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Law of Attraction: Improve and Accelerate Segment Intending

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

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In Esther and Jerry Hick's Book, The Law of Attraction, widely featured in the original version of The Secret, describes a process to improve the manifestation process through 'segmenting' life in stages and intending the things that you desire at a smaller scale in order to achieve the BIG goals.

Breaking up the big goals into smaller goals make them easier to achieve. Having successfully accomplished a smaller goal also adds to motivates to accomplish other goals as well. Its a great cycle of success!

Here's a great visualization trick that I use frequently in order to experience and hold on the emotions of HAVING WHAT I WANT, and in turn use to improve and accelerate the process of segment intending.

Step 1: Identify the Segment

First identify the segment of your life that you will be entering.

For example:

It's Monday morning after a relaxing weekend and a potential client is expecting to meet you for a presentation on an important project. You are riding the elevator up to her office and even though have already rehearsed the presentation, feel a little nervous about the meeting.

Step 2: Enter the Space

Close your eyes and visualize a space which you feel most comfortable in. I usually imagine my dream house, a lovely beach-front cottage on a breezy Sunset. The space that you choose to visualize yourself in must bring you a sense of calm and overwhelming joy to be in.

Experience how it feels to be in this space and prepare yourself to do a little work.


Step 3: What do you want from the Segment

While in your space, ask yourself what you want from this Segment.

For example (based on the above):

I want to give a flawless presentation.
I want a signed contract from a happy, grateful, and optimistic client.

Now that you have identified what you want, we must deliberately intend it to happen...

Step 4: Visualize and Experience what you want

In your space, imagine the events of your desires as reality. For example, the feeling of giving a flawless presentation and how confident and clear it was. Or what it feel like as a client signs on the contract and gives you a warm handshake.

Experience the emotions that you would feel as you visualize this. And as much as possible, experience the emotions right down to the smallest detail.
Experience how these emotions affects you physically as well, once again to the smallest detail. How do your hands feel? Are they warm? How does your stomach feel? Are there butterflies?

How does feel to HAVE what you WANT?

Step 5: ALLOW it and BEGIN THE SEGMENT!

Now, fully experiencing these emotions, consciously submit your request to the Universe; ALLOW your manifestation happen whole-heartedly.

Open your eyes - and begin living the Segment as you WANT and HAVE. And what you visualize will surely come to you as much as your heart desires.

Share with us some of your creative visualizations of your space and your manifestations! We would love to hear about your success stories and your own personalized techniques on how you improve and accelerate your segment intending!

Want to know more about Esther Hicks? Check out Oprah's interview with her on The Secret and The Laws of Attraction.

An Introduction to Deliberate Creation

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

What is Deliberate Creation?

In their bestselling book, The Law of Attraction, Abraham-Hicks tells us about the Deliberate Creation, or more aptly, The Law of Creation.

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Through Deliberate Creation, we are able to manifest events and things into our lives by ATTRACTING and WANTING it into our physical existence. And by evoking strong desire and emotion, we are capable of creating anything that we want.

Too good to be true?
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Attraction Accelerator: How To Get It With Extra Bonus Gifts

Friday, May 18th, 2007

A true rags to riches story: from homelessness and violence, to success so high, it made him giddy. The reason? He learned to be an "Attraction Accelerator"

Stephen Pierce used the Law of Attraction to turn his life around - he is now sharing this story and offering you the Attraction Accelerator to do the same.

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 From being kicked out of high school to a mansion thanks to the Law of Attraction.

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"I was kicked out of high school, left with a 10th grade education.

I filed bankruptcy twice but only one of them stuck because the second was filed to close to the first one.

I was evicted from my apartment.

I was homeless.

I was a thug on the streets and got shot and still have the bullet in me today.

I had multiple businesses fail (I was a business arbitrator, vinyl repairman, coupon book telemarketer, and more.)"

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How Strong is The Power of Expectation?

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

 

This wonderful article explains how the expectation that we have about other people influences their behavior. We behave in different ways with people according to the idea that we have created of them.

The good news are that we can use the power of expectation to influence positively other people. This means that we can adopt a more positive attitude to influence our environment and create a more fulfilling life for us and for those around us.  

 

The Self Fulfilling Prophecy

By Dr. Madeline Daniels

Back in the 1950s a number of researchers began to realize that when people act on a belief, they create a reality to match that belief. This idea was developed further by Dr. Robert K. Merton, a professor of sociology at Columbia University, who pointed out that even when the original belief is false, people make it come true.

We humans seem to prefer that other people behave as we expect them to, and we will modify or distort reality until it conforms to our expectations. And we can do this without even being aware we are doing it!

