I am sending out a special e-mail to my e-mail list, appealing for help in keeping my book in print.  Here is a quote from my January 2006 Update about the situation - which I don't think many of you actually read.

"I am at a place right now where I will probably run out of books in the coming week. . . . . .  When I don't have any books left to fill the orders coming in, I will be offering people either refunds, or if they are willing to wait, subscriptions to the Dancing in Light pay to view section of the site as compensation for waiting a few weeks for their book.

Hopefully it will only be a few weeks - although right now I do not know when I am going to be able to get the printing started.  It will take about 3 weeks from the time the printing process is started until I can get the books delivered.  If someone out there has the means to donate the money to get that going, that would be a blessed, goddess sent gift.  Or even if someone has the space on a credit card or whatever, and would make an open ended loan of the start up money - I would be eternally grateful.

I had thought I would be asking here for donations to help get the books from the printer - the second half of the money.  But now I need to ask for help with all of it - or at least a large majority portion of it.  I had figured out that if 5% of the people on my e-mail list donated $10 to the cause, I would probably have the money to get the books delivered.  Now it is more like 10% of the Magnificent Spiritual Beings on my mailing list, donating at least $10 would be required.

So, I am asking.  Pleading.  Begging.  Imploring you and the Universe for help here.  If you have found the quality of your life improved by reading my book or website, by listening to my tapes or doing telephone counseling - please, please, send a little Love my way to help me keep Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls in print.  If you can give $10, $20, $50, whatever - it will be greatly appreciated.  What would be wonderful is if I can raise not just enough money to keep the book in print, but to get several thousand of them - and also enough to bring out the audio version on CD.  What would break my heart is if I am not able to keep it in print.  So, help!  Anyone out there who has benefited from my work, please send a little donation to the cause / Love offering my way now.  Thank you." - Update January 2006

I added this bulletin to the Update on January 26th.

Update January 26, 2006 - The Universe has kicked down a miracle to give me the resources to get the printing process started.  Hurrah!  Now I need to find the money to get the books delivered once they are printed.  I need to raise around $1800 by the middle of February - and if I can get a little more than that quickly, I can still up the print run another thousand books, which would be wonderful.  So, I appeal to anyone out there whose Spirit guides them to do some Spiritual Tithing - if my book, tapes, or site has helped you in your Spiritual Awakening and recovery process, please lend a hand.  I will be very grateful to anyone who can help keep Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls in print. ~ Robert

The miracle that occurred involved getting a new credit card and doing a balance transfer that allowed me enough room on another credit card to get the printing process started.  Two thousand books will be printed in about 2 weeks - by the 27th according to the printer - and I need close to $1800 to be able to pick them up.  I am now no longer able to fill any orders.  I could sure use some help in being able to get the books from the printer - and so am appealing to you once more.  I received $210 in donations after the Update went out - and greatly appreciate them - but I need more in the way of donations or a loan or whatever you can do.  Thank you. ~  Robert 2/9/06

Below are some links to make donations.  There are larger donation amounts on the Metaphysical Law: Giving and Receiving ~ Donations / Love Offerings page (and below) - which also as I said earlier, shares some history of how angels / eskimos made the book and website possible.  If you would like to send a check, the address is PO Box 235401, Encinitas CA 92023, or you can call me at 760-230-1821 if you can help financially in some way.  I will be forever grateful.

 

It is also possible to use PayPal to make a donation by clicking this button:

Working the Third Step

"When I was in treatment getting sober I was in a city I hadn't lived in for 20 years.  I had no car and was going to be living with my brother who lived on the outskirts of the city when I got out of treatment.  I was scared that I wasn't going to be able to make it to meetings and went in to talk to my counselor about it.  He said, "You ask for rides."  "Oh no," I said. "You don't understand I never ask anybody for anything."  "Well," he said, "that is what working the third step is all about."  "Asking for rides?!?!" I said incredulously.

I thought he was crazy.  How can asking for a ride be working the third step?

Well, it is.  I needed to learn to ask not only a God I didn't trust for help - but also to ask other people to help me.  That was horrible for me.  It seemed like such a huge risk.  If I asked people for help that would give them a chance to reject me - and I had had enough rejection in my life, thank you very much!

There was a story that I heard around that time.  It was about 2 guys who were arguing about rather there was a God or not.

The first one said, "Of course, there is a God.  How can you say there is no God."

The second said, "I not only can say it - I can prove it."

"You can prove it?"

 "Yes.  Years ago I was in a small plane crash in the wilds of Alaska.  I was the only survivor and I had a broken leg.  There was nothing around for hundreds of miles, so it was only a question of rather I would freeze to death before something ate me.  I prayed to God and said 'If there is a God please save me.'  And God didn't do anything."

"What do you mean," the first man exclaimed.  "You're here and alive aren't you."

"Oh, well some Eskimo came along and saved me.  God didn't do anything."

The point:  God works through people.  We all have had Eskimos in our lives, angels disguised as people.  We are not alone in this process - we can't do it alone.

So, I learned to ask for rides.  What I know now is that the Universe always responds - just not very often in the way, or at the time I think it is necessary.  I need to ask for help and then let go of rather the person I am asking can in fact help me.  I need to take the risk and let go of the outcome.   What I need will come from someplace.  There is a verse in the bible that says: (paraphrased??)

Ask and ye shall receive.
Seek and ye shall find.
Knock and the door shall be opened.

