What if You Enjoy Violent Movies?

Abraham-Hicks,  St. Petersburg, FL 03-13-94

Guest: Judging what we're creating and what we're doing about thinking and feeling and that, if it feels right and feels good inside, then you're creating in a way that's for your, you know, your greater benefit. Like an example of, like...last night I went home, I was watching Rambo on TV which isn't a very enlightened movie, but I enjoyed it; I really enjoyed the action and what was happening. And so, it makes me wonder, are there things that...and there's other things that I do in my life that I think, "This isn't a very enlightened thing to do," but, I feel good doing it.

Abraham: Rather than evaluating whether it's enlightened or not, evaluate how it feels. In other words, as you're watching Rambo, you could be concentrating upon the agility of his body, you could be concentrating upon his ability to get done what he has intended to get done. You could be concentrating upon his passion for his work. In other words, within everything, there are positive and negative aspects, and if you are feeling good, as connected to the Nonphysical Energy as you are, then that means that you are looking at the aspects of it -- in other words, did you feel more powerful as you watched it?

Guest: You know, those things that you said rang true. It was like getting something accomplished, of doing something that was difficult to do, and you know, making it happen is what...

Abraham: And there is another part of you that knows that all of that stuff that is offered, any blood that you see, is not real. In other words, you are accepting it as a game. That's why we say, if you're watching a horror movie and it horrifies you, then you are vibrationally allowing something you do not want. If you're watching a comedy, and it horrifies you, or if you're watching a comedy and it amuses you -- in other words...you can't judge anything at face value. The emotion that it evokes from you is your indicator of where you are vibrating relative to it, you see. Were there any parts of the movie that bothered you?

GUEST: I don't think so, no. There were parts that made me feel apprehensive, although I've seen it two or three times. But it was, you know, the parts that made me feel like a little bit scared...

Abraham: And so, as you felt that negative contrast, you quickly, particularly because you'd seen it before, were able to focus upon the positive outcome or at least...

Guest: It was going to work out. He was going to get a release from the prison and all that.

Abraham: All is well there. In other words, it is never appropriate to throw a blanket over anything, and call it all the same. Sometimes someone will have read a book and they will say to us, "Well, Abraham, what do you think about the book?" And we say, "Which part of it are you talking about?"

In other words, it's not what we think about the book that is important to you, it's how you felt about the book that is important to you. You see what we are getting at? It's "What did that book trigger in me in terms of wanting and in terms of my awareness of where I am relative to what I'm wanting?" That's the only thing that's important about anything.

So, could we put films of a violent nature all in one category? We couldn't, could we? In other words, here is a film, that by many standards, is considered to be very violent and yet, you, a connected being, sat and actually enjoyed it. Where there could be a movie of another nature where there is some sinister plot or...

The movies that Esther has a very difficult time watching, now, are the ones that are more what are based on actual reality, where there's someone constantly putting down someone, where she's watching the diminishment of the spirit taking place. Where people are just being rude to each other, and she sees that constant whittling of self-respect. And those movies are much more difficult for Esther to watch than movies of the pretense of violence. Well, it is an undertone of self disempowerment. In other words, most things are sort of projected toward that, because people do not feel very powerful.

But the thing that we want to remind you is that there can be a tendency to want to condemn the media or condemn the agencies that produce the films, condemn the networks for what they are showing you, when what they are doing is responding to the mass consciousness of your population. In other words, they are giving you what you are vibrationally asking for, and the way they evaluate what you're asking for is by what you watch. It is all dollar motivated but, it is actually very well organized and in harmony with the true intent of people. In other words, you're all getting exactly what you deserve, and we do not mean that in a judgmental sense. We mean vibrationally; [what] you are attracting.

So what we talk about in these gatherings is, "Do I want to be part of mass consciousness? Do I want to be one who receives the results of what mass consciousness is vibrating -- or do I choose to be a more individual vibrator? Do I choose to think for myself, or am I going to be programmed to my thinking by what is being offered?"

