Since I’ve been surrounded with more negativity lately, than near anyone being really positive, it’s sometimes very difficult for me to just accept everything I hear from every person attempting to teach…and I only say it that way because each teacher has a different idea, and what has worked best for them, and then some, not all, of the people they attract.

I’ve also heard so many different stories, and I guess I’m thinking that whatever works for each person is what they should use. I’ve also received e-mails from many that have tried it all and spent the money, then spent more money… read the books and are still struggling. That’s where the clearing out of old trash comes in. I’ve been working on that very hard as well.

It’s difficult when you’ve been brought up as a staunch Roman Catholic, with very ‘traditional’ (or as some say) ‘old fashioned’ Italian/German parents. (hmmm, yes, quite the ‘hot head’ combination, which explains to me why my temper flares when it shouldn’t; so did mom and dad).

Today I was watching Louise Hay’s video, “You Can Heal Your Life” and following along with the exercises she asked people to do. I could hardly believe the old ‘trash’ that was still there, and I’ve been working on myself for over a year. It seems like it’s taking me forever, but there are times when I need a break from it all. I inundate myself, then I go on ‘overload’ and end up just sitting here saying to myself…’soooo, now what?’

This kind of clearing out is so vital, and I tried it before with Joe Vitale’s suggestions, but the effect was not the same. Louise had a very special way of speaking to people like me, who’s trash is so built up after a lifetime of restrictions, rules, misinformation or only partial information, and that person inside be damned feeling. I must admit I was certainly impressed with it, and the exercises helped a great deal. There were just questions I’d never thought about asking…and then asking ‘why’ or ‘why’ not…separating ‘I should’ from ‘I could’ and so forth. Maybe others who are struggling as I am truly don’t realize the ‘I could’ can be taken more seriously. It just may be as simple as that, for some. We are usually brought up with an understanding that what we ’should’ do is more important and requires priority attention. I never realized that is not always the answer.

Yes, you are right…it’s all about the law of attraction, but it’s also about the law of allowance, the law of pure potentiality, deliberate creation, intention and polarity, and, and, and…. :>)

Until I found you and Barry, however, I was really sort of lost in the midst of everything…then it all began to take shape and little by little things began to drop into place. Thank you so much for that, and I so value everything you and Barry say. You two are the original “American Treasure.” :>)

[Heather's REPLY]

Hi Lea,

If it took you a lifetime to build the garbage up, it certainly may take longer than a year or two to throw it away!

And when I said it was about the Law of Attraction, I was referring to the movie, “The Secret”, which you had mentioned. It’s not about all those other laws… it’s really JUST about the Law of Attraction (and only a partial examination of it at that).

cheers
Heather

I’ve been there and done that! :>) (No Hoax) It just seemed after I read the downloads that everything began to take shape just a little easier, and the understanding came as…Ahhh Haaa, I knew there were many things missing from the simplified version, “The Secret.” It seems that many from that movie are bringing in new ‘laws’ a little at a time…all new discoveries and so on. It’s like having an overload of right and wrong ways of doing things. Sorta reminds me of being a former Catholic and the different books of the Bible. It says a lot, but over 1/2 of the truth is missing. :>)

In addition, from everything I heard Green say, and in what I’ve read (all three books) is that in a great sense, James Ray is WRONG, when he ends his e-mails with…

“P.S. Conventional wisdom is wrong again… Balance is bogus! Only harmony yields happiness and real wealth… Join me for two full days of complete immersion into insights and technologies that are guaranteed to help you achieve true Harmonic Wealth® in all areas in your life: Financial, Relational, Intellectual, Physical and Spiritual.”

I had subscribed to his Seven Steps, then quit. What he is saying in that first sentence does not make sense.

According to Webster’s dictionary, BALANCE ‘IS’ a harmonious arrangement of parts…
HARMONY ‘IS’ a pleasing arrangement or combination of parts.

I understand what he is saying about the five pillars. I attended one of his free seminars where he explained it all, and that was fine. He does appear to truly love…his own ideas…very much. (Ppppppsssstt-Raspberries) :>*) At the end, it sounded more like a ’slight begging’ for people to attend his big paying weekend, which my meager earnings could never buy. Several other folks and I just sorta gawked at each other, then walked out after I ‘tried’ to speak with him, and his assistant pulled me away by grabbing my sleeve and yanking on me after I spit out about 10 words. Oh well, after that I lost a bit of respect for the…person. (I was writing for the on line editions of the California and American Chronicle and announced to my readership where he would be and when). I never got the chance to ask him anything; just told him I ran the article, (he ended up with standing room only), and then I got yanked away before I could finish the next sentence. (Rather rude, I’d say, unless he doesn’t like the press or nation-wide exposure. I have quit the Chronicles since because they’re are NOT truthers).

Mind you, I’m not putting down what he said; however, the two words, balance and harmony, mean the same thing. And after reading the three downloads from No Hoax, BALANCE plays a very essential part. Isn’t 5 pillars sort of like riding a horse with 5 legs? ) Who said that anyone had to be an intellectual to ‘create their own world of success or reality?’ It makes me wonder if or not ’some’ people see those of ‘lesser intelligence’ (or maybe in reality they confuse intelligence with ‘wealth), as being unable to attain their desires, which I don’t see as being the case. People who have had absolutely no education manifest great things into their lives. Sure, they’re probably not stupid, but neither are they the intellectual types, either.

