality, and the ways of the secular world.

That year began many journeys for me where I fell in and out of love, studied everything from Buddhism to Christianity, saw the legendary Janis Joplin and a whole host of others perform live, and came to understand the inter-connectedness of all things through a multitude of first-time spiritual experiences.

I felt the effects of a great spiritual presence; saw the flow of spirit in all things and first comprehended the perfection of clouds. Young, energetic, and filled with the desire to move out and away like a bird testing its wings I also learned how fettered and held down I truly felt.

An artist and creator at heart, I believed that other people’s opinions were more important than my own. I believed I was alone and different from everyone else in the world, yet I forged some of my deepest relationships that endure to this day.

Then-I believed that it was safer to love than be hurt by those who loved you; I learned that no matter how many friends, lovers, and family you have around you-that you walk your path alone. I learned that the members of your family don’t necessarily grow up under the same roof as you do. I learned the kingdoms of this earth fall under the dominion of man, but man belongs to Spirit.

I first learned that I am a spiritual being having a physical experience. I learned through the teachings of my Native American heritage that I am on the path of becoming a human being.

What Does Becoming a Human Being Mean?

Becoming a human being means becoming self-realized as a spiritual being having a human experience. It means embracing your physicality from your spirituality. It means becoming who and what you really are: a divine expression of the universe in human form.

There is no one like you. There never has been and there never will be. You are an individual, separate and unique. You are special. Yet at the same time, paradoxically, through your very individuality, through your shared divinity, you are connected to everyone else that has its being.

Do you know who you are? Do you understand your deepest desires, your deepest dreams, your passions, your loves, your hates?

Do you know that you create your experience based upon what you think, feel, and emote? Do you know that the universe has laws in place that aid in the creation of your experience and that these laws cannot be broken?

Because of the societies in which we live-we constantly think of laws as something that can be changed, broken, or simply done away with. While this may be true with secular laws, it is not true of universal laws.

Take for instance the law of gravity. This is a basic law of physics while you live on the earth plane. Regardless of how spiritually open or developed you are or not, if you jump off a cliff you fall.

You don’t have to believe in the law of gravity for it to work; it is a simple fact while living here. Things thrown up into the air fall back down. Things dropped off great heights-hit the ground.

Like the law of gravity which is certainly a constant on this the earth plane, another basic tenet of the universe works to bring you your experiences. This law is called the law of attraction. It has also been called the law of cause and effect. This law works whether you know about it or not. It doesn’t take your knowledge of it, nor your belief in it, for you to use it to create the drama you are living in this moment.

I first heard of the law of attraction in 1982 under a different name when I was exposed to the teachings of creating our own reality. When I learned how it worked, I used it to consciously create events and circumstances in my life of my own desires and choosing. But I didn’t understand about the backside of the law and also created things that I didn’t want and didn’t desire. In fact, the opposite happened as well, I created things that I feared.

While you don’t need an understanding of the law of attraction to create your experience, you do need to understand the principles if you want to consciously co-create the experience of your choosing and you need to understand these basic principles if you want to change your experience.

By learning these principles and employing them you will develop a tool-kit that doesn’t need batteries and never wears out that will assist you in going where ever you choose to go for as long as you choose to go.

The only limitation is you.

Imagine yourself as a sailor and the sea is your journey in this life-you may not control the wind but if you learn the tiller and how to trim and set your sails-the wind will take you anywhere you wish to go.

Do you believe that you create your experiences? Or instead, do you believe you’re a victim tossed about upon the sea of circumstance? Do you believe someone else made you the way you are or do you own who you are?

No matter how you answer there is only one correct answer: you and only you create your experiences. This is simple fact. You may not like it, you may not embrace it, but it does not take your belief to make it so.

As the earth revolves around the sun and the moon revolves around the earth, so it is with the creation and administration of your own life. You are the driver behind the wheel, you are the painter with the palette, you my friend, are the creator of your own experience.

Shakespeare said, “all the world’s a stage and we but the players on it.” In truth, however, you are the stage, the actors, the director, the stagehands, and the audience. Everything that you see, think, feel, and experience is you. No-one scripts your life but you.

Unfortunately, we are not taught this from an early age.

The keepers of our churches and temples don’t seem to know it either, and if they do, it appears they are attempting to keep if from us.

Instead they indoctrinate us into believing that we are dis-empowered from our own lives. History teaches us that for the last few hundred centuries, collectively, we have believed that others held the power over our lives here and in the beyond.

By surrendering the control of our lives and beliefs we surrender the most important and beautiful relationship of all: the relationship of ourselves to our Source.

If we desire more, if we desire a greater understanding, a greater experience-with passion and feeling it will come. The law of attraction brings it to us. This is how you are reading this book because you desired to know more about this law.

