| As a financial economist my motivation has long been | | | | physical healing stems from a healing of the person's |
| to understand a simple academic koan: "why is there | | | | mind by deciding to make a fundamental shift from a |
| scarcity in an abundant world?" A koan is a question in | | | | fear to love based personal thought system that does |
| the history and lore of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, to which | | | | not allow the perception of any form of scarcity such |
| the answer is inaccessible to rational understanding, yet | | | | as disease. |
| may with great effort be obtained through accessing | | | | Think about it; are you really anything else? Are you |
| our higher collective mind. The motivational force driving | | | | really anything but a thinking mind directing a temporary |
| my financial studies and research rests in the little | | | | physical vehicle you call a body in this temporary |
| known fact that the planet earth and this universe | | | | physical world? Ponder the koan that "you are a mind |
| have such great abundance that no living being need | | | | not a body that has the power to choose to focus |
| lack anything! | | | | exclusively on love and abundance!" Over time you will |
| Here is another real noodle twister. Did you know that | | | | experience a radical change for the better in your |
| quantum physicists are people who have dedicated | | | | thinking. This is because you will slowly recognize that |
| themselves to trying to figure out what the smallest | | | | everything you see in the world about you is derived |
| building block of the physical world we see about us | | | | from your (our) thoughts. |
| is? Did you know that as they keep splitting apart the | | | | All of this has allowed me to come to see that all |
| little pieces of atoms they reach a point where there is | | | | scarcity in the world about us happens when a mind |
| nothing physical left? They cannot reject the very real | | | | chooses to focus on the emotion of fear. This focus |
| possibility that the smallest component of matter is | | | | on fear stems from the thought that "there just never |
| pure thought that never diminishes or dies! | | | | is enough to go around." This causes people to act |
| This is an astounding concept because it means that | | | | COMPETITIVELY based on perceived scarce |
| your mind may not even be housed in your brain at all | | | | resources. |
| and that your "subconscious" is just your greater mind | | | | Alternatively, I have come to see that all abundance in |
| that is collectively linked with all other minds in | | | | the world happens when a mind chooses to focus on |
| existence. If this is the case it could well explain the | | | | the emotion of love. This causes people to act |
| documentations of Tibetan Buddhists who have | | | | together harmoniously as CO-CREATERS based on |
| tracked people through successive cyclical | | | | perceived abundant resources. What this world needs |
| transmigrations as they reincarnate from one body to | | | | is not welfare but a complete change of the collective |
| the next. It would also explain the bizarre documented | | | | focus of thought from fear to love and hence from |
| phenomenon of "The Mind of Pure Light." This occurs | | | | scarcity to abundance! |
| when Tibetan Buddhist monks who achieve this | | | | Let me give you a couple of places where you can |
| exalted mental state "die" in a meditative position but | | | | learn abundance. Dr. Tharp teaches students learning |
| the body refuses to decay for days, weeks, or even | | | | to create wealth in their lives at the Van Tharp Institute |
| months! A western corollary are documented cases | | | | (IITM.com) the necessity of allowing the mind to focus |
| of Catholic saints who's bodies remained fresh and | | | | on abundance exclusively. As a cognitive psychologist |
| sweet smelling for a similar period after death. | | | | Dr. Tharp has spent many years devising a |
| A great breakthrough in my understanding of the | | | | methodology to help people clean the fear out of their |
| answer to my academic koan came when I learned | | | | thinking with regard to financial wealth building. |
| an important psychological fact from a friend of mine, | | | | Another friend of mine, Matt Bacak, teaches people |
| Dr. Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. Our mind may experience only | | | | how to promote their expertise on the internet at in his |
| two emotions; love or fear. Another critical fact is that | | | | seminars in Atlanta. Matt promotes abundance by |
| the mind cannot experience thoughts of love and | | | | teaching people to market from a place of love for all |
| thoughts of fear at the same time; only one or the | | | | mankind. He also promotes collective thinking in his JV |
| other. Over time I have come to understand that the | | | | calls where everyone shares ideas as co-creators |
| recognition of the exclusive existence and nature of | | | | instead of competitors. It was a conversation with Matt |
| these two emotions is critical to the enrichment of our | | | | that gave me the idea for this article that I truly hope |
| lives. I have also come to see that we are minds not | | | | encourages you to stop competing and start |
| bodies! This offers an explanation that miraculous | | | | co-creating! |