What If ... ?: Your Beliefs Shape Your Life

By Frederick Gans

You are a pawn of fate. Your life is a rudderless boat, drifting unprotected upon the tumultuous waves of elements beyond your control. You are at the mercy of a world that exists apart from yourself, a victim trapped by events thrust upon you. People dislike you; nobody loves you. You have financial problems and have trouble making ends meet. You are overweight and unhappy about your condition. You are a vulnerable solitary point of unlucky ego. If you recognize feelings within you that match any of the statements above, then this book is for you.

The message is this: you create your own reality with your beliefs and expectations. If you do not like the direction your life is taking, you can change it. You yourself have created those areas of your life with which you are less than pleased. You are also responsible for your successes and joys. The personal life that you know rises up from within you.

If you have been praying for a change in your life, and help is not forthcoming, you will find out why. If your relationships are not working out and people turn away from you, you will learn why you are lonely. If you have financial difficulties, you will discover how to better your life. If you feel worthless, you will gain new self-confidence. Once you come to believe that you create your own reality, you will no longer feel a slave of events.

Many of the concepts and ideas in this book you will also find in occult and New Age publications. New in this book is the light of my own experiences. In my early fifties, I became interested in the world of spirits. Was there life after death? I read many occult books to find the answer. However, the recurring subject of how you propel your thoughts and emotions into physical events, creating your own reality kept coming back to me. Why waste time here on earth to find out what lies beyond, when I will have plenty of time to find that out when and if I cross over? Instead, why not investigate this intriguing subject of how we create our own physical reality while I am still here I became a serious student of how consciousness creates. Books on the subject explained the theory, and I put it to the test. Results of my early experiments were trivial, just leaves in the wind, but they all blew in the same direction and formed a pattern. This pattern strengthened my faith and encouraged me to go on. Experimental results slowly validated the theory that our beliefs shape our personal reality and our future. During the second half of a twenty-year period of study, these discoveries produced changes in my life so unbelievable that they awoke in me a desire to share the results with like-minded individuals. More precisely, it was a strong impulse from within that prompted me to start writing a book about my unusual experiences.

At first, these promptings met firm resistance: “I am an engineer not a writer; I am not trained to undertake a literary project of such magnitude.” The inner voice later became very insistent, as if entities from a different dimension wanted me to write this book. I silently protested and kept repressing this inner voice. After retirement, I finally gave in. When I started writing, the material came with such ease it was as if someone had already prepared the text for me to use. In fact, as the work progressed, I had to conclude that supernatural beings, later I named them “My Friends,” from a higher dimension had been preparing the material, passing it to me through my subconscious. Therefore, I credit My Friends, wherever they are, for the initiative of writing this book, and for any new ideas that this book may introduce to you. I am also indebted to the authors listed in the bibliography for the occult and New Age ideas, vocabulary, and expressions. As someone said before me, “I am standing on the shoulder of giants,” when I write hints, clues, present words, and symbols about the human psy

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 31, 2009
• ISBN: 9781477173435

Frederick Gans

Frederick Gans, born in Budapest in 1933, left Hungary in 1956 and, via Austria and Italy, arrived to New York in 1959. He has a BS degree in engineering from Columbia University and an MS degree from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. In 1971, he returned to Europe for an American company. In his fifties, he became interested in occult, and discovered how consciousness creates. Applying this creative process to his life, he saw incredible changes in his reality and decided to share the experience with others in this book. Mr. Gans is retired and lives with his wife in Belgium.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Who will want to read this book?

Your Subconscious Mind

is your goal-seeking cybernetic system. It is the architect of your every-day reality. It will achieve the goals you believe in.

Analysis of Negative Emotions

point to conflicting beliefs you hold in your conscious and subconscious minds. Your subconscious cannot create your reality with conflicting beliefs.

Your Everyday Reality

is of your own making. You are fully responsible for your own life, and you cannot blame others for your failures.

Knowledge and Guidance From Within

is coming to you from the depth of your psyche as sudden knowing. Learn to follow inner guidance that will lead you to your goals.

The Workings of Creation

Learn how a highly creative spirit world is shaping your future.

Faith

is the yeast that helps grow belief in a loving God who looks out only for your interests.

Visits to a Strange Reality

a place more beautiful than our physical world. My journeys there proved to me that I am not my body and that life continues after death.