One of the most famous studies done on the SFP was published in a book called Pygmalion in the Classroom.If you remember your Greek mythology, Pygmalion was the sculptor who carved a statue of a beautiful woman, then fell in love with it. He believed so strongly that it could come to life, that it did! Hence, the SFP is also called “The Pygmalion Effect.”

A Harvard professor, Dr. Robert Rosenthal, collected the results of over 300 studies showing the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in action. In classroom experiments, a group of children were divided into two classes. One class was given to a teacher who was told that the students were high achievers and should do well. The other teacher was told that her class was composed of underachievers who needed special help.

At the beginning of the school year there was no difference between the two groups of children in terms of ability. By the end of the school year the class that was labeled “high-achievers” was doing better than average work. The class that had been labeled as “underachievers” was doing below-average work.

Furthermore, a careful study revealed that children who made gains in the “high achiever” group were generally better liked by their teacher, but the children who made gains in the “underachiever” class were generally less liked by their teacher!

In summarizing this research, it can be said that people prefer people who live up to their expectations, and that people unconsciously create situations that encourage the expected behavior. If the expectations are positive, people (in this case, students) are encouraged to behave positively. If the expectations are negative, people (again, the children in the class) are encouraged to behave negatively.

There has been plenty of research that shows this Self-Fulfilling Prophecy effect in job situations. Since we do it so unconsciously, adults are no more immune to its effects than children are. Remember too that this effect usually occurs despite the fact that the person with the expectation is usually unconscious of the effect he/she is having.

For example: Dr. Albert King did a study with a number of welder  trainees. All the trainees had scored approximately equal in aptitude testing before the training started.

However, their trainer was told that five of the men had shown high aptitude on their tests. (Remember, this was not true!) AT the end of the training course, these five men had an amazing record. They had been absent fewer times than the other men, they had learned the welding skills in half the time, and they scored ten points higher than the others in a comprehensive welding test given at the end of the course.

Furthermore, when the other trainees were asked to rate each other in terms of whom they most wanted to work with, each wanted most to work with one of the five “high aptitude” men.

Somehow, both the trainer and the other trainees had encouraged these five men to meet their expectation. They had created a true reality out of a false belief. In every possible way, without consciously meaning to do so, they gave the five trainees messages that said “Don’t worry; we know you’ll do well.”

With all that subliminal encouragement, it’s easy to understand why those five trainees developed a positive attitude towards themselves and their work.

In studying the Pygmalion effect close-up, we have found a number of ways in which these expectations are transmitted and encouraged to become reality:

1) Climate: The entire package of non-verbal signals encourages or discourages the worker. Think of how much a smile or a friendly tome of voice can mean to you.

2) Feedback: More positive responses encourage; more negative ones discourage. Even if a worker makes a mistake, you can respond in two ways. “Not again! You’d better learn to do it right” is very disheartening. “Not bad, but you might find it easier to try it this way instead” sounds helpful and encouraging.

3) Amount of input: If we have positive expectations about a worker, we tend to give that person more information to help them along. If we have negative expectations, we tend not to bother to give information.

4) Amount of output: We expect more work from a good worker than a poor one. Saying “Don’t bother to tackle that job; I know you’ll never do it right” discourages an employee from taking on any new responsibilities.

What you expect to come true is often what you make come true. You may have seen this in everyday life. We all know at least one pessimist who expects things to go badly, and is always complaining about the things that have gone badly. And we all know at least one optimist who expects good things to happen.

The optimist doesn’t dwell on the negative, but rather continues to work on the positive, making those good things happen more often.

It should be clear from this research that far more important than the skills you learn are the attitudes with which you apply those skills. You must look carefully at what you expect from the group you are working with. Of course, you need to develop realistic expectations. You cannot, for example, expect people to do a job in one day that logically requires a week to accomplish.

However, within these reasonable limits, the most important thing you can do to increase productivity is to expect the best of people. To expect that they will give you their best efforts. To expect that they will want to meet their goals. To expect that they would prefer to do a good job.

Whether you are unconscious of your expectations or not, those attitudes will influence how you treat everyone who works with you!

The best way to ensure that your influence if positive is to become conscious of your expectations and to develop them into positive feelings for all your workers.

* The Self Fulfilling Prophecy - Article by By Dr. Madeline Daniels *

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Pain Is All in the Mind

Friday, May 4th, 2007

 

We've all heard the phrase 'mind over matter' before; it's such a valuable thing to practice and really shows us that anything is possible. Many lessons teach us the power of positive thinking; and the law of attraction has never been more in the public spotlight. Controlling your thoughts is a phenomenon that we have to take advantage of.

