what if a much of a which of a wind
gives the truth to summer's lie;
bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun
and yanks immortal stars awry?
Blow king to beggar and queen to seem
(blow friend to friend: blow space to time)
- when skies are hanged and oceans drowned,
the single secret will still be man
e e cummings
Yes, if we could figure man out, then it seems that we would really know The Secret.
I have some questions that have not been answered about this:
1. Why do so many not seek knowledge? It is one of only two things we will leave this world with.
2. Why do so many fear change? Change happens because things happen for us to understand our life better. Change happens for us to learn and have new experiences. Without change we could not learn anything at all. Until we are all knowing, we *need* change.
3. Why do so many ignore their vibration? Because they do not understand the question? Perhaps. But why are there some who see a movie like The Secret and then not be interested in researching further? Our vibration is the other thing that we will leave this world with.
4. Why are men born? Why do they die? Why do they spend so much of the time in between wearing digital watches? (Could not resist: Douglas Adams)
OK scratch the last one, I am in one of those moods.
Just some things I have been thinking about recently:
The movie The Secret talks about how to attract the money you need into your life . . .
but your decision to be happy and joyful can only be made right now, before you attract the money.
The movie talks about how to improve or attract better relationships . . .
but your decision to be happy with your current relationships can only be made right now, before you have a chance to apply the secret.
The movie talks about how to attract better health . . .
but your decision to be grateful for the health you have can only be made right now, before you attract greater health.
The movie talks about how to attract the things or the people that you need to succeed . . .
but your decision to be happy with what you have achieved can only be made right now, before you attract greater success.
Does anyone see a pattern forming here? Maybe even a disconnect?
Behold the power of now. Now is created for you and refreshed at every moment by what your conscious and subconscious minds are doing. Your conscious mind is the rudder, which steers the ship that your subconscious mind powers.
At every moment you can steer it towards joy and gratitude.
If you are paying attention that is.
You can also consciously decide not to steer the ship at all, in which case you will be driven about on the waves and tossed; or you can decide to steer the ship towards anger, revenge and competition, which will run you right into Hurricane Consequences.
Hurricane consequences can be category one or category five. You should know; you created it.
So what will your life, starting from this very moment on, be like?
I'll decide that after I have attracted a few things that I want or need?
Nada.
Put off the decision, and be tossed by the waves.
Decide right now, and reach the Harbor of Contentment.
So what exactly what are you waiting for?
(I thought so)
Joseph
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Friday, January 18, 2008
WELCOME to the Grail Quest
I have not gone crazy. I know that Dan Brown was not in The Secret. What Dan did do was to get a lot of people talking about subjects that are important to us all, and the Book and movie The Secret did the same thing.
So what is the grail quest?
I leave it to the historians and authors to debate about whether the grail was a cup or a bloodline. Either idea does not change the right now occurrance of my life. It just illustrates that there are still so many things that we do not know . . .
And we would be ignorant if we did not expect that there are not some surprises in what we do not know which will eventually be revealed. When the Lord comes again I imagine that He will set that record strait. I would not count on a difinitive answer much before that time.
But I speak today about the modern day grail quest, or the quest to understand the natural laws of the Universe in which we live.
You see, understanding a law gives us power over it.
But the understanding must come first.
We came to understand the law of gravity, and then we proceeded to defy it with the invention of the airplane and the rocket ship. You could argue that since we understand it that we now have control over it. Want to go up instead of down? Get a hot air balloon. It works.
And so we begin to have some understanding of another natural law, namely the law of Attraction, which is really the law of vibration.
But do we understand the power that we are dealing with?
If someone were to truly master the Law of Attraction, they they would be,
essentially . . .
God.
At least of their universe. And their universe is the only one that matters, because it is the only one in which they can live. We cannot create in another's reality.
What is your universe? Is it what you see, hear, touch, taste, or smell?
You think it is.
But it's more like the holodeck as portrayed on Star Trek. None of it is real.
