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Building a different energetic imprint

November 3, 2025 32 Comments

“Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds.” –Jack Kerouac

Interviewers often ask me, “What changed?” Why did my book, God Doesn’t Have Bad Hair Days, clumsily nosedive into the remainders bin when E-Squared, essentially the same book, hit #1 on the New York Times bestsellers list.

I can name several reasons. I changed the title. I had a different publisher.

But mostly, I attribute it to my energetic imprint, the frequency at which I was vibrating. That sounds pretty woo-woo, but in essence I changed how I saw myself, how I saw the world.

I began saying thank you for everything. For the sky, for the garbage collector who picks up the trash each week, for friends, for the cream puffs my friend’s husband made for our book group, for the chair I’m sitting on. I might have even gone so far as to bow to the chair before gracing it with my backside.

There was no longer a giant wall of resistance.

Oh, and yeah there was this tiny fact that Jack Canfield was kind enough to write a killer endorsement. Which certainly didn’t hurt.

I listened to an interview with Jack the other day. He said something that really hit me. It explained why one book, really the same book, flopped and the other got translated into 40 languages.

People, he said, often set an intention for something, but immediately focus on its opposite. It’s like calling Domino’s Pizza and then calling 5 minutes later to cancel the order and then 30 minutes later wondering why your peperoni pie hasn’t arrived.

There’s static in the frequency. Conflicting wishes erect big orange traffic cones to all the good that wants to come our way.

Or, as I started to notice when I began giving thanks like a crazy woman, that GOOD was already here. So many things I took for granted sprang to life. Including my intention to write bestselling books.

So thank you, Jack. Thank you, readers. Thank you, chair (I know, I already said that) and thank you universe for being such a consistent ally in showing me exactly what to do, where to go and what to say.

#222 Forever!

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).

Surrounded by a world of loveliness

October 30, 2025 15 Comments

“I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence and the truth comes to me.”– Albert Einstein

A Course in Miracles constantly reminds us that darkness can only come from our own imagining, from our own thoughts, our own misguided beliefs.

All the while we’re grumbling about some circumstance or person, we’re surrounded– literally swimming in love and light.

The Course says we exist in a conceptual prison created by our own minds.

When we drop below the crazy antics of obsessive, egoic thinking, we discover an intelligence and a realm of beauty far beyond our normal imaginings.

With the World Series in full swing (My partner watches. I half-listen while doing Sudokus), I thought I’d share a baseball story that speaks to this truth.

On June 12, 1970, Dock Ellis, a pitcher for the Pittsburg Pirates, completely forgot he was slated to take the mound against the San Diego Padres. Before the game, before he realized the manager was going to call him in, he dropped an elephant-sized hit of acid.

While that might sound like a recipe for disaster, it actually accomplished the opposite. Being in, shall we say, a different state, Ellis’ normal self-consciousness and acute fear of failure completely disappeared.

Without those dark imaginings, those debilitating thoughts that make up the baseline operating consciousness for most of us, he played with a rare meditative calm. He pitched with a fliduity that looked more like dance than sport. He went on to pitch a no-hitter, the best game of his entire 11-year professional career.

It was an unusual outing, to be sure. The serenity on his face was visible clear up to the stands. He later reported a dissolution of any sense of time and was convinced he could bend the ball’s path with his mind, with the sheer force of his will.

I’m not suggesting LSD as a go-to spiritual gateway. Far from it. Simply pointing out that without our pre-set thoughts and concepts, something a whole lot greater is going on.

#222 Forever!

What are you defining into existence?

October 21, 2025 23 Comments

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” –Albert Camus

One of my favorite things about the Taz Grout 222 Foundation is meeting our recipients in person. Yesterday, I had lunch with Fatou Doumbia who started Agile International that supports women in rural Mali.

I’m a physics geek. At the same time, I have no idea (nor does anyone) exactly how and why the equations of quantum mechanics work.

The freaky weird thing is that what we call “reality” is simply a probability cloud. And it’s one of a gazillion probability clouds. This just happens to be the one we have currently solidified and defined into existence.

It’s why the Course in Miracles says the world we see is an illusion. This world (and we each have our own) is conceptually generated. Lucky for us, there’s a truer, more loving and joyful world beneath our concepts.