Barry and Heather, I would surely like your view on this, if you don’t mind? Do you understand the reasoning behind that quote? Maybe it’s just me and the bad taste that evening left in my mouth. It was ‘free’ to attend, but I lost a night’s pay taking off work. I guess I just wasn’t as impressed as I thought I’d be and that I’d lost money for…not much. He has some good points, but…I still have a tendency to believe that most of the people who were in “The Secret” sorta forgot the original intention after getting wrapped up in their own fame from it. Am I reading something in here that I shouldn’t?

Thanks a lot…and please don’t yell at me…my boss does that enough. :>( :>) Lea

[Heather's REPLY]

Hi Lea,

Yes, balance is harmonious, but not all harmony is in balance.

Like all poodles are dogs, but not all dogs are poodles.

James is referring to the way people are constantly searching for a balance in life; a “work-life balance”, or balancing the various areas of life: occupational, relationships, family, recreation, physical, wealth, etc.

But technically, “balance” refers to an equal disbursement; if you think of a set of scales, the only way to get balance is to have each side weighing exactly the same — a 50/50 split.

Many people knock themselves out trying to achieve that “balance”, which of course doesn’t bring them balance at all.

Harmony, on the other hand, does not rely on that even split. You can have 1% of one thing and 99% of another thing, and they can be in total harmony that way.

So while many of us who talk about balance are actually meaning something like a 30-20-10-25-15 split, it’s not technically “balance”… and that fact works well for James, who can therefore highlight the harmonious aspects of his Harmonious Wealth program.

Barry interviewed James for almost 2 hours, so he might have something to add to this.

Also, when you’re talking about intelligent or non-intelligent people “manifesting”… keep in mind that we’re all manifesting, all the time — some of us manifest what we want, others manifest what we don’t want. But as far as conscious creation, that’s another story. So while it may not take a lot of brains to be able to manifest what we DO WANT, those people you’re referring to aren’t necessarily manifesting those things on a conscious level of creation. You’d have to ask them if they actually set out to manifest those “great things” you talk about or not.

As for teachers forgetting the original intention of “The Secret”… no, I don’t believe that’s the case at all. It’s about the Law of Attraction, nothing more, nothing less, and I think they all know that, and in fact feel an obligation to teach their own students that the Law of Attraction is not the be-all and end-all of all things metaphysical, nor even the only universal law we need to pay attention to when it does come to manifesting what we want.

cheers
Heather

The Fox Mulder and Dana Scully tags you clarified about investigators into manifesting and success by each of you.
It has been a great journey tuning into what you both shared in that time.

The tv characters were into investigating conspiracy theories which your recents postings having focussed in that type of direction but for real world events we live in and the relevance to us all manifesting in our collective world.

I read your report into the Eckhart effect and some of the backlash you copped from quite a few of your readers. There is a similar critical thinking message you’ve been desiring to express that I am reading in the last two blog posts. Before I downloaded the this pdf I could tell this was going to be from David Icke. There is no doubt some of your audience that are…. lets just say new agey …or have a religious bent to themself and their beliefs are probably going to get their feathers ruffled with the critical thinking and discernment message that is the essence of these posts.

David Icke is an interesting character I came across in my own explorations about six years ago. There is quite a few interviews with him on News For The Soul radio online which is where I heard of him. Same place I discovered James Ray by the way. I listened to those interviews and David Icke gave many thought provoking perspectives of the events of September 11, 2001 that I found challenged the official story being accepted and propogated by the mainstream media around the western world soon after. Interesting times to say the least.

All those interviews and this pdf are worth taking the time listen to and read. Whilst I do not subscribe to David Icke’s complete conspiracy theories he certainly keeps you awake to realising all is not as it seems with the regular *news* through mainstream media and some of the stuff governments would like to have us believe.

It seems in his own path he started his journey as an investigator into conspiracy theories and somewhere on that path the questions arising in him and following his own nose lead him to become aware that the whole nature of what we see as reality in not as it seems.

He came from a different road than being an investigator into manifesting but he has become aware of the holographic nature of the universe we all share.

The bottom line is we all need to think for our selves. Own our own thinking mind and not follow others with blind faith.
At some point in eveyones path questions about our personal world intersecting with the larger collective world arise.
It is then some discernment and critical thinking needs to be applied as to where our collective beliefs come from and why we have them and if they serve a collective purpose for our greater good….

Keep up the great posts and as “The Fox Mulder of Manifestation” and “The Dana Scully of Success” I look forward to hearing you teaming up to interview David Icke. An interview with Konan would be fun too

Take care and happy manifesting

Another chalanging blog , thanks.

One fact that can be checked out on the governments; the USA, UK and others all declared bankruptecy 1932 – 1933 in Switzerland.

It can be hard to find but it is on many search engines. This fact makes the populations in these contries EMPLOYEES.

