One day, I was having dinner with Jerry and Esther Hicks, and a friend. We were talking about marketing in general and advertising in particular. My friend said: "You don't have to advertise."
"You don't have to," I said, "but you might want to. A good ad can increase your business."
"The last time we ran an ad in a magazine," Jerry began, "we got so many replies we couldn't handle them all. I dropped the ad until we hired more staff."
"It doesn't matter what you put in the ad," Esther added. "People will sense who you are and what you are offering and make a decision from that feeling."
Jerry and Esther have hired me to write their ads because they know I believe in their work. If I didn't believe in them, the ads I create for them would show it. And if they didn't believe in their work, the person they hired to create their ads would reveal that attitude."
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"The Attractor Factor" by Joe Vitale
Abe perspective on envy, jealousy, coveting
My question is kind of a couple of questions in one, but basically it has to do with feeling jealous and insecure in my relationship. And, uh, my boyfriend really doesn't give me a reason to feel this, but sometimes we may be somewhere or he may say something and I'll just start feeling that way. And I've noticed he is real different in that he knows that I love him and because of this he feels totally secure and trusting of me and this is what I would like to feel. Also I've been with him for about a year and even though he is allowing this less and less, his ex-girlfriend, who's the mother of his 2 children, still feels that she can exert control over his life and uses the children as a tool do do this. This has caused some problems and interference in our relationship even though lately he's done a lot not to allow her to have so much influence. Nonetheless the control or influence he has allowed her to have has really bothered me and I know that the more that I observe it the more I'll attract of it. How do I change letting it have any affect over me so that it'll just diminish? Sometimes to try to change the energy I pretend that she has a boyfriend now and just leaves my boyfriend alone and also that because of this he doesn't feel so obligated or so free to come and go at her house. And when I do this, it feels really good to me and it feels like a relief. Is it okay for me to try to change the energy in that way, or how should I do it so that it doesn't bother me so much and I don't keep attracting more of it? It's getting better, it is changing, but I don't want it to bother me at all anymore in that particular situation and just the
feeling insecure and jealous in other areas involving us.
Also, I've noticed that sometimes I've noticed that I don't do exactly what he wants or I'm not there for him exactly in the way he wants me to be and sometimes he'll do something to get back at me because of this. I guess due go do an errand for her and he'll purposely tell me "well, I'm going to go do this for her" or he'll go over to her house to babysit the kids or something like that which I can feel that he's doing it to get back at me and he knows that's what's going to hurt me the most or make me feel the worst. And I'm wondering, what is it that I'm vibrating that is causing him to feel that he needs to get back at me if I'm displeasing him in some way? Also, I'm
wondering when somebody does something like that to us, is it okay to take action in that moment and kind of like tell them you know "don't do this to me" kind of like stop them at that moment from doing something like that? Or do I first try to change the vibration and then say something to them?
Because sometimes to me it feels like that if I don't say something then I'm just letting him or somebody else walk all over me and I feel like it's going to take awhile to change the vibration, and meanwhile they're just going to keep doing that. I'm confused on how to handle it.
**Well, we want to begin with the last part of your question first. If you lived in an action-based world where things were coming to you in response to action, and somebody is getting even by doing something, then the answer would be yes, stop the action as soon as you can so that it doesn't go any further. But you are not living, even though it feels sometimes to you, you are not
living in an action-based world, this is an energy-based world. And the answer is always to line up your energy before you take any action. Because if you have a knee-jerk response to something and then you act from that feeling, you're just filling your future with more of the same. You have to shift the energy and then take the inspired action. As you were describing your relationship and some of the things that you are living, we wanted to interrupt you midway through and say to you that this...and you used the word towards the end of the sentence that was the word that we were going to give to. You began by using the word jealousy and then later you began talking about insecurity and we're wanting you very much to realize that what jealousy is, is insecurity. But when it turns to that feeling of jealousy is when you think you see someone that is living that which you want in the moment that you are not living it. For example, let's say that you have all the money that you have any sensible use for, you have
piles of it around, in other words, you can't even figure out what to do with all of your money. And the money keeps making more money so lack of money is just not part of your vibration at all. So you meet somebody else that is in the same situation, they have more money than they know what to do with, and so as you are visiting with them, you would not feel any jealousy about them living something that you want because you're living all of it. If you are radiant in your health and you meet another healthy person, you would not feel jealous about their health because you are abundant in health. So what the feeling of jealousy is, is when you have a desire that has not yet been acquired, but then you see someone else that is living the satisfaction of
your desire, then that feeling of jealousy is just your amplified awareness that in this moment you don't have what you want. And in truth, it really doesn't have anything to do with anybody else except that they amplified your own feeling of not enoughness. And that's why the word insecurity is even a better match. In other words, it really doesn't have anything to do with his
past relationships, they just keep fanning the flames of your feeling of insecurity. In other words, when you think about it logically, you know he has no desire to go there and in your heart you know he will not return there, but there is enough feeling of not enoughness within yourself that sometimes you use that as your excuse to not feel all that you are.
What we would do, let's walk through this a little bit. Let's say that for whatever, you don't even know why, but this feeling of jealous insecurity sort of sneaked up on you and you're feeling it in this moment and you're fighting it, but you feel it, it's very real, you're not making it up--you feel it. But you stop in the middle of it this time and you say "well, I used to call it jealousy or I used to call it insecurity, and now what I'm calling it is -- what it feels like when I give my attention to something not up to speed with my desire. In other words, my desire is to know that I'm enough, my desire is to feel utterly secure in this relationship, but for some reason, and there's
so much evidence of that around me. In other words, he comes to me everyday, he comes to me every night, he expresses his appreciation and love for me in endless ways, but for some screwy reason I'm choosing with all of this evidence of what I want before me, to pick through the data and find something that feels different than my desire. And so the way I feel is not a product
of what he's doing, it's a product of what I'm doing, it's a product of what I'm choosing.
