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“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”
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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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
“In the universe there are things known and things unknown and in between there are doors.”—William Blake
Newtonian physics tells us change occurs when force is exerted on mass. To this day, most folks believe the only way to improve life is to gather enough signatures or rack up enough social media followers or amass a hefty enough pile of moolah. Then and only then, the thinking goes, can we effect positive change.
But what if that’s an outdated idea, disproven some 100 years ago when quantum physics found that even the tiniest of movements, the smallest of acts has cosmic significance?
What if the two-way conversations so many of us have begun is impacting consciousness? What if life is working in quiet and subtle ways in the journals of individuals all over the world?
What if this appeal to another intelligence is impacting the planet? What if anytime one of us opens our heart a tad bit further, the whole world opens to a new possibility?
What if the single family of four who currently enters and exits their house on a ladder through the kitchen window (so as not to disturb the mother robin who built her nest by the side door or the mother finch and her four babies by the front door) affects how all of us honor and value life?
Again, it’s not the conventional path, the one that has long told us that working hard and struggling and relying on big organizations and big governments is the route to a more beautiful world.
But here’s the thing. We all have equal power to determine the future.
I can’t help but notice that something really significant and powerful is happening behind the scenes.
Not long after I started formally asking the Divine for guidance (I’ve been a fan and a beggar for its wisdom all my life), I was told that Elizabeth Gilbert had embarked on a similar project. Last weekend, I finished a book by Julia Cameron, a sequel of sorts to the Artists Way, where she also suggests seeking written guidance (this is in addition to morning pages). As Cameron says, we all have a direct dial to God.
Each of us are interconnected at a level beyond space and time. Every part of the universe has access to information about every other part, giving all of us the power to sway the world towards light.
We need only pick up a pen and begin.
#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)
“Change your mind on what you want to see and all the world must change accordingly.”—A Course in Miracles
Two of my early mentors recently showed up again in my life.
They’re both authors and, while I never met either (not sure our time on Planet Earth ever even crossed), they both gave me important inspiration and ideas which I “borrowed” and expanded on to write my own books.
Florence Scovel Shinn, author of The Game of Life and How to Play It, was a favorite in my early days of metaphysics. I was reminded of her last weekend when my friend, Jay, gave a talk on her no-nonsense approach to spirituality. Beware of every word, she cautioned, because each utterance casts a spell and creates reality.
Neville Goddard, another early favorite, came up in a conversation between Michael Beckwith and Abiola Abrams, who just published a book about Abdullah, an Ethiopian rabbi who first introduced Neville to spiritual law.
Neville, as you probably know, taught that our imagination (our consciousness) creates its likeness (its manifestation) in the physical world.
When he was still a young dancer on Broadway, Neville told Abdullah he longed to return for a visit to his native Barbados. Thanks to the Depression, the theater world was on hiatus and well, he hadn’t seen his family in 12 years. Never mind that he was broke.
Abdullah simple shrugged and gave him these three words. “Be in Barbados.”
“But……” Neville sputtered.
“Don’t see yourself going to Barbados. Be in Barbados. Now!”
Neville finally got it and even though he was smack dab in the middle of Manhattan, he began “being in Barbados” in his imagination. He imagined palm trees, he imagined smelling ocean breezes, sinking his toes in a white, sandy beach.
Within a few days, his brother called “out of the blue” to say the family wanted him home for Christmas and had just bought him a ticket for steerage that he was to pick up at the Furness Ship Line.
Abdullah wasn’t finished with his student.
He simply added a second set of three words. “Be in First Class.”
“But this was the only ticket available,” Goddard insisted,
Abdullah would have none of it.
“Be in First Class,” he simply repeated and walked away.
You can guess what happened? Neville Goddard sailed first class to Barbados, spent three glorious months in his home country and sailed back to Manhattan, in, of course, first class.
The “something new“ is my practice of making mandalas each morning. I mentioned it in the last post, but I wanted to further gush (you know how I am?) about the startling abundance that has been so clearly illuminated.
Every single day, there are new, beautiful” art supplies” just waiting for me to pluck up and use in my daily design. It’s not an exaggeration to say that being witness to this ongoing supply has been life-changing. I mean, wow!
By letting go my need to find the extraordinary and spectacular, I am coming to recognize the simple wonder that lies all around me, in the ordinary. And it makes me question, “What else do I miss? What else do I walk by each and every day?”
Life continues to prove that everything I could ever need is right here. Right now. I just need to look.
#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)
“Everything will be alright if we just keep dancing like we’re 22.”—Taylor Swift
I grew up in a traditional Christian home. Until I was 16, when my minister father left the family for another woman, I attended Sunday services on the regular.
While my beliefs have evolved over the years (isn’t that the point—evolution, expansion?), I am beyond grateful to my early biblical education that emphasized miracles.
I learned that manna fell from the sky, water could be changed into wine and a few loaves and a couple fish could feed 5000 hungry folks.
Life provides few certainties, but knowing that “impossible” things happen is the most important lesson I’ve ever learned.
Things I can’t even imagine happen every single day. New portals of energy open up all the time.
That’s why it’s so important for me to connect with this higher truth, this yet-to-be realized truth first thing every morning. If I start my day with the narrative fed to me by the internet, the news, “the known,” I miss the possibilities. And possibilities are everywhere — wild, dazzling possibilities.
