Preface to Internet

Version

In 2008 I wanted to
attend a major sporting
event, one which is
televised throughout the
world. But I didn’t want
to be just a spectator; I
was going to be one of
the 300+ volunteer
officials. Although I am
trained and qualified in
this particular capacity,
there are many
applicants and my
chances of being chosen
were about 50-50, or
50%.

Officials in my particular
area of expertise are
placed in any one of
about 30different
locations around the
stadium, but that wasn’t
good enough. I needed
to be in position number
2. This was because I
was bringing Grandma
with me. I had bought
her a grandstand seat
and I wanted to be in
position #2 so that I
could wave at her. Silly, I
know, but being a man
it’s difficult not to be a
big kid at times.

So I had a problem. I only

had a 50% chance of
being selected at all, and
then a one in thirty or
3.3% chance of being
placed where I wanted to
be positioned. That
meant I had less than a
2% chance of success in
total.

When my instructions
arrived in the post, I had
been selected as well as
postedat position #2.
This was not a surprise. I
expected it. I knew no-
one in the selection
committee, had no
contacts and did nothing
other than use the
science in this book.

Unfortunately, when I
looked closer, I realized I
had made a major
mistake. I had wanted
position #2, and got it,
but further study
revealed it was the
wrong one. I really
needed position #1b
which is close to, but not
the same as position#2. I
had, as they say,
screwed up big time. I
was quite disappointed
but had to accept the
situation.

When I left the event I

was grinning from ear to
ear. It turned out that
position#2 was even
better than position #1b.
I was so close to the
action I could have
reached out and touched
the world champions who
were performing that
day. I was part of the
action, not just watching
it. It was fabulous. I had
no idea that position #2
was so much better than
#1b, but “something”
out there knew that it
was better for me. Not
only did the ideas in this
book turn a 2% outside
chance into a racing
certainty, but
“something out there”
knew I needed a special
place that I did not know
myself at the time.

The important thing to

note is that this was not
“luck” or chance. I, and
others like me, alter to
rules of chance all the
time. We deliberately
engineer it.

***
I have a friend called Don
who loves cars and is
one of the officials in a
certain car club. One
day, in the year his car
club celebrated its 60th
anniversary, Don simply
decided that he would
get some of the world’s
greatest racing drivers,
ex-world champions like
Nigel Mansell, Rene
Arnoux, Eddie Cheever,
Emerson Fittipaldi, and
Alain Prost, sixteen
drivers in all, and get
them to fly to
Silverstone, England, to
drive his car in a parade!

Don’s just an ordinary

guy without any
contacts. Just to get an
autograph off one of
these guys is an
achievement in itself. Yet
he got all of them to fly
over. A year later he did
it again with seven-times
world champion, Michael
Shumacher at another
event – also in Don’s car.
This just isn’t possible.
“Ordinary” people can’t
get major, international
celebrities to suddenly
appear at relatively
minor sporting events.
But he did it.

He did it using the ideas

in this book.

So will you.
In the next ten minutes
you will perform your
first miracle. In half an
hour you will see how
making all the money
you want starts with
understanding how you
can be in two places at
the same time. You will
play smoke rings with
clouds and drive to very
strange places in your
automobile.

You will suddenly

understand that the
world that you were
taught at school no
longer exists, if it ever
did.

You are about to step

into a real world that
isn’t real, see things few
others see and wouldn’t
understand if they did,
attract your true love like
a rocket, and generally
be the brainy one at
parties. You’ll also drive
away in the nicest car.
You will see how
everything in your life is
engineered, and how you
can change the design at
will.

You’re going to go to the

furthest reaches of the
galaxy and then select
reverse and go down to
the lower-level parking
facility where you can
choose your new life
from 16 dimensions or
more.

If, like the Queen in Alice

in Wonderland, you’d like
to believe in six
impossible things before
breakfast each day, then
this is day one. And if
you don’t understand
any of this, then you’re
in very good company,
because some of the
most talented, qualified,
and world-famous
scientists, doctors, and
physicists don’t
understand either. They
just know it works.
Foreword by Paul
Martinelli, President,
LifeSuccessConsultant
s Inc.

It has been my privilege

to have witnessed
miracles. It has been my
joy to see many people,
some from hugely
disadvantaged
backgrounds, build new
lives filled with hope and
prosperity. They have
often achieved success
in a very short space of
time, just by
understanding how the
laws of attraction work in
their lives. I speak often
about these laws myself,
and will continue to do so
for as long as I am able.

Phil Gosling also found

success by adopting
these universal laws but
he wanted to find out
more. He wanted to find
out why they worked,
what processes were
involved. His natural
curiosity was driven by
the desire for
explanation, so that he
too could help people
understand how these
laws influence every
aspect of their lives.

And what he discovered

makes hugely exciting
reading. By going deep
into those areas of
science that most people
never see or understand,
he has used his gift of
being able to unravel
complex ideas into
simple, often amusing
explanations to bring
encouragement to those
who want to know more,
or see things from new
perspectives.

Some of these
discoveries are truly
staggering, mind-
stretching ideas that do
more than make you see
the world in a new light.
You see a completely
new world, filled with
contradictions and
mysteries; a place where
computers perform
impossible calculations,
and objects are in two
places at the same time.
You see the mechanism
of how the simplest
decision changes not just
your own life but also the
lives of thousands of
others, and how you can
alter your own destiny,
just by observing it.

But what you finally

realise is not how small
you are in a vast and
unfathomable universe,
but how great you are,
and how much control
you really do have over
your own life. You will
see yourself for the great
miracle you are, and
finally discover how you
too can perform miracles
in your own life. This is
not a book about what; it
is about why – why
things happen, why the
laws work for everyone,
not just a chosen few. It
is the science behind the
words, and the science is
truly astonishing.

PAULMARTINELLI
APRIL 2009

Introduction

I ABSOLUTELY
GUARANTEE you are
about to change your
entire outlook on life, if
not your life itself. During
the next hour I will be
revealing information
that is at the very cutting
edge of science, in a
place so close to magic
that it is difficult to tell
the difference.
Everything you have
ever wanted – the car,
the home, the income,
the life – is so close you
can reach out and grasp
it. This book shows you
how to grasp it, how to
really succeed. It shows
you how to engineer your
own success.

Some things remain the

same: the fact that you
are exactly where you
are today because of the
decisions you made
yesterday; the fact that
you accidentally pressed
the wrong switches.
Press the right switches –
and everything changes.
This book is all about the
right switches.

I am going to show you

a true secret, the real
nature of how to get
anything and everything
you want in life by using
a special type of goal-
setting I term success
engineering. This book is
probably the first to show
you how it works, why it
works, and how you can
change your entire life
around by using it in this
new way. To understand
how and why it works will
require me to take you
where few people have
gone before. Even the
great mystics of old
didn’t know why these
things work, and indeed
neither do you have to
understand, but I firmly
believe that if you can
try to understand the
mechanics of things,
then it will make things
so much clearer, as well
as increase your
confidence in them. If
you know why things
work, then confidence
appears automatically.
Knowledge is confidence.
With this new knowledge
you will be able to attract
success with the
certainty of a scientific
equation. You will attract
possessions – cars,
houses, and money. You
will attract freedom and
create happiness where
formerly there was only
trouble. If you are lonely,
you will attract new
people into your life –
lovers and friends.

But this is about more

than just attraction.

You and I are about to

share a unique journey.
You are about to go to
places where you will be
one of the few to
understand the
unbelievable power of
numbers, how your brain
really works, and how
state-of-the-art
computers are
revolutionizing the way
we will all live tomorrow.
You will discover Sir
Isaac Newton, Einstein,
quantum mechanics, free
parking spaces, and even
a dead cat. And by the
end you will discover the
strangest truth of all . . .
You attract nothing – you
create your desires, your
things, your world out of
thin air . . .

You engineer your future.

And I’m going to prove it.

DEDICATION

Dedicated to the memory

of Alan Turing (1912-
1954), who probably
saved a million lives, yet
was driven to an early
grave by those he saved.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

In the summer of ’77, a

young man with no
money or prospects
unwittingly used just one
of the ideas in this book
to accidentally engineer
his life, and thus he
bumped into a very
pretty and petite 17-
year-old girl. Thirty
years, two dogs, and four
children later, she’s still
with him, still his best
friend. She had married a
stargazer – someone who
looks at distant horizons
and sees things others
do not. She guards his
feet and stops him
tripping over things he
can’t see because he’s
looking somewhere else.

Two of the children are

like her, practical,
intelligent, sensible,
fiercely loyal to their
friends. Two are
stargazers also –
dolphins of the universe
wondering why all the
other fish can’t see
beyond the surface of
the water.

If I said to her tomorrow

that I was planning to fly
to the moon, she’d give
me the usual, quizzical
look, then get worried
when she realized I was
serious. But then she’d
instantly give me the
encouragement I
needed, when anyone
else would have told me
to wake up and get real.
Everything I’ve done,
everything I am, starts
and finishes with her.

The original Internet

version of Success
Engineering was
published in early 2004
and became an instant
best-seller with well over
24,000 downloads sold
worldwide, mainly by
word of mouth. This was
before the huge success
of movies like What the
Bleep and The Secret. I
knew nothing of these
films before I wrote the
book, but as soon as I
saw them I shouted for
joy. This was because I
knew that the ideas in
this book pushed science
“quite a few steps
beyond where it wanted
to go.” In short, I was
afraid of ridicule from
real scientists – people
who have forgotten more
about physics than I ever
learned. So when I heard
serious and highly
qualified scientists like
Dr. John Hagelin, Ph.D.
(Harvard), Dr. Fred Alan
Wolf, Ph.D. (UCLA), and
Dr. Amit Goswami, Ph.D.,
talking of exactly the
same things, I could not
even begin to express
the mixture of joy and
relief I felt at that time.
And still do. Even though
I had sold thousands of
books and received
many emails from buyers
telling me how much this
book had helped them,
the fact that at least
three bona fide giants in
the world of physics were
independently saying
exactly what I had been
thinking has been a
pivotal event for a
professional stargazer.
And even though they
might not know me or
understand why, I thank
them for their own
courage in taking ideas
“beyond where others
want them to go,” and
for making me really
chuffed, which of course
is the main thing.

It didn’t end there.

Engineering your success
goes beyond the
conscious into the very
seams and fabric of life.
Out of the blue I heard of
Bob Proctor and now
have the huge privilege
of having this hard copy
version produced by his
LifeSuccess organization.

As a writer I thank Jack

Canfield for the gentle
inspiration of his own life
success, and Andrew
Matthews, the million-
selling Australian author
of books like Follow Your
Heart, for his friendly
telephone chats.
Stargazers need
company.

Finally, and most

importantly, I thank you,
dear reader, for also
being willing to go
beyond where most
people dare to go.

It’s quite a journey. – Phil

Gosling. March 2008.
Chapter One

Seeing the Unseen

Hi. My name is Phil
Gosling. I am a rare
event – a nuclear
scientist turned
entrepreneur, a history
that gave me a rather
analytical look at things.
I have been
investigating, studying,
and researching another
science, the “science of
success,” for over 25
years. During the past 15
of those years I have
personally spoken to or
communicated with over
10,000 people. All of
these people had the
same dreams – financial
freedom, time to enjoy
things, nice cars. In
many cases they also
had personal problems,
the most common being
loneliness in the sense
that they were looking
for romance.

And for many years I,

too, was exactly in that
same boat: below
average income, on my
own, 10 or 15-year-old
cars – even a vacation in
a tent was a luxury. I
have slept in my car
during vacations – and I
mean a car, not a
Winnebago. Parking was
free. Campsites cost
money. Learning physics
was not exactly a job
ticket.
I have known what it’s
like to be lonely, poor,
unemployed, and
desperate, so when I first
discovered the principles
of goal-setting (starting
with Joe Karbo’s The
Lazy Man’s Way to
Riches) I was smitten.
How obvious! What
simplicity!

So, over many years, I

tried this method and
that system, always
knowing in my heart of
hearts that the experts
and psychologists were
absolutely right. Indeed, I
was so convinced that I
carried on believing in
goal-setting, reading,
and studying everything I
could find on the subject
despite a nagging doubt
in my mind. The doubt
was that despite doing
these things, my goals
were not really
happening. Furthermore,
it didn’t take a genius to
see that most people in
the country, particularly
those who had also
studied books on goal-
setting, hadn’t achieved
very much either. Why
did it seem to work for
the happy few, while I
and most others screwed
up?

Like many, I would have

given up were it not for a
dogged belief, a kind of
inner knowledge that
within everything I had
read was a hidden truth I
had yet to discover. And
my great good fortune
was that in my early
years I had tried a goal-
setting technique that
worked perfectly, and I
did achieve a huge goal
in my life that I thought
was beyond me. That
single success made me
keep my faith in goal-
setting, but I still couldn’t
understand why in one
case it worked like pure
magic, yet after that it
gave me more stress
than success. It seemed
that the more I learned,
the less effective I
became.

Despite the blindingly

obvious fact that most
people who had read
selfimprovement books,
attended seminars, or
listened to endless audio
and video recordings
were still not much
better off, I persisted.
Perhaps it’s the scientist
in me. I could smell a
solution to this problem,
and like a bloodhound I
refused to let it go.

I rediscovered the
answer about 15 years
ago. The method was so
powerful that with my
first ever “correct” goal-
setting experience I went
from unemployed, no
car, two kids, and a
mortgage to having a
top-of-the-line executive
automobile in the
driveway, and I bought it
with cash – all within
about 18 months. My life
now is unrecognizable
from anything I had
before. I have the house I
want, the car, everything
I need. I don’t take
vacations in a car
anymore; now it’s a
private villa in Portugal.
And I didn’t get these
things by worshipping
money or working 24/7
or not seeing my kids
grow up. I decided what I
wanted, set the correct
goals – and they
happened. I engineered
them.

But that wasn’t good

enough. I hadn’t spent all
those years discovering
what worked. I wanted to
know why it worked. I’m
a control freak. I admit it.
Part of this is the
debatable idea that if I
know how something
works, I can fix it if it
goes wrong. Up until a
few years ago I (and, I
suspect, many of the
teachers, experts, and
self-improvement gurus
as well) simply did not
know how these things
worked. Worse still,
those who did try to find
out, quite sensibly looked
at psychology or
management theory or
business schools to find
the answers.

And find answers they

did. Their solutions were
sensible, well thought
out, logical, and
conformed to every
commonsense notion of
why things happen when
you perform certain
functions. And to this
day, these theories, and
many others like them,
are held in esteem and
are taught in schools and
universities, not just in
the United States but all
over the world. And they
make sense; that’s what
matters. They are
scientific ideas –
measurable, logical,
methodical, and un-
weird. It doesn’t matter if
they don’t work, as long
as they’re scientific,
measurable, logical,
methodical, and above
all, unweird.

But just because a guy in

a white coat with letters
after his name tells me
something, it doesn’t
mean I am obliged to
believe it. Even though
the speaker is well
educated,
knowledgeable,
dedicated, and expert,
that still doesn’t mean a
less educated, less
knowledgeable guy has
to take on board
everything he says. Just
because books, libraries,
universities, and experts
preach that night equals
day doesn’t mean it’s
true. Even the best and
most well-meaning
people – with all due
deference to their
dedication, education,
and knowledge – can
simply get it wrong.
Sometimes you cannot
see the thing you are
looking for until you
move away from it.
Sometimes you have to
change perspective.
Drop a blue object on a
blue carpet and you will
have to get down to floor
level and look sideways
before you see it.

Similarly, there is a
problem with
specialization. A
specialist, the joke says,
studies more and more
about less and less until
he eventually knows
everything there is to
know about nothing at
all. There is great
advantage in
generalization - having a
working knowledge of
many unrelated things. It
allows you to see things
from different angles and
see things others do not.
It also creates the kind of
guy you want to invite to
dinner because he can
talk to anybody. Doctors
of pathology are very
poor party animals. Trust
me on this.

Although in my college
days I studied what was
then called theoretical
nuclear physics, I openly
admit to not being of the
highest caliber, and
never earned much
doing it. But I do
understand most of
Stephen Hawking’s Brief
History of Time, so I’ve
kept hanging in there
while doing my own
thing in the
entrepreneurial world.
And in the same way that
some people instantly
see certain truths by
bringing two different
areas of knowledge
together, so I, one day,
was happily dawdling
though a book
concerning quantum
computers (Y’ know, like
you do) when suddenly it
all fell into place.

What’s quantum
mechanics got to do with
goal-setting? Everything.
Absolutely everything.
And in this book I will be
revealing ideas and
information that have
never been published
before, conclusions and
proofs that will take you
with me into a world you
have never seen before -
a world that will turn
yours upside down, back
to front, and reveal
secrets known only to a
few people in the world.
Soon, you will be one of
the few.

And finally, like the

Queen in Alice in
Wonderland, you will
believe six impossible
things before breakfast.

***

“It’s not that people

push you off course; you
wouldn’t let that happen.
What happens is that
people nudge you off-
center without you even
realizing it. After a few
miles you’re completely
lost.”
“’T ain’t what a man
don’t know that hurts
him: it’s what he
knows that just ain’t
so.” – Frank “Kin”
Hubbard

WE TAKE THINGS for

granted. It’s only when
something dramatic
happens that we even
realize we have taken
something for granted.
The reason we take
things for granted is that
they have become part
of our routine, and the
object of a routine is that
we don’t have to think
about it.

Our lives are filled with

routines. Indeed, your
whole life can be just one
huge routine in which
you start every day at
the usual time, go to
work in the usual way,
have the usual time off,
do the usual things in the
evening and on
weekends, and go on the
usual vacations. You
drive the usual type of
car, live in the usual kind
of house, and earn the
usual income that has
been preordained by
your usual position in
life.

Routines are essential,

medically sound, and
often unfortunate.

Routines are essential

because without them
we’d have to spend most
of the day thinking about
the next thing we have
to do and tie knots in a
thousand handkerchiefs
to remind us what to do
next. Without routines
we’d all go crazy.

Routines are a way of

maintaining the status
quo. Not the popular rock
combo, but the state in
which everything
attempts to stay the
same. Indeed, medicine
has a name for it:
homeostasis.
Homeostasis is what
every cell in your body is
trying to achieve. It is the
state of equilibrium, that
point where everything
stays the same; where
nothing changes. This is
part of your natural
programming. Your cells
are programmed into
thinking, “I am alive;
therefore, if things don’t
change, I will stay that
way.” Cool thinking
really, for a cell.

And because you and I

are the sum total of a
zillion cells working in
harmony, then we too, as
people, also suffer from
corporal homeostasis.
With few exceptions,
most members of the
human race avoid
change and like things to
stay as they are: If it
ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
And when change comes
along we don’t like it at
all – unless it’s good
change, of course. That’s
okay.

But routines can still be

unfortunate. By definition
we don’t notice them or
think about them. So
when your lady or man
clears off with someone
else, it’s possibly
because you took her or
him for granted and
never noticed. Routines
keep you where you are,
in the same place. But
most of all, the big
problem with routines is
that we are blinded by
them. They stop us
noticing something very
important. They stop us
noticing the world we are
living in. We take the
seasons, the sun rising,
the green grass, the
trees, the air we breathe,
life, and even miracles
for granted.

Above all, it stops us

seeing that we are living
inside a miracle; that we
are miracles within a
miracle. We shouldn’t
even be here; life is
against the laws of
physics. And those very
few people who see this,
and study it, discover a
strange truth. Not only
are we miracles inside a
miracle, but we can
change things. We have
the power. Not only are
we in The Matrix, but like
Keanu Reeves’ Neo, we
can control it. You ARE
Neo.

“God does not play

dice with the
Universe.”– Albert
Einstein

Before I can show you

how “success” in all its
forms can be conjured by
you out of thin air, I have
to kick you out of the
complacency of routine.
Most people don’t see
the world for what it is.
Indeed, most don’t see it
at all. Until you see the
world for the wonder it is,
or yourself for the
miracle you are, you
won’t be able to change
either of them.

Life shouldn’t happen.

It’s against the Second
Law of Thermodynamics.
This law simply says that
given a system where no
energy comes in from
outside (known as a
“closed” system), then
things will either stay the
same or wind down, like
a clock that is never
touched. Because of this
law, the idea of perpetual
motion – a machine that
runs without any energy
input – is impossible.

If you spread a pack of

playing cards over a tray
and throw them all into
the air, what are the
odds of them coming
down and landing on the
tray as a perfectly
formed pack? Almost
impossible, you may say.
Even smaller is the
chance of them coming
down as a pack with all
the four suits in perfect
order. In fact, this
statistical thinking is
wrong. The odds say
nearly zero, but this is
more than just statistics.
This type of event is
against natural law
because the pack must,
according to the Second
Law, deteriorate over
time (unless you
interfere with it). The
actual odds are therefore
really zero. Only the
injection of a large chunk
of energy (your time and
effort) will put the pack
in order. If there is no
such “external” supply of
energy, then the Second
Law tells us the pack
must fall to the ground
even more scattered, or
at best as equally
disordered as when it
was thrown up. It can’t
rebuild itself, not without
help.

So, an explosion in a
lumber mill could never
ever produce a fully
formed house. An infinite
number of chimps
banging out letters on a
typewriter for an infinite
time will NEVER produce,
even by accident, a play
by Shakespeare. It is as
unlikely as gravity
reversing and throwing
us all off into space.
Statistics must always
take second place to a
law of nature. Have you
ever seen a volcano
throw out a bicycle? The
makeup of Earth is
largely iron and carbon,
which happen to be the
two main constituents of
steel. Steel is made by
adding amounts of
carbon and oxygen to
boiling iron under great
heat and pressure. Air
contains 20% oxygen,
and water contains
nearly as much again. All
these are freely available
in your friendly
neighborhood volcano.
To make a bicycle frame
requires steel tubing. It is
a very simple process.

Question: When did you

last see a volcano throw
out a fully formed bicycle
frame? We have had 4
billion years of
volcanoes, and all the
ingredients are at hand.
In that same time (say
the scientists) a microbe
grew into a
Tyrannosaurus Rex. So T.
Rex is okay, but why, in
the time involved, aren’t
we drowning in mountain
bikes? The fact is that
volcanoes have not only
failed to produce a single
bike frame, they have
yet to provide a single
sliver of steel. It’s a
natural law. So where did
T. Rex come from then?

A single protein is more

complex than the wiring
circuit of a mainframe
computer, and a protein
is one of the smallest
building blocks in the
human animal, or any
other animal. To assume
that one single example
of animal life came about
through a rave of
microbes having a
serious party in some
volcanic soup is to
assume that every wire,
brick, and pane of glass
in Tokyo, Berlin, or New
York was created by
accident. Human life
starting on this incredible
world by chance is
statistically impossible
AND denies a
fundamental law of
physics. And yet not only
do we have life – but in
profusion.

Walk past any park and

notice the different types
of leaves. Why so many,
when one type would do?
Why such
overabundance when
simple grass would do
the job admirably? The
evidence around us
every day says that
something or someone or
(according to your
persuasion) the workings
of pure chance, has gone
completely over the top:
a madness of profusion.
We are overwhelmed by
overabundance.

We float in heavens of
incomprehensible size
and beauty. There are
more species of insects
than we have managed
to count in the last 200
years. There are sea
creatures so far down in
the oceans that they
have never seen light,
yet they breed and
reproduce in harmony
with the moon’s cycles –
a moon they have never
seen. Without this
harmony the earth would
spin out of orbit and
freeze in space. No life,
chaos everywhere;
everything running
down. If there was only
one living thing on the
whole planet – a microbe
– it would still have been
an impossible creation,
against a natural law that
has withstood every
attempt to dispute it for
100 years, and at
statistical odds that no
hardnosed betting man
would ever take.

You’re a miracle inside a

miracle. You know this.
Deep down you know it.
But the routine of life has
blinded us all to its
beauty. Primitive
cavemen concentrated
on survival, yet they
found time to create art.
Modern life is supposed
to be about leisure, but
we have no time to stand
and stare. What you
don’t know, and will find
hard to believe, is the
amount of control over
your life, this life, you
really have. Let me prove
it. Let me prove to you
right now that even at an
elementary level, you
can change your world . .
.

Chapter Two

Engineering Miracles

“The impossible we
tackle right away.
Miracles take a little
longer.”

YOU’LL NEED A nice day

filled with big, fluffy
clouds that are moving
at a gentle pace. Lie
down in the sun, chill
out. Take some rays.
While you’re
contemplating the
meaning of life, check
out the edges of some of
those clouds. You’re
looking for a small wisp
of cloud, a tiny one that’s
broken away from a main
cloud. Focus your eyes
and your thoughts upon
that wisp of vapor. Stare
at it and will it to go
away. Demand, with
confidence, that it
disappear, and it will.
Just watch. Bob Proctor,
the international
speaker, reckons he can
turn clouds into smoke
rings. I believe him. I do
it myself.

As a beginner you have

to practice on tiny
cloudlets. Eventually,
with practice, you will be
surprised at how
effective this can be on
bigger ones. And there
you are. You’re not
changing yourself; you’re
changing the reality
around you. Weird or
what? (It’s to do with
energy, quite a lot of it in
fact, but we’ll get around
to that later.)

Sometimes we forget
that we are not just in
this world, we are part of
it. We not only have a
right to be here but if
you believe any or all
religious writings, then
the world was created for
us. We have control.
God, whoever and
whatever you perceive
Him to be, has given us
the channel changer.
Unfortunately, this
experiment will not
impress hard-nosed
skeptics who will insist
that the clouds were
disappearing anyway,
but we’ll move on.

