Two

2.eps

In Brian Greene’s book The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, he says:

I remain as convinced now as I did decades ago . . . that life’s value is the ultimate question . . . but the insights of modern physics have persuaded me that accessing life through the lens of everyday experience is like gazing at a van Gogh through an empty Coke bottle . . . By deepening our understanding of the true nature of physical reality, we profoundly reconfigure our sense of ourselves and our experiences of the universe.

Acknowledging that the universe is built on vast amounts of energy that is individually available to us at any given moment to mold and shape as we please is an incredible step toward personal fulfillment. In order to harness this energy, we first have to agree that it exists.

Do you agree?

Throughout history, this potential for excellence has gone by many names. Pythagoras called this energy pneuma. Other explanations over the years have included words and titles like animal magnetism, vital force, ether, and bioplasma. Post-relativity physicists like David Bohm have postulated its existence and called it the superquantum field. Author Michael Talbot discussed this energy as the holographic field and more recently Lynn McTaggert, an investigative journalist, speaks of this amazing power simply as “the field.” From ancient Chinese medicine to Hindu prophets, from martial arts to New Age philosophies, from Voodoo rites to Catholic mass, for centuries the world has tried to explain in the language of various cultures, histories, secret societies, esoteric practices, and religions just exactly what this incredible potential entails and how it can be used in a positive way. And for as many people who tried to harness such power for good or ill, there were exponential numbers of people who tried to run from it, hide it, debunk it, belittle it, and turn it into superstitious fluff for the general masses, preferring the noose of disease, death, and taxes to an ultimate harmony of spiritual creation. From Christ to Einstein the descriptions, explanations, and teachings of this infinite potential have worn cloaks of many colors, and, if their followers didn’t tell you how to use it, instead they told you how to worship it.

Got shivers running up and down your arms yet?

Recent studies of the new physics involving quantum dynamics infer that, like our example of the priestess dancing in chapter 1, we have the capability of “clicking” matter on and off, thereby creating our own reality, and that everyone has this natural ability. From the zero point, you affect how energy collapses in and out of the matter state. The zero point is in the moment, a place where there are no cares, no worries, no recriminations—some people call this phenomena “the zone.” It is a place of “just being,” and we are all quite capable of going there. In essence, you are the rod of the caduceus, and the snakes therein depicted are the energies that you are capable of manipulating. What these scientists are saying is that “stuff is here because we say that it is here.” When we tend to forget about things, they disappear or break (ever noticed that)? We simply have to “agree” and at the same time stay in the moment, and when we do, energy collapses into matter by following the path of least resistance. The more resistance we’ve built into our lives, the slower this matter will manifest. The more codicils we add to the action, the longer it takes. The more people who are privy to our business, the more convoluted that business becomes, especially if the core observer (that would be you) is in any way unsure of your personal power (filled with doubts, negativity, anger, etc.). The more we worry about a situation, the worse it becomes, because worry sets the stage for failure, building visualizations toward defeat rather than accomplishment. How do we overcome these self-imposed limitations? By simply agreeing that we don’t need miles of mental, emotional, physical, or spiritual red tape to get the job done while staying in the moment!

Can it really be that easy?

The Concept of One

I am sitting in a United States Army award ceremony. My daughter has gone before the board and received her sergeant’s status. She has also earned Sergeant of the Quarter. As I wait for the ceremony to begin, I look at the flags decorating the room. My daughter is in a medical unit, and the caduceus catches my eye. I study the design. We are all familiar with the rod and the intertwined serpents, yet, for the first time, although I’ve talked about how the snakes make the shape of the infinity sign, I see it plainly on this flag. I think about the concept of the sign, and how it demonstrates that there is no time nor space, just an unfolding of energy predicated on our own choices—in the moment. And I think about the motto of the United States Army (at least the people I’ve known in it): “Never leave a man behind.” My mind jumps to a biblical passage—“If you harm your brother, you are harming yourself,” and an old Christian song, “We are one in the Spirit.” Then I think about the Buddhist teaching “We are one.” My brain skips to a wonderful Pagan song by the Faerie people—“One.” I think of history and the fuss in the Egyptian world when the pharaoh tried to move from multiple deities to one deity, and all the flack that caused. I think of how the Cathars were slaughtered because in the early Christian world, deity was considered both male and female, and how their ceremonies and lifestyle tried to reflect the balance of one. And how they died horribly for it. And how people today just can’t get over the argument of who gets to keep and play with the One True God. What a waste.

Because One is “in the moment.”

And I realize that perhaps, just perhaps, we are perceiving the idea of “one” not as it was first meant to be. One doesn’t mean “your one” or “my one,” it means that in the still point of the void, that place that is not a place, in a time that is not a time, the zero point of the totality of the dynamics of meditation, there are none—which is one—united in nothing, yet bonded in everything; wholeness in the moment where there is no past nor present.

No opinions.

No individual perceptions.

No tawdry emotions.

No unmitigated anger.

Only perfect agreement.

Only potential.

Only one.

In the moment.

And in that one—anything can be done.

The One is not ego-centered. The One is not “a person” or “an energy”—it is a unification of everything. It isn’t “some thing”—it’s just . . . “no thing.”

It is . . . now.

Many times what we choose to signify deity represents the neediness in our lives. Deity in its worst personification symbolizes what we deeply lack, and what we desire most that we believe cannot be found within ourselves or within others. Deity, then, is not always seen as ultimate perfection, but a personification of what we do not have. Indeed, this is true in most cases in most religions.

And when we feel we have no personal power—no control—that’s when things get very nasty on a physical level, because what we are really doing is allowing the ego to run rampant, rather than using the ego for its intended purpose: a check and balance vehicle within ourselves. When we can resist ego gratification then we are at our most powerful. In many religions, this resistance idea has gotten skewed into the word “abstention.” The problem with this is although the person can abstain from sex, violence, money, and all those things that tickle ego gratification, it doesn’t take the desire for those things out of the person. That is a whole different ball game, and, for the most part, it is totally ignored. Reminds me of the old adage, “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.” If you desire something you can’t supposedly have, then (many times subconsciously) you make poor, ego-centered decisions based on that desire. You will either bow to the temptation, or the temptation will play out in another way. There-fore, we are left with what we started with—the insatiable needs of an ego- centered lifestyle.

