Freedom: a Chapter from a book by Dr. Zayd Abdul-Karim

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Chapter 9

Freedom

Expressing ones full Freedom and God-given rightshelps to preserve and protect the God ideals of our

United States constitution. This means protection and

hope for the rest of the world. Putting God first allows

us to have that Freedom. The Freedom to do that, put

God first, is the most valuable Freedom we have.

Stanley El

Stanley El, President and Founder

The National Society of American Business Owners

Woodbury, NJwww.nsabo.wordpress.com

Stanley is Mr. Extraordinary! Words cannot come close to

describing who and what Stanley is. I experience him as a

Master of Freedom and many universal Laws of Life. As you

read this chapter pay attention to the vibration you feel as you

connect with his Presence.

Z: The first question I want to ask you is: How would you

define the word Freedom?


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Stanley: You know, its one of those funny things because I

grew up with this understanding of freedom being based on

Ill call them human rights; human rights that the governmentgives us. The freedom to work, get a job and buy property and

those kinds of things. Today, freedom means a lot more than

that to me. Because itswe have this energy in us called Life

that comes from God. The purpose of being in this world is

to express the fullness of God. So to me freedom is just that

having the right, the privilege, the honor to allow Gods Life,

Gods Perfection to express through you without interruptionfrom outside forces or even your own human consciousness.

So thats how I look at freedom today. The individuals obliga-

tion to become one with the Presence of Life in them; to allow

that to flow through freely and express Its Perfection.

Z: Ok. And we appreciate thats a perspective that youve

come through or come to, through your life experiences. So Id

like to ask what were some significant experiences or incidents

that helped you come to this perspective? Im thinking particu-

larly earlier in life if theres something between the ages of 12

and 21 years old. What were some significant experiences, that

you can recall, related to freedom?

Stanley: Ok. For me, the best way to answer that is tostart with how I originally thought freedom was, again based

on human rights. I grew up in the Moorish Science Temple

of America and our families were, the adults around us were

always telling us that we were sons and daughters, children of

God and we should be on this planet living just like that. And

that was instilled in us from the timegosh, we could un-

derstand the English language. The Moorish Science Temple,

they always talked about the Higher Self. God or Allah, the

term was used. So that part was instilled in us. At the same


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time, socially speaking we always hadmy father was in

business, he was independent. Had a lot of aunts and uncles;

everybody seemed to have some kind of something going onwhere they were independent of a regular job, and could con-

trol themselves.

That independence kind of led us to grow up in this way

that as early as possible you were working; doing stuff on your

own. But, it also had a different effect because you were always

taught that you had this independence and you were a child

of God. I took it literally. I know everybody else was doing thesame thing, but I cant speak for how they took it. But, I took

it literally.

So every time that I would run into an issue; whatever it

waswhether it be personal issues or problems as a child I

would always get down on my knees and pray to God for as-

sistance. It seemed like every time I did that I got answers, and

permanent answers. I think at a very young age I asked God

to give meto make me smart in school. I wanted to be smart

in school. Well, I ended up being a straight A student all the

way through high school. (chuckles) And I knew thatI had

prayed for that. So it wasnt one of those things where I justI

may have had the intellect or whatever it was, but I knew that I

asked that and Ill always remember that. It was answered.By the time I was eight years old I was actually, not only a

good student in school, but doing other things outside. Work-

ing independently; making my own money; and stuff like that.

Getting involved in study, U.S. History on my own. Actually

at the age of eight, I was doing things like sending letters to

the capitals of every state in the United States Chamber of

Commerce; and asking them to send me information. I neverthought about what I was doing at the time. But that was some-

thing I wanted to do. And they responded.


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All of the state capitals, all the states in the United States

were sending me information about their state, from their

Chamber of Commerce demographics and programs andthis, that, and the other. That went on for a long time. I was

real big in that kind of stuff and U.S. History; security like the

CIA and that kind of stuff. I think it all was just me acting out

whatever was happening within me at the time. Because I re-

ally didnt know, I was just doing it. I was experimenting with a

lot of things that were way beyond the average 8 year old or 10

year old or 11 year old. I dont think anybody knew it. Peoplejust knew I was kind of a bookworm kind of person, but I was

also very artistic in the sense that I would draw images. I loved

to put together presentations and making them look beautiful

for school. That went with me right on through high school.

On the other side of that I beganprobably around 1112

years oldhaving different kinds of experiences. I would have

this dreamand this really goes back farther than thatI would

have two dreams consistentlyand they went on for years. One

is me walking down the street at night picking up pennies. It

would be street lights and I would pick up this penny under ev-

ery street light. And that just was the dream. I would walk to the

next street, pick up the penny. Walk to the next street light, pick

up the penny. And that was the dream for my entire youth.Then the other dream was me jumping up and down out-

side. You know, Id jump in the air. Go up a couple of feet and

come down. Jump up in the airgo up a couple of feet and

come down. Jump up in the air higher, come down. Then I

would take flight. Well those two dreams stayed with me al-

most my entire lifeuntil I became an adult. I always thought

they were kind of interesting because the feeling of flying wasreal. And the lights where these places wereit was a bright

light like I was actually outside.


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Around 12 to 13 years old, I began to have another type of

experience. I would be laying down, so called dreaming, yet

the dreams would be in full time. Unlike in normal dreamingwhere it might be future-past or some strange situation. If Im

sitting in this chair and I fall asleep, Im dreaming that Im sit-

ting in this chair. I thought that was strange.

