You may not have heard the word “envisioneering”
before; but it is a great word. It is a great word because it
describes how powerful you are when you align yourself
with the scientific processes that the universe uses to
make things manifest.
Envisioneering is a combination of envision and
engineering. To envision means “to create a picture in
one’s own mind or imagination”; and engineering means
“the application of science and mathematics by which the
properties of matter and the sources of energy in nature
are made useful to people” (Webster).
So, envisioneering means: Using the laws governing
matter and energy to take a vision from pure imagination
and to make it real (realize it) in the everyday world.
Of course, the very first step in getting what you desire
is to actually decide exactly what it is that you desire.
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Strangely enough, most people do not do that very well.
People will say they want success or happiness or wealth,
(which are really quite nebulous terms unless and until
they are clearly defined), but they don’t actually know
what they mean because they have not defined them
enough for them to be personally meaningful.
Over the years, I have spent considerable time mentoring
and coaching people about how to create wealth. One of
the very first questions I ask people that I mentor is
“what does wealthy mean to you?” Not one in ten people
have thought enough about it to actually be able to define
it for themselves, let alone precisely explain to me what
the word wealthy means to them.
It is not up to me to define what wealthy means to you or
anyone else; and, in fact, being or feeling wealthy is very
variable. Each person has different standards and
expectations. Having one million dollars in the bank
might enable many people to feel quite wealthy; but I can
assure you that if Donald Trump was reduced to having
only a meager million dollars in his bank account, he
would feel quite impoverished.
I have a holistic general definition that I offer people,
which is that “wealth is an abundance of physical,
emotional, mental, spiritual and material well-being.” It
is, however, up to each person to specify what wealth
means to themselves. It is up to you to define your own
success. If you allow others to do it for you, or if you
assume some societal standard, then you will forever be
wearing hand-me-down ideals that will not quite fit.
The other major problem that people seem to have with
deciding exactly what it is that they desire to have (in
addition to lack of specificity) is that they often describe
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what they say they want by what they don’t want. For
example… most people I ask to define financial freedom
(which is one of the ways they answer my request to get
more specific about what wealth means to them) say that
it is freedom from debt and money concerns. They don’t
want debt and they don’t want to be concerned about
money. But what do they actually want? Don’t know.
Can’t say.
Before you even begin the process of creating success in
any area of your life, whether it be your intimate
personal relationship or your material abundance, you
must very clearly decide and specifically define exactly
what it is that you desire to have.
Define it by what it is and so not define it by what it is
not. If you define it by what it is not, your attention will
be forever focused on its opposite and you will tend to
continue to create that opposite rather than the actual
thing or effect desired.
If you truly want to be wealthy, I strongly suggest that
you stop and define your success this very day. At the
end of this chapter, you will find some exercises to help
you in this process.
The beginning of any intentionally created event or
circumstance in your life is to first create the ideal in
your imagination.
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Embellish it with all the details and clarity you can
muster. Feel and affirm its reality in order to build your
belief muscle. Visualize it in its completeness. Support its
veracity with vision boards, written affirmations and by
designing specific plans to effectuate its realization. Keep
your attention focused on this imagined ideal and do not
allow any current outside events and circumstances to
distract you from its reality.
Remind yourself that whatever can be conceived in
imagination and believed in wholeheartedly, can
invariably be achieved, if you take the necessary steps in
accordance with certain tried and true principles. All
wealth is the product of a creative, directed and
intentional consciousness.
The future is a blank slate. Peter Drucker once commented that the best way to predict the future is to
create it. It is the visionaries who create the future. If you
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want to be in control of how your life turns out, you need
to become a visionary and practice envisioneering. Your
imagination is the creative workshop in which you
construct your reality.
It never ceases to amaze me. Almost everyone peers into
the future through a rear-view mirror. The future is
imagined as a continuation of the past. I suppose there is
a certain security in that; much like a padded cell. Hardly
anyone practices creative envisioneering.
To be an envisioneer, you must first have the courage to
look into the future with the recognition that there is
nothing there yet, except that which you imagine; and
then, the force of will to imagine a personal ideal; and
then, the impertinence to believe that the imagined ideal
is real. In fact, you see it as being more real than all that
has come before or exists in this present moment. In
short, you must be an idealist.
Each of us, unfortunately, is educated to be a realist, to
deal with things as they are, to see the world as it is and
to 'realistically' go about making our way within what
already exists. In other words, we are trained to be
creatures of event and circumstance.
Those who decide to shape events and circumstances to
match what they envision are the idealists. They end up
as the movers and shakers, the leaders, the ones who
create personal success, cultural innovation, the future
and also, ultimately, history as well. The average
employee is a realist. The entrepreneur is an idealist. A
realist is a creature of event and circumstance; an idealist
is a creator of event and circumstance.
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Each of us may aspire, in our hearts, to be prosperous, to
be fulfilled, to live a life of purpose and passion.
