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Pam Grout
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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
“This is the season of exquisite redemption, a slam-bang return to joy.”—Barbara Kingsolver
Happy Earth Day, friends! I bow in gratitude to Mother Nature, I accept her bounteous gifts and I vow that I will never stop noticing her beauty.
I also want to rave (you know how I am!) in appreciation for your comments and experiment progress reports. I hesitated to use that term, because “progress” is a word from the old paradigm. Like we’re all supposed to make progress, get somewhere, do something.
When in reality, we’re really just here to delight in life’s stunning gorgeousness.
I noticed a theme running through some of the comments. Like you wondered if it was really the Great Cosmic Concierge talking to you or if was just your imagination.
JUST YOUR IMAGINATION?!!!, my imagination retorted. “What am I, chopped liver?”
I, for one, value my imagination and believe it speaks on behalf of my Higher Power. Like all humans, I tend to overuse the left hemisphere of my brain. So when I slip into the creative, intuitive hemisphere, it shuts down the cognitively overdeveloped side. Which is where those old, crusty stories reside.
As for the same messages repeating themselves, I found that when I started doing this, I desperately needed to hear over and over and over again that “I was loved,” “that everything is going to be okay.” The Course says that in order to experience miracles—which are natural and happening ALL.THE.TIME—we must see ourselves as wholly innocent.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve accrued a lot of messages over the years that said just the opposite.
So in the beginning, my voice was a broken record of compassion and acceptance, reminding me again and again that I was loved, that my true nature was joy. Its quiet power and consistency eventually convinced me it might be on to something. Its increasing clarity made it impossible for me not to listen.
But by far the most important bennie of my morning powwow is that it hooks me up to a loving vibrational frequency before I even start my day. It sets the tone for an amazingly awesome, extraordinarily epic 24 hours. And, that my friends, is all I need.
Enjoy the Earth wherever you are today! And I wish for you a deep communion with your own personal Cosmic Concierge!
To life!
#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)
“The part of your mind in which truth abides is in constant communication with God whether you are aware of it or not.”—A Course in Miracles
Little Pammy Sue here on yet another fabulous Friday, hoping to hear from those of you doing the experiment. For that matter, I’d love to hear from any of you.
I’m thrilled to report that, while ordinary human thoughts continue to play in my mind like elevator music, I’m becoming better able to tune into a deeper, more loving reality.
Over and over, I keep hearing that the inherited programs of the world are no longer necessary, that all they do is block the higher transmission.
Overriding the old story takes practice. I sometimes find it rather daunting and hard to believe the depth of the love and the total lack of judgment. Surely, all those rules I was taught had to mean something?
But no, I keep hearing, “I only love you. I only see your beauty. I only recognize your light.”
“The old thoughts,” it tells me are way beneath my glory. And that stepping off the merry-go-round of the ego is part of the evolution of humanity.
I’ve heard from some of you about the joy of being back in touch with your best friend, that you’re excitedly “dropping some light.” As I said, I’d love to hear in the comments below how your experiment is going.
Have you settled on a name for the higher thing? Have you started to trust its voice? Are you getting any guidance?
Barry Taylor, the former road manager for AC/DC, once joked that the name, God, is just a blanket we put over the ever-changing, always-loving life force.
Here’s to allowing it to bust out of its manufactured confines.
Tell me, tell me. Below, below.
Someone recently called my posts a newsletter, so this next bit is what I think newsletters normally do. Announce some offerings. The first comes from Hay House. Between April 21 and 27, they’re offering the new eBook edition of E-Squared for $2.99. And then from April 28 to May 4, they’re offering The Course in Miracles Experiment eBook for $1.99.
The last announcement (and I love that others out there just do these things, since I’m so NOT a promoter) is from Mike Dooley’s Tut. A couple years ago, he and I offered a Magical Mystery Manifesting Adventure. He’s offering it again for a sizable discount. You can check it out here:
So, here’s to Fridays, love and the true sense of belonging to life.
#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)
“You are the teacher and healer you’ve been waiting for.”—Byron Katie
Perhaps my favorite line from my book, Art and Soul, Reloaded, is this: “The only book that will ever change your life is the one you write yourself.”
Admittedly, it’s not what a marketing consultant would want me to say. Doesn’t really encourage robust sales.
But that’s one of the traps we’ve been stuck in, the Skinner’s box that trains us to mindlessly, habitually react.
