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“We, the greatest of all creators, with capabilities to build cities and inspire nations, are squandering our time watching reruns of The Office. We have forgotten that whole galaxies exist within our grasp”
Pam Grout
#1 New York Times Bestselling Author
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Pamela Sue Grout
The Taz Grout 222 Foundation was launched to honor Tasman McKay Grout who spent 25 short years on the planet inspiring everyone who knew her to live and love better. Everything she stood for was some variation of this theme: create relentlessly, love fiercely and do quiet, kind things for the underdog.
Each year on February 22, the 222 Foundation awards a $12,222 grant to an innovative project or person with a big idea to change consciousness and therefore change the world.
We look for projects that support the following ideas:
1. A change in perspective is our greatest need. We believe all people (no exceptions) long to be generous and create beautiful things.
2. Today’s hopelessness is based on false premises. We look to defy the old story of scarcity, lack and the need to fight for resources. We aim to prove that the universe, once liberated from no-longer-working paradigms of scarcity, is generative and endlessly abundant.
3. The us against them model is kaput. We believe all humans are interconnected and that even tiny actions have great significance
“With a small shift in awareness, the world starts to speak in a very different way.”—James Bridle
Where we direct our attention creates our world, both individually and collectively.
What I want to know is why do we permit the superpower of our attention to be sucked into a vortex of negativity…
…when it rains diamonds on the planet Saturn**
…when the call of a mother humpback whale can travel 600 miles through the ocean.
What I want to know is why do we direct our attention to old white guys wearing suits and spouting inanities….
…when there is a fairy trail outside Milburn, New Jersey with 100 tiny, whimsical cottages, lovingly created by a mother who wanted a safe place for her autistic son to explore the wilderness.
….when a Sumatran orangutun recently healed a wound on his right cheek by making an ointment out of an herb. He didn’t go to the doctor or buy an advertised pharmaceutical. He simply listened to the hum of aliveness that calls to us all.
What I want to know is why do we focus on news, social media and political ads specifically designed to distract, enrage and make us fear each other… ….
….when a flash mob danced to “Let it Go” at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.
…when clematis and iris and columbine are putting on the show of their life right now.
Rather than waste our attention on mediated content, let’s go outside and tune our superpower to Mother Nature and her teeming aliveness. It’s humming all around us.
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)
**More than 10 million tons every year.
“Truth gives its strength to everyone who asks in limitless supply.”—A Course in Miracles
See that epigraph at the top of this post? The one promising limitless supply?
It’s the exact opposite of what most of us believe. Words like unlimited and infinite aren’t really included in the script we pick up at birth.
Which is why I’ve been tuning into a higher signal every morning, communing with a frequency that keeps pointing out that I’m cherished and adored exactly how I am.
We’ve all heard concepts like this, that we are nourished by an inner light, that joy is our natural state (heck, I’ve been writing about these ideas for twenty years), but the thing about starting each morning with the Two-Way is that is has moved from being a pleasant theory to a very present and direct experience.
The Cosmic Concierge with whom I consult every morning urges me to accept nothing less, nothing below 100 percent, undiluted, whole enchilada love. I am not a little bit loved. Or a little bit innocent.
It tells me that until I entertain no substitute for limitless, inseparable, immutable love, I will continue to see the world as less-than-perfect. Everything I see out there is a reflection of what I believe in here. Even if it’s a teeny, tiny speck of not-love, it clouds my vision of the world. It obscures life as it truly is.
And that’s why the Voice sometimes seems like a broken record. You are loved. Everything is okay. There’s nothing to fear.
Not long after I first shared the Two-Way, the wonderful writer and illustrator Sue Shanahan who once interviewed me for her porch light series (she also profiled Brandi Carlile, Martha Beck, Rainn Wilson, Dolly Parton and others) wrote to tell me about a similar project Elizabeth Gilbert was doing.
Every week on Elizabeth’s Substack, she writes a letter to herself from unconditional love, a practice she has been doing for decades. She also invites subscribers to submit their own letters from unconditional love. So if any of you want to take it further than the 30-day experiment I proposed here, I invite you to check out Liz Gilbert’s “Letters from Love.”
I’m finding it inspiring and beautiful. (I already adored Liz’s books) And well, her project reinforces the idea that life is speaking to all of us, that it will never stop reminding us to listen to our hearts, to let its still, small voice offer refuge from past beliefs, old injuries and outdated scripts. Thank you, Sue, for pointing me in Liz’s direction.
Today marks 30 days (and it’s okay to start any time) of the experiment I invited you to try. I’d love to hear how it’s going in the comments section below. I’m especially interested if, like Father Bill W. promised, that once you log 30 days in a row, you’d never dream of going solo again. I know I’m quite relieved to accept help from a generous and relentlessly chatty universe.
I love you all and I hope you remember that being human is something we experience, not who we really are.
