Paperzine Bite - Issue #1, October 2002

Linda de Villiers must have been the corporate world's "ideal woman" moving across the spectrum of sales and marketing as though it was second nature to her.  Driven by the need to provide for her young, achieving top level management was the natural consequence of her single-mindedness in placing herself in the secular sphere.

The other side to Linda, however, sought to develop the creative thought process and she made contact with a centre of metaphysics in 1977.  Recognising her natural abilities in this field, she happily went to the USA to study the relevant courses diligently and was ordained as a minister in the early 80's. Yet, she held the belief system that you can't earn a living by helping people.

Developing the creative thought process further and combining that with a holistic desire to assist people, Linda added the study of Reflexology to her rapidly expanding repertoire.  Setting up a clinic in East London, Linda opened her doors to help people deal with personality and perceived strangleholds, using quantum energetics and holographic re-patterning to release them.

Ever ready to face skeptism, Linda invited a panel of ten medical doctors to a breakfast workshop to break down prejudice and misinformation and she succeeded in helping many of them to take a look at the complementary healing routes.  Her clinic swelled to over 4 000 clients.

Spiritual Economics evolved from the growth that Linda was experiencing and an awareness of where she had been previously very clued up in the business world then but lacking the key principles that she now viewed as key.

"The principles I teach", explains Linda enthusiastically, "are universal, multi-versal, so they never change, or go out of fashion nor become ineffective.  I have been a "doer" all my life and it took me a while to stop all by "busyness" and listen.  To start altering my consciousness and release my fears - one being the fear of being without money or without a way to get it.  Many of us still live under the post war concept of "hard work for hard times" - which is a belief in lack, in limitations.  I teach that it works better to 'Save for opportunities' than to negatively save for some expected 'rainy day' if you do the latter, you will find the rainy day will come and you will use your savings for that and not have any over for the opportunities that come."

Driven by the desire to make a difference, Linda saw how people use 'models' to supply the connectedness they seek - they need some 'mediator'.  Religions use a priest, practitioners use crystals, aromas, colours as tools, for example, but Linda sought to connect herself to the source of energy directly, bypassing the need for an assistant or catalyst so to speak.

"I have a clear understanding of how energy works, so I am not afraid and my ability to help also became clearer to me.  When I do a seminar, I use analogies that business people are familiar with to help them get the bigger picture."  Linda explains.  "Like the motherboard in a computer retains all the programming in the memory, we live out the programs of our lives and our life experiences add to that bank of perceptions and knowledge.  The screen is like the playout or the visual of what's inside.  In an 'aha' or moment of awakening, we can look at what's happening on the screen (of our life) and look to new input to clear up negative programming because YOU are at the keyboard of your own life - you are in control.  Sometimes you look at your life and think that someone else must've come up behind you and pressed a key because it doesn't seem to be what you chose.  The reality as I see it, is that you can turn any experience around and receive the lesson and thereby, the blessing intended.  What we need to understand is that it's as easy to press the 'Delete' button as it is to hit the 'Save' key.  When we accept something, or when we react with fear - when we even 'gasp' physically, we crystallize that perception.  It's like pressing the 'Save' button and that becomes part of our programming.  It's just as easy to 'let go' (breathe out physically) to delete or render the perception ineffective.  My best advice is to 'live in the moment' and become creative in the 'now'.  Needs get in the way of the experience,  If you think you need something you're affirming you don't have it.  But by the universal law we can't not have it because we are 'it', we create it.

Spiritual Economics teaches one to live with a grateful heart, to understand what relationship to have with money.  the students at the seminar come away with the four principles of success."