Part 24 of 45 · Chapter 25 · 11 min 28 sec
You’ve read the books on cause and effect. You know the law. You’ve heard “what you sow, you reap” from a dozen teachers, in a dozen frameworks, across a dozen traditions. You get it intellectually. You can explain it to other people.
And yet, if something still isn’t clicking, it might be because the version most of us learned was personal and small. It was about your thoughts creating your results. That’s part of it. But it’s not the whole picture, and the missing piece is what makes this chapter land differently than the 50+ books on your shelf that touched the same idea.
If you’ve ever wondered why your individual inner work hasn’t matched the outer results you expected, it’s not you. It’s not a sign you did the work wrong. It’s that cause and effect doesn’t operate inside one person’s head. It operates across the whole field — your mind, the collective mind, the people praying for what you can offer, the wars and economies and trade systems that shape what’s even possible.
Here’s the reframe David offers in Chapter 25: cause and effect is relational. Peace is prosperity. Fair trade is prosperity. The person you don’t yet know — the one quietly praying for exactly the thing you’re inspired to create — is part of your wealth equation. Your idea isn’t just yours. It’s also a response to a demand the field is already broadcasting. You are an answer to someone’s prayer, and they are the answer to yours.
That changes how you hold your work. You’re not pushing a rock uphill. You’re meeting a request that’s already been made. Let this chapter show you how.
What this chapter unlocks
- Why peace and prosperity are the same conversation. David explains that whatever level of prosperity you have today, you’d have more if there were more peace — even in industries that profit from conflict. Military spending is “dead money” that doesn’t circulate. Fair trade and peace are economic strategies, not just moral ones.
- The “I am that” shortcut for confusing situations. When you face a problem — financial or otherwise — David teaches a specific phrase: I am that. Accept that you are connected to the cause, then ask why am I that? Confusion and fear dissolve. Solutions appear.
- Why your inspired ideas are not only yours. Demand and supply happen at the level of consciousness first. When a million people start desiring something, the right person gets the inspiration to create it. Your idea is partly caused by the people waiting for it.
- Why forgiveness is for you, not them. David is clear: when you forgive someone, you’re not letting them off the hook. Their cause-and-effect cycle continues regardless. You’re releasing your own energy from a negative loop so it can power something better.
- The Hitler example — how collective consciousness creates “individual” villains. David walks through how the world’s separatist beliefs created the conditions for Hitler to rise, and what that teaches us about being a “focused collection” of wealth rather than a focused collection of indifference.
The 30-second test
Listen to the first 30 seconds. If you hear David connecting commerce, mutual benefit, and peace in the same breath — and something in you leans in because you’ve always sensed your business and the state of the world are linked but couldn’t name how — this is your chapter. If you’re someone who has felt guilty about wanting wealth in a hurting world, this chapter dissolves that bind by showing you they’re the same project.
Why this chapter matters in the series
Chapter 24 introduced cause and effect as a personal law. This chapter widens the lens. Cause and effect doesn’t stop at your skin — it runs through trade, peace, collective belief, and the unseen requests being broadcast by every person whose desire matches your gift. The chapters ahead will keep zooming out, showing how your inner state participates in a much larger field. This is the bridge between “my mindset creates my results” and “we are one field, and prosperity is collective.”
Read the full transcript
Commerce that is not built on true Mutual benefit leads to imbalance lack of peace and eventually War whether you are a person a corporation or a nation if you are making super profits at the xpense of the person you are doing expense of the person you are doing business with you will eventually somehow someday end up harming yourself just as you have harmed your trading partner that is evident in the world and predictable by the law of cause and effect peace is the biggest boost to prosperity and it is in your own interest for your own prosperity to promote peace one way to do that is to deal fairly in your own business and to
seek to correct unfair trade around the world whenever you can to the extent hat you have peace you will have that you have peace you will have prosperity in other words whatever level of prosperity you are in today you would be more prosperous if you had more peace this is true even to those in the arms business as ridiculous as that may sound for example the military industry and Machinery around the world is one of the world’s biggest consumers of national budgets every second and minute millions of dollars are spent around the world on Military expenditure yet this is unnecessary if there was peace military expenditure does not circulate around an economy as most other
expenditures do it is largely dead money look at all the xpensive nuclear arms being destroyed expensive nuclear arms being destroyed now those millions of dollars spent every minute could instead be spent on other activities that are actually productive and circulating the economy even if they were spent on guaranteeing the survival and equal opportunity of the poor and disadvantaged around the world to give them a chance to build businesses instead of spending their whole day working just for a loaf of bread the entire world would become prosperous it would be many times more prosperous imagine if the billions of people under poverty would become productive citizens with purchasing power wouldn’t your business benefit and this is
possible if the military spending was directed instead to this cause and those who benefit now from the arms trade would instead be in a different business in a world that is dozens of times more prosperous than this one peace is prosperity while war is not if you want living proof look at the United States even the United States used to fight within itself until it united into one nation and stopped Wars between its own States now it is prosperous and prosperous it is largely because of its internal peace cooperation and free trade under almost equal legal protection for all within its borders the European Union is realizing that as well and seeking to do the
same so are many other initiatives around the world in Asia Latin America the Middle East Africa all over but in different extents and rates so in your own dealings promote peace through fair trade even when you have the opportunity to be unfair and then the events of your community country and world see what you can do to promote fair trade and peace it is for your own Prosperity nothing in your world is real nothing you see is real it is an illusion created for your benefits so that you may experience your thoughts and state of being firsthand and purify them make them better that is why suffering is said to be an indicator of wrong