The Blue Feather

This one often works well

but has to be done
properly. Make a note of
what the date and day
will be exactly one week
from now. For the sake of
argument let’s say it will
be Friday, the 12th of
March.
Now take a piece of
paper and write: On or
before Friday, 12 March,
a blue feather has
appeared in my life.

Blue feathers are quite

rare. When was the last
time you saw one? Of
course it doesn’t have to
be blue, or even a
feather. It can be a pink
elephant wearing a
polka-dot bikini if you
want. Whatever you
decide, write it down in
the manner I have just
described. Now first thing
in the morning,
immediately on rising,
find a quiet place and
read out that statement
to yourself. If you can’t
read it out loud, then
mouth it as a whisper but
move your lips.

The more sound and

action you put into it the
better. Immediately after
reading it, close your
eyes and visualize this
blue feather (or
whatever) appearing in
your life. Feel confident.
Smile as you visualize
yourself suddenly
noticing a blue feather in
the street or seeing one
on the floor. Put emotion
into it. You will see later
that it is the emotion you
put into it that makes
things happen. Do this
twice a day, first thing in
the morning and last
thing at night, every day
for one week. I
guarantee that within
that week, or on the day
you chose, you will have
come across some image
of what you have
visualized. You may see
it on a billboard or a TV
advertisement, or it may
actually have come into
your life in your aunt’s
hat or a photograph. But
it will appear, quite
magically, almost
spookily, in your life.

Skeptics will still argue

that this just increased
your sensitivity to
something that was
there all the time but
that your mind had
filtered out. In some
cases that’s quite
possible, but not in all
cases. When little green
men float out of a flying
saucer that’s just landed
in Washington, D.C.,
skeptics will still argue
it’s a publicity stunt right
up to the time the death
ray hits them.

You are not changing

yourself. You have not
noticed something that
was there anyway but
you hadn’t noticed
before. You created the
feather. You are
changing reality. And if
you think this is spooky,
then you ain’t seen
nothin’ yet!

They paved Paradise –

put up a parkin’
lot . . .

There is a third
experiment that works so
well I use it all the time. I
find car parking spaces
with it in busy towns. Just
before I leave, I spend a
few moments visualizing
where I need to park. I
see the street or parking
lot full of cars until I
arrive, and then a car
leaves just in time for me
to park my car in its
space. I see this in my
mind’s eye before I start
the car, feel good about
it, and then drive toward
my destination with the
confident expectation
that my parking place
has been pre-booked. I
reckon this works over
90% of the time – far
beyond the normal
mathematical chance of
this occurring by
accident. The next time
you are in a hotel lobby
or anywhere where you
are faced with two or
three (or more) sets of
elevator doors. Which
one is going to open
first? Forget about
looking at the floor the
elevator is on. Just
decide which door is
going to open first and
stand by it. You be
amazed how many times
your door opens first. Try
it. It works. Appendix C
tells you how, but don’t
go there just yet. We’ve
a few more ideas to
cover first.

You’re not changing

yourself. You’re changing
something else outside
of yourself. In this
example it could be
argued that you changed
someone else’s day just
by thinking about it.
Crazy? No. Not at all.
This is beyond crazy.
This is quantum physics.

Why modern goal-

setting rarely works

In a recent Reader’s
Digest article, best-
selling author and ex-
teacher Philip Pullman
put his dark material
finger on what’s gone
horribly wrong with the
teaching of English in
schools today and also
pointed the way to why
nearly everything else
has been hijacked in a
similar fashion.
According to modern
thinking by
educationalists,
particularly those setting
examination questions,
when a child now reads a
piece of set writing, they
are “tested for their
ability to decode, select,
retrieve, deduce, infer,
interpret, identify, and
comment.” So now, for
example, when a kid
reads a book he or she is
expected to: !

List the words used to

create an atmosphere. !
Write a 50-word
summary of the plot. !

Take a descriptive word

from the text and use a
thesaurus to find five
synonyms and five
antonyms.

They have turned

reading a book into a
chore. They have
squeezed and analyzed it
to death in order to
create systems that can
be measured and tested.
As Philip Pullman says:
“They force every
response to a piece of
writing through a mesh,
so it comes out black or
white, yes or no, this or
that.” So it can be tested
and measured.

Arguably they did this for

all the right reasons at
the time. Here again we
have teams of well-
meaning experts putting
scientific ideas into
modern practice so that
they can quantify and
measure a child’s
progress in the very best
interests of the child and
their teacher. Again, it is
all sensible, logical,
universally accepted,
and most certainly well
meant. But does it work?

Consider a child of the

60s (me) whose English
teacher took one book
from the library, gave it
to me and said, “Read
this. Bring it back next
week. Tell me if you like
it.” It was the first real
book I had ever read. I
was 11 years old and
brought up on comic
books. I liked it, so Mr.
Hudd gave me another
book. I liked that one too.
No tests, no decoding,
selecting, retrieving,
deducing, inferring,
interpreting, identifying,
or damn commenting,
just, “Do you like it?”

The net result of

developing an enquiring
mind is that 50s-60s kids
like me were part of a
generation who put men
on the moon and created
the Corvette Stingray
and the Jaguar XKE, the
Boeing 747 Jumbo and
the Concorde. We broke
sound barriers, space
barriers, race barriers,
and generally created a
world looked upon with
great nostalgia. We were
tested, certainly, but
when we picked up a
book we weren’t
decoded, selected,
retrieved, deduced,
inferred, or interpreted,
although we were
certainly identified. As a
result of one teacher just
getting me to enjoy
books, I read a great
many of them – because
I liked them. And through
them I found out how
things work, and created
a life for myself. My
teacher’s probably dead
now. I wonder if he knew
how often he changed
someone’s life without
knowing it.

My point is this: In the

world of self-
improvement, an area of
expertise in which
America, arguably, leads
the world, many of the
teachers, the experts,
and the gurus have
taken on board exactly
the same
institutionalized thinking
currently taking place in
schools. This thinking
seeks to use the
principles of science to
analyze things to the Nth
degree and break things
down, logically and
sensibly, into a situation
where things can be
measured, tabulated,
and project-managed.
And it all makes sense,
every bit of it. And all
these guys mean well,
and they are doing good
things. But science has
two drawbacks.
Sometimes, in taking
something apart, you risk
killing it. And second,
science cannot be used
on everything: How can
scientifically analyzing
works of art produce
another Picasso, or a
Matisse, or make you
enjoy a book?

How can you prove,

mathematically,
something like love, or
happiness? So, the goal-
setting techniques you
often read about today
are only partially correct.
As a result, they only
partially work. Indeed, I
could go so far as to say
that modern goal-setting
has been completely
taken over by a new tool
masquerading as goal-
setting. Goal-setting has
become project
management. And once
again it makes perfect
sense. The idea of
breaking down a process
into manageable steps,
having a well-defined
deadline you can work
to, and making each step
measurable so you can
compare it with your
original time estimate
and make course
corrections is wonderful,
perfect, and highly
laudable project
management. But it’s not
goal-setting.

And of course, project

management is a
management tool. But
managers aren’t
entrepreneurs. In fact, it
doesn’t require much
research to prove that
most entrepreneurs are
usually absolutely
dreadful managers. What
entrepreneurs are really
good at is vision. They
see what they want with
absolute clarity and
charge towards the
vision with total
determination. They
make decisions and stick
with them. That’s goal-
setting. Project
management is a tool
that comes in later,
much later, like
accounts. The vision, the
decision to do it, is first.

Entrepreneurs eventually
turn into managers. They
atrophy. Once they
attain their vision they
batten down the hatches
and basically leave the
running of the show to
the bean counters – who
manage. Big
corporations continue to
thrive because they are
big enough to carry on
under their own
momentum. But they
never regain the rocket-
like success of their early
days.

The world of business,

education, and politics
has been taken over by
clever, well-meaning
administrators. Here’s a
comment taken from an
article in The Business
magazine:
“The problem is that
business schools, instead
of creating leaders, are
pumping out hoards of
pumped-up
administrators. . . . They
teach everyone the
same orthodoxy. Worse,
this orthodoxy can be
devastatingly
destructive, as it means
everyone follows the
same strategy as they
did in the dot-com
boom . . . The truth is
business schools are
really just corporate
marriage bureaus,
matching ambitious
administrators with large
banks and consulting
corporations.”

Oops.

Now that explains a few

things doesn’t it?

“Time wounds all

heels.” – Jane Ace

So if goal-setting isn’t
goal-setting anymore, if
goal-setting has
metamorphosed into
project
management/administrat
ion, what should we do?
What can we do?

We need to rediscover
the real rules.

At this point, can you

please conduct an
experiment on yourself
by answering, truthfully,
a simple question? I have
given this question to
thousands of people –
none of whom got it
right. Some nearly got it
right, but not in all
aspects. It’s important
you do this, so please get
pen and paper NOW
before you go on to the
next page . . .
Write the answer to this
question as fast as you
can:

“What is your number

one goal?”

Do not leave this page

before writing down the
answer.

Okay, here’s the

checklist:

1. Did you start writing

right away without
having to do any thinking
whatsoever? No
hesitation, no hemming
and hawing? Did you put
pen to paper as fast as
you would have done
had I asked you to write
your own name? If the
answer is Yes, you stay
in the game. If No, you’re
out of it.

2. Good. What was the

first word you wrote
down? If it was “to” (e.g.,
“to be financially
independent in five
years”) then you’re out
of the game. There is
only one word –“I.” If
your statement did NOT
start with “I,” you’re out
of the game. If it DID
start with “I,” you stay in
the game.

3. Still in there, huh?

Okay, you’re in the last
3%, so that’s good. Now,
what was the second
word you used? It will
probably be a verb, but
that doesn’t matter. It’s
the tense that matters.
Your second word is
either future tense (“I
will”) or present tense (“I
have, I own, I drive, I
earn”). If your second
word was in the present
tense (“I earn $1 million
a year” or “I drive a
Corvette”) then you’re
still in the game. If it’s
something in the future
(“I will be . . .”) then
strike three, you’re out.
So at this point, to be in
the game, you must have
answered the question
immediately without
hesitation; your first
word was “I”; and the
whole sentence was in
the present tense – as if
the goal had already
been achieved. If you’re
still here, then this is
very unusual.
4. Did you have any kind
of completion date on
the goal, such as “by the
31st of December” or “in
the next 12 months”? If
you did, then strike four
and you’re off the bench.
No dates. Dates are
allowed, but only in
certain circumstances.
You need to understand
that dates are not part of
the goal itself – dates are
‘activators’, like a
catalyst. They activate a
process without actually
taking part in it. You’ll
read about this later.

5. There is a tiny
possibility that you are
the first person in 10,000
to get this far – or you’re
kidding yourself, one of
the two. Being the
generous person I am, I
shall assume the former
and ask yet another
question. Was this goal a
financial goal? Was it
directed at, say, financial
independence? Or
expected annual
earnings? Did you want
to be a millionaire? Oops,
you’re out. Money isn’t a
goal. It just looks like a
goal. I’ll explain that one
later. You can have lots
of the stuff, don’t get me
wrong, you just have to
think about it a little
more deeply. Well then,
how did you do? If you
passed all five of these
tests, then you did
stunningly well. If you
didn’t get all these right,
you need to read on.
Your future depends on
it. Let me hit you now
with just one rule of
success engineering, the
true goal-setting, a rule
that seems to flout every
piece of advice handed
down from the gurus
during the last 20 years:
no dates. Now that’s
screwed things up,
hasn’t it? Everything you
ever read on goal-setting
tells you to put a date on
things, even an arbitrary
one.

Indeed Brian Tracy, who I

personally believe is not
human but a benevolent
deity sent down from
heaven to show us lesser
mortals the way to true
enlightenment, says that
if you do nothing else
you should do three
things:

1. Set a goal.

2. Make plans for its

achievement.

3. Do it while comparing
the progress made with
your original plan, and
make corrections as you
go. And this is perfect.
Absolutely nothing wrong
with it. Harvard would be
proud of him. But there is
one problem – what if
you haven’t got a clue
how to get the goal
you’ve set yourself?
What if your dream, your
goal, was so distant that
your education and
upbringing never gave
you the tools to even
consider how you could
achieve it? Without
knowing how to do
something, this system
will not let you go any
further than dreaming.
That’s because it’s not
goal-setting. This is
bang-on perfect project
management. And it’s
certainly not success
engineering.

The Dating Game

Or, goal-setting is not a

project management
thing.

I know dates make

sense; I know having a
date on a goal gives you
a time frame, and I know
it sounds exactly right
that you should have a
date. But, for reasons
you will understand later,
it is not right all the time.
You need to think about
dates. A completely
arbitrary time frame in a
goal (“I will earn a million
dollars by January 6th,
2010”) can be
problematic. Current
wisdom says that a date,
any date, is important
because it gives you a
clear time frame, and
even if it’s arbitrary,
things will happen to
give you the tools with
which to achieve that
goal within that time
frame. But a completely
arbitrary date to
accomplish a task is bad
management when you
have no idea what steps
are involved. Those steps
will appear later, and in
the meantime the new
vision you have of
yourself needs time to
take shape, like a seed
needs time to show
above ground before you
give it a cane for
support. In certain
circumstances, as you’ll
see below, dates are
important, indeed vital,
but in other cases they
are just paying lip-
service to project
management. Real goal-
setting involves a magic
that time managers
know nothing about. You
can’t have a system in
which proper, logical
project management also
has to rely on magic, or
quantum physics, or
tree-hugging in order to
work. One of the cases in
which it’s okay to put a
date on any goal is if, at
the start, you know
without question that the
goal can be reasonably
achieved within that
time frame. So for
someone earning 30
grand a year to set a
goal of 1 million by the
end of that year is simply
not realistic. Don’t get
me wrong here; it is
possible – just not
probable. Put dates on
reasonably achievable,
probable goals, not
improbable ones.
You know this makes
sense. If you make a goal
of earning a million
bucks before December
31st, all that happens is
you become more
depressed and stressed
the nearer you get to the
date. And if you don’t
achieve it by that date,
you are in the worst of all
situations – a failed goal
– which makes you even
more depressed because
this event undermines
your entire faith in goal-
setting. I’ll bet you’ve
been there already. Most
people have. On the
other hand, for someone
to make a goal of adding
10% to their income in
the following year is
more than possible.
Boring, but possible. You
may have to think and
stretch things a little, but
even if you took a part-
time job at Wal-Mart
(well, perhaps not, but
you know what I mean)
then you can see that
this goal is achievable. If
I offered you a check for
$1 million right now
based on you adding
10% to your current
income by this time next
year, could you do it? I’ll
bet you could. But that’s
not good either. You
need to stretch goals to
make them work. You
need to push boundaries
without subconsciously
setting yourself up for a
fall. By the same token, a
certain goal isn’t a goal
at all (“By next Sunday I
will have fixed that *&!??
* leak”).

All you have to do here is

to add a date and it’s a
true project management
exercise. The same is
true for any goal in which
you DO have a plan you
can work to. Success
engineering – true goal-
setting – conjures up the
plan. Then you can turn
the plan into a managed
project. Goals come in
four categories: ! Think-
Big goals. This is a dream
that really stretches your
imagination, because
you have no real idea
what the time frame is –
you don’t have a date.
You’ll see why later.
(Example: having that
dream home you always
wanted.) This is where
your goals should be. !
Reasonably achievable
goals. Not dead certain,
they need you to stretch
a little. You can put a
date on these IF you
know it’s possible. Use
these goals to gain
confidence. ! Emergency
goals. An exception to
the date rule. Suppose
you are in trouble and
absolutely must pay your
electric utility bill by a
certain date, or no
power. Even though you
may not know how it will
be done, you must put a
due date on this goal:
“By January 31st, my
electric bill is paid in
full.”1 ! Certain goals.
These are anything you
know full well can be
done; you just haven’t
got off your butt and
done them yet. These
aren’t really goals. They
are unstarted or
unfinished management
projects. Just give them a
date and make
absolutely sure you
complete them in the
time allotted. They are
only goals in the most
general sense and have
little value other than to
give you self-discipline.
And self-discipline is
good. 1 The date is not
arbitrary. The date has
been set by
circumstances and you
have to achieve a result
within that date. This
makes it entirely
different from the “think
of a goal and then stick a
date on it” scenario.

The real reason behind

the timing of goals is
discussed in Appendix B,
but save that for later.
The science of true goal-
setting is the science of
success engineering. The
first step you have to
take, and the hardest, is
to mentally erase much
of what you have read
before, because it’s not
goal-setting. It’s an
amalgam of project
management, time
management, wishful
thinking, and
occasionally original,
true, goal-setting, all
created by genuinely
clever guys who mean
well but who have been
looking in the wrong box.
You need to go back to
basics. When you have
done this you will have
an open mind. But it’s
not open enough. I have
to break your mind out of
its box, so to speak, and
show you how much of a
miracle it is, and then
show you how it
empowers everything
you do. Then I will show
you The Matrix. For here
is the truth that I am
about to reveal to you in
detail: proof of how and
why goal-setting really
works, proof that for
every goal correctly
worded and used, you do
NOT necessarily change
yourself. For what a goal
really does is to change
everything else around
you. If nature is a
fantastic timepiece, a
huge clockwork
mechanism, then
success engineering
moves the cogs and
levers of space apart and
restructures the whole
system.

It changes your world to

suit you. If nature is a
computer program, then
a correctly worded and
carried out goal changes
the programming and
resets the system – to
suit you. And if you now
think I am a deranged
and potentially
dangerous lunatic then I
wouldn’t be in the least
surprised. But I’m in
good company, for in the
United States and many
other labs throughout
the world, small groups
of eminent and brilliant
scientists working on the
cutting edge of quantum
dynamics would
completely agree with
me. In fact, they’d call
me retarded. To them
this is old stuff. For what
these guys are doing
now makes everything
you have learned, seen,
read, or heard
completely obsolete. You
are living in the modern
equivalent of flat-earth
thinking. And 10 or 20
years from now,
everyone will simply
assume all the things
you are about to read are
true. And if you survive
this assault on your view
of the world, I will show
you the real rules, such
as the one about dates.
But by then you will
know why they work and
how they work. And why,
unknowingly, you have
been using these things
all the time without
realizing it – for good and
bad, but entirely by
chance. And you will
then use them for good.
You will have faith in
them. And hopefully you
will do them – and
change your world
forever into what you
always intended it to be.
Your world. The one you
deserve.

Chapter Three
The Magic of Numbers

“The growth of the

human mind is still
high adventure, in
many ways the
greatest adventure on
Earth.” – Norman
Cousins

I LOVE THIS PART.

I often quote it at
seminars. It is proven,
mathematical proof that
we are all geniuses, only
in different subjects. The
simple fact is that the
human mind – your mind
– is far more powerful
than you can ever
imagine. For example,
there is evidence that
the ancient druids and
Egyptian necromancers
had knowledge that we
cannot even begin to
understand. There are
suggestions that they
had mastered the art of
levitation – antigravity.
There is evidence that
they knew how to melt
stone without heat.
There is strong evidence
that the Great Pyramid
was never designed to
be just a tomb for a
pharaoh or anybody else.
Its purpose was older
and far more imaginative
than a headstone for the
headstrong. It was
magical. There is a
possibility that electricity
was harnessed in the
power of simple batteries
over three thousand
years ago. In India, it is
said, there stands a
2,000-year-old iron
column that resists rust.
We haven’t scratched
the surface of these
ideas but one thing is
certain: the human brain
is about to be unleashed,
and those who look
closely at the science
surrounding this area will
be well rewarded. So
what is this bundle of
brain cells we call mind?
How powerful is it?

Numbers

In order to understand
more about the miracle
you are, we need to look
at numbers. For most
people, numbers have no
real significance beyond
a few thousand. We can
see 10 fingers (okay, I
know a thumb isn’t a
finger) and we can see
100 cars. We can see
30,000 people at a
football stadium, but
beyond this it is just a
number. For the vast
majority, numbers like 1
or 2 million are just
numbers – they cannot
translate these numbers
into a picture that has
real meaning. We cannot
picture a million of
anything. We give
numbers names: One,
two, up to ten. After
twenty they become
compound words
(twenty-three) until we
get to the next real name
– hundred. We then
compound the hundreds
until we get to the next
real name –thousand.
Then a million. After a
million we compound the
names into billion or
trillion. I regard these as
sophisticated compound
names because they are
all based on the sound of
one million, so they don’t
count as unique names.
Can you think of the
unique name of a
number larger than a
million? (An aeon or an
age don’t count, because
they aren’t specific
numbers.)

Well, can you? There are

two. The first is called a
googol, and the second is
called a googolplex, so
there’s something you
can tell the guys over a
beer if you want to bore
them to death. These
two numbers, indeed
most numbers used by
mathematicians, are so
huge you cannot imagine
them or work with them.
To make life simple,
mathematicians simplify
numbers. For example,
100 is written 102 . The
number 2 in this instance
is called a power, and to
keep it simple it just
means that there should
be two zeros after the 1.
So 102, pronounced “ten
squared” or “ten to the
power of two,” is 1
followed by two zeros =
100. Similarly 103 = 1
followed by 000 = 1,000.
In the same way, one
million, or 1,000,000, is
the number 1 followed by
six zeros or 106. So far
so good. Now a googol is
10100, or 1 followed by
one hundred zeros. Well,
you must admit that this
is one hell of a lot easier
to write than:

10,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,00
0,000,000,000,000,000,0
00,
000,000,000,000,000,00
0,000,000,000,000,000,0
00,000,000,000,000.
Just to test you, a
googolplex is 10 to the
power of a googol. I’ll let
you work out how many
zeros that comes to, and
it’s quite a lot. “You’re
mad.” “Oim in der right
place den.” - Braveheart
Of course we are now in
cloud-cuckoo-land, so let
me tell you what I’m
getting at. I’m going to
select a specific number,
1089. This is smaller
than a googol and it
represents the answer to
one of the following
questions. 1. Is it the
number of people
expected to populate the
planet by the year 2100?
2. Is it the number of
carbon atoms in this
period . ? 3. Is it the
number of cells in the
average human brain? 4.
Is it the average number
of times a competent
politician can evade a
simple question? 5. Oh,
let’s go crazy – is it the
number of atoms in the
whole universe?

The number 1089, or 1

followed by 89 zeros, is a
rough estimate of the
number of atoms in the
whole visible universe.
That’s right, the total
number of tiny atoms in
absolutely everything
you’ve ever seen, and a
lot more besides. More
atoms than in the Sun,
the Moon, and the whole
galaxy put together. It is
the number of atoms in
every galaxy ever seen.
To give you an idea of
the magnitude of such
numbers, 1090,which is
just one power greater
than 1089, is of course
ten times bigger. That is
TEN universes put
together. And 1091 is ten
times bigger than 1090,
and one hundred times
bigger than 1089 – that
is the number of atoms
in one hundred
universes. Do you see
what I mean about big
numbers and how few
people have any
conception of how big
they really are? You need
to understand this before
you can understand how
powerful YOU are.
Your brain

Each cell in your brain is

called a neuron and looks
like a demented spider
whose legs connect with
lots of other demented
spiders in a gigantic 3-D
web of interconnections.
Each time you have a
thought, the thought is
blitzed down one of the
spider’s legs in the form
of an electro-chemical
message. That’s about
how far science has got
with regard to the human
hat-stand. Even so, this
has enabled experts to
estimate the sheer power
of the supercomputer
that is set on your
shoulders at this very
moment. You have a
brain that weighs about
1.4 kg (3 lbs.). You have
approximately 10 trillion
brain cells, and each cell
connects with 100,000
cells near to it. Every
second your brain takes
in and stores more
information than all the
world’s computers put
together. It receives
information from
250,000 temperature
sensors, 600,000 touch
sensors, and
260,000,000 light
receptors distinguishing
between over 1,000,000
different shades of color.
You can see a candle in
the dark 14 miles away.
People liken the brain to
supercomputers. This is
an insult. A computer is
an inanimate, unthinking
lump of wood in
comparison to your
brain. A computer hasn’t
been invented that can
make a two-legged robot
walk naturally (although
Honda currently has one
that walks like an
octogenarian waiter on
Valium). Your mind goes
through more
calculations driving a car
to work than any
computer can possibly
handle.
Meanwhile your brain
goes on thinking about
other things while your
car is driven almost
completely
subconsciously, and it
even re-routes damaged
neuro-pathways at the
same time. In the simple
act of crossing a busy
street, your brain
handles and processes
more information than
every computer on the
planet. It even processes
an estimate of another
driver’s psychological
makeup, which means
you can tell an idiot
when you see one. Since
the early 1950s,
psychologists have tried
to estimate the power of
your brain. They took
one of the brain cells and
estimated how many
connections it could have
with other brain cells
surrounding it.
Effectively it was an
estimate of how many
“thoughts” can be
entertained at one time.
This is where our study
of numbers comes in. In
those early days an
estimate of the brain’s
“thought capacity” was
put at 10100 – a googol,
no less.
Remember what 1089
represents? This was
fantastic news. Any
person’s brain – yours,
mine, Einstein’s – could
harness more thinking
power than all the matter
in the universe. But it
didn’t end here. By the
mid-1960s it was
discovered that this
estimate was far too low.
It hadn’t taken all the
combinations and
permutations into
account. As a result, the
figure was revised to
10500. Of course we are
now definitely over the
cuckoo’s nest because
this number is so huge it
has no meaning
whatsoever to anyone
sane. Unfortunately for
us cuckoos, it didn’t end
here. It gets better. The
most recent estimate of
the brain’s potential, in
terms of the number of
connections or
“thoughts” it can set up
at any one time, is:

1,000,000,000,000,000,0
00,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,00
0,0 00,000,000 – now
continue this line of 0’s
for another 9.8 miles.
That is 2x101,000,000.
Roughly. Give or take a
googol or two. This is not
Einstein. It is you. This is
your potential. It is, to all
reasonable extent,
unlimited.

