Changing Your Future

Don’t be so surprised to see my name under such a title. I understand that it is the complete opposite of everything I have written up until now. I suspect that it will not matter much to most of you, since you will most probably stumble upon this book without knowing who I am and what I may have written before.

This book represents a new part of me which I believe has been trying to get out for a very long time now. At least a few years, where I told myself I needed now to concentrate on more positive things, positive thinking, and as the expression goes, then maybe everything will become nicer in my life, I could find this most sought after freedom and happiness.

It is true that I cannot see how anything could ever make me happy if first I cannot see or even think about anything that could make me happy. It is also true that I could not find happiness if I am not even able to identify one thing in my life which could bring me happiness. And how to even feel free if all I can see is all that keeps me away from my freedom?

Is it perhaps that freedom is only something in the mind? Is it possible that you can manufacture within your own existence a feeling of being free, a feeling of happiness and wellbeing, simply by convincing yourself that it can be so? Is this all a psychological universe and it becomes what you project it to be, and via auto-hypnosis or drugs you will eventually find exactly what you have been looking for? Walking beside the garbage cans outside, the people shouting at one another like if there was no tomorrow, your soul destroying managers at work, whilst inside you are feeling absolute freedom, infinite happiness, infinite wisdom, with a perpetual smile on your face with flowers everywhere, all in your mind, while ignoring to witness all the destruction around you?

My God! If this is possible at all, I have to give it a try. I have to reach that level of satisfaction, of appreciation of life, of manufactured happiness and freedom, and see if in time I can actually witness a change. See if suddenly the world around me will change for the better, and see if I can finally find peace this way.

This book will be the complete opposite of everything I have written so far, I am of such a pessimistic nature, depressive and suicidal. How in the world could I be writing a self-help book? When all my life, it seems, all I have done is to inspire people better ways to end their existence? I wouldn’t be saying it here so clearly if it wasn’t true.

Well, this is an essay, an exercise to try to bring more positivism in my life. I am not certain how successful this will be, if I will abandon it eventually. I certainly do intend to be honest here, as I always am, no point starting to lie to you or to myself. I am still trying to figure out what this existence might all be about, I certainly do not intend to tell you what it is, or even I don’t intend without doubt to find out what it is. It is a quest.

What is it that prompted me to write this book? Good question. Easy it would have been for me to see how dark and destructive everything I have written so far is, and think, oh I know, let’s write something positive for a change. It will balance it all, it is logical. I’m afraid not, it does not work like that. Someone writing a book praising communism will not immediately write another praising capitalism. You can replace communism and capitalism with anything else like praising religion and atheism.

You could only expect such an exploit from someone who has gone through some life changing event, and even so, you would quickly state that he must be lying, since he would be contradicting himself so spectacularly. Such a man would also tell you that his previous books were a mistake and should not be read, I however do not feel my previous books or my life up until now were a mistake. I certainly learnt a great deal from them, just as I will learn something totally different now writing this book and going through significant changes within my existence.

Contradiction is a good thing, it opens up your horizons, especially if one is an explorer and an adventurer. You go through different stages in your life, you struggle to get somewhere and understand the existence and the universe we live in, and you write what you feel like writing at specific times in your life. It all helps.

It helped me a great deal to write such dark books, and I am sure it will help many others at that same stage in their personal development who think along the same lines. I will not say even that I no longer believe in what I have written before, even if I am about to state heretic propositions within this book, like I now believe in God and there was a creation. Because it is quite possible that tomorrow night, I will be right back to confirming to you that there is no God and there was no creation.

What I am stating here does not necessarily reflect what I truly believe or thought for most of my life. As I said, it is an essay, an exercise. If I were to believe in all this, let’s see where it could lead me, let’s see what I could write. Let’s talk about love, the spirit world, angels, guardian angels, witches if necessary, and how the get rich quick schemes by thought alone could actually work in practice, and if so, how? What sort of laws of nature could permit such impossibility? By the time you finish reading this book, you will be so filthy rich, you will die in ecstasy somewhere outside under a tree on top of a mythical mountain.