Now some of the best researchers from around the world are revealing that it's actually possible to think away pain. This is a massive development for anyone who is suffering from chronic pain, where the usual methods such as traditional medicines and drugs fail.

 I found this great article that uncovers these findings and shows what great impact this could have on so many people's lives.

Think Away The Pain

by Rachel Metz

Pain can be mysterious, untreatable and debilitating, and its causes can be unknown. But if you could see the pain -- or, at least, your brain's reaction to it -- you might be able to master it.

A study from researchers at Stanford University and MRI technology company Omneuron suggests that's possible, and the results could lead to better therapies for those suffering from crippling chronic pain.

The researchers asked people in pain to try to control a pain-regulating region of the brain by watching activity in that area from inside a real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, machine. Initial results showed subjects could reduce their pain, some quite dramatically.

It's the first evidence that humans can take control of a specific region of the brain, and thereby decrease pain, said Stanford professor Sean Mackey, who co-wrote the paper, which was published last week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"(Similar to) going to a gym and working muscle using weights, here we're using the real-time fMRI technology to exercise a certain brain region," he said.

Study co-leader and Omneuron CEO Christopher deCharms said for many people with chronic pain, available treatments like medication or surgery simply don't work. But this exercise, which researchers have termed "neuroimaging therapy," could one day help some of the millions of Americans who suffer from untreatable chronic pain.

In the study, eight healthy subjects who'd been subjected to a painful stimulus and eight chronic pain patients underwent a series of fMRIs. The images tracked activity in the brain's rostral anterior cingulate cortex -- an area deCharms said is related to pain. Subjects watched this area on a monitor in real time during the procedure. Prompted by researchers' suggestions of trying to lessen their own pain by ignoring it or imagining it as benign, they set out in a mental game of hot-and-cold to lessen their discomfort.

Twenty-eight healthy subjects and four pain patients were also put into control groups that tried to control pain by viewing other patients' brain data or using other mental strategies, but no fMRIs. These tactics didn't show a significant reduction in pain, deCharms said.

The pain patients reported that the fMRI helped them decrease their overall pain 64 percent. Healthy subjects said they saw a 23 percent increase in their ability to control the strength of their pain, and a 38 percent increase in their ability to master its unpleasantness.

"I think most people found it very exciting to be able to watch the activity in their own brain, moment by moment, as it took place," deCharms said.

Why Religion and Spirituality are Very Different Things

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Burt Goldman explains the concept of God, Religion and Spirituality and explains why he thinks Religious Dogma is Harmful and Absurd. One thing I like about this video is that Burt isn't scared of tackling a sensitive topic in such a direct manner, he talks about conroversial issues such as spirituality versus religion, the law of attraction and The Secret in a way that many others wouldn't dare.

In this exclusive video Burt Goldman's talks in his finest wisdom on the difference between spirituality and religion, and his concept of God. He sings the praises of spirituality, whilst at the same time expressing his concerns of "dogma" in religion.

Who is God? What is God?

Burt Goldman has trained with spiritual gurus and interacted with religious leaders all over the world. He shares his views based on his 50 year journey of spirituality in understanding who God truly is.

 

"Experience is what God is" - Burt Goldman

About Burt Goldman

 

It was in 1975 that Burt Goldman, a practicing hypnotist, heard about Jose Silva. Always a seeker he wanted to see if Silva's Mind Control training was anything like what he himself was doing.

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As a hypnotist his primary objectives were to motivate people to do the things they only dreamed about doing. Hypnosis, when handled correctly, did just that. He noted that the Silva Mind Control method was a form of hypnosis, well that was right up his alley. He joined Jose's organization and shortly became the number one instructor in the worldwide organization.

Noting that many of the concepts fell a bit short of their potential he asked Jose Silva to allow him to write a manual for the thousand or so instructors teaching around the world at that time. With Jose's approval he co-wrote the instructors manual that became a veritable bible on how to present a seminar for many of the instructors. The name of the manual, that ultimately turned into a book for the general public, was Better and Better.

In 1980, after achieving every goal he had set for himself, Burt retired, joined a country club, played golf for eight months and discovered he needed more out of life. People were clamoring for him to come back. His retirement ended abruptly, Burt created Supermind, a two day seminar that featured, and was based on, the 7 basic principles of Hermes. Supermind was a sensation. Burt taught the class all over the US and Europe. He trained others to do the seminar and soon, SuperMente was being offered throughout South America.

His active mind, seldom at rest, created other seminars. He trained people in hypnosis, and for ten years educated thousands of hypnotherapists who use his methods in Greece, Switzerland, England, Austria, Holland, France, and most major cities in the U.S. Along the way he picked up more and more knowledge and with the hermetic principles to guide him he became a feng shui master, an NLP trainer, and a teacher of psychic healing.