We simply have no idea

how to use all of this
unbelievable
“computing” power. Each
and every day you are
using a tiny fraction of
this just to lead your
normal life. Even this
amount is greater than
any computer ever built,
yet it is less than 0.1% of
your true potential. Much
less. This information is
so unbelievable that
science ignores it rather
than try to come to
terms with it. No amount
of thinking can figure out
why we have been given
so much potential. Even
Darwin, who is often
misquoted, knew that
the human animal was
too special to have
simply evolved in the
manner of butterflies.
Animals and humans can
adapt to a new situation
and only the strongest
will survive, but to have
been given an unlimited
capacity for greatness
doesn’t make
evolutionary sense. It is
an overabundance of
resources. Nature is not
usually so overgenerous.
Whether you know it or
not, your brain – that is,
YOU – has unlimited
potential for greatness.
Your 3-year-old genie
Your mind has two parts:
the conscious, which
makes judgments and
comparisons and is the
awake part of you (the
part you are using now)
and the unconscious or
subconscious, which I
can best describe as a 3-
year-old genie. Imagine
telling a 3-year-old kid
that to boil an egg he or
she should: “Stand in
boiling water for three
minutes.” The poor kid
would try to get his feet
in the pan (followed by
fifteen lawyers trying to
get you in the pan). You
have to be very precise
with such instructions
because a 3-year-old
doesn’t think, he
accepts. In the same
way, your subconscious
mind doesn’t think. It’s
not paid to think –
against union rules –
that’s the conscious
mind’s job. Thinking is a
conscious activity. The
subconscious mind just
accepts and does. So it
needs clear and
unequivocal instructions.
No ifs or buts. But what
does it do, this
subconscious mind?

Easy question wasn’t it?

Well, to get the answer,
take a degree course in
psychology. Three years
from now you’ll have
some idea but you will
still be the first to admit
that science hasn’t even
scratched the surface of
what the subconscious
can do. But here’s a
quick rundown on what
we do know: ! No more
than 5% of your brain
capacity is conscious,
and that’s just an
educated guess. The rest
of your brain is devoted
to the part that’s
supposed to be asleep. !
Most of the motor,
chemical, and electrical
functions of your body,
everything from
heartbeat to immune
response, are
subconscious. ! All
memory is subconscious.
In a subconscious state
you can remember the
number of streetlamps
you drove past on your
way to work. !

There is little doubt that

those “creative flashes”
like Newton’s Law of
Gravity or the discovery
of the DNA double helix
or Einstein’s General
Theory of Relativity come
from the subconscious. A
simple study of all the
great works in history, all
the great inventions,
poems, and ideas that
have transformed the
world, shows that every
great notion was the
product of some form of
subconscious activity:
(One evening in 1797 in
Somerset, England,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
lay asleep after reading
about the palace of the
Mongol emperor [i.e., the
18th-century equivalent
of reading books on
quantum computers]. He
was also out of his head
sniffing opium, a
common practice at the
time, but we won’t go
into that. In his sleep he
formulated [and then
awoke to compose]
Kubla Khan, a huge
poetic masterpiece, one
of the great milestones
of English literature. He
didn’t finish it. A knock
on his door by a man
from the neighboring
village of Porlock
disturbed his thinking
and the masterpiece was
never completed.
Arguably, Coleridge
didn’t create Kubla Khan
– he received it. From
where?) I could go on but
I just want to make two
important points: Expert
psychologists like Carl
Jung, or psychic
phenomenon experts like
Dr. Lyall Watson, all refer
to and accept the idea of
a “collective
consciousness.”

This is a mind beyond

yourself. It’s as if the
creative thinking of all
human beings in the past
hovers in the air invisibly
by itself. My way of
describing this is to
consider that somewhere
out there in the great
unknown is an “idea
transmitter,” and your
mind is not a creator of
ideas but an idea
receiver, like a radio.
This opens up whole new
horizons. For example, it
means that creative
people aren’t so much
creative, just more tuned
in to ideas that settle in
their minds from the
great unknown. What a
brilliant thought! It
means that you don’t
have to worry anymore
about your mental
capacity to come up with
ideas. Your mental
capacity has nothing to
do with it. The ideas are
out there somewhere; all
you are going to do is
draw them towards you.
You don’t need to invent
a fly to catch one. All you
have to do is to put up
mental flypaper – just
tune your brain in to the
right channel. 33 And
the second notion is that
if all this is true, then
there must be a
connection between your
mind and the world
outside of yourself – a
mental Internet
connection with the
universe. The 95% of
your brain, the
subconscious, which we
currently think is just
sitting there waiting for
evolution, is in fact the
communications center.
It’s your connection to
the Matrix. Most of your
brain, your subconscious,
is a 3-year-old genie.
Your conscious mind is
there to deal with the
day, make decisions, and
decide your future. It is
also the processing unit
for your subconscious. It
is there to give your
subconscious precise
instructions a 3-year-old
can understand. These
instructions will be
simple, logical, and
definite. Your
subconscious mind uses
less than 0.5% of its own
capacity to work your
bodily functions, drive
the car, construct silly
robots, etcetera, and
uses the remaining
99.5% to turn your
“instructions” into a new
reality. It’s changing the
rules to suit you. It’s
reprogramming the
Matrix. HEY, stay with me
here!

This isn’t even the weird

stuff. This is normal.
Virtually everything I’ve
said so far is common
psychology. The only
thing I’ve suggested
that’s new is the
connection between the
subconscious mind and
the rest of the universe.
And that makes perfect
sense. You see, current
thinking says that the
world out there is real,
that it’s the same world
for everyone, that it’s the
only world we have, and
that we can only change
anything in it by picking
things up and moving
them around. But it’s
not. Nor is it flat. As you
will soon find out, the
world is not real; it’s
different for everyone;
it’s only one of many
parallel universes and
has at least 11
dimensions; not only can
you change your version
of the world just by
thinking about it, but
you’re doing it already –
every minute of every
day. Right now, in fact.
And don’t think this is
just me rambling on like
a deranged fruitcake.
This has nothing
whatsoever to do with
me. This is current
scientific thinking.
Indeed, the next breed of
computers being worked
on uses principles that,
and I quote, “… flatly
contradict our common
sense ideas ... a world
where computers work
without being turned on;
objects found without
looking for them ...
computers doing their
calculations in other
universes.” - Michael
Crichton, 1999. Trust me,
weird is the new normal.

Chapter Four

The Weird Stuff

Decisions, decisions . .
.
YOU ARE READING this
today because of a Mr.
Derek Collinson. In 1969
the corporation Derek
worked for decided to
relocate 200 miles away.
He was offered either a
severance package or
help with relocation. He
decided to leave the
business and stay in his
home town. As a result of
that decision his 10-year-
old daughter stayed and
bumped into me seven
years later. As a result, I
decided to marry the
young lady and decided
to stop being a bum and
carve a life out for us. As
a result, I became
successful and decided
to write this book, which
you, gracious and
intellectual reader, have
decided to read. Life is
full of decisions, and that
is why a decision made
by my fatherin- law
changed not only his life,
but everyone else’s life
connected to that
process in the least way.
This includes you. This
isn’t weird of course.

This is normal. The next

bit’s weird . . . At the
very moment that Derek
made that decision,
another Derek made the
opposite decision, moved
and created a whole new
life in a different place; a
place in which his
daughter met someone
else, I remained a bum,
and everything changed.
This took place in a
parallel universe in which
the opposite decision
was acted out. Derek, at
the time of making his
decision, “split” into two
and the two Dereks’
actions were acted out in
real time but in two
different universes, each
one based on the
possible outcome of the
decision he made.
“Okay,” I hear you say. “I
suspect, Phil, that you
may be sniffing illegal
substances, but in
principle you could be
right. The film Sliding
Doors was about exactly
that sort of thing and it’s
an interesting intellectual
argument.” “Ah,” say I in
response. “But if that’s
true, then every decision
that Derek, I, you, the
president of the United
States of America, or
anyone else makes every
second of every day
results in multiple
universes being created
in which all the opposite
decisions are carried out.
And this would mean
that at this very moment,
we are living in but one
of an unimaginable
number of universes, a
number growing all the
time with every new
decision made.” “Yeah,
okay.” I hear you say.
“So?” So what if I put a
cat amongst the pigeons
and say that not only
does this happen, but
those different universes
communicate with each
other? Let me introduce
you now to some mind-
blowing science. Your
success depends on it.

An even briefer
history of time

Newton discovered
gravity and figured out
some equations that
allow us to predict what
happens when we throw
a stone, or an artillery
shell, or a space shuttle
into the sky. They show
us why our feet stay on
the ground, how Apollo
13 got back home, and
why planes fly, and
everything was all
hunkydory until Albert
Einstein came along. Big
Al said Newton’s laws
work just fine on
medium-sized stuff like
humans or planets, but
when it gets very big –
star-sized, for example –
then the speed of light
messes things up big
time. And he devised
new rules like his
General Theory of
Relativity, which is all
very interesting and has
absolutely nothing to do
with goal-setting.
Einstein set a ball rolling
because he poked the
sacred cow of physics
and proved that
Newton’s immoveable
laws were just “good
approximations” and
when things got very
small – atom-sized – then
Newton’s stuff didn’t
work at all. So lots of
very clever people came
up with quantum theory
and a whole new set of
rules. Weird and strange
rules. So strange in fact,
that if you understand
them – you just haven’t
been listening properly.
And here’s a strange
thing. To date every
prediction based on
these rules has worked
out 100%. Indeed, they
are currently the most
accurate laws ever
discovered. No prediction
has ever failed, not one.
And these rules are
based on a worldview
that is not the view most
people hold. It’s based
on a worldview in which
there is no certainty,
only probability: a world
which changes
continuously according
to decisions that are
made and not made. Like
Derek. Or like you and
me when we decide
where we’re going to
park the damn car.
Putting Schrödinger’s
Cat amongst the
pigeons

The Nobel Prize-winning

physicist Erwin
Schrödinger posed a
version of this
conundrum to his
students in order for
them to see the real
world more clearly:
Suppose we place a cat
in a sealed box. In
addition to the cat we
place in the box a
delicate glass bottle, a
vial, of deadly cyanide. If
the cat steps on the vial,
it breaks, and the cat
shuffles off its mortal coil
and becomes an ex-cat.
Assuming we cannot see
or hear anything inside
the box, when the lid
closes, is the cat dead or
alive? This being science,
you cannot choose,
“Don’t know.” This is
what teenagers say and
translated it means, “I
cannot be bothered to
think about it” or “My
brain hurts.” In science
you cannot sit on fences.
It’s when you jump one
side or the other that
progress is made. So
what’s the answer?
Dead? Alive? What? 36
The answer is that the
cat is both dead and
alive. In the world of
quantum mechanics,
when you closed the lid,
the cat entered two
universes based on
whether it stood on the
vial or not. And of
course, when you lift the
lid, you enter one
universe or the other.
Time travel in a box, you
might say. Scientists
don’t talk openly about
universes because such
talk scares the straights,
so they call it probability
states and lots more
complicated terminology.
But don’t be fooled.
They’re universe-
jumping. So, what we’ve
seen so far is that
perhaps, in theory, we
should have a different
view of the universe. It’s
no longer one universe,
but many, each based on
decisions – on
probabilities.

Your universe may be

the same as mine but
with only one thing
changed, or lots of
things. And these
universes can be
accessed not by H. G.
Wells’ time machine, nor
even by a box with a cat
in it, but by simply
making a decision. But
let’s add another
dimension: Suppose that
some of these universes
interact with each other.
If this is true, the
implications are
staggering; absolutely
mind-blowing. Ghosts
could be dead people in
one universe appearing
in another universe in
which they didn’t die.
Believers and atheists
would both be right.
Buddhists would be
reincarnated and
Christians would meet
Christ. Heaven or hell
could just be parallel,
invisible universes so
close to you that you
could reach out and
touch them – and who’s
to say we can’t? In this
brave new world Scottie
really would beam up to
the Enterprise because
he’d simply change
universes to the one in
which Scottie #2 had
stayed on the Enterprise
in the first place. In this
strange new world you
become what you
believe, simply because
you believe it. Indeed,
jumping universes is the
only logical answer to a
question concerning my
lovely lady of many
years of marriage, and
every guy reading this
will recognize the
problem. At least once
every day I will look for
something, not find it,
and ask her where this
thing is.

It may be a jar of coffee

or a cookie packet or
something. Inevitably
she will say, “Top shelf,
left hand side, behind the
sugar.” I will now not find
it, despite stripping the
shelf of every condiment,
packet, or jar known to
mankind. I will place
everything back again, in
the full and certain
knowledge that it isn’t
there. Then she will
ignore my protests, walk
up to the same shelf
(usually while reading a
magazine), pick the thing
off the shelf without
looking, and give it to
me. She will then give
me a condescending
smile which translates
into “Me, Jane. You,
Eejjitt.” She – and, as far
as I can tell, every
female of any age
anywhere on the planet –
can do this all the time,
and the answer is
blindingly obvious. Girls
live in a different
universe, and my cookie
packet’s in it! They’re
not just from Venus; they
live in a different world
and can jump universes
without even thinking
about it. As far as I’m
concerned this should be
sufficient proof to any
blue-blooded male that
quantum mechanics is
alive and well and living
in your kitchen, but I
suppose I’ll have to add
some proper stuff for the
“Of course the Earth’s
flat, look out of the damn
window will ya!” brigade.

“Computers aren’t
scary. It’s
programmers who are
scary!”

Do you know what a

quantum computer is?
An ordinary computer is
very quick. Indeed that is
its only function, to do
long-winded things very
quickly. And for most
things a modern
computer is almost
instantaneous. But there
is still a fraction of time
between my pressing a
key and the letter
appearing on screen.
Normally this doesn’t
affect us, but when it
comes to serious
computations, computers
have their failings. For
example, if I ask a
computer to work out the
square root of 9, it may
start with 8, square it,
and see if 8x8 makes
nine. If it doesn’t, it
moves to number 7 and
does the same thing. It
will do this with all the
numbers in sequence
until it gets to 3 and
discovers that 3x3 is 9
and the problem is
solved. For small
numbers this is nothing
for a computer; it’s only
six calculations, but
when it comes to big
numbers (and you know
how big some numbers
can be) then this process
can take a long time –
years in fact. If you want
an example, look at
computer encryption. If
you bought this book
over the Internet, your
details were kept secret
from snoopers because
the entire transaction
was encrypted (turned
into code that others
would take a long time to
unlock).

Indeed for security,

private information in my
own computer is kept on
a “virtual encrypted
disk,” so even if the
computer were stolen it
would need the efforts of
a major Western
government to break into
it. That’s because even
computers need time to
do things. That’s why
scientists are working on
creating quantum
computers even as you
read this. A quantum
computer will work out
the square root of nine in
a different way. It will
simultaneously look at
the six computation
results on six different
computers (each
computer does only one
of the six calculations
needed), and each
computer is in one of six
different universes. The
one that gets the right
answer spews it out in
this one. Effectively it will
do all the calculations in
the hyperspace world of
probability and churn the
right answer out here. It
will do all the
calculations
simultaneously and give
you an instantaneous
answer. No more waiting.
Let’s be honest. Isn’t this
the craziest piece of pure
unmitigated balderdash
you have ever heard?
Multiple, parallel
universes all interacting
with each other. It’s the
last part that’s
incredible. I can
somehow consider that
there are multiple
outcomes to every
decision and if these
outcomes are acted out
in other mirror-worlds,
then it’s feasible, I
suppose. But interacting
with each other? So I’m
supposed to believe that
in 1977, my wife in
Universe A, interacted
with her pa in Universe B
(who happened to be in
1969) and told him that
moving 200 miles away
was not a good idea
because the love of her
life was only 3 miles
away in Universe A,
which he would be in if
he decided to stay . . . ?
This would be getting
seriously psychotic were
it not for one inalienable
fact. Even Einstein knew
all this was true. He
described physics as
trying to fathom the
inside of a watch. We can
see the movement of the
hands but can only guess
at the mechanism behind
it. Each new guess out-
weirds the previous one.
Here’s an example.
Between 1665-1671
whilst messing about
with prisms, Newton
postulated that light
consisted of particles.
This wasn’t new. Some
600 years previously, the
Arab scholar Al-Hazan
had figured out
something similar whilst
working with lenses. In
1803 Thomas Young
discovered that if you
direct a beam of sunlight
at a board having two
parallel, vertical slits in
it, the two mini-beams of
light that come out the
other side interfere with
each other just like
waterwaves from two
stones thrown into a
pond also interfere with
each other. As the crest
of one wave matches up
with the trough of
another, they cancel
themselves out.

Where crest hits crest,

the wave doubles in size.
With light, this produces
a telltale alternating light
and dark pattern on a
screen placed beyond
the two slits. The fact
that light does this
“proved” that light
moves in waves and not
particles. Well, a hundred
or so years later they
discovered quantum
physics, in which light
moves as wave-particles
called photons. So for
many years it was
generally believed that
light acted as both waves
and particles depending
on the circumstances,
and two photon
“particles” will interact,
just like waves. So,
photons going through
one of the two slits in the
board will interact with
photons coming through
the other slit in a wave-
like manner. No problem
– until the smelly stuff hit
the fan . . . If you shoot
one single photon at the
board – just one – it can
obviously only go
through one slit. On
passing through the slit it
should show up as one
brief spark on the screen
beyond, like a paintball
shot though one of two
windows splats the wall
beyond it. But it’s only
recently that we have
created instruments
sensitive enough to
project and record single
photons. So if we shoot
single photons one after
the other, never in pairs,
then each one should
pass through one slit at
random and hit the
screen on the other side.
The effect we should
expect is the same as
shooting individual shots
with a single paintball
gun at two open
windows. We would have
the wall beyond the
windows splattered in
two distinct groups, one
group for one window,
one for the other
window. But with
photons it didn’t happen.
There were four groups,
and more, exactly as you
would expect with a
wave OR interacting
particles. But the
particles couldn’t
interact because two
were never fired at the
same time. So how can a
particle or wave react
with another particle or
wave that isn’t there? Or,
if you like, how can two
paint balls ricochet off
each other if only one is
flying at a time? The
answer was conclusive.
The single photon
particles must have been
interacting with other
particles. But what
particles? Where were
they? It was the same
particle – but the one
that made the “decision”
to go through the other
window. (There is
another, modern
example in Appendix A.)

Today the scientific

community is split in two.
Those who simply don’t
know (my brain hurts)
and refuse to believe the
one improbable solution,
and those who see no
other answer than the
fact that the photon-
particle we shot at one
slit in this universe
reacted with the same
particle in universe B –
the particle that made
the opposite decision to
go through the other
window. Two universes
interacting with each
other. One universe we
can see, because we’re
in it, and another we
can’t see, but its
invisible presence is still
interacting with ours.
Indeed it now seems that
the experimenter can fix
the outcome of his
theory, merely by
choosing which
experiment he decides to
conduct. It would seem
that nothing is random.
Everything depends on
choice. Even the choice
of experiment affects the
independence of a
solution.

What correct goal-

setting really does . . .
I know this all sounds
weird or even spooky,
but it’s not. It’s science.
As natural as green
grass. It’s just our
understanding of how
the world works that’s
changed. That’s all.
Indeed this
understanding changes
all the time. In 380 B.C.,
a philosopher called
Eratosthenes worked out
that the Earth is round
by shoving a stick in the
ground and watching its
shadow for a year.
(Clearly, reality TV had
not yet been invented.)
But it served to change a
previous world view that
the earth was flat. It isn’t
always so easy. When
Galileo agreed with
Copernicus and dared to
suggest the Earth moved
around the Sun, not only
was he not believed, he
was imprisoned for
heresy. Today we have
an entirely new vision of
the world, and I won’t be
in the least surprised if
this becomes common
knowledge in fifty years’
time. “Hey, Joe. How
about a few beers in this
universe while the girls
go shopping in the
next?” Or something like
that. And now you can
see how goal-setting
really works.
It’s nothing to do with
project or time
management or drawing
things towards you or
animal magnetism or
altering your cosmic
awareness. It’s to do with
making a firm and
irrevocable decision and
actually creating a new
universe, a new life, in
which that decision is
carried out. You’re not
changing yourself. You’re
changing the world. You
create the car parking
space. You create the
elevator door sequence.
This isn’t new. You’re
doing it every day.
Starting from the day
you were born, you are
here today because of
the decisions you made
or decisions made for
you each day during your
life. And each time, your
multi-universe changed
according to the decision
made. And by decision I
am talking about real
decisions, not aimless
wish lists. Let’s look at
decision making,
because it’s important
you know what a
decision really is.
Chapter Five

Brave New World

“I may decide to do
today what I should
decide to do tomorrow
and I may decide to do
tomorrow what I
should decide to do
today . . .” – Old
Skipping Rhyme
A DECISION IS a
conscious process. Unlike
most animals, humans
have the ability to
consider the future in
detail. We can make
decisions that affect us
now, such as which
toothpaste to buy, and
we can make decisions
that are placed on hold
for the future, like where
to go for next year’s
vacation. Both these
kinds of decision leave
no room for doubt, no
room for disbelief. The
decision to buy Brand X
toothpaste is done and
dusted the moment it’s
in the shopping cart. The
decision to go to
Disneyland next year is
made, and the rest is just
detail. With the first
instantly completed
decision (for the
toothpaste does not
require the intervention
of any subconscious
effort; it was just made,
done and dusted), your
universe changed to one
with Brand X in it. Your
decisionmaking process
was unencumbered by
thoughts over whether
you could or could not
afford the toothpaste.
There was no doubt, nor
consciously recorded
belief. It was obvious,
which you should read as
“belief that is so true
that the very act of
having to believe you
believe is unnecessary.”
The vacation decision
was also not fraught with
questions such as
whether you could afford
it or not. You just decided
that Disneyland was the
place to go next year,
period. This firm and
resolute instruction
passed unknowingly into
your subconscious mind,
and equally unknowingly
your subconscious mind
took this fixed,
unequivocal instruction
and started to create a
universe in which this will
take place.

There was no doubt

about the decision, no
uncertainty, no wavering,
and certainly no
subliminal belief that you
couldn’t afford it or not
get there. We tend not to
make decisions, firm
decisions, to go to
Disneyland if we expect
we cannot afford it. Then
it’s not a decision – it’s a
wish, a dream, a nice
thought. Firm decisions,
proper decisions, made
without qualification are
characterized by
authority and certainty.
The decision is simply
made – no ifs, no buts,
no maybes. This can also
be expressed as having
an absolute belief in the
decision. For the
purposes of this book the
word decision does not
mean a wish, or intent to
try something. It is firm,
resolute, obvious,
without question.

“No try. Either you do, or

you do not. There is no
‘try.’” -Yoda, Star Wars.

It is marked by the
complete absence of
doubt.
When you absolutely
believe something, it
begins to materialize in
the real world according
to the strength of that
belief. Nothing happens,
until you make such a
decision. It’s obvious. If
we get away for a
moment from the multi-
universe vision to the
scientific equivalent of
probability states, it’s
obvious that until you
actually open the box
with Schrödinger’s
moggy in it, nothing
happens. You don’t know
the outcome. The
opening of the box is a
firm decision and that
process slam-dunks a
probability into a
certainty. Making a firm
decision without the
slightest area of doubt, a
decision made with
conviction, is the only
thing necessary to
change a probability into
a certainty. And when
you do this, the cogs and
wheels of the universe
realign to turn your wish
into your truth. Unlike
Neo you don’t need to
train in order to change
the Matrix, you just need
to believe. You just need
to make a decision.

