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Dear Visitor,

This rather long article may be the most important and enlightening information you will ever read. This information was emailed to me by my sponsor from PAN100 - with whom I have decided to do business with by promoting their products via my website www.selfhelpebooksandmore.com. This information is so significant I decided to share it with you. What is contained within it will come as a revelation to many. There may be others who are not at a stage to even fully understand let alone accept its message.

No matter which of the above categories you fall into, we feel it will be of great benefit to you if you keep a copy of this special email and re-read it from time to time, as even if you do not fully comprehend the magnitude of its message today, there will come a time when you surely will if you are not of a closed mind.

A Glimpse of a Brighter Future....

It may surprise you to learn that there are many millions of people in the world at present living on less than one dollar per day, and in many cases on considerably less than one dollar per day. There are many reasons why this is so, but the main reason of all is due to lack of education, and as education costs money, a viscous circle is produced which seems never ending.

We understand that the recent economic turmoil has created a lot of uncertainty in the lives of many people around the world. This has led to a general tightening of the purse strings which in itself is a major contributory factor to the seeming recession that many countries are experiencing now, for when people are uncertain of the future their natural tendency is to do what they can to try and hold on to what they already have, and in so doing they are inadvertently producing lack for themselves in the future, because they are impressing the idea of lack and limitation on their subsconscious mind, and whatever a person impresses firmly on his or her subconscious mind will eventually be expressed in their future circumstances.

We are living in an abundant world. There is in reality no lack of anything, apart from brotherly love. The seeming lack is caused by the wrong thinking of the inhabitants of this planet and is mainly due to fear, and as fear tends to attract the very circumstances that people are fearful of, a viscous circle is once again produced. Fear is the root cause of most human problems; it is False Evidence Appearing Real.

How can these viscous circles described above be broken? Well, in your own particular case it is actually much more easy than you may think. You need to replace the fear thought with faith thought. By so doing you will reverse negative trends of circumstances in your own life and at the same time will be helping to reverse these trends in the lives of others as well.

What is faith thought? At its best faith thought is the unswerving conviction that there is a power and intelligence at work in your life infinitely greater than your own, but which your own individual intelligence is a part of in the same way that a drop of ocean water is part of the ocean when connected to it, and that by your own realization of oneness with this Supreme Universal Intelligence you are able to establish this permanent connection in your mind and thereby draw from Its unlimited resources.

Each of us is an individualized thought-centre within this universal ocean of Intelligence, and in the same way that a drop of ocean water contains identical properties to that of the entire ocean, so do we as individuals have unlimited access to the entire Intelligence of the universe once we become fully aware of our true relation to It.

A couple of hundred years ago virtually nobody on the planet knew what electricity was, yet today there are very few people who do not know what electricity is. We cannot see electricity, but through education and observation we have learned that it exists and have learned the laws governing it, and are now able to use it to our benefit, in fact now that we understand how to use electricity it is very difficult for us to imagine what the world would be like without it.

Likewise, we cannot see intelligence but know that it exists, and can see it at work all around us. Who can say that there is no intelligence at work in a plant or a fish or an ant or a bird? We know that each of these expresses intelligence at a different level.

Although we all know what intelligence is, or think we know what it is anyway, it is only in the past couple of hundred years that we have begun to understand that there are definite laws governing the use of our minds in the same way that there are laws governing electricity. Like electricity, there are positive and negative aspects to our thinking processes, and like electricity we can use mind power positively to aid us or negatively to destroy us. These things are well understood by most people, but what is little understood by the masses is the drawing power of the mind, i.e., the fact that we tend to draw to ourselves the things that we think about, and in particular things and circumstances that we dwell upon.

One of the pioneer writers on this subject, Prentice Mulford, said "Thoughts are Things", and the Bible tells us that out of the heart comes the issues of life. The things that we take to heart and hold in our imagination will in time manifest in our circumstances.

When we come to realize that we are all connected to the same One Intelligence that formed the universe, and are all inlets and outlets for the One Intelligence, it's easy to see how what we think affects the things and circumstances that surround us. We literally live and move and have our being in an infinite ocean of Living Intelligence, and whether we call this intelligence God, or the Life Principle, or Infinite Intelligence, or Universal Mind makes no difference at all. This Intelligence is what holds the stars in their courses and the entire universe together. It cannot be denied.

The imagination has been called the scissors of the mind because we are continually shaping our future by the thoughts and feelings that we entertain. How do you feel about your family and relationships with others? How do you feel about your work and occupation? How do you feel about other people in your neighbourhood, your town or city, your country, the world at large? These are important questions to consider because individually our thoughts and feelings are shaping the circumstances of our own lives, and collectively our thoughts are having their impact on the world consciousness as a whole.