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- The Goldman Method

 

Creative Imagination

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

The Greatest Force in the Universe?

Creative Imagination has been declared by some of the greatest people throughout history as the most powerful tool that we have at our fingertips. Let's take a look at some of the most influential sources we know about Creative Imagination.

 

Albert Einstein:

"Imagination is the greatest creative force in the universe."

The Bible:

"As a man thinketh, so shall he become"

"Without vision we perish"

A creative imagination has been at the forefront of modern day visionaries such as Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Nelson Mandela, Napoleon Hill, BUT is it the most powerful force in the universe?

 

The Most Powerful Force in the Universe

By David Cameron

 Albert Einstein said that imagination is the greatest creative force in the universe. Why would such a great man say something that sounds so silly and trivial? Look at those words again: ‘greatest creative force’. Imagination? Not education? Nor money? Nor luck?

Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, said that imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known. Before you pass him away as a crackpot, know that Mr. Hill was an advisor to two U.S. presidents, was commissioned by the great and wealthy Andrew Carnegie to teach people about making their dreams come true, and has been thanked by many of the greatest people around the world for the success he helped them achieve.

People like F. W. Woolworth (founder of Woolworth’s), Woodrow Wilson (former U.S. President), George Eastman (founder of Kodak), W. M. Wrigley, JR. (Wrigley’s), and many others have used his teachings to manifest their dreams.

Imagination is the force that takes you to places you have never been.

Henry Ford relied on imagination and belief. Walt Disney said that had he not seen Disneyland in his mind, the rest of the world would not have seen it on earth. Bill Gates first imagines his products before they become actual software that we rely on. And it would serve you well to remember that many of the world’s greatest people started with nothing and built empires. They had a dream. And the universe conspired, as it always does, to let them experience their imagination.

The universe always lets you experience your imagination, whatever it may be.

The Bible says ‘As a man thinketh, so shall he become’. It also says ‘Without vision we perish’.

Your mind’s images are literally the blueprint from which your world is built.

Your mind is infinite. What are your limits? What are limits, except those that you say are so? Why else would two different people have different ‘limits’?

Life is images of the mind, expressed. What this means is that Life, The Source, uses your thoughts, your mental images, as the instructions by which to create your reality in the material world. Life expresses your mental images into physical reality.

To express is to make known, to state, articulate, communicate, convey. The force of Life makes known your thoughts to yourself and everyone else by forming them into experiences and objects that can be experienced, here in the physical world.

You experience your own thoughts first hand, your images of your mind, so that you may know which ones are suitable and which ones are not. That is how you know yourself, that is how you experience your self, and that is how you grow.

This is the supreme purpose of this physical world that we are now in. It is designed to enable you to experience your Self. It is designed to enable you to experience an idea and its effects and consequences.

Life does not select which ones of your images to express and which ones not to. How would it choose for you? It therefore expresses all of them to the extent that you have them and believe them. You have true free will.

This free will is truly free because of the fact that all of it is acted upon without filtering or favoring. Free will is truly free because of the fact that it actually gets results all the time, not just some of the time, and it gets them exactly.

Your ideas, visions and dreams, whatever they may be, are the prophecies of what you shall one day become and achieve. You can predict your outer life tomorrow by looking at your inner self today. You can change your tomorrow by changing your inner self today.

As you think, there do you find yourself. You attract the people that have something to teach you in line with your thoughts, people who have something to learn from you in line with your thoughts, and you repel those who have nothing more to learn from you and give you in line with your thoughts. The same goes for places and conditions, situations and environments.

Many things influence your imagination – past fears, desires, poor mental training, lack of awareness, sub-personalities, lack of goals – any much more. But anything that influences your imagination is under your control.

You can stop it simply by becoming aware of it and releasing it. And this is where awareness, consciousness, comes in as the key to clearing your mind of the debris that brings suffering to you and sabotages your success.

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Oprah Winfrey Interviews Esther Hicks on the Law of Attraction and Her Being Cut from "The Secret"

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

I was quite annoyed to see that Esther Hicks was edited out of the movie The Secret. TheSecretNotes.com has the full story.

 It is my belief that The Secret is NOT based on the Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D Wattles. It simply could not have been!

The Science of Getting Rich is a book from 1910 - brilliant for its time - but obsolete, poorly written and long-winded by today's standards. I wrote a one page summary of it - judge for yourself.

Instead, I believe Rhonda developed the Secret and was influenced not by the Science of Getting Rich but by the books by Esther Hicks. After all, Esther Hicks was originally supposed to get 10% of revenues from the Secret. (see this post).