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)
“You can’t go wrong if you’re dancing, singing or laughing.”—Betty Shaffer
My 90-year-old friend Betty was taking a nice, hot bubble bath last week. She rarely locks her door, but for some reason she did that morning and for some reason, her boyfriend, who had left earlier, came back to retrieve something he’d left behind.
Betty, of course, wasn’t wearing her hearing aids, so when her beau knocked, she didn’t hear him. She was blissfully oblivious that he was outside her door, panicked and banging furiously
He rushed to the apartment office, explained his dilemma, his intense alarm that something horrible had transpired.
They hurried back to her door, clumsily inserted the key and threw open the door to find a completely nude Betty dancing with wild abandon.
I love this story for two reasons. It shows how unfounded most of our fears are. It demonstrates how quick we are to assume the worst and to forget that life is always working out for us.
The other tale relates to our bodies and how we perceive them, how we decide certain things about how they should work, how they age. We listen to medical doctors who sole job is to look for problems and pretend to have answers, some of which, of course, are really helpful.
I just wish more of them knew that our bodies are simply condensed energy providing a vessel in which our spirits can express and grow. Our culture tells these bodies what they should do, what their limits are, who they should love. Docs even provide statistics and predictions on how they should react to various calendar years.
Sadly, most of us are at war with our bodies, wanting them to look different, be a different size.
But as Betty demonstrates, a body is simply something to enjoy while you’re lucky enough to have it. From what I can tell, they’re here for us to notice and relish beauty. And, when we can, to use for dancing, singing and laughing.
Betty, by the way, is my friend who when she hears someone’s body is perhaps on the way out, is quick to think, “Oh, I’m so excited for them.”
I love you all and I love your bodies. Hope you use them to see something beautiful today.
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)
“The noise of life and the density of matter can draw us in if we don’t deeply align first thing in the morning.”—Lucy Grace
Those of you who have been following my blog for a while know I’m a HUGE fan of ServiceSpace. I was invited to their Ghandi 3.0 event last year in India. I volunteer to transcribe their weekly Awakin Calls and Taz and I (through the 222 Foundation) chose to gift our yearly award to them in 2022.
I’ve been inspired by their work and their commitment to the gift economy for years. I’ve mentioned it before, but when I pitched a story about their founder Nipun Mehta to my editor at People magazine, she just kept asking, “But how does it work?”
She just couldn’t grasp the concept of an organization that believes so strongly in the abundance and goodness of the universe that they give everything away. It was so far removed from the script we all pick up at birth that it just didn’t compute.
I’m bringing this up now because, last weekend’s Awakin Call with Lucy Grace was Exhibit A in what I’m hearing from IFL. (The indestructible life force is what I’ve been calling my morning collaborator lately).
Lucy found the voice when she was just a child in New Zealand. (I also love that she’s from New Zealand, because Taz, whose birth father was from there, had a second passport from New Zealand and well, I’ve always loved the place.)
Lucy was born into poverty and, because she didn’t have the resources that many have, she learned to listen to this other voice that kept telling her she was loved exactly as she was, that absolutely everyone and everything is loved just because they exist. She said while she might have had a hungry stomach, she didn’t have the hungry heart that sometimes afflicts the well-off.
She says, “I always had the company of God” only in her book of poetry she calls it This Untameable Light. (Hey, another brilliant synonym to add to my collection.)
Lucy said she could feel the aliveness in all of life and that she always possessed a deep sense that all is well.
The voice is here for all of us, except some of us have the volume turned down. The practice I’ve been enjoying is my way of restoring the natural volume.
I decided to post the video of this week’s Awakin Call interview, because well, it’s way better than anything I could ever say. Take it from Lucy, all of us are always supported and guided and held.
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)
“No matter how upside down it all may appear, we have no fear, because we know this secret: all of creation is conspiring to shower us with blessings,”—Rob Brezsny
I just ordered a replacement AC adapter for my laptop (because mine malfunctioned after I accidentally dropped it), so I’m going to try to write this post before I run out of power. Fingers crossed!
I’m writing today in praise of irrationality. In celebration of things we can’t see, in things we can’t understand with our brains.
These mysteries (like disembodied voices telling me how deeply I am loved, how innocent i am and always have been) are my most treasured gifts.
Reason, logic, data and evidence certainly have their place. They’ve advanced society in countless ways. But for now, I’m happy putting my faith in the imagining of a new reality, in advancing a sweeter, kinder truth.
And while I can’t begin to empirically explain this voice to which I’ve surrendered my life, I just know I feel lighter, more compassionate and better able to trust in a world where life itself thrives. And anybody who tells me differently, I’ve noticed, has a hidden agenda that always has something to do with lack and fear and separation.
I’ve also noticed that whatever I pay most attention to becomes my higher power. If I pay attention to rational, measurable things, I’m stuck with a very limited point of view. But when I pay attention to creativity and possibility and beauty, those things quickly take over my life.
So call me irrational, ridiculous, a wearer of rose-colored glasses and I’ll just say, “Thank you. Thank you for noticing.”
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)
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-Jack Canfield
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