ASK.  By asking - either God or another person - I am setting energy in motion in the Universe.  Once the energy is in motion it comes back to me at some time from some place.  I have to put it out before it will come back.  What I sow I reap.  The Universes works on the principle of cause and effect.  It is very important for me to get proactive in my own life by taking the risk of asking for help - and it is much easier when I can let go of my picture of how, and when, that help is going to manifest." The Miracle of The Twelve Step Recovery Process: 1, 2, 3, and a 1, 2, 3 - The first three steps

Hello to any Eskimos who may read this,
I am experiencing a challenging opportunity for growth right now. . . . . . I am affirming that 2003 is going to be a year of abundance and prosperity - and that some of the green healing energy that I have been putting out through my web site will come flowing back as green money energy.  I am placing some links below for anyone whose Spirit moves them to make a contribution to the cause - or any of you angels / eskimos could send me a check if you are inspired to do so. (Robert Burney  PO Box 977  Cambria CA 93428)

I have learned over the years of my recovery not to limit my affirmations or requests for help to the Universe - as I mentioned in the personal journal I share in the Joy2MeU Journal in some processing I did last summer.

"I have often told people that it is important not to limit the Universe when asking for help - and the example I used a lot was, "What if the Universe was ready to give you a thousand dollars but you only asked for a hundred."  I would tell people to always add - "or something better" or some such qualifier on the end of any affirmation about a specific outcome." The Path of one Recovering Codependent ~ the dance of one wounded soul  Dance 11 June 2002

In alignment with that, I would send a wish out into the Universe for enough financial abundance to not only get a reliable car (which I got), but also a new computer (also got), the money to bring my recorded version of the book out on CD (have not gotten yet), the money to publish some more books (I did get the money to do a reprint in 2003), and of course, the money to be able to provide a good home for my son when he comes to live with me in June (he didn't come to live with me permanently then - but may be this summer.) . . . . . . It would be very cool if someone wanted to give me a gift of $10,000 (or is it $9,999? The limit that is not taxable.)  Or to win the lottery, or have a someone with substantial financial resources want to go into partnership with me, or something better in alignment with Universal Plan and Divine Will.  Maybe someone has a car they want to donate to the cause.

Anyway, I am publishing this on my web site for a short period of time as a way of putting my request out to the Universe.  I will be very grateful for any assistance the Great Spirit sends my way. ;-)

With Wishes of Joy, Love, and Prosperity in 2003,
Robert

Hello again,
. . . . . . . Ever since posting this Help page I had been feeling some discomfort about it.  I watched myself feeling some embarrassment at having to ask for help - and saw that my disease was trying to run some old tapes to get me to feel ashamed to have this up on my web site.  I found myself feeling anxious to remove the link to this page from my New page.  I, in fact, did remove it from the New page yesterday while getting ready to upload my newest chapter.

Today, I realized that I needed to leave it up for awhile.  It was my codependency - the old tapes and inner child wounds - that was causing the discomfort.  I have learned in my recovery that whenever I discover some old tapes running, when I find myself having emotional reactions based upon the ego programming from childhood, I need to take some action to counter the old messages.  This is something I talked about on another page from my personal journal in an installment of my personal processing that I posted last fall.

"Observing my thoughts and reactions so that I could catch old tapes has been absolutely essential in my recovery.  Once I catch the old tape, the next step is to take some action to counter it.  Thus saying "I haven't brought that to consciousness yet."  Or, buying myself flowers, as I talked about in Dance 2.

"A client was admiring the bouquet of flowers that I had in my office and I told her the story of why I often buy flowers for my office.  About two years ago I did a workshop at a church in the San Fernando Valley on a Sunday afternoon.  When I was packing my stuff up getting ready to leave they gave me the flower arrangement from the Sunday service.  I didn't want it.  I watched my reaction - which was I didn't want the flowers - and the thought that I saw pass through my mind was "Why do I want those flowers, they will just die."  I immediately recognized that for what it was, an old tape.  When I discover old tapes dictating my reactions I need to do something to counter them - so I started buying flowers to put in my office.

Why have flowers when they are just going to die?

Why go up there if it is only going to be for a few weeks?

Why take a risk if I will fail?

Why open up to Love if I am just going to get hurt?

Boy is that my old stuff! - my disease talking."

My Unfolding Dance 2 - July 11, 1999

A dozen roses are sitting in my apartment as I write this."

The Path of one Recovering Codependent ~ the dance of one wounded soul  Dance 15  10-02

In order to counter the embarrassment I have been feeling, to send a clear message to my ego programming that has been causing me to feel anxious to take this page down, I am going to leave it up for awhile longer.  This is an example of me practicing my recovery by aligning my actions with Spiritual Truth instead of separation, fear, and shame.

So, I am going to leave this up for another week or so, as an affirmation that it is okay to need, and ask for, help from the Universe.  And as an affirmation that because of my willingness and courage, this coming year of 2003 - Goddess willing - is going to be a year when enough abundance is going to manifest that I will soon not have to sweat the small stuff anymore. ;-)

Robert

Having this posted on my web site no longer bothers me in the least. ;-)  . . . . . . .

. . . . . . .  I am very, very grateful for my new car and new computer. :-)  I trust that the money to print more copies of the Dance will manifest in a perfect time in a perfect way. ~ Robert

I still have no idea where the money is going to come from to keep the book in print - but the ones I have left should last me through September.  Right now I am trying to recover from the expense of having my son visit, and am trying to figure out how to pay the bills this month.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  More will be revealed.  ~  RB

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