The new, magical way of existing in the world
“Let me trust that all of my own needs are always met in amazing ways and it is safe to give freely as my heart guides me.”—Tosha Silver
Unlike most of the world, I’m in no hurry to return to “normal.”
“Normal,” as prescribed by the existing culture, doesn’t always serve our best interests.
“Normal” focuses on the rational sliver of our minds that insists there is one way to solve things, one way to “do life.” It ignores this other body of possibility that, once we open up to, is a gazillion times more life-giving, optimistic and, quite frankly, closer to True Reality.
“Normal” limits what we’re allowed to expect. I’ll give you a couple examples.
“Normal” expects us to find all our answers in science, in history, in books. Those things are all worthy, but hardly a complete list of what we’re entitled to when we open up to the “non-normal” realms of magic and miracles.
Answers often come from nature (George Washington Carver, although a professor and degreed scientist, admitted that the hundreds of inventions he’s credited with were “given” to him by trees and plants on early morning walks) and from dreams (Larry Page first “dreamed” Google).
“Normal” expects us to “make a living” with a job. But I know lots of people (including myself) who make a much better living once they let go of their job. Or their job lets go of them.
I discovered that when I “give freely as my heart guides me,” as the above quote suggests, all my needs are met in truly amazing ways.
Soon after the 2008 recession when the internet more or less murdered traditional publishing, I was tempted to get on board with “normal.” Nobody was buying books—or at least not the books I was offering. Magazines were shrinking, laying off staff.
I even pondered getting one of those things (the three letter word that begins with “J”) that most people think is the only route to security. I decided to stick it out, to expect that I would be taken care of. After all, I was holding up my end of the bargain–pursuing, as Joseph Campbell called it, my bliss.
Soon enough, AAA called, asked to pay me to give a teleseminar on volunteer vacations. They had seen my National Geographic book on the topic and wanted to offer their members a glimpse into overseas volunteering.
And then an author from California, a guy I had never heard of, contacted me “out of the blue.” He practically begged to pay me large sums of money for reading and editing his manuscript on Kansas.
Magic? A miracle? All I know is my book, “Kansas Curiosities,” that he had somehow discovered, is not typically sold in California bookstores.
Something was looking out for me. Something that wants to look out for all of us. IF we let it. If we defy “normal” and EXPECT it to.
So today, as we gaze out upon the new world that’s being created right before our eyes, I suggest we ban “normal.”
Let’s instead:
- Expect answers to all questions we might have. Expect these answers to be readily available, easy to access and incredibly loving, tender and gentle for all parties concerned.
- Expect perfect, loving solutions for all challenges that might come up.
- Expect all our needs to be met.
- Expect that the prolific, abundant universe will show us how to thrive in this new world.
“Normal” tells us these things are difficult, impossible.
But “normal,” you are now free to officially kiss my keister.
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).