I live in a most unique place on this “One World”. The geographical location is a town called Eugene, Oregon but the uniqueness goes beyond the physical topography. It is unique because of the wonderful people here and the energy of love and service.

When 9/11 happened this town did not buy into the ’shock and awe’ but rather they went into action to unite the community and celebrate its diversity. In a glorious display of “Eugene Enlightenment” the organized religions in this town, of which there are many and diverse got together and made a committment to meet as a unit on the 11th of every month to demonstrate love instead of fear.

One of the leaders of this coalition is a wonderful lady named Ginny Nilsen who helped organize and administrate these gatherings. One of the spin offs of this gathering is the contribution to our local newspaper, The Eugene Register Guard, a column that helps unite the community. The column is called “Heart to Heart” and I have been honored to be a contributor to this column as well as a speaker at the monthy “interfaith” meetings on the 11th of the month.

I want to acknowledge Ginny Nilsen here for her tireless efforts to serve humanity and for asking me to contribute another article for “Heart to Heart”. In honor of Ginny I am submitting the following article:

One World, Two Paradigms, Three Pillars

We live in a universe based on the concepts of physicality, duality and relativity. This seems pretty straight-forward and most of my life I never gave much thought about the nature of our universe except to think about how totally insignificant I was in the big scheme of things.

That was the perspective I had about life in general prior to awakening to what I like to call “my true authentic self”. In my late thirties I began an adventure that has completely shifted my concepts of what life in general, and my life in particular, are all about. It is an adventure into understanding and knowing about the spiritual aspect of my being and how, by allowing the spirit part of my being to be part of my decision making process, I have gained access to a wondrous world and way of living that have transformed my perspective on life.

Let us start out by acknowledging that there is one physical universe and we live on one physical planet known as ‘planet earth.’ In other words, “one world.”

Next, let’s take a look at the two paradigms of life. One paradigm says that we are separate beings from all other people, places and things in existence and the other paradigm says that we are one with all other people, places and things in existence.

The obvious question becomes “What is the root cause of each of these paradigms?” And herein is the crux of the game of “life on planet earth.” The root cause of the paradigm of separation is the concept known as “fear” and the root cause of the paradigm of oneness is the concept known as “love.”

Living within a paradigm of separation has the natural consequence of living in fear and living within a paradigm of oneness has the natural consequence of living in love. So here is the next logical question, “Am I better served by love or by fear?”

What is your answer?

My answer is summed up in the Three Pillars that I live by every day of my life. 1) LOVE is who we really are. 2) We are all ONE at the highest levels of our consciousness. 3) We are all here to CREATE our lives in any manner that we choose.

When I was sleepwalking through life I believed that I was a separate being who had to fend for myself and struggle to get what I wanted out of life. I lived in fear because I was conditioned to believe that I was separate from all of life, including the Source of my existence.

Now I live my life from the paradigm of love and oneness and I have consciously created a beautiful wondrous life filled with abundance, health and harmony. I no longer feel insignificant in this universe because I know that I am creating my universe with my every thought, word and deed.

I know that I am ONE with my Source.

Description: Richard Blackstone teaches a spiritually based message of Love, Oneness & Creation. He is not affiliated with any church or any religion and says that he is a living example that anybody can re-create their lives in any manner they choose.

Live in love,

Richard D. Blackstone

Posted on June 7th, 2009 by Richard
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A way cool life challenge,

I just finished a “45 day Challenge” with Bob Doyle, called “Boundless Living Challenge.” This is an idea that comes from Bob’s website, www.wealthbeyondreason.com.

Bob Doyle was one of the presenters in the movie, “The Secret”. He is one of the nicest people you will ever meet and, as he likes to say, “He is just like you. He was having trouble manifesting the life he desired until he came upon the deeper secrets about the “law of attraction” and then ‘he got it’ and has been teaching it ever since.”

That is pretty much like my own story. I was just stumbling through life until I started waking up to my true authentic self through Deepak Chopra’s book, “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success.” I started applying those ’seven spiritual laws’ into my life and I could see the results right away, so I told myself that i was going to stay on this path and see where it would take me.

Well, it has taken me to places that I could never have imagined if I had remained ’sleepwalking through life’. But one thing I found out is that this journey of self discovery, self improvement and self actualization is an on-going adventure because there is no end to the Joy that is available to you when you continue to reveal more and more of life’s immutable laws and how they can dramatically improve your “game of life”.

So Bob has put together what he calls a “45 day challenge” where you can join in with a group of like minded positive people and create your own challenge and then take a measured 45 days and work on your challenge. So I joined the ‘challenge’ and spent 45 days very committed to what I wanted to work on.

My challenge to myself was to put together a website project for my newest product, “Blueprint for Manifesting SYSTEM.”

I had started this project but I was going in fits and starts until I took up the challenge and then, because of the challenge, I really committed myself to completing the project. Well, it took longer than I anticipated but I completed the project in the 45 days. To tell you the truth, I don’t know if I would have been able to do that if I had not made that commitment and then done something every day to stay true to my goal.

If you would like to see the initial website I put together for this challenge go to http://www.GetBlueprintForManifesting.com and you can get a free e-book and audio called, “Blueprint For Manifesting, Three Foundation Pillars.” This is a very powerful book and audio and has helped a ton of people already. I have tremendous feedback on the value in this easy to read book and fun audio. Check it out.

So what is this all about? Well, it is all about the idea that this game never ends. There is no end to the abundance, health and harmony in your life. The more you put your attention on what you desire the more it shows up in your life. Yes, it is called, “The Law of Attraction” and it is working all the time. 

