I'll assume you've found your quiet place. Read on carefully, because describing sounds is a challenge, words being blunt tools to capture the Cosmic Music you're going to hear. And lest you be misled by my use of the word "music," this is nothing like the sounds the Boston Pops or the Rolling Stones make! I say music because you're listening to the
harmony of the Universe. At last it's silent around you. Proceed as follows.
Cup both your hands and cover your ears, fingers slightly curved and pointing toward the top of your head, elbows down and to the front. Just a natural relaxed position, and it's unimportant whether you're standing, sitting, kneeling or lying down, provided you can put your hands over your ears.
Gently, with only sufficient pressure for you to feel the heels of your hands against your jaw is right. Yes, left hand on left ear, right hand on right ear- I promised the use of New Avatar Power Secrets would not place you in any difficult contortions, and I meant it.
Turn your sharpest attention to what you're hearing. The low-pitched throb, rumble, or flutter is your heart pumping blood around your head. Listen to it: the inner workings of your physical body. But do not strain too hard to hear it: you're most certainly listening to something, so memorize that noise, however it sounds to you.
Now move your palms a fraction at a time away from your ears. Either move your hands away from your head, very slowly, or use the heels of your hands against your jaw as pivots to swing your fingers away from your ears. Uncover: but dead, dead slow.
When your palms are about an inch from your ears, notice how the noise you're hearing has changed. The "dullness" leaves, and a kind of high- pitched hiss, almost a whistle, replaces the louder" sounds you heard with your hands close to your head.
The nearest I can describe this "hiss" is that it sounds like an auto tire quietly going down, perhaps with almost imperceptible musical undertones-like a military parade several miles away.
Experiment with this. Repeat the ears-covered-palms- slowly-removed routine. Compare the sounds you hear. Maybe you get lucky the very first time, and distinctly hear the musical hiss I've battled to describe to you. On the other hand it may take several attempts before you hear what I'm indicating.
INITIATION TO NEW AVATAR POWER 33 That steady hiss is Cosmic Energy being detected by your body and mind. Some people who listen to it say the faint "music" I referred to comes through quite clearly after a while.
If you can hear this sound of star-creating Cosmic Energy, you're a step
ahead: your logical, conscious mind is being given audible and
undeniable evidence that Cosmic Energy is a reality, not wishful thinking or imagination.
What if you fail to hear this energy flow? Worry not-some people indeed cannot detect it, most often because they're not sure what they're listening for. It's faint, but definite, but if you do not pick it up, there's no need to go up the wall. Skip this step and go on to the next. But give it a try before you abandon it: leaving out suggested steps in this process of using New Avatar Power is merely inviting slower progress.
HOW TO SEE COSMIC ENERGY
Seeing is believing, they say. And here we're going to show you Cosmic Energy. Once you've seen it, no logical argument will ever be able to
convince you of its non-existence.
No special environment needed for this simple technique. Merely
reasonable bright lighting conditions. Normal daylight coming through a
window is perfect. A desk light, a ceiling fixture, a fluorescent tube-any source of light bright enough to read by is your aim.
Warning: Do not use the direct disc of the sun as your light source. That can blind you.
Hold up the hand you normally write with. Ambidextrous people have a
choice! Put your thumb and forefinger together just as you would to pick
up a pencil or similar small object. Touch them lightly together, and move your hand until you see your fingers silhouetted against the light. Within reason, the brighter the light source, the better-but if it's so bright it makes you squint, or your eyes water, it's too bright. '
Look closely where your finger and thumb are touching. Move them
apart as slowly as you can. Close one eye, or put your free hand over one
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Move them together gently, then apart again. Just at the moment you feel them come together or separate, do you see an unexpected phenomenon? It's almost as u your hands are wet, and a thin film of water has collected around the point of contact between your thumb and forefinger.
Look for it as you move your fingers, and you'll see it, pro- vided there's enough light shining through your fingers from be- hind and not too much illuminating the front side of them.
That alteration of the outline of your fingers is your personal Cosmic Energy field. Some people call it "the aura," others have different names: bioplasmic sheath, orgone field, life envelope, and the like. Call it what you wish: the important thing is that you've seen an energy field, which is normally invisible.
THIS SKEPTIC TURNED MISERY INTO TOTAL DELIGHT "Your book doesn't work. I am very skeptical of the existence of New Avatar Power, yet I need help. Why should so many undeserving people be helped, when I'm in such deep trouble?
"It is almost useless to tell you my troubles when I don't even know if you will get this letter. My husband B. has left me a year now. One day at the breakfast table be said he wanted his freedom, and he went. I do my best for my two little ones, but he sends no money. I have high blood pressure, the roof leaks and the landlord won't fix it (I owe four months back rent), My car was taken back last week, the buses are terrible, and the foreman says he's going to let me go if I'm late for work again. We need shoes and clothes, and everything is going to pieces. My nerves are shot and I don't know how much longer I can go on."
That was the main part of a letter I received from Emily N. In my reply to her, among other suggestions, I said that if she saw New Avatar Power (or Cosmic Energy-they're identical, as you already know) she might be removing a subconscious barrier, which was damming the flow of her New Avatar Power.
My words must have chimed some chord in her being. No letter this time; I met Emily face to face-and, until she told me, I never thought for an instant that this happy, well-groomed lady was the same puzzled,
frustrated, and beaten person who had written to me scant months before. How did we meet? I was booked to record some TV shows,
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and, while I was at the studios I was invited to be interviewed by a person the producer introduced to me as "this city's most loved, respected, and successful radio show hostess,"
Calm and together, looking 20 years younger than her true age, Emily had changed her life-and changed her name into the bargain!
"It all went with my changes in life-style," she said after we recorded an interview. "Do you have time to allow me the pleasure of showing you what's happened for me?"
This I had to see. I made time. Emily drove me to her home in her air- conditioned luxury car, upholstered in selected fabrics to complement the exclusive French ensembles she always wears.
'There's where it all fell apart," she smiled. We were still close to
downtown, in an unsalubrious neighborhood. I glanced at the ramshackle duplex she pointed out, noting the peeling paintwork and the grubby children screaming up and down the steps, playing round the battered garbage pails.
"Our new place is a bit better," Emily smiled, as the car purred into the country. We swung onto a private blacktop road running through a fir plantation. As we swung around a bend, through a grove of weeping willows framing a lake, I glimpsed a magnificent white colonial mansion. Emily parked, and a discreet uniformed chauffeur took the wheel to garage the car as we were ushered into the house by a smiling, distinguished man.
"Meet Nigel," Emily said, "my husband. He likes to give the servants a day off now and then, and play butler. Keeps him out of mischief. We'll meet the kids later; they'll be in the pool or out riding." Luxury
surrounded us. Deep pile carpet led up a curving
staircase, framed by Grecian columns. Works of art blended with the expensive decorations and drapes.
Briefly, as we took coffee from priceless Ming china cups in a real old- fashioned Victorian withdrawing room looking out over lush grassland to a rolling river, Emily filled in the facts.
"I did as you suggested with New Avatar Power," she smiled. "Kind of a last hope. Within a week I'd been evicted for non- payment of rent; I'd been fired from my job; a welfare woman was threatening to take the children away from me because she said I could not support them; and I had an attack of bronchitis which I
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