Happy New Year

I want to wish you a Happy New Year filled with lots of dreams, hopes and desires that you can manifest in 2012!

This has been an incredible year for me in co-creating the life that I have always dreamed of... It began with a desire to create a family, a home and a new car and ended with my marriage to a wonderful woman who is my lover, companion and "soul mate", a beautiful family, a nice house and a new car to boot! We had an amazing wedding at the Biltmore Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, drove to our Honeymoon in my new Toyota Scion and celebrated our marriage in the magical setting of Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

Now, I told you all this not because I want to brag about what I was able to create, but because I know that you can do the same in your life and with very little effort. I was able to manifest these things without any dramatic changes in my life other than the shift I had in my awareness of the infinite Power and Presence that is readily available for my use to create what I desire. Through my awareness of spiritual laws and principles the universe supplied me with all that I needed to make my dreams come true.

The only thing that I did different than last year was to change my consciousness about what I could be, do and have in this life. The amazing thing is that I didn't even have to try to create anything, I just put into practice the laws and principles that I am going to be sharing with you in 2012 and left the rest to the universe to take care of. If I can create all that I have in the last year just by raising my consciousness, then you can too... there is no reason that you can't! There is nothing holding you back from all of your dreams, accept maybe YOU and now is the time to shift your consciousness to a new level and make 2012 the best year ever.

In my Spiritual Principles for Success Meet-up Group, I will be kicking off the new year with the reading of "Way of The Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman in our Book of The Month Club.  Throughout the month of January we will be discussing the book and seeing how we can utilize some of the lessons that the character, Dan Millman, learned from Socrates his spiritual guide so that we can take our life to a new level.

In February we will screen the movie that was based on the book "Way of The Peaceful Warrior". This movie will launch a monthly screening series of positive and uplifting films from "Spiritual Cinema Circle". I hope that you can find the time to participate in all of the activities that I have planned in 2012 and and really make an effort to shift your vibration in order to attract all of the things that you desire in your life! So join my blog now, before you forget, and let's make 2012 the remarkable year it was meant to be!

Rich Smith
Organizer: Spiritual Principles for Success
http://www.meetup.com/Spiritual-Principles-For-Success/

Miraculous Honeymoon

Before we left for our Honeymoon we paved the way by setting our intention to have a great time no matter what the Universe had in store for us.

We set out on our journey quoting Jennifer's favorite mantra, "Our life is lived in ecstatic union with the Divine"... and little did we know that we were about to discover many miracles along the way.

We had planned on leaving Los Angeles at 5:30 in the morning to beat the traffic and although we didn't get on the road until after 6:30, the roads were pretty clear and we made it to Lake Tahoe in record time. During the last leg of the trip we neglected to fill up on gas and found ourselves winding through the mountains on an empty tank with no gas station in sight. I had just ran out of gas the week before and the fear that we might not make it started to take over my mind. Jennifer on the other hand refused to go there and said that she will not entertain the idea that we will run out of gas on our honeymoon because it was not in alignment with our higher good. She quoted her mantra, "Our life is lived in ecstatic union with the Divine" and together we let go of that idea and just headed up the mountain taking in the beautiful scenery along the way. When we reached the summit, I just put the car in neutral and coasted all the way down the mountain to a gas station at the end of our destination.

Now I have to ask myself the question, "did our shift in consciousness, somehow add fuel to the empty gas tank in much the same way that the Christ, who's birthday we were celebrating that weekend, turn water into wine just by recognizing the bride and groom's higher "Good"? This I will never know for sure, but one thing is for certain, when Jen and I shifted our vibration from one of fear to one of faith we made it safely to our destination.

Our decision to focus on our "higher good" on our honeymoon paved the way for a miraculous weekend full of tiny little miracles that opened the door to a new way of life for the both of us.  I hope you can join me as I write about what I learned through these experiences and then use them for yourself as an example of how to create a miraculous life for yourself!

Attending Your Garden

There is a New Thought, Ancient Wisdom teaching that says "Form is Mind in Action" which simply means that our thoughts become the things in our life. We think things into existence... or we can just as easily "think things out of existence" depending on which thought we want to focus on. This is the one of the major reasons why a lot of us are lacking in material goods... it is because we cannot hold the mental equivalent of what we want to manifest in our life long enough to allow it to manifest.

