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THE VORTEX

spending my time and/or money, because a single new perspective

can redirect my thoughts and thereby redirect my life. For instance, a
minister friend, Chet Castellaw, said to me back in 1970, “Jerry, you’ll
never receive the kind of success you’re saying you want.”
I asked him, “Why not?”
And Chet responded, “Because you are critical of successful
people.”
“Well,” I said, “that’s because they lie, cheat, and steal.”
And Chet said to me, “You can be critical of their lying, cheating,
and stealing, but you are critical of their success at lying, cheating, and
stealing. You can’t be critical of huge success and achieve huge success!”
There it was! Just one idea, a different perspective, that, 38 years
ago, I immediately began to act on, which preceded a giant wave of
what most would call “coincidental” events that carried me on—
joyously—to receiving the essence of everything that I have ever
wanted to be, do, or have. . . . And our intention for you is that you
will receive ideas from this book that will inspire within you new
patterns of thought that will attract to you whatever brings you the
most of whatever you want to be, do, or have.
In this relationships book, Abraham* focuses the light of their
Broader Perspective to reveal a wide array of flawed premises (which
most of us are living by) relative to our varied relationships. And
as you come upon those false-premise segments (“false,” relative to
the natural Laws of the Universe), if you will superimpose Abraham’s
perspective over your personal life experience (known only by you),
and if you see room for improvement in your life, you will have the
opportunity to shift your life—from as good as it is, right now, to
whatever you perceive as a better-feeling experience.
Here are a couple of examples of flawed premises under which
I operated for many years. Note how those “false” beliefs caused
me so much discontent, but even more important, take notice of
how a simple change in my perspective led to an immediate major
positive change in my life experience:
My mother was born a dyed-in-the-wool nonconformist. I, too,
was born as an adamant nonconformist. For over 30 years, Mother

*Abraham is considered a group consciousness, so is referred to in the plural.

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