law of attraction – Pam Grout

In good we trust

April 28, 2026 22 Comments

“Give yourself permission to howl even when there’s no moon.”—cartoon I noticed in the funny pages

Once you calibrate to a particular frequency, you start to notice a different set of “facts.” You start to recognize a continuous steam of what some call miracles.

Ever since E-Squared hit the airwaves, my inbox has been jammed with stories that begin with some version of “You are never going to believe this.” And, of course, I expect these sorts of gee-whiz tales at my possibility posses.

But this morning, at my Spanish class—yes, my Spanish class—I heard two tales that defy the accepted, material-bound paradigm in which most humans invest their energy. Thought I’d share:

#1: Carol’s husband, Bo, died of cancer 13 years ago. Not surprisingly, she received many signs from him in the early years including a specific message about some lights she’d installed from a guy at the hardware store she barely knew.

Recently, a FB friend posted about a sign she’d received from her deceased son which inspired Carol to ask Bo if he still, 13 years later, checked in on her and their two sons.

When Bo was alive, he and Carol had a joint checking account with both their names on their checks. After his death, Bo’s name was removed and their checks came with her name only. It had been that way for 13 years.

Soon after she specifically asked whether or not he was still checking on them, the bank sent new checks that had both their names.

#2: The other story came from Karen, our espanol maestra (teacher) who also happens to be a speech pathologist. She mentioned to one of her clients that she really wanted to go to Italy. The client, who happened to be a practicing Buddhist told her to forget the last part of the sentence that included, “but I can’t afford it.”

Instead, the client advised, to ask sincerely for the trip to Italy while chanting “Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.”

Within a few days, an unexpected check from some continuing education fund Karen knew nothing about landed in her mailbox. It was for $2500, the exact amount she needed for a trip to Italy.

So, yes, we may have been practicing Spanish, but we were also calibrating to a frequency of gratitude and truth and the recognition, Horatio, “that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy.”

#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.

It’s never too good to be true

September 21, 2018 18 Comments

“While you’re caught up in why he didn’t return your call, galaxies all across the cosmic horizon are tumbling into the unknown faster than the speed of light.”—Deepak Chopra dobby

We humans are an awful lot like Dobby, the house elf in the Harry Potter books. Thankfully, we don’t have the green tennis ball eyes or the long bat-like ears, but we do treat ourselves in much the same way.

Like Dobby, we continually settle for less. We refuse to fully accept our good. The universe is trying like bloody hell to pour out blessings and we’re so busy composing snarky tweets that we don’t even notice.

When Professor Dumbledore hired the heroic elf to work in the kitchen, he offered him ten galleons a week and weekends off. But Dobby wanted no part of it. He insisted on a single galleon and only one day off per month.

When Dobby, who always referred to himself in third person, explained his pay negotiations to Hermione, he said, “Dobby beat him down, miss. Dobby likes freedom, but he isn’t wanting too much, miss.”

That’s us. Never wanting too much. Never seeing our own beauty. Never recognizing that we have the power to create worlds.

And like Dobby, who often inflicted injury upon himself, we punish ourselves for simply being who we are. We may not hit ourselves in the head or iron our own hands, as Dobby did, but we certainly iron our hair, hit ourselves psychically every time we look in the mirror and constantly try to “improve” our perfect selves.

I prefer what British artist Ruby Etc. posted on Instagram. “The problem with my body? My brain for assimilating the concept of problem areas.”

So today, I say to myself, to Dobby and to every humanoid on the planet, “You are a perfect angel goddess rock star and I am so very, very proud of you. C’mon down and scoop up your gifts.”

Pam Grout is the author of 19 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, Art & Soul,Reloaded: A Year-Long Apprenticeship to Summon the Muses and Ignite Your Daring, Audacious, Creative Side.

How to save big bucks on psychic readings

September 19, 2018 27 Comments

“If it’s the Psychic Network, why do they need a phone number?”—Robin Williams

fortune_teller_by_dburon-d5843kx I’m a huge fan girl of fortune tellers, psychics, mediums, tarot readers, palm readers, the whole crystal ball of wax. What could possibly be more fun than paying a mysterious someone to peer into your future and deliver exciting predictions of what’s to come.

