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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
“My interest had grown thin in what the world had to offer.”—Bob Roth
Happiest of Fridays, my fine-feathered friends.
While I may be the last .05 percent that still takes the local newspaper (mostly because I dig doing the puzzles), I happened to notice today’s “Speed Bump” cartoon.
In it, a little chicken was looking at his fellow chicken who was huge with rage. The angry chicken was literally emanating steam. In the cartoon bubble, the little chicken looks over and says, “I told you not to look at the news.”
The “news” I like writing about tells a different story. In fact, I’ve been visualizing a world where all newspapers and national broadcasts cover nothing but kindness, connection and miracles. In other words, the real facts about the world, the still-present love happening underneath the contradictions our fear and jacked-up-nervous systems have introduced into the field.
Can you imagine the resulting peace and possibilities from such a feed?
According to the Course, we have wasted many, many years on these senseless whims and quaint absurdities.
So here are a couple news items that speak to me:
The U.S. World Cup soccer coach runs every team he’s ever led according to “energia universal,” a higher form of energy that he believes people can connect with and harness. Mauricio Pochettino always keeps a box of lemons in his office and in his teams’ locker rooms.
“I believe 100 percent that lemons pull out negative energy,” he says.
He religiously changes out the lemons every 10 days. He has also been known to insist players walk on hot coals, an exercise that demonstrates the power of the mind over the body and he often chooses his roster according to players’ auras, not their skills.
News item #2 happened to moi last night. Ever since Taz worked with the Spanish-speaking families of Big Brothers/Big Sisters, I’ve been a Big to my Little, Azul.
Last night, I volunteered at a BBBS fundraiser that pitted 10 chefs, who each brought their best dish and a specially-crafted cocktail, to be judged and chosen as winners by the audience.
Called Plates and Pours, this fun event also featured a video where a dozen or so Littles who are now grown up were interviewed about their relationship with their Bigs. I was casually watching when I was startled to see a picture of my mom on the screen who was posing with her Little, Courtney who, of course, I’ve known since she was small.
Courtney in the video mentioned that when she met Shirley, my mom, her mom was addicted to drugs and her dad, an alcoholic, had abandoned her.
She raved about the difference my mom made in her life. I’m used to getting fun little signs from Taz, but this was special because it came from my mom who died the same year.
In the video, most of the Bigs were sitting next to their grownup Littles and, in the end, they each hugged. My mom, who is no longer here in the physical, couldn’t hug Courtney, but the long-term effects (she’s now a successful wife and mom herself) are still very much present.
Have a fab weekend, 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.
“It is urgent to live enchanted.”—Valter hugo mae
Every day, the Course in Miracles asks me to forgive.
Sometimes that’s easy.
Other times, I prefer gripping tightly to my stories. There’s a certain perverse satisfaction in believing something needs to change, thinking someone did me dirty.
It’s intoxicating at times to be a victim, to dislike certain events, to believe those people out there are wrong, wrong, wrong.
Either way, I know that when I don’t forgive, my life energy becomes stuck in destructive loops.
And when I do choose to surrender my stories of good and evil, right and wrong, my energy gets a bright and shiny chance to flow in new vibrant and nourishing directions.
I know I don’t need to remind you, but because it’s my custom, I hereby urge you to go out and have 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.
“There’s a lot more consciousness out there than what we’re seeing.”—Michael Pollan
Happy Friday, folks! Just wanted to drop in with a question I’ve been pondering of late.
In simpler English (had to show off my Olde English skills in the headline), I’m asking myself, what is the source of my information? Where am I getting the “facts” I’m using to make decisions?
I notice when I use my phone or FB or any type of input that comes from a marketing point of view, subtle though it may be, it creates unwanted ripples in the field of light and love to which I’ve committed. It suggests something is missing.
The biggest disturbance is a false belief that there is something outside of me that knows more about what I need than I do. Outside inputs, I notice, always come with strings, with a different presumption than the one offered by my Source. My Source knows only love, infinite possibility, expansion, beauty.
