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OK, I was in error – I misjudged. Thought I had nothing else to write about self-help.

But when you are going along in life, you hit some bumps. And of course, this also has to do with your spiritual training. The basics are much lower, though.

Look, the reasons you don’t have enough money in your life are due to 2 things:

1. You have a bad mental habit of lack
2. Your money desires are insatiable.

I can say that as a generality because I’ve not only been there, done that – but I’ve also studied all the authors who wrote about it, such as Napoleon Hill, Wallace Wattles, and Earl Prevette (among others – Troward, Behrend).

Lester Levenson was the capstone on this, though. He pointed out that all your personal programs you run on are simply a collection of memories and thoughts which are supposedly going to help you out. Unfortunately, they don’t.

While you can release to get rid of these (ever heard of the Abundance Course by Larry Crane?), you really have to do a daily action on this for about 28-40 days. This works over your subconscious mind and tells it that you are expecting only showers of money or cash coming into your life from here on out. (Or whatever other imagery you want – like a money magnet or something.)

But that’s the real trick.

Daily, probably best is 3 times a day, sit down (or sit up if you are in bed) and get into an alpha-level meditative state (Silva Method), then do a quick Ho’oponopono (Zero Limits style) and then get into either your mental video (Silva UltraMind) or just simply release on it.

While the Goals releasing is best (where you write it down as you cover it), you can also simply do this short-handed technique:

1. State your goal, out loud if you can. (“I allow my self to have routinely more than enough money to live on and support my family with ease” – for example.)
2. Discover any feelings you are having about this and identify them (Apathy, Grief, Fear, Lust, Anger, Pride – 0r even the Expanded Scientology Tone Scale) and
3. Then look below that to find out what desire is fueling that feeling (Control, Security/Safety, Approval).
4. And let that go.
5. Keep this up until you get very calm on the subject.

Then end off, feeling better than before, perfectly relaxed, and come out of your Silva Method alpha level.

The trick is to simply keep this up, three times a day, every single day for a good month or more.

It gets easier as you go along, but take a calendar and mark off the days as you do it. Don’t skip, even if it’s going really fast. There are layers to come up and be released, like peeling an onion. Just keep going until there is no more onion.

28 days was found by various studies. But 40 days is the standard by various religious and spiritual texts.

If you want showers of cash or checks into your life (and bank account), then do the above. Print this off and post it by your work desk, and your night stand – along with that calendar page to mark off.

(And this is so simple, you can even do it on your commute – as long as you aren’t driving.)

Once you’ve got routine abundance into your life, then pick out another goal. Maybe perfect health or beautiful  relationships. Anything else you want to attact or manifest into your life.

Piece of cake.

But you have to taste it to know how good it really is…

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Burt Goldman is no scammer. He’s the real deal. But a lot of people don’t think so.

Napoleon Hill‘s credit and legacy is in writing one of the all-time best selling self-help guides ever published.

What do these two have in common?

Burt is about to release (or already has, depending on when you read this) the secret to Napoleon Hill’s “Boardroom of Advisors”

You’ll find this in his Chapter 14 of “Think and Grow Rich” – “The Sixth Sense”.

Now Hill carefully doesn’t spring this on his readers until this chapter so that he could build up their understanding in order to accept it. And he had used it for decades before he mentioned it in this book. Hill didn’t even bring it up in his 16-volume “Law of Success”.

And Burt understood this enough himself to not spring it on people until he could do it himself and also teach others how to do it. Burt is a teacher. And he tests carefully before he promotes his new material (although some of the people marketing his stuff might have different ideas…)

Let me tell you how this stuff really works.

And then you can compare how Burt teaches to do it.

Hill had these simple points:

• Understanding the existence of Infinite Intelligence throughout the universe.
• Knowing that this force can be induced to transmute Desires into material form.
• Faith (personal, not religious) in these principles and yourself enable it to work.
• “My experience has taught me that the next best thing to being truly great,
  is to emulate the great, by feeling and action, as nearly as possible.“

With those personal rock-solid data under his belt, Hill then committed himself to meeting with a boardroom full of Invisible Counselors every evening.

Every night, over a long period of years, I held an imaginary Council meeting with this group whom I called my “Invisible Counselors.”

The procedure was this. Just before going to sleep at night, I would shut my eyes, and see, in my imagination, this group of men seated with me around my Council Table. Here I had not only an opportunity to sit among those whom I considered to be great, but I actually dominated the group, by serving as the Chairman.

I had a very DEFINITE PURPOSE in indulging my imagination through these nightly meetings. My purpose was to rebuild my own character so it would represent a composite of the characters of my imaginary counselors. Realizing, as I did, early in life, that I had to overcome the handicap of birth in an environment of ignorance and superstition, I deliberately assigned myself the task of voluntary rebirth through the method here described.

