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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”
I am the author of 20 books, two screenplays, a live soap opera, a TV series and enough magazine articles that I haven’t starved in 25 years without a 9-5 job. On this site, you’ll find all sorts of information about my books and about my career as a freelance magazine and travel writer.
If you’re an editor, you can easily click on Portfolio to view writing samples from my illustrious magazine and newspaper career.
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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
“Believing in a friendly universe is the life jacket that keeps us from sinking into a sea of despair.”—Dwyane Johnson
I’ve about decided that the reason Taz, my cosmic board president, and I started the 222 Foundation is so that I, a mere mortal who still gets swept away by the world’s seeming divisions and polarities, will be yearly reminded of the gazillion people who are out there hatching beautiful ideas of kindness, generosity and creativity.
Yes, our board just reviewed all pitches for the 2026 award that will be announced, as is our custom, on February 22.
And wow! There is a powerful undercurrent of awakening that’s happening beneath the surface, a tsunami of love counteracting the old, unraveling story.
To name just a few: there’s a group in Detroit starting an old growth Giant Sequoia forest, a couple doctors who have turned their backyard into affordable housing, a studio that gives immigrant kids the chance to record their own music, a filmmaker whose documentary of the Hadzabe people in Tanzania’s Yaeda Valley demonstrates the beauty of regeneration and contentment and, yes, endless possibilities,
As one of the Hadzabe leaders said, “Everything I need, I find in my land.”
That’s the secret to everything—knowing that everything we need is always available, right here, right now.
Or as another application reflected, “We never really got kicked out of the garden.”
If we believe we were kicked out (as our society teaches us) we become fearful, our nervous systems get jacked up and we begin defending. We begin fighting. We completely forget who we really are. We settle for a degraded image of ourselves and what we’re capable of.
Ken Wilber once called today’s humans, “flatlanders” because they don’t know the depths of the field to which they are connected. Instead, they see a flimsy, illusory reality dished up by people who, because they don’t know who they are, feel fearful and needful of hoarding, protecting, exploiting.
But that story will never hold in the long run. Mainly because it is NOT true. Any system based on lies is inherently weak.
That’s why Gandhi was able to use his superpower –- what he called ahimsa – to radically alter the course of history.
There is a dynamic life force in each of us. It connects us to all things. It can change all things.
That’s why upgrading consciousness is the mission of the Taz Grout 222 Foundation. We aim to remind humanity of who they are in truth—lovers, creators, beholders of beauty.
Let’s together speak a radically new story, a beautiful, truthful story into existence.
#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.
“Maybe dead tomorrow but alive, gloriously alive, today.”—Robert Jordan
I would never dream of offering acting advice to Meryl Streep. Or giving Yo-Yo Ma tips on playing cello.
Yet, I often think it’s my job to instruct the universe how to show up for me. As if I could possibly know more from my teeny, tiny vantage point than life, glorious life itself.
Why would I try to manipulate or block life’s exquisite expertise? Why would I doubt the pro? I don’t have to set up a schedule for my heart—it beats just fine. Or keep tabs on my lungs.
As the Course says, my purpose stands far beyond my little range.
My little range, as far as I can tell, means opening my aperture to take in all the beauty, the joy, the love in which I swim.
I recently heard this joke:
The shark says to the fish, “Man, the water is cold today.”
And the fish replies, “What is water?”
That’s me so much of the time—swimming in beneficence, yet failing to recognize it, failing to appreciate it, thinking it’s my duty to boss life around.
As many of you know, I wrote a whole book about gratitude. The practice of looking on all things with love, appreciation and open-mindedness seems even more valuable today.
I surrender all judgment and fear to the pro, to the expert.
It’s almost February which means the Taz Grout 222 Foundation is happily designing our annual February 22 (2/22) gift.
So blessed I get to honor my magnanimous daughter who lives with me every day, in my heart, in the ocean of love in which I swim.
Have the best weekend of your life, friends!
#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 revolution isn’t out there. It’s in the 100,000 heartbeats you’ll have today, each one an opportunity to broadcast coherence or chaos into the shared field we all inhabit.”–Nipun Mehta
A question that was posed after last Friday’s post has stuck with me.
Lisa wanted to know how to use the “T’aint so” mindset while witnessing the current violence. I mentioned a couple thoughts in the comment section, but decided this very poignant question deserved a better answer.
I consciously choose to see beyond the violence. My focus is my unshakable belief that every single person has goodness inside them and that things always work out.