Oh, by the way, I have to tell you that I am always ironic and grounded, this is perhaps why this book will seem refreshing to you, I will not lie to you. If I don’t think it at the time of writing it, I won’t say it. And yet, what you are about to read will break all boundaries, if you believe it, it will change your life just like it changed mine.

I am about to state my own personal experience, and review what others have said upon the same subject. And it is quite extraordinary, it changes everything we thought about the universe and its inner workings. And yet, I cannot deny that this is true, and so someone will have to bring me a better explanation about what the universe is all about and our purpose within it. This at least has been my main concern from the very beginning of my writing career, when I was 10 years old, 25 years ago. So it is not so out of character for me to be writing this book now.

I am going to talk about changing your future for the better, how by simple thought, with no hassle, you can change your life so spectacularly, you will think only a miracle could have made this come true. I will also review the Law of Attraction of William Walker Atkinson and Esther Hicks, and by extension The Secret of Rhonda Byrne.

New Age kind of stuff, something I never truly believed in, though I kept a curious eye upon it from afar. This also resonates with what I read in The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception by Max Heindel, a book I read decades ago when I was just a teenager (closer to 10 years old than 20 in fact). I will also look at other motivators by profession and other books about getting rich quick by thought alone. I am in the process of reading all these books again and see what it can bring me. I will however not wait to have read them all before writing. I write as it comes, as I always did. Not that I am channelling here anything from any other entity, though it is possible, I am not aware of it.

So now that you have been warned, I’m sure you know if this is a book for you to read or not. If not, then visit my website and pick up any other book I have written, it should be right where you are now, desperate to understand a world of desperation running towards its own self-destruction.

And don’t worry, at this time of writing this, I am pretty much certain that this is still where I am now, though I am struggling desperately to find a way out. And this book at this time is my only identified way out. I am hoping it will work, otherwise I might as well shoot myself right now.

However, I should no longer think in those terms, I can no longer offer anyone reading me, at least within this book, any kind of negative thought or image. Remember it, that negative image of one shooting himself, because it marks a new departure, that from now on this is no longer acceptable. And when this image comes, it is time to re-assess oneself and take control over our own thoughts, because thoughts… because thoughts are… when controlled… the beginning of creation, the creation of our own experience, of our own existence. Our thoughts could be the creation of new universes out there in the infinite of space.

And now you know I have reached rock bottom one too many times. That I have now converted to Jesus Christ and I will chant the glory of God to anyone who wishes to hear it or not. I am now sold to Esther Hicks and Rhonda Byrne’s flock and will help them make their millions through their excessive marketing and products they sell.

Well… no. I am no parrot, reading what others said, and re-stating it here in a nicely packaged marketing product. In fact, I tell you that I have not changed from who I was before, far from it. I am also not inviting you at all to read Esther Hicks, William Walker Atkinson or Rhonda Byrne or anyone else.

And if I mention them here, it is only for one reason. What they write about, is something I have myself experienced before, most likely by accident, and I have been searching for answers ever since. And answers, they provide loads. However I need to identify if it fits my own experience, if it rings true at every level. And though I will take from them what seems right, I will also reject from them what I cannot really feel or experience myself.

Overall, this is not a self-help book, it is a book trying to identify and understand how and why self-help books work so well. I am first and foremost writing this book for myself. If you find it helpful, because somehow it may be asking and helping to answer questions you have had yourself, then it is a bonus and let’s talk about it. I just hope that in the process I do not distort the message of any of the authors I will be talking about, and if so, please point it out to me.

First of all you can read what I discovered all by myself following an email I received one day years ago. This is what I have written after understanding how successful I have been at changing my life overnight with a minimum of effort. So minimal in fact, that this whole book can be resumed to one sentence, and you would not need to read any further: Just wish it, be convinced and it happens. Anything else will just confuse you and bring about a lower success rate. However, I feel the need to understand how and why this works, and this book is an attempt at understanding what is the universe we’re living in and what is the purpose of the human beings within it, if any.