One of the principles that I teach in "The Infinite Filmmaker" teachings is that there is only One Mind and that One Mind is the Mind of God, the Infinite Filmmaker, which is infinite in Its ability to create everything in the universe. Everything that exists on this planet finds Its existence through that One Mind, which I sometimes refer to as "Divine Intelligence". Think of it as the intelligence that holds the Universe together in perfect balance or the Intelligence that creates a baby out of a sperm and Ovum... it is an infinite and ever so powerful a force that can be used to manifest whatever we desire in our life.

The key to understanding how we can use this infinite Mind to create the life we desire is to realize that the One Infinite Mind is individualized and expressed as each and every one of our Minds. Our Mind and God's mind are one Mind. The "One" becomes "All" and the "All" becomes the "One". There is no separation between our mind and that of Universal Mind, therefore, when our thoughts are fed into Universal Mind they have the same Infinite Power to create what we desire that exists in the Mind of God, The Infinite Filmmaker.

When we come to understand that our minds are an individualized aspects of the Universal Mind, then we can begin to use Its unlimited Power to create everything in our life that we would like to experience.

During our meeting on Nov. 12th, I led the members of The Infinite Filmmaker Meetup Group through a guided meditation that allowed them to connect to Source simply by associating a thought or desire, with a seed being planted in fertile ground. I then instructed them to visualize themselves planting the seed and watching it grow into the most magnificent plant. Each morning when they awoke they were instructed to watch the seed beginning to sprout. As they visualize the seed popping its head out of the ground, Source begins the process of aligning everything in the Universe to conspire to bring about the "idea" or "thought" into the form that was associated with the seed. This is a very Powerful exercise which brings about incredible results, very quickly.

Now if each member sticks with this visualization exercise and really focuses their attention on watching the seed grow into the most magnificent plant each morning, I can guarantee that they would manifest their desired thought in no time at all. It has to take form in their life because it is "Law". There is nothing that can stop it from appearing in their life accept that they choose to focus their attention on what they can't have rather than what they can have.

This process of manifestation is very powerful and once you learn how to use it there is no limit to what you can create in your life.

The Law Of Reflection

You’ve heard about the “Law Of Attraction”, but what about the Law of Reflection? Most people can understand the concept that they attract whatever they are in alignment with or are vibrating to, whether it be beneficial or detrimental to their life’s happiness. This is a pretty easy concept to understand and one that we can wrap our mind around, but what may be more challenging to understand is the fact that our experiences in life are merely a reflection of what is going on inside of us. Since we are the source of everything that we experience in our life it all has to be created in our mind before we can experience it

In my Infinite Filmmaker teachings, I use a metaphor of life being a movie created by God, the Infinite Filmmaker and everything that the Infinite Filmmaker does in the Universal movie, which is limitless, is also done in our individual movie of our life. I teach from the consciousness of this all powerful, all knowing, everywhere present filmmaker who is creating our individual movie that I call “Life”, in a perfect and complete way. There is nothing lacking in this universal movie and most certainly nothing is lacking from our individual movie. That is for sure.

The Infinite Filmmaker can’t create anything in our life until it is first done “through us” and not “to us”. We are the vessel through which It creates and without us there is no movie called “Life”. Everything that we are experiencing in our life’s movie exists because we were able to hold some mental image of it in our mind and it is then reflected back to us as our experience. This is what is known as a “Mental Equivalent”… a mental image of what we want to create in our life is held in “Universal Mind” which is then acted upon by Divine Creation and in turn becomes the “Form” of our life as everything that we experience in the physical realm.

So how does this knowledge change what we experience in our life? It is really very simple… so simple that many people who spent their whole life struggling can’t accept the fact that by merely shifting their consciousness from one of victim consciousness, where everything is happening to them, to a consciousness of Co-Creation where everything is created through them according to their beliefs.

This information that I am giving you is very challenging to understand but is very powerful once you accept it as your truth and then apply it to your life. I encourage you to visit my website and learn as much as you can about “New Thought, Ancient Wisdom” teachings so that you can create a New Reality for your life.

Fulcanelli
http://www.infinitefilmmaker.com

Healing Prayer

There is a Power and Presence that responds to our prayers even to the point of healing our bodies of sickness and disease. Now, most of us as creative individuals experience some form of mental and emotional sickness which is one of the major causes of our not getting what we want out of life. The following is an example of how I used prayer to heal the emotional body of my daughter, so she could release her fear of death.

