What If ... ?: Your Beliefs Shape Your Life

You are a pawn of fate. Your life is a rudderless boat, drifting unprotected upon the tumultuous waves of elements beyond your control. You are at the mercy of a world that exists apart from yourself, a victim trapped by events thrust upon you. People dislike you; nobody loves you. You have financial problems and have trouble making ends meet. You are overweight and unhappy about your condition. You are a vulnerable solitary point of unlucky ego. If you recognize feelings within you that match any of the statements above, then this book is for you.

The message is this: you create your own reality with your beliefs and expectations. If you do not like the direction your life is taking, you can change it. You yourself have created those areas of your life with which you are less than pleased. You are also responsible for your successes and joys. The personal life that you know rises up from within you.

If you have been praying for a change in your life, and help is not forthcoming, you will find out why. If your relationships are not working out and people turn away from you, you will learn why you are lonely. If you have financial difficulties, you will discover how to better your life. If you feel worthless, you will gain new self-confidence. Once you come to believe that you create your own reality, you will no longer feel a slave of events.

Many of the concepts and ideas in this book you will also find in occult and New Age publications. New in this book is the light of my own experiences. In my early fifties, I became interested in the world of spirits. Was there life after death? I read many occult books to find the answer. However, the recurring subject of how you propel your thoughts and emotions into physical events, creating your own reality kept coming back to me. Why waste time here on earth to find out what lies beyond, when I will have plenty of time to find that out when and if I cross over? Instead, why not investigate this intriguing subject of how we create our own physical reality while I am still here I became a serious student of how consciousness creates. Books on the subject explained the theory, and I put it to the test. Results of my early experiments were trivial, just leaves in the wind, but they all blew in the same direction and formed a pattern. This pattern strengthened my faith and encouraged me to go on. Experimental results slowly validated the theory that our beliefs shape our personal reality and our future. During the second half of a twenty-year period of study, these discoveries produced changes in my life so unbelievable that they awoke in me a desire to share the results with like-minded individuals. More precisely, it was a strong impulse from within that prompted me to start writing a book about my unusual experiences.

At first, these promptings met firm resistance: "I am an engineer not a writer; I am not trained to undertake a literary project of such magnitude." The inner voice later became very insistent, as if entities from a different dimension wanted me to write this book. I silently protested and kept repressing this inner voice. After retirement, I finally gave in. When I started writing, the material came with such ease it was as if someone had already prepared the text for me to use. In fact, as the work progressed, I had to conclude that supernatural beings, later I named them "My Friends," from a higher dimension had been preparing the material, passing it to me through my subconscious. Therefore, I credit My Friends, wherever they are, for the initiative of writing this book, and for any new ideas that this book may introduce to you. I am also indebted to the authors listed in the bibliography for the occult and New Age ideas, vocabulary, and expressions. As someone said before me, "I am standing on the shoulder of giants," when I write hints, clues, present words, and symbols about the human psyc

Frederick Gans, born in Budapest in 1933, left Hungary in 1956 and, via Austria and Italy, arrived to New York in 1959. He has a BS degree in engineering from Columbia University and an MS degree from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. In 1971, he returned to Europe for an American company. In his fifties, he became interested in occult, and discovered how consciousness creates. Applying this creative process to his life, he saw incredible changes in his reality and decided to share the experience with others in this book. Mr. Gans is retired and lives with his wife in Belgium.