Before I lose you, please allow me to explain what is really happening.
You see something, and a picture appears in your mind. What has really happened is that your optic nerve is sending impulses to your brain that are forming the general specifics of a picture. But the brain clarifies the picture based on a set of rules that is taught to us from our childhood on up. Many of those rules are stored in the subconscious.
So it is our own set of rules that forms the picture. We see a table top and we believe it is "solid".
And yet if you whip out a proper electron microscope and look at the exact same thing, you will see that 99% of the table top is made up of space.
Oh and by the way, of that 1% that is perceived to be solid, we have now looked further and found that 99% of that 1% is also just empty space.
We have not had the technology to check this next one yet, but it seems possible that the 1% of that first 1% is also 99% space. It would not surprise me in the least.
So we have proven essentially that the table top is hardly solid, but appears to barely exist at all!
So why does you hand (which is also 99% space at the very least) not just pass through the table when you come in contact with it?
Because you come in contact with the one thing in the picture that is real, and that is the energy field and its state of vibration. A "solid" table has a very slow vibration. Your solid hand would also typically have a very slow vibration. The energy fields repel each other, and your hand is not able to pass through. You also receive the sensation of feeling the table as another impulse sent to your brain that is deciphered with the same set of rules that what you saw was done with.
Here is the Earth shattering revelation that is really coming out of the book and the movie . . .
You can change those rules.
And when you change those rules, then your whole universe changes.
Just like changing the program on the holodeck . . .
And giving the actors within different scripts.
Did you know you were paying these actors for their work?
Did you know that since you are paying them . . . you get to tell them what to do?
When one of them does something that you do not expect, you might ask yourself:
Why did I give you that script ??
And if you can find the reason that you did, you will have learned something about yourself that you could have not earned in any other way.
OK you say, that is all fine and dandy, but I do not get the Law of Attraction to work for me consistently . . .
Good!
Because you are not supposed to be a master of it at this time.
We were born into this Earthly existence with a BIG disconnect. Two pronged.
Prong One: We do not remember our previous existence, how powerful we were, how cool we were, how great things were. How cool our family was.
Prong Two: The powers of attraction are generally controlled by our subconscious mind, and not our conscious mind.
We are essentially conducting an experiment. What would happen if you took a powerful and immortal being and placed them in a situation where they did not have a clear connection to their power, and no memory of how powerful that they had been.
What would happen?
You can easily tell me, because you are living that experiment right this very moment.
You see, if we had a clear connection to our subconscious, as well as a restored memory of who and what we really are, we would be extremely powerful.
And are we ready for that power?
I think not.
Or else it would have already been given.
Some of the teachers in the Book and Movie, especially Joe Vitale in a recent book, are claiming to help you get in touch with your subconscious to help you reclaim your power. They share what may work for them.
And it may work for you, or it may not.
So what is the modern day grail quest?
To come in contact with our own subconscious.
Some would say that we are trying to come into contact with our "higher self".
I cannot tell you how to do that, in any way that is guarenteed to work for you.
And neither can anyone else.
I recommend that you do your own study, because there is clearly much more power available to us than what we are currently exercising . . .
And as we take the steps to unlock that power, we will at the same time prepare ourselves for the responsibility of having that kind of power; for unto whom much is given, much is required.
And we will want to be ready for that.
Or we could just decide to wallow in the disconnection from our power.
We get to decide.
So decide already.
Joseph
So what is the grail quest?
I leave it to the historians and authors to debate about whether the grail was a cup or a bloodline. Either idea does not change the right now occurrance of my life. It just illustrates that there are still so many things that we do not know . . .
And we would be ignorant if we did not expect that there are not some surprises in what we do not know which will eventually be revealed. When the Lord comes again I imagine that He will set that record strait. I would not count on a difinitive answer much before that time.
But I speak today about the modern day grail quest, or the quest to understand the natural laws of the Universe in which we live.
You see, understanding a law gives us power over it.
But the understanding must come first.