Even the warnings are riveting, providing a never-ending source of intel for making decisions.

Over the past decade, however, I’ve discovered an even better resource for predicting my future. And it’s absolutely free of charge.

The words coming out of my lips. The words I utter to my friends, to my family, the words that dogpaddle through my brain.

When I say (and think) things like “This is going to be an extraordinarily epic day” or “Things always work out for me,” I find that’s exactly what happens. When I complain about an ache or bemoan the fact I didn’t get the prerequisite eight hours (who made up that figure anyway?), I pave the way for a less than stellar day.

The words we use to describe ourselves and our lives are a powerful resource.

We can use them to prophesy a positive future. Or we can throw them around carelessly like confetti at a party.

When we say thing like, “Oh no, it’s flu and cold season” or “I’ve tried every diet out there,” we foretell an old story that has no reason to repeat itself except for our propensity to keep peering into the same antiquated and boring crystal ball.

The more I discover the power of my thoughts, the more I notice the psychic implications of my words.

At breakfast, a friend mentioned how she was blindsided over some event in her life. She uses this word a lot. Well, guess what? Every time I see her, there’s a new episode in her ongoing soap opera. I could probaby sell it to the networks: Blindsided: how one well-meaning drama queen unwittingly sows distress again. And again. And again.

So, while I’d never discourage anyone from consulting a psychic (the entertainment value alone is worth every penny), but it’s imperative to acknowledge that continuing to rehash the same old phrases and words and thoughts is a more accurate predictor of your future than any horoscope could ever be.

Today I counteract the operative inside my mind with forgiveness

September 14, 2018 15 Comments

“Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living.” ― Paul Kyriazi

“Hm,’ said Bond. ‘That’s bogeyman stuff.”—Ian Fleming james bond

My ego (that whiny voice that likes to inform me that so and so “done me wrong,” that this circumstance is a huge problem) is a double agent. It pretends to know everything. But he really did call you a skunk. You really DO have a good excuse.

It pretends to be my friend. It pretends to be working on my behalf. But it lies through its teeth. It has no allegiance to the higher cause. In fact, it’s employed by the patriarchy, loyal only to the dominant paradigm that says people are not to be trusted, that lack and limitation is the state of the world and that fear is the only emotion worth cultivating.

This pernicious double agent ego infiltrated my mind sometime before I was 5. It began transmitting disinformation by telling me I was somehow different from other people and that I was both better (sometimes it whispers that fictitious story) and/or worse (another popular tactic) than everybody else.

It gained my trust by scaring me, showing me its deceptive surveillance of the wretched and the ugly. This double crossing mole told me that life is hard, that people were not to be trusted, that abundance was for other people.

But today, I have but one goal. To stand with and for Truth. ACIM Lesson 257 promises me peace. And any operative that presents conflicting counterintelligence, I will immediately report to the authorities (the Holy Spirit) to handle as it sees fit.

Also want to share this video from www.tribesforgood.com. I’ll be joining them this November for the maiden Social Impact Journey. Any takers?

More tales from the annals of magic and enchantment

July 17, 2018 7 Comments

“When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.”—Shannon L. Adler

miracles2 It has been five and a half years since E-Squared made its debut. To this day, I still get emails from readers excited about their experiment results.

I sometimes share these stories here on the blog. Since it has been awhile, I trust you’ll enjoy these fun “test results” that recently popped into my inbox.

For those wondering, I still plan to blog about the Course in Miracles. I’m currently formulating the daily lessons into a book. I’ve also got lots of cool new projects in the making, so stay tuned.

In the meantime, here are three inbox miracles:

1. “I just wanted to drop a note to let you know that I have manifested $10,000 and a perfectly placed porta potty using experiment #1 in your book E2.

“The financial blessing came last March when my husband and I were pulling tiny, frayed strands together to meet our monthly bills. This blessing allowed us to continue our mission to create a better world through our business YogiTriathlete.