Thats when I really started to get involved with metaphys-

ics; metaphysical studies. And it wasnt a conscious thing. Now,

I want to make that clear. It wasnt that I knew there was this

thing called metaphysics out there. I was always reading stuffthat was, like way far out, philosophical stuff. I didnt know

thats what it was called. I just ended upbooks would float

into my hands. I never bought any of this material. It was al-

wayssome how, the books would get to me. And ah (pause)

I would read them.

Same with the metaphysical stuff. The philosophical stuff

was first. Then the metaphysical stuff started appearing. And

one of the books that Ifirst came across was called Don Juan

by Carlos Castaneda. He was a fellow that went down to South

America, Mexicowent somewhere with the Indians and got

involved in all of these spiritual teachings that they hadand

would have all these way out experiences. Well, those way out

experiences were matching with what I was experiencing.So I began to understand that there definitely was some-

thing beyond (slight pause) what I was seeing and what I would

call the physical outer world that we are used to every day. At

a very, very early age; and started to kind of investigate more.

Now mind you, my investigation didnt go very far. I didnt

go to book stores or there was no computer to do internet

searches. It was just me in my mind thinking, contemplatingthese things; that theres more to it. Of course, that combined

with the early teachings in the Moorish Science Temple that


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you were a child of God and this, that, and the other. Things

were becoming more and more real to me, in terms of the un-

derstanding of whatever it was beyond. Because there werealways stories being told when I was little about the Prophet

appearing, disappearing; people walking through walls. I was

even taught that at an early age that if you believed enough you

could walk through walls.

So my teenage years I was out there. Still a normal teenager,

you know, but behind the scene in my own isolated way were

all these experiences happening where these teachings werecoming to me and I would sit and contemplate these things. As

problems or situations would pop up, I knew where to go. In

my mind, that same God that Id prayed to for good grades in

elementary school was going to be the same God that I went to,

to address these problems. And that continued.

It continued and became more of an active pursuit in my

outer consciousness, if you ever want to call it that, to try and

do more of those transcendental types of things. What I mean

by that is, (chuckles) may sound strange to you, but, like astro-

traveling. You know, taking yourself out of the body. Well, I

actually started trying to do that stuff around 13, 14, 15 years

old. Id lay myself down and try to send myself out in space.

And ahyou knowfrom what I could tell, I wasnt really go-ing anywhere; but (chuckles) it was kind of a cool thing to do.

(laughs a lot)

Actually, I had two buddies that blended into the same

kind of thinking and we would all start to read the same kind

of books. Again, the books would just show up. We werent go-

ing out to stores buying them. Somebody would have it in their

house. Somehow, somebody would get a book from somewhereand we would sit down and read these things and share them

and boomyou know, wed try stuff out. You know, our medi-


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tationI was always around fasting and those kinds of things,

because we were basically brought up vegetarian. Our diets were

pretty much that kind of a diet. These others things were just meand my friends that really became more of trying to try these

outer world transcendental type of activities like you know

astro-travel and sending your mindvisualizing spacetrying

to look through wallsyou know, strange stuff. But for teenag-

ers at our time, it was cool stuff to sit around and try to do.

I graduated [from high school] at 17 years old. I decided not

to go to college. Id gotten accepted at a couple of schools, Rut-gers University for Business Administration and Point Park for

Architecture. I was very artistic but I was always very much in

business type stuff. College prepkind of thing. My tests were

actually 50-50. It was 50-50 in terms of artistic ability and busi-

ness administration. In any case, I didnt go with either one.

What I ended up doing was going into business with some

friends of mine that all graduated around the same time. We

started an entertainment promotion business. In the course of

doing that, all of us were kind of in the same realm of believing

in this impossible stuffthis invisible stuff. Every one of us

there were eight of us. Even though we were at different ages,

we all had kind of the same beliefs.

We ended up buying the book Think and Grow Rich.Each one of us had a copy and we read it on our own. Wed get

together every Monday night and go through this ceremony of

reviewing the chapters of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon

Hill; and then exercising it as a group. We did that! As 17 year

olds, we started this business with a strobe light and a turn-

table. By the time we were 19, we had the largest discotheque

in the state of New Jersey.We were working seven days a week. We had enough

equipment to do at least three locations at one time. Lights


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and sound, I mean the whole bit. We were working our way

up to the point of doing tours. We got picked up by Delight

Record Companys national promoter. He was taking us dif-ferent places, New York and this, that, and the other. We also

had friends that were going to college and they started hiring

us to do things. We ended up touring the North East corridor

through the college circuit. Of course, we attributed it to this

exercise [Think and Grow Rich], because it just took off! That

was pretty much it.

It was those kinds of experiences at early ages that kindof (pause)told me that we hadevery individual had some

kind of connection with some greater Power. And if giving at-

tention to that, It would flow. And It did. We had the testimony

of it. Now, at that time, we were starting to see the manifestation

of it. Other elements did definitely intervene. It seemed likeI

was the only one who really held firm to that becauseI guessit was 19 when I had my first kind of crisis; personal crisis.

We were successful at what we were doing with business,

but I wasnt feeling fulfilled as an individual. I remember get-

ting home one night; we always worked through the night. It

was the wee hours of the morning. Im walking around and I

expressed this to God, and said: Look, basically I want to do

whatever your will is. And it was one of those, you know, cry-ing kinds of things where I just needed to have that connection

with God and be able to fulfill His will. And that to me was

what was happening inside of me that wanted to make that

connection real. I wanted to know that I was fulfilling, con-

sciously, whatever desire or plan God had for me. I submitted

my entire life to Him, totally.At that point, everything changed. By the time I was 21, I

was out of that group doing other things. Getting involved in

the industryreally, really starting to stretch out in the meta-


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physical teachings and information and the people who were

involved in that. All of that accelerated its pace.

