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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
“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”
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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
“Every morning the world is created.”—Mary Oliver
The first year E-Squared came out, I was interviewed on hundreds of podcasts. And I often described this weird lab manual of a book as a way for readers to experience miracles and magic with their own two eyes.
“Forget what others say,” I’d tell my interviewers. “To really get this truth that we are all loved beyond anything we can imagine, we need proof…with our own ever-loving eyeballs.”
These days I might answer differently. While I’m infinitely grateful for the pictures presented by my own human eyeballs, I find the best things in my life erupt from the invisible, from that which cannot be named. Or planned.
Using my own two eyes, I tend to see things I’ve trained my neuropathways to look for — usually some version of what has happened before.
But the more I let go and enter this different reality field where unexplained, unplanned things happen on the regular, the less interested I am in my eyeball’s limited purview.
That’s why I often share stories that stretch the narrative, that burst right through the preconceived limitations for which we often settle.
So when a reader named Karen suggested those of us in this party-called-a-blog submit stories of their own miracles and unexpected gifts, I thought “Perfect. Let’s start with yours.”
So, thank you, Karen, and thank you everyone who might feel called to share a story with the potential to liberate us from our boxes.
Take it away, Karen:
“Dressed in Miracles”
“Clothes shopping is not my favorite thing. It’s ranks right up there with dental procedures. I prefer shopping for things I need, like items on the grocery list.
“While talking to my buddy Lori, I mentioned I had a wedding to attend and the dress code was fall formal. Far from being a fashionista, I informed her that I didn’t know exactly what that meant and bemoaned the fact that the few casual items sitting in my closet (e.g., jeans and long sweaters) weren’t going to make the cut.
“This serendipitous conversation, unknown to me at the time, is how the Universe set the stage.
“I did the things I always do: visualize the details, google to get a sense of what’s out there. I began picturing a long and flowy maroon dress with sleeves or straps. Something easy and breezy that would let me wear my cute dress boots (no heels, please) and wouldn’t make me feel like a sausage inside its casing.
“Just a few simple requests of a perimenopausal woman putting her manifestation into motion.
“Two weeks later, Lori reached out with a simple text asking if I had found my dress. I had to confess I hadn’t started looking and then began my list of excuses: it’s hard to find petite sizes, it’ll cost me a small fortune, yada yada.
“I soon realized Lori didn’t text to hear a litany of excuses. This solutions-oriented gal wanted to tell me about a long, maroon-colored dress she noticed at the Salvation Army priced at $14.99.
“Could it be? Could my dream dress be less than 5 miles from my house? Open mind, open mind!”
“I casually mentioned to my husband on the way out the door, “I’m going to pick up my dress for the wedding.” He looked dumbfounded but stopped questioning my signs from the Universe a long time ago.
“I made a beeline for the formal stuff and began karate-ing my way through the tight racks of gowns.
“I didn’t find the maroon dress right away. What I did find were a few other dresses that might work – aiding and abetting my plan B because a teeny, tiny (but still loud) part of me wondered if the Universe could send me the perfect dress.
“When I finally spotted the maroon dress, I questioned whether it would fit, whether it looked like “me,” and whether I could really pull it off. I took it to the changing room with four other dresses.
“The others fit OK. They were a little big, but I decided I could make two of them work.
Even though I had sprinted to the shop with fairy dust in my shoes, I was already accepting less than what might possibly be perfect.
“Then it was time to welcome the Miracle.
“The maroon dress zipped without struggle, the length was perfect. It had straps and sleeves and a beautiful heart-shaped neckline which looked beautiful on my frame.
“My pleasant smile turned into a big one which turned into laughter which then turned into tears.
“The perfect dress, noticed by a thoughtful friend browsing a thrift store, in the color I visualized, which fit me like no other dress, and was the right price for my freelance writer budget, came to me the way most miracles arrive – unanticipated, not fully believed in the moment, and with more love than we feel we deserve.
“And I think once we overcome that last part, they then become an everyday part of our ordinary yet precious lives.”
Thank you again, Karen, and please post a photo of you in your dress at the wedding.
Anyone else care to share?
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 22 books including E-Squared, Thank & Grow Rich , The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)and her latest, The Ego’s Playbook.
“Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.”—Simone Weil
If you happened to read my last book, you know I’m a fan of Byron Katie. I’ve attended her Nine-Day School for the Work. I interviewed her for Ego’s Playbook and well, basically I worship the ground she walks on.
I recently heard her tell a story that absolutely torpedoed my mind. And that’s saying a lot since I’m a longtime collector of “You are never going to believe this” stories.
Money falling out of the sky? Check.
Finding a lost key in an ocean? But, of course.
Being summoned to Ecuador through dreams? How else would a medicine man with no phone or email contact you?
But this story, nearly impossible to buy if you live in the standard materialist reality, demonstrates what all those sages and gurus mean when they suggest “being here now.” Being anywhere else is ultimately self-limiting.
Anyway, Katie arrived home after a vacation with her family only to open the door and discover that all their possessions were gone—jewelry, furniture, antique guns, pictures and family albums. The neighbors, who saw a moving van pull into the driveway, assumed the family was moving.
Katie’s husband and kids freaked out. I mean, how dare they take our precious things?
Katie, on the other hand, recognized that all those things were no longer hers. In that moment, she no longer owned that jewelry, those photos.
I’m far from a materialist, but if someone ran off with my photo albums of Taz or her artwork (heck, I’ve kept her bedroom just like she left it when she moved to college), I would fuss and ruminate and gunk up my energy field with anger.