And it isn't just in this relationship. In other words, it's a habit that most physical beings have because you have not been taught that the way you feel is only an extension of what you're choosing to give your attention to. In other words, if you turn on the tv and there's some national report, even bigger, it's a global report, it's coming from the scientists of all around the world and they say to you there's an epidemic and all are susceptible to it and people are dying like flies everywhere and we don't know what to do about it. Most of you would feel vulnerable because you have not yet convinced yourself that that epidemic is about them, not me. There's still
this feeling that something that they might be living could assert itself in my experience. And it is only when you finally get it, that only that which I am in vibrational harmony to has access to my experience that you're feeling of insecurity is replaced with an absolute KNOWING that all is well with me. So, you just practice it little by little. You practice it one thought at a time and the best tool that we have found to teach that helps you to in the midst of a negative vibration... our friend amplified this question earlier "when I'm right in the middle of something that I don't want, how do I find the other feeling?" And the process we call a Focus Wheel and the simple
structure of it is - you draw a circle in the middle of a page and then you write clumps of phrases all the way around your circle in the middle of the page and when you're done you write a final, confirming statement in the center of the circle. Now you're attitude when you are performing this focus wheel, your goal, your objective, is to find some statement that matches your
desire _that you already believe_. In other words, let's say that you feel insecure, he's been off babysitting, he's been over there, you've focused upon it, you've been keeping score, he's been over there a lot lately. He might be trying to get to me or he might have some real desire, he might be getting some satisfaction over there when I want him to get all of his satisfaction with me. In other words, I don't want him to have a broad life, I want him to have a narrow life where I'm the only that ever makes him happy [laughter]. I don't want anyone to tell him a joke
that makes him laugh, I don't want anyone to prepare food for him that he likes, I want all food that he eats away from here to taste icky, and I want all conversations that he has away from here to be boring, I don't want him ever to have joyful moment unless he's with me [laughter]. Now that's absurd isn't it, and yet that's what most think they want when they're feeling a
little insecure in a relationship. So let's pretend he's been over there and you're in that place of insecurity or jealousy. So you say, "well I'll do a focus wheel". The first thing that you reach for...and your desire...whenever you know what you don't want you always know more clearly what you do want...so the desire that is borne out of this is "I want to feel good, I want to feel secure, not just in this relationship, but in all aspects of my life. I want to know that I'm enough,
I want to feel pleased with who I am and how life is treating me." So then you feel for something that you already believe that matches that desire. Now have you ever seen one of these merry go rounds in a grade school playground, where the children push them to make them go? And do you ever remember or did you ever watch when they got it going so fast that somebody who wanted on couldn't get on and they had to finally slow it down enough that you could jump on? Well, that's a bit the way this focus wheel works. If you try to make a statement that is moving faster than you, you can't get on. For example, your desire here is to feel better about who you are, so you make a statement like "Well, I'm enough"...well the wheel didn't slow down enough for you to get on, so you try again. So you say something like "Well, I'm more significant in his life than she is"...well, if this were a game show we'd go "annhhh" because that's the wrong answer again [laughter], you can feel that wasn't the right approach either. So you just keep reaching for it. So then you say something like "There is so much evidence that he loves me."
Now you absolutely believe that so now you're on. So then you reach for another statement and you say something like, "I want him to interact with his children" you absolutely believe that and it also matches, or doesn't mismatch your desire, so that statement stays. And then you reach for another and if you're writing this it's even more powerful, so as you're writing this in clumps "there is so much evidence that he loves me" and that feels good as you write it. It usually takes about 17 seconds to conceive it and write. And then you say "I want him to spend time with his children, I think that is very important to him and to them" and you write that and you feel yourself already feeling a little better, your vibration is already beginning to lift. And then you say something like "I have never wanted to be the beginning and ending of all things for him. I just want to be important to him and I know that I am". So you write that. And then you write "I want him to have a relationship with his ex-wife" ANNNHHH! You can feel that went too far
[laughter].
In other words, you can feel that you treaded into territory that brought your vibration down, so you back away from that. And then you say something like "it is natural that he would interact with her since they are both now and will always be the parents of these children" and you write that and it feels a little better. And then you reach for another statement and you say something like "I want these kids to have parents that get along with each other, it is so much nicer for them. There is no reason for their parents not to be social and receptive and respectful and appreciative of each other. I want that for the children and for him and even for her." And you can tell by the way you feel that you are now making statements that are a match to who you really are from your nonphysical perspective and you are literally bridging, you are shifting your vibrational habit into new realms. And the most powerful thing about a focus wheel is that it will take you a little while to get on it usually, but once you get on it, and shift your vibration, even a little bit, you _will never again go back to where you were before you did the focus wheel_. You are now seen by All That Is as a different beamer of a different vibration. And from that moment, everything in the universe will respond to you differently than it did before, so now
things that have made you feel insecure are less likely to happen, because you're not vibrating in so much insecurity! You've mended your insecurity and brought it to a more secure feeling place. You get the sense of what we're talking about? The first time you do it you will shift, the second time you do it you will shift more until with just a handful of focus wheels that are prompted from very strong desire, desire like we felt from you as you projected your question to us here, you will be vibrating in a whole different place. And everything in all the universe will respond to you from your newfound vibration. And it will not take much of that before that feeling of insecurity is an utter thing of the past.
We remember a time when Esther was insecure about going to new cities or when she was insecure about even flying from place to place. She would fret over all of the details of the unfolding, where now she has just come to accept that things always work out alright and she doesn't have to think every single thing through, they can figure it out as they go along. She knows that the signs are there and that they will find their way. But this morning when
Jerry left the (hotel) door ajar, for just a moment she slipped back into that old feeling of insecurity until she re-thought it from that vantage point. You get a sense... And so, you may do a 100 focus wheels on this subject, and each one leaving you in a new place. Get a sense of this? Usually it doesn't take nearly that much attention, however. 68 seconds of pure thought is equivalent to over 2 million action hours. So a focus wheel or 2 can make a big difference in the
way people in your experience respond to you. Now relative to your boyfriend manipulating you. He may be doing some of that, we don't feel too much of it. What we really feel is that your
insecurity just brings that out in him. And it annoys him when it comes. And we think that as you feel a little better you'll see little or none of that. And we would NEVER, if someone mistreated us, we would never stop in our moment of perceived mistreatment and say "you are mistreating me, don't do that" because then you are then shining a spotlight on something that you do not want and usually what happens is, they then get defensive about it. And then you have a whole other thing going [agreement in background]. So it is always much better to step back from it and give the other the benefit of the doubt. And by that we mean, say something like "well, he means well" or "I may be misunderstanding this". Even if he doesn't mean well, and even if you're not misunderstanding it, it's ALWAYS better for you to give them the benefit of the doubt, than to judge them as wrong, because in the moment you see them as wrong and focus upon it, you're a vibrational match to that very wrongdoing. And we promise you, you'll get more and more and more and more and more of that.**
Okay. And Abraham, when you say it annoys him, do you mean the insecurity annoys him or his doing what he does...
**Both, but what we meant was when you are feeling not loved enough and he knows that, he can't stand on his head in enough ways to make you feel secure...your insecurity is so deep... In other words, in his mind he's thinking things like "I do this, I do this, I do this, I do this and _still_ she's insecure". It feels futile to him. And in that feeling of futility, he just goes the other way. Not because he's trying to get even with you, but because you have amplified something that is so BIG that then you just get more of it. In other words, he can't buck your current, that's the best way of saying it. He can't buck your feeling of insecurity and so he just sort of goes with it. Have you ever heard them say "well, if you can't fight em, join em"? "I give up!" In other words, it's that sort of thing happening on an unconscious level. We do not think that he deliberately tries to ring your bells. You are complete?**
Yes, thank you very much.
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Guest: Is there any value in the counseling that people go to to process their grief, to process their shadow, to process their....
Abraham: Yes, there is some. And here is what it is. We talked about this a little bit earlier. Remember, if you have desire that your habit of thought doesn't match so there's contradiction in your vibration, what most do in a self-preserving way is they begin, without even knowing they're doing it consciously, to release the desire little by little by little. And it does bring them into a place of feeling a little better but it also causes them to be less sensitive to what they are feeling.