I tried working a regular job and going to school for college.None of that happened. I spent a month in a commercial art

schoolhad the job for a summer and all that went away. For

3 years after that point, I just focused on doing as much as

I could to learn as much about what it is God wanted me to do.

Z: Wonderful. What were the major lessons from those ex-

periences?Stanley: The major lessons?

Z: Yeah, you gave usI really like that you gave us the

chronological view. You could go back to any one of those and

say: what were the major lessons that came out of any of those

experiences?

Stanley: The biggest lesson was that I and every individualhave a direct connection to a Higher Source. At that time I

called that Source God. Today, I call that Source The Mighty

I AM Presence. At that time, and during that course of time,

God and the connection was there. I knew I could do things

that were literally impossible, in the normal sense and course

of things. And I did them!

For example, after not working or holding a job for 3 years Im back at home living. My father is: Boy, you need to

get a job. (laughing out loud) Because I wasnt really getting

involvedI was doing the entertainment stuff making a little

bit of money but I wasnt really out there pursuing it. I was

more interested in getting into myself and understanding what

was going on. What we had achieved and how to move thisthing forward at that level. With this connection that Id made

a commitment to. And I know that by keeping that connection

I could do anything.


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When my father said to me I need to get a job, I looked

him in the eye. And this was unheard of, in our culture, grow-

ing up as a Moor because you were always told to respect yourparents and your elders. I looked at my father and said: I will

do what Im going to do. I know what Im doing and Im going

to do it. He didnt say one word and left me alone(chuckles)

and from that point on, never mentioned it again. I went back

to doing what I was doing.

Now, I was doing positive things except that during that

course of time Id gotten involved in the performing arts. I wasdoing dance; African-American dance, modern dance, jazz

eventually advanced into bally. I was an artist doing a lot of art

work. Painting murals in peoples homes, you know. Designing

flyers, commercial stuff like that. Martial arts that Id started

at 17 accelerated because a lot of Buddhist, Hindu teachings

was coming through that. That was actually helping me to

understand a lot more of where I was going because of those

teachings.

Somebody gave me a book called: Krishna: The Supreme

Personality Godhead. This thing was almost 3 - 4 inches

thick. It became my regular study because it was talking about

the supreme personality, this being that had this ability to do

all these phenomenal things. I was into that thing like youknowit was the (pause) very breath I breathed. I was in it

everyday. (chuckles) Because it was something I thought I

needed to understand. And it was tapping into some of these

experiences that I was having.

The biggest lesson out of it was to keep that connection.

I was doing it consciously. I got a job one time, Zayd. It was

working at a newspaper doing ad layouts. I went to the jobah, this lasted about a month. Didnt really care for the job,

even though I wanted to have the experience. I had an inven-


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tory of things I needed to learn, to do what I wanted to do. I

knew what I wanted to do. Always did! And I was pursuing it

through this connection that I had.I went to this job and decided that I didnt want to do this

anymore. The whole thing with newspaper deadlines and all

that kind of stuff. So I left the job knowing that there wouldnt

be an issue going to the next level. I had to let it go because

I was not comfortable there. In my mind, the wisdom was:

Why are you here, if you dont want to be in the job. You are

holding this job up, keeping it away from someone who wouldenjoy having this job. You have no right to be here if you dont

want to be here. Open that job up for somebody else. I said:

Ok, thats what Im going to do. If thats the logic, then Im

out of here.

Within a week, I got a call from a national company to

come in to work, making 15 bucks [an hour] as a freelance

artist full-time. Within six months of that, I went to the Vice

President of the company and said: Look I want a full-time

job on payroll as staff. He said: Fine, youve got it. Within a

week of that, I bought my first condominium; (laughing) first

piece of property.

Now granted, for 3 years prior to that, I had no regular

job. Its not like I had an application to put jobs down I hadworked for 3 years. I was just doing the stuff that I men-

tioned. That one month the newspaper was the first job I had

and I walked out of that job and got picked up and within six

months of that bought my first piece of real estate.

Z: So what was that about?

Stanley: It was about that connection. You asked me aboutthe lesson. The lesson was trusting that connection that I had so

much that I was willing to use that wisdomof course I knew


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I didnt like that first job. And I said: Look Im holding it up.

I trusted that Presence to put me in the proper place by follow-

ing the wisdom of the Law. The Law says: Look, Stanley yourenot comfortable here. You dont want to be here. Youre holding

it up. You dont want to be here if youre holding this job up

for somebody else. Leave it for somebody that would enjoy this

job. I trusted that Presence to put me in the right place and

boomdone it. Walked and it took care of mebam.

I ended up being at Chein Industries, a national company,

in the art department there. They were a manufacturer of toys,house ware products, giftware products, that kind of stuff. I

went in there as one of their, you knowa designer and ended

up being the Senior Designer and Assistant to the Vice Presi-

dent, by the time Id gotten done.

I still applied it because even before Id gotten there, Id done

things like I met my wife for the first time. She came and livedwith us for a while. She was trying to find a job. She came to me

one time and she said: Look, we need to have some money com-

ing in. I said: Thats not an issue. Come with me. Hopped in my

fathers car; rode down the highway. Pulled over to this restau-

rant; walked in and asked for the owner. This is how the Power

of the Presence [of God worked]. I was this confidentabout this

connection with God because I had these experiences all of mylife. I walked in this place, I said: Is the business owner here?