“The second blessing came just this past weekend when I felt inspired to listen to your book again while on my way to meet a group for a trail run here in San Diego. Feeling an agenda to create another $10,000 I announced to the FP that I was letting that go and that I trusted that I would be provided with exactly what I needed. I knew 100% that I would receive a blessing but I asked for it to be obvious because I experience miracles every day.

“The FP delivered.

“I’ve been an endurance athlete for over 13 years and I have never needed a bathroom as much as I did last Saturday. It was all I could do to keep that turtle’s head in its shell. Then voila! Just steps from my car was a porta-potty that I swear I never saw before. Divinely sent into my awareness and all was well in the world again.”

2. “I am turning 27, born and raised in China and came to the US for high school at 15. After college I worked in a big bank and thru a series of unpleasant circumstances I left and came back to NY for grad school. According to my worrying parents, I was in a difficult place in terms of career…

“I constantly listen to Abraham Hicks and Neville Goddard and firmly believe that God will deliver me into the 100% right position I was meant to be. I started reading your E-squared book 1 month ago.

“After reading something you said about putting intentions out there, I said to myself: I will have a girl I like in bed with me in a week and a job in 1 month. Both were actually thrilling and a bit nerve-racking. Nonetheless, I decided. (I don’t usually understand this word but this time, I think I actually tasted the little-bit-scary reality when these things do come true, they would totally shatter my then current way of life in every way, but I didn’t care, I wanted them shattered.)

“Guess what! One of my best friends expressed her feelings towards me the night before she left the US and we spent the night together. I was offered a summer internship in China two weeks into my “search” for a job (the search is more than whole-hearted to me, but to any outsider it would not seem that way, considering I only work mornings and spend afternoons mostly reading your books, ha).

“I don’t know how God did this, but he sure puts everything I ever want with my job into this one offer. I decided I wanted to be a researcher (so I’d know more than the person I speak to), a trader (who make decisions), an executive assistant (so I get to liaise among different parties) in chronological order in the last year alone. I also knew I wanted to be a great friend/business partner with the most successful people in the world at a relatively young age. Given my cultural background, the one thing I want to do is to connect between the US and China. Can you believe me? All of them culminated in this internship I am about to do! I am just so on cloud 9 right now.”

3. “Hi Pam, just finished the 101 Dalmatians chapter in E-Squared! Wahoo, my experiment was to ask for a fun text from my girlfriend. I showered her with good vibes for getting a big windfall.

“I just got a text from her today that she won a pet portrait package in a raffle she entered! It was very fun to get that text, I’m still smiling!”

And so am I! Smiling and celebrating and pumping my fists!

It’s all just a big misunderstanding

April 22, 2018 15 Comments

“Thoughts are the ultimate buzzkill.”—James Twyman light-joy-peace-abide-in-me-2

All problems boil down to this one tiny misunderstanding:

We view the world from a different perspective than our Source.

ACIM Lesson 112 is another attempt to correct the misunderstanding.

When you get it that light and joy and peace abide in you, the following three truths become evident:

1. There is nothing you could ever do, nothing that could ever happen, that can separate you from your Source.

2. You are loved beyond anything you could ever imagine. The word love, purloined by a culture that knows nothing of the sort, is a paltry substitute for this deep, abiding connection.

3. Because of your inalienable connection to this bigger thing that cannot be named, you have the power to create worlds. In fact, that is why you are here.

Pam Grout is the author of 19 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her new book, Art & Soul,Reloaded: A Year-Long Apprenticeship to Summon the Muses and Ignite Your Daring, Audacious, Creative Side.

The continuing dress rehearsal in my head

February 6, 2018 10 Comments

“I’m thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I’ve got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony – and my daughter Grammy.”- Noah Wyle
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Alessia Cara, the 21-year-old Canadian pop singer who just won the Grammy for Best New Artist, is living proof of one of my top ten maxims: “We animate into our lives whatever we put our attention upon.”

