peter ragnar the awesome science of luck

The A tllfeso",e Science of Luck

Your Guide to Winning All the Time

By Peter Ragnar

Roaring Lion Publishing, Corp. P. O. Box 8492, Asheville, NC 28804

ISBN 1-878682-11-3 Copyright 2005 - All Rights Reserved

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

What You See Is What You Get.. .......... ..

Gut Instinct

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Perceptive Abilities Solve Problems ....................... 25

How Pictures Give Birth to Reality ...... 39

Pay Attention to the Signs ...... ...... .................. .. ...... 63

Breathing Light into the Things You Desire ............ 75

w t;nn You Tell If Something I~ Right For You? .... 89

How I Made a Million Dollars on Friday the 13th! ... 101

How You Can Control Time And Circumstance ... 109

reating A Lucky Personality ................................ 121

Why These Things Generate Bad Luck ................ 153

The Incredible Good Luck Generator ................... 171

Seducing the Maiden of Luck 179

Foreword Luckiest Man I Ever Met

By Hal Wilson

It was thirteen acres that didn't exist. Thirteen cres surrounded on three sides by the

national park. "Can't be done!" "No such nlma/!" "Dream on buddy!" The realtors II laughed at his naivete. "Damn fool

thinks he's gonna find what everybody wants on his first day out!" He didn't, of course. It took almost a month.

Perhaps nobody had seen it because it was covered with trees. Some guy in Florida owned it, but swore he'd never sell. "Not interested!" "Can't be had!" "Won't sell at any price!" The realtor laughed at his naive confidence. "Damn fool thinks he's gonna buy what ain't for sale!" It took almost a week.

The asking price was astronomical. "Don't call with a counter!" "Won't budge on the price!" "Doesn't need the money!" It was more than he wanted to spend. "Damn fool thinks he's gonna steal a deal on the best

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land in town - never happen!" It took another week.

We called him the Magic Man back then. Not because he did card tricks - though he did - and not because he made beautiful women disappear - because, more often, they tended to show up. It was just a knack he had for having things go his way. Most people want Lady Luck to smile on them for an hour or two, but with this guy, it was like they were engaged .

"That's 355 winning trades in a row!" He sounded pretty pleased. "The trick is to lose the stress, and win at rest!" Commodity trading just wasn't that easy. "It can't be fun if you're under the gun!" Everybody had losses in the markets, especially in commodities. "What you want, wants you!" If he'd been a loser, it would have been easy to blow off his crazysounding ideas. But he was a winner. Not just once in a while, but every time he put his mind to it. Until I met Peter in the summer of 1982, I'd have sworn that nobody could be that lucky.

Jim opened the envelope Peter had mailed him and read the typed numbers. Eddy read

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winning numbers from the newspaper. y matched! The registered envelope postmarked a week before the lottery

wing. NOT POSSIBLE! That's what t people would say. But that's what

y said about airplanes, radio, television, nd computers until they became everyday taples of our lives. Who has explored very possibility of the brain? What if fickle

luck is nothing more than the hit and miss pplication of a learnable science of mind?

or twenty-three years I have been watching eter win . You might as well wake up in

the mornin~ , see the sun rising and jump up shouting, "What Luck!" If something happens with predictable reliability, is it luck? If something can be outlined before it appears to exist, and then brought into being in the prescribed form, is that luck? If the means for "being lucky" can be taught, and used with similar success by other practitioners; is it just luck - or is it science?

What if luck is a science? What if you could learn it? Are you ready to be lucky all the time?

He picked the Win, Place & Show winners of this years' Kentucky Derby, Preakness

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and Belmont Stakes horse races. That son-of-a-gun Peter! He's just plain lucky!

Hal Wilson CEO Creative Design Consultants, Colorado

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Introduction you lucky? Why, of course you are! How would this book have found its way into

ur hands? As a lucky person, you attract ople, circumstances, and resources to you

hat make your dreams come true!

Now I don't think I really need to prove to you how lucky you are-one small example hould suffice. It's the time you began hopping for that special make of automobile.

What happened? You began to see that car verywhere! There it was parked at the mall;

then you saw it on the freeway, and again It was passing you on that winding country road. Why, it was like that model and make were actually talking to you.

There you were in a sea of cars, yet only one was calling you. That was the one you made a decision to want. Desires are magnets of circumstance. There is a universal law that states, "What you want wants you and is rushing to meet you!" Put another way, what you want is what you notice.


Since you can't hit a target you can't see, noticing brings you closer to your objectives by revealing connections to opportunities. The mental target begins to come into focus. Unlucky people never seem to be able to connect the dots. They are never curious about the countless numbers of options that present themselves each day. However, lucky people, as they notice the flow of options, are awed at such serendipity.

All the lucky people I know are confident, curious, and observant. They also have a strong sense of serendipity-the phenomenon of finding valuable things they weren't conscious of seeking. Lucky people attract good fortune wherever they go. In fact, they expect it! You could say that luck is the art of opportunity.

Is luck simply an art or knack of successful living, or is there actually a law that forms an underpinning? If it could be proven that there is an actual law of luck, those working within its framework would always win their hearts' desires.

The art and science of luck will reveal to you the behavioral traits of lucky people. These traits, when truly made your own,

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xpressed with such ease that they onsidered an art form-the knack of

ky living. You will also understand that the mework of luck rests on a solid foundation dance. There are no uncaused events

the entire universe. The laws of cause nd effect remain supreme. Even chaos falls

Into mathematical equations that continue to lIow cause and effect to reign as king and ueen of the universe.

o what does this mean? It means that if you always work within the framework of the rt and science of luck, you'll be a winner

not some of the time, but all of the time.

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CHAPTER ONE

What You See Is What You Get

ne of the founding fathers of modern hysics was the highly acclaimed Niels

hr. In his study of subatomic events, he discovered that even unrelated events

ntained a hidden interconnectedness. He nd other physicists concluded that when an lectron wasn't being observed, it ceased

being a particle and was always a wave. Another physicist, Nick Herbert, indicated that everything we look at turns to matter.

So, if subatomic particles don't exist until they are observed , what about your everyday waking reality? Do you have the power to alter it by seeing it differently? Could it be that you create your own luck by seeing yourself living a'charmed life?

Imagine our world, filled with six billion people as quanta (that's elemental units of energy). These energy units experience both attraction and repulsion. They form clusters and hubs in which information is


shared and influences are created. These invisible informational networks are like a massive net covering our planet. According to Emanuel Rosen in his bestselling book The Anatomy of Buzz, we are linked by a chain of no more than six other people to every network of people on the planet. In other words, you know someone who knows someone who can get a personal message to anyone on earth.

However, aocording to quantum physics, since all matter, including humans, is made up of quanta, the way you see things becomes the nonverbal message bearer. Yes indeed-what you want wants you and is rushing to meet you! What you deeply desire and earnestly aspire toward is what you truly see. What you see is what you get.

You have the innate ability to influence and attract anything your heart desires. People who know what they want are more "lucky" than people who don't. However, bad luck is the very same process. The difference is the window of expectation through which one chooses to look at life.

Lucky people see events and circumstances as fortuitous. Unlucky people see events

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ci rcumstances as nothing special. Every y, All day long, a parade of opportunities

D.sses by, unnoticed by the one who periences bad luck. Lucky people see

very thing as significant. Unlucky people everything as insignificant.

physicist Nick Herbert is correct, then we tually do create our reality. What you see what you get! The difference between

ood luck and bad luck is simply how you hoose to see things. How you actually see

things is revealed by what you say about yourself to others, as well as what you ecretly think of yourself in private.

The truth is, you only reallY ,see what you want or don't want to happen to you. You are drawn toward your greatest hopes and toward your greatest fears. The side with the greatest attraction force is the determining factor in creating your reality.

This is why people who have no clear-cut goals or aspirations tend to energize and thus magnetize their fears. By creating negative expectations, they create a subconscious situation in which their choices lead to bad luck. Lucky people are so focused on their strong desires and goals

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that they simply overshadow their fears and misgivings.

Your subconscious mind is like an inner compass leading you to choose what you really want. Your subconscious also has a timing mechanism that always allows you to be at the right place at the right time. For example, if you have an early morning appointment, you set your clock to alert you when it's time to wake up. However, you wake up on Yol:Jr own five minutes before the alarm is set to go off. How did you do that?

Well, the same process takes place with good luck and bad luck. Some people always miss catching their plane, the last sale item at the store, the property they wanted to buy, or the employment opportunity that was just magically snatched up by someone else waiting in the wings. You've gotten the money from the bank and you race off to the car dealership to buy that vehicle you had your heart set on, only to be told that they just sold it! How is it that some people's timing is always off while other people are always in the right place at the right time?

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II , let's face it, some of us are lucky and rs aren't! However, all lucky people and

II unlucky people have the same things in mrnon. Lucky people see themselves as

lucky. Unlucky people see themselves as nlucky, or say they don't believe in luck.

In my observations of people who say they on't believe in luck, some misunderstand

the term "luck" to mean events without uses. This is not what I mean. Luck can

be explained by science; however, very lucky people make it an art form. Generally, from my observations, people who don't believe in luck generally fare only slightly better than people who consider themselves unlucky. The most prosperous group has consistently been those who say, "Yes! I'm a very lucky person!"

Science has studied the effect of consciousness on the subatomic world and has concluded that consciousness is a subtle form of matter. Space is not empty, but it is a unique type of matter that is affected by thoughts. Physicists believe our brains mathematically construct our , experiences of life from the way we interpret the frequencies in which we live, breathe, and move. If you consider your thoughts as

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pictures in your mind, then you can suddenly see-there's that word again-what you see is what you get!

Let's explore another simple example of this. At my post office, there is a beautiful shade tree at the edge of the parking area. Under the tree, lovely flowers are usually in bloom. However, there is inadequate parking during peak times, and usually most of the parking spots are taken, including my favorite spot in front of the tree.

The strange part of this is that I always see that spot vacant! Even when I drive into the lot and someone else is in the spot, suddenly their backup lights come on and they back out, freeing up my favorite spot. How many times have you visualized having a parking spot by the front door on a rainy day, and like magic-or, as luck would have it-there it is?

Remember, any picture you hold in your conscious mind consistently must be acted upon by your superconscious mind. If the science of quantum physics is correct in asserting that subatomic particles don't exist until they are observed and that you and I create our own realities, then we

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uld always get the parking spots of our osing. Of course, the moment you doubt process, that thought is also realized

y your superconscious mind, proving the rrectness of the doubt. Am I making nse?

Ince you and I can't fall out of the universe, what we can't see should make us feel omfortable. By that, I mean that when ubatomic particles don't exist, they actually

do. That is, they simply enfold themselves back into a deeper order from which they originated. In the words of physics, they are enfolded back into the implicate order of the universe-until our thought processes resurrect them and thus manipulate the fabric of our physical world.

If consciousness is a subtle form of matter and the images we hold in our conscious minds command the superconscious mind to act, it's no wonder that a 'parking spot is available right by the front door. What you see is what you get.

It's pretty much like visualizing a certain car you'd like to purchase, then seeing that make and model everywhere. Years ago, I was working on a construction site

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and the workers were talking about cars. Offering my opinion, I said that I thought the classiest car on the road was the Cadillac Eldorado convertible. Just then, the owner of the construction company drove up in a new Cadillac Eldorado convertible. It sort of made my mouth water; that was all I could do at the time-that and dream.

However, the laws of the universe being what they are, I soon saw my life change dramatically. Suddenly, I had not one but two new Cadillac Eldorado convertibles! I explain more about this in my course called "Money Magic." Listen, if a poor construction worker can suddenly reverse his fortune, what do you think you can do? By the way, it felt pretty good driving along the beach past the Palm Beach mansions with the top down and the ocean breeze blowing in my hair. Much better than breathing dust and fumes on a construction site, don't you agree?

What is this thing we call "luck"? Here's another example for you to ponder. Years later, I decided to get a new white Cadillac Fleetwood. I was enjoying my sunbathing when I suddenly saw the car in my minds eye.

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ng up to the dealership, however, I 't see a single white Fleetwood. How

I have been so wrong when the Ise and vision were so strong? I asked alesman if they had a car like that, and

aid, "Yes, it was a special order and 're just now washing it."

hey drove it up in front of the showroom nd he asked if I'd like to test-drive it. I said,

"No, I've already driven it-in my mind. I'll take it."

He was stunned. After the usual posturing, we decided on the right price. "How do you want to pay for this?" he asked.

I stunned him again, saying, "Why, I'll just write you a check in full." He was speechless. I added, "Oh, it's just part of my winnings in the stock market! I must just be lucky."

You 're probably thinking I lucked into some big inheritance or somebody gave me a bunch of money. No! I lucked into the art and science of luck. You too will be able to magically make yourse!f very, very lucky as you turn these pages and discover luck's secrets.

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Remember, the pictures and images you hold persistently in your conscious mind's eye will activate your superconscious mind. It is your superconscious mind that is a subtle form of matter and that is able to alter the fabric of your physical world. You shape your destiny with the pictures you hold in your mind and the desires you treasure in your heart. What you see is what you get.

Interestingly, one problem physicists have when studying atomic systems is that the only way of seeing into a system is using photons of light. When light hits the atom, the photons move the elements around. Attempting to predict their arrangement is very difficult due to the various possible effects of observation. If observation is known to affect and disturb atoms, what about everything composed of atoms? Does the way a lucky person sees things affect where the ball will land as the roulette wheel is turned? Or how about when dice are rolled? Of course, we know the outcomes are not always as consiste~t, or do we? Perhaps our belief in inconsistency is the reason for it.

You've most likely heard the expression, "When you 're hot, you're hot. When you're

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u're not." When people are winning, nd to continue winning-that is, until lief in odds reasserts its presence,

which time they become cold again. But t what is this "hot" state and how do you Intain it? Actually, it's the art of luck,

hlch is what this book is about.

Most people simply bet the odds-the ost likely outcome. But how can you

redict the movement of disturbed atoms within a structure that are being affected by other elements? Ah, now, enter Werner Heisenberg and his Uncertainty Principle. The Uncertainty Principle replaced the law of causality of Newtonian physics and turned classical physics on its head. You'll probably recall reading about my staunch belief in cause and effect a few pages back. In Heisenberg's principle, the causes and effects are uncertain.

Were the elements inside an atom randomly affected by a photon of light, or was there a law of causality working amidst chaos? At Boeing in 1969, a brilliant physicist named Helmut Schmidt created a digital random number generator. His research demonstrated (in the words of Qi Gong master Roger Jahnke) "that mind or

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consciousness influences the chance process in nature so that an outcome can reflect intention."

So, then, can you be consistently correct despite the odds being against you? Yes! It is called the Monte Carlo effect. You will continue to win until you no longer believe you should. I personally experienced this trading commodities-that's another way of saying gambling, since 85% of the players lose all of their money. How did I do? 355 winning trades in a row. Did I have to give back some of the money? Yes. The point is, however, when you're hot, you're hot. That's the Monte Carlo effect at work. Note: The Monte Carlo effect is much more mathematically complex than my simplistic presentation. Nonetheless, when you are winning, you tend to continue to win despite · the odds.

Consider, each throw of the dice is a separate event, no matter how many times seven has come up. The odds are exactly the same for each individual throw of the dice as they were for the previous throw. Yet, we consider the odds and doubt. We literally see the event as different, although nothing has changed.

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tLJ ally found that some numbers have Inlty for each other. During the local

nd weather, they show the winning bars for the state's lotto. If, say, a 4

up in the Pick Three numbers, more than not, it comes up again in the night's next drawing. So where are the Each drawing is a separate event,

t winning is a flowing, steady state of tention.

Numerous studies of very sensitive Individuals have revealed that their bodies

mitted high levels of electromagnetic nergy and infrared emissions. Dr. William Iller of Stanford University states, "The

human body is not just a chemical and lectrical machine, the human body is a

light machine." What is it that excites an atom? It is an emitted photon. If we are light machines, as Dr. Tiller suggests, then we possess the ability to alter matter and circumstance.

Therefore, the more light you can emit, the more successful you will become. The smallest measurement of the energy contained in ultraviolet light is one electron volt. These are described as joules. Humans put out around 10 joules per second. As you

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and I increase the power of our intention and consciousness, we build a lens through which we can focus and concentrate our photons of ultraviolet light upon objects and events and influence their outcome.

Let's go back to the subject of odds. Why is it that the horses that win at the track have the best odds of doing so? Well, that's not always an absolute. A few years ago, I was watching the Kentucky Derby, and the last horse to get into the chute for the start of the race wasn't cooperating at all. He wasn't a favorite and the odds placed him as a long shot. Nevertheless, the horse seemed to exude a special energy, so much that I said excitedly, "That horse just won!" And he did! He became an all-time record moneywinning long shot.

So, now, why do the odds favorites usually win? First, they have to have a proven track record and an ability to win. However, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle may also be at work with a long shot. The odds favorite has the most money bet on it, and more people's intention and focus are at work; the influence of the crowd's collective consciousness is another factor. Could it be that if a million people mentally saw the

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horse winning, that horse would win? t Is true, you now understand the fate of

nd the game of chance they play.

that you and I actually receive we see in our mind's eye. I believe our ious minds have the power to activate

uperconscious mind, which in turn has power to alter events and circumstances. lieve what you see is what you get!