Once our world is “measured,” so to speak, by our sensory organs, electrical impulses are transmitted to the brain which then constructs what looks like coherent reality.

But the brain, far from being a passive recipient, actively gets to work filling in gaps, filtering what’s allowed in and generating a perception that meshes with what we previously decided is reality. Perception is the operative word.

Once “observed,” reality locks into place. Or seems to. Especially if we keep staring at it. However, it’s all too alive to be pinned down.

Which is why I actively avoid much of what my mind tries to tells me. I have to ask: Is that disgruntlement really true? Is that person really a jerk? Is it really true that life is scary and I must work really, really hard to control it?

Thank goodness for the freedom of attention. For the freedom to choose where I invest my energy. I can place my awareness into any one of a ginormous list of probabilities. And heaven knows, there are a lot of less-than-optimal choices out there.

But why would I want to do that to myself?

I am forever grateful that I understand just enough about quantum physics to know that I am not stuck with any one reality. And that, as the Course says, “the world is singing hymns of gratitude underneath the sounds of fear.”

For those who are wondering, my new book comes out end of the year. And here’s the link for anyone wanting to get in on this weekend’s free Wealth Codes Summit.

#222 Forever!

Life in the slow lane

October 14, 2025 20 Comments

“At the core of our being we are love, and we are wired for deep inner peace.” –Jill Boelte Taylor

Last week, I scoured through old file cabinets looking for the ISBN numbers I bought 30 years ago when I self-published Jumpstart Your Metabolism. This was before Simon & Schuster eventually bought it.

Not only did I find novels and screenplays I’d forgotten I’d written, but I found rubber slugs, kazoos, whoopie cushions, clever gifts from Taz and reminders of the gazillion places I once wrote travel articles about.

And wow! Did I ever manifest a thrilling life! Sleeping in castles and ice hotels, hot air ballooning over the Masai Mara, private Russian ballet performances in St. Petersburg.

But even more thrilling to me is the recent discovery that true happiness doesn’t come from WHAT I’m doing. It comes from how much of ME is doing whatever it is I’m doing.

When my awareness is knotted up in the past or the future, I’m not fully doing anything. Whenever I’m resisting something (and that can be anything from wishing Taz was still here to shaking my head at political divisions), I’m opposing the natural flow of life.

Resistance wastes a tremendous amount of energy and, I’m noticing, it’s actually the cause of most (maybe all?) problems. When I invest my attention in changing or fixing things or not liking something (instead of letting life perform its beautiful, intoxicating dance) the experience of resistance becomes my reality.

The things I most desire (equanimity, guidance, daily delight) are not something to be achieved. They’re right here, ready to be revealed beneath my mind’s resistive thoughts.

I also want to let you know that I’m one of the speakers at an upcoming Wealth Codes Summit. Although my definition of wealth might be different from some of the other speakers—Joe Vitale, Lisa Nichols, John Assaraf and other well-known abundance coaches — I’m honored that I was invited to share my perspective at this FREE, four-day event. You can check it out at this link.

It’s all about manifesting a life of prosperity and abundance.

Which I’m happy to report I enjoy every single moment when I’m fully here, living in my natural state of gratitude and joy.

#222 Forever!

Notes from a Possibility Posse

October 1, 2025 26 Comments

‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one.’”—C.S. Lewis

This photo came up in FB memories this morning. It’s the amazing team that hosted me in Japan 10 years ago today. Notice they’re wearing my face on their heads!

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” I was thinking about that quote while walking to this morning’s possibility posse.

And I decided to amend it just slightly:

Even if something IS broke (or appears to be), don’t fix it. Here’s why:

Trying to fix something churns up energy of brokenness. Of things not being “okay.”

And I rarely (maybe never?) have enough perspective to truly judge that something is “not okay.”

When I completely surrender to life, when I trust implicitly that life loves me and wants nothing but my greatest good, I have to bow to every experience as a gift. Why would I choose to return it or attempt to amend it?

I notice when I refuse to churn up resistance, which is exactly what happens every time I judge something as needing to be worked on, life has a way of “fixing,” if you want to call it that, all that’s amiss. It works like magic.