Our friend was talking about her hyper-sensitivity and there is a part of her that would like to get rid of that hypersensitivity. She would feel better initially if she wasn't so sensitive. But what happens over time is you get so negative emotion feels normal to you. So your guidance system doesn't give you the information that it was meant to give you. It's normal to feel overwhelmed or it's normal to feel guilty, or it's normal to feel blameful. It's normal for most of you by your physical standards to feel negative emotion. So what happens is, you get so accustomed to negative emotion that, it's sort of like you didn't have any sensors in your fingertips and you keep shutting your hands in car doors and stepping on your own fingers and shaving them off on things and laying around on hot stoves and then you complain, "My hands are having a very hard time in this life experience. I'm just sort of beating the life out of them because I don't realize what I'm doing to it."
And so sometimes what happens is, when you go to that counseling and there is an exaggerated attention on what went wrong, it takes the discomfort to a strong enough level that it now gives birth to the rocket of desire. In other words, you see people sort of pushing to the breaking point, pushing pushing pushing pushing, until a desire comes out of it. Because counselors have
discovered that until you are able in some way, most of them don't even know what they're doing with that, but they've had enough experience that they see the results of it. Once you are pushed to the point that a desire is born within you, things start to turn around usually.
A lot of people, you see.... As you are going down, down, down...let's say it's a financial issue as we were talking about earlier and you're going down down down down down down down.... Well at any point you could just withdraw your attention from that and focus on something else and go up up up up up up up. But most people don't even try to go up until they've hit bottom.
It's something about at what point, it's like.... Jerry and Esther have an extraordinary life and they talk about how if people could follow them around they would be amazed at the way the universe yields wonderful things to them constantly. Things that you can't buy or things that just happen because the universe is yielding them. And then they'll get in a little, Esther calls it
a vortex, which it is, where things go a little wrong. And they don't have to go very wrong with this hyper-sensitivity, before a rocket of desire is born within Jerry and Esther. In other words, they don't tolerate much discomfort before they start intending differently. Esther said as they were walking down the hallway today, "I'm going to get that placemat process out and start
working with it again on some things." She hasn't been working with it for quite a while, she hasn't been scripting for quite a while. Because things get going good, and then you get sort of lazy because things are going good, and it isn't usually till something isn't going so good that it gets your attention and you start focusing again.
Esther has said about herself for very many years, "I shine in a crisis." And because she shines in a crisis, she likes to create crises because she likes to shine. She likes it when she can pull them out of some extraordinary. ..she loves it when the computers just go as screwy as they can be because she...
And so what you are really bringing forth here and it is so important is, how important is it to me to feel good? And how far am I willing to deviate from feeling good before I take control and start lining up my energy again? And lots of people don't know anything about lining up energy and so, and they don't know why they are in this vibration and getting all this stuff, and so they've just learned to cope, they've learned to cope, they've learned to cope, they've learned to cope until they've desensitized themselves so much that sometimes it takes some pretty major focusing on what's wrong to get any clarity about what is wanted out of it.
That is the value of that. But it is overrated and it is not very successful very much of the time. Usually does much more.... Because any time you are looking at you don't want you are holding yourself in that vibration longer. You can't get to where you want to be by talking about where you are. You can only get to where you want to be by talking about where you want to be, and
why you want to be there, and what you think it would feel like to be there.
You have to generate the feeling place of that, you see. Helpful?
Guest: Very. Thank you.
Abe: And now, do you feel any inkling to want to explain that to us, or did that sort of go away?
Guest: No. That whole thing has gone away. But I've wondered if I'm supposed to help people that have had the same problem deal with it. So I've thought maybe I'm supposed to go back to school, get a degree....
Abe: No. You're just supposed to live happily ever after.
Guest: Thank you.
Abe: And people who want to live happily ever after will gravitate to you. And sometime it might come up and you might be able to offer some stabilizing words about that, but it is not your work. You did not say "I'll go forth and live a really miserable experience so that I can deal with others who have lived the same miserable experience so that we can live in misery as we
regurgitate our miserable experiences forever more." You did NOT say that.
Guest: Good!
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Abraham on Alignment
And are you refreshed? Now what?
Hey Abraham, I'm really glad to be hear and I umm, I really appreciate where I am right now. As you and I know, I've come a long way to my perfect health right now (said with much emotion) and umm, I have a wonderful relationship right now that I've always dreamed of and I've found work that I really enjoy that is uplifting to me and empowering and inspiring.
So, what's all this, mmmmmmm?
All this emotion? Okay. I just, I'm really appreciative of where I am.
But when you uhh, are, what is this appreciation laced with? In other words, when you are really tuned in tapped in turned on, there is not that other edgy stuff. What's that about? Remembering how far you've come?
Maybe.
You can't remember how far you've come and be in the new place at the same time. So, it might be some of that, yes?
Yeah, I mean, on this day in particular, I'm very very appreciative of being here now. And all the wonderful things that I get to experience. And its, and to me its because I changed my chronic thoughts, and I deliberatly chose new ones that served me.
Yes.
And you've helped to bring me further along on that path and so now I have all these fabulous things in my life that I'm enjoying.
You know, what we want to chew on here with you a little bit, and this is because you are in a good place that could be slightly better and let us tell you the difference. You are experiencing perhaps the best example of gratitude we've ever seen. But you are not in a state of
appreciation. And the subtle difference between gratitude and appreciation, is gratitude is looking back at what you have overcome, appreciation is looking forward to the becoming of that which you have set into motion. Nitpicking, perhaps.
I understand.
But really worth talking about,isn't it? Can you feel the difference?
Ya.
So, what brings you here to play with us today?
So I have these fabulous new businesses, and I want to attract fun people to play with me in these businesses. (voice is clear and much stronger)
Now, do you hear the difference in her? Suddenly she looked forward. Suddenly she looked forward into what's coming, instead of looking back to what was painful. Just thought we'd bring that up.
I appreciate that.
Because, because, because, life is about how you feel now, so you might as well feel as good as you can possibly feel, you see.
Right. So, I'm here wanting guidance on how I can look at that to bring about what I'm wanting.
Well the thing is, and we haven't really addressed this very much today, but do you feel that your life has caused you to complete step one? In other words, do you think in the contrast that you've lived that you have done a good job of asking for what you want?
Yeah, I mean I'm always asking for new things.
But, relative to this specific subject, do you think the asking for the business for the people that will work with you, do you think you've asked, do you think you have sufficiently asked? We do, in other words, we think that the life you've lived has caused you to ask. We think that you've completed step one, and step two is not your job at all, and step three is, source is amassing around that vibrational escrow, so step three is what your work is. And the reason that we are putting it you and to so many others for so long in this way, is because, the, what, the sort of projection of your question is what do I need to now do in order to get what I want. And what we are wanting you to understand is, what you want has already taken place.