“When you get sad it

always seems to rain.”
“Lots of people get sad
when it rains.” “No
baby . . . it rains because
you’re sad.” - Men in
Black II

Brave New World

Your world, or at least

your understanding of
how it works, has now
changed. The notion that
you are just you in this
fixed world, where in
order to change
something you had to
pick up an object on the
Earth’s surface and move
it somewhere else, has
now changed to a new
existence. In this brave
new world, the you
reading this book is but
the you who made all the
decisions necessary to
reach this point. There
are a googol of other
“yous” who made other
decisions who are now in
other universes acting
out those decisions.
There is a you out there
who’s a millionaire.
There is also a you out
there who’s a hobo. The
Earth you thought was
solid beneath your feet
never was. It consists of
atoms that push up
against the atoms in your
footwear. This upward
force is
electromagnetism, and
because it is stronger
than the force of gravity,
you do not descend into
the bowels of the Earth
as if you were standing
on water. Arguably, if
you believed it enough,
you could overcome both
these forces and the
atoms in your body
would pass smoothly
between the atoms in a
wall – and you could walk
through walls. Mind the
floor though. The way to
change the kind of
universe you want to be
in, the way to change
your future, is to make
firm, definite decisions
about how you want your
universe to be. Doing
this creates, invisibly and
seamlessly, a new
universe in which this
new decision of yours is
acted out. Making a
decision changes your
Matrix. Simple, isn’t it?
Ah, no. Actually it isn’t.
You need to know the
rules.
The rules

The first rule of this

brave new world is that
you cannot change the
core program. Again,
let’s take The Matrix as
our example3. In the
movie, the world was a
hugely complex series of
interlinked computer
programs. Everything
and everyone in it was a
subprogram. People,
cars, trees, and clouds
were programs. The
combined effect of all
this – a harmonious
world – is what I call the
core program. Individuals
in the movie learned the
ability to change how
they themselves (i.e., the
subprogram that is them)
interacted with the whole
or core program. Neo
could defy gravity, but
he never altered the
main parts of the core
program. In the movie,
the world was still the
same, clouds still moved
through the sky, the
Earth was still beneath
his feet, and above all,
he could only change
himself, not others. He
was still in that world. He
couldn’t change the
world itself, only his
relationship to that
world. Neither can we.
Even if, through the
correct use of goal-
setting, we create a new
version of it for
ourselves, we are still
restricted by two things:
the degree to which we
believe the goal we
create for ourselves, and
the degree to which that
goal affects the rest of
reality, in particular,
other people.

We cannot change
anything else in the
world except our “local”
world, and it has to be in
harmony with the rest –
the big world. World
peace is certainly a
laudable goal, but I
suggest that war is part
of the core program, if
only because so many
more people than you
seem to want to engage
in it. In practice, I have
noticed that the “big
world” issue isn’t an
issue. The real issue is
one of belief, and for
most people, generating
sufficient belief to
change small things, like
car parking spaces, is
hard enough. Jesus said
that with enough belief
you could move
mountains and cast them
into the sea. Moving
mountains is a big-world
issue that carries this
book far beyond where I
want it to go. Arguably
God is the only one who
can alter the core
program. For now, why
not just change your
world to one that
contains those inanimate
things you want but
don’t currently have. And
for the vast majority,
that change will need all
the belief they can
muster, because most
people have absolutely
no idea what they want.

The biggest problem

of all–deciding what
you want

The first, and hardest,

part of real goal-setting
is simply deciding what
you want. By that I
mean: Is your goal a
goal? Imagine going on
vacation. You want to
buy an airline ticket. You
know exactly where you
want to go. You want to
go to somewhere with
lots of sun, 3 Before The
Matrix came along I tried
to explain success
engineering in terms of
mechanics – the cogs
and levers of the
universe. In 1993 I
started referring to what
I called a “reality
interface” and the idea
that life could be likened
to a computer. Thanks to
this film, explanations
and examples are much
easier! 43 clean
beaches, glorious
swimming pools, and
palm trees. You want to
go to “warm and sunny.”
Try and buy a ticket to
“warm and sunny.” You
can’t. The ticket agent
knows exactly what you
want; he probably wants
to go there himself, but
in reality “warm and
sunny” doesn’t exist.
Unless you tell the agent
exactly which location
you want to go to and
exactly the date you
want to go, then you
cannot get there.
Paradoxically, there are
no flights to “warm and
sunny” even though
most flights go there.
One of the most common
goals I have seen people
make (those few people
who actually make goals)
is: “To be financially
independent.” That is the
monetary equivalent of
“warm and sunny.”
It is entirely
meaningless, and yet
everyone knows what is
meant by it. Your
subconscious mind is the
equivalent of a mindless
ticket agent. It doesn’t
question, argue, or
suggest. If it receives
unequivocal, precise
instructions, it gets on
with it. If there is any
“thinking” to do, or if the
instruction isn’t perfectly
precise, it just hangs up.
A computer at least gives
you a warning: This
program has performed
an illegal function and
will now shut down;
tough. Your subconscious
doesn’t. It just does
nothing, like an email
that gets lost in the
tubes. Which brings us
nicely to rule #2: You
have to take each goal
back to the lowest
common denominator –
you have to be precise.
You have to be certain
that your goal is a
destination – not a flight.
Money is a flight, not a
destination. To have a
goal of “financial
independence” will not
work because this
instruction contains no
details of exactly what
this means. Does it mean
$1 million in the bank?
$2 million? Does it mean
owning several rental
properties? What? I can
prove to you that money
is not what you want.
Suppose I offer to write
you a check for $1
million – and repeat it
every year. But there is a
catch. You will have to
live on your own on a
desert island. You can
have any car or house
you like, so long as you
pay for it out of the $1
million a year and you
have them on the island
– on your own. Would
you take this? Some
would; most wouldn’t.
What’s the point of cash
in the bank? It’s what
you buy with it that
matters. Of course the
reason why $1 million in
the bank sounds exciting
is because:

1. You wouldn’t need to

work any more.

2. You would know that

all your bills and
expenses now and in the
future are covered.

3. You could up your

lifestyle. The first two are
all about security – an
inner fear that you won’t
be able to pay your bills
in the future. It can turn
into an endless hunt for
the next $1million or the
one after that. I call it
buffalo hunting.

My idea of security is to
metaphorically live near
enough buffalo so that
when I need one to feed
my family, I just go and
hunt one. That single
buffalo may be all I need
to feed and clothe my
family for a year. I can
understand those who
hunt two buffalo, one for
the current year and
another for one year
ahead. But most of the
millionaires I have seen
and often spoken to are
the equivalent of manic
buffalo collectors. They
want/need hundreds of
buffalo. Does this make
them happier? More
secure? I’m not so sure.
These men seem
constantly driven. Why
do they need this
overabundance? Why
can’t they just have
enough? Are they
compensating for
something !? With a
hundred buffalo pelts in
storage, their fears
change to protecting
those pelts from thieves.
So they lie awake at
night worrying. This type
of goal can often produce
more problems than it
solves, and this
desperate pursuit of
riches is very debatable
in terms of human
happiness.
Wealth is more a state of
mind – a knowing that
money is available to you
on demand, as and when
you want it. It’s not the
need to collect piles of
green paper. “People
assume that happiness
stems from collecting
things outside of
yourself, whereas true
happiness stems from
removing things from
inside of yourself.” - The
Dalai Llama For example,
my notion of financial
security is to have a
small, highly profitable
business (or businesses)
that demands little
attention and will keep
me occupied for a few
hours a week. The rest of
the time it looks after
itself. I could do that until
I am a ripe old age and
not worry about money,
or panic every time the
stock market takes a
tumble. If I become ill, I
have the business
managed, or take out
insurance, or both.
What’s the big deal? As
for upping your lifestyle,
consider why. Is it to
impress someone else? I
like to run my purchases
through a number of
filters before I buy. I ask
myself – would I buy this
if I were the only person
on the planet, and who
am I trying to impress?
Would I buy this if I were
completely on my own? I
own a classic XKE
roadster. Would I have it
if no one saw it? (Damn
right I would. It’s great
fun.)

An example of a perfect
goal is a car. I know this
is a man thing but I have
certain limitations with
being one. “I own a nice
car” and “I drive a
Ferrari” are not good
goals because they are
not precise enough. “I
own a Range Rover V8i
in dark blue, with cruise
control, ABS brakes, air
conditioning, alloy
wheels, and a five-speed
stick shift” is a perfectly
worded goal. It is so
precise that you could
give this information to
Honest Abe’s Car
Emporium tomorrow and
he’d order it right away.
You can’t buy “a Ferrari.”
Words are important too.
“I drive a Ferrari” is
different from “I own a
Ferrari.” See the
difference? Every goal
you decide for yourself
must be well 45 thought
out and very precise.
There are rules to the
game. Goal-setting is a
process where you give
your conscious mind
precise, absolute, and
firm instructions. These
are passed to your
subconscious, and
provided that there is no
room for doubt, the
subconscious will power
up its 101,000,000-watt
communication center
and suddenly the
quantum universe starts
to realign in your favor.
How fast it does this
depends on the strength
of your belief, the exact
wording of the
instructions, and whether
you are restructuring
your “local” world or
trying to be Buzz
Lightyear.
Chapter Six

Quantum Goal-Setting

COMMUNICATIONS ARE
VITAL. The most
important school subject
should be a combination
of the English language
and “human
communication.” The
reasoning is simple. If
you cannot make
yourself understood,
then you are several
goals down before you
even start the dramdring
frog basket. Nearly
everything you want is
either controlled or
owned by somebody
else. In order to
persuade them to give it
to you, you need to make
yourself understood.
Wars have started
because messages were
misunderstood. (The
1881 Boer War started
when a comma was left
out of a telegram.) In the
military and aviation
they take this so
seriously that
communications are
restricted to fixed
phrases. If you’re going
to communicate
anything, it must be
crystal clear. That’s why
goal-setting has rules.
For over 15 years, in
conjunction with others, I
have been testing goal-
setting systems to see
which work and which
don’t, or which are goal-
setting and which are
glorified project
management. I didn’t
invent these systems; I
merely tested which of
them work, and which
don’t. The following
axioms make all the
difference between
success and failure. They
are the inviolate rules of
success engineering.

1. Goals must be
written down.

This is because you must

reinforce them by using
as many of your senses
as possible. In writing
them down you are using
your eyes and hands.
When you repeat them to
yourself later, you
should, wherever
possible, rewrite them or
at least repeat them out
loud. Even if it is
impossible to read out
loud you can still whisper
and move your lips. Not
only should you write
your goals down, but
later on you will see that
we are going to make a
ceremony of it. After all,
this is arguably the most
important exercise of
your whole life. It
certainly holds the
greatest promise. You
should use the best
quality paper and the
best pen you can get
hold of.

2. Goals MUST be
written in the first
person – “I . . .”

All goals must start with

“I.” You cannot make a
goal for anyone else.
Goals are only for you,
and they are intensely
personal. So, every goal
you choose for yourself
must be written in the
form “I own . . . I
have . . . I am . . . I drive .
. . I live in . . .”
3. Have at least one
psychological goal
involving a positive
change in your
attitude. Word this
goal as if it were
already true in your
life.

Psychological goals, you

will remember, are those
goals involving mental
states such as
concentration, courage,
or being positive.
Basically, they are all
different forms of one
major psychological goal,
and that goal is strength.
You want to be strong to
meet life’s challenges.
Now think carefully: You
cannot prepare to
become strong, not
mentally. If it is physical
strength, then yes, you
can prepare by doing
physical exercises. But
this only works for
physical strength.
Psychological strength
cannot be prepared for.
You cannot, for example,
say, “I will be bold next
week.” It doesn’t happen
that way.

You are already

strong.

You have within you all

the strength you will ever
need. Consider that you
already are a strong
person, but your belief
mechanism has put a lid
on it. The way to release
the lid is to accept that
today, now, you are
already strong and that
each day your newly
discovered source of
strength increases. All
psychological goals
should be worded as if
you already possessed
that particular virtue,
and its intensity is
growing stronger each
day. “I have great
strength of character. It
increases every day.” “I
have absolute belief in
myself, made manifest in
everything I say and do.”

To see your worst

enemy – look in a
mirror

During the last few years

I have been tutoring
individuals in special
business areas. I have
also been in contact over
the years with thousands
of similar individuals, and
I see patterns. Without
question, the main
reason why these
individuals haven’t
succeeded in some
business or other is
entirely down to their
attitudes or inner beliefs
in themselves. Notice I
said in themselves, not in
the business. I have seen
thousands of people
search for a business
opportunity that they
think will, by itself,
provide 99% of the
success they crave while
they contribute 1%. The
sharp reality is that most
success stories are 1%
the business, and 99%
the person’s belief in him
or her self. I have seen
innumerable hopefuls
spend huge amounts of
money in their
desperation to start
some enterprise that will
give them all the hopes
and dreams they aspire
to. And despite
personalized “do this
next” instructions, I have
seen many people fail
and fail again due
entirely to a firm inner
belief that they “couldn’t
do it.” The trouble is that
these people do not
know this is going on
inside them. They talk
constantly of success yet
still harbor an invisible,
unshakable, and
unconscious belief that
they cannot do these
things, usually inspired
by a poor self-image. It
works like this.

Suppose, due to financial

constraints, a person has
always had to buy
secondhand cars. If
asked to buy a new one,
they would look at their
finances and decide they
could not afford a new
car. That seals their
future. They are in a loop
but cannot see it. They
have looked at their
current situation and
made a decision about
their future based on
their past results, a
decision that has put a
ceiling on what they
think they can afford.
Their self-image remains
the same and puts a halt
on all progress. Suppose
that same person invests
in a business opportunity
(assuming it’s a good
one). Their current
situation is that they’ve
never done very well at
these things, and
therefore they let this
“failure” or “I am what I
am” mentality dominate
their aspirations.

As a result they only give

the opportunity a half-
hearted prod, and if it
doesn’t produce results
in five minutes they give
up. This reinforces their
current self-image, and
the cycle repeats itself.
On the other hand,
deciding to buy that new
car in spite of the fact
they cannot afford it
invariably frees the
person’s mind to search
for new ways of paying
for it. When they achieve
that end, their self-image
has been raised to a new
level and from now on
they buy new cars. This
leads to buying better
new cars and finding
better ways of paying for
them, thus creating an
upward, positive spiral of
success based on new
self-images. I have said
to you that a firmly held
belief in any goal actually
changes your universe to
bring it into reality.

And so it does, even to

your detriment. It’s
important to
comprehend that it’s
NOT what’s in your
conscious mind that
affects the Matrix; it’s
what’s in your
subconscious mind, the
one with the USB socket
to the universe, that
affects your world. Your
conscious mind can wish
for $1 million all day long
but it’s only when you
subconsciously expect it
to happen that things
start moving. This
happens all the time. You
are, today, an exact
reflection of what you
subconsciously think you
are, whether you like it
or not. The only
difference now is that
you can see that you
have the power to
change it, and
remarkably quickly.
Something very strange
and unexpected
happened when I tried to
tutor certain people. Part
of the business plan I
presented to them
included, quite naturally,
the powerful goal-setting
techniques you are
reading here. The reason
for repetition and
visualization of these
goals, and also the extra
input from self-
improvement and
motivational tapes,
books, and DVDs, is to
overwrite people’s
subconscious negative
belief in themselves. I
knew this in-built
negative belief (we all
have it; it’s homeostasis)
was strong, but if the
quantum universe
information in this book
is true, that negative
belief would have an
equal but negative effect
on those who focused on
the wrong things. It
would NOT create the
universe they were
paying lip service to, the
universe they wanted,
but WOULD create their
innermost fears – the
things they really
believed.

So I fully expected a
psychological backlash
when I started to push
people. What I didn’t
expect, oddly, was the
physical backlash. I
expected some to fail
simply because of
psychological resistance
– all those hidden habits
and paradigms that held
them down. These
people simply failed to
go forward, or found
1089 excuses and
reasons for not doing
what I told them to do.
But what I didn’t consider
was the possibility that,
with my trying to push
them through this
barrier, their own minds
(unable to counter my
pushing with
psychological excuses),
would then create real
physical circumstances
that would definitely
prevent me pushing
them beyond their
innermost beliefs. I am
not going to frighten you
away from any of this by
giving you some very
spooky and sad
examples, but I will give
you one story because
it’s a very powerful
example of negative
“universe creation.” We’ll
call him Joe. Joe was
involved in a boot camp
where I was actively
pushing him to create a
certain web-related
business. He was
“certain” he could do it.
He was optimistic and
enthusiastic. He was not
very computer literate
but he knew enough of
the basics. If you start a
small home-based
business you go through
stages. First, there’s the
honeymoon period where
it all looks exactly right,
just what you had always
wanted. Then comes the
reality check – you have
to think, act, and plan.
You suddenly realize it’s
99% YOU. This is not
taught in schools, so
most people start getting
a severe dose of the
gremlins at this point,
which is exactly why
they need the support of
someone who’s done it
before. Most people stop
near or at this point with
excuses: it’s too difficult,
I’ve not enough time,
etcetera. In reality, it is
their in-built belief that
they cannot do this
thing, that they’re not
cut out for it. I thought,
in my arrogance, that if I
stepped in and pushed
such people forward
(without first resetting
their belief structures),
they would get over this
barrier. Those people
who actively and
consistently used these
goal-setting techniques
to change their inner
belief systems did make
further progress.

But what I hadn’t

expected was what the
quantum aspect of goal-
setting would do to those
who didn’t alter their
self-image. Put simply, if
someone exists in a
universe where he or she
thinks they cannot do
something, then, if
pushed beyond this
barrier by another
person, they will start to
psychologically sabotage
themselves, for example
by being tired, or making
all kinds of largely invalid
excuses. But if you push
some of these people
beyond the point where
psychological avoidance
methods won’t be
enough, then the subject
will actually alter his/her
surrounding universe in
order to create physical
circumstances that will,
without question, stop all
progress. What I’m
saying is that a person’s
inner negative belief can
be so strong it creates a
physical obstacle to
making progress. It
started psychologically.
Every time Joe had a
problem he emailed me.
I had 180 emails in three
months. I have helped
people with computer
problems on thousands
of occasions but it
seemed to me that
absolutely everything
that Joe did, computer
wise, simply went sour
every time. I would send
passwords to various
people to open files –
Joe’s didn’t work. I would
send emails others
received but he didn’t. I
would ask people to look
at certain websites.

He couldn’t get onto

them. I have never, in
my whole life, seen a
situation where every
solution only partially
worked or failed
completely. I just
assumed he’d convinced
himself that it was all too
difficult. So he came to
my house, and I sat at
my own computer and
showed him how to do
something. Then he sat
down at the same
computer and I showed
him what to click – and it
didn’t work. He was
actually physically
affecting the computer
and the Internet. In his
universe the Internet
didn’t work, because he
believed it so. It was the
only way to stop me
pushing him beyond his
comfort zone. This was
one of my first
observations in the
power of quantum goal-
setting and it was
happening to someone
completely
subconsciously. The idea
of creating a new
universe for yourself
containing those things
you want is made easier
to believe by showing
you the opposite, that
people can actually bring
physical disaster upon
themselves simply
because they believe
themselves unlucky. I’m
sure you know people
like this. They are just
doing the same thing:
watching what they
believe to be true
actually come true in
their lives. So think
lucky! For God’s sake,
think lucky. In my
opinion, only two types
of people ever achieve
the success they crave: !

Those who believe they

can, deep down. They
are belief-driven. ! Those
who have no choice.
They are fear-driven. It’s
all down to belief in
yourself – or fear of
failure and the
determination to beat it.
The business you choose
rarely comes into it,
because a business is
itself a vehicle, a flight,
not a destination. The
success stories of the
world either were those
people who were
absolutely determined to
achieve success, or those
who consciously or
unconsciously used goal-
setting techniques, or
those whose backs were
against the wall and
were forced to go beyond
where they wanted to go.
They either had a self-
image that was a
positive, upwardspiraling
one, or they blasted
through the “terror
barrier” of limited
selfbelief and made
progress that way. So
who didn’t win? People in
the comfort zone of JOB
(Just Over Broke).
Breaking through the
self-belief structure, a
structure that has been
created out of your past
experiences, sets up a
homeostatic response. In
practical terms,
homeostasis, which is a
medical condition that
wants you and
everything about you to
stay the same, will
unleash your personal
four horsemen of the
apocalypse – fear, doubt,
uncertainty, and stress –
every time you force
change. This is the
“terror barrier” you have
to go through. For most
people in the comfort
zone of JOB, it is easier to
simply give in and
retreat back to the
comfort of the mundane
than to face the effort of
trying to go beyond
where they think they
can go. This is a huge
pity, because in most
cases the devil is nothing
but smoke and mirrors.

It has been my
observation that success
tests you first. Your inner
resolve is put to the test
in order to tease out
weaknesses in your
desire. It examines
whether your decision to
be successful was a
decision, as I define it, or
a wish list. In the millions
of rags-to-riches
examples of successful
people, many are
immigrants from
countries having no
welfare support for their
poor. Their desire to
become successful came
simply from the fear that
they must not fail. They
dared not fail. Failure =
starvation, which was
simply not an option.
Without question, the
bulk of self-made,
successful millionaires
come from poor,
disadvantaged
backgrounds. In their
cases, the decision to be
successful was indeed a
decision. To fail was to
die. It was this that
pushed them through the
terror barrier.

When such a person

encounters a problem, a
hurdle, a blockage on the
high road to
accomplishment, they
make the effort to
overcome it. They refuse
to give up. They either
dare not give up or are
absolutely determined
not to be beaten. By
contrast, when someone
who is in a poor but
reasonable job and who
wants “the better things
in life” meets the first
hurdle, he/she has a
backout plan. The back-
out plan is the fact that
they need not go down
this road; they have an
income already, however
bad. Their determination
is weak, most often
stemming from a pure
lack of confidence. This
lack of confidence, plus a
wish for better things,
lures them down the
wolf-ridden forest path of
“easy money” or
business opportunity rip-
offs: businesses that
promise easy money for
no thinking or preset
plans. Yet no matter how
juicy the business looks,
the successful people
within it will have applied
99% determination to 1%
of the business – any
business – not the other
way round. Success
simply requires self-
belief and determination.
Make goals for them.

4. For physical goals

you must write down
EXACTLY what you
want, BUT NOT the
date by which it will
be achieved – with one
exception – the
Emergency Goal.
For physical goals, like a
new car or house, you
must be precise but you
must NOT specify a
deadline for its
achievement. An
Emergency Goal, on the
other hand, is a critical
goal that has a time limit
set by circumstances
outside your control. For
example, you may need
to pay an electricity bill
before the end of next
month or you will be shut
off. Or a tax bill before
the end of the month or
you will get locked up.
These goals are always
dated (“By March 15 my
electric bill is paid in
full”). Let me give you an
example of a goal I
created for myself which
was quite hard, but I did
a live test specifically to
show you how to attain a
goal. In order to get fit
but to avoid the back
trouble that 15 years of
football had produced, I
had taken a keen
interest in cycling. I did
not have a mountain bike
at the time, only an old
rattletrap, but instead of
just going out and
buying one I decided to
write the following goal,
and because I decided it
was an Emergency Goal,
I dated it: “By September
15 I own an excellent
mountain bike. I obtained
this free of charge or
cost.” (Notice that it’s
present tense even
though the grammar is
way off.) Now that’s
tricky.

Getting a decent bike

free of charge. I didn’t
know enough about
bikes, or care enough to
be specific as regards
color. And by “excellent”
I meant one that would
do the job. What I should
have said was “21 gears
with cantilever brakes,”
but anything would have
done just for this test. I
freely admit that
standing under Mount
Etna with outspread
arms was an option I
hadn’t considered, but
we’ll move on. Over the
next few weeks I
repeated and visualized
this goal and as each day
went by nothing
happened. I looked in the
local paper but of course
everything in it had a
price tag attached, so it
wouldn’t count. Now, to
be honest, I did include a
time factor in this but
that’s because I know
how time factors work,
as I shall explain in the
appendix. Putting dates
on goals can be very
tricky and you need to
know what you’re doing.
My advice is to not use
dates except in specific
circumstances such as
Emergency Goals. With
days to go I thought I’d
finally cooked my goose.
I even thought that I
could exchange
something for a bike, but
the opportunity never
arose. When the day
arrived I thought I had
totally failed. Not one
single opportunity had
arisen for completing this
goal. You see, setting a
date is very difficult. First
you have to think about
how long it will take to
complete the goal. Most
people have no idea and
choose an arbitrary date.
A free bike in two weeks I
considered to be too
short, so I just chose four
weeks at random. But
the major problem is that
by choosing a date, you
set up a potential failure
date. This can produce
stress as you get nearer
the goal. That’s because
we are conditioned to
think in straight lines. If
we are halfway through
the goal-setting time
limit, we should have half
the goal already. Yet
nature does not have
straight lines. The last
thing you want is to not
achieve a goal, because
it places all your other
goals in jeopardy. The
fear devil inside you will
have a field day –
“Forget it,” it says to you
in the depths of the
night. “It’s all rubbish.
You’ve no chance.” And
so it goes on. The
temptation is to
compromise. NEVER
COMPROMISE, JUST DO
IT. JUST DO IT is the best
advice on earth. Oh, you
want to know about the
bike, don’t you? On
September 16th my
sister-in-law rang me out
of the blue to tell me her
neighbor had given her
an old bike that he didn’t
use any more, and the
tires were flat. Did I want
it? Guess what? It was a
21-gear mountain bike
with cantilever brakes.
Well used, admittedly,
and with a puncture. The
repair cost 95 cents, and
I didn’t actually receive
the working bike until
one week after the goal
deadline had passed.
Well, you could say that
the goal failed in that I
didn’t achieve it on
exactly the set date, and
it did cost 95 cents. But
then again, one week
later I was running
around on a 21-gear
mountain bike, having
spent a few cents on a
repair, not on a
purchase, so who cares?
My universe had
changed. Remember, in
all goal-setting you are
defining the center as
your target. Is it a failure
if you get as close as
possible to the center
without actually hitting it
precisely? I don’t think
so. Without the goal in
the first place you
wouldn’t even be on the
target. “If your goal is to
make a million . . . and
you only make half a
million, don’t beat
yourself up too much.” -
Vince Stanzione

5. Goals must be
positive.

A positive goal contains

words like “am” or
“have” or “own.” They
are powerful words
stating something which
you HAVE, not will have
soon. They are
commands. Do not
confuse this wording with
stating the opposite,
even though logically the
outcome should be the
same. Saying, “I am a
positive person” is not
the same as saying, “I
am not a negative
person.” You don’t “give
up” smoking. You “live a
healthy lifestyle.” Speak
from abundance, not
from scarcity. God said,
“Let there be light” not,
“Let there be less
darkness.” Over many
years it has become
known that the
subconscious mind acts
on what you focus on
most of the time,
irrespective of whether
it’s what you want. If
you’re focusing on how
to get out of debt, you’re
still focusing on – you’ve
guessed it – debt. If there
is something you want or
need, then state it
positively. If there is
something you want to
be rid of, then phrase it
positively. Leave out
negative words like
“not,” “give up,”
“never,” etc.

