Ah, the rules…
How can you play to win if you do not know the rules of
the game?
Creating success means winning, according to your own
definition of what it means to win at the game of life. In
other words, winning means to create and live a
successful life according to your own ideals and
definitions.
If you want to win, you will need to learn to play by the
rules.
Of course, there are rules. There are rules that govern
almost everything. There are rules that determine the
behavior of raindrops falling and planets orbiting stars.
There are rules that determine the behavior of electrons
and the behavior of black holes. There are rules that
govern why an apple falls to the ground and how matter
can be converted to energy.
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And, there are certain fundamental rules that apply to
the essential existence of the universe. There is a reason
that all things happen the way they happen.
All science (the search for the why and the how that
things happen they way they do) is based on the
fundamental assumption that there is a cause behind
everything, an identifiable process (or series of processes)
that causes the world to be the way it is and to behave
the way it does.
Why ask why? Why ask how? We assume that there
exists an answer. When something happens, we assume
(take for granted) that something caused it. Reason says
that there must be a reason. It is our nature to ask
questions (why and how), so we expect there to always
be an answer, even if it is difficult to discover.
When some fundamental process that answers a
profound question is discovered and identified, it is
called a Basic Scientific Principle or a Natural Law.
Question: Why does the apple fall to the ground?
Answer: Gravity, which along with the Weak Nuclear
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Force, the Strong Nuclear Force and Electromagnetism is
one of the four fundamental forces that enable the
Metaphysics understands that every physical thing or
condition has some metaphysical cause. I am using the
word metaphysical here as that “which is beyond the
physical”. Since these Principles or Laws are beyond the
physical, they can be called Metaphysical Laws.
These Laws or rules determine how the physical world
comes into being and behaves. It is common also for
people to equate metaphysical with spiritual, so these
Laws are also often called Spiritual Laws by those folks
who like that terminology.
Many people say that Cause and Effect is a Natural Law,
but since it is the basic assumption that determines the
whole scientific approach, it must be termed a meta-law:
the rule that determines how all other rules are defined.
This basic assumption that all things happen because of
some basic cause (or causes) says that some fundamental
force is always responsible for something else that is
happening eventually leads to the inescapable conclusion
that there is a prime cause. It can’t be “turtles all the way
down”. It is one thing to say that The Big Bang was the
responsible cause of the entire unfolding universe; but
what caused this Big Bang?
Prime Cause is, of course, still a mystery to us, so the best
we can do is to identify certain universal principles or
Natural Laws and use them to understand how the
world works and also to create what we desire to have.
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You don’t need to know Prime Cause to start a fire to
cook a meal to alleviate your hunger. You just have to
know how to start a fire. Once upon a time, humans did
not know how to start a fire. Now we do. And we know a
bunch of other important things as well. But, as I have
said before, knowing something is not enough to
produce the effects we desire. You can know how to start
a fire, but if you don’t actually do it, you still can’t cook
that meal.
If success is an effect, then there must be a cause. So,
even if it appears that someone’s success happened by
accident or luck, logic tells us that there must have been a
cause or set of causes.
Even accidents don’t happen accidentally. There is
always a cause. When an airplane crashes, the FAA does
not say, “oh it was an accident” and let it go at that. They
look for the cause and determine how to fix things so that
it does not happen again. Or, if a scientist accidentally
discovers a new chemical compound, he does not say to
himself, “oh, it was an accident” and not attempt to
reproduce the process. He looks for the causal agents.
Strangely, many people live their lives as if everything
were either an accident or as if it were all the
responsibility of this mysterious Prime Cause. Why am I
suffering? It is God’s will. It is fate. It is just the way
things are. They allow themselves to be mere creatures of
event and circumstance. They think that other successful
people are just lucky or blessed for some unknown
reason.
Thankfully, there are people who look for why things
happen and then, use that knowledge to make things
happen. These people are creators of event and
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circumstance. Without them, we still would not be able to
light that fire to cook our meals or build that orbiting
space station or consciously create any idealized and
desired effect, like success.
Hungry? Want to cook some food? Learn how to light a
fire. Then light it. Let hunger be your motivation, not
your condition.
Want success? Learn how to create success, then, go
about doing what is necessary. To want can mean “to
lack”; to want can mean “to desire”. Lack is a condition.
Desire is a motivation. Let your wanting be your
motivation, not your condition.
Everyone has the choice to be a creature of event and
circumstance or to become a creator of event and
circumstance. In other words, you can become a
consciously causal agent and the effects that are the
events and circumstances of your life can be molded by
your desires. How? By learning what the Natural Laws
(the rules of the game) are and learning how to apply
them to make things happen.
The Meta-Law :: The Law of Cause and Effect: There is a
cause behind every effect.
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There is a reason why things are the way they are.
Nothing exists in isolation. In other words, there is
always an explanation or understanding of how things
came to be and are the way they are, of why things
happen the way that they do happen.