Meeting God

was the most radiant experience of my life. There is no feeling that can compare with being in the presence of God

A Word to My Critics

who do not believe there is anything beyond this physical universe, and who do not believe in God.

Appendix

References

Bibliography

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To Claudia and Ansi

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I EXPRESS MY appreciation and thanks to Meredith Sayles Hughes who reviewed and edited the manuscript. Her gift of reducing pompous, convoluted expressions to simple, readable English much improved the original text. I would also like to thank m y wife and my daughter Claudia for proofreading the final version.

Further, I would like to thank the following disembodied spirits (and their channels) who found ways to talk to us from another reality and helped many of us improve our awareness of our universe and ourselves. They originated most of the New Age ideas in this book.

Seth (Jane Roberts)

Kryon (Lee Carroll)

Bartholomew (Mary-Margaret Moore)

Lily and the Group (Ruth Montgomery)

Arthur Ford (Ruth Montgomery)

William James (Jane Roberts)

Roberta Alvisi (Gabriella Alvisi)

Finally, my thanks go to the Guardian Spirits who compelled me to write my story, providing help all along the way. Without their insistence, I would have never written this book.

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Introduction

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Y OU ARE A pawn of fate. Your life is a rudderless boat, drifting unprotected upon the tumultuous waves of elements beyond your control. You are at the mercy of a world that exists apart from yourself, a victim trapped by events thrust upon you. People dislike you; nobody loves you. You have financial problems and have trouble making ends meet. You are overweight and unhappy about your condition. You are a vulnerable solitary point of unlucky ego. If you recognize feelings within you that match any of the statements above, then this book is for you.

The message is this: you create your own reality with your beliefs and expectations. If you do not like the direction your life is taking, you can change it. You yourself have created those areas of your life with which you are less than pleased. You are also responsible for your successes and joys. The personal life that you know rises up from within you.

If you have been praying for a change in your life, and help is not forthcoming, you will find out why. If your relationships are not working out and people turn away from you, you will learn why you are lonely. If you have financial difficulties, you will discover how to better your life. If you feel worthless, you will gain new self-confidence. Once you come to believe that you create your own reality, you will no longer feel a slave of events.

Many of the concepts and ideas in this book you will also find in occult and New Age publications. New in this book is the light of my own experiences. In my early fifties, I became interested in the world of spirits. Was there life after death? I read many occult books to find the answer. However, the recurring subject of how you propel your thoughts and emotions into physical events, creating your own reality kept coming back to me. Why waste time here on earth to find out what lies beyond, when I will have plenty of time to find that out when and if I cross over? Instead, why not investigate this intriguing subject of how we create our own physical reality while I am still here

I became a serious student of how consciousness creates. Books on the subject explained the theory, and I put it to the test. Results of my early experiments were trivial, just leaves in the wind, but they all blew in the same direction and formed a pattern. This pattern strengthened my faith and encouraged me to go on. Experimental results slowly validated the theory that our beliefs shape our personal reality and our future.

During the second half of a twenty-year period of study, these discoveries produced changes in my life so unbelievable that they awoke in me a desire to share the results with like-minded individuals. More precisely, it was a strong impulse from within that prompted me to start writing a book about my unusual experiences.

At first, these promptings met firm resistance: I am an engineer not a writer; I am not trained to undertake a literary project of such magnitude. The inner voice later became very insistent, as if entities from a different dimension wanted me to write this book. I silently protested and kept repressing this inner voice. After retirement, I finally gave in. When I started writing, the material came with such ease it was as if someone had already prepared the text for me to use. In fact, as the work progressed, I had to conclude that supernatural beings, later I named them My Friends, from a higher dimension had been preparing the material, passing it to me through my subconscious. Therefore, I credit My Friends, wherever they are, for the initiative of writing this book, and for any new ideas that this book may introduce to you.

I am also indebted to the authors listed in the bibliography for the occult and New Age ideas, vocabulary, and expressions. As someone said before me, I am standing on the shoulder of giants, when I write hints, clues, present words, and symbols about the human psyche. Ideas from these authors are valuable, because they help you understand the nature of your private experience. You can then use this knowledge to deal with varied events and problems in your daily life. For supporting material, I offer my own experiences, which give evidence to the validity of many of the concepts.