I once suffered an allergy

that brought me out in
spots every spring. It
started when I was 17
and continued until I was
35. Doctors put it down
to stress (wrong),
shellfish (I hated
shellfish), and finally
eggs (still wrong). Finally
I went to a specialist
clinic who told me with
surprising honesty that
they didn’t know what it
was. It could have been a
combination of anything.
They gave me some pills
to help with the
symptoms if not the
cure. I decided that goal-
setting was the only
solution. I set myself the
goal of “I am a very
healthy person, full of
energy.” Each morning
and each night I
repeated this goal and
visualized myself in a
state of glowing good
health. What I did not do
was to phrase the goal “I
do not suffer from
allergies any longer.”
The phrase “I do not
want” is a negative
statement and it would
have made me focus on
the allergy, which is not
the correct way. On the
other hand the positive
assertion “I AM” is very
powerful and the
subconscious is
commanded to respond,
so always remember the
difference between a
positive statement, or
command, and a
negative wish or hope.

I put this one goal on

the very top of my list. I
repeated it faithfully
every day, and used the
“letting go” technique
you will see later every
day as well. I was
absolutely determined to
get rid of it once and for
all. To be honest I don’t
remember how many
weeks it took. I think it
was about 15 or 20 at
the most, but from that
day to this, on my word
of honor, I have never
had a single
reoccurrence of that
allergy. I have been free
of it now for over 20
years. I have done this
trick several times with
other chronic health
problems and achieved
success every time.

6. The goals must be

read, preferably
rewritten, at least
twice a day, every
day.

Once you’ve written

down your positive goals,
the sheet of paper or
card on which they have
been written becomes
your lifelong friend.
Every morning,
immediately on rising,
find a quiet place and
take out your goal sheet.
Read out these goals by
miming the words with
your lips. Better still,
read them out loud. The
best way is to rewrite
them on another piece of
paper, but an alternative
is to pretend to write it
out in thin air, using an
invisible pen.
Alternatively, write your
goals in a computer file.
Do the same thing at
night before you go to
bed. The object here is
repetition. By repeating
your goals, you are
driving these new
commands deeply into
your subconscious, which
will then be
reprogrammed to
achieve those goals. It is
very important to take
time out, even if it is only
a few minutes, and
repeat these goals every
morning and every night
without fail, no matter
how tired you may be.
The reward will be well
worth it. Doing this often
enough makes it an
experience. The
subconscious mind is not
able to distinguish
between an imaginary
experience and a real
one. If it’s real, then the
world, the universe,
must contain it.
7. After each reading,
visualize your life as it
would be with that
goal achieved. See, in
your mind’s eye, the
new car parked in the
drive, smell its
interior. Feel excited.
Do this for each goal.

Remember to see
yourself as if the goal
was already yours. Feel
the excitement. See
yourself in the car. See
yourself meeting your
ideal mate. Yes, that
works too. These
techniques set up a
homing beacon, creating
your wants in your life:
changing your life. In the
case of finding partners it
is doubly effective,
because that partner is
also looking for you.
Remember, it’s not the
goal itself that does
anything. IT IS THE
EMOTION THAT
PROVIDES THE POWER
TO MAKE GOALS
HAPPEN. Don’t just read
out a goal, feel the same
buzz you’d have if it had
come true this morning.

Whatever your goal,

make certain that you
imagine it as being true
in your life right now. Get
excited. Feel good about
it. Don’t forget, this is
not idle dreaming, you’re
actually ordering this
goal into your life as if
from a cosmic catalogue.
Have faith in it. Even as I
am writing this,
remembering the many
goals I have achieved, I
am amazed and excited
at how such a simple
idea can bring such
magical results. If you
are visualizing a physical
goal, then “see” the car,
or the house in detail. If
it’s a holiday on a Pacific
island, then see yourself
looking at a glorious
sunset. “Feel” your feet
in the surf. If you are
visualizing a
psychological goal – for
example, confidence –
then “see” yourself in a
situation in which you
are showing great
confidence, such as
when giving a speech or
talking to the CEO of
your corporation. Feel
good about it.
8. Don’t let the goal
own you.

I hope you will

understand this section
because I suspect you
will never have seen it
before. Before you
finalize your goals I want
you to reread this
section. These are
powerful words of
wisdom concerning goal-
setting that you must
understand before you
make a big mistake.
Goal-setting contains two
elements that seem to
be contradictory, and
you must find a balance
between them. The
object of any goal is
simply to make you
happier. If trying to
achieve the goal makes
you a stressed-out,
anxious person, then
rethink the goal. For
each goal you want to
achieve, ask yourself this
question: “How do I feel
about the goal itself?”
This means, what
feelings come into your
mind when you think
about this goal? The
obvious feelings will be
excitement or joy. Think
about these feelings and
write them down. Now
ask yourself a different
question: “How does this
goal make me feel now?”
Note that the two
questions are not the
same. The second
question refers to your
feelings concerning the
attainment of the goal,
the height you have to
climb. If your goal was to
conquer Mount Everest,
then the first question
addresses how you think
you would feel at the top
of the mountain, and the
second question
addresses how you feel
about the whole prospect
of organizing the
expedition. Think very
carefully about this. So,
the first question is “How
do I think I will feel when
I have attained this
goal?” and the second
question is “How do I feel
about this future goal
right now?”

If today’s thoughts
concerning your goal
make you feel anxious or
disturbed or stir hidden
doubts right now, then
think carefully about that
goal. What is happening
is that deep down a part
of you that “knows” is
telling you things are not
what they seem to be.
This goal you have for
yourself may be an
illusion. You MUST take
on board the notion that
there is a force outside of
yourself that wants the
best for you. It wants you
to live a life filled to the
brim with an unlimited
abundance of good
things. It will guide you
away from bad things, or
things you think you
want but won’t actually
make you happy. Be
prepared to change your
goals away from things
you think you want, to
things that make you feel
good. Money or financial
goals can be a trick.
Money isn’t a goal; it’s a
route to a goal, and only
one route at that. Bypass
money and go straight to
what you want that
money for. That’s your
real goal. “Financial
freedom” is the
goalsetting equivalent of
“warm and sunny.” What
do you mean by it? You
will have to think of
these things. A great tip
is to imagine your ideal
life as if it were true
today. So if you want to
work a few days each
week from home and
have plenty of free time
to walk the beach, then
this is a worthy and well
thought out goal. If there
is a particular car or
house you’d like, then
describe it in detail,
exactly as if you were
ordering it.

You can’t, for example,

have a goal of a beach
house in Florida if you
won’t get on the Internet
and take a look at some
houses in that area.
Think of it this way.
Suppose you have just
won the lottery. With all
that money in the bank
you’d go looking for your
house, wouldn’t you? Of
course you would. Well, if
you don’t start looking at
houses after you have
made a goal of getting
one, what is that saying
about your commitment,
or your belief? You have
to do something. It kick-
starts your ambition and
underwrites your
intention. Your
subconscious mind is a
3-year-old genie. It will
create any goal you
want, provided it is so
clear and unambiguous
that any 3-year-old could
understand it. But how
can you con yourself? It’s
easy. It starts by basing
your goals on the wrong
assumptions. The most
obvious false assumption
is that other people will
admire, respect, or love
you more because you
have this goal.

Wrong.

Never, ever set yourself

a goal that you think will
make you feel better or
happy just because you
can show off or impress
another person. Many
people who have had the
thrill of owning a new car
have NOT discovered the
unalloyed excitement of
being the envy of their
friends. Instead, they
found that they were
embarrassed by it in the
company of their friends
or worried about it in
case it was scratched in
the supermarket parking
lot. The fact is that what
you think will impress
another person never will
because most people
equate “impress” with
“envy.” Never let others
decide your happiness
because if you do, they
own you. You will be a
willing slave to what you
think they want. Be true
to yourself. Let your
inner voice tell you what
you want. If the thought
of trying to achieve any
of your goals makes you
feel unhappy now, then
you’ll feel exactly the
same way in now + 1
second and exactly the
same in now + 2
seconds. Each now is the
seed of the next now and
if you are not happy with
your goals now then you
won’t be happy at any
time in the future
because each moment
you live in is the seed of
the next. Phew . . . that
was heavy. If you think
that being a millionaire
will make you happy,
then study the lives of
the many millionaires
and celebrities who have
committed suicide over
the years and ask
yourself why. External
things, at best, can only
make you slightly
happier; they cannot
make you a truly happy,
self-fulfilled person who
cares not one jot whether
it rains today because
you’re having a whale of
a time, whatever the
weather.
Make your goals what
you alone want them to
be. The easy part is
achieving the goal. The
hard part is deciding
which goals are worth
the effort, and whether
they really are what you
need to make you happy.
An obvious financial goal
is to earn a certain sum
of money. But in today’s
world we are not paid in
cash, and it’s very
difficult to visualize 100
grand. You can hardly
get excited over a bank
statement, so if you have
difficulty getting excited
over an imaginary bank
statement, let other
goals allude to your
income goal. To want
100K income but dream
of a brand-new VW
Beetle doesn’t match up
unless you are very laid
back. The Beetle is
telling your subconscious
that you don’t really
believe 100K is
attainable. Concentrate
on your house and car –
the income to achieve
those things will often
take care of itself.

9. The power of doing

nothing

Reading and visualizing

your goals twice a day is
a practical, active
process. However, in
mental work we must
also remember the sheer
power of letting go and
letting your mind do its
own work. Remember
that in mental work, the
more you strain at the
job the less you will get
done. Your goal readings
are crucial, practical
steps, but now we must
let the mind continue the
good work in its own
way. Let the
subconscious get on with
it. All your conscious
mind has to do is make
each goal clear, certain,
and unambiguous. The
subconscious does not
require the help of your
pathetically weak
conscious efforts. You
should “let go” once a
day, every day, for about
20 minutes or so. I find
the best place is in my
car, even if I have to
drive to some reasonably
quiet place to do it.
Whenever, and
wherever, do this every
day.

Close your eyes and

spend five minutes
relaxing with your eyes
closed. Counting slowly
backwards from 50
usually achieves the
desired result. Once you
are in this quiet, totally
relaxed state, repeat
quietly to yourself your
most important goal, and
then drift along as you
visualize yourself in a
situation where this goal
is true. This technique
uses the capacity of the
mind to inject an idea
from the conscious,
straight into the
subconscious area of the
brain, and it is extremely
powerful. When you try
this technique for the
first time you will find it
so restful that you may
start to fall asleep. Do
not worry. You will find
that after about 20-40
minutes you will have an
almost overwhelming
desire to wake up again.
Do it. Do not try to doze
further, otherwise you
will feel dreadful. Just get
up and get on with the
day. Another way to
understand the power of
letting go is to remember
the times when you were
trying to solve a
particular problem, say a
math problem.

You’d focus on the

problem for hours
probably, without a
result. Finally you would
leave it unsolved. The
next day the answer
came to you
unexpectedly, say while
walking the dog or
washing the car. It came
to you after you’d let go.
You had spent time
focusing on it
consciously, and this
impressed itself on your
subconscious computer.
The solution came when
your subconscious
worked on it but only
when it was free to act,
i.e., not cluttered up with
conscious musings. All
you have to do is to
follow the same system
and focus on your want,
then consciously pass it
over to “the powers that
be” in the confident
expectation that an
answer will appear. It’s a
no-effort process.

A summary of the best

methods to use

1. Write out your goals.

2. Every morning read

them out to yourself and
visualize them. Feel the
buzz. Play some inspiring
music on your MP3
player.
3. Take in an
encouraging chapter
from one of the many
selfdevelopment books
or audio tapes/CDs/DVDs
available.

4. At lunchtime, let
yourself go in the
“power” state of deep
subconscious
conditioning.

5. Just before retiring,

read out your goals and
visualize them. Do not be
afraid to change your
goals if for any reason
the desire for a particular
goal seems to wear off.
This is because you have
an inner power that
wants the best for you,
and it will suggest new
goals, or modify old
goals in order to bring
you the inner peace that
you desire. Go with the
flow. You will also find
that new ideas will leap
into your head in order to
help you achieve those
goals. Don’t ignore them.
Write them down and
leave them for a few
days so that your
thoughts can settle, then
look at them again to see
if they “feel” right.

If they do, then act on

them right away. If you
get into the habit of
ignoring them, they will
no longer appear. Once
you get tuned in to this
kind of goal-setting you
will find the power at
work drawing ideas,
events, even people
towards you. You are
moving universes. Use
your common sense to
identify the best ideas
and go with them. That’s
what your conscious
mind is for. If you
continuously ignore the
workings of your
subconscious mind, it will
simply become less
effective.

Using your goals

You don’t have to limit

the number of goals you
choose, but keep them
manageable. Now I’ll
give you an excellent
technique which will help
enormously with regard
to the very first goals
you should choose for
yourself. Doing what I am
about to say will tell your
mind that you mean
business in a big way. 1.
First of all, write out your
goals on a rough sheet of
paper until you are
happy with the phrasing.
Use some of those goals
shown later on in this
book by all means, but
make absolutely certain
they are the goals you
want, not what you think
somebody else would
like you to have. Do not
try to impress anyone.
Don’t try to impress
yourself. And for
heaven’s sake have
some fun with it;
otherwise, what’s the
point?

2. You should have three

psychological goals –
personality traits you
want to have. These
should be for confidence,
perseverance and
courage. For example: “I
am a very confident
person. Each day my
confidence
increases.” “I always
finish each task to the
very end, without
distraction,
procrastination or
deviation.” “I am a
courageous person. I
believe in my capacity
to meet all life’s
challenges head on.”
3. Once you have defined
three psychological
goals, list three simple
physical goals that you
have been putting off for
ages. Start with that job
in the house or garage
you’ve always wanted to
do but never got around
to. Have a “fix
something” day or talk to
your boss about
something you’ve been
wanting to for ages. Or
take a long weekend
break. Treat yourself.
Pick anything that you
know is achievable and
create a firm deadline for
its achievement. You are
allowed to have a
deadline on a clearly
achievable goal because
there is no risk of failure.
You are also allowed to
have fun. Technically
these are not goals, they
are management
projects, but they will get
you into the flow of
setting plans and
following them through.
These are your
preliminary goals. As you
achieve them one by
one, you will be doing
two very important
things.

First, you will be getting

into the winning habit.
You will achieve these
goals, and these smaller
goals give you the
confidence to move on to
the big ones. They are
not that difficult. They’re
not supposed to be, but
they will give you the
experience of creating
and achieving a goal.
When you achieve any
goal you’ve set yourself,
draw a straight line
through this goal on your
goal-sheet and write the
word ACHIEVED after it.
Then record it. Your diary
will build up into a
sizeable success folder,
and reading it every now
and again will give you
renewed confidence.
Second, you are training
your mind. You are
setting the seal that you
mean business.

Remember that your

mind does not want
change. It wants the old
status quo because it’s
safe. It wants you to do
more of what you have
already done. “If you do
more of what you’ve
already done you’ll just
get more of what you’ve
already got.” - Sign seen
at a university campus
By setting goals you are
telling your mind that
you are not happy with
the present situation and
you are determined to
press the override
button.

In the meantime your

mind will do
everything it can to
stop you from
achieving these
simple goals. Make a
note that this will
happen.

This is homeostasis. Your

mind will set up all kinds
of obstacles to hinder
your commitment to
visualizing them twice a
day. Suddenly the bed
will be very comfortable
to stay in. You’ll want to
watch that midnight
movie and be so tired at
the end of it that you just
crawl straight into bed.
Your work will expand to
fill the lunchtime break.
Know this, and know this
now.

It wants you to fail.

It is setting up some
simple diversions to test
you. It is testing your
resolve. If you win, it will
get the message and
work with you. If you lose
. . . You now have, on
rough paper, at least
three mental goals and
three simple physical
goals. After years of
working with many
people, I can thoroughly
recommend to you your
first three physical goals
AFTER you’ve achieved
the simple preliminary
goals mentioned above:
1. Set a goal for a new
car.

2. Set a goal for a new

house.

3. Set a goal for a certain

income. I know. I’ve just
contradicted myself.
Income isn’t a goal, and
it’s very hard to visualize
cash. No, I base these
goals on exactly what I
did when I needed it. Let
me explain. Many years
ago, I found myself
unemployed. I’d had a
falling-out with my
business partners. I had
no income, little savings,
and two small mouths
and a big mortgage to
feed. Sensibly, what’s
the first goal you think
any reasonable person
would have set
themselves? Surely some
kind of income goal?
Well, I didn’t. I decided
I’d have a Range Rover.
And my lady agreed with
me.

The reasons were clear.

The car was the
upmarket version of the
one I’d had in my old
business, and the idea of
having a nicer car was
very exciting because it
would have allowed me
to give the big finger to
my ex-partners should I
ever meet them.
(Revenge is a meal best
served cold.) Second, it
was something that
allowed me to get my
confidence back. I had
been badly mauled and
needed a huge
confidence boost. A
“successful” car would
do just that. It was my
version of Terminator III –
“I’m back!”

The goal was written: “I

own a brand-new Range
Rover SCE V8i in dark
blue with air
conditioning, alloy
wheels, tow pack, cruise
control, ABS brakes, and
a five-speed stick shift.”
This was a serious
machine – over $100K,
and not a small goal for
someone who had just
signed a school meals
form showing his
projected annual income
as zero. So where was
the money for all this? It
didn’t matter. I didn’t
care what kind of
universe was created so
long as this car was in it
and in my garage
(actually it wouldn’t fit in
the garage). This is an
important point I will
make later: Let the cash
take care of itself. Notice
also the phrase: I own.
This means I owned it. It
wasn’t rented, borrowed,
or a car I had the use of.
It was my car. I forget
the exact time frame, but
within about 18 months
that car was in my
driveway. And I owned it.

Universes don’t change

overnight–but change
they do. Now here’s the
power of it all and I
promise you this is
absolutely true. On the
day I bought the car, the
dealer told me that
cruise control was not
available with the five-
speed manual gearbox,
only auto. I don’t like
autos (control freak). So I
said, “Jeep do a stick
shift with cruise
control . . .” One phone
call later and the agent
located the only Range
Rover in the country with
cruise control and a stick
shift. It was a one-off
special model built by
Land Rover. And guess
what color it was? Dead
right–dark blue. Over 23
colors to choose from,
and the only car in the
country with that
package was exactly as I
visualized it: dark blue.
My house was exactly
the same. One week
before buying a certain
house, the deal fell
through. I’d sold my old
house, so I had to move
quickly. We fell upon a
house that had been
empty for six months,
and it was almost exactly
as I had visualized it.
Indeed, in every way it’s
far better. It was waiting
for us.

Quantum Goal-setting

I have a book that was

written in 1923. In it
there are a couple of
paragraphs in which the
writer refers to cellular
phones and video
recorders. Clearly, these
must have been added
later by well-meaning
compilers who simply
wanted to clarify the old-
fashioned text and make
it simpler for modern
readers. In the same
way, ancient goal-setting
techniques have been
changed over the years
by well-meaning people
who were trying to clarify
them for modern
audiences. In addition,
they assumed that goal-
setting was a mainly
psychological process,
with time management
thrown in for good
measure. Unfortunately,
they threw the baby out
with the bath water, so
to speak. Quantum
theory and nuclear
physics are all about
energy. The universe and
the big bang theory are
all about energy. Matter,
what you, I, and
everything else is made
of, is energy-made-
visible. We can’t actually
see energy, only what it
does when it’s released
or what it looks like when
it’s converted,
temporarily, into matter.
In the beginning there
was God, and God is
energy with personality.
The “personality” part is
what the great religions
of the world are dealing
with, and that is outside
the scope of this book.
We’ll get to energy later.
Goal-setting is energy
conversion. Goal-setting
is easy if you bear two
things in mind: 1. The
goal must be written out
using words that show,
conclusively, that this
goal has already been
achieved. It’s a done
deal. There is no “I will
have”; it is “I have.”
Period. You are “thinking
from the end” as Wayne
Dyer puts it. You have a
clear vision that this goal
is already there. 2. Keep
it simple by focusing on
things over which you
have control. These
things are: A. Physical
things: cars, homes,
boats, and money – if
you realize that money is
not a goal in itself. B. Do
not try to change other
people’s minds. They
have their own
goals/dimensions/univers
es.

You cannot make a goal

for someone else. You
may think you are a
singer greater than
Johnny Cash, but trying
to alter the views and
goals of 200 million
people who think you’re
not will be beyond the
power of your own belief.
C. The exception is
romance. Visualizing
someone to love who
also loves you requires
you to simply combine
your goal with someone
who has the same goal
already. This becomes
very powerful as two
people are focused on
the same goal. D.
Yourself. You have
control over your own
thoughts and feelings,
which is why the three
psychological goals are
both effective and
important. So is health.
Set out on your goal-
setting by performing a
ceremony that serves to
imprint the importance of
this in your mind at the
very start. All great
stages in your life are
marked by ceremony,
and this is a great stage.
Use the best sheets of
writing paper you have,
even if you had to buy
them specially, and you
will write down your first
goal, which is: “I have
the power to do anything
I want to do. I create my
own world.”
Now return to your goal
sheet and write down the
psychological goals you
have previously set
yourself in draft form.
Then write down your
simple preliminary goals,
and finally your main
goals. You can have any
number, but make sure
that they are in harmony
with each other and
don’t conflict.

1. Confidence
2. Determination
3. Courage
4. Fix the fence
5. Fix the car
6. Talk to your father
7. New Porsche
8. New house
9. World cruise

When you have written

out your goals on this
special piece of paper,
copy them out
individually onto smaller
cards, one goal per card.
Then burn the original
sheet outside
somewhere, while
offering this prayer: “As
these goals become
energy, so my energy
becomes reality.” From
that great day, and for
every day that follows,
find time first thing in the
morning and last thing at
night. Sit somewhere
private and quiet and
recite each goal;
“handwrite” it in the air
and finally visualize this
goal as if it had already
been achieved, WITH
EMOTION. I think the
word emotionalize is
better than visualize. You
can always find a photo
of the thing you want but
seeing it will not work by
itself. You have to feel.
You need to feel the glow
of achievement, even if
it’s only in your mind.
Your mind is where it all
starts, and it boils down
to feelings.

A GOAL IS NOT A GOAL;

IT’S A VOW.

This is a vital point. The

success or failure of any
goal depends entirely on
how much you believe in
it. It is driven by the
passion behind it. Goals
are not to be trifled with.
You should regard goals
as personal vows.

“Sam’s will was set; and

only death would break
it.” - J. R. R. Tolkien, The
Lord of the Rings

Now that’s a vow. With

each goal that you
achieve, and you WILL
achieve them, write
ACHIEVED on that card
and create a new goal on
another card. File the old
card in a secret place
and refer to your steadily
increasing stack of
achieved goals whenever
you feel the need to do
so.

With this system you will

be setting very powerful
forces in motion on your
behalf. Exactly how some
of these forces work no
one knows or
understands. Some are
completely outside
current scientific
explanation. Many come
from quantum
mechanics, which is a
world that is currently
completely unknown to
anyone except expert
scientists or well-
informed laymen. Even
they don’t see the real-
life connections – that
whatever works in
individual cells must also
work in the whole body,
and what works at
atomic levels must also
work on a larger scale.
Do not be alarmed or
consider these forces as
“supernatural.” They are
very natural. I believe
them to be God-given
tools necessary for our
survival. Like any tool
they can, and will be,
misused. This does not
make the tool evil, just
the user. Goal-setting
works by reprogramming
and harnessing the
subconscious mind
power that is currently
being used to keep you
in your place.

How each goal will be

achieved varies
according to the goal.
Psychological goals will
be achieved through a
process of belief only.
With each visualization
you are forcing your
subconscious to believe
that the event you are
imagining actually
happened. The event
then becomes part of
you. So by imagining an
event in which you
showed great courage,
and imagining it with
passion over a period of
time, then you have in
effect really lived out
that event in real life and
therefore believe,
absolutely, that you have
courage. It’s the belief
that makes it so. When
you start to believe that
you have “the power,”
then the power within
will simply be released to
do its healing work. So
many people suffer from
self-fulfilling failure. They
don’t believe they have
the power within, so that
power is never released
for positive results.
Physical goals will be
different according to the
goal. As in the case of
the bike or the parking
lot experiment, I believe
that you have the power
to partially influence
another person’s
behavior by thought
alone[4].

The parking space often

appears because
someone is just leaving
it. Coincidence? I don’t
think so. The statistical
chances of so many
coincidences happening
one after the other are
against it. Telepathy?
Maybe, but not in the
usual sense. I believe
that all life is
interconnected (Dr. Lyall
Watson’s conclusion) in
ways that we haven’t
even dreamed about yet.
You can actually draw
like-minded people into
your life. You can
“engineer” coincidences.
By making a firm
irrevocable decision that
something is true, it
becomes true in a
universe of your making.
You will come to believe
that there are no such
things as coincidences.
One of the main ways
that goals will be
achieved is by
“receiving” ideas “out of
the blue,” ideas that are
routes to achieving your
goal. I have obtained two
cars by using the laws of
goal-setting, and in both
cases I achieved them
simply by changing the
way I worked. [4]
Generally speaking,
Quantum Goal-setting is
brilliant for creating
physical things in your
life. But it will only affect
how people respond to
you in certain ways. See
later.