We came to understand the law of gravity, and then we proceeded to defy it with the invention of the airplane and the rocket ship. You could argue that since we understand it that we now have control over it. Want to go up instead of down? Get a hot air balloon. It works.
And so we begin to have some understanding of another natural law, namely the law of Attraction, which is really the law of vibration.
But do we understand the power that we are dealing with?
If someone were to truly master the Law of Attraction, they they would be,
essentially . . .
God.
At least of their universe. And their universe is the only one that matters, because it is the only one in which they can live. We cannot create in another's reality.
What is your universe? Is it what you see, hear, touch, taste, or smell?
You think it is.
But it's more like the holodeck as portrayed on Star Trek. None of it is real.
Before I lose you, please allow me to explain what is really happening.
You see something, and a picture appears in your mind. What has really happened is that your optic nerve is sending impulses to your brain that are forming the general specifics of a picture. But the brain clarifies the picture based on a set of rules that is taught to us from our childhood on up. Many of those rules are stored in the subconscious.
So it is our own set of rules that forms the picture. We see a table top and we believe it is "solid".
And yet if you whip out a proper electron microscope and look at the exact same thing, you will see that 99% of the table top is made up of space.
Oh and by the way, of that 1% that is perceived to be solid, we have now looked further and found that 99% of that 1% is also just empty space.
We have not had the technology to check this next one yet, but it seems possible that the 1% of that first 1% is also 99% space. It would not surprise me in the least.
So we have proven essentially that the table top is hardly solid, but appears to barely exist at all!
So why does you hand (which is also 99% space at the very least) not just pass through the table when you come in contact with it?
Because you come in contact with the one thing in the picture that is real, and that is the energy field and its state of vibration. A "solid" table has a very slow vibration. Your solid hand would also typically have a very slow vibration. The energy fields repel each other, and your hand is not able to pass through. You also receive the sensation of feeling the table as another impulse sent to your brain that is deciphered with the same set of rules that what you saw was done with.
Here is the Earth shattering revelation that is really coming out of the book and the movie . . .
You can change those rules.
And when you change those rules, then your whole universe changes.
Just like changing the program on the holodeck . . .
And giving the actors within different scripts.
Did you know you were paying these actors for their work?
Did you know that since you are paying them . . . you get to tell them what to do?
When one of them does something that you do not expect, you might ask yourself:
Why did I give you that script ??
And if you can find the reason that you did, you will have learned something about yourself that you could have not earned in any other way.
OK you say, that is all fine and dandy, but I do not get the Law of Attraction to work for me consistently . . .
Good!
Because you are not supposed to be a master of it at this time.
We were born into this Earthly existence with a BIG disconnect. Two pronged.
Prong One: We do not remember our previous existence, how powerful we were, how cool we were, how great things were. How cool our family was.
Prong Two: The powers of attraction are generally controlled by our subconscious mind, and not our conscious mind.
We are essentially conducting an experiment. What would happen if you took a powerful and immortal being and placed them in a situation where they did not have a clear connection to their power, and no memory of how powerful that they had been.
What would happen?
You can easily tell me, because you are living that experiment right this very moment.
You see, if we had a clear connection to our subconscious, as well as a restored memory of who and what we really are, we would be extremely powerful.
And are we ready for that power?
I think not.
Or else it would have already been given.
Some of the teachers in the Book and Movie, especially Joe Vitale in a recent book, are claiming to help you get in touch with your subconscious to help you reclaim your power. They share what may work for them.
And it may work for you, or it may not.
So what is the modern day grail quest?
To come in contact with our own subconscious.
Some would say that we are trying to come into contact with our "higher self".
I cannot tell you how to do that, in any way that is guarenteed to work for you.
And neither can anyone else.
I recommend that you do your own study, because there is clearly much more power available to us than what we are currently exercising . . .
And as we take the steps to unlock that power, we will at the same time prepare ourselves for the responsibility of having that kind of power; for unto whom much is given, much is required.
And we will want to be ready for that.
