Dimensions of Wealth: Learn how to manifest effectively and transform your life

Dimension$ of Wealth, How To Manifest Effectively And Get Results

By Shakti Durga

Copyright 2013 Shakti Durga

Smashwords Edition

Introduction

Chapter 1

Introduction

For years now we have been hearing about the importance of mind power – saying our affirmations and visualizing our goals in order to change our lives, create more abundance, better relationships and to help heal our bodies. Even the business world has embraced the power of the mind. Trainers in sales, marketing, executive leadership and world teachers such as Anthony Robbins have been helping people see the marvellous way that a change in attitude and belief, thought and focus, can really improve our lives.

When this movement began it seemed fanciful to many. How could an invisible and private thing such as a thought or belief have any effect upon what I was about to experience as a reality in my life? Sensible as this argument may sound, it doesn’t represent the actual state of things. Many people who have spent time using positive mind techniques with diligence and tenacity will realize that they work. Sometimes they work better in some areas than others, sometimes not as fast as we would like (all of which can be explained) but work they do. People who use mind power techniques on the whole are able to achieve a great deal more success than ever before.

I have had considerable success with mind power in my own life. Yet my experiences with various Gurus, Holy men and women have shown me that what we know as ‘mind power’ in the West is just the beginning. Like the tip of the iceberg, there is a whole lot more going on that no one has really explained. I learned in Christianity as a child that the age of miracles is dead, but no one seems to have told that to the Gurus I have met around whom the miraculous is common place. Holy Gurus in this day and age can heal the dying, remove serious chronic depression with the sweep of a hand, change the lives of their disciples, instantly manifest and more. They think about it, and someone is already bringing whatever they wanted in through the front door for them. Logically, this may seem impossible but this is what happens. What is more, the same thing starts to happen for their disciples. They can meditate upon big, audacious, seemingly impossibly difficult plans for social good, and have the heavens spin around in a way that enables the plan to become bricks and mortar in the physical world.

What is going on?

After many years of study, meditation and application of what these Great Souls have shared, it has become clear to me that while proper mental preparation is part of the equation, the hidden side of the iceberg is not about thinking at all. It is about the heart. The heart is the lock on the door to the soul, and it is the soul that holds the keys to seemingly miraculous capacity to create a life of happiness, abundance, ease and grace.

The way this book unfolds follows my own realization of the processes of natural manifesting. Natural manifesting is a spiritual art which requires us to change and grow in order to do it. The method involves correct use of the mind, just like the more familiar methods of manifesting do. It also involves us learning about the agenda of the soul and the 12 Mansions which it seeks to inhabit. Through spiritual development we harness soul power and realize a more heavenly life here on Earth as well as beyond it.

It may seem unlikely that a graceful and practical means of natural manifestation could exist when most people’s experience, even that of highly spiritual people, may be at odds with what I am suggesting. It was equally unlikely that anyone could run a mile in under four minutes, until Roger Bannister did it in 1954 and now many of our elite athletes do it regularly. They are well trained and fit. They know what they are doing and are clear about their goals. Training in natural manifesting requires commitment and skill. Like elite sport, spiritual development requires that we cultivate tenacity, courage and discipline. We also require a raft of other virtues like faith, kindness, and of course love.

Like an elite athlete, even the best spiritual aspirants do better with a coach. Technical faults are obvious to a good coach, even though the athlete themselves may not be aware of the issue. My coaches have been Gurus and I am infinitely grateful to them.

The point of spiritual development is to cultivate grace within our souls. The evidence of that is our capacity to be peaceful, loving, prosperous, grounded, effective, gentle and thoughtful; people who care about each other, respect ourselves and work to make our world a better place.

Wayne Dyer wrote a book called There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem.¹ He was not the first to say it, but he said it eloquently. This book is saying a similar thing and is a ‘how to’ manual for a fundamental change in our sense of self empowerment. In many circumstances where we might have thought it to be impossible, we can create marvellous things for ourselves and others.

I invite you to come on a journey into a mysterious place, that of our interior landscape. When we enter into the five dimensions of wealth and the twelve mansions of the soul we find that neglect or barrenness in any of them will prevent our natural birthright of all kinds of abundance from anchoring in our physical lives.

When we attune and surrender to Divine frequency, unblocking all that stands in our way, natural manifesting of things large and small becomes easier than falling off a log. The outcome is a life of balance, fulfilment, compassion, self-realization and abundance.

