Have you ever been under distressing financial circumstances, expecting to fall into an abyss of poverty with the next emergency expense? How many times have you suffered the worst of your expectations? How many times did help come from unexpected places to get you through despite the worst of odds?

Our expectations come from what we have been programmed to expect. What actually happens depends on the laws of reality deciding the nature of our experiences. Those who pay attention will see that what actually happens is most often at odds with what is expected. Why do our plans and anticipations about the future rarely happen the way we envision them? Why are our programmed expectations so different from our actual experiences?

The answer is that many of these expectations are control mechanisms grafted onto us by the System. From birth we are indoctrinated through school, social programming, media and culture to believe in a backward system of limitations and motivations that have nothing to do with our true potential or reason for being here. We are taught what is taboo and what is respectable, what is possible and what is not, what goals to shoot for and what path to follow to achieve those goals. This indoctrination is so complete that most of us accept its precepts as common sense and tend to fight or disbelieve any suggestions that reality could be to the contrary, even if these suggestions come from our own life experiences.

The system of assumptions we are offered is only a simulacra of reality – a manipulated copy posing as the original. It seems perfectly legitimate until you explore territory not covered by the impostor version of reality, then true reality shines through. By daring to do the impossible, by pushing the limits, you begin seeing glimpses of a higher realm of possibility.

Often we don’t have the guts to push the envelope, but are nonetheless thrust into these forbidden territories through seemingly unfortunate circumstances: financial disasters, emergencies, ultimatums and unavoidable risks. And just when failure seems certain, the unexpected happens: money comes from an unexpected source, a needed opportunity arrives just in the nick of time, everything amazingly falls into place.

Most people encountering these last minute miracles pass them off as freak exceptions to the rule, as nothing that can be relied upon as a common occurrence. But what these people don’t realize is that as far as life experiences go, the anomalies of yesterday can become the norm of tomorrow. In other words – rather than being “freak” anomalies, they are manifestations of higher laws that are just as immutable as the laws of science. Yet still, these higher laws tend to go unnoticed by people who have bought into the Control System and keep their noses to the ground.

The higher laws of reality are yours to employ if you can muster sufficient courage to live by them. There is no guarantee for the future other than what was guaranteed in the past. Reflect upon your unusual positive past experiences and know that the principles behind their manifestation shall continue to hold true in the future. They are failsafe and dependable principles that can be applied with some faith. This faith is not blind faith, but one based on real experience, of having previously glimpsed the next stage and confidently knowing it exists and can be reached.

Have you ever thought to yourself, “If only I had the money, I would…” do something positive, buy what you need, fulfill your dreams? Well, realize that if your motivation is pure and wise, then the money is already secured.

Some will have doubts because this goes entirely opposite our programmed expectations and “common sense.” The System tells us that to reach a goal, we must first secure the financial means. This security is offered through credit cards, financing, loans or savings, all of which require no faith or understanding of higher laws to secure, only ambition and soul-bargaining. While this certainly works it is inefficient because to attain the goal this way, you must give up either some energy or freedom in exchange for security. Evidently, ignorance of the higher creates slavery to the lower.

There are no limits other than those we assume through our ignorant beliefs or bring upon ourselves through unwise choices. Although opening the flow requires that we cast aside limiting assumptions and expand our beliefs to include higher truths, this does not allow us to also escape without having to complete what was initiated by past choices. Financial debt, marriage, children, binding contracts and obligations – these are continuing consequences of choices once made and they cannot be immediately eliminated with a simple change of attitude.

To open the flow, you must be free of fear, worry, and doubt. Unfounded negative thoughts clog the flow just as gunk clogs a sink.

The question is, what constitutes an unfounded negative thought? Some people say their negative thinking is justified because such thoughts are natural responses to negative life experiences. This excuse is flawed for several reasons. First – just as experiences influence thought, so does thought influence experience. Secondly – we choose how to mentally and emotionally respond to any given experience in life, meaning there is more than one way to respond.

So we participate in a feedback cycle with reality – experiences shaping our mindset and our mindset influencing our experiences. Choice is what lets us break out of any cycle and initiate a new kind. By assuming there can only be negative responses to negative experiences, people lock themselves into a vicious cycle whereby negative thoughts create negative experiences which in turn seem to “objectively” justify further negative thoughts. By assuming the external world is independent of our internal world, the internal world capitulates to the external world. Because thought effects experience, the only way to break out of this cycle is to choose to think, feel and act differently than before, in alignment with higher principles rather than old, System-programmed, assumptions.

Therefore one must replace fear, worry and doubt with courage, faith and confidence regardless of prior negative patterns of experience. This may seem like willfull ignorance or wishful thinking, but there is a difference.

Wishful thinking is baseless and proves itself empty when its false assumptions contradict what actually happens. In contrast – unclogging the flow by having courage, faith and confidence is far from baseless because it stands upon principles that have already been proven through past positive patterns of experiences. Furthermore, rather than contradicting what actually happens, these actually affect what happens.

