The Core:

(Excerpt from Chapter 2)

Think Inside a New Box

All of the awareness within our core and within this book is contained within a set of laws, whether we call them spiritual laws, universal laws, universal truths, or simply the awareness within them. Since consciousness has evolved into a new need of integration, as I explained in the previous chapter, spiritual laws are no longer just about our spiritual nature. Now spiritual laws could more accurately be called spiritual-material laws. They finally incorporate both sides of us, each as a conduit for the other.

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In this day and age, we have considered a spiritual person to be someone who recites an inspirational quote over ambient music on a voice mail. We have thought that to be spiritual means to be “new age.” We have thought that to be “new age” means to be somewhat “in the clouds” instead of grounded in the real world. We have thought that it means to denounce the material world more instead of dive into it more. On the contrary, a spiritual person is a champion of the material world. I have always taught that if a spiritual person is not self-expressed in the material world, then they are not really spiritual. What counts is not just how much awareness we have but how much we apply it to the real world (including money, relationships, and health).

On the opposite side of the spectrum, we have considered a spiritual person to be religious. In this case, we are reminded of age-old requirements of killing a calf to abstaining from our sexuality. Either way, the concept of spirituality has often seemed physically and materially limiting in one way or another . . . until now. With the dawn of a new need, new ability, and new consciousness, spiritual laws are more down to earth than ever. Meaning, they incorporate our physical side and our material world now more than ever. They actually operate differently than ever before.

First let’s take a look at what happens when we do not apply spiritual laws to our daily life. When we do not apply the spiritual laws, we are left with the physical laws of our animal nature, called survival of the fittest or even dog-eat-dog. Then we are without the magic of our higher, brighter, mightier creative forces. Then we fall into victimization, judgment, blame, fault, gossip, comparison, over thinking, fear, resistance, being right, and so forth (as opposed to ownership, utilization, presence, not fearing the fear, softness, acceptance, and so forth.) This easily leads to a downward spiral instead of an upward spiral in any one of three exchanges of energy—money, sexuality, and food. Then we have a black hole where we are never really full instead of being full and, in particular, full of light.

The physical laws exclude our spiritual side. However, the spiritual laws include our physical side. The spiritual laws naturally include our physical side now more than ever. They naturally include our animal instincts, body, ego, mind, and fear (as I will explain more below). This is why the spiritual laws are called the universal laws. They actually incorporate both sides of us, uplifting not just our inner state but also our outer one, including in money, relationships, health, and much more.

They uplift us from survival of the fittest to thriving of the most aware. They uplift us from dog-eat-dog to win-win. And we each receive the double win. We earn not just an upward spiral instead of a downward spiral but also a double upward spiral (inwardly and outwardly in the material world). Actually, they uplift us to a triple win (win-win-win), because the collective consciousness also gets upgraded when we apply them. In essence, the universal laws free us from the limits of our physical side (inner animal, body, ego, mind, and fear) without the long- awaited and unlimited creative forces of our spiritual side (inner angel, higher self, spirit, soul, and heart).

Now let’s take a look at how the universal laws include both sides of us, using the ego as an example….

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(Excerpt from Chapter 8)

Metabolize Not Visualize

The real intention is not to achieve a certain goal, or even to fulfill our higher potential. It is not even to create more freedom, light, and joy near the same old patterns that seem to prevent it. The real intention is our core. The real intention is to expand our spirit through our material world and to expand our material world through our spirit. The real intention is awakening the sleepy awareness within our core, rather than thinking just with the ego or mind, for more wholeness. The real intention is awareness, and awareness is the intention. Once this is taken care of, all else can fall into place.

Part of this awareness, or intention, is actually to not visualize the result but instead just utilize what’s in the way, as the way. I have never been a proponent of visualization. Visualization is to push out into the universe or pull in from the universe what we are not yet allowing from within our core. If we are not yet allowing it from within our core, then we are not yet ready for it. If we force something into our reality before we are ready within our core, it can backfire. Here is an example.

Let’s say you are creating four units of happiness in a situation, but you want a value of six units of happiness. You visualize exactly what you think will increase your units of joy. When you receive the value of six units, you cannot utilize the extra two units, because your system did not create it or allow it from within your screen. The extra two become a source of anxiety rather than relief. Now you cannot even enjoy the initial four, because you waste all your energy trying to keep the extra two you have pushed or pulled into existence.

For example, I knew of someone who wanted $36,000. He sent that concept out into the universe through some visualization technique. He received the money, but after a bad car accident, from the insurance. While visualization can change our immediate reality, it does not change the underlying pictures that determined the reality in the first place. Then we have to keep recreating the same pictures until we change them from within our core, through awareness. Since it is like a trick, it does not ultimately take our being forward, and we are the one who just gets tricked.

Our potential is already there. What we want is already there. (We never really want anything that is not in our potential.) When we find ourselves deeply wanting something, then we are more ready to create it. As I said above, if we have not allowed it, then we are not yet ready for it. We never allow something we are not yet ready for. Since our potential is already there, we do not have to think about it, plan it, or even intend it. We just have to follow the right directions. Those directions are the universal laws and awareness within them. The main direction is to and through our core (from our lips down to our hips, along but in front of our spine).

Instead of visualizing the result, utilize what’s in the way, as the way. Remember that light does not come directly but indirectly through transformation. As I have said in other chapters, food is not the only form of metabolism. Other material domains, such as money and sexuality, also help us to transform one form of energy into another. Each and every situation in and of itself provides a form of metabolism. It can metabolize from a void into an upward spiral, or it can metabolize from…