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CHAPTER TWO

Gut Instinct you ever met someone who caused

to feel uncomfortable? You mayor may recall your physical posture, especially t you did with your hands and arms.

ut I'll bet you crossed your arms, or if you d a pocketbook, you held it over your lar plexus. Most people will automatically rform such gestures when faced with

Iscomfort.

This is simply your gut instinct speaking. Your abdominal region was your first connection or safety valve to life. Thus, even now, anything that you perceive on a subconscious level as potentially hazardous (emotionally or physically) will cause you to protect your abdominal area. It's called protecting your feeler.

A number of years ago, I read a book by Dr. Michael D. Gershon, M.D., titled The Second Brain: The Scientific Basis of Gut Instinct. It gave me a new and awesome appreciation for how a separate nervous system or second brain operates. It is now

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an established scientific fact that we have a second brain that operates independently from the brain between our ears; I believe we can greatly benefit from what it is saying to us.

While there are a number of nerve ganglia or plexuses in the abdominal region, you are most likely familiar with the solar plexus. That's right, solar, as in sunlight and photons that alter atomic structure. This is why certain types of music and color combinations cause gut-level reactions. The smallest oscillation of a sound wave to signal the brain is called a phonon. A phonon is the smallest particle of energy in a sound wave, just like a photon is the smallest particle of energy in a light wave.

The way a particle or wave moves is determined by the way quantum fields interact with each other. Remember, light, like sound, is made by oscillations of electrical and magnetic fields . When they reach the body, signals are sent to the brain, and how we interpret these signals produces certain physiological messages. If you can consciously sort these messages from mental noise, memories, and imagination,

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II discover a strange physiological .etlon known as a "hunch" or "gut instinct."

person we meet radiates a quantum that is oscillating at a certain frequency. same fixed frequency, in the case of ns, also initiates the production of

.wIIlors, just as photons, the smallest particles light, also create sound. As an example,

note of middle C produces the color red. ould that be why "red necks" tend to love untry and western music, which is most

ften played in the key of C? Come to think f it I think the color may have even stuck to

my neck.

If we are light machines giving off certain photonic messages, what does our gut say to us when we receive such information? Our guts quickly determine threats and separate them from opportunities to be acted upon. Listening to your gut is a very wise thing to do. If you become conscious of how people and things feel to you, you'll have an easier time identifying intuitive impressions. Your ability to identify and act on intuitive impressions is called "luck."

Bear in mind that "cat gut" has been long used for the strings of musical instruments.

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You probably already know how resilient that material is. Consider that it is with your gut that you are able to tune in to the vibrations of the invisible world. It allows you to pay closer attention to your psychological reactions to people and events around you.

Your gut brain differs from your cerebellum and cerebrum in that they have the gray matter on the outside and the white matter on the inside. That's why when we operate from the head, we think first and feel second. However, with your gut, the white matter is on the outside and the gray matter is within, so that you feel first and think second. That's why it's called a gut instinct.

This is actually a perfect balance of two brains acting as one. The rational, objective faculty that incorporates sense perception allows !-IS to unerringly make use of our gut instincts for the greater good. That's luck! The gut informs us of an opportunity or danger and the rational mind allows us to make the most beneficial decision. Again, that's what you would call being lucky.

Once, while I was working as an ironworker, my gut began to speak to me. There were three of us sitting on a steel beam bolting

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column. The youngest man, an tice, got up to go get some more

from a bolt keg sitting next to an r shaft that already had metal

on it. As he started to walk the beam the bolt keg, I yelled at him rather

aracteristically, "Get over here! Sit down hold on! Right now!" Just as he sat , the entire structure blew up. I mean,

re were iron stairways flying in the air and Isting into double helixes like DNA. What tal siding there was on the powerhouse

was blown off by the blast; the windows f stores and homes in the nearby town

were even blown out. The new 900-foot-tall mokestack swayed like a reed in the wind.

Luckily, the three of us were unscathed through it all, except for some hearing loss.

What had happened and how did my gut know to tell me? Doing very dangerous work like that makes you acutely aware and observant, but even the things you don't see are still picked up by your gut instinct. The cause of the explosion was that acetylene gas had leaked into and filled the enclosed elevator shaft, and a spark from a man welding on the other side of the structure blew into the top of the shaft. It blew tDe building apart like a giant firecracker.

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As an example, every atomic element is distinguished by an atomic number. Helium is element #2: it has two protons in its nucleus. Oxygen, element #8, has eight protons, eight neutrons, and eight electrons. If you want to change one element into another, you have to change the number of protons in the nucleus. Again, according to quantum physics, observing atomic structure requires light. When a photon invades atomic particles, they become waves that are said to behave unpredictably. Despite a comprehensive understanding, science is still able to get workable feedback; however, with all their understanding they have yet to accomplish the alchemists' dream of turning lead into gold.

Lead, element #82, simply has to have three protons removed from its nucleus to produce gold, element #79. Every element gives off a vibration. That vibration is received as a gutlevel reaction. When the oscillation registers on the second brain, an electrical bolt of intelligence or intuition is felt. Computer-like computations coupled with action take place instantly.

The human mind doesn't miss a thing. Our superconscious has already run all the

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rs and possibilities and connected he dots in advance. We all know; it's that we forget we already know. Too

mental noise drowns out psychic ation. When there is too much mental

, one is unlucky. When you listen, you lucky.

ur mind is like a sponge that soaks everything. To keep us from being

verwhelmed, we have a reticular activating ystem. The RAS blocks out sensory Istractions. However, on a subconscious

level, we still record al l those stimuli. That's why, under hypnosis, you can recall names, faces, and information from your childhood unerringly.

Then why can't we read and interpret the present? We can, provided we train ourselves to do so. If you are trained to interpret the vibrations your gut picks up, you're very lucky. In the words of that young apprentice ironworker, "You saved my life! You saved my life! What luck! We're so lucky to be alive!"

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CHAPTER THREE

erceptive Abilities Solve Problems

you're psychic and have problems, just w psychic are you? Naturally, we all

row in installments. We have both natural rceptions and trained perceptions.

However, as with gifted athletes, natural propensity or talent doesn't eliminate the need for training. Even an untalented athlete who trains very hard can beat an athlete who, despite natural talent, refuses to train. Bear in mind that the drive is the talent!

You can train yourself to spot opportunities. People who avail themselves of a beneficial opportunity are always deemed lucky by others. In fact, I'm always astounded by how some people appear to be blind to opportunity. Take two people walking down the street. One person sees a five-dollar bill lying on the sidewalk; the other person blindly walks right past it. What was the defining quality that allowed one person to be lucky and the other person to miss? Perception.

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The actual difference between the two people is not as much in the ability to see as it is in expectation. Lucky people expect fortuitous events to take place. Don't you think that your perceptive ability will be heightened if you expect to be lucky? Yes, your powers of observation will be keener. Remember, observation is heightened by expectation.

Years ago, when I was living in a beachfront condo in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a new acquaintance came over to talk to me about the creative visualization workshops I was conducting. I suggested that he walk down the beach with my wife and me. As we walked along the shoreline, every few yards or so I'd pick up a quarter and hand it to my wife. My acquaintance watched me, and finally, in frustration, he burst out with, "Hey, man, where you getting all those quarters?"

From then on, it became my trademark. Once, I was coming out of a restaurant with my new friend and he teased me about my luck with quarters, asking why there weren't any on the sidewalk. I replied, "Because you're standing on one!" The only difference between us was that I had a trained expectation for luck. My friend

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veral other people later wrote about ncounters with me in a book called

Magic Man, available online at www. Inglionpublishing.com.

you just see an opportunity to increase r confidence in the awesome power of

k? And what about the quarter under your hoe?

coming a good observer will develop nd heighten your psychic abilities. You'll

become more sensitive to the impressions you receive from ordinary stimuli. Only then will you be able to tell the difference between mental noise and what the things you "see" are really telling you. Like I said, perceptual abilities solve problems.

Once, canoeing in northern Quebec, I ended up in a very dangerous situation. I was negotiating whitewater rapids as the sun was setting. The cliff walls along the river prevented any exit. Soon, it was dark. Alii could hear was the roar of whitewater. While my auditory perceptions prevented me from detecting changes in the tenor of the roar, my intuitive perception was picking up a dramatic change of tone, and I felt a sudden

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shudder, like an electric current going up my spine. I had to stop.

I wedged the canoe into some large boulders in the middle of the river, and after securing the canoe with rope, I settled in for a long, cold night. The next morning, as the golden rays of light played with the rising mist, I devised a plan to escape the canyon. I knew the river would not be as dangerous in daylight, but my intuition was telling me something else. Finally, I was able to reach the base of the canyon wall and climb onto a tiny outcropping of rocks. I spent the morning climbing 'up the cliff face. Once I reached the top, I pulled the canoe up after me.

I must have looked ridiculous standing there with my canoe and gear, but from my new vantage point, I saw something that stopped me in my tracks. There was an aD-foot waterfall right around the bend from where I had spent the night. Yes indeed, perceptive abilities solve problems!

At the spot where I put my canoe into the river again, the water was much calmer and more reflective. I too was much calmer and more reflective. That day, I realized

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t we can hear beyond hearing and see yond seeing if we spend time training our rceptions. Soon, our perceptions train us.

he way our perceptions train us is in the edback loop we create by increasing

our observation skills. You'll develop a heightened awareness of any changes In your normal emotional state. Psychic Impressions are different from imagined Impressions. Something you see in your imagination or memory has a different "feel" than an accurate psychic impression. Psychic impressions are both spontaneous and surprising. Like first impressions, they tend to be quite on target despite familiarity changing the picture.

You must learn to discriminate between these various types of impressions. You must learn the signature of psychic information before you can make accurate use of it. Being psychic is being lucky, which is both an art and a science. To begin, try guessing the numbers of the balls for the state lottery. Since they are usually shown late at night, you have the opportunity to begin to fall asleep. With your mind in an alpha brain wave rhythm and a non- , expectant state, you'll notice that each guess

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has a certain "feel." Your misses will feel one way (before you know they are misses) and your hits will feel subtly different (again, before you know you are correct).

Some of your picks will surprise you. For many years, I have been asked to assist law enforcement agencies with criminal profiling. Once, an Atlanta detective asked for my impressions over the phone about a murder. Strangely, the phone began to smell like burning rags, and I received the image of a pile of burning rags on top of a stove. The detective said, "How on earth are you getting that? We sealed the house up, and not even the press knew that someone had dumped rags on top of the stove and attempted to burn them."

On another occasion, I was sitting with two detectives in their office, working on a missing-child case. We were focusing on a parking lot when a scene of a child falling into a ravine flashed before me. It was so fleeting that I ignored it and went back to focusing on the parking area. Later, it turned out that the parking area had little to do with the child 's disappearance-search and rescue found the chi ld's body in a ravine.

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What I learned was not to try and edit the ponse. Every piece of information has

very fragile thread attached to it. As odd r surprising as the impression may be, bjectively following the thread without diting or attempting to make sense of it

will develop the "knack" of knowing. Pull too hard by demanding that the information make sense, and you'll break the thread.

Whi le revisiting an unsolved murder from the 1960s, I was shown an old black-andwhite photograph of the crime scene-a decomposed body covered with black plastic garbage bags. I took several deep breaths and sat down by the detective's desk. As I sat, a clothing label flashed before me. What followed was an amazing description of a woman: height, weight, her hometown, that she was pregnant, etc. I even drew a picture of her. I didn't know it, but while I was viewing the photograph, the skeletal remains were being reconstructed at the University of Tennessee's forensic anthropology lab. The reconstructed wax face was identical to my drawing, and the weight, height, and pregnancy were also confirmed. How was such a th ing possible?

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Again, with this type of psychic feedback it was all confirmed, double-blind, so to speak. This type of information was scientifically proven accurate, unlike the average fortune-teller who often simply deals with generalities and psychological truisms. There is quite a difference between telling people what they want to hear, e.g., "You're going to meet a tall, dark stranger," and what must stand up in a court of law as evidence.

From my observation, people with artistic talents, like painters, poets, and writers, tend to be more psychic than others. Why? Because they are able to more effectively express their imagination objectively and creatively. I'll give you an example that will probably trigger your memory and connect you to a similar example.

When I was a child, the headboard of my bed had swirls and grainy patterns on it. I can recall just lying there and watching the faces of people and animals appear, change, and disappear in the headboard. At times, I saw my grandfather working in the hayfield or my mother knitting by the fire. Yet, objectively, the headboard was only a headboard.

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king abstract forms and mentally turning them into objects to which we can assign meaning is the art of interpretation. By that, I mean that in some way, everything matters and everything connects, if only in our minds. Noticing things equates to being lucky.

The images we see will often trigger fleeting and often surprising pictures in our minds. Perhaps I should say that they pull them from our superconsciousness, which can be amazingly accurate. If what you see is very clear, it is most likely memory or imagination; true psychic impressions have a different quality from imagination and don't last long. Rather, they flash, like first impressions do.

One case I worked on involved two men who were stealing from ATMs (automatic teller machines). They were caught on tape, but the quality of the tape was fuzzy and they were thought to be wearing disguises. I was asked to see if I could get an impression and draw portraits of the men. At the police station, two detectives and I were going over my drawings when another law enforcement agency called and emailed some mug shots. One officer, holding my drawing and looking at a picture-perfect replica on the

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screen, exclaimed, "You scare me! This is unbelievable!"

Suddenly, an image of the villain's hand flashed before my eyes. I turned to the detective and said, "Ask them if he has the words 'love' and 'hate' tattooed on his fingers." It turned out that he did. The man confessed to being the person stealing from the ATMs and then identified his accomplice.

It's difficult to always be correct, especially when you're called on to be. There are many fortune-tellers who may have amazing insights when they are relaxed and the conditions are right, but doing it for a living is another thing. When memories, imagined events, and other mental noise cloud your consciousness, true intuitive feedback becomes impossible. I speak from experience.

When you are just waking from sleep, for instance, you are more open to .clear insights. Often, my best stock picks and business decisions are made when standing in the shower-especially after doing an alternating hot and cold shower, when I'm once again enjoying the hot water. Thoughts and impressions are like invisible magnetic

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ses that stick to the body's energy matrix; old shower water demagnetizes and

washes off those impressions, freeing up your sensitivity.

In a relaxed state, your superconscious mind Is free to flow. That's why I stated that sleep can be very revealing, if we can sort mental excrement from crisp insights. For example, one morning at 6: 15 AM, I suddenly sat up in bed and told my wife that a cleaning woman had just been 'raped at gunpoint in the laundromat. I drew a picture of the rapist, and the police confirmed the crime.

Soon, two detectives were sitting in my living room before an open fire, sipping tea. It was inconceivable to them that someone could have seen the crime while half-asleep in bed. (It was this encounter that led to my later work with the department on other cases.) They asked where I thought the man might be headed, and I said, "He'll be picked up in Florida."

A few days later, the rapist and another man were picked up for stealing a car. In the back of the police cruiser, the rapist said, "I hope they don't try to get me back to Tennessee." Well, he was wrong. He

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was extradited back to Tennessee to stand trial for rape. The-judge and prosecutor xclaimed that my sketch of the man was

more accurate than his mug shot. Had it not been for that drawing, the Florida authorities wouldn't have known what he was wanted for in Tennessee, and had I not seen him in Florida, he might have gotten away with the crime.

Please bear in mind that psychic information doesn't always come in visual flashes. Just consider the sonar of dolphins or the ability of a bloodhound to smell a body at the bottom of a lake. Remember, the impression of burning rags I discussed earlier wasn't a visual impression at all.

If you have a pet, just watching your pet react to stimuli that you can't perceive can make you very psychic. I wonder if the famous psychic debunker, the Amazing Randi, has ever had a dog. My dog can tell when I'm at the beginning of our driveway even though it's well beyond the range of his sight and hearing. Some time ago, we kept a friend's dog while she was out of state for several weeks; three weeks later, the dog became very excited and started whining and staring down the driveway. She wouldn't

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leave the door-then, suddenly, her owner ame driving up. Now, you tell me, how did

her dog know the precise time of arrival after an absence of three weeks?

Here is an interesting exercise you can try If you have a dog. There is a hiking trail behind my home; I take my dog there on a long lead, close my eyes, and follow him. As he stops to investigate, I'll attempt to tune in on what he smells or hears. We will sometimes go several miles like this. By forcing yourself to heighten your senses of smell and hearing, you begin to realize that we have only a rudimentary functioning of these organs. I've also performed the same exercise barefoot; it really shows you how limited we ordinarily are in feeling different textures and surfaces.

As you practice exercises like this, you one day realize that you hear beyond hearing, see beyond seeing, smell beyond smelling, and touch beyond touching. Yes, we are still evolving into beings we can't yet imagine. How lucky we are!

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CHAPTER FOUR

How Pictures Give Birth to Reality

Looking at old photographs, have you noticed how your emotions are stirred up? Emotions are the steam of desire. Emotions power your dreams, and those dreams paint pictures in your mind that give birth to reality in a most magical way.

The story you're about to read is like a ghost from the past. Once you diligently apply the awesome science of luck, the pictures you hold in your mind give birth to reality.

I didn't feel lucky at the time. A lot of folks were losing their jobs. I hadn't been able to save much, and working construction up north in January wasn't much fun. The old house I rented howled and whistled all night long. The old wood stove didn't even melt the ice that formed on the inside of the windows. But hey, I had my dreams just like anyone else. If only my luck would change! Maybe you've been there as well-you know, not much money, feeling down on


your luck, but there's one thing others can't rip away from you. Yeah, you can always go off by yourself to gaze out the window and dream.

