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IF I CREATE MY 21 STEPS TO OPEN
OWN REALITY WHY THE FLOODGATES
DOES MY LIFE SUCK OF ABUNDANCE

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AS A CLOSING, LET ME USE AN EXAMPLE FROM MY Step 12: Face fears as they arise. Fear is a tool for revealing
OWN LIFE. MY MOTHER WALKED OUT ON ME WHEN you had a chink in your armor that you didn’t even know you
I WAS A YOUNG CHILD. AT THE TIME I THOUGHT IT had, which can now be filled in, buffed down, and made to
WAS THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD. I was filled shine.
with guilt, fear, anger, and sadness. How could a mother leave
her child with an elderly woman (my great-grandmother) who Step 13: Playfully prepare the way for your inevitable “ar-
was so strict and mean? How could she give up her own flesh rival.” Get ready now! Whatever it is you’ve ordered, prepare
and blood? Why didn’t she love me? the way. Have a celebration party. Get the new business cards.
Do stuff for its arrival, because it’s coming!
I cried about this for years. I suffered from this for years. I
attended many therapy sessions to try and understand how Step 14: Do not judge your progress with your physical sens-
a person’s own mother could do this. I never got any real es alone. Your physical senses cannot see the miracles lining
answers. up behind the curtains of time & space. You have to complete
the journey and actually arrive in order to know the system
Many years later, in the seeker stage, I came to understand didn’t fail you. Only then do miracles become apparent.
that my Mother left me because she was involved in an abusive
relationship and that was the only way to save me from the Step 15: Constantly ask for help, guidance, and ideas. Ask
abuse which she endured. It was because she left me I was anybody and everybody who’s ever achieved as you now dream
allowed to grow up in a middle-class family instead of a fam- of achieving for help. Don’t be afraid or think it’s beneath you.
ily of poverty. It was because she walked out that I was able
to attend a Catholic school and have the friends that I would Step 16: Constantly offer help, guidance and ideas. Similarly,
have and the education I would have. Had she never walked be there for others. This is not to evoke the sympathy and
out, my life would have been very different. Again, from the appreciation of “God.” There’s no such judgmental entity “out
perspective of spirit, that difference would not have been bad there.” Don’t be helpful to impress anybody; do it because
or worse – but it would have been different. when you help somebody else, particularly with something you
would like help on, you get to be the one who makes a differ-
Now I look at my mother not from a perspective of betrayal ence in the world, and as a mighty perk, thru helping others,
– not from a place of hurt and pain – but from a loving ado- you’ll see yourself in new light and far more objectively.
ration. That one act, which years ago I had condemned and
thought was the end of my world – that one act was done from Step 17: Surround yourself with like-minded people, and if
her perspective out of a place of total love and hope. Hope I you can, for the purpose of these steps, wealthier people.
would have a better life and that I would be a better person. I Step 18: Understand you were born to succeed. You are here
can proudly say that her hopes were not only realized, but her to play and succeed, joyfully and lovingly, in time and space,
gift of love given at that moment and time in my life was the without limit.
catalyst for all that is today.
Step 19: Rest, play, take time off. These steps are not about
She walked around for years with this feeling of shame that working longer and harder. They’re about being wiser during
she had done something wrong. Worried I’d never forgive her. whatever time you give to creating abundance while living a
I never knew this. In fact, neither of us, in our states of Ego, balanced life.
could see the bigger picture. We could not possibly have un-
derstood the purpose everything served. Step 20: Be exceedingly fair and aggressively responsible. To
be fair and responsible in society is to realize that you are all
So try not to look at events when they occur from the eyes of truly One, that everybody is doing their best, life is more than
destruction. See them for what they are – catalysts that can, fair, you are powerful, and through cooperation, all win... and
if you allow them, transform your life far beyond what it could so you shall.
have been otherwise. You too can step into the state of the
seer, even the state of pure spirit and you can learn to travel Step 21: Celebrate often. As you send out joy, your life draws
the states of the soul and meet people where they are. It’s not in joy, and the reasons for your joy will multiply. Celebrate
done through intellect, however. It is done through life experi- that you have what you have, and celebrate in advance for
ence and practice. It is done by living and interacting with life what’s coming, materially and ethereally.
at all levels.
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