85 Comments on “Painful Prosperity… ??” - Post your own?

Patricia says

If there’s one thing we all know it’s that you can­not put a new patch on an old rag and expect it to hold. In order for the new to be cre­ated, we must break out the old con­crete in order to pour a new foun­da­tion. There are so many bless­ings in this eco­nomic down­turn, when look­ing at the big­ger pic­ture. Amer­ica is get­ting back it’s sense of val­ues. The nuclear fam­ily is mak­ing a come­back. TVs are being turned off and par­ents are play­ing games with their chil­dren, or tak­ing them to a park. We are recov­er­ing our moral con­science and com­mon sense, just in the nick of time. It it time now for all of us to be self-responsible within the frame­work of community.

Liz says

You are in no posi­tion to help oth­ers if you can­not help your­self. If you lost your sight , would it help the blind, etc.. I have used all of your won­der­ful free down­loads, only ever pay­ing only a small amount for some­thing. The free audios are every bit as good as the one I paid for, but peo­ple have a habit of think­ing, “If it’s FREE it can’t be up to much!” Not in your world Burt. You are one of the last phil­an­thropists. Best Wishes, Liz.

Andre says

Please for my above post: place the word,(ONLY) in between not visualizing,

So that it reads …not only visu­al­iz­ing

It takes all of your tools all together in the one moment and visu­al­iza­tion is one of them. sorry.

You need mind spirit and body to come together.
thoughts,feelings,actions = think visu­al­ize: compassion,thanks: love/faith for action.
The cir­cle or cir­cut made from them all, will then join and it will link up and get stronger when you share your love.

Andre says

Susan :
I’ve not pur­chached it as yet either. ‚For those who cant afford it . I can offer this basic:
Some here have stated they cant afford even $27!
That they pray for wealth and med­i­tate each night etc and they would gladly share their wealth when it comes to them. I love you .
#1 Prayer: Ask­ing for some­thing is like back­ing up the rea­son why its not yours in the first place ‚this type of false prayer places your energy out­side of you into a future hope.

# Thank­ing God or the Uni­ver­sal cre­ator for all that you have and not visu­al­iz­ing more on its way but (know­ing it is on its way) is the real key; The goods are paid for by your faith already and they will be delivered.(which is sim­u­lar to buy­ing Burts stuff,you pay and it gets deliv­ered.
This occurs because the power is then around you,you own it, because you have brought it all down emotionally,mentally and in spirit right into this exact moment and so the phys­i­cal man­i­fes­ta­tion just has to fol­low.
The only thing that will cease it, is the same power in reverse, ;in neg­a­tive.
So prac­tice thanks with com­pas­sion and love towards God con­tin­u­ally so that your power is in this moment only and not being stolen away in past wishes or future hopes!

Susan says

I am so grate­ful for everyone’s opin­ions, thoughts and con­tri­bu­tions to this blog. I have to chime in and say that I wish I could afford the pro­gram, but $27 is out of my range right now. I have been car­ing for elderly rel­a­tives for the past 11 years of my life and have only had part-time jobs at best. Now I find myself in a posi­tion where I only have $200 to my name and that must last me and my mother for as long as pos­si­ble because there is no other source of income or cash com­ing in! I couldn’t even buy all of her pre­scrip­tion med­ica­tions yes­ter­day at the drug store because I didn’t have enough money for her inhaler. It was a toss up between med­i­cine and food and I choose to keep a lit­tle bit of money for food.

What is some­one in my posi­tion sup­posed to do if I would like a copy of the Amer­i­can Monk’s pro­gram? I wish I could say that I spent my money buy­ing meals at McDonald’s, bought cloth­ing, etc., but that isn’t the case. I have scrimped as much as I can and now this oppor­tu­nity to have this $27 pro­gram is out of my reach.

I know there is a shift occur­ring in the world today and many things are chang­ing. I cer­tainly hope the new par­a­digm arrives in time.

Tanya says

Hi Burt,

After read­ing your let­ter and many of the com­ments listed above I decided to take the time and write as I feel this is important.

First, I have to give my grat­i­tude for the day and say thank you for mak­ing the pro­gram so afford­able! In fact, when I went to look at the price for the pro­gram I expected to see a price tag for some out­ra­geous amount like $100. But when I saw that you are only charg­ing $27 had to ques­tion why there are some peo­ple who can’t afford that amount. For a long time I agreed with Manuella and thought charg­ing peo­ple money for spir­i­tual work wasn’t very spir­i­tual. But now that I do spir­i­tual work and work a full time job I know how much energy it con­sumes and how many hours a day you’re ded­i­cat­ing to other peo­ple for free. Once you give to one per­son for free, they all want it for free… and unfor­tu­nately with costs for your busi­ness to oper­ate and gen­er­ate the infor­ma­tion peo­ple need you have to have the money to pay for it. Dol­ing out your ser­vices for free Manuella just doesn’t pay the bills cre­ated by your spir­i­tual work. Believe me, we wish we had the time and money to give it all out for free too!

But think of it this way as well. If you gave 1000 peo­ple a free book on this how many would read it? How many would even take it seri­ously? Pay­ing for a pro­gram such as this reminds us of the value of what we are going to learn. =)

I’ve been there where even I couldn’t afford $30 all at once. But many times it was because I was spend­ing my money on other things that seemed small at the time but added up quickly.

We’ll take a clas­sic exam­ple. One large value meal at McDon­alds for one per­son with tax costs around $7 on aver­age in the US. How many of us eat some­where like this at lunch daily instead of mak­ing a bor­ing PB&J? (okay, I like PB&J but some don’t) If you eat at McDon­alds 4 times in one month you could have paid for the pro­gram Burt is offer­ing. What’s more impor­tant to you? That is what you have to ask yourself.

When I wouldn’t shell out $30 it was because what I wanted wasn’t impor­tant enough to me to spend the $30 on OR I was skep­ti­cal of what was being offered felt the price tag was a bit much.

Mov­ing on. The man who was con­cerned about help­ing oth­ers and feel­ing self­ish only help­ing him­self. He also felt that help­ing him­self would be mate­ri­al­is­tic. I fail to under­stand the thought and would like to offer my own.

I do not believe that liv­ing in com­fort and hap­pi­ness is mate­ri­al­is­tic (nor is it self­ish!). Mate­ri­al­is­tic is when you become engrossed in mate­r­ial things. A new Jaguar when you could buy a Ford, a man­sion when all you need is a 2 bed­room house. These types of things are mate­ri­al­is­tic because they have no spir­i­tual, intel­lec­tual, or cul­tural value.

I also think that this man should not feel self­ish learn­ing these tech­niques from Burt. Why feel self­ish? No one says that you are not allowed to share the wealth of wis­dom that Burt has taught to you. You have paid for a ser­vice and I’m cer­tain that Burt would love for you to spread the knowl­edge to those you love, and even those you barely know!

If they then decide that they like what you’ve shown them then they can decide for them­selves if they’d like to get other pro­grams offered by Burt. It’s one big cir­cle… and no one is being self­ish in buy­ing this pro­gram as long as the intent is not one of greed. If you feel you are being self­ish then pay it for­ward and be self­less by teach­ing others.

Last, but not least. I would like to address this com­ment.
“There is so much pain and suf­fer­ing going on in the world and far more peo­ple in other third world coun­tries worse off than us. Shouldn’t our col­lec­tive con­scious­ness be focused on help­ing oth­ers, rather than sim­ply help­ing ourselves?”

The answer is that you should be focused on both! How can you help oth­ers if you can­not help your­self? How can any­one? We are in a begin­ning phase of uplift­ing the human con­science and that starts with you and me learn­ing the knowl­edge to impart to oth­ers. So let’s do it!

In lov­ing light,

Tanya

Wanda says

Hi Burt,

Thank you for all the won­der­ful mate­r­ial that you have shared with me. I have received you email for over a year now. They have always been a source of inspi­ra­tion and light on a weekly basis.

I would like to thank you for mak­ing your Pros­per­ity Pro­gram afford­able for me. When I received notice of the offer, I did not have the extra cash in my bud­get to pur­chase the pro­gram. I was behind on my mort­gage and was fac­ing a dead­line by Fri­day of last week. I ordered the audio pro­gram on Tues­day, started using some of the tech­niques and by Fri­day I received an unex­pected check that allowed me to meet my mort­gage requirements.

Burt, I want you to know that I am really excited about using the pro­gram even more. My goal is to make med­i­ta­tion a part of my daily rou­tine along with some of your tech­niques. The Bagah has proven to be a most help­ful tool for me. I will con­tinue to post mes­sages with updates of my progress. I am pos­i­tive that I will progress and that I will have even more excit­ing news to share.

Thanks again Burt for shar­ing such GREAT gifts.
God Bless.

Wanda
Atlanta, GA

Lynn says

Well here we go again.…how come my mes­sages aren’t on here. Every time I come here to see any feed­back their gone. Besides that my page is half brown…hard to read. So what’s up with that?

