“We make each other. The interconnectivity between all of us is obvious and unimpeachable.”—Ethan Hawke
I’m in the mood to gush today. I’m reading a couple AMAZING books, I just hung out with friends from the possibility posse and well, as you’ve probably noticed, I often have trouble containing my excitement.
The first book you may have already read. It’s Dan Brown’s The Secret of Secrets.
It’s a 650-page thriller that, get this, centers around my favorite topic—human consciousness. Like all Brown’s books, it’s a page turner. In fact, were in not for my resolution to create something new every day, I’d probably be on my couch right now finishing it.
None of the concepts about consciousness are new to me (I’ve covered many of the same studies here on the blog), but it thrills me that these once-revolutionary ideas are hitting the mainstream. Netflix has already bought the rights to turn the book into a movie.
Brown said in a recent interview that after eight years of gathering data for the book from philosophers, physicists and noetic scientists, he’s come out with a totally different mindset.
“It sounds crazy,” he says, “but I no longer fear death and I believe consciousness is nonlocal.”
I also learned he wasn’t a stranger to manifesting reality. He told Rick Rubin that 20 years ago, he printed out a New York Times bestseller list, photoshopped The Secret of Secrets onto that list on a certain date.
And guess what? That very book, which hadn’t even been written or conceived of in 2005, was #1 on that exact date 20 years later. Reminds me a little of writing my E-Squared affirmation on the beach in Georgia.
A couple other cool things I learned about Dan Brown is that, like me, he plays the piano and he meditates.
Most importantly, he mentioned that the first publisher to whom he pitched his uber-popular Da Vinci Code practically laughed him out of the office.
Moral of this story? Just because one person fails to recognize the beauty and potential of your idea has nothing whatsoever to do with you. Or with the idea’s worth.
In fact, to go back to Ethan Hawke, whose quote from a recent awards ceremony I started this post with, also said this:
“It’s not about the size of the audience. It’s the size of the idea. Ambition includes failure—it’s right next door to success. There are no numbers on the door. You knock, it’s going to open, and you’ll either find a supermodel of your dreams or your mom in curlers.”
But it’s important to keep knocking on those doors.
“Human creativity,” Hawke goes on to say, “is nature manifest in us and our expressions represent our collective mental health. All of us have a charge to do our best, to do the good that we have the power to do.”
So rather than gush about the other book I’m reading (maybe later this week), I’ll close here.
Love you all. SO VERY MUCH!
#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.
11 Responses
Nice one Pam, thank You so much! I loved the secret of Secrets 😍
Love to You all, Teija and the Pelonteet 😍😍😍
Hi Pam! I love all your emails and I resonated deeply with this today. Thank you ❤️
Love you, too, Pam–BIGTIME. Who’d a “thunk” it, right?. We grow up being taught to believe that we’re the sum total of a body-mind with a specific name, age, gender, race, nationality, status, etc; and then we recognize (if we’re fortunate) what we knew as little children–that our intrinsic GREATNESS can never be defined by, or limited to, a flesh and bones package called a “person.” I see YOU… 🙂
What a fantastic gush about Dan Brown and SOS…(yikes!) I am about 100 pages from finishing and I’m holding my breath. In the meantime, I’ve signed up for a course at IONS and have been led down a few too many rabbit holes as I’ve been devouring the book. Wow!
I look forward to your emails since I signed up after reading e-squared! Thanks for turning me on to a new book😀
I love you Pam Grout! I love your posts, I love your way of thinking, your way of expressing yourself, your delight in all things ‘woo woo’, and the way you share all of that with us. Thank you so much! I also absolutely loved and devoured Dan Brown’s The Secret of Secrets, and was so excited to read a novel by such a well known and respected author that revolves around these wonderful yet fairly way out ideas. It is brilliant. And I am delighted to hear his story of manifestation – so encouraging for all of us. Please feel free to gush any time you like about any of your favourite topics! I reckon most of us would be happy to read about whatever it might be that’s lighting your inner flame and making it burn bright! 😁🔥🌞
Have a fabulous day Pam, and all! 🥳
Love you Pam, you are just fabulous! This book sounds amazing, adding it to my never-ending list! 🤍✨
Just because one person fails to recognize the beauty and potential of your idea has nothing whatsoever to do with you. Or with the idea’s worth.- LOVE IT! May I use this as a quote from you at my writing group on Friday? we were asked to bring in a significant quote and I really think this is it!
I could not put Secret of Secrets down! Awesome book.
Love love loved the Secret of Secrets! Read it just before the holidays and gushed for days when I realised what the book was about! I went back and read his other books, The Origin etc!
Thank you for your brilliant post and the history of Dan Brown!
You never cease to AMAZE me Pam! This is just what I needed to hear. LOVE the quote by Ethan & have been reading Watts since I was a teen. And I will have to get a copy of “The Secret Of Secrets,” thanks for the fab suggestion. I’m currently keeping well rounded by reading, The Road Map, 560 pgs. What’s the other book you are reading? I appreciate you, always. {{Hedgehugs}}