Abe: Why Greater Creativity Trumps Bean CountingPart 1

Q: I was also dealing with some financial issues, and my bank accounts are disorganized – my personal account, my business account, money's going back and forth between those two; my personal and business credit cards, you know, it's like wherever I need the money from it's being pulled here to go there and being pulled here to go there. Is that related to this? I mean, is disorganization in this area causing me financial distress or are those just still not....

Abe: Well, we think the disorganization that you have been practicing is sort of evident there, but we do not think one is the cause of the other. We think that the way you feel about organizing is the cause of all of them. But here is the thing that we really want you to hear: are you making it work? In other words, do you have a sense of where the money is?

Q: I...not in a way that I could explain to the IRS. (Laughter.) But, yeah, I know where money is and which bank account has some in it at that moment and which one might need it later.

Abe: Well, if you ever needed to explain it, all of the records are there. In other words, money in and money out is not a difficult thing to explain. Even when you spend something on your credit card, there is a record of it. And so at any point that any reconciliation is necessary, it is there for you. The reason that we're playing with you here a little bit is because we want to soothe you into this place where you are no longer beating up on yourself for your organizational style.

And we would call it a style because it's sort of the way that you are moving, and the reason that we are not wanting you to all of a sudden begin to try to tighten up on yourself and shape up and do things in a more regimented way, in the way that would please someone else, is because creative juices very often are inhibited. In other words, sometimes there is a greater sacrifice to creative flow when you get all organized than when you just allow things to flow.

So the question that we are putting to you is: do your organizational skills, particularly the ones that are relating to money, cause you trauma? In other words, are you bouncing checks? Are you getting late notices? Are you financially behind things as a result of what some would call [irresponsibility]? Or are you managing in your style?

Q: Yes to both. I mean, it has caused me to end up bouncing a check or getting a late fee and things like that. And yeah, I think I've gotten to the point where that doesn't bother me.

Abe: Well, you see, this is hard for many to hear but when you get into this creative flow where you're asking and the Universe is yielding, you reach this place where you don't sweat the small stuff. And keeping track of what you did is a little bit of sweating the small stuff.

Now, we know your government requires it of you to a certain degree, we know that there are records and reconciliations that are required, but we have to say to you: far, far, far more importance is put upon that than we would if we were standing in your physical shoes because you spend your time doing things you do not want to do, get yourself out of snyc with the flow -– when you get in the flow, so much avalanches in that it becomes unimportant how it is managed. It's sort of like saying, "I have more money than I have any sensible use for, so now I don't have to keep such a close eye on my bank account."

Abraham-Hicks, Cincinnati, OH, 9/23/02

Seth: Give unto Caesar

Seth, Deleted Sessions, October 1977

Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's. That means the taxes. With all its evils and ignorances, Caesar's world allows framework in which artists, writers, garbage men, physicians and fools can exist... Fools have a right to exist. It does you little harm to help uphold their world.

Seth: You Can't Blame the Government

Seth, ESP classes

You add to society. You are not at its mercy. It is not something outside of yourselves; you are a part of it. Any time you speak or agree or disagree, you are a part of society, and you are contributing to change or to lack of change.

The same applies, of course, in political terms. You cannot blame 'the government' for anything, for that 'government' is a term that is meaningless. It applies to individuals. The individuals in your nation are reflecting your private behavior. You find it shocking. You cheat in your own ways. The leaders have a greater opportunity. You use self-justification in your small cheating, and they simply use more gigantic self-justification in their cheating, and in their activities you see spread across the newspaper for the world to see -- your own private acts, only this time, magnified.



You cheat at your income taxes. You think it is funny. So you have a president who is a cheat and a liar! Then look to yourselves, for he is the reflection of what your nation has become -- one reflection -- one reflection only. There are better reflections, thank heaven!

For you are not all liars, and you are not all cheaters. And you lie in one area of your life and be truthful in another. But until you learn to recognize your own individuality, and to realize that you form your reality, you will place the blame upon others. At the same time, you will not be able to accept your own joy, or your own creativity.

© Rob and Laurel Butts

Seth on Government Spending, Public Works, and Taxes

The Personal Sessions, Book 5, page 33-34 (Also known as the Deleted Sessions)

"Now: in your country, generally speaking, rich and poor alike are provided with a multitude of services--many of course that are taken for granted.

The rich cannot buy a better light bulb than the poor-though they may have chandeliers galore, and electricity flows in your country through the poorest and richest areas as well. The rich and poor alike are provided with fire protection and police protection. The rich do not have purer water than the poor. Rich and poor alike walk down the same city streets. The same street does not suddenly become gold beneath the foot of the rich man and woman-and pot-holes in city, state, or government roads are felt alike by the tires of the Cadillac and the lowly Volkswagen.

