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“We, the greatest of all creators, with capabilities to build cities and inspire nations, are squandering our time watching reruns of The Office. We have forgotten that whole galaxies exist within our grasp”
Pam Grout
#1 New York Times Bestselling Author
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Pamela Sue Grout
The Taz Grout 222 Foundation was launched to honor Tasman McKay Grout who spent 25 short years on the planet inspiring everyone who knew her to live and love better. Everything she stood for was some variation of this theme: create relentlessly, love fiercely and do quiet, kind things for the underdog.
Each year on February 22, the 222 Foundation awards a $12,222 grant to an innovative project or person with a big idea to change consciousness and therefore change the world.
We look for projects that support the following ideas:
1. A change in perspective is our greatest need. We believe all people (no exceptions) long to be generous and create beautiful things.
2. Today’s hopelessness is based on false premises. We look to defy the old story of scarcity, lack and the need to fight for resources. We aim to prove that the universe, once liberated from no-longer-working paradigms of scarcity, is generative and endlessly abundant.
3. The us against them model is kaput. We believe all humans are interconnected and that even tiny actions have great significance
“The noise of life and the density of matter can draw us in if we don’t deeply align first thing in the morning.”—Lucy Grace
Those of you who have been following my blog for a while know I’m a HUGE fan of ServiceSpace. I was invited to their Ghandi 3.0 event last year in India. I volunteer to transcribe their weekly Awakin Calls and Taz and I (through the 222 Foundation) chose to gift our yearly award to them in 2022.
I’ve been inspired by their work and their commitment to the gift economy for years. I’ve mentioned it before, but when I pitched a story about their founder Nipun Mehta to my editor at People magazine, she just kept asking, “But how does it work?”
She just couldn’t grasp the concept of an organization that believes so strongly in the abundance and goodness of the universe that they give everything away. It was so far removed from the script we all pick up at birth that it just didn’t compute.
I’m bringing this up now because, last weekend’s Awakin Call with Lucy Grace was Exhibit A in what I’m hearing from IFL. (The indestructible life force is what I’ve been calling my morning collaborator lately).
Lucy found the voice when she was just a child in New Zealand. (I also love that she’s from New Zealand, because Taz, whose birth father was from there, had a second passport from New Zealand and well, I’ve always loved the place.)
Lucy was born into poverty and, because she didn’t have the resources that many have, she learned to listen to this other voice that kept telling her she was loved exactly as she was, that absolutely everyone and everything is loved just because they exist. She said while she might have had a hungry stomach, she didn’t have the hungry heart that sometimes afflicts the well-off.
She says, “I always had the company of God” only in her book of poetry she calls it This Untameable Light. (Hey, another brilliant synonym to add to my collection.)
Lucy said she could feel the aliveness in all of life and that she always possessed a deep sense that all is well.
The voice is here for all of us, except some of us have the volume turned down. The practice I’ve been enjoying is my way of restoring the natural volume.
I decided to post the video of this week’s Awakin Call interview, because well, it’s way better than anything I could ever say. Take it from Lucy, all of us are always supported and guided and held.
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)
“No matter how upside down it all may appear, we have no fear, because we know this secret: all of creation is conspiring to shower us with blessings,”—Rob Brezsny
I just ordered a replacement AC adapter for my laptop (because mine malfunctioned after I accidentally dropped it), so I’m going to try to write this post before I run out of power. Fingers crossed!
I’m writing today in praise of irrationality. In celebration of things we can’t see, in things we can’t understand with our brains.
These mysteries (like disembodied voices telling me how deeply I am loved, how innocent i am and always have been) are my most treasured gifts.
Reason, logic, data and evidence certainly have their place. They’ve advanced society in countless ways. But for now, I’m happy putting my faith in the imagining of a new reality, in advancing a sweeter, kinder truth.
And while I can’t begin to empirically explain this voice to which I’ve surrendered my life, I just know I feel lighter, more compassionate and better able to trust in a world where life itself thrives. And anybody who tells me differently, I’ve noticed, has a hidden agenda that always has something to do with lack and fear and separation.
I’ve also noticed that whatever I pay most attention to becomes my higher power. If I pay attention to rational, measurable things, I’m stuck with a very limited point of view. But when I pay attention to creativity and possibility and beauty, those things quickly take over my life.
So call me irrational, ridiculous, a wearer of rose-colored glasses and I’ll just say, “Thank you. Thank you for noticing.”
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)
“This is the season of exquisite redemption, a slam-bang return to joy.”—Barbara Kingsolver
Happy Earth Day, friends! I bow in gratitude to Mother Nature, I accept her bounteous gifts and I vow that I will never stop noticing her beauty.
I also want to rave (you know how I am!) in appreciation for your comments and experiment progress reports. I hesitated to use that term, because “progress” is a word from the old paradigm. Like we’re all supposed to make progress, get somewhere, do something.
When in reality, we’re really just here to delight in life’s stunning gorgeousness.
