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The Deeper "Secret", Part I
Tuesday 3/27/07
[Updated 3/28, 29]
The preachers of the “Law of Attraction” are missing key elements.
My own recent experiences, and those of my family, help close the
conceptual gap, and reveal the deeper keys to awakening…
Having my hands covered in poison ivy, lots of meetings to attend
and ongoing hoops to jump through with the restructuring of this
website’s payment gateway, I got a brief case of Da Vinci Syndrome,
i.e. the father who abandons his children. I’d promised daily
updates and I blew it, taking a four-day weekend off.
Let’s see how it all traces back to a childhood discovery… and my
own thoughts about why “The Secret” is not as simple and
straightforward as it may seem.
[I know about the Saturn Polar Hexagon and will post about it soon…
thank you for the flood of emails informing me!]
IRRITATION TAKES ON A PHYSICAL COUNTERPART
As you may already know from earlier chapters of David’s Blog, I
moved to LA to work on a film of my life’s work… CONVERGENCE the
movie… and had quite an experience adjusting to the fast pace and
coldness of Santa Monica. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be,
but I still longed for the country I had to give up to get here. I
had never lived in anything even resembling a city before — it had
always at least been suburban, if not straight country.
Psychically it’s much quieter when you’re in isolation — there is
much less work in making a connection to your own Higher Self
because you don’t have all the interference from others’ minds to
contend with.
My lease was ending in Santa Monica, and I was dead sick of where
I’d been living. It was an old, rickety building, so you heard every
footstep of the person above you. No sunlight got in so it was
always dark, day or night. I had nasty carpet fumes, equally choking
pollution from being next to the constantly-in-use laundry room, and
a cacophony of noise from all my neighbors — including extremely
discourteous drunken and drugged revelers, sports enthusiasts,
screaming children, barking dogs and wailing babies.
I didn’t realize exactly how bad it was until I got back into the
country… going back to stay with my mother at her little rented
house in New York out in the middle of the woods. I had gotten
extremely ill before I left — the weather was getting colder and I
couldn’t leave the windows open, thus forcing me to breathe the
toxic fumes from my carpets.
As I returned to health in my mother’s home, I realized that my
sickness was emblematic of a much larger problem… the whole nature
of living in a condensed urban area, and the effect it was having on
my heart, mind and spirit. I did journal a bit about the chaotic
thought-forms of the LA group-mind in my David’s Blog post “Servings
from the LA Soup Kitchen” — how there are so many people out here
with the same dream, and how few of them ever actually “make it” —
thus leaving them constantly starving for the energy of others.
And
even those who do “make it” are typically struggling as well, in
their own ways — only a very small number of people get consistent
work, and enough money for an ongoing stable lifestyle.
Nonetheless, I still had to live in LA, because I’m here for a film…
and everyone said Santa Monica was the best choice you had. So, I
got back to Santa Monica just after New Year’s Day, and I was
totally on a mission: get the heck OUT of this horrible, toxic, dark
apartment and find something better.
However, after two weeks of intense searching in January, I was
extremely frustrated. Nothing seemed to be working.
Every time I thought I’d found the right place, the owner would rent
it out from under me, or I’d get some ominous synchronicity that
made it clear I shouldn’t go there — like the sound of a bird being
killed by a cat outside my window right after thinking I’d found the
right place. Scary stuff like that… we’re not talking mild or easily
debatable ‘omens’ here, we’re talking right-between-the-eyes
warnings.
I had been trying to find the same deal everyone else in Santa
Monica seemed to want — either close to Montana Avenue or the
Promenade, which also got you close to the oceanfront. Peace and
quiet, guaranteed parking, laundry on site, two bedrooms, upper
level, 2000 or less a month (which is NOT expensive for LA,
unfortunately). Every time I seemed to get close, I hit a dead end.
“Guest houses” were tiny little boxes nestled in so tightly that you
could literally open the window, stretch out your arm and touch the
house next to you.
Apartments were hive-mind complexes where even if you went for an
“upper,” you were still contending with people on either side of
you, AND below you.
If you did manage to find an “upper corner” or “upper rear”
apartment, so you weren’t completely surrounded, then as soon as you
looked out your bedroom window, there were power lines right in your
face.
I know well enough to be aware that strong electromagnetic fields
have a scrambling effect on psychic sensibilities, so that wouldn’t
work either. If you went for “upper front,” then your windows opened
out to the noise and pollution of the traffic going by.