“To resist,” however, implies that work must be done. Work is effort. Therefore, many people have no desire to resist, and if they can’t play out their fantasies one way, they will look for a different venue. Take, for example, that totalitarian boss at work. Cruel, heartless, bossy, mouthy, etc. Every time you see a person like this, invariably they feel they have no power. Therefore, their behavior, which exerts negative energy, is a way to gratify the ego. This person does not believe in harmony because there is no personal attention in a harmonious atmosphere (as they see it). Harmony starves an ego-centered lifestyle.

They believe that harmony is boring.

Yet, harmony is a very, very busy energy in itself. It carries pure potential where anything can be accomplished. Ever listen to a really good choir? When they build that incredible vibration of total unison? And they suddenly stop?

That hush?

That edge?

That silence?

That no-thing?

That moment?

That is the power of the One.

You can click it on—or you can click it off. It’s your choice.

Using the Power of One

Many years ago when discussing the power of magick one of my teachers said: “You never use up what’s in here,” pointing to himself, “you use what’s out there,” motioning to the world around him. If he had added, “because what’s in here IS out there,” I would have understood what he meant a lot sooner (or maybe not). Our ego draws a line so it can be top dog and run the show. If you break down that invisible barrier, the ego loses ultimate control and must be integrated into the totality of our lives. But, as all good teachers are incredibly mysterious because they force you to think for yourself rather than telling you everything, he said nothing more, just . . . “think about it.”

You’ve always had the power of One at your disposal, most of us just don’t realize we can use it. Once we agree with the four parts of ourselves “in here” (mental, physical, emotional and spiritual) then there is no barrier to “out there.” We move smoothly into the power of the One, without any visible effort, without resistance, without emotional attachments, without negativity.

Once we agree, we create harmony.

And once we have harmony, we have potential.

And once we have potential, we are unlimited in what we can achieve.

All you have to do is agree to flip that switch.

In the Moment—
Learning How to Get There

Once we agree that the four internal agreements exist and begin to work with them, we need to expand our personal power by learning to live in the moment. If we teach ourselves to do this, then reaching the still point when we need it is so much easier to obtain!

Learning to live in the moment can be difficult due to the patterns we create for ourselves in life. When I was little my mother and grandmother had a saying that used to irritate me to no end. They would expound with great gusto, “What’s the matter with you! Life isn’t a bowl full of cherries!” Now, fifty years later, I understand that they were trying to teach me responsibility. Yet this statement set me up for a ton of negative junk. No, it isn’t their fault—it was mine. Because I bought into the idea that worry was a good thing. Everyone’s parents or guardians had their favorite sayings (I’m sure you’ve got one from your past on the tip of your tongue) that were meant to help you take control of your own life. The problem with many of the concepts is that they are fear based. Fear creates worry, and worry creates sickness, heartbreak, and so much more.

Right now I’d like you to write down all the negative things you heard as a kid, and burn them. And once we’ve gone down memory lane, we’re not going to go back. It’s not that we will refuse to accept responsibility for our own actions—not at all. We are going to take responsibility for everything we do, and we are going to go forward armed with that personal power. Because in owning our actions, we own our strength. And if we are strong, the world around us also becomes empowered in a positive way.

Next, we are going to write down all the things we are worried about. The job, the house, the kids, the partner . . . whatever! Burn that list. From this point on—we aren’t going to worry—we are going to “do.” If one of these worries comes up, we are going to tell ourselves to stay in the moment. We are not going to fantasize and make things worse. Every time we worry about something we are going to take several deep breaths, we are going to agree that the right thing will occur, that we will embrace it when it does, and we are going to fill our minds and bodies with white light. We are going to do this every time we are worried, afraid, nervous, etc. Every time. And as we do this, we are going to tell ourselves to stay in the moment—because in this still point is the power to solve any problem.

Practice this for at least a week. Once the week is over you’ll want to keep doing it because staying in the moment is a very cool place to be.

The Missing and the Found

Even conventional quantum physicists believe that the vacuum is an incredibly seething flux of energy. According to one estimate there is enough virtual energy in the vacuum of a light-bulb to boil the world’s oceans. Another estimate says that you could construct another universe out of a cubic centimeter of it if you converted it to matter. All this energy exists beyond our space/time and the sum of its vectors (direction of the movement of energy) cancels out. Think of football linemen pushing each other to a standstill at the line of scrimmage. No detectable movement within what scientists used to call the ether may take place but no one would argue that energy isn’t being employed. Scientist Thomas Bearden has pointed out that in physics equations if two vectors crash into each other the force mysteriously disappears according to conventional physics and the value of the force is “0.” In other words, it disappears! This is not only illogical (where’d it go?) it seems to defy such hallowed precepts as the conservation of energy in which energy cannot disappear but only be converted to another form.[1]

When what we agree (vector A) crashes into “out there” (Vector B), the potential of the universe (zero point)—“the moment”—gives way to the manifestation we desire. The zero point morphs into birthing your creation.

The only way to determine if a method works is to try repeated experiments for yourself, and that’s precisely what our family did as we began studying the quantum idea of manifestation; not through reams of mathematical data, but by actually putting various theorems to work in everyday life. We moved from the postulations of the printed word to physical analysis. For us, the question is not whether magick exists, but how to make it work faster and better in day-to-day living. Since magick is truly a science as much as it is a philosophy, we delved into the territory of the current new physics for the answers. I have learned one thing: I don’t know what reality is, but I know what it isn’t—and it definitely isn’t what we think it is!

I started with situations as they presented themselves rather than trying to force the issue, thinking that since operating in reality is a natural process, I should go with the flow. I wanted to see if, in everyday life, this clicking on and off business could really work. I was astounded when the first time I actually tried it, it worked!

