The Top Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell You (22 page)

Case Study #1

So take the gloriously positive person whose financial energetic vibration roughly corresponds to having $30,000 net worth, and for convenience’s sake, let’s say that this, therefore, is the cash he usually has in his savings account. This is a very simplistic example for illustrative purposes. In actuality, our vibes aren’t ever so exacting; they fluctuate constantly, though usually minutely, reflecting changes in our worldview, our priorities, our beliefs, and our reaction to the economy, trends, and a kaleidoscope of other shifting criteria. And keep in mind that our financial vibe is probably never really a number we think of but the convergence of all of our thoughts that directly and indirectly lead to our financial net worth—numerical, material, spiritual, worthiness, and so on.

With a vibe pegged at $30,000,
whatever else his thoughts permit in his life, financially speaking he will eventually arrive at, and always return to, a savings account of $30,000. This is accomplished the way all manifestations come to pass, through a seamless, often imperceptible shifting of circumstances that keep his balance at $30,000.

Now if this same person also believes he is vulnerable to circumstances, life is hard, and it’s tough to get ahead, he may thereby unwittingly manifest a leaky roof on his home that costs $12,000 to repair. Over time, in alignment with his other beliefs about the speed of accumulating wealth and its opportunity to find him, if his vibe remains at $30,000, the $12,000 will return to him. Perhaps as a gift from someone, an income tax refund, work bonuses, commission checks, a scratch-off lottery win, or most commonly, through a combination of several lesser amounts arriving in a variety of ways. To him, the repair bill and the subsequent gradual replenishment will seem completely unrelated yet his thoughts, his vibe, will have directly led to both.

It works the same in reverse. If there’s an unexpected windfall of money—for example, an additional $25,000 made possible by other
fleeting
beliefs and actions, maybe an inheritance check—yet his overall vibe remains at $30,000, the windfall will eventually be eroded through a series of expenditures, his generosity, repairs, bad habits, so-called mistakes, or whatever else fits within his worldview, leaving him back at $30,000.

Nothing bad, and nothing good, has happened. Just thoughts becoming things under the guise of shifting circumstances brought about by his energetic vibe.

The Math (Beliefs) Behind Every Manifestation

This extremely simplistic monetary example helps you quantitatively understand the processes involved in creating change, yet the process of
vibe + action = life experiences
pervades and rules every experience of every single life within the jungles.

Health, enlightenment, confidence, motivation, creativity, energy levels, weight loss/gain, friendships, partners, peace, pain, business, play, even photo-geniality! Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything,
everything.
While you have natural-born default levels of love, joy, health, and all things good, you can actually override them with beliefs that may be in contradiction. Your beliefs spin off
thoughts
in their likeness, and then as you live your life (that is, take action) those thoughts whirl around, becoming the things of your experience. Your energetic vibration is powerful
because
it inspires your thoughts that then become things:

Confluence of beliefs → Energetic vibe →
Thoughts and expectations
→ Action → Coincidences, accidents, serendipities → Reaction →
Manifestation matching earlier thoughts and expectations
→ (
REPEAT
as evolving beliefs stream and blend to create a corresponding worldview with reinforced beliefs)

Or, simpler:

Beliefs → Vibe → Thoughts → Action → Circumstances → Things

Or, vastly simplified:

Thoughts Become Things

R
HYMES AND
R
EASONS

Such is the nature of beliefs: as they inspire or shut down the wondering imagination (the thoughts) of their believer, so do they allow or prevent new worlds’ being born.

It’s completely irrelevant
why
you believe what you believe, however logical or illogical it may be, prudent or reckless, conservative or aggressive, self-serving or altruistic; that you do believe is sufficient for manifestation. Of course, as I mentioned earlier, there’s a very loose need that the beliefs be in sync with the prevailing mass beliefs of the time, but for your presence here and now, this pretty much means they’re already
your
beliefs, too (see
Chapter 3
, “We were ready”).