The validity of having courage, faith and confidence in higher principles is evidenced by the consequent alteration of life experiences for the better.

This is why wisdom teaches that giving is receiving and why the more we give, the more we receive. People tend to take this at face value and fail to realize the far-reaching implications of this principle. Their interpretation is that we give at our own material expense and the most we will get in return is some appreciation which should satisfy our hearts by being a fair trade lest we feel guilty for not considering something immaterial a fair compensation for our material expense. This is hiding an underlying conflict between our programmed drive for material survival and programmed drive for social acceptance as seemingly ‘altruistic’ individuals. This twisted doublethink arises because it is based on the false assumption that we give at our own expense.

In truth, by giving, everyone wins. The recipient wins because by becoming open channels for synchronistic flow, you allow this flow to reach him or her through your act of giving. And you win because by being an open channel more shall flow into your life. A river receives from upstream what it sends downstream. Likewise – what you give, you receive.

Because the System takes care of its own, those who commit themselves to greed, competition and manipulation get rewarded with material perks, social status and power to keep them from wanting to leave.

Then there are people who look upon this system with disgust, seeking instead a path free from materialism. They live in poverty conditions, believing that the only way to be spiritual is to reject the material. However, this belief contains a fatal mistake, one that the System has encouraged, because it disarms spiritual seekers from having any real power in the world. In truth, the key to spiritual empowerment is not in rejecting materialism, but in transcending it.

There is a difference between rejecting money and transcending money. The first eliminates money from one’s life, the second eliminates money’s control from one’s life. The first makes one slave to poverty, the second makes one spiritually free from material limitations. The first creates impotence, the second creates power. The greatest benefactors of humanity were those who transcended rather than rejected the system and therefore possessed the power to make a difference. For instance – Gandhi was not a poor man, but rather an educated lawyer who transcended the political and economic control system of the British Empire and was therefore able to free his people. If he had instead rejected the system and been an uneducated beggar, no one today would know his name.

The majority of mankind does not recognize higher laws and consequently cannot apply them. This is by design — and by choice. The System owes its power to the fact that people give it power. Illusion, ignorance and greed sustain the control system. Freewill is bartered for security and most people live as slaves, perhaps happy slaves, but slaves nonetheless. You might see this situation as an injustice, but once you realize that freedom is not denied, simply ignored, the matter is no longer an injustice but rather a tragedy. Like Dorothy, we have always had the power. We have always had the ability to open the flow to prosperity, but it takes a long and arduous road of failure and deception for most to finally recognize and gain confidence in a better way.

DO WHAT YOU LOVE AND YOU WILL LOVE WHAT YOU DO

When you follow your enthusiasm, acknowledge and act upon the calling of your soul and do what really interests and satisfies you on a deep spiritual level. That is when the flow opens wide and life becomes effortless, free of the struggles familiar to those still bound by the System.

Opening flow requires that money come purely as a byproduct of following your heart; money is not an incentive when the heart alone compels you into action. In other words – the “incentive” for doing higher productive work lies beyond material compensation, arising instead from an inner sense of service, compassion, wisdom, courage and necessity. By acting on these living principles as they are felt and acknowledged, the material details automatically work themselves out.

The biggest killer of flow is anticipation. Anticipation comes from worrying about the future, particularly when following a sequence of steps to create a pre-calculated effect. Some might attempt to apply higher principles solely as a means to obtaining more money. This is backwards from the correct system of following higher principles and letting money come naturally as a material complement to the enrichment of spiritual life. By reversing the process and impatiently anticipating the return after having applied a series of steps in order to “milk” reality of wealth, one merely cuts off flow and suffers the consequence of exploiting higher principles to satisfy lower desires.

The proper way to open flow is to act on principle instead of anticipation. Anticipation is based on the illusions of past and future, principle exists in the only true moment, the present moment. Anticipation is temporal, principle is eternal. Following your heart, or acting from your higher center, negates the need for anticipation because first, doing so fills you with the faith and courage to know it will all work out and thus there is no worry pressing you into obsessing about the outcome, and secondly, instead of implementing a series of steps to create an eventual result, you are responding in the moment to a higher impulse, be it love, enthusiasm, or compassion.

State of mind is the name of the game here. I cannot emphasize that enough: how you feel about reality and how you program reality is how you are going to respond to it or how it is going to present itself to you.

“Remember, your reality is a result of your thoughts. If you believe that things are hard, what are you creating? Many of you have spent lifetimes honoring and respecting family members or people of society who you believe are uplifting citizens and who represent to you a certain work ethic and value system. You have not thought to question this work ethic or to see if there is any other way. So you believe that in order to get money you must expend a great amount of energy, or you must be employed by someone who is going to give it to you, or whatever. These ideas are completely and totally erroneous. When you believe things are possible, reality changes.” (Bringers of the Dawn)

Go for it!
Be outrageous!
Do what excites you!
Do the impossible!

You can do it. You can do whatever you want to do.
You will transform your world no matter what state the world is in.

(inspired by, cited from and built upon writings of Tom Montalk)