Thanks,
Lynn

Lynn says

Ohh­hhh there it is…Thank God and thank you…whoever…

Peace Lynn,

Karen says

If more unselfish peo­ple get more prosperous,then share what they have the world will just keep get­ting bet­ter and bet­ter.
If more of those who have very lit­tle share what they have the world will also get bet­ter and bet­ter.
If we all treated, all peo­ples, the way that we would all like to be treated, there would be no need for char­ity ect.
If the greedy fat cats,stopped (like coka cola)taking the valu­able resources from our fam­ily in the poorer countries,there would be no poorer coun­tries.
p.s these mes­sages are dif­fi­cult to read when half the screen is brown.

Valarie says

Hi
I want to say to the orig­nial per­son You are a won­der­ful per­son because you are think­ing of of other before your self. Thank you God Bless

I am one of those peo­ple that would love to have your pro­gram but just cant afford it.I am a pen­sioner and with lit­tle money avail­able I have to first think about my debt and food. Boy so peo­ple will say that I should have thought about my old days well I did but things came about that interere and now I am in this posi­tion of been one of the poor peo­ple. If you say we are self­ish and we dont need what the peo­ple with money need then I think you are the self­ish one. Look at the sit­u­a­tion and then decide. Like the say­ing said “Dont judge a book by it cover”.
Thank you for the emails sorry that I cant pur­chase any thing but at least I still can read and get some­thing from it. I woudl really love to get the pro­gram so if thier is some­one that is fin­ished with thiers you could send it to me and oter peo­ple that cant afford it .

Thank you
Valarie

Nathan says

I thank you for charg­ing money for your pros­per­ity pro­gram. You are pro­vid­ing a valu­able ser­vice to the world and should’nt have to offer it for free just because peo­ple think spir­i­tual work­ers should get less. In my opin­ion that is one of the great prob­lems in our soci­ety, we give peo­ple like paris Hilton money to do noth­ing but show us how lazy she is on national tele­vi­sion. Yet we demand our teach­ers, fire­fight­ers, and oth­ers who do the great­est good are sup­posed to give every­thing away for free. You have given extremely valu­able lessons awy for free, the daisy pond you gave away for free, and i even received a free mind box for mak­ing a youtube video. You have given us plenty of gifts and it doesn’t hurt to give somet­ing to receive some­thing every once in a while.

Jo Ann says

I think for each per­son to become the most they can be is the best way for them to help oth­ers. It does no good to focus on the prob­lems of the world, and become imm­mersed in them. The more pow­er­ful a per­son can become at think­ing pros­per­ity and thereby cre­at­ing pros­per­ity, the more oth­ers can benefit.

Louis says

I have not ordered the Pros­per­ity Pro­gram, and I do not know if I will. How­ever, that does not affect my basic agree­ment with what Burt has writ­ten. I see noth­ing wrong with increas­ing one’s resources. A valid mea­sure of the per­son then becomes what is done with those resources, includ­ing one’s time, skills, money, etc. — all of which may be used to help others.

–Louis

stewart says

look­ing after your­self is the least self­ish thing you can do when you are most resource­ful you can offer more
we are not all the same we are all unique some kind some unkind some wise some not so. some so blind that they can­not see that they are not blind
It is the north wind that made the vikings, pro­pelled by our dis­com­fort to get our­selves out of the ruts we are in we strive to come up with solu­tions to our dif­fi­cul­ties and we have all suf­fered mahatma Ghandi said we could solve most of the worlds prob­lems not by what we are doing but by what we could be doing may the power of the uni­verse super charge you all in your dis­com­fort and your good times.

Kim says

Hi Burt and All,

Burt, I want to thank you for the Pros­per­ity Pro­gram… I just stud­ied the first les­son, and found that the tech­niques inside were both extremely pow­er­ful and empow­er­ing for me. I can already see a \remark­able shift… you have such a won­der­ful way of com­bin­ing spir­i­tual wis­dom and prac­ti­cal tools, and for me, those tools have pro­duced imme­di­ate inter­nal results! Thank you!

I agree with oth­ers that we must help our­selves both prior to, and at the same time as we serve oth­ers… if we are not in ser­vice to our­selves, we can­not pos­si­bly serve oth­ers to the very best of our abil­ity. Self-care is exceed­ingly impor­tant. At the same time, serv­ing oth­ers can inspire us to do and be better.

Love and bless­ings to everyone.

Kim

Debbie says

Hi ya Burt ~

First let me say THANK YOU! Thank you for giv­ing the gift of your­self and a will­ing­ness and pas­sion to want to share these truths in this world in a way that is eas­ily under­stood. I have been prac­tic­ing and apply­ing the Mind Box and Vic­tory insights that I pur­chased from you dur­ing one of your $1 for 7 days and love what I am expe­ri­enc­ing. After spend­ing the past year search­ing and ques­tion­ing, research­ing and learn­ing I find it amaz­ing how exis­tence always provides.

Over the past 18 months I found myself alone, lost both my father and my aunt (his sis­ter) in the same year to can­cer, my chil­dren to drug addic­tion and much more to men­tion. Dur­ing this time I was also unem­ployed with $0 income for over 7 months and very lit­tle in sav­ings. I needed to know if what I was expe­ri­enc­ing was all there was to life?

That was when I started get­ting answers. The answers came from an Amer­i­can Monk, Laura Silva and Bill Har­ris, to name a few. I couldn’t afford to eat let alone pur­chase “self help” tools so I began this jour­ney by tak­ing advan­tage of any and all free down­loads and infor­ma­tion that I could find. I also fig­ured that as long as I remained where I was in my cir­cum­stances it would never change. A friend of mine always told me – “Tem­po­rary Incon­ve­nience for Per­ma­nent Improve­ment”, so I gave up a few meals and was late on a few bills so I could scrape together what I needed to get your program.

Have my cir­cum­stances improved? YES. Am I where I want to be? No, not yet but I will be. More impor­tantly for me is that I am get­ting bet­ter and bet­ter each day. I am grow­ing and my heart, mind and life feels like a Pin­ball game – lights flash­ing and bells ring­ing every­where! My next pur­chases will be your Inner Magic pro­gram for my Grand­sons and I would also love to work with the full Holo­sync sys­tem from Centerpointe.

I have read what oth­ers have posted and for the most part I am inspired that so many of us are in the process of wak­ing up and yet sad­dened when I read posts that can be per­ceived as judg­men­tal, con­de­scend­ing or intol­er­ant being directed at another. Is it really nec­es­sary to call some­one an idiot? Puh…leasse? We need to real­ize that we are all con­nected. We should speak with our hearts and in love, under­stand­ing that each of us is com­ing from a dif­fer­ent place, with dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ences shap­ing our real­i­ties. I am no bet­ter than any­one else. Every­one learns at their own pace and to be incon­sid­er­ate and intol­er­ant of oth­ers because they do not “know” what we know or think we know shows that we do not prac­tice what we preach. We are the care­tak­ers of Our Mother Earth and each other.

Peace, Beauty & Light
Debbie

Ranjit Singh says

Its good to be hun­gry once in a while to know how a hun­gry
man feels. You have to be full to be able to feed the hun­gry. Don’t feed another what you your­self wouldn’t eat.
Respect the other as you would your­self. (Do as you would
be done by.)
P.S. Only a par­ent would starve and feed the child.

BIlly says

Okay, that whole para­graph was good. Cool she was able to do that. But what does that have to do with the pros­per­ity system?

Kenneth says

Dear Burt
I think it not self­ish to imporve one’s self and as we do we can help oth­ers.
There is pain and suf­fer­ing all over the world in one form or another and ther­fore one must be focused in order to main­tain.
Faith with­out works is dead just as I feel promise with­out fol­low up in vain.
Keep up the good work, reach whom you can, free lessons have helped me and when I can sac­ri­fice, I’ll pur­chase the need mate­ri­als to fur­ther my knowl­edge and help oth­ers as you are!
Those that can, might ought to con­sider pur­chas­ing the pro­gram and donate them to need per­sons in third world coun­tries, or those who have com­pleted the course donate their copies.
Kenneth

Sumathi says

Uff!! What an idiot!! Doesn’t he get it…that the col­lec­tive begins with one? If he can’t walk, how does he think he is going to be of assis­tance to those who are crip­pled? Thank God for all the peo­ple who see them­selves in oth­ers, begin with them­selves wher­ever they are, and go on to serve oth­ers with grat­i­tude for the Law of Life!! Now, that’s noble. Ask this chap to get off this wimpy, unpro­duc­tive state…there is no cause for con­flict other than the one he’s putting in place; if he exists, the Uni­verse def­i­nitely thinks him wor­thy of all the good he desires. And what does he think, that by being in this con­flict he is ennobling him­self, and empow­er­ing all the peo­ple he is so con­cerned about?? Puh..leeease!!! God, or what­ever, is not in short sup­ply. There’s plenty for us all.