So the question is not what do I do to create it, the question is what do I now do to achieve vibrational alignment with that which has already been created so that I can allow myself to rendesvous with all the other components at the point of creation. Did you hear the careful choice of words? In other words, do you accept that when you ask it is already done? Do you accept that when you ask it is given, not only is it given, but source is there tending to it, and that law of attraction is now pulling all components to that point of attraction. So, can you feel the difference in the way you want to frame the question?
Right.
What can I do to cause me to let go of the resistance that's the only thing that's keeping me from freefalling right into that vortex where everything that I've been asking for is. Because the answer to that question is so much easier than the answer to the other question, because the answer to the other question has no answer. How can I get to where I want to be? The answer is, you have to become a vibrational equivalent to where you want to be. So, describe to us what you are looking for. And then we will help you to build some emotional bridges to get there.
Mkay, I'm looking for growth in my businesses, I'm looking to work with fun people.
Alright, use slightly different words, I've already asked for expansion and fun people, rather than I'm looking for it, I've already asked for it, and it is there. Can you feel the difference - I've already asked for it and it is there, how do I, what's the next word? How do I get there, no. How do I make it come to me, no. How do I chill out so that I go there. What can I do to relax and trust, what can I do to believe in my own dream, what can I do to get to where I want to be, what can I do?
What can you do?
Right, so what can I do? Appreciate, allow?
You say that like,
Bask?
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, ooohh, that old crap. (audience laughter.) Doesn't feel meaty enough, does it? Feels, like, shouldn't I be doing more? Shouldn't I be struggling more?
Shouldn't I be making twenty calls a day? I mean, come on.
Shouldn't I be making more plans, shouldn't I be bloodying my head against the wall? Shouldn't I be, isn't there more that I should do? You mean all I have to do, well, finding the feeling place of where you want to be, so let's talk about this, because, this is a perfect, you'll feel this in a very strong way. So you get it, we've been redundant we know, you're source energy you bang around in your physical form, you give birth to rockets of desire, the source part of you tends it, the vibrational escrow is swirling, law of attraction is summoning everthing to that point of creation including you. So the question at hand is, how can I prepare myself to rendevous inside that vibrational escrow to the point that I can receive full blown manifestation, how can I get inside that vibrational escrow, how can I get inside the feeling place of that? So, the question sort of dictates the answer, you can feel it. How can I begin to feel, like I'm going to feel, once I'm there.
So, now you want to start playing with that. What does it feel like to interact with fun people? What does it feel like to have expansion where everyone is thriving and benefitting by the expansion? What does that feel like? So, what ideas do you have that, how could you get inside a
thought like that? Have you ever been in a situation that felt like that?
Yes.
When, where, who, who?
Uh, uh.
Details.
There have been times in my business where I've felt in that flow.
For example.
Working with people and talking with people,
More detail.
Uh.
I remember that time when. We were sitting where, and who,
I remember that time when a person who has an 85,000 name database said yes she wanted to joint venture with me. I remember how good that felt.
And...
And?
Well, we want you to milk that a little bit, we want you to get into that moment and remember it until you activate the vibrational equivalent of you now. In other words, your work now is to get yourself inside what that vibrational escrow feels like. You see, you've done most of the work, but you're over here and what you want's over here, so you've gotta find a way to get inside this and feel this.
Esther would say, even though it's not about business, I remember last weekend sitting around the small dining room table with son in law and daughter in law and two grandkids playing Uno and feeling the camaraderie as they knew how to play the game, taught it to us, and how fun it was catching on. And feeling the fun watching their little faces around watching them waiting to yell Uno because they knew that the likelihood of me remembering that I was putting down the card before the last one was not that good. And they knew that they were gonna get me over and over again. And the delight they felt when they got me over and over again. It is something that I will keep with me always the cooperative fun environment is what I seek in all things. I want my business to feel like that, I want my business to feel like the brilliance of that game, I want my business to feel like the fun of that game. I want the love that we were experiencing around that table to be present in everything that I'm doing, whether it's with family or with
friends, or with employees or with employers. I want that feeling of togetherness and appreciation of one another. I loved the feeling of that. That's what we mean by milking it.
Right.
Find something that felt good, and identify to yourself why it felt good, and then focus there, and feel good all over again because it feels good, and then just hold yourself there as long as you can in that feeling while you apply it to what you know is going on in your vibrational escrow. That's how you find the feeeeling place.
The example you gave was a good one. Someone showed up with a database and said, I will co-create with you. And the feeling of ease with which that came, the beautiful look on that person's face as we realized together that we had something to give each other and something from
which we could mutually benefit. And the sensation that ran through me was, ohh, things feel like, things like this that come so easily I have a sense that that's the way it is supposed to be. Holding yourself in the vibration of that by thinking about when it happened, and who was
there and what was the conversation. Just holding the feeling place of that.
The work is not hard. It's just a matter of finding something that feels the way you think you want to feel and focusing on it until you feel it, that's what the art of allowing is. That's how you close the gap, that's how you get inside your vibrational escrow. And so, subject after subject you just go there and mess around in it, and go there, and mess around in it. Use descriptive terms to get inside of it and before you know it, inside that escrow is where you vibrationally reside, and when that happens, now you can be the full blown recipient of everything that you have incrementally been putting in there, you see. It's all there, you've gotta find a way to match up with it and you do it by talking yourself into feeling as it feels there.
Mmmhhm.
Earlier we were talking about people will say, I want to get over there, and we say why, and they say because I don't like it over here. That's the opposite of what we are describing. You gotta get over there, you gotta make an effort to get over there, you gotta sorta kinda feel like it sorta kinda might feel when you do get over there. And you gotta talk about it until you do sorta feel over there. And the longer, the more you make, the more effort you make about feeling what it feels like over there, then the more you are over there vibrationally, and then, you see, the universe does not know if the vibration that you are emitting because of a reality that you are living or because of something you are focused upon. The universe at large and law of attraction does not distinguish between a vibration in response to reality and a vibration in response to a thought. So, if you can ignore the reality, and activate a vibration because of a thought that you are thinking, now all things are possible. And really fun as they come.
That's that I want.
So, now you know what to do. You want to do it?
So, it's focusing on the feelings that I want to feel with my successful and profitable business.
Yes
How that's going to feel.
Yes, but words like successful and profitable, the way you say that here, sounds like blublahblublabhblah . blaw blaw, blaw.
I thought it sounded really good when I heard it on your cd.
It sounds good, it sounds good, but you've gotta get inside of it. What does successful feel like, what does that mean? That means I've taken money out of the equation, that means money is irrelevant, that means all the money that I could possibly have any sensible use for is already
flowing. That means that I'm making my decisions whether I WANT to play there, not whether I CAN play there. That means I'm making the decsions based on whether I want to do it not whether I can do it or whether it's possible to do it. So, you just keep talking yourself into that
security, you see.
So, what does successful and profitable feel like? We know what the words sound like. And we know what it could mean in terms of it means this many dollars or it means this many employees or it means this much in gross or net sales. We get that. We wanna know what successful and profitable feels like. So we're gonna ask you some multiple choice questions.
Does it feel like stress or ease?
I would choose ease.
You would easily choose ease, wouldn't you? In other words, there's not even any debate there. Successful and profitable feels like ease, doesn't it. Does it feel like worry or certainty?