For far too long, we’ve been listening to directives from people who…well…want something from us, who believe the more, more, more narrative. We’ve totally bought the idea that “something is missing and that somebody out there, some THING out there is going to provide it. Better keep looking.”
We really don’t need all the things we’re constantly encouraged to need.
Especially when everything we really need—including answers and ideas and healing—resides right here, immovably inside us.
I laughed at one of the comments about Neale Donald Walsch’s book, Conversations with God. Rebecca said, “It never occurred to me to have my own conversation.”
Right now, collaborating with…I still haven’t settled on just one name for this loving Chatty Cathy…is the most rewarding part of my day. I’m finding it to be a loving and wise partner.
Mostly, it’s a huge relief to realize that something that’s not me is looking out for my good. It’s comforting to feel the presence of an invisible energy realm that actually seems to like me. That, from what I can tell, has always been there, hiding quietly behind my habits and mindless reactions, waiting for its moment to have the floor.
Have a fabulous weekend, you gorgeous you’s!! Make it the best—yes, it can keep getting better—weekend of your life.
#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)
“Every choice we make is a kind of prayer that aligns us with a certain reality and a certain future.” –Charles Eisenstein
Although I’m not quite as prolific as “Sybil,” who allegedly had 16 different personalities and voices, I notice two distinct thought patterns vying for my attention.
The first, often called an ego, constantly tries to keep me safe, points out lots of things I need to improve and basically repeats old stories, old ideas that toe the party line. Never have I noticed it telling me anything new or exciting or revelatory.
The other voice, which I’m discovering is every bit as present and available, speaks a whole different tale. It tells me I’m loving, loved and that my love is needed, important even.
The kinder, gentler voice claims to have always been there, but because it’s not pushy (love never is), it had to wait for my invitation. Which, as you all know by now, I’ve been doing every morning. Inviting it to dish!
Today, it assured me that its voice is my real voice and that the other voice—the one that has berated me off and on for my whole life—is just borrowed nonsense from a culture that lives in fear.
It even went so far as to say that it perceives me as perfect.
Say what?
Nobody has ever said that before, except maybe one of my old boyfriends in the early throes of romance.
And it also mentioned that as I begin to recognize this perfection in myself, I’ll see it in everybody else. Now that’s something worth having because as this point, I still seem to see a few things out there that I don’t rank as a perfect 10.
So I’m happy to be what the Course calls “a glad receiver.” And I’m becoming more and more willing to surrender my allegiance to the old thought system that a) never seemed to have my best interests at heart and that b) is made of creaky old tapes that I no longer need.
Hope y’all are enjoying your budding love story with your own correspondent which I’m told by my correspondent thinks you are perfect, too.
#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)
“God does not share these weird beliefs with you.”—A Course in Miracles
I LOVE road trips with all my heart. I love seeing new sights, experiencing new places and finding things I had no idea even existed.
This weekend’s version included stumbling on to Free Cookie Friday, meeting a delightful Jamaican expat who runs a food truck in tiny Lamoni, Iowa and hiking across a high trestle bridge. And that was just the first few 24 hours.
Road trips also have a way of pushing the limits of what I’m able to imagine. All of us are shaped by what we perceive, what we allow ourselves to see. And once we define something, we’re blinded to the bigger truth of it. We literally reduce our apertures.
What I’m finding in my morning practice is that with a slight shift in awareness, the narrow band of awareness widens. I notice the whole world starting to hum.
It’s also becoming clearer to me that life doesn’t have to be the way we think it is. The division, the wars, the greed is just one system, one way of understanding the world. It’s far from a complete picture. Quite easily, we can begin to transcend this particular way of thinking.
And it starts with knowing that it doesn’t have to be this way. How often do we shrug and think, “Well that’s just the way it is.” “That’s just the way our system works.”
But is it really that way or have we limited what we can perceive?
The practice I’m doing now is opening a portal to something bigger. This Voice, as I guess I’ll call it today (I was relieved to recently learn that Hindus have 330 million different names for God) isn’t so much about getting answers, but about feeling a connection, a Divine Buzz, a different way of seeing the world.
The reason I chose the above headline is because I want any of you who are trying the 30-day experiment to know that there is no right or wrong way to do it. Wrong and right are just concepts that live in that narrow band of perception.
Happy Monday, friends!
#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)
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