Harnassing the Miraculous Power of a Definite Chief Aim: The One Simple Step To An Incredible Life Change

By Mitch Horowitz

Finding your Definite Chief Aim is the closest thing life grants you to a magic elixir. This book guides you to unearth your core, passionately-felt aim, unlocking energies and abilities you never knew existed within you. In a grounded and serious manner, Mitch reveals why this is so and - most importantly - shows exactly how to find your individual purpose. Once discovered, your aim will mean everything to you. Harness your limitless abilities and revel in what you can achieve. An approved production of the Napoleon Hill Foundation

• Language: English
• Publisher: G&D Media
• Release date: Jan 11, 2021
• ISBN: 9781722505479

Mitch Horowitz

Mitch Horowitz is a writer-in-residence at the New York Public Library and the PEN Award-winning author of books including Occult America, One Simple Idea, and The Miracle Club.

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SERIES INTRODUCTION

I don’t think of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a chronicler of spiritual experience and very much as a co-seeker. I call this book series a Master Class in Miracles because, to a very great extent, we become our own teachers and educators for the vast majority of our lives. We select our books, media, messages, places and methods of worship, relationships, influences.

So, I see these five books, beginning with this book, as a master class in which I think all of us, myself included, are here to examine our ideas, and the techniques and possibilities in mind-power, and the uses of our minds to remake our lives in concrete ways. And to do so very maturely. To do so without any rote language or overly familiar concepts or leaning on stories or ideas that perhaps we’ve heard for too long and don’t do enough to examine.

The purpose of this series is to both examine concepts and to be very practical and hands on. My deepest wish is that everything we explore in this Master Class in Miracles series gives you the opportunity to start using these ideas immediately as you begin reading them. I believe very, very strongly that any ethical or spiritual philosophy should be practical. There should be a practical payoff that announces itself in concrete changes and improvements to your life. That is the one measure of a theraputic idea.

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WHAT YOU WERE BORN TO DO

I decided to start this series with Harnessing the Miraculous Power of a Definite Chief Aim because I think that’s really the basis of everything we try to do in the mind metaphysics or New Thought community. Having an aim is so foundational and so important that it’s almost impossible to overestimate how central it is to enact so many of the ideas that we work with and talk about in this book.

A definition is in order because I’ve called this book Harnessing the Miraculous Power of a Definite Chief Aim. I would never use the term miracle in a glib way, or because it sounds pretty or alluring, or to merely attract people’s attention. I would be violating everything that it is my wish to do if I were to throw around a term like miracle in some way that’s just designed only to be provocative rather than to be real.

What is a miracle? I don’t think it’s something so far away that we cannot speak of it. I see a miracle very simply as a fortuitous departure from all expected circumstance. That’s all. A fortuitous departure from all expected circumstance.

Painful things happen to people in life. There’s no question about that, and there are many complex causes for that. But extraordinary things happen as well. Absurdly good and wonderful things happen to people that are a departure from every reasonable expectation. And those of us who are dedicated to New Thought and mind metaphysics probably had personal experiences that have suggested to us that those happenings are not just mere coincidence. That there is some interplay between what we’re thinking about and the uses of our minds, and what happens to us in the material plane. We’ll explore some of those possibilities.

I really do believe in my heart of hearts—and I would say this to members of my own family, to my own kids—the closest way, the surest way, to work what could be called a miracle in life, an extraordinary fortuitous departure in the direction of some aspiration, is to have a Definite Chief Aim. And that’s what we’re going to talk about in this book. Why it’s so important to have one, how to find a Definite Chief Aim, and how to harness its power.

I first found the idea of a Definite Chief Aim in Napoleon Hill’s 1928 book, The Law of Success. The second chapter