Do you think for one minute that the mixed up world as we see it today was created by the same brilliant Intelligence that in Its imagination formed the galaxy and the beautiful butterfly? Obviously it is us collectively that have created the world as it is today by our own thinking and actions, and as Ghandi said, we must be the change that we wish to see in the world. "Change your thought, Change your world" is a slogan that needs to be firmly impressed on the minds of the coming generations if this world is to change for the better.

I wonder how many of you have seen the great movie "Pay It Forward"? If you haven't yet seen it I recommend you go and rent or buy it today. It's all about changing the world into a better place. What are we who are involved in the PAN100 program doing to help change the world? Well, for one thing we are providing you, our members, with the opportunity to be able to sell self-help products that will enhance the lives of other people and help to solve their individual problems. This in itself is an excellent thing, but there is important work going on behind the scenes that most of you are not yet aware of that will have an enormous effect on the lives of millions of people in the world in the years to come.

If you have been wondering where all the money goes that PAN100 members pay each month, then you are about to find out...

http://buddingminds.org

We are in the process of accumulating funds in order to begin building schools and orphanages for underprivileged children in the third world. We expect to be able to start building the first of these some time in the coming year. We will be building orphanages/schools in the Philippines to begin with where there are great numbers of children living in the most appalling conditions imaginable. We will concentrate on providing accommodation and schooling for street children, those with no homes at all, and those living in squats.

The PAN100 program was only launched last May, but in 6 months it has come a long way. Once all 1000 places are filled the program will generate an income of $40,000 per month or more. With this level of income we expect to be able to build at least one orphanage with school each year. As no administration costs at all are being deducted from this fund, the more income we receive the faster we will be able to turn the money into orphanages and schools, so those of you who are already earning a good income from the PAN100 program may wish to consider passing some money on to be included in the fund.

The beautiful New Thought teachings and in particular those of Jesus as outlined in the New Testament in His Sermon on the Mount, will be firmly ingrained into the thinking of these budding minds as they grow up so that in the years to come the future of their country will be firmly in their hands, where it rightfully belongs.

"Blessed are the poor for theirs is the kingdom of God" said our Master, and it is on this planet that the kingdom is to be made manifest as it is in heaven, and it is those young blessed minds who will have the greatest role in bringing this change about.

Jesus's term "the kingdom of God" has been a great stumbling block for many people ever since He first used it and remains so to this day. Two thousand years ago people thought of God as being some type of inflated human being that dwells in a locality called heaven, and that is the concept of God that millions of people still hold in the 21st century.

At the beginning of the Bible it says that man was created in the image and likeness of God. As people for the most part have always thought of God as a separate being to themselves, they have concluded that if we are images of God then God must be in a similar form to ourselves.

Do you think of yourself as being an image of something? How can you be man, an image, and yet have power? For an image has no power of its own; it is only a shadow, a reflection, depending entirely upon something else. An image need not try to be anything. An image could not even try for it just can't be anything of itself; it merely reflects an original.

If we are all the spiritual image of God, then how can you and I be responsible for our mistakes?; in fact, an image could make no mistakes. You simply cannot be an image merely, for an image cannot form thought and you are thinking this very instant. What is the correct solution to this problem? What is it that thinks? It is mind that thinks is it not?

I'm sure that if you try hard enough you can imagine yourself with a different physical body, but can you imagine yourself with a different mind? Of course you can't! How could you be you if you had a different mind to the one you are now thinking with?

From the above I think it should be fairly clear to you that you are in reality a mental being primarily and not a physical one. Your physical body is merely a machine that your mind is using, and it is your mind that is the real you.

If you and I are part of the same mind and intelligence that created the universe, and are individualized thinking centres within this great universal Mind or Intelligence, then what is the man that is formed in the image and likeness of this Mind spoken of at the beginning of the Bible?

It is none other than the physical image that your (subconscious) mind is reflecting and projecting. In other words, you and I are the image and likeness of our own thinking, and the world that we live in is an image, or reflection, or outpicturing of the combined thoughts and beliefs of the entire race since time began.

When you read the words "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our own image, in our likeness' " at the beginning of the Bible, words so familiar to so many, I wonder if you have ever stopped to think who the "us" referred to could be?

Because you, like most, have probably always thought of God as a separate being to yourself, it has most likely never even occurred to you that the "us" spoken of is really us, i.e., our true Selves, and that we are all in reality one being, one intelligence, one mind, and that this one mind is the divine Mind or Christ Mind that Paul referred to - the Mind from which all right thinking proceeds.

