GOLD EDITION - Dreams Alive* Drunvalo Melkizedek * Ha’ makua Mel Mason * Kumu’ola Leina’ala Your “Zone of Genius” The Unified Field Having A Dream Team The Power of Meditation

Awakened Imagination Newsletter Gold Edition Issue #2 1

“What you want most is already within you - are you ready to discover it with your whole Heart?”

INSIDE

This Month

Here’s what you’ll learn in this issue:

• Discovering Your “Genius To Destiny”

• Cool New Ways to Meditate

• Why Have A Dream Team?

• The Powerful Re-Sourcing Process

• The Importance of Contribution

• The Power of “10 Minutes”

• How To Remember Your Future

We’ve got a great interview for you this month with Mark Victor Hansen - co-author of the Chicken Soup For The Soul book series. Mark is a great example of a person who believes in the incredible power of Imagination.

Remember…

The founding principle of this program is “what you want already exists”. All that’s necessary for you to make it real is to feel it as already real in your life - well before it ever “shows up” in the “3-D” world. That’s true vision - seeing what is before anyone else can see it….

Welcome to the GOLD Edition Volume # 2!

GOLD EDITION

The May “Gold Interview”

with Mark Victor Hansen

* Tom Stone * Laura Silva * Drunvalo Melkizedek * Ha’ makua Mel Mason * Kumu’ola Leina’ala

Your “Zone of Genius” The Unified Field Having A Dream Team The Power of Meditation

Upcoming Gold Interviews:


Welcome to the Awaken Imagination Gold Series Interview.

We’re really excited to introduce an inspiring entrepreneur to you in

this second month of your Gold Membership. His name is Mark

Victor Hansen, many of you may know him

from his series of books “Chicken Soup For

The Soul”.

Mark Victor Hansen is the founder of MEGA

Book Marketing University and Building Your

MEGA Speaking Empire. Both are annual

conferences where Mark coaches and teaches

new and aspiring authors, speakers and

experts on building lucrative publishing and

speaking careers.

He is also known as a passionate philanthropist and humanitarian,

working tirelessly for organizations such as Habitat for Humanity,

American Red Cross, March of Dimes, Childhelp USA to name a

few.

In the year 2000, The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished

Americans honored Mark with the prestigious Horatio Alger Award.

Each year, this association honors American leaders who personify

the virtues and principles inherent in the success stories written by 19th century American author

Horatio Alger, Jr. As an award winner, Mark's extraordinary life achievements stand as a powerful

example that the free enterprise system still offers opportunity to all. In 2000, Northwood University

honored him as the Outstanding Business Leader of the Year. In 2002, The University of Toledo pre-

sented Mark with an Honorary PhD in Business Administration and established the Mark Victor Han-

sen Entrepreneurial Excellence Fund, that will help shape the minds of future business leaders and

assist in the development of the faculty who will teach them.

Mark serves as of Chief Executive Officer of M.V. Hansen & Associates, Inc., Co-Founder of

Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises, Inc and President of One Minute Millionaire, LLC.

An Interview With Mark Victor Hansen

America’s Ambassador of

“Awakening the possibility in every soul!”

Mark is the Co-Author of:

• Chicken Soup For The Soul Series

And the Author of:

• “The One Minute Millionaire - The Enlightened Way To Wealth”

• “The Power of Focus”

• “The Aladdin Factor”

• “Dare To Win”

and many others

Mark Victor Hansen is an enthusiastic crusader of what's possible and is driven to make the world a better place. With his endearing charismatic style, Mark captures his audience's attention as well as their hearts.

It is our pleasure to bring to you this month’s Gold Membership inspiring interview with Mark Victor Hansen.

“Dreams don’t have deadlines… Live your dream life no matter what your age.”

~ Mark Victor Hansen


Paul: Welcome to this Awaken Imagination Gold Interview. With us today, I have a person who I have admired for many years. His name is Mark Victor Hansen. You probably recognize that name. It’s almost a household name today. He’s the author of many books, the biggest of which is his Chicken Soup for the Soul Series, co-authored with Jack Canfield.

But there are some ones you may not know about. One which I was sharing with Mark just a few moments ago was “The Power of Focus”, a tremendous book about the talent, the innate skill we have to tune in and focus on what we really want, but the unconscious isn’t always there with us until you set your intent and really tune in.

Another one of Mark’s books is “The One Minute Millionaire”. In the year 2000, Mark was honored with the prestigious Horatio Alger Award. Each year, this association honors American leaders who personify the virtues and principles inherent in the success stories that are written in the 19th century. As an Alger award winner, Mark’s extraordinary life achievements stand as a powerful example that the free enterprise system still offers opportunity to all. I love that, Mark.

Mark: Isn’t that fun?

Paul: I love it.

Mark: You ought to know that we give away the most money of any endowment scholarships in America to at-risk kids. When you hear these kids’ stories, and all of us at Whitney Award. Out of 600 winners over 60 years, there are 183 of us alive still, and it’s the most amazing group. We’ve raised 100 million dollars to get all these kids to go to school. Oprah’s a member, Turner’s a member, and a new one we just had Denzell Washington win a few days ago and we had Steve Wynn, the guy from Vegas who builds the best hotels as far as I’m concerned, is a new friend.

It’s a really exciting organization and the biggest winners are the kids, the scholars that get $20,000 from us to go school. They got to go to a school where they know the president, and they’ve got to keep a 3.8 gpa and they can’t skip any school. They all end up graduating and do-ing wonders. Every one of them has one of us as a mentor, where we get to be the mentee. I’ve got pictures on my wall here of getting my award in the U.S. Supreme Court from Judge Clarence Thomas. In my class of ten, was Tom Selleck, Mr. Magnum PI. It makes your skin tingle.

Paul: Yes, I know that feeling well.

To add just a little bit to that intro, because I’m really fascinated with your background, Mark. You know what really impresses me is when people like yourself... I think the old quote goes, “To those who much have been given, much is expected, or required”.

In Hawaiian, they have a word called “kuleana”- it’s our kuleana (our responsibility) to give back. We’ve been given great and wonderful gifts.