It is working right now. You are reading these words because the “Law of Attraction” brought you to them. The Law of Attraction caused me to write them. We bring into our lives that which we put our attention on.

So simple, yet so very profound.

Create your own 45 day challenge, mark it on your calender, commit to what you want to accomplish and then start putting your attention on it with a focus that is laser like. Get back to me in 45 days and tell me how it went. I guarantee you that you will amaze yourself as you see all the distractions fall away and you focus in on your desire.

What a grand adventure we are on. Go out and challenge yourself to live it at the highest levels.

Live in love,

Richard D. Blackstone  

Posted on June 6th, 2009 by Richard
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Have you ever thought about the concept that you have been chosen to be the spokesperson for a certain ‘idea?’

Think about that for a minute.

I just finished listening to one of the recordings in “The Secret Science of Getting Rich” series presented by Bob Proctor as he goes deep into the book written in 1903 by Wallace Wattles called “The Science of Getting Rich”. I wrote a blog about this book a few weeks ago and if you would like to download a copy of this “life-transforming” book just go to:

http://www.scienceofgettingrich.net/gifts/create_one_love.html

One of the people helping Bob Proctor on his project is Jack Canfield of the ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’ fame. Jack is one of my favorite mentors and I love the way he frames things in simple terms so that you can use it right away. Well, that is who told me about this concept that “an idea is using you”.

So I began to think about that and came to the conclusion that the idea that is using me is the idea that:

“I am to disseminate to as large an audience as possible the concept of shifting out of the paradigm of living your life in fear, caused by a belief that you are separate from all things, and to shift into a paradigm of living your life in love, caused by a belief that you are one with all things.”

Of course, this is only made possible because that is what I did myself many, many years ago and so the idea saw me as a perfect messenger because I could teach by example and assigned itself to me to help raise the consciousness of all humanity.

Wow! Just writing these words is so uplifting. How noble, how magnificent to be this messenger of change. I feel so honored that this “idea” would pick me to carry out its intent. Of course, I had to then ask myself if I am up for the task but it didn’t take long to realize that I am not only up for the task but I am excited about carrying this banner forward and making it a “cause”, a real “crusade” if you will.

I am so grateful that this idea is using me to change the course of all humanity. I am so blessed and I feel so empowered to honor this ‘idea’ by being the absolute best messenger I can possibly be to deliver this message by using the three foundation pillars of my life, Love, Oneness and Creation.

LOVE is who we really are. At our core is the concept called ‘unconditional love’.

ONENESS: We are all ONE with the source of everything in the universe and since this ’source’ permeates and penetrates everything seen and unseen then we are all ONE with “all that is”. We are never ’separate’ from the source, we are all ONE with the source.

CREATION: We are all here to CREATE our lives in any manner that we choose. We all have the same powers of creation as the source and we are creating our lives as we go along through the thoughts that we think, the words that we speak and the actions that we take. We are all powerful CREATORS.

So with this arsenal in my tool kit and with the awareness and understanding I possess from using the “Law of Attraction” to really KNOW  this ‘idea’ at a deep and profound level “I ACCEPT THIS HONOR”.

The ‘idea’ that is using me is to shift the paradigm of life from fear and separation to Love and Oneness. I am honored and grateful to accept this mantle.

Now the questions becomes, “What is the ‘idea’ that is using you?”

Live in love,

Richard D. Blackstone

Posted on May 27th, 2009 by Richard
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One of my favorite radio shows is a “National Public Radio” (NPR) show called “Fresh Air” hosted by Terri Gross. Terri has had some really interesting and fascinating guests on her show and this is the story of one of the most fascinating.

Terri interviewed a lady by the name of Jill Bolte Taylor who wrote a book titled, “My Stroke of Insight”. Now, that is a great title but the title really tells the story of Jill in a dramatic way. You see, Jill is a neurological researcher and that means that she studies the brain and its functions.

At 7:00am on December 10th, 1996 Jill was given the perfect opportunity to study her brain first hand when she experienced a stroke and began the process of one of the most fascinating journeys that anybody can ever take in this game of ‘life on planet earth’. The amazing thing about Jill’s experience is that she was able to evaluate her experience through the eyes of a research scientist and understand, to a degree, some of the wild and crazy things that were happening to her.

What I found the most fascinating revelation about Jill’s story was that her stroke affected the left side of her brain and so she was functioning out of the right side of her brain and that is the side where we are connected to the all of everything. So during her early stages of her stroke and throughout much of her experience she was in a euphoric state of bliss because of the right brain dominance.

She said that she could see how she was interconnected with everything and how this interconnectedness flowed through all of life. She associated with all of the cells in her body and she sensed the entirety of the cosmos in her strange journey of detachment from the world of left brain rationality and compartmentalization and separation. She was one with it all.

It really made me see how we need and use both sides of brain hemispheres to function fully in this life experience of physicality. We are spiritual beings playing a game in a physical universe so we need those components of physicality that allow this game to play out the way it does. Isn’t that fascinating?

I was just blown away by this interview and if you would like to here a podcast of it just go to:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104154403

If you can’t find it there just google ‘Fresh Air’ and look in the archives for Jill Bolte Taylor.

The happy ending to this story is that Jill did make a full recovery and the way she tells the story the only way she was able to do that was because her mother oversaw the recovery process and did not proceed with the conventional medical doctrine normally used for stroke victims. Instead she used the time honored method of “unconditional love” to guide her and never let anybody or anything but ‘positive’ input come near her daughter as she began the recovery process.

Inspiring and fascinating. Just validates what we already know right? WE ARE ALL ONE

Live in love,

Richard D. Blackstone

Posted on May 18th, 2009 by Richard
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