He said: Im the business owner. I said: We want a job. He said:

What can you do? I said: We can dance. (chuckles) He said:

Show me! He put money in this juke box; my wife and I danced.

He hired us to teach ballroom dancing, right on the spot.

Z: Wow (laughing)

Stanley: (laughing) I looked at my wife and said: See thats

not an issue. Its not about the money. (laughs) It happened


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that quickly. She said something like: We need to have mon-

ey coming in. I said: Come with me. We got in my Dads

car; drove down the highway; and it happened that fast. It wasdone. (chuckles)

Z: Thats greatAny other lessons Stan?

Stanley: Well, you know. There are some other lessons. That

is the biggest one and always will be the biggest one is to keep

that Presence first and keep that connection open because thats

what sustained me and continues to sustain me to this day.But the other lessons are (pause) that in the course of main-

taining that connection, you will find the greater responsibility

you are willing to take on, the greater the pressure. You have

to become accustomed to that pressure because if not other

people would call it problems or barriers and limitations. Its

really not that at all. Its pressure. Pressure, as I learned, is a

natural Law. Its a kind of resistance.

Its like when you want to be a champion athlete, youve

got to get out and train hard and this, that, and the other. I

learned that in the martial arts, youve got to work for it. If you

want to be a black belt youve got to get to that point. Youre

going to have to battle some black belts to become one. And

that pressure causes you to want to really dig within yourselfand discover this newness and this greatness about yourself in

your core. Theres no limit to that, if youre willing to stand up

to it. Like anything else, if you work at it, it becomes easy at

some point. But, thats when you know you have to become

alert because the minute that thing becomes easy youd better

be on your guard. Thats the other lesson. Youd better be on

your guard. If things are starting to look rosy, youd better go

out and do something else to put some more effort; to apply

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Because, you know, theres this phrase that says only God

is great. (pause) Well when you want that greatness you have

to think in terms of, if God is the greatness thats out here, itrequires a tremendous amount of effort to get to that level of

(pause) God Dominion, if you want to call it that. Where God

can truly express Himself fully through you. And you have to

be practical and think to yourself: Am I really applying my-

self to that level? Well, no youre not! (chuckles, then laughs

a lot) And everybody can answer that question the same way.

Because if youre asking the question, you obviously have notachieved that God Dominion. (longer pause)

Thats where I had to be honest with myself and continue

to apply myself, regardless of what the things were around me.

And its to the point whereit does come to that point. For

everybody out there that has made major contributions to hu-

manity, they all had to look at themselves in the mirror and

basically starewhateverIll call it death for lack of a better

wordstare death in the face. Not that they were always being

threatened by their life, but something calls them to the carpet

and says: Look, its either all or none. No matter how good

they are. No matter how high theyve gone. They all have come

to that point where Life says: Its either all or nothing. And

thats a test.Its a test of the athlete that wants to be a champion. The

athlete that wants to be a champion knows that: I have to give

it my all. I cant skip any steps, because once I become cham-

pion, everybodys coming after me. So this process is support;

to go through every step; to put forth that pressure to know

every step of the way to that championship so that when I get

there I can maintain that position.Thats everybody on this planet that wants to achieve

anything worthwhile. Those throughout history havegone


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through that same process of achieving. They take on greater

responsibility. They have paid their dues in order to handle

that responsibility. And they take on greater responsibility.And at some point should their desires to serve mankind be

such, Life says: You are the Master! You have demonstrated

your ability to master Life. And the heavens open up. You have

there the Buddhas, the Jesus, the Ghandis. Those folks in the

world that have conquered it alland without a dime in their

pockets. Major contributors to mankind; and without a dime

in their pockets.

Z: Are there any other lessons?

Stanley: (laughing out loud) Wellthere are some other les-

sons in terms of responsibility. I learned that we have to take on

greater responsibility regardless of who you are. I say that in terms

of youth. One of the fallacies our youth are dealing with today. Is

that, you have to do this and you have to do that and you have todo this to be successful; to be happy in life. Go to college.

Well, it hasnt been proven true. Because all the adults you

hear that are nowin control if you want to call it thatthat

are running industry and government have gone to college and

havent created a better world than it was when they were chil-

dren. If you look at the outer, we still have poverty. The onlything that we can look at truly that may have advanced, that

still has not gotten rid of poverty is technology. Tell metech-

nology has advanced leaps and bounds. We still have poverty.

So something isnt clicking.

With all the intellectual people that we have in the world

we still havent figured out how to get rid of poverty; how to get

rid of wars; how to get rid of disease. I feel thats largely basedon the fallacy that we have to get all of this intellectual, educa-

tional [academic] type of experiences as opposed to looking


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within ourselves and applying ourselves based on handling

greater responsibility.

Because once you get into yourself, you realize that expe-rience is really what you become. Youre the culmination of

everything that youve experienced in life. Well, that being the

case and you consider that you are that accumulation of life ex-

perience; you should be brilliant. You should be a God being.

But our attention is directed to the things outside of us. The

thingsthe material things. Get a job. Buy stuff. Retire and

buy more stuff. Youre enjoying life. Youre going to retire. Wellthat hasnt proven to make people happy at all. It has proven

that we can accumulate things. It has done that. But accumu-

lating those things are only temporaryahpoints of, I guess,

emotional satisfaction. Thats all they are. Youre just feeding

your emotions for a moment. Then youre back to your depres-

sions and your drudgery and those conditions of the world.