My 12-year old daughter, Madeleine, was sick last week and I wasn’t able to spend much time with her because she wanted to sleep at her moms. When she came to stay with me, I could tell that she had something on her mind, so I suggested that we do something different and skip her first class to go out for breakfast. It’s amazing how when we shift things up a little and do something out of the ordinary, a doorway opens up for growth. Madeleine would usually feel more comfortable talking out her concerns with her mom, but in this case she was open to sharing with me.

During breakfast, she shared with me that she is having a hard time concentrating in school because she keeps thinking about her friend’s mom who was diagnosed with cancer. This led us into a conversation about death and I shared with her how difficult it was for me when my dad died of a heart attach in front of me when I was 8 yrs old and how I have now come to understand that death is not the end of life, because life is eternal and although our bodies die our spirit or soul lives on forever.

She shared with me that her friends at school were all atheists and she herself is becoming one due to the fact that she is confused and doesn’t know what to believe. As a side note: I think it is a shame that children these days are lacking in faith, not only in God or a higher power, but in themselves as a divine creation with the understanding that they are indubitably connected to Spirit. After discussing faith and honoring her for her belief… or non-belief in God, we talked about the fact that because her friends mom was diagnosed with cancer that it does not have to be viewed as a death notice and that there are lots of people who heal themselves of sickness and disease. I shared with her that one of our friends was diagnosed with cancer three different times and only given less than a year to live and that was over ten years ago.

Madeleine then shared that her mom told her about the movie “The Secret” and how a woman cured herself of cancer by listening to funny tapes and laughed her way back to good health. It was pretty interesting to me that she mentioned that because I gave her mom “The Secret” over two years ago when she was working through some issues and she never watched it until now… at a time when she needed it hear it I guess. It never ceases to amaze me how Spirit works in such a way that something you do for someone years ago can take that long to germinate and become ripe enough for it to bear fruit. I truly believe that all is good!

I took a huge leap in faith when I shared with Madeleine that I believe that we can not only heal ourselves, but that we can also heal others and proceeded to tell her of a time when her Grandparents were both very sick and the doctors couldn’t determine what was wrong with them. My friend, who was madeleine’s aunt, shared with me at the time that she was concerned about her mom and dad and had to accept the fact that they were both well into their 80’s and she would have to get used to the fact that they just might die. I told Madeleine that I did a prayer treatment with her aunt concerning her parent’s health and the both of them became well immediately thereafter. As a matter of fact the doctors found a blocked artery in her grand-dad and when he finally went in for the angioplasty the doctors couldn't find the blockage because it had disappeared. Madeleine was familiar with treatment because we had done them many times before when we wanted to manifest something in our life, but never connected it with using the same power to heal our bodies and free them from disease.

When I left her off at school she was really quiet and I asked her if she wanted to do a prayer for her friend’s mom and she shook her head. I began to speak the word for her friend’s mom, recognizing the perfect wholeness that existed within her body temple, and then proceeded to unify her in consciousness with the perfection of Spirit Itself. When I was done with the prayer, and kissed my daughter goodbye, her smile told me that she had released any concern about her friend’s mom and I know that she left the car in complete faith that our prayer had been answered.

Affirmative Prayer

If we are to connect with all of our “Good” and create all of the things necessary for us to experience success in our life as a creative being, then it is imperative that we learn how to Pray Affirmatively. Affirmative Prayer is an alternative to pleading with God, or Spirit to hear your prayers, and is much more effective in bringing the things you are praying for into your life. When we approach prayer in this way, something profound happens in that the things we are praying for instantly appear in our life. It is measured according to our belief is what the Master taught over 2,000 years ago. Affirmative Prayer or "Speaking The Word" as it is sometimes called, is prayer that comes from the belief that whatever we ask for is already given and through our faith in the infinite Power and Presence of Spirit to bring it to us, we open up a channel for it to appear in our reality.

Affirmative Prayer is not something that comes easy to people who were brought up with the belief that only some of our prayers are answered and only when Spirit feels moved to do so. I remember a time when I would “make deals” with God, that if "He" answered my prayer I would believe in Him and would follow His ways. That seemed to work for a time only I wouldn’t often hold up my end of the bargain and would fall back into feeling not worthy to ask for anything else. How silly is that?
I now realize that God, cannot be defined or even imagined because the more we try to pigeon hole God into our personal view of "It", the further we get from knowing the true Spirit of All That Is. A clearer understanding of God and one that works for me is to look at the nature of God and the principles under which It operates.

