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“We, the greatest of all creators, with capabilities to build cities and inspire nations, are squandering our time watching reruns of The Office. We have forgotten that whole galaxies exist within our grasp”
Pam Grout
#1 New York Times Bestselling Author
“We, the greatest of all creators, with capabilities to build cities and inspire nations, are squandering our time watching reruns of The Office. We have forgotten that whole galaxies exist within our grasp”
I am the author of 20 books, two screenplays, a live soap opera, a TV series and enough magazine articles that I haven’t starved in 25 years without a 9-5 job. On this site, you’ll find all sorts of information about my books and about my career as a freelance magazine and travel writer.
If you’re an editor, you can easily click on Portfolio to view writing samples from my illustrious magazine and newspaper career.
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Pamela Sue Grout
The Taz Grout 222 Foundation was launched to honor Tasman McKay Grout who spent 25 short years on the planet inspiring everyone who knew her to live and love better. Everything she stood for was some variation of this theme: create relentlessly, love fiercely and do quiet, kind things for the underdog.
Each year on February 22, the 222 Foundation awards a $12,222 grant to an innovative project or person with a big idea to change consciousness and therefore change the world.
We look for projects that support the following ideas:
1. A change in perspective is our greatest need. We believe all people (no exceptions) long to be generous and create beautiful things.
2. Today’s hopelessness is based on false premises. We look to defy the old story of scarcity, lack and the need to fight for resources. We aim to prove that the universe, once liberated from no-longer-working paradigms of scarcity, is generative and endlessly abundant.
3. The us against them model is kaput. We believe all humans are interconnected and that even tiny actions have great significance
“Every moment you spend on an idea is a commitment to be stuck with that idea and with aspects of that level of thinking. Spending just 10 seconds focusing on a topic that does not serve your interests is to invest your energy along a path that will continue to draw from you and define you.”—Kevin Michel
One of my favorite lines from Louis Armstrong’s brilliant anthem, “What a Wonderful World” is the bit about people shaking hands, saying “How do you do?” when what they’re really saying is “I love you!”
For me right now, the whole world is beaming a frequency of “I love you.” It’s so palpable.
Everything—from hugs on the street to strolling troubadours to giggling children chasing dogs—appears to me as a jubilant chorus of love. I literally see nothing else right now.
Although I rarely understand the language of the men laughing down by the lake or the smiling shopkeeper or the abuelos fussing over their steaming pots of tamales, I recognize the light. I see it in the giant eucalyptus trees, I feel it as I’m hiking down from the mountains. I feel intensely blessed.
Sure, that little voice in my head (the one who had the floor in my most recent book) sometimes chimes in, tries to tell me I should be more responsible, more realistic. And most of the time, I just chuckle at its persistent whining. I notice it, shine a little light on it and, like the kids chasing dogs down the street, I giggle.
As I often say, being suspicious of the persistent voice in my head is my highest spiritual practice. I’ve discovered that it never tells the truth, that it has but one mission—to block light, to keep me from seeing that everyone and everything is saying “I love you.”
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank and Grow Rich and her latest book, The Ego’s Playbook.
”Our consciousness is the unseen orchestrator of our lives.”—Aaron Abke
Perhaps the best part about being in Mexico and hanging out with all these mighty companions is I get to nod my head vigorously and say, “me, too.”
It’s like having a full-time possibility posse.
Yesterday, for example, my friend Anne said once you know you’re entitled to good, once you fully “get it” that that’s the one and only option, you live your life with an outstretched catcher’s mitt.
You fully expect things to work out, you trust that, despite occasional appearances, life is on your side, dishing up increasing abundance.
It also prevents decision fatigue.
Why pay attention to anything else?
To put it in quantum physics speak, the observer (me) determines what is observed. I decide what I’m going to experience.
Yes, my pesky ego can sometimes be a blabbermouth, so I like to ask it, “Do you really need to go over this again?“
I’m so glad I know better than to take its taunts seriously.
As a recent Course lesson proclaimed, “There is no room for anything but joy and thanks today.”
As always, I get to choose where to place my attention.
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World) and her latest book, The Ego’s Playbook.
“Who you really are is way too glorious to be defined by any thought.”—Gail Brenner
Several members of my possibility posses back home are speakers, fabulous speakers, who like me, spread the good news of infinite abundance.
They often joke that, once they assign a topic for a talk or a workshop, the universe promptly sends them a message like, “Oh yeah, you wanna talk about forgiveness? Well, prove it.”
While I don’t really believe the universe tests us, I do know my own faulty programming can sometimes throw wrenches into the gears.
Which is exactly what happened to me yesterday. Here I finally publish the book I’ve been trying to write for several years. In it, I proclaim the recklessness of living in our heads, basically encouraging us to ignore the ego’s voice that always insists something is wrong.
I flew to Mexico late Tuesday and spent Wednesday exactly where I don’t want to be–immersed in the thoughts in my head. I couldn’t get pesos out of the ATM, couldn’t get on the internet, yada, yada.
In other words, I completely missed a full 24 hours of loving one of my favorite places in the whole world. I overlooked the fact that the day was a perfect sunny 72 degrees, that many mighty companions (what we Course aficionados call each other) were offering all kinds of help. I failed to appreciate the mountains where I love to hike and the gorgeous ruby poinsettias that are showing off, not in pots, but on actual trees along with all the other beautiful flora here in Ajijic.
Once again, I fell for the ego’s tricks. So today, at morning satsang, I happened to notice the Course in Miracles lesson that’s always chalked on a blackboard at Namaste Village.
“I am affected only by my thoughts.”
Okay, universe, can you get any more clear?
