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Cynthia Kersey’s Unstoppable Giving ChallengeMillionaire Mentors ProgramWhat Will YOUR 1,000,000 Idea Be?James CameronRev. Michael BeckwithRobert KiyosakiDr. Ken BlanchardBob ProctorMark Victor HansenBill HarrisStewart EmoryJack HealeyWylandDave BachLynne TwistTwelve world-famous millionaires share their private secrets forgenerating 1,000,000 ideas.without accepting a single dollarin return.and show you, step by step, how you can create one,too All while saving over 4,000 children’s lives!Mentor: Rev. Michael Beckwithwww.unstoppablegivingchallenge.com 2008 Unstoppable Foundation.GIVING
THE MILLION DOLLAR IDEA:HOW TO DEVELOP A MILLION DOLLAR IDEATO CHANGE YOUR LIFEAND CHANGE THE WORLDCynthia Kersey interviewing Reverend Michael Beckwith – Mentor #3MS. KERSEY: Hi. My name is Cynthia Kersey and I would like to welcome you to theMillion Dollar Idea online course: How to Develop a Million Dollar Idea to ChangeYour Life and Change the World. I'm excited to bring you twelve interviews of teachers,philanthropists and business leaders who are going to show you their strategies, not onlyfor generating wealth and prosperity, but also how to generate ideas that can make ourworld a better place, and, of course, the intention behind this entire course is to raise aminimum of a million dollars and build at least 40 schools in Africa.Every expert, every mentor involved in this course is doing it not for financialcompensation, but really as their way to give back and to support this initiative, so I'mvery grateful for our next teacher for his generosity, his support, his leadership, and I'malso deeply grateful for you the listener because you are the one who cares enough to signup for this and share it with everyone that you know because each person that signs upfor this is making a direct contribution to building schools in Africa, and as we do that,we are a part of ending the cycle of poverty in this world through education, so thank youso much for your participation.Tonight's mentor is a man who I have deep respect and appreciation for and he is amaster at helping others raise the bar of what is possible in their lives and to create ideasthat include, prosperity, abundance, health, wellness, contribution and nothing less thanspiritual transformation. Reverend Dr. Michael Beckwith is a world leader, teacher,
2founder and spiritual director of the Agape International Spiritual Center. He is the cofounder of the Association for Global New Thought and the Season for Nonviolence andReverend Michael is one of the featured teachers on The Secret. He is the innovator ofthe life visioning process, a powerful process that anybody can use to design a life thatreally inspires them, and his latest book, which I'm very excited about, is called SpiritualLiberation Fulfilling your Soul's Potential, and it was just released on 11/11. I just gotmy copy and started reading it. It is awesome! It is a must read for everyone who isseeking inner freedom and liberation, and I don't know anybody who is not looking forthat, so I'm getting a copy for everybody I know.It is really my honor and with deep appreciation to welcome Reverend Michael.Welcome Michael.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: It is my joy, Cynthia, to be with you on thiswonderful call as we speak about opening ourselves up to the brilliant ideas of theuniverse. It is wonderful to be with you as it always is.MS. KERSEY: Thank you. You know what I love and appreciate about your being onthe call is you're going to bring a different perspective when we are talking about beingbig in the world and generating whatever it is, if it is wealth or abundance or creating adifference, it really does start by going within, and so I would like for you to share withthe listeners - what do you recommend for people who want to create this abundance orprosperity or make a big difference on the planet? How do you recommend they goabout that?REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: Well, you are speaking of something that is veryimportant. That is, I think everyone that is on the planet wants to make a difference onthe planet. Everyone wants to live in the field of plenitude and abundance and prosperityand generosity, and everyone within them, whether they are conscious of it or not, wantsto break previously set standards, break any precedents that may have been establishedwhere generosity, compassion and love are concerned, so whether a person knows it or
3not, they are not just here to take up space, but they are here to go beyond theirpredecessors on the planet and to reveal not only a kind and global world, but they arehere to reveal and unleash the total gifts of their being, so as they begin to know that andas people -- as people are listening right now they begin to be conscious that while theyare really here is to live an unprecedented life. Now they can be available to receivingideas that are proliferating the universe, which is a manifestation of the order and theharmony of the mind of God or the evolutionary impulses that governs the universe orwhatever words you want to use there, that this is filled with ideas, and these ideas wholeand complete waiting for the right condition to come into fulfillment, to come intoexpression, and that condition is us. That condition is our consciousness. How we think.What we believe. How we act. And so we are here to, one, we are here to live anunprecedented life; two, we are surrounded by ideas; three, we get to determine whetherour soil is fertile or not. The soil is not determined whether it is fertile or not. It is