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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”
I am the author of 20 books, two screenplays, a live soap opera, a TV series and enough magazine articles that I haven’t starved in 25 years without a 9-5 job. On this site, you’ll find all sorts of information about my books and about my career as a freelance magazine and travel writer.
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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
“You are more than just matter. You are a highly complex, light-controlled consciousness system.”—David Bingham
I have shared this story many times. The one about the five-year-old boy who begs for time alone with his new baby sister.
He’s so adamant in his requests for this solo, sans-parent time that they worry. What could he possibly have to say that he wouldn’t want us to hear?
But he’s persistent. He insists they simply MUST be alone. His parents finally grant his wish as they secretly wait in the hallway outside the door.
He tiptoes quietly into the nursery, bends over the bassinette and whispers to his weeks-old sibling, “Tell me about God. I’m starting to forget.”
That forgetting, my friends, is what my new book is about. How do we humans go from pure infinite love into a state of limited, fearful consciousness? Why is it that we aren’t actively, blissfully soaking up the world’s many wonders?
In my new, about-to-be released book, I share how the voice in our head (I’ve been known to call it an asshat) uses distractions, illusions and misguided beliefs to cover up the fact that humans are divinity in disguise.
It includes more than two dozen confessions, game plans and strategies devised by the pernicious voice that now dominates most of humanity’s thinking.
The Ego’s Playbook, as I call it, comes at spiritual liberation through the back door. When you “know thy enemy,” as Sun Tzu recommended, you’re better able to recognize the bugs in the system, to more quickly identify your own destructive patterns and habits and, without fighting them, clearly see how to let them go.
The Ego’s Playbook takes readers on a graphic journey through the comically lilliputian thoughts of the mind into the vast expansiveness of the heart.
It’s short, humorous and hopefully, helpful to anyone wanting to break free from old patterns. I call it a “picture book for grownups” and I’m very excited to share it with you. I’ll be sending a link to order in the next couple days.
In the meantime, here’s a cute video my illustrious designer Violet Lemay created for page 144.
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World) and her latest book, The Ego’s Playbook.
“This day will be of my making, either perfect or imperfect, good or bad. I have the power to build the day or rend the day.”—Walter Russell
Don’t you just love it when the universe sends gifts and signs, gives guidance that is so clear you can’t miss it?
Or rather I should say, I love it when my antenna is up, my channels are clear and I’m able to notice gifts and signs and miracles, because I believe they are always there, always available.
The question is “Am I paying attention?”
I’ve been closely observing my energy field, my frequency. I’m noticing how certain thoughts can contaminate my consciousness.
Resistance of any kind, even believing that certain tasks are distasteful, clogs up the universal electrical current.
As Walter Russell says, anything you don’t do with love promotes destructive toxins within your body and your energy field.
I mention Walter Russell because a friend, who I recently met at a weekend satsang in the Ozarks, sent me a book about Russell’s life. Let’s just say he was a spiritual genius.
For starters, he was an accomplished painter, sculptor, architect, composer and author. He knew Mark Twain, both Roosevelts, European heads of state and, unbeknownst to me, I’ve seen buildings he designed and sculptures he created, especially impressive since he didn’t take up sculpting until he was in his 50’s. And he never made it past the 6th grade.
But the real reason I’m singing his praises is because he knew that his talent was available to every single person. He accomplished great feats, not because he was so special, but because he was plugged into what he called the universal supply. He also often called it God.
As I’ve said, it doesn’t matter what we call it. It only matters that we call it forth.
All it takes, he claimed, was desire and the willingness to listen to “Nature’s mighty whisperings.”
It completely takes the onus off of us trying to be perfect. Instead, our only responsibility is to trust in the always-available energy of the universal Creative Force. And to make sure we’re paying attention.
I will close this post with another gift from my friend at the Satsang Garage—this song that obliterates all resistance.
#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 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).
“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!
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 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
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!
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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