You’re right that the LoA focuses awareness upon objects rather than the Self. It seems to be not so much “wrong,” as it is a stepping stone towards the importance of awareness. Many people discount its importance.

So it’s like a stepping stone from thinking that they’re a helpless victim in the world, to learning to work with awareness and creation, to ultimately letting go and allowing awareness to rest back upon itself.

So we definitely can choose to skip the stage or integrate in our beings, but it is generally more practical for people to focus on the power of their awareness itself because what you focus on is what you’ll experience, including the Self.

So once people realize the power of their conscious awareness, it would be much easier to suggest that they allow awareness rest upon the Self and see what happens.

Indeed, our true nature is Satchitananda (happiness). What obscures that natural happiness is the output of the mind, in the form of thought, and desire.

Vedanta teaches that the mind is naturally luminous – BUT FOR the desires that cloud it. So, once you quiet desire, awareness naturally turns back to the source of its own being – the Self – and that is actually the only STABLE source of happiness.

I’ll agree with Abraham that it is connection with Source that matters – the true wellspring of contentment we seek. However, the problem is still that LoA teachings promote object-identification. Abraham seems to temper that by saying we must maintain a connection with Source – but that part is dismissed by most.

Abundance is natural to life, so is ease, so is creativity. Indeed, you, your desire, and the object of your desire are all the Self. The only point I want to make is, witness the desire that arises in your mind as the desire of the Self, then witness the unfolding of the path to the desire, as the Self moving to its own fulfillment. As the witness, there is no resistence to the manifestion of desire, and there is also no object-identification, which is the culprit behind all human suffering.

Abraham suggests that you can get to the state where you go progressively higher and higher, like a continuous upward spiral, but since I haven’t experienced that, I’ll just have to tell you what they said.

I suppose if one was able to clear up every single thought in their head so that they had only positive beliefs about everything, both in their conscious and subconscious mind, then they’d experience only pleasure. Our emotional reactions are simply manifestations of thoughts and beliefs. No negative thoughts? No negative emotions.

Abraham also suggested that desire is built into the system and is a natural part of creation. Desire, the way they define it, is simply an idea that we’d like to see come into manifestation. Now the idea that our happiness comes from anything outside of us and that we need it to be happy is a cause of suffering. Hence the necessity of learning to be totally satisfied with what is and allow what is, no matter what. Happiness, to use their terminology, comes from our connection to Source.

Life is balanced, like yin and yang, totally 50/50. We tend to think that it is possible to experience more happiness than sadness, but eastern traditions say that it is absolutely not, sukha (happiness) and dukha (sadness) actually arise together – being opposite sides of a single coin – that coin is manifestation itself.

The only way to withstand the polarity is to go deeper into the Self, as the witness. When we abide as the witness, the polarity of reality becomes less polar. Eckhart Tolle speaks of this as a magical aspect of living in the Now (as the witness).

However, when we require objects and circumstances to complete us we are then “object-identified,” instead of “Self-identified” and must endure the deepest aspects of the polarity – as misery after we have chased down and experienced our desire.

Certainly we should be content with our material circumstances. But most of us enslave ourselves to circumstances – demanding that circumstances change, and that those changed circumstances produce the spiritual sensation of happiness within us. Indeed, happiness is our true nature – but the only way to experience it on a continual basis is to abide as the witness. Identification with thoughts, emotions, but most especially desire, is an impediment to our contentment.

Desire is function of the Ego – looking outward to the transient world of manifestion for its completion, desire feeds into desire in an endless loop without satisfaction. Looking inward, the Ego finds its true nature, and rests content at last.

Life is meant to be easy, effortless, and prosperous – but I find that to achieve that most effectively, you must simply surrender to your higher Self, and live in the now (quiet mind, heightened perception). With a mind quieted by meditation, you will find yourself having inspirations and impulses – follow these to your highest, best and least polar, fulfillment.

The idea of cleaning up one’s vibration has to do with progressively letting go of all negative energies in your physical vibration. So all thoughts that create negative emotion in your being, replace them with better feeling thoughts.

To use some more of Abraham’s terminology, your point of attraction is your main vibrational focus at this point. So cleaning up your vibration has to do with changing the spectrum of your point of attraction. Instead of going from super deep negative depression to extreme ecstasy, you change to maintain your vibration anywhere from calm neutrality to extreme ecstasy. You basically cut out the negative vibrations in your energy field.

It’s not really a step-by-step process, but it does involve choosing progressively better feeling thoughts. It may help to review their emotional guidance scale. This helps point us to the fact that when we’re feeling depressed and powerless, it’s easier to move up to anger than it is to total joy and love. Anger is an improvement over powerlessness for it does offer a sense of inner drive to at least change things, so it’s a step in the right direction. So little by little.

Regarding the “hot seat amnesia,” I listened to an Abraham-Hicks CD on the Paranormal purchased at the workshop. In it, someone speaks of how they have an expeirence like this and then are trying to get back to it and recall it, and they’re just finding they’re more and more forgetful of the specifics. Abraham answered something to the effect that once you have your answer, you know it and don’t need to keep going back to the question, trying to reproduce the experience. They said something like the trying so hard only makes your resistance stronger.

One quick question. Abraham speaks of clearing-up, cleaning-up your vibration. Did you get better clarity about that and, what does Abraham mean by ‘cleaning-up one’s vibration? Is there a step one, step two and step three process to this. Or is it just, feeling good, and going with the flow.

Terry

As for what changes have there been since? The main thing was a reinforcement of the call to stop seeking in every area of my life. I’ve made a list of the questions I have to bring clarity to them, then let them go and in this space of allowing and in the openness to receiving answers, the answers I seek are already presenting themselves.

As far as 2012, they say it’s going to be a sort of critical mass of shift of consciousness. Will there be some massive event that happens? Maybe, maybe not. Either way, the most important thing is to focus on who we’re being, as always. Circumstance don’t matter. Only our state of being matters. What happens happens. It’s how we respond to what happens which is what really matters. So, no worries!