Wrong thinking proceeds from what Paul referred to as the carnal mind - the mind of the flesh or race mind, which is part of the human thinking mechanism and mainly comprises of erroneous ideas and opinions that have been handed down the generations from the infancy of the race, and are the result of fear of the unknown and ignorance. These erroneous conceptions and views have become so ingrained into the thinking of the race that they have become what may be termed a collective consciousness or race mind. Jesus used the word "satan" when referring to the carnal mind. The carnal mind is not necessarily evil, it is just ignorant, and as such is capable of all evil doing.

Does it shock or disturb you to learn that your true Self is God, and your true individuality is in Christ? If it does then it need not because it is the greatest knowledge that a human being can ever gain. Your true Self is identical to God in quality but not in quantity, for the quantity is infinite. God is infinite, universal Intelligence and we are individualized intelligence. As such, God is impersonal intelligence, but expresses personality through our individual intelligence. We are therefore one with God.

With this in mind, consider the following words of Jesus in a new light: "I and my Father are one". "My Father is much greater than I", and "Ye are Gods", and they will begin to take on a whole new meaning. We have thought of ourselves as worms of the dust, as pitiful sinners, whereas in fact we are magnificent spiritual beings, formed and cared for by infinite Spirit, the only true Intelligence and source of intelligence that exists.

Those of you who have read some of the Old Testament may recall Moses's meeting with God (Exodus 3:14) and the response God used when Moses asked for His name. It is one of the most famous verses in the Torah. Hayah means "existed" or "was" in Hebrew; "ehyeh" is the first person singular imperfect form. Ehyeh asher ehyeh is generally interpreted to mean I am that I am, though it more literally translates as "I-shall-be that I-shall-be."

The word Ehyeh is used a total of 43 places in the Old Testament, where it is usually translated as "I will be" - as is the case for its first occurrence, in Exodus 3:12 - or "I shall be," as is the case for its final occurrence in Zechariah 8:8. It stems from the Hebrew conception of monotheism, that God exists within each and everyone and by Himself, the uncreated Creator who does not depend on anything or anyone; therefore I am who I am.

Now given that intelligence exists in each and every one of us and exists independently of us, it becomes clear that the "I Am" is Intelligence itself. In this sense the I AM of you is God and the I AM of me is God because we are both expressions or individualizations of the same One Intelligence. It is this realization that empowered Moses and Jesus to perform the so-called miracles accredited to them in the Bible. It was not a power or intelligence independent of them that performed the miracles, it was Intelligence Itself expressing Itself through them as them.

Once these realizations become apparent to us our possibilities for advancement as individuals and as a race are absolutely without limit, and we can begin to take on infinite powers once we start to realize that we are an integral part of the eternal Mind of the universe. Think on this every day from now on and you will begin to impress this great truth on your subconscious mind.

It is well known now that whatever we impress deeply on our subconscious minds through our habitual thinking will eventually express itself in our physical body and in our circumstances. If you spend most of your time thinking about sickness and disease then your body will reflect this and you will be sick and diseased. If you fill your mind constantly with healthy thoughts the reverse will be true.

Likewise, if we spend most of our time thinking about how unlucky and hard done by we are then we will continue to experience similar conditions in our life until our thoughts about ourselves change.

The time has come for us as a race to realize what we really are. We are magnificent beings, beings that have slowly evolved over millions and millions of years and have overcome every obstacle that life has presented.

The challenges that we are facing today may seem big to us at the moment and sometimes overwhelming even, but nothing has ever been accomplished on this planet except through overcoming challenges, for this is the way we continually grow into greater beings.

The time has come for thinkers to take control of this planet once and for all. I'm afraid to say that most people these days are just acting like sheep and following everyone else, and as most people's minds are full of confusion and conflicting thoughts the majority of the time, the state of the world reflects this and we continue to live in a world of confusion and conflict.

The reason for this is because out of all the activities that a human being can spend his or her time doing, sustained clear thinking takes the most effort, and because people are generally mentally lazy, they spend very little time doing any real thinking. It is much easier to let others do our thinking for us, and human beings tend to take the path of least resistance. The vast majority, therefore, make very little impact on this world at all. They spend 70 or 80 years here being swayed around like the branches of a tree for the most part, and then die, and 50 years after their passing it's as if they never existed. This is the lot of the average human being, and it's rather sad when you think about it, particularly when you consider what they could have achieved in the world if they had spent more time actually thinking clearly and constructively.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste, and that is exactly what the majority of people in the world today are doing. We are equipped with a wonderful mind from birth, a mind capable of amazing achievements, but because this mind of ours comes as standard equipment we take it for granted and do not exercise it in the way that it is intended to be exercised, i.e., by sustained constructive thinking. Instead we spend most of our time thinking about mundane things, and as a result we live mundane lives and never really amount to anything.

