I have had some of my students ask me, "What is life like when you achieve mastery with Power?", and I must answer that Life Is Wonderful!! Knowing that anything that I want out of Life is a possibility, that all I have to do is tap into source of Power and direct it to create situations I want, and then let it go to do it's work, is an awesome feeling.

If I want to create a successful business, all I have to do is decide what I want to do in that business, what that business will do for it's customers, and then tap and use Power to create it. If I want to improve a relationship, or create a new one, all I have to do is decide what I really want and then tap and use Power to create ideal relationship.

I have indeed done these things, and a lot more. The relationship I have right now was a direct creation. I imagined every aspect of concept of relationship, envisioned each aspect to be exactly what I wanted them to be, made a few choices between various options, and then tapped into source of Power. Once tapped into Power, I directed it to create this ideal relationship, giving it details of what I wanted, when I wanted it, and how I expected to find it. Then I let it go. I repeated this process several times over a period of about a month, then I released whole process. (I spent a month on this simply because I was very picky about what I wanted.)

Over next several months, I busied myself with many other tasks that had to be performed. This was at a time when I had finally discovered true secrets of Power, and was trying to recover from previous negative fallout from some very bad experiments. When I was creating my ideal relationship, I was about as low as a person could get. I had no job, no place to live, no friends (at least none that I could count on), and no money (not even $5!). The tasks I had to do were to find a place to stay (used Power to create that in about a day), find a job (another one day task), and start planning business I wanted to create (photography, desktop publishing, or writing, I couldn't decide which).

It took about nine months before I met person I had envisioned as my lifetime partner. During that time, I had cleaned up a lot of mess that bad Power experiments had created. I had moved from job to job about 3 or 4 times until I had a fairly good job which gave me what I needed. And while I was not rich, I was definitely moving in right direction (I still hadn't decided what kind of business I wanted to start, I wanted to do them all). I had also tapped into Power to reinforce goal of relationship. I probably did this about once or twice a month.

When I met Linda, I knew that she was one. It wasn't anything in particular, just a feeling, as if I saw her spirit and recognized it. At time, she did not feel that she was ready for a relationship, since she was still hurt from a previous divorce. I then knew that that was reason I had to wait as long as I did. Timing will not always be exactly what you want it to be. It took patience, persistence, and a careful display of charm to eventually win her over. But win her over I did. During this process, I didn't worry that it might not work out, I knew it would. I had Power on my side, and when you have Power working for you, you get what you want.

We are still together, almost 6 years later, and our relationship gets better every year. Its amazing how closely our relationship resembles vision I had when I created it. I had envisioned attending theater together, something I had never experienced before. Linda is an avid theater person, having performed in many shows in local area. I love music, and Linda is a musician (keyboards/piano) with many musician friends. I am starting to learn how to play guitar, but with very little time to devote to it, it is a slow process. I had envisioned long, intellectual discussions, something else I had always wanted, but could never find. Linda and I are able to get into hour long conversations about many wonderful topics. I love computers, so does she. There are just so many things that mirror exactly what I had envisioned.

Soon after I moved in with Linda (she owns a fairly large house), I had finally decided to pursue a photography business. I already had a decent camera, although not 100% professional. I put together a darkroom to control my costs and quality of prints I sold. I spent months and months deciding on a business name, a logo, and a business card layout. My indecision, and many negative beliefs about money made process much more difficult than creating relationship with Linda. And I also have to admit that many times I forgot that I could tap into Power and make process easier, and so I did not take advantage of it. But eventually, I was able to derive my full income from photography.

Yet there are many who feel that this is extremely egotistical and megalomaniacal. How dare you think that you could be God! That's not your place. Why should you have special abilities that rest of us do not!

And then there are those who's response is: "I wouldn't want responsibilities." To be God means to have to take care of everything in existence, to make sure that things run smoothly and come out right way.

Where do you fit into this debate? Does any of these positions hold more weight than others? Is it possible that more than one of these positions could co-exist with each other?

There is an interesting theory that I came up with many years ago which seems to explain a lot of things. I was trying to find Power behind various religions and systems of magick. Christians believed that Jehovah was God and that He answered prayers according to His Plan. The Biblical Christ seemed to teach that anyone with Faith could get anything that was asked for as long as person Believed. (Notice that Christ did not say you had to believe in Him or in God, simply that you had to believe that you would get what you asked for. If you care to read New Testament, and actually read words on page, you will see that critical distinction.) The Magick-workers felt that Power was as natural as electricity and just as available to anyone who cared to learn it's secrets. Wiccans and other Pagans believed that there are many Gods, and that each will answer prayers or not according to their moods and purposes.

In all of various teachings, there seemed to be only one connecting thread. Faith. Belief. Believe that this thing you're doing will accomplish thing you want, and it will be done for you. Whether thing you do is prayer to a higher being, or speaking strange words while performing ritualistic rites, or simply repeating to yourself an affirmation of thing you want as being true. As long as you believe in what you're doing, it will work.

When I finally discovered this commonality, my next question was "What do I believe will work?" I had studied so much, so many different things, and had read success stories in each one. And if it didn't matter what I did, then what could I do that I would believe in? I have since found that it is just as easy to make a decision to have a certain result, and result will come about, without any action being performed. This doesn't happen often, as my mind makes many decisions, and not all of them produce results (Thankfully!)