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GREATEST SECRET THE

OF ALL

By Marc Allen

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THE GREATEST SECRET OF ALLFirst published in India in 2019 by

Yogi Impressions LLP 1711, Centre 1, World Trade Centre,

Cuffe Parade, Mumbai 400 005, India. Website: www.yogiimpressions.com

Copyright © 2008 by Marc Allen

Text design by: Tona Pearce Myers

All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, or transmitted in any form, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review; nor may any part of this book be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or other, without written permission from the publisher.

Originally published in the United States by New World Library, 2008

First India printing: April 2019

ISBN 978-93-88677-05-9

Printed at: Replika Press Pvt. Ltd.

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This book is dedicatedto you.


Introduction

How I first discovered the secret of manifestation,

and then the greatest secret of all 11

Part One

Discovering the secret of manifestation in your own words,

and applying it in your own way 53

Part Two

Discovering the greatest secret of all in your own words,

and living it in your own way 89

Summary

The greatest secret of all 111

About the Author 121

contents


GREATEST SECRET THE

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Introduction

How I first discovered the secret of manifestation,

and then the greatest secret of all


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Somewhere along the many paths I’ve taken, itbecame obvious to me that every one of us iscompletely unique. Every one of us is an orig-inal, even a creative genius, in some way or ways.We all have a long and winding and absolutelyoriginal path, and each of us makes our dis-coveries in our own way.

It can be helpful at times to hear anotherperson’s story; what has worked for me justmight work for you as well. Feel free to skimthrough this Introduction, if you wish. Findthe words that grab your interest, and skip therest.

The core of this book is in Part One, PartTwo, and the Summary. There, slow down andtake in the words, especially in the Summary,which is just a few pages. You’ll notice that I re-turn to the key points again and again, stating


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The greatest Secret of All

them in different ways. The repetition is im-portant, in my opinion; it can take a long timefor us to absorb this kind of life-altering infor-mation, and each time we hear it or read it, itsinks in a little deeper.

Throughout the book, the essential points are in bold, centered.

If you wish to quickly grasp the essence of this book,just read the key points.

I’ll start with a bit of my story. Throughoutmy twenties and early thirties, I had the oppo-site of the Midas touch. Everything I touchedfell apart. Worse yet, I was on an intense emo-tional roller coaster much of the time, with avariety of anxieties and periods of immobiliz-ing depression.

I dropped out of college to join a theatercompany that fell apart within a year. I joinedanother company, and that fell apart too afterjust a few months. I wandered to a Zen centerand got kicked out for breaking the rules. I


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tried a back-to-the-land experiment that onlylasted a few cold, wet months. I spent overthree years at a Tibetan Buddhist center, work-ing very hard, making no money at all, and notmaking much progress in my understanding ofanything that helped improve my unsatisfac-tory life.

I wandered around the spiritual smorgas-bord of Berkeley, California, for a few years, liv-ing on almost nothing. I was fired as a busboyand dishwasher for being too slow. I was firedas a typesetter for not showing up on time. Ihad a rock band that lasted a few years beforeit broke up.

The Discovery

And then I turned thirty. I woke up in a state ofshock, finally realizing I wasn’t a kid anymore. Ihad no job and no savings or any other assets ex-cept an old torn-up electric piano. I was scroung-ing (a word we used often) to come up with $65every month for rent for my little studio apart-ment in a funky part of Oakland, California.


That day changed my life, because I beganto apply some ideas in some new ways, ideasthat before had just been occasional floatingthoughts, ephemeral and remote possibilitiesin my mind. I sat down and wrote on paperwhat became — for me, in my words — thefirst secret of manifestation:

The first step to discovering the secret of manifestation

is to write your ideal scene on paper,your dream life five years in the future.

Begin with the end in mind,and keep it in mind.

The day I turned thirty, I sat down and tooka sheet of paper and wrote Ideal Scene at thetop. I imagined everything had gone as well asI could possibly imagine, and somehow, overthe next five years, I was able to create the ideallife for me. What would it look like? Whatwould I do and have, and who would I be?

I was surprised, even shocked in a strangeway, at what came spilling out on paper. I


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imagined I had a publishing company, suc-cessfully publishing books and music, includ-ing my own books and music. Before I satdown and wrote out my ideal scene, I had ab-solutely no interest in business. I had nevertaken a business course. I had never written abook or recorded my music. The words thatspilled out when I wrote my ideal scene sur-prised me as much as they were to surprise justabout everyone else I knew.