Part of what I had found on the web about you Mark, is that you’re not just a philanthropist and a humanitarian, but you work tirelessly for organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, American Red Cross, March of Dimes, and Child Help U.S.A. It touches me, Mark, because you don’t have to do that stuff. It’s something that inspires you or touches you in some way.

Your Kuleana

Maybe that’s the way we’ll start out, and then I’ll continue with some questions that I’m asking as a surrogate on behalf of our subscribers and Awaken Members. If we can touch base on that whole


Mark: I think it’s a triangle. I ask audience members to put their hands together and touch their index fingers and their thumbs together and make a triangle. I say, on the left hand side, you’ve got to learn.

On the right hand side, you’ve got to earn. Then, on the thumbs, you’ve got to return. Unless you do all three parts of the triangle, it doesn’t work. The reason our economy and social and political system are crumbling right now is because they didn’t understand the return part.

I’m doing this from a very spiritual, elevated point of view, looking now at the problem we’ve got.

When you’ve got greed running you, you’ll always lose because you can’t ever get enough if you’re into greed. That’s what happened with the collapse on Wall Street and Washington. Too many people were running a greed system and didn’t understand that there’s more than

enough for all of us. Every spiritual system says the same thing. Christ, John 10:10 says “I come so you might have life and have life abundantly”. The oldest spiritual literature on the planet 6,000 years ago, said … “out of abundance he or she took abundance and still abundance remained”.

There is more than enough, but if you’re personally coming out of lack, which I’m here to attack lack. I think poverty only belongs in a museum. Dr. Eunice taught me that, a Nobel Prize winner. We got a hundred million women out of poverty, and I’m working with them now on a lot of projects because we don’t need any poverty in the world; we need vast prosperity and all seven billion of us deserve to have clean water, clean food, a house over our head like Habitat says.

We need to have awareness, not education, because education, the way we’re doing it, doesn’t work. There’s a lot of ways that it can work, and I can give those examples if you want.

Paul: Yes. Well, that’s the fascinating thing about it. There are some people who are falling back to their least common denominator, their common thread, in other words, and they’re unconscious. If they are run by the “Not Enough Effect”, as I call it, and they get stuck in the fear mentality or the scar-city myth… and that’s something I would love to spend time talking to you about, Mark. This whole concept where people feel separate from what they want. By doing so and not questioning that belief, they go and live out of that belief. They create a whole paradigm based on that.

Let’s go back to some of your background. What I like to do is debunk the myth of the celebrity of the material effect. As I was sharing with a gentleman named Brian Johnson in our first Gold Interview, he’s a very exciting young fellow. You might have heard of him. He’s the head of a company called Zaadz.com, which got bought by

Gaiam.com. And he’s about 32 years old and he’s really inspired, and I asked Brian this one question:

Have you always been this inspired? So, that’s my question to you Mark. Have you always been this inspired; feeling and having the belief system that you have now?

“We are in the most exciting and treacherous times simultaneously in human history”


concept of kuliana, our responsibility in giving back.

Mark: The answer would be I think no. I went bankrupt 35 years ago, and it was my best/worst experience. That’s when I started listening to an audiotape by the dean of speakers who got me launched, Calvin Robert. He said you’re either a creature of circumstance or the creator, and I thought, “Oh, I wouldn’t have created this bankruptcy”.

When you’re in the doo doo or a divorce or lost your business or any-thing, you can’t see it. In the short view, it looks like it’s so terrible we often feel I want to kill myself. I did feel that way, and I understand how people who are hanging from their fingernails feel that way, and a lot of people are right now. So, look I was so low, I had to reach up to touch bottom. I had to check a book out of the library about how to go bankrupt by yourself. I even had some lawyer hit me up in the East District Court. I was in New York at the time, and he said, “Hey, buddy, for $300, I’ll take you through the bankruptcy.” I said, “Man, if I had $300, I wouldn’t need it.”

Then Bob Allen, the money guy, said to me once, “How did you sleep when you were bankrupt?” and I said, “I slept like a baby. I slept two hours a night crying.”

What I’m doing is making fun of a very painful situation I went through. Everybody has pain in their life. Everyone has problems. I’m not saying take your problems, turn them into profits. Listen to positive stuff, especially in negative times.

We have all got to manage all the media. The conversations we have with ourselves and all the conversations we have with others. I don’t watch the news right now. I’ll try to catch up on it once a week or something or when somebody says, “Oh my God, this just happened,” and it makes sense that I need to know about it, then I’ll do it. Otherwise, I say, Look that’s not something I want to know about. I don’t need to know about every airplane crash, about all the people who got killed, or that there’s a disease going around or whatever because I’m here and all of us are here with a very fragile mind.

Meaning that whatever you impress on your subconscious mind, that will be what you express. So, I haven’t got time to hear about every one of the latest diseases, all the destruction, and what all my competitors are doing. I don’t care what they’re doing unless it’s going to inspire me to do better. Because I want to do original work. I want to be a guy that has a profitable, permanent impact on the world. I’ve sold 157 million books and written 287 books and owned seven businesses that are cooking along. I think I’m doing okay.

Paul: I’d say that’s a fair way to say it.

Mark: I’m only beginning. I’m not even out of the first half of my life yet.

Paul: Sure, as I used to share something I remember with my grandmother saying, “You’re still a spring chicken”.

Mark: There you go.

Paul: I remember one of your quotes. It’s also the name of one of your taped sets. It’s called “Dreams Don’t Have Deadlines.” The second half is

“Living Your Dream Life, No Matter What Your Age”. So, let’s talk about Dreams Don’t Have Dead-lines. In the context, Mark, that some people don’t believe that just sounds like fantasy or imagina-tion or a dream. Can we spend some time on that, to debunk that myth?


Mark: Let’s go young and old. Let’s start with old.

Art Linkletter and I did a book called “How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life”. At 96 years old, here’s a guy who brought hula hoop to America. He was on TV shows, ABC, NBC, and CBS for 29 years, walked from one station to the other every day for “Kids Say the Darndest Things” and “Few are Funny, How’s the Party”. He owns the biggest ranch in Australia because he was our ambassador under Reagan to Australia.