Every place I went to seemed to have some fatal flaw. There was one
apartment I really loved — easy parking, upper corner, hardwood
floors, gorgeous 30s-era accoutrements and flourishes inside, decent
amount of trees nearby, close to Montana (albeit up in the 20s,
street-wise)… but those power lines were not even 10 feet from the
whole side of the apartment where the bedrooms were. No deal.
I had never experienced more difficulty manifesting something in my
entire life.
ANOTHER KIND OF ‘SECRET’
Devotees of ‘The Secret’ would say I just didn’t want that apartment
badly enough. I wasn’t good enough at using the “Law of Attraction”,
and therefore wasn’t getting what I wanted.
BZZZT! Wrong answer. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
I’ve been aware of these concepts my entire life. My mother had
already read some of the
Carlos Castaneda books on shamanism before
I was ever born — books which constantly stress the power of your
intent. Most people believe themselves to be powerless, in the grips
of forces beyond their control… and the shaman Don Juan’s classic
line in response to this is “You indulge like a son of a bitch!”
The idea is that the power of our intent is so pervasive, so
obvious, that to NOT accept it is “indulgence,” where you are
reveling in being the victim, blaming other people, or unseen, nasty
forces, for your misfortune. Don Juan actually says the entire
UNIVERSE is created by ‘intent’, and this mirrors all the cosmic
teachings I would be introduced to later in my path — and eventually
assemble the scientific case for in The Science of Peace and my
CONVERGENCE film trilogy.
Mom also got into the
Jane Roberts “Seth” books by around 1980. Her
particular favorite was “The Nature of Personal Reality,” which
endlessly clobbers you over the head with the same message: “You
Create Your Own Reality”.
Thus I had a full, ongoing course in this from the time I could
first put words together.
‘WILL WALKING’ OVER THE RAZOR CLAMS — NOT FOR ME!
I didn’t always buy into these concepts as a child, though my mother
was really into it.
I remember one time we were vacationing in Cape Cod before my
parents divorced. We usually stayed in Dennisport, on the south
central part of the Cape, but were visiting friends up in the
“bicep” part of the flexing arm, in
Brewster, near Dennis and
Hyannis. It was a gorgeous day and the tide was out, so you could
walk a long, long way in the sandy bay without hitting deep water.
There were these razor-sharp, blade-like, long thin shells poking up
out of the sand all over the place. They were everywhere. A little
research just now showed that this species is called the “Atlantic
Jackknife” or Atlantic Razor Clam — they have extremely sharp edges,
and they do flourish in shallow, sandy areas, just like that bay in
Cape Cod.
I was already quite agitated — having the area between my legs worn
raw from salt and sand, and the extra weight I’d started putting on
causing them to rub together as I ran around… but my bad attitude
plunged over the top when I stepped on one of the razor clams. The
blade sank into my foot enough to pierce my flesh, causing me great
pain and drawing blood, which quickly faded as it hit the salt
water.
I had been walking with my mother and brother, already had been
pissed off, and now this happened. I demanded that we go back. The
next injury could be even worse. Fear, fear, fear — defend, defend.
Nonetheless, they were in a good mood and I wasn’t, and they did not
want to turn around. It was, in fact, a very beautiful day — almost
supernatural.
Rather than reacting with fear, my mother said we could do “Will
Walking” with our ‘intent’ — all stuff straight out of her Castaneda
books.
“What in the world is Will Walking?” I asked, with a rude tone of
voice.
“It’s a special way of walking that shamans use,” she answered. “It
comes from the power of our intent.”
“I don’t get it,” I answered, not expecting anything good.
“We can will ourselves not to walk on anything that will hurt us. If
we simply stay in joy and goodness, we can go wherever we want… and
we will never step on a razor-clam or anything else that could hurt
us.”
I was horrified. “No way. You’re crazy. I’m not doing that. This is
a very dangerous area!”
“I’ll do it,” my brother said. Ugh. Figures.
“Come on, let’s go,” my mother responded. I was shocked. I felt
totally betrayed. They were insane!
“David, are you sure you don’t want to come with us?”
“Absolutely not! I’m going to carefully walk back to the shore,
where I know I will be safe… one step at a time. And I’m gonna make
damn sure I don’t step on any more of these razor-sharp clam shells.
You’ll be the next one bleeding, and you won’t like it very much in
salt water, I can tell you that.”
I was very angry at this point. This was real danger, I was already
hurt, and my own mother was putting me at even more risk with this
hokey shamanism crap.