However, living life as a realist makes it almost
impossible to succeed in achieving these ideals. If you are
to have any hope of making real your ideals, you must
learn to become an idealist and to practice the art of
creative envisioneering,
The main contrast between the realist and the idealist is
that the realist sees with his eyes open and the idealist
sees most clearly with his eyes closed. The realist believes
in the explicate outer world; the idealist knows that the
explicate is derived from the implicate inner world of
creative imagination, that the physical arises from the
metaphysical; that all that is created is first imagined.
Realists rely upon the definite. Idealists rely upon the
infinite.
It is often said that idealists are out of touch with
(physical) reality. But, it is the realists who are the ones
who are out of touch with the greater (metaphysical)
reality; and idealists are the ones who mold and shape
their own, and our collective, future reality. They are
envisioneers; creating the future they imagine; living
their dreams; enacting their inner vision; using
metaphysical principles to form and fashion the physical
actualities they desire.
Idealists (envisioneers) create the future that the realists
end up (by default) living in, having no choice but to
cope with the existing reality, while the envisioneer is
still busily creating a new dream. If you want to live the
life of your own dreams, you must become an
envisioneer and learn to ignore the comfortable
constraints of reality.
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The envisioneer has taught himself to believe in what can
be imagined more than in what is temporarily existent in
the external world.
Do you want more out of life? Envision more. Become a
dreamweaver. Start imagining the possibilities that lie
open to you. Start believing in your own power to
imagine an ideal and then to make it real.
Of course, you must begin from where you are presently
at. Where else can you start from? So, there is no point in
denying your current situation. It is, after all, the result of
your previous method of thinking; the result of your
previous way of being and behaving in the world, the
result of your existing paradigms.
However, there is no reason at all to expect that the
future will unfold as the past has happened, or even as
the present exists, except that you imagine that it will.
That is, if you are prepared to imagine something else,
something bigger and better, something that actually fills
your heart and mind with joy and excitement.
I like to remind everyone that everything (and I mean
everything, including your own concept about who you
are, why you are alive and what you are capable of
doing) exists entirely in your own imagination. That is
often a difficult concept for people to ‘grok’ (understand
at a soul level); but it is nevertheless true.
Your entire everyday reality (and your whole
perception of the universe) is constructed entirely in
your imagination in each moment, filtered through
your belief systems, ingrained ways of thinking about
reality and your emotional entrainments.
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Take few minutes and watch this video presentation to
receive affirmation of what you just read.
The great good news is that, if everything exists entirely
in your imagination, then you can imagine, idealize,
visualize, envision anything you define and desire to be
true for you, and it can become true.
The universe is not some machine or mechanically
unfolding process that was created billions of years ago
during the event typically called the Big Bang. It is an
evolving living entity seeking self-expression and self-
actualization and it is continuously re-creating itself each
quantum moment.
This is a critical understanding; not just for cosmologists
and quantum physicists - it is critical for anyone who
wants to come into a full understanding and application
of their creative power. If you want to be able to create
the ideal events and circumstances of your individual
life, you need to know how the universe is created anew
in each new moment.
You are you; an individual, complete unto yourself… a
Holon. But, you exist within and are inseparable from the whole, universe. Your existence is governed by the
same rules that govern the existence of the universe.
Your ability to be consciously creative is enhanced by
knowing and applying the universal creative process.
The universe blinks in and out of existence each and
every moment; it goes on and off; it recreates itself. This
all happens at the sub-quantum level, so you are not normally aware of it.
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When you observe (perceive) the universe, even your
little corner of it, you tend to think of it as a continuous,
moving process… like a movie. But just like a movie,
there may be the illusion of a seamless continuity, but
the reality is more like a series of still images strung
together to produce movement and momentum.
In a movie, the individual frames run at 24 per second,
too fast for the eye to capture the individual images so
that they all seem to run together to produce the illusion
of one continuous moving picture. The actuality is that a
movie is a series of still shots, each one being just a little
different than the one before.
At the quantum level of universe, the process is exactly
the same except that the individual frames run at billions
per second… a very high frequency. In fact, there are
billions of different frequencies, all acting in a grand
harmony, to create the moving picture of a temporal and
spatial universe.
So, when you look out your window and see the leaves
of a tree moving in the breeze, what you are seeing is a
series of individual snap shots strung together to
produce the illusion of leaf movement, each snap shot
somewhat different than the previous one as the various
fermions, bosons, photons and imaginatons flash in and
out of existence.
(Imaginaton is a word I made up. Just as a photon is a basic
wave/particle of light, an imaginaton is a basic wave/particle of
thought energy.)
So what, you might wonder, is the relevance of this to
your life and how it unfolds. Everything! Whether you
are ignorant of, or aware of, how universe (and
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everything in it including you) is re-created anew each
moment, you are still a participant. You can choose to be
a passive participant (like you imagine a rock to be) or
you can choose to be an active participant THEREBY
actually influencing how the next quantum snapshot
turns out.
Yes, such is your power. Here’s how it works.
All this blinking on and off, the frequency of the master
vibration, is subject to the various interplays of the
innumerable sub-frequencies of the various vibrations of
the individual parts of universe (all Holons in their own
right).
The Pacific Ocean, for allegorical example, is made up of
various little wavelets. If you toss a pebble from the
shore, you create a new set of waves and the whole
behavior of the ocean changes. You may not notice it, but
it does. Say the pebble is an asteroid that slams into the
ocean from space, you might then notice? Well, sure you
would. Just ask the dinosaurs.