The guys are saying the outback is useless and the prime minister says good, what will you sell it for, 15 cents an acre. He said here’s $30,000; I’ll take two million acres. He goes over with an agriculturist, agronomist, and horticulturist, takes the problem and turns it into a profit and makes it grow.

The Children Are Our Future

Likewise, the youngest. I’m just finishing a new book that’s just coming out on June 5th. It’s called “The Richest Kids in America—How They Got That Way and You Can, Too”. A little 11 year old girl, Jasmine Lawrence, loses all of her hair with a bad hair product. She’s a woman of color. She won’t go to school, she won’t talk to her friends, and she won’t go out of the house. Her mom says, what are you going to do? She goes onto the computer, figures out all the stuff to make hair grow, makes her hair grow, creates a product called Heat and Body Works. To make a long story very short, she now sells, at 17 years old, 60,000 bottles a month of stuff that gets rid of what’s called alopecia, which is abnormal hair loss which affects two million Americans. She’s 17 years old and making a fortune. I videotaped her, so if anyone wants a videotape or the book, go to markvictorhansen.com and we’ll have the book available. I’ll even sign it when it comes out.

But when you watch all of these kids, her and all of her peers, we’ve got a little girl who makes a million dollars a painting and is 13 years old. Maybe you’ve seen her on Oprah, called Akiane.

She’s just spiritually profound. She’s an old soul in a young body. It was hard for me to edit her.

All of these kids are doing such great stuff. What I want to say is, Look, just in America, we have a population of 300 million - 20 percent are younger, under 19. So, that’s 60 million kids. If we can get one percent of them going, that will get our whole economy going and make trillions of dollars a year.

I’m saying that no one has ever tried to inspire the kids to do business. An entrepreneur who takes something of low value and makes it high value to him or herself and the marketplace in the future - what I’m saying is that every kid has great ideas because they don’t know that there’s a reces-sion, possible depression happening. They’re going to say, “Holy cow, business is booming.” Every one of these kids got up in front of everyone, and every one of them got standing ovations. I mean when you see a little nine year old making a million dollars a year, you go, “If that little kid has that much self confidence and can do it, I’m 59 or 29 or 39 or 89 or whatever, I can do it.”

“I have been blessed by God, and if I’m blessed, there is one reason

and one reason only and that is to help others.” ~ Akiane


Paul: Yes. In the old days in the Success Magazine, and if you remember back in the 80’s or 90’s, it used to be a magazine that really shared stories about the kind of thing you and I are talking about - people who came from literally zero. Whether they borrowed or found capital through unusual means, and I remember so many times, Mark, that I used to really touch base and tune into those entrepreneurs. All of them had something in common. They had that spirit--that “can do”, like my dad used to teach me: “Don’t tell me what you can’t do; tell me what you can.” That was one of his favorite phrases.

Your “Zone Of Genius”

Mark: That’s why I wrote a book called “You Have a Book in You” because all of us have the ex-periences, and other people need those experiences. You say, that doesn’t mean anything. Well, it does mean something, but somebody’s got to share it. That’s why I want everyone to write their book. All of us need all of us and there’s enough for all of us if all of us to come into not our zone of excellence, but our zone of genius, as my friend Dr. Gay Hendrix says. Every one of us has our zone of genius. Out of the eight intelligences they teach at Harvard, if everyone of us can take one of those zones to genius and do stuff that’s never been done. I mean nobody can write 287 books in a lifetime, and I’ve done that. No one can sell a billion books, but if I live long enough, I’ll sell a billion books in my lifetime.

Paul: So, the zone of genius. How do you get there? How do you know when you’re there, Mark.

Mark: First of all, we’ve got to meditate. When you’re doing your deep breathing and your medi-tation, and you do it twice a day, morning and night. And you close your eyes and you’re tilting your head at a 45 degree angle and you’re listening to something spiritual or something that really gets you and sends you and takes you where you want to go. You ask yourself:

“What is it I am here to do? What is God’s “Genius To Destiny for me?”

And, here’s the other way to do it: Before you go to sleep at night, 400 times say,” What is God’s destiny for me?” or “What is God’s genius destiny for me?” Because you say the same things 400 times - when we wanted the title for Chicken Soup, I said it 400 times in my home in Newport and Jack said it 400 times in his home in Santa Barbara. “Make a best selling title, make a best sell-ing title,” but I’m saying “What is my destiny to genius?” If you say that 400 times in a row, and tell yourself that when I wake up, whatever time you wake up, 4:00, 5:00 in the morning, 8:00 in the morning, 10 or you sleep late until 12.

What is God’s “Genius To Destiny for me?”


When I wake up, I’ll have the answer, and make sure you’ve got pen and paper or a dictating machine or little recorder next to you because you want to catch it, because you will forget it. It’s fleeting, it’s got life, so you want to catch it, grab it and do it.

Paul McCartney has used his. I’m doing the best I can to use mine. Peter Goober has used his to make 228 superstar films like the Rocky Series and the Batman Series and Flashdance and all that as the top producer in the world. James Cameron has used his to make his movies. Every one of us has got a genius and the rest of us need to individually and col-lectively come out and utilize it.

Paul: The way you said that, Mark, was, “What’s my destiny to genius?”

Mark: Meaning that you’ve got to take some motion. You’ve got to takes some action. Every one of us has a genius we’re supposed to use. My genius is speaking, writing, promoting, and building rapport with people

and making businesses happen. Everybody else has got some other level of genius. Once you find one, you’ll find that you’ve got a couple you can use. The more of them you bring out, the better off you’re going to be.

That’s why in “The One Minute Millionaire” which you started to brag about, we say you’ve got to have MSI’s, multiple sources of income, so you can get a real MBA, a millionaire’s bank account which is more important than a masters in business administration. Most people with an MBA are employees, not what I’m going to teach you, which is to be an employer, not an employee.

We need more entrepreneurs making more businesses. Everybody that makes a million dollars in business directly and indirectly employs ten people. So, we need more of us not less.

Paul: Yes. I skipped my MBA because I came out of Marquette University in the 80’s.