We don't often realize it, but our ability to paint pictures in our mind is like giving birth to a magical genie. At that time, I didn't understand this either. So, probably just like you, I pictured my dream home. Oh, it sat there as pretty as a castle on a hill; just below was a beautiful lake, where I could dock my brand-new boat. I wanted a big fireplace where I could rest after a day on the water, and a nice porch where I could sit in my rocking chair watching the sunset. Oh, another thing-I loved the smell of the new hardwood floors. Well, at least I could enjoy my castle in my mind.

I was off work that day. The weatherman said to expect a blizzard, so I wrapped a blanket around me as I read the newspaper and drifted off to sleep, dreaming about my castle. Then, I don't know what the voice was inside my head, but I awoke with a start! My finger was resting on an advertisement in the classified section of the paper. It read, "New home overlooking lake-must sell."

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When I called the realtor, he said he took the listing over the phone and hadn't seen the house. "You'd have to be a nut to go out house shopping in a blizzard!" he told me.

But the little voice inside said, "Go!" With the realtor's directions, I found the place-the very place I'd seen so clearly in my mind's eye. It wasn't crowded on the highway; in fact, I was the only 4x4 on the road. I found the realtor at his home and said I had to have this house.

He hesitantly drew up the papers for my ridiculous and embarrassingly low offer, scowling. "This isn't going to do you much good," he said. Then, the realtor called the seller, but it didn't look like they were getting along. "Here, you talk to him!" He handed me the phone.

The seller softened as I listened to his sad story. This new home had been constructed for his mother and himself. She died, and he lost his job. The bank was about to foreclose. "How much you got?" he asked.

"Enough for a down payment," I said.

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k, you sound like a nice guy. I'm in a jam I'd rather give it to you than the bank.

ahead and sign the papers and I'll get right over there!"

Well, the storm passed as I stood on the hilltop overlooking the lake. I carried an armload of firewood as I looked at the new boat that had never yet been in the water. Oh, did I forget to tell you what I paid for the castle on the hill with the new sweet-smelling hardwood floors? 7,500 dollars.

Do you want to give birth to a magic genie that can grant all your wishes? Now's the time to change your luck!

What pictures spring spontaneously into your mind? Are they pictures of things you fear, or of things you desire? If you could have any of your heart's desires, which one would it be? Examine that desire very carefully. Do you deeply believe that its fulfillment and attainment would be beneficial now and into the future? Very well , then-let's go about creating a photographic mental negative. Once the negative is created, it's just a matter of immerSing it in the right mixture of emotional juices for the picture's development.

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Visualization is not about your eyes, but about your mind. The mental imprint that Impresses your brain cells vibrates your body like a tuning fork with your desire. If you strike one tuning fork and bring it close to another tuning fork, both will vibrate and the frequency will be intensified. Your special desire is likewise intensified when you come in contact with people who can help make your dream come true. They will be irresistibly drawn to help you. There is a cosmic law that states, "What you want wants you and is rushing to meet you!"

We create reality in advance, as the headlights of our minds create the roads we choose to follow. You must experience the sensation of already possessing your desire before you can magnetize it toward you.

That's right-you must experience the sensation of your desire. Since we began our discussion with the healthy desire to have a nice home, how would you go about magnetizing that image? The mental picture must be able to stir your emotions; that provides the developing fluid to get a picture-perfect image that you will transpose into reality.

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saw a video vignette in which a man was so obsessed with a particular painting In a museum that in the last scene, the man was shown walking across the hayfield depicted in the painting. Impossible, you say? Well, of course, the film was science fiction. But now, I'll tell you a real story like that.

Not long ago, I had a vivid dream where I was standing in a hayfield in a scene right out of The Sound of Music. The breeze was blowing my hair, and I was inhaling the sweetness of the grass. Above me was a gently gliding eagle silhouetted against a crisp blue sky. Not a human sound was to be heard anywhere. Strange, I thought, how real it all was.

During my waking hours, that picture from my dream would flash briefly before me. A few weeks later, I found myself standing in that same field. The former owner told me that they harvested around 7,500 bales of the finest hay in the nation from that field annually, but his medical bills were forcing him to sell it at a ridiculously low price. I told him not to worry about the hay, but to keep farming it. You see, I had become its new owner!

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Since I was a child, I've painted pictures from images in my head. Later, I learned how to paint mental pictures that created Images in tangible reality. With the help of this book, you can too.

When you form the mental image of your dream home, smell the freshly cut lumber, the new carpet, and open the doors of your new kitchen cabinets and inhale. Feel how easily the faucets turn; rinse your hands under the warm water. Walk through your new home from room to room; sit on the bed, look out the windows, open and shut the doors, walk around the outside, touch and smell the flowers and shrubbery. Make your mental tour as sensual as possible.

Next, form a single-frame picture of the house with your eyes closed. Once you are able to hold your image steady, take your index finger and touch the middle of your picture. Don't be concerned if your fingerprint smudges it; it won't affect it. Notice where your finger touched you. Most likely, it was on a spot between your eyes. Every time you want to energize your cherished vision, simply push that spot; your image should appear.

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oon, like the tuning fork we discussed arller, you 'll find yourself in a circumstance

where the vibrations are so harmonizing that you know your desire is about to manifest. The more you practice, the easier it becomes. Luck is not only a science, but an art; the more you practice, the better you get at it.

Recently, I mentally saw an auction sign going up on a piece of property I had my eye on, but which was beyond my means without going into debt. I'd never been to that area before and didn't know a thing about it; I had stumbled on to the property while playing around on the Internet. It was one of the most beautiful pastoral pictures you could ever imagine; hundreds of acres, ponds, long creek frontage, and 360 0 views as far as the eye could see. I found myself simply admiring its well-kept beauty, never really expecting to own it. It's important to pay attention to signs-I'll show you why later.

Then it happened. I called the realtor, who stated that on the following Saturday, the bank would auction the property if it wasn't bought before then. I went to see it and returned home. Oh, yes, it was as beautiful as the pictures, but the odd vision

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nagged at my mind-that auction sign. I xplained to the realtor that I didn't want to

Insult them with my offer (about half of the original asking price) and I would completely understand if they refused; however, were they to consider my offer, I could be there in two days with a cashier's check for the full amount.

He said they wouldn't even think about it. The auction was to be in three days, and they were certain to get a higher offer. The image of the auction sign still haunted me. I saw it being taken down in my mind's eye, but I couldn't imagine where the money would come from to buy the property. They certainly wouldn't accept my offer; the realtor said he would be hesitant to even present the offer. Anyone still had a chance to come up with the money.

Someone ripped the auction sign down the day before the scheduled bidding was to take place. As I stood on the lovely hilltop and slowly turned around, I smiled to myself as I mentally spoke. "All of what I see is mine to keep!" Oh, how pictures give birth to reality!

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You may complain, "I don't have the same bility to get clear-cut pictures in my mind!" h, but you do. Think of the last time a

picture in your mind changed the hormones in your body and your body vibrated at a different frequency-was it when sex was on your mind? The power of such pictures is undeniable. In the animal kingdom, when an animal feels sexual, how is it that suitors surprisingly appear out of nowhere? Whether you're choosing suitors or opportunities matters little-it's the vibrations you give off that are everything. Pictures are vibrations that give birth to reality!

Twenty-five years ago, I was sitting in my beachfront condo in south Florida, teaching the secrets of creative visualization to a small group of friends. They asked my wife and me if we'd share our own visualization with them.

I explained that the story went back a long way. "But since you've tasted the fruit of successful picture-making," I said, "I'll reveal to you some of the intimate details." My wife Ann lit some candles and poured several glasses of wine as everyone got comfortable. The sun was just going down,

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nd the lights from distant yachts twinkled like Christmas lights.

I began, "I didn't feel lucky at the time. A lot of folks were losing their jobs. I hadn't been able to save much. Working construction up north wasn't much fun. The old house I rented howled and whistled all night long. The old wood stove didn't even melt the ice that formed on the inside of the window ... "

I sipped my wine as the gentle sea breeze reminded me that was a lifetime ago, then continued. "Oh, did I forget to tell you what I paid for the castle on the hill with the new sweet-smelling hardwood floors? Oh, yes, everyone called me lucky. But I was noticing there was a rhyme and rhythm to my luck. It was almost as if there were scientific laws underpinning luck; I was soon to find out that there were.

"The teachings aren't new, but just because they are esoteric and ear-whispered doesn't mean you can't discover them. I searched out hidden esoteric writings, digested what I could, and began to practice. Since I had just purchased a new lakefront home and boat for a mere $7500-yes, seven thousand five hundred dollars-I knew I

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was lucky. You see, it's very important that you know you are lucky before you can demonstrate it."

I went on to describe my first test. "There was a vacant lot adjoining my newly acquired property, and I really wanted to own it. Ah! Again, it was a matter of money. You see, lakefront lots were not inexpensive, even back then. I wondered about my newly discovered luck; was it just a fluke, or was there something more behind it?

"During coffee breaks at work, I would visualize the lot and what I was going to do with it-you know, flowers and a small garden, maybe even a few fruit trees. Again, my dreams were alive and wel l. I did have one fear that I had to carefully avoid visualizing- that of someone building a vacation cottage next to my little palace. It would be easy to imagine: late-night parties, laughing and yelling all night long.

"Remember that your fears and misgivings often materialize more powerfully than your hopes and dreams. Why? Because you dip those negatives into the soup of your nervous apprehensions, and rapidly, those pictures become reality. Hopes,

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fears, dreams, and apprehensions all get developed by the juice of your emotions.

-motion relates to direction. It states that the E of E-motion is ergodic, meaning that It involves the probability that any state will recur. The E in emotion is ergo, the unit of work that creates the direction of an effect. Put simply, any time you get excited and focus your mind on the object of that excitement, you move it. That movement can be either an attraction field or a repulsion field. Emotions magnetize the pictures you hold in your mind.

"So, every time I touched that picture with my finger, I wou ld smell the flowers I had already planted with my mind on my neighbor's lot. When I was ready and had enough money to make an offer, I went to the courthouse and looked up the owners of that lot. They lived about ten miles away.

"In the process of visualizing the ownership of the lot, I never spoke about it. You must never reveal your goals to those who cannot assist you in their fulfillment."

I suggested to the group that we take a short break to stretch. When we resumed ,

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someone asked, "Why are you revealing this to us? Are we to playa part in your future?"

"Yes, you are," I answered, "and you're going to be surprised at how it all unfolds. You might say you're student scientists experimenting with the dynamics of luck! You'll see firsthand how I handle signs."

I continued my story. "Before meeting with the couple who owned the lot, I saw us cordially sitting together in their living room. Next, I began to do rhythmic breathing, focusing on inhaling with my third eyethat's the spot between your eyebrows.

"Actually, you don't really inhale through that spot, but visualizing it causes your pineal gland to flex. Researchers have discovered that the pineal gland is a lightcatching net that includes the element magnetite. Magnetite is also found in high concentrations in migratory animals; the higher the magnetite level, the more uncanny are their abilities to locate their life requirements. Exercising the pineal gland helps develop it. We have yet to fully understand its function as a light receptor, but the ancients held this as a key to the

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fulfillment of all desires, be they material or piritual.

"Once I felt my pineal gland to be highly charged, I visualized a ball of luminous white fog. I placed the couple in the center of this ball of white light, and I blessed the meeting and outcome as the highest good for everyone. Then I sent an impulse to the couple and allowed the vision to fade from sight. (Note: Today, I use a 12,500-gauss magnetic headband worn over the third eye. It is believed to charge up the magnetite of the pineal gland, and it's a wonderful tool to use in meditation. It's available from www. roaringlionpublishing.com.)

"When I arrived at the lot owners' home, just as I had imagined, we had coffee in the living room. They were a very pleasant elderly couple. When I brought up the topic of the lot, they smiled and looked at each other fondly. He grabbed her hand and asked, 'What do you think, dear? We're never going to do anything with that old lot. I'm too old to clean up the briars on it. We might as well let someone do something nice with it.' She agreed. He continued, 'You know, I've paid the taxes on it for thirteen years and I don't want to pay them any

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longer. How about 350 dollars? That's what I paid for it to start with.' I was shocked! I'd been prepared to pay ten times the amount. It was a win/win situation. Did Lady Luck just smile on me, or was there an awesome science behind luck?

"In those early days of studying luck, I also had a most unlucky thing happen to me; maybe Lady Luck had a bad hair day and decided to have some fun testing me. I fell off a 300-foot building.

"Growing up poor in a blue-collar family didn't afford me many educational opportunities. Dad worked mostly factory jobs, and when he got laid off, he did some house painting. You know, sometimes you just take what life offers. After the divorce, Mom got a job at the library. I didn't do well in school, except in art. Won some awards. Was even offered a scholarship. But, like I said, we were too poor for that. I loved the library and got to read a lot; I guess you · could say I was homeschooled. Before I knew it, I found myself bumming around the country looking for work. It was out in Colorado that I lucked into a job as an ironworker. I remember the business agent

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for the union asking me, 'Son, you're not fraid of heights, are you?'

"Many years later, with lots of dangerous experience behind me, I was up high on a steel building skeleton. As I remember, it was a hot afternoon in July. Even at 300 feet, no air was stirring. We had been working overtime every day, and the money was pretty good, I thought. I was climbing a steel column hand over hand. As I reached for another handhold, a hidden welded lug knocked my fingers loose, and suddenly I was falling down through the open building. I heard someone scream, 'There goes Pete!'

"You know how when you almost have a car wreck, everything gets sort of surreal, like you're watching a movie in slow motion? Well, reality got pretty blurred in free fall. Down below me, there was a protruding framework for a catwalk with one piece of metal grating in place. Someone had left a five-gallon bucket turned upside down in the middle of that section-probably used it as a seat during coffee break. I hit that bucket with both feet. It popped like a paper cup. I stepped off the flattened bucket and looked up."

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I paused for a moment, and Ann suggested we have another glass of wine and take a break out on the balcony. Someone asked how high up we were. I reminded them we were only on the fifth floor. They looked up. "No, this condo doesn't go that high," I said, "but what I'm about to teach you will make you feel quite high."

"You see," I resumed, "I'd been picturing a bright future, and dying wasn't included in it. The more I practiced my visualization exercises, the luckier I became. It was at that point in my life that I began to fully realize how our mental pictures give birth to reality.

"The lakefront property was beautiful, but I still had this Daniel Boone type of personality, and I wanted to build a log cabin deep in the mountains. Somehow, I got wind of a rumor that a large corporation was trying to buy some raw land from a local farmer, so I asked around about who that might be.

"I found the old man, but not without crossing a creek four times and following an old dirt track several miles up a hollow. The two of us sat in his cabin, and he would periodically spit tobacco juice into a can. The

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lickering fire in his wood stove provided all tho light there was.

"He told me how his grandfather had settled In this territory before statehood. He showed me the old land grant, said he'd had 20,000 acres, but over time it got whittled down to what was there-a bit of raw land behind the lake and the 400 acres that he farmed.

"' I was born in this house and so was my dad,' he said. 'I always wanted to build me a log cabin on that ridge, on my property you've got your eye on. Never did. You know I've been offered big money from that corporation for it, don't you? I don't like those folks. Something about it I don't like.' He paused. 'How much money you got?'

"'Three thousand dollars,' I said. 'Don't seem near enough for a hundred acres. What would you do with it if you had it?' he asked.

"I told him, 'I'd build that same log cabin on the ridge that you always dreamed about.'

"He sat there quietly rocking. Neither of us spoke. I just felt happy being in his presence, no matter what the outcome. In

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my three or four visits with the old man, I began to feel toward him as a son would feel toward his father. In some sense, we were also like two old friends who hadn't seen each other in years-with so much to tell each other, yet having no rush to do so. Sitting in silence was more than enough communication for the heart.

"Finally, in soft, reflective tones, he spoke. 'I don't know how many days the good Lord will give me.' He paused. Three thousand is not much money, but I don't need much.' Then, looking me straight in the eye, he said, 'You promise me you'll build that log cabin and you can have it all for thirty per acre.' I promised him I would.

"'I'll probably never see it, but wherever I am, I'll know it, ' he said. 'I believe you, son, it's yours. And one more thing-land ain 't worth squat without mineral rights. I'm giving you the gas well those city folks were after, and you're gonna get a royalty check every month for the gas that's sold. You just be good to the land.'

"My luck had improved in the construction business as well. Soon, I was in charge of building a civic center. The newspaper and

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V reporters were there to inform the public of its progress, and the next Sunday, my picture was on the front page in vivid color.

"As I directed a high girder into place spanning the open auditorium that would seat thousands, I thought of my cabin on the ridge, and the mental picture warmed my heart. Then, a fellow worker shouted to a reporter, 'Ask him about the log home he just built!' That was the luckiest question I was ever asked .

'''You took several years off just to work on this log cabin? You cut each tree by hand and peeled them with an axe? Unbelievable!' The questions continued and the cameras kept clicking. I just wanted them to leave so I could return to my quiet, but there I was again on the front page in living color'Modern-Day Mountain Man!'