My first “ideal” car

seemed a pipe dream as
I sat underneath the
staircase of my first little
house banging away in
my spare time doing a
“teach yourself writing”
course. The course didn’t
make me a penny but
shortly afterwards a
friend suggested a
business idea, then one
thing led to another, and
car No. 1 was achieved in
about 12 months. The
second was much
quicker. Initially I
couldn’t justify the cost
of it to the other partners
in my business.
Eventually, through a
strange set of
circumstances, the other
partners actually
suggested it to me. What
happens is that you get
ideas for achieving your
goal; also, certain helpful
events or circumstances
or the right people are
drawn (or created) into
your life. Act on them.
Examples of good,
well-worded goals

Only you can decide

which goals are
meaningful to you, and
that’s the hardest part. If
you really want more
money, fine. If you want
to be free of money and
just beachcombe your
life away, fine. Other
than telling you that
money won’t make you
happy, just happier, I’ll
just offer these examples
of well-worded goals
which are exactly that:
well-worded examples. I
give no weight at all to
the virtues or vices of
any of them. That’s your
decision. But know that
whatever you choose,
that’s what you will get.
Some of these goals are
mine. Others were
written by others – and I
wish they were mine.
They are all good.

Serenity.
I am a calm, cheerful
person, unflustered by
the tides of life.

Self-liking.
I love myself. I am a
wonderful person and a
great and loyal friend.
Speaking.
I am an excellent
speaker. I speak with
authority.
Relaxation.
I am always relaxed in all
situations.

Courage.
I have the courage to
face and defeat fear. This
courage gives me
enormous strength each
day.

Perseverance.
I always finish each task
to the very end, without
distraction, persevering
always and in all
circumstances. In so
doing I always obtain
results.

Honesty.
I am an honest and
ethical person.

Success.
I am a truly successful
person. I am free to
create my own world
from the wonderful law
of abundance shown in
nature. I am nature. I am
abundance. Success is
attracted to me.

Car.
I own a brand new, red,
Ford Flashbox GLX 2.8i
with beige leather
upholstery . . . (full
details).

Romance #1.
I am blessed with my
true bride. She is slim,
petite, caring, with dark
hair and brown eyes that
are only for me.

Romance #2.
My man is in my life. He
is tall, dark, and
handsome with blue
eyes; he is a faithful
partner, a soft, gentle
lover, and my best
friend.

Money.
(Get money in
perspective first.) Money
comes easily and
copiously into my life
from many sources in
many unexpected ways.

Work.
I work three days a week
from a small home office,
earning all that I need to
live my life in any way I
choose.

Education.
I continue to educate
myself on a daily basis,
always alert to new
ideas.
Health.
I abound with good
health. I awake with new
life energy each day. I
see myself as a healthy
person.

Attractiveness.
I am an attractive,
likeable person, always
making new friends.
Morning goals:
Today is a GREAT day.
Today I feel GOOD. This
day, wonderful things will
happen in my life. DO
NOT TELL ANYONE
ABOUT YOUR GOALS,
YOUR PLANS, OR
ANYTHING TO DO WITH
YOUR DREAMS FOR THE
FUTURE, not even your
nearest and dearest
UNLESS they are doing it
with you and give you
their 100% support.
Anyone else will drag you
down.

They will ridicule you.

They will do it nicely and
in “your best interests”
because they don’t want
you to lose any of your
hard-earned cash. They
will give you 10 reasons
why something won’t
work. If this is the
attitude of the people
you most closely
associate with, then you
will effectively be on the
receiving end of their
goals and you will be like
them – forever. It’s an
interesting thought that
the biggest critics of self-
improvement, those who
ridicule it and call it
hokum, are almost
always not very well
paid, and/or not very well
liked, and/or not very
happy.

Avoid them; they want to

clip your wings. Do not
follow lemmings.
ALWAYS, ALWAYS,
ALWAYS inspire yourself
daily by reading or
listening to some kind of
encouraging or
motivational CD, DVD or
book. Fill your home with
such things and refer to
them at least once every
day.

Do you need money to

achieve a goal?
Eight weeks before
writing this I saw a TV
program in which a man
had moved from nothing
to a $2 million property
in three moves. At the
age of 10 his father had
driven him down a
certain road full of
houses normally
frequented by minor film
stars, pro-footballers,
and the like. Serious real
estate. At this tender age
he decided he would one
day buy a house on that
same road. He grew up
to be a nightclub
manager (not the owner,
so his income was
average). His first house
was very small and he
sold it at a profit. He did
the same thing with his
second house. After two
sales he had
approximately $100,000
to put down, and it was
then he decided to put
his youthful plan into
action. He immediately
contacted several
realtors to find out if any
houses were available on
that exact road, and if
so, what the price was.
The answer was no, and
if there had been, the
price would be about $2
million. He was
undaunted. His income
was $50,000 and he had
$100,000 in cash. So he
only needed a mortgage
of $1,900,000. (Only!)
And that’s if a house was
for sale, which it wasn’t.

A week later he had an

idea. Instead of buying a
luxury home on that
street, perhaps some
land was for sale. He
checked out the prices of
building a new house to
the same specifications
as the others in that road
and found he could do it
for $400,000 – which was
affordable with bank
loans. He checked out
the entire road. No land,
nothing. But one house
had a very large plot,
and part of that plot was
big enough for a new
house and land to go
with it. So, our man
boldly went where no
one had gone before and
asked the owner of the
house whether he would
sell the land. No.
Nevertheless, our man
asked the same question
each month for the next
five months, until the
owner set up a sign
saying: Not For Sale.
Finally our man admitted
defeat and a few days
later he was looking at
buying a small house
when his cell phone rang.

Due to a change of
circumstance the owner
of the large plot was
suddenly interested in an
offer. To cut a long story
short, our man bought
the plot and built the
house, all for less than
$500,000 based on bank
loans. On the day the
house was finished he
was offered $1,500,000
for it in cash. He refused
and for all I know he lives
in his $2 million mansion
to this day – and he still
earns $50,000 a year as
a nightclub manager.
And that is the point of
this story. Anybody else
would have tried to up
their income in some
way, in order to afford
their dream home. He
didn’t. Today he has the
home that a thousand
others like him could
never have afforded. You
don’t always need
money, so let money
take its rightful place in
your life – it is not a goal,
and sometimes it’s not
even needed.
Chapter Seven

I Don’t See
Millionaires Making
Goal Lists

WHEN YOU’RE ONE, you

may not have to. This
book is dedicated to
those many people who
have unfulfilled wants
and desires that seem to
elude them, no matter
how hard they try. The
fact is that successful
people don’t do the
details of what I have
written down but they do
the principles so well,
they don’t have to. To a
successful person, being
successful is second
nature, part of their
psyche, their
expectations. To them,
the next success is as
obvious as selecting
Brand X toothpaste and
putting it in the cart. As
far as I know, the guy
with the $2 million
mansion did not write out
the goal but he certainly
visualized it. He’d
visualized it, with passion
and belief, since he was
10. It became true, albeit
in stages, the moment
he acted, because in
acting he made the
decision, the absolute
commitment necessary
to change his universe
into a new one. You have
to act as well as think.
Successful people have
the knack of doing the
right thing. They
instinctively: ! Have an
absolutely clear vision of
what it is they want. !
Have an absolute belief
they will achieve it. !
Have the courage and
determination to just do
it. By contrast,
unsuccessful people: !
Don’t know what they
want. This is quickly
proven when I ask them
what their number one
goal is. They don’t know.
Also, they don’t have any
details. It’s all about
“warm and sunny.” (By
contrast I have yet to
meet a successful person
who couldn’t tell me, in
mindnumbing detail,
what their next project –
or goal, same thing – is
about.) ! Don’t really
believe they can do it.
They say they do but
believe they can’t – and
therefore they can’t. !
Lack determination. As a
result, they only give
anything a halfhearted
stab and run for cover at
the first sign of a
problem. This is not their
fault. Much of this is the
result of a less-than-
perfect educational
system and less-than-
perfect role models at
home. Imagine
successful people to be
car drivers and
unsuccessful people to
be walkers. Once walkers
have taken the driving
lessons, with each mile
they drive they become
more confident. Most
drivers do not need to go
through the basics every
time they get in the car.
They just drive. Learners
have to learn. Once you
have achieved a certain
level of personal success
(and it’s only you who
defines what level that
is) then much of what
you do after that is on
autopilot.

What if I want one

thing, but my
wife/spouse/life-
partner wants
something else?
This is difficult. You
cannot make goals for
others. Even if you
compromise, this
watered-down goal may
not give you the same
passion you would have
for your own goal. You
can’t fool yourself, not
deep down. If you want a
two-seater Italian sports
car but you have four
kids, then I’d suggest a
goal of two cars. But if I
wanted a house in town,
and my wife wanted a
house in the middle of
nowhere, then I’d sit
down and have a
looooong talk about it.
You can’t have
everything if you have
others to consider. What
if she makes a firm goal
for house A and you
make a firm goal for
house B? Then you may
well end up in different
houses, if you know what
I mean. However, you
could make a goal of
having two houses, and
spend time in each.

When does true belief

in yourself drift into
delusion?

Most of us have seen TV

shows where hopefuls
audition to be the next
pop star. Some of these
hopefuls go from
audition to audition, full
of belief that they are
great singers just waiting
for the right break to
come along. The reality
is that they are
unutterably dreadful
singers who have
deluded themselves into
star status. But if they
believe it, in a quantum
world, why aren’t they
stars? I could answer
that in their (small)
world, they are stars. The
problem is that no one
else outside their world
sees it. All the goal-
setting I have
demonstrated above
involves either changing
yourself (psychological
goals) or
attracting/creating
physical things like
houses and cars, which
by themselves have no
desire to change. (A car
is a car.) When it comes
to influencing others, I
believe it becomes more
complex because other
people unwittingly have
their own universes filled
with preconceived ideas
of what is good or bad:
the human core program.
This goal-setting system
works brilliantly in
attracting, say, a new
friend or lover and this is
arguably because they
are also looking for you,
so your goals match. In
the case of car parking, I
think my desire to have a
parking space appear on
a certain street and time
must match, or
influence, someone
else’s decision to leave
that spot. On the other
hand, it may not. See
Appendix C. I think the
boundary of most
people’s influence
encompasses physical
objects, similar-minded
people, or neutral-
minded people. Indeed,
except where other
people are in tune with
our wants and desires,
we have little control
outside of “our own little
world.” You could
envisage this with the
70 core program analogy
I made at the beginning.
You can’t change the
world, only your part in
it. But what you can do,
most certainly, is to take
control of those things
that matter to you. The
object of success
engineering is to set out,
on paper, a blueprint of
those things you want.
Most often this narrows
down to: ! physical
things ! type of work !
love and relationships !
health For the vast
majority of people, to
have a nice car, nice
house, plenty of free
time, productive
enjoyable employment,
romance, and financial
freedom is all we want.
It’s not a lot to ask, not
really. So why not just
engineer these things?

***

“We all have two

choices: to make a living,
or design a life.” “A lack
of constructive and
persistent goal-setting is
a goal in itself. It says
you will fail.” - James
Edwin
Chapter Eight

Advanced Weird Stuff

Why all this is being

taken very seriously

I KNOW ALL this

quantum stuff sounds
strange, but a great deal
of money is going into
this. Why? And if it’s all
theory and nonsense,
why should you or
anyone else believe a
word of it? Well, one day
a group of scientists
went up to the Pentagon
asking for research
money. They said,
“Gentlemen, we have a
situation where qubits,
being quaternary in
nature, differ from the
laws of classical physics
in that they exist in a
superposition of classical
states representing the
probability of each state.
We now envisage being
able to execute a
‘Controlled-NOT’
operation simultaneously
on 2500 states derived
from massive parallelism
and achieve the
equivalent of the same
operation as a classical
computer on 10150
separate processors,
which, of course, is
impossible in a classical
framework but . . .” At
which point the military
gentlemen interrupted,
and after formulating a
fulsome and erudite
response said, “Huh?”
The scientists went into a
huddle and finally
rephrased the situation
in terms a chimp could
understand. “There is a
new technology that will
render every computer,
every security code,
every security system in
the United States
obsolete overnight.

The first country or

organization, friendly or
otherwise, perfecting this
will have the entire
United States military,
government, and
banking system entirely
at their mercy.” To which
the military explored the
outer limits of their
linguistic ability and said,
“Oh, ****!” “…Unless…”
continued the brains,
“We come up with it first.
Then every other
computer, every other
security code, every
other security system in
the world will be at our
mercy.” “How much do
you want?” said the
military. So you see,
some very big people are
taking all this weird stuff
very seriously. But
what’s the big hoo-ha?
“The secret, your
Majesty, is for the enemy
to only discover those
secrets we mean him to
discover.” - Benjamin
Disraeli

Secrets we mean him

to discover . . .

Deciding how much

freedom you want to
keep for yourself and
how much freedom you
are prepared to
relinquish for the
common good is
becoming more and
more difficult. This is
because any method you
choose to make yourself
invisible to others can
also be used by some
very serious and scary
bad guys, people who
would not hesitate for
one instant to wipe you
and me off the face of
the earth for no reason
whatsoever, as we know
only too well. And some
of those aren’t even
governments. You have
to be very careful with
your selection of
freedoms. Fortunately
you can now choose to
take quite a lot of
freedom as your right,
due to two things: the
new dependence on
computers (both as a
storage and
communication medium)
and Mr. Philip
Zimmermann. There is
no better example of
someone who is both
saint and sinner than
Philip Zimmermann. The
United States authorities,
it would be safe to say,
would like to lock him up
and throw away the key.
People who value their
freedom, on the other
hand, think he’s a saint.
In reality he’s a guy who
had to make a hard
decision, and whether his
solution was good or
bad, I’ll let you decide for
yourself. It’s a
fascinating story.

Blinding Big Brother

In 1991 Philip R.
Zimmermann launched
the most important, and
disputed, development in
software. He distributed
it as shareware – free
software – for anyone
who wanted it. It was
called PGP, which stands
for Pretty Good Privacy.
PGP was the first
commercial use of an
idea called Public Key
Encryption – basically a
new kind of unbreakable
code. The original
discovery of Public Key
Encryption is now
correctly attributed to
James Ellis, an eccentric
and brilliant physicist,
together with
mathematician Clifford
Cocks, both working for
GCHQ (Government
Communications
Headquarters) in the
United Kingdom. This
information was never
released because the
research fell under the
U.K. Official Secrets Act.
Four years later in the
United States, Public Key
Encryption was
rediscovered completely
independently and
equally brilliantly by
Martin Hellman, Ralph
Merkle, and the
delightfully named
Whitfield Diffie. Their
project was to create an
unbreakable computer
code. Phil Zimmerman
didn’t invent this code-
creating technology;
what he did was to
create a practical version
of it that anyone could
use. This he called PGP –
a software program that
encrypts (codes) a
computer file in such a
way that it is almost
impossible to crack the
code except by using
very powerful computers,
for a very long time. The
effect that PGP had on
“locking” computer files
beyond the reach of
others is best described
by Bruce Schneier, in his
book Applied
Cryptography:
There are two kinds of
cryptography in this
world: cryptography that
will stop your kid sister
from reading your files,
and cryptography that
will stop major
governments from
reading your files. This
book is about the latter.
PGP was a practical
application of this new
coding or encryption
technology. It brought
theory and higher
mathematics together in
a simple software
package that did all the
encryption automatically
within seconds, allowing
anyone who used it
complete computer and
email privacy. Phil
Zimmermann had to
decide whether to give
this software to the FBI
or sell it (in which case
the FBI would probably
have impounded it) or
simply give copies away
for free, in which case
once even one copy was
free on the Internet, it
was impossible to stop.

He chose the latter – and

when the U.S. authorities
found out about it they
caused him several years
of grief, trying to
imprison him for all kinds
of spurious reasons. But
that’s another story. In
one simple action
Zimmermann not only
allowed everyone on the
planet to lock their
computer files and email
messages beyond all
snoopers (a good thing)
but, of course, he also
allowed the bad guys to
do exactly the same (a
bad thing). Whether this
was the right decision or
not only history will
judge. The combination
of Messrs. Hellman,
Merkle, Diffie, and
Zimmerman allowed
information kept on
computers to be secure,
not only on their own,
but secure when
unleashed on the
Internet. Indeed any
credit card transaction
enacted over the Internet
would be impossible
were it not for these
pioneers. They created
eCommerce. They also
created every computer
security system on the
planet.
Breaking the Code

It is, in fact, remarkably

easy to break this
computer code. It works
on the basis of a simple
formula: p x q = N where
N is a very large number
and p and q are two
prime numbers. This is
high school stuff. Well,
no, actually. It’s high
school stuff provided N is
a small number, much
like the example I gave
you earlier about how a
computer works out the
square root of nine. But if
N gets very large, say in
the region of 10130, then
we have a problem
because it would take
forever to work it out. Of
course, if you had 10130
computers available with
nothing better to do,
then all of them working
on just a piece of the
process would fling out
the answer immediately.
You’re ahead of me,
aren’t you? If there’s
only 1089 atoms in the
universe you cannot get
the number of classical
computers necessary to
do the calculation. BUT a
quantum computer could
set up 10130 quantum
computers, each in its
own universe, and do all
the math in a split
second. So now you see
why all this quantum
stuff is very important –
and that’s why some
very intelligent people
are working on a solution
to getting a quantum
computer up and
running. Check out
“quantum computer” on
any search 74 engine to
see how much effort is
going into this. Why?
Because it’s going to
change your life, whether
you like it or not. “No-
one gets to vote on
whether technology will
change their lives.” - Bill
Gates I simply mention
this as evidence. All this
business of multiple
universes may seem like
the fantastic delusion of
a strange man who
writes books. But facts
speak for themselves. Go
find a parking space.

***

“Happiness is not an
accident. Nor is it
something you wish for.
Happiness is something
you design.” - Jim Rohn
Chapter Nine

Me! = mc2

IF YOU WANT SOME

encouragement in your
life, read the early
history of Albert Einstein.
Google it.5 It is a
complete mystery how a
low-level, grade three
clerk with a history of
failed exams and no
university degree
became the most famous
and best-known scientist
in history, so there’s
hope for everyone. One
of his most famous and
simplest equations was E
= mc2. Millions know of
it but have never really
worked it out. Let me
help you. It’s the formula
for working out how
much energy you are
made of. If you weigh 80
kg (about 176 lbs.) then
if we decided to use you
for fuel in a nuclear
reactor, you would
produce, wait for it . . .
240,000 million, million
kilowatt-hours of power,
which is enough power to
run a 3 kW electric fan
heater for about 9
million, million years, or
longer than the universe
has been in existence.
Now let’s think of this
another way. This is the
amount of energy that
“condensed” into
physical form to make
YOU. Now that’s a whole
hunk of energy. So where
did it come from? If you
got into your car and
drove for 15 miles you’d
be in outer space.

Of course this requires

you to drive vertically
upwards, which is a neat
trick if you can get away
with it without dying.
What you’d die of,
exactly, depends entirely
on your speed. If you
held your breath for 15
miles you’d freeze to
death with alarming
speed. The average
temperature of deep
space is minus 270.3
degrees Celsius. In
comparison, liquid
nitrogen is a relatively
tropical minus 195.8
degrees, and that’s
enough to turn a rose
into something looking
like glass, which you can
smash with a hammer
into a thousand pieces.
So after a short vertical
drive you would soon
take on a glassy-eyed
expression in more ways
than one, and your
frozen grin would drift off
into eternity, without
touching anything or
even knowing of a black
hole because there’s
nothing out there.
Nothing at all. There’s
nothing out there
because the average
density of the universe
as a whole is one atom
per cubic centimeter.

Yes, we know of places

where it’s 5 Allegedly
Google’s founder, Larry
Page, named the site
after the Googol number
but got the spelling
wrong. It was too late to
change it. At the time of
writing, Google is
arguably the most
common spelling error in
the English language.
Ironically, Google’s own
spelling checker does not
currently correct itself.
76 more dense than that,
like the chair you’re
sitting on, but there’s a
whole lot more places
where there’s nothing at
all, hence an average of
one atom, just one, in a
volume the size of a
sugar cube. That’s why
breathing up there might
be a tad tricky,
particularly as most of
those atoms are
hydrogen and you’d have
to go a long, long way to
get even a glimpse of a
distant cousin who knew
a friend who owned a hat
possibly once belonging
to an oxygen atom.
There’s nothing out
there, guys. Even the
stars you see aren’t
there. That’s where they
were millennia ago.
Today they might not
even be in existence. The
next time you see the
sun just peeking over the
horizon, consider that
the real sun is about 8.3
minutes higher in the sky
than it looks. It takes
that long for the sun’s
light to get here. You’ve
never seen the real sun;
you see the one that’s
eight minutes old. This
atomic density means
that the amount of
energy out there is also
rather low. Indeed it’s a
hotly debated subject,
because the math shows
that there’s no energy at
all. I quote astrophysicist
Lawrence Krauss:

“There appears to be this

energy of empty space
that isn't zero!” –
meaning that the math
shows space to be
devoid of all energy, so
where is the heat in a
heated debate coming
from? And, indeed,
where did the 240,000
million, million
kilowatthours of energy
needed to make him
come from, too? If this
energy (which is the only
thing that existed before
the big bang or anything
else) was suddenly
changed into matter (and
a highly organized and
complex arrangement at
that) then what caused
this energy to suddenly
change state? How about
– a thought? Usually,
nothing happens until
someone thinks about
what it is that is
supposed to happen.
Everything created by
humans, from the Empire
State Building to cars, to
this book, started out as
a thought in someone’s
mind; and without that
initial spark of reflection,
nothing would have
happened. We accept
this on a human level
without question, but for
some reason we cannot
accept it on a cosmic
level. The simple
physical reality of the
universe is that
everything created is
created by the thought of
that change. But thinking
requires a thinker who
thought the thought, and
science gets all hung up
about that because it’s
outside their box. Yet
thought still precedes
action, which precedes
change, so possibly on a
cosmic level when the
thought is sufficiently
powerful, energy
changes into matter. It’s
that simple.

Ridiculous, but simple. I

find it very interesting
that some nuclear
physicists, who are
perfectly ready to accept
16 new dimensions, can’t
see what’s going on
when they dig deeper
into the quantum field.
The deeper they go, the
more complications they
need to find answers for,
and the desire to
“discover” some new
particle, a pimeson, an
anti-neutrino, a contra-
rotating quark, or a wok-
fried eggplant,
something, anything that
explains what’s going on
becomes their
predominant thought.
They look for new things,
not realizing that their
very belief that this thing
must exist perhaps
causes that thing to be
created. 77 They are
creating their own
nuclear world. They can
continue the hunt for a
completely Unified String
Theory, but will they find
it if they have already
gone beyond the point
where they can find a
physical or mathematical
solution to a spiritual
problem?

Like the frog who only

ever jumps halfway
across the road and
therefore gets ever
closer to, but never ever
reaches, the far side, the
solution may always be
that one small step
away. In an ironic twist,
science (in particular
nuclear science), which
was invented to replace
philosophy, has now
become more like
philosophy than science.
The future lies with those
physicists like Dr. Fred
Alan Wolf, Dr. John
Hagelin, and others who
can see the power of
mind within creation
itself. “Creating” things
that didn’t exist before
we thought they existed
may not just belong to
the realm of small things.
I am trying to find the
exact reference to this,
but in the sequel to this
book I will try to add
flesh to the story of the
discovery of the planet
Pluto. Dr. Percival Lowell
was a hugely influential
astronomer who in the
early 1900s became
obsessed with the idea
that a ninth planet
existed. To cut a long
story short, when enough
people believed this
planet existed, it was
discovered on February
25, 1930, by Clyde
Tombaugh, who worked
at Lowell’s observatory.

There is nothing in this

story to add credence to
the idea that Pluto was
“created” when enough
people thought it
existed, but read on.
Apparently, having
discovered where Pluto
was in space,
astronomers at the time
calculated where Pluto
should have been in the
years before it was found
and examined the
photographic plates of
where Pluto should have
been then. They couldn’t
find it. Plates taken of
that part of the sky that
should have showed
Pluto before it was
officially discovered
didn’t show it. Of course,
photographic plates in
those days did not have
the resolution of modern
plates so this “obvious
nonsense” was put down
to irregularities in the
plates. Pluto is, after all,
very small. Nevertheless,
it wasn’t on the plates.
Then again, Dr. Lowell
was convinced (a mental
goal) that this planet
truly existed and was
only waiting to be
discovered. His power
and influence affected
others until finally, it
appeared. When it comes
to planets, it seems a
group of people need to
believe something before
sufficient belief becomes
available to convert
energy into matter or
change dimensions. It
should be added that
today, evidence of the
existence of Pluto on old
photographic plates
taken before 1930 does
exist, which begs the
question of whether
those specks were there
all along, or appeared
when sufficient people
expected them to be
there? Powerful stuff, this
energy thing.

