Until I was checking back in one of my old Asher notebooks earlier this week, I’d forgotten this incident.
The Asher notebooks are where I record, night upon night, my telepathic discussions with Asher — the ones he prefers not to use words for, because he’s drawing material directly from realms where words hold no sway. Yes, I record them in words, obviously, and although I’m told his thoughts somehow transmute into worded language in my brain stem, I have no idea how what Ash calls ‘the technology’ works. I just know it does.
I’m currently compiling a follow-up book to A Mind Beyond Words, which involves trawling through these old notebooks for relevant wisdom and ideas. Hence the rediscovery of the forgotten incident.
Before my first book was even published, I’d acquired some advance copies and decided to try selling them at a holistic fair. I texted Asher (yes, he’s quite happy to use words for mundane stuff) the day before and told him I had decided I would sell ten copies at the fair.
That was hugely optimistic. I was an unknown, first-time author, writing about telepathic dialogues with an autistic guy, at a time when such things were fringe, to say the least. People went to holistic fairs looking for healing, readings, crystals and tarot decks, not books…
Asher had taught me well, though. He’d demonstrated and insisted that applying such limited logic was not helpful. He’d shown me that I simply had to intend a desired outcome and give it focus, then wait for life to join up the dots and allow it to appear.
Sure enough, after a wonderful day, I found I had sold exactly ten copies of our book.
Here’s part of the discussion recorded in my notebook that evening, as Asher was describing how humanity was currently emerging into the light of The Shift:
Asher: … we have learned so much while travelling through the dark side. We have many achievements. We have explored the dynamic and polarity of power: taking it and giving it away. That was necessary because we didn’t remember that each of us is infinitely powerful.
Jes: A lot of people will be very unhappy with that statement!
Asher: Learning to take one’s own power is as difficult as relinquishing power over others. Adjustments must be made on all sides.
Asher went on to give me an example of how I had used my own power earlier in the day, to bring about a serendipitous encounter and that cluster of book sales. He asked me to imagine a world where everyone could do such things.
Jes: But is there some sort of caveat? What if a person chooses to manifest a plague or a train crash?
Asher: There is a caveat, yes. We can’t exert power over another entity unless they give their permission at a higher level. What we do must also fit the purpose of everyone else involved. Fear and discord are only possible when not everyone recognises their own power. Once we all see ourselves as part of Source and equally powerful, controlling others becomes impossible…
Jes: Okay. I see that. So, what about those ten book sales today?
Asher: That was an example of life ‘joining up the dots’. You chose to have ten sales. It fitted those ten people to buy a copy of the book. Each such event represents a miniature agreement at soul level.
That was then. Let’s cut to now.
Last Sunday, the day before I rediscovered that conversation in my notebook, I’d sent Asher another text. I’d told him our book had had around 850 sales up to the end of March. I’d just ordered another 50 copies to sell privately. I was still awaiting the April sales figures from my publisher. They vary wildly. Some months, they’re in single figures. More often they’re around 30 to 50.
I told him I had two reasons for wanting the April figures to reach 100. The first was that getting to a thousand sales during the year following publication would trigger a new publicity drive from the publishers, as well as increasing my royalties on each book sold from 10% to 15% of half its retail value. (Yeah, I know!) The second was that I have an important podcast interview coming up later this month, which could well lead to more people learning about our story and, potentially, more sales, so that extra 5% would be really helpful.
(I will note here, in case you feel I must be a money-grabbing materialist, that I still haven’t recouped what I spent on editing and publicity. Once I do, any further profits will be split with Asher, and as he’s the mind behind the whole project, I’d love him to get some physical reward, even though he’s far more interested in how many people we’re reaching.)
So anyway, unlikely as it seemed (we’ve only once hit the 100-a-month threshold before), both of us held that thought. I pictured people eager to buy it, longing to read our story all through April. Yes, it was May by now, but that’s another thing Asher has taught me — time is not a factor and retro-causality works fine! I reached the point where I was certain we’d make it.
So, this whole manifesting sales idea kicked off with choosing to get 10 sales in a day. Now I was aiming for 100 in a month, which would mean 1000 in a year…
Did we make it?
We did!
And if you’re one of the 119 people who bought A Mind Beyond Words in April, thank you 🙂