"Finally, I decided to retreat from modern life and revisit my heart's desire. That was the last time I had a job or worked for anyone else. I began to write. Visitors came and went; one day, a distinguished football coach came bumping down my Jeep trail in his shiny Lincoln Continental. As we sat in rocking chairs on my porch gazing out over

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the blue ridges, he asked what I thought the future held. Strange, I thought to myself, everyone seems to be asking me to tell them their future. I replied, 'Your future is the full composite of the pictures you hold in your mind.'

"'Why, you sound as crazy as my daughter!' he said. 'I'll have to bring her out here sometime. So tell me, what's your future hold?'

"'Well, I'll be selling this place, and in a few years I'll be living on a much higher mountain. The front of my new home will be three stories of large glass windows. The main living room will have a huge stone fireplace soaring up around twenty feet.' I put my hand on his arm as I said, 'I'll be living with the woman of my dreams; I already call her my raven-haired beauty for her long black hair. I even did a painting of her a few years ago. Do you want to see it?'

"'You'll sell me this place, won't you?' he asked.

"I smiled. 'It depends on what the future holds.'

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II , old man Noah, the farmer who sold the land, passed away, just like the

Ictures in his mind told him. When I finally Id that land, the last royalty check from

he gas well was 4500 dollars. And yes, the ch did bring his daughter to meet me." I

looked at my wife. "Honey, tell them about ur lucky meeting."

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CHAPTER FIVE

Pay Attention to the Signs

All the lucky people that I've surveyed have strong sense of serendipity. It's the knack f finding treasures you may not have been

looking for consciously. However, you do set an unconscious program in motion when you have clearly seen a picture of your desire in your mind's eye and you have colored that desire with emotion.

You are perhaps familiar with James Allen 's classic little book As a Man Thinketh. The title comes from a verse uttered by King Solomon. "As a man thinketh in his heart ... " is a very meaningful expression. The heart, being the so-called seat of emotion, has great power to fuel what we see on our mind's picture screen.

Here's how your superconscious comes into play; only after you have spent time "thinking in your heart" do those desires take on the ability to magnetize people, circumstances, and material objects. Next, when sufficient


attraction force has been developed, unexpected good fortune or serendipity may appear. These serendipitous events are signs. Pay attention to the signs, for they indicate the path to your success.

When you start having serendipitous surprises with regularity, you begin to expect them with regularity. Yet, all these fortunate happenings are the fragrance of your main objective. They are the signs of your "lucky" acquisition about to be realized. Like attracts like and luck attracts luck. There is no way around it; lucky people have a strong sense of serendipity, and they create their own reality in harmony with their goals.

To review, goals seen as mental pictures and colored with heartfelt emotion create an invisible attraction field. This attraction field carries the aura of serendipity. Serendipitous events are signs. Pay attention to the signs.

Fast-forward from Fort Lauderdale to the beautiful southern mountains of the eastern US. Some of the original members of our Fort Lauderdale creative visualization group were seated in my living room, a roaring fire burning in the huge stone fireplace that soars 18 feet above us. The front of

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tructure sported twelve high windows king out into the lush woodland and tall

ountains. Some~ne was playing the white ncert grand piaJ? as I left my office to gin the seminar. We all committed to a

moment of silence to honor the magic of life, nd looking around me, I was once again wed by the science of luck.

I began outlining some exercises for optimizing one's luck, but one of the original members of our Florida group asked me, "Peter, can you tell the audience the story of the sign?" To oblige my friend, I decided to tell the story.

"Well, the signs were everywhere as six of us arrived in this little resort town on the Fourth of July. The rental truck that contained all our earthly possessions resembled a pregnant elephant. I led the procession driving a red Cadillac Eldorado convertible. At the time, it only had a few thousand miles on it, and judging by the holiday traffic, it wasn't going to get many more.

"Our caravan, by a stroke of good luck, pulled up to the office of the realtor I had spoken with from Florida. He looked like he

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was about to have a stroke. Looking at six travel-weary faces, he stammered , 'Where will you be staying?'

"'Why, Mike,' I said, putting my hands on his shoulders, 'that's why we're here, for you to find us a place!'

"'Just look at all that traffic!' he exclaimed. 'Tonight's the big parade, and all this will be blocked off. There isn't a single motel or hotel or rental chalet or cabin on the mountain that isn't rented or occupied!'

"'Mike, suppose that's not a problem. Do you have any other reason for not finding us a house with four or five bedrooms to rent? I'm sure we'd all like to shower and rest up a bit.'

"'Are you crazy? I can't do that at such short notice,' said Mike.

'''Sure you can. You never know, you might just get lucky. We'll wait while you make some calls,' I said. In fact, Mike didn't have a choice as long as we were parked in the parking lot-that is, unless he just fled on foot.

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~ bout twent!y minutes, Mike came

f his office 8hd said excitedly, 'I found use and it's got five bedrooms!' We

nt up to look at it. Mike was so happy, ut the minute I stepped into the living om, I began shaking my head. 'What's the tter?' Mike asked more soberly.

'''Brown carpet. It can't have brown carpet, Mike. It's a vibration thing. We have to have more cheerful carpet.'

"Mike slapped his forehead and began wringing his hands nervously. 'I've only got one more lead, and it's probably not going to pan out.'

"'Mike, listen," I told him. 'Never say anything you don't sincerely want to happen. If in your heart of hearts you don't want the six of us to spend the night at your house, you've got to take a more positive viewpoint.'

"All the lucky people I know hold very positive expectations and are immune to rejection. Even if one opportunity doesn't pan out, they know in their heart of hearts that their world is filled with nothing but opportunities. They absolutely believe they lead charmed lives.

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"Well, as luck would have it, a doctor had just purchased a new townhouse located on the summit of the mountain near the town. The unit had five bedrooms. The carpet was white. It was brand new. Even the doctor hadn't stayed there yet. The mountain views were awesome! The cost? Zero! For some strange reason, the stranger said we could stay in his new townhouse for nothing! What luck-it was a sign we couldn't ignore.

"As the days passed, I knew I was driving Mike crazy. But I also knew he liked us. I know it's really tough being around a group of unlimited people. We drove up and down that mountain looking for the magical parcel of land I had described to Ann's father on the porch of my log cabin years ago. Mike insisted no such thing existed. I said it did. 'Mike, why do you think I would have gone through all this trouble to come up here, leaving the comfort of my beachfront condo, if it didn't exist?' He complained that my logic didn't make sense to him.

"I took a folded index card from my wallet, looked him straight in the eye, and read aloud, 'Ask and it will be given you. Seek and you shall find.' Mike agreed to keep looking.

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nth passed. Then we happened to see ~meone putting up a For Sale sign. I pulled

Just as they drove away. As they were king in their rear-view mirror, I was pulling their sign.

"I brought the sign to Mike. 'Mike, this is a lan,' I told him.

"'Well, of course it's a sign!'

'''Good, Mike, now that we agree, call the owner and tell him I just bought it.'

"'But you don't know how many acres there are or how much he's asking for the property,' Mike protested. I told him not to fuss about the details and just to call the owner.

"The next day, Mike came over to our place. He said the owner lived in Florida and he asked a friend up here to put the sign up. He added, 'He was as mad as hell that you tore his sign out of the ground, and he changed his mind about selling it!'

'''Mike, just call him again,' I said. 'It's nothing personal, you just didn't explain yourself clearly enough.'

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The next day, Mike came over again. 'Don't ask me to call him again. He's even hotter than he was the first time I called.'

'''Mike, come over here. I want to show you something. Do you see that drawing hanging over the fireplace?"

"Mike turned white, as if he'd seen a ghost or something, and ran out of the house to his pickup truck. Like a cat scratching up gravel, he sorted through papers in his truck. Then he ran back into the house, threw a survey map down on the table, and looked at my drawing again. 'Where on earth ... no, don't even begin to tell me where you got that!' he spluttered.

"'Mike, I told you, I drew it,' I said.

'''You couldn't have.'

"'I did,' I said. 'It was part of my creative visualization exercise. Seek and you shall find. Ask and it will be given you.'

"'But how could you draw a piece of property you never saw before on a poster?'

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, I did see it-in my mind's eye. All I wos recreate it on the poster.'

used to get out the old poster I had de, and the hundred people in my living

om sat in amazement when I showed it them. I saw their mouths drop open as

yewitnesses confirmed what I had just described to be the truth.

Someone asked, "But at that point the owner was still refusing to sell. What made him change his mind?"

I replied, "Mike said that same thing: 'He's still not changing his mind. And I'm not calling him again. And don't you get any silly ideas about calling him. You're the last person he wants to speak with!'

"'Mike, he'll have a dream and he'll call you,' I said. Mike left in a huff.

"Sure enough, the next day, I heard Mike's brakes slam as he pulled into the driveway. He rushed into the house with papers in his hand. 'He's agreed to sell, I drew up the

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contract and told him I'd get you to sign it and I'll overnight him a contract as welL' I looked at the contract and said he'd made a mistake on the purchase amount. It was too much. Mike just about died on the spot.

"Richard, the owner, had been a wealthy orange grower in central Florida, and he really didn't need the money. Somehow, there wasn't enough he could do for us. A year after the contract was signed, we stood in front of the house, looking up and seeing how nicely the three-story structure fit into the mountain. Richard shook his head and said, 'I shouldn't have done this!' He laughed warmly. 'I shouldn't have sold this!'

"Later, we were sitting before the roaring fire with glasses of fine wine, and Richard asked how we worked such magic. Putting my hand on his shoulder, I replied, 'You have to pay attention to the signs.'"

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CHAPTER SIX

Breathing Light into the Things

You Desire plants didn't breathe, neither would

we. That mysterious element sparks the Imagination with limitless possibilities. Plants breathe photonic emissions from the sun captured by oxygen molecules. Quite literally, plants breathe sunlight. The smallest particle of light is a photon. Each photon is a quantum of electromagnetic radiation.

"Quantum" means a very small particle. A quantum is also described as a "magnetic moment." You can say that when there is an abundant flow of electromagnetic energy, there is a very strong attraction field. This is why, when you mentally engulf the image of the thing you desire with white light, you create an attraction force field. In a magnetic moment, you instantly draw to you what you want.

You don't have to understand how it will come to you, only that it will come to you unerringly. The only prerequisite is for you to breathe light into the thing you desire. Your body is loaded with solar energy cells, known as "80nghan corpuscles," which were discovered 44 years ago by Korean researchers. They found that the photosynthesis of plants was the same process as the metabolism in our bodies.

Putting aside your body's ability to eat light and a plant's ability to eat light, both also radiate light. The cells of all living things radiate light. Another researcher, Herbert Pohl, discovered that animals, humans, plants, and even bacteria give off radio signals that are especially strong during cell division. These signals could be described as a flow of magnetic moments. A German physicist and chemist, Dr. Albert Popp, calls them "biophotons." These photons can come in any wavelength or color; the signals span the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

The signals you and I receive from our televisions, computers, radios, and cell phones also span the entire electromagnetic spectrum that allows us to communicate. Light equals communication. When an

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becomes excited, it emits a photon; magnetic moment is a form of

mmunication.

It Is well understood that the pineal gland in Igratory animals is responsible for giving

uncanny abilities to particular creatures. It is Iso known that the pineal gland is not only a

light receptor, but a biomagnetic organ, due to its high magnetite content. The ancients have long believed that the practice of breathing through the pineal gland gives you the ability to breathe light into the things you desire. It's just like when you pluck a guitar string and an oscillation of the string sends a tone. The smallest particle of a tone is called a phonon; it is the quantum of sound, a magnetic moment that sends a message.

When you form an image with your eyes closed and you attempt to place your finger on it, you'll be pressing on your third eye, the spot between your eyebrows. Form an image and imagine you are inhaling light through that spot. As you repeat this exercise, you'll begin to notice an electrical tingle running upward along your spine, over your head and into your pineal gland. As the practice is repeated, this gland begins to flex, and strong surges of electromagnetic

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currents become apparent. These are accompanied by bright flashes of white light. At th is point, you are breathing light.

When you exhale, the energy cluster will drop down through the solar plexus to a spot two inches below your navel, at which time you'll begin to feel a subtle tingling in the palms of your hands, the bottoms of your feet, and the top of your head. When you inhale, your bones, muscles, and organs are charged up with biophotons; when you exhale, powerful electromagnetic currents are discharged.

Now, here is the secret to breathing light into the things you desire. This universal light is everywhere; it connects all things within its electromagnetic spectrum. It is a messenger acting on your behalf. Every thought and every intention of the heart are carried on its wings. As you increase the light around the object of your desire, you are magnetizing it to yourself.

Each contraction of the pineal gland becomes an atomic event. You have excited the atoms to such a degree that they are forced to emit their photons; that's why you see the ball of light around your desire. Once

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desire is illuminated with the impulse of ntlon, you bless it and send it. It will not

turn to you empty. Suddenly, you just got kyl

f course, I'll caution you, be careful what you wish for, because you're bound to receive it. Why do I say to exercise caution?

cause if you wish for a certain thing to ome into your life, you must really want it

to be there. To refuse the offerings of the universe is to insult it, and insulting the universe is another way of creating bad luck. I hope that makes sense.

Additionally, you must be very specific in your desires. You'll notice from your previous reading of the earlier chapters that all my visualizations were quite detailed: the color of the Fleetwood, the height of the fireplace, the size of the windows, the view, and so on. One thing I never focused on was how. The "how" is not your concern; the creation of the attraction field and the breathing of light into the things you desire are your concerns.

The specificity of your desires is, again, quite important. If you see yourself handling large stacks of hundred-dollar bills, you might find yourself working as a bank

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teller, for instance! I heard of one man who told everyone that one day he would tour the South Pacific. Sure enough, he found himself drafted into the military and sailing on a troop ship to Vietnam. It wasn't what he had in mind.

I've been guilty on a few occasions of asking for things I really didn't want in my heart of hearts. Sitting on my desk, there is a wonderfully crafted model of a white Cornish convertible Rolls-Royce. (I received it as a gift because I used the company's standard of excellence as an example in my seminars.) I used to joke about the fact that you'd never see one abandoned along the highway or found in a junkyard. In idle moments, I'd roll it around on my desk and pretend to drive it. I know, I know, it sounds a bit silly, but I've got a great imagination and, as you can tell, I'm quite playful.

So, one day, Richard, the man who sold us this beautiful mountaintop property, and I were having that glass of wine that we poured in the last chapter. "Peter, since you influenced me so much as to have gotten the deal I gave you on the property, I'll make you an offer," he said.

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ured he was about to offer me some type reward for helping him acquire or fulfill a rtain desire, but I never expected this.

He continued, "If you can help me get Mr. X to sell me that old antique shop downtown, I'll give you my white Rolls-Royce!"

Don't breathe too hard over things you aren't certain about, because it's too easy to breathe light into the things you do desire.

Let's now go back and examine the relationship between breathing and luck. Lucky people, or at least consistently lucky people, have consciously or unconsciously created strong attraction fields for what they want. You could also say, in view of our other discussions about photons, that this attraction field is a "life" field. Now, for a moment, think about the air you breathe and how it makes you feel as you breathe it.

If you happen to be confined in an office that is buzzing with electromagnetic pollution, noise, and anxiety, your personal attraction! life field is distracted. Our instinctual natures and natural impulses are inhibited by stress. Stress is the natural enemy to luck. Deep diaphragmatic breathing releases stress,

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muscular tension, and inhibited natural impulses, as well as our instinctual nature.

You can compare the vitality of your air to the carbonation of a beverage. When the carbonation is lost, the beverage goes stale or flat. The same happens with the air you breathe. The air you breathe is a mixture of gaseous elements-mostly nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen. In the lungs, these gases become blood. If your blood becomes flat or stale, you die. On the other hand, when the air you breathe is fresh and vital, your body will buzz and hum like a radio broadcasting station.

In my 2001 book, How Long Do You Choose To Live?, in the chapter titled "Electric Breath," you'll find a magazine excerpt about two men in the Czech Republic who were able to make themselves into "human radio receiving sets." They put their hands on a loudspeaker and could tune in to any station within a range of several hundred miles. They were investigated by scientists and reporters alike, who remained baffled by the feat. The only explanation offered was that certain deep breathing exercises enabled them to become channels for information being broadcast on the airwaves.

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sn't matter what element we're Iklng about, each atom is constructed

certain number of protons. Protons Ide in the nucleus of the atom and have

positive charge. Surrounding this nucleus f positively charged protons, there are an qual number of electrons, which have a

negative charge. There is, however, one unique characteristic that the universe has built into the electrons' structure; they are quite fickle. Since they are 1800 times lighter than protons, under the right conditions, they can escape from the atom. You may be thinking "So what?" but under certain conditions, it could be the difference between your life and death.

Let me explain. When a large number of air ions become positively charged and the negative charge of the earth creates a strong attraction field, these positive ions fall to earth. When there is an electrical discharge en masse, this unbalanced atmospheric ionization alters behavior. An overdose of positively charged air can reduce your breathing capacity by as much as 30%. It also creates an adrenaline overload that soon exhausts the nervous system, raising anxiety levels.

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When the moon moves closer to the earth, as it does during a full moon, the lower portion of the ionosphere (between 25 and 250 miles from the earth), which is positively charged, is pulled into our atmosphere by the negative charge of the earth. The result is altered human behavior. Just like some people can forecast the coming of bad weather by the pains in their joints and old injuries, it's all electrical. The medical profession has even learned to treat cases of schizophrenia with negative ions.