The night of her big win, when she strode to the stage to accept her award, she said, “Holy cow. I’m shaking. I’ve been pretend-winning Grammys since I was a kid, like in my shower.”

So what I want to know is “what are you rehearsing?” In your head. In your shower. In your everyday thoughts.

If you can’t answer right away, just look around. Look at where you are. Look at what you have.

That, my friend, is what you’ve been rehearsing.

In ACIM Lesson 37, we rehearse a statement that will upgrade every single thing in your life: My holiness blesses the world.

My purpose, the Course tells me, is to see the world through my holiness. To see it through the beauty Cara sings about in her hit, “Scars to Your Beautiful.”

Until I fully realize that I am holy, completely, 100 percent whole, I will still believe in (and therefore see) sacrifice. Until I learn to bless the world, to see through the eyes of gratitude, there will continue to be a “payment” involved. Either from myself (“I need to try harder”) or from someone else (“It’s not fair what that creep did to me”).

And here’s the real kicker. From the perception of problem (even the tiniest complaint), I will continue to see loss. And I will have no idea that my lack of gratitude, my lack of blessing, my lack of wholeness is the cause.

So today, I embrace my holiness and know that my great joy is to bless the world.

Let’s build a brand new table

January 21, 2018 12 Comments

“You are a creative genius who came here to express yourself.”—Esther Hicks

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I mentioned in yesterday’s blog my intention for everyone (no exceptions) to get a seat at the table.

But I decided an even better intention is to build a whole new table. Which sorta leads to Lesson 21: I am determined to see things differently.

The old table is like that old gum I also mentioned yesterday. It’s old news. Its juice has been sucked out, it’s basically been-there-done-that-no-thanks.

The old table is reductionist, judgmental, a know-it-all. And it’s likely to have the same number of seats, just different players.

At the new table, we attend to the bigger, non-visible world. We trust that it’s every bit as alive as the material world. We have faith that the new story, the inclusive, everyone belongs story is really just a matter of re-engineering reality.

And we know that we have the power to do it. We know we can envision a different reality.

It doesn’t even have to be hard. Unless we choose to see it that way.

I herby resolve to quit staring at the old reality, to quit treating it as if it’s a circus freak show.

It’s only there because I and a lot of other people on Planet Earth have put our attention upon it. When we resist and oppose and throw our hands in the air, we basically give our energy to the old gum. We say to the universe “more please.”

I want my new table to be expansive, to recognize unlimited possibilities and ongoing creation.

We are here, you guys, to expand, to create. Not just art, but all the time. In all ways. As the subtitle on my latest book suggests, we are here to ignite our daring, audacious, creative side.

Today, as we are determined to see things differently, let us know that true creation, new creation is why we’re here.

P.S. Whoever drew this cute little illustration of E-Squared, thank you–I absolutely LOVE IT!!!

Every day should be devoted to miracles

January 17, 2018 7 Comments

“You’re here and you’re breathing and you get to take part in the ongoing creation of the world.”—Rob Bell
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My self-created job title is fielder of miracles. Although I don’t have a catcher’s mitt, I do have a very capable in-box that works even better. Ever since writing E-Squared, people have been lobbing really cool miracles stories my way….

…proving Lesson 17:

I see no neutral things.

This lesson delves further into a spiritual law that’s as reliable as gravity. You magnetize into your life whatever those non-neutral thoughts focus upon.

As it says right up front, this lesson is another step in identifying cause and effect as it operates in the world. And with that, I’ll put you in the capable hands of my inbox:

Message #1: Dear Pam: I wrote last fall to tell you about a mind-blowing experience I had from my first experience with one of the exercises in “E-Squared.” Since then, as I have continued to explore your ideas and delved in to “E-Cubed,” my life has become ever more joyful and rich. One of my greatest realizations from your writings is that I don’t need things to be a certain way in order to be happy. I now read a chapter daily and keep a gratitude journal, as well as continue to try out different exercises here and there. It’s been wonderful. THANK YOU!