Mark: That’s a great school.

Paul: Fantastic school. An MBA just wasn’t right for me. I didn’t resonate with it. I went through the standard corporate stuff. Before I left the computer industry, I got that feeling and took that into my business Dreams Alive. I’m on that same mission that you are – to help people find that genius. In fact, it’s right on my business card, to find that passion, that abundance and genius that’s really for the most part, Mark, hidden within. You don’t know it’s there unless you get those callings, those signs, those things that you’re drawn to and the people you’re drawn to.

Mark: I’m going to tell you, you’re going to have it literally around the world. Next week, I leave to talk in Europe again, and Ireland and England, then later in Australia and New Zealand and then Singapore. The world wants to hear from all of us. The world wants to hear what products and ser-vices are in the making.

Paul: Yes. What is it do you think that the other cultures are drawn to that the Americans seed, if you will?

Mark: Well, America is the first crossbred world man. Meaning my par-ents are immigrants from Denmark, and worked with everybody whether they came from Italy, Ireland, Israel, Afghanistan or wherever. We’re the first culture. Yesterday, I was at a meeting and I was astounded. Here are four of the greatest magazine writers ever. We had Steve Forbes on. All of them are saying we’re going into one of the most opportune times in history. Yet, all of the rest of the media are say-ing, ain’t it awful? It sure is bad out there.


“We’re going into one of the most opportune times in history…” ~ Steve Forbes

A lot of people are losing it. There’s the auto industry. Well, hello, the auto industry didn’t pay atten-tion to the trends.

Paul: Not at all.

Mark: I’m an investor in electric cars. We’re only going to have electric cars in Israel. My family’s home country of Denmark and the island chain of Hawaii all voted to have electric cars. They are a penny a mile to run. Whereas, a cheap car is 20 cents a mile, not counting licensing and all the rest of the stuff and highway fees. An SUV is 30 cents a mile. These are basically non pol-luting. I’m an investor in alternative energy and natural power concepts and am big in windmills. We’ve got geothermal ready and we’ve got tidal pulsation and hydrokinetic dams which hold back power, making them omni-powerful for the first time in history. The dam can’t make any more en-ergy and more money than it does. But we’re showing how to one fold it, ten fold it, hundred thou-sand fold it with just one idea.

The Leonardo da Vinci of our time, John Petry, says it’s the most exciting time in our history if you’re awake. Now, when you and I were in high school we had great expectations. It was the best of times and the worst of times. It depends on your perspective. It’s awful if you want it to be awful, and exciting if you want to be optimistic and positive.

Paul: One of the things I’m finding common among people like yourself, Mark, who are visionaries, is that they have that same belief - that these are the best of times. These are the times when you dig a little deeper and find the real jewels - the genius that is unexpressed.

The Unified Field

Mark: That’s what I’m saying about the meditation. It’s only in meditation that you go into what Ein-stein called the Unified Field Theory. People say God, you’re the best marketer and the best title writer in history. I say, well, that’s cause that’s where I go because if you’re in meditation, you’re on one channel. In other words, if you listen to the radio on 101.7, you can’t listen to 101.8 or 101.9. You’ll get static.

You want to get a clear channel. According to my teacher, there are only three ways when you’re going to get a clear channel. One is when you meditate, two is when you’re making love, and three is you’re doing something totally neutral like petting a dog or cat or something. The richest man in the world, Solomon, said, “Be still and know that I am God.” Take that individually or collectively, or with a small ‘g’. I don’t care about that. You’ve got to go into the quiet, you’ve got to have some reflective time. If checking out your home entertainment center calms your mind and your spirit, hold that.

Paul: Yes. If there’s ever been an axiom across the great minds, they took time to be in that si-lence. I do it every day. I did it right before our call today just to tune in and to resonate at that fre-quency that the spirit is calling us to be at. The unique, the gift level we’ve been brought to express.


Mark: Jack and I won a humanitarian award. It’s interesting. In Fairfield, Iowa, they have a university out there and they showed that when you meditate ten minutes a day, and they’ve got all the kids doing it. What it causes is mental coherence that shows up on an EKG. Wow, just ten minutes a day balances out your life.

The Power of Meditation

When you practice daily meditation, you won’t get depressed, despondent, instead you’ll be happy, joyful, euphoric, positive and optimistic and get lots done. You can read about any of the autobiographies or biographies of the minds on the Biography Channel, and you go, “Wow”. Here’s Thomas Edison who meditated 10 minutes a day to make sure he woke up with the answers. He’d ask himself a question like I say, “What is God’s destiny for my genius?” He’d say, “How do I find a light bulb?” How do I find a light bulb? How do I find a light bulb? In his hand, when he started to go off to sleep, he had a key in his hand and he’d drop it and it would wake him up. And he’d say, “That’s it!

Just ten minutes a day balances out your life.

Paul: Yes. It’s awesome. Those thoughts seem to come from nowhere. But that’s exactly the place that the mind doesn’t understand. Wayne Dyer says, “now here.” It’s here all of the time, but the mind, caught up in all its old patterns and memory, falls asleep. You used the word awakening before, and that’s what I think we are really here to do. There are so many ways to describe it, Mark. That authentic self, that true self, that spirit self.

Mark: Exactly. That’s what our whole money book series is about is waking up your mind. But when you waken up your mind, you waken up your Spirit and your body at the same time. It’s a whole trilogy. The way I define enlightenment or waking up, first of all when you enlighten you get lighter, but you expand your awareness. Number two is you create massive value for other people for which you get paid and commended in massive ways, and I think everyone ought to get paid more than they do but they’ve got to do more than they get paid for before that happens.

Paul: Good way to say it, Mark.

Mark: You’ve got to leave a legacy that’s worthy of you. In other words, I’ve suggested that my books will be read hundreds of years from now just like I’m reading Mark Twain. Huck Finn was

read by a president named Abe Lincoln and Abe Lincoln did not come in as an emancipation president. He said, Oh my God. Slavery isn’t right. We ought to get rid of it. He got killed for it, but the fact of the matter is that Abe read it, and brought Mark Twain a/k/a Samuel Clemens to the White House and said, do you really think this is true? We’ve got all of these slave states. He was right next to Virginia, and Virginia is the richest state in the colonies. They had the most slaves, curious enough, which is why they were the richest. He talked to him and said, “Look this is what we’ve got to do and this is how we’re go-ing to do it.”