Or we could just decide to wallow in the disconnection from our power.
We get to decide.
So decide already.
Joseph
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Let's Talk About Money, and it's no Secret
I took quite a few notes as I was watching The Secret for the first few times, and especially when it came to their take on the secret of money.
And yet while all of that sounded true to me, I have not as of yet cracked that one. I am pretty well informed on financial things, but that is because I have read piles and piles of financial books, not because I watched the secret and cracked the code.
There are some tricks for those who know what they are doing. To get into our current home, which is our dream home, we neither made a down payment, qualified for a loan, nor paid any closing costs. I wrote a small eBook on how to do that and you can read about it here.
I want to say something on this money thing, and this is something that was not really discussed in the movie The Secret. I want to talk about retaining your money, not making it.
If you have any kind of a job or profitable business or return on investments, then you make enough money to eventually be rich. Sound strange? Well it's true, at least until you come to the point where you have spent it all (and possibly more) and not saved any of it.
In an earlier post, I talk about how focusing on spending less as opposed to focusing on making more is lack thinking, and I still believe that. But there is a fine line here, because if we do not learn to spend a little less prior to our figuring out how to make more then we increase our debt, and that is just the opposite of the direction that we want to go.
What I am sayting here is that there is just no substitute for a good financial education. You could learn to attract a million dollars using the law of attraction; but if you have no real financial education, how are you ever going to keep it? If you do not know how to make $100.00 work for you in some positive way, then how can you make larger amounts work for you?
Here's hint number one, courtesy of Dennis R. Deaton. The best hedge against inflation begins with not losing a fortune. I know far too many people, including myself, who have learned valuable financial lessons the hard way by losing five digit sums of money. Mostly lost on investments where I thought I knew what I was doing when I did not. Nothing is more dangerous than an investor who thinks he has it figured out.
If you really do not understand the markets and what moves them, if you do not understand and use stop and limit orders, then I have to say that you will be much better off parking all of your savings in cash vehicles, despite what all the other financial "experts" say. All of those "experts" are never around to take responsibility when they help you to lose a lot of money.
Second point. You will never make money by paying large sums of money to someone else so that they can tell you what worked for them. There is no guarentee that it will work for you. In fact, there is hardly any chance at all that it would work for you. If you matched with them on all talents and attitudes then maybe, but when is that going to be true?
No, you have to find your own way. Some people may have different opinions, but I am not big on life coaches or any kind of coaches or paying anyone a large sum of money to help you. They can only tell you what works for them, and nothing works for everybody. I especially do not like the fact that they all want they money up front and if they fail to help you earn any additional money, then it is your fault, not theirs. I have direct experience with this.
Yes, you should educate yourself based on what successful people have done in the past, but all you have to do to begin and continue this process is to obtain and read a book. If you go to the library then the books are free. It need not cost a lot of money.
Someone who understands insurance, and who understands what you really need versus what you do not, can save tons of money buying insurance. The understanding must come first.
If you do need someone to help you, see if you can find someone who does consulting like I do.
I do financial consulting in the facts and figures world of finance. I cannot and will not attempt to teach you how to attract one million dollars, but I guarentee that I can work your family spending plan so that you come out at the end with more money. What do I charge for a fee? I charge a percentage of what I have saved you. So you win with the savings, I win with the percentage of the savings, and everyone wins. What a refreshing change versus coach always wins and the coached person might win something.
If you have a coach, ask them if they would be willing to charge you on a model of a percentage of the increased income you earn because of their coaching. In my experience not one of them has been willing to do this. Why should they have to take any responsibility for all that money that they are being paid?
It seems like the new Information Age race. Who can make the most money while providing only dubious value and not taking any responsibility whatsoever ?? I am here to tell you that there are a lot of people around who are good at this game, and you want to avoid them like the plague!
So we search together for the key to the code of attracting a big pile of money . . . but in the meantime let's improve our financial education so that we are ready for the windfall when it comes.
Because you would hate for it to all blow away.
