Introduction

I need to warn you about truth.  Truth is overpowering and compelling.  It won’t leave you alone.  It will keep showing up when you least expect it enhancing the awareness that you already have.  Often people will refer to these as the “ah’hah” experiences of life.

Meeting Giorgio

 “This has been the greatest day in my life!”  That’s what we all heard Giorgio say to the tow truck driver as we ended our journey from the high desert down to Palm Springs, California.  Giorgio and I had been talking for over an hour.  His truck was up on the flat bed of the tow truck, my son’s van was being pulled behind.  My son earlier had blown a tire on his heavily loaded van and there appeared to be no spare in the high desert.  Georgio also had totally blown his engine, felt pressured by the police as they urged him to get his vehicle off the road, and just now had spent the long journey in the drivers seat of his own truck with me as his passenger.  As my son and daughter-in-law heard Giorgio’s statement they just smiled at his excitement. They had grown accustomed to hearing such comments years before.  Still they knew his exhilaration was not about meeting me, it was about the information contained in this book. 

“Truly this man has totally changed my life,” Giorgio told the four of us standing there, although what he was really saying was that the information I had shared had the potential to change his life.  “I have been begging God for a miracle, and He sent it.” he continued.  With that he laughed and pointed toward his truck still on the flat bed and said, “And this is a cheap price to pay for what I learned today.” 

I am honored and pleased that you are ready to receive the same message as you were born with the creative power at your disposal. We just have to learn to use thought, word, and action. Like Giorgio, you have a divine appointment.  I trust you will refer to this book often.  I believe you will want to give it to friends.  Let me tell you first why I felt I had to write it.

My journey into understanding life, especially healing, began over eighteen years ago when a severe lung condition from birth defects had my breathing capacity down to only one-third and a so-called incurable disease of fourteen years called Multiple Sclerosis had taken nearly eighty percent of my mobility to move.  When faced with a wheelchair as a permanent solution, a voice inside of me screamed, “NO WAY.”  From my perspective, this was a death sentence as I knew my lungs would atrophy within two years and I would be dead from lack of movement.  I chose to live and learned that Life is Choice.

What you are about to read is not here as my life story.  It is about you.  Since it is about you, I have placed my life story as the last chapter.  If you are one of those people that must know more about the author first, you may enjoy reading the ending first. 

This book speaks to the physician in each of us clearly saying, “physician heal thyself.”  It is information everyone is now seeking about “Who am I” and “Why am I here?”

When you seek to know truth, you try to understand it based on what you already know.  In this way you produce blinders on that which could really be truth.  Through your own distortions, deletions, and generalizations you determine your reality without even the understanding that God and others may look upon all this totally different.  Through your filters you color your representations to be and to mean what you want them to.  So truth is always truth according to you.

Many researchers now recognize that it is not really our senses that give us an accurate picture of the world, it is our response as the “Observer” based upon the instruments used and the interpretations in our individual consciousness.  It is the questions that one asks themselves as they observe that produces the territory of observation.  It is estimated that your nervous system actually takes in less than one billionth of the stimulation present.  This is certainly a limited framework from a whole presentation perspective.  Sort of makes one wonder what we miss.

Scientific knowledge has been our framework for exploring what we believed was true.  The maps we have created in consciousness have controlled the territories we have been willing to explore.  It is time to realize however, the map is not the territory.

A Quantum Journey

Quantum states that all of the things in our Universe, even those that appear to exist independently, are actually parts of one all en-compassing pattern in which no parts of that pattern are ever separate from the whole.  Before you finish this book you will have the opportunity to take a quantum journey into self as spirit.  Although the Quantum Experience is often believed to be beyond the reach of the physical senses, it exists.  From the reading and experiences you are about to undertake you will prove the Quantum Experience for yourself.  What scientists call the unified field or the potentiality of the forces of nature to transform themselves into material things or events is nothing other than consciousness itself.