Read this book with an open mind. Let new ideas challenge old myths and preconceptions. New ideas are tools you can use in your own way every day to enrich your life and solve your problems. Translate philosophy into reality and action according to your own value system. Within you is the power to change your own conditions and to create a fulfilling personal life. This power is your own. You only have to exercise it.

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Your Subconscious Mind

T HE YOUNG PIANIST played without notes. With eyes closed, inspiration illuminating his expression, he played with fingers nimbly dancing over the ivories. The local school that our two girls frequented had organized this musical soirée, inviting this young artist from the Royal Music Conservatory of Brussels. While listening to a pleasing variety of musical selections and his interpretation of the compositions, it slowly began to dawn on me that I was experiencing a miracle.

In spite of concentrating on the musical performance, I could not help wondering how many notes he would play during the hour-long performance. The pianist activated about ten piano keys per second, and so he would have played around thirty-six thousand notes during the one-hour presentation, all in correct sequence and with perfect timing. In what part of his body was all this information stored? From where was all this data, delivered with ease and inspiration, coming from? Was the data stored in the brain? Was it stored in a subconscious memory?

The subconscious must have been involved in the delivery of music, since there was no obvious thinking process involved. Not once did the pianist have to stop to think about what note came next; it seemed that he just heard the music in his mind, and his subconscious directed his nervous system to play the notes automatically.

Why a miracle, you may ask? Playing the piano is a form of communication. You probably play the piano yourself, or know somebody who plays it well. To appreciate the miracle, consider a less prevalent activity that involves subconscious action. Consider the very first person who decided to learn to walk the tightrope.

Rope walking is the art of walking on a rope or wire stretched between two supports. It has been a popular form of entertainment from the beginning of history. Since human beings are not born with the ability to take leisurely walks on ropes, there was one person who first decided to try it. Let us call this person Kim. We can be certain that Kim fell off, after stepping on the rope the very first time. What made Kim climb back again after that first fall?

There was no precedent. Everyone knew that human beings could not walk on a skinny rope. Yet, Kim climbed back on the rope again. Why? It must have been Kim’s intent that created an open and receptive mind and the attitude of let me just try and see what happens.

Kim fell off the rope again and again, and Kim climbed back on the rope again and again. During every particular position of imbalance that resulted in a fall, Kim’s subconscious had learned to react with an action that counterbalanced that position. After many repetitions, this reaction became an automatic body reflex.

As the subconscious developed reflexes to hundreds and then thousands of different positions, Kim was able to stay on the rope longer and longer, first for one second, then for two. This partial success probably planted a firm belief in Kim’s consciousness: "I Can Do It." The absolute certainty that crossing the rope was only a question of time made Kim work that much harder. Finally, the day arrived when Kim crossed the entire length of the rope.

Kim’s case illustrates one of the many roles your subconscious mind plays in your life. It develops body and attitude reflexes that help you achieve your goal. If you are a piano player, you are not recalling music data from memory storage in your mind or body. Your acquired reflexes move your fingers to the correct places on the keyboard when you think of a tune. It is a reflex action stored in your nervous system. Your subconscious developed your reflexes when you learned to walk, to speak, to drive a car, and to react to the many stimuli of your daily environment. You can consciously use this faculty of the subconscious, not only to learn the piano or to walk the rope, but also to achieve any goal you desire. You can become a good manager if you want, or you can create your own successful business.

You can use this tool to achieve anything you want in life, no matter how bizarre your goal is. What do you think about learning to put a teaspoon on your toes, flipping it into the air with your foot, and having the spoon land behind your right ear? Is this idea ridiculous? I have seen this incredible act performed in a nightclub. If flipping spoons into the air and behind your ear is your goal, then your subconscious will make it become a reality. If you want to succeed in business, your subconscious will make that a reality. As long as you have a goal, your miracle tool will take you there.

The subconscious works like a cybernetic, goal seeking system, using the same principle as a guided missile. In the guidance system of the missile, the target, the goal, is programmed. When the missile is on its way to the target, the guidance system compares the actual course of the missile with the preprogrammed one. If the missile fails to follow the programmed course, the control system uses the resulting error signal to make the necessary corrections. In the case of the tightrope walker, the error signal was equivalent to falling off the rope.