Certainty.
Does it feel like I wonderif it's coming or I know it's coming?
I know it's coming.
Does it feel like wouldn't it be nice if or won't it be nice when?
Won't it be nice when.
Does it feel like I never had any reason to worry or I'm grateful that I'm no longer worrying?
I never had any reason to worry.
Does it feel like it was always there for me I just didn't know where to look or it was always there for me.
It was always there for me.
Does it feel more like my success is certain, provided I do the right thing or my succes is certain?
My success is certain.
So, you get what we're getting at with you. You're trying just a little too hard. When you sat down, even as you began, that feeling of the struggle that you've overcome, as if there is some price to be paid, we want that to be a far and distant long memory. Because there is no price for you to pay. In other words, when you want it, source provides it, you've just got to convince yourself that it's time.
Our friend earlier talked about worthiness, and when we hear the word worthiness we want to soften it, in fact we would like you not to even talk about worthiness because every time you talk about it it activates a feeling of unworthiness in most of you. But, just feel the difference between, you - you - we can feel you feeling, especially as we asked those questions, you can feel of course, which is the option that we are rooting for.
But the question that we want you to ask yourself is, not the obv-, we don't want you to give the answer you think that we think is the right answer. We want you to feel your way to the best feeling answer. The words don't matter at all, you see. It's a sure thing. You can't miss. You know too much. You've lived enough life, you've put enough in your vibrational escrow that it must come to you and it's coming whether you allow it to come quickly or whether you allow it to take it a little while, in any case you're gonna have a fun time as it comes. So, the best way to speed it up is to savor what is. Savor what is and be eager for more. We think you've got it.
Appreciate it very much.
Yes indeed.
Phoenix 3/01/08
Hickses Interview by London Newspaper along with Abe's appearance
Interview: The couple who claim they can make you rich beyond your wildest dreams' Esther and Jerry Hicks claim they can make you rich and successful beyond your wildest dreams. And they've certainly been raking it in since helping to inspire the international bestseller 'The Secret'. Ahead of their UK tour, the former circus acrobat and secretary-turned-spirit- channeller reveal their controversial techniques. Interview by Robert Chalmers Published: Sitting alone in the Crazy Elk Diner, the café at a trailer resort in northern Colorado, I try to gauge my mood, using the scale of 22 emotions provided in Esther and Jerry Hicks's best-selling book, Ask And It Is Given. Having spent two hours driving across the state, I arrived here at the Elk Meadow Lodge Resort 50 minutes early for my appointment with the book's authors, but five minutes too late for the "All You Can Eat Pancake Breakfast", with the result that just now, working down the Hicks's karmic league table, I can't find anything to relate to until I reach #12: "Disappointment. " From then on, with half an eye on the staff clearing the buffet area, I begin to score more consistently, as we come to 15: "Blame," 16: "Discouragement, " 17: "Anger" and 18: "Revenge." After a while I'm joined by a group of Baptists who begin singing: "I've got a home in glory land that outshines the sun," further relegating me to condition 21: "Guilt/Unworthiness ."My interviewees, relaxing in a motor home 200 yards away, are a former secretary and a one-time circus acrobat who have long been strangers to any ranking below 1: "Joy/Knowledge/ Empowerment/ Freedom/Love and Appreciation. " In the US, Esther and Jerry Hicks, with the help of commendations from Oprah Winfrey, have sold almost 1.5m copies of their last three books. In March, their most recent work, The Law of Attraction, reached number two on the New York Times bestseller list. The Hicks travel the country advertising the benefits of the Law of Attraction: a philosophy which, simply stated, argues that, if you attune your desires accurately enough to the vibrational frequencies of the universe, whatever you wish for will be granted. Next spring they're coming to Britain, seeking to replicate their success in North America, where citizens have handed over millions of dollars in the hope of securing not just money, lovers and mansions, but luxury automobiles and better luck at finding spaces in public car parks.Just one glance at the vehicle that occupies Elk Meadow's bay B31 removes any doubt as to how well the Law of Attraction has worked for the Hicks. Dwarfing the camper vans and Winnebagos that surround it, is a luxury coach of the kind owned by only the wealthiest rock stars.Welcoming me on board, Esther Hicks tells me that the bus - using that noun in relation to this vehicle is rather like describing Buckingham Palace as a multi-tenanted inner-city property - cost $1.4m. She asks me to remove my shoes, then shows me the immaculate interior: the beige leather seats; the dishwasher mounted on shock absorbers; the double bed at the rear. Her husband Jerry demonstrates the operation of the toilet, which has a convex electrical door similar to the kind installed on Virgin Trains, except that this one works. (omega)Esther and her husband are welcoming, if visibly on edge. As Jerry explains, they very rarely give interviews."We turned down The Larry King Show," he says. "We turned down all those shows.""That," Esther confirms, "isn't the way we work."Their personal life, it would be fair to say, is not an open book. Neither of the Hicks will volunteer their date of birth, because "astrologers feel so inspired to give feedback that it is oppressive." According to one normally reliable website, which trawls census records, Esther is 59 and Jerry 80: figures that, if correct, bear witness to the physical benefits of the moderate lives they say they have lived.For the past 21 years the pair have been touring the US, hosting weekly workshops; people now come in their hundreds and are charged $195 for the day. Every session is filmed, and the keenest of their 10,000 subscribers can pay up to $50 a month for these and other recordings. The couple also organise regular cruises: there are still places available on next year's 10-day Mediterranean expedition, priced at between $2,000 and $6,000 per berth. Their headquarters, at San Antonio, Texas, is set in 40 acres of land. Admirers come to learn more about improving their lives by asking questions about the Law of Attraction; the replies, they believe, are given to them directly from Abraham, a group of spirit entities whose thoughts Esther Hicks translates into English, once she has entered into a meditative state."When I started receiving," says Esther, who dislikes the term spirit channelling, "I thought of Abraham as some dead guy who was really smart. The more they spoke, the more I began thinking they were infinite intelligence that we are tapping in to."In the beginning, Jerry says, "I wanted people to be able to help themselves, financially. People thought - well, if you have enough money, you can buy health. A rich man can always find a woman. If you have enough money you can buy almost anything."Somewhat belatedly, after two decades spent preaching that you make your own luck, Esther and Jerry Hicks hit their major jackpot in March 2006, with the extraordinary success of a DVD called The Secret, a peculiar collage of mystical instruction assembled by the Australian producer Rhonda Byrne. The film has sold almost two million copies in the US, and turned out to be the most influential new age project in the past 20 years. In February of this year, Byrne's book, also called The Secret, written in less than a month, went to number one on the New York Times list of advice and miscellaneous books.The original version of the DVD features many lifestyle gurus, including Jack Canfield, author of Chicken Soup For The Soul, but Esther Hicks was a central source of the film's inspiration, as well as its narrator and star. The main thrust of The Secret was the Law of Attraction, which Mrs Hicks had described in some detail to Byrne, on camera, during an Abraham cruise in 2005.After sensing grave vibrational imbalances between themselves and Rhonda Byrne, mainly in the areas of money and intellectual property