Katie, on the other hand, could think of no good reason to hurt herself by giving any thought to the perceived unfairness of it all.
Those things? No longer hers. They belonged in a previous “now.” She prefers to enjoy the gifts in this “now.”
I’m sure digging my Mexican “now” and I trust you’re also enjoying yours.
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 22 books including E-Squared, Thank & Grow Rich , The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)and her latest, The Ego’s Playbook.
“Seriously, how in the hell can you get bored in wonderland?”—Anna Brown
Hola, mis amigos! I’ve been out communing with the California redwoods, visiting Taz’s childhood bestie who, last Saturday night, had her first album release.
Yesterday, I flew to Mexico to my favorite community in the Sierra Madres—no redwoods, but lots of beautiful flora and fauna (there’s a hummingbird visiting me now on my veranda) and a whole community of people I love and adore.
During my week in California, I felt what I began calling my “spidey sense.” After just googling the term, I realize Spiderman uses his palpable, tingly sensations to avoid danger.
My tingle works just the opposite. It leads me on adventures. It presents meaningful, beautiful experiences I’m not expecting. It presents opportunities that reduced my vocabulary during the week to gushy “thank you, thank you, thank you’s.”
I’ve finally convinced my travel partners to cease from too-much planning. For me, it’s best not to have a daily schedule, to be open, to let the universe do its magic.
It makes most travelers too uncomfortable—to not know, to not have a set agenda. However, I notice that anything I know, anything I plan, while often fun, becomes a box, a trap that prevents me from seeing what else might be possible.
To name a few gifts from our perfect, open-hearted trip, we heard three Stanford researchers present fascinating talks at a BioX conference for students, we danced for two hours at a street party that just happened to feature music from two favorite bands (Steely Dan and Chicago) from our university days.
One morning, Mary said, “I’d really like to add some greenery to this vase of flowers (a bouquet we’d been gifted earlier in the week), but I don’t think our AirBnb hosts would appreciate us attacking their bushes.”
A few minutes later, as Patti and I were walking to a French bakery in the neighborhood, we noticed a pile of beautiful greenery that some gardener had just snipped and left behind on the sidewalk.
I’ll be here in Mexico for a month and I’m extremely happy to report that I have no idea what I’ll be doing (other than some writing, of course) and that I’m open and willing and extremely content in this reality field of surrender.
Love, love, love.
And, of course, #222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 22 books including E-Squared, Thank & Grow Rich , The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)and her latest, The Ego’s Playbook.
“Anything tainted by a filter of limitation is not true.”—David Bingham
Most of us can list our favorite movies and songs.
I had to chuckle at myself the other day when I blurted out “This is probably my favorite belief….”
Not that I have a top ten list or had given it much thought, but I definitely recognize that my beliefs play out in my life and color my experiences.
I can’t help but notice that most cultural, scientific and spiritual beliefs are disempowered versions of reality. I heard someone the other day call them belief traps—stories that keep us small and fearful and unwilling to open to bigger and better.
With a nod towards Julie Andrews, these are a few of my favorite beliefs:
Have a smashing day, oh noble comrades, and by that I mean, smashing any belief that might confine you in any way.
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 22 books including E-Squared, Thank & Grow Rich , The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)and her latest, The Ego’s Playbook.
“I learned to communicate with invisible presences. I’ve been listening for the unseen ever since.”—Brian Conroy
The daily readings in the Course in Miracles right now are reviews, each one kicking off with the statement that is repeated ad naseum throughout the entire thousand-plus pages.
“I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.”
In this physical domain, that statement is a real head-scratcher. I see a body every time I look in the mirror. I feel a body when, as a girl who cain’t say no, I play pickleball way longer than I should.
However, I’ve also begun to notice that who I really am stretches way beyond the few cubic feet of material space I’ve identified as “me.”
As I begin to experience myself as an electromagnetic field, as an energetic frequency, I recognize the truth in that statement. I feel a connection to well, everything.
Lately, when people ask “how ya’ doin’?,” I’ve been answering with “I’m buzzy.”
What I mean is I’m feeling this palpable energetic buzz that brings me intense joy. I notice it whenever I stop for a moment, whenever I walk outside and feel the trees and the wind and the shimmering sun. Sometimes, I notice it when I’m unloading the dishwasher.
It’s different than say, the joy I get when Taz sends me a hedgehog or a reader offers thanks for one of my books.
It’s a field of coherence, I guess you could say, that feels alive and in unity with the whole universe.
And even though it’s hard to put into words, it feels magical and exciting and even well, commonplace.
May this field, this truth, this river of love bring peace and joy to us all.
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 22 books including E-Squared, Thank & Grow Rich , The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)and her latest, The Ego’s Playbook.
“Pam combines a writing style as funny as Ellen DeGeneres with a wisdom as deep and profound as Deepak Chopra.”
-Jack Canfield
“Your book is beyond spectacular. It’s funny, uplifting, delightful and profound. I am ordering six copies for my daughters and their friends. You rock, the book rocks, and so, of course, does Cosmo K.”
-Dr. Christiane Northrup, Bestselling Author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom
“I called your publicity guy and told him that if a 47-year-old Midwestern guy found this perhaps the most insightful and on target book with regard to “how it works” then the best-seller list cannot be far behind. Your journey….message and honesty and humor about the human condition are nothing short of profound.”
-John St. Augustine, producer for Oprah and Friends
“Thank you for being a delight, and a helpfully subversive presence in the universe!”
-Michele Lisenbury Christensen, coach, consultant and speaker
“In the parlance of today’s youth–I think you are the bomb!”
—Nicole Seiffert, inspiring reader
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