The sewer pipes carry away drainage from apartment houses and mansions and from trailers as well, eventually, and all of that must be paid for by the people.

When you were a young man in New York City, bringing in the cash, your paid your taxes without a qualm. After you and Ruburt met, you had little-enough money for some time, as you tried to find your way, and you had little taxes at all. You had enough to eat, and a warm apartment, so you were hardly deprived--either of you.

Though you paid little taxes, the fire and police protection were not withdrawn, and all of the services continued. Later it seemed that the two of you made your way alone almost as aliens in your society, couched only by your own joint courage and determination. Then, when you began to make decent money, you resented giving it to the government--for the reasons just given, and because the government, it seemed, was built upon beliefs with which you could find no accord. So why should you so support it, when all that you had achieved was gained in spite of your society?

Yet that government did indeed couch you, and now through your taxes you couch other younger people, who cannot contribute as yet. There is no doubt that the very wealthy abuse the system, and yet all in all it is a good one, couching the young while they learn, and is so doing, providing a basis from which new beliefs can indeed emerge.

There are many on the edge of the system who are being carried, of course, and who also misuse the privilege. Despite that, however, at a physical level, your money is turned to help others at one level, while your work allows you the freedom of creativity, and the PRIVILEGE of helping at a still higher level.

Ruburt rather good-naturedly appreciates being in the position of paying taxes, since his upbringing was at the taxpayers' expense. I know you understand this-but carried to the extreme, that resentment would allow you barely enough to live on, and you actually would refuse to make money, because you so resent the high taxes connected with a good living. Yet financial security is important to both of you, because it allows you the freedom to create as you choose, and to follow this path. Yet remember that for all of its failings, your peace of mind is also the result of the American services that were available when you did not have much money, as they are now.


© Rob and Laurel Butts

"Give them a break" - Abe on Obama-McCain & Financial Crisis

"This man and This man is not not responsible for your well-being. You are responsible for your well-bing. Give them a break."

Abe: The Economy is the Exchange of Human Energy

Do you know this extraordinary monetary boom that is happening around the computer industry was set into motion by fewer than ten people. And now millions of you are reaping the financial rewards from the momentum that they established because they got off to themselves and allowed themselves to imagine something that currently did not exist in reality. And the economic benefit has been extraordinary. Some of them are not even part of the economic benefit, because they had a habit of thought about dollars that doesn't allow that part of it to flow to them.

What is the economy anyway? The economy is the exchange of human energy. We did not say the exchange of human activity. The economy is the exchange of human energy, and it will expand or shrink depending upon the intent or desire of the masses. So think about what's happening. Billions of people on this planet banging around with each other giving birth to constant new desire. And remember, ask and it is given. So the nonphysical is answering that desire and a very small percentage of you are in a place of allowing the desire to flow. Everyone could receive it, in other words the universe has the capacity to expand to fulfill...you could all be billionaires, every one of you. Every person on the planet. Because the universe has the capacity to expand to meet that, you see. But there are not that many that are asking. And there are even fewer that are answering. You get a sense of how this works?

Abraham, San Francisco Workshop, 2/20-1/99

Atlas Envisioned, actually. (Abraham)

[I will attempt to continue with the economic theme until April 15th. Here we have Abe extolling the Visionaries as the impetus for the Economy - before the first dotcom crash and the first LTCM hedge fund derivative debacle.]

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The visionaries are the reason for the massive employment in your world and the high economy. You don't meet them every day because they're not out there in the trenches. They usually don't have their sleeves rolled up, and they are usually not mixing among the others. They're meeting on islands. They are living the good life. They are connected to Energy Stream. They are visionaries. They are the reason that your technology is where it is. Are they scientists? No. Are they the mathematicians? No. Are they the bricklayers? No. All of those magnificent beings are an important part of the co-creative mix. Every one of them is as important as any other, even as important as the visionary himself. But the visionary is the one who holds the hope or the idea and believes it so much that he holds a guiding light that Law of Attraction can actualize around.

Is it possible to be the visionary and the actionary of your own life? Not only possible, it's the way most of you intended it to be. It's the best of all worlds. What can be more exhilarating than to find a dream from the contrast, to fixate on the dream and let it give you pleasure as it grows, and then to watch Law of Attraction bring it into manifestation while you help with your action? Does it get any better than that? You didn't think so as you made the decision to come forth into these physical bodies. You said, "This is the best time in all eternity for a Creator to Create."

Abraham - Kansas City, KS, G-9/27/98