Age New Spirituality - Spirituality Interview (Q4)

Yanik Silver: Well, let's go on a different track now.to get, I got to get and I can't give, because if I give I
We've talked about all the different three areas. Butwill have less." You have unconsciously or maybe
let's talk about some place where I've spent a lot ofconsciously used one of the methods of amassing
time and where I know probably people that arewealth. And you can, you know, only have to amass
listening to this want to talk about, and that's buildingmillions if you so choose. You are one of the guys I will
wealth and creating abundance of money. What's ourbet on. You could make billions. I don't know what you'd
spiritual path to developing abundance of wealth?do with it.
John Harricharan: Actually I think it's not very differentAnd you might be bored with that too. But one of
from being healthy and also from getting the bestthings you do is you give it away, so it comes back to
relationships. I think there are certain -- it's like threeyou, tenth or a hundredth times. People who are in
different meals, each one being great, but there mightyour field of internet marketing don't realize that they
be a preference for one over the other ones. And I,are looking at how can I get this affiliate system going,
who came from a family of 12 -- imagine that -- I'm thehow can -- now, those are important things too. But I
eldest son of 12 children.think more important of that is to get to the point
Yanik Silver: I didn't know that.where the focus is not totally on how much I'd get. I
John Harricharan: Oh yeah! And it was in a little farmingthink the focus should be what will I give to get how
and fishing village where it was really tough to makemuch I want. And many times if you give a service or
living. And I'm the first one who went to high school,you give a product. And you create those, because
who went to college, and one of the very few whopeople need them. And you are divinely inspired to do
left to get an education overseas. It was amazing howthat, which is what you did, starting with Instant sales
that went from a little village to today.letter. You gave a tremendous product to the world,
And it's no different with wealth, because in thoseand they thank you, thank you for it.
days a penny was a lot of money; a quarter was a lotYou know, how they thank you? Just like I asked
of money. And I imagine a lot of us could tell thoseRichard Bach once. I said, Richard -- and he and I had
stories. But it was a feeling that if I needed to do all theconversations that were stranger than things we
things, if I wanted to do all the things I need to do, therewrote in our books. I said, Richard, "What is the secret
will be an influx of the ways to do it, the money to doof money, having made so much and lost it all too and
it....then got it back?
Now, many times I found that, yes, I could sit down andHe said, John, the secret of making a lot of money is
plan the greatest strategy on earth. And I've done thatthis: Give your gift as beautifully as you can to the
and made a lot of money out of it. But with thatworld and the world would say thank you. And I
comes a kind of a -- also, let's say, a burden. Ithought, oh, that's when I asked this great man about,
remember living and it was a 10,000 square footthis is what he says. The world will say thank you.
house. That was a big house. That was a beautiful"Man, I'd be a multimillionaire if I banked all the thank you
thing, custom-built ,almost a 100,000 gallon swimmingpeople give me. I said, come on, Richard, that's it?"
pool in the back, and that's the one by the way whereHe says, "You didn't let me finish. Here is how the
Richard Bach and I and his wife had dinner. And Iworld says thank you. They send you cash. Now, I
remember thinking, look at all of these beautiful things.started thinking. "Ah, how do they do that, may I ask?"
There's a lot of money, I don't have to worry aboutHe says, "Well, let me give you an example. We were
that.broke. We had gone through bankruptcy, and we
But all through it there was a kind of a sadness. Iwere almost starving. But then we put together a
would be sitting in the jacuzzi, in the pool, and I wouldbook called "Bridge Across Forever". It was our gift.
be -- way before cell phones -- will be talking to aAnd we sent it out to the world. It was the best we
counterpart in Africa in one of those giant portablecould do. And the world said thank you buy buying my
phones -- this time when those didn't exist. And yetbook. And every time someone bought my book,
there was this sadness. I'd stand by, look at the moon,there was a little bit added to another little bit
look at the sky and say, "John, why aren't you assomeplace. And before you knew it, we were out of
happy as the proverbial hog so to say?" And I couldn'tour poverty. That's how we make this money."
understand why because I had -- Here's the differenceSo in the internet area -- and, you know, I watch what
I had, everything to live with, nothing to live for.goes on. I get a gazillion newsletters, everybody selling
And so, maybe that's one of the reasons I created thesomething that this is the best thing in the world and
situation which caused me to lose all of that to findyou've got to get this. And those are good things,
myself again. And so, if we want -- Money is not bad.except that the purpose behind them, the intent behind
Never have I thought so. In fact, I think money is verythem are not. It's -- most people are thinking, well, let's
important. And if somebody tells me that money is notsee if I could put this thing together and if I could force
important, I'd wonder what else they'd lie aboutit to get to 100 people to buy it, and they all make $100
because it's up there in importance with things like airfrom each one, that will be $10,000. That will be great...
and food and so forth. So it's important, but it's a tool.I think most people could do it by stepping back a little
It's a tool. Money is GOD in action, if you will, and itbit and looking at what they want and creating a
helps us do some of the most marvelous things wesystem to bring them the money they want than just
could do.shooting for the money. One other comment on that.
Take for example, because of your affluence andMany years ago after I had lost everything, I met a
your abundance -- I have always admired this aboutwise old man, a top psychic. And he looked at me and
you, but I knew it about you even before you knewhe said, "You know, John, you will make all the money
that I knew. You think of somebody in thein the world that you want, whether that be a 1,000
Make-A-Wish Foundation whose -- and a quite abucks or 100,000 or a million. You will make all the
number of them whose dreams were fulfilled becausemoney in the world that you want to make when
you exist.money is not as important as it is to you right now."
If you were working, making $20,000 a year, wouldWhat he was saying was at that time, I had
you have been able to make that possible for a bunchhypnotized myself to thinking that I couldnt do anything.
of kids? Take again your contributions to so manyThe most important thing I needed to do was to make
charities like Toys for Tots and so many others I don'tmoney. And so in your field there are a few people
even know about, that you don't even tell peoplewho teach good things and the way to deal with it.
about, because of the special guy you are. ButAnd yes, the mechanics are important. One has to
because of your wealth, you have been able to help aknow what an affiliate system is before he or she
lot of people change their lives.starts really doing it properly and then honing one's skill
I have never known you as the guy who says, "I gotlike a musician does or a martial arts teacher does.