After years of use and subsequent study of the phenomenal changes this method had produced in his life, Hill figured out what was actually going on:

These facts are mentioned preliminary to a statement of fact which I shall now make, namely, that during my meetings with the “Invisible Counselors” I find my mind most receptive to ideas, thoughts, and knowledge which reach me through the sixth sense. I can truthfully say that I owe entirely to my “Invisible Counselors” full credit for such ideas, facts, or knowledge as I received through “inspiration.”

Burt’s earlier products are the clue

Now, if you’ve studied Burt Goldman’s MindBox, you’ll see immediately how Hill was able to achieve these results.

Burt’s techniques are based on his long-standing association with Silva Method of Laredo Texas. He uses the Silva Method in nearly every technique he has – as a method of enabling people to quickly get to a high meditative state where they can access the Universal Mind or Infinite Intelligence directly.

His “Quantum Jumping” is based on his same point – and was originally discussed in his “Mind Box” release.

Frankly, this goes back to older Huna philosophies, among others, where a person would have a Magic Garden to resolve difficulties. This isn’t particularly new to anyone studying New Thought authors, either.

Burt introduced the idea of a doppelganger in an “alternate universe”, which is a similar imaginary situation. Jose Silva had this concept as well.

So the technique you can use, is to simply look up the Silva method and do this on your own.

I’ve done exactly that, and used these “Invisible Counselors” from time to time. And gotten incredible insights from it. May even do it tonight…

Your own mileage may vary – there are no “typical results” – since metaphysics depends on two things:

1. You get out what you put into it. Expect a scam and you have one.
2. The intention you put behind a technique will determine it’s results. Even real Quantum Physicists agree on that.

So I’ll give you the link to Burt’s release about Hill’s “Invisible Counselors” again.

And tell me if I didn’t just spill the beans above?

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Otherwise, here’s a blatant ad for his Quantum Jumping materials:

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While I’ve literally written (compiled) the book on Mystic Marketing, I ran across some interesting data in Burt Goldman’s “Mind Box”, which has had some success on the Internet, far more than it would have had he only pitched it to his seminar attendees or his personal mailing list.

Burt mentioned the “7 Laws” almost as an after thought, with reference to “Hermetic teachings.” Curious, with the Internet always on, I checked this out and found it to be an old, public domain book, which I already had in my own files.

The interest here is that this has everything to do with Marketing as it is practiced , and will open up new ideas for you as you study it.

I am not going to delve into this in detail, just mention a few illustrations. (And unfortunately, this is running to nearly a couple of thousand words, which is horrible blog etiquette – so you might want to print off this page and save it for reading with your favorite beverage while relaxed on an easy chair or couch…)

I. Principle of Mentalism

This is not a new concept, but it perhaps didn’t even start with Hermes Trimestigus (or Thoth). It’s found in the Huna teachings, which Max Freedom Long said were even older than Egyptian.

The idea, while stated as “All is MIND” are easily explained to be, as Earl Nightingale, “We become what we think about.” He attributed that idea to Napoleon Hill. In Huna it is, “The world is what you think it is.”

Here you see Ryes and Trout’s “Positioning” concept. By inviting your viewers to think about your product in a certain way, you also invite them to create that item in their world. The more they create it, the greater possibility for it to exist, i.e., they will buy it or some version of it sooner or later.

(On the Internet, they may download it first and then later get an actual CD. If you are prepared, you will make low-cost downloads of individual MP3’s available as part of your initial promotion.)

II. The Principle of Correspondence

Goldman is fond of repeating this one, “As above, so below; as below, so above.”

An easy application is that when you plan a marketing campaign for the long-tail niche, it has the same elements as one you would plan for a large “big-head” campaign (taking over one of the few bestseller spots in the NYT or B&N or Amazon, for instance.)

So you would test-market your new product in a small area and carefully analyze each part of it for effectiveness in converting customers to clients, leads to sales, viewers to buyers.

Internally, you will also pick your best execs and project managers in this way. As they treat their immediate staffers, so will they treat their accounts.

You’ll also see in this the Golden Rule and also the Law of Attraction.

III. The Principle of Vibration

Essentially, everything has vibration, motion, movement. Nothing stays at rest.

This is obvious on any marketing plan – you have to “re-charge” it at intervals with new material. And with social media, you can see how some items “go viral” while others are ignored. Everything has a pattern of motion it follows (or introduces).

Copywriting is in this league. Study the greats such as Shakespeare and people who followed him such as Louis L’Amour. You’ll see that while they have scene shifts and cliff-hangers, the story is moved along with a certain pace – ever quickening, dragging the unsuspecting audience along. Star Wars and other hits are of this type. “Boring” films (compare John Wayne’s hits with his “B” movie duds) don’t keep a regular, quickening cadence. Music is another element in this. John Williams’ scores were key to the Star Wars’ series success – as is the continuing use of a common theme in all the Star Trek ensemble of  movies and TV series.

Your copy-writing can be staccato, such as the famous VW ads (“Ugly.” “Still Ugly.”) or they can run on for a solid text of pages like the Robert Collier ads.