Candace Pert, Ph.D., Neuroscientist, in Molecules of Emotion speaks in terms of the quantum,  saying, “IF information exists outside of the confines of time and space, matter and energy, then it must belong to a very different realm from the concrete, tangible realm we think of as ‘reality.’  And since this information in the form of the biochemicals of emotion is running every system of the body, then our emotions must also come from some realm beyond the physical. Information theory seems to be converging with Eastern philosophy to suggest that the mind, the consciousness, consisting of information, exists first, prior to the physical realm, which is secondary, merely an out-picturing of consciousness.  Although this is about as radical as my scientist mind will let me get, I’m beginning to understand how such a view could coexist comfortably with the kind of science I’ve been doing. ^[1]

You are ready for the quantum journey when you recognize it is time for change, time for a virtual reality experience of healing.  Your biography has become your biology, as Caroline Myss in her many writings proves.  I say virtual reality because you will use your ability to connect the mind and body through the visual cortex for the Quantum Experience.  To quote Andrew Weil in his book Spontaneous Healing, “When it is not occupied with processing information from the eyes, the visual cortex can connect mind and will with the controls of the autonomic nervous system.  It can also elicit spontaneous healing.    Are we talking about miracles?  I say yes.

Moving on Up

To speed up healing’s natural process, it will be necessary to take you to a different level or dimension of thinking and experience. Einstein is quoted as saying, “A problem cannot be solved at the level at which it was created.”  Healing is your birthright.  Choose to claim it as you learn how to go into the higher dimensions of you.  Learn to find your higher energy frequencies of spirituality.  In understanding what Einstein said, the Quantum Experience allows you to heal because you step out of the flow of your own memory and see your world anew as if for the first time.  From this renewed perspective you create memories that evoke healing.

We are beginning to recognize that our old beliefs, values, and identity, no longer completely support us. We must begin to adjust our thinking about some of the things that you, as a “knower” know you know. A good example, is where our rational left brain thinking created a belief that when a person dies spirit is gone.  To this part of you it seems the truth.  However, gone where?  Your highest self will always have life, thus you can never be destroyed.

The Apostle Paul told us to live not after the flesh, the physical, but after the spirit. ^[1]Notice he says live.  We struggle not against flesh and blood but against spirit.  You are not of the flesh, but of the spirit, if this be so, the Spirit of God dwells in you.^[2]

MY & It

Tap your chest and notice how natural it feels as you say to yourself “My body.”  Go ahead, tap your chest and just say, “My Body.”  Now, if I were to say to you, who said, “My Body” you might point your finger at your chest and say, “I said, ‘My body.”  So who is this “My and I” on the inside that represents itself in separate identity from this body, even by your own declaration?   Who is this “I” that creates both the experience of the body and also the mind in separateness?

I hear people say, “I just had a thought.” which tells us that there is someone who is having the thought, the receiver, and apparently that there is someone else, the sender, creating the thoughts distinct and different from the receiver.  If you investigate the space between thoughts, you find that one of the attributes is silence.  Were silence not there then there would be no thinker of the thought, there would be only thought.

Your Empowering Spirit embarks you on a journey that will help you answer these questions.  This is a journey of self discovery.  Like all self-actualizing people, divine self recognizes this journey.  I know that I am not that which I occupy, just as you are not that which you occupy.  That which is real in you is your energy spirit which never dies, that which changes the physical you, that which is eternal.

Phases of Life

Carl Jung described the phases of life so aptly when he said we begin as Athletes who place all the emphasis on the physical appearance of the body and what it can do.  With this physical body, we become Warriors and see what this body can do for us in the world.  Finally we come to the recognition that we are Statesmen and begin to function from a, ‘how may I serve’ position as a Servant.  The most amazing thing is, we finally come to realize that we are none of the previous, we are only a spirit being having a human experience.  The problem is we wait until we are old to come to this true recognition.

No Pieces

In the world we know, there is a Universal Intelligence that is everywhere, something that is omnipresent that has “no ability” to be broken up into pieces.  For most, we call it God.  My care for you is not in what name you call it, but in how you feel you relate to it. For reference in this book, I will use God.  Please feel free to substitute whatever representation you choose.