Well, that goes back to the very first thing we said yesterday, or one of the first things, and that is, most people are responding to conditions. So they watch something which causes them to vibrationally respond which causes them to emit another vibration which attracts another television program just like it. But then there are few of you who are not pleased by that, and as you're not pleased by it, or a lot of you that are not pleased by it, what do you do? You still talk about what you're not pleased by, so what does that do? That creates more of it, too. But then, there are even a fewer of you who are not pleased by it who have the foresight to understand what would please you, who actually spend time finding that feeling place -- and you attract some of those uplifting, delightful depictions of physical experience that actually do empower and uplift the masses who see it, you see?

What is your work? Is your work to fix a broken world? The world isn't broken, friends. It is an extraordinary, rather well-balanced arena of creating which contains enough contrast to stimulate your awareness of what is wanted. So, as you realize that it isn't broken and you realize that your work is to find your connection to the pure Energy that created it to begin with, your work is to allow the Energy to flow through you as you hold objects of attention -- then you are the extension of that creator.



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What if Someone Chooses to Molest a Child? (Long)

Abraham-Hicks, Portland, OR 5-8-01

Guest: I always try to get a big picture of the world and what we're doing--and it's like I can hold almost everything, but then there's just some things on the smorgasbord, and I go--that thing--people are still killing whales and killing each other and molesting kids and somehow that balance of not putting my attention to it...then I think, well, that's somehow saying that that's okay. I get stuck there.

Abraham: Here's the thing. It's a quandry between doing something about something--so many say if you don't do something about something then things don't change.

Guest: Yeah.

Abraham: And putting my head in the sand which might feel better to me but it doesn't feel like it's helping humanity.

Guest: Right!

Abraham: And what we're saying to you is, as you're seeing things not wanted and you feel that feeling you described as you see it, and within that you feel desire within you that things be different, now your work is to find harmony within your own rocket of desire; which means every time you turn back and look at things not as you want them to be you are in discord with your own rocket.

Guest: (Laughs) Yeah.

Abraham: So what's the question; there's a problem...?

Guest: No, that's me walking through the world sometimes. I'm very idealistic and there's this discord, and I don't really know how to manage it.

Abraham: See, what you're defining here is the exact process of perfection that you knew you would be embarking upon as a leading edge creator. You did not say "I will choose an environment where everywhere I look things please me."

Guest: Yeah, yeah.

Abraham: You said, "I will choose an environment where I will be stimulated to better ideas, and when the better idea comes, I will attune to the better idea. I won't keep looking back at what caused the better idea to be born." That's the discipline that is required. There are those that would say to you, "Well, we need you to keep looking at the problem because we've discovered we can motivate you to the action that serves us more by keeping you looking at the problem. You're more likely to give up money to support our organization, or you're more likely to give your money in order to keep our dream afloat."

Guest: And that keeps the problem going.

Abraham: If we can keep you aggravated about all of this...

Guest: Right, right.

Abraham: And what we're wanting you to say is, "I felt the aggravation. I felt the rocket of desire. I asked the universe on your behalf for a resolution. I know that when anyone asks the universe always answers, so help is on the way. And I'm going to do my best about helping us all to receive the help that is on the way by holding myself in vibrational harmony with the signal that I've identified." Oh. That is creating at its best, you see.

Guest: Okay, okay.

Abraham: And there's so many well-meaning people who see the contrast; give birth to the rocket of desire; feel it powerfully; shout it to the universe; the universe is answering; and then they're campaigning against what's wrong holding themselves apart from the solution. So even though solutions are happening all over the world, they never have access to them, because they are so vibrationally different from the solutions that, even though they're happening, they never get to see a glimpse of them.

Guest: Okay, okay.

Abraham: You have to find vibrational harmony with where you want to be before the universe can deliver it to you, you see.

Guest: Okay.

Abraham: We wouldn't attempt in any way to try to convince you that there are not things that are happening in your world that you don't want to happen in your world, but we will say to you that looking at the things that you don't want in your world will never make your world more as you want it to be.

Guest: Right. Yeah, yeah.

Abraham: It will only drag you down into the discord of that. We'll also say to you that, as a creator, you are better off with those things you don't want in your world than if your world was, by your standards, perfect in every way today. Because those things cause you to reach beyond what is, and if there's not reason to reach beyond what is, then you stand still, and none of us can do that. In other words, there is only motion forward--contrast assures that, you see.

Guest: Okay. Yeah, yeah.

Abe: We want you to begin to make contrast your friend. Let it be all right that there are unwanted things around.

Guest: Yeah--that's a whole different shift, yeah...