Maybe I can’t overthrow the system, but I believe I can supplant it with my openness to new, to possibilities, to the allowing of the force field that wants to speak through me, through you, through each of us. And, yes, it helps to question the limitations, fear and shame we’ve accidentally learned.
The picture with this post is a mandala I made this morning with fallen petals in my yard. Like a sandcastle, it won’t last long. But that’s not the point. I’m here to notice and create beauty. And then be ready to notice and create a different kind of beauty tomorrow. Or later this afternoon. Or whenever life calls.
I’m not here to lead anybody. I’m just here to support the life force that is evolving and expanding and repeatedly trying to tell us we’re not broken, we don’t need to be saved. We simply need to listen to the still beating Truth that exists beyond and beneath the message of our culture.
#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)
“With a small shift in awareness, the world starts to speak in a very different way.”—James Bridle
Where we direct our attention creates our world, both individually and collectively.
What I want to know is why do we permit the superpower of our attention to be sucked into a vortex of negativity…
…when it rains diamonds on the planet Saturn**
…when the call of a mother humpback whale can travel 600 miles through the ocean.
What I want to know is why do we direct our attention to old white guys wearing suits and spouting inanities….
…when there is a fairy trail outside Milburn, New Jersey with 100 tiny, whimsical cottages, lovingly created by a mother who wanted a safe place for her autistic son to explore the wilderness.
….when a Sumatran orangutun recently healed a wound on his right cheek by making an ointment out of an herb. He didn’t go to the doctor or buy an advertised pharmaceutical. He simply listened to the hum of aliveness that calls to us all.
What I want to know is why do we focus on news, social media and political ads specifically designed to distract, enrage and make us fear each other… ….
….when a flash mob danced to “Let it Go” at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.
…when clematis and iris and columbine are putting on the show of their life right now.
Rather than waste our attention on mediated content, let’s go outside and tune our superpower to Mother Nature and her teeming aliveness. It’s humming all around us.
#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)
**More than 10 million tons every year.
“Truth gives its strength to everyone who asks in limitless supply.”—A Course in Miracles
See that epigraph at the top of this post? The one promising limitless supply?
It’s the exact opposite of what most of us believe. Words like unlimited and infinite aren’t really included in the script we pick up at birth.
Which is why I’ve been tuning into a higher signal every morning, communing with a frequency that keeps pointing out that I’m cherished and adored exactly how I am.
We’ve all heard concepts like this, that we are nourished by an inner light, that joy is our natural state (heck, I’ve been writing about these ideas for twenty years), but the thing about starting each morning with the Two-Way is that is has moved from being a pleasant theory to a very present and direct experience.
The Cosmic Concierge with whom I consult every morning urges me to accept nothing less, nothing below 100 percent, undiluted, whole enchilada love. I am not a little bit loved. Or a little bit innocent.
It tells me that until I entertain no substitute for limitless, inseparable, immutable love, I will continue to see the world as less-than-perfect. Everything I see out there is a reflection of what I believe in here. Even if it’s a teeny, tiny speck of not-love, it clouds my vision of the world. It obscures life as it truly is.
And that’s why the Voice sometimes seems like a broken record. You are loved. Everything is okay. There’s nothing to fear.
Not long after I first shared the Two-Way, the wonderful writer and illustrator Sue Shanahan who once interviewed me for her porch light series (she also profiled Brandi Carlile, Martha Beck, Rainn Wilson, Dolly Parton and others) wrote to tell me about a similar project Elizabeth Gilbert was doing.
Every week on Elizabeth’s Substack, she writes a letter to herself from unconditional love, a practice she has been doing for decades. She also invites subscribers to submit their own letters from unconditional love. So if any of you want to take it further than the 30-day experiment I proposed here, I invite you to check out Liz Gilbert’s “Letters from Love.”
I’m finding it inspiring and beautiful. (I already adored Liz’s books) And well, her project reinforces the idea that life is speaking to all of us, that it will never stop reminding us to listen to our hearts, to let its still, small voice offer refuge from past beliefs, old injuries and outdated scripts. Thank you, Sue, for pointing me in Liz’s direction.
Today marks 30 days (and it’s okay to start any time) of the experiment I invited you to try. I’d love to hear how it’s going in the comments section below. I’m especially interested if, like Father Bill W. promised, that once you log 30 days in a row, you’d never dream of going solo again. I know I’m quite relieved to accept help from a generous and relentlessly chatty universe.
I love you all and I hope you remember that being human is something we experience, not who we really are.
#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)
“Pam combines a writing style as funny as Ellen DeGeneres with a wisdom as deep and profound as Deepak Chopra.”
-Jack Canfield
“Your book is beyond spectacular. It’s funny, uplifting, delightful and profound. I am ordering six copies for my daughters and their friends. You rock, the book rocks, and so, of course, does Cosmo K.”
-Dr. Christiane Northrup, Bestselling Author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom
“I called your publicity guy and told him that if a 47-year-old Midwestern guy found this perhaps the most insightful and on target book with regard to “how it works” then the best-seller list cannot be far behind. Your journey….message and honesty and humor about the human condition are nothing short of profound.”
-John St. Augustine, producer for Oprah and Friends
“Thank you for being a delight, and a helpfully subversive presence in the universe!”
-Michele Lisenbury Christensen, coach, consultant and speaker
“In the parlance of today’s youth–I think you are the bomb!”
—Nicole Seiffert, inspiring reader
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