Instead I believe that due to the Secret's amazing popularity, contractual business dealings got in the way. The Secret was re-edited to exclude Esther Hicks and the idea that the film was based on the Science of Getting Rich was substituted in.

Why the Science of Getting Rich?  Purely a business decision.

Well it was written in 1910 - the book is now in the public domain, which means that ANYONE can publish or edit the book without paying royalties. This of course, made it an excellent choice.

Pic Below: Esther and husband Jerry Hicks

Now I am not suggesting that the producers of the Secret dumped Esther and picked The Science of Getting Rich so they could keep a larger chunk of their profits. It could have been a reasonable business decision because Esther's book sometimes deals with the supernatural, particular her conversations with the entity Abraham. Something like that is not going to be consumed by a wide market (although I see nothing wrong with it).

I think Rhonda Byrne and her crew are wonderfully good people and they have performed a great service to the world by packaging the Secret in such a way that the world was ready to wake up to it. Even Esther Hicks - on her website, mentions that there is no ill will.  Although Esther does say - she felt she and her husband were "drawn in, utilized and then discarded".

But it is a shame to see the Secret cut out Esther - both from the film and from her share of the revenue pie.

The fact should not be hidden from the public. Ester Hicks' book is clearly the motivator for Rhonda's film. And you should go out and BUY that book.

I would give the book "The Secret" a rating of 3 out of 5.
But I would give Ester Hicks's "Law of Attraction" a 5 out of 5.

Read both books and judge for yourself. One feels like spiritual truth - the other like modern-day pop-culture psychology.

Esther Hicks is truly one of the greatest teachers I have come across (along with Jose Silva, Neale Donald Walsch and Bob Proctor).

Thank You Esther!

Now About Oprah's Interview with Esther Hicks

In the interview Ester discusses how she met Rhonda Byrne of the Secret, how she and her husband met Jane Roberts of the Seth Book, and how she later learned to channel Abraham and wrote Ask And It is Given and The Law of Attraction.

There are 2 parts and you can listen to them from the link below. (audios courtesy of  AttractionHacker.com)

Part 1: Oprah Interviews Esther on the Secret

Part 2: Oprah Interviews Esther on Why She Was Cut from the Secret + Esther Channels Abraham.


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Oprah on the Secret: Episode 1

Oprah on the Secret: Episode 2

PS - fellow bloggers. If you share by gratitude to Esther Hicks, please feel free to syndicate this post. It's our way of thanking Esther by drawing attention to her book and her truly beautiful work which we feel needs to be brought to people's attention.

The Complexity Of The Human Body – Where Does Illness Come From?

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

The debate rages on between conventional medical practices with scientific models and alternative forms of medicine. Let's be honest it's never going to die down. While exploring this topic a wonderful article came along my path.

This article shows how spirituality and enlightenment can be achieved alongside conventional medical practices. It has numerous stories of remarkable people who have overcome illness through alternative methods such as visualization in the case of Morris Goodman aka 'Miracle Man'.

Delve into the article:

The Source Of All Illnesses

By Lorenzo @ RealitySeeds.com

For thousands of years humans have been trying to cure illnesses afflicting body and mind. Endless types and strands of disorders seem to be ever changing and constantly mutating into more complex forms.

Modern Day Science

We try hard to study and understand them with a scientific methodology, but we often have hard time making progress because our scientific models fail to describe much detail of how the human body works. While the science of health is making great steps forward, there is still a lot of guess work involved in applied medicine that often is more like a form of art based on the experience and gut feelings of the doctors, than a science with clear rules.

When we study illness, we notice the symptoms and we explore them; this research gives us clues on how to fix the symptoms, and often we discover possible causes and we attempt to attack these as well. This approach is similar to the approach we take when a car breaks, except that it is much more difficult given how complex the physical body is.

Treat The Symptoms But No Cure

 It often works, but often doesn’t fix the cause, and the illness comes back to hunt us again. Many times things just resolve themselves and we have no idea what the problem was, and why it is gone.

The First Of Many Real Life Alternative Thinking Cases

I remember when I was a teenager I started having troubles breathing at night. I was a young and healthy, much into all kinds of sports and always active. Nevertheless, this night breathing problem was bothering me a great deal.

 I went to my doctor. He asked me if I had that problem only at night, which I did. He also asked me if I had that problem while in vacation somewhere else, or if I had any known allergies. I answered “no” to both questions. In fact, I could sleep just fine while in vacation, and I had no known allergies.

He asked me if I spent much time in my room, which I did. That’s all he needed to hear. His prescription was “Change your room around! Move the furniture, take whatever is on the walls and change it with something new, paint the room with a different color. In short, make it feel new”. I thought it was an odd cure for my problem, but he is a very experienced doctor and I trusted him.