My youngest daughter is now 21 and she traveled in academics through 14 countries in Asia. She called me and said Oh, my God, dad. They’re selling girls into prostitution for $500 each. I thought slavery was over. You’ve got to help. I said, Sweetie, this is your platform. I’ll help you


As long as it’s temporary, because American immigrants all had to pay with their sweat equity so you and I could stand on their shoulders and have a better life. Right now, America needs to create the software, the thinkware, the mindware, to get the whole world out of their conundrum.

Paul: Yes. You’re right on. So, you mentioned Bucky Fuller before. Were you one of his students?

Mark: In graduate school, I traveled around the world with Bucky for seven years.

Paul: Awesome. One of the great thinkers of all time.

Mark: He was. He was the one who coined the term “spaceship earth.” He said we’re all the crew, we’re all astronauts and there’s nobody leading the joint. It’s sort of frightening and daunting. Then, you’ve got movies like Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” which basically says we’ve got global warming going on and we’re in trouble. It’s those of us that are alert, you know I’m trying to help get 18 billion trees planted so we can get the lungs of the earth to come back.

Oklahoma became a decibel because we cut it down and made farms out of it. Well, that wasn’t very considerate, very thoughtful or very smart. At one time, a squirrel could start in New York and go all the way across the country on trees. Well, you cut out and you screw up the environ-ment like in Guatemala, where we found all the pyramids. What happens is that they had a temperature inversion because they screwed up the ecology. Mother Nature has some very fine laws and we’re screwing up the ecology. We’ve got to create right now and work together to create a sustainable economy and a sustainable ecology. They’ve got to work together; other-wise, Mother Nature goes, “What is that? That will kill your butt.”

Paul: We’re laughing, yet it’s a very, very serious matter. Mother Nature is giving us the signal back that it’s not working. Very clearly.

Mark: Mother Nature is belching. Can we solve all of the problems? I’ve invested in natural power concepts, wind and geothermal and yesterday we were selling it. And a lot of people said, Holy cow. You guys are state of the future. I said, that’s it. You don’t want to be state of the art. It’s like when we brought our electric car from Better Place to Detroit, Bill Ford drives it and says, this is wonderful, but I’m going to bring out a hybrid. They go, you’re three generations behind times, Bubba. Of course you guys aren’t going to make any money and lose your ass as you’re trying to get the government to give you money. This is not okay.

You guys have got to be tomorrow, not yesterday. “Oh, my whole family has been in the car business”. Well, you get to go out of business, because that’s not what the public wants. The public wants us to get off of petrochemicals. That was a great way to get us here, but we can’t keep burning and exploiting the planet earth. We’ve got to go on to wind, geothermal, tidal and solar. There’s all kinds of these cools things that are available. We’ve got to have clean water for everyone. I’ve got a patent with John Petry, the Leonardo da Vinci, of our time, coming out with a way to pull water out of the air. It’s always been available but no one ever saw it before. I said, “John, does it work?” He said, “Yeah, That’s a good idea and I’ll help you”. He’s a mechanic and I’m not. So, we put it together. We need more ideas and more forward thinking. We need more vi-sionary leadership, not less. All your listeners and readers are visionaries. We need you.


Paul: In the words of Bucky Fuller, and I paraphrase, If the system or the model that isn’t work-ing now, instead of trying to fix it, you create a whole new model. That’s my understanding of some of the teachings of Bucky.

Everything Is A System

Mark: Bucky said everything is a system and there’s an inside and an outside. If you’re outside looking at the system in abstract, and you go, hey, this system is broken. Our healthcare system is broken. Trying to repair what doesn’t work to start with is a stupid idea. You’ve got AMA, which is a union model saying we’re going to keep the amount of doctors limited and then we’re going to raise the price.

Half the doctors I know aren’t doctors. They’re doing businesses or running labs or writing books or something. That means we don’t have enough doctors, which we don’t in America. We might be a little heavy in New York and California. But, basically, we need one doctor for every 1,000 people. We need one PA, physician’s assistant, for every thousand people. We need one DC, doctor of chiropractics, one MD for every thousand people.

When you start doing real numbers, you say oh, wait a second. The whole world, as a citizen of China or America, I can get a medical doctor, but they can’t because there’s only one school in all of China, you say “this is wrong”. So what should you do? Well, I own a foundation called Mark Victor Hansen Foundation and we’re doing GED’s by telephone. When I was in Asia, they cre-ated a graduate equivalent degree so a little 14 year old girl who gets pregnant can finish high school. In three hours time, she learns how to graduate high school. She gets a dollar more an hour at McDonalds, which is 40 a week times 50 weeks, is two thousand a year which in Asia, is big money for someone who isn’t making much money. When we do it in Asia, they say, Let us go to your GED and we’ll graduate there after studying it and then you can go to the electronic colleges after studying it there in America.

America has to be the intellectual training ground for the whole world. We’re the only place with the colleges and the campuses who are doing it on the Internet. It’s a smart idea for the subjects it fits. Of course, you can’t do surgery and learn it by telephone and Internet. But you know what I’m saying. For that, they have to come to the hard labs and the clinical. But the rest of the stuff, the soft subjects, philosophy and principles, they can learn a lot of and we can get the world going again. We can train people in blitz programs in 3 days each. Bucky taught 100 million women how to use the telephone for $15. In two months, they took a woman from below poverty to above poverty. People say, oh they’re poor and dumb. There’s no such thing as a dumb person. They may not be educated yet or trained, but they’re not dumb.

Paul: It’s a lack of education. That’s all it is.

Mark: That’s it. Education is not going to change the world to become aware. Bucky taught me a long time ago that we’re not short of food or water or buildings. We’re short of awareness. If we change the awareness, we can take care of everybody.

Paul: Yes. I completely agree with you, Mark.

Mark: Well, that’s my goal is to help do that and I’m glad you’re on the program with me.