Outside inputs always poo-poo those truths. There’s something wrong, those outside inputs say. There’s something else you need. You better worry.
My Source, the one I prefer conferring with each morning, delivers a more-pleasing narrative. It tells me that anything that’s not love is not true. Anything that smacks of limitation is being used to manipulate me, to take me away from this field of light in which I live and move and have my being.
So here are a couple inputs that defy what outside sources deliver:
Stories like this are the only inputs I desire. How about you?
#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.
“Give yourself permission to howl even when there’s no moon.”—cartoon I noticed in the funny pages
Once you calibrate to a particular frequency, you start to notice a different set of “facts.” You start to recognize a continuous steam of what some call miracles.
Ever since E-Squared hit the airwaves, my inbox has been jammed with stories that begin with some version of “You are never going to believe this.” And, of course, I expect these sorts of gee-whiz tales at my possibility posses.
But this morning, at my Spanish class—yes, my Spanish class—I heard two tales that defy the accepted, material-bound paradigm in which most humans invest their energy. Thought I’d share:
#1: Carol’s husband, Bo, died of cancer 13 years ago. Not surprisingly, she received many signs from him in the early years including a specific message about some lights she’d installed from a guy at the hardware store she barely knew.
Recently, a FB friend posted about a sign she’d received from her deceased son which inspired Carol to ask Bo if he still, 13 years later, checked in on her and their two sons.
When Bo was alive, he and Carol had a joint checking account with both their names on their checks. After his death, Bo’s name was removed and their checks came with her name only. It had been that way for 13 years.
Soon after she specifically asked whether or not he was still checking on them, the bank sent new checks that had both their names.
#2: The other story came from Karen, our espanol maestra (teacher) who also happens to be a speech pathologist. She mentioned to one of her clients that she really wanted to go to Italy. The client, who happened to be a practicing Buddhist told her to forget the last part of the sentence that included, “but I can’t afford it.”
Instead, the client advised, to ask sincerely for the trip to Italy while chanting “Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.”
Within a few days, an unexpected check from some continuing education fund Karen knew nothing about landed in her mailbox. It was for $2500, the exact amount she needed for a trip to Italy.
So, yes, we may have been practicing Spanish, but we were also calibrating to a frequency of gratitude and truth and the recognition, Horatio, “that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy.”
#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.
“If you’re not in awe every moment of your life, you’re just not paying attention.”–Cortland Dahl
Happy best-Friday of your life!
So I’m off on another girlfriend’s getaway, but, before I go, I wanted to say howdy to all my besties here on the blog.
And to rave once again about my long-standing love affair with ServiceSpace.
I’ve written about this all-volunteer, concensus-defying organization before. I went with them to Gandhi’s ashram a couple years ago. The 222 Foundation chose them as its recipient in 2022. And I’ve participated in several of their amazing, life-changing pods.
Most recently, I tuned into their Born to Flourish pod. And because I’m a gusher and LOVE to ”share my toys,” as I like to say, here are just a couple quick things I picked up:
The pod was built around the scientific work of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin. Since I’m often described as “woo-woo through and through,” it’s rewarding to discover research the proves what I like to gush about.
For example, joy is our natural state. In an experiment with babies, neuroscientist Richie Davidson, director of the Center for Healthy Minds, found that 100 percent of little humans who had yet to master “the ways of the world” chose love. Every single one.
Other experiments proved that one person can change an energy field, that mindfulness doesn’t take years of living in an ashram and because love, connection and kindness IS our natural state, it only requires a tiny space for something truer to come through.
First step is recognizing that thoughts are interpretations, not objective truth. Thanks to a lifetime of training our minds to scan for what’s going wrong, we tend to believe what our eyes show us. But it’s always interpretation. And there’s always something greater going on.
Have a great weekend, friends! I love you to the moon and back.
#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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