Vol 1 No. 12          
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Spiritual
Alchemy
Turning Lack
Into Cash
by Wynn Free
  
 
It's not higher to be poor. It often takes money to accomplish your life's work.
—Orin & DaBen, Creating Money


Sanaya Roman/OrinCreating Money is a wonderful book by two beings not of this earth — Orin and DaBen — as channeled by their earthly counterparts, Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer. Orin and DaBen identify themselves as ''beings of light,'' but they express a tremendous wisdom and compassion for the reasons that we humans get so stuck in these areas of ''not enough.'' The book creates a complete program for turning this situation around from a higher consciousness perspective. According to the authors, the techniques have worked for thousands of people.

''You may wonder,'' they ask, ''how we, as guides, would know about the laws of money. Money is energy and energy exists on all realms.''

Do you need more abundance in your life? Orin and DaBen recommend that the first step in any new growth is to honestly evaluate where you are and create the vision of where you'd like to be. Rate yourself on the following forty-two qualities, taken with permission from the book itself, to determine how you are attracting or repelling abundance:

  1. Honoring your worth and time/ Not honoring your worth and time
  2. Giving and receiving freely/ Not giving or being open to receive
  3. Opening your heart/ Closing your heart
  4. Expecting the best to happen/ Worrying that the worst will happen
  5. Coming from your heart/ Getting into power struggles
  6. Doing your best/ Cutting corners
  7. Wanting everyone to succeed, cooperating/ Competing
  8. Focusing on how you can serve others/ Thinking only of what others will give you
  9. Telling yourself why you can succeed/ Telling yourself why you can't succeed
  10. Coming from your integrity/ Compromising your values and ideals
  11. Being aware and paying attention/ Operating on automatic
  12. Applauding others' success/ Feeling threatened by others' success
  13. Embracing your challenges/ Choosing safety and comfort over growth
  14. Releasing things easily/ Hanging on to things
  15. Believing it's never too late, taking action on your dreams/ Thinking it's too late, giving up
  16. Giving yourself permission to be and do what you want/ Waiting for others to give you permission
  17. Believing your path is important/ Not believing in your path
  18. Doing what you love for your livelihood/ Working only for the money
  19. Detaching, surrendering to your higher good/ Feeling needy or that you must have something
  20. Giving to other's prosperity/ Giving to other's need
  21. Doing your higher purpose activities first/ Putting off higher purpose activities until you have more time
  22. Seeing yourself as the source of your abundance/ Viewing others as the source of your abundance
  23. Believing in abundance/ Believing in scarcity
  24. Believing in yourself, self-confidence, self-love/ Worrying, fears, doubts, self-criticism
  25. Clear intent and directed will/ Vague or undefined goals
  26. Following your joy/ Forcing yourself, creating ''have to's'' and ''shoulds''
  27. Surrounding yourself with objects that reflect your aliveness/ Keeping objects that aren't tools to express your aliveness
  28. Expressing gratitude and thanks/ Feeling the world owes you
  29. Trusting in your ability to create abundance/ Worrying over finances
  30. Following your inner guidance/ Ignoring inner guidance
  31. Looking for a winning solution for everyone/ Not caring if other person wins
  32. Becoming your own authority/ Not believing in your inner wisdom
  33. Measuring abundance as fulfilling your purpose and happiness/ Measuring abundance only by how much money you have
  34. Enjoying the process as much as the goal/ Doing things only for the goal
  35. Clear agreements/ Unspoken or vague expectations
  36. Thinking how far you have come/ Focusing on how far you have to go
  37. Speaking of abundance/ Talking about problems and lack
  38. Remembering past successes/ Remembering past failures
  39. Thinking in expanded, unlimited ways/ Thinking in limited ways
  40. Think of how you will create money/ Thinking of how you need money
  41. Focusing on what you love and want/ Focusing only on what you don't want
  42. Allowing yourself to have/ Feeling you don't deserve to have


Where you made the second choice in the items above, these are the areas, according to Creating Money, where you may want to focus in moving up the abundance ladder.

Becoming Magnetic to Money

Whatever you think having more money will give you is the quality you need to develop to become more magnetic to money and abundance. View money and things not as something you create to fill a lack but as tools to help you more fully express yourself and realize your potential.
—Orin & DaBen, Creating Money


Duane Packer/DabenThe idea here is to ask yourself how would you feel if you had more money. Would you have more self-confidence? Would you have more self-esteem? Would you have more inner peace, serenity, power, or love? According to Orin and DaBen, we've got it backwards when we think money will bring us these things. The qualities we think money will give us are the exact ones we need in order to attract money to us.