Paul: Absolutely. In terms of this “Unified Field” that Bucky used to teach about, how can a per-son sitting right here right now if they’re listening to your voice and mine, become a part of that and realize that they were never separate from that? I realize that meditation is a part of it.


Mark: Do you want to go through a little meditation right now?

Paul: Sure

Mark: Okay, everyone, if you’re not driving a motorized vehicle or you’re not in a situation that puts you in any endangerment way or anyone else… Begin by breathing deeply through your nose… Exhale any issue, any tension, any withhold, any life detour, any pain, any arguments and all of the conversations… Exhaling is the most important part to the breath… letting it all out...

Inhale deeply and exhale deeply…

Inhale deeply all the way to your toenails, just breathe, with your toenails lightening up, your ankles, calves, knees, stomach, your Heart, back, your shoulders, your hands, your fingers, all the way up to your head...

Resume your normal breathing, but just feel yourself glow.

You’re going inside a secret place... You’re seeing the one picture of your own abilities…

In here, you can ask any question you want...

Ultimately, inevitably the question you ask… What is my God Genius Destiny…

What am I here to do…

How may I serve?

Inhale...

Exhale...


Going From Your Right Place To Your True Place Keep dwelling on your higher calling. Going from your right place to what we talked about earlier is your “true place”. I was bankrupt and I saw myself as a speaker, talking to people that care about things that matter that would make a life-changing, important, impactful, profitable difference

Whatever it is that you want to do. If you want to be a truck driver or own a fleet of trucks, or a captain of a boat and own a fleet of boats, or if you want to be an entrepreneur in social network, or if you want to become the greatest philanthropist in history, you’ve got to see it before you have it. The spiritual light as I call those things that were not seen as though they were seen and they came to be seen.

Deciding To Be Passionately Purposeful

So, now you’re seeing yourself at this stage in your Imagination. You are seeing yourself as healthy, even if it’s not the truth for you yet. You’re seeing yourself as happy, because happy is a critical component. Being optimistic and enthusiastic about a future that is worthy of you is worthy of you. Deciding to be passionately purposeful about a future that is bigger, brighter, grander, bolder, more exquisite than you ever thought.

You’ve got to see yourself writing it down in detail. I teach that you start with 101 goals. If you haven’t graduated school, it’s important that you graduate school. Whatever level you need to do it. If you need a self education, you come to my seminars or whoever’s seminars are going to take you from where you are to where you want to be. If you’re supposed to write books, write books. If you’re supposed to do tapes, do tapes. If you’re supposed to put up the things that you publish at www.youpublish.com, you do that. Whatever it is that you’re supposed to do, your inner knower is now going to start talking to you and you’re now resonating at a higher level of creating fundamen-tal abundance for yourself.

Take good care of yourself, take care of your spouse, take really good care of your kids, and take phenomenal care of your business so it can take care of you. Take care of your church, temple, synagogue or mosque. Take care of your neighborhood and that can start with the city charities that you do, like chamber of commerce or if you help the American Red Cross. If you’ve never given blood and you can, you need to because if you ever need it or your kids need it, you’ve got to give it in advance because there’s no such thing as pseudo-blood. There’s no false blood.

I got all the chiropractors in America to call 800-Give-Life—which if you’ve never done a call up, bring out a little bloodmobile, and get all of your friends to give blood, too. I got all the chiropractors to adjust 100 of their patients. In one week, working with Libby Dole, I went from dehydration of

19,000 pints a week that they need in America back to the full complement of 38,000 pints. It was all because I did the inner work that we’re doing right now.

I said the problem is only a problem if you look at it as a problem. Our friend Einstein taught us that if life is a ladder, and the problem is at rung one and you stay at rung one, you can never solve the problem. So, you’ve got to go up the ladder to step two, three and four. Go up ten flights and look down at it and go,

Wow. Whatever my income is, if it’s 100,000 a year and I tenfold it, that’s a million. If it’s a million and I tenfold it, that’s ten million.


The Unified Field

What are three things I can do right now in the quiet of my own Unified Field of vision? How do you tenfold yourself and then what are three ways you’re going to tenfold yourself this year, this month, this week, this day, this hour, this minute? That’s why we wrote “One Minute Millionaire” because we said you can make a million in a minute, and it might take you a little time to catch up to it, but if you get the right idea and do the right thinking and take the right action, you’re going to get the right result right here, right now.

So, what am I saying? Whatever is your work, it’s got to be a joy to your Heart and your Soul and your experience. So, you’re living in your Zone of Genius and effortless ease and it refreshes you, rejuvenates you, like it’s not work at all. You go from work-work, which is something you get paid to do, to work-play, which is a little less strenuous, to play-play and that’s where all the world’s greatest living artists, the most prolific, productive guys, like my good friend Wyland.

You know we just got done painting the Great Wall of China equivalently called Hands Across the Ocean. For him, it’s all play-play. He’s a young man who is not even in his prime yet.

Your “Zone of Genius”

What I’m saying is that each and every one of you has got his own Zone of Genius that’s right in front of you. It may be art, it may be business, it may be play, it may be dance, it may be writing, it may be creating great business enterprises. Whatever. There are so many of them. Guys like Branson have fun doing it. Or Oprah—Oprah’s in a cosmically conscious stance and takes a week off a month. Or like our friend Tim Ferris who wrote the “Four Hour Work Week”, who said get done your money making and he makes 80,000 a month working 4 hours a week, and I’m certainly not saying that Ken’s not working because I’ve listened to all of his tapes. And it’s been an inspiration. He’s the top kick boxer in the world and the top dancer down in Brazil and he’s only 29 years old, traveling around the world making 80,000 a month and willing to work-work 4 hours a week to figure out how to make his fortune.

You can do that so you can have more free time so you can do stuff that no one else is doing. Yes, I’m in Europe and I’m finishing more books. I’ve finished four books already this year. I’m taking a week off this month, and I took a week off last month. I’m going to spas, hiking, and traveling and I’m seeing different parts of the world. Each and every one of us is entitled. If you’re alive now, you’re supposed to be awake. You’re supposed to be studying with some great and inspiring teacher.

