A WORLD BEYOND BELIEF: Tales of a Real Estate Shaman
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A WORLD BEYOND BELIEF: Tales of a Real Estate Shaman by G.W. Hardin DreamSpeaker Creations, LLC Denver, Colorado Copyright © 2011G.W. Hardin All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying and information and retrieval systems, without prior permission from the publisher in writing. This is a true story. Some names have been changed at the request of the individual or to honor another’s privacy. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hardin, G.W. A World Beyond Belief: Tales of a Real Estate Shaman Autobiography, Real Estate, Inspiration, Spirituality ISBN ... 978-1-893641-15-0 ISBN 10 ... 1893641155 1. Autobiography 2. Real Estate 3. Inspiration 4. Spiritualilty Cover design and book design by G.W. Hardin Set in 11 point Optima typeface DEDICATED TO Noah and Gabriel Carriers of the Legacy of Love ACKNOWLEDGMENT To Sherif Sakr, who pressed me to write this book in spite of my protestations. To him goes my special gratitude for taking on the challenge of producer. Rarely can friendship and business mix successfully, but he pulled it off through his patience and wisdom. Contents CHAPTER 1: What’s Real? What’s Not? . 7 CHAPTER 2: The Swami and the Ghost . 15 CHAPTER 3: The Flypaper Syndrome . 35 CHAPTER 4: The House that Sold Itself . 55 CHAPTER 5: Listening to Water . 75 CHAPTER 6: The Princess and the Frog . 91 CHAPTER 7: Way of Wonder or the Wandering Way . 109 CHAPTER 9: Power Beyond Power . 149 Epilogue . 197 Chapter 1 What’s Real? What’s Not? At an early age, the strangest things terrified me. June bugs, for starters. It was as if I could hear their tiny voices as they ganged up on my window screen after everyone had gone to bed. Why they plucked the screen with their barbed legs during the hot summer nights mystified my child-mind. Why did they seek entrance into my bedroom when I wanted the exact opposite—to escape! Not until adulthood did I finally come to understand that human consciousness is the most miraculous— and the most limiting—creator of reality. The overarching question is, What holds rule over our lives? Are our self-created worlds real or figments? Anyone in politics will tell you that fear is a potent weapon. But that weapon is like the proverbial sword—he who lives by it shall die by it. Humans are born with only two fears: fear of loud noises and fear of falling. Some psychology books add a third fear, that of sudden movement. All other fears are acquired or taught. In Dr. Bruce Lipton’s seminal work, The Biology of Belief (Hay House, 2011), he discovers that the overriding factors in determining who we are and who we become as human beings are belief systems. These guardians of figment are handed down to us and set in place by the time we are eight years old, when the subconscious anchors into place. The most disturbing finding in Lipton’s work is the realization that the conscious mind is no match for the subconscious, which cannot be changed once it is set. In other words, Wordsworth’s classic line, “The 9 A WORLD BEYOND BELIEF Child is the Father of the man,” is more than poetry. The remaining years of human life are determined by an eight-year-old living in our subconscious. That is unless we can replace the subconscious with systems that are not based upon belief but upon self-determination, oriented in oneness. Lipton suggests one method of replacing the subconscious but there are others. Later, I will describe the chief tool I use to help my clients replace their subconscious belief systems that imprison them—cursing them with judgment over what’s real and what’s not. As an adult, I eventually realized that the June bugs were symbolic of my own belief system that the world around me loomed as a terrifying and violent place bent on vanquishing anyone or anything threatening its ways. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I discovered that my own personal power, my own innate giftedness, threatened others who could not or would not believe in themselves. And rather than lift themselves up out of their self-made gutters, they chose to tear others down, in hopes that their gutters would be filled with company. One of the most devastating acquired fears is the fear of being alone, abandoned, marooned to an island called the Self, where we can never be good enough because we believe it to be so. When I comprehended the main reason for my own self-condemnation had sprung from repeated condemnation by grownups who could not trust in themselves, who continually marginalized anyone who did not