Well, believe it or not, that “cure” fixed my problem, which never came back again. Later he explained that I had problems breathing because I was associating my room with something bad that happened in my life, putting me in a negative state of mind and stress. Changing the room around was a way to deactivate these negative memories.

He didn’t really understand all the details of why that negative state of mind was causing the problems with the breathing; he just knew that it worked that way.

What is the real cause of illness? Most important, why is the body sometimes unable to fix itself?

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Most Passionate Filmmaker Ever? Giving Up $250 Million For Transformation.

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

 

How did a simple street artist go from painting grains of rice to directing a movie with two Oscar Winning Legends? The answer to this question can be summarized in one word- chutzpah (and barrel loads of it at that!)

I'm guessing a few of you don't know this term- it means audacity or nerve. The classic definition is that given by Leo Rosten:

"that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan."

I'm not saying for a second that this is what Bret Carr would do but he certainly possesses the same qualities. I spoke to Bret on the phone last week and am finding it impossible to keep his incredible story to myself.

Many people in the same position would have been overpowered with the feelings of despair but Bret had other ideas- to manifest his dreams.

Here's his story- be prepared to be literally stunned at the lengths one man will go to for the success of his vision.

 

Bret Carr moved to Los Angeles and began work as a street artist painting pictures on rice grains for tourists. But his real ambition was to make movies that change people’s lives.

 

Bret incredibly managed to get two Oscar winners to give him their time and energy for free and created the movie RevoLOUtion which he starred and directed in. It was released to the general public in April 2006.

This is amazing in itself but you'll have to believe me when I say it's only the beginning of the feats that Bret pulled off. Bret endured more difficulties then you could ever imagine along the way and the making of RevoLOUtion was a complete rollercoaster ride. All of these feats I'll give to you in kind of a 'chutzpah list' called "The Rise of RevoLOUtion". Prepare to be shocked.

First things first here's the lowdown on what RevoLOUtion is about:

The Odd Plot - A Boxer that Stutters

RevoLOUtion is the fictional story of Lou, a stuttering ex-boxer who can only speak normally when starting trouble protecting the Brooklyn neighborhood in which he lives. Lou transforms from violent, extreme stutterer into a great, powerful communicator.

Awareness magazine note:

“The viewer so identifies with Carr’s Oscar Caliber performance, that they are taken on a near death psychological journey with “Lou”, and come out having had their own awakening.” 

The Rise of RevoLOUtion

I'm going to share with you 8 phenomenal stories that many would consider seemingly impossible that perfectly demonstrate the sheer audacity and nerve that Bret possesses.

1. Giving up a $250 million Inheritance

 

The Chutzpah of Carr was evident from a very early age-  at 18 he left his family where he was vice president of a billion dollar holding company ran by his grandfather, Victor Posner. He gave up a 250million dollar inheritance, and then exposed him on front page of Wall Street Journal as a child molester to protect his sister.

 

He couldn't get her away from him, because Posner had 4 gun toting bodyguards that would chase her down and take her car back every time Carr got her out. Both Carr and his sister had no money so Carr had the audacity to take the initiative.

This story goes a long way in explaining why Carr is so passionate about getting this film out. Carr grew up in a relatively dysfunctional household and found a way out of reliving that drama- RevoLOUtion.

A tough decision to make... not for Carr!

2. Enlisting the help of Oscar Winner Redeker and Funding RevoLOUtion

Pic Left: The Deer Hunter, 5 times Oscar Winner written by Quinn Redeker, writer of RevoLOUtion

Bret Carr got in touch with Quinn Redeker, the writer of the five time Oscar Winner The Deer Hunter starring Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken, to help him realize his dreams.

Redeker laughed off any suggestion of help, that was until Bret shared his amazing techniques that would be embedded in the film.

Truly inspired by Carr’s vision Redeker waived his usual 6 figure fee; so Carr set about his task armed with only passion and a small organized crew of technicians getting them to work for free. (You might be rightly getting the impression now that Bret can be very persuasive)

The out of pocket expenses were funded in a rather bizarre fashion- Carr is a talented street artist who can capture dreams on single grains of rice, which he would then sell to tourists.

The 300,000 dollar production was also very hard to obtain- Bret had to explain to Kodak that he was making the first film in 3 decades from the guy who liberated a generation of Vietnam Veterans with The DEER HUNTER, and how dare anyone want to charge him for the production. Let's be honest, he's got a point, The Deer Hunter is a masterpiece with an immense cult following. Kodak caved in and Bret got the $300,000 funding.