To question that unshakeable belief only causes decision fatigue. It causes me to doubt, to worry, to forget to be grateful.
So for me, it’s just a lot easier to focus on the ultimate truth. I don’t need multiple choice. I don’t need decision fatigue.
It might seem like a good use of time—it has certainly become a popular spectator sport—to keep tabs on what’s going on in the outside world. But for me, it only stokes the problem. Never once I have noticed my angst solving any problems.
To be totally transparent, I definitely have moments where I become obsessed, where I watch in sheer horror, but filling my noggin full of poison doesn’t get me where I want to go, doesn’t put me in a space of being the most effective person I can be.
So for me, focusing on just that one thing—gratitude that I live in a loving, perfect universe filled with loving, perfect friends—preserves my energy, my equanimity and keeps the channels open for guidance from the Dude.
Plus as today’s Course lesson points out, “I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.” So maybe today’s 100,000 heartbeats will resonant and add possibility to the shared field we all inhabit.
Have a great week, friends. I’ll be on the beach in Florida.
#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.
“Everyone gets an A+ in the end.”—Elizabeth Gilbert
Last weekend, one of my possibility posses threw a retreat. There wasn’t a leader, an agenda or really any kind of planning except someone offering to bring food.
We spent Saturday and Sunday together dancing, playing games, star-gazing, hot tubbing and letting Spirit take the lead.
It was pure magic.
And the real beauty is we didn’t orchestrate any of it.
Which makes me wonder what would happen if humans could just yank the cord, abandon the rules, give up the programming, forsake all the planning.
If we truly trust that the universe has our back, if we really KNOW how deeply, deeply cherished and loved we are, couldn’t we just relax. Laugh. Dance.
The lessons from Course in Miracles the past few days have encouraged us to recognize that we’re the ones creating the world.
Our thoughts — the ones that encourage fealty to the old story, to the fear, to the limitations — make images that replace true vision.
But like the headline of this post points out, “It’s all coming from inside us.”
What we see out there are images we concocted. And they’re not real. They block us from seeing that the world we live in is actually alive, intelligent and forever supportive.
At the retreat, someone mentioned a woman she knew who spoke great spiritual wisdom. And she did it with two simple words.
T’aint so.
Whenever anyone began discussing a problem –no matter what it was—she’d listen, shake her head and say, “T’aint so.”
Or as another friend said quoting, I think it was Abraham-Hicks, “If you could believe and trust that everything is so very all right, it would immediately and instantly become very all right.”
Glorious Friday. May it be the best weekend yet.
#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.
“Our way of being brings about either more suffering and fear or more surrender into love.”– Gail Brenner
So my creative project today was drawing an octopus. I’d show you a photo, but you’d likely laugh.
But since you can never express too much creativity, I also decided to write a little blog post, partly so I can wish you the best weekend of your life and also because I mentioned earlier this week a second book worth gushing over.
Turns out, it’s not exactly a book (it WAS recommended at my book group and indeed I did access it through the library), but it’s actually a Sounds True offering called Creating a Culture of Tenderness.
Basically, it’s an interview between Pema Chodron and Father Gregory Boyle who started Homeboy Industries, an inspiring program for former gang members.
Although they disagree about the language (Father Boyle, naturally, calls it God and that word makes Pema, a Buddhist monk, squirm), they’re talking about ultimate truth. The unshakeable truth that each of us (no exceptions) is valuable, decent and whole.
And God or the Infinite Field of Potentiality or Cosmo K, as I’ve been known to call it, is that which returns us to ourselves—the kindness of ourselves, the worthiness of ourselves, the ultimate truth of ourselves.
The ego, of course, has dished up a bunch of crap, telling us there’s something wrong with us or wrong with other people or wrong with the world in general.
As one of the homies says in the discussion, “Your early experiences shape a certain way that you see yourself and that shapes a certain way you see the world.”
Luckily, none of it is true.
And that’s what the Course does—trains us to see ourselves in a different way. Father Doyle joking called it “The Discovery Channel.”
I’ll end with this Buddhist text that Father Boyle often repeats, “Oh nobly born, oh you who are the eternal children of God, of Life Eternal, of the Divine, do not forget who you really are, do not forget your true nature.”
And that, my friends, is what I’ve been repeating to myself all week. I am nobly born.
Hope you recognize this truth, too, as you enjoy the very best 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.
“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
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-Michele Lisenbury Christensen, coach, consultant and speaker
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