1 Wayne Dyer There’s a spiritual solution to every problem 2003 Harper Collins

Part 1 Dimensions of Wealth

Chapter 2

Spirituality and Abundance

Having grasped what ought to be grasped,

do not let go of the grip till you succeed.

Having desired what ought to be desired,

hold on till your desire is fulfilled.

Having asked what ought to be asked,

hold on till your request is answered.

Having thought what ought to be thought,

hold on till you succeed.

Sai Baba, 12 Oct 2002

Wealth

When many people think ‘wealth’ they think money. In this culture, money is the main measure of wealth and so any definition of wealth has to include financial abundance. Wealth, as discussed in natural manifesting, includes money but is much more extensive. It includes love, liberty, good health, warm friendships, peace, natural beauty, a serene environment, healthy children, clean air, a well ordered society and other good things that we experience.

Spirituality to me is attaining the realization that I am part of a massive, radiant, amazing and loving universe in which everything occurs in order and balance. It is the ever growing experience of peace, love, happiness and deep joy, a feeling of connectedness with all of life, and the realization that everyone has their own way of doing this. There are many paths, but they all lead to the same place, and they are all provided to us by the same Divine being, whatever you want to call her!

Included in my definition of living a spiritual life, is leading an abundant life.

Natural Manifesting

The ability to attract good things to ourselves with minimal effort is known as natural manifesting. Some people do this with parking spaces. They go to a busy mall where the traffic is crazy, but they always end up driving straight into a space. You can learn how to do this. The very same way, we can manifest almost anything.

When you become wealthy through natural manifesting, you don’t end up with a life that stresses you out and gives you an ulcer. You find that your health improves as does your experience of peace, happiness and love. You do not have a life that is frantic and out of balance, nor do you engage in soul destroying work. You may enjoy having money, but you are not reliant upon money or positional power to make things happen. You create your own internal field of wealth. Life becomes an enjoyable experience. The better we get at natural manifesting the more we leave our troubles behind us.

Yeah, but how?

What is required is properly directed inner spiritual work. If you are prepared to do the inner work, the outer world of form will miraculously change and you will find that you can anchor Heaven on Earth not just for yourself but for those around you. How this is done is what this book is about.

Natural manifesting happens as we live by spiritual laws, and patiently wait while they operate. It involves growing in love and happiness, clarity and faith. It involves the development of trust in ourselves and in the universe. It is based on the concept that the Divine creator is generous and kind, and not only created us, but all of the things that we want or need. Through natural manifesting, we become magnetic to good things, and grateful for the ‘coincidental’ provision to us of all that we require and desire.

What About Money?

I believe that God created everything, so to me everything is sacred. ‘Everything’ does not exclude money. It is just part of life. It is not practical to think that we should be poor to be spiritual.

Money is said by some to be the root of all evil. Really, it is just a form of spiritual test. Money itself is spiritually neutral, but what will we do to get it? When people engage in illegal or immoral means of money making, they will end up spiritually poorer. On the other hand the spiritually rich naturally attract plenty. Anyone who understands Divine law will not want to take shortcuts of negativity to get what they want. The pitfalls and negative karma which follow when we will do anything for money, means it is just not worth it.

One can create and develop a deep relationship with the Divine, and have abundance of all good things on Earth, provided we don’t put the cart before the horse.

Because money is believed by many to be evil, many people who choose to live spiritually experience relative financial poverty. This is not because it is Holy to be poor. It has more to do with an oppressive belief that we cannot be spiritual and have money at the same time.

Spending money to get what we want is one avenue that we can use to create an abundant life; becoming spiritually magnetic to good fortune is the other. Sometimes we can use both together.

It is OK to want to manifest money as well as things and opportunities. In our present society, money is required in order to live.

Selling your Soul

We have given money a lot of power in that we expect it to have the capacity to provide all of the things and circumstances that we might desire. It doesn’t.

Our pursuit of money is often at the expense of the broader abundance that we desire. Pursuit of money, particularly when it is seen as the paramount ambition, can create unhappiness, frustration, stress, ill health and isolation.

There are ways to make money which prostitute our spirit. Actual prostitutes who enjoy their work do not prostitute their spirit; they are just like anyone else, providing a service. We might not like their job, but they might not like ours.

Sometimes that which society regards as a ‘good’ calling, and a way to be secure and abundant, may be practiced in a way that is damaging and therefore becomes negative. As my background was in Law, I will refer to some research in this field that may surprise you.