Ok, now you have the concept. The universe is a vast sea
of vibration made up of various little (and not so little)
interference patterns caused by the various frequencies
when they interact. These interference patterns are the
snapshots that make the movie. Interject a new
waveform (toss in a pebble) and you change the
interference pattern and the next snap shot is changed.
Keep on doing it and you change the whole future
picture.
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Your thoughts and your emotions which are determined
your beliefs/paradigms are your vibratory output. This
vibratory output exists within the universe. It also affects
universe. Your vibratory output creates interference
patterns in the quantum ocean of universe. So what?
Well, if you want to change the behavior of the universe,
then change your personal vibratory output: change
your thoughts, change your emotions, change your
beliefs.
You might well say that your little vibrations will not
have much effect on the whole BIG universe, but then,
you really don’t want to change the universe all that
much do you? I mean, you don’t want to change the
orbit of the earth or anything even remotely like that, do
you? You just want to change a few very small things
like the events and circumstances of your life.
Back to the seashore… you go to the beach, the sea is
dead calm today, smooth as glass. You jump in,
splashing and making all kinds of commotion. Your little
immediate area of the Pacific is no longer calm; it is
turbulent. Sand is stirred up, fish scatter, froth and
bubbles are everywhere in your immediate vicinity.
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Ripples spread out, the little waves you make even rush
up against the beach destroying a child’s sand castle
built too close to the water’s edge. The young girl who
was floating on her back with eyes closed in the calm sea
a moment before is now having water from your waves
splashed into her face. You have changed reality.
Your mental and emotional output creates a commotion
in your immediate environment and changes the reality
you are experiencing. Change the nature of that
commotion and you change the reality picture of your
immediate environment. Maintain a consistent mental
and emotional pattern and you have a long lasting affect
on your immediate environment. Keep it up consistently
for a long time and you will even change the whole
ocean.
Let’s leave the seashore and return to our movie set.
You have 24 still frames passing by each second. Let’s
say that all of them except frame #2 in a one second
snapshot is exactly the same as the other 23, what do you
end up seeing? No movement, no change. Now, take a
one-minute sequence, that’s 1,440 separate frames. In
second two of this sequence, frame 3 is different but all
23 other frames remain the same; in second three, frame
4 is different but the rest remain the same and so on until
you come to second #59 and frame 60 is different and the
rest remain the same. What do you end up with at the
end of one minute? 60 different frames spread out
amongst 1380 identical ones producing some minor
illusion of movement but with an unchanged overall
picture.
This is how everyday normal passive participation in
universe creates your reality picture. You actually have
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about 60,000 thoughts per day; but, 99% of them are the
same old repetitive subconscious self-talk and ingrained
patterns of thinking, believing and feeling.
Occasionally throughout the day you think about your
hopes and ambitions or focus on your goals or think
specific thoughts related to your life’s purpose, but most
of the frames remain the same. You end up with the
illusion of movement and an unchanged reality picture.
You attend some seminar and your thinking patterns
change for a few days and you even notice some changes
in your life, but soon, you revert to your habitual way of
random, unintentional thoughts, emotions and beliefs
and no lasting change happens in your life.
As the universe blinks in and out of existence, it takes all
that happens in one moment to re-create the next. Your
individual thoughts, emotions and beliefs are in this mix.
If you have a unique thought one moment and then for
the next 10, revert to habit (same old), you do not notice
there was a snap shot of universe that was different, but
it was.
If you hold clear, consistent, intentional thoughts
entwined with clear, consistent, intentional emotions
from moment to moment and when universe blinks in
and out of existence, these specifically chosen new
thoughts, emotions and beliefs will change enough
frames in the sequence of snap shots for you to actually
perceive the different universe you have created; at least,
your little corner of the universe… the events and
circumstances of your life.
So, there it is. Simple, yet elegant and profound. Your
thoughts shape your reality. If you want a different
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reality, change your thinking, your old belief patterns
and your limiting paradigms. Imagine more!
Since there are more than 7 billion other humans
occupying this planet right now, all of them thinking
and thus producing effects, you are, to some degree,
somewhat limited in what you can create. The realm of
possibilities is restricted by this group mindset… what
Jung called the Collective Unconscious and Sheldrake called Morphic Resonance and Dawkins called the Meta-
Fortunately, since the idea of success already exists
within the cultural meme set, you can create your
individual success by thinking the right kind of thoughts
and by creating and focusing your attention on the ideals
you create in your imagination without having to change
the whole paradigm of humanity; just your own
paradigm about prosperity, abundance and wealth.
I define prosperity as being the abundance of all things
held ideal in mind and dear in heart. Your job is to
figure out what you are holding in mind (as an ideal) and
in heart (as a desire) and to decide to hold bigger and
better ideals and desires AND to consider them as real
and true, despite any seeming evidence to the contrary.
That is envisioneering. It is a very real science and a very
effective technology.
You can study the science of success for years and years
until you become an expert and still not have the success
you desire until you actually take action by making the