fit into their belief systems, who ignorantly transformed walls of protection into self-made prisons, I rapidly began to suspect anything that was called “real.” “Real,” for me, came to a crashing death in 1968. At the time I had been stationed at the National Security Agency (NSA), a mere sergeant in the Air Force. Fort Meade, Maryland, served as the home of NSA, the most secret organization in the world, affectionately known as the “Puzzle Palace,” named aptly for its ability to break just about any encryption device on the planet. My job was to report Romanian Intelligence, having been well trained as a linguist. After a year of sheer boredom (the joke around the Puzzle Palace was that Romania didn’t reveal enough intelligence to fly a Piper Cub), activity around Romania’s borders changed rapidly. 10 WHAT’S REAL? WHAT’S NOT? World forces moved into battle as the Soviet Union bulldozed its way into what was then called Czechoslovakia. Czech president Alexandr Dubcek had instigated reforms that threatened the very foundation of Communism in his country. The Russian Communist Party was already having fits with Tito in Yugoslavia and Ceausescu in Romania. Unable to tolerate yet a third country’s rumblings within world Communism, Soviet Russia invaded. Finding Czechoslovakia easy pickings, Soviet Russia’s lustful eyes roamed in the direction of nearby Romania. Why not get rid of Ceausescu while they were at it? That put me in the front row observing what many considered the inevitable. Tanks and armies began to amass on the northern borders of Romania, which turned my boring workstation into Command Central. Not only were Soviet armies on the move, so were NATO ships and Romanian Civil Defense forces. I sat at my station watching the world become a chess match as global history moved dynamically before me. While monitoring traffic one day, I felt my headphones yanked off from behind. Turning around to chew out the culprit, I froze in place counting the number of bigwigs flanking my station. One officer, with enough silver on his shoulders to create an eight-piece place setting, held a memorandum in his hand. “Sergeant, this is from the President,” he announced in a rather ominous tone. “The Russians are about to invade Romania. The President wants to know if the Romanian Army and Civil Defense can hold the Soviet Army off for twenty-four hours. The President is making a decision whether to aid Romania by dropping in an airborne division. He wants an answer in fifteen minutes. Get any and all the information you need. Here is the latest intelligence we have smuggled out of Romania. Translate what you can and give us an answer.” My first thought was, OK, who put you up to this? My best friend, a Russian translator, was notorious for his practical jokes to pass the boredom. I kept looking to see where he might be hiding. But all I saw was a half-dozen serious faces staring at me. “Fifteen minutes,” repeated the officer sternly. “Yes, sir,” I replied, recognizing there was no prank behind the situation. I snapped into action as I pressed my earphones against my 11 A WORLD BEYOND BELIEF ears, getting the intelligence ready for rapid examination. My mind began to buzz from the adrenaline, which caused me to start laughing. Immediately, I caught myself and held my breath. This kind of laughter was how I handled extreme stress, an old habit I had never been able to break, which had gotten me into serious trouble in the past. As the voices in my earphones rattled on, I realized that what I was listening to was the same old information I had been listening to ever since Czechoslovakia’s invasion. Rather than turn around and tell the bigwigs what I knew, I decided to take up the entire fifteen minutes because my mind was starting to comprehend that I was being asked whether World War III was about to begin. President Johnson had already announced four months earlier that he would not seek re-election. The Vietnam War had gone badly for him, and he had taken a beating in the polls. The country was tearing itself apart with war protests, the likes of which the United States had never seen. Johnson had nothing to lose and everything to gain as a footnote in history. It occurred to me that he was betting the farm on what I would say in the next five minutes. Extreme emotion began to numb my body, almost to the point of paralysis. I already knew the answer to the question the President had asked. Hell, I had known the answer for two days. What kept me from saying anything was the stunning realization that what would pass my lips could very well bring us into World War III.