My Last Blog Post

We are coming to a close, with the last webinar up for coming Sunday, and it is not going to be recorded, clearly an indication that this is a wrap!

It’s been quite a journey, having each day since the beginning of the course impregnated by its combined wisdom, its demanding routine, requiring discipline and control at first, then gradually becoming an integral part of your day-to-day mental activity that challenges and invites.

Something to look forward to, making you happy with inviting recognition. Because you have noticed progress and change.

No, it became clear that my DMP (Definite Major Purpose) has yet to manifest, and only one of my SMART goals have materialised, but this gave me the conviction that it can be done knowing that I can manifest what I create in thought, in silence and in Truth, by forming mental images of conditions desired (Charles Haanel, The Master Key System, 24:6 to 9).

I started out doing the course at one of the most pivotal points in my life.

had survived a category 4 metastatic cancer, which after a year’s treatment and 2 years recovery had left me dealing with some destroyed vertebrae, a titanium plate mounted onto my lower spine, and the ongoing, daily choice between paralysing pain or dealing with the effects and side effects of strong opiates.

I had lost my income, my savings, not much later my partner wanted me out of our communal home because we were finished as a couple, and with the mortgage in her name the forced separation was dictated on her terms.

I didn’t get the opportunity to move my belongings or my recording studio out, and suddenly had lost my dog, my olive grove and everything else. 

I slept out in the streets for a few months, until I found on a vacant lot an abandoned pump house without a roof or front door. This became my home for three months.

The lessons of Haanel, Mandino, Hill, Emerson, Franklin, the webinars and exercises gave me the framework that kept me focused on my desired future and the person I wanted to become.

By working on this I held on to a daily routine, at times torn apart by the hardship of circumstances and the perceived distance to where I wanted to be. I was challenged to forgive, to stop looking back, to remain in the present moment, to give and receive and to control my thoughts.

In retrospect I made baby steps progressing onward. 

When the storm DANA hit the area, killing 215 people, with over 37,000 rescued, 135,000 houses destroyed and more than a 100,000 cars washed away, I got soaked and the mud came to my knees. This was when I cried out for help.

After being given refuge for a week by kind strangers, I got support from a Cancer Patients Help Organisation. They found me placement in a shelter for persons on the edge of society, people with severe chronic pathologies, in a city unknown to me.

Here I share a room with another patient, and with 18 strangers and a team of coordinators. This is where I am to this day, looking, thinking forward to the opportunity that allows for a place to live on my own, independently.

From there I (will) work on thinking health, harmony, abundance, creative expression, love and friendship.

Already I have come to a deep understanding of moving mountains, the result of “wrong thinking” in the form of doubt, fear, distrust or discouragement. When you hit rock bottom, the only way is up.

You can survive on biscuits, canned sardines and water. You can charge your phone wherever there is a wall outlet. And those shoes were made for walking.

And then you reverse the evidence of the senses (Charles Haanel, The Master Key System, 24:4): think health, harmony, abundance, progress, personal growth and see right through the “evident” signs of poverty and lack, without being opinionated about it.

I know what to do. Concentration, forming mental images, argument and autosuggestion are the tools that I learned to operate with. 

This is where the real journey begins.

I am eternally thankful for the opportunity you have given me. I wish for you that the Master Key Experience will grow substantially and that the word will spread, so that many more individuals learn to take their lives and destiny into their own hands.

It was a joy to be part is this group of wonderful souls, so diverse and outspoken! I feel humbled.

Murcia, March 28, 2025

Drem B.