Dinner tonight was amazing. Hanging with the great Vic Conant of Nightingale-Conant fame was a wonderful moment. The man is humble, wise, and full of stories about the legends of personal development. I urged him to write a book about his life but I doubt he’ll do it. Still, you never know. I need to make this short as I need to get up early and get back into the studio. More soon. Wish me luck.
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Hi Joe
This is the first time I have done blogging and I am not at all sure how it all works. But I feel like I kind of know you because I have listened to your tapes (Attractor Factor and conversations with Bill Harris) and you are in my head!! So, the reason for blogging you (? is that the term?) is that I think you would be amazed at the story of what happened to me recently and how I used my thoughts to immediately recreate the future and attract what I needed.
I was recently attending a wedding in Italy and was shot. There’s a line for you!
Google my name and the local paper story comes up with some details.
However to start at the beginning before leaving Australia on a business trip/holiday with girlfriend. i had a number of stated intentions.
1. To have the trip paid for
2. To get free international publicity for my business
3. To have an idea that would create great wealth and fun for both my friend and I and enable us to get together regularly.
4. To feel release from my marriage
and a few other goals
Anyway, the wedding was part of the fun part of the trip and we were looking forward to it immensely. It was taking place in a little village just an hour out of Venice and a number of friends from Australia were going to be there.
When we arrvied we found out the wedding ceremony couldn’t officially take place because of some problems with Italy accepting the grooms French divorce papers – major problem but they decided to go ahead with a created ceremony anyway because so many people were coming from all over the world and it couldn’t really be cancelled.
The job of organising a ceremony was given to the brides brother in law , Paul – an Englishman living in New York who is an international performance artist – he exhibits in biennalies all around the world. A pretty eccentric kind of character.
He, and another brother in law, created a play that nobody knew any details about . We all arrived at the secret destination, an Italian Palace at the foot of the dolomites. It was truely spectactular – in the palace couttyard the sun was setting, the champagne flowing, the fountain tinklling – fairytale stuff
– we all were very excited and knew we were experiencing something very special.
A few minutes before the “ceremony” was to begin Paul asked me and another woman from Germany to be part of the play – he asked us to object to the wedding proceeding when he asked does anyone object! Not something I was very keen to do – pretty tacky was our reaction – but he convinced us that it was all in good fun and we agreed to do it.
We all gathered together and the play began. I couldn’t really hear what he was really saying even though I was very close to him – about 1.5m away. Then suddenly I heard him say “does anyone object to the marriage?” Righto – we were on !
Rob, another person asked to object, was about 10m away and he called out his objection, and Claudia and I did very quickly afterwards. Then Paul took out a gun and shot all three of us ! The gun was an antique pistol that he thought was loaded with blanks – but in actual fact if had been loaded with pellets meant for killing rabbits/rats with.
Because I was so close I received two shots. 50 lead pellets into my hand and 24 through my chest.. Now this is the bit where I need to thank you for.
In the very moment I saw him pointing the gun at me I was putting my hand over my heart whilst I said my objection line. He was aiming at my heart and it is my hand that took the shot not my heart/lungs or whatever else is under there. The pellets may or maynot of penetrated if my hand hadn’t been there but as the doctor later said – it only takes one- let alone fifty.
I looked down and my chest had holes all through it and my hand looked like a seive – and then the blood started to spurt out. Sorry for the details but as you can imagine the shock. i felt no actual pain just a burning sensation.
I knew immediately that I had been extremely lucky – 75 pellets in the face would have been another story altogether – I still had my eyes and face intact, and I was alive.
People watching thought all this was part of the play – except my friend who saw blood and came running. Slowly people realised what had happened and the drama unfolded around me ( 7 car loads of Italian police in flack jackets brandishing machine guns arrived to what they thought could be a terroist attach!!! and lots of ambulances)
People were becoming hysterical and the situation was not great. 3 other people had been shot – Rob 10 meteres away had received a chest full – because he was a distance away they could be essentailly popped straight out, another elderly woman received 8 in her head. She was very distrait. The other woman shot next to me had 3 in her jaw and 3 in her shoulder – she was screaming abuse at everyone – particularly Paul when she saw him.
I knew that all of this would not help or heal me – even worse it would hinder me.
I started a mantra in my head that I had been using the whole trip
“good things always happen to me” and kept it as the only thought in my head – as people asked me if I was ok the only reply I had was “good things always happen to me” – they assumed deep shock !! But in reality I was very consciously using that mantra to create an energy field around me to protect me from thier deep shock and reactions – I knew I didn’t need that – I needed to have complete trust in that mantra to attract what I knew to be good things from that instant and onwards. When Paul was near and being yelled at i saw his deep distress and felt the real need to comfort him and forgive him – I knew whatever had gone wrong here that it was an accident and I felt sorry for him.
I believe that my attitude created my reality – I received excellent medical attention, great care from people generally and feel no anger or resentment.
In terms of how my ioriginal trip ntentions were answered
The instant I knew my left hand was swelling out of control I ripped off my wedding rings and threw them away – I had been unable to take them off prior to that. I knew they would never go on again.
I received “free international publicity” in Italian papers, TV and all over Australia.
Money paid for the magazine article covered the trip expenses.
And, on my return to Australia, I have started to co- write a bestseller book with my travelling friend on the many fun/funny experiences we have shared in our friendship over the years.
This event reassured me that I have immense power to create my own reality and future. Your tapes have given me confidence to trust in the universal good and the connection i have with the energy of the universe. Though I do perhaps feel that you definately have to be careful what you ask for ie do all intentions have to carry a rider – nothing dangerous allowed? In fact, don’t answer that – it is simply to trust that good things always happen to me. Combine that with trust that every step is the right step, tuning to intuitive action and DOING IT and I am on the right path with a joy filled life.
So, thank you Joe. I hope you don’t mind me contacting you with my story but seeing you are a regular visiter to my head it felt natural to share it with you!
Gotta go now – am in the middle of listening to the Attractor Factor again.
love and regards
Carolyn
I wonder if you can wrangle an interview out of Vic for Hypnotic Gold?
That’s awesome you got to meet Mr Conant! He knew Earl Nightingale personally right? I am interested in how you created your Audio program. Do you see podcasting as a way to develop content for your own program?