So, what's this all about and how does this relate to luck? First, remember that tension is the enemy of luck because it dulls the natural instincts and impulses that subtly provide us with various forms of information. Positive ionization causes free radicals; by that, I mean it encourages runaway electrons and creates an imbalanced attraction field. Thus, when you attempt to breathe light into the things you desire, your personal bioelectric condition is reduced, making it more difficult to excite the atoms in your pineal gland to release their photons.

If you can't make the cloud of white light to place your desire in, you have severely handicapped its fulfillment. So, what are

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u to do? Here are a few suggestions m ancient occult teachings. Wear only

natural cotton (organic cotton), especially when doing these exercises. Shower in cold water first, before your visualization work begins. Tell no one what you are doing, for

reat things are done in secret. Next, burn only the finest, highest-quality frankincense (available from www.roaringlionpublishing. com), never perfumed wood. Note: at one time, frankincense was the most valuable commodity on earth and more expensive than gold or diamonds. The ancients well understood its power to trigger internal chemical and hormonal reactions that assist in the ability to breathe light into the things you desire.

Natural organic fabrics are a defense against the counterproductive effects of positive ions. Everyone knows the effect of being shocked by static electricity-it can happen when you touch the door of your car after coming out of a discount shopping center, or especially a laundromat. Why does this happen? It happens because steel and concrete absorb and trap negative ions and attract a charge from the friction of positively charged air passing over them, charging the metal in your car door. It's the same thing as

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shuffling your feet on synthetic carpet and touching someone and getting a shock.

I'm now going to add another element that helps you breathe light into the things you desire-sleeping on a magnetic mattress pad and using large ceramic plate magnets under your feet as you do your visualization. With the north side up, your power to create an attraction field for the things you desire is greatly increased. (The world's most powerful magnets are available from www. roaringlionpublishing.com.)

While the ancients didn't have ceramic or rare earth magnets of the power available today, they did have magnetic lodestonethat's a strongly magnetic variety of iron ore. Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, wore one over her third eye. Perhaps, had she worn my magnetic headband, she might have had better luck with snakes!

Additionally, I would include another item they didn't have in the ancient world: a negative ion generator. Don't worry, as your luck improves, you'll have plenty of money to obtain one.

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Ing back to cold showers for a moment, reason for them is that thought forms units of clustered bioelectric energy

hAt stick to the body's aura like a balloon's tAUC electric charge allows it to stick to

the wall. Negative thought forms are like lectrical clothing that affects and colors the

messages we receive from others and the xternal world.

You 've most likely heard the term "breath of life." Photons carry life force, or vital energy. Deep breathing is like a blacksmith using the bellows to make his furnace white-hot so he can mold and shape the metal to his liking. You have the ability to use these tools to mold and shape your future, improve your luck, and control your destiny. You can breathe light into the things you desire.

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CHAPTER SEVEN

How Can You Tell If Something Is Right

For You? Have you ever thought about it this wayyou touch things with your eyes and get kinesiological feedback? Sight is a subtle form of touch. If you don't believe me, consider a common occurrence. You're sitting in traffic and you glance over at the driver in the next lane. Suddenly, feeling your gaze, he turns toward you. What happened? You touched him with your faculty of sight, and he felt you looking at him.

The reverse is also true, as you well know. Someone looks at you and you instantly feel it. Anyone who is vision-impaired has developed a great sensitivity to being touched by sight.

Let me ask you a question. Visualize walking in a vacant lot filled with weeds. You're about to take a step when you notice an old board

with sharp rusty nails sticking upward. What sensation did you feel running through your body?

Here's a more graphic example. You pick up the old board to turn it over so no one else will get hurt on the nails. Suddenly, your vision narrows in on a shiny black spider with a red hourglass on its abdomen, and you drop the board. Did you feel stronger or weaker? Well, it's quite obvious that your heart rate just increased as an adrenal dump or endocrine cascade took place, leaving you feeling weaker. We can agree that observing a terrible accident on the highway weakens us as well. But many would deny that the colors we wear, the odors we smell, the music we hear, the pictures we have on the wall, the way we arrange our furniture, or the people with whom we interact have any effect on our luck.

A man by the name of James Stevens has devised an interesting apparatus for testing whether something we are looking at or thinking of doing is good for us or bad for us. This device can be seen at www.testyourself.info. It tests your muscle strength or physical reaction to a certain item, be it a vitamin, food, piece of clothing,

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I or a particular piece of music. There whole field of scientific study associated

Ith this; it's called behavioral kinesiology, or Imply muscle testing.

When energy is flowing properly through your body-you know, those days when you 're just humming and your world is perfect-you feel on top of the world. It is on those days that you feel lucky! In fact, not only do you feel lucky, you are lucky. When your physical antennas are up, you're tuning In to all good things and attracting them into your life. The bioelectrical circuits of your body are all in balance, and your muscles or energy pumps are all working powerfully, changing your posture so that it reflects a proud, erect being full of life. When you're vibrating like that, good things happen. Those good things we call luck .

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Bad luck is when we don't notice the effects things have on us. For a detailed study of how your body reacts to things, please read Your Body Doesn't Lie by Dr. John Diamond, MD. It is my contention that you never have an accident without being warned at least three times in advance, just like you never have a divorce without many advance

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warnings that something is wrong. Luck is the art of paying attention.

Paying attention is the art of remaining conscious. Remaining conscious is called consciousness. To be acutely conscious of the effect of every little thing-to realize that the flowers of the field, the birds in the trees, the chirp of a cricket, and a butterfly landing on your hand are all messages to be heard-is superconsciousness. In that state, you are very lucky, because you always know what is right for you.

This is also the case with certain animals. Even if you look at them from a hidden place a hundred yards away, crows or deer will react with as much of a start as if you had actually touched them. In fact, you did; you touched the outer edge of their web of life, and they knew it. Humans, by and large, have dulled these sensitivities.

When you practice keen observation coupled with acute sensitivity, you 'll begin to notice that every item you see and touch has a particular vibration. Once you are capable of distinguishing the differences between various items, you'll know how to

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Il crlmlnate between what is good for you nd what isn't.

donce has confirmed by countless tests that behavioral kinesiology is very accurate In telling a person if someth ing is good or bad for him/her. As you;jrilractice, soon you'l l begin to realize that all you have to do is hold an object in your hand or simply th ink about a target situation to get an answer from your superconscious mind. It will come as an impulse-subtle, but accurate. Soon, your entire environment becomes filled with lights that say "stop," "go," and "caution." If you obey these lights, how lucky do you suppose you'll be?

Let's reason out th is one together. If muscle testing is accurate (and tests show it to be), then what else can we learn from an object? A number of years ago, my dog was playing with a rawhide chew. He threw it up into the air and it fell down deep into a snowbank. Then, he went on romping and running through the snow until he tired. When he returned, he sniffed the air, suddenly dove into the snowbank, and retrieved his rawhide chew. I was amazed that he could find it. You might say he was able to detect its scent. True. A bloodhound, given a sniff of

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an article of clothing, can follow an invisible trail to the person who wore it. Scent is a vibration-a totally invisible vibration.

Things retain telltale vibrations from past experiences, much like a person who has been in a smoke-filled room retains the smell of cigarette smoke. Any item will retain the vibrational experiences of its former owners; like a ball of yarn, all you need do is follow the thread to see where it leads. That's how I was able to track the decomposed body of a Jane Doe to concrete leads confirmed by the forensic anthropology laboratory at the University of Tennessee, when all I had to go on were a few black-and-white photographs from the 1960s. A photograph can still capture and retain a vibration. Reading that vibration, like in muscle testing, will tell you if the vibration is positive or negative.

Consider for a moment the photographs you have displayed in your home. They may be of deceased loved ones, or even pets. These are not just photos-they are vibration machines, like the fog machines they use in theatrical performances, but this fog can only be seen by a clairvoyant.

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member, all your hormones are hemicals, which are vibrations. All

vibrations are simple alterations in subatomic structure. Every vibration changes the way you feel, which in turn determines your good or bad luck.

I suppose, if you were to use the vocabulary of a clairvoyant, you could say I was doing psychometry. That means establishing a connecting link between an object and a future or past event. Why does that sound so strange to some people? We know for certain that colors, tastes, the feel of objects, the sound of music or voices, the various scents in the air, all affect body chemistry. For instances, take the smell of baking bread or burning leaves; even just reading this, if you are quite sensitive, you can actually smell that scent. Recall my story of the Georgia murder case where I actually smelled burning rags from the phone; the actual scent was a combination of chemicals in my own body reacting to the vibrations I was perceiving at that time.

Exercise One

Here is a little experiment you can perform. Take some white refined sugar (which is

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bad for you) and another sUbstance that you know to be good for you. Place the two substances in identical paper bags. Next, have a friend switch them around until you don't know which one is which (turn your back while they switch them around). Now, without muscle testing , just by holding them, decide which one is beneficial and which one is harmful. You'll be surprised at how correct you can be.

If you're unable to feel the impulse while looking at or holding the bag, have a friend muscle test which one is good for you and which one is bad. This is done by holding your arm out horizontally and having someone push down on your wrist. First, do it without any test object to get an idea of your normal strength level. Next, test yourself while you are looking at or holding the bag. This will make you stronger or weaker, depending on whether the substance in the bag is good or bad for you.

Soon, as I said, you 'll be able to simply look at objects, people, or even ideas that appear on your mental screen and know conclusively what to do about them. You'll know if they are good or bad for you.

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ently, I had an idea pass onto my mental reen and nothing but green lights went

n. Do you want to know what it was? It's the book that's in your hands at this very moment. Ah , what luck!

xercise Two

After you become adept at the first exercise, try this one. I've used this exercise in my creative visualization workshops to strengthen vibrational threads.

Take several different items: a watch, a ring, a piece of tableware, etc. Put each one in a separate bag, and mix them up. Then try to figure out which one is in each bag. Do this not by idly guessing, but by trying to feel the impulses. This will be the same type of impulse you've been able to identify by muscle testing with your mind. Once you get the knack of this, you'll be surprised at how easy it can become.

Exercise Three

This third exercise will further develop your natural psychic abilities. I know, many people scoff at this, just as a sighted person would be scoffed at in the world of the blind.

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Take an item that belongs to someone you do not know. (You'll have to arrange for a friend to bring it to you.) Hold the item to your forehead and start pulling on that thread. Do not attempt to make logical guesses; simply pay attention to sudden, fleeting impulses. If you 've practiced the first two exercises in this section, you'll have a feel for what a correct selection is like.

This is just like training your ear to identify certain notes on a musical scale, or like developing a taste for certain flavors in a glass of wine. Psychics train themselves to identify certain vibrations and their telltale physical signals.

Many things may occur when you press an object to your forehead, such as even feeling an ache or pain that the owner of the object may be experiencing. I personally have never had that kind of experience, but I often see flashes of the object's history. For instance, a bullet might reveal a battlefield scene, or an old Valentine card might reveal the drama of a love affair. A business card might trigger a visit to an unlikely place and a chat with the company's representative, resulting in prosperity.

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'I doing these exercises, you'll be learning niff out opportunity the way a hound can

lIow a track. There are tracks everywhere, If wo only develop the ability to smell them out. I don't really consider this to be "paranormal," since I have come to realize that most people's sensibilities are subnormal. However, that doesn't mean they an't be developed.

Just think what it would mean if you could always tell what is right for you. You'd always be in the right place at the right time, for the right reason. I'd call that luck, wouldn't you? Ah yes! The awesome science of luck-how you can win all the time.

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CHAPTER EIGHT

How I Made a Million Dollars on Friday the 13th!

Steve had just finished writing a wonderful little book, a parable designed to be a motivational best-seller. It's about how to lift obstacles that block success. He titled it The Stonelifter: An Uplifting Tale. So, Steve and I were sitting in my living room brainstorming. Steve said he wanted to get as many copies of his book into the hands of America's salespeople as he could. We began to list companies and organizations that would be lucky prospects.

I reasoned that the best opportunity might be starting with the company he worked for, somewhat like what happened to Og Mandino when he wrote The Greatest Salesman in the World. W. Clement Stone, the owner of the insurance company Og worked for, bought a copy for every salesperson in the organization-100,OOO copies. Og later went on to sell millions of


copies of his book, making him the most famous success writer of our time.

Was this simply a stroke of good luck, or was there actually a science behind it that anyone could learn? After all, there are a lot of talented, unsung writers in the world who never get published . I started to see how I could help my friend Steve. Using the visualization technique I've taught for decades, I began my deep breathing, pulling energy up my spine while inhaling with my third eye and then exhaling it down to a spot below my navel . As soon as I was charged, with my eyes closed, I visualized a ball of luminous white fog and pictured a major sales organization executive saying, "You're going to sell 100,000 copies." Next, I envisioned the president of the company endorsing the book and promoting it. I charged the image with white light and sent it off as an impulse. The white mist faded.

Over the next few days, when I had the time, I pondered which organizations might be best for such a project. I reasoned that perhaps the most motivated self-starters, the kind that don't need to be cranked, would be involved in a multi-level marketing program. These people would love to add

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n additional product that helped them and helped promote their company.

Well, things were getting busy at my own ompany, Roaring Lion Corp. Sales were

up sharply, I was getting a lot of good press, nd interviews with me were appearing in

major magazines. In the midst of all this activity, one of our clients wanted to involve us with a company that sold non-transdermal energy enhancement patches. My partner in Roaring Lion raved about the product, but I wasn't so sure. "Tony," I said, "we're swamped with projects right now!" Then I tried the LifeWave patches and was shocked at how effective they were. We signed up as distributors.

I could quickly see the relationship between the patches and two of our hottest products, Magnetic Qi Gong and Money Magic. I said, "Tony, these products need to be combined into a book to help people understand the relationship between how the life force flows through the body's energy channels and how that force field, when heightened, attracts prosperity!"

He said, "Well, Peter, you're the one most qualified to write it. If you feel so strongly

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about the project, we'll put the other projects on the back burner."

There was, however, something else happening on the superconscious highway. As I began to write, that familiar energy buzz was in the background. Only ten days later, I had finished the 224-page book. At about

. the same time, we had signed on our first 100 distributors. But how to get the LifeWave organization to notice us?

As luck would have it, they did notice us, and they invited me to be a keynote speaker for their organization. As Tom Hopkins said in his Official Guide to Success, "Make a sensation and you'll get noticed by the people at the top who can help you." As luck would have it, the president of the company and inventor of the LifeWave patches also practices Oi Gong, and a year before, he had read about my controversial Magnetic Qi Gong.

Magnetism was now taking on a new meaning. Remember, what you want wants you! It is rushing to meet you! What you see in your mind's eye is what you get. The awesome science of luck was fast at work.

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While I was speaking with one of the mpany's executives, Dr. Steven Itlwanger, on the phone, I had a hback to the visualisation of

00,000 copies. Dr. Haltiwanger said, "You know, Peter, you're going to sell 100,000 opies of that book!" and I replied, "Yes, I

know that," as the image floated across my mind.

Soon, the new book The LifeWave Phenomenon was ready to go to press. The foreword of the book was written by guess who? That's right, David Schmidt, president of LifeWave. Was my visualization for finding an organization for mass distribution of a book luck, or the awesome science behind luck? Am I just naturally lucky, or did I discover the mechanism for creating one's own luck?

We decided to send out an email advertising a pre-publication sale. Not single copies of the book-a by-the-case-only sale. Now, tell me, who's going to buy a whole case of books they've never seen from a person they've never heard of?

The email wassenton ... Friday the 13th. According to Dr. Donald Dossey, a

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psychotherapist specializing in phobias, close to 21 million Americans are superstitious about Friday the 13th. Some people won't go to work on that day, set a wedding on that date, or eat in a restaurant on Friday the 13th. Here's what the British Medical Journal had to say in 1993 about Friday the 13th: "Friday the 13th is unlucky for some. The risk of hospital admission as a result of a transport accident may be increased by as much as 52 percent. Staying home is recommended."

A transport accident.. .hmm. When NASA launched Apollo 13 at 1313 hours Central time in April of 1970-ah, April the 13th-the oxygen tank exploded and Hollywood made a movie about it. As you probably know, buildings tall enough to have a 13th floor do not number it as such. Even the state lotteries of France and Italy never sell tickets with the number 13.

So, I suppose we shouldn't have sent our email out then? But the awesome science of luck overrides superstition. You make your own luck! You are the motive power in all your hand finds to do. You are the creative energy that fires the furnace of

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Ination that allows you to mold time and umstance to your liking!

I what happened on Friday the 13th? The hone lines were clogged with orders. The mails were coming in faster than we could unt them. New clients were coming to our

Ite in droves! Considering what a client is worth , Friday the 13th was a most lucky day. Yes, this is how I made a million dollars on

riday the 13th!

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CHAPTER NINE

How You Can Control Time And

Circumstance I told you that you could be taught to

through a lead shield, you'd call me razy. If I said that you could see through substance so strong that evel1 bullets

re unable to penetrate it, without telling you what it was, you might still think I was touched-that is, until I revealed to you that the substance was bulletproof glass. "Oh, why didn't you say so? Everyone knows you can see through glass!" you'd reply.

