I have slowly been
coming to the shocking realization that we live in a perfect
universe. By this is meant that the Law of Attraction
manages vibrational interaction such that all coincident
events are appropriate.
If this is true, then there
is no injustice. It means the universe does not discriminate
against anyone. It means that the contrast we see around us
is perfect, divinely perfect.
It means that although we see
our fellow human beings starving, suffering, and dying all
over the world, each must be resonating precisely to what he
or she is receiving. This conclusion is shocking to me, as
one only has to take a look around this world to see
apparent examples of injustice and unfairness everywhere.
But from the standpoint of universal law, our struggles and
those of our fellow human beings are simply the result of
the choices they have made.
This sort of argument is
often made by hard-hearted people with little of the milk of
human kindness flowing through their veins, and I have often
found it repugnant. Especially these days, when so-called
religious people preach about morality, but only demonstrate
corruption and hypocrisy in their own lives. Nevertheless, I can see the truth of it.
There are two ways to look at this unpleasant truth: with
contempt and indifference, or with compassion and
understanding.
The fundamental, bedrock
truth is that every human being on this planet is a spirit
temporarily inhabiting a human body. Each of us is a
powerful creator, always connected to Source energy. From
this viewpoint it is possible to see behind the pain and the
misery to the beautiful consciousness within.
I struggled for a long time
with the idea that the universe is perfect before it made
sense to me. I hated to hear new-agers and teachers say
“Everything is in perfect balance.” I would scream at them,
“If the world is so perfect, take a look around!”
But after observing people
for a while, I realized that every individual IS
experiencing a world of balance. I began to ask myself “How
can I and a murderer, or an embezzler, live on the same
crazy planet, yet experience so differently”? It slowly
began to dawn on me that the universe was responding to all
of my ideas and beliefs about life, in a very personal way.
For example, one of my
teachers lived in a so-called 'run-down' area of town, yet
her life was one of constant joy. I lived in a beautiful
house in the country and was miserable most of the time. I
began to realize that the world must be in balance only for
those who are balanced!
In a vibrational universe,
there are no accidents. 'That's absurd," you say. "Tell me
that in a city like New York with 10 million people randomly
moving about, that there is no accidental contact." That's
precisely what I'm saying. It's a logical conclusion of the
vibrational model of the universe. If perception itself can
occur only as a result of matching frequencies, then the
above conclusion is inescapable. In a vibrational universe
with consciousness paramount, individual conscious
personalities are always sovereign as regards their own
experience. Each of us exists, literally, on our own
vibrational island. The people you see around you, even
those you pass by in your car on the way to work, are
vibrationally related. This isn't such an astonishing
statement. The people I see at 9AM on Main street going into
the city are probably not early risers. Those guys have
already been at their desks for an hour. The stockbroker who
loves theater and classical music will probably never meet
up with a biker who enjoys heavy metal, even if these two
fellows live in the same city. When we look at the world
vibrationally, it is possible to see life as a gigantic
physics lab, where coincident events are rationally and
logically managed by the very nature of vibrational
interaction. When white light (which contains the frequency
of blue) is bounced off a blue piece of paper, for example,
only the frequencies that match the color blue are
reflected. The blue paper, in other words, finds the blue in
the white light and reacts with it. And so it is in life.
Misery matches up with misery, and joy with joy.
The system is designed so
that the worse it gets, the more we have to look at how we
want to change. This sets up a new vibrational orientation
that can lead to a different set of circumstances. My
brother–in–law lived in poverty in communist Yugoslavia back
in the late 1960’s. His life was so oppressive that one day
he simply left his home and walked, alone, 20 miles to the
Italian border, claiming asylum. He did not speak a word of
Italian, he had no money, no job, no family, no nothing. He
did the same when he came to the United States. “Well good
for him,” you might say. “But he’s the exception to the
rule.” Sometimes you get so stuck in your life that it’s
almost impossible to see a way out. But there is always a
way out. It does require, however, breaking out of
vibrational prison. Even though it feels like you’re
trapped, the trap is always of your own making. You always
have the power to initiate you own jailbreak! As Esther
Hicks points out, the contrasting situation leads to a new
desire, and steels your resolve. “I'm NEVER going to do that
again” is something we often hear from people who have
extricated themselves from a tight spot. Such decisions can
be life changing, because the contrasting experience forces
you to find your balance at a higher level.