Joseph
And yet while all of that sounded true to me, I have not as of yet cracked that one. I am pretty well informed on financial things, but that is because I have read piles and piles of financial books, not because I watched the secret and cracked the code.
There are some tricks for those who know what they are doing. To get into our current home, which is our dream home, we neither made a down payment, qualified for a loan, nor paid any closing costs. I wrote a small eBook on how to do that and you can read about it here.
I want to say something on this money thing, and this is something that was not really discussed in the movie The Secret. I want to talk about retaining your money, not making it.
If you have any kind of a job or profitable business or return on investments, then you make enough money to eventually be rich. Sound strange? Well it's true, at least until you come to the point where you have spent it all (and possibly more) and not saved any of it.
In an earlier post, I talk about how focusing on spending less as opposed to focusing on making more is lack thinking, and I still believe that. But there is a fine line here, because if we do not learn to spend a little less prior to our figuring out how to make more then we increase our debt, and that is just the opposite of the direction that we want to go.
What I am sayting here is that there is just no substitute for a good financial education. You could learn to attract a million dollars using the law of attraction; but if you have no real financial education, how are you ever going to keep it? If you do not know how to make $100.00 work for you in some positive way, then how can you make larger amounts work for you?
Here's hint number one, courtesy of Dennis R. Deaton. The best hedge against inflation begins with not losing a fortune. I know far too many people, including myself, who have learned valuable financial lessons the hard way by losing five digit sums of money. Mostly lost on investments where I thought I knew what I was doing when I did not. Nothing is more dangerous than an investor who thinks he has it figured out.
If you really do not understand the markets and what moves them, if you do not understand and use stop and limit orders, then I have to say that you will be much better off parking all of your savings in cash vehicles, despite what all the other financial "experts" say. All of those "experts" are never around to take responsibility when they help you to lose a lot of money.
Second point. You will never make money by paying large sums of money to someone else so that they can tell you what worked for them. There is no guarentee that it will work for you. In fact, there is hardly any chance at all that it would work for you. If you matched with them on all talents and attitudes then maybe, but when is that going to be true?
No, you have to find your own way. Some people may have different opinions, but I am not big on life coaches or any kind of coaches or paying anyone a large sum of money to help you. They can only tell you what works for them, and nothing works for everybody. I especially do not like the fact that they all want they money up front and if they fail to help you earn any additional money, then it is your fault, not theirs. I have direct experience with this.
Yes, you should educate yourself based on what successful people have done in the past, but all you have to do to begin and continue this process is to obtain and read a book. If you go to the library then the books are free. It need not cost a lot of money.
Someone who understands insurance, and who understands what you really need versus what you do not, can save tons of money buying insurance. The understanding must come first.
If you do need someone to help you, see if you can find someone who does consulting like I do.
I do financial consulting in the facts and figures world of finance. I cannot and will not attempt to teach you how to attract one million dollars, but I guarentee that I can work your family spending plan so that you come out at the end with more money. What do I charge for a fee? I charge a percentage of what I have saved you. So you win with the savings, I win with the percentage of the savings, and everyone wins. What a refreshing change versus coach always wins and the coached person might win something.
If you have a coach, ask them if they would be willing to charge you on a model of a percentage of the increased income you earn because of their coaching. In my experience not one of them has been willing to do this. Why should they have to take any responsibility for all that money that they are being paid?
It seems like the new Information Age race. Who can make the most money while providing only dubious value and not taking any responsibility whatsoever ?? I am here to tell you that there are a lot of people around who are good at this game, and you want to avoid them like the plague!
So we search together for the key to the code of attracting a big pile of money . . . but in the meantime let's improve our financial education so that we are ready for the windfall when it comes.
Because you would hate for it to all blow away.
Joseph
Monday, January 7, 2008
So Who is Abraham Really ??
This question does not apply so much to the currently available book and Extended Edition of The Secret (where Esther Hicks was removed), but those like me who enjoyed the original you may be as curious about this question as I have been.