Abe: And let's talk about why. Let it be all right that there are things you wouldn't choose because there are others who would choose them....We are ALL free or none of us are free. And so, if you like being able to choose the things that you like to choose, then it must be all right with you that others choose the things that they want to choose. And you say, "All right, I can go there within reason, but what if they choose something really awful, like molesting a child? What if they choose something really horrible like killing the whales?" ...And we say, it still has to be all right with you that there are things that you don't want them to choose. Oh, that's so hard!

Guest: It IS hard. (laughs)

Abe: "I want them to choose within reason, only things that I would choose." And we say, "Then somebody gets to choose what you would choose." And you say, "Well, can't we just all agree on what's all right for us to choose?" And we say, "How's that working out for ya?"

It turns out that it's all being orchestrated from that broader perspective. ...The balance of intent is coming forth from that broader non-physical perspective. The variety is supreme. Because out of that variety, each genius consciousness gets to choose something more. Do you know the discord and the squalor and the suffering and the poverty and the negative emotion and the illness-- all the bad stuff that you see or hear about in your environment, is not because blessed spirits are coming forth and choosing bad things? In every single case, every bit of that suffering or sickness or badness is because somebody's locked off their signal momentarily.

Attention to Rape

Abraham-Hicks tape G-4/17/94

Lets say that you are a young woman and your mother, when she was a young girl, was raped, so almost from the first thing you remember she talked about it in a guarded way, and so you started picking up on some of that vibration. Not really worrying about it yourself because you say " I live in different times and different places and I am a different person," but still the seeds of that negative vibration beginning in you.

So then because that vibration is within you, you start attracting from your physical environment information about that. And you become best friends with someone who before you met her was also raped. So now the vibration is starting to feel realer to you. You're thinking about it more, you're feeling more vulnerable about it. So now it's a very strong part of your vibration. And now because of the amplification and the amount of attention that you spend on this subject, now you are vibrationally in the perfect position to be the one that the next raper that is anywhere in your proximity chooses.

Now this is what we were talking about. In other words people interacting in your physical sphere influencing you to a vibrational pattern of thought. Now as you are in that vibrational pattern of thought your vibration reaches to the boundaries of the Universe. So you not only have access to a physical raper you also have vibrational access to any of the vibrations in the thought bank !!

In other words so you could have many other-dimensional experiences. So then you go to a past life regressor and you say, "I've got this trouble. I worry about being raped." And so they do a past life regression and in your past life regression you have the experience of having been raped. Or maybe the experience of witnessing someone being raped in this altered state of consciousness. And then your conclusion is "Ah this explains it!" I was raped in a past life and I didn't get it all dealt with so now here I am dealing with it again."

And we say, Balony!!! All that happened was along this physical trail you bumped up against some influence that caused you to start developing a pattern of influence that caused you to reach to the boundaries of the Universe for more of that experience.

...If you are not in a vibration of well-being before you start reaching, from whatever vibrational stance you are in, that which you will attract will be in harmony with that.

(c) Abraham-Hicks Publications

Seth: Love is Always a Protection

Seth, The Early Sessions, Book 4, Session 176

(Blogger's Background Note: Jane/Ruburt's mother was bedridden throughout most of her childhood and could be very emotionally abusive.)

Seth: He [Ruburt] would do his mother no harm, and for this reason she can do him no harm. The desire and the intent to do violence almost inevitably brings forth violence. We are involved here in somewhat of a basic problem, hardly Ruburt's alone, that will someday take up many sessions. For like does indeed attract like. If you hate, you will be hated. You will attract hate.

There are definite reasons for this. The reasons have been known and forgotten, but the very practical fact remains. If Ruburt would indeed do his mother harm if the opportunity presented itself, then he would indeed be in danger of harm...

...Ruburt's love for you, his ABILITY to love in general, is his protection. So he has nothing to fear. Love is ALWAYS a protection, in a quite literal manner; in a biological and electromagnetic and chemical and psychic manner.

(c) Robert Butts

Why Does the Media Broadcast Pain, but Censor Pleasure?

Excerpt from Abraham's latest book "The Vortex" p. 135-6

Jerry: I also notice that in our culture it seems perfectly appropriate for television and movies to depict the maiming of people, and destruction and gore- anything horrible as far as destroying the human body- while it seems inappropriate to show human sexuality and pleasure. I've never understood why our culture has come to the place where it can stand hate and anger and pain, but doesn't want to see pleasure.