Bret has shown one way of producing a film with no money whatsoever and how to attract Oscar Winners- Could you have done the same?

 

3. Getting Bill Conti, the composer of the Rocky Soundtrack for free

Pic left: The Original Oscar Winning Rocky Motion Picture Score by Conti

Carr was struggling to get composers for the soundtrack to RevoLOUtion, with even those who only had a history in commercials charging hefty prices.

So Bret and his team took the task upon themselves singing themes and going around in circles always ended up always bellowing out the ROCKY theme.

 The solution was obvious but still a bit of a pipe dream. They sent the movie to Bill Conti, the composer of the Oscar Winning Rocky Soundtrack, there was after all nothing to lose.

Bill's response was that HE COULDN'T TURN AWAY FROM THE PERFORMANCE and HAD TO DO THE THEME.

With absolutely no money Bret needed to get Bill an orchestra, he managed to persuade 20 musicians to come together for 400 bucks and the rest is history. . .

Another Oscar Winner on board for the meager sum of $400. Go Bret!

 

4. Filming with Burt Young- 'You Got Balls Kid'

Surely you've seen the legendary movie Rocky- Who hasn't? Then you'll all remember the character of Paulie, Rocky's brother-in-law played by Burt Young.

Carr's producer Mary Helen ran into Burt Young in the street and they managed to persuade him to shoot for an hour the next day, he possibly accepted because he was playing the role of an angry stutterer.

When Bret told Burt when and where he wanted to shoot Burt's response was the classic "YOU GOT BALLS KID"- Sylvester Stallone eat your heart out- one of the most famous Rocky quotes!! Carr organized a crew to meet outside Burt's  broadway play in front of a police station without permits. And even got the cops to help shoot.

Check out the Video Clips Later:

Clearly Bret has huge balls- Keep the Hollywood legends coming Bret!

5. Jane Fonda and Kumar Pallana Saga

Which Hollywood legend would Bret target next?

Carr still wanted to reshoot some scenes for RevoLOUtion and set about enrolling the help of the legendary Hollywood actress and writer Jane Fonda. Despite being told by the powerful agency courting Carr, not to bother her, Bret got Jane's email from a journalist and sent her the movie.

Jane declined the reshoot due to her hip operation and pending bus tour but instead gave a quote on the film:

"Intense film, an extraordinary performance"

She ALSO included in her email, brilliant reshoot notes which Carr implemented with Kumar Pallana, the iconic Indian character actor who appeared in the Spielberg Film "Terminal" starring Tom Hanks.  Carr's team checked out Kumar on IMDB, he was 30 minutes outside of Hollywood, they met up, he then signed and starred. 

 

6. Hard Hitting Agent Joe Klien gets RevoLOUtion the recognition it deserves

After being rejected 5 years in a row utilizing different cuts of the movie, Carr created a pseudonym and personality, JOE KLIEN, a hard hitting agent who didn't take no for an answer.

Bret via his alter ego 'Joe Klien', got the movie into slamdance, an irreverent film festival. From this platform RevoLOUtion has won Jury Prizes and distinctions at 15 international film festivals.

Carr got representation from Jon Sheinberg, a Hollywood agent turned manager and son of Syd Sheinberg, ex-President of Universal for 20 years.

After being rejected 5 years in a row utilizing different cuts of the movie, Carr called up the head of the IFP who runs a work in progress screening each year of 5 of the worlds best undiminished films. Historically the program discovered Brothers McMullan, She's gotta have it, and many others.

Carr was rejected, but authorized by Shienberg who didn't have time to represent him as hoped for, Carr created a pseudonym and personality, JOE KLIEN, a hard hitting agent who didn't take no for an answer.

Here's the gist of how the conversation went:

"Hello, put the Executive Director on the phone please. This is Joe Klien from Jon Sheinberg's office."

"Michelle Byrd? This is Joe Klien, I work for Jon and Syd Shienberg. You know who they are don't you."

"Yes"

"Well let me remind you. Syd discovered a filmmaker named Steven Spielberg. NOW we represent Bret Carr, whose film FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT (RevoLOUtion's name at the time) was rejected...

"Sir, first of this an organization and we have a screening committee which I'm not part of. I run the organization. Secondly selections are closed. The deadline is firmly over."

Joe, "Let me tell you what. If you don't take that tape home and make a decision yourself on Bret Carr's movie, you are committing soul murder of the most important Cinematic Voice since Steven Spielberg. Do you understand me."

Michelle Byrd, "Are you threatening me?"