The Abraham entities describe themself as a group of "non-physical" entities. I read that to mean spirits. This is saying that they are in the same form now as we were in prior to coming to this Earth, meaning spirit form. Those who have yet to come to this Earth, and yet are slated to come, exist in spirit form right now.
So this is the first possibility for the Abraham entities, that they are spirits that are slated to come to this earth (and receive physical bodies) but they have not come yet.
I am not as much of an expert on the Teachings of Abraham as some others, but I have read a good amount of their writings and have watched the mailing lists for more than a year now, so I feel I have a pretty good pulse on what is going on.
Based on what I have seen and heard them say, I do not believe them to be part of this group. They have never spoken in any way suggesting that they would eventually have physical bodies themselves.
Another possibility is that they are not real at all, they are just an imagination of Esther Hicks that she uses to make a lot of money.
I do not really believe that this is the case either. While they essentially just ask one to be trusting that what they say is correct, I find their viewpoint to be consistent with what I imagine the viewpoint of a non-physical entity would be.
And we know that there ARE non-physical entities out there. The aforementioned spirits that have not been born yet (which group may not be to Earth yet), the spirits of those who have passed on (who are here: The place called the Spirit World where we all go after death and before resurrection is here with us on Earth), and the other non-physicals are those one third of Heavenly Father's children who followed Lucifer's plan originally and who will never receive physical bodies).
So there is not 100% proof in my eyes, but I believe that these are real spirit beings that she is channeling.
So it could be that they are spirits of those who once lived on Earth but who have passed on. This would give them a great viewpoint to non-physical and physical, and the Abraham entities act like they understand both.
But they do not speak as if they ever had physical bodies themselves, at least not that I have seen. I do not believe that they are part of this group either.
So what does that leave?
First a little history, because you do not remember this, but you DID participate in it prior to your coming here to Earth.
There was a grand council in Heaven that we all attended prior to coming here. Two plans for the salvation of Heavenly Father's children were presented for us to vote upon. Plan number one was Heavenly Father's plan and it was championed by Jehovah Himself. In this plan there would be agency, or the freedom to choose. No one would be forced to accept Christ while living on Earth, they would have to do so of their own free will and choice. The plan provided that there would be a Saviour, so that mankind could be reclaimed from their sins as they repented and accepted Christ.
There was another plan presented, which plan was presented by Lucifer himself. In this plan, agency would be done away with; and all would essentially be forced to live the gospel and return to Father. Lucifer sought to destroy the agency of man. One third of the spirits present voted for Lucifer's plan and as a result they were cast out of Heaven with him and they were sent to Earth, but they will never receive physical bodies and thus their eternal progression is stopped.
It is from among this group that "legion" appeared in the New Testament. All evil spirits are part of this group. These spirits can, under certain conditions, possess physical bodies belonging to another. They can also be cast out of those bodies by the proper authority.
But to just make a blanket statement that all of them are bad may be a superficial judgement. The other two thirds that voted for Heavenly Father's plan have come or will come to Earth and receive bodies, and we know by history and the six o'clock news that all of these are not "good".
So just because a spirit is in the one third group does not prove that he is evil, but he/she certainly could be. What is clear is that you will not learn correct principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ from this group, because they all rejected it so long ago. This group however would have the non-physical viewpoint and expertise in how the universe works, because they did not pass through the same veil of forgetfulness that we all did. They would know a lot more about "source energy", even if they were banished from the ultimate source.
But there could be some of them who are trying to be helpful, and they could be calling themselves Abraham.
So am I saying that Abraham is a group of evil spirits?
Not really, but I believe that the most likely group that they come from is the one third group. I could be wrong on this. But I will explain my thinking.
Here's why.
It's not so much what they say, but what they do not say that speaks volumes.
I have never once seen or heard them talk about or define God our Heavenly Father.
I have never once seen or heard them talk about the gospel or the Lord Jesus Christ.