In today’s world, believing that things happen for no
reason, or without a cause, or because of luck is accepted
as superstition. Yet strangely enough, many people
somehow think that their life is the way it is because of
luck or fate. A person who can think rationally knows
that this is superstitious nonsense. Any effects you have
in your life are the result of certain identifiable causes.
We know that viruses or bacteria are the cause behind
certain infections. We don’t blame them on luck or the
gods, like people in the Middle Ages blamed The Black
Plaque as being God’s wrath and some people today
blame AIDS on God’s judgment. That is superstitious
nonsense.
Likewise, if we study success, we can see that it is the
result of certain causes. We don’t, as rational human
beings, blame it on the gods of fortune. That is
superstitious nonsense.
What you have as results in your life are effects. What is
the cause of these effects? In the ways that count most,
you are. It is only when you accept full responsibility for
your life that you gain the freedom to be at cause.
People who blame the results in their lives, the effects
they experience, on outside events, conditions and
circumstances relegate themselves to being mere
creatures of circumstance at the mercy of fate.
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People who accept responsibility for the effects they get
to experience step up to the place of power called being
at cause and can therefore assume the godlike ability of
being able to determine the flow and shape of their own
lives and thereby, create their own destiny.
Once you have accepted the fundamental principle that
lies behind all that it means to be human in the universe
called Cause and Effect, then you can move on to
understanding and applying the other Natural Laws to
your life in order to create the success you idealize and
desire.
The Eight Major Natural Laws ::
The descriptions that follow will give you some insight
into how much potential you have to be consciously
creative and how powerful you will become when you
learn to “play by the rules” and apply these natural laws
to the way you live your life.
Of course there are people who do not consciously know
about these Laws and still manage to create success. As I
have said before, many times, the secret of power lies not
in the knowledge, but in the application. So it is possible
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for someone to make the direct application without
actually having the knowledge. You can light a fire
without knowing exactly what processes enable a fire to
burn.
But it is better, if you want to be consciously and
intentionally creative, to have both the knowledge of
how things work and then the will to make the
application and put this knowledge to work.
By defining these Natural Laws here and describing how
they work, it is my intent to empower you to become
capable of creating, for yourself, the life of your dreams. I
can only hope that you accept this challenge. It is entirely
up to you to apply this information to your own life.
The Law of Comprehensiveness: all is one.
All apparent distinctions, separations, dualities and
existent things are united in one grand unifying schema.
You may seem to be a distinct thing; but you are
inseparable from the whole. That distant star may appear
to be completely separate and removed from you; but
you are intimately connected to it. Some event that takes
place in your world may not immediately be perceived as
being directly related to your life; but it is, in fact, a part
of who you are.
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The uni-verse is one song. Each part of it is a separate
note, each adding to the complete harmonic. Even the
spaces between the notes are an integral part of the
music. It is possible to identify a certain part and call it C-
sharp or The Milky Way or Leslie Fieger; but that does
not mean that it exists separately from the whole.
You exist within and are an integral part of the universe.
All things that exist in our universe are entangled in the
same web of energy and consciousness. That includes
you. Entanglement is the term used in Quantum Physics
to describe the fact that all things, no matter how far
apart and separate they may seem to be, are connected at
some basic level and thus, when one thing changes, other
things also change.
What that means is that when you change your behavior
or your way of thinking, the world also changes. Since
you are a choice enabled creature, you can make a
conscious choice to change yourself and thus have an
effect on the universe.
Such is your power.
The Law of Conservation: energy can neither be created
nor destroyed.
Everything is energy and cannot be destroyed, only
transformed from one state to another as enabled by the
Law of Allowingness. Matter is a state of energy. Light is
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a state of energy. Thought is a state of energy. Motion is a
state of energy. Emotion is a state of energy. Since energy
cannot be created, almost all your personal acts of
creation are simply the conscious and intentional
transformation of energy from one state to another.
There is one exception to this law and that is thought
energy. Whenever you think a new original thought, you
are creating a new wave of energy. This amazing power
of the human mind to originate a thought is literally a
divine power. Most of the time, most people are not
utilizing this power. Their thinking consists of repetitive
patterns of old unoriginal thoughts. Nothing new is
imagined or conceived of and no new energy is created
by this repetitive recycled thinking pattern.
Even focused, intentional thought does not add new
energy to the universe. The tremendous power of this
type of thought is its power to transform already existing
energy from one form to another. (see the Law of
Allowingness)
Totally new, original thought, however adds to the
totality of the universe. The universe is a sea of energy
and any new thought that adds to that sea is new energy.
Your imagination therefore can actually cause the
universe to become more. That is how powerful you are.
Universal intelligence thought the physical universe into
being and you are endowed with the power to create
new thoughts and therefore add to the sum total of
creation.
Imagine that. Claim your power.
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The Law of Harmonics: everything is vibration.
Energy vibrates in certain ways and has certain
characteristics, like frequency, periodicity, amplitude,
and shape. Frequency and periodicity are the time
related aspects of vibration; amplitude and shape are the
space related aspects of vibration.
