The bill on the beach.
I got back in the car and showed it to Christine. Like any other bill, it
said, “In God We Trust.”
That seemed like an appropriate though unexceptional message. But why
a $10 bill, rather than $1, $5, or $20?
Then the association hit me. In all my work, I use a rating scale from 0 to
10. If you believe something strongly, your belief is a 10 out of 10. The
symbolism seemed to indicate that I could trust the universe to proceed with
this project and it would be a 10 out of 10 grand slam.
A week later, the outline had written itself. Two weeks after that, I had a
talk with Reid Tracy, the president of Hay House, who loved the idea. He
preferred the title
Mind to Matter
to my alternative title
Thoughts to Things,
so the first option became the book title while
Thoughts to Things
became
the title of my accompanying online course.
I wrote up a detailed proposal, and the day I mailed it in, a message
arrived in my e-mail inbox from Mike Dooley, another Hay House author
who sends daily messages to his subscribers. The subject line was
who sends daily messages to his subscribers. The subject line was
“Thoughts become things and dreams come true.” Another synchronicity.
I carved out several three-to-four-day blocks of time to write. Those
days, I found myself wide awake at 4
A.M.
I would spend an hour in
meditation, getting my mind perfectly aligned, after which I would read and
write obsessively for about 15 hours.
My friend David Feinstein gave me valuable feedback after I’d written
the first three chapters. One morning after meditation, I had a strong urge to
thank him. I decided to phone him later that morning. I hardly ever use my
phone because I prefer e-mail, and I know he travels most of the year and
rarely turns on his phone. So I knew I’d get his voicemail and be able to
leave a warm message of appreciation.
I was surprised when, instead, David answered the phone. He told me
he’d just returned the day before from a trip and turned on his cell phone a
few minutes before I called. When the call came through, the phone
displayed no caller ID, and he doesn’t usually answer such calls. But he
received an intuitive nudge to do so. Yet another synchronicity.
When I was writing this chapter on planetary-scale effects, I was
struggling to understand the Schumann resonances. That month, I had also
inadvertently double-booked myself to speak at two conferences the same
weekend. One was in the Caribbean and the other at the opposite side of the
continent in California. I had to split my time by speaking at one on
Saturday, then flying back to California early Sunday morning to speak at
the other.
Sunday afternoon, I was on a science panel at the second conference.
Sitting next to me was HeartMath research director Rollin McCraty. He had
just published a major paper on . . . you guessed it. Besides Schumann
resonances, he also told me about field line resonances, which I had never
even heard of before. They became a major part of the chapter.
Synchronicities abounding!
Christine and I visited our friends Bob and Lynne Hoss in Arizona on the
way to another conference. Bob is an expert on the neuroscience of
dreaming. He had recently keynoted a conference and prepared a
presentation on Carl Jung, the collective unconscious, and the double-slit
experiments. His PowerPoint filled in crucial gaps in my knowledge.
Synchronicity again!
On the same day, Jack Canfield, John Gray, and Rick Leskowitz all
emailed me to say they’d endorse the book.
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