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I urge anyone who is interested in Lynn’s work to read the comments that people have been posting. Everyone has said something worthwhile and the postings by Moe Webster and Shelley Perham are particularly informative and insightful. I feel that Excuse Me Your Life is Waiting has created a community of kindred spirits, albeit informal and, as yet, unrecognized. I’m thinking about how best to develop something more cohesive from all the interest.

I’m grateful for all the contributions made and I look forward to a continuing dialogue about Lynn and her books.

Best wishes to you all.

I recently received an email from Diana Huston, which I believe will be of interest to everyone who wonders what happened to Lynn Grabhorn toward the end of her life. Diana’s email doesn’t solve the mystery of Lynn’s sad demise, but it certainly sheds more light on her frame of mind and the way she was thinking. Here is Diana’s email.

Hi John,

I read your post about Lynn Grabhorn where you mentioned that someone “out there” may know something they can share. So I decided to contact you and share what I know of her last months.

Out of curiosity I looked Lynn up on the internet. I don’t remember why I contacted her originally, but she sent me her phone number. Over a period of weeks, perhaps a couple of months, we conversed over the phone. She told me of events happening in her life, which eventually I knew threatened to take her life. I was helpless to reach out to her, because she believed that she was in touch with God (Abraham) and that His will for her was to make a heavenly home for her. She heard from Abraham daily.

I don’t believe she lost her sanity or was schizophrenic. Through my own experiences years ago, due to association through a cult religion, I believe that she was deluded by an invisible entity that was murderous in intent. At least that’s my take on the situation. He would tell her that she was having her body prepared to undergo higher vibrational shifts so that she could be a part of the new earth that was being birthed. That’s why she wrote her farewell letter in the tone that she did. She experienced horrific, violent pain on a basis that was continual and not subsiding. No doctor could tell her what it was or help her in any way. She did not have a disease, according to her. I myself experienced physical pain through interaction with invisible forces long ago; that’s why I believed her.

I tried to reason with her that no benevolent entity would put her through this. Nothing could dissuade her from her course. I knew, or at least felt, that a genuine shamanic healer could help her get rid of the entity that was torturing her. She tried to tell me that I was one of a special 100 that could join with these forces. With the help of a doctor in California who specializes in these sort of things, I myself eventually broke completely free from these influences and I knew that she could too with the right help.

I’m surprised that she lived as long as she did. I don’t think she committed suicide. I think the violent episodes eventually took their toll on her. She was never suicidal that I heard. She was just waiting for Abraham to take her and willing to endure the pain to get there. I’m sure that she felt that suicide would make her unfit for the heavenly roadmap that she was given.

Perhaps this will be helpful to you.

Sincerely Yours,
Diana Huston

Thanks, Diana, for sharing that with us and providing more insight to what happened to Lynn.

I came across a website recently that posed this question: “If millions of people are practicing the Law of Attraction, why is the economy in such bad shape?” The writer went on to say that the reason the Law of Attraction isn’t working is because it’s incomplete. He then criticized The Secret for telling only part of the story and, lo and behold, went into a sales pitch for an online course about what he calls “The 11 Forgotten Laws”.

This seems to be the new Internet marketing trend – saying that the Law of Attraction –doesn’t work unless you obey other laws that are either forgotten, or secret, or recently discovered under a bed in a Tibetan monastery perched in the clouds on top of a mountain.

I’ve seen other Internet marketers who take a similar approach. I’ve heard that there are seven universal laws, of which the Law of Attraction is but one. The others are the Laws of Prosperity, Consciousness, Expansion, Expectancy, Reflection, and Cause and Effect. In reality, these so-called laws are all subsets of the Law of Attraction and they represent all the things you have to do to attract whatever you want into your life. I guess we’ll see more of this kind of stuff as Internet marketers put their own spin on the Law of Attraction in order to mine people’s fascination with it.