If the environment was
uniformly beautiful and pleasing, if people behaved just as
they ought, we’d get bored out our minds. Imagine going
through a week in which every person you met said “yes” to
your every whim. The first day would be loads of fun, the
second day would probably be enjoyable as well, but after a
while, you’d just want to shake those wimps and tell them to
get a little backbone!
Many who observe the current
reality believe that a world of harmony and peace is vital
to the very survival of our planet, for they see things like
pollution, poverty and war and feel it must inevitably
affect them and everyone else in the world. “If it happened
to them, it can happen to me,” is what is often heard. We
are told the world is in terrible shape, on the brink of
disaster.
But this viewpoint ignores
universal law. Those who believe the world is in sad shape
are experiencing just that, thus fortifying their belief
that it is so. But consider: the vast number of complex
systems which exist to support life on earth function
smoothly, never failing. There is an overwhelming abundance
of well-being on this planet, otherwise life could not
exist. Take a walk outside, smell the fresh air, look at the
trees, the clouds, the flowers and the grass, listen to the
birds, see your fellow humans at work and at play, and
observe that all is well. If you do not perceive well-being
when you go out for your walk, but instead see many negative
things, consider changing your vibration to one of
well-being and watch how your life changes for the better!
The retort to this assertion
is that one ignores reality by assuming a state of
well-being for ones self, and ignoring the misery of others,
and it is also cruel and selfish.
But consider: in order to
create a world of well-being, it is necessary to vibrate at
a state of well-being! Well-being cannot be created from a
viewpoint that assumes the world is in imminent danger. The
strange fact of vibrational matching means that as you raise
your tone, you see less and less misery. You feel less and
less miserable, and you are drawn only to well–being. Once
you reach a certain level, it is possible to help purely
from a position of love and joy. Christ was such a one. It
is said that in his presence, the sick were healed. The
advantage of resonating only to well–being is that you not
only become a magnet for well–being, but you also set an
example for others to emulate. This doesn’t feed the hungry
or cure the sick, of course. However, the irritating fact is
that feeding the hungry and curing the sick places more
attention on hunger and sickness. In order to get attention
for a cause, you have to let people know about it!
Is it better to cure the
sick, or teach people not to resonate to sickness in the
first place? I don’t have the answer to that one. Christ
tried it, and got hung on a cross. All I know is that
suffering sucks. Well–being is infinitely preferable. So
whatever you do, don’t let anyone talk you out of feeling as
good as you can, as much as you can.
Lets expand on this notion of
the desire for harmony. Desiring harmony is asking for less
contrast. It is asking for similarity of thought. If perfect
harmony existed on our planet, then similarity of thought
and action would prevail. Is it even possible to live in a
physical universe of duality and experience perfect harmony?
I don’t think it is. And I don’t think that those who are
incarnated here expected to experience perfection. I think
many of us came here to mix it up a little. A casual glance
around our planet seems to confirm this.
I’m not saying it would be
better to have everyone go out and kill each other (but if
it happened, we simply return wholly to our divine,
non-physical consciousness). What I am saying is that we
need to allow the sovereignty and divinity of each One on
the planet. We must allow each One to create as he or she
wishes, knowing that the Law of Vibration and the Law of
Attraction will sort it all out. Nothing ever happens by
mistake! The Law of Attraction sees to it that each and
every event, situation and person in your life is an exact
match to your vibration at the time you receive the
experience. It is perfect, never-failing. It is woven into
the very fabric of this universe. So there can be no
unfairness, or injustice, as cruel as it might sound. There
is only a vibrational matching that is supported by the
underlying physics of the universe.
How does this idea relate to
a health crisis? I am 54 years old now, and experiencing
some detrimental effects of mercury poisoning from silver
amalgam fillings. My belief was that silver amalgam was
safe. My dentist probably believed it too. So how did I wind
up with adverse reactions if we both thought it was safe?
Well, the simple fact is that mercury is highly toxic. When
I was a kid my father told me not to eat so much sugar
because it would wreck my teeth. Well, I ate a lot of sugar
anyway, and continued to do so for over 50 years,
necessitating a lot of dental work involving silver amalgam.
If my vibration had been one of complete focus on health, I
would have avoided the sweets and felt a lot better.
