Cosmic Ordering is a recently published book which supposes you can gain whatever you want by “ordering ” it from the “cosmos”.

The idea is that the universe wants you to have everything you desire, but has to balance out other people’s wants with yours. The terms, “Cosmic” and “Ordering” don’t quite hit the spot, though, and two other books contain similar ideas, perhaps better expressed.

In his book, The Voice of Knowledge, Don Miguel Ruiz, distils the entire tradition of the Toltec people of Mexico into four principles, or Agreements, as he prefers to call them. At first sight, they could be taken for a boy scout’s creed : tell the truth; don’t take things personally; don’t jump to conclusions; and do your best. But this would be to miss the point. Used as talismans of action, the Four Agreements become a powerfully transformative path to happiness.

1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don’t take anything personally.
3. Don’t make assumptions.
4. Always do your best.

Deepak Chopra’s fascinating book, SynchroDestiny runs on the same lines, but from an Eastern philosophical viewpoint. The subtitle, “Harnessing the infinite power of coincidence to create miracles”, was probably written by the marketing department rather than Chopra himself.

There are two facets to his thesis: synchrodestiny, a state of infinite potential, and nonlocal mind, or the virtual domain.

The second part of the book presents a programme of practice and activity for attaining synchrodestiny and knowledge of nonlocal intelligence, whereby you can make your deepest wishes come true.

These three books are coming from the same place and have struck chords with many people. It’s a truly supernatural universe.

A book published five years ago has been flying off the shelves at Amazon UK after a well-known TV presenter claimed it had changed his life. The Cosmic Ordering Service by Barbel Mohr describes how anyone can obtain their greatest desire by submitting a wish-list to the cosmos.

Noel Edmonds believes that four of his six wishes have so far come true, including a major comeback on television after years without work. Last week Edmonds, 57, was given the first Bafta award of his career. “It’s fantastic,” he said, “but you’ll think I’ve gone away with the fairies.”

Online bookstore Amazon reported that sales had increased 1000 percent in 24 hours. Brian McBride, the website’s UK manager said: “Everyone’s always looking for the key to success, so when someone who’s got there tells how they did it, people jump at the chance.”

The idea behind this book is very similar to Deepak Chopra’s SynchroDestiny, which deals with how you can use “coincidence” to change your life.

Jonathan Cainer, the UK astrologer, writes on his website today: “I continually stress that. regardless of what’s going on in the sky, when you ask the universe, clearly, positively yet humbly for anything… the universe will always do what it can to supply this.”

Buy the book in North America. Buy in the UK.

If you like Biblical mysteries, where texts in the Bible are analyzed to predict future events, you may like Earthquake Resurrection: Supernatural Catalyst for the Coming Global Catastrophe by David Lowe.

I haven’t read the book myself, but I read Ray Gano’s review on Prophezine and visited the author’s website. The ideas come from a Christian perspective and the book speaks openly of the “rapture” among a million or so followers who “disappear” at the end of the world. Much of the analysis is based on the Book of Revelations, so if you’re squeamish about the Beast 666, and all the rest of John’s eschatology, now’s the time to switch off.

Ray Gano of Prophezine describes himself as “a staunch Pre-Trib Dispensationalist”, by which I assume he means that the dispensation for the end of the world has aleady been fixed. He writes: “In his book David Lowe points outs a pattern connecting the description of the resurrection to immortality of Jesus, the many saints who were resurrected in Matthew chapter 27, and the two witnesses of Revelation chapter 11: that all are accompanied by earthquakes, or a shaking of the surrounding earth. He then applies this pattern to the future resurrection of the dead in Christ, and questions whether it is possible that this resurrection will also be accompanied by earthquakes.”

In his synopsis of the book, David Lowe writes: “Earthquake Resurrection explores the possiblity that the disappearance of a large group of believers worldwide will be masked by global catastrophe. This possibility is based on a pattern found in scripture that the power unleashed when a human being is resurrected into an immortal body causes a shaking of the surrounding earth. The pattern is evident with the two recorded historic instances of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the ‘many saints who had died’ in Matthew 27, as well as with the resurrection of the two witnesses of Revelation chapter 11 in the future.”

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Does the addition of the word “supernatural” increase a TV show’s audience figures? The answer appears to be, yes.

Neilsen, the media data tracker, has shown that when video playbacks are included in audience ratings, only the show Supernatural had an increase of more than three percent.

Mediapost reports:

Network programs continued to elicit small or no gains when ratings for same-day DVR playback viewing were added to a program’s live viewing tally. Increases, if they occurred at all, were mostly under 0.5 percent. Still, there were a few exceptions as two WB shows showed noticeable ratings bumps when DVR viewing was added. The Dec. 28 episode of the WB’s “Supernatural” received the largest boost of any network show through Thursday, with a 3.1 percent increase via DVR viewing in the adults 18-49 demo.

People really are interested in “things that go bump in the night”.