My journey into quantum manifestation started with a copper wand. A customer ordered one and I thought, okay, this is my last one, now I’ll take the listing off my website. I couldn’t order additional wands because the supplier had previously announced that these items were out of stock. I went into my website to delete the offering, and to my dismay, someone else had ordered another wand within a matter of minutes of the previous order. Now, I had one wand—and two customers. On the surface, my choice was to contact the second customer and indicate that the item was sold out. I don’t like to disappoint people, and as a customer myself, I hate it when I order something and then the business comes back and says too bad, so sad, we don’t have what you wanted. Okay, I thought. Let’s see if this quantum manifestation thing actually works!

Up the stairs I marched, visualizing the wand as an oscillating picture in my mind and saying out loud, “It isn’t here, it’s here. It isn’t here, it’s here! Somewhere! I know that it is here! I agree that there is an extra wand up there—somewhere. I just have to find it!”

I found it.

Within five minutes.

Okay, so one success does not a convincing argument make, and we could always say that I’d ordered more than I originally thought, except for the fact that I found the wand in a box that had been empty the previous day. I waited for another opportunity. This time it was a missing DVD, and there were helpful parameters here. First of all, the DVD had been rented by my son the night before. He hadn’t taken the DVD out of his room after he watched it, and no one in the house had been interested in seeing the movie, so we knew that it had to be in his room still. He and his girlfriend tore the room apart looking for this movie. Lucky for me this son is relatively neat, therefore, the number of places that movie could have been were exponentially smaller—a helpful plus when something is missing. Both my son and his girlfriend had heard me talk about quantum manifestation previously, so I said, “According to quantum physics, all we have to do is agree that the movie is here, and it will appear. Therefore, let’s, for expediency’s sake, all say aloud that we agree the movie is here and we agree that you will find it in the next five minutes.” They agreed. I walked out of the room.

Ten minutes later no one had said anything, so I went to investigate. “Did you find the movie?” I asked.

“Oh, sure!” was the reply. “We found it about five minutes ago.”

Thanks for sharing, I thought, but I said, “Where did you find it?”

“Oh, right here. We must have overlooked it,” and he pointed to a shelf.

“Huh!” I said. “Quantum mechanics—it’s here, it’s not here, it’s here. And there you go.”

They both laughed. They both laughed because things like that only exist in the movie The Matrix, not in a teenager’s room in broad daylight on a spring day. And that’s what most of us do when the quantum field actually works for us—we rationalize it away without understanding its intrinsic value.

All right. Two experiments do not an alchemical genius make. I waited for a third opportunity. This time it was a simple can of gravy. My daughter was coming to visit and I wanted to make a nice turkey dinner. I went to the grocery store and bought everything I needed. When I returned home, I cleaned out the cupboards (it being spring and all that), so I knew what was on each shelf, and basically where everything was. About four in the afternoon I pulled the luscious turkey out of the oven and continued to prepare the other items for the dinner. That’s when I realized that I’d forgotten to purchase the gravy. Yes, I do make homemade gravy, but some members of my family love gravy and there’s never enough, so I always add a few cans to the meal just to ensure there’s plenty (it’s a Pennsylvania Dutch thang). Anyway, so there I am, dinner almost done—and no gravy. No one to send for the gravy either. No way I could leave everything cooking and zoom down to the grocery store. Besides, with my dogs, there would have been no turkey left by the time I returned.

Time for quantum manifestation! I stood at the cupboard and said to myself, “It’s here. It’s not here. The gravy is here. I know that the gravy is here. I agree that there is one can of gravy on one of these shelves.” I started with the lower shelves, getting frustrated, knowing full well that I hadn’t subconsciously hidden a can of gravy in there. Next shelf, still repeating that the gravy was here. Then I flicked my eyes up to the top shelf. Lo and behold, sitting among old, dusty glasses and other sundry unused items was a clean can of gravy.

Three for three! Hot dog! I was on a roll. Yet each and every one of these situations could be fully rationalized in a different manner. I decided to keep on experimenting. So far I’d chosen living scenarios—meaning I picked situations that were presented to me as I lived my daily life. I wanted to understand how quantum mechanics can work naturally in one’s day-to-day affairs. Again, I waited for another interesting situation to come along, and again applied what I was learning. This time it was the successful completion of a test that a friend was taking. Up to this point, my friend had failed his test three times in a row. Yes, he’d studied. Yes, he’d put in the required amount of hours. What was the problem? Many people freeze during tests, allowing the anxiety to overcome their thinking process and I believe that this was what continued to happen here. Finally, out of the blue, he announced he was going to go take this test—again! This time, instead of saying “good luck,” I said, “You remember our discussions on quantum physics? This time, let’s agree that you will pass this test without any difficulties today. Do we agree?” The answer was a strong affirmative. A few hours later, I received an excited phone call: my friend had passed the test, getting every single answer right.

Now, let’s review what I was doing before we move on so that you can replicate my experiments in your own way.

I chose natural life circumstances to begin.
I chose small situations and issues to create positive feedback for myself.
I know that energy moves in waves, and that it is both particles and waves. I used that knowledge to imagine my visualizations shimmering into form like a heat wave.
I know that there is this massive amount of energy that anyone can use (in the occult they call it “the void”), and in the confidence of knowing this I told myself I’d be using this energy to create what I wanted; understanding that the birth of manifestation comes from coalescing energy at the “still point” (zero point, the moment) and compacting this energy into my visualization of solid form. I knew that it could be done, I just didn’t know how we do it naturally.
I always began with deep breathing. At least three breaths, more if I was upset, nervous, or anxious.
With missing items, I began with the statement “It’s not there.” I started with emptiness because that is what I was experiencing. The items did not appear to be there when I wanted them, so I was affirming what my mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual selves had agreed upon. They had agreed that the item wasn’t there. Now, we were going to change that to agree that the item was there. So, we started with what we knew—absence—and then created fullness with products and items and situations that my emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual history was familiar with.
I agree that reality isn’t what I thought it was. I know I don’t have all the answers, but I also know I’m darned determined to keep looking for them.
I began by setting “the field” of manifestation by touching my finger on the ground and rolling (in my mind) the field of manifestation out and around me in a large circle, thinking of this field as a vibrating mist. This, then, is like the magickal circle occult students have been taught for years.
I stayed in the moment.