notdetermined by external conditions or other people's thoughts. This is determined by us,so you use the word, we have to go within, and that is where it begins. We stop on aregular basis, and we place before us certain questions knowing that the law of theuniverse says, ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock and the doorshall be open. So you begin to ask, what is trying to emerge in my life? You can askwhat idea is seeking to emerge that is going to be beneficial to my life or beneficial in theworld. You can phrase that anyway you want, but if you are sincere in your asking andthen you become sincere in your developing the inner software, which is confidence,which is earnestness, sincerity. The inner software of stick-to-itiveness. If you aresincere, then these ideas will take root and been to express themselves in the mostprofound way.MS. KERSEY: I love the intention of creating an unprecedented life. So basically whatyou are saying is, the ideas are all around us, and basically what we need to look at isfertilizing our soil, so that we can bring them forward, and so talk to me about how doyou recommend people fertilize that or really be able to be open to bringing these ideasinto reality.
4REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: Right. Let me hit it from two ways. One,Ruffle Emerson coined a phrase -- I think it was Ruffle Emerson. The phrase is called orthe word is, endogenous. As opposed to indigenous. Indigenous means that somethingcan flourish in a particular environment or something comes from a particular place.Like there is a plant that might be indigenous to California that wouldn't necessarilycome into great fulfillment in Alaska, so we would say that plant was indigenous toCalifornia and could survive there. Now, a spiritual being having a human carnation, thatis us, we are endogenous. That means we create our own environment from withinourselves, so when you say, what is it that we need to do to have these ideas to move intous, we have to go in and begin to feel that sense of worthiness. We have to begin to feelthat sense of completeness. We have to begin to feel that sense of, that inner desire thatsomething wants to be expressed from completeness. Not incompleteness, but fromcompleteness. We have to begin to go in and feel within ourselves that we are connectedto life itself. Now, from the sense of completeness, sense of confidence and, again,coupled with asking the right question, the ideas – the whole brilliant ideas that areeverywhere can now find a place within us to begin to express. This is really what thelife visioning process is about. This is what true prayer is about. It is what truemeditation is about. It's what real affirmation and declaration is about. It is going withinand allowing the soil of our soul to be so fertile that nothing is impossible with us. Thatthe deep inner feeling is that I'm worthy. I'm available. I am open. I'm ready. I'mreceptive and I'm calling it forth. What would you have me do? This grand idea, howwould you express it through me? And this could be in any area. Could be in the area ofprosperity. Could be in the area of philanthropy. It could be in the area of education. Itcould be in the area of health.MS. KERSEY: You know -- I'm sorry.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: Go ahead.MS. KERSEY: I love what you are saying because, as you say, you have to feel it. I'mthinking some people might be thinking, well, I am not thinking it or they might be
5feeling fear or a lot of other things. Separation, despair, anxiety, and basically what youare saying is, the way that we feel that is to really engage in our spiritual practice, prayer,meditation, affirmation and holding that vision.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: Absolutely. The feeling tone -- seeing, being anendogenous being we get to create -- actually create -- we get to get in touch with thatdeep intrinsic feeling of wholeness that is within us, and the spiritual practice ismaintaining that space in the face of obstacles and hindrances, obstructions,circumstances, situations, people, places and things. People sometimes collapse and gointo an emotional tone of negativity and of worry and of doubt, give up, forlorn. They gointo those spaces when circumstances do not look the way they think that they should, butwe have the capacity to maintain that feeling of connection and openness anyway, yousee. That is being an endogenous being.MS. KERSEY: I love that because, it really becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If wemove into death, doom and desperation, that is what we experience.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: Absolutely. Self-fulfilling prophecy. Itbecomes a match of correspondence from the universe can only give you what you areready to receive, and so if the opening is only a little bit open because doom and gloom iswhere you are vibrating, that will be the extent of the universal flow, even though theuniversal flow is inexhaustible, unlimited and always seeking to express itself. We willonly be receiving just a little bit of it and it will be at the level of doom and gloom andworry and fitfulness, which is not ordained by the presence of God, nor is it ordained bythe universal flow. That is us doing it to us.MS. KERSEY: So committing and really setting an intention for everyone listening thatthey are going to live, create an unprecedented life understanding that the ideas areinfinite and really getting ourselves so that we can be receptive, and that is throughprayer, mediation, affirmation, so as that develops, what would you see as the next step?
6REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: I think an individual has to live perpetually andask the empowering questions and then go on -- be on a perpetual appreciative inquiry,and what I mean by that is, our life experience is determined by the questions that we askconsciously or unconsciously, and until we wake up, we have a tendency to ask questionssuch as why me? Why is this happening? What is wrong? And who is to blame? Thatis kind of the normal conversations that people have. Why me? What is wrong? Who isto blame? You know, we hang in these particular spaces, and if we ask that question,then the universe answers that question with all manner of garbage.MS. KERSEY: Big old long list.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: It is a long list. It is called the sea of mentalgarbage and the universe plunks these thought forms out of the mental garbage and says,this is why you can't succeed.MS. KERSEY: Right. You are a loser.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: You are a loser and you know you are a loserand you feel like you are a loser. It is all because we are asking the wrong question, sowhen we begin to shift the question and we begin to ask instead, questions like what'sreal or ask the question, what power and what gift and what talent within me is trying torise up and express, we begin to ask the question, what good is here that I presentlycannot see. The moment we ask a question, the filters that have been blocking thatanswer begin to be removed simply by asking the question, so if I ask, what good is here?What support is here? What resources are here that I presently cannot see, then my mindstarts to look for that.MS. KERSEY: That is awesome.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: It starts to look for the resources. It starts tolook for the support. It starts to look for the good that is here because it is here. We live
7in a universe, not a diverse or a triverse. We live in a universe in which the good is omnipresent, everywhere present, so if we are not feeling supported, it means that we have afilter between us and that which is trying to come in and support us, but if we ask, what isthe good? Where is the good? What is the good that I presently cannot see, the filtersstart to be removed.MS. KERSEY: It is interesting because on the news, they are not asking those kinds ofquestions, right? It is totally what is not supporting us. What company is going under?Who needs to be bailed out, and I think what you are saying is so powerful and reallyasking, stop looking through the filter of doom and gloom and really looking at what isavailable here. What support do I have, and you are right. All sorts of things will comeforward as a result of that question.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: And so often they are right there in your field,but you can't see them. It is like if you say, I can't find my keys. I can't find my keys andthey are sitting right in front of you, but your affirmation and your filters, I can't find mykeys, I can't find my keys so you keep moving your keys looking for them, and then youstop, you take a breath and you say, where are my keys? And you find them becauseyou've come out of the filter of I can't find. I can't find, or I always lose, I always lose.You see, and you are right. When you look at the traditional commercial driven, you areinundated with what is called normal thinking, which is what is the worst thing that hashappened today. What is the worst thing that happened today in the world? What is thesecond worst thing? What is the third worst thing, and then a little tidbit of somethingsweet maybe.MS. KERSEY: At the very end. The hero.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: Very end. Little sweetness of your day, butdon't forget. That flu is coming around, so give you something else to worry about, right,before you sign off.