Besides, dentistry is one of those possible experiences you
sign up for when you come to earth for a physical lifetime.
Once a vibration has found its way into the physical body,
it may take some time to release. I spent 53 years messing
up my body with refined sugar, so I have to allow a little
time for recovery, especially with a substance so diabolical
as mercury. The good news is that my focus on health has led
me to consume healthier substances than sugar, and has led
me to detoxifying products and procedures.
No matter how you slice it,
you’re in control of your own experiences. If you find
yourself in a bad place, the first step is always to change
your thoughts about it. Focus on anything will eventually
bring it to you, whether it’s health, sickness, poverty,
abundance, war or peace. The duality of the physical
universe finds its human expression in the experiences we
have. Whether those experiences are pleasant or unpleasant
is up to us. Conscious, mindful attention to what you’re
thinking, saying and doing, coupled with a positive
attitude, will always result in good outcomes.
The idea that simply by
changing thought, one can change one's experience is the
hardest idea for people to understand. A thought seems so
insubstantial! Action is what most people prefer. Action is
what human beings understand, because there seems to be a
direct physical connection between action and results. Cause
and effect. But the physical action is always secondary.
When A Corporation and B Corporation, competitors selling
the same product, send out promotional flyers, B Corp gets a
big increase in sales, but A Corp sees little improvement.
The physical action was identical, but the results were
markedly different. The obvious reason is that the ad
department at B Corp had a better message. But that message
is simply a bunch of ideas.
Only by actually applying the
idea of 'like attracts like' to your life can you understand
how truly powerful it is. These essays are about universal
laws which are woven into the physics of this universe. By
changing your thoughts and feelings about a small area of
life to begin with, and then moving on to things bigger and
more important, you can prove to yourself that this is a
universe based upon attraction, and upon thought. The
message in these essays has been known, spoken and written
for millennia. It is not new. I didn’t make this stuff up,
because I’m not that smart. It just goes so much against the
grain of our Western society that we have forgotten it!
As non-physical beings, we
are pure, divine energy in perfect balance and harmony. Then
why would anyone want to incarnate into this place of often
terrible contrast? Because it’s exciting, and we all know
that it’s temporary. We came to earth not to make it a place
where everyone thinks and feels the same way! We didn't come
here to exist in perfect bliss, we came for the diversity of
experience! We already have bliss in our non-physical state.
That is not to say that disease and death and pain and
suffering is the optimum condition for life on this planet.
But there is nothing wrong with it! In an earlier essay we
talked about Joe Doakes and Cecil Aldershot. No matter how
much Cecil pushes against the Joe’s of the world, he can’t
make them go away. In order for Cecil to be happy, he must
give his attention to peace and harmony and ignore the
Joe’s. In other words, ‘turn the other cheek.’ That’s the
profound wisdom of Christ, and I respectfully suggest that
our political leaders, most of whom claim to be Christians,
get on board.
It is not possible to create
in the experience of another. No matter how many wish for a
world of complete harmony, each being on this planet has the
choice to create what he or she wishes, and each One will do
so, and is doing so. And indeed complete harmony amongst
beings is not necessary for you or anyone else to live in
joy and abundance. This is guaranteed by universal law. It
would be the height of arrogance for anyone to assume
creation for another, from a judgment that another is not
choosing properly.
Certainly there is nothing
wrong with wanting to create a world of harmony and peace!
In fact, nowadays it seems like a darned good idea. But for
many this desire comes from a feeling that there is
something terribly wrong. From this vibration, however, we
just get more of the same.
Imagine a world where each
and every person in it is experiencing precisely according
to their vibrational focus, and you have an accurate picture
of the situation on planet earth. Remember that the Law of
Attraction responds the strongest to the most strongly
activated vibration. If your desires do not match your
focus, you cannot experience what you want.
Feeling guilty is pointless.
When you are afraid to uncover your light because others are
struggling, you abandon your responsibility to them, and to
yourself. Setting an example is much more rewarding than
going along with the crowd. Therefore, do not hide your
light! When you are truly yourself, you shine forth the
inner light of Spirit. All consciousness on this planet
comes from the same Source. Physical beings are points of
awareness within a universal consciousness. All is well!
The universe is perfect just
the way it is. It is always, has always been, and will
always be, perfectly balanced, because vibrational matching
is the fundamental universal principle.
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