Trying to explain how humans naturally do this feat of manifestation on a daily basis is very difficult. We’ve been trying to explain it to each other for centuries. Do you remember the television series Bewitched? The main rule for Samantha’s character was that she could not invent something new. She had to take it from somewhere, she couldn’t just coalesce energy (like we can) and flatten it into form. Instead, Samantha’s main gift was actually the ability to teleport known objects and people. I remember an episode about a designer car that someone wanted. She produced the car, but since it was the only one on the planet, her magick had removed it from the show room and brought it into form someplace else. Of course, as there was only the one car, she was in for a stint for grand theft auto. Unlike Samantha’s designer car, we can create anything, but it appears that we can create only what we know—at first. This isn’t as stupid as it sounds; it took Edison over 2,000 tries to get the filament right in the light bulb. He started with what he knew, and he kept working to learn more. Eventually his experimentation proved successful because he now knew what he’d first envisioned—a light that works. That’s the gift of being human: our ability to take thought and make it into form; our expertise in using creative energy. Edison didn’t just create with his hands, he created with his mind, and anyone who has ever drawn, painted, built, etc., knows that you invest your entire self (mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual) when you work on creating a project of any magnitude.

In my first experiments, I worked with items I knew. I’d held over twenty of those wands, so I knew the weight, the feel, and had even worked with one of them in ritual. I knew what the gravy can looked like (I’ve been making turkeys for, let’s see . . . at least twenty-four years), and I’ve been renting DVDs for a long time, opening and shutting the cases, etc. I know what it is like to successfully pass a test—that great rush-y feeling that you have succeeded. The other similarities in these experiments? They all revolved around something I (or someone else) needed.

Over the next several months I took my experiments further. Every year for fifteen years my Black Forest Clan met for their annual Clan Camping Event. At the last event I gave an impromptu lecture on my experiments in the world of quantum physics and magick. I gave them the agreements theory. As a group we brought errant food into form and dispelled a gathering thunderstorm or two. For the rest of the weekend I heard people all over the camp site “agreeing” for a variety of items: lost car keys, a missing hair brush, and someone’s notes that had gone missing. All were successful.

I also discussed my experiments with my father over the successive months. He is in his late seventies, and like many older people he would often find himself forgetful—or so he thought. “What if,” I said to him one day, “you are not really being forgetful at all? What if you have so many things on your mind that you simply aren’t bothering to manifest the item you are now looking for?” He thought about this for a moment and smiled. “Out of sight, out of mind,” he muttered, and then he brightened. “So they are temporarily out of my universe!”

“You got it!” I said.

“It’s not there because I’m getting older, and there’s no reason, really, to hold it there.”

“There’s a thought,” I said.

“I like that concept!” he exclaimed.

Before you go on to the next section, why not be a bit adventurous? Start employing the agreement technique on little things. Begin by going outside and looking at the world, saying to yourself, “Wow! What I thought was real all these years isn’t! I wonder just what it is?” Then endeavor to experiment with what it might be!

I’m not asking that you believe what I’ve just written. No, indeed! These are my perceptions. The purpose of bringing this information to you is that you try it for yourself!

Don’t believe in me.

Believe in you!

Enter the Wild Cards—Those Pesky
(Or Not) Observers

The study of quantum physics tells us that the wild card in any scientific scenario is called “the observer.” The observer affects the outcome of the experiment, supposedly, just by being there. This is why quantifying experiments is so darned difficult and why I can’t stand up on a stage and make a wand appear out of thin air. Changing the observers themselves, changing the number of observers, etc., changes the experiment and therefore will change the overall outcome of the experiment. Frustrating. Physicists are still playing with this one.

In the examples given so far, the number of observers was limited (except at Clan Camping, but by then I had done enough experiments to ensure we were all on the “same magickal page”). For the wand and the gravy can—it was just me. With the DVD and the test, it was one or two other people who had already been prepped on the nature of quantum physics. Now, let’s move on to an experiment where at least one of the players wasn’t in the loop of the nature of the new physics and see what occurred.

Sally had listened intently as I told her about what I was trying to accomplish with quantum thought and she wanted to run her own test. By now I’d managed to manifest a missing broom, a new treasure chest of mahogany, and an Aladdin’s lamp. (Not the real one, a replica—minus the djinn. He must have fallen out in transit.) Seriously, these things didn’t suddenly appear out of thin air as I watched. The chest and the lamp came via U.S. Postal system (meaning they came into my life as I understood their possibility for travel) after I had considered their existence for several weeks. What was so odd about the chest and the lamp was that I didn’t “wish” for them; in reality, I was contemplating writing an article for my website on how our world is like a treasure chest of energies lit by a magick lamp (the energy of Spirit). Imagine my surprise when the chest and the lamp appeared at my doorstep! And, in case you are wondering, no, I didn’t talk to anyone about the article idea.

Back to Sally. We decided that she would pick something important in her life, a pressing need, but she would not tell me what it was. Sally is also a magickal person, working with many flavors of magico-religions over the past twenty years. Here’s what happened!

The problem: A few years back Sally and her husband, George, went through some pretty rough financial times. Although they managed to dig themselves out, there were still a few loose ends. One of these loose threads entailed penalties for state taxes not paid. Sally had paid the taxes, but she didn’t have enough to pay the exorbitant penalties. Just like anyone else in this hectic world, Sally’s life was a busy one with a job, children, a husband, relatives, etc., that all vie for her attention. She knew she owed the penalties, but she’d been so tied up with other things that she forgot about them. Along came a letter that said the state wanted to garnish her husband’s wages for the penalties. Her husband flew into a panic (naturally). Sally raised an eyebrow. She did not relay this information to me at the outset. She simply said that she was going to run her own experiment and let me know the result along with the details. We chose this method so that I, now an additional observer, could not tinker in any way with what she planned to do.