No one has proven those things to make you happy. There-

fore, we have all those generations that have gone by and we see

our youth, at this point now, facing these issues. Well, look I got

things. Im a teenager. I got cell phones. I got calculators.

I got computers. I got all this stuff. I got the internet. I got

music. I got widescreen TVs. AndI g-o-t p-r-o-b-l-e-m-s.

They also have something that we may not have had grow-ing up. And that I see, I have to say seebecause its them, its

not meIm looking back. Im looking at our young people to-

day and Im seeing them really cryingstriving for something

inside of them to come through. That they can anchor into,

because they can feel it.

They dont want what the adults have. They got the stuff.

But, when they look at that individual called adult, they dontwant that. They see unhappy people telling them, by their ac-

tions, that they have to go to college, go to work and retire,


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when their too old to enjoy it and wither away and die. The

young people dont like that picture. Theyre rebelling furi-

ously. The rebellion is not so much rebellion in a negative way;theres something inside of them that knows better. And they

want that. And its called Freedom. Its Freedom based on the

God within them wanting to express and experience Perfec-

tion. All this stuff in the world will never allow a young person

or an individual to do that. (Silence)

Z: Is this just for young people?Stanley: No, its not. Ill qualify it by saying. Everybodys

creative. Meaning that all the stuff we have out here; all the

education that we have; if it does not allow you to express the

ideas, the ideals, the principles, the ethics, the morals that you

feel within your own heart (silence) then youre never going to

be happy. You might as well just pack up your bags.

Thats what people are doing. (chuckles) Not literally pack-ing up their bags. But the average adult today is in a conundrum;

in a sense that their saying: Well, you know Ive got to work

because of my benefits and my retirement. Now Im not happy

in my job. I dont see my ideas implemented. I dont have the

freedom to create and express these things that are within me,

but Ive got to do this. Well, in other eras and in other places inthe worldwhere you are bound to do things you dont want

to do, they call that slavery. They also call it communism. Be-

cause you are relying on things outside of yourself, to sustain

you. (silence)

In America, where your constitution, our constitution says

you have the freedom to prosper; you know life, liberty, and

the pursuit of happiness. Those kinds of things and we have aconstitution to protect the right to allow us to do that. Its not

based on these things. Its based on that [God] Presence inside


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of you. Thats why this country accelerated and advanced so

quickly. At one time, and we still do, but at one time we lived it.

And the entire world benefited from it.Five thousand years prior to that constitution there was

very little progress on this planet. People need to understand

that. And look at that issue. The fact, that they were carting

stuff by mules in Moses time and they were carting things us-

ing mules and donkeys and horses in Colonial times. Why is it

that from 1787 to whatever timea hundred years after that

200 years were putting people on the moon? How come all ofa sudden were able to do that and it wasnt happening in any

other nation anywhere else? (pause)

Cause theres something about it. And it has to do with

that constitution and the fact that they acknowledged God

first, instead of the King. And gave people the right to pursue

God; their God Dominion in this nation. Which means that

the creativityall that creativity isthat is the essence of God.

God creates. The Creator! That Creator exists within every in-

dividual. And this nation was designed to allow that Creator to

express Itself through every individual. And we are living the

benefits of that today.

Now we have an obligation, if we want to see this world

continue to prosper, to make sure that happens with our youngpeople. And the way to do thatthe most effective way to do

that is to allow that Presence to express Itself through us, so

they can see that Light expand. The adults need to come out of

the closetthat believe in God and accept the word of God as

their own and show the young people thatthats what Life is

all about. And well all be happier for it.

Z: Yes. I bear witness.

Stanley: (Laughs out loud)


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Z: Were there any key relationships through this journey

that come to mind?

Stanley: Absolutely! And Ill start with family. The first one,we talked about me. The next connectionthe strong relation-

shipme and God, then its family and God. You know, its

funny, Zayd. I put up a websiteits my background. Im start-

ing to put together my story on this website. One of my quotes

that I put up on this thing is: Family is a group word. (chuck-

les) Thats it! (laughs out loud) You know, group. We need to be

reminded of that today. Family is a group word. Its not you, me,that other person. Its all of us together. It means being together;

doing things together; you know, all that kind of stuff.

Well, somebody saw my quote and responded. It was kind

of neat, because sheI guess was inspired and wrote the word

family and she broke the syllables down. Fam i ly. Then,

she rearranged them. The rearrangement ended up being I

AM FLY. Then she went on and she put I AM Flying. Then

she went: I AM Flying means I AM FREE. (laughing out loud)

I was like: Whew. Thats powerful! Were going to post that

comment! (laughing out loud, both of us)

Matter of fact, when I talked to her later, I said: I was look-

ing at your phrasing and how you did this thing. She structured

itin a structure, a pattern. I said: You know, I looked at it andI saw something I never saw before. I saw the fly before, you

know, I am fly. She took it to the point of I AM Flying which

means I AM Free. But, I saw for the first time, and she didnt

see it. I saw FLY rearranged to create the word LYF Life. I AM

Life is in the word family.

Outside of the connection with God; that being the first

and most important relationship is family. God put family to-gether for a reason. I value it. I value highly my marriagemy

relationship with my children because they allow me to excel


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and experience things that I would never be able to do within

my own self. Because theres a reflection thereTheres a state-

ment by Beloved Master Jesus that says: The world is a mirrorthat reflects what you put out. That is so evident within your

household, with you family. Its unbelievable (laughs out loud).