Diane says

Dear Bert. You have sent me e-mails for to try your pros­per­ity pro­gram for $1 for seven days and because I do not try your pro­gram you say that I am skep­ti­cal. I would love to try the pro­gram I have already pur­chased another pro­gram of yours the heal­ing one. At the moment I am unable to pur­chase any­thing else. When I do pur­chase from the U.S.A. it costs me twice as much due to the fact that I live in New Zealand. My credit card has a limit of $1000 it is maxed out.
I agree that we need to help our­selves so that we can help oth­ers. I help peo­ple lots of them and don,t charge them. I very rarely help out finan­cially as I earn very lit­tle and by the time the mortgage,rates,power and every­thing else is paid there is very lit­tle left over to feed myself with. Like a lot of peo­ple I am strug­gling. I am just learn­ing that what we think about the most we cre­ate. The King­dom is within. I,m learn­ing to change my thoughts. Hap­pi­ness comes from within, so does ones secu­rity. Lone­li­ness is only a state of mind.
Every day in every way I get bet­ter bet­ter and bet­ter.
Thank you Bert for the help you give us. I enjoy the Daisy Pond which you gave away free.

In New Zealand we call our Coun­try God Zone.
Diane from God Zone

marios says

HI ‚EVERYBODY , my ambi­tion is to help as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble , this i can only do by reach­ing BURT GOLDMANNS sta­tus , one thing is cer­tain ‚i get bet­ter and bet­ter every day .….mario

Gail G. says

Hi Burt,

I believe the answers are within us all. As long as we stay true to our­selves and can look in the mir­ror at the end of the day know­ing you accom­plished some­thing at mak­ing the world a bet­ter place to live…then so be it! Thank you for any­thing that is free for me:)…seeing how these days noth­ing is and comes with a big price.

Thank you & God Bless,
Gail G.

Su says

would love to make a com­ment but have not been able to access the pro­gram despite hav­ing paid for it and received access pass­words. I am very upset about this and even more upset by the fact that my emails to your ‘cus­tomer hap­pi­ness man­ager’ have been ignored. I love all your work and am already get­ting good results from the health mod­ules but I des­per­ately need the pros­per­ity pro­gram which just isn’t hap­pen­ing. Help me please!!!

Hazel says

Hi Burt,

Thank you very much for shar­ing your thoughts with us and your con­tin­ued enlight­en­ment to the world.

I agree with you when you said that “there is no pain in pros­per­ity thus there is only pur­pose” But I think it is nor­mal also to expe­ri­ence this pain and hard­ship in order to appre­ci­ate the pros­per­ity that comes along the way, for I believe that “life is a con­stant change”. How­ever it depends on our abil­ity to see and deal things out and maybe that is when and how the pur­pose comes to its role, when we decide to live our life to the fullest.

How I wish to be like Cyn­thia. I’d always dreamed of becom­ing a writer when I was a lit­tle kid and some­how see­ing myself help­ing oth­ers par­tic­u­larly the lit­tle kids and the older peo­ple who couldn’t take care of themselves.

Only the best!

Hazel
Toronto, Canada

Leila says

And finally, (sorry!) the fact that Cyn­thia decided to increase her inner resources so that she was able to help more peo­ple is, I think, a brave thing to do. After all, who knows what the future holds; whether we will even be alive at the end of a pro­longed course of study or years of prepara­tory work. It takes vision to do some­thing like that. It’s the sort of thing you would say, Burt, in one of your mod­ules — focus on the vision or inten­tion and you will see what you have to do in order to man­i­fest the out­come. In fact, could I ask you a ques­tion here? What is the exact dif­fer­ence between the out­comes of visu­al­ized man­i­fes­ta­tions and unvi­su­al­ized man­i­fes­ta­tions. Is it qualitative?

Rob says

Marzuki, on your ques­tion: I know quite some things… but that’s beside the point here.

Burt, I have quite some of your mate­r­ial and I find it very inspi­ra­tional.
Keep up the good work.

The cri­sis is for those who want to participate.

Rob

Greg says

I read what every­one said and I am really happy that we are all com­mu­ni­cat­ing so openly, this is really impor­tant. I encour­age every­one to say focused and keep lis­ten­ing. Lis­ten­ing is the key to cre­at­ing any kind of gen­uine ben­e­fit to any­one. We must lis­ten to our­selves (our bod­ies, our minds) in order to help our­selves, and then we must open our minds and lis­ten to the world around us, and go to where is needed. Very many peo­ple can hardly hear beyond them­selves and they live in a very closed off world, when in real­ity, each of us is one out of infin­ity, so doesn’t it make sense that we should lis­ten? OMmmm Let us lis­ten to the trees, to the wind, to each other, and to our­selves, and may our kind­ness flow like water to wher­ever is needed. May we all lis­ten with insight, sin­cer­ity, patience, power, and humil­ity. How do you think our spir­its found planet earth to begin with? I think it largely has to do with lis­ten­ing. Thank you

Leila says

I real­ize that I haven’t really com­pleted my thoughts. So, .… If we, in the West, rely more on inner resources and less on outer resources I believe the world, includ­ing the third world, will be in a bet­ter state (less cli­mate change prob­lems for those coun­tries and prob­a­bly more resource shar­ing). The prob­lem of how we in the West can help poorer coun­tries is never going to be sim­ple but it seems obvi­ous that many of our prob­lems here are caused by our reliance on mate­r­ial com­fort and our cor­re­spond­ing lack of reliance on spir­i­tual resiliance. I guess peo­ple like Cyn­thia are shar­ing their vast inner resources with peo­ple whom she thinks will ben­e­fit the most. Per­son­ally, Burt, I think your idea of chang­ing the minds and hearts of us west­ern­ers is a great use of your resources. Thanks.

Dana says

How Amer­ica goes…so goes the world. And haven’t we seen this in the past few weeks?
If we have noth­ing for our­selves, how can we help oth­ers? Oh sure, we have our time that we can give, but in work­ing hard to sur­vive, what time do we have left to give? Some have to work two, maybe even three jobs just to keep their heads above water. Then there is the job of car­ing for fam­ily and house­hold. Sur­vival is a cold propo­si­tion. There isn’t much we can or even want to do for oth­ers unless we our­selves feel safe and secure.
Only when Amer­i­cans are pros­per­ous can we be sure to help oth­ers in the world become pros­per­ous. Pros­per­ity owned is pros­per­ity that can be shared; in money, time and effort.
All things must pass, includ­ing the bad times. We’ll get through this, of that you can be sure.

Tyde says

Pros­per­ity, pros­per­ity or money are not “true” in the sense of phys­i­cal existence…they are an energy…an energy cre­ated and “put out there” by us. If we can be wealthy, we can first of all SHARE our wealth, and sec­ond, SHOW how we can BE wealthy. Con­cerns only come up if we think that we are unwor­thy of the gifts that the source gifted us with. Of course, still many peo­ple still don’t know what they really are, GODen­ergy extended, so they don’t know what their birthright is and believe that they have to work hard…money doesn’t grow on tries (when in fact it does)…and so on. it is time to wake up and share the knowl­edge of the wise…!!!
MONEY or PROSPERITY is a MINDSET!!!!! And WE ARE ONE!!! so what I HAVE and I CAN DO, YOU HAVE and YOU CAN DO…and only by shar­ing or in other words giv­ing we can know that we have… so cre­ate, share and you will help the planet!!!
with LOVE, LIGHT and LAUGHTER
Tyde

Ahmed says

Hi Burt,
I agree with your views fully. Unless we are prop­erly equipped, we can­not help oth­ers mean­ing­fully.
Ahmed

Marzuki says

When you travel in a com­mer­cial air­plane, the flight atten­dance would announce some­thing like “.. when the oxy­gen mask is released from the over­head com­part­ment, pull the mask over your nose and mouth and breathe nor­mally. When trav­el­ing with a child, put the oxy­gen mask over your nose and mouth FIRST before attend­ing the the child”.

What good can you do to any­one if you’re dead?

Robindra says

Alot of us miss the big­ger pic­ture, change must be and we must adapt to it. What kind of chil­dren of the lord are we, when a sit­u­a­tion arises we start eat­ting at each other, we are all of the same light, real­ize it and embrace it. — FOR THE AWAKENING IS NOW -

Dennis says

Hi Burt,

I believe it goes hand in hand. You can pros­per by help­ing some­one else pros­per. “Give, and it shall be given to you.” Hon­estly, the more you make, obvi­ously, the more you can give.

If you focus on the world’s prob­lems than that’s what you’ll attract, neg­a­tiv­ity & despair, on the other hand, if you focus on the pos­i­tive and what you want, than you can attract that to you. What’s it going to be? Do you desire poverty & hard­ship, or, would you rather have pros­per­ity in your life? It’s up to you, decide.

Con­grat­u­la­tions on all that you have learned and accom­plished along the way, on your life jour­ney, and shar­ing it with the world to raise con­scious­ness for a remark­able planet filled with Love & Peace, Joy & Hap­pi­ness, Health & Well­be­ing, Pros­per­ity & Abun­dance, and Inner Fulfillment.

Love, Peace and Har­mony Burt,
God­force be with you.