I imagined I wrote successful books andrecorded beautiful music as well. I imagined Ihad a lovely white home on a hill in northernCalifornia, one of my favorite places on earth. Iimagined I had a wonderfully loving relation-ship. I dared to imagine my ideal, so I imaginedI had plenty of time for it all: creativity, a suc-cessful business, friends and family, and plentyof free time alone for myself as well.

And I added something else that changedmy life dramatically: When I dared to think ofmy ideal, the kind of life I would have if I couldhave anything at all, I realized what I reallywanted was a life of ease. I didn’t want to work


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too hard. The few forty-hour-a-week jobs I hadtried hadn’t worked out, and working thatmany hours felt inhumane to me. Ideally, Iwanted plenty of time for ease and relaxation,plenty of time for my creative life, spiritual life,and personal life with friends and family.

That was my ideal: success with ease, andsuccess without compromising the other thingsthat were important to me in life. I wanted todo what I loved, and not have to do anything Ididn’t really enjoy.

I didn’t know it at the time, but I was be-ginning to learn secrets that were far greaterthan the secret of manifestation.

The simple step of writing down my ideal scene

led me to discover the unfailing natural laws of manifestation.

I stared at that sheet of paper awhile and re-alized that within it was a list of goals. I took asecond sheet of paper and listed all the goals I


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could think of. There were twelve of them, atfirst. (Now I’m down to six.)

It was thirty years ago, but I remember itclearly: As I was writing my goals, I was as-saulted with doubts and fears. I wrote, “Startand build a successful company,” and mythoughts were churning — You? Who are youtrying to kid? You have no money, and you needmoney to make money! You know nothing ofbusiness! You don’t even like business! And it’llwreck your creativity! It’ll destroy your soul!Money is the root of all evil! The rich man has asmuch chance of entering the Kingdom as a cameldoes of going through the eye of a needle! On andon it went — an endless stream of doubts,fears, and darkly negative thoughts.

But then I remembered something I hadread in a book by Catherine Ponder, a UnityChurch minister. She wrote about the power of affirmations — simple statements or decla-rations that your dream or goal is now cominginto being. They work best when they’re in the present tense, worded in a way that your


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subconscious mind can accept and begin to ab-sorb and play with.

The most vivid phrase I remember fromCatherine Ponder’s writing has become part ofmy daily life. She said that affirmations areeven more effective if they start or end withthis phrase: In an easy and relaxed manner, in ahealthy and positive way. . .

So I took another sheet of paper and rewroteeach goal as an affirmation, beginning with thatphrase. I worded my goal of starting and build-ing a successful business like this: In an easy andrelaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, Iam now building a successful business.

The second step to discovering the secret of manifestation

is to write your goals as affirmations,beginning with

In an easy and relaxed manner,in a healthy and positive way. . .

Years later, looking back, I realized howpowerful those words were — so powerful, in


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fact, that by repeating them daily, I overcamemany of my doubts and fears. What, after all,are our doubts and fears whispering to us? Itisn’t easy; it’s very difficult! It certainly isn’t re-laxed; it’s stressful! It’s not healthy for you, noteven positive. You’ll fail! You don’t know whatyou’re doing! You’re a fool!

That powerful little phrase — in an easyand relaxed manner, in a healthy and positiveway — repeated thousands of times, overcamea lot of those doubts and fears. It took meabout five years, but I finally got it through mythick skull that it was possible to create a greatdeal of success in the world in an easy and re-laxed manner, in a healthy and positive way.

Don’t underestimate the power of thosewords — or the power of any words you repeatto yourself. Our thoughts determine our ac-tions. And our actions lead, inevitably, to suc-cess or failure, fulfillment or frustration.

I typed up my list of goals as affirmations andcarried it around with me in my back pocket. Ioften began the day by reading that list. I read


it at my desk as I started to work. I read it inthe bathroom sometimes.

Some deep part of me knew that if I keptreading and rereading that list, my subcon-scious mind would absorb it sooner or later,and I would eventually be able to turn thosedistant, ephemeral dreams into solid intentions— and once that happened, those intentionswould soon become reality.

Reading my list of affirmations led me tothe next obvious step:

The next step to discovering the secret ofmanifestation

is to write a one-page planfor every major goal.

It’s simple, isn’t it? For me, the process hasto be simple, and the words I write have to bewords a child about ten years old can easily un-derstand. That makes it much easier for mysubconscious mind to absorb those words.

I took a separate sheet of paper for everymajor goal on my list and wrote a one-page


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plan to achieve that goal. This little processtook several months for some of the plans, be-cause I didn’t even know where to start.

The only plan I could think of at first forstarting a business involved just a few actionsteps: Read a used business textbook, and talkto anyone I could who knew more about busi-ness than I did. These little steps led me to seeand then take the next step of actually writinga simple, one-page plan.