I have never once seen or heard them talk about the Holy Ghost, who is also a personage of spirit like they say they are.
Combine all of that with the fact that since they did not pass through the veil like we did, they are in a position to know and they do know about all of these things.
And yet they say nothing. (Someone please correct me if I am wrong here). I have not seen them say anything at all about it.
The principles of the Law of Attraction that they teach are intriging and ring true to me. They are trying to get us in touch with great power within us that we do not even know we have. In general it seems that they are trying to be helpful. An interesting thing is that the teachings in the movie The Secret about gratitude were not taught by Abraham, but mostly by Lee Brower and Joe Vitale and James Ray.
So what am I trying to say here? Simply this . . .
I would recommend that one not treat the teachings of Abraham like they are a religion. I note that there seem to be many who follow these teachings with religious fervor.
If at any time one finds that something taught by Abraham (or especially something spouted by one of their followers) is in conflict with the revealed word of God in the Scriptures; I would recommend strongly that one choose the scriptures.
An example. The scriptures are very clear of how God feels about fornication and adultery, even if society is getting lax on it, the word of God has not changed. And yet I see posts from time to time on the Abraham discussion group (always from men), which are saying that if committing fornication and adultery "feel good" to you, they that is what you should do!
These men are wishful thinkers. Fornication and Adultery destroys families and brings nothing but misery and pain, no matter how much one lies to themself that it "feels good". It also leads to all kinds of other sins as people attempt to hide their wrong doings. In short both fornication and adultery lead to bondage, as does all other unrepented sin.
So do not stop going to church in favor of the Teachings of Abraham. There ARE things that you need to do while here to be saved, and you will not learn those things from Abraham. They will not teach you to repent. They will not teach that you must be baptized by proper authority.
Those who listen to the message must have the discernment to tell if what is being presented is in harmony with the scriptures.
Those who are unable to discern should avoid the message, because it is not worth the consequences of sin.
They are right about the Universe being filled with Love, but it does seem funny to me that they do not identify the SOURCE of that love, which source is God.
Joseph
The Abraham entities describe themself as a group of "non-physical" entities. I read that to mean spirits. This is saying that they are in the same form now as we were in prior to coming to this Earth, meaning spirit form. Those who have yet to come to this Earth, and yet are slated to come, exist in spirit form right now.
So this is the first possibility for the Abraham entities, that they are spirits that are slated to come to this earth (and receive physical bodies) but they have not come yet.
I am not as much of an expert on the Teachings of Abraham as some others, but I have read a good amount of their writings and have watched the mailing lists for more than a year now, so I feel I have a pretty good pulse on what is going on.
Based on what I have seen and heard them say, I do not believe them to be part of this group. They have never spoken in any way suggesting that they would eventually have physical bodies themselves.
Another possibility is that they are not real at all, they are just an imagination of Esther Hicks that she uses to make a lot of money.
I do not really believe that this is the case either. While they essentially just ask one to be trusting that what they say is correct, I find their viewpoint to be consistent with what I imagine the viewpoint of a non-physical entity would be.
And we know that there ARE non-physical entities out there. The aforementioned spirits that have not been born yet (which group may not be to Earth yet), the spirits of those who have passed on (who are here: The place called the Spirit World where we all go after death and before resurrection is here with us on Earth), and the other non-physicals are those one third of Heavenly Father's children who followed Lucifer's plan originally and who will never receive physical bodies).
So there is not 100% proof in my eyes, but I believe that these are real spirit beings that she is channeling.
So it could be that they are spirits of those who once lived on Earth but who have passed on. This would give them a great viewpoint to non-physical and physical, and the Abraham entities act like they understand both.
But they do not speak as if they ever had physical bodies themselves, at least not that I have seen. I do not believe that they are part of this group either.
So what does that leave?
First a little history, because you do not remember this, but you DID participate in it prior to your coming here to Earth.