8MS. KERSEY: Don't get too happy.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: Don't get too happy. There is more negativecoming tomorrow. Tune in. We'll tell you and we will put it to a soundtrack that willindelibly imprint it on your mind.MS. KERSEY: Absolutely.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: So if you look at this, the average person isbasically giving themselves their own bad news. They are taking this habit and they areasking those questions, what is wrong and who is to blame, you see, and how can I fix it.MS. KERSEY: Even in this environment, I look at how I've participated in my ownfinancial decisions, and it is like, okay, great. Now I'm going to make different choices.I am not blaming, and even in that conversation, but really moving towards solutions, andwhen I do that, I feel so empowered. I'm excited. I've got a plan versus being a victim toeverything that is happening around us. I mean, we've all participated at some level if weare experiencing challenges.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: It is like the difference between willingness andwillpower. If, in fact, you've entered into a spiritual practice, as you've just described,and then you say to yourself, I need to clean up my diet or I need to start an exerciseprogram or I need to sit down and allow creative ideas to come to me. It happens rathergracefully, but if you say, I'm going to change my diet. I am going to exercise. I'm goingto create a business without spiritual practice, then you are trying to make somethinghappen and there is no spiritual practice and it becomes very difficult, but when you stopand you breath, you ask the right questions, you connect then the intentions that youestablished for yourself, they happen a lot easier because they are an extension of thatsense of connection that you now have.
9MS. KERSEY: Absolutely. And you know the theme of this, Reverend Michael, isreally about raising money, giving, being of service, and I think it is such a beautifulconversation. I've heard you talk about it and I'm so inspired by it, but when people cancome to a place every day, how can I serve? How can I be a giving value? How can Ilove? How can I support? Coming from that perspective versus how can I make money?How can I get? Energetically, when we come from giving a service, we activate that lawof receiving.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: Absolutely.MS. KERSEY: I want you to talk about that a little bit.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: You are hitting right on it in terms of when youask these right questions and you up level your vibration. How can I serve? What Iteach, one of the things I say is, when you do this inner work, you make an evolutionaryleap from inquisitive to appreciative, and the mind, the normal mind, is always trying toget in order to be happy, but once you pop through and see the way it really is, you moveinto an awareness of appreciation rather than acquisition, and then once you are in fullappreciation that there is boundless resources and boundless good and boundless love andboundless prosperity everywhere, you ask the question, how can I give? How can Iserve? How can I release this life energy? And when the universe starts speaking to you,how does it speak to you? Through ideas. It gives you whole ideas that totally begin tolead, guide and direct you in a language and in a way that you can understand throughintuitive hunches, through ideas coming to you that seems like out of the blue, gentlespiritual nudges. What I call the angel of eternal progression. Whispering in your ear.That you are more than meets the eye and there is more of you that is trying to come out.All of this is because you've create a correspondence with the fact that the universe is foryou and not against you. There is just so much within us that is trying to escape, and, myGod, we should let it.
