Barbel Mohr - Cosmic Ordering: The Next Adventure

About the Author and Translator

Barbel Mohr has published twelve self-help and children's books in German, including the best-selling The Cosmic Ordering Service, which has sold more than one million copies in Germany alone and has been translated into fifteen other languages. The book recently exploded across England after Noel Edmonds, popular host of Deal or No Deal, revealed how following the principles in The Cosmic Ordering Service changed his life. Mohr originally wrote the book for a small group of friends, distributing it as photocopies, before Omega-Verlag agreed to publish the version that became a best-seller.

Born in Bonn, Germany in 1964, Mohr has worked as a self-employed photographer, editor, graphic artist, and video producer. From 1995 to 2001, she traveled widely in Germany to promote better living through her seminars and lectures, including a workshop, How to Have More Fun in Your Daily Life. The birth of her twins in 2001 has curtailed her public appearances.

Anything else worth knowing about the author and Cosmic Ordering can be found at her website: http://www.baerbelmohr.de/english/index

Dawn Bailiff received graduate degrees from the University of Vienna, Austria in technical translation and philosophy, where she specialized in the writings of Rudolph Steiner. While there, she wrote Using Music to Teach Math, Foreign Language, and Technical Skills: Incorporating the Anthroposophic Principles of Rudolph Steiner (published in German). Her translations of Rudolph Steiner, G. W. F. Hegel, and Martin Heidegger have appeared in numerous journals including: New View, The German Quarterly, and Paideia. She also does technical translations for major corporations.

Formerly a world-class concert pianist, Bailiff performed with such major symphonies as Berlin, Vienna, London, Seattle, and Los Angeles. Also a composer, her opera, Anblicke des Himmels und der Holle (for which she wrote the libretto in German) was performed in Berlin, Dresden, and Stuttgart.

Bailiff's poetry and fiction have received national and international acclaim. Her metaphysical memoir, Notes from a Minor Key, is scheduled for release in Fall 2007 by Hampton Roads Publishing Company.

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From Armani to Dirty Jeans and Back Again

If you have not read my first book, nor offered up one single order to the universe, you may, at first, wonder what this Cosmic Ordering Service is all about. Quite simply, it is best illustrated by the story From Armani to Dirty Jeans and Back Again.

It all began in 1994, when Ingrid's highly successful husband (with a penchant for Giorgio Armani suits) had a serious car accident from which he did not recover. Actually, his body had recovered in six months; however, his mindeven after four yearshad not recovered sufficiently for him to regain his professional status.

Meanwhile, one might say that the family went from Armani to dirty jeans. Along with the financial pressures came marital discord, and Ingrid began to prepare her daughter for what seemed like an inevitable separation. Since her husband continued to remain unemployed, Ingrid knew she must look for work. Yet, after filling out over seventy applications, the best she could do was a single part-time job, two days a week for only a few hours a shift. This did not go far in supporting her entire family!

At the end of last year, Ingrid allowed herself, for the first time in quite awhile, to be persuaded to attend a party. When the time came, she went, admittedly, more because she had already promised than from a desire to go.

During the party, she found herself among the group of smokers on the balcony. There, another smoker, named Isabella, caught her attention. The two got into a conversation, in which Ingrid told Isabella that she admired her radiance and her temperament. She was even a bit jealous because her own life was a failureher marriage, her job, simply everything.

Isabella, who was always a source of helpful information, immediately thought: this calls for an order to the universe. Although she was not certain whether this stranger before her would connect with this seemingly outlandish method, her thought intensified until she had to verbalize it: Ingrid, I believe, you should call on the Cosmic Ordering Service.

If you knew how many spiritual fanatics I have turned a deaf ear to, Ingrid sighed.

Yet, Isabella persisted: I don't speak from a fanatical perspective but from a practical one! You think in concrete terms about what you would like to have, and then you send this order out in thought, trusting that what you desire already belongs to you.

Ingrid looked a little doubting, but Isabella was not finished with her remarks: And don't order the same thing tomorrow. If you order something from the Source, you do not re-order it the next day. Otherwise, they think you are somewhat confused and send you nothing more at all.

Ingrid found that last sentence so funny that she decided it might be amusing to follow this peculiar advice at the next opportunity.

The party continued, and Ingrid did not return home until 2:30 A.M. Once there, she still had to walk the family dog. The beautiful, starry night fed her imagination, making her more receptive to the new ideas she had heard earlier, so she decided it would not be a bad idea to give this whole Cosmic Ordering Service a try. She recalled Isabella's instructions and considered, in detail, everything she would like to have.

Most importantly, she needed a better-paying job that she could coordinate with the care of their daughter. In addition, something had to happen in their marriage.

Her body and soul were so invested in these thoughts that her entire energy seemed to collect itself in her solar plexus and begin to circle there.

When she finally sent the order into the clear, starlit sky, it was as though a spiral emanated from the center of her being. It was nearly a mystical experience for Ingrid. She did not give it too much thought, but it was a little disconcerting, nonetheless.

The next day, she arrived at her part-time job. First thing in the morning, the telephone rang. It was their tax advisor, inquiring whether Ingrid was still looking for work. Ingrid admitted that she was. The tax advisor then gave her the number of a lady whose bookkeeper had abruptly quit some months ago, triggering a frantic search for a replacement which, so far, had turned up nothing.

Ingrid immediately called the lady and went for an interview that very afternoon. She could hardly believe it! Everyone in the office was very nice, and Ingrid and the owner clearly saw eye-to-eye. The only question that remained was: When could she start? How about tomorrow? the owner asked.