Lynn says

Hi,

Can some­one tell me where this “link” is??
The link for the meditation.…Thanks.

Bill Henderson says

Burt
I didn’t order the Pros­per­ity mate­r­ial. I have noth­ing against peo­ple get­ting paid for their efforts. But at the age of 64 and hav­ing been employed for my entire work­ing life I want to spend the rest of my life doing the right things and help­ing to heal this planet. I look at the peo­ple who come by wealth too eas­ily and end up wreck­ing their lives and those around them. Then I look at peo­ple who worked hard, made a lot of wealth but share it with the less for­tu­nate and I feel the love and I feel good and proud of those that give. I guess Burt, that means you too. I look at some of your mate­r­ial as a gift that allows me to deepen my under­stand­ing and for that I am great­ful. If some­one earns wealth and then shares it — They got my vote for doing the right thing. God Bless
Bill from Canada

Manuela M says

Thanks for your answer Burt.

I guess it is not a good idea to write a first post

As a mater of fact, I did buy some of Burts stuff — because, I like it, and because I do value what he does.

But, I do not put Burt on the pedastall — no man for that mat­ter. But I do like what you talk about, Burt. )

How­ever, I am not the per­son that takes every­thing the way it is served — I ques­tion, ana­lyze, etc. There are many who sell spir­i­tual things for their own ben­e­fit — I guess you will agree. This is/was no CRITIC as some thought. But I guess I am allowed to express my thoughts. And, my con­cern was — if you read com­ments on Cri­sis — all these peo­ple who are scared and wor­ried about the sit­u­a­tion, and I wan­dered how many of those can afford to buy that program.

Burt, I know you have to make your liv­ing. And, I find 27$ (I guess thats the price) not expen­sive. And, I do know that you give stuff for free as well. My thought behind my words was that this cur­rent issue is very impor­tant to peo­ple and that per­haps it is a good idea to help major­ity and not only those who can afford it. But, per­haps peo­ple always have some­thing that is very impor­tant so.…

Well, any­way I had no inten­tion to crit­i­cize you — not at all. It was just a suggestion.

And, yes I do help oth­ers when­ever I can — no mat­ter if I am in a bet­ter con­di­tion or worse.

Manuela M.

Gail says

Burt,

I believe any­one and every­one should try to help their broth­ers and sis­ters through Jesus Christ our sav­iour. I do not believe that help­ing peo­ple includes mak­ing a profit. I believe every­one should have all the same oppor­tu­ni­ties. This being said you can jus­tify it all you want, but it will be you that lives with it in the end when we stand before our Father in judge­ment. I’am sick of the whole world with their self­ish­ness and greed, that is the work of Satan! I really hope this gets pub­lished but some­how I doubt it. Like I said it will be those greed­ing peo­ple that will live with it in the end.

Love & Peace

Ines says

well Burt About pros­per­ity and the man with the worry, well think it this way if i am pros­per­ous i can help so many peo­ple on this world, then my guilty feel­ings will ban­ish right away, what do you think about that.
Ines Restrepo

Barb says

Chang­ing the life of a per­son starts one per­son at a time. Most of us are so lost in every day life that we have lost our way. What is it really all about many of us ask? You see it every day with the peo­ple you pass on your daily com­ings and goings. When was the last time some­one stopped a helped some­one just because they wanted to. Maybe just a warm smile of friend­ship. Why do so many peo­ple do just plan mean things to oth­ers? They cer­tainly wouldn’t want that done to them. All of us need to change the way we think about the world and peo­ple in it to make it a bet­ter place to live. I see Bert’s pro­grams as tools to see our real per­spec­tive of of how we can change the world to a bet­ter place. First we need to change our­selves to be a bet­ter per­son. We need to under­stand how to fix our­selves first before we can help oth­ers on this level. Once we feel good about our­selves in our own lives.
When we can help change the situ­tions that need help in chang­ing for a bet­ter world to live in. Change that is for the right rea­son. Mean­ing a town, state or coun­try all is mean­ing­ful work. That just makes pos­tive things grow from one per­son to another until all of us are doing things in our life’s for the best of mankind as a whole.

Jerry says

Howdy Burt

Have you ever noticed on the drive to work how peo­ple are behav­ing in their cars and how,more impor­tantly, how you are react­ing to their actions?? Every moment of every day we are act­ing and react­ing to out­side and inside stim­u­la­tions. These are felling and feel­ings are vibra­tions and the world does feel these vibra­tion whether we choose to admit it or not. Hav­ing a Good day OR hav­ing a bad day is a choice we each make moment to moment, how you choose and what you choose does affect the world in direct pro­por­tion the the inten­sity of that vib. this is a cas­cade effect. The world is in the shape it is in because the major­ity of vibra­tions is that/this way. There are those like Burt and Cindy and oth­ers who cho­sen a path, found it to be good and wor­thy. Not from their own reflec­tion on their choice but from the response they have received from out side them­selves. Each of us can do the same sim­ply by look­ing to see how peo­ple are act­ing around us. We can all be a light light in this cave. If enough of us chose to let our lights shine we can out shine the sun. we do out shine the sun.

respect­fully we are all one

Dr. David H. says

Hi Burt,
I love your pro­grams and have sev­eral of them. I’m all for help­ing oth­ers, but unless you help YOURSELF first, you can’t really help any­one else. You absolutely have to help your­self first before help­ing oth­ers. That is not self­f­ish for how can you give some­one a meal when you’re starv­ing your­self? Take care of your­self, THEN help others.

Luís says

Hi, Burt

If one has the power to get rich he can do many other things with it.
Hav­ing money can help oth­ers to, we must use it the right way.

regards,

Luís

Angela says

We all have abun­dance around us, we need to learn to see it and appre­ci­ate the fact that it is there. I am from Africa, I trust that we have more than what we need. The governments.….unfortunately we can­not take respon­si­bil­ity for the greed and power hunger. BUT we can still be thank­ful for what we do have. Help your­self, pros­per to the best of your abil­ity and then help oth­ers to also help them­selves.
If I can do one thing in Africa, I would love to help all the hun­gry and poverty stricken peo­ple to realise that they need to take charge and respon­si­bil­ity of their own des­tiny and not wait and expect the world or their gov­ern­ment to pro­vide for them. Teach them to fish for own daily meals , pro­vide them with fish­ing rod,and not pro­vide fish daily.
One needs to pros­per to pro­vide the infor­ma­tion from a proven record of what works!

Rebecca G says

Hi Burt,
I hon­estly think we have to make our selves as strong as we can be before we can do any good for any one else or be of any good to any­one else so my answer to you is we must first strengthen within our own spirit.
Rebecca G

Rebecca G says

Hi Burt,
I hon­estly think we have to make our selvesas strong as we can be before we can do any good for any one else or be of any good to any­one else so my answer to you is we must first strengthen within our own spirit.
Rebecca G

Joyce Crete says

Hi Burt — I read your com­ments and just a few oth­ers but feel I should put my own feel­ings down before I am influ­enced by oth­ers. I feel that we need to be able to help oth­ers as much as we can but the first job of a care­giver is to make sure he/she is best able to carry on what is required. That is we must be healthy in body mind and spirit. Some of us are pro­ceed­ing slower than oth­ers and are lim­ited in how we are able to help others.

It doesn’t mean that we have can not be of help while we are bet­ter­ing our­selves just have to know our lim­its. One ques­tion Would we be slow­ing our own advance­ment if we were to direct part of our ‘bet­ter­ment’ efforts towards oth­ers? Per­haps a set time of day or week/month for many peo­ple to con­cen­trate on cer­tain groups???? Joyce Crete

tricia L says

I would love to com­ment on your pro­gram. How­ever, I Paid for it through Pay­pal on TUESDAY morn­ing and it is now FRIDAY after­noon and your staff can­not tell me where it is.

AND what is even more frus­trat­ing is that every­thing is done via email. I have left my phone # but no one has both­ered to pick up the phone.

I am dis­ap­pointed in your service.

Rebecca says

Hi, Burt:

I feel that before we can help oth­ers, we have to help us. The rea­son being,we have to have the right mind set and energy in order to help oth­ers and in todays econ­omy and world we need to be able to have the energy to help oth­ers. Help­ing oth­ers take money and time and energy. There is a say­ing: Before I can help oth­ers, I need to get my house/affairs in order.

As for the cost, it is very small and even though for some­one it is costly–it gives you the mind­set and energy to help oth­ers. These are tools to use for self and oth­ers. A teacher can’t teach before she has the tools to teach, same is with pros­per­ity. Pros­per­ity does not always mean money. It can mean health, love, etc. We are so use to equat­ing pros­per­ity with money. This is a value sys­tem or belief and we need to change that belief.

Bright­est Bless­ings and Love to all,
Rebecca

ray says

Hi Burt,
Every­thing boils down to one’s inten­tion.
Every moment serves as a mir­ror of our­selves and a chance to be aware of our inner self.
It would be nice if every­thing was free.
However,every expe­ri­ence has a price.
I feel your inten­tions are hon­est.
I have lis­tened to your free lessons.
It would be nice if one day I am in a posi­tion to pay for the other lessons.
Burt,you are in a posi­tion to give more free lessons.
The most impor­tant lessons in life are bless­ings from the non-material world we live in.
Take care and God Bless you.

ray

Tracey Adams says

We can only give what we have. If we have noth­ing, we give noth­ing. If we have much, we give much.