Joe, slamming his fist on the table, (Bret told me he was so in character he scared himself with the flesh smacking wood):

 "You're goddamn right I'm threatening you, I'm threatening you with being haunted by killing a masterwork. What I'm really doing though, is talking to you like I'd talk to the head of a studio fighting for the LIFE of a filmmaker who has risked EVERYTHING to make the most powerful movie any of us in this office has ever seen.

A movie that changes lives. And if you don't take that tape home and have an answer for me, at your authentic discretion... A yes or a no... after that movie has been watched by YOU personally tonight, then you will be responsible for crushing the most powerful motion picture  visionary I have ever seen, and flushing  thirty five years of this masterfilmmaker life down the toilet. DO YOU COMPREHEND WHAT I AM SAYING TO YOU?!"

Michelle, meekly, "Yes, sir."

Joe, "Do we have an understanding that I will hear from you no later than 10 am my time tomorrow?"

Michelle, "Yes, sir."

9am next day, Michelle, "We would be honored to have Bret's movie in our festival."

The Result

Bret via his alter ego 'Joe Klien' got the movie into slamdance, an irreverent film festival. From this platform RevoLOUtion has won Jury Prizes and distinctions at 15 international film festivals.

Yet another example of steely chutzpah.

 

7. Quest for Distribution

Carr wanted Distribution after being turned down by everyone so he shot a 20 dollar short PASSION OF THE HEIST.

He emailed to 3000 people, and within days it was forwarded all around Hollywood and reported on the radio from  Marty Grove who also is a writer for the Hollywood Reporter. He made Bret FILMMAKER OF THE MONTH .

However, the distribution deal fell through, as the company's finances didn't come together. Restless Carr relentlessly with no money and no distributor cracked on and filmed another short starring LOU BENEDETTI... FARANHEIT 6911 costs 20 dollars and makes it onto the front page again, of the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER- BUT...

Despite all this success and relentless effort to get distribution Carr had no distributor UNTIL... he stumbled across an inheritance from his newly rich mother.

8. Crazy Experiment that Shocked Studio Execs:

The Drugs Test

Carr came into a lot of money- $300,000 left to him in an inheritance, however in another bizarre twist he had to take a drug test to convince his newly rich mother that his addiction to perfecting RevoLOUtion wasn’t actually a drug addiction.

Carr naturally put all of this money into the NY and LA release of the movie in a revolutionary ingenious idea. Take a look below:

The Experiment

Bret then had the audacity to promote RevoLOUtion in a way that was to take the movie world by storm, you'd think it would be better to take things one step at a time.

This video clip has managed to get 556 diggs within 16 hours of being posted on digg.com. It has way over 10,000 views on YouTube

Cary Berglund, NBC Reporter:

“Imagine if every dollar you had to pay to see a movie was with the confidence of 20/20 hindsight”

The revolutionary experiment, pay what you think it’s worth,  is an all new approach to ticket sales and has the potential to revolutionize the movie theatre experience.

Bret Carr explains the logic behind his hot idea:

“I walk out of 90% of everything I ever see, that’s why I wanted to give the power to the audience to be able to decide how much they like the film”

The result of the experiment was exceptional- the NY and LA release was double the average box office take outgrossing 90% of the Studio Independents along the way.

You'd think Bret would just be happy to finally get his film out to the public but instead he creates a whole new approach to movie-going.

 Overview of The Rise of RevoLOUtion. . .

These 8 sensational stories clearly demonstrate the chutzpah Bret possesses- How much balls can one guy have? The length and breadth Bret Carr will go to to get his movie the exposure it deserves is astonishing. SO...

The Future of RevoLOUtion

Despite the sheer chutzpah evident in Bret Carr's nature the major problem holding back RevoLOUtion is the problem of distribution. This movie has to get out to the masses- check out the major impact it's had on audiences who have been lucky enough to see it:

The phenomenal impact the movie has had on real people’s lives:

Now Carr is trying to build up a fan base for this miraculous film so the public can witness this heart-warming and awakening movie.

And you can be a part of this by subscribing to his community of videos which show excerpts,trailers, arrests, and battles in getting RevoLOUtion made.

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Bret Carr is a truly remarkable character with a rock solid nerve who has harnessed his feelings to become a success and inspiration to many. And I’m sure you’ll agree this is mirrored in his movie.

Who has more chutzpah than Bret? What did you think of the movie? Share your thoughts- you can also Stream or purchase his movie.

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 Video Clips

Burt Young Cameo in RevoLOUtion:

In this clip Burt Young threatens to bust up Lou, the stuttering boxer from the movie RevoLOUtion, who confuses Burt for his character Paulie in the Rocky movies.

Lou introducing RevoLOUtion- check out the trailer:

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The Experiment

Remember it received 556 diggs within 16 hrs of being posted. . .

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