rights, the Hicks demanded to be removed from the film. The Secret, which had already earned the American couple $500,000, representing their 10 per-cent-cut of DVD sales, was reissued last October, with Esther edited out. The second version is even more disjointed than the first; watching it is a bit like sitting through 90 minutes of Channel 4 daytime advertising. Esther and Jerry, meanwhile, have released their own highly successful DVD, The Secret Behind The Secret, starred on a special three-part edition of Oprah Winfrey's radio show, and seen a huge increase in the popularity of their Abraham movement.The couple now see celebrities for private consultations."Have any come to your shows?""Eddie Izzard," says Jerry. [Izzard, through his agent, says he has never heard of the Hicks.] "And Minnie Driver. She came to a workshop and asked a question." [At the time of going to press, I was awaiting a response from Driver's agent.]"You know how an icebreaker is a clumsy vessel designed to break ice?" Jerry tells me. "I see The Secret as the icebreaker for the Law of Attraction, which we've been teaching for 20 years. We're cruising behind in our yacht, comfortably. ""It's hard to calculate," says Esther, "how much we have benefited from The Secret.""Millions," Jerry interrupts. "Millions." These days, he says, "I can't imagine money not just pouring in."Esther and Jerry Hicks met in Fresno, California, in 1976; they married four years later. She was a book-keeper; Jerry, by his own account, had made a fortune by reaching the top echelons of Amway, a controversial multi-level marketing corporation whose product lines include cosmetics, jewellery and insurance. Critics claim the organisation has employed quasi-religious motivational techniques; certainly Amway [now called Quixar in America] has, like Abraham, generated substantial traffic on cult-watch websites. Jerry Hicks ascribes his business success to Napoleon Hill's seminal 1937 book, Think And Grow Rich.Before Esther met Jerry, she says she'd had no unusual spiritual experiences."So how was it," I ask her, "that you first came to transmit messages from Abraham?"It started in the mid-1980s, she tells me, when the couple were living in Phoenix, Arizona."Jerry had been reading the Seth books [channelled messages from a spirit guide, written by the late Jane Roberts]. I was afraid. Seth spooked me. But I warmed to it. I'd lay on the sofa and Jerry would tickle my feet, and we'd read Seth for hours every day.""Why did he have to tickle your feet?""Because," she replies, "I like having my feet tickled."Friends in Phoenix, Esther says, introduced them to a woman named Sheila who channelled a spirit called Theo."They told me the name of my guide would be given to me in a clairaudient experience. Theo asked us to meditate; to sit in a room and focus on our breathing."When they got home, Esther recalls, she and Jerry changed into their bathrobes and sat together, in wing-backed chairs."We put an étagère between us, because it felt so strange. Almost immediately I was numb. I couldn't tell my foot from my nose. Something breathed me. That's how I describe it. It was my first contact with Abraham. I was convulsing in ecstasy, making noises ...""What do you mean, noises?""Breathing noises.""Ecstatic sounds," says Jerry."You mean like sex?" I ask her."Yes. The energy was so strong that my teeth were buzzing - zzzzz. Abraham were moving my head. Later I realised that I was spelling letters in the air with my nose."By Christmas 1985 she was receiving verbally transmittable messages about the Law of Attraction. The following year, the pair began holding private consultations; three years later they were hiring conference rooms at Courtyard Marriott Hotels."We weren't in it for the money," says Esther - this is a point regularly emphasised - "but for the expansion of the message."The previous day I'd attended an Abraham "Art Of Allowing" workshop at The Hilton in Fort Collins, Colorado, where I was one of around 200 delegates, 80 per cent of them women. Considering that we'd gathered to listen to spirit entities transmitting advice on how to attract more of certain things - notably dollars - the atmosphere was surprisingly convivial. Very few of those present had that worryingly distant look in their eye, and I saw no evidence of coercion or mind control.Esther takes the stage in bare feet, wearing black stockings, black trousers of a cut that could almost qualify as Oxford bags, and a black three-quarter- length jacket which, combined with the exposed lapels of her white blouse, makes her look very like a preacher. Soon she's possessed by the spirit of Abraham: the transition is signalled by deep breathing, a nodding of the head, a half smile and a couple of low sighs.Once transformed, she still sounds, to be frank, very like (omega) Esther, except that Abraham has a slightly robotic voice and is seriously over-attached to the present continuous tense - afflictions that, you may have noticed, also trouble extraterrestrial characters in 1950s science-fiction films. So Abraham will ask: "You are knowing what you are wanting?" or declare that: "We are appreciating your presence," and refers to Esther and Jerry in the third person.Would-be speakers raise their hands and are called to "the hot seat", a chair facing the stage. Esther, or rather Abraham, points to an area of the audience and calls out: "Stand up if you think it's you" -a phrase that recalls the kind of vaudeville mantras employed in game shows like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? The hot seat has been gaffer-taped to the floor, presumably to guard against problems with air traffic control.A considerable number of questions relate to finance. One man wants "a big house", but reports that: "The worrying thing is that it's taking too long to happen.""When life calls money to you," Esther says, "it comes if you let it. The universe lines it up for you."While his wife is communing with the spirit world, Jerry is taking notes at the side of the stage, earnestly attentive like a legal stenographer.The image of a river, and the terms "upstream" and "downstream" recur constantly. Moving "upstream", against the flow of the universe, represents bad living. Go "downstream" and nature will give you whatever you request, however impossible it seems."It is as easy to create a castle as a button," Esther observes, in a casual aside that suggests more familiarity with the thimble than the hod. "All you need do is keep going."A big-boned man consults Abraham about his weight."I get up and go to the gym at 5am," he says. "The next thing I know, I'm in the Chinese." Another supplicant says that she's already had her question answered by Mike, Esther's genial cameraman. A third observes that: "Animals are always trying to get me to save them. I'm kind of tired of that... are they on a suicide mission?""That," Abraham replies, "is not how they see it."One of the things that distinguishes Esther Hicks from other practitioners in her field is her quick wit, and genuine gift for irony. Towards the end of the session, a middle-aged woman takes the chair and announces: "With every ounce of my being, I need your insight. I do not feel who I really am in this physical body."Esther pauses, then, with a sense of timing that would do credit to Julie Walters, turns to her cameraman and asks: "You wanna take this? It sounds like a hard one."You can't help but be impressed by her stage presence, and the single-minded preoccupation with material gain, reflected both in the questions, and the piles of merchandise shifting past tills installed in the lobby. At one point, somebody asks Abraham about tithing - the regular donation of a percentage of your income. Tithing should be undertaken, Abraham says, "by inspiration, not obligation". The practice was not recommended."You must have taken a lot of money yesterday," I suggest to Esther, on the bus in the RV park."We're on the road darn near 365 days a year," Esther says. "We work 18 hours a day. It is dedicational. We give back everywhere we go," she adds, "to people who have had meaningful experiences. "At this point, instead of the words I'd been meaning to say ("I have had meaningful experiences" ) I find myself asking: "So your followers don't tithe?""We ask them not to," she replies."But some do?""Yes.""Do you refuse tithing?""No," says Jerry.Considering the reverence with which the couple are treated by their supporters, there is little on the record about their lives