cultivated as seeds of potential on the path of spiritual awareness, can blossom in the form of the freedom to have these desires in peace and harmony with your world.
Giving yourself permission to explore this path is allowing yourself the freedom to use your mind to create the precise material world that matches your inner world. That inner world is the one which is the catalyst for determining your physical world experiences. You will have to abandon the idea that you are powerless over the circumstances of your life. You will need to shift out of the group mentality that says you are incapable of manifesting. Group thinking inhibits your natural abilities to co-create your life as you desire it to be.
Examine the pressures and beliefs you have bought into, which reflect the thinking of your immediate family, your extended family, your community, your religious grouping, your ethnic grouping, your educational/business grouping or any of a multitude of specialized units of people. Determine the areas of your life that are jammed up with the teachings of those mind-sets, causing your personal evolution to be slowed down because what you truly desire or believe is not getting any energy from your unique individuality.
When you stay plugged into group consciousness, you are really saying, “I choose to evolve slowly.” Furthermore, that mind-set always gives you permission to be weak and impotent. You choose to evolve with a group rather than spontaneously, as your inner consciousness dictates.
If you truly understand the ability to manifest, you realize you can control the speed at which change occurs in your life. A practicing mystic will manifest quickly because he or she is plugged into the world behind his or her own eyes rather than seeing the world as dictated by the eyes of the group and all of its forebears.
As you experience unplugging your circuits from those external forces, you will see the speed of your evolvement increase drastically. If you hear a voice behind your eyeballs that says, “Move forward,” you no longer wait for everyone else to make a move forward before you take your first step. You no longer have to run your suggestions through the group mind, which is meant to keep you safe and to discourage your individuality.
I was able to begin my journey of enlightenment only when I fully recognized that the group agreement to keep me safe, and to love me inadequately, allowed me to seek something of a greater measure. If you wait for everyone else to learn how to manifest their hearts’ desires, you will not have enough time in this lifetime to even begin your journey. You must unplug from your conditioning and know in that private space behind your eyes that you can and will take on the challenge of manifesting your destiny.
When you cultivate the inner conviction to manifest from the world of the unseen into the material world, you understand that there is a universal God force that is in all things in the universe. There is not a separate God for each individual, each plant, each animal, each mineral. They are all one. Therefore, the same God force that is within you and causes you to think and breathe is simultaneously in everyone and everything else as well. It is universal. Thus, there is no place that it is not. Consequently, that which you perceive to be missing from your life also contains the same God force or universal intelligence that is within you.
Manifesting, then, becomes the business of doing nothing more than bringing into form a new aspect of yourself. You are not creating something from nothing. You are learning to align yourself with an aspect of your being that your senses have not known they could activate. This is a very important part of this understanding. You and that which you want to manifest into your life are one!
As I wrote this book, I had the most peaceful experience of writing that I have ever enjoyed. What you now hold in your hands is the result of these nine principles. Each day I would do precisely what I have written about in these nine principles.
As I practiced the nine principles, I realized that I was manifesting a handbook for spiritual manifesting that anyone could pick up and begin to apply in the very moments that they were reading the words in this book. I knew that I did not need to fill this book with hundreds of examples of these principles and how they had worked for me and many of my students as well as readers around the world. I knew that it was unnecessary to include a large number of quotes and affirmations as I have done in many of my previous books. This was to be something quite different.
The key word I kept in mind as I wrote and allowed these principles to manifest through me was the word “tight.” That meant to me, no extraneous verbiage, no case studies and a minimum of quotations. I was dedicated to a style of writing that I characterized as “Say what you want to say. Say it simply. Say it directly. Say it from your heart and resist any temptation to overwrite.” This is what I did in producing this book.
There are no chapters, simply nine principles. Each principle is explained in as straightforward a manner as I know how. Each came directly from my heart and not my head. I listened to my own guidance, and then I wrote it out. When I felt that I had said what was needed to be said, and when I had provided specific suggestions for implementing these principles, I stopped. You are holding in your hand the “tightest” handbook I know how to devise to teach the fundamental principles for spiritual manifestation.
My internal knowing is that when you practice these nine principles you will be given guidance. You will not be alone on this journey, and you will see your desires manifest as your destiny in your daily life.
Finally, you will know that your job is to say “Yes!” rather than “How?” I send you all green lights.
WAYNE W. DYER
BECOMING AWARE OF YOUR HIGHEST SELF
Within you is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that you need or desire. This is such a powerful statement that I suggest you reread and savor it before you begin this journey.
Most of what we are taught to believe about our reality conflicts with this statement. However, I know it to be so true and valuable that I encourage you to surrender any hesitation and let this thought enter your consciousness: I have a divine ability to manifest and attract what I need or desire!
Becoming aware of your highest self does not happen through physical effort, nor can one rely upon supernatural techniques such as invoking angels to do this heavenly work for you. What is essential is that you learn that you are both a physical body in a material world, and a non-physical being who can gain access to a higher level. That higher level is within you and is reached through the stages of adult development.
The developmental stages of infancy through adolescence have been explored by many writers, but very little has been written about the developmental stages of adulthood. There are four stages that each of us seem to traverse once we reach adulthood. These stages of our lives represent a way of thinking, although they are not necessarily associated with age or experience. Some of us proceed rapidly through these stages, learning at a young age that we are both a physical self and a higher self. Others remain in one of the earlier stages for a lifetime.
Carl Jung, writing in Modern Man in Search of a Soul, provided some critical insight into the developmental tasks of adulthood. He believed that an awareness of a higher self is a developmental task of adulthood. In the next section I am offering my interpretation of Dr. Jung’s stages of adult development.
I write about these stages with some degree of expertise because I have spent many years in each of them. They have been stepping stones to my awareness of my higher self. Each stage involved experiences that permitted me to move ahead in my thinking and my awareness. Ultimately, I reached the level at which I could use these nine principles to co-create my life. That is, to manifest my own destiny.
As you read these, examine the personal and unique stages of your adult development that parallel Dr. Jung’s archetypes. Your objective is to become aware of your highest self as a dimension of your being that transcends the limitations of the physical world.