One of the principles that I would like to discuss and one that is key to applying affirmative prayer is the belief that we are surrounded by an infinite Intelligence, which I refer to as the mind of the Infinite Filmmaker, which knows Itself to be all that I AM and doesn’t hold back from expressing Itself in my (our) life. If you can imagine that you are living in a movie that is being created by God, the Infinite Filmmaker, and as a character in this universal movie… you are a reflection of this Infinite Filmmaker in much the same way that a filmmaker in the physical world puts some aspect himself into every character he creates in his movie. He can’t help but to create his characters with some aspect of his personality, character, and nature into his film and so it is with God, the Infinite Filmmaker when He created you as a character in this universal movie called “Life”. We are not praying to something outside of ourselves to do something for us… we are praying to something that we are indubitably connected to that is already doing for us what we asked for. By praying affirmatively we opening ourselves to receiving that which is already given in the mind of the Infinite.

When you speak… your word goes to the place in Infinite Mind where the thing that you spoke of exists. It is as if your word is the direct connection to the thing that you prayed for allowing it to show up in your life. There was a time when I believed my prayers were cast out among the stars and randomly they would be answered depending on the mood of God. But now I see that all our prayers are answered before we even ask them. As the Master said, “ask and it is given, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened.” We just have to act as if we already have what we pray for and it will appear in our reality. This is where the ingredient of faith comes in. We just have to believe that the eternal gift is given, act as if it were already there and then give thanks for receiving it and it will appear… it is as simple as that. There is a very effective method of praying affirmatively that was taught to me when I studied at the Agape Spiritual Center that is a 5 step process and is what is commonly referred to as a treatment or affirmative prayer. I do treatments on a daily basis for everything from healing myself and others when we are sick to bringing people and things into my life that I need to move forward in my vision to teach these spiritual principles to creative individuals in the entertainment industry. It is very powerful prayer and it works! To learn more about treatments and affirmative prayer I invite you to register as a member of The Infinite Filmmaker website. You will be updated on my upcoming classes and events that teach these powerful principles.

Listening to Intuition

I often speak about a “Higher Intelligence” that governs our lives and how important it is to connect with this intelligence and learn to listen closely to It’s direction. In my Infinite Filmmaker teachings, I refer to this Intelligence as The Infinite Filmmaker who is creating this movie called “Life” in a perfect, whole and complete way.

Now if we are to experience this movie of our life in the way that the Infinite Filmmaker intended it to be, we are going to have to listen closely to the direction of this divine intelligence and one of the ways that we can do this is to lsiten to our own intuition. It is through our own consciousness that God, The Infinite Filmmaker communicates with us. I refer to this listening to our intuition as the “Still Small Voice” that aligns us with Higher Intelligence.

Last night I was fortunate enough to be able to listen to that “Still Small Voice” and it invariably opened a door to my vision of teaching my metaphysical classes at Film Festivals all over the world.

I had planned on attending the 8th Annual Downtowners of Distinction Awards last night with my girlfriend Jennifer, who is a commissioned artist that paints watercolors of Downtown buildings. She wanted to use it as a networking opportunity and although I didn’t think it would be a great networking opportunity for me, I wanted to attend to suport her work as an artist. As it turned out I didn’t get off work until after the event already started and didn’t expect to arrive there until it was almost over. I called Jennifer and explained that I wouldn’t be able to meet up with her and would just see her when she arrived home.

My rational mind was telling me not to attempt to make it to the event on time, and yet my intuitive mind was telling me to just go and support Jennifer even if I was going to be late. Luckily, I learned to listen to my intuition, knowing that it is Higher Intelligence speaking, so I decided to head downtown and see how far I would get in the rush hour traffic. When I hit Wilshire Blvd., suddenly the traffic opened up and I made it to the awards program just as they were giving out the award to Henry Priest, the director of the 1st "Los Angeles Downtown Film Festival" for his work in bringing the film community to the downtown area.

Now some may call this a coincidence, but I believe that when we follow through on our intuition, the earth just opens up and the Universe brings to us just what we need to create the life we desire. I have always wanted to teach my metaphysical film classes at festivals all over the world and was waiting for the right time to pursue this dream. I believe that my meeting Henry Priest at the award program last night is a message from the Infinite Filmmaker that that time is now! To learn more about how to connect with this higher intelligence visit my website at http://www.infinitefilmmaker.com.