Abraham: It is not a matter of their wanting to see hate, anger, and pain, and not wanting to see pleasure. In fact, the opposite of that is true: people do want to feel good, and they want to see things that are successful and beautiful and pleasurable.

Many people are attracting to thmselves unwanted things by virtue of their atettention to those unwanted things. A misunderstanding of the Laws of the Universe is at the heart of this conversation as the people of your society wage wars against the things they do not want: war against terror, war against AIDs, war against teenage pregnancy, war against violence, war against cancer - adn every one of those things is getting bigger because attention to unwanted creates more unwanted.

Your moviemakers, whether they understand the Law of Attraction or not, understand that people do gravitate more toward viewing unwanted things than wanted. And we sumbit that the reason that is true is because there are strong active Vibrations in most people about what they do not want. If you were to engage the average person in coversation about what is going on with his life, you would find him much more articulate in expressing the things that are not working well - things that are unjust and things that need to be changed than he would be able to express the aeauty of his life and world.

Also, once you have decided that the world is leaning toward anger and hate, you are no longer a Vibrational Match to the beauty of the wolrd- and the world, as you attract, then leans in the direction of your belief. Anyone who begins to make list of the positive aspects of the world around them will train their Vibartion and therefore their own point of attraction to more of that.

Meanwhile, the people who make movies will continue to make the movies that people are attracting from them. We would like to help you remember that if you are waiting around for your society to get straightened out before you have a happy life experience, you will have a very long wait. If you are waiting for anybody else in your epxiernce to get straightened out before you ahve a happy experience you will have a very long wait.

You are not here to discover that which is perfect. You are here to create or to attract that which is perfect. As the contrast of your life, and even of what you are calling unpleasant movies, helps you know what you do not want, you also understand more clearly what you do want. Focus upon what you do want, become a Vibrational Match to what you do want, train your point of attraction to what you do want, and watch your personal world become that.

(c) Abraham-Hicks Publications

Seth on Riots and Natural Disasters Part B

Seth, The Nature of Personal Reality, Session 665

For many people, a natural calamity provides their first personal experience with the realities of creaturehood’s connection with the planet. Under such conditions men who feel a part of nothing, of no structure or family or country, can understand in a flash their comradeship with the earth, their place upon it and its energy; through suddenly recognizing that relationship they feel their own power for action.

On quite a different level, riots often serve the same purpose, where the release of energy, for whatever reasons, introduces a group of individuals to the intimate recognition that highly concentrated vitality exists. They may not have found it earlier in their lives.

This recognition can lead them—and often does—to seize their own energy and use it in a strong creative manner. A natural catastrophe or a riot are both energy baths, potent and highly positive in their ways despite their obvious connotations.

In your terms this in no way absolves those who start riots, for example, for they will be working within a system of conscious beliefs in which violence begets violence. Yet even here individual differences apply.

The inciters of riots are often searching for the manifestation of energy which they do not believe they possess on their own. They light and start psychological fires, and are as transfixed by the results as any arsonist. If they understood and could experience power and energy in themselves they would not need such tactics.

As racial problems may be worked out on many levels, through a riot or a natural disaster, or a combination of both, according to the intensity of the situation on a psychological level; and as physical symptoms can be pleas for help and recognition, so can natural misfortunes be utilized by members of one portion of the country, or one part of the world, to obtain aid from other portions.

More to come. (Back to Part A.)

Seth: You Create Wars In Your Minds

Seth: Now, the enemy does not need a Seth any more than you do to tell them to lay down their arms. They need their own inner selves. And, if one side lays down its arms, the other side will realize there is no need for arms. 

Now you cannot understand this now, and yet I tell you that your own preoccupation with arms, as a country, is received by others, and your own thoughts are materialized and you create wars in your minds that then must be faced with your flesh and your blood. 

So it shall be done to you as you do. And, as you think, so is your world. The reality that you have is a replica of your thoughts. If you do not like the world, you must change your thoughts and no exterior manipulation will change the face of your experience one iota, if you do not change your dreams and your thoughts. 

It is your world. Then change it now."

Seth, ESP Class session, Nov. 1972