Getting the Buzz

Look at your hand. Poke

it with the other hand.
Looks solid, doesn’t it?
You wish! If you got an
amazingly efficient
microscope to take a
picture of your hand you
would see the skin start
like a mountain range,
followed eventually by
Pluto. For those who
thought it was a cartoon
dog. 78 the skin cells. As
your magnification
increases the cells would
reveal their innards –
genes, followed by the
very DNA of their
construction. Keep going
and you’d see large
clusters of molecules
that make up the DNA.
Molecules would
eventually give way to
individual atoms, which,
if you could see them,
would appear as fuzzy
balls. They’re fuzzy
because they aren’t
balls. They look like our
solar system. Uncannily
so, in fact. Where we
have the Sun, they have
a nucleus consisting of at
least one particle, called
a proton. In orbit around
the nucleus, like a planet
going around the Sun,
we have electrons,
roughly one per proton,
and each one weighing
nearly 1,860 times less
and all whizzing around
their orbits so fast that
they are just a notional
blur. And they’re not
going around in one
plane like Saturn’s rings;
their orbits are spherical,
like a high-speed
motorcycle stunt team
zooming around the
inside of a giant sphere.
If you want to be really
confused, they aren’t
anywhere at all and, at
the same time,
everywhere there is. In
the same way that the
planet Mercury has a
smaller orbit than that of
Mars, electrons move in
different but
preprogrammed
distances from the
nucleus forming layers of
spheres, or shells, like
you see when peeling an
onion6.

Stay with me now, so far

this is the easy bit. Pluto
is no longer a planet,
having been demoted to
a “dwarf planet,” a polite
way of saying it’s little
more than a big asteroid.
Irrespective of its new
designation, it still
whizzes around the Sun
every 250 years, but it’s
so far away from the Sun
that if you sat on Pluto
with a very large
telescope looking for it,
all you’d get is a view of
a slightly brighter dot
than most of the others
and a stiff neck. It’s the
same with electrons. An
atom is mostly empty
space. Imagine a very
big beach ball. The
nucleus would be less
than the size of a
pinhead and the electron
would be too small to see
whizzing around the
surface of the ball. And
the skin of the ball is only
the first “electron shell.”
The next onion layer
would be about the size
of a large tractor tire,
and so it goes on. Let’s
keep boldly magnifying
where no one has
magnified before. Keep
going in there and
protons, together with
their same-sized sister
particles, neutrons, start
to look big. Then we see
the “cells” of the
protons, weird things
called subatomic
particles. We see quarks
of all kinds: up quarks,
down quarks, strange
quarks, and charm
quarks; leptons and
fermions with half-
integer spins. Muons and
positrons, leptons and
bosons, gluons and
gravitons, and majorons
with seesaw
mechanisms. 6 Known as
the Bohr model. No-one
really knows what an
atom looks like. It’s like
imagining how a watch
works without ever being
allowed to open the back
and look.

I kid you not. These are

real and I haven’t even
gone down the autobahn
of antiparticles yet. But
start to dig deeper and
we hit another problem.
A photon is a particle,
and also not a particle
because it’s a wave . . .
sort of. A tachyon both
does and does not exist
at the same time. It also
goes faster than the
speed of light, which
can’t happen (there is no
Warp 2 outside of Star
Trek but no one’s told
the Tachyons, it seems).
And this is where it gets
so weird that it’s not
beyond the bounds of
reason to suspect that
somewhere in this
subatomic freak show is
a wok-fried eggplant-ion
just waiting to be
discovered. We’ve
reached the end of
matter, the solid stuff.
There was no boundary
like the medieval edge of
the earth, no place
where matter ended and
weird theories began.
Somewhere between a
charming quark and Mr
Rush the Tachyon, real
things became unreal,
things we could see
became unseen, and
solid stuff became –
energy. Energy has many
different forms –
different ways in which it
can be identified and
examined.

There’s kinetic energy –

speed. There’s potential
energy – speed before it
happens. There’s
gravitational energy,
electromagnetic energy,
mechanical energy,
electrical energy, the
“weak” force, the
“strong” force, and heat.
Light is energy. If we
want to delve deeper
into our makeup, we
have to leave “stuff”
behind and think about
energy. And to make a
very long story short, we
end up (currently) in a
place called String
Theory, in which
everything is made up of
energy in the form of
vibration. Imagine a
circle of string, floating in
nothing, and this circle of
string has a vibration
moving along it, like a
jump rope tied in a circle,
or a circular violin string.
That’s what you are.
You’re a piece of string
tied in a circle vibrating
so fast that you’d need
to slow it down 2.4 x
1017 times before you
could even hear it
humming. Everything
you see and can’t see,
every molecule of air
you’ve ever inhaled and
exhaled, every star,
fingernail, person, pet,
mountain, or the hand
you’re still poking is
made up of countless
numbers of theoretical
hummingbirds fluttering
in sea of nothing. You’re
a vibration. You buzz.
Dogs know it. We don’t.

Dog Training for

Beginners

If you decided to
continue to buzz along a
certain street in the
warehouse district of
downtown Los Angeles at
around six in the
morning, you might see a
diminutive Mexican
gentleman going for a
walk. He’s hard to miss
because two of his most
distinguishing features
are a huge smile and the
pack of 20 dogs he has
with him. Quite often
he’s rollerblading, with
several of his pack dogs
pulling him along like a
chariot racer in Ben Hur.
His name is Cesar Millan,
and if you take a closer
look at some of his dogs,
you’ll notice that they
have the look of the
prizefighter about them,
as if he’s taking the
doggy mafia out for play.
You’ll see shredded ears,
missing eyes, 80 and
unnaturally shortened
tails belonging mainly to
dogs most people are
afraid of – pit bulls,
Rottweilers, and German
shepherds, to name but
a few. Most of these dogs
are in rehab. They have
either suffered
intolerable cruelty from
the species that invented
the word civilized, or
were otherwise saved
from certain execution
by owners who thought
they were uncontrollable.

Cesar Millan can walk

into a room in which a
German shepherd the
size of a timber wolf, or a
pit bull whose jaw
muscles are strong
enough to break his own
teeth, is terrorizing its
owner to the point that
they dare not allow
strangers into the house.
Within seconds this dog
will be entirely
submissive and quiet,
allowing Cesar “control”
of the whole room. He
will achieve this without
saying a word. He very
rarely uses the
commands “sit” or
“down.” In the main he
makes a noise –“Shusss,”
or similar – and a dog
that’s had its own way
sometimes for eight or
more years becomes
obedient and entirely
submissive. If you’ve not
seen this before it is
very, very impressive,
which is why the idiotic
celebrity owners of
Hollywood’s pampered
pets constantly hire him
to sort out their entirely
self-generated problems.
The reason Cesar can
regain control of a
seemingly insane lupine
monster within minutes
lies in his ability, like Dr.
Doolittle’s, to speak the
universal language of all
dogs, if not all animals.
That language is,
surprisingly, not English
(so telling a dog he’s a
very, very naughty boy
makes about as much
sense as my writing this
in fluent Klingon).
In Cesar’s own words,
the universal language of
all dogs is energy. Every
dog has a natural
antenna we humans
have civilized out of
ourselves. And this
antenna picks up the
energy transmitted by
other creatures and
allows the dog to read
humans like an open
book. If the owner is
excited, the dog is
excited. If the owner is
calm, the dog becomes
calm. It matters not one
jot what the owner says,
or even how he or she
says it. It’s what the
owner thinks and feels
that tells the dog
instantly how to react. A
freaky dog, with very few
exceptions, has a freaky
human near it who thinks
the problem is the dog.
Because I’ve seen and
read about Cesar’s work,
and because I train dogs
myself, I see examples of
this all the time. Of
particular interest is the
true situation concerning
the so-called aggressive
dog. Some weeks ago my
wife was walking Dexter,
our German shepherd,
offlead. In the distance a
man approached and
about 30 yards away he
stopped and called for
her to put the dog on a
lead. This was because
he’d already been
attacked by two dogs
that morning and quite
understandably wanted
to keep what was left of
his trousers intact.
Denise complied and also
made Dex lie down,
which is a very
submissive position for a
dog. As the man walked
past he glared at the
dog, and it was obvious
he was scared stiff.
Dexter didn’t move
because Denise was
overriding all this
fearenergy with calm,
assertive energy. But
that’s not what usually
happens, and this might
be of interest to those
who are wary of dogs,
and it’s all to do with
energy. 81 The man was
making two classic
mistakes. First, his fear
was palpable. The dog,
indeed Denise, could pick
up the signals easily. In
the dog world, fear is a
prelude to attack. A
fearful dog is
preprogrammed to
attack as a form of
defense – a preemptive
strike. So Dexter could
instantly feel the man
was afraid, and because
of this fear, Dex’s doggie
brain decided the man
was likely to attack him.
To make matters worse,
the man was staring at
Dexter. This is like a man
staring at another man in
a bar. It’s an aggressive
act. So the signals
Dexter picked up were,
this man is fearful,
therefore likely to attack
me, and this man is
staring at me, therefore
will attack any second.
You can see now why
this man was attacked
twice before and will be
in the future. He was
giving off fear-energy
and compounding it by
adding an aggressive
stare. Other dogs weren’t
attacking him, they were
defending themselves
against an imaginary
attack to be launched by
him. The correct way to
approach a strange dog
is to completely ignore
its existence.

Do not make eye

contact. Turn your back if
necessary, and always
exude calm, assertive
confidence. What I’ve
done here is what I
promised at the
beginning of the book –
namely, to get away
from a subject to see if a
different angle can make
the view clearer, like
looking for a blue object
on a blue carpet. Most
people think the notion
of a human being either
picking up energy
through a sixth sense, or
radiating it for others to
pick up, or even leaving
a form of background
energy in the air after
they’ve gone, to be in
the realms of
spiritualists, tree-
huggers, and cranks. And
yet the fact that dogs
pick up energy signals,
and other animals do the
same, is well
documented. Gazelles
and lions often drink at
the same time at the
same waterhole. The
gazelles “know” if the
lion is aggressive. They
might not know he’s just
eaten and therefore does
not require hors
d’oeuvres, but they do
pick up the “I’m not
interested” energy. Mind
you, they still watch him.
And it’s not just
subliminal signals like
stance, smell, or body
language that
masquerade as energy.
There is something else
that science cannot
define. In his book, The
Dog’s Mind, expert
veterinarian Bruce Fogle,
D.V.M., M.R.C.V.S., writes
of dogs’ ability to see
and predict events:

The answer . . . lies in

the superlative use of
the existing senses in
conjunction with sensory
capacities that we do not
as yet fully understand.
So we’ll define it. It’s
energy. But energy is
vibration, humming
strings, so rather than
talking of energy any
more, why don’t we look
at the world through
different eyes?

Good Vibrations
Instead of seeing
ourselves as a physical
body, we could equally
well see ourselves as a
whole heap of kilowatt-
hours condensed into
one space. Alternatively,
we can see ourselves as
a zillion googols of
superstrings all vibrating
in some sort of harmony.
When you hear a
symphony orchestra, you
tend not to hear the
sound of individual
instruments but the
sound as a whole – a
harmony. All the notes
made by individual
instruments blend to
form such a harmony.
The vibrations combine
to form a new master
vibration – a complex
waveform – that is the
vibration of the orchestra
at that moment. This
vibration affects you in
more ways than one. The
most obvious effect is for
you to feel the sound
physically, but it also
affects you emotionally.
Music has the unique
power to create mood
and feeling. It can make
you sad, proud, brave,
melancholy, or joyful. It
can lift your spirits and
make you feel like a
different person. One of
the best pieces of advice
I can give you is to use
music to change your
mood. By
reciting/visualizing your
goals and at the same
time associating that
vision with some stirring
music, you can
turbocharge your goal
creation. In the same
way that a theme from a
film stirs me, but may
leave you unmoved or
even bored, we all not
only respond to different
“vibrational inputs” but
can be said to exist at
different vibrational
levels, or levels of
vibration.

We are each a symphony

playing our own
concerto, but some
people’s idea of a
symphony can be very
dark indeed, whereas
others’ is lighter and
higher. Energy, like
water, flows from higher
levels to lower, from high
pressure to low pressure.
High pressure air hoses
do not suck in air from
the surroundings. Water
always flows downhill.
It’s natural law, and
because our vibrational
level is energy, it must
do the same. There are
people you know,
perhaps colleagues at
work, or friends, or the
spouses of friends, whom
you try to avoid for
reasons you can’t quite
figure. These people are
often friendly and
helpful, possibly with
hearts of 24-carat gold;
they’ll do anything for
you, and yet you try to
avoid them because for
some reason you can’t
quite put your finger on,
you leave an encounter
with them feeling
drained, as if they
sucked the energy out of
you. That’s exactly what
they did. They sucked
energy out of you. When
someone of high energy
– a higher level of
vibration – meets
someone at a lower
energy level, or lower
vibration, then energy
transference takes place
by natural law. The
opposite is also true. You
can be in a room full of
strangers and be drawn
to one person whom you
have never met or seen
before, simply because
you feel this urge to
either know the person
better or just be in his or
her presence – to bask in
their glow, so to speak.
You are quite literally
doing so.
Certain spiritual, or high
energy, or very aware
individuals draw like–
minded people towards
them. By high energy I
don’t mean some manic
arm waver at a rah-rah
convention; I mean those
souls who genuinely
vibrate at a higher level,
often doing nothing
physical at all. They just
are what they are, oases
of light in a desert of
darkness. We say we
resonate with such
people and indeed, we
do. You are not a
frequency; you are a
multitude of frequencies,
and to a greater or lesser
extent, when you
interact with another
person, those
frequencies interact.
When favorable, we
resonate with another
person; when
unfavorable, we don’t.
Resonance is a powerful
creative force in its own
right; strike a tuning fork,
and as it vibrates, it will
cause any nearby fork
tuned to the same
frequency to vibrate in
harmony.

The Frequency of Love

Denise likes to play

cards. I can’t stand
cards. She likes sailing; I
go motor racing. She
wants to live in the
country; I’m less inclined.
She swims like a fish; I
sink like a stone. Heights
make her feel ill; I can
abseil (rappel) off a
skyscraper. Judge us as a
future couple by the
degree of things we have
in common and you’ll
probably give the
marriage a few years
before it fizzles out. And
yet we’ve been together
for nearly 30 happy
years. We resonate.
When her energy highs
match my energy lows,
she fills me with power.
When she’s low-energy,
I’m high-energy and I lift
her. We were drawn
towards each other years
ago because I
engineered it. The power
of success engineering to
draw you to your true
love is multiplied
thousands of times
simply because the
person you seek is also
seeking you. In a
universe full of little else
other than vibrations and
energy, space and
distance is no barrier. In
a multi-universe of
probability in which a
different, personalized
version of reality is
created the moment a
decision is made, the
fact that two people are
looking for the same
version with great
passion and intensity is
enough to draw them
together with scientific
certainty. Or create them
out of thin air. Or have
their universes merge. If
you’re lonely, just try
success engineering on
your future soul mate –
and be amazed.
The Chicken or the
Egg?

If all this is true (that

mind is energy and
energy is mind and
therefore the mind
controls all), then any
competent neuroscientist
would see a serious fly in
this metaphysical
ointment. Which came
first, the brain or the
mind within it? It’s
perfectly clear that
without a brain (or a
dead one) any notion of
mind ceases to exist.
Furthermore, brain
damage produces
serious mind damage.
The brain is clearly the
wiring of the mind in
much the same way as a
software program runs
through the circuitry of a
computer chip. Alter or
damage the chip, and
the program will run
improperly if at all. More
84 importantly, the
software cannot, by
itself, alter the physical
circuitry of the chip,
which makes it clear that
the chip is everything
and the software a mere
ancillary.

But if the software,

acting alone, could alter
the physical wiring of the
chip, then that puts the
software in a whole new
league altogether. If the
brain is prewired and
unalterable, then the
mind takes a secondary
role. A baked cherry cake
stoically remains a
cherry cake. It cannot
turn itself into a pot of
petunias and a
bewildered sperm whale
by an act of will. If the
mind takes such a
subservient and
secondary role to its own
storage area, how can
the mind be a thing of its
own? Accepted scientific
wisdom – dogma – is
very difficult to alter and
quite rightly so, for if
every small deviation
from a scientific truth
immediately changed
that truth, then there
would be no science,
only chaos. It’s an
acceptable irony that
science must by its very
definition allow freedom
of thought and
experimentation, whilst
at the same time
ruthlessly stamp on any
new idea until it can not
only be proven, but
accepted as proven in
the minds of a majority
of the scientific
community.

In 1913, the Nobel Prize-

winning neuroanatomist
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
wrote a treatise on the
nervous system in which
he stated and proved
that the nerve paths in
the living brain, once
“set” by age, are “fixed,
ended and immutable.”
As recently as 1999,
neurologists wrote in the
journal Science that “the
fully mature brain lacks
the intrinsic mechanisms
needed to replenish
neurons and reestablish
neuronal networks.”
What they were getting
at is two things. First,
brain cells – neurons –
are unlike other body
cells because they
cannot reproduce. If it’s
broke, it stays broke. You
cannot grow or create
new brain cells. Second,
once the brain networks
mature, that wiring stays
mostly the same in adult
life. Yes, changes can
take place, but only at a
low level. New “existing”
pathways can modify
themselves slightly. We
can strengthen the odd
synapse and caress a
dendrite or two in order
to allow existing neurons
to talk to each other in a
new way, much like
adding a new phone line.
But essentially the brain
is fixed like our computer
chip and therefore the
notion of anything
changing it, especially
the mind, is nonsense.
This, of course, relegates
the previous pages of
this tome to the realms
of fantasy. How can you
change a whole universe
but not alter that mushy
stuff inside your head?
That’s it, end of story.
Thanks for buying the
book.

Goodbye, and thanks for

all the fish. Fortunately
for the trees sacrificed in
the production of this
work, all does not end
here. By the middle of
the 20th century, the
idea of neuroplasticity –
a brain that changes –
was catching on through
experiments by people
like the psychologist
Donald Hebb, who was
promptly ignored by the
neuroscientific
community simply
because he was a
psychologist. It shows
how brilliant Einstein
was. It is not enough to
publish a breakthrough;
you must have the
credentials, the
authority, to publish. This
of course is pure elitism
and completely
unscientific, but
wherever humans
gather, human nature
will rule. 85 Truth and
time will conquer. Enter
stage left – stem cells,
those plucky little
subcutaneous Lego
bricks that can morph
into all sorts of different
cells, including neurons.
There are powerful ideas
developing in this field
that throw a serious
spanner into the dogma
machine. You still cannot
replicate neurons, but
you can certainly create
new ones. Enter stage
right – the Dalai Lama.
Tensin Gyatso is the 14th
Dalai Lama and arguably
the most influential
reformer of Buddhism
ever. A basic tenet of
Buddhism is the pursuit
of truth, and this Dalai
Lama has embraced
Western scientific
discoveries as part of
that truth to the extent
where, if modern science
disproves an idea
previously held for
thousands of years, then
truth is truth and must
be embraced.

In 2004 the Dalai Lama

hosted a meeting
between a group of elite
Buddhists – arguably the
world’s greatest
examples of disciplined
mental activity – and
some of the world’s
leading neuroscientists in
an attempt to combine
their knowledge of mind
and brain. The outcome,
as revealed in Sharon
Begley’s book Train Your
Mind, Change Your Brain,
is clear from the title.
The old dogma is not just
cracking but is being
systematically destroyed
by new insights and
research showing that a
disciplined mind clearly
can alter the physical
conditioning of the very
brain that gave birth to
it. The program is
greater than the chip.
The mind is everything.
Scientists free from the
bondage of dogma, and
journalists like me who
try to shake and rattle
the piggy bank of science
to see if new ideas can
be coaxed out of it, are
noticing that Buddhism
has little to worry about.
Without question, some
new scientific truths are
replacing ancient
doctrines, but only
Western arrogance would
assume that this is one-
way traffic. The reality is
that a surprising reversal
is taking place where
ideas, philosophies, and
ancient wisdoms are not
being erased by science
but confirmed. Instead of
disproving the mystical,
the road of discovery
runs parallel with it. The
only things we ever are,
have been, or will be, are
manifestations of energy,
one energy which binds
all universes, all
decisions, all thoughts
together into a whole
that is so great, only God
or the god-like could ever
see it. And yet it seems
the humblest mortal has
been given the power to
use it.
Chapter Ten

Success Engineering

Bud-doiing!

YOU HAVE SEEN it many

times. The fly is trapped
in the room. It sees the
outside, flies towards it,
and bud-doiing, head-
butts the window. Then,
it sees the outside, flies
towards it again and bud-
doiing, head-butts the
same window. It does
this hundreds of times
with little reward other
than a major headache.
Of course, the next
windowpane along is
open, but the fly doesn’t
see it. It sees the outside
through its window and
keeps head-butting the
same window. It has no
concept of objective
analysis. It does not
understand that in order
to find its way out, it
must initially fly away
from what appears to be
the outside in order to
see the window that is
open. Of course not – it’s
a fly! So why do we do it
then – make the same
mistake over and over
again? We follow the
crowd. That’s why
successful parents
mostly bring up
successful children and
welfare parents mostly
produce welfare children
and it’s all to do with
following the crowd
we’re with. If you are not
where you want to be in
life, you must decide to
go the other way. Take
the road less traveled; be
the one lemming going
the other way. The
trouble with being the
one lemming going the
other way is that you
have to push your way
through all the lemmings
coming towards you. Not
only that, but every
lemming you meet will
say, “Hey, dude, stay
cool, this is the way, not
that way, you got it all
wrong.” And when
you’ve tried to explain
your way past 1089
hippy lemmings you
become very tired, and
very doubtful that you’re
right and all the others
are wrong, and finally
you turn and follow the
crowd yet again. It’s
tough to be different.

In order to get what

you want, you are
going to have to
change the way
you’ve tried to get
things in the past.

That’s common sense.

Whatever lifeplan you
have tried this far has, at
best, only partially
worked, and at worst,
hasn’t worked at all. This
has nothing to do with
courage or hard work.
You can be, and probably
have been, a shining
example of courage and
work. That isn’t the
issue. The issue is that
your courage and energy
have been focused on
going bud-doiing against
the window. We need to
refocus. We need to
think. Arguably the one
thing that separates man
from the wee beasties is
our ability to think.
Paradoxically, as Earl
Nightingale says in
Leading the Field, 87 the
one thing people try to
avoid at all costs is
thinking. So millions are
spent each week on
trying to win a lottery in
which the odds of
winning are the same as
being murdered seven
times. But buying a
ticket requires no
thought. Isn’t it strange?
Isn’t it a uniquely
excellent irony, worthy of
the Devil himself, that
the one creation on this
planet that has been
given an infinite capacity
for thought, a godlike
link with creation that
allows him to rethink and
recreate his own version
of that creation, has
absolutely no desire to
use it? Indeed he will go
out of his way – spend
money, get others to
think for him, hand over
his life and cash to
people he’s never heard
of – just to avoid using
this unique gift from God.

Your first step to

achieving everything you
ever wanted in life is a
simple one. Stop relying
on other people’s
thinking as a
replacement for your
own. Keep your own
counsel. Seek second
opinions. Don’t do what
people say without
looking closely at what
those same people do.
Success has nothing to
do with luck, education,
or being in the right
place at the right time.
Nor has it to do with
careers, home
businesses, or off-the-
shelf business
opportunities. It’s all to
do with understanding
who you are and what
you want. It’s all to do
with understanding the
powers you have and
having the confidence to
wield them. It’s all to do
with getting out of your
own way.

Success Engineering
The science of success
engineering is simply the
knowledge of how things
work. It is also the simple
acceptance that the
bridges you have built so
far have not worked too
well, and the answer is
not to do the same
things – build the same
bridges – over and over
again. The answer is to
look at where you want
to be, not where you are
now, and simply decide
to get there. If your life-
plan hasn’t worked, then
it’s not you that’s at
fault, it’s the plan.
Change the plan. The
power to completely and
utterly change your
entire life is already
within you. Indeed, you
are where you are today
because of that same
power – you just didn’t
know how to harness it.
It’s not even as if people
make “wrong” decisions.
In most cases people
don’t make decisions at
all. In these
circumstances it’s
surprising that life is as
good as it is. You can
correct a wrong decision,
but how can you correct
a perpetual fence-sitter
who doesn’t even know
why they’re on the
fence? Success
engineering has natural
rules, rules that are
crafted from a mix of
psychology, business
studies, and now,
physics. Understand
these things, and your
life will change:

1. You will never get

what you want until you
know exactly what it is
you want. You cannot get
a flight to “warm and
sunny” even though
most flights go there.
Decide the life you want
first – the things, the
house, the sort of day
you’d like to live – first.
Which flights to take to
these personal
destinations only become
clear after you have
chosen the destinations.

2. Do not confuse the

flight with the
destination. Money is not
an end. It is the means to
an end. Jobs, businesses,
and careers are not an
end for most people;
they are what they think
they need to do in order
to achieve a certain
lifestyle. If the lifestyle
turns out wrong, as it
does in most cases, it’s
because they never
decided on the lifestyle
they wanted in the first
place.

3. Goal-setting is
absolutely essential. If
you cannot, at any time
in the future, recite your
number one goal
immediately, then you’re
not serious and your life
will reflect it. 4. The
great problem is inner
self-belief. You must
have one goal for self-
belief. Ideally you should
have three goals: for
self-belief, confidence,
and perseverance.