No matter how much I read about LOA, I always come back to Lynn Grabhorn and Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting. Lynn’s distillation of the attraction dynamic is still the one that works best for me. The key thing to remember is that LOA isn’t a wishing well. As I’ve said in previous posts, you have to put genuine passion, desire, and demonstrable intent out into the universe to trigger the Law of Attraction. And that’s what Lynn’s 30 day program helps you to do.

So my answer to the question about the economy is that people are putting out way too much fear, and too many thoughts about what they don’t want to happen as in, “I don’t want to lose my home, or my retirement savings.” Those fears are understandable in these times of media doom and gloom, sickening corporate greed, and partisan politicians using the economy as a political weapon. But as long as these negative thoughts are pouring out into the universe, the Law of Attraction will never come to the rescue of the economy. How about putting out some wants and visualizing how life will feel when they turn up? Here are just a few and I’m sure you can add to the list:

I want the president’s economic plan to work and for prosperity to return.
I want politicians to be non-partisan and help right the economy by working together.
I want house owners to stay in their homes and for the housing market to revive.
I want US car companies to recover, grow and thrive.
I want Bernie Madoff to rot in jail (sorry, couldn’t resist that one).

One of my beliefs is that you will struggle to ignite the Law of Attraction unless you’re in touch with your core person and can achieve the clarity of thought needed to be true to that inner self. That’s why I made that topic the theme of my book, UNLOCK THE REAL YOU: 12 Keys to Discovering Your True Self and Living Your Dreams.

Catch you the next time.

Someone sent me an interesting email the other day about Lynn Grabhorn’s advocacy of the Law of Attraction. Dayna wrote to say that sometimes she finds it very hard to “tune in” and make herself feel good. She said that she can go for days without zoning in and allowing her wants, and reminded me that Lynn called this flatlining.

Dayna went on to say that the minute she does tune back in, good stuff happens fast. She also said that it’s hard to hold on to it for long, not because she feels low, but because it’s just plain hard to stay at the right level of feeling. (I hope I’ve quoted you accurately, Dayna).

I agree. I’ve experienced something similar on many occasions and it reminds me of an obvious fact that’s easy to forget: Just because we accept and believe in a particular philosophy doesn’t mean it’s easy to put it into action.

As well as providing more proof that “Excuse Me” techniques work, Dayna’s email also reminded me that Lynn’s solution to flatlining was her “flip-switch” method. In her 30 day program, she advocated writing down 30 things you like about yourself so that you can flip your attention to one of them when you get stuck in negativity. Have you ever tried writing that many good things about yourself? It’s worth taking the time to do it because, unless I’m badly mistaken, you’ll rediscover a lot of qualities you’ve been overlooking.

Richard Bachman is another author I admire. Unlike Lynn, he writes fiction. In the foreword to his novel, Messiah’s Handbook, Reminders for the Advanced Soul, he writes about a handbook that you can use to get an answer to questions that are troubling you. You simply hold your question in mind, close your eyes, open the handbook at either a left or right page, open your eyes and read the answer. One day, while he’s flying his bi-plane, he uses the book to ask why his close friend had to die a senseless death. When he looks at the book it says, “Everything in this book may be wrong.” In rage and disappointment, he tosses the book out of the aircraft into a hay field.

20 years later, a farmer’s son returns the book to him, having discovered it even though the hay field had been ploughed over many times. This time, Richard asks the book why it came back to him. It answers as follows: Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

It’s fiction, but it provides a wonderful metaphor about the part the Law of Attraction can play in our lives. To me, it’s about how our beliefs always come back when we throw them away, because we believe them deep down inside where the truth will always prevail.

In my book, Unlock The Real You, I offer a series of exercises that I call Realization Workouts. To me, developing a belief to the point where it becomes second nature is like working out – you have to do it regularly for it to do you any good. So if you believe in the Law of Attraction, you only have to keep practicing with faith and it’ll keep returning the favor. It won’t let you down.

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