The Law of Attraction is Only

One of Seven Laws of the Universe

At this time, there are seven known natural universal laws. You will find them written up in many ways on the internet, but basically they are the same, just said differently.

The seven laws are:

The Law of Gender/Gestation

The Law of Cause and Effect (The Law of Attraction)

The Law of Relativity

The Law of Perpetual Transmutation

The Law of Polarity

The Law of Vibration

The Law of Rhythm

As this book is primarily about the law of attraction, we will not be going into detailed depth of each of these laws; however, I will share with you a brief synopsis of each one.

The Law of Gender/Gestation

Every seed has a gestation period. For those of you who garden, you understand this law completely. For those of you who don’t-a gestation period is the time it takes from something to grow from a fertile seed to first physical manifestation. In humans, the gestation period is nine months (or thereabouts). In seeds that get planted in the ground, some sprout in six or seven days others in fourteen and still others-even longer.

The basis of this law is to understand that a seed or an “idea” has a gestation period. This is the time it takes for an idea to sprout and press through the “ground” into the sunlight. It is the period of time from first idea to first physical manifestation.

The Law of Cause and Effect

(The Law of Attraction)

For every event or circumstance, there is a beginning or cause. For every cause there is a resultant effect. What you think about-you bring about.

The Law of Relativity

Nothing is good or bad until you relate it to something else, compare it, or contrast it. It is the relationship of one thing to another by the person relating to it and contrasting it.

The Law of Perpetual Transmutation

This law refers to the ongoing and changing nature of the energy of the universe. All energy is continually moving in and out of form. From energy to thought to physical reality and back again to energy.

The Law of Polarity

For each and every thing, there is an equal opposite. We live on the earth plane, physical reality; this is the place where we experience things as good and bad, negative and positive, dark and light. We are living in a bi-polar reality, a dual reality comprised of positives and negatives.

The Law of Vibration

Everything that exists, whether seen or unseen, exists in a state of vibration at its own particular rate (speed). In the very rate of vibration there exists a means of transferring signals or information.

From science we know that all things vibrate. A rock vibrates at a frequency that gives it its seeming solidity. Water vibrates at a faster rate and appears more fluid. Telecommunication signals vibrate so fast we cannot see them AND they become a means for transferring information like our voices across a cell phone or a radio station transmitting a signal on a particular frequency.

Unseen things vibrate so fast that those in the physical realm (except maybe the gifted) may not see or perceive them at all.

The Law of Rhythm

This is the law that guides our days. Day follows night follows day. Tides go in and out. The seasons change from spring to summer to autumn to winter and back to spring. Everything travels back and forth between the poles: in and out, up and down, dark and light, back and forth.

On this the earth plane there is a rhythm to all things.

Each one of these natural laws comes into play as we create our experiences.

What Do These Laws Do?

These natural and universal laws provide the foundation for how the universe works. If we learn to understand them and keep them in mind when we work with the law of attraction, instead of looking at our external world and judging it good or bad, we realize that there is a natural order to things. We realize that there is a rhythm and flow to life and that a swing from one side of the pole or other is just part of the process.

If we wake up and realize that we are divine children of the universe, these laws will work to bring us the desires of our hearts. We learn that we can consciously create an experience of our choosing rather than being at the mercy of our unconscious thoughts, our pre-programmed internal map of reality beaten about our head and shoulders by the natural laws of the universe.

When we remember who we truly are: divine sons and daughters of the universe, our spirits soar and nothing can keep us down. As we expand in our consciousness-as we grow-everything around us expands and grows.

Quantum Physics and the Zero Point Field

All things in the universe have their beginning and being in the zero point field, the field of all potentialities where our beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and emotions pull into our experience from this field the very things we’re thinking, feeling, and emoting. This field connects us and exists as the “stuff” between us and everything else in the universe.

Albert Einstein desired to develop the equation for this field calling it the unified field theory, but did not do so in his lifetime. He felt that there was one formula that fit it all. Einstein felt that there was much more to space than just emptiness. Our physicists today are discovering this to be true. What Einstein was able to see, however, he called the “tail of the lion.”

“I do not doubt that the LION

belongs to the TAIL

even though he cannot

at once reveal himself

because of his enormous size.”

Albert Einstein

The father of quantum physics, Max Planck, 1858-1947, winner of the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics first gave us the “energy field” theory. What his theory stated was that space is not void, atoms are not things, and humans are just an extension of the void (author’s note: the zero point field), part of the “divine” matrix that is unfolding into view and into our understanding.

From the zero point field, energy manifests as either a wave-pure potentiality or a particle-potentiality collapsed into physical matter, a person, place, event, circumstance or thing.