Would you be surprised to learn that the majority of people who have joined the PAN100 program since May have done absolutely nothing with their web-stores at all? Their websites look today exactly as they did when they first joined the program. They no doubt expected that we would do everything for them and that all they needed to do was to pay their enrollment fee, and then sit back and wait for the dollars to come rolling into their PayPal account.

What kind of backward thinking is that? Why would we have devised this program in the first place if all that was needed in order to sell self-improvement products to the public was to own a website with self-improvement products listed on it? Why would we need affiliates at all if that were the case? Why not just keep all the web-stores for ourselves instead?

If you are to be successful in this, or any other business, then you must be prepared to make a real effort. We have provided you with everything you need to be successful, but we cannot be successful for you. It is you that must do that, and the only way that you will do that is to start adopting the thinking patterns outlined in the many wonderful books listed on your web-store such as "Think and Grow Rich", "The Science of Getting Rich", "The Master Key System", "How to Attract Success", "The Secret of the Ages", etc. There is no other way.

You must begin to think in the "certain way" that Wallace Wattles talks about in "The Science of Getting Rich". Are you already thinking in this certain way? if so, then you are already attracting success.

Read what the 20th century philosopher Anthony Norvell has to say on the subject...

http://www-selfhelp.com/7steps.html

If you are not yet thinking in the way described then it is doubtful that you are successful at the moment.

At some point in the not too distant future we will be publicizing our new "dollar-a-day" program on the buddingminds.org website. We will be encouraging individuals from the richer countries of the world such as the USA, Germany, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, etc., to donate $1 per day in order to adopt an orphan from a third world country at a distance, and pay for their accommodation and schooling. Those who are willing to donate will be able to form a rewarding personal relationship with their adopted child via emails, etc., and may even be able to actually adopt the child for real one day.

You will be able to learn more about this by visiting the buddingminds.org website from time to time.

You are most probably aware that it is not possible to make poor countries prosperous by merely throwing money at them, because what they need most is not money but the education necessary to make them self sufficient. People who live in rich countries need educating too of course.

This is what the PAN100/BuddingMinds program is really all about. It is about educating the people who can afford to pay for education by providing them with the knowledge necessary to become prosperous and to overcome life's difficulties via the many great self-help books and audios that PAN100 web-stores offer; and at the same time it is about providing a decent standard of living and education for the underprivileged children in the third world in order that they may grow up with a very positive outlook on life and thereby eventually be able to help make their own countries prosperous as a result.

I think I have given you sufficient food for thought in this email already, but before I sign off I would like to leave you with a little more to think about....

You are probably very familiar with John Lennon's song "Imagine", but I wonder if you have ever really listened to the lyrics? Although everybody I have questioned knows the song well, I have yet to find a single person who actually knows what John Lennon was describing in his song. If you click the following link and read the lyrics carefully you will find out!

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/v/various_artists/john_lennon_imagine.html

Click the following link to read the lyrics of another meaningful song from the same era....

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/r/ray_stevens/everything_is_beautiful.html

Be sure to click on the You Tube video to watch Ray Stevens performing his beautiful song.

These are songs with wonderful messages intended to get us thinking along the right lines.

Here is a chapter from the Bible's Book of Revelation:

"Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any divide. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" Then he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true." He said to me: "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life.

He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son." (The 21st [Century] Revelation 1-7)

It is the carnal mind or race thought that each individual needs to overcome in order to inherit the kingdom, for what is described in the above revelation is the transformation of consciousness from the illusions of material thinking to the realization of the inner kingdom of divine Mind.

"The Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God" symbolizes the individual's realization that his or her true mind is divine Mind or the Mind of Christ as Paul called it. This realization is a gift of the Holy Spirit.

"Now we have received not the spirit of the world [the race thought], but the Spirit that is from God [the Holy Spirit], so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. And we speak of these things in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit [infinite Intelligence], interpreting spiritual things to those who are spiritual [spiritually minded].

Those who are unspiritual [carnally minded] do not receive the gifts of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are discerned spiritually. Those who are spiritual discern all things, and they are themselves subject to no one else's scrutiny. For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ." (1 Corinthians 2:11-16)

Finally, I would like to offer you the opportunity to download and listen to an audio presentation based on Emmet Fox's book "The Sermon on the Mount" entitled "Living Heaven on Earth - Choosing the Life I Live."

You can download your copy here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?6zxu0ni1xjj

Listen to it often. It will help to lift the fog of confusion and apprehension that surrounds us all at times.

I wish you all the peace, happiness, and prosperity in life that you wish and expect for yourself.

Sincerely,

Ray Smith. - CornerstoneBooks.net

If you would like to find out more about the PAN100 program you can do so here.

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