Allowing, in my world, is a gazillion times more powerful than attracting or fixing or trying to change anything.

One of the themes of my new book is “Just stop!” Stop getting so involved. Stop thinking you need yet another course or teacher or book (touche!). Putting your attention on things that need to be improved, fixed or changed simply solidifies the mess.

I shared a story that I may have shared before (forgive me if that’s the case, although I notice I need continual reminders) about a friend who had quit trying to fix her relationship status.

Or rather she gave up looking for a relationship. She knew quite clearly the qualities she wanted, but nope, she vowed, never gonna seek again.

She joked that if she was ever going to be in a relationship, her perfect partner would have to knock on her door.

Instead, she started paying attention to all the things she loved. She put her attention on all the beautiful things in her life.

Within a month or two, the guy she was married to for 44 years (he shuffled off the mortal coil last year) literally knocked on her apartment door in New York City.

Speaking of possibility posses, I’m issuing this invitation to anyone who lives in the Kansas City area (or anyone who might want to fly in). Next Tuesday, October 7, my dear friend, Martha Creek, and the fabulous organization the Affiliated New Thought Network is hosting a Raise the Roof event at Unity Village.

Rickie Byars is going to be singing, there’s a Sound Bath and a Candle Light Labyrinth Walk and well, it’s completely free. The idea is to put so much energy into possibility and peace and joy that planetary consciousness will noticeably shift. Did I mention it’s free???

I’ll be there, not presenting, but working the booth with Robin Goff and her remarkable LoveLights organization. You may remember the Taz Grout 222 Foundation contributed to their mission earlier this year. It was such a great honor to be in South Africa at the Ubuntu Camps in January.

So if you’re anywhere near, please come, say hi and let me give you a big, sloppy hug!

It is going to be epic.

In closing, let me just say, as they do in Unity, ‘I love you, I appreciate you and I behold the Christ within you.”

#222 Forever!

Celebrating the sweet spot

September 25, 2025 20 Comments

“There is a simplicity to life if we let ourselves see it…it’s beautiful…and perfect. We become aware of it when we don’t listen to the mental noise in our minds.”—Gail Brenner

Got a kick out of this cartoon from the New Yorker.

Right now, the only time there really is, I am flying high. I feel free, curious and eager to discover what the field of infinite potentiality will dish up for me next.

I love living in “the now,”’ noticing where my attention is flowing. When my awareness is focused on my stories, my thoughts and other concepts I’ve inadvertently swallowed as absolute fact, it creates a lot of noise, a lot of resistance.

Every concept is like a Lego block building higher, thicker, more solid walls that separate me from my true nature — which, I’m starting to notice, loves everything, everyone, no exceptions.

In fact, it’s becoming clear to me that any thought that’s not of love (my true nature) prevents the light from flowing and, yes, it hurts.

Concepts, generated through a life-time investment in certain thoughts and beliefs, prevent the natural beauty and simplicity of life from showing up. It’s always there (thankfully, it’s indestructible), but we can’t see it because of the ever-growing Lego wall.

When I center my awareness on the light (which could also be called pure Divine Intelligence and Infinite Creativity) I notice beauty in everything. There’s SO MUCH FRICKIN’ BEAUTY.

I’m off to get my hair cut, friends, but thought I’d share this quickie update on the butt-kickin’ power of “the now.”

Have an extraordinarily epic Thursday!

#222 Forever!

Seeing creation’s gentleness

September 22, 2025 27 Comments

“We are not holding our breaths waiting for the bad to become good somehow. We are making living pathways for everything to return to Love.”—Ameeta Kaul

Happy Monday, friends! I’m sitting in the backyard, communing with my tree besties, celebrating the fact that I just turned in my manuscript to the amazing book designer, Violet Lemay.

Not only is she a NY Times bestselling children’s book author (her latest, “A Maker of Dresses” was released this week on the heels of NY Fashion week), but she taught illustration at Savannah College of Art and Design. Am I a lucky gal or what?

I’ve dubbed this new book, “a picture book for grownups” because it is meant to show, not tell the story of two very different fields of intelligence.

We humans have access to both.

