LOA – 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.

Which version of life do you rehearse and support?

December 29, 2025 26 Comments

“The earth seems to be beseeching us to connect with joy and discover our innermost essence.”—Pema Chodron

I’m not a big resolutions gal. It seems to me that the more I strive to change or seek for something, the more elusive it becomes.

In fact, the very act of seeking starts with the assumption you don’t already have the thing you’re seeking.

And that is never true.

Or to say it another way, you already have the very thing you seek. You wouldn’t know to seek it if it didn’t already exist.

As someone mentioned in last Saturday’s Awakin’ Call, humanity still resides in Eden. It’s just that we’ve lost the eyes to see it. We’ve temporarily misplaced the ability to recognize all the beauty and peace and love that is still very much here.

Instead, we focus on and feed the erroneous stories fed to us by our egos.

If all of us could just realize this, the world situation in which we collectively find ourselves would dissolve. Poof!

Together, we have been feeding a mass delusion and the world is calling for more and more of us to upgrade our consciousness.

Right now (that it takes time is part of the delusion) we have the power to dematerialize the whole thing. Simply by rehearsing and supporting a truer, more beautiful possibility.

Hint-hint! We only call things magical or miraculous because we’ve trained ourselves to believe the mass hypnosis is the truth. We’ve rendered our natural inheritance–ongoing blessings and non-stop assistance and signs–invisible. But guess what? They’re still very much here.

My only intention for the upcoming year is to release every false belief and return my eyes to Eden.

#222 Forever!

Pam Grout is the author of 21 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank and Grow Rich and her latest book, The Ego’s Playbook.

Todos bien!

December 17, 2025 24 Comments

“Every moment you spend on an idea is a commitment to be stuck with that idea and with aspects of that level of thinking. Spending just 10 seconds focusing on a topic that does not serve your interests is to invest your energy along a path that will continue to draw from you and define you.”—Kevin Michel

One of my favorite lines from Louis Armstrong’s brilliant anthem, “What a Wonderful World” is the bit about people shaking hands, saying “How do you do?” when what they’re really saying is “I love you!”

For me right now, the whole world is beaming a frequency of “I love you.” It’s so palpable.

Everything—from hugs on the street to strolling troubadours to giggling children chasing dogs—appears to me as a jubilant chorus of love. I literally see nothing else right now.

Although I rarely understand the language of the men laughing down by the lake or the smiling shopkeeper or the abuelos fussing over their steaming pots of tamales, I recognize the light. I see it in the giant eucalyptus trees, I feel it as I’m hiking down from the mountains. I feel intensely blessed.

Sure, that little voice in my head (the one who had the floor in my most recent book) sometimes chimes in, tries to tell me I should be more responsible, more realistic. And most of the time, I just chuckle at its persistent whining. I notice it, shine a little light on it and, like the kids chasing dogs down the street, I giggle.

As I often say, being suspicious of the persistent voice in my head is my highest spiritual practice. I’ve discovered that it never tells the truth, that it has but one mission—to block light, to keep me from seeing that everyone and everything is saying “I love you.”

#222 Forever!

Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank and Grow Rich and her latest book, The Ego’s Playbook.

Who are you beneath the mind’s chatter?

November 20, 2025 21 Comments

“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.

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!

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)

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!

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!

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!

Love without filters

July 23, 2025 37 Comments

“The real goodness of Life is not to be found in the reasoned spaces of our thinking minds.”—Ameeta Kaul

Yesterday, the website, Inspire Me Today, re-ran a post I’d written 10, maybe 12 years ago. Here’s the link:

In the post, I called for love—instead of being relegated to a Valentine’s card or a chick flick—to be our society’s main curriculum. I said that anything this powerful should be emphasized every day in school, in business, on Capitol Hill.

And then I got to thinking about love itself and how, in our culture, it’s always filtered through the brain. It gets turned into concepts and judgments and rules for who is worthy, who is not.

Love that’s filtered through the brain, asks questions like this:

Does he/she check off all my boxes?

Does she/he behave the way I think she/he should?

To filter love through the brain, where it becomes a mathematical equation, is a huge disservice. To love. To you. To the world.

Love is not a concept. It has no right and wrong, good and bad. It is literally a force, a power, a light. And it is rendered crippled when it’s filtered through our brains.

As complex as human brains are, they’re chiefly wired to keep us safe, to see danger, even when there is none. Because our brains act as reducing valves, they are at best capable of regurgitating past beliefs and boxes and limitations.

I’ve got a new book coming out, hopefully by the end of this year. It’s about a different state of consciousness than the one filtered through our brains. This love/life/light (it really can’t be named or even described) is innate and always present.

It always knows what you need. It always supports you. It’s always loving–not the kind of loving with requirements and standards and judgements. The kind of love that accepts you EXACTLY as you are. Right now. Right here.

In this love lies indestructible, infinite freedom.

Can’t wait to introduce my new book.

#222 Forever!

Zero to twenty in P.P. flat

June 18, 2025 26 Comments

“Identities and opinions are the least interesting parts of people.”—Maria Popova

So I just returned home from one of my Possibility Posses (P.P.), checked my email and saw a comment on last week’s blog post that said something to the effect of “so grateful you keep writing these.”

I took that as a sign to share a little something we discussed today.

Possibility posses, far as I’m concerned, are non-negotiable. The important part isn’t so much what we say, but the frequency we create by being together, by focusing on a different narrative. Someone last week even mentioned that the story he was about to share wasn’t as important as the energetic field he intended to create.

I always think of Jill Boelte Taylor’s Ted Talk about the stroke that shut down the left hemisphere of her brain. That’s the logical, conceptual, mathematical part of our brains. While that part wasn’t online, she looked at her hands and saw, not the flesh and bone and fingers we normally associate with hands, but two intermingled clouds of energy.

So the field or the “cloud of energy” to which we commit is one of upliftment and possibility, of a story beyond what we’re often enmeshed with in our culture.

Are we really these bodies? Or are we conjoining fields of energy, fields that we, by our very presence, can use to reach towards light and love or what I like to call, the way things really are.

I know it’s a popular sentiment in the self-help arena to figure things out and fix things with our minds. But I’ve noticed the mind, more often than not, gets in the way.

I compare thoughts, those fields of energy dispensed by the right side of our brains, to birds. Yes, that purple-bellied, green-eyed warbler may still be flying around your yard.

But if you don’t put seed in the bird feeder, it’ll soon fly away. In other words, if you keep putting the same suet out for the same old thoughts, be it thoughts about money or your childhood or whatever else keeps squawking around your awareness, it will continue to vie for your attention and darken your cloud of energy.

So that’s why I only feed “birds” that feel good and why I continue to show up at my possibility posses whenever I can.

Have a gorgeous day, friends.

#222 Forever!