I studied with Bucky Fuller, but I’ve had 44 superstar mentors because one is not enough. You’re not supposed to say, “Hang up our spurs now and go.” You’re supposed to decide in favor of your-self to have the most exquisitely, bloomingly relevant, tantalizing fun, life ever on the planet.

“You’re supposed to decide in favor of yourself to have the most exquisitely, bloomingly relevant, tantalizing fun, life ever on the planet”

Bucky Fuller


“Be” That Which You Desire

Now breathe deep again. Exhale. See yourself being, being, being. You’ve got to be it before you can do it, before you can have it. You see yourself being who you can be, doing what that person does, driving what that person would drive if you were at your best, living where that person is living, having fun with who you want to be having fun with. Because if you don’t do it this way, because 99% of reality is created invisibly in your mind before you go out and have it in your experience. What you impress, you express, I like to say. As my friend Jim Rohn says, you’re going to be driving what you don’t want to be driving, eating what you don’t want to be eating, living where you don’t want to be living. Create what you want!

So, what I’m saying is if you think right, talk right, act right, meditate right, and pray right and contribute at the highest levels that you’re capable of in your Zone of Genius, you’re going to get to have it all. It’s going to be more fun, more exciting, more titillating than you ever imagined.

It’s worth going the extra mile. Christ said anyone can go the first mile but it’s going through the extra effort, the extra thought, the extra little that pays so much better than anyone else is getting paid. Do more than you’re getting paid for and you’ll ultimately get paid more for what you do as you’ll be distinguished as an indispensable person, the go to person, the make it happen person, the person that gets everything done.

Paul: Yes.

Mark: Breathe deeply everyone. Exhale any of the little me that suffers. Get back, in one more deep breath, the big me. See yourself physically coming back into your body. Resume normal breathing. Rub your hands together until they cause heat and put them over your eyes. Feel your feet flat on the floor, coming back into your body totally. When it’s all done, all you’re going to do is synchronize time and space within. So it is; it cannot be otherwise. You may now gently and slowly open your eyes and come back to the present time.

Is that helpful?

Paul: Yes. So be it now.

Mark: Isn’t that neat?

Paul: Yes.

Mark: So, that’s a form. There’s a lot of forms of meditation and that’s one of them. It’s a really, really good one and it’s fun. It’s called Guided Verbal Meditation. You can do sound mantras. You can do all kinds of stuff. You can take TM, which I totally believe in. There’s a lot of good ones out there.

Paul: A person has to find what is “Pono” (right) for them. Have you heard the word Pono before? It means truth in Hawaiian, whatever works for you is your truth. It’s Pono for you. So, the beauty there, Mark, is that what you’re doing in that meditation that we just did, was the art of breathing—the aloha—you know when you and I first connected, that’s what we talked about—our connection to the island of Hawaii. Something about that place is a reminder of who you really are in a way that western man hadn’t yet gotten too busy thinking up the mind all of the time—bringing that Heart back to who we really are, returning to that place. So, your breath is what brings you back there. It’s who you really are. It’s your Spirit.


Paul: Aloha is to “be with the breath”… to be in the presence of the Divine Spirit.

Mark: I’ve learned that from a lot of great Kahunas.

Paul: So for the person whose tried all of these things, Mark, let’s say that we’ve got those people who are the real, real diamonds in the rough and they’ve got the hidden genius and they go, “I’m just a little more challenged.” So, they’ve tried all of these things and their mind kicks in and says, “I’ve tried those things.” What would you say to that?

Mark: Get with an inspiring mentor. If you’ve tried many things on your own and haven’t been in the energy orbit of a great and inspiring teacher, then you may just need a mentor. In other words, I failed chemistry and I took it with Lioness Pauling and got an A+. I didn’t think I could do physics, and I got with Buckminster Fuller who is the best interpreter and teacher of physics, and was Einstein’s best student at Princeton after graduating from Harvard.

I would suggest to you that once you get there, physics is easy. Yesterday, I was with one of the top physics guys in the world, and he was blown away that I knew everything he was talking about. We had a lady at the table going, “What is mass times force?” I said, “It’s pretty simple physics and I can take you there but I need to stay with this guy on point, so we’ll do this later.” She just didn’t take physics, but I was tracking with this guy and I needed to get to the end and it was taking a long time because there was a lot of little parts. He was showing me some breakthrough stuff that was going to change our world. Oh, cool.

Paul: Excellent. The way you just distinguished that or discerned that, Mark, is fantastic.

Mark: Here’s what I saw. Yesterday, I was at a meeting and I heard Mohamed El-Erian, the guy who runs Pimco, is co-chairman and co-CEO. I’ve never seen anyone with a mind like his. What happens, is I say a book is a book and then you open it up and there’s print there. That seems interesting, but not necessarily good. Then, somebody reads it and they start to understand it. Then they read it with meaning, that’s the fourth level of extraction. And if you can really exercise with it and do something with that, that’s cool.

But what I watched Mohamed do yesterday, was he abstracted the abstraction and could summa-rize it. He must have a 300 IQ. I tracked with him but I went “My God, this guy’s cool,” because he was listening to Steve Forbes and John McElroy, the economists. But this was heavy stuff about what’s happening with our world economy—the global economy. This guy could abstract the abstraction instantaneously and say this is what that means to us. I’m good but that guy was better. I’m spending my whole time reading, thinking, and writing and talking. So, I’m good, but there’s a lot of people who are better, younger and smarter.

It’s so exciting to have good minds around. I was talking to my mentor last night on the phone driving home late at night from LA back to Newport Beach where I live, and I said “Wow. There’s got to be millions of people out there with good minds and we haven’t seen what they got and there’s a lot of solutions that we’re going to start to be employing. But it wasn’t until we had a breakdown like this, a system breakdown, that is going to give us a chance to let go of some of these old systems that are dead, that no longer serve us well, that are antediluvian, meaning before the flood.


It’s time to build some new systems that are really going to work without throwing out all the 200 years of good laws that we’ve got and get rid of some of the ones that just are hindering us, stifling us and stopping us. God, as defined by me, is ever expanding Awareness. And so what’s cool is that we’re going to have that God ever expanding Awareness and we’re going to individualize that so we each have ever expanding Awareness. Do you like that definition?

