It sounds like a silly question, but consider this:    Imagine playing golf and not knowing how to use a golf club, or playing tennis without a racket, or running your business without knowing anything about money.   How successful would you be?   

Well, the same principle applies to your life as a human being here on Earth.   If you don't know "the rules of the game," you are going to play as a loser.   

You may be wealthy, or famous, or highly talented in some particular field of endeavor and still be experiencing a disaster in some other areas of your  life.   What about your health, your home life, your family relationships,  your sex life, your other inter-human relationships?   What about your career and your finances?   Are you financially free or a wage slave?   Do  you have peace of mind?   Do you feel fulfilled?   Are you living your dream?   Or are you walking around in someone else's nightmare?  Are you still carrying childhood-acquired negative and dysfunctional programming such as guilt, shame, low self-esteem?

If your life is anything less than ideal in any of these areas, it's probably because you don't know something about living  that part of your life.  The sections below on this page offer some thoughts, and possibilities, some tools and rules, and a few alternate perspectives that you may find helpful.    

The Fundamental Principles 
Upon which All of Life Appears to Be Based:

The underlying, fundamental building blocks of what we call reality, or  the Universe, or the Source, or Life, or God, or Me, or Creator are:   1)  Consciousness, and 2)  Energy.    Both the ancient mystical and spiritual teachings and the present-day scientific evidence tell us that everything we think of as physical is not physical at all.   It's Energy.   

For each of us, life is commonly thought of as "me" reaching out and experiencing the one-and-only, objective, relatively-static, three-dimensional  universe.   This is an incredibly believable illusion.   Life in not physical.   Life is Energy and Consciousness.   If you ask: "What is Energy?   and  "What is Consciousness?"  the most common answer is they are the ultimate mysteries of life.   They are what "Creator/God" is.   They are what "Creator/God" is made of.   They are what "Everything" is.   They are what "Everything" is made of.   

The Fundamental Context of Life:    
It appears that Energy and Consciousness  together are the  Context that contains everything. ***   It appears that consciousness is the controller of Energy -- that Consciousness directs Energy into patterns.    The evidence indicates that there are  specific, exacting, immutable rules about how to use Consciousness to control Energy.   It appears that our job (or our game) is to master these rules while living in a physical body on planet Earth.   

One could easily conclude that we are each an individuated piece of Energy and Consciousness.    And none of who and what we are is made up of anything physical.   It's quite the opposite.  Everything physical is made of Consciousness and Energy.

We Play the Game of Life on Automatic Pilot.   
The evidence also indicates that we are already in the game, and that until we wake up, we play the game on automatic pilot -- by accident, by default, by chance and happenstance.    The evidence also indicates that our job/game here on Earth  is to take over the controls and intentionally move our machine (our bodies) toward pleasure and away from pain.    We are given a physical context (planet Earth),   a body within which to experience Earth, and an exacting set of rules about how to create our experiences.   

The Next Big Mystery Is What Am I?   
Again, we can only offer best guesses.   Here's some notes from the universal spiritual perspective on life. '  Please don't believe this and don't disbelieve it either.   Simply  consider it as a possibility.

We appear to be "Joy-seeking" machines.    
We are programmed to move toward pleasure and away from pain.   We move toward what feels good -- toward "more" or "I'll have that again, please."   One could say that according to our energetic and conscious make up, the purpose of life is to create that which makes us feels good  -- to create what feel like "do that again" or "I'll have more of that."   

Sharing, Cooperation, Compassion:     
It also appears the our job is to set up our lives so that we can continue to experience joy on an ongoing sustainable basis.   It also appears that by far the best, easiest, and most efficient way to do this is by helping each other do likewise.   The New Corporate World is designed to create a series of contexts in which mutual support is one of the main rules.

Everything in both the physical and non-physical universe appears to be a product of energy vibrating at its own particular frequency.   Every thought, every emotion, every feeling has it's own frequency of vibration.   Your personal vibrational frequencies can be directed by your consciousness.    Successful manifesting is a function of bringing your thoughts, your emotions, and your feelings into perfect alignment with the vibrational frequency of that which you choose to manifest.   

Think and feel yourself in a world where your stated intention is already real.   Live your life as if your creation is already manifested.   This is similar to the physical practice called, "Fake it till you make it."   The difference is that this time,  your creation is actually real, and you  know that it's real.   The universal laws make it so.   You have to stop the old thoughts, feeling, and emotions from overpowering your new creation.    It's real in the non-physical world and is on its way into your physical experiences.   