You will test this, with the sentence I gave you, and then come back to this book to try to understand and find some answers to this phenomenon. It is after all quite puzzling, because it does work, and it goes against everything we have been taught, everything we have come to believe in.

What kind of universe can instantly provide what you ask for? What are the mechanics of this existence which can permit such miracles? What have we missed, how can we explain it? Those are the questions I will be trying to answer whilst reviewing what others have said on the subject. But first, you can read my self-help bit on the subject, which I have written before reading anything else on the subject. Afterwards I develop further in order to explain the phenomenon, and review what others said about this phenomenon.

PART I

Changing your future

Attempt at explaining how to change the future, the past and the present in order to have a better life and prospects. Can we change our future by thought alone, are there some technology or processes that could help? Praying, hex, psychologists, psychic abilities and science views. What is the best way to change your future?

Can we change the future?

I was recently contacted by someone who claimed he could switch timelines in order to make his life better. He said he could change his past by concentration and some ritual involving memory, alcohol, a huge fight with someone for energy build up and certitude that his life had changed.

What would be your first reaction to that? You would have told him to go and find a good doctor. However this phenomenon was not new to me, I have been able to influence my future with fantastic results, and it did imply that the past had to be changed for these results to come to fruition.

Of course, I had to be left in the dark about that past. Only what I did not know about could still be changed, or else I would have known something was not quite right with reality and I would have freaked out. Despite this little paradox, the past can change and you can witness it, although it is hard to remember.

Can we change the future? I would say yes. Can we be certain that we have changed the future? I would say no. And that is the first law of changing timelines. You can never be certain if the results are not just a string of wild coincidences even when the results could only be described as a miracle.

It is only by convincing yourself that you had anything to do with the results, that you in fact influenced them, that you can be convinced that it works wonder. Certainty has a big part to play in order to change your future. If you are certain it has changed, if you are certain an outcome will happen, then it will most likely happen. If you have any doubts, even a slight one, it might not work.

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World of statistics and probabilities

There is also the realm of statistics and probabilities to be considered. For example, how probable is it that you could win the lottery? We tried and we failed. Though it is not excluded that you could succeed in time if you were to develop a strong discipline, since my correspondent did succeed in getting all six winning numbers of the 6/49 lottery on a sheet of paper, 20 minutes before they appeared on the TV. However he did not buy the winning ticket in that instance.

Another example. How likely are you to become a successful writer if you have never even written a book? This looks very unlikely. If for instance you have already written a book, then the probability of becoming a successful author is likely to be possible and should not require many changes in your timeline to obtain that result.

How likely are you to lose weight overnight, stop drinking, smoking or taking drugs? These are different issues which need to be taken from a different angle. What would make you lose weight in time? What would make you stop smoking or drinking? This is where you need to work on these problems. Would money help you do these things? Would meeting the right people who went through this and know the solutions to your problem something that could make you stop? You then need to wish for money or meeting someone who will change your life in order to tackle your other problems you wish to change.

You need to be realistic in the deadline you give yourself for something to happen. Losing weight takes time, it is de-motivating, it is hard. You then need to wish for a starting event which will change your mind and get you through this long process successfully.

Something important to consider about probabilities. There are too many variables to be considered to start to work out what are the probabilities of an event. With lottery it is simple, you have one chance out of 14,000,000. But it is not true. There is in fact a 50-50 chance you will win the lottery when it comes to changing your future. You either win, or you lose. This is what is so wonderful about all this.

What are the chances that a company from L.A. will contact me and offer me a job? And suddenly learn that they have to sort out my visa, and still want to employ me after that? I would have said zero two weeks ago, or at the very least one chance out of a billion. In reality, it was 50-50. There is a 50% chance that a company will contact me and offer me a job out of here, or 50% chance that no company will contact me. This is quite important to understand.