It’s an inter­est­ing phe­nom­e­non in our cul­ture, and one that I think peo­ple need to start really think­ing about, on a deep and sin­cere basis.

Why is it that we pay ath­letes and actors mil­lions upon mil­lions of dol­lars with­out com­plaint… but we become livid when those who offer GENUINE value to our lives– our spir­i­tual teach­ers– remind us that they, too, must eat and pay their rent?

In the old days, this sit­u­a­tion worked fine. Spir­i­tual teach­ing could be free. Why? Because all the vil­lagers brought food, cloth­ing, and var­i­ous other “gifts” to the spir­i­tual guide/teacher.

Before you com­plain that your spir­i­tual teacher (Burt in this case) requests money in return for his teach­ing, con­sider when the last time was that you took him a meal, or a pair of socks, or some gas for his vehi­cle? When was the last time you brought him some of that elk your hus­band killed? When was the last time you brought him a nice hand-stiched rug for the floor of his tent?

Do you truly think that your spir­i­tual life is of such small value that you ought to spend no money on it at all? Nor even a rug or a meal or a shank of freshly killed elk?

As far as the rest goes… When I am poor, so is my child and my hus­band. When I am poor, I can­not help my neigh­bors with any prac­ti­cal help. What shall I give them, the last shirt off of my back so that they may life another hour while I per­ish from the cold myself? What profit is this to either of us? What profit is this to my child, who will either die, or become an orphan for my “generosity”?

In the most prac­ti­cal sense, if you state that you can­not afford the course, then you state, “I can­not afford my spir­i­tual growth, give it to me for free, and starve while you do it.”

How is this a noble sentiment?

Decide to afford it. Then get it. Then move for­ward in faith that God/Spirit/Source will pro­vide for you. “By your faith, it shall be added unto you.”

God is the source of every­thing. As long as you think that your job, or your social secu­rity check, or any­thing but God is the Source of your money/abundance/health/whatever… you will find your­self lack­ing it.

That’s like think­ing the cup is the source of water, and ignor­ing the stream you’re sit­ting beside.

Leila says

Dear Burt, a few years ago I was pretty des­per­ate. I didn’t like my job, my emo­tional life was a mess and my son was refus­ing to go to school. My fam­ily thought I had lost the plot com­pletely. It was my own pros­per­ity cri­sis and I knew for once that I needed help. Some­how I remem­bered that I still had the power to learn and that I just needed to learn the ‘right stuff’ to give me the boost I needed. One of the most con­sis­tently help­ful teach­ers I have found on the inter­net has been you (you, Dr. E, and Char­lie Baden­hop actu­ally!). I have been lis­ten­ing to your audios (and recently invested in the mind box) for some time and only now am begin­ning to feel like one of the lucky ones rather than one of the unlucky ones. This feel­ing is open­ing me up to talk to peo­ple rather than hide away; to want to help peo­ple if they need help rather than feel that every­one else must have all the things I felt I didn’t have; to want to share. One person’s gen­er­ous pres­ence reminded me that I had every­thing I needed already and just needed to remem­ber what was impor­tant to me. The really great thing is that hav­ing learned all this I can now pass it on and if more peo­ple learn like I have and remem­ber to rely on their inner resources, there will be fewer peo­ple rely­ing on outer resources and there­fore less chance of mass finan­cial disasters.

Mary Madeline says

Hi Burt,

Won­der­ful post! Love the replies too. Gives you much to think about! Every­one sees and expe­ri­ence the world from a dif­fer­ent perspective.

I learned the hard way that if I am not “strong” in the area I’m help­ing some one, I get more drained. Also when I want (or do) some­thing from a des­per­ate point of view, just because I thought I wanted or do the right thing. We have to be really clear about our inten­tions and our desires.

Let­ting go of the drama in our lives are nec­es­sary so we can allow other doors to open and be aware when it hap­pens. This part was hard for me to get on a deep level to where I would see it hap­pen before I went through the hard­ship. But that is part of our learn­ing, isn’t it?

We go through the same things over and over in a cir­cle till we get it and change. It doesn’t mat­ter if you move, it will hap­pen in a dif­fer­ent place and dif­fer­ent peo­ple. My mother always told me, you can move, but if you don’t learn from your mis­takes, you’ll still have them in your suitcase.

It is like this eco­nomic sit­u­a­tion, do we want to buy into it? We know how media only focus on the bad, how often do we hear about the won­der­ful things that hap­pens, slim to none. They say bad news sell, but I bet if we were to “sell” more good news things will change.

I see it as my respon­si­bil­ity to look at myself and ask myself how did I cre­ate this sit­u­a­tion and what am I sup­pose to learn? How can I change? I have learned many modal­i­ties through my years of learn­ing & heal­ing, and Silva & Burt’s method are two of them. They work wonders!

Burt offer these courses to us CHEAP — look at some of the other offers around, they charge from $40.00 up to $97.00 or bet­ter, depend­ing on the pro­gram. I under­stand where peo­ple are com­ing from, since I am in the same boat at this moment, but that is not what I focus on. I told myself: This is a won­der­ful offer, how can I have this now? Thank You, Burt for putting it together. I know in my heart I will have it and I leave it up to the Uni­verse”. I know this is eas­ier said then done for many, it was for me when I first started.

Every­thing is a process and we have to keep break­ing through, so we can grow and expand our­selves to bring Love, Peace, Joy and Har­mony in every moment. What if the seeds or leafs on the trees where to give up, because the ground or the bark of the tree was to hard to break through? We do, all the time, don’t we? Per­sis­tence and patients are two things that water our change, most impor­tantly Love for our­selves and others.

Thank You Burt, for who you are and being part of my life experience.

Bless­ings to All,

Mary Made­line Day
http://www.toolboxforemotionalmastery.com

Angela Ward says

Dear Burt,
This is a true story! Sev­eral years ago, my father was talk­ing to me on the phone about some of his finan­cial con­cerns. He talked on about the sit­u­a­tion and pos­si­ble plans of action. I repeat­edly asked, “How much do you need?” Finally after I would not let that ques­tion go he said a $1000. I asked him why he didn’t ask the Uni­verse for the money.

He told me that when he was a child he was told that it was wrong to ask God for any­thing mate­ri­ally because that was self­ish. I had no idea and was so sur­prised that he thought this way.

I asked my father if he thought all the wealth and abun­dance belong to God (I used his word). Yes was the answer. I asked if he thought God wanted him to be happy, he said yes. We had an open dis­cus­sion and I ques­tioned my father. If all wealth belongs to God why wouldn’t he want you to have what you need, why wouldn’t he want to share his wealth with you, why wouldn’t he want you to be happy, and is there enough wealth for every­one? What is a $1000 dol­lars to owner of all abun­dance? If God owns all abun­dance and he shared a $1000 with my father, wouldn’t that $1000 cycle back to God because God owns all abun­dance anyway?

I believe my father was about 60 at the time. Look­ing back it is great that we were able to have this conversation.

Guess what my father did? He asked God for the $1000.

That week­end he went to an event to give a talk. After he was fin­ished the coor­di­na­tor of the event came up and handed him an enve­lope with.. $1000!!! The coor­di­na­tor stated that some extra money came in for the event and he wanted my father to have it because he appre­ci­ated him com­ing and presenting.

Burt, our thoughts cre­ate our reality!

John Phelps says

I endeav­our to be at peace with myself and know that my needs will be meet. I send my thoughts and ask that every­one else will start to find that inner peace more often in their lives, so that peace and hap­pi­ness can spread releas­ing the fears and allow­ing it to be replaced with uncon­di­tional Love and hap­pi­ness.
All the very best Burt. John

Carli Bauzá says

I think Manuela M (from the first post) is really miss­ing the point and also strongly con­tra­dicts her­self. First she says it’s not ok to charge for the Pros­per­ity Pro­gram, and fur­ther down says that “we have to help oth­ers, but not by not help­ing our­selves as well”. Well, Burt IS help­ing oth­ers by mak­ing the pro­gram avail­able, WHILE help­ing him­self as well by charg­ing a very small fee. Is this not pre­cisely what Manuela is say­ing in her sec­ond argument?

I believe that the mate­r­ial in the PP is extremely valu­able, and what Burt is charg­ing is ridicu­lously small con­sid­er­ing the power in those mod­ules. I have yet to see another pro­gram this valu­able for even triple its price.

It is also my expe­ri­ence that when one pays for some­thing its value in the mind increases. When we’ve spent a part of what we’ve worked for to buy some­thing, we make sure to put in the effort to squeeze every drop of knowl­edge from it and apply it. This also gives some­thing in return to the per­son who makes it avail­able, thus cre­at­ing a pros­per­ous cycle in the trans­ac­tion itself.