Lawyers lead the field in terms of the incidence of depression¹. Most lawyers say if they had the chance, they would not become lawyers again.² A poll by the American Bar association reported that nearly 75% of lawyers described themselves as ‘very dissatisfied’ with the practice of law.³ Work related stress amongst lawyers is very high, owing to a combination of too much work, onerous deadlines, excessively long hours, the risk of being sued if you get it wrong, and not enough time for family or social life. Life revolves for many lawyers around getting enough billable hours on their timesheets. Many students are attracted into the legal profession because the perception (and often the reality) is that lawyers are well paid.

The billable hour makes more challenging the cultivation of a spiritual life, or the development of any kind of inner life. Its demands and lack of flexibility lead even accomplished professionals to feel enslaved, trapped in lavishly furnished cells in which the door is wide open but escape feels impossible… you slog on, making money, yes, but growing not a whit: missing out on the pleasures of friendship and intimacy, stacking up hours like bricks in a wall, until most of what matters has been sealed out.⁴

Anecdotal evidence, including my own story, suggests that people do not actually even notice how dispirited they are, until some kind of calamity occurs, such as divorce or a death in the family, or serious illness.

Souls do not like spending all of their incarnated time doing the same thing. Souls flourish on variety. To sustain demanding occupations, it is necessary to take time out. I survived being a barrister by engaging in daily meditation, and for over ten years I meditated twice daily to deal with the stress. Others play tennis or golf. Others take up pottery, or go mountain climbing on weekends. Whatever it is, we really need to engage in something that ignites the spirit, so that our energy centres do not begin to close down.

Buying Back Your Soul

It is never too late to change. No matter what our circumstances, life can get better if we get out of our own way and let it.

One of the most radical shifts we can make is to stop thinking of ourselves as people who lack time, money, energy, health or motivation. We need to think of ourselves as souls with something to express on Earth, and find what it is. Most people, if they think hard enough, can think of something that they really enjoy. When we find that, we can really enjoy it. We can apply the same spirit to whatever else we might be doing.

When we are spirited and passionate about our life and ourselves, we are very attractive and very magnetic in the area of success. It comes to us.

Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.’⁵

One of the richest men in the world is Sir John Marks Templeton. He is a Wall St Guru, and a multi billionaire. He says:

All of the hard work, thought, preparation and talent you can muster may not bring real success unless helping others is part of your plan. In your work, your relationships, and your spiritual life maintaining an attitude of ‘What can I give?’ rather than ‘What can you give to me?’ will bring you bountiful dividends.⁶

Give It to Me NOW

Natural manifesting is not the same as instant gratification. Western culture is very into instant gratification, which puts us in an addictive and stressful dance, trying to keep all of the balls in the air. We get attached to what we want, only feel happy when we get it, and the next thing you know there is something else that we want and so we put happiness on hold while we get that too. We become addicted to getting what we want the moment we express the desire for it, and then work really hard, often busting a gut to pay for it.

What is harder, gratifying all our needs or controlling just one?

Unknown Buddhist monk

When you use natural manifesting, you set up a big blueprint of how you want your life to be, and over time you move into it. If you are prepared to have faith, work on yourself and wait, circumstances that exactly meet your desire will come to you, often in ways that are much better than anything you could have dreamt up yourself.

Fish

A highly stressed, divorced, wealthy investment banker took a holiday on a remote tropical island where life was lived very simply. The men fished and the women raised the kids and there was a rich communal life in the villages. The investment banker noticed that the fishermen did not spend all their time fishing but that these strapping, healthy men spent a lot of time relaxing, playing with their children, swimming and having fun. The banker asked the head fisherman, whether he would like to earn more money.

"What have you got in mind?" asked the fisherman.

"Well, you could spend an extra three hours a day fishing and sell the surplus fish. Over time you will be able to afford more boats, employ more men to fish and make even more money."

"What will I do then?" asked the fisherman.

"Well, you can invest your money, and eventually you will have enough that you will be able to retire to a beautiful place where you can spend your time relaxing, playing with your children, swimming and generally having fun."

"Oh said the fisherman, I’m going for a swim. See you later".

Chapter 3

Delving Into Dimensions

What lies behind us

and what lies before us

are tiny matters

compared to what lies within us

William Morrow

The Multi-dimensional Me

We live in a multi-dimensional universe. Most people are not familiar with dimensions (planes of existence), other than the physical one in any conscious way, even though they directly impact our every-day lives. You can come to understand the experiences you have already had of wealth or lack of it, from a multi-dimensional perspective, and explore the genesis both of your successes and failures.