Later, she sat and thought about all the ways she could handle this problem, but, right away she had a wild card: George. He was in a tizzy and insisted that he was going to take care of this problem, himself, once and for all. This immediately took a few options away from Sally. Okay, she thought, I’ll let him come up with a solution because he needs to feel he’s handled the problem, and I’ll wait to hear what it is, and then I’ll give it a little quantum boost.

Two days later her husband announced that he was going to a particular bank for a personal loan to take care of the penalties. They’d worked their credit back into some semblance of good standing, so it was worth a shot. Sally had a bad feeling about this, given their past jousts with banks, but this was what he wanted to do, so she said, “Okay, when are you going for the loan?”

Because Sally felt a little foolish about mentioning it, she didn’t say a word to George about the “agreement” part of quantum thought that she and I had discussed. Later she said that he would probably have listened and even done it after a long, exhausting emotional discussion (which was his habit when handling problems). “Quite frankly,” she said, “I just wasn’t emotionally up to another charged conversation while he worked his thoughts out on my feelings.”

As her husband was already so upset over the matter, she decided that she’d just keep her mouth shut and try this her own way. You see, Sally’s husband is one of those people who will state out loud how something can’t be done repeatedly before he stops and thinks it through—it’s a bad habit that’s been driving her nuts for years and they’ve had many arguments over it. To Sally, he’d already done enough damage to the situation with the vocal negative repetition over the issue. Silence, she determined, was the best course of action.

The day of the loan appointment came. While George drove down to the bank and met with the loan officer, Sally sat at her dining room table with the penalty statement from the state in her hands. Her visualization was counting the penalty value down from $3,000 (a little over the stated amount) to zero. The only things she visualized were the numbers 3,000 and zero. She went through the four agreements: “I emotionally agree. I physically agree. I mentally agree. I spiritually agree.” If she got stuck on one (which she did) she repeated it firmly aloud. The one you get stuck on, we’ve come to find out, is where the negativity lies. In Sally’s case it was the emotional agreement. When she was satisfied, she put the paper aside and found something else to do that didn’t include thinking about the loan.

An hour later her husband came back. “We’ll know in a few minutes,” he said. “The loan officer is going to call me.”

Once more Sally agreed in her mind that they would be offered the $3,000 they needed from the bank to pay off the debt. Just as she made her mental affirmations, the phone rang. George handled the conversation. Sally could tell by his statements that they had not gotten the loan. He hung up disappointed and left the house. Sally sat at the dining room table feeling a total loss. What went wrong? Maybe this quantum thought thing didn’t work after all, or maybe George was just too much of a wild card with his feelings that he destroyed the energy form she was trying to manifest. She shook her head in dismay. Still determined, however, she said out loud, “I want to know why it didn’t work!”

Over the next three days, Sally tried other quantum thought experiments that worked quite well. She was still stumped by what had happened with that loan. In this scenario, there were three relevant people: Sally, George, and the loan officer. Maybe it was the loan officer? Maybe that person was the wild card observer? But, that just didn’t feel quite right. Maybe it didn’t work because both Sally and George felt that the penalties were unfair in the first place, and they didn’t really want to pay them. If this is how it is, thought Sally, with all these blasted wild cards, then quantum mechanics isn’t much help even if you know it can work!

On Friday night of that same week, George took Sally out for dinner to a restaurant that was a good forty minutes away from their home. It was a beautiful evening and Sally watched with appreciation as the sun sank toward the horizon in a fabulous display of beautiful colors. She thought about what she’d recently been studying about the nature of light and how the hues are scientifically created by the lengths of oscillating waves. Her mind was far from the derailed loan as she reveled in the sunset.

“I didn’t tell you everything about that loan,” said George, breaking the pleasant silence.

Sally could feel a frown collapsing the skin on her forehead as her eyes slid nastily to George. Her shoulders tensed liked she’d been hit by a bucket of ice water. And, like any spouse married for a long time, Sally said, “What do you mean you didn’t tell me everything?”

George shifted uncomfortably behind the steering wheel. “I asked for $15,000.”

Sally exhaled a short puff of air as everything collapsed into form like an extended slinky snapping together in her brain. “Why would you do that? We didn’t need $15,000,” she said softly.

George explained his thought process with a litany of what they could do with that money, ending with, “Well, they did offer me three grand, but I refused to take it.”

Sally could not help herself. She burst out laughing and buried her forehead in her hands for a moment, then said, “You know, George, next time you do something like that, would you mind telling me exactly what you’re doing?”

“I don’t see what’s so funny,” said George, rather miffed at the idea that he should report his every decision to his wife. Sally, wisely, changed the conversation until she could think this new development through. At dinner, in the middle of a conversation about something else, George paused and pointedly looked at Sally over his coffee cup, then said, “What did you mean earlier when you said I should have told you exactly what I was doing with that loan?” George has been married to a magickal wife for over twenty years—it just takes a while for the light bulb to go on sometimes. You know, a little like good old Edison and his filaments.

In this scenario, the loan officer was not the wild card observer. Sally did achieve success with her quantum thought. The bank did indeed offer George the amount of money that Sally concentrated on. The problem here was George—his miscommunication to Sally, his ultimate decision, and Sally’s fear of telling George what she was trying to do. First, George changed the dollar amount so the two were not working together on this point. Secondly, he stubbornly refused the $3,000 loan because he didn’t get his own way. For George, his denial was an emotional one that was not thought out—just a knee-jerk reaction as a result of not receiving what he wanted. His emotional tantrum shot her manifestation right in the proverbial foot. Sally, on the other hand, constrained her options, also by emotional choice. She didn’t want to go through hours of explaining to George exactly what she was about to do, and then she didn’t account for George changing the game plan. This wasn’t in her mental equation on the issue; therefore, she hadn’t considered adding the words “or better” to her quantum thought. Had she either told George what she’d planned or at least added the words “or better,” perhaps they would have received the loan. Then again, maybe not.