before Abraham. Esther has described herself simply as having grown up in "a little town in the Rocky Mountains"."Where was that?""Park City," she says. It's just outside Salt Lake City, Utah."So that community was Mormon?""My family was Mormon; my dad was not."One of her two sisters, Jeannie, was working the till at the Hilton. Esther's father, Henry, was in the lumber trade."My parents are gone now," she says. "It was a wonderful, nurturing environment. But when I was a teenager, my mother Ruth had a severe heart attack. She was more or less an invalid after that."When Esther was 20, she says, "I met someone and married.""When you say 'someone'... ""Someone I am no longer married to.""So you were married once before you met Jerry?""Right.""It doesn't sound like a blissful experience.""No. Knowing about Law of Attraction now, I suppose my insecurity caused me to marry an authority figure. He was very difficult to live with."Both Jerry and Esther were still married when they met at one of his Amway presentations."Are you Jerry's first wife?""I'm the fifth, that I know of."When the conversation turns to their own past, the exuberance that propels their dialogue on the Law of Attraction wanes a little."The reason you never heard about these things," Esther says, "is that I don't ever talk about them. Or like to.""It's not relevant," Jerry says."It's utterly irrelevant," Esther agrees."Jerry, I heard you were put into an orphanage for two years as an infant, is that right?""Daddy was in the navy. He and mother fought constantly, if they were there. My aunt told me: 'When you were a kid, your daddy was overseas and your mother just couldn't take it any more, so she put you in the orphanage'.""Were you an only child?""No, but I was the first. I have a brother and sister.""Do you think your mother gave you away out of depression, or poverty?""I get the sense," Esther intervenes, "that she was almost animal-like in that her selfish interests dominated her so powerfully. She was... unconformable, is that a word?""Did she take you back, after the orphanage?" I ask Jerry."My brother-in-law Joe," he replies, "told all of us children: 'You should be proud of your mother.' I said: 'What?' He said: 'Think of her background.. .' ""Please don't tell this," says Esther."Joe," Jerry continues, undaunted, "said, 'You gotta remember that - one of her sisters - her husband cut up in little pieces, and put her in a well. Another of her sisters was a prostitute. Another was impaled on a fence and killed. One of her brothers was in and out of prison all of his life, then disappeared. Another brother got so drunk that he lost all his fingers and toes.""That," says Esther, "is why I said don't tell this story.""Joe told me how my mother came back, and came through that to raise us three children. My brother has a PhD. My sister was a nurse."Details of their biography tend to be exposed momentarily, rather than volunteered. So far as I can work out, Jerry was raised in San Diego and Arkansas, mainly by his mother, before attending high school in New Orleans."As a child," he says, "I had coccidian mycosis. [A respiratory condition caused by spore inhalation.] Years later my lungs were so scarred that they wouldn't let me join the navy. When I was a young boy, the doctor said: 'There's nothing I can do. He probably won't live.' ""You heard him say that?""Twice. We were living in chicken houses. I had one to myself because they thought I had TB. My sister, brother and mother lived in another chicken house."Jerry says he was employed for two years as an acrobat (omega) at a circus in Cuba, where he performed on aerial bars, and then, beginning in 1948, spent 20 years touring the US as Jerry Hickson - musician, MC and comedian. He has "lost track of" the number of his marriages, though he has two children with his second wife. (Esther has two children from her first marriage; her daughter Tracy works with the Hicks.)"I believe you've said that, as a young man, you had a fist fight every week and used to kick cars.""I did.""Because of drink?""No.""You were sober? That's worse. You must have been pretty angry about something.""I wanted justice. If I saw somebody mistreating somebody I went after them. I never hit anyone that didn't think they were stronger than me. And I have never killed anybody, whether I got paid for it or not.""Any jail time at all?""No."When I ask Jerry to tell me about people he met in show business, he mentions a dancer, Nichelle Nichols, who would become Lieutenant Uhura in Star Trek (Nichols did not respond to my attempts to contact her); he also worked with the veteran comedian Rip Taylor. "I have no memory of him," Taylor later told me. "And I remember everybody."Jerry says he came across Napoleon Hill's Think And Grow Rich by chance, in a motel, and now realises that many of the principles described by the former journalist were consistent with the Law of Attraction.This suggestion isn't so absurd as it might sound. Similar theories to those voiced by the Hicks can be found in generations of American self-help books, dating back to William Walker's 1906 Thought Vibration, or The Law of Attraction in the Thought World. The idea of alchemic generation of wealth is a little older than that, of course, and Rhonda Byrne's DVD suggests - without troubling to offer any evidence - that it helps explain the success of Plato and Shakespeare.Jerry hands me a 1980 edition of Think And Grow Rich: a reprint of Hill's original manuscript, before it was altered by earlier publishers. Hicks has highlighted every change. References to spirit, and vibration, are everywhere."All of this was sort of dead," Esther says. "Then Abraham, through me, began reviving it.""Can I ask Abraham a couple of questions?""Sure." Esther takes off her earrings."I have to remove my jewellery," she says. "Or they do it for me."She nods gently; her breathing deepens."We are here," she says, her eyes closed. "Nice to have an opportunity to visit.""You spoke yesterday about the way in which desire can make something happen, and that nothing is impossible. Isn't it important to realise that some things will never come to you? However much I still want to wear the number seven shirt for Manchester United, occupied [at the time of writing] by Cristiano Ronaldo, I've accepted that this isn't going to happen.""In cases like this, where there is not sincere desire...""Trust me, there is.""Well, if there is sincere desire, and you bring your belief into alignment with it, it can be. People say: could I grow back an arm that has been amputated... is this really possible? We say yes.""Could the following of Abraham become as widespread as Catholicism, or Judaism?""We are at the heart of the majority of religions you would know.""So other people are doing the same work?""That which Jesus Christ was, Esther is now. Not Esther alone. That which Buddha was, Esther is now. That which Mohammed was, Esther is now.""When you suggested, in Fort Collins yesterday, that if you think about a thing it will come to you whether you want it or not, and that a person draws their destiny to them; when I heard that, the words that came into my mind were: Auschwitz, Bialystock and Dachau. Are you saying that six million Jews invited extermination upon themselves?""We would never say they invited it wantingly or knowingly. But we unequivocally say that nothing happens to anyone without a predominant vibration that matches it." Just before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, she says, "the people who did not want inconvenience left right away. People who are not accustomed to managing their life well, stayed.""The poor people stayed.""They are poor in vibration before they are poor in manifestation. ""Are you Jewish?" Jerry asks me, immediately Abraham has gone, and Esther is back."No."He tells a story about how he defended a Jewish schoolfriend against a woodwork teacher, Mr Mendoza, who then smashed Jerry's term project, a birdhouse, and gave him zero out of 10."I told my daddy: 'I have decided to kill Mr Mendoza.' Daddy said: 'You shouldn't kill a man without letting him know why he is going to die.' So I told Mr Mendoza: 'I am planning to kill you. You failed me on woodworking. I build chicken houses. You can't flunk me on a birdhouse. That had to do with your prejudice against Jewish people.' I would give a nickel to know," Jerry adds, "was it just the Christians that were after the Jews? Were the Muslims prejudiced against them so much?""I think you could trace