Think of it like this.  If the ocean became God and you took a glass of water out of the ocean, you would have a glass of God.  Is that not true?  If the ocean was God, this would include the fish, seaweed, rocks, etc. as God.  Everything in it would be God as part of the whole.  Now what happens when you go in.  Are you separate?  No, you become in union with God.  Now is God omnipresent?  Is He in all and through all?   Or is that just a game we play? 

God is not the unattainable — God is the unavoidable.  Amazing how we think of God as omnipresent and think of ourselves as separate from that which cannot be broken even into a drop. To know this, and you do now, is to realize that just as a wave is what the ocean does, so what you are doing in your life is what God allows.

The big mystery is, how does He do it?  How did He create you, in the image of Himself and give you a free will ability to make all those judgment decisions, including the belief that you are separate?

 It makes no difference how long you have thought separation; you have never accomplished separation.  It is only your thoughts that have caused separation to you.  When would now be the best time to resolve to dissolve your disbelief.

I think Dr. Herbert Benson in Timeless Healing: The Power and Biology of Belief puts it right in focus when he writes, “We are hardwired for God.” ^[3]   Another friend, Jane Katra in The Heart of the Mind says, “You can have a spiritual life, without having to go anywhere, or believe anything.  You do, however, have to ‘show up for God,’ and pay attention.” ^[4]

You are Not Alone

Life is what you are going through to learn the lessons as to why you are here.  You came here to remember who you are.  You are on a path, and on this path you are about to meet your soul.  You are about to recognize the oneness that your spirit has with Universal Intelligence, with God and with each other.

Jesus Christ said, “I am in my Father, You in me, and I in you.”  There is no potentiality for you to be alone or separate in that statement.  Learn to trust in your Creator.  We are told, you will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart.  Heart is the spirit controlling force in the physical man, as soul is the spirit controlling force in the eternal man.  Together as an internal team, they connect you with that which knows no separateness.  In the words of Christ, “Know ye not that the Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Heaven lies within.”  Inside of you, you will find your Empowering Spirit  . . . created in His image.

Gary Zukov in the ground breaking quantum physics book The Dancing Wu Li Masters writes, “The philosophical implications of quantum mechanics is that all of the things in our Universe (including us) that appear to exist independently are actually parts of one all en-compassing organic pattern, and that no parts of that pattern are ever really separate from it or from each other.”^[5]

Physicist David Bohm, author The Undivided Universe, describes a model of “quantum interconnectedness,” as a vast interconnected hologram of all.  The idea that we each have a separate consciousness becomes scientifically an illusion with scientific studies showing that all objects in the universe interact with one another no matter the distance between them.^[6] 

In 1964, an Irish physicist John Stewart Bell introduced what scientists now call Bell’s theorem.  Applying the logic of quantum physics and extending them in experiments consistent with its rules, he showed that objects that were once in touch with each other both changed if there is a subsequent change in the other — no matter how far apart they are.^[7]   This interconnectedness makes us all one.  It helps explain why prayer is so effective when presented in faith and makes group consciousness a powerful force.

You will later learn how every cell in your body is intelligent and responds to your thoughts as a direct command of action in a “quantum interconnectedness” and therefore will create the healing pattern just as you establish it.  If you will hold in your minds eye the knowing that any health issue is a mistake and not real within itself, and know that the image and likeness of God is living in your shell, you will soon be free of all manner of disease. 

“As a physician,” says Dr. Carlos Warter, “I have seen that healing the connection to essence and the infinite intelligence of the Universe by opening our hearts reactivates the capacity for self-repair that goes from the cell to the cosmos.  We are all interconnected.”^[8]

Scientific Results of Prayer

We are so interconnected it makes it easy to understand why medical science is learning not only that prayer works, but is scientifically proving it.