These early physicists decided to conduct experiments with the particles and the waves to determine which comes first-a particle or a wave. On one side of the globe physicists conducted experiments to view particles. On the opposite side they conducted experiments to view waves.

The funny thing that happened that didn’t really get figured out until much later was the scientists who wanted to see particles saw particles. The ones who wanted to see waves saw waves.

This resulted in a huge disagreement between the particle physicists and the wave physicists. Each thought they were right. For the longest time they couldn’t agree. In the end what they did learn-turned out to be so monumental that it changed the very nature of science.

They learned a most important thing that affects those of us living today: there is no such thing as objective reality. In other words, they learned that all reality is subjective. Both groups of physicists were right! Whatever the physicist wanted to see he saw, because by his very observation of “reality” he affected it, he changed it.

Objective reality means a reality that exists in and of itself. Objective reality is something that exists whether you are paying attention to it or not.

“If quantum mechanics hasn’t

profoundly shocked you,

you haven’t understood it yet.”

Neils Bohr, Physicist

They learned that all reality is subjective-which means it does not exist independent of the subject-you. If the physicist conducting the experiment wanted to see a wave, he saw a wave. If he wanted to see a particle-he saw a particle. In a nutshell, they learned that we create what we experience by our very observation of it.

All things that exist today arrived because someone thought of them first. All inventions arose from someone’s desire-a chair came from the desire for support and comfort. Electricity from the desire for light, telephones from the desire to talk at distances and cars, from the desire to get there faster. Who knows what waits around the next corner?

So What Does This Mean to Me?

Remember the saying, you are what you eat? A more up-to-date version of that would be you are what you think, feel, and emote.

From the zero point field you create your experience; you pull in energy (thought) based on your vibration or frequency, which gets translated physically as a feeling and sent back out into the universe through the power of emotion to attract to you what you put out.

Think about it like this: if you were nothing more than a programmed robot, why would you have the ability to change anything in your life? You would not. You’d exist like a chess piece moving about in the direction that your role assigned you and the hand of destiny moved you.

You would be no more than a puppet, living out its manipulated and programmed reality. Even animals have more choice than that.

The hard part of wrapping your head around creating your own experience resides upon the premise of two things: the atrocities we judge in the world and the thinking that promotes the idea that a spiritual force that exists outside of us is ultimately responsible for the things that happen to us and the things that happen in the world.

We want to blame someone for this mess. We don’t want to believe that a benevolent Supreme Being would create the chaos we experience in our lives and in the world, yet at the same time, we blame this Supreme Being for what we experience in our lives and in the world. In some religions, we’ve even painted the backside of the Supreme Being with a creature we’ve named the devil and now blame the devil for all the evil in our lives and in the world.

The truth is simple: we create our lives and our experiences on this earth through the very power of the universe that resides within us.

Each of us creates individually and we create collectively. There is no one to blame. You can’t blame God. Nor can you blame anyone else. You can’t even blame yourself, for that solves nothing.

If you met a man, woman, or a child that lived in a culture without electricity and you brought them to your world rampant with the modern conveniences that so many take for granted, what do you think would happen if you put them in a dark room? Would you expect them to be able to turn on the light or would you blame them if they did not know what to do?

In all honesty, you can’t blame them for not knowing about electricity-you show them the switch and teach them to turn on the light.

It is the same with this understanding. There is no blame here-it simply is the time to remember who we are. It is time for the human race to grow up. In order for us to survive as a race-we must grow, evolve and change.

On this planet we call home we are all connected. The very energy we create our experiences with resides in each and every one of us and connects us each to the other. Because as the body of humanity we are all related-we are one-and jointly we form what is known as a collective consciousness (though how conscious remains to be seen) and through that collective consciousness we create what is going on in the world.

We do this by actually wishing that some of this stuff would happen or we do it by focusing on it, by resisting it, or we do it unconsciously. In any case, the state of the world belongs to us.

God or the devil didn’t make us do it.

We did it. All.

The most important part of the law of attraction is to understand our part in it and take responsibility not blame for the results. If you cannot do that, then you need to put this book down. You are not ready.

So What Really is the Law of Attraction?

The law of attraction is a universal law. And unlike secular, worldly laws-this law is a constant-it cannot be broken. It is an aspect of the law of cause and effect. For every effect, there is a cause. You are the cause and what you attract or experience is the effect. Christ said you reap what you sow.

The law works like this: you attract to you people, events, experiences, feelings, and circumstances of what you primarily believe, think, feel, and emote.

But how come some people seem to have all the bad luck and others the good? Think about these people-think about how they think, believe, and act-this should tell you why they have the luck they do.

In addition to all of this, sometimes we co-create the things we do in our lives as a challenge-as a means to get beyond where we are-to grow.