Nonetheless, she and Michael went along and did it, and it actually
worked! They were walking through a veritable field of landmines —
blades poking up all over that were as sharp and potentially
dangerous as broken glass — and yet, they never looked down, never
cared about whether there might be danger there. They kept the vibes
high, and sure enough they never got hurt!
I must admit I felt a great deal of animosity towards them…
downright disgust… as I watched them do this. I took it personally
and muttered “Lucky… very lucky… and very stupid” to myself for why
they didn’t step on anything.
I share this story with you to show that I wasn’t “born ready” or
anything… at a younger age, I did go through my periods of doubt…
thinking that these concepts weren’t really true, they didn’t really
work, and there were forces you were simply helpless against. I
still wouldn’t do ‘will walking’… if I’m in an area with sharp
things on the ground, I keep one eye to the ground… in the sense of
“Trust God and Tie Your Camel.”
Nonetheless, I would have many more opportunities to learn about
intent as I got older. Please also note that I am NOT advising you
to try things that could physically endanger you as a means of
testing your “Will”.
MOVIES BASED ON CHANNELING - THE UPS AND DOWNS
My mother’s perspective got even clearer once she got into the Seth
books… so the catch-phrase “You Create Your Own Reality” was a
common household term by the time I was seven or eight years old.
A woman named Ester Hicks had the honor of sitting in on some live
Seth readings, was a big fan, and ended up breaking through to her
own channeled contact she called Abraham, obviously inspired by this
exposure… and the same point was stressed in her readings, which she
dubbed “The Law of Attraction”. Phrased more simply, it would be,
“You Create Your Own Reality… by what you focus on, by what you
attract".
JZ Knight’s channelings of an alleged entity named “Ramtha” took
Gary Zukav’s revelations from the 1978 book “The Dancing Wu-Li
Masters” and made it into two films entitled “What the Bleep Do We
Know?”. The first film was an unexpected monster success, but the
second film took the same scenes, the same plot and the same
information, and re-did the interviews into a more linear and
scientifically-structured pattern. It was more of a “Director’s Cut”
than a new film in its own right — and a bladder-blaster at almost
three hours in length.
Unlike the first Bleep, the expected profits from the second film
went ‘Down the Rabbit Hole’ and never came back — generating a mere
$138,913 in domestic box-office gross. Hardly anyone even knows
there WAS a second film… and it effectively destroyed the franchise,
making it a phenomenon that came and went, sort of like ‘virtual
photons’ in quantum physics. [This is why we have structured
CONVERGENCE as a film trilogy, so that each film keeps building on
the one before! In fact, there is enough material for a whole series
of films, should the opportunity arise.]
Ester’s readings took one key element of the Seth message and
showcased it in ‘The Secret’. At least this was the case in the
first version, but a strange legal dispute erupted that led to her
being edited out of the current version, and denied the stupendous
profits now being made from a film built entirely around her
message.
Ester’s original contract promised 10 percentage points of profit
share. Now that the film is going gangbusters, far outstripping
“Bleep” in its level of buzz and sales, she is losing millions of
promised dollars in revenue — which, of course, would also help her
further spread her source’s message. Remember, again, that this 10
percent was originally promised because she was the star attraction
— no one else got a deal like that — and the film was largely
structured around her message.
Ironically, when I first saw “The Secret,” I said to the people I
was with, “If I were Ester Hicks, and this were what they did with
my message, I would have sued them to remove me from the film.” I
did not realize, at the time, that lawsuits WOULD be threatened, and
in fact she WOULD be removed from the film. As we go on, I’ll
explain why I had such a strong opinion. Apparently Ester felt
similarly, as the New York Times article suggests.
MY OWN PERSONAL HISTORY WITH THE POWER OF INTENT
Getting back to my own history with the power of intent, my exposure
to the concept wasn’t just limited to hearing my mother rave about
the Castaneda books and The Nature of Personal Reality. Even when I
read my own first adult book about ESP, “How to Make ESP Work For
You,” at age seven — right around the same time Mom got into reading
Seth — Harold Sherman mentioned how our attitude and focus creates
manifestation.
I got a fresh reminder after reading “Secrets of Shamanism” in high
school, and that’s where the next “really cool story” shows up.
At the time in high school, my life was a mess. I was totally out of
touch with myself as a result of feeling severe dissatisfaction with
my home life, and equal dissatisfaction with school.