Results are too wild and improbable for you to start thinking in terms of real probabilities and statistics. Once you start trying to change your future, it works beyond hope, beyond statistics and probabilities. In fact, thinking too much about probabilities could lead to failure. You could start believing that it won’t happen, since it is so highly improbable. You are dealing with accomplishing miracles here, get rid of anything that could prevent you from believing you can achieve them.

Two possible ways to change the future

There are two ways to change your future. The first one is to keep your timeline as it is, and whenever you reach a crossroad, you can be convinced you will take a certain path. In this case, you simply do not see the other path anymore, it does not exist. It is like your timeline is continuous in one direction only.

The other way is to change the past and find yourself in a completely different timeline or parallel world. Perhaps in that new timeline you could be thin and never had to worry about being fat. This is something I might have experienced, although it would be difficult to know since I would not remember the other timeline, the one in which for example I was fat. It is hard to tell if such changes in your timeline are possible, but my friend claims it is.

How can you change your past? How would you know something has changed? You will have to be observant, and then you will soon realise that something is different. Buildings that are now there on your way to work, you will feel were not there before. Some plants somewhere, you will think, were never there yesterday. And I have not experienced this myself, but my friend has: you could lose things like keys, or misplace them. As if in a different timeline your habits were a bit different or you never bought that ashtray you despised so much which is the place where you place your keys.

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Seven other ways or methods by which you can change your future

There are seven ways I can think of to change your future. They all work to a certain degree, some bring a very high success rate. There are perhaps more ways, this list is not exhaustive, but here are the means that I have identified so far and I will review them all in this report:

1) Hard work and radical life changing decisions you could take without hoping for any external help

2) Prayers, Chanting your way to success

3) Hex, Black Magic, Sorcerers, Rituals

4) Psychic Mediums

5) Psychologists, Spiritualists, Motivators, Training, Therapy, Changing your Life through feeling better

6) Technology, science fiction

7) The best way to change your future: just wish it, be convinced and it happens

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Hard work and radical life changing decisions you could take without hoping for any external help

There are many ways for you to change your future. The easiest way I suppose, which does not require a miracle or some sort of paranormal phenomenon or even a time machine, would be to identify what it is that you wish to achieve and find the solutions or the actions you could take in order to get closer to your goal.

Sounds easy, doesn’t it? I know I wish to become for example successful at work. Simple, I should work 80 hours a week instead of 40, I should be able to get things done that way. Surely this would bring great results. I wish also to become a successful author, recognised everywhere in the world. Simple, I just have to send my books to publishers, that would be an obvious first step, which I can’t even be bothered with. In fact, playing around with trying to change my future, taught me what my goals were and how easy I could just work harder to reach them and to make my dreams come true. But it does not work like that.

I’m lazy, I’m overworked, I’m tired. I don’t have the time to print these books and send them to publishers, especially when I know my books would be rejected. I don’t want to work 80 hours a week and kill myself in the process in order to have more successful products and look good to my bosses. I want it to happen almost by miracle, without effort, so I can still have a life without being obsessed with success.

On top of this, I have learnt that to be successful socially is perhaps not my main goal, it would only alleviate the pain and suffering which failure can bring. My main goal ultimately is to find some freedom to think and write, be isolated somewhere far from big city centres, get back to a life where stress does not eat me alive.

If I was really serious about reaching my goal, I would quit my job, sell my stuff, go back to the North of Canada and get myself on social securities. Or at least find a job with not too much stress where I would have nothing to do all day. Perhaps even I could have the time to think and write. I have thought about the perfect jobs for me, but I have never acted upon these dreams. I could not really do this, it is not practical. I cannot just give up my life, my circumstances and disappear from the face of the earth.