I had a similar life change when I read “You Can Heal Your Life” by Louise Hay back in the 1980s. You are like the new Louise to me – which obviously is one of the greatest compliments that could be paid.

The latest “reward” from having taken your writings to heart – I teach art at the college level, and when I moved during the fall 2016 semester, I left the university I had been teaching at for the previous 14 years. Throughout 2017 I tried and tried to find a similar position in my area, but was told over and over by sympathetic department chairs that they had no openings, that their enrollment was down, and that there were other adjuncts with more seniority than me. I almost lost heart, but when I started reading your books in fall 2017, I kept in mind that the universe has abundant offerings and timing, and I kept doing energy exercises and writing in my gratitude journal (and playing “Happy” by Pharrell Williams every day). On January 1, I received 2 job offers!

Message #2: Pam. I’ve had your E squared book on my shelf for a while but recently saw your Thank & Grow Rich book on audible. I recently quit working as a radio presenter & am now a freelance voiceover artist. It’s fun but scary & my boyfriend & I decided, now I’m not tied to a radio job, to take 6 weeks out & travel. I have been really nervous about losing my client base but also thought now or never. Then, Sod’s law, I get an awesome retainer gig voicing showbiz news videos for a big YouTube channel. I took it but worried they would ditch me when they heard I was taking 6 weeks out.

After listening Thank & Grow Rich like 3/4 times, I started reading E squared. I did experiment 1 at the weekend which gave the universe til 728pm Monday night to give me a blessing. Today I got a call for the guys at this YouTube channel saying they have a lot of other projects on right now & would I mind waiting until mid March to start up again (I leave the UK next Sunday until mid March!) & on top of that, would I like some on camera work too when it starts up again, & they’d like to pay me to do their social media. I thought “is this my gift?” but wasn’t convinced. Then I saw my Physio for an ongoing back issue this afternoon. He asked how my freelancing was going. I told him about the gig & he said he wasn’t one for believing in miracles or the universe but that that was definitely fate. I just wanted to let you know.

It felt kind of spooky too that I’d picked up your E squared book at an airport a few years ago but never read it. Then noticed it on the shelf as I was telling my boyfriend about you and your other books. I didn’t realise I owned another book by you.

Thanks so much for your wonderful books & entertaining writing.

And thank you, friends, for helping me rewrite the story of the world.

Like a room without a roof

January 16, 2018 24 Comments

“My whole life has been an effort to find freedom—freedom from myself, freedom from my own fears.”—Helen Mirren
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As a journalist, I was taught that the lede (the opening paragraph) of any story is my big chance to catch a reader’s attention. Tell them who, what, where, when and how—right up front.

Course in Miracles doesn’t do that. It tills the soil, prepares us slowly for the insanely radical notion that we’re not so much “observing reality” as we are creating it.

A few people have commented on the difficulty of previous lessons. A theme of sorts has emerged—How in the heck can I possibly believe my thoughts are meaningless?

So I’ll try to explain:

Any thought that falls into one of the following categories is basically meaningless:

Life is hard.
I’m separate and all alone.
I’m limited.
There’s not enough to go around.
I have to struggle.
I’m not worthy.

Every thought that falls into one of these categories is meaningless . It’s simply NOT TRUE. It only appears that way because we secretly (or not so secretly) put our attention there.

The first few lessons of the Course serve as a giant eraser to gently remove those meaningless thoughts. Then, there’s space to focus on all the things that actually ARE true.

Things like ease and grace, being connected to everything, experiencing great abundance, seeing that who I am is love, recognizing that my role here on Planet Earth is to be a big giant light to illuminate the dark places.

Lesson 16 (I have no neutral thoughts) is meant to dispel the belief that your thoughts have no effect. It goes so far as to say that there is NO EXCEPTION to this fact. And furthermore, every thought either furthers the illusion (the meaningless) or it furthers your role as creative light bulb.

I can’t stress enough how exciting this lesson is. We, my friends, no longer have to cope with what we observe out there. We don’t have to face reality. We get to create reality.

And with that, I’m signing off with one of my all-time favorite songs.