Paul: Awesome. Awesome, my friend.

Mark: You’re the only one I’ve ever told it to. I wrote it a while ago. I write a quote a day and I teach everyone else to write a quote a day.

Paul: We’ll connect. I’m going to listen to this again, and when it’s transcribed, I’m going to read it again. And I’m going to go through it again because there’s many things that have been at a meta level while we’ve been discussing and listening and feeling that have been delivered at an unconscious level. So, yes, there’s a tremen-dous amount of wisdom, not just knowledge, but wisdom, in our conversation so far. And I thank you so much, my friend.

Remembering Your Future

To close, the essence of this state of the future, in other words, like a good friend years ago - you might remember his name, Tom Stone? He worked with you in Mission Hills. He and I just spoke about an hour ago. That’s one of his favorite phrases is remembering your future. It’s there already. It’s almost like striking the chord, listening to it. You can make that sound on the inside almost like the meditation we just did. Listen for the feedback with new ears and new eyes, and feel your way through it instead of trying to think your way through it so much.

Mark: Yes because eternity’s already here.

What You Want Already Exists

Paul: Yes. That’s a concept that we’re expressing throughout this whole program. What you want already exists. Stepping out of the way - the way of the old memories and the old thoughts is really the key. Looking at it with new eyes, like William Blake used to say. We’ve been led to lead a life where we see with and not through these eyes. Seeing with is the memory.

Mark: The great delusion.

Paul: Yes, wonderful. So, what would you suggest to people who don’t yet have a team, the kind of team we’re talking about, Mark, whether that be formal or informal?

Mark: When we started this, you’ve got to have a dream, then you’ve got to have a team. Team means that together everyone accomplishes miracles, which is what I’ve written and did as my definition of what a team is. The third thing is

that you’ve got to have a never expanding stream of income, which comes out of your theme.


A Dream… A Team… A Theme You need a dream, a team and a theme. So, you get your team by finding somebody that is like minded that wants to do more for themselves and you than they’ve ever done and is willing to be fully contributed to your success and you to theirs. For example, the Jack and Mark team where you’re shoulder to shoulder and back to back. Because you’re going to get at-tacked. Some 144 people said get out of here. Nobody’s going to buy that book. If short stories sold, we’d sell a short story, that’s too nice. With 157 million books I’ve sold, I think I know more than they do and did then, too.

My kids know more than I do, and they’re both at university. My daughter called me last night and said, “Dad, we got to go to dinner so I can tell you some stuff.” I said, “Okay, okay. We’ll go.”

Paul: You’ve got to have that team around you, in other words. Even if it’s just one person.

Mark: She’s part of my team and I’m part of my kids’ teams, too. The question is that it’s interesting that I’m 61 and I’ve been teaching her for 21 years and now she says, Dad, I’ve got to teach you some stuff.

Paul: As I was listening to a friend yesterday, I think 60 is the new 32. Right? You’ve got to feed your spirit and your mind and your body. Get those in concert. And we’ll be growing younger and living longer.

Mark: This has been a good interview. Do you have one last question?

Paul: Well, if there was one parting or conclusive way that you’d like to share with our audience to summarize what we’ve spoken about today, what would be the words that you’d like to leave with them?

Mark: I want everyone to go out and make a difference that makes a difference, that leaves a lasting, impactful, profitable and permanent difference.

Paul: Awesome.

Mark: Good. Nice talking to you. Thanks, Paul.

Paul: You too, Mark. Great talking to you. Aloha to you.


Breaking The Cycle of Disconnection and Deep Unfulfillment If we believe in the myth that money can buy happiness (which many of us were taught at a very young age) we will be unfulfilled and dissatisfied with ourselves and our lives. The notion that we can look outside ourselves and find happiness is one of the greatest illusions of all time.

If we believe in the “Myth of Scarcity”, there’s a subse-quent belief that “there’s not enough”. This belief is so powerful (and yet subtle) that it leads many of us to work jobs we no longer enjoy, stay in relationships that are no longer fulfilling and experience anxiety that seems to never end. It causes a slow build up of stress in our lives that eventually takes its toll on our physical, emotional and mental well being.

When we believe in scarcity, that there’s not enough, this implies that having “enough” is only for the lucky, the educated, the noble, the rich, etc. And that anyone else needs to struggle and work hard to get enough. This very belief separates mankind into the “haves and the have nots”, the deserving and the undeserving.

This is simply not true. Everyone deserves and everyone has the birthright to experience “more than enough”. The absolute truth is that each one of us has a choice and it comes down to whether we believe in infinite abundance or in the myth of scarcity. And whether we have the courage to set ourselves free.

When we believe that there is Infinite Abundance, that all we could ever want or need is already here in our lives, - right now and we are at peace. A belief in Infinite Abundance allows us to live in harmony and balance. It allows us to ride out the “storm” of great challenges in our lives with grace and ease. This one belief - the belief that there is more than enough - is the single most empowering belief we can hold. Because holding that belief really means “I am enough”.

Most importantly, it allows us to experience our connection to Source, The Divine, God, and our intimate connection to the One.

The Intent of The Awaken Network

The Intent of The Awaken Network is to provide you with a special dedicated “Dream Team”. In other words, a group of like-minded and like-Hearted people who you can tap into and connect with anytime, anywhere.

This unique Dream Team is here for you to share ideas with, receive feedback and support, make new friendships, and feel connected to a community who shares a common vision. It is our Intent to Co-Create (with each of you) a community based in love, Heart Conscious Living, loving care of the planet and to be an inspiration to live life to its fullest—in love and gratitude.

We welcome your ideas, suggestions and participation. We look forward to meeting you at our live event this summer and in sharing with you in the Network.

Mahalo Nui Loa - Paul and Susan

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GOLD EDITION - Dreams Alive* Drunvalo Melkizedek * Ha’ makua Mel Mason * Kumu’ola Leina’ala Your “Zone of Genius” The Unified Field Having A Dream Team The Power of Meditation