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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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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
“It’s so close we don’t see it, so easy we don’t believe it.”—Cortland Dahl
Four of us from the possibility posse attended an Abraham-Hicks workshop in Kansas City last weekend. We made a whole weekend of it. We got an Airbnb, tromped around the Country Club Plaza and dined at fabulous restaurants.
And while Esther said a lot of inspiring things during this two-day event, the best part for me was relishing in the frequency, the joy, the possibility.
That’s really the trick to everything. Esther called it calibrating, finding that sweet spot where you’re open, available, where life can show up and show off.
And life does show off—when you’re not marinating in grievances.
As the quote I led off with suggests, “The Divine Buzz is always, always, always (now I sound like Esther) here. And the reason this sounds far-fetched is only because we don’t believe it. We secretly believe other bumper sticker slogans like “life sucks.”
Or as some meme I saw said, “I was told there would be a handbasket.”
So, yes, we can certainly mute the signal. Or as Esther said, “hit the brakes by staring at ‘what is.’”
Or we can put our attention on the limitless frequency of Truth and let life figure out the details, the timing, the how.
Have a joyous Tuesday! #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.
“The world of reason must be a lonely place.”—Luis Alberto Urrea
I walked with a fox this morning. Wasn’t even 8 a.m. before the first of today’s gifts presented itself to me.
The fox kept its distance, of course, but we traversed the same path for at least three blocks.
This magical experience brought to mind Kurt Vonnegut’s observation that we owe it to our fellow humanoids to say, “If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is?”
How often do I fail to notice all the nice things that cross my path in a day, let alone bring them to the attention of someone I love.
Rather than point out problems, I plan to spend this day, this weekend, this life pointing out all the things that are going right.
I notice when I focus on things I don’t love, it hurts. It literally hurts me–my attitude, my energy field, even my body. It turns me into a caricature of my true self.
Love is our natural state, the realest of real.
And any other seeming reality can’t, in the end, last. Because, well, it isn’t real. It isn’t true.
So once again, my precious friends and readers and lovers, I urge you to claim today’s many gifts. And, of course, to enjoy the most stupendous, the most astonishing weekend of your life.
#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.
“The luminous and shocking beauty of the everyday is something I try to remain alert to, if only as an antidote to the chronic disenchantment that seems to surround everything these days.”—Nick Cave
Although I didn’t know it at the time, the reason the experiments in E-Squared worked so beautifully is because well, they can’t NOT work.
Gifts, winks, nods from the beneficent universe show up every single day. What the E-Squared experiments did was encourage readers to pay attention. The 48-hour experiments tricked us into temporarily shifting our focus from “oh-no” to “wow.”
Luis Alberto Urrea, the prolific Mexican-American writer and poet, was here in Lawrence this week. I loved him and his wife, Cinderella (yes, that’s her real name), SO MUCH.
A story he told about the medicine women he met while researching his amazing novel, The Hummingbird’s Daughter, brought everything into focus for me.
Every day, the shamans told him, is your birthday. Yes, you typically celebrate it once a year. However, all day, every day you’re being sent gifts.
We’re mostly blind to this avalanche of astonishment because we’re busy wanting something else—say, more followers, a skinnier body, a higher-paying job.
The world, the medicine women pointed out, never stops talking to us, never stops sending messages. We don’t always get them because, well, we’ve built a lot of walls.
The gifts aren’t always huge—maybe a ladybug or making authentic eye contact with a stranger or the majestic sky ballet of a pair of hawks overhead.
But whether you’re paying attention or not, the gifts are always there. As Urrea said, “We live in paradise and we forgot.”
Yes, I still take umbrage at things happening out there in the world. And you better believe I’m heading to a–let’s just call it a “No Kings” party– later today. But in the meantime, I plan to celebrate today’s birthday, to bring back love notes about my endless gifts.
#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.
“My faith is held together by wonder—by every defiant commitment to presence and paying attention.”—Cole Arthur Riley
Today, at our local bike/coffee shop, we were discussing the back story of coffee, speculating on what impelled the first imbiber to suddenly take interest in the bright red berries.