Ask­ing for free stuff is self­ish and pro­motes poverty think­ing. It takes respon­si­bil­ity away from the per­son, instead of hav­ing one think “what can I do to improve”?

Regard­ing the issue about help­ing one­self vs. oth­ers, I believe that if one is not in a posi­tion to help one­self, then it is impos­si­ble to help oth­ers. Work­ing on build­ing up one’s own strengths and weak­nesses first IS the best way to be in a posi­tion to help oth­ers. The bet­ter we are inside, the more we can help oth­ers. Once each indi­vid­ual feels ready to help and begins to do so, in no mat­ter how small a way, oth­ers also begin to ben­e­fit from this, and then the per­son grows even big­ger. This, again, is a cycle of pros­per­ity. Cyn­thia is a very clear exam­ple of this. She chose a longer term, big pic­ture over a smaller, more imme­di­ate plan, since she saw that wait­ing a bit longer to enrich her­self would allow her to come back to help in a much larger and last­ing scale. This, of course, included her fore­see­ing this at the begin­ning. It was her inten­tion to build her­self up SO THAT she could come back much more pow­er­fully. This far out­weighed the orig­i­nal, short-term plan.

Thank you, Burt, for mak­ing this knowl­edge avail­able to all of us and for ask­ing us our opin­ions. I think this is a great way to unite every­one on the road up. It is the only road we can take if we want to sur­vive as a species.

Bless­ings.

Mary Beth says

Hi Burt
I, also strug­gle with how peo­ple are doing in the third world country’s. Also in our own country.

My hus­band and I have so much to be thank­ful for.

Our “port­fo­lio” has taken a real hit, but I know within my heart that it will come back again and be even stronger. There is no point in wor­ry­ing about it at this point.

We are in our early 60’s and both on dis­abil­ity. We both had polio as babies.

I’ve been giv­ing away to those in need. Food shelf and cloth­ing. We have tons of friends and many of them are strug­gling right now. Hus­bands and wives are seper­ated as they are going where there are jobs.

We live in God’s coun­try. That is Sedona, Ari­zona. It’s beau­ti­ful here. I wake up to the beau­ti­ful Red Rocks every morn­ing and thank the uni­verse for what I have. I know there is more the uni­verse is ready to give. Patience is what I have on my side.

At this time I’m giv­ing to others.

Our health is good and we can pay our bills.

I live and love my life. It holds mean­ing for me on a daily basis. I look at the pos­i­tive every day. I’m told that I inspire most of the peo­ple I come in con­tact with.

I may not be trav­el­ing around the world as being in a wheel chair doesn’t make that pos­si­ble for me to visit third world coun­tries. So I start with my world and work to do good from there.

I hope this helps oth­ers read­ing this.

Sin­cerely,
Mary Beth

Peter North says

Hi Burt

I spent my last spare cash on the Mind Box. When I have more spare cash I will pur­chase the pros­per­ity pro­gram. In the mean time I am dig­ging deep in the Mind Box to see if any answers to the lack of pros­per­ity are in there! I too believe in the power of “Pass­ing it For­ward”. When you have wealth, use it to the ben­e­fit of as many oth­ers in need as you pos­si­bly can. Not like greedy bankers, Traders and Spec­u­la­tors, who tram­ple on peo­ple to get even more money. They then spend it only on them­selves, or keep it in the bank so they can say,
“Look how rich I am! Aren’t I great?“
As to your friend with the moral­ity issue, you have to have some money to help oth­ers, after ensur­ing that YOU are healthy and happy and have enough money to main­tain that. If you don’t have Health, Wealth and Hap­pi­ness, you are no use to oth­ers.
Long may you con­tinue in good health and hap­pi­ness and with enough wealth to con­tinue your good works Burt.
Regards
Peter

Siraj says

Burt,

How could any indi­vid­ual help the world when he or she haven’t helped them­selves? Unless we seek,improve and attained our own objec­tives, me included, then we have that ten­sile strength for oth­ers to draw from, to help themselves.

Kelly says

I have strug­gled myself for many years regard­ing the ‘put oth­ers first’ idea. It has only been recently that I have dis­cov­ered that I haven’t included myself in the cards. I have been so busy try­ing to love and help oth­ers not real­iz­ing how I really feel about myself. I made every­one else more impor­tant than me…my deep­est belief was that I was a no-body. Now I am try­ing to bal­ance out lov­ing and help­ing oth­ers as well as lov­ing and help­ing me. This feels alot health­ier and lov­ing with more of a sense of ‘we are one’. (Where as in the past for me, the ‘we are one’ was miss­ing an impor­tant ingredient.…ME!)

Kelly

Ewa says

Yes, I agree, pros­per­ity, health, joy, hap­pi­ness are from inside, but we have to find the way, dig deeper, .… Very fre­quently we do not know it exists.…so that’s why we need teach­ers, guides, sem­i­nars, books…etc.

Thank you Burt for your work to show the way.

Ewa

Josie Clowes says

As you said Burt in one of your lessons about metion­ing the word wealth, if you help your­self first you are then in a bet­ter posi­tion to help others.

I seem to have been brought up in the phi­los­o­phy of this man and found myself putting oth­ers first. but what i ended up doing was putting every­one before me, try­ing to please every­one, it nearly drove me mad.

Then a cou­ple of years ago i realised i have to look after me first oth­er­wise I am no good to any­one else!

Its an hard habit to get out of but with Burt’s help I’m get­ting there.

Remem­ber, its not merely help­ing your­self but whether you are ‘help­ing your­self to be able to help oth­ers’ or ‘help­ing your­self at the expense of others’

LAFFIE says

BURT GOLDMAN, I LIKE YOU will be 81 on my next birth­day (11/21) and I just dis­cov­ered your MINDBOX last week.
I am so grate­ful for it because it brings together in one place much of the wis­dom I have been pur­su­ing all of my life. Please do not take their crit­i­cisms per­son­ally.
Remem­ber the story of the grand­fa­ther, the grand­son and the don­key. The grand­fa­ther was said to be CRUEL for mak­ing the lit­tle boy walk while he rode; to be PROUD for let­ting the lit­tle boy ride while he walked and to be STUPID for both let­ting the don­key go free while they both walked. No mat­ter what one does, they will be crit­i­cized.
Bet­ter to fol­low your muse and do what you think is best,
while oth­ers are free to do their best. You can­not be all things to all peo­ple so BE YOURSELF. This let­ter is not really for you Burt, but for all the CRITICS who would rather judge than take respon­si­bil­ity for themselves.

Earl Purkey says

Hello Burt
Isn’t it ‘all about choices’? We…each one of us choose our own paths in life. The per­son that chose to give his ‘inner con­flict’ power…to allow it man­i­fest and take some degree of con­trol over his life and his cre­ative thought power, is the only one that can actu­ally change it into a pos­i­tive thing for him. He just needs to ask him­self the big WHY ques­tion. Why do I feel this way. What does it really mean to me in my rela­tion­ship with Life? We all were given ‘Free Will’… the power to chose what we want to expe­ri­ence and what we allow into our thoughts and lives.

Burt…keep doing what you are doing, my friend…as you know…there really isn’t any acci­dents. Mis­tkes hap­pen when we refuse to lis­ten to our Hearts.

To whom ever reads this…: Have a most Won­der­ous day!

Earl

Michele says

Hi
Pros­per­ity seems to be a dirty word, if we used “health“
instead the impact would be dif­fer­ent I think.

If I am an unhealthy per­son I can’t help any­one because what lit­tle energy I have I need for myself.

You can trans­pose it to men­tal, phys­i­cal, emo­tional and mate­r­ial health.
The more you have the more you can give to others.

So yes I think you have the respon­si­b­lity of being the best you can be, if only to show oth­ers it can be done.

Sandra says

I am offer­ing you a free advice, pros­per­ity is inside, not in any pro­grams, books, you can read as many books and get rich schemes, pros­per­ity is every­where already, in our mind, bod­ies, spir­i­tual growth, life we lead, help we give and receive, fam­i­lies, love,

pros­per­ity is if you have an apple tree in your gar­den, if you have a pet you can feed, some­one to talk to,
I dont know what the pro­gram says, and I do not mean to crit­i­cise it, but you are all pros­per­ous already, remem­ber, its inside. Feel it, and you’ll be it.

