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