So on one hand I know what my dreams are, on the other hand I am not willing to do anything to make them come true. Why? Because I need 100% commitment and determination that this is the right decision, and I don’t have that at the moment. I would need to be ready to sacrifice everything on a whim, while it could lead to a huge mistake. I am not even talking about how my family and loved one would react, they will again say that I am crazy, I am a dreamer and that I act irrationally.

I guess you have guessed that I did make these radical decisions before, where I sacrificed everything for my dreams, and in fact, I did reach my dreams to a certain extent. I am a published author, I have worked in television and cinema, I am living in London, I have a great CV. None of that would have happened without hard work and crazy overnight decisions like moving to Europe.

I wanted to go to Paris very badly when I was living in Ottawa. Did I drop everything and just bought a ticket and try to survive there? No. I applied at the Sorbonne and a few months later I was accepted. It made it much easier and acceptable to my family for me to move to Paris. I got all the help I could get, including a visa to remain there for a year. Without it, I would have been an illegal immigrant in Paris, not exactly the dream I was hoping for.

For many years now I wanted to move to Los Angeles. Did I drop everything and told everyone I was leaving for Hollywood to pursue my dreams, like so many actors and writers did before, only to come back empty handed? No. I had my CV on all these job websites and out of the blue a company wanted me, and now I will be there for a good reason, which makes it all much more acceptable to everyone, including myself. I am only stating these main two events here, but I could tell you so many more life changing events that happened to me, you would not believe, which is why I am writing this book now, I need to understand.

Something external to me, changing circumstances, made it more acceptable for me to move on. I wished for something to come and rescue me, something to happen, anything, and it happened. I was accepted to study in Paris, I got a job offer in L.A. Without that, I might have never left for these cities, or it could have been a disaster.

This is why most of us just don’t act upon what could make our dreams come true. The circumstances, the family, the psychological barrier in front of the enormity of the life changing event, all this is frightening. Some of us are adventurers, they can change their life overnight on a whim. We can only admire them for that. In my case it is not that easy anymore.

Events and circumstances almost need to happen without you having to do anything about it from your perspective. We cannot simply turn around, work harder and sell one million more of something. You need to wake up tomorrow and out of the blue a rich company decided to buy a million more of that something. Your boss might hate you, you could try to change his mind about yourself, make him see you are worth it, but you probably would not succeed. Something external to all this needs to happen, and suddenly your boss sees you in a different light, almost by miracle.

This is what I mean by changing your future. Not by hard work, or changing your very nature that we know by now is unchangeable. But by weird means which can actually influence the reality around you at a level beyond your understanding. There seem to be some laws of nature that make this possible somehow, and perhaps one day we will be able to explain them from the point of view of science.

After all, Einstein proved that matter and energy are the same and are interchangeable. We also know that the whole universe is connected through electromagnetic fields, with positive and negative poles, and that we are interacting and are connected with everything everywhere without knowing. If all is energy, and if we can influence all that using the energy of our brain, perhaps somehow we can change the configuration of the universe at will by thought alone.

Not only that, Einstein also proved that time and space are relative and are therefore changing all the time. Or at the very least, we could presume that nothing is sets in stone. The past, the present and the future can change, it is perhaps continually fluctuating. I have changed my views upon that since I have written this, however as I am not certain, let’s go with the accepted wisdom. I will elaborate more upon this later on.

Psychic mediums appear to prove that we can play with that, that we have some means to change our lives, to have an effect on our future. And they are not the only ones preying on you, there is an army of people out there who knows you have all the potential in the world to change your future by will alone, and they will ask something in return. Which is why my last solution for you to change your future below is the best option. But let’s review the others first.

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Prayers, Chanting your way to success

Praying is probably the most common way people use to try to change their future. You pray for something to happen, you ask someone else, like God, saints, angels, dead loved ones, to help you with certain tasks or important events in your life. This does not bring a high success rate.

First, you don’t convince yourself it will happen. You wish it to happen. You then ask someone else for help, you do not yourself think you can achieve it on your own. Finally you are asking for a miracle, and by definition, you are convinced miracles are exceptional events