thought beingness thoughts words and actions create it change your mind and you change your world change yourself and you change your world here’s a shortcut to solving problems including Financial ones whenever you’re faced with a confusing unclear or problematic situation look at it and say I am that and truly accept it for you caused it and separation is an illusion then ask yourself why am I that all confusion and fear will disappear and solutions will automatically start o appear in the face face of your I am to appear in the face face of your I am that awareness this applies to any situation actually not just to a problem have you ever noticed how life
works like a large complicated mirror what you do to others you do to yourself if you wish to be happy make others happy if you wish to be free make others free use this principle in your business and you will be able to choose what you get back the interlinkages between all life and the system of cause and effect are xtremely complex if efficient effective xtremely complex if efficient effective xtremely complex if efficient effective and transforming an apparently extremely small cause could have a huge effect in the future or in the past or present physicists have a beautiful way of explaining this simply they call it the butterfly effect James Glick in his book chaos
explains the butterfly effect as the notion that a butterfly stirring in the air today in ping can transform storm systems next month in New York and that is just a simp simple example verything is a cause that has an effect everything is a cause that has an effect and everything is an effect that had a cause a huge chain reaction that is not bound by time space and form in the case of wealth the effect is either wealth or poverty be aware of your thoughts and their provable effects is a particular thought likely to lead to wealth or poverty there are no such things as Idle thoughts words actions or states of being do not
feel guilty forgive yourself for past failures and choose to act correctly next time but avoid guilt as it is one of the biggest destroyers of focus and confidence do not dwell on the past forgive others also you’re not doing them a favor when you forgive them you are doing yourself the favor they will still have their cause and effect karmic debt for all their actions whether you forgive them or not but when you forgive them you release yourself from a negative karmic ycle and release your energy for other cycle and release your energy for other positive things as well what is found in the effect is already in the cause try to understand this intimately
then live deliberately here’s another interesting thing about cause and effect in regards to wealth why do you suppose people get inspiration to start a particular business or career or passion or hobby es they are at cause individually for yes they are at cause individually for their desires but there is something else as well the collective consciousness of this planet and universe also has a hand in causing this inspiration remember life always manifests images of the mind and grants every sincere and certain desire without fail and the mind field is one your mind and all the minds make up the unified mind field so the reason you have an idea is partly that others have caused
it that is how demand and Supply Works behind the scenes if a million more people suddenly desire and believe they can have a certain type of fashion accessory for for example an appropriate person with the appropriate level of desire and belief to go into the fashion business will have inspiration to create this fashion accessory and sell it to these people and hence all desires and beliefs will be fulfilled the reason you have an idea is partly that others have caused it when you visualize something you wish to have someone is visualizing the same thing as something that they wish to give or sell so the next time you have an inspiration Rejoice knowing that a
group of people small or large is actively asking you and waiting on you to fulfill their desires in other words omewhere around the world people are somewhere around the world people are praying very hard for just the thing you are inspired to do you are the answers to their prayers and they are the answer to yours everybody is an answer to a prayer we are all gifts and miracles to each other even though we may not immediately see how that is so there is nothing to worry about except for worry itself you succeed that is all you ever do an easy way to understand that everyone is a gift and that we are all responsible
as one unified mind is to think of Hitler how could Hitler have been a gift to us first realize that he never would have come to power without he acceptance of the world as a whole the acceptance of the world as a whole the World created the conditions necessary for him to rise and as he rose the world said he is not our problem we don’t care what he is doing to those people over there as long as we are all right this separatist ideology coupled with the way our Collective states of being had created a fertile state of the world for Hitler to grow and Thrive is what caused Hitler he could not have
done it alone just one small person against the world he needed the world’s conscious and unconscious cooperation you cannot blame Hitler as a victimizer of the world without blaming the world as a creator of victimization conditions Hitler allowed us to experience a negative aspect of ourselves we are now a lot less likely to go into into world wars we know it is not a good idea we are also less likely to ignore the plate of others to act in unconcerned separat ways Hitler allowed us to correct to a certain extent the illusion of Separation all suffering comes from the belief in illusion the truth sets you free everyone around you and everything that they do
is a gift to you allowing you to know yourself and redefine yourself you are at cause of Your World once you understand how a person as bad as Hitler can be a gift and how a person like him is caused by the world around him or her so that the world can experience its mind and beliefs you will understand a big secret to wealth once you understand that Hitler acted as a mirror of the world a focused collection of the little bits of indifference belief in superiority and separation in each person and the world then you will understand how you can be the focused collection of wealth for the world in other words do not
be afraid that to dream big to dream of grand wealth and to believe you can have grand wealth the world will make it happen and it is in fact making you have those grand dreams to the extent that you are willing to have them you are fully supported whichever way you choose to go all other things held constant to the extent that an individual or Society understands and applies the laws of cause and effect in the right way so will they have wealth and happiness what you now have is a good introduction into the universe’s Prime law as you read the remaining chapters you will understand this law a whole lot more clearly especially after
you read the chapters on conditions success and quantum physics now that you’re armed with knowledge of the law that runs the universe let us have a look at what conditions and success truly are you are about to enter into one of the most beautiful forgiving and encouraging Journeys that you have ever taken [Music] end of dis three please continue this experience by inserting dis 4 [Music]
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