There is a vibration to all promotion. When these are sympathetic to the vibration of the viewer (or listener), you have increased want and sales.

IV. The Principle of Polarity

The universe isn’t simply hot or cold, but a wide variation of temperatures in between. Every extreme has its opposite, but is actually a description of a working scale of every position in between.

There is no Perfect or Good ad. Some are very bad. And your best promotion is not one which is the glossiest or academically perfect. The old “Clio’s” were a study in this. Like the Academy Awards, it was some sort of inbred purity at work with the judges. Their track record was that every PR agency which won a Clio was out of business the next year. Because they were works of art which didn’t sell products.

Huna has this principle, “Effectiveness is the measure of truth.” So it is definitely with promotion and advertising. Consider the independent movie, “Blair Witch Project”. On a per-dollar expense in marketing and production, this was an outrageous success. But the film, “Rocky Horror Picture Show” has attained a cult status and substantial returning revenues to small independent movie houses which show it to midnight viewings on a regular basis. “Deep Throat”, for all it’s porn, was a promotional success.

All these were not high-dollar epics. And you’ll see many other independent and low-budget entrees which never make their costs back. While on the other hand, there have been huge investments by major studios which never returned costs.

Box office popularity is perhaps the best measure of quality – what are the sales. But then often a “flop” by major studio standards will set the stage for a later success, achieving name recognition that can be later parlayed into a profitable production.

Of course, your released campaigns fit into this, as you develop a series of spots which keep a regular appearance in front of your potential viewers. This of course combines several of the above principles.

V. The Principle of Rhythm

Now you can appreciate the pluses and minuses of rhythm to promotion and advertising. Everything swings and cycles between extremes. Our two last presidents are of this mold. Both extremists and polarizing.

This is not a common use in marketing, as it is apparently not well known. The Star Trek franchise has been worked to be a regular presence in front of it’s viewers. So it is working from the “is there, isn’t there” type of polarity. (And one of its most famous original shows had a comment on racism, where two surviving people off a planet were constantly trying to kill off the other – one was black on the right, white on the left; the other reversed. Both considered the other their enemy just because they were differently colored.)

Some savvy Internet marketers have realized the natural phenomenon and licensed affiliate sales people to take up the negative positions to their positive spiel. Like this site, where I can find people coming to find all about “Burt Goldman scam” when I don’t consider or write about that being a fact. (And, with any luck, I’ll be approved for affiliate sales of his products shortly…) The more they promote Burt, the more people come to my site to find out if (or how) it’s an actual scam.

Polarity and Rhythm. Don’t be stingy with affiliate accounts – set them lose to pick up all the reverse-polarity marketing campaigns you can’t do yourself.

And you’ll also see rhythm show up in the copyrighting on a blog – as well a longer ad campaign with several short releases (again, see the VW campaign by example.)

VI. The Principle of Cause and Effect

“Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law…”

Most of marketing has the consumer as the unwilling/willing effect to the Marketer’s Cause. Arrogant marketers are reminded of this fact (as well as arrogant politicians) when the customer quits buying their products (or votes for the opposition.) More common on television (especially cable) where people vote with their remotes.

Most people (around 95-97%) simply go with the flow around them, and this is what Marketing is based on – appeal to the subconscious mind which runs their lives with routine. This is the factory worker, the warehouse operator, the sales associate on the sales floor, the cubicle denizen in white-collar jobs, the government-job “worker”, the union member. Their bosses call the shots, and are often just another cog themselves.

Independent entrepreneurs and company founders are those who remain at Cause most of the time. These are the Doers, not those who are stuck on the receiving end, hoping that their pensions and “social security” will still be there when they retire.

Marketers market, consumers consume.

VII. The Principle of Gender

Having nothing to do with sex, the action of giving (Male) and receiving (Female) are necessary to every marketing approach. While the marketer gives in order to receive, the customer receives in order to give.

A key use of this is where successful marketers give value before the person is asked to buy anything. Because they give something away, the potential customer wants to reciprocate. This is one indicator of a scammer, since they will give something of very cheap value and then hit up for something very pricey (also of dubious value). Traditionally-accepted marketing practice is always to give away something fairly valuable, but always also give a final value in excess of whatever someone pays. This then turns one-time consumers into returning clients, as they “always get a good deal.”

This is also the point of turning your clients into Affiliate sales points. Receivers now turn into Givers. They can say that they honestly got a good deal when they contact other people they know – and are rewarded with a small stipend for the referral.

“One-shot wonders” in the music industry violate this right, left, and center.

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So this overlong treatise is just a shallow over view of what can be gained by studying the Mystic classics. The term “mystic” has the meaning of both initiate (learner) and also teacher.

It is expected that as you master your own studies of life and living, you’ll “pay it forward in advance” to help others. The reasoning behind this is found in the 7 principles above.

And the interplay and interaction you’ll find as you go along this line can be fascinating in the extreme.

For more information, check out the Kybalion as you can find it online, as well as my Mystic Marketing book. Don’t say you weren’t warned…

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