It makes you wonder, doesn’t it, just how many times circumstances are manipulated in negative ways due to our choices (George narrowed the field of possibilities by choosing to go for a loan, and Sally chose to let him do it, and she chose not to tell George what she was doing in the realm of quantum thought), our lack of control over our emotions, or to our personal fears of facing emotional energy? And, if that is so, is there a fail-safe way of affecting events once they are in motion? Or is the universe just a chaotic bunch of silly humans running around and mucking things up with their emotional drama with no hope for a positive future?

Sally Gets Her Money

A week has gone by and even though Sally has celebrated success, she also encountered failure. She learned that quantum thought is all well and good, but there are ways in which it can be used better. She also learned that what can make simple situations very difficult at a speed faster than light is the power of the emotion that’s fed into the issue and the human reactions that ensue. Now, we could have told Sally all this in the beginning; however, she needed to learn these things for herself. Quantum thought is a tool, and just like any tool, it will work differently in the hands of the artist. You can use a brush to paint the town red, or you can use it as a headdress.

Sally still has a number of choices on how to handle this debt even though, on the surface, the reality of the situation appears limited. Here are some logical, surface choices of a moralistic couple (we’re not going to go into the shady ones because Sally and George may feel desperate, but they are not stupid):

They could pay off the debt in installments by calling the state and asking how to do this. They could ignore the debt and pay the consequences. Sally could go to a bank or credit company for her own personal loan. They could ask their parents, a relative, or a good friend to lend them the money. She or George could find a part-time job to pay off the debt. Unfortunately, all these choices still make Sally and George cough up the money from their current budget, which just covers their expenses and allows them at least one night out at a restaurant a week for a little relaxation. Sally doesn’t want the additional burden—she’s sick of that. There has got to be another way!

So first, Sally says to herself, “I agree that there is another way to pay off this debt.” Then she said to George, “Do you agree that we will find a positive solution to pay off this debt?” George hemmed and hawed, spitting a few emotional nuggets here and there, but Sally stood strong and George finally relented. “Yes, I agree, but I don’t see how that’s going to help us one little bit!”

“You don’t have to see it,” snapped Sally. “Just agree!”

“Fine! I agree.”

Sally smiled.

Now, this is what she said, but are you seeing other parameters here? Is your mind now working for a possible solution for Sally and George? Maybe you came up with a different one. Maybe Sally could say, “I agree these penalties are unfair. I agree that I don’t have to pay this! I agree that I will find another way that doesn’t include paying this stupid bill. I agree that they made a mistake!” Indeed, Sally could have done that—but, this is a true scenario, so we’re confined in this example to what Sally actually did. However, if you started flipping possible scenarios in your brain you are absolutely on the right track! There are, the sages say, 101 ways to make hamburger.

If Sally was into the multiverse quantum study, she could acknowledge that there are infinite possibilities all unfolding concurrently. Which one she brings into form is her choice—and she could choose one that doesn’t include any observers to muck up the scenario. Sound too much like science fiction? A group at Oxford University doesn’t think so. If you’ve got the time, pick up Schrodinger’s Rabbits: The Many Worlds of Quantum by Colin Bruce and you’ll discover a very different view of the new physics. And, just so ya know, many hard-core physicists hate Schrodinger’s cats, his rabbits, and anything else on that issue because telling people they can click stuff on and off does not go over well with the penny-pinching bean counters of funding—the possibility of proving that everyone can do what they wish in an environment they design does not fit into their expectations of controlling the world banking system to their benefit.

When you realize you truly do have a choice that isn’t necessarily logical given the current parameters of the situation, but possible—the world will change for you. You betcha!

It did for Sally.

It is postulated that nothing can “happen” to us unless we accept it—that our lives are truly based on our personal agreements within ourselves. What makes this difficult to believe is that we are certain that many of the unfortunate events we’ve experienced in the past were beyond our personal control. We’ve set ourselves into a false “knowing,” a reality that accepts problems. Yet, if we sat back and thought about the mental chatter going on in our heads right before the event (sickness, accident, marital discord, success, gaining a raise, or moving to the next level of spirituality), we might be shocked to realize that we truly did set ourselves up for that particular scenario, by agreeing physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually on that reality. We reached into the multiverse and chose which scenario best fit our worries. We feared that if we did not “accept” the current societal view of reality we would be killed, incarcerated, thought the fool, or ostracized—the list goes on.

In Sally’s situation, she and George set themselves up for this debt problem by not paying the state taxes on time. Hindsight is 20/20, and, to not repeat the problem, Sally could endeavor not to bring this debt option to herself again. However, none of this particularly helps Sally now as she stands there holding the bag of responsibility. The idea is to handle the “now,” not moan about the past.

Sally sat quietly in her dining room, took a deep breath, and thought about the “field of perfection.” (To magickal people this is akin to casting a magickal circle of white light.) She relaxed and let her mind drift into calmness. Then she said aloud, “I agree that there is a positive solution to this $3,000 debt that does not affect my current budget. And, I choose the most positive solution possible. Even George agrees!” During the day, whenever she worried about the debt, she would repeat the four agreements—that she mentally agreed, that she physically agreed, that she emotionally agreed, and that she spiritually agreed.

Once Sally agreed within herself that she would accept a new solution that would not affect her current budget, and that the solution would be positive in nature, a very strange thing happened. The next day she received a check in the mail for the precise amount that she owed the state. Flabbergasted, she quickly signed and deposited the check. That night, George came barreling through the door in a panic. Did Sally know that there was a hold on their bank account? What were they going to do? Sally shook her head and smiled, explaining to George that she had deposited that wonderful check, and that she was waiting for it to clear.

And, much like the fictional Samantha and Darren, George slid his eyes from left to right, saying, “Did you . . . ?” and then he wiggled his fingers in the air.