10MS. KERSEY: Absolutely. You know, I was curious when you were saying that. Whatkinds of ideas have really juiced you or gotten you really excited?REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: Interestingly enough, when I was a young boy,11, 12 years old, I used to sit in front of my house. There's a tree at my house. A friendand I would look up and look at the stars at night. Look at the leaves and interestinglyenough, we would talk about how we could change the world. How we can bring peaceto the planet. How we can bring a sense of unity, so now a number of years later, thoseideas that that little boy had are still the same kind of ideas that move through me, so a lotof the projects that I'm involved in, whether it is working with the whole Dalai Lama andworking with the synthesis project or whether it is philanthropic ideas that are happeningfor Agape, regardless of the idea, specifically whether it is a television program, whetherit is releasing a book or DVD set or putting together a wonderful retreat or a workshop orthey all carry the frequency of helping humanity wake up to the God given potential thatis within them, so there are specific ideas that come in the form of some of my books.There are specific ideas that come in the form of a wonderful philanthropic humanitarianproject that we are going to launch in a few years. Where Agape is going to have its owncredit card that is going to be tied to a foundation. When people use it, it is going toserve to end hunger on the planet.MS. KERSEY: Nice.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: There is the Agape mediator national, which isbeing launched to uplift humanity and all mediums. There are a number of ideas thatemerge, but it is all in service to waking up. It is all in service to people being inspiredenough to have ideas. As a matter of fact, that is one word we should probably look atand that is inspiration because if people can stay inspired, inspired means, of course, thebreath of God, the breathing to you. God is breathing to you and inspiring. God inspiresus. The universal one inspires us with ideas, and oftentimes people don't put themselvesin a position to be inspired. They put themselves into those pity parties and those doomand gloom conversations, and rather than putting themselves in a position to be inspired,
11like listening to this phone call, as a matter of fact, you put yourself in a position to beinspired, your vibration is lifted and then there is an idea that's there. Where did it comefrom?MS. KERSEY: You get a rise. The idea to expand. I mean, this idea has evolved oversix months and every day I am so inspired by what I'm doing. Despite everything that ishappening outside, I am inspired. I'm grateful. I'm excited, and I think that is what youare talking about when you are living from a place of bringing ideas forward that reallymake a difference.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: Absolutely.MS. KERSEY: It is exciting.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: You are bringing up also the idea that every ideathat comes through us from the universe it is infinite, so it keeps on growing. It doesn'thave a shelf life, so just as you say for the last six months this idea has been growing, it isgoing to continue to grow. It is going to morph. It may become something else. It maydevelop another tributary. It may develop other branches and then other leaves and thenit may develop whole other trees. The fruit may fall on the ground. Look like it is dyingand then another tree emerges from the seeds. That idea continues and so when an ideahits us, we can see only a limited degree of what that idea has in store for us and themanifest realm and also in the realm of how it is going to change us. Like, you areprobably not the same person today that you were six months ago.MS. KERSEY: That is so true.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: Because the idea changed you. It brought outtalents and gifts and levels of confidence and made you shed things that no longer serveyou. In order for the idea to come forward, you had to get rid of some things and you hadto gain and activate things. So it is a process that is continuing, so inspiration -- we get
12inspiration. We get an idea and we catch a vision, the person that got that inspiration isnot going to be the same person that manifested that vision. There is going to be somechanges along the way.MS. KERSEY: Really. I mean, that is the prescription, I think, for this time is getinspired about something.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: Absolutely.MS. KERSEY: Yes.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: And you can see all the young people who areinspired around this election that was a page turner in human history. The inspirationbrought about such transformation and that is what it can do for us.MS. KERSEY: I told you I went to, and he is one of the in country partners Free theChildren Craig Kielburger. I went to their conference where there were 8,000 youngpeople. Teenagers. Talk about inspired, clapping and yelling and all standing for theelimination of poverty, extreme poverty in their lifetime. I mean, even when I thinkabout it, it inspires me. When we are around people who are -- who want to make adifference, who contribute, not only does it inspire us, but it raises our vision of what ispossible.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: Absolutely. Absolutely. As the old sayinggoes, high tied lifts all boats, and so when we are inspired, that activation lifts us andwhen we are lifted up, we lift someone else up. It is quantum. As I am lifted up, I drawall into the same field. Into the same vibration.MS. KERSEY: What do you recommend for people when their idea -- they've got anidea. They are all excited. They are building a team. They are doing their spiritual
13practice. They've got their affirmation and let's say it is not going as they thought itshould go.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: What do we do when our plans aren't goingright?MS. KERSEY: Right. Exactly.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: You know the old phrase, God laughs at ourplans. Want to make God laugh, show God your plans. Generally speaking, when we arebumping up against something, it may be time for a course correction really looking tosee if we have our inner alignment with what we say we want to be or what we want todo, and oftentimes it is a signal that we are being prepared to grow a certain quality thatwe don't quite yet have, for that particular plan to come to fruition, so when there is a setback, it is not the universe's denial. It is generally an indication that there is someplacewithin us that needs refinement because we have to grow. As I teach you can't have whatyou are not willing to become in consciousness, so, therefore, you can begin to ask withthose kind of situations, what is it that I need to shed? What is it that I need to release?What do I need to let go of in order for this idea to manifest, and if we are honest andwithout censorship, we begin to notice qualities and thoughts and beliefs and habits andjudgments and opinions that don't serve this idea that is trying to come forward and thenwe have to be willing to let go of those opinions and those ideas and those habits andthose perceptions, and as we grow, then the blockage, the hindrance, which is emblematicof our state of consciousness begins to dissolve. Oftentimes we are being taught patienceand perseverance, which are strong qualities for leadership and strong qualities forindividuals who are entrepreneurial, strong qualities for people who have a vision andwant to live an unprecedented life, you have to have patience and perseverance. So whenthings don't go our way, those are some qualities that are -- without giving up, those aresome qualities that are trying to grow in us.