I noticed a theme running through some of the comments. Like you wondered if it was really the Great Cosmic Concierge talking to you or if was just your imagination.
JUST YOUR IMAGINATION?!!!, my imagination retorted. “What am I, chopped liver?”
I, for one, value my imagination and believe it speaks on behalf of my Higher Power. Like all humans, I tend to overuse the left hemisphere of my brain. So when I slip into the creative, intuitive hemisphere, it shuts down the cognitively overdeveloped side. Which is where those old, crusty stories reside.
As for the same messages repeating themselves, I found that when I started doing this, I desperately needed to hear over and over and over again that “I was loved,” “that everything is going to be okay.” The Course says that in order to experience miracles—which are natural and happening ALL.THE.TIME—we must see ourselves as wholly innocent.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve accrued a lot of messages over the years that said just the opposite.
So in the beginning, my voice was a broken record of compassion and acceptance, reminding me again and again that I was loved, that my true nature was joy. Its quiet power and consistency eventually convinced me it might be on to something. Its increasing clarity made it impossible for me not to listen.
But by far the most important bennie of my morning powwow is that it hooks me up to a loving vibrational frequency before I even start my day. It sets the tone for an amazingly awesome, extraordinarily epic 24 hours. And, that my friends, is all I need.
Enjoy the Earth wherever you are today! And I wish for you a deep communion with your own personal Cosmic Concierge!
To life!
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)
“The part of your mind in which truth abides is in constant communication with God whether you are aware of it or not.”—A Course in Miracles
Little Pammy Sue here on yet another fabulous Friday, hoping to hear from those of you doing the experiment. For that matter, I’d love to hear from any of you.
I’m thrilled to report that, while ordinary human thoughts continue to play in my mind like elevator music, I’m becoming better able to tune into a deeper, more loving reality.
Over and over, I keep hearing that the inherited programs of the world are no longer necessary, that all they do is block the higher transmission.
Overriding the old story takes practice. I sometimes find it rather daunting and hard to believe the depth of the love and the total lack of judgment. Surely, all those rules I was taught had to mean something?
But no, I keep hearing, “I only love you. I only see your beauty. I only recognize your light.”
“The old thoughts,” it tells me are way beneath my glory. And that stepping off the merry-go-round of the ego is part of the evolution of humanity.
I’ve heard from some of you about the joy of being back in touch with your best friend, that you’re excitedly “dropping some light.” As I said, I’d love to hear in the comments below how your experiment is going.
Have you settled on a name for the higher thing? Have you started to trust its voice? Are you getting any guidance?
Barry Taylor, the former road manager for AC/DC, once joked that the name, God, is just a blanket we put over the ever-changing, always-loving life force.
Here’s to allowing it to bust out of its manufactured confines.
Tell me, tell me. Below, below.
Someone recently called my posts a newsletter, so this next bit is what I think newsletters normally do. Announce some offerings. The first comes from Hay House. Between April 21 and 27, they’re offering the new eBook edition of E-Squared for $2.99. And then from April 28 to May 4, they’re offering The Course in Miracles Experiment eBook for $1.99.
The last announcement (and I love that others out there just do these things, since I’m so NOT a promoter) is from Mike Dooley’s Tut. A couple years ago, he and I offered a Magical Mystery Manifesting Adventure. He’s offering it again for a sizable discount. You can check it out here:
So, here’s to Fridays, love and the true sense of belonging to life.
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)
“You are the teacher and healer you’ve been waiting for.”—Byron Katie
Perhaps my favorite line from my book, Art and Soul, Reloaded, is this: “The only book that will ever change your life is the one you write yourself.”
Admittedly, it’s not what a marketing consultant would want me to say. Doesn’t really encourage robust sales.
But that’s one of the traps we’ve been stuck in, the Skinner’s box that trains us to mindlessly, habitually react.
For far too long, we’ve been listening to directives from people who…well…want something from us, who believe the more, more, more narrative. We’ve totally bought the idea that “something is missing and that somebody out there, some THING out there is going to provide it. Better keep looking.”
We really don’t need all the things we’re constantly encouraged to need.
Especially when everything we really need—including answers and ideas and healing—resides right here, immovably inside us.
I laughed at one of the comments about Neale Donald Walsch’s book, Conversations with God. Rebecca said, “It never occurred to me to have my own conversation.”
Right now, collaborating with…I still haven’t settled on just one name for this loving Chatty Cathy…is the most rewarding part of my day. I’m finding it to be a loving and wise partner.
Mostly, it’s a huge relief to realize that something that’s not me is looking out for my good. It’s comforting to feel the presence of an invisible energy realm that actually seems to like me. That, from what I can tell, has always been there, hiding quietly behind my habits and mindless reactions, waiting for its moment to have the floor.
Have a fabulous weekend, you gorgeous you’s!! Make it the best—yes, it can keep getting better—weekend of your life.
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)
“Pam combines a writing style as funny as Ellen DeGeneres with a wisdom as deep and profound as Deepak Chopra.”
-Jack Canfield
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