£ 0 – 2: Steps One And Two & INTRODUCTION

Originally posted 10th April 2007 

A few weeks ago when I first returned to pursuing the doubling method I decided that the obvious first step was to just get out there and find the first one pound coin as soon as possible. I decided to actively look for one instead of waiting to come across a coin whilst dealing with other daily matters. This was my choice as I was keen to get started and see quick progress. I personally felt I would quickly loose interest and enthusiasm by finding smaller coins here and there solely as I went along. I needed a quick first hit in order to stimulate me.

So earlier this week, Monday morning to be precise, I ventured out with this in mind. I left my flat just after sunrise at 6.15am and headed towards the town centre. My plan being to check phone boxes, car park machines, and the areas around them for left over coins. I reasoned that these would be the best spots in mind of where people tend to fumble around for cash. I chose sunrise as the best time to go out as doing this with lots of people around would have made me feel poor, embarrassed, and like a tramp who perhaps might think of the same idea to get cash.

Living in Maidstone, and checking in each phone box as I passed, I first checked the machine at Maidstone West train station, then connected through to the Lockmeadow Cinema and Leisure complex for their car park machines. From there I walked into town, down the Medway footpath past the Archbishop’s Palace. It was very beautiful around there, it felt very fresh and crisp due to the time of day and the palace had an ethereal quality that made it seem, unlike the freshness of the morning, quite ancient. Above the adjoining park the starlings were moving as one mass which is always stunning to watch, like they are connected telepathically.

The town centre itself felt surreal at that time of day: no crowds, no people. Just empty, poised, energised and ready for use, kind of like that Stephen King book / film called the Langoliers; where at the end the characters return to L.A airport 3 minutes ahead of ‘time’. I made my way up to Sainsbury’s and the bus station, yet what I was increasingly finding was that no coins were turning up. The floor of the bus station was being washed and any coins that had been left would have been picked up by the cleaners. One thing I very much sensed whilst looking was a self consciousness.

The UK has apparently the most CCTV cameras per members of the population in the world and I can easily believe it. I don’t normally even notice them and know perfectly well the psychology of fear and control that lies behind many of them. Read Orwell’s’ 1984 in a allegorical sense and bingo, you have how things are. I don’t normally notice them on account of knowing this, and also knowing that as long as one outwardly appears to act ‘normally’ then you are visible yet invisible on account of the fact you blend in. This is a sense I normally enjoy, that you can be more subversive on account of how you ‘think’ and what you ‘know’, which to a CCTV camera is invisible. A CCTV camera for instance cannot pick up someone who’s discovered the law of attraction, or that knows and understands the real source of power from inside, or that knows what the truth and the lie alludes to.

I digress. My point is, that checking car park machines and phone boxes at sunrise is something that is very suspicious looking. You become visible and this made me feel uncomfortable. Therefore on account of how actively looking for coins will make you feel poor for the act itself, combined with the feeling of being suspect to CCTV cameras… well, I would not recommend actively looking for the coins. You do indeed have to come across them in the course of your normal business, which requires patience.

Walking home, feeling disappointed I then gave some thought to when I’d found the 2 x £ 1 coins in the past, on the train and in the communal car park. I never took it any further then so would it be right to put in £ 2 of my own money to get me started, £ 2 that would represent this money from the past. On the one hand I argued that it would be wrong. It was money that got absorbed into my day to day finances and that therefore the £ 2 in effect no longer existed. On the other I argued the opposite. After all, what is time but space and thought. You could justify either side in any number of ways but what settled it for me was my gut feeling, my instinct….which said yes. It is always important to go with the flow and what feels right. The £ 2 did still exist otherwise my current bank balance would still remain £ 2 less than what it is. 3 years does not change this. I double checked Stuart Goldsmith’s report and time constraints were never mentioned. Why shouldn’t coins you find 3 years ago still count? I could see no reason.

As for using the very same coins I understand that this is stated in order that you learn certain lessons in relation to the law of attraction. It also makes it feel more real, solid and concrete. Yet I feel I am past this point psychologically. I already believe in the system and the lesson has already been learnt.

The moral of the story then is that it does work up to this point, it is real, but that opportunities are sometimes not obvious. As with life generally, you have to see with your mind as well as your eyes. You also have to have the ability to see that which you have already got, rather than be blind to it.

So that’s £ 2 then.