Bye

Sandra says

Hello,

Help, I believe God helps those who want to be helped and who try to help them­selves. I became a very spir­i­tual per­son through many tough sit­u­a­tions in life, war, being with­out fam­ily when I needed them the most, watch­ing a loved one kill them­selves, fight­ing for myself and prov­ing myself, I believed in myself when oth­ers didnt, and I suc­ceeded despite all these things. Its not a big deal, I am glad I went through what I have. My fam­ily and I went through the thing of los­ing our home, among many oth­ers, many trau­mas and all sorts.
Yes, help­ing oth­ers is good, but that is dif­fi­cult before you know how to help your­self, but in spir­i­tual sense by help­ing oth­ers you are help­ing your­self, God in all of us.
Earth was made so that it can feed and clothe and house the whole planet, but we are out of bal­ance, while some coun­tries like for eg the US, West­ern Europe.. etc etc.. have too much food, too much of every­thing, are get­ting hideously obese through greed, expen­sive cars, houses, ridi­cilously expen­sive clothes and still the greed goes on and on and on.. there are oth­ers on the other side who live com­pletely oppo­site,
Now if we share every­thing, then we can even out the imbal­ance. The imbal­ance is too great every­where.
While some became rich (mate­r­ial sense) through decent liv­ing, many are still steal­ing (i mean gov­ern­ments, and others..this goes on absolutely EVERYWHERE, in every coun­try). Then again, what does being rich mean, its all inside.
When I had noth­ing to eat, when i was home­less because of the war, when i was out there in the big wide world, the rich­ness of inside was still there. Yes, this might seem like unre­al­is­tic talk, but its true. Faith brought every­thing at the right time and when it was needed.
If a man really wants help, he will get it. He must first be very will­ing to help him­self. In many ways, both spir­i­tual and mate­r­ial. The whole planet is rich enough for all of us, its the greed that is the prob­lem, and lazi­ness. I’ve seen this many times. The rich are more likely to be greedy, why have they become rich in the first place?…surely not because they need all that, its because they are greedy? And of course, with their greed they need to return some­thing back, its not gen­eros­ity, its greed.
Many rich coun­tries, why are they rich? Because they stole from other countries..but they are not really, this is still hap­pen­ing.. Big­ger ones which are greedy are steal­ing food, oil, trees, water.. list goes on..everything because they used too much of their own sources, or like the US, GB which uses most sources from other coun­tries. Not its own, its the greed.
Any­way, I apol­o­gize for going on a bit, but look­ing at an over­all pic­ture, there are your answers in help­ing oth­ers.
Per­son­ally, I’ve not been able to help peo­ple on a greater scale, but I had to learn first to help myself, my fam­ily, and not just in finan­cial sense, but also in spir­i­tual, human rela­tions and all that kind of stuff.
As for the pros­per­ity pro­gram,
True help is shar­ing your knowl­edge and wis­dom with oth­ers with­out expect­ing much in return, every­thing else is done by the Uni­verse, we all get what we deserve. But we are all pros­per­ous in one way or another. Pros­per­ity, another word for greed. I’ve left a life of ‘sup­posed’ pros­per­ity to be with my fam­ily, friends and peo­ple who mat­ter, in a place where I was born, to become rich in that sense. I have enough to eat, where to sleep, I am warm, I am loved by God, and shouldnt that be enough for all of us?..
There were com­ments on edu­ca­tion too, I believe that is an impor­tant part of our liv­ing, but not just school­ing. Learn­ing to help our­selves, through oth­ers, and the other way round.
Why do peo­ple want to pros­per? What is pros­per­ity any­way? Its every­thing, being healthy is also pros­per­ity, being able to hear, speak, talk, feel, touch, walk, make some­thing.. Pros­per­ity is a big word. You’ve pros­pered when you learn and grow every day. That is true pros­per­ity, not to gain money, etc.
Greed has caused all these prob­lems we have on earth. Just greed. Your gov­ern­ments, my gov­ern­ment, and who­ever else. Poor coun­tries are just exam­ples of our own greed, noth­ing else.
Once again, apolo­gies, but I felt I needed to express what I thought, and of course, I dont expect any­one to agree..just my own opin­ion, but I won­der if that is help­ing the hun­gry. Unlikely they care about our dis­cus­sions. They need food, peo­ple who are rich have the power to make a change, they were the ones that took away that power to oth­ers, not through good actions, but it comes back and bites you, oh yes it does, i;ve seen it.. what can we do ?.. Its up to the greedy to decide whether to help us or not, luck­ily my fam­ily and I got help, we asked for it..but none of us asked for any of the bad stuff to hap­pen to us..it was a warn­ing from God that we became too greedy, i mean my nation, and still we havent learned, the greed is every­where..
Lots of love and light to you all
SANDRA

guillermo says

Hi Burt,
Bought the pro­gram yes­ter­day, and after lis­ten­ing to the first mod­ule I had my first suc­cess with the Bagha.
¿Coin­ci­dence?
Awsome.

For the lady con­cerned about mak­ing money out of the des­per­a­tion of other peo­ple: TANSTAAFL

There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.

You can give some­thing for free, but only if you can make an income with some­thing else.

I down­loaded your free lessons and, though I might not have given them all the use that I pos­si­bly could, I believe they are of great use and very mind opening.

Last, but not least, about MATERIALISM:

By mak­ing more money and spend­ing it on prod­ucts and ser­vices, we are allow­ing other peo­ple to get or main­tain their jobs and assure their own ways of pur­su­ing their happiness.

Keep up your good work.

Guillermo
Argentina

yohanna says

Hello,

My prayers and mantra’s are based on the belief that my focus is to be for all peo­ple, or all sen­tient beings. I believe if I pray/focus/affirm pros­per­ity for all, that I am included as well as those more needy than I at the present time. This belief is old and pro­posed in many spir­i­tual paths. Some­times I add “espe­cially those in dire need” to the mind set. But then, I also believe we are all one. I believe in pay for­ward and am see­ing and hear­ing it more and more in these times. Help any­one you can when­ever you can and and main­tain aware­ness that you can­not help very many peo­ple if you do not take proper care of your­self and your mind­set. Many peo­ple have not embraced the old quote: Live Sim­ply so that oth­ers may sim­ply live. That does not require one to impov­er­ish them­selves, but main­tain aware­ness that how we live and think and act mat­ters to peo­ple we will never meet. Thanks for this oppor­tu­nity to share. My per­sonal goal is to increase my aware­ness and to increase my pos­i­tive mind­set. I see this as a duty/responsibility. I hope/affirm that all beings embrace this inten­tion. I loved the note you, Burt mailed out that encour­aged us to remem­ber to smile. That has been part of my per­sonal prac­tice; and I for­get some­times. With my smile on my face, It is eas­ier to be more aware of what I am think­ing. Thank you again for that and for your efforts to help peo­ple with your programs.

Maureen says

Hi — we need to be in a posi­tion to help oth­ers to help them­selves first! Whether it be finan­cial, phys­i­cal, emo­tional or spir­i­tual. If pay­ing (a very low amount) for a course to help us to get to that posi­tion means that we get to that posi­tion then that can only be an advan­tage to every­one. Pay­ing for some­thing that you want for your ben­e­fit is an exchange of ener­gies — a good thing — if you received it for noth­ing where is the exchange? Now you would be “being selfish”.

Cathy says

Hello Burt,
I totally agree with Cynthia’s choice to live her dream.She has built 40 schools & I feel that med­i­ta­tion & prayer really help,each night before I go to bed I ask God to use me to do his good work,how may I help this world & to guide me.I ask for abun­dance so I can also help 3rd world coun­tries & ministeries.I feel the more you pray & med­i­tate God answers your prayers.We need to give to oth­ers but also ask for our­selves for abundance,it is not self­ish to ask as long as you receive your gifts & than you can help so many people.Yes our world is hurt­ing so pray for abun­dance & than you can help more & more people,ust as Cyn­thia has.Also you are awesome,you are help­ing &show­ing us the way Burt, Cheers— Cathy

Arun says

Respected Burt,
It is impor­tant to have money.One must excer­cise lim­its to have it.

If spir­i­tu­al­ity helps one to make money, I believe the bene­fac­tor should gen­er­ously con­tribute to prop­a­gate spir­i­tu­al­ity from this earn­ings. It is a cas­cad­ing phe­nom­e­non & the world will be full of spir­i­tu­als. It is impor­tant to have more spir­i­tu­ally rich world than wealthy.

Toni says

Hi,

I don’t think there is any issue here.

I believe Cyn­thia became and did what she felt she had to do, both ‘on the ground’ and later as an active financier etc, all as part of an inte­grated process — her life.

One part is not bet­ter or more valu­able than the other; both are impor­tant: field work­ers are essen­tial; so are phil­antro­pists and activists. With­out her field­work as foun­da­tion to empha­sise the need in her heart, she may not have been able to con­sis­tently gen­er­ate the long-distance sup­port inside her­self, for these projects, all of the time.

Judg­ment has no place here, not even self-judgment. It’s a per­sonal process of evo­lu­tion of the indi­vid­ual self. Accept it as all good, and look after your­self and your own, to the best of your abil­ity, and care for oth­ers as an exten­sion of yourself.

Do what moves you, then move onto the next thing that moves you…just like Cynthia.

Toni, Malaysia

Aris Notis says

Every­thing has a rea­son. To pay a price for some­thing means that you have the power to pay this price. Most peo­ple have this power (to pay a price for some­thing) but they think that they don’t have it. Most peo­ple will say that they are poor even if they can buy some­thing. I m not talk­ing for the Third World and the peo­ple leav­ing in mis­ery with­out food.