Yes, we take it for granted that we can see through glass, and we also realize that we cannot walk through glass, any more than if it were a block of lead. Silicon is atomic number 14; glass is made from a mixture of silicates. Lead is atomic number 82. That means 82 protons in its nucleus. Remove three, you have gold; remove more, you have glass. If your mind, by simple emotion and focus, can excite atoms to release


photons, is it so unreasonable to speculate that it can affect atomic structure?

What about seeing the matrix that births reality? Okay, now you're thinking I've really lost it. But don't make that conclusion too quickly. One question, please-how do you see?

"Why, I see with my eyes, of course!"

Oh, do you? What about dreams? Do you see them with your eyes?

"No!"

What about the things you see in your imagination? Do you see them with your eyes?

"No!"

Ah, but you do see them, don't you? What happens when you're unconscious? Do you see then?

"I don't think so."

Your faculty of sight is your consciousness, which emits photons and creates or reveals

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res made up of subatomic particles. r consciousness is a subtle form of

tter that allows your physical sight to be ubtle form of touch. Consciousness both

veals and moves atoms-even protons in d.

onsider that even a simple change in tmospheric conditions affects the electrical harges in the air. A simple change from

negatively charged ions to positively harged ions induces hormonal changes in person's body. When hormonal changes

take place, behavioral changes take place. When behavioral changes take place, the decision-making process is affected. When the decision-making process is affected, destiny is altered. Your life course will be composed of good luck or bad luck, depending on the subtle influences that each day brings.

A person with a passionate purpose and an all-consuming zest for life has a palpable electrical field buzzing around his or her body. When concentrated thoughts shoot out from that field with laser-like accuracy, clothed with excited atoms and releasing photons of white light, do you think for a moment that atomic structure isn't affected?

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If science is correct in saying an electron is 1'800 times lighter than a proton, and physics is correct in asserting that the electron changes from a particle into a wave or ray, then certainly the mind has the possibility to see beyond matter. Since thoughts are electromagnetic and electrons are fickle, thoughts move and influence matter, which is made up of atomic elements. I realize that most people will find this hard to believe, yet no one doubts the power of X-rays to see the bones and organs within the body.

I realize that protons are much more stable units than electrons; however, every atomic element is altered once an electron is displaced. What is the most powerful force for altering atomic structure? Light!

What organ in the body is called the "Iightbearer"? It is the pineal gland, which is also a magnetic organ. This light meter gland's technical name is epiphysis cerebri, or "top of brain." It was once believed and described in esoteric writings that we received light stimulation through the soft spot on the top of our heads. Whatever the truth may be, the pineal's role with light is uncontested. In animals that are more intimately connected to the web of life and more sensitive to

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ubtle messages of their external ndlngs, this gland is bigger. One thing

ndeniable-the pineal gland is part of ur brain. If thought is electromagnetic, n't you think that those vibrations, cessed via the pineal gland, can make

u more connected to the external world of Ircumstances and events?

ust like those cartoon characters who have a light bulb appear over their heads when they discover something new or have a novel idea, your internal light goes on in your pineal gland when you have

n illuminating or inspiring idea, vision, or motivation. Like an arrow from the bow of the mind, like a photon of light from the sun, your thought races through space to hit its mark. Depending on the strength of your electromagnetic aura, your sharpened thought is colored with your influence to move time and circumstance into your favor. I call this luck.

The law of attraction is at work everywhere, affecting time and circumstance. What science has yet to understand has been practiced by those schooled i,n the art of luck for centuries-just like the principle of molecular attraction, or chemical affinity, or

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understanding that whenever you have an electrical field , you likewise have a magnetic force field of attraction. That force field finds its genesis in the vibrational ether that we breathe and move in.

This ether is simply a finer form of matter vibrating at a higher frequency. Matter and force are only separated by frequency of vibration. Luck is simply destroying an unfavorable rate of mental vibration and sending out finer signals toward the target of your desire. Suddenly, you find that all conditions serve your best interests with perfect timing.

Matter and energy move in circular orbits. Just as macrocosmic elements like planets spin on their axes and revolve around suns, and suns move around their respective galaxies, our cells, molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles move in their own circular orbits. The great statement of electromagnetic vibration is "What you want wants you and is racing to meet you!" This is the awesome science of luck. Luck moves time and circumstance and places it according to your favor.

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revolving object has rays emanating It. When our mental vibrations reach an

"paction rate velocity, the object is drawn magnetized to us. It must come to us urely as the earth must revolve around sun. When your highly concentrated

ught hits the object of your desire, it ust be brought to you as surely as a king mmands his servant to bring something to

him. You may not fully understand the how r when of its fu lfillment-that is, its time and Ircumstance-but never doubt its coming. It

Is as certain as the law of gravity.

Why do I say it is certain? Because every thought that is coupled and clothed with the emotional energy of the nervous system manifests force. In fact, every creative idea is born of force and gives birth to force. That force consciously or unconsciously influences anyone who makes contact with its vibrations.

Walk into a kitchen where the stove has just been turned off. Aren't the heat vibrations still detectable? Yes, of course they are. The vibrations of thoughts and feelings also remain in a room long after the thoughts and feelings have passed, just like a person walking past a parked car can tell if the

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vehicle has just been parked by its heat emanation.

You may now be saying to yourself, "I can't do that. What if it's summer, when all the cars are hot?" Yes, you can do it, just like you learned the knack of finding parking spaces. A recently parked car is still hotter than a car that has been sitting in the sun. The clues are very subtle; it requires a certain type of consciousness, a trained awareness, to reveal their secrets. Like the heat around a recently parked car or a room where a hint of perfume still lingers, a person's mental and emotional atmosphere lingers about them. All you need to do is to train your awareness to .pick up on the clues in the ether.

When you have trained yourself to sniff out opportunity, you will be considered very lucky by those who know you. And in fact, according to this book's definition, you are indeed very lucky, for you are applying the awesome science of luck and now are winning with great consistency.

Opportunities surround us, just like the sights and sounds of an average day. However, you may find yourself only paying

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tion to the things that interest you, hlle the other sights and sounds are locked from conscious awareness. To be

lucky means that you are always looking r the right circumstances to confirm

your lucky hunches. The more you do this, oddly, the more you actually control time and circumstance-because you are uperconsciously setting them up.

Your sympathetic nervous system is replete with countless vibrational receiving stations. Again, consider how your solar plexus is affected by emotional vibrations. You are constantly bombarded by a vast array of vibrations; learning to identify and harmonize with those beneficial to your hopes, dreams, goals, and desires is luck.

The thought vibrations affect the nerve ganglia and set up a peculiar vibration in the material construct of the pineal gland, which transforms these vibrations into thought forms. These solidified thought forms are tightly knit atomic structures of excited atoms giving off photons. These building blocks of "dreams come true" have an affinity for other thought forms of similar vibration. Like attracts like and multiplies itself. Remember, "what you want wants you and is rushing to meet you!"

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Once you've given birth to a strong and powerful mental force field concentrated in a thought form, space, distance, time, and direction matter little. All that needs to be understood is that "it will be as it will be."

On New Year's Eve, people utter wishes for the new year. If there is sufficient emotion behind a person's wishes to make them manifest later in the year, he may exclaim, "I just got lucky!", remaining ignorant of the awesome science of luck.

As you make a more serious study of this science, you will manifest all the building blocks of destiny. You will control time and circumstance and create your own luck.

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CHAPTER TEN

Creating A Lucky Personality

While not every lucky person exhibits all these personality traits, and everyone has a mixed bag of them, I would encourage you to develop as many of them as you can. Think of this as your luck makeover.

A Relaxed Sense of Self

Lucky people don't take themselves too seriously. They have a relaxed sense of self; that is, they are at ease with themselves. They don't allow trivial events to become major storms in their lives. Remember, when you get easily upset over things not going as you expected, you tense up. Tension is an enemy of intuition. Tension blinds us to opportunities. Tension causes us to focus on the cause of the tension, not the solutions or the good fortune that may await us at the next turn.

While lucky people have some of the same bad habits and flaws that unlucky


people do, the way they deal with them is different. They tend to be cheerfully easy on themselves. By not bewailing and bemoaning their inadequacies, they free themselves up. Thus, by not taking yourself tOQ seriously, you will be more able to find good fortune in your life.

Having A Sense Of Humor

Humorous people see the world differently from non-humorous people, and they tend to have better luck precisely because of their different viewpoint. Finding good fortune is much like an artist's trick when a painting just isn't right; the artist simply holds the painting up to a mirror. By looking at it from a different perspective, the needed changes are easily identified. I've known many fine artists with great senses of humor. When you are able to look at your life from the pinnacle of detachment, you're liable to start chuckling. This sense of personal playfulness is a ticket to good fortune. Luck requires that you see the world differently. Even lottery winners see themselves as winners despite almost impossible odds.

Even people who gamble-at least those who possess a sunny disposition-have the

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bility to laugh off their losses until they hit the jackpot. Have you ever met a gambler who didn't expect to win? Of course, not

veryone wins, but by playing the card of humor, you might increase your luck.

Positive Expectation

A feeling of optimism is a prerequisite for good fortune. I believe your outer world is the material manifestation of your inner world, a reflection of your honest internal expectations. Those expectations form your attitude, which determines your behavior and thus your choices. Lucky people have extremely high levels of positive expectation, which filters down through attitude into choice. Right choices result in luck. After all, there is still the possibility of making a wrong choice-or is there?

Once, as a young salesman, I played a little game. I would go down a street and pick out the homes that would buy my product. I would tally up my commissions to see what I was about to earn, then knock at the door with an uncanny knowing-a positive expectation, if you will-that I had already sold the customer. Guess what? I had. All I had to do was get their autographs on the

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approval line of the contract, which they happily gave me.

The numbers of contracts I handed in created a sensation with the company I worked for. The company was located just outside Washington, D.C., in Maryland, and one of the owners was a prominent contributor to political campaigns. My boss said he wanted to reward me for my sales; he said he couldn't understand my success and declared I had to be the luckiest person he'd ever met. Actually, this was the scheme he had in mind.

First, he had his private limousine pick me up and bring me to his luxurious home. In the living room sat several well-known politicians. After the introductions and small talk were over, my boss said we would be going to the clubhouse at the Charlestown Racetrack for the evening. Then, he surprised everyone by throwing a huge roll of bills at me.

"What's this for?" I asked.

"For you to bet with!" he answered.

I threw the bills back to him. "I don't gamble."

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replied, "You probably gamble more than u know."

I left it at that. As we all got into the limo, I was having difficulty finding a place to put the money, so he gave me a paper bag.

We sat in the opulent private clubhouse, and they asked me to pick the horses. My sense of positive expectation was so strong that evening that its electricity was affecting everyone in the room. It was one of the luckiest times I've ever spent at a racetrack. I picked the horse, they placed the bet and determined the amount. Every time my horse won, the bag got bigger and their wallets got fatter. At that time in my life, I'd never seen so much money!

The evening ended, and a few days later, I quit and moved out west. Soon, the money was gone, but the knowledge of my awesome inner potential had taken root in my young life. It would be decades before I unraveled the awesome science of luckhow you can win consistently.

You see, your subconscious mind makes everything you say and do consistent with your sense of expectation . Your

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subconscious mind is said to operate 30,000 times faster than your conscious mind. When your subconscious mind rolls up three cherries and you hit the jackpot, there is a jolt of nerve force that tells you you 've just won. This is such a strong sense of positive expectation that you are physically moved by your correct choice.

Once, when I first got interested in keeping honeybees, a friend and myself went to a beekeepers' meeting. When we walked in, we were told that they were holding a raffle for some beekeeping equipment. The lady said, "Just reach into the basket and pull out a ticket." As I reached into the basket and grabbed a ticket, I felt a mild electrical tingle in my fingers.

Later, when it was time for the drawing of the lucky number, I looked my friend in the eye and said "I just won!" as the man announced my number. My conscious mind had clearly identified my desire, and my subconscious mind identified the winning ticket. My positive expectation was so free of doubt that the winning ticket carried an actual electrical charge. If you observe this law of luck in action, you'll see that it's not what you

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want, but what you expect that becomes a reality.

They Believe They Live A Charmed Life

xpectation and belief are twins. Lucky people believe they live charmed lives, and as they believe, so it is for them. Consider this: if someone tells you that you're charming, what does that really mean?

If you happened to be a young girl in 14thcentury England, the inquisitors might take you to the torture chamber if you were "charming" people. Not good luck at all! "Charm" can mean an incantation of magical power that wards off evil or bad luck. That's actually why women originally wore charm bracelets-to ward off unlucky and harmful happenings.

When I discovered this, I had to laugh about "Prince Charming" as being one lucky guy. In any case, to be a charming person means you are one lucky person who is always untouched by tragedy and misfortune. Let me ask you a question: Do you think it is better to believe you are living a charmed life or an uncharmed life? As odd as it may

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Attention is the mother of creation. What you pay attention to grows. Just looking for four-leaf clovers will draw you to them, and suddenly you're sitting in a field filled with them. Attention is the mother of creation, and gratitude is the reason good things happen.

Generosity

The most successful people I know are the most generous. Many people falsely believe that success is luck without realizing that success is actually the applied science of luck. Generosity is a major component of becoming lucky. Why? Because helping other people get what they want is the premise upon which all success rests,.

A generous soul is a cheerful soul, and cheerful people find it easier to be lucky. The cosmic law has yet to change: you must give in order to receive. It doesn't matter what you give, be it advice, goods, or services-being good to others triggers the law of reciprocity. It is a mutual exchange of energy, and my friend, it's all an energy game. That's why your energy generators must be pumping out positive vibrations at all times. Positive vibrations are the etheric counterpart to luck, and generosity is a very

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powerfu l positive vibration that returns to you many times over.

A number of years ago, we called a glass company to have some mirrors installed. The man the company sent out was very hardworking and conscientious; I liked him. So I asked him, "What if you could do anything in the world and you knew you would not fail? What would you do?"

"Why, I'd go into business for myself," he said.

"Well, why haven't you?" I asked. He said that he didn't know how to go about getting customers.

"What if that's not a problem? Is there anything else preventing you from starting your own business?"

After a thoughtful moment, he said, "No."

"Good! I'll help you get started, " I said. "I know a contractor who is bu ild ing a number of new homes and could use your services. I'll give him a call as soon as you're ready."

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That was over 12 years ago. About two or three years ago, I wanted to glass in a porch that I had constructed, so I was looking for some double-pane insulated patio glass doors, and I called that glass man to buy some.

"How many do you need?" he asked.

I told him around a dozen.

"Can you use more if I get you the right price?"

"Well, yes, I have a number of projects I'd like to have some for," I said. "My garden cold frames, for example."

"I'll be up tomorrow with the glass," he said.

The next day, at my house, he unloaded 35 panels of 3' x 6' 8" glass. After he finished, I asked what lowed him.

"Well, the gas for the truck ... 1'1i take ten dollars," he said.

"And for the windows?" I queried.

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"Peter, I really got lucky on these. Your price is zero."

My attitude of gratitude once again gave birth to luck!

A Strong Sense Of Curiosity

Did you ever find a curious object in an antique shop and want to find out all about it? Immediately, your mind imagined the old house where the grandfather clock sat and the people who lived there. Or, holding that odd knick-knack in your hands, you attempted to find out what it was and found your mind racing back in time, filling you with impressions.

The original meaning of the word "curio" has to do with the meaning of an object of interest. It means you're inquisitive about it. Once, I was doing a seminar in Colorado and a lady handed me an old pocket watch. "Oh," I blurted out, "it's from your grandfather in Texas!" She was just as shocked as I was. I had no way of knowing that, but as I handled the old timepiece, coupled with my strong sense of curiosity, I received strong impressions that turned out to be correct.

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If you have a strong sense of curiosity, you most likely have developed a latent form of clairvoyant psychometry. I've known antique dealers who seemed to have a knack of knowing things about objects that they couldn't possibly have known. Lucky people have the ability to process impressions that other people don't. Like bloodhounds with their n,?ses to the ground, they locate what may appear impossible to find. A hound has an incredible sense of curiosity, just like a lucky person.

They find good fortune in the most unlikely places-like gold doubloons washing up on a Fort Lauderdale beach, or finding a pirate's treasure chest in the surf of an out island in the Bahamas. They're just lucky, I guess!

Open To New Experiences

All lucky people share this common thread-they are open to new experiences. Since they have less fear, they have less · tension. When a person experiences less tension, the nervous system finds it easier to process impressions and vibrations, making that person more confident and more adventurous.

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Most people simply die by the inch, uffocating in cocoons of fear and Isapproval. Slowly, slowly, there is no need f perceptive abilities as consciousness

wanes. Vital forces drain out of a soul as . the fear of the unknown grows stronger. The

yes dim as the body becomes fused and frozen. Bad luck increases as visits to the hospital become more regular. Vital force and luck are then buried together.

However, to those who are alive, truly alive, with an enthusiasm for existence, luck grows stronger and stronger as each new adventure yields its pot of gold. With each new experience, they become luckier and luckier. They never look behind, only forward to their bright and luminous futures.

Immune To Rejection

The luckiest people I know are unaffected . by the past and immune to rejection. ' They are probably the wealthiest people I know, as well. There are always some disenfranchised souls who will be ready to rain on your parade, if you let them; fearful little creatures whose only joy in life is tearing others down and ripping up their dreams. Oh, and don't let me forget their

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most audacious act of rebellion-blowing their car horns in a tunnel. All courageous and lucky souls must deal with the people in the dark who never venture beyond the fence of chance.