It so happens that back when I was a budding journalist, writing a monthly food column, I investigated this very question, learning that in 850 CE an Ethiopian goat herder noticed his herd, after chomping on the berries of a certain wild shrub, displayed an unusual degree of energy and vigor.
Today, of course, the goat herder would never have noticed. He’d be too busy checking his TikTok.
Or consider aspirin, developed from an ingredient in willow bark. Who first recognized the bark’s analgesic properties?
I bring up stories like this to illustrate the point that we are always being sourced, consistently being guided. To believe we’re stranded here on this big ball of rock without resources, to think the natural world isn’t constantly working on our behalf is just plain reckless.
The world’s provisions, in fact, exceed our wildest imaginings. Our only task is to notice, to pay attention, to break away from the digital colonization that subdues most humans.
I included an experiment in my book, E-Cubed called Nature vs. News. The supposition readers tested was that all information they really need to know is happening right outside their window, right there in their neighborhood, right in their own hearts. It postulated that what they pick up from the news media (and social media) is mostly pointless, often not true and has no real relevance on their life. Except for the blocks it erects between them and the field of infinite potentiality.
Ignoring and discounting things like the stars, the plants, and the sliver of a waxing moon, whose cycles affect everything from tides to fiddler crabs to our sleep habits, blinds us to a major force of energy that we could and should be using in our favor. Being disconnected from the natural world wreaks havoc on our bodies. Ignoring things that affect us deeply and slavishly following things that have little or no impact causes stress, depression, and anxiety.
If we want to create more energy and therefore more “bandwidth” for a joyful life, we must begin to pay attention to things that matter. And let go of all the things that don’t.
Here’s to the Ethiopian goat herder, coffee and all of us that trust that the only thing that really matters is the indestructible joy and pulse of life being broadcast from every tree, every star, every bird on the planet, those that know real life is created from being in tune with the universal broadcast, the sacred buzz.
#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.
“Worry and love are different frequencies.”-Michael Beckwith
I tried. I really tried.
I so wanted to see the full blood red moon last night. I’ve still got a posse that dances to the full moon (from wherever we hail) each month and well, it’s just cool to celebrate a rare skyscape, especially one that’s ushering in a new era of growth and possibility.
But in Kansas, where I’m currently situated, the moon was completely covered with dense clouds.
Still, I love knowing that it was there, doing its celestial dance even though my eyeballs couldn’t see it. Which is often the case with truth and other such things of the spirit.
I continue to believe that my vision for a more beautiful, free future for all beings on earth is arising even though it’s currently covered with the thick cloud of a patriarchal, consumer-mad paradigm.
Yes, I sometimes doubt. I believe what I see instead of what I know. I fear. I worry. I’m tempted to curl up into a tight little ball.
And that’s when I beg the Holy Spirit, the Divine Buzz, the thing that cannot be named to help me see things differently. To see beyond the cloud. Otherwise, I’m no good to anyone. Without spiritual practice, I’m pretty much hopeless.
Many people don’t know this, but Gandhi, before he changed history forever, devoted many years to feeding and growing his spiritual mojo. True spiritual mojo, a love force that Gandhi called ahimsa, is a force that changes things, not because it fights and resists, but because it’s the truth. Anything that’s not real, anything built on a lie, (domination, separation, limitation) can never be successful in the end. It just can’t.
I didn’t point this out in my last post, the one about the wild boars who for 22 years have been fertilizing the farmer’s tea plantation, but the reason that they continue today, two decades later is because the farmer didn’t put up his dukes. He didn’t fight. He didn’t erect a fence. He appealed to truth. He asked, he apologized and he agreed to work hand-in-hand with nature for the greater good of all.
That’s my goal, too.
Lastly, I want to share this lovely video about the Earth Elders that the Taz Grout 222 Foundation is supporting this year.
Have a beautiful, truthful, real week.
#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.
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