I think we ignore it. I think today especiallythere are so many

divorces, this, that. and the other.

Thats based on what the Ascended Masters say, they say:

People avoid others because they cant control themselves.

(laughs out loud) In a family, in a household, you are forced todeal with yourself. (Laughs out loud) So instead of dealing with

themselves, accepting the responsibility of self-development,

self-leadership, self-esteem, self-control, self-correction WE

DIVORCE. And thats the worse thing you can do.

One of the principles of the constitutionbecause the

constitution was designed to protect the familyisactually

about family. They felt that the strengthWell, it actually says

it right here, I have it in my hand now. The core unit which

determines the strength of any society is the family; therefore,

the government should foster and protect its integrity. Thats

because the family is (pause) largely a home, a house of God.

When you think in terms of a house of God, it reallyyou

have a Temple, the body as a Temple. You bring people together.You start to represent something greater than that. Government

stems from the structure of a family. Youve got people working

togethershould be working together in cooperation. You set

up rules and regulations. You have a stronger unit. You can do

more together as a group than you can separately. Thats what

families represent. Its extremely important that families work

together and cooperate together and so forth.That relationship is as valuable as the one with God. If you

can do that happily and harmoniouslyoutside of your direct


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connection with God that is probably one of the greatest ways

of showing praise and gratitude to God; to work real hard to

maintain a happy and harmonious household.The benefits are limitless because in that exercise, in that

training and experience. If you can do that in your own house-

hold, where you get really challenged the most because they

know your hot buttons and everything. (chuckles) You can

certainly handle everything once you leave that door. Thats

why I feel a lot of children who have broken households; they

dont have the benefit of the direct experience of developingwithin that dynamic of a household and a family. Therefore,

theyre less prepared when they walk out into the rest of the

world. (silence)

How do you learn to deal in groups? Now youre out with

somebody who doesnt have [that experience]. In a family you

can get away with a lot more. I can have an argument with you,

if you were my brother, and the next day wed be out party-

ing together. Out there in the worldah ah, I dont think so.

(laughs out loud) Youre not part of my family. Guess what

I could be partying with you and setting you up for the next,

whatever it is. Thats the benefit of having family. We all know

that. We all know that with family you can get away with things

because thats family. Thats Love. Well forgive a family mem-ber anytime before [we forgive] what happened with someone

else. I dont care how good your friends are; theyre still not

your family.

Z: Thats right!

Stanley: And you can prove that. Let one of their family

members show up. It could be your best friend, something willhappen. Im sure people have had the experience and there has

to be a choice made whether its family or them. Well, guess


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what? Best friend, I love you, but this is the deal. This is where

the line gets drawn.

Z: Excellent! Were there any other relationships that were

key to helping you learn and develop this perspective around

Freedom?

Stanley: Yes. I would say being in business almost all my

life. My relationships with business owners. I came to appreci-

ate being independent. It started with being an artist, really.

And having the freedom to create things and watching ideasmanifest fromjust out of the blue. An idea would come and

end up on a piece of paper, on a canvas, or on a design. Work-

ing the dancers and watching all these creative people just do

things that were out right phenomenal. Then I realized there

was even a higher level to that because artists were expressing

themselves and allowing people to enjoy it. Get a lift emotion-

ally, spiritually, and so forth.What business owners were doing through their creative

expression was providing (pause) for our future. (pause) And

that put me in a whole different level of respect for freedom

and independence. A business owner has the ability to draw to

him or herself resources and support that no one else can. To

put something together in terms of the business, to provide forpeople to sustain themselves and pursue their God Dominion.

And they couldnt do it themselves.

I have a whole different respect for individuals who decide

to become business owners. Because of their ability to draw like

a magnet resources and support, people and all kinds of things

out of thin air. An idea, just like a traditional artist would do

except theyre moving people and machinery and produce andan idea. All those things that nature itself seems to just come

together behind one persons desire to provide what they feel is


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an idea they have so that peoples lives can be enriched. Thats

powerful to me.

Ive had relationships with literally hundreds of businessowners since being a child up to nowit may even be thousands

because of what Ive done with the newspapers and the radio.

Reaching out, touching people, getting responses and all.

I feel thats a big part of what this country is about. When

you say independence. I really feel that the business owner

today is the pure representative of the scope of what indepen-

dence means and how far reaching it can be. It can go aroundthe globe. I feel these independent business owners are also in

the practical sense probablythe way I would put it is through-

out mankinds history weve always had these spiritual people

that would show up. We call them Saints, call them disciples,

call them Buddhas, call them whatever you want. But, there

was always someone they connected to who would champion

their cause and bring the people together. That person applied

the Law to allow the people to come together to become in-

dustrious and so forth and so on. Well, I looked at that person

as an entrepreneur. Because they were able to marshal these

people and get them to pull together, and build and plow and

all those kinds of things.

Thats what I see happening today. I see you have a spiritualmovement going on but yet you have these people who have

these ideals and principles, who are called business owners.

Who are able to marshal the resources and to make it available

to people who have the desire to build and inspire and enrich

lives and express their creativity. I give that to business owners.

Theyre the ones that allow the produce to get from the farms

to somebodys plate or table. Without them having the abil-ity to do that, it wouldnt happen. Because those at the farm

who are harvesting, theyre not the ones that are making that


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transportation work. Theyre not the ones that are getting it to

the market to allow the product to be packed and shipped and

doing all those things.I feel the responsibility of a business owner is key. I feel

that today we have drifted away from the core principles of

the constitution. We are being forced back into them. In the

sense that business owners have to now live with a lot of things

around them that they really didnt bank on, in terms of the

resources they have access to. There seems to be a lot more

players now because we have a global economy. The dynamicsare that those who have are thinking, I want to keep mine to

my own self, rather than spreading the wealth.