Our thoughts feeling, and emotions cause the physical universe to change to match our vibration.   Another, and probably a more accurate way to state this is that our thoughts, feeling and emotions propel us (as consciousness)  through the invisible world of un-manifested  potential until we are vibrating in harmony with the physical mirror of our thoughts.   Our focus turns the potential into a physical creation.  

If your intention does not manifest, this means that almost certainly, there's  something in you subconscious part of you that is still in the way.  If you apply the Theta Healing / Theta Transformation processes of removing the blocks in your subconscious mind, this will significantly  increase you success rate.   

You can think of this process as if you were speaking a foreign language.   In order to get your message through, you must speak the correct language.   Your creative process is always in the on position, so every thought, emotion, feeling, attitude, belief, word, and action is giving direction and/or power to the creation of your intention, or the creation of something other than your intention.

Be in a constant state of gratitude for what is in this new world.   When thoughts come into mind that are in any way different from  (or in conflict with)  your stated intention,  simply allow them to be.   Withdraw your attention from them, and refocus on your stated intention.   This law of creation is as exacting and immutable as the law of gravity.   Apply the law to your life and the chosen manifestation must come into being.  

The traditional belief about life is that:   there is an objective,  physical world "out there,"   and we simply come along and experience it.   The latest scientific evidence points to a very different hypothesis.    The evidence indicates that each of us is part of that infinite, non-physical  potential that we commonly call Creator or God.    The evidence indicates that there are multiple realities and we shift among them based upon out beliefs, our thoughts, our expectations, our emotions and our actions.   The evidence indicates that we each create our experiences out of nothing (no thing) by way our our thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, expectations, and actions.    The evidence also  indicates that (within the context of human life on Earth in our present society) we and we alone are responsible for what we experience here on Earth.    The evidence indicates that we can be conscious co-creators with Creator/God ' and that we can intentionally create our future experiences by applying a specific set of Universal Laws` in an exacting way.

Life occurs in many contexts.  A context dominates and controls everything in it.   We (you and I) live, move and have our being inside of hundreds of contexts.    A wise person learns:   What  a context is  -- Why they are important  --  How to intentionally create a context.     http://www.TextAndContext.info ' 

The Law of Thought  --   The Law of Attraction and   --  The Law of Intentional Creation.   http://www.lifecoach4vip.com/m030-universal-laws.html '   These three laws tell us that we, as humans, are constantly attracting to us the things, situations, circumstances and experiences that we focus our attention on.    Sub-atomic physics has confirmed ' the truth of these laws.   

This Section offers  a comparative examination of the three basic assumptions of life, (Christian one-life-ism,  reincarnation, and atheism) and how differently they influence and control the lives of those who believe in them.   Because they are mutually exclusive, only one of them can be Earth-plane reality.   The other two must contain major illusions.  Is your life based on unprovable assumptions?   Check this page and find out.
http://www.truth101.org/vs-three-assumptions.html ' 

Money is another area where we tend to lose reality

Financial Disneyland:

The entire, present-day, (2008) United States monetary system is based on several dysfunctional fairytales.   (See the four web pages listed below.)  Policies and practice of the present U.S. economy are based on Debt Creation and Making Money Off Debtors.   Making money off the backs of others has replaced the production of goods and services as the top priority.    In the U.S. economy,  money and making a profit are the only things that matter.   In the financial world, the wheelers and dealers have set themselves up to take a piece of almost every transaction.   

Starting the war in Iraq was not about getting rid of a dictator.   It was a tool for keeping the financial-fairytale bubble from bursting.   Here's how it works:   During a war, there is no need for the public to be customers because the Government is the customer, buying war-goods on credit.   The net result is that the deficit financing pushes up the price of everything.   (Actually, the value of the money goes down.)  The civilian economy falls apart, the public becomes increasingly desperate financially, and all the while, from a statistical perspective, the economy looks healthy.  

Deficit Financing is the major cause of the nation's and the world's financial problems.   Deficit Financing is a variation of the old pyramid scheme.   Sooner or later,  it's guaranteed to collapse, and when it does, the members of the general public are always the ones left holding the empty wallets.   Those in control are doing this intentionally.   One has to ask why? '  

But don't believe me, and don't disbelieve me either.   Examine the evidence and draw your own conclusions.    Readers are directed to four pages on TLC-Life-Center's Money-God-Money website:         

                                The Federal Reserve '         Fractional Reserves      

                                Inflation                                          The Curse of Debt  

You can find these four pages at:   http://www.Money-God-Money.info  ' 

      Personal Transformation  ' 

When you've examined even just one or two of the websites and/or web pages listed above, you'll have two choices:   1) To hold a very different picture of reality from the traditional, socially accepted perspective  or 2)  live in denial.