The song of the universe comes together as one grand
harmonic. If there was no harmony in the way the
various interlocking and interconnecting myriad of
vibrations that make up the physical universe interplay
with each other, it would not exist. There would be chaos
instead of a cosmos.
A wave packet, like a Quark, is a harmonic. Quarks make
up protons. Without protons, there would be no atoms,
no molecules, no universe. The very existence of the
universe depends upon harmonics.
Your body exists because of harmonics. If all the cells of
your body did not agree to work together in harmony,
conducted by the director whose name is
Deoxyribonucleic Acid, you would not be able to have a
body.
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Your thoughts are vibrations. If they lack harmony, we
say they are discordant. When the results that show up in
your life are not “in tune with” the ideals you hold for
yourself, then it is because your thoughts are discordant,
not in harmony with your ideals and not in harmony
with Natural Laws.
Since you have the power to choose how and what you
think, you are enabled to create a life of harmony and
success or… discord and failure. It is up to you.
That is how powerful you are.
The Law of Polarity: everything exists in pairs of
opposites.
All energy has polarity. There is negative and positive.
We have electricity because we understand the Law of
Polarity. Imagine your life without electricity. Try also to
imagine life without the polarity of male and female,
light and dark, up and down. Impossible.
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Nothing would even exist without polarity. Atoms are
composed of negative and positive energies, electrons
and protons. Protons, themselves are made up of quarks.
Quarks come in pairs of polarities, called Up and Down,
Strange and Charmed, Top and Bottom.
The Law of Polarity is also evident in magnets. There is a
North Pole and a South Pole. Line the magnets up with
the north poles all facing one direction and they will be
attracted to each other. Place the magnets North Pole to
South Pole and they will repel each other. In your life,
what you resist will persist because you are not aligning
yourself pole to pole, you are attempting to force two
opposites together.
In every adversity, there is the polarity of advantage; in
every advantage there is the polarity of adversity.
Even though we only exist in this present now moment,
we perceive the polarity in time of past and present. That
polarity enables us to have memory and to plan for
(imagine) the future.
Imagine that, you can create a plan for how the future
unfolds for you. What power you have.
The Law of Attraction: like energy is attracted to like
energy.
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Gravity is a prime example of this Law of Attraction.
Stars are born because of this law. Where would you be
without a star to hang around? Your world, Planet Earth,
is spinning at 1,000 miles per hour. That is a lot of
centrifugal force. Why are you not spun off into space?
Gravity.
The mass of your body is attracted to the mass of the
planet. The basic elements of your body are made of the
same elements as the planet. They are alike and are
attracted to each other. Matter is energy. Like energy is
attracted to like energy.
Everything is composed of energy. Your thoughts are a
form of energy. Your thoughts create electrochemical
events in your brain. Your neurons spark when you think
and this measurable electrical energy is broadcast out
from you into your world.
Your emotions are a form of energy. You know that from
experience. You can feel a person’s anger or fear or love.
You are feeling the energy emitted by that other person.
Beliefs are ingrained repetitive thought patterns. They
are standing waves of thought energy. Your intentions
are purposeful and consistent feelings. They are standing
waves of emotional energy.
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So, like all forms of energy, your thoughts, beliefs,
emotions and intentions attract and are attracted to
similar forms of energy.
You attract that which is most like how you are being
and behaving.
Since you can choose how and what to think, how and
what to believe, how and what to feel and how and what
to intend, you can choose to attract into your life any
ideal you can create in your imagination.
I stand in awe at your power.
The Law of Allowingness: everything can be
transformed from one state to another.
Matter can become energy. Ice can melt to become water;
water can boil to become steam. Steam can drive a
turbine to produce electrical energy. Energy can become
matter. Quantum physics describes how that occurs all
the time. Evolution can occur. An example of evolution is
that Hydrogen can become Deuterium. So too, can
mutation occur. An example of mutation is that Helium
can become Carbon. So, too can a unique creation occur.
Imagination can become reality. Thoughts can become
things.
All things that can be thought of can be made real, be
made manifest. If you can think it and believe in it and
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desire it and intend it, the potential for its manifestation
already exists. You do not need to invent the process for
it to come into being. It is already there. You may have to
discover it, but you do not have to create it.
Whatever exists already in your life can be transformed
from what it is to what you idealize.
And, since you can make choices about what ideals to
create in your imagination, you have the power to
transform your life in each and every present moment.
The Law of Abundance: everything multiplies.
Darn good thing too. Imagine what dire straights we
would be in if one kernel of wheat planted yielded only
one kernel of wheat as a crop. A single grain of wheat,
when planted, will yield about 85 new grains of wheat,
84 of which can be turned into flour with one saved to be
re-planted to yield yet another 85 grains.
There would be no need for that campfire to cook your
meals without the Law of Abundance.
The universe is expanding. New stars are being created.
More people are being born. The original energy released
by the Big Bang is still being transformed into more
complex forms of matter.
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Wealth is the abundance of things valued. Poverty is not
a lack of wealth; it is the abundance of the lack of things
valued. Problems multiply when you focus your
attention on problems. Solutions multiply when you
focus your attention on solutio