Thats causing grassroots business owners to say: Wait

a minute. Whats going on? The pie is not getting bigger, its

getting smaller. The resources on the planet have not got-

ten less. Theres still the same amount of real estate. The

same abundance is in the United States; here and now, more

so than when the Founding Fathers were here. There are

parts of natural resources in this country that have not been

touched. We started shipping stuff out, bringing produce in

from other countries.

Its not that we lack the real estate and the resources to

manufacture or harvest that produce. Were still relying onother countries to do it because the labor is cheaper. We still

have oil in our lands; in the United States as much as they have

in Asian countries. But, their labor is cheaper.

So, were dealing with a lot of things that we werent bank-

ing on thats causing us to have to look within ourselves. I feel

thats going to be a very positive movement and direction of us

gaining more of our spirituality or independence in this coun-try. I think were being forced back to those core principles. We

do not, in the United States of America, have to rely on outside


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resources, outside of this country, to enrich this country and

take it forward. We dont have to do that.

Z: As youre talking about Freedom. Youre talking aboutresponsibility and entrepreneurship, Business Owners. In your

experience what would be the most important or dominant

principles, values that would make a new business owner suc-

cessful?

Stanley: Your timing couldnt be better. Back in 1996, when

I founded The National Society of American Business Own-ers (NSABO), I pretty much based its principles around the

constitution. Actually I have a list of principles. I call it The

Principles of American Business Ownership Development. It

is the method that Ive developed since 1984. I used it in my

consulting and marketing business and so forth and so on for

years. It was proven and I refined it. Then, as I said in 1996,

founding the NSABO, I just brought those principles to thesurface, I have them here. There are a total of 12 principles.

The first three are:

1. That all mankind are created equal by God for the pur-

pose of pursuing and expressing Perfection.

2. America is the birthplace of Freedom allowing us to

pursue the highest ideals of Perfection.3. Business owners have a tremendous influence on others,

including family members, the communities, business

associates and fellow citizens.

An example of that is someone can have a vending cart

selling apples. They can hire an employee to work and sell the

same apples; same hours of the day, right across the street. Well,

guess what? Who has more power still? The business owner!

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And that person has as much power as Motts Apple Pie

people, because theyre a business owner. They can call a sup-

plier of apples and get the same respect as the owner of MottsApple Pies, because theyre business owners. Thats how much

influence they have. But, they need to understand that. They

need to understand thats a responsibility. And that because of

the position they have influence, they can make things change.

They can walk through a room and depending on their attitude

they can cause people to be inspired, very productive or ruin

their entire lives, ruin their whole weekend. Thats somethingwhich they are responsible for. The next principle:

4. Business owners as a group of individuals with high ide-

als, morals, values and ethics given a single focus could

dramatically heighten the state and progress of America

and the world.

This was demonstrated in our American industrial, fi-

nancial, technological and information revolutions. The next

principle:

5. Business ownership is a career

One thing Ive found over the years is that when you be-

come a business owner, youre not thinking Well, Im going

to go to school and become a business owner. Somehow you

just happen to start a business. Ive heard people say theres no

place to go to school to learn to be a business owner. Up until

the National Society of American Business Owners (NSABO),

really there wasnt. Were not that well known yet, as far as tra-

dition goes. Its not like, oh, Ill go to school to learn at the

NSABO. Its not that at all. But the reality is, business owner-


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ship is a career, a professionand here is the principle. It is a

way of life that must be continually developed into mastery as

with any other professional craft.Youre a lawyer. Guess what? You have to go to school for

law, pass the bar and this, that, and the other. But, if youre the

boss who owns the law firm; guess what? Thats a whole differ-

ent ball game. You have a greater responsibility than the lawyer

that you hire. That is a profession, being a business owner,

though were not structured that way.

Thats one of the things that NSABO is addressing, to getthe word out. Look, you need to focus on the skills of business

ownership and develop them. Regardless of what direction

whether it is law, food, restaurant, whatever it is. Business own-

ership is a career. You need to learn what that means and the

implications of it. The next one:

6. Ownership means responsibility. Anyone who takes re-

sponsibility for their actions and influence is accepting

ownership.

That broadens the scope of traditional business ownership.

That means that an individual who is working for somebody,

who takes the responsibility of caring for that place, can havethe same feeling of ownership as the actual business owner that

invested all the money.

That is something that was taught to me when I was grow-

ing up. That if I work for somebody, I can look at that job, at

that business as my own. Why would I do that? You know, its

not my business. Im not getting any of the profits. Well, lets

think about it. If I accept the place where I work, the com-

pany, as my own business; how would I treat it? Would I trash

the place? Would I abuse the resources? No. Like that business


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owner, I would see it as an investment. I would put all my Best

into that thing.

I would apply my work ethics and my energies to it be-cause; guess what? I might leave this place one day and what

will I have on my resume if I treat it as my own. What kind of

recommendations would I get if I treated it as my own?

If I abuse it, theres a chance I might not get the next job I

want to get. I might not get the next opportunity to advance

up the ranks. Thats where, in corporate America, I feel the

position of intrapreneurship, that whole philosophy camefrom. There are people who have said to themselves: Look,

Im treating this as my own. This is my time going into it; my

energies going into it; Im going to max this thing out. They

become just as viable to that business as the owner himself,

even though technically they dont own it. But the benefits are

still there. So we need to look at the opportunity that we have

of taking responsibility in the business. Treat it as your own.