"Why don't you get a real job? I know the plant foreman, we're like this. I could probably put in a good word for you if you quit reading them stupid books. Why, you think you're gonna get rich, don't you?" he said to me. .

''I'm already rich," I replied as I walked away from the idiot.

Lucky people are drawn to lucky people who see unlimited possibilities. Lucky people aren't looking for jobs, they are looking for opportunities that lead to lucky encounters. Since they've already traveled through the past, they need not go there again. The future looms bright as they sail off, immune to the discursive rejection of fearful and timid souls who barely have courage enough to crawl out of their holes to curse.

Oh, how lucky are the people who are immune to rejection! They know that good

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will smile as long as they go forward light of luminous possibilities.

Listen To Intuition

t is intuition? It is a teaching from Ide, an "in-tutor," so to speak. How is

ne taught internally? First, by accumulated xperiences, and secondly, by the vast store

knowledge and impressions you retain n a subconscious level. Every time you

make a decision that works out well for you, you experience a certain electromagnetic vibration. Every time you make a decision that does not work out well for you, you feel

different type of vibration.

Every single decision you make is colored by your accumulated experience and subconscious impressions. Emotion is a by-product of the conclusions y.ou draw about an experience or the sum total of your education. Thus, everything you look at harmonizes with a past conclusion. That object and your experience, conclusions, and education create a subtle field of influence that speaks to you with an electromagnetic sensation. All you have to do is determine whether the vibration

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is associated with negative or positive outcomes.

Once you've been able to determine what you are feeling-that is, identify it as positive or negative-you'll know the outcome before deciding to act on it or not. The secret to good luck is always acting on the vibrations that you associate with good things happening to you.

Don't misunderstand me-I'm not encouraging you to base your actions on whim, impulse, or caprice. Intuition is the lightning bolt of reason. Authentic intuition that leads to good luck is based upon the instantaneous sorting of harmonizing experiences, conClusions, and facts stored in the cerebral cortex. I've observed that the more you know about a topic, the more intuitive you become in that particular field .

Lucky people are quickly able to identify what they are feeling and place that vibration into its correct category. Remember, your emotions are formed from conclusions based on past experiences. There is a difference between an emotional vibration and an accurate intuitive vibration. The emotional energy, while quite helpful in

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Istlng your creative visualizations, is t the same as the energy you feel from

tuition. It is important to be able to define Is difference. Emotional decisions often

ult in bad luck, while intuitive decisions ult in good luck.

A couple of days ago, my wife needed to t some suet for the woodpeckers we feed

nd a few other items. The parking lot of the discount store was packed. Long lines of

rs were circling like vultures around the lot. Certainly, not at all my favorite place to be. In fact, I almost always sit in the car and meditate while my wife shops. She is like me and can't wait to get out of there and back to our tranquil environment at home.

After sitting behind other cars searching for a parking spot, I asked, "Where's my spot?" Just then, a car parked in the first space closest to the entrance pulled out. "Hmm ... naturally it's just the way it is for lucky people!" I mused as I pulled in. There must have been a million people in the store-at least that was the impression. I waited and waited. Finally, I did something I don't usually do-I went in. Standing there looking at the maze of people, I could see how easily a child could get lost.

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Naturally, I knew where my wife was going. I also knew where to find the section of the store with the birdseed, which would have been the most logical place to begin my search. Instead, I stood still at the front of the store and mentally asked, "Where is she?" Suddenly, an image of copy paper flashed on my mental screen. This picture and its associated vibratory sensation were different from the vibration you get with memory or emotion. It was also different than the sensation that accompanies the solution to a mathematical problem. This vibration was more like a first impression that came from the outside; oh yes, it felt like an invisible hand had just struck my internal tuning fork, harmonizing my vibration and leading me like a scent hound.

I walked directly and unerringly to my wife, who was in the copy paper aisle. She looked a bit surprised. "How did you find me here? Oh, never mind."

Now, if we can do this with unimportant things like parking spaces and finding someone in a crowded store, what else can this talent be used for? How about applying it to ~ome of the major decisions that can aJter your entire life and destiny? Lucky

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have highly developed intuition, luckiest of the lucky can tell the

.. rence between the quality and fabric of Impressions. Develop and listen to your

lion. It is your spiritual perception of your .. ". rnal knowing ness that can make you one

luckiest people alive.

Strong Sense of Serendipity

re is an old fairy tale called "The Three Inces of Serendip." Serendip was the rmer name of the country south of India,

Iso called Ceylon, and now Sri Lanka. In he story, the three princes were always making discoveries of things they weren't onsciously looking for. At times they used

their keen perceptions; at other times, it ppeared that their discoveries were merely ccidents. You could say that the three

princes were quite lucky.

All lucky people have a strong sense of serendipity. I'll give you a glimpse of how serendipity works . (This account was included in a book written about me by my friends called The Magic Man.)

While we were building our present residence, a young man called Roy

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helped us with the framing. Roy was quite industrious and hardworking. One day I asked him, "Roy, if you could have anything in the whole world just magically appear, what would it be?"

Without a moment's hesitation, he blurted out, "Tools! I love tools!"

I guess I wasn't too surprised that his answer was so immediate. The very next morning, on his way to work, he found a new toolbox sitting in the middle of a country road . It was full of tools! Serendipity? He accused me of placing it in the road by his house-but I didn't. He was just lucky.

Like I said, lucky people have a strong sense of serendipity. They expect good things to happen, and you know what? You get what you set! Set up the expectation of fortuitous events every day, and they will happen every day, every way, and everywhere!

Once, while we were traveling with another couple, Hal and Mindy, my wife and I told them to pick a motel. They said, "You pick one." We were in Nag's Head, NC, a resort town on one of the beaches of the outer banks. Since they all insisted that I pick

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to spend the night, I randomly chose

we had rested, changed into our , and taken a long hike on the

h, we returned to the motel to find an ned note under our door. It read, "This is free. Stay as long as you like."

ok the note to the desk, and the young Irl at the counter blushed. "My dad did that.

cognized you from one of your books and Id my dad," she said. Her father, the head rtner in a Washington, D.C. law firm, paid

r our rooms and arranged for free dinners t the best restaurant in town. What a lucky tring of events, considering that I chose one ut of dozens of motels and we hadn't even

planned to end up in Nag's Head ourselves! But I always expect good surprises.

This story is by far no exception. Some years ago, we were given free airline tickets. Ann and I hadn't been anywhere in years, so we accepted. We flew to Montana, intending to tour Glacier National Park, and stayed at one of the nicest lodges above Whitefish Lake on Big Mountain. The in-season rate for the room was around $250 per night.

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Once we were settled in, we went to the restaurant for a salad. Our waiter, however, was perplexed that all we wanted was some raw veggies in a bowl. We had a short, but pleasant conversation about diet. After bringing us the bill, he was shocked at the generosity of the gratuity. He asked if we would wait a moment and soon returned with the restaurant owner. "Is there something wrong?" I asked.

"No, it's just that we would like to do something nice for you. The salads are on the house! Furthermore, here are some free tickets for the ski lift and a couple of tickets for tomorrow night's concert," the owner said. What luck!

After five glorious days enjoying some of the most beautiful country in the nation, we checked out of our suite. When the checkout clerk handed us our bill, I exclaimed, "Something's wrong with this! This is only for one day, when in fact we've stayed five days."

"Mr. Ragnar, this bill is correct," the clerk said. "Management has taken care of the rest. They asked me to wish you a safe trip and to please come see us again."

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walked out into the crisp blue-sky day, bit dazed at the serendipity. I looked at nd asked, "Why am I not surprised?"

u want to increase your luck, then xpecting lucky things to happen. ipity is the discovery of things you

't consciously looking for. This life ull of magic and this life is too good to

. Develop a strong sense of serendipity d serendipity, like a puppy, will follow you

herever you go!

A Relaxed Sense of Urgency

Two words I really like are "alacrity" and "celerity." They are close in meaning; "alacrity" is a cheerful readiness, while "celerity" refers to the speed with which you accomplish work. There is an inner sense of eagerness that has a certain spontaneous quality. Lucky people have a hearty willingness and promptness to act on opportunity.

I have seen so many people who continuously experience bad luck be slothful, slow to act, and even just mentally dull as brilliant, luminous, and lucky breaks pass them by. I confess, there are times when

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I'd like to kick them in the butt-until I remember that people with bad luck aren't meant to win. That is, until they begin to apply the awesome science of luck in their lives.

This is why these two words, "alacrity' and "celerity," are so important. They imply a sense of urgency. But luck requires a relaxed sense of urgency. This is the playfulness all truly lucky people exhibit. They are passionate about winning, but they realize that tension is the enemy of luck.

Opportunities are fickle and fleeting. They are almost etheric. In a relaxed state, they can be coaxed and attracted to you. Much like rubbing a balloon on your shirt to create a magnetic field and then sticking it on the wall or ceiling, opportunities must be magnetized. You can't let a minute go by; you must act on them before the wind takes your balloon of luck away from you.

The relaxed mental state allows you to see the flimsy, cobweb-like connections between you and the good luck you seek. But, once you see your lucky opportunity, not even a single second can be wasted. Celerity stresses promptness and swiftness, and

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stresses eagerness and the act of nding to an opportunity. Responding to portunity is called luck!

Observant

rally, before you can act, you must be to see. When you see the object of your

re in full detail as a sensory experience, have magnetized it. Now, it is simply ng for its material counterpart to appear.

you are mentally asleep, you'll be blind the countless opportunities passing you ch day. Each day, you can make your

reams come true. Each day, you can Increase your luck. Each day, you can add luck to luck and chance encounter to chance

ncounter until you live in the magical land of infinite prosperity and happiness.

When you see yourself as lucky, you can never be unlucky. See yourself lucky, and all you see will be lucky opportunities for you to act on. Every single creature in nature must use its observation skills in order to survive. Most humans, however, have stopped seeing, looking, or observing-they simply wait for someone else to point out opportunities to them. Of course, by then it's too late; some lucky, observant soul has

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beaten you to the prize. However, now that you're armed with the awesome science of luck, your luck is about to change forever!

Cultivate Contacts

According to the research found in the bestselling book The Anatomy of Buzz, we are only five to six people removed from anyone we want to contact in the whole world. Who is it that you would like to contact, and how can that individual assist you in creating a lucky break? Like I said, lucky people cultivate contacts. Lucky people are skilled at making and cultivating contacts with the very people who can make their dreams come true.

Whom do you want to know, and for what reason? What can you personally bring to the table? How can you help others increase their luck? I have a saying I live by, "Help enough other people get what they want and you can ask the universe for anything your heart desires!"

Years ago, I read an article about the famous philanthropist Percy Ross. I called his secretary and left a message. A few minutes later, Percy returned my call. Our

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IIties resonated. Soon, as the weeks onths passed, Percy asked me to

him give away some of his wealth. Our 9 friendship resulted in an exciting

-uan'ure that you can read about in my ·he Luminous Life: How to Shine Like

I said, we are only five or six people from anyone we want to meet. In the of Percy and me, it was only one-his

"''''retary. One day, a rather humorous nt took place. Percy said he wanted to

troduce me to a good friend of his, Donald rump. To which I replied, "Who's Donald rump?" Well, like I said, we are only a few ople away from anyone we choose to

meet.

Lucky people form a network of contacts that can instantly increase their iuck. When I decided to expand Roaring Lion Publishing and produce videos and DVDs, I asked my new partner Tony how we were going to edit and produce our first video collection. "Oh, that's no problem," he said. "My brother works for a major television station and does that for a living!" Duh! Lucky people cultivate contacts.

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When our first web designer decided to move up to other opportunities, he applied

. for a position with a major Milwaukee newspaper. He went into the office and noticed that the personnel manager had my prosperity poster on the wall behind him.

The manager asked, "So what websites have you designed?"

He stammered, "The site you ordered that poster from!" Yes, he did get the job.

I could tell you so many stories of incredible luck that it would fill volumes. The point is this: luck creates luck. When you start winning, you will continue winning until you doubt the process.

With this book in your hand, you are holding a magical charm. These words, these stories, these experiences contain a power that can make you one of the luckiest people alive. Why? Because you've just cultivated a contact with one of the luckiest people in the world!

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Why These Things enerate Bad Luck

m sure you are familiar with some of these mmon superstitions. A black cat crossing ur path, breaking a mirror, stepping on vement cracks, walking under a ladder,

he number thirteen, and many other things re thought to be unlucky. Of the above five,

three actually can bring you bad luck and two of them are neutral. You 've probably

Iready guessed which three things are obviously unlucky.

You can get a nasty cut from broken glass. If someone is on a ladder with a bucket of paint, you could get splattered with it. If the pavement happens to be slightly uneven, you could trip and fall. From this point of view, avoiding these situations is not superstitious, but actually a way of insuring good luck. Good luck is noticing; bad luck is not noticing. Everything matters and has either a beneficial auspicious effect or a negative inauspicious effect.


There is an ancient Chinese practice that is considered merely folk superstition by most people. It is called (eng shui. Feng shui identifies some things as lucky and other things as unlucky. Even in our Western culture, the common superstitions listed above can result in avoiding bad luck, for the obvious reasons just presented. However, can certain items bring good luck while other items bring bad luck? Is there any science behind feng shui, or is it just an unfounded grouping of various superstitions?

Let's examine some common beliefs to find out if they are science or superstition. I'm certain you're about to be surprised. There are plants that are believed to bring you good luck and others that are bel ieved to be bad luck. Here is an example: the cactus is said to bring bad luck, especially in your home, because cacti have sharp needles pointing at you. The Chinese call th is energy shar chi, or secret poison arrows hidden in your surroundings. You may not be consciously aware of what you feel from a cactus plant, but you certainly take care not to brush up against it. The subtle unconscious influence of this caution actually does wear away at your comfort level, creating a mild stress. As you add

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on layer of unlucky items, their unseen ces bring bad luck.

LII'8WISe, sickly or dead-looking plants signal Isfortune. Not long ago, Ann and I visited a

Ith food store. There was a plant called chlumbergera, which is usually quite

ucculent and beautiful. Sadly, it hadn't n watered, as Ann observed when she

ressed her fingers against the dry soil. The roprietor admitted neglecting the plant.

As we left the shop, I told Ann that it was a very inauspicious sign; sickly plants emit a powerful negative energy of loss.

The shop owner also had a really sweet pug dog that would lie on the floor near the plant. Not good, I thought. The next time we visited the store, I asked where the cute little dog was. The owner sad ly admitted to running over the little dog-it was dead. Now, are you getting the picture of future events? Yes, the plant was also dead. The next time we went by the shop, the shelves were empty and the bui lding vacant. It went out of business.

Now, I'm not saying the plant killed the dog and the business. Neglect killed the dog and the business; the plant was simply begging

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the owner to notice the upcoming bad luck. Dead-looking plants generate bad luck! The leaves of a schlumbergera that is well tended are healthy, green and succulent. This type of plant is said to bring good luck and especially good fortune. Healthy, succulent plants are said to bring wealth.

During the lunar new year, fake gold and silver ingots are displayed in Chinese homes to draw prosperity. Even coins are treated as good luck symbols. Why do you suppose this practice appears to work? Because when you focus on prosperity, you magnetize prosperity.

I've been very lucky in the stock market. I keep records of all my stock purchases in a large looseleaf binder; under the cover of the binder, I've inserted pictures of gold and silver ingots. Is there any relationship at all?

I have another binder for the records of a gold and silver minting company I started in the mid-1990s. After we'd been in business a few years, the price of gold had declined a bit, and my partner and I were looking at ways to increase our prosperity, so I inserted a photograph of 500 newly minted oneounce gold avalons into the plastic cover of

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book. Then I did the visualization I've t you in this book. What happened? I

ved an unexpected call from a friend said she had a friend who wanted to

y some gold from us, and would I speak Ith her. Now, bear in mind, this is two days

r inserting the photograph and doing the Isualization. This stranger then said that he wanted to buy one million dollars worth f gold! Naturally, I was happy to accept her rder.

0, it is very lucky to have symbols of prosperity around you. But what kind of luck do you think you'll generate by having

pile of unpaid bills on your desk? They absolutely vibrate with bad luck! Any bill you receive and do not pay immediately becomes a bad luck generator!

Any pictures that indicate loss-this includes items from others, as well as photographs of deceased relatives-generate bad luck. This is also why cemeteries are considered unlucky. Any symbol of loss must be avoided at all cost.

Once, I went into a beautiful old mission in Arizona. It was called the White Dove of the Desert. Pictures of it show a glistening

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white structure with blue mountains behind it, very pretty. However, inside the chapel, my stomach began churning and a sickening feeling overcame me. The hideous paintings of torture and sadness made me realize I was in a cursed church. Later, I learned that it was built by enslaved Native Americans and their dead remains littered the premises. Bad luck indeed!

Rather than having pictures of the dead that draw bad luck and program you for a shortened life, follow a common feng shui practice; get a turtle, or at least a symbol of one. The turtle reminds you to slow down and live a long and prosperous life. The turtle is a symbol of extreme good luck!

According to feng shui, sharp-pointed, angular, arrow, or spear-like shapes should be avoided, since they bring bad luck. If you muscle-test various shapes, you'll notice that these weaken you-so there is a science behind the superstition.