14MS. KERSEY: Exactly, and you really can't do anything extraordinary without thosequalities.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: No. You would be blown around like a leaf inthe wind, unless you have some perseverance and some strength and some stick-toitiveness and some patience as well.MS. KERSEY: Well, I want to honor -- I know that you have a limited amount of timeright this second and I just want to honor that, and I guess the final question, what wouldyou like to leave the listeners of this course? They are here to learn and also to contributeto making the world a better place. What kind of thought would you like to leave themwith?REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: I want to go back to this idea of unprecedentedlife for a moment, and basically say that on some level, if they haven't yet claimed thatfor themselves, then they are selling out on their soul. They have entered into thisparticular time of history on the earth plain to do something that has never been donebefore individually or collectively and they have to begin to think along those lines inorder to radiate into their life substantial ideas that take them beyond themselves.I also want individuals to know that they are already complete. That everything that theywould need, want, hope for and desire to move forward in their life, it is already reallywithin them, and that I don't want them to think that they are moving to accomplishsomething or to complete themselves. I want them to think about themselves ascompletion to completion. Glory to glory. Just as a seed is a complete seed. It is not anincomplete oak tree. It is a complete seed. It is a complete acorn, and then when it diesto its acornism, it becomes a complete little sprout, and when it dies to being a sprout, itstarts to become a tree, it is a complete tree, so it is not incomplete in any stage. It iscomplete to complete. We need to hold that space for ourselves that we are at some stageof our development. We are complete on our way to another completion. Everything we
15need is within us and that we are here to live something that is unprecedented, so wedon't get stuck in status quo or high mediocrity masquerading as excellenceMS. KERSEY: I love that. Well, I'm inspired. I think just the concept of living anunprecedented life is really powerful and it is inspiring, and I appreciate so much yourwillingness to come and share with everyone here, and to our listeners, thank you foryour participation and really take these ideas. We've already heard from Bob Procter andMark Victor Harrison and now Reverend Michael and just start really looking at what isthat idea that wants to emerge in me; what is it -- how can I serve humanity? How can Ireally bring my gifts into this world in a way that just will inspire my life, and also justcontinue to be on your path. I encourage you to get Reverend Michael's book SpiritualLiberation. It is an awesome book because I think that is really the journey for all of usto become free.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: Yes.MS. KERSEY: So I really appreciate you very much for taking your time, for sharingwith us, for the leadership that you have given to us, to me as a member of your church,and I just appreciate you and have very deep love for you, Reverend Michael.REVEREND MICHAEL BECKWITH: Thank you so much, Cynthia, and you aredefinitely a valued member of the Agape community and I appreciate this opportunity tospread a little of Agape love.MS. KERSEY: Absolutely. And speaking of spreading the love, you guys are hearingthe third interview. Share this program with people. Encourage them to go toUnstoppableGiving
Reverend Dr. Michael Beckwith is a world leader, teacher, 2 founder and spiritual director of the Agape International Spiritual Center. He is the co-founder of the Association for Global New Thought and the Season for Nonviolence and Reverend Michael is one of th