I had gotten a class ring in the hopes that it might throw signals
that I was “on the market” for a girlfriend… but when my mother and
I went to the jewelry store to pick it up, the woman behind the
counter said to her, “And this ring is for your DAUGHTER?”, nodding
towards me! I had long hair and was overweight, and this was a great
shock to my masculinity… the ring was a man’s ring and was engraved
with ‘David Wilcock, Class of ‘91’ inside.
Then, just months after I got the ring, (which was pretty expensive
— an investment in my hopeful future, in the early,
socially-acceptable prelude to the exchange of rings in marriage),
it inexplicably went missing. I could not find it anywhere, and I
scoured through all my stuff — repeatedly! This problem went on for
months. The investment had been wasted… just like I was. It was the
only way I could cope with all the stress… or so I believed.
Then I found the Shamanism book, started reading it, and got to the
part where it was talking about how our consciousness puts an
“energy” into the things we own… and with the right focus, if you’ve
lost something you can call it back to you.
I had to try it. Following the protocols in the Shamanism book, I
visualized my lost class ring very intensely… including having all
the positive emotions of the thrill that I got it back. I put a
great deal of intent into this.
Just days later, my mother miraculously found it… while cleaning out
the bottom of the baseboard heater in the kitchen!
To the average person, this was just another “coincidence”…
something without meaning… but in my case it happened so fast, and
so totally unexpectedly, that I could not deny that the power of
intent… or the “Law of Attraction” as everyone now calls it, thanks
to Ester Hicks… really worked!
Had I inspired my mother, on a subconscious level, to do that
cleaning? On the level of the ‘consciousness field,’ was the exact
location of the ring already known?
Apparently so.
The entire Universe is created from intent, including
all physical objects — so you can intend anything to yourself if you
put enough focus into it.
For some people, just now turning on to
a film like The Secret, this
is amazing new stuff. For me, this is old-hat… just the kindergarten
stages of my metaphysical awakening. I also read “Autobiography of a
Yogi,” by Paramahansa Yogananda, and he stresses repeatedly that you
don’t want to get hung up on phenomena, on ‘tricks’ — even including
things like telekinesis and quite literally manifesting things out
of thin air — as the great yogis see this as a distraction on your
path to enlightenment… a distraction that can end up totally
throwing you off track.
As a result of numerous testimonies like this I’ve been exposed to,
I never thought the class ring story was important enough, compared
to what came later, for me to discuss it… until now. Soon after this
“ring incident” I was doing out-of-body experiences and things that
made the simple calling in of a manifestation seem to pale by
comparison… and the weirdness factor would just get more and more
intense as I got older, started reading about UFOs and Atlantis, et
cetera.
Furthermore, “Secrets of Shamanism” also made the very clear point
that the Law of Karma was real — and I immediately started noticing
it in action, seemingly wherever I cared to look.
THE STORY OF THE GUITAR
I had another very powerful experience with intent in my junior year
of college. After a night’s training at the suicide hotline, I came
home to Bouton Hall and found that this guy Gregg I knew, somewhat,
had left his guitar in the piano room of the main study lounge. Then
when he came back later, realizing what had happened, it was gone…
to his utter horror. He was now in an advanced state of distress,
and was making ‘LOST GUITAR’ signs with friends on colored
construction paper.
For some reason, I had a dead-on psychic hit that he was about to
get it back, but had to learn the karmic lesson for why he lost it
first… and also get a lesson in the power of intent.
I explained to him, with great confidence, that the person who had
his guitar might be on the fence about whether to return it or not,
but with the power of our consciousness, we could tip him or her
back in the direction of returning it — and it wouldn’t even take
very long to get results.
I told Gregg that his ‘energy’ was in the guitar, as a result of the
intense focus he’d poured into it. Since the person who had the
guitar probably had it right near them, we could use the guitar as
an ‘antenna’ for the power of our consciousness to help this person
feel compassion and want to return it. All we had to do is visualize
the guitar being returned, and feel the emotional satisfaction of it
being returned.
If we said “I WISH it were back,” that wouldn’t cut it. Wishing is a
projection into the future, and thus the fulfillment of the wish
will always REMAIN in the future. As we move through the present,
the wish keeps moving ahead, staying in the future. So instead, we
create the present by experiencing the emotions of having already
succeeded… right now. This is the secret (ugh, there’s that word)
that most people miss for how to get this to work.
Furthermore, we visualized whomever had the guitar having a strong
moral urge to return it, realizing that it was not his, and more
importantly, realizing what devastating emotional pain the person
who lost it must have been going through. We very clearly wanted
that person to feel that pain as if it were their own. I carefully
guided them through this as we meditated.