The field we’re most familiar with is generated within our minds. It has become human’s predominant means for accessing guidance and direction. Unfortunately, it’s extremely limited and, because its chief reason to exist is to keep us safe, it makes a huge racket and has become the P.T. Barnum of “Woe is me.” Let’s just say this field of intelligence has gotten way out of whack!

The other field of intelligence, which is inherent and indestructible, has a much broader viewpoint. It offers a kinder, softer, easier way of approaching life. Today’s Course in Miracles lesson called it “the celestial gentleness with which creation shines.”

Oh and P.S., it contains no fear.

Every moment we spend in one field or the other is an investment in a path that will continue to draw from us and define us.

I’m finding myself relying more and more on the broader, vaster field of intelligence. It’s a heck of a lot more fun, a hundred times less stressful and, I believe, it’s creating a living pathway for everything to return to Love.

#222 Forever!

The incomparable lightness of being

September 10, 2025 32 Comments

“If you’re filled with joy and filled with love, you’re a blessing on this planet.”—Michael Singer

Writing this post was also an excuse to post a picture of my amazing daughter when she was still in manifested particle form. She was and still is my best teacher!

Hello, you gorgeous beams of light. I’ve missed you.

When I’m writing (read: doing one of the things I love most in the world), time gets away from me.

WHAT!! It has been a WHOLE month since I last said hello!

So, howdy, friends, and here are some thoughts I wrote today that may or may not go into the new book. Enjoy!

It sounds like a platitude. Happiness is within. But it’s actually true.

As a brand-new human, before your family and culture got ahold of you, you were curious about and overjoyed with everything. You had zero preferences.

Oh look, a spiderweb! You could watch bugs flying into spiderwebs for hours.

Oh, and there’s another little human about my age! Let’s be friends

Oh, and now, mom’s buckling me into a car seat! It’s so exciting. I can watch new scenery outside the car window and wow! imagine the number of treasures I’ll find at whatever venue she’s taking me to.

Oh, it’s the post office. And there’s a long line. How marvelous! I’ll be able to observe and smile at countless other versions of me. Wonder why they all look so impatient?

Within a few years, brand-new humans are fully-programmed, fully-trained (Good boy, Johnny!) to know which things make them happy. Having a good job, for example! Or owning a BMW.

And which things make them impatient, frustrated. Avoid those at all costs.

It doesn’t take long to match the energetic frequency of our culture, to collect an extensive list of what is necessary to be happy.

Sorry to break it to you, but it’s all bullsh*t. You can be happy doing anything. Vacuuming the rug, for example, or standing in lines. Even sitting for hours at a computer writing a book.

Trying to force life to match your specific criteria for happiness never works. Programmed preferences are not where happiness lives.

Surrender all preferences, all attachments and look for happiness where it really is: everywhere!

#222 Forever!

What if everything is a God job?

August 20, 2025 18 Comments

“Nature is encouraging us each day to exist as our blueprint intended — together.” — Zach Bush

I love my local possibility posse.

I get so much inspiration (our mission, you may remember, is to celebrate what’s going right) that, even though I’m in full-blast writing mode, I thought I’d stop to jot down a quick post inspired by today’s get-together.

We frequently use a phrase–“oh, that was definitely a God job”–when something happens outside our realm of understanding. Like when the perfect book drops off the shelf. Or when someone sends unexpected money.

It occurred to me this morning when the “God job” phrase was mentioned that I can now see that everything is a god job. Everything is a gift.

It is only mental commentary that prevents me from seeing that. Anytime I judge any event (not to mention a person) I fail to notice the miracle.

This truth is becoming so clear to me. Every time I decide to hold up a score card and rate something as “undesirable,” my energy flow gets blocked.

I am in such a state of bliss right now because well, my days are really simple.

I walk. I listen. And I write.

As I open myself to more god job energy (which only means I’m not blocking truth), more inspiration pours through. I wake up nearly every morning with new thoughts, new ideas.

I’ve been comparing it to the manifestation process. Whatever you focus upon is animated into your life. Your attention adds weight and gravity and, before you know it, voila!

