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Also by Julia Cameron

BOOKS IN THE ARTISTS WAY SERIES
The Artists Way
Walking in This World
Finding Water
The Complete Artists Way
The Artists Way Workbook
The Artists Way Every Day

OTHER BOOKS ON CREATIVITY
The Writing Diet
The Right to Write
The Sound of Paper
The Vein of Gold
The Artists Way Morning Pages Journal
The Artists Date Book
(illustrated by Elizabeth Cameron)

How to Avoid Making Art (or Anything Else You Enjoy)
(illustrated by Elizabeth Cameron)

Supplies: A Troubleshooting Guide for Creative Difficulties
Inspirations: Meditations from The Artists Way
The Writers Life: Insights from The Right to Write
The Artists Way at Work
(with Mark Bryan and Catherine Allen)

Money Drunk, Money Sober
(with Mark Bryan)

The Creative Life

PRAYER BOOKS
Answered Prayers
Heart Steps
Blessings
Transitions
Prayers to the Great Creator

BOOKS ON SPIRITUALITY
Prayers from a Nonbeliever
Letters to a Young Artist
God Is No Laughing Matter
God Is Dog Spelled Backwards
(illustrated by Elizabeth Cameron)

Faith and Will

MEMOIR
Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir

FICTION
Mozarts Ghost
Popcorn: Hollywood Stories
The Dark Room

PLAYS
Public Lives
The Animal in the Trees
Four Roses
Love in the DMZ
Avalon (a musical)
The Medium at Large (a musical)
Magellan (a musical)

POETRY
Prayers for the Little Ones
Prayers for the Nature Spirits
The Quiet Animal
This Earth (also an album with Tim Wheater)

FEATURE FILM
(as writer-director) Gods Will

PROSPERITY PRAYER

Oh, Great Creator,
I prosper through you, drawing my abundance from your infinite stores.
You know my needs and you provide for them.
You know my dreams, and you bring me their fulfillment.
I rely on you as my source.
You are the rock on which I build my life.
I trust you to supply me with all things necessary to my happiness.
You are my security. I turn to you always.
Guard and guide me.
Amen.

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO GERARD HACKETT,
WHOSE FRIENDSHIP IS BOTH OLD AND GOLD.

Julia Cameron

INTRODUCTION

It was an early fall day, crisp and sunny. I had just moved into my eleventh-floor apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I woke up with the feeling of being watched. Sure enough, a huge bird was perched on my fire-escape railing, staring in at me. I stared back. Could it be an eagle? In New York City? Amazingly, it was. In Native American lore, the eagle is a symbol of power. I took this eagle to be the symbol for New York: powerful, aggressive, assertive, pressing in on me.The bird raised its wings, posinglike the seal of the president of the United States, the image on the quarter, the image on the dollar billas if to trumpet, I am prosperity.

People think of prosperity as a fiscal bottom line. When I have X amount of money, I will feel better. The truth is that prosperity is a spiritual bottom line, and the formula should actually be, When I have X amount of faith, I will feel better.

Prosperity at its root is a belief in a benevolent somethingand a belief that that something will guide us and guard us. We will be led in the direction of good no matter what amount of money we have at our disposal. Prosperity is never just about money.

In my personal history, I have had tight fiscal times and times of greater abundance. I have learned to have a sense of safety based on my conviction that God will provide. But this is not a pie-in-the-sky fantasy. Looking back, always, when a demand for cash has appeared, the supply of cash has appeared also.What may appear beyond my means is not beyond the means of the Higher Power. This does not mean that when I wish for something expensive, God provides it like Santa Claus. It simply means that a prosperous heartand everything we needis always available to us. Sometimes, when we think we need a bigger paycheck, what we really need is change. In knowing our spending patterns, we know ourselves. Prosperity is not just about moneybut to have a prosperous heart, our relationship to money must be brought out into the light, and we must be brave enough to look candidly at it.

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There is only one way by which you can achieve prosperity. It is to take charge of your mind.

ERIC BUTTERWORTH

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In this book, I will use the word God. You may substitute Good Orderly Direction, flow, even prosperity. Do not let semantics be a block for you. You dont need to believe in an anthropomorphic God to experience a prosperous heart or use the tools in this book. If you cant believe in the boldness of an eagle, try believing in a hummingbird instead. That smidgen of faith is enough.

Why a prosperity book? I have taught creative unblocking for thirty-five years. When I ask my students about money, inevitably the response is emotional. Money is the biggest block to my creativity, I feel like I can handle anything but money, and, Do we have to talk about money? are common exclamations.

Yes. We have to talk about money.

I believe that every person is creative, and can use his or her creativity to create a life of enough. I myself have worried about moneyand found that having money does not end this worry. I have also discovered practical tools that have brought my studentsand myselfout of money worry, out of an anxious heart and into a prosperous one. I believe that prospering is something we can do, right now, today, no matter how much money we have.

When we look closely, have we ever really been left high and dry? A colleague of mine lost her entire fortune to a Ponzi scheme run by a nefarious financier. On the day he went to jail in handcuffs, she didnt know whether she could keep her house. Her available liquid assets were so low that she was terrified to spend a dime. And what happened? Friends, family, colleagues, strangers reached toward her, offering to bring her and her husband into their homes, offering to give them money, offering to cook, to lend, to listen. The generosity of the people around her stunned her. But I was not surprised. She is a leader who has always been generous with her knowledge, her vulnerability, her wisdom. Her goodher prosperitywas coming back to her tenfold. To my eye, God was speaking through these people to her.

But, Julia! my students protest when I ask them to consider that they are not alone with their financial problems or secrets, no matter how dire they may feel. How can you have faith that some abstract something is looking out for our money?

From the front of the room, I can see that my students are visibly uncomfortable in this territory. It sounds too simple, too nave, too... crazy. Ask God to help with their finances? Have I lost my mind? But I stand firm, letting the room explore the beliefs that we as a culture accept without question.

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