Once you know the qualities you need to access to attract abundance, Orin and DaBen advise you to move your life into situations that will inspire these qualities.

For example, if you thought money would bring you more inner peace, you now know that inner peace is the quality which will attract money. So you can meditate, spend time in nature, do yoga. . . A suggested exercise is to list all the qualities which you thought having money would give you, and then list the correlating activities which you could do right now which would help to inspire those qualities.

Being Flexible in What We Ask For

The essence of something is the function you want the item to perform — the purposes you will use it for, or what you think it will give you. Be open to letting whatever you want come in whatever size, shape, or form is most appropriate.''
—Orin & DaBen, Creating Money


As Divine Beings, we can have whatever we want as long as we are not violating another and as long as we are putting out a clear signal to the Universe. The key here is in focusing on what we really want. According to Orin and DaBen, we have to visualize and contemplate the essence of what we really want as opposed to its outward form.[1]

Once you know what you want, a process called ''magnetization'' is used to attract it to you. The six steps described by Orin and DaBen to magnetize something toward us are:
  1. As you magnetize something, think of the quality you want to radiate.
  2. Magnetize the essence or features of what you want.
  3. Ask for what you want and even more.
  4. Love and intend to have what you are asking for.
  5. Believe that what you are asking for is possible to have.
  6. After you ask for something, surrender to whatever comes as being appropriate. Be detached.

Learning to Receive

Be willing to receive from any source which honors your integrity and be willing to get what you have asked for.
—Orin & DaBen, Creating Money


According to Orin and DaBen, learning how to give and receive is key to creating abundance and a flow of money. Very often, we are good at either giving or receiving — but abundance requires the mastery of both qualities. Orin and DaBen say that as long as the giver does not ''have strings attached or is trying to buy friendship,'' receiving is a way of empowering others and letting them flow their abundance towards you.

''Give to people who will use your money and gifts to create positive changes in their lives. Give in order to help people achieve their higher purpose and path. If you are truly empowering people you will feel uplifted and joyful from your giving.''

Acts of giving can affirm our abundance. Even small acts of giving can turn our energy flows around. But giving which bails somebody out of a recurring situation or makes them dependent on you will not lead to abundance.

Creating Your Life's Work

You can make money doing work that you don't like, but it will take more time and effort. Loving what you do brings abundance more easily and effortlessly. ...

As you serve and empower others, find your life's work, and do what you love rather than what you think will bring you money, you will become highly magnetic to money.
—Orin & DaBen, Creating Money


Creating our life's work doesn't necessarily involve a major and abrupt career change. We can express higher qualities in the job we are in now until the next step presents itself.

The book gives the example here of a man whose life's work was to inspire people and bring out the best in them. Even though his jobs — busboy, waiter, clerk — might be looked upon as mundane, he fulfilled his life's purpose in those jobs by always encouraging people and helping them discover their strengths. Later in his life, he became a successful writer and public speaker, writing inspirational books and giving inspirational talks.

When we are making contributions to the lives of others, we are attracting abundance to ourselves.

''Your deepest desires and dreams come from your soul. Your soul is not limited to the identity you have right now. It sees the large picture of who you are and what you can accomplish in this lifetime. Don't discard your fantasies as just wishful thinking. Honor them as messages from the deepest part of your being about what you can do and directions you might choose.''

In determining our life's work, we need to evaluate our actual abilities and talents. If we love doing something and make it a part of our life experience, that love will radiate to others. If we love to make craft items, for example, and someone wears something we've made, they will feel our love. Someone who loves to travel would probably make a good travel agent.

''You may think that others know better than you, what direction your career needs to take, what investments to make, or what would work for you. But you are the best authority on how to live your life.''

Don't depend on other people's opinions about what you should be doing. Follow your own instincts and heart.

Lack Is Transitory

Finally, Orin and DaBen want us to realize that if we are in a situation where lack is present in our lives, this is a transitory circumstance from which our High Self wishes us to learn something. By learning the lesson as quickly as possible, we can move through to the unfoldment of our highest purpose in being alive and the experience of abundance and prosperity.

Creating Money is full of keys to help us do just that.
The Spirit of Ma'at wishes to thank HJ Kramer Inc for permission to use the quotations and excerpts from Creating Money. You may visit the Orin & DaBen website at orindaben.com.

Wynn Free is a poet/songwriter residing in Los Angeles, California.


Footnotes:
  1. Editor's note: Neurolinguistic programming has the term "outcome chain." In other words, if you want money to go to school so you can get a particular kind of job in order to be working with certain types of people, don't ask for the money, the school, or the job. Go for the end result.
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