Richard Dotts - Playing In Time And Space: The Miracle of Inspired Manifestations

This book is a daring invitation from me to you - for us to play together at the boundaries of time and space. As we embark on this exciting journey together, I will gently but firmly invite you to examine age-old and long-held beliefs. You will decide whether you still want to continue believing in them, and if not, be led through the process of surrendering yourself to a whole new reality.

Of course, none of this is for an amateur reality creator or a cynic. If you believe that the world or reality around you is as it is, and that everything is always the same old, same old, cast in stone and cold hard reality then this book may not be appropriate for you at this time. I invite you to put it down and pick it up later when your heart tells you to do so.

But if your heart starts to race as you read these words, and if you always had a deep, inner knowing that reality is not what it seems to be and that you ultimately create your own reality then this book is an invitation for us to play! Whatever choice you make, know that it will be the perfect choice for you at this time.

After taking thousands of readers through the manifestation process and sharing my own insights about being a conscious creator, I was inspired to write this next book. The one which you are currently holding in your hands. Writing these series of books have been an exhilarating adventure for me Not only have I been blessed with the wonderful opportunity of sharing my insights with a whole new audience I did not even know existed, readers from around the world have been writing to me, telling me about their manifestation success stories and how things have suddenly started happening for them in their lives. Things have started happening for me too, since I followed my heart to share these tips and techniques with readers all over the world. I have been led to new perspectives and new teachings, which has led me on greater and more glorious spiritual trips and adventures.

I love reading and learning about this whole process of conscious reality creation because I firmly believe it is what we have been put on this planet to do. We have been blessed with creative faculties which can be directed at will, and the Universe responds immediately and unfailingly to each and every one of our requests. If everyone living on the planet today truly understood how powerful this whole process is, the perceived problems of our time will be eradicated in no time. A problem ceases to become a problem once the solution is in sight, even if it has not technically been solved yet. In the same way, a problem is only a question we have not found the answer to for the time being.

Why do we sometimes not find the answers to our perceived life problems? The great Albert Einstein explained it beautifully when he said: The problems of our generation cannot be solved with the same level of consciousness that created them. How many of us have read this quote, thought that it was somewhat clever and then glossed over it? Sit for a while and ponder over it for a moment. Einstein was hinting at a greater Universal truth the problems of our generation cannot be solved with the same level of consciousness that created them. What then, is consciousness? Consciousness is our mind, our inner state of being, our spiritual state. Einstein was telling us that you cannot expect answers to your questions, if you remain fixated on the questions. You need to move and gently shift your consciousness to resonate at the same level as the answer you seek.

Spiritual teachers and authors often speak of levels of consciousness, as if one is higher or lower than the other. They may say, for example, that we have a higher self or a higher level of consciousness. But please understand that any connotations of height or level is only to make this whole subject easier for us to understand. There is no physical mountain or ladder we can look at. Similarly, there is no one part of us that is higher than the other. Everything just is.

Can you see how pervasive the concept of space is in our society? Since we occupy physical space, we have come to associate so strongly with our physical realities, with the spaces that our bodies move around in. Even in our spiritual quest, we have been taught to identify with a higher self, or that heaven is a place that is physically higher than hell. Similar teachings are present in other religions such as Buddhism, in which the concept of a Western pure land is weaved into its teachings.

So is there really a Zen garden, or a Western pure land which all of us can physically go to? Can we physically float up to heaven, or descend into hell? Even the process of ascension suggests the physical motion of rising up to something as in the everyday usage of the word! These physical relativisms and references are useful for our initial grasping of the subject, but it will be way more exciting once you learn how to move beyond them once you learn to see them as what they truly are: As signposts and anecdotes to help us on our way.

I invite you to stay with this thought for a moment and think about all the space related elements that have been so closely intertwined with our everyday existence. For example, we say that we possess certain things in our lives, or that we have attracted certain things into our physical reality. This means that these things are currently occupying actual physical space in our reality. What about the things which we do not yet have? Well, we consider those things to be out there, to be not yet in our physical reality, to be there and not here. Just notice how we have a tendency to attach a spatial connotation to everything in our life. Not that attaching a spatial connotation is right or wrong, but I invite you to ponder for a moment on how attached we have become to our physical realities. Then in the next chapter, I will invite you to take this thought further and ponder an entirely new reality.

At the beginning it may seem as if nothing is happening. It may seem as if you are sitting in your armchair, book in hand, doing these silly thought experiments. But as the famous prosperity teacher Catherine Ponder (pun not intended) used to say, When it seems like nothing is happening, that is when everything is happening. Again, notice the spatial and physical connotations that we have so conveniently attached to things. If nothing physical is happening, then nothing real must be occurring. We judge reality on the basis of whether something is physical. But is this belief resourceful? Does it serve me? Does it serve you? I can assure you that many alternative beliefs are equally plausible and even more empowering.

Nothing is more entertaining to me than doing a thought experiment in my armchair, and then seeing my physical reality shift around me to accommodate my new, stretched beliefs. Think of your beliefs as a rubber band. It returns back to its original state when stretched at first, but slowly and surely as you keep stretching it it gradually loosens. When your beliefs are loosened, you ease yourself into a new state of being, and a new state of reality. This means the creation of new results in your life.