All that matters is that the belief is there (creating the vibe), that it’s not contradicted by other beliefs, known or unknown, and that the believer is showing up in the world (physically taking action), thereby available to an inconceivably vast network of potential coincidences, accidents, and serendipities. Plus, given your inclination to succeed and your default settings of joy, health, clarity, friends, abundance, and all other good things, you needn’t overly fret or worry that you’re fretting and worrying—that’s normal! Just do what you can with what you have from where you are, while understanding the truth about your reality and your divine heritage, and you’ll quickly become unstoppable. Not that there won’t continue to be challenges, but more and more they’ll be understood as gifts that ultimately reveal previously unrecognized shortcuts forward.

You needn’t overly fret or worry that you’re fretting and worrying—that’s normal!

It may seem at times that your efforts are futile, yet it takes time for the pendulum to swing. And it always swings. In the very unlikely event that circumstances prevent it from swinging back in one lifetime, as long as the energy remains, the results will appear in the next: the
phenomenon
of karma. For example, consider the good Samaritan who lives in a tidy little house with a manicured yard, polite and friendly, who often picks up other people’s accidental garbage as it blows across parking lots or litters his neighborhood. Whether or not he begins to experience and be drawn to like-minded do-gooders in that lifetime, his unchanging vibe
will
draw him toward such people, communities, and worlds in subsequent lifetimes.

Similarly, the military combatant who believes that people are brutal, violent, and evil; that she lives in a kill-or-be-killed world; and that violence can be justifiable when one’s ideals are superior to another’s will continue to be drawn to such people, communities, and worlds in her future incarnations until she changes her thinking. Her vibe will create circumstances that will pit her against (draw her to) people who think like she does, thoroughly and incontestably confirming her beliefs. Such cycles would repeat eternally
were it not for your inherent goodness,
likelihood of success, and default settings previously named, all of which are sufficient to right any listing ship, ultimately and naturally bringing everyone back into the fold of truth.

In the meantime, it may also seem as if others can add to or take from what you have and who you are, yet at the end of every “day,” what you have and who you are is entirely a function of
your
thoughts, beliefs, and expectations. This is the name of the game in time and space, where you draw from the ether whatever matches your own groovy (or goopy) vibe. It’s just that until now, when there have been unpleasant serendipities and coincidences—really just positioning you for future manifestation of what you’ve been “putting out there”—such events and those involved have been seen outside the context of the overall creation, so they’ve been termed “bad.”

Too easy? Baby cake examples? More’s coming.

Y
OU
H
APPEN TO
L
IFE

To create a physical world that corresponds to all the vibes you possess,
life happens.
What’s critical right now is your understanding that your vibes come first.

Actually, it’s more accurate to say that
you happen to life
and then life responds.
You
came first, remember? You are the reason for the jungles and you’re the reason the sun continues to rise each day. You are the Creator. Not the only Creator, but the epicenter of the energy that brings about your life’s manifestations. Life, incidentally, is not 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it! It’s 100 percent what you make it.

Sure, you’re just waking up, so there’ll be surprises along the way, surprises
you
unknowingly created. And in such cases, by all means roll with them. Realize that the hows and whys will all make sense soon enough. Don’t jump to conclusions when something surprises you, for better or worse, whether it’s a diagnosis or a business proposal. It
is
important that you “take it” well, but not with the view that you are powerless before it. Thinking so
makes you so.
You could not be more powerful than you already are. Yet if you think:

That life is happening to you,

That unfortunate, random things happen for no reason or purpose,

That anyone might end up a victim, and

That other people are the cause of your experiences,

then you may as well believe that your hallowed jungles are the random chance by-product of space dust that collided a trillion years ago, fortuitously landing in a warm body of water only to beat all odds and grow gills, fins, and intelligence sufficient to evolve into walking upon the earth, standing upright, and finally, wearing high heels!

Instead, if you embrace the truth:

You happen to life,