That led to the final step:

The final step to discovering the secret of manifestation

is to take action.When you have a plan, an intention will form.When you take action, nothing can stop you.

This step became obvious as soon as I’dtaken the other steps. I kept reviewing my plans— and rewriting them, because most of themchanged all the time — and then I’d pull out

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my little weekly calendar and write down anaction step to take on a specific day. Withoutbeing consciously aware of it at first, I wassending a powerful message to my subcon-scious mind: Not only am I planning, in writ-ing, to achieve this goal, but I am taking thenext steps necessary to get there.

At age thirty I was a poverty case; about sixyears later I was a millionaire. The secret tosuccess that had eluded me for so many yearsbecame simple and obvious to me:

Great success is the result of a great many small steps,

all moving toward a clearly defined goal.That is the secret of manifestation.

Maybe some of you are thinking it can’t bethat simple. Or you’ve heard it all before, andthere’s nothing new in it. It’s true — there isnothing new in it, and you’ve probably heardit all before. And it is simple — these simplesteps set your course. Then it’s just a matter ofongoing course correction, of getting back on


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course every time you wander off course intodoubts and fears, frustration and anxiety.

How do you get back on course? By focus-ing, once again, on your goals and affirmations,and remembering your plans and moving aheadon those plans in whatever way you can.

I once heard that an airplane is off courseover ninety percent of the time. But the pilotjust keeps correcting the course, over and over,and the plane finally reaches its destination.When I heard that, I thought, That’s the story ofmy life. I set my course, and then kept going offcourse, over and over. So I had to reset my course,over and over.

That sums up the whole process for me.

The Value Of Every Moment Of the Past

Once I set my course, I noticed a fascinatingprocess begin to unfold. Before I went throughthose few simple steps on my thirtieth birth-day, I had the image that all my past experiencehad come to nothing, that it had slipped away

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like sand through my fingers. But once I set mycourse, once I wrote a simple plan, I began torealize that every experience I’d ever had wasvaluable, and I had learned a great deal in myvarious activities and wanderings through myteens and twenties.

I had learned a great many valuable secrets,but I hadn’t yet applied them in my life. The lit-tle steps I took the day I turned thirty changedall that. As soon as I affirmed my goals, made ashort plan to reach those goals, and took thefirst few obvious steps in front of me, thosesimple actions somehow made me far moreaware of so many things I had learned in thepast. Instead of feeling as if everything I hadlearned had slipped through my fingers likesand, leaving me with nothing, I realized I hadabsorbed a great deal of information andknowledge that could help me reach my goals.

In my early twenties I worked about sixmonths for one of the world’s worst bosses —a miserable man who had learned the secret of manifestation but had no clue to the fargreater secrets of a life well lived. I realized if I


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did exactly the opposite of what he did, I couldbecome a good employer and leader. He taughtme what not to do, and that’s been invaluableto me all my life.

Another time in my early twenties I wan-dered into a bookshop in Madison, Wisconsin,that specialized in Western magic. I talked formaybe an hour with the owner and left withseveral books. That was my introduction to theWestern mystical traditions, drawn primarilyfrom the Kaballah, an esoteric branch of Ju-daism, and from Egyptian traditions.

The most memorable book I got at thattime is one I still read to this day, The Art ofTrue Healing by Israel Regardie. It is Westernmagic in a nutshell, and it gave me some exer-cises I still do fairly regularly, not only for heal-ing myself and others, but for the creation ofwealth and fulfillment as well. (The main rea-son I continue to do these exercises is that I dothem flat on my back, in bed — the favoritekind of exercise for someone as lazy as I am.)

I began yoga classes when I was with myfirst theater company. It was tremendously

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healing for body, mind, and spirit, and I feel I’mstill reaping the benefits of that yoga, thoughI’m too lazy to do much of it on a regular basis.

I began meditating at that time as well, andsaw a vast new inner space open up, a world ofthe mind, created in an instant by the mind,and somehow connected to an inner source ofcreativity, abundance, and fulfillment. I discov-ered a quiet center within, from which we cancreate a far better life experience for ourselvesand help others as well. I wasn’t sure how to usethese new tools that were given to me, but Ibegan to see all kinds of new possibilities.

I went back to the Bible in my late twentiesand reread the words of Christ. I collected thesayings of Christ — every word he said in theNew Testament — in a little booklet and car-ried it around with me for a while. In very sim-ple words, words a child can understand, Christgave us both the secret of manifestation andthe greatest secret of all.

Ask and you shall receive; seek and you will find.

That is the secret of manifestation.


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