We are co-creators with the very creative force of the universe. This force I call Source or Father Mother God of All That Is rather than just God. (Author’s note: In my experience the name God is associated with so many different religious practices both negative and positive so I prefer to stay away from the religious description of things. I feel that religiousness is something that we practice on the outside of our beings. Religiousness has nothing whatsoever to do with our spirituality which comes from the inside of our beings)

Source wants what we want for ourselves-what we deeply want-peace, prosperity, joy, and love-everything in our lives springs from this oh so divine breath.

This is the Secret

The secret, the mystery of mysteries is this: divine spirit in man. The nature of our beings springs from the zero point field, Source energy, and exists in our bodies known as the temples not made with hands. And because of this simple mystical fact, what you declare into the world must come into existence.

A lot of people are excited about this secret which isn’t a secret at all. A recent mega hit brought this secret to the forefront of the collective global consciousness and it’s called The Secret.

Yes, it has the appearance of striking at raw materialism on one level-but for the first time in our history, a great spiritual truth not attached to a religious dogma-no matter if this movie just skims the surface-has been expressed to a greater part of the mass consciousness of the human race at one time. And it is still sweeping around the globe. This fact alone is phenomenal.

Everybody’s got an opinion about the movie. Some say it’s just a quick money making scheme. Others swear by its tenets. But think about it. For the first time in history at our current level of development, through a medium that most of the world recognizes and watches, even to its outer edges, a revolutionary idea has reached the masses.

That idea is that you, *YOU* participate in the creation of your experience-that you actually have a say in how things turn out! I know this to be true without a doubt. This very book is an example of that. My home, Wildwind, is another. My husband, Gordon, another. All of these things I drew to me-I attracted into my life.

I’ve known it a long time and forgotten it and remembered it and forgotten and remembered again. I’ve been able to create a lot of wonderful things in my life. I’ve created some pretty horrible things too-but in each experience deemed good or bad by the standards of social consciousness I always found a gift from the universe to me, I found the golden egg.

Many get upset about The Secret when their immediate success doesn’t come, when they don’t win the lottery, or when life doesn’t turn out the way they think it should within 3.5 seconds.

The principles are easy to learn-but the inner work can be challenging. The hardest thing you will ever do is to learn to let go and go with the flow of the universe.

The principles are simple and because of their simplicity, a lot of people seem to think that the Law of Attraction and these principles are nothing more than new age snake oil.

I say to those folks, bah humbug!

Don’t believe me? Go to this website below, write everything into the browser just like it appears here and a video will come up from the 1950’s with a funny little man named Napoleon Hill. (If by chance they have taken it off YouTube by the time this is printed, do a search for Napoleon Hill on YouTube, and make sure the video looks like it’s from the fifties in original black and white. Napoleon Hill wears glasses.)

This man wrote Think and Grow Rich in 1937. He followed on the heels of Wallace D. Wattles who in 1910 wrote The Science of Getting Rich, which was one of many inspirations behind the movie, The Secret.

These principles have been handed down through the ages, from as far back as the Buddha and Christ, but in order to see and perceive them one must do so with the eyes of the heart and not with the head.

How simple can this be? Please don’t overlook the power of these principles because of their simplicity.

Think of your thoughts as seeds of creation. When you garden and you want to grow tomatoes what kind of seeds do you plant? You plant tomato seeds. The same applies to your thinking. The thoughts you think become the fruit of your life.

Your thoughts are seeds which when focused on for more than a few seconds are then planted into the soil of your body. You water them by empowering them with your emotions; they grow and produce a plant which flowers and gives you the fruit: the event, circumstance, relationship, or thing that your thought, the seed, determined it should be.

Why do some people resist these simple truths? More than likely because of its simplicity. They think that because of the complexity of our universe that the rules that run it must be complex as well.

Not so. It is because of the simplicity of the foundational laws that we can have so complex a creation.

The law of attraction is summed up beautifully in three words by author Mike Dooley: Thoughts Become Things.

You draw to yourself that which you are. What you believe, think, feel, and emote in harmonic alignment co-creates your experience. You think it-you believe it-you feel it-you become it.

I personally have used the law of attraction to create my dream job, draw to me my soul-mate, design, build, and co-create the house of my dreams on the Western Slope of the Sierra, co-create my dream car, connect with the right people at just the right moment, draw to me a book that I needed to read to answer a question I had, be safe in my car, draw the assistance of red tail hawks and other creatures of nature, experience physical healings, and many other wonderful things too numerous to mention.

I’ve also created some not-so-wonderful things by being unaware of all the Law’s aspects. Come journey with me and I will share with you what I have learned about this universal and wonderful law.

Yes, it is as simple as asking and receiving-you’ve asked for an understanding to achieving your desires and this book came to you.

Are you ready to have some fun?

What is the single most important thing you can do to get in alignment with all that you are?