The most significant first scientific double-blind study on the results of prayer for patients with advanced AIDS was finished the end of 1998 and published in the Western Journal of Medicine.  The California Pacific Medical Center was the focal point of the research.  Statistically, the results could not be ascribed to chance.  Twenty AIDS patients were used along with forty distant healers each having at least five years experience in their particular form of healing work.  These studies produced medical healing results equal to 100 to 1 odds against the control group.^[9]   Since these studies, well over 100 statistical studies of prayer have taken place with more than one-half showing statistical significance that prayer works in a controlled laboratory setting.

In another study in 1983 Dr. Randolph Byrd at San Francisco General Hospital did a 10 month study on prayer for healing.  This time it was on 393 patients hospitalized with heart diseases.  Results over a ten month study showed a decrease in medical complications, especially pneumonia.  Those who received no prayer required extra antibiotics, diuretics, and required more ventilator assistance.^[10]

Spiritual Healing has been studied by researchers since the 1960's.  By 1998 more than 177 controlled studies had been completed. One review by  Dr. Daniel Benor in Healing Research: Holistic Energy Medicine and Spirituality noted that healing treatments affected the growth of hemoglobin, cancer cells, bacteria, human hormones, and even enzyme levels in vitro.  In 131 controlled trials 56 showed statistical significant results with a likelihood that results were due to chance at 1 in 100.  An Additional 21 showed probability results equal to due by chance of 2 to 5 out of 100.^[11]

Science is well under way to prove the effectiveness of what Your Empowering Spirit knows and what you are now capable of doing to assist others in the healing process.  It would not take you long to find significant medical research going on today to prove the effectiveness of your thoughts in effecting the healing capacity of another.

The Myth / The Truth

When you were born, they weighed you.  You probably came into the light of your first day between the range of some five to eight pounds.  From there you continued on your human physical existence until this very day.   In actuality you came in weightless, and who you really are today is still weightless.   The myth that who you are has become physical weight is like so many other beliefs that people have established in you.   Just that, a belief someone gave you.  Like does the sun rise and set?  It seems to.  To this day I love to watch sunrise and sunset.  But, they are a myth.  We all know the Earth revolves around the sun and the sun doesn’t set or rise.  It always just shines.

There have been studies made where they weighed people just prior to and again after their transition (death) only to find no weight change.  Now scientifically we should be able to assert that the “thinker of the thought” has been proven to be weightless.

Somewhere along the way you learned about your human physical experience just as you learned about the sun.  The problem is what you learned outweighs your recognition of who you truly are. We must not depend upon appearance as reported by our five senses to know what is true.  We must stop dealing with effect and start looking at cause.  Everything we see is the result of an idea.  We must realize this truth before we can rise above it and free ourselves from any condition.  “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.”

You believe and probably say that light always and only travels at 186,000 miles per second.  Yet, Dr. Lene Vestergaard Hau and her students at Harvard, along with Dr. Steve Harris of Stanford published in the February 18, 1999 scientific journal Nature that they were successfully able to slow a beam of laser light to 38 miles per hour.^[12]   Now that belief must change.  May you, like so many, find other beliefs that will change as you read and reread this material.

We need to understand that when we were created in the image of God, we were created with the unique ability of being able to grow to know ourselves and thus, find the omnipresence of God as a part of who we are.   I recognize God in me, while some people use their rights of recognition to create separateness, to believe that God is still “out there” in another image.

A word of warning.  I have worked with many clients who have been taught that “they are God” only to discover their powerlessness.  How frustrating for a person who feels that they have the ability to create a rose from out of the mud and yet can’t control their own life.  I do think they have missed a connection of understanding, as well as their capacity in there somewhere.  They have missed the fact that free will exists.  There is that part in all of us, that consciously functions, with a sense of separateness from God.  We recognize God as Omnipresent and yet still create our individual identity of separateness.  Since most are in this position, it is from here that I will write.

The Giftt

When I finally sat alone and began to sort out the pieces of who I am, to my surprise, I found that there was only one gift that God made each of us individually responsible for.  That gift is thought.  Some have called it a free will “gift”.  When you recognize that God promised never to violate your free will, you will realize the immense value, He placed on your ability to use this gift of thought.