Take a photo of soldiers with their rifles raised and muscle test that. It is pretty obvious that it will be weakening. Crosses are always likewise weakening . If a palm reader notices a lot of small crosses on your

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t it is a sign of extreme bad luck. The se believe that sharp edges, protruding

~rnArs, and square pillars cause migraine ches, and in some cases, unexpected

ncial loss. It is also believed that by the kiliful use of mirrors, you can send these

Ison arrows back.

ne reason you're apt to see screens and lants in a feng shui home is that they block harp edges. And again , mirrors reflect

the arrows back. Mirrors in a home can bring good luck and avert bad luck; mirrors

xpand a home, and when symbols of prosperity are reflected, they are multiplied, leading to abundance. However, it is considered bad luck to reflect the main door of a home or to have a bathroom door reflected in a mirror. Additionally, it is not good to have a bedroom located under a toi let.

Since healthy plants emit life force, a mirror reflecting them multiplies that force. I read about an electrical engineer, Henry Monteith , who developed a machine that measured the vibrations given off by plants. Dead leaves gave off no visible colors when photographed, while live leaves shimmered in a luminous radiance. Plants' healthy self-

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emissions reflected by a mirror can charge your home with a photonic blessing, while a dead plant reflected can curse your home.

Just as plants respond to the wavelengths of music, they respond to the energy of the people around them. Once, a visiting couple who were experiencing domestic difficulties were arguing at our house. Situated right behind them, we had several beautiful plants. The next day, after the couple had gone, the plants' leaves had turned brown. If people can be bad luck for plants, what happens to you if you associate with them? Their bad luck rubs off on you.

At a music shop I frequent, one day the owner complained to me about a certain negative personality who would come in. Every time he played a guitar, the strings would turn black and have to be replaced. The owner asked if the man had a curse. I replied, "What do you think? Is it good luck for him to come in, or is it bad luck to have to replace the strings?"

To avoid generating bad luck in a shop, it is believed that the proper placement of wind chimes will protect the business from the poison arrows, be they physically sharp

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or simply people with sharp edges. bine that with mirrors so they can see selves for what they are, and some frankincense burning, and you'll block

Ir bad luck.

."ntner bad luck generator is the use of words. Words must be watched, well

tDoken, and clearly pronounced. If you n't be accurate in the .words you choose, u can't be precise in your thinking. autiful words have beautiful sounds that nerate good luck. Ugly words have sharp

dges and disrupt the environment with d vibrations, which generate bad luck.

Remember, we fill our homes and places of business with our thoughts. These thoughts

re like an invisible smoke that others inhale, changing the environment and emotional climate.

A good example is the word "hate," which creates an ugly thought form that floats in the air, much like the vibration of striking a gong continues to reverberate. You also generate bad luck when you come to the dinner table angry or worried. The friction of irritation on your vibrational body can cause internal inflammation, which can lead to a most unlucky disease.

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Irritability is another luck poison. When there is a terrible storm, it is the wind that first moves the waves. The storm may not last long, but the turbulence of the waves will continue. Even when we have forgotten how that one driver cut us off in traffic, the waves of irritation may still be churning up to 48 hours later, disrupting the waves of good luck and attracting bad luck.

In my writing nook, the mirrors in front of me allow me the freedom of bouncing ideas around until I get the right one to present to you . The entire wall where my dining room table is situated has floor-to-ceiling mirrors so that our nutritious meals and their abundance are reflected and multiplied. Prosperity and good fortune are everywhere.

It's really about what you see and feel , both consciously and unconsciously, and your interpretation of those stimuli. Even unpleasant happenings can be turned around. Psychologists call this "counterfactua l thinking." As an example, when I fell off a 300-foot build ing and landed safely, I didn't see it as unlucky; I focused on how lucky I was to land on a metal bU9ket and walk away unscathed. Someone else might focus on how they unluckily happened to

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here and fall in the first place. Again, ng yourself going down a dangerous at sunset is not good luck-but not

Ing killed is! I'm just so happy to be alive, use this life is too good to miss!

is why it's so important for you to keep r antenna up and listen carefully for the

that are everywhere indicating good or bad.

member, in th is universe, nothing is at t; everything is vibrating. Every particle

'f matter, even .the most subtle film of he ethers, is but an assigned degree of

vibration. It is believed by some that the vibration of spirit has such an infinite rate of Intensity that it appears at rest. This is much like the spokes of a wheel spinning so fast that the wh.eel appears sti ll. As you increase your personal vibrations, your antenna goes up- that is, you become more conscious of how everything feels.

In a rudimentary sense, this can be likened to a person learning to distinguish E from middle C on a musical scale. Once you 've trained your ear, it's easy. All you're doing is identifying vibrations; matter, energy, and mind are simply different notes on the scale.

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As with music, when .the combinations of vibrations become discordant, this "noise" is harmful to living things, be they people or plants. Bad luck is the result of continuous exposure to vibrational noise. The arrangement and composition of the things in your life will determine your luck.

Vibrational noise or bad luck can be felt just like you can feel changes in the weather. In fact, it can literally change the weather. This isn't some superstitious quirk you may think I have-this is all about the science of luck. Both good luck and bad luck are not accidents, but results of cosmic law.

Here is an example of how the law of bad luck works. Some years ago, on Christmas Eve, poachers killed a bear we had known for 13 years. He was shot while he was in a huge oak tree. I had named the bear "Pirate," for reasons you might imagine appropriate. Are you already picking up . clues of impending doom? He didn't fall out of the tree. Seeing his silhouette hanging there made you think of a crucifixion.

A few days later, I accompanied two state wildlife officers to the top of the ridge where the old oak stood. They wanted to see if any

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s might be lodged in the trunk of the I vince they had several suspects and wanted to match the bullets' caliber to

an to feel the vibrational noise growing - nger. One officer began to climb the tree,

suddenly, the wind picked up. As they I"\"\'"'"ted about the strange change in the

er, I jokingly said, "It's Pirate's curse. tree within 100 yards from this one

die!" They looked at me strangely, and out comment, the officer began climbing oak.

other officer and I dove for cover as old pine tree crashed down, narrowly

'ng us. As more trees fell, the wind nsified. An awesome howl could be

, as if the forest had become a giant Ing fork. All I could see was the officer's

moving as he quickly climbed from Pirate's tree. We couldn't hear other, nor could we follow the same

th we went in on. Trees and branches exploding in the wind and sticking

spears into the ground. The briars nd brush were so thick that we became

rated from each other. Our yelling s simply drowned out by the roar of the

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terrible tempest. Suddenly, another salvo of branches furiously came down, blocking my new direction. I began crawling under them, worried about the two officers.

I finally made it back to my property to anxiously wait. As quickly as it started, the storm subsided and stopped. The two officers emerged from the thicket, and one officer said , "What the hell was that?"

More sober in my reply, I said, "You thought I was kidding about Pirate's curse, didn't you?"

"We'll pick a better day to climb that tree," he answered. They never came back.

A week later, I ran into one of the suspects. I believed the poachers had used his dogs to tree the big old bear. "How're your dogs doing?" I asked. He didn't know we knew he was a suspect, and since folks knew he raised hunting dogs, it wasn't a strange question.

"I've had some real bad luck," he said. "My best dog got run over and killed by a car, and my second-best dog just dropped dead

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t the end of his chain. We think he had a rt attack."

I replied, "It's a strange world, isn't it?"

he following week, the second suspect d a heart attack and died, I was told. The

tate wildlife officer then said, "I heard the list of the three was really bad sick. I don't hlnk you'll be seeing him around your place nytime soon, but let me know if you do."

I said , "What an amazing string of bad luck."

Well, thatspring, everyth ing was beautifully In bloom again, except Pirate's ridge, where very tree had died. The natural resources

ency said it was a blight that hit the outhem pine in our area. Yep, for 100 yards round Pirate's old oak tree.

0, you see why it's important to keep your ntenna up? When your luck goes sour like n old sock, you carry a vibrational stink

that ruins everything you touch. Like a sick plant that draws insects, sick people draw alamity.

he universe is mind, and luck is the art of mental chemistry. When you are in harmony

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with the laws of life, no harm can come to you. When you are not-when you dwell at the lower planes of vibrational noise-bad luck is the on ly recourse the universe can administer. However, when you discover that mind is matter, you hold the keys to changing the universe. It has been stated, "The spirit is like a stiff wind." Harmonize your spirit with the higher vibrations of the spirit wind for the ultimate blessing.

This is when your mind becomes like a polished mirror. The ancient Chinese weren't kidding when they declared that bad feng shui brings on illness, disasters, and death. They also say that good feng shui causes the wind and water to protect you. Feng shui means "wind and water." The environment is laced with invisible lines of force. Some bring good luck, some bring bad luck. So keep your antenna up!

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CHAPTER TWELVE

he Incredible Good Luck Generator

erator" comes from the Latin root _ nom which means "to give birth to" or "to

ce." What you're about to do is learn to generate, produce, and give birth

Incredible good luck. If the research is IIIrIrrect that there is a vast and unfathomable

lective subconsciousness-and in my rience, I have no reason to doubt itevery thought, image, and idea molds

whole.

me give you an example you may have rd or read about: the hundredth monkey nomenon. Monkeys living in communities

separate Japanese islands, all at the me time, began to pick up a strange

started by one lone monkey. This one onkey began to wash his sweet potatoes fore eating them. Suddenly, with no visible ans of communication, all the other

keys began washing their potatoes in

I ne ~ Wf:!::iUIIlf:! ,;)(,-,tllI(,tI VI "-U,,"

The point is this: there is an unconscious realm that we collectively share. This substratum of consciousness contains an infinite flow of influences. You can probably understand it more by holding your hands 10 to 12 inches apart with your palms facing each other. As you continue to hold your position, very slowly move your hands closer and further apart. If you've never done this before, you may be surprised to feel a strong magnetic attraction. Pull your hands further apart, and if you're really paying attention, you'll feel the energy snap back to your hands as this invisible substance breaks its grip. This substance is the energy of influence.

While at first you might not see anything between your hands, with practice, you'll begin to see what looks like heat radiation, like you see over a hot stove. As you play with this exercise, you'll notice that the invisible substance is quite elastic and magnetically sticky. With advanced practice, you'll notice that there are finer and more subtle layers of this etheric substance. What if you could take a little ball of it and put a message inside it?

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~----, , 1'0 "'''' 'GU'Ule;; \,;Juuu Lu","n \,;,,;;;;:, I'CI a IU.

point, making a little ball may not m like an impossible feat, since you've

_ lr.Any proven to yourself that you can it. Actually, molding this ball is quite

y with practice. Once you feel and see nergy between the palms of your

nds, simply rotate your hands as if you turning an imaginary ball. Soon, you'll ally begin to feel an invisible substance.

the ancient Chinese practice of Oi Gong, nounced "chee gong," this is called the

ball or energy ball. (For more about this ctice, see my Magnetic Oi Gong course

www.roaringlionpublishing.com.)

nce you feel comfortable forming this nergy ball, you're going to allow it to float ward. As it floats up, it lifts your hands

with it. Allow the ball to stop in front of your ceo A note about raising the ball-you'll be

nhaling it upward to face level with one big nhalation.

Here is where it gets a little bit tricky, but on't worry, you'll master it. Imagine inhaling

with your third eye or pineal gland. Soon, ou'li notice a flexing sensation in this gland

you inhale. The exhalation drops the reath downward to deposit the vital force

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contained in your breath to a spot two inches below your navel.

As you inhale from your third eye, the inhalation is like a vacuum tube drawing energy from the point below the navel, up the tailbone, along your spine, and back to the third eye. Soon, you will feel an actual electrical tingle with each concentrated breath.

What you have created is an energy orbit. Just like the spinning of a turbine creates electricity, the orbit of this electricity within your body begins to grow in voltage. Do ten full breath orbits before going to the next step.

The next step is to hold your energy ball as if it were a magical looking glass. Your ball will begin to look like a luminous ball of white mist. In the center of this glowing fog, close your eyes and see a mental picture of your desired object or condition. It can be anything your heart desires, from healing a loved one's illness to the acquisition of a material object.

Just to make sure the image is firmly visualized, touch the image with your finger.

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you can do that, you've created a very ong impression. If your image disappears, n't worry; with practice, it will become

ronger and more vivid. Don't become Illcouraged. Consider, many people spend ur to eight years going to a university in

r to secure the career of their dreams, n spend an equal amount of time trying to ome financially stable.

you devote yourself to mastering this redible good luck generator, you might t become as lucky as your author, a

rmerly unemployed construction worker ho happened to stumble upon the wesome science of luck. With the incredible od luck generator, even a fleeting thought

ut into the luminous fog has success shing my way. And it will be likewise the se for you.

nce the object of your desire is placed within the luminous fog and is vividly magined, with an impulse and an xhalation, send the charged image on its

way. Think of this as blowing out a candle me with your third eye. You should

Iso feel the electrical tingle in your lower bdomen. Just like blowing out a candle,

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it may take several exhalations before the image flies further into the ethers.

The luminous mist you formed between your hands carries the imprint of your personal energy field, ensuring that what you place in that ball will be destined to return to you. Remember, the sticky magnetic substance from which you formed the ball is now programmed and sent into the substratum of collective cosmic consciousness. Just as surely as one monkey can influence 1000 monkeys to wash a potato, you can influence this invisible attraction force to draw to you what you want. By using the incredible good luck generator on a regular basis, you can make all your dreams come true. The awesome science of luck is yours-now you can win consistently!

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're probably going to see more and more , tapes, CDs, and courses on luck,

ng poker, and winning at blackjack, at races, and at the casinos. I heard just other day that they're bui lding a new

Coast casino in an attempt to compete Las Vegas. On the nightly business rt, they stated that the hottest stocks of were in the gaming sector.

are probably aware of the talk of the I estate bubble bursting, yet people go

n playing the game, trading prices to higher nd higher levels. I heard of 40,000 people ttending a seminar on how to buy and flip roperties in New York City recently. And

I'm certain untold thousands of parents, hildren , wives, and husbands are betting nd hoping their son, daughter, spouse, or rent will be lucky and arrive home safely

'rom the war-torn Middle East. In one way or nother, everyone has his or her bets placed nd hopes to win. I sincerely hope they have

his book in their hands!


Well, if you've read this far, you already have some idea about how to court Lady Luck. You also realize, only too painfully, how many lose on their bets. Some people throw caution to the winds and desperately attempt to twist the arm of the maiden of luck. This is much like attempting to grab hold of a smoke ring; the lady simply slips away and begins to avoid you forever.

You must woo Lady Luck as you would a lover. You must attract, captivate, and charm her if she is to release her favors. Just like you see your lover in your mind's eye, you must see the favorable conditions unfolding in all their sensory detail. Your laser-like imagination must project vivid , lifelike pictures in your mind-pictures that are real enough to give birth to reality.

Every sign of favor must be noticed: the new perfume she dabbed behind her ear, her elusive smile, the way she paused to look at you as she bent forward, the playful flip of her hair, the manner in which she walked away from you that beckoned you to follow. Since Lady Luck has charmed you, you must captivate her also.

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now, you should be feeling a gut instinct t your success. So, how are you doing

this courtship? Are you paying attention to igns? How perceptive were you to the

she played as she pretended to walk How's your breathing-panting now

Inhaling deeply?

ber, you can breathe light into the you desire. Is she right for you? You'll know until you win her favor. Dating

s Luck means that you must influence not force the time and circumstances of

s your personality attract her company? does she fidget and find herself anxious leave? Are you unconsciously generating

luck by subtle influences that throw up flags of caution, or will you be able to uce her with your incredible good luck

It all remains to be seen.

, like luck, is both an art and a science. all about skill and courage. It's about ng for what you want in life. Too many

alone on the bleacher seats believing mselves unlucky, believing only the prom

n and the football hero deserve to

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dance, and never real izing that in order to win, you must have the guts to play! Oh yes, the ball doesn't always land on your number, and you don't always hold the winning ticket. How cou ld you if you never enter the casino of life? Yes, anyth ing can happen here, but never playing is losing in advance.

The young girl who sees herself as a wallflower never recognizes her glorious beauty as she passes the awkward ugly duckling stage of life. She simply believes she was never meant to win and accepts the crumbs fallen from the table of prosperity. For her, the calendar never changes; it's always Friday the 13th. I shed a tear for her, for I too waddled like a duck until I spread my wings and found I could fly. And fly, indeed, I did! There are no limits except the ones you place on yourself. Reach upward and test the heights, for that is where luck resides.

Luck's su itor is persistence, and soon she will swoon in your arms if you do not give up on your dreams. You will be tested soundly, for she will not be yours until she is convinced you will not be deterred. You have all the tricks you need in the pages of

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Awesome Science of Luck: Your Guide Winning All the Time. The techniques are

IRrnven, time-honored, and true. This truth is use. Use it and Lady Luck will smile with r and never leave you.

has been good visiting with you. I'm certain maiden of luck has been reading over r shoulder as you've turned the pages of book. She asked me to share one more

of how good she can be to you .

rday was the big Triple Crown horse at Belmont. I picked Afleet Alex to win

Andromeda's Hero the long shot to , and Ann picked Nolins' Cat to show.

three of us-that is, Ann, myself, and Luck-sat there in rapt attention. She

led broadly as our picks came in, 1,2,3.

h, the awesome science of luck, your guide winning all the time! Yes, you can win, not

of the time, not part of the t ime, but all the time!

ood luck to you! May you always be a 'Inner!

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