Apart from the physical plane, there are a multitude of other dimensions of reality, which an increasing number of people are able to discern. There are five key dimensions that affect your capacity to engender wealth in your life. These are the:

1. Divine Void,

2. Soul Dimension,

3. Astral Dimension,

4. Etheric Dimension, and

5. Physical Dimension.

As events occur in one dimension, things change in the other dimensions as a result. Movement of energy occurs between the dimensions, and physical dimension events can be altered by what we are up to in the Etheric, Astral and Soul dimensions of our being. Similarly, every choice we make, every thought, word and action we take in the physical plane, opens some doors and closes others in many dimensions simultaneously. This affects our future.

When we understand the dimensions that together create our reality, we can see that there are areas in which, through lack of consciousness, we might be blocked. Awareness allows us to work out our problems, and intelligent, consistent application of the laws of the dimensions, help us create the solutions. A lot of suffering, financial struggle and confusion can be alleviated this way.

Each of the five dimensions exists within us as well as without. The biggest bit of who we are (the four dimensions other than the physical) is invisible. Just because it is invisible does not mean it is not real. If you stopped believing in invisible things, you would have to stop believing in mobile phone connections, TV remote controls, air, nuclear radiation, thoughts, radio waves, emotions, micro waves and heaps of other things. Under certain conditions, all of these things can be seen if you know how to look properly. Science has learnt about some invisible things by developing clever ways of looking at them. You cannot see bacteria, even though you feel sick and get the runs when you have a tummy bug. Under a microscope, the invisible bacteria are actually visible.

You cannot see your non-physical self under a physical magnification device because it is not physical. Your invisible self can be seen, when you are sufficiently developed in your consciousness and etheric body. Then, you will have achieved a different type of magnification capacity which at first might look like it is impossible.

In my earlier life, like most people, I saw nothing except what was in the physical dimension. However I was dissatisfied with my physical life, and went on a long search to find answers to the big questions in life. After several years I found a teacher who could ‘see’ the invisible world. In fact, I found a few of them and received training. When I first tried to see what they could see, it was impossible for me and I got frustrated and disheartened. However I persisted, kept practicing, and after about 18 months of hard work, I was finally able to see a bit of what they could see. It was simply amazing, and since then my ‘sight’ in the unseen world keeps getting stronger the more I use it.

By analogy, I can look at a 60 kilo weight at the gym and think, It is impossible for me to lift that. However, if I went into training for months and practiced every day and built up to it, then I could probably lift it.

Perceiving the inner or invisible world (like lifting heavy weights) is possible with training. It is just a question of whether or not you could be bothered learning. If you want to learn, no doubt you will be able to find a teacher to help you. A properly trained spiritual teacher can perceive the dimensions of your being like the back of their hand. When you achieve this, you will find riches inside, which were always there, just buried. They can flow into your physical life as miraculous opportunities and convert into wealth.

The V Diagram

Between the Divine dimension of infinite abundance, and the Physical dimension where we actually want the money to manifest, there are three big dimensions that the wealth has to travel through. These are the Soul dimension, the Astral dimension and the Etheric dimension. Together with the Divine Void and the Physical dimension, this makes 5 dimensions of wealth.

Below is a model explaining multi-dimensionality. Imagine that the V diagram represents you. At the bottom, like the tip of the iceberg, is our physical self. It is the only visible part, and so we can mistakenly believe that ‘this is who I am,’ when really, it is only a tiny part of who we are.

Each dimension has different laws and we can open ourselves to finding and learning these. We cannot rip up an idea if we do not like it, and often people have trouble getting ugly thoughts out of their heads. There are ways to do this which are dealt with in Yoga of the Mind⁷. We cannot think our way through a solid wall, but a power tool can punch a hole in it. Knowledge of the various dimensions and obedience to the laws which govern them will give us the capacity to break through the blockages we unwittingly create, which keep our abundance birthright from us.

The Physical Dimension

The physical dimension is experienced through the five senses. It can be seen in terms of physical matter and energy more or less as these are understood by science. The interaction of four elements, fire, earth, air and water, create matter in the physical world. They are known in science as heat, gas, liquid and solid.

The physical world has to do with things that happen within space and time.

It has its own laws that can’t be ignored. These are obvious, things that we take for granted like gravity. Something as simple as crossing the road requires that we know many physical laws, about things like speed, distance and time. Get it wrong and this simple activity can be deadly.

Trust in God but tie up your camel

There is a tendency to believe that when we have faith in God, we do not need to do anything much in the physical world for events to occur. I take the view that this is not usually the case, as the physical realm reality also has to be mastered. God helps those who help themselves, or as I read recently in a book of Sufi sayings:

We will look at how to create channels for abundance to come to us, and to align our actions and plans with what we want

rather than what we don’t want.