I say this to students in high school: Look, this school

is yours. You own it. These people work for you. They look

at me and they go: Ah, what do you mean? Why would we

want to do that? Well, think about it. You have copiers; you

have computers; you have libraries; you have equipment; you

have gymnasiums; you have teachers that have expertise. If youtreat it like your own and you r-e-a-l-l-y treat it like your own:

What would you be like? (pause) This is yours. Make it what

you want. If you use it to your advantageOh my goodness

Imagine what young people would look like; if they treated it

like their own?

Youre not going to trash your mp3 player or your home

computer. And thats part of the principles. Accepting full re-sponsibility for individual actions taken; makes that individual

a business owner. The next one is:


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7. Business ownership development requires discipline,

initiative, andcourage.

Because youve really got to stand up against the things that

want to draw you off. Theres always somebody who sees you

doing good and they think to themselves: Well, I dont want

you doing good cause its not me. And you might get more than

I have. And theyre going to try to pull you off. Youve got to

have the courage to stand up against that. Next one:

8. Creativity

[This] is something that everybody has and not everyone

will claim they have it. Theres no way you can survive in this

world without creativity. God is creating. Gods in you. Guess

what? The Creator is in you. Create! The next one:

9. Training and a commitment to sound principles.

That commitment to sound principles is kind of where we

are today, in terms of our constitution and our government

and society. To get away from those sound principles of moral-

ity and ethics and religion and spirituality is insane. You dontwant to get away from those things.

10. Ownership is exercising ones independence.

The freedom to pursue and express Perfection. Expressing

ones full Freedom and God-given rights helps to preserve and

protect the God ideals of our United States constitution. Thismeans protection and hope for the rest of the world. Its not like

the rest of the world doesnt know it. Because to this day, re-


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gardless of what people in our country, our own citizens think

about this country; there are more people trying to get here

than any other nation on this planet. Still.The last two principles are:

11. Our obligation to Life is to serve all Life by pursuing

Perfection. Expanding it and protecting the Freedom to

do so.

Again, thats getting back to the example of understandingthat you are a person; a business owner is a person that has

influence. You are also an example and thats why its a respon-

sibility. You might not think youre an example, but people are

watching you because youre a business owner. You stand out. I

dont care who you are, whether you just have a vending cart

youre working from your computer outside of your home, or

inside your home. Youre still going to draw more attentionthan the average person.

For whatever reason, I know theres something greater than

that. Something more spiritual about it that I couldnt explain.

They have some spiritual aspect to them that allows them to

become a magnet to draw people to them; and get the respect

for that. So you have to be careful with it.

The last principle is:

12. Universal laws, natural laws, as claimed by the found-

ing fathers, govern all activity throughout the entire

universe.

Theres no such thing as the laws of success here, dont ap-

ply in India; or in Africa; or some remote country. The same

universal laws of life here, exist everywhere else on the uni-

verse. (pause) That concludes the principles.


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Z: Excellent! Ah man, WOW! Two questionsone is: Is

there anything else you want to say about Freedom?

Stanley: I pretty much said it all. Im sitting here contem-plating. I always want to make sure that people understand,

our first commitment: Thou shall have no other God before

Me. That it is putting God first. That allows us to have that

Freedom. The Freedom to do that, put God first, is the most

valuable Freedom we have. (laughs out loud) And we should

do it constantly. That would be it.

Z: Thats the perfect place to stop. WOW! (chuckles) Man

this is something brother. I thank you so much for this. My

feeling is its going to help a whole lot of people. This is some-

thing far beyond what I think it is because its being ignited and

driven by the God Presence, The God Power. Im convinced.


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K e y I n s I g h t s o n

Frdm

Freedom is just thathaving the right, the privilege, thehonor to allow Gods Life, Gods Perfection to expressthrough you without interruption from outside forces oreven your own human consciousness.

Freedom is the individuals obligation to become one withthe Presence of Life in them; to allow that to flow throughfreely and express Its Perfection.

Every individual has some kind of connection with some great-er Power. And if giving attention to that, It would flow.

The greater responsibility you are willing to take on, the

greater the pressure.

We have to take on greater responsibility regardless ofwho you are.

Freedom to create and express these things that are withinyou.

Dealing with yourself. Accepting the responsibility of self-development, self-leadership, self-esteem, self-control,and self-correction.

You can do more together as a group than you can separate-ly. Thats what families represent. Its extremely importantthat families work together and cooperate together.

One of the greatest ways of showing praise and gratitudeto God is to work real hard to maintain a happy and har-monious household.


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Appreciate being independent and having the freedom to

create things and watch ideas manifest.Desire to provide what you feel is an idea you have so thatpeoples lives can be enriched.

The desire to build and inspire and enrich lives and expresstheir creativity.

Accepting full responsibility for individual actions taken

Dcii pi frm i capr: Decide what you dont want to do anymore Decide to become

K Rlaiip ad Rl f Ifluc Father example; support Aunts and Uncles - examples

Friends study group, business partners Wife support; partner Family cooperate together; experience more Business owners examples; influence; demonstrate

high ideals and principles

What do these key insights, decisions, and relationshipsmean to you, for your personal development?

How can you apply these key insights, decisions, and rela-tionships to enhance the development and growth of yourchildren, co-workers, or employees?

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