5. Goals must be read

and visualized at least
twice a day. Imagine if
your number one goal
came true two hours
ago. How would you feel?
You’d feel great! (If you
didn’t, it’s hardly a goal,
is it?) Now capture that
feeling. Hold it at least
twice a day. 6. Goal-
setting – success
engineering – is not a
project management
exercise. It’s either
ancient magic, spiritual
philosophy, or quantum
physics. At the end of the
day it matters not one jot
whether you engineer
your future by drawing
circumstances to you like
a magnet, “resonating
with the power of the
celestial sphere,” or
performing a trans-
dimensional quantum
leap. So long as it works,
who cares?

7. A correctly managed
goal may materialize the
object of your goal out of
thin air but is more likely
to produce a workable
plan for its achievement.
Once you have a plan, it
becomes a project
management exercise in
which you can add dates
and targets and break
the whole thing down
into manageable steps.
Either way you must do
something, you must
take action. Your goal
will come towards you at
the same speed you walk
towards it. Usually faster.
Remember that just
imagining your true soul
mate probably won’t
have him/her walk up to
your front door and ask if
you’re in. Get out and
mix!

8. You do not live in the

ordered world you think
you do. This world works
by having multiple
versions of reality, and
which version you live in
is determined solely and
exclusively by the
decisions you make
every day. Success
engineering is nothing
more than making a
series of firm decisions.
Those decisions load the
dice in favor of that
outcome.

9. If you read the great

religious and spiritual
works of old and look at
the writings of those
enlightened people who
speak of such things
today, you will see that
never in the course of
modern history has
science been so close to
spirituality. Of all
branches of science,
none are closer to this
than quantum
mechanics. Miracles and
magic are about to
become science.

10. Decide exactly what

you want. Make goals for
them. Simply decide,
without hesitation,
deviation, or
procrastination but with
confidence that you will,
absolutely, attain these
things, and they will
happen.

***

By now you will have

realised that this isn’t a
book about goal setting
at all. It’s about taking a
scientific truth – that at a
minute level, all nuclear
events are affected by
the person observing
them – and translating
that into the larger,
macroscopic world. (see
Appendix C.) What I am
daring to say is this: you
can change the outcome
of what you think are
random, worldly events
simply by thinking about
them. Goal setting - not
some of the modern
nonsense, but the older,
wiser understanding - is
simply a structured
system for making this
happen. It’s driven by
belief in the outcome,
which is why being asked
to prove it is difficult (the
requirement for proof is
disbelief.) Some say that
what happens at a
nuclear level is so small
it cannot affect what we
see with our eyes. And
yet in the most complex
timepiece a change in
the movement of the
smallest gearwheel
affects the result on the
clock face. The fact is
clear.

As you read this there

are people out there who
are deliberately changing
the world around them
simply by making it
happen. They are
changing the rules of
chance. They are
engineering luck and
good fortune. They do it
by deciding what they
want, and believing it will
be so. Deep down in the
quantum field, their
world changes to make it
happen. Who’s doing
this? Everyone. You, me,
the guy next door, every
day of our lives. But a
tiny few do it
deliberately. They know
it works. Those that know
it doesn’t work are also
correct. All we have to do
is decide which side
we’re on. Everything we
have or don’t have rests
on that decision.

“Go forward boldly

and unseen forces will
come to your aid.” –
Earl Nightingale

***
Chapter Eleven

Reality Check

IN HIS BOOK
Supernature, Dr. Lyall
Watson tells the story of
one of the first women to
be allowed to enter a
Tibetan monastery as a
trainee. Part of the
rigorous training involved
being woken at three in
the morning in order to
meditate. One of the
many aspects of training
was to create, in your
own mind, an imaginary
friend. Children do this
all the time, but in a
monastery it is much
more serious, involving
many hours of
meditation both inside
and outside your cell
until eventually you have
complete command of all
the fine details.
Some six months later
she was allowed to visit
the local market place
for a few days. On the
final day, one of the
villagers asked her who
had been accompanying
her on previous visits.
She said she’d come
alone. But the villager
said that she had been
accompanied by a monk
he hadn’t seen before
and proceeded to
describe this new monk
in precise detail. It was
her “imaginary” monk-
friend. Several other
villagers confirmed this.
When she explained this
to her teacher at the
monastery, he said that
she had successfully
completed this aspect of
the training and told her
to now remove this new
friend from her mind.

Having an imaginary
friend is fine – until other
people start seeing him
too, it seems.

You are made up entirely

of atoms. You stand on
atoms and live among
atoms. When you speak,
atoms move, and their
movement is picked up
by other people, who are
themselves little more
than large clouds of
atoms. If you could
control the forces
between atoms, you
could pass though “solid”
objects much as a cloud
would pass through
another cloud. But this
cannot happen because
then the two clouds
would mix together in a
very unsavory manner,
and we can’t have
people doing that all the
time. You are also in the
unique position of being
a cloud of atoms that is
self-aware and considers
its own existence.
You perceive the world
through your eyes. You
see things based entirely
on visible light, which
ranges in wavelength
from about 380 nm. to
780 nm. This is why
grass looks green and
icebergs look bluish-
white. But there are lots
more wavelengths than
these, and if you just
select the longer ones
and take a look at the
same world with infrared,
you will see an entirely
different world in which
grass can be blue and
icebergs can be red
lumps floating in a green
sea. You will see inside
people, through their
skin. Your beautiful lover
can turn into a monster
by simply changing a
wavelength.

When you touch

something, the nerves in
your fingers send an
electrochemical message
to your brain telling you
something is there. If you
artificially stimulate
those nerves, you will
feel something that
doesn’t exist. Amputees
still feel their lost limbs.
The reality is that you
have no idea whether
something is there or
not. All you know is that
your thoughts are
working. You could have
been created, fully
formed, one minute ago
with all your “past”
experiences hardwired
into you, and you could
not prove this to be
wrong. It could be that
nothing, absolutely
nothing, exists beyond
the point where your skin
meets the air (or what
you think is skin – or air).
All you see, feel, touch,
taste, and hear are just
impulses created inside
of you, impulses you
think are outside of you.
You really have no idea
of who you are or what
you are. You may not
exist at all. You may be a
thought by someone
else. You may be E.T.’s
imaginary friend. Or
God’s. And if this is true,
which it is, then
everything outside of you
is only real in the sense
that you are
experiencing a set of
powerful feelings that
are in harmony with
other people’s powerful
feelings, assuming they
exist at all. You cannot
prove you’re not in the
Matrix! All this is true,
and seen like this,
doesn’t the idea of you
(or the you you think you
are) existing inside
different copies of the
same plan – different
universes – seem more
possible? You are a child
of God, a dolphin of the
Universe. And if,
according to your
persuasion, you have
been crafted in the
image of the Creator,
then logically you must
be a creator yourself and
have some measure of
control over that same
creation. We are just
discovering how much
control we have. Yet pain
seems so real, as do
worry and fear and hurt
and heartbreak, and
while these apocalyptic
horsemen exist, it is
difficult to imagine any
kind of different world for
ourselves, let alone work
towards the ultimate
world of our own making.
But love also exists, as
do joy and courage and
hope and honor.

And, however great and

complex the vision or
reality of our personal
Matrix is, I firmly believe
that with these guardian
angels, and many more
like them, we have been
given the tools to change
things.

From now on, living in

hell is voluntary.

It always was.

I wish you all I wish

myself.
Thank you for your time.

Phil Gosling

Appendix A How to be
in two places at the
same time

A modern experiment at
being in two places at
the same time and
talking to each other
while you’re doing it!
These are real
experiments performed
in real laboratories with
decidedly unreal results.
(Figure taken from a
paper by Deutsch and
Ekert) Here a light source
emits a photon along a
path towards a half-
silvered mirror (beam
splitter). This mirror
splits the light, reflecting
half vertically toward
detector A and
transmitting half toward
detector B. A photon,
however, is a single
quantized packet of light
and cannot be split, so it
is detected with equal
probability at either A or
B. Intuition would say
that the photon
randomly leaves the
mirror in either the
vertical or horizontal
direction. However,
quantum mechanics
predicts that the photon
actually travels both
paths simultaneously!
This is more clearly
demonstrated in figure b.
(Source – Caltech)
(Figure taken from a
paper by Deutsch and
Ekert) In this experiment,
the photon first
encounters a half-
silvered mirror then a
fully silvered mirror, and
finally another half-
silvered mirror before
reaching a detector,
where each half-silvered
mirror introduces the
probability of the photon
traveling down one path
or the other.

Once a photon strikes

the mirror along either of
the two paths after the
first beam splitter, the
arrangement is identical
to that in figure a, and so
one might hypothesize
that the photon will
reach either detector A
or detector B with equal
probability. However,
experiment shows that in
reality this arrangement
causes detector A to
register 100% of the
time, and never at
detector B! How can this
be? Figure b depicts an
interesting experiment
that demonstrates the
phenomenon of single-
particle interference. In
this case, experiment
shows that the photon
always reaches detector
A, never detector B! If a
single photon travels
vertically and strikes the
mirror, then, by
comparison to the
experiment in figure a,
there should be an equal
probability that the
photon will strike either
detector A or detector B.
The same goes for a
photon traveling down
the horizontal path.
However, the actual
result is drastically
different.

The only conceivable

conclusion is
therefore that the
photon somehow
traveled both paths
simultaneously,
creating an interference
at the point of
intersection that
destroyed the possibility
of the signal reaching B.

This is known as
quantum interference
and results from the
superposition of the
possible photon states,
or potential paths. So
although only a single
photon is emitted, it
appears as though an
identical photon exists
and travels the “path not
taken,” only detectable
by the interference it
causes with the original
photon when their paths
come together again. If,
for example, either of the
paths are blocked with
an absorbing screen,
then detector B begins
registering hits again just
as in the first
experiment! This unique
93 characteristic, among
others, makes the
current research in
quantum computing not
merely a continuation of
today's idea of a
computer, but rather an
entirely new branch of
thought. And it is
because quantum
computers harness these
special characteristics
that they have the
potential to be incredibly
powerful computational
devices. (Source:
Caltech, from an original
paper used by Neil
Gershenfeld in a paper
on quantum computing
published in Scientific
American.) Think of it
this way. You walk out of
your office at 5:00 p.m.
and have the choice of
two corridors, left and
right, but both will take
you to the exit door.
Later on in the bar you
meet Alice, who saw you
walk down the left-hand
corridor at 5:01 p.m.
because her office
happens to be on that
corridor. But Bob says he
saw you walk by his
office, on the right-hand
corridor, at 5:01 p.m.
because Bob’s office is
on that corridor. They
each think the other is
mistaken. You know
they’re not. Cool, isn’t it?
While we’re on the
physics page I’d like to
add a footnote. I’ve not
been concerned that
Niels Bohr, one of the
fathers of modern
physics, and Hugh
Everett, the “inventor” of
the multi-universe
theory, did not see eye
to eye, or that
Schrödinger invented his
cat analogy to have a go
at Niels Bohr. I’ve cross-
referenced several ideas,
but seeing that no one
really knows entirely
what’s going on, let’s call
it “the spirit of
exploration.”

“You must be good at

one of two things:
planting in the spring,
or begging in the
fall.” – Jim Rohn

Appendix B The
Dating Game–Final
Conclusion

A goal, any goal, comes

into reality based on the
confident expectation
that it will be so. Some
call this the Law of
Attraction. My view is
that it is the Law of
Creation, a probability
theory not dissimilar to
Appendix A and the first
paragraph of Appendix C.
The greater the
expectation of an event,
the greater the
probability dice are
loaded in favor of that
outcome. This law, in
whatever form, never
stops working. If you
have a goal, then every
second you spend in the
positive expectation of
that goal is a second in
which the wheels and
cogs of the universe
realign themselves to
create that goal. In the
same way, having doubts
and fears about that goal
doesn’t stop the process
of creation. Creation still
takes place, only this
time the concentration is
on the doubt; therefore,
the opposite outcome is
being created. So be
careful what you’re
thinking.

For this reason it is vital

to not create doubt and
uncertainty. And with
that, we can look at the
full reasoning regarding
not putting dates on
future goals. It depends
on how you’re wired. In
Bob Proctor’s
magnificent series of
lectures regarding the
power of goal-setting, he
refers to the fact that
setting a goal is
tantamount to sowing a
seed. We do not know
the gestation period for
that seed to spring forth,
we just know it will
happen at some point in
the future. His
philosophy is to set a
time frame by making an
educated guess. If the
goal is not visible when
that time frame is
complete, it simply
means that our “best
guess” at the gestation
period of the goal was a
little out, and we merely
have to add some extra
time. There is nothing
wrong with this
argument.

The problem may be how

you as a person are
wired up to deal with it. If
you can see that the
time period was merely a
“best guess” and you
can, without diminution
of enthusiasm, simply
carry on by making a
new date, then fine, do it
that way. If, on the other
hand, you are the type of
person who may feel a
sense of failure regarding
the time element, then
don’t use a time
element. The important
thing is the avoidance of
doubt, because doubt,
not time, is the final
arbiter of whether you
will succeed or not.
“Whether you believe
you can do a thing or
not, you are right.” -
Henry Ford Doubt is the
great killer of personal
success. It creates the
opposite universe to the
one you wanted. Goal
creation is not a straight-
line graph. This means
that some people get
edgy or worried when, at
the halfway point, they
are clearly no nearer
their goal. If you are this
kind of person, then
setting dates will induce
stress. So don’t set
dates. 95 Dates are not
part of the goal itself.
Dates are activators.
They are designed to get
you moving – to make
you do something
everyday. The absence
of dates can make you
lazy or hide what is
merely wishful thinking
disguised as a goal
behind a thin veneer of
action. If you don’t set a
date – fine - but act as if
you did. Your great
subconscious mind, the
real you, the 90%+ of
your soul that has its
own personal Internet
connection with creation
itself, only sees images
and feels feelings. It does
not make judgments or
logical conclusions. If
your image is one of
health, wealth, and
happiness, and you have
feelings of joy and
warmth – the feelings of
a victor – associated with
that vision, then that is
all you need to clothe
that image in reality. And
it will happen with
surprising speed.

Appendix C Quantum
Car Parking

The essence of
quantum/probability
theory is that nothing is
real – you only have
options or probabilities.
Everything you see is
there simply because the
act of seeing it caused
one of several zillion
options to materialize
into form. Which one of
those options appeared
is decided either at
random, or by what you
expected to see. I’m
currently sitting in my
room tapping away at
the keyboard of a
Toshiba SM30-604. About
one mile away is the
main street of my local
village, a street I cannot
physically see from here.
I know that cars will be
parked on each side of
the street and that
usually the street is
pretty full of cars. I
obviously have no idea
which particular car is in
which particular place.
Here is where quantum
physics devotees and
normal, sane people
differ. If I were normal I
would assume that the
town and street exist in
real time and that at this
moment real cars are
parked in real spaces
even though I cannot see
them. I believe that when
I drive down there I will
see a situation which
really exists and over
which I have no control.
Cars are parked in
various spaces, and my
finding a place to park is
merely a matter of luck
or persistence. It’s a fait
accompli. Quantum
lunatics see it this way:
The cars and street don’t
exist in real time. They
are figments of my
imagination –
possibilities, alternatives.
Furthermore, there are
an infinite number of
car/parking combinations
available. There is one
possibility that a parking
space outside say, the
bank, is occupied by a
Ford, and another that it
may be a Jaguar. All
these possibilities, like
Schrödinger’s pussycat,
are only possibilities until
I set eyes upon the
situation. Like lifting the
lid. So let’s do just that.
Without goal-setting, all
these possibilities are
like picking the winner of
a lottery out of a hat. I go
down to the village, and
the winner I picked was a
Ford in front of the bank.
That’s the one scenario
that was forced into
existence at random the
moment I set eyes on it.
In the same way that
opening the lid to the cat
experiment always
reveals something – a
live or deceased mouser
– one possibility always
leaps into existence the
moment you look at it.
With goal-setting the
situation is different. By
concentrating on one
particular outcome – just
one of the many
probabilities available – I
load the dice in favor of
that outcome.

It’s that simple. By

expecting the scenario
with the free space in
front of the bank, I tip
the random balance of
probabilities in favor of
that outcome simply by
believing that it will take
place. Normal people
believe that life is, that
events are, and that they
have little control over
those events. Physicists
believe that nothing is
real, that any event is
merely one of several
zillion options that are
available at any time,
and that these events
become real 97 only
when you look at them.
Scientific philosophers7
believe that goal-setting
allows us to use just a
little of our 240,000
million, million kilowatt-
hours of energy to tip the
probability balance in our
favor. Theologians,
metaphysicians, spiritual
thinkers, and students of
“the science of success”
have known this for a
long time. What is
happening now is that
quite a few serious
scientists are opening up
to the understanding
that what happens at a
very small scale may
affect us in more ways
than many people
currently dare to think.

The whole of your life

and all the things in it –
money, love, health,
relationships, cars,
houses, vacations,
mothers-in-law, good
luck and bad luck – are
just a series of
possibilities that came
true largely at random
simply because you
never realized that you
hold the remote control –
the clicker – on your own
life. You don’t need
intelligence because
there is a whole universal
consciousness – the
background radiation
from millions of people
alive and dead who
shared some of their 2.4
x 1017 KwH with you –
and this is out there for
you to plug into.
Everything you cannot
physically see with your
eyes at this present
moment doesn’t exist.
My wife has just left to
collect Timmy from
school. She will come
back into my life looking
as she did when she left
because I have the
absolute expectation
that this will be so.

Can you/I affect the

outcome of throwing a
die? Yes. Can we affect
the toss of a coin? Yes.
The selection committee
of a sporting event? Yes.
The arrival time of an
elevator or the
appearance of a cab?
Yes. But you have to
believe it. And if you’re
the guy in the white coat
with the stopwatch and
the clipboard, you’ll get
what you expect too.
There is nothing you
cannot change, nothing
you cannot control,
nothing you cannot bring
into your personal self-
created universe,
nothing you cannot
cannot, because cannot
and can’t no longer exist.
You have the channel
changer of your life in
your hands, and every
channel button has the
word “believe” or
“expect” written on it in
pleasant, soothing
letters. Now it’s in your
hands. Just change the
channel to the one you
want, not the one
somebody else chose for
you since the day you
were born. 7
“Metaphysics” means
“beyond the physical.”

A scientific philosopher
takes real science and
tries to expand its
meaning beyond the
laboratory. The two ideas
are not the same. But
they can be. Like most
things, it just depends
which way you look at it.
Edwin Schrödinger’s
wave function. The basis
of Quantum Mechanics …
and everything else, it
seems.

Appendix D Musings
of Life and Science

IN 1614 the polymath,

Galileo Galilei had a little
bit of a problem with the
established church of the
day. Basically, his theory
that the earth revolved
around the sun ran
contrary to the Unholy
Inquisition’s view of
nature, and their notion
of informed debate was
to threaten to poke his
eyes out if he didn’t start
seeing things their way.
Not only did this affect
Galileo, it also had a
dramatic, if hidden
knock-on effect on every
scientist of the day.
Consciously or otherwise,
the lords of science
decided to keep their
eyeballs and took ‘life’
out of science. From that
day forth, scientific
investigation that dealt
with purely physical,
repeatable phenomena
became even more
rigorously physical and
devoid of life. Objects
were objects. Things
happened through cause
and effect alone.
Anything to do with life,
religion, God, or the
spiritual realm was left to
theologians. Science
became atheist. It had
little choice.
Of course science, by
definition, is there to
seek rational solutions to
physical phenomena, so
the real change was not
only an acute
concentration on the
physical but an active
antipathy toward
anything that wasn’t
strictly rational and
provable by
experimentation.
Ironically the god of
objectivity had a hidden,
subjective agenda – to
disprove all other gods.
Science won a pivotal
victory when Darwinism
triumphed over
Creationism. In a debate
that is argued to this
day, evolution still rules
triumphant in a battle
that may have been
fought without the
instruments of physical
torture on the one side,
but the other, desperate
to gain authority, had a
few irrational knuckle-
dusters of its own hidden
inside the gloves. This is
not about that debate.
The point is that history
placed the rationalism of
science at the opposite
end of those who believe
that life itself has an
influence on scientific
phenomena.

After nearly 400 years,

science in the form of
quantum physics
suddenly hit a barrier to
its life-free zone called
‘The Observer’. In the
movies, “What the bleep
do we know” and “Down
the rabbit hole,” Dr Fred
Alan Wolf Ph.D., aka “Dr
Quantum” explains the
infamous “double slit
experiment”. This was
the one I mentioned in
Chapter 4 regarding
what happens when
photons are shot through
double slits. Let’s use
electrons instead of
photons. Single electrons
(which are ‘stuff’ –
physical matter) shot
through two slits
produced unexpected
wave patterns on the
other side. Like photons,
we know now this is to
do with the same particle
going in two (in fact,
multiple) directions at
the same time. But
here’s the real enigma. If
you place a measuring
device to see what’s
going on in the system –
then this device – the
“observer” – affects the
outcome, and the
electron pattern goes
back to the two lines of
particles. It’s important
to remember that the
measuring device or
‘observer’ in no way
physically affected the
experiment. It wasn’t as
if the timekeeper in the
100m Olympic sprint had
stood in the middle of
the track. He was off the
track, just measuring and
observing.

Yet what happens is that

this timekeeper still
affects the outcome of
the race as if he was part
of the race itself. In the
words of Dr Wolf, “It’s as
if the electron decided to
act differently; as though
it was aware it was being
watched… the observer
collapsed the wave
function, simply by
observing.” This of
course is completely
irrational, illogical and
cannot happen in physics
or anything else. Every
physical effect has a
physical cause. And yet it
happens. Looking at an
event changes the
outcome of the event.
Consciousness – the
state of being alive –
affects the outcome of
an event. The physicists
who argue this point
grow fewer each day.
The only argument is
why does it do so, and by
how much.

In this one simple

experiment, 400 years of
scientific dogma unravels
like a ball of
superstrings.
‘Consciousness’ (i.e. life)
is woven into the fabric
of all things. It is made
visible only at the tiniest
level, in a place where
mathematics proves
everything, and trying to
turn what the
mathematics tells us into
some form of picture has
gone beyond all but the
most artistic of
physicists. Physics, the
science that was created
to replace pure thought
with experimentation
and still seeks to reduce
everything, including life,
to a single equation, has
unwittingly become the
first to acknowledge the
existence of life within
the fabric of matter. The
questions today are, is
energy intelligent? If so,
are we part of that
intelligence? Can we
control it?

My answer is yes. In
1910, Wallace D. Wattles
wrote The Science of
Getting Rich, a seminal
work which has become
one of the cornerstones
of modern success
thinking. In this book he
wrote: “The stuff from
which all things are
made is a substance
which thinks, and a
thought of form in this
substance produces the
form.” Today, if I had to
paraphrase that
sentence I would write:
“The energy from which
everything is made, and
flows through all things
and the spaces in
between, is an intelligent
energy that responds to
thought and observation.
It responds to life, and
life has the capacity to
influence it.” Is that
intelligence God? That,
my friend, is several
steps beyond where
even I am prepared to
go.
***

“Consciousness is the
ground of all being,
matter, including the
brain… When we
observe matter, we
choose from among
(many) possibilities to
produce the actual
event that we
experience.” - Dr.
Amit Goswami,
Emeritus professor of
physics. University of
Oregon

***

“The Unified Field,

according to modern
physics, is the
deepest, most
powerful level of
Nature’s functioning –
and the source of the
infinite creativity and
intelligence within
every individual and
displayed throughout
the universe.” - Dr
John Hagelin Ph.D.

***

“I feel like we're on

the verge of a gigantic
discovery – maybe the
nature of God, maybe
the nature of the
human spirit.
Something of that sort
is going to emerge
from this, because our
normal notions – in
fact the notions upon
which we think
science makes any
sense at all, the
notions of space and
time and matter –
they just are breaking
down, they're just
falling apart, like
tissue paper before
our eyes .” - Prof.
Fred Alan Wolf Ph.D.

***
“Dare to think.” – Phil
Gosling

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I read an eBook recently

in which the author
devoted half of the first
page to telling his
readers about all the dire
prognostications that
were to befall them if
they so much as lent his
book to their significant
other. Hmm … I also
know of at least 12
systems that would
automatically disable a
book if readers cancelled
their payment. But the
reader would have to log
onto the internet a
googol of times every
time he or she wanted to
read it. This strikes me
as hypocrisy. The author
expected you to trust
him enough to pay for
the book but he doesn’t
trust you in return. Not
good. Here’s my
universe. I hold out the
same honesty to you as
you did to me. If you
want to pass this book to
a few close friends and
family, as you would a
paperback, then feel free
to do so with my
blessings; but only a
handful, OK? If you’re
inclined to distribute the
book more widely then
why not do that in a way
that’s not only legal but
you make more out of it
than I do! For further
details please contact
me by email.

***

“If you set out to

make yourself
wealthy, you’ll have
to till your fields
yourself. If you set out
to make others
wealthy, they will till
your fields for you.” -
James Edwin

Resources and extra

reading Physics:

The Dancing Wu Li
Masters – by David
Zukov (Amazon.com)

The Elegant Universe –

by Brian Green
(Amazon.com)

The Field – Lynne

Taggart (Amazon.com)

Recommended Special
Interest Websites and
Blogs

www.selfgrowth.com
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