The Etheric Dimension

The etheric dimension is the dimension of subtle energy or Chi. Our etheric body comprises our aura, chakras, and the meridians. The aura is like a big bubble in which we have our various bodies. The chakras are whirling vortices of energy that have specific functions, and the meridians are the lines of energy that join it all together.

People who have small dull etheric bodies tend to have small dull lives! Dull, polluted auras and chakras cause physical, psychological and spiritual problems for us. If we want to be successful, happy, healthy, strong, vital and energetic, it is a good idea to learn about the etheric body and look after it.

If your etheric body is full of garbage it will not work properly. It is like trying to run your clothes dryer when you have not cleaned out the filter for a year or two. Eventually it will break.

If you are trying to develop wealth, you will not be able to do it if the parts of your etheric body that store the relevant types of energy needed for wealth are not in good working order.

The size of the aura and chakras has a direct bearing on your ability to hold wealth. Wealth is just energy, and the chakras of the etheric body are like a series of cups that are capable of holding that energy. Small cups can only hold small amounts of energy. If you want more, get a bigger set of cups. If your etheric body is full of garbage, or is not big enough for the job you want to do, or the amount of energy (in this case wealth energy) you want to hold, then you won’t be able to do it. You need to grow your etheric body⁸ so that you have the energetic strength to achieve your desires.

Astral Dimension

The astral dimension is the non-physical realm of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Tides of energy flow through here all the time and affect us in powerful yet subtle ways.

The astral dimension contains things that are largely created by the minds of mankind, and our minds in turn are affected by the astral dimension every day. The astral dimension influences our thoughts, beliefs, moods, decisions, relationships, happiness, stress levels, wealth generation, and success levels.

We are more often in the astral realm than we are in the physical realm. We are usually thinking thoughts and feeling feelings that have nothing to do with what is currently going on around us. Think about driving the car. Are we focused on the steering wheel, road, speed, scenery, other cars, or is all that happening automatically while we plan our day? Astrally, we are frequently in our future (planning, anticipating, getting stressed) or in the past (remembering, feeling guilty, worrying about what we could have said or done, being conscious of memories). Either way, we are not mentally in the physically real now.

Most people are not very conscious about what they are thinking, and not concerned about it. They imagine that they are entitled to believe what they like, because it is no one else’s business. Wrong. When we learn even basic clairvoyance, it is obvious that thoughts and beliefs are things. They flow all around us and clog up our aura and chakras. Our dominant beliefs are like neon lights in the aura, proclaiming to everyone who comes near us, what we believe and expect.

We unerringly attract to us through the Law of Attraction⁹ that which our deeply held beliefs say we are going to. Thought is creative, as it templates subtle soul energy and causes patterns to form in the astral dimension which our souls then cause to be attracted to us. Managing our thoughts and training our minds to think positive and wholesome thoughts is one of the biggest jobs that we need to do in order to develop wealth, and that is our focus in the astral dimension.

The Soul Dimension

The soul dimension is our home, it is where we live when we die, and it is where a part of us lives all the time. Our Higher Souls inhabit this dimension and extend a portion down through the other dimensions into what we think of as reality, the physical world. Our physical, astral and etheric bodies are part of our Soul, in a similar way to how toes and legs and arms are a part of our physical body.

Our soul is the ultimate tool of natural manifesting. The soul also has an agenda which involves the cultivation of wisdom. When we get in touch with it through accessing our intuition and start to cooperate with it, we become amazingly receptive to opportunity, luck, good fortune and seemingly effortless attraction of many kinds of wealth. Later we will look at the five levels of the soul and the interface between our minds and souls in the process of bringing grace, abundance and wonder into our lives.

Divine Dimension

The Divine dimension is a void, there is nothing in it, and it is the essence of being. It is pure consciousness and pure love. The Holy Spirit, Mother / Father God, Allah, Durga, Brahma, Jehovah, Shiva, the Creative Force, Universal Energy; all of the names of God are describing the same thing and are used interchangeably in this book.¹⁰

If you think you are experiencing this dimension, or even the dimension of the soul, you are not. Thinking is an astral experience. During experiences of Samadhi, usually after years of meditation and spiritual training, this level can be consciously experienced but the experience is more of the nature of bliss than a thought. At this level all is pure consciousness and pure abundance. There is immense love and creative potential. Everything that ever was and ever will be flows from here. This is more than human minds can grasp, it is similar to trying to grasp concepts like infinity, omnipotence and omnipresence.