“Of course!” said Sally. “And you helped me do it!”

Not only is this story perfect for explaining the four agreements to success, it also shows you that the wild card observer can be handled with a little finesse.

No Room at the Inn—Wild Card Strikes Again!
(Or . . . Does It?)

It’s Mother’s Day and George and Sally are once again going out for dinner. They’ve chosen a restaurant that is in another state, planning to meet some of their grown children there. This restaurant is not normally busy, and even on holidays they have always gotten in with a minimal wait time. They picked this particular establishment because it was halfway between where everyone lives. Sadly, Millie, one of their children, cannot attend because of a previous commitment. George is highly miffed at this, but Sally says, “George, these things happen, you know, when there are a plethora of mothers and grandmothers in the extended family unit. She’s just trying to find a happy medium in her new life. She’s going to the Hunter’s Inn in an attempt to fit in. Forget it.”

Now, everyone in George and Sally’s family knew that Millie was going to Hunter’s Inn, but it wasn’t a restaurant the family frequented, so they didn’t know the precise location—all except George, that is.

Yes, it’s George again.

When Sally and George hit the halfway mark on the highway between their home and the intended destination, Sally’s cell phone burrs to life. One of the children has already arrived at the restaurant only to discover that the place is packed. She’s in a panic as she rapidly relays the circumstances over the phone. “No big deal,” says Sally, “just put your name on the list. We’ll be there shortly.” Everyone in the car (there are four people) hears Sally’s conversation with her daughter and now knows (repeat the word “knows”) there may be a problem in the seating.

Sally decides she will experiment with quantum thought as she stares out the window watching the farm land fly by. She whispers the four agreements based on the idea that there are plenty of tables for the family in which they could be seated quickly. The phone vibrates again. And again, it is the daughter, now in a complete emotional surge because she’s having trouble getting her name on the list. Someone has stepped in front of her while she originally called, and they took the last available table. Sally reiterates not to panic. Again, everyone in the vehicle has heard Sally’s side of the conversation. They now “know” there is a problem. They are all visualizing the full restaurant with no tables—only Sally is thinking of empty tables. They can’t help it because that’s what they’ve heard. Sally’s phone rings again. This time it is her son in a different vehicle and she tells him there is a possible seating problem. As they motor along Sally thinks about the number of possible observers in this situation, and realizes that she has stupidly opened the field to at least four people (her son in another car, and the three listening in on the conversation in her own vehicle), one of whom is the dynamic George—George who loves food, hates to wait, and isn’t happy that Millie isn’t going to be there.

And, Sally thinks to herself, “Oh. Shit.”

Sally realizes that she now has two emotionally charged observers—the daughter who is being ignored at their destination and . . .

George.

Not to mention the other passengers.

Sally continues to try her quantum thinking through the rest of the ride, but she emotionally feels that she’s fighting a losing battle. Upon arrival at the restaurant the now angry daughter is relaying how the hostess is ignoring her and that if they want a table, they will have to wait three hours or more. With a sinking heart, Sally says, “Let me see what I can do,” and marches up to the door. The field has widened because now there is a hostess in there who doesn’t want to cough up a table, most likely because of the altercation with the daughter.

Right outside the door sits an old woman, who says, “If you don’t have a reservation, they won’t let you in.” The lady isn’t being mean, she’s just stating a fact as she knows it and Sally realizes that this stupid field is getting wider by the moment. Something gold drops to the ground and rolls to Sally’s booted feet. Sally picks it up. It is a pill case with “Millie” inscribed on the back. Sally stares at the golden container with a bit of surprise, then turns to the old woman and says, “Does this belong to you?” “Oh yes!” is the answer. “How did that get there?” the lady goes on to twitter as she pockets the case. She thanks Sally, who accepts the kind words with a smile, then with determination walks into the darkened restaurant. Sally patiently waits for the hostess, who tells her there is no room for her family. Sally replies, “But there are plenty of empty tables!” to which she is told they are “reserved.” Sally says, “But you never took reservations before. Please, we just drove in from another state. We’ve visited your establishment often in the past; perhaps you could make an exception.” The hostess is cold and unyielding. Wait three hours or go home. Your choice, babe.

Outside the family reconnoiters. Sally is thinking that if she had enough leverage, she could still probably make this go her own way, but George is stomping around the parking lot, loudly stating that he will never come here again! (And he won’t, either.) Sally is also mentally kicking herself. Once again, to a degree, her quantum thought worked. There were definitely several empty tables in there at which her family could be seated.

With George in such a tizzy, Sally says that it is obvious they cannot stay here. Waiting three hours for a table is unacceptable. Several possibilities as to where they could go are thrown about; unfortunately all of them are miles away because the family is unfamiliar with the area, and every option mentioned is historically packed on a holiday. “We need a place,” said Sally, “that has plenty of room for us today. A place where we won’t have to wait. A place where the food is good. A place that isn’t hours away. Does everyone agree with this?” Everyone agreed with those statements.

The field now compacts to the family members who are in a calmer state (George has already headed for the car the moment the agreement was struck) and who are now all in agreement that a place needs to be found that has plenty of room for them today, where the food is good, and that is somewhere between the current restaurant and where George and Sally live—the hostess is no longer a player. There are also unspoken agreements in any family unit because you all know each other—what you like to eat, what type of place you normally choose, etc. Everyone gets back in their cars, and heads for Sally and George’s home, knowing they will stop somewhere along the way, but not knowing necessarily where they will end up. Sally is concerned about how far they will drive because she knows that some of their party has been awake since four in the morning, and by now they are tired and hungry.

Halfway back Sally is thinking about the gold case with “Millie” inscribed on it. Wasn’t that just the oddest thing? She does not, however, say anything to George about it. Suddenly, George slows down and takes a back road. “Where are you going?” asks Sally.