Thoughts are things.  Thoughts cause a vibration of energy and information to be set in motion. This energy is the pure potentiality of creation. The mind does its building solely out of the power of thought.  Its creations take form in exact accord with your mental images, and desire builds those images for you. The laws of attraction, the laws of creation are the laws of your being.  They are neither good or evil, moral or immoral.  The law of your being is simply a blind law that cooperates always in perfect harmony with your thoughts.  You sow in “seedthought” that which you wish to reap in harvest.  You can use this law consciously or unconsciously, however live it you must, for it is the law of life. Thus the only way to change your conditions in life is to change your thoughts about life.  The road to health begins in your secret thoughts and the motivating power that keeps it coming are your constructive energizing emotions staying focused on the outcome.

Dr. Candace Pert, in Molecules of Emotion, writes about the biochemical changes that take place in the body as the “mobile mind” messages the thought through a network linking all of our organs and systems.  When scientists looked into the preventive systems in the body that prevent cancer, infections, and other such life long diseases, — T-cells, B-cells, etc. —  they found receptors that were identical to those found in the nerve cells.  From this, we begin to realize that all our cells, and especially our immune system cells are always listening and responding to our thoughts.^[13]

In a day and age when at least thirty medical schools now teach future doctors the role of religion and spirituality in the lives of patients, it is time we all learn our part in the process.

Transformation Begins

To get the most out of this information, you need transformation.  You need to not only believe that you are a spirit being having a human experience, but you must develop the knowing that you are this weightlessness of whom I speak, that is connected to the omnipresence of God or “All That Is,” at your very core.  Rather than remaining metaphorically like a caterpillar, it is time for you to spread your wings and take flight.  Let go of those myths that have caused such Earth-bound folly.  Learn things from a different dimension.  Learn those things about the dimension of who you are that will set you free and enable you to soar.  Learn that you are a human being, not a human doing and learn to be that which you are.

When people heal, so often they don’t understand the phenomena.  Yet the ability is there from the spirit level.  It’s like, you cut yourself . . . you heal.  How do you do that?  It all seems so simple.  Where is all this information that knows when, where, and what to do? 

Let me just say again that this is not a medical text.  As always with any condition or situation in need, I strongly recommend that you consult with a physician.  After that, the decisions as to what to do are yours.  Remember the Doctor is only practicing medicine.  Perhaps if you would remember that you are only practicing being sick you will discover, as often happens, that you will be better before the Doc ever actually sees you.  The Placebo Effect?  I think NOT.  The Spirit Effect is more like it!  Your Empowering Spirit creating Miracles.  What would happen if . . . everyone thought of sickness and disease as Neuro Interactive Simulations over which they had the ability to change the neuro interaction to healing?

Miracles are interactive events that have a beginning inside of you.  At the level of desire, you create the seeds of miracles.  If just somehow you can grasp the truth in just those two lines I would need to say no more, for God in His faithfulness has promised you the desires of your heart.

“That the mind and body are inextricably linked is more than a fundamental belief handed down by our ancestors.  It is now a fact of life, substantiated by modern medical science.”  “Healing from within is an ability that lies dormant inside us all, a sleeping colossus waiting to unleash its formidable curative force.  Everyone can harness their own power and become healthier in mind and body, change their lives for the better and keep that power working,” says Uri Geller in his latest book Mind Medicine.^[14]

Five Seconds in a wheelchair, that was all it took to change my life.  (Of course it was the right five seconds, because I had sat in one many times going in and out of hospitals.)  I lived the impossible dream, or so it seems.  Suddenly, I discovered answers people had been seeking for years. They were simple answers that, when put in perspective, would cause them to say, “I knew that!  I had just never put it all together.”  With so many people sick, like prisoners to their circumstances, could it possibly be that from my wheelchair option had come answers?  I know so!  We all came into this world without a manual.  This is my version of that manual, complete with any mistakes that might remain.

END OF INTRODUCTION