There was a grand council in Heaven that we all attended prior to coming here. Two plans for the salvation of Heavenly Father's children were presented for us to vote upon. Plan number one was Heavenly Father's plan and it was championed by Jehovah Himself. In this plan there would be agency, or the freedom to choose. No one would be forced to accept Christ while living on Earth, they would have to do so of their own free will and choice. The plan provided that there would be a Saviour, so that mankind could be reclaimed from their sins as they repented and accepted Christ.
There was another plan presented, which plan was presented by Lucifer himself. In this plan, agency would be done away with; and all would essentially be forced to live the gospel and return to Father. Lucifer sought to destroy the agency of man. One third of the spirits present voted for Lucifer's plan and as a result they were cast out of Heaven with him and they were sent to Earth, but they will never receive physical bodies and thus their eternal progression is stopped.
It is from among this group that "legion" appeared in the New Testament. All evil spirits are part of this group. These spirits can, under certain conditions, possess physical bodies belonging to another. They can also be cast out of those bodies by the proper authority.
But to just make a blanket statement that all of them are bad may be a superficial judgement. The other two thirds that voted for Heavenly Father's plan have come or will come to Earth and receive bodies, and we know by history and the six o'clock news that all of these are not "good".
So just because a spirit is in the one third group does not prove that he is evil, but he/she certainly could be. What is clear is that you will not learn correct principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ from this group, because they all rejected it so long ago. This group however would have the non-physical viewpoint and expertise in how the universe works, because they did not pass through the same veil of forgetfulness that we all did. They would know a lot more about "source energy", even if they were banished from the ultimate source.
But there could be some of them who are trying to be helpful, and they could be calling themselves Abraham.
So am I saying that Abraham is a group of evil spirits?
Not really, but I believe that the most likely group that they come from is the one third group. I could be wrong on this. But I will explain my thinking.
Here's why.
It's not so much what they say, but what they do not say that speaks volumes.
I have never once seen or heard them talk about or define God our Heavenly Father.
I have never once seen or heard them talk about the gospel or the Lord Jesus Christ.
I have never once seen or heard them talk about the Holy Ghost, who is also a personage of spirit like they say they are.
Combine all of that with the fact that since they did not pass through the veil like we did, they are in a position to know and they do know about all of these things.
And yet they say nothing. (Someone please correct me if I am wrong here). I have not seen them say anything at all about it.
The principles of the Law of Attraction that they teach are intriging and ring true to me. They are trying to get us in touch with great power within us that we do not even know we have. In general it seems that they are trying to be helpful. An interesting thing is that the teachings in the movie The Secret about gratitude were not taught by Abraham, but mostly by Lee Brower and Joe Vitale and James Ray.
So what am I trying to say here? Simply this . . .
I would recommend that one not treat the teachings of Abraham like they are a religion. I note that there seem to be many who follow these teachings with religious fervor.
If at any time one finds that something taught by Abraham (or especially something spouted by one of their followers) is in conflict with the revealed word of God in the Scriptures; I would recommend strongly that one choose the scriptures.
An example. The scriptures are very clear of how God feels about fornication and adultery, even if society is getting lax on it, the word of God has not changed. And yet I see posts from time to time on the Abraham discussion group (always from men), which are saying that if committing fornication and adultery "feel good" to you, they that is what you should do!
These men are wishful thinkers. Fornication and Adultery destroys families and brings nothing but misery and pain, no matter how much one lies to themself that it "feels good". It also leads to all kinds of other sins as people attempt to hide their wrong doings. In short both fornication and adultery lead to bondage, as does all other unrepented sin.
So do not stop going to church in favor of the Teachings of Abraham. There ARE things that you need to do while here to be saved, and you will not learn those things from Abraham. They will not teach you to repent. They will not teach that you must be baptized by proper authority.
Those who listen to the message must have the discernment to tell if what is being presented is in harmony with the scriptures.
Those who are unable to discern should avoid the message, because it is not worth the consequences of sin.
They are right about the Universe being filled with Love, but it does seem funny to me that they do not identify the SOURCE of that love, which source is God.
Joseph
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