In order to get back to my book, I’m going to stop here and share instead this joyous email that popped into my inbox last week:

“Hey there! I wanted to reach out to share my story with the experiment, asking for a blessing within 48 hours. IT WAS SO EXCITING!

I came across a podcast interview that you were on, and although I have been following you on social media for the past few years, I didn’t realize you were a writer (duh on me).

“I immediately went on Audible to purchase 3 of your books. I read “Thank and Grow Rich” first and experienced something cool after reading that one, and then I started on E2.

“Here’s what happened…It was July 12th, and I decided to try the experiment. I asked for a blessing, a wink from God to come to me within the next 48 hours. The following day was my birthday, and my fiancé got us a double Queen suite at one of our favorite oceanfront resorts here in Jupiter, Fl. We live close by and stay there at least once a year on special occasions.

“We usually get the same suite, which is BEAUTIFUL. So we walk into the lobby to check in, and this young, sweet girl behind the desk starts giggling when we tell her our name for the reservation. I said jokingly, “What is so funny?” She replies, “It’s your lucky day! We upgraded you to our 3-bedroom Penthouse for no extra charge. This room goes for $3,500 A NIGHT! We then asked if we could stay a second night at the same rate as the original suite and said “absolutely!”

“I finished E3 this morning, and I am so eager to start experimenting. I also host a podcast called “Thoughts can Heal,” and my last episode was about reading your book, Thank and Grow Rich, and what happened when I experimented with one of your suggestions in the book. Thank you so much for all you do to make this world a better place! Heck, if you’d ever like to be a guest on my podcast I would be honored.”

Thank you, Denise, and thank you God (or whatever you want to be called) for always strutting your stuff. Have a great week, friends! Love you to the six-planet parade gracing our night skies right now and back.

#222 Forever!

Welcome to the sidewalk joy map!

August 12, 2025 25 Comments

“To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health or our circumstances. We must try.” – Roger Ebert

Rachael and one of her own mini-joy producers.

I hadn’t planned to write a post today, mainly because I’m in the throes of my next book deadline.

But then I read this article about the Portland Sidewalk Joy Map and, well, since it’s my sworn mission to share this kind of astounding and important news, I couldn’t help myself.

Here’s the scoop:

Rachael Harms Mahlandt is an artist who curates mini-yard installations created solely for the purpose of spreading a moment of joy to people walking by.

In her hometown of Portland, she has found more than 130 of these sidewalk art exhibits including a rubber duckie exchange, a pollinator seed bank (created in honor of a rescued bumble bee named Harriet), a thimble exchange and 10 tiny hand-cranked music boxes. She created a map for others to also enjoy these secret interactive exhibits and recently branched out to make a map of such installations around the world.

I love this story so much because it’s real news, truthful news. It’s how the world really is when you look beneath the collective focus on turbulence.

I choose not to give my precious energy to the tumultuous story. Because I know that by training my attention on beauty and blessings, I generate more of what I most want to see.

I have been working my self-designed A.A. 2.0 program for more than 12 years, texting daily blessings to my possibility posse. Every single day, I use my superpower of attention to identify moments of love, peace and creativity.

Thought I’d share a sampling from the past few days:

**I appreciate the joy of finding full-formed green beans (it happens, it seems, overnight) in my garden, how their magical appearance reminds me of manifestation (one day they’re not there, the next day they are) and how Source can use anything to remind me of its benevolence.

**I appreciate the yogurt drain pipe I rigged up for our water barrel, the yellow finch feasting on coneflowers outside my front window and Friday lunches with Bekka.

**I appreciate fun convo at Clio on and Leo (it’s a local coffee shop) with fellow North Lawrence voters, taking Azul to her first big concert at the Midland (an old vaudeville theater in Kansas City ) and riding the free trolleys from Crown Center to River Market and back.

**I appreciate community meals at the Sunrise Project, Kansas songwriters at Northside Social and long chat with my sis.

Outside the Sunrise Project where I enjoy twice-monthly community meals.

**I appreciate my always willing meditation partner, that an L.A. DJ gave E-Squared a fabulous shoutout and finding a book I’ve long wanted in the local free book library.

So that’s my public service announcement for today, friends. Love you all more than you’ll ever know.

#222 Forever!