When your children are born they are numbered, given a number social security that follows them for LIFE. They are “Prisoners of the IRS” who persue them until death for taxes that are against the USA consititution’s 16th amendment as stated by the USA Supreme court.

Now they chase and imprison people using State courts and local courts who refuse to recognise the Supreme court rulings.

Check out what the IRS did on Joe Louis. After he beat Hitler’s boxer at the 36′ Olympics, then won 2 big cash prizes which he donated to the USA Army and Navy the IRS charged him interest even on these donations!

This left Joe heavily in debt to them. He even joined the segrated USA army and was decorated!

His Mother left him $600 which they confisgated along with his children’s trust funds. Joe had to glad hand people in clubs to earn a living and box until he was 38.
Well after his prime trying to pay the IRS.

When he died the German boxer he had beaten paid for his funeral.

These are hard cold facts which can be verified.

So please, Heather and Barry keep doing what you are doing; not only raising peoples consiousness but telling them to SEE the darkness and the light.

They still have to make the choices. These are all our own responsibility.

Blessings,
Love
Dolores

I’ve never posted a comment here before, and hope what I’m writing makes sense. I want to be brief because I know you have a full plate. But, I am so happy that you’ve written on this topic. I’ve been struggling with these very ideas when trying to learn about how the way we see the world effects our external conditions.

I’ve been told by others that by seeking the truth, regardless of what that truth is and paying attention to certain facts, that I am perpetuating negativity. That because they are more enlightened, so to speak, that they don’t have to pay attention to the economy, things the government may be doing, or even to global atrocities because those things are not part of their “reality”. And that by me speaking out on these things going on, that I’m actually helping to keep it in existence. Which has caused more confusion for me when trying to gain a sense of what the truth really is, because I don’t quite understand how ignoring things, or putting my head in the sand can help to make this world better.

For example, I do believe there are unseen forces at work, that aren’t there for our best interests and no matter how many happy thoughts I think, those forces are not going to go away. But I do believe that if enough people are aware of them, and choose to do something about them, things could get better for our world.

So thank you for writing something that is actually thought provoking and not just another post that says as long as I think happy thoughts, and buy this or that program, then the world will be all sunshine and cookies. It’s quite refreshing.

What an unexpected onslaught on the seemingly innocent advice – “You can only control the now – don’t focus on what COULD go wrong in the future”.

And all the words, whole pages of it triggered by that little sentence. Not mentioning that 95% of what was said is not connected to the spark that ignited the explosion…

It is visible that the advice is a composite of two parts – “You can only control the now”, and “Don’t focus on what could go wrong in the future”.

Now, I totally, absolutely and completely agree on the first part. The only time that exist is now, and only now we have POWER to change things, to affect the world around us, and – most important – inside of us. Our adventure of living depends on our ability to attune to the world around us, to feel the winds, and currents in our surrounding, and to let us flow along the ones that we choose.

If we don’t attune we will be unable to choose and we will be drifting around thrown about by erratic currents.

The second part is tricky, but one I agree also, not only because it is basically what have said the Jesus himself, but mostly because when you are attuned to the here and now, you can hear the thunder of the waterfall far ahead and then you can choose the current that will bring you to a safe passage.

Anyone that says – concentrate on the future, basically says – forget about living fully.

And you know what? If you’ll get to the place in the future you were so concentrating on all that time, you’ll be unable to feel happy, for you’ll be unaccustomed to the here and now and looking only ahead.

That is the definition of neurosis.
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[ Barry's Reply ] –

Leazek, first things first: not only did you completely miss the ENTIRE point of the post — i.e.. that you can ab-so-lute-ly, without question, CONTROL certain aspects of future-experience and that you will, in some circumstances, WANT to have the skill to DO that — you also missed the tie-in to WHY we used Ceser’s advice as an example of how to put time-worn spiritual pleasantries in proper context.

Us watching Ceser didn’t spur on this post… it’s Part #2 of an ongoing series after all – an expansion on our original post.

Our simple message, if the fine-tuned background and thought-process of this post escaped you, is this: STOP living your life in black and while mode, as in gulping down and feeling proud that you KNOW certain truisms WITHOUT living them or using them to gain an edge in life or enhancement in lifestyle.

The philosophy, for instance, of “living in the now” will do absolutely nothing for the goal-setting, task-focused, forward-thinking CEO. If he wants RESULTS, his cognitive energy always needs to be circulating between past, present and the future.

Taking proliferating spiritual mantras, and adopting them to “fit in” to your life ONLY becomes effective when you actually know what the mantra does for you and, if you didn’t adopt it, what you’d be missing without it.

I remember Guy Finley telling a local group of students how staying completely focusing on the NOW can be like having tunnel vision if you don’t have the proper training, internal maturity, and real-world reason, to ACTUALLY flow in the NOW.

Some people ( we know of plenty ) spend too much EFFORT trying to rid themselves of “busy thoughts” and planning requirements that they end up artificially alienating themselves to current day reality.

It’s a sad, sad scenario….especially when the people doing it, don’t want to KNOW about it or “fix it”

We talk in detail about all that via this report:
http://lwlworldwide.com/dwnloads/EckhartEffect-V1.pdf