The lesson went on to assure me that I can exchange each fear thought for a happy thought of love.
And if that whack on the head wasn’t enough, I got lots of healing hugs from my mighty companions and sat for an hour with my favorite 200-year-old eucalyptus tree while watching white pelicans and ibis dive into Lake Chapala.
I am so grateful that I only missed one day of this beautiful paradise. And so grateful that closely observing my thoughts — not to judge them or make them wrong (which I admit to doing yesterday) — gives me clear intelligence on where I’m directing my energetic frequency.
And boy, did I get ample proof yesterday that placing attention on the thoughts in my noggin is a surefire recipe for unhappiness.
But I’m here now, back to noticing the spectacular blessings that lie before me in every direction.
Thanks, folks, for your kind comments about the new book. May it bless us all.
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World) and her latest book, The Ego’s Playbook.
“What we’re trying to do is disassemble the ego so the radiance of Self shines through.”–David R. Hawkins
In a memorable scene from Steve Martin’s 1979 hit, “The Jerk,” Navin, as Martin’s character is called, runs excitedly up to a delivery truck. He grabs a parcel, rips it open, begins jumping up and down and screaming, “The new phone book is here. The new phone book is here.”
That could well be me today, announcing that, after a five-year-hiatus, “my new book is here. My new book is here.”
After Taz died, I stumbled to get my writing career back in gear. I continued to write blog posts, as you undoubtedly know, but I experienced many false starts in continuing my previous book-a-year run.
So getting this book out feels like a significant victory. It’s different than my previous works, written from the voice of the saboteur inside our heads.
The Course in Miracles calls this disembodied voice “the ego” and says that as long as we mistake its message as truth, we miss the incredible aliveness that is our birthright.
Ego’s Playbook offers a graphic journey (think picture book for grownups) showcasing the ego’s many cons, its non-stop efforts to keep us from experiencing our true nature. It pokes fun at the ego and invites us to break free.
The bottom-line truth is that all of us swim in an ocean of abundance, peace and joy. We often roll our eyes at this suggestion because well, the voice loop in our head has convinced us otherwise.
At all times, we have unlimited access to universal intelligence, an ever-flowing fountain that we completely ignore because we’re stuck in ego structures and unconscious habits of feeling separate and limited and inferior.
Because our thoughts are SO powerful, they create a simulation in our lives that appears to defy Divine Intelligence. The key word here is simulation. It’s not real. It’s an illusion that, thanks to our creative force, appears strikingly true. That’s how much power we have.
Once we understand the ego’s tricks (as this book attempts to do), we can step away from the old story.
Taz came to me in a dream last night, gave me the biggest hug which I took as a sign to say, “mom, I love you and I am so happy you finally got this project out of the chutes. It’s time for you to get back out there and do your thing.”
So friends, I stand before you today with my pants down, as Keith Richards describes how he often feels on stage, announcing the debut of my new book.
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World) and her latest book, The Ego’s Playbook.
“You are more than just matter. You are a highly complex, light-controlled consciousness system.”—David Bingham
I have shared this story many times. The one about the five-year-old boy who begs for time alone with his new baby sister.
He’s so adamant in his requests for this solo, sans-parent time that they worry. What could he possibly have to say that he wouldn’t want us to hear?
But he’s persistent. He insists they simply MUST be alone. His parents finally grant his wish as they secretly wait in the hallway outside the door.
He tiptoes quietly into the nursery, bends over the bassinette and whispers to his weeks-old sibling, “Tell me about God. I’m starting to forget.”
That forgetting, my friends, is what my new book is about. How do we humans go from pure infinite love into a state of limited, fearful consciousness? Why is it that we aren’t actively, blissfully soaking up the world’s many wonders?
In my new, about-to-be released book, I share how the voice in our head (I’ve been known to call it an asshat) uses distractions, illusions and misguided beliefs to cover up the fact that humans are divinity in disguise.
It includes more than two dozen confessions, game plans and strategies devised by the pernicious voice that now dominates most of humanity’s thinking.
The Ego’s Playbook, as I call it, comes at spiritual liberation through the back door. When you “know thy enemy,” as Sun Tzu recommended, you’re better able to recognize the bugs in the system, to more quickly identify your own destructive patterns and habits and, without fighting them, clearly see how to let them go.
The Ego’s Playbook takes readers on a graphic journey through the comically lilliputian thoughts of the mind into the vast expansiveness of the heart.
It’s short, humorous and hopefully, helpful to anyone wanting to break free from old patterns. I call it a “picture book for grownups” and I’m very excited to share it with you. I’ll be sending a link to order in the next couple days.
In the meantime, here’s a cute video my illustrious designer Violet Lemay created for page 144.
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World) and her latest book, The Ego’s Playbook.
“Pam combines a writing style as funny as Ellen DeGeneres with a wisdom as deep and profound as Deepak Chopra.”
-Jack Canfield
“Your book is beyond spectacular. It’s funny, uplifting, delightful and profound. I am ordering six copies for my daughters and their friends. You rock, the book rocks, and so, of course, does Cosmo K.”
-Dr. Christiane Northrup, Bestselling Author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom
“I called your publicity guy and told him that if a 47-year-old Midwestern guy found this perhaps the most insightful and on target book with regard to “how it works” then the best-seller list cannot be far behind. Your journey….message and honesty and humor about the human condition are nothing short of profound.”
-John St. Augustine, producer for Oprah and Friends
“Thank you for being a delight, and a helpfully subversive presence in the universe!”
-Michele Lisenbury Christensen, coach, consultant and speaker
“In the parlance of today’s youth–I think you are the bomb!”
—Nicole Seiffert, inspiring reader
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