that enmity through many centuries.""So what did they [the Jews] do to bring that on themselves, do you suppose?" asks Jerry."I don't believe the Jews did bring that on themselves.""You don't?""No.""Abraham," Esther says, "told us early on that the person receiving prejudice is the one who has the vibration that is attracting it. If I ever find myself feeling like a victim, things like that start happening to me.""You say 'things like that' - the Holocaust?""Well, no - that's big big big big big big big. I mean, it's ... huge. Probably the most victimised I have felt was over The Secret; but every part of it that happened, I acknowledge that there was a vibrational component of it within me.""What about the infants who were murdered in concentration camps. What had they done wrong?""It's not a matter of having done wrong," says Jerry."The behaviour of the children is like the behaviour of their parents," Esther says. "We learn our vibrations early on. That's what tribal wars are about.""Most people would have a few problems with that philosophy.""We argued with Abraham for several years: what about the babies? We die. I believe that death is often the downstream option. It's certainly downstream from starvation. We had chickens for a few years. We had this one chicken, Renegade, who wouldn't stay in the yard. She went to the neighbours', where there were dogs. And sure enough the neighbour's dog...""Snuggles," says Jerry."Snuggles got her. Jerry saw that. Didn't you shoot a gun...""Yes.""That startled the chicken, which regained consciousness and came home. Abraham said, she's getting ready to be dead. From experiences like that, I don't think that death is a bad thing."How we got quite so quickly from Auschwitz to Snuggles, I'm still not sure. What's certain is that the mark of an orthodox charlatan is that they repeat whatever the listener wishes to hear. On the basis of these last exchanges, you can hardly accuse Esther and Jerry Hicks of cynically courting popularity. Which would suggest that they are motivated, to some degree at least, by what their followers would call belief, and their critics would term delusion.There are certain aspects of her world view, I explain to Esther, that I find disturbing."We know," she replies. From choice, she says, she would never do another interview. "I'm sitting here and I am uncomfortable because people don't like Mormons, people don't like Amway, people don't like channellers. ""You talked to Oprah.""Just the radio show. Oprah ... I love her.If you download the three Oprah Winfrey Abraham shows from XM radio, you'll discover that the affection sounds generally mutual. "I can't get enough of her," Winfrey says of Esther at one point - though the presenter does add that: "I am not talking to you on television because too many people would be weirded out."She had Rhonda Byrne on her TV show twice."Oprah doesn't think her television audience is ready for something so leading edge as Abraham," says Esther. "I want people who are ready for us to find us.""What do you do with all this money? Are you funding a major famine-relief programme for orphans in Ethiopia?""What we are teaching," Jerry says, "is that you don't attract through need, but through desire. Like, we were in a little restaurant in San Francisco a while back and the waitress was just so wonderful. We gave her this envelope, with all the cash from that day's workshop. She yelled: 'Oh my God, you can't believe what you have done for me. I was going to lose my apartment.' We said: 'If you'd told us that, we wouldn't have given you the money. We did it because you were wonderful.' "She's far from the only waitress, Jerry assures me, to have benefited in this way."And this guy that changed our tyre," he recalls. "We gave him a huge amount of money. I said, 'You told me you wanted to go into business.' He was so bright. We don't do charities."Some very large donations, the couple point out, have been returned. Where contributions are accepted, Esther explains, "we send a letter that says we are not a religion, so this is not tax deductible, and we put it in the bank and..." She pauses. "There is a lot of money in that bank account. We'll do something with it, some day."
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Abraham says that our pets have a shorter lifespan than we do, so it is inevitable that they will often die before we do, and that the death of a loved one, and a beloved fur faced family member is surely a loved one!, is the most likely time for us to get to know who we all REALLY are - eternal and infinite consciousness that is sometimes also focused in the physical.Here's an excerpt from this much longer quote below...But, you see, there is really not much value if someone dies and you suffer deeply, and then you move through time, and as you just get more distance between the tragedy of their death and where you now stand you feel better. Because then the next time you turn around, somebody else is going to die and you have to go through the same horrible experience all over again. The only remedy to this is the acceptance that there is not death. Q: I was just recently listening to a tape, and you were talking about - the lady had said that she had a cat for, like, nine years, and that she always wanted a different kind of, like, a rusty-colored kitten. So she got a kitten, and shortly after that her cat that was nine years old went and ran in front of a car and got hit, and she was feeling like the cat had committed suicide, and you made a statement that there is no suicide....Abe: Well, actually what we said is [all deaths are]....Q: That's right, [all deaths are] suicide. That's right, that's right.Abe: All death is that because everything is self-created.Q: Okay. Well, I had a question - I recently got married and my brother-in-law, he passed away at 39 years old very unexpectedly and two days after Thanksgiving. And it was just a shock to everybody. That day he was going to a concert with his girlfriend, they were going out to dinner. (Very choked up.) He was very happy, talked to everybody. And then he was gone.Abe: Well, not really.Q: Well, yeah. So, you know, I'm part of the family but I'm new to the family, so it's been hard for me to watch everybody else in the family, [and] my wife, deal with it. And I was just wondering, like, I really believe that he is in a better pl-, you know, he chose that, and that he's up there. And actually when I was out running one morning I had a conversation with him (choked up again) and he told me to tell them a few things, and I felt a little resistant at first, but I did tell the parents what he had said, you know, "Don't worry, everything's okay." And it was really some things that he would have said, so I know I was connected to it. And I guess my question is, is there anything I can do to help them with this?
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Why do bad things happen?
Jerry: And then, 16% of them would ask God, if God could answer right back, "Why do bad things happen?" Abraham: There is no source of that which you consider to be bad. It is just that sometimes you get into a vibrational place where you disallow the good you deserve, that would be there otherwise. Everything comes to you by your attention to it. So if something comes to you that you say is a bad thing, it is only because you have somehow achieved vibrational harmony with it. You achieve vibrational harmony with a feeling of unworthiness a little bit at a time. But in time, you can begin to feel unworthy of good things. Bad things happen only because you, as a vibrating being, are disallowing the good things that are natural to you. There is a Source of pure positive Energy coming to you. It is the Energy that created you to begin with. It is the Energy that sustains you and supports you. This Energy is always flowing to you, but sometimes you achieve an attitude or a mood or a personality that does not allow the goodness that is flowing to you. And so, it is as if you have created a shadow. You say, "Well, why is there a shadow?" We say, it could be any number of things, but mostly it is not understanding that the light is there for you, and you are worthy of it. It is a by-product of comparing yourselves to so many others, trying to sort out the manifestations, rather than understanding the Energy Stream to begin with. So why do so-called "bad things" happen? Because people come to expect less than good.
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