“This is a shortcut,” said George. Over hill and dale they drove with the caravan of family members chugging along behind. After about eight miles, Sally said, “Hey! We’re right outside of Mt. Charles. Isn’t that where Millie was going?” And just as she said it, the restaurant that Millie had mentioned was on the horizon—and better yet—the parking lot was virtually empty. “Let’s stop here!” said Sally.

“I don’t know,” said George. “It’s probably full like everything else, but if you want to stop, no problem.” George, if you haven’t gathered by now, is the proverbial pessimist.

Sally hopped out of the car and went in to ask if there was room. There was plenty, and they were immediately seated.

And no, Millie wasn’t there. Her party had visited the restaurant hours before and had already left.

What is the point of this story? First, it is a real-life situation, one that we all find ourselves in from time to time. On one level it demonstrates how a situation is affected by increasing the number of people you have on the “field” of any desire. The more people Sally either directly or indirectly told about the problem of seating at their intended destination, the more their success at eating there narrowed because everyone was focused on the problem and its level of emotion—not the solution. Yet, even as Sally was moving toward defeat, the universe provided a “clue” for her to follow. Simply follow Millie! What if we look at this story on a deeper level? A family is a group mind, especially if it is a loving one. Everyone was subconsciously thinking about how Millie would not be present, and each person in their own way had emotional feelings attached to the absence of Millie and where she was. Is it so strange, that once a verbal agreement on surface issues was met, that the family found itself consolidated at the place where it knew the missing member had been? Finally, there is an old adage: You are always in the right place at the right time—work with it.

All Observers Are Not Major Players

You would think that if quantum dynamics are true, that every observer on the field is an equal player. After much experimentation, I don’t think that is correct. It’s not their mere presence that will change things, it is their vested interests attached to ego-driven needs of what they know (meaning how they use the sum total of their personal experience) that can kick the bucket and spill the wash water or, conversely, help you along, should they choose to act out their desires on your playing field. If you are flying under their radar on a particular issue that they couldn’t care less about, then they cease to be an active player on your field of desire. Hit the button where they become emotionally involved (for good or ill) by accident or design, then you’re stuck with a wild card. Silence, then, about your quantum thoughts is not only desirable for your success, but inherently necessary unless you can get the observers to agree on the same goal-oriented outcome. If we consider the multiverse scenario, then, perhaps, we should direct our choices to involve the fewest observers possible in a positive way both physically and astrally.

Perhaps any business meeting should be less about “success” and more about agreement. There’d probably be a lot less meetings with double the normal goal attainment!

The Field of Success—
Is There a Way to Load the Dice?

Where do people go to seek enlightenment? Normally we gravitate toward a place that is free of emotional activity, whether it is a mountain top, a retreat in the desert, a trip to the sea, or even the silence of our own backyard on a summer afternoon. What’s there? Hopefully not a circus (actually that happened to me once as a kid—I woke up one morning to find a real elephant in my backyard stomping through my dad’s tomatoes—no lie). Inherently, when seeking enlightenment we look for . . . silence . . . a representation of the “zero point” as best we can create it in this physical world without those cumbersome elephantine emotions. When attempting to obtain personal enlightenment we hunt for places that are uninhabited by life-forms with negative agendas. From this pure field creativity is born, solutions are obtained, and peace fills the body. Indeed, the perfect field for quantum thought is the practice of meditation because no one is in your head but you. No major players. No minor irritations. Just you. This is a place where you can exercise the four agreements without George, the wicked hostess, or the emotional sleep-deprived daughter screaming on the cell phone that there’s no room at the inn.

By experimenting with the quantum field in meditation, can we load those winning dice to roll the way we want them to?

Only you can decide.

Getting Things Unstuck

Okay, so we’ve all been there—where something is stuck in something else, and it just won’t budge. You’ve tried everything—now try this:

Create a MindLight circle of white light around the stuck object.

In your mind, while looking at the object, see it move the way you want it to. Apply the pressure as you would normally to remove one item from another.

Now, here’s what happens the first time. You see it move or feel it move a teeny tiny bit. So you stop. You look at it again and it doesn’t seem to have moved, so you think, this is my imagination. This doesn’t work. This is stupid. (You won’t after you try this technique the next time—but, for the first time, this is probably what is running through your brain.)

Stop.

It did move. But your mind allowed the previous state to snap back because you didn’t believe you could do it.

Try again. It helps to say, “I know it moved.” Create the circle again (because you just busted it with your disbelief). If you keep trying and visualizing at the same time, it will definitely move.

If, of course, you believe.

I have managed to get an enormous amount of things unstuck this way—from a determined candle stuck in a mold to a piece of furniture wedged in a doorway. You try!

Unlocking Doors

This is a fun one. You’ve locked the door, you are messing with the mechanism, and you just can’t seem to get it open. Try your MindLight. Since you may not understand the concept of the lock, your visualization will be auditory, hearing the lock click open in your head.

Create a white light around the lock. In your mind, see the tool or key turning and releasing the lock mechanism. Add the sound.

Here’s what commonly happens. Someone there with you is grumbling and adding negativity, so you must ignore them. You KNOW you can do this. And you will. Keep that in your mind. Don’t stop concentrating until the job is done.

Searching Through Tons of Stuff
for Something You Want

You have fifty bottles in the cabinet and you want one particular bottle. Create your MindLight. Visualize the bottle label. Hold out your hands, palms facing the cabinet. Spiral the energy in your hands as you think they are a homing device. Reach in the cabinet and randomly pull out a bottle. The more you practice this one, the better you get.

Hey, if you practice, you’ll save valuable time.

Click On, Click Off

At night I’d like you to go into a dark room in your house or apartment and stand by the light switch. Do not turn on the light yet. Stand and quietly study the dark. Our universe began in a darkness called the great void. The velvet blackness contains all possibilities—a field of “what might be.” It is up to you to switch on the light and flood your life with accomplishment. When you agree within yourself that you are ready to go forward, to fulfill your desires with dynamic, powerful energy . . .

Flick on the light.

[1] Gerry Wolke, “Tachyon Healing and the Physics of Love” (www.naturalhealthconsult.com, 1995).