Soon after Gregg, his two friends and I started meditating, a short
guy with long, blonde hair came by with a guitar that looked almost
exactly the same… but it wasn’t the right one. Gregg had a momentary
high followed by a devastating low. For a moment his faith in this
process seemed to be shattered.
I remained absolutely confident.
“This is a symbol,” I said. “It’s a
sign that the guitar is very close to being returned to you. We’re
starting to attract it very strongly, and so we’re seeing other
guitars showing up that look just like it.”
Then I continued with the more important part:
“What we now need is
for you to figure out exactly why you lost your guitar. It was not
random. It was a lesson. There was something you needed to learn by
losing it. Find out what that lesson is, make a genuine commitment
to apply that lesson to your life, and the guitar will come back to
you… faster than you think.”
Gregg then admitted that he knew he had been smoking too much pot
lately, that he had been feeling the urge to cut back, but the
desire to stay high was stronger. He had been high in the piano
room, and that was what led him to leave the guitar behind in the
first place.
“I get it,” he said. “I really need to cut back on the pot smoking,
as I’ve already promised myself I would do.”
“That’s just about it,” I replied. “Do you NEED to do it, or are you
DOING it? And when?”
“I AM cutting back… starting right now. I get the point. I get the
lesson.”
“Great,” I said. “Now let’s blast whoever has the guitar with
another big surge of energy, and in a few more minutes they should
arrive, guitar in hand.”
It didn’t even take that long. Within two minutes, a guy walked
through the front door of the dorm, right where we were sitting and
meditating, with Gregg’s guitar in hand! Everyone was astounded that
I had been right, and that the process had worked really well. The
amazement in the room was quite a palpable energy that you could
really feel. It was like electric fire going through your entire
nervous system.
We asked the guy with the guitar to ask us what had happened, in as
much detail as possible. Everyone was on the edge of their seat.
“Well,” he said, “I found the guitar earlier in the piano room. It
was gorgeous and I was very excited to find it lying there,
unclaimed. I don’t own a twelve-string myself, but always wanted
one. Then I started walking to a party I was invited to, and brought
it along with me.”
“What happened to make you bring it back?” I asked.
“Well, I never even made it to the party,” he replied. “I got about
halfway there, and all of a sudden I started getting all these
powerful thoughts and feelings about how awful the guy who lost it
must feel. The emotions became so strong… and I felt so guilty for
walking with it and not trying to find him… that I just turned right
around and started walking back.”
“When did those feelings start coming in?” I asked.
“About fifteen minutes ago,” he answered.
“That’s exactly when we started meditating and sending you that very
same message,” I replied.
Even though I was absolutely confident through the whole process,
once it really worked, I was so blown away that I convinced everyone
to stick around and wait for me to write the whole thing up by hand,
on a piece of loose-leaf paper. I had everyone sign it on the back
and agree that I could publicize the story. “Someday, many other
people are going to benefit from this,” I said… and this is the
first time I’m using that particular piece of information in this
much detail.
At the time I thought this might be the most important ‘proof’ of
the power of intent that I had ever experienced… hence I was very
keen on documenting it and having witnesses sign it. Nonetheless, it
was only the beginning of an increasingly amazing series of events
in my life… to the point that even now I’m having trouble finding
the signed paper amongst boxes and boxes of files.
For some people this might be their crowning story… a tired old
canard they bring out for years to come, in order to legitimize
themselves metaphysically when talking to new people… but as you
move through “Ascension” in your own life, you learn not to get so
caught up in phenomena. Instead, you focus on Oneness… making your
own Higher Self connection.
Getting back to that night, Gregg said that his “brother was into
this stuff” and he was, to some degree, himself, but he’d never seen
anything like this before. None of them had.
“It’s just science,” I answered. “It’s a science most people know
nothing about, but it is very real, and it works. Matter itself is
made from an energy that is indivisible from our own consciousness.”
Thankfully, years later I was able to explain this science, in
detail I had never dreamed of having back in those days, in a single
entertaining and enlightening package… the Science of Peace series I
did with multiple Grammy award-winner Larry Seyer.
And it goes a LOT
farther than just telling you how to “shake riches from the Cosmic
Tree”.
Once you have been exposed to the information and it becomes a part
of your knowledge base, almost as if by ‘magic’ it starts working
for you… and that gets back to the ‘Gnostic’ idea that the