All these per­sons in Third World they dont know what is inter­net, what is pc andthey can not access this site and this pro­gramme. I m talk­ing for the rest of us and the most who have access on a pc and an inter­net con­nec­tion. All these of course can afford to pay some­thing like this. But first they must go fur­ther than their fears which are in our fantasy.

Thank you very much.

Aris Notis

P.S.1 I paid the price to buy this prod­uct and trully believe that it deserves a lot more than its price.

P.S.2 As Wal­lace D. Wat­tles says, instead help­ing once a poor man, give him the idea that he can earned his life by him­self. Oth­er­wise if you ll give me one fish i ll be ok for once but if you learn me fish­ing i ll be ok a lifetime.

P.S.3 The prob­lem with Human Beings is that they dont know their trully power.

Stephen N says

Wow Burt, a real live Miss Annabelle!!!

OLGA says

HELLO BURT,

I DISAGREE WITH THE MAN THAT WROTE HIS EMAIL ABOUT THINKING ABOUT OTHERS BEFORE YOU, NO IF YOU DO NOT THINK ABOUT YOURSELF FIRST HOW CAN YOU HELP OTHERS. I PRAYED EVERYDAY THAT MY MONEY PROBLEMS WILL BE SOLVED AND BELIEVE ME IF I EVER BECOME RICH I WILL BE FIRST IN LINE TO HELP OTHERS THAT ARE IN NEED. AS FOR MANUELA I GET THE FEELING SHE IS BITTER ABOUT HER FINANCIAL SITUATION MY ADVISE TO HER, READ A LOT, MEDITATE AND KEEP TRYING TO GET OUT OF IT THAT IS THE ONLY THING THAT IS WORKING FOR ME AT THIS TIME.

THAT IS AL I HAVE TO SAY,

BLESS EVERYONE,

OLGA

todd saed says

I have been teach­ing Eng­lish in Asia for twelve years, three years in Thai­land where I made five hun­dred dol­lars a month, six months in China where I made six hun­dred a month, six years in Korea, where I made two thou­sand dol­lars a month, and six months in Japan for two thou­sand a month. I was a sub­sti­tute teacher in Cal­i­for­nia for three years, in very bad sit­u­a­tions in poor areas often. I have a Mas­ters degree in Asian his­tory, grad­u­ated from the Univ of CA, Santa Cruz. It got me in trou­ble with bad schools, ter­ri­fy­ing lack of visas some­times, stu­dent loan trou­bles, no sav­ings, and in Thai­land where I mar­ried was kept broke , and am just now get­ting some sav­ings. Very lit­tle , a few thou­sand. As a Viet Nam era vet, I had ten years of seri­ous prob­lems, yoga gave a han­dle on it. I believe in edu­ca­tion as the way , it is not prepa­ra­tion for life , but is life they say, and I have brought much joy to stu­dents. Was it worth it, wrong ques­tion, it is what hap­pened, from neces­sity , cir­cum­stances, and des­tiny, no one ever helped me, in fact the for­eign teach­ers were com­pet­i­tive and neg­a­tive more often than not . It was and remains sur­vival, and I think the social sys­tem of cap­i­tal­ism is the basic prob­lem, and the US govt, this mere sur­vival is not nec­es­sary with a co oper­a­tive ratio­nal sys­tem, this cri­sis is under­lin­ing that, more and more peo­ple are being forced to under­stand this, we knew this in 1968 dur­ing the anti war move­ment, and I per­son­ally have no inter­est in wait­ing any longer for every­body to catch up, I will move on, and find myself again and again , improv­ing every day in every way, and cease to exist when it is time, the what can be con­sid­ered in some ways as
code­pen­dency, the way of “help­ing ” oth­ers, is only one step­ping stone to the other side, my answer is it will take pos­si­bly an armed strug­gle to take state power if the cri­sis gets out of hand, what we thought forty years ago, but I have no stake in this, no con­nec­tion to the US except mem­ory, no need for a home, just going to stay free or die trying.

phillip says

i bele­vie this is cor­rect, there is too much suf­fer­ing in the world today but this is caused by cor­rupt gov­ern­ments con­trolled by oth­ers. We go on about free­dom but with all this going on in the world free­dom is a long way of or maybe humans can’t han­dle freedom.

Jerry says

Hi Burt;
Cyn­thia was absolutely right.
You are also right.

Dif­fer­ing from a pre­vi­ous post, you have every right to charge money for your ser­vices. (It is very hard to teach peo­ple to pros­per if, by exam­ple, you give every­thing away.)

We can­not give some­thing we do not have. If we have no money, we can­not give money. If we don’t have knowl­edge, we can­not give knowl­edge. If we don’t have pros­per­ity, we can­not give pros­per­ity to some­one else.

There is noth­ing self­ish about improv­ing your­self, and improv­ing the sit­u­a­tion for you and your fam­ily. Only by improv­ing our­selves can we hope to help other peo­ple improve themselves.

Hey Burt, I invented my own depres­sion buster. While work­ing and work­ing on my own eco­nomic sit­u­a­tion and not hav­ing any suc­cess, I noticed my emo­tional and phys­i­cal health going down. Maybe we have lit­tle con­trol over things out­side of our­selves, but we decide how we react to things. So, I sud­denly stood up, and acted like I was happy and started hum­ming loudly. And I danced to my own music. It didn’t make the money-problems go away (yet) but it sure felt good, and healthy. Maybe you can add this to your reper­toire of techniques.

Take care, and thank you.

Beryl says

Hi Burt,

First of all, let me say that I have first hand knowl­edge of the des­per­a­tion of peo­ple in third world coun­tries, as I am from Zim­babwe, now one of the poor­est coun­tries in the world, thanks to the efforts of a power hun­gry man! I have fam­ily strug­gling on there, but I am one of the lucky ones who was able to make a move, albeit after los­ing most of my life’s sav­ings. I, like Manuela, at this moment, do not have the money to pay for your course, but I hope that I will be able to do so soon. I believe that it only in help­ing our­selves and find­ing the power that we have within our­selves, can we be of any use in help­ing oth­ers to help them­selves. This, I think is one of the most des­per­ate needs of all third world coun­tries — edu­ca­tion — but an edu­ca­tion that teaches peo­ple that their des­tiny is in their own hands, not in hand-outs. It’s a won­der­ful ges­ture to build schools, and I hope that I will one day be in a posi­tion to offer ‘real’ edu­ca­tion to some of the chil­dren in those schools — find­ing their own strength and using it to bet­ter them­selves and oth­ers. For me, that is what edu­ca­tion is really about, and I am long­ing to be able to get my hands on your pro­gramme for chil­dren, as I believe it is in line with my own think­ing! I think if we use col­lec­tive con­scious­ness to improve our own lives, it will put us in a bet­ter posi­tion to help improve the lives of others.

Best wishes

Beryl
Spain

Burt Goldman says

Hi Manuela,

Let me start off by say­ing thank you, I appre­ci­ate your comment.

The thing is, I do offer free lessons to all of my mem­bers. In fact, every sin­gle les­son I send is free. That is over 22 free audios that I have put together for all of your enjoy­ment and ben­e­fit. I want every per­son who is inter­ested to not have to pay a penny to access my teachings.

The Pros­per­ity Pro­gram, how­ever, I must charge for. I believe it will help and 95% of my mem­bers believe so too. I am offer­ing it for the absolute low­est price I am able to afford as I need earn a liv­ing too. I used to teach these mate­ri­als at live sem­i­nars for which I charged upwards of $200/hour to attend. Since then, I have decided to share my knowl­edge with oth­ers at the low­est pos­si­ble price.

The Pros­per­ity Pro­gram is valu­able and peo­ple tend to think that free prod­ucts are cheap, and this is most def­i­nitely not the case.

I am happy to hear that you are in the same mind­set of help­ing others.

Here’s to “pay­ing it forward,”

Burt

Pascal says

Well I think you made your point.

But is it more impor­tant to build 10 school than 1 ?.
In other words is quan­tity the sole way of mea­sur­ing the ben­e­fit given to human­ity ?
In the first place, to help you need to be in a bet­ter
posi­tion than the per­son you need to help.
Then you must have the urge to help, at that point your inner strength (and I believe it is fueled by a higher energy I call God);
Last you need to be doing it right, and that is the dif­fi­cult part, so some times one is bet­ter than ten.

Pas­cal
Chartres FRANCE Europe

Manuela M says

Hi Burt,

First of all, I must tell you this time, that I find it not ok to ask peo­ple their opin­ion on cri­sis, and after they tell you their con­cerns and fears, you offer a solu­tion for a fee. Earn­ing money on some­one elses pain/fear/hardship is not very spir­i­tual I think.

At least some free lessons could be offered for those who can­not afford to pay your programs.

As for your last ques­tion, I am con­vinced that we have to help oth­ers, but not by not help­ing our­selves as well. I would def­i­nitelly encour­age help­ing our­selves and then help­ing oth­ers — some­how I tend to think of “Pay it For­ward” sys­tem right now.…

Have a nice day.
Manuela
(Vienna-Austria, Europe)

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