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The following is an excerpt from The Law of Agreement, the new book by Tony Burroughs, which has now been released.  http://www.intenders.com 

** Please note-I have this available in an e-book and if you are interested drop me a line at ev@raisingvibrations.com and I will send you a copy. BRILLIANT stuff for today’s world!

                                                             The Vanishing Money Trick

Right now, most people still rely on money as a measure for their happiness. If there is enough of it in their bank accounts and pocketbooks, then they are generally content, and there's nothing wrong with that. But times are spinning fast now, and those with a little foresight can see that the money is steadily being taken out of the hands of the people. A time may come soon when there isn't as much of it around. It's not that it has to be that way - it's just part of the plan, a plan we all agreed to take part in for the purpose of making ourselves stronger.

How, you say, can we possibly become stronger if our money is taken away? How could anything but total panic take hold in times of no money? Undoubtedly, the media will make it sound like the whole world has gone mad as these times come upon us. They will roll out the stock footage of lines at the bank and do their level best to scare the heck out of us - and most people will be terrified.

But what of those who aren’t terrified? They are the strong ones. They are the ones who won't freeze in fear. They are the ones who everyone else will look to for leadership because they will have already discovered an alternative to money: Living by Manifesting.

Mark these words. Living by Manifesting is our next step in life. It is the hallmark of the new paradigm. It is the threshold we must cross to reach our true freedom. Anyone who would continue to measure their happiness by worthless pieces of paper cannot really be free. Our security comes from within. Our peace of mind is always within reach, and yet we keep it at a distance by clinging to our precious papers and possessions. Let's look at it another way. Our happiness and peace of mind can be dependent on money or dependent on our ability to manifest whatever we need. In the first case, where we are reliant upon money, there is a whole slew of middlemen - those who print it, those who distribute it, those who regulate it, those who lend it at interest, etc. - and all of these middlemen are constantly dipping their hands into our pockets. In such an imbalanced system we cannot be free because they won't let us. They have a big stake in our dependence on them. Said another way, they're subtly robbing us of our energy every chance they get.

The alternative is to Live by Manifesting, and it allows us to break free from the middlemen. Our peace of mind does not have to pass Go, with no one else collecting $200 along the way. And there's something else. Our dignity and self-worth begin to surface again. For, how can we hold onto our self-respect as long as we're dependent on another? We cannot. Only through learning to live by consciously creating our environment on a moment by moment basis can we be free and authentic. And only in freedom and self-respect do we find our strength, our true power.

One day, BJ and I were sitting in the rainforest, taking a break from pruning some avocado trees that were getting too tall to harvest. It was late in the morning as we leaned back against the trunks of a couple of trees. We were surrounded by chain saws, sickles, machetes, ropes, and were sweating profusely, swatting mosquitoes, and drinking the last of our coffee. Suddenly, he looked up at me and asked, “What do you think is the biggest difference between us, Tony?” I didn’t quite know where he was going with this, so I gave him a comic answer, “Well, you’re taller than me,” I said. He just stared at me. “That’s not what I’m talking about,” he replied. Then he didn’t say anything. Finally, my curiosity got the best of me and I asked him, “Okay, what is the big difference between you and me?” “I’m secure,” he said. And he didn’t say the next three words, which, no doubt, would have been, “and you’re not!” I didn’t have a chance to respond before he went on, “Yes, I’m secure,” he said again. “Whenever I need anything to come to me, I simply manifest it. I don’t need to go anywhere or do anything special. I just put the Laws of Manifestation to work on my behalf, and everything comes to me.” He was right. I’d seen it happen so many times over the years that I didn’t question it anymore. We lived 17 miles from the nearest town, way off the main road that encircles the Big Island of Hawaii, and time and time again I’d seen him manifest all sorts of things without seeming to have to go anywhere. Often, I would go to bed at night needing a special tool to fix the truck or some other piece of machinery, and when I’d meet him for breakfast the next morning, he’d have “found” the exact tool I needed. It was uncanny.

 “So,” he went on, “I measure my definition of security by how good of a manifestor I am; by how good I am at getting the things I need to come to me. While you, on the other hand, define and measure your security by how much money you have in your wallet or in your bank account at the moment - and, oh, by the way, if your wallet starts to get thin, or your bank account gets a little low, you start to panic!” Well . . . I knew he was right. Like most people nowadays, I’d been brought up to believe that if I had a lot of money, I would be secure. The only problem with this line of thinking was that it was becoming more obvious, by the day, that the money supply was being tampered with, and that our money is systematically being taken out of the hands of all but the few. “Yes, I’m secure,” he said, “and it doesn’t matter to me whether I’ve got money in my pocket or not because if I need something I’ll just manifest it. You might want to think about that,” he said. “Because the time is coming when there might not be as much money around as you’d like, but one thing is certain,” And what’s that?” I asked.

“You’ll always have your intentions,” he said. “No matter what’s going on in the world around you, you’ll always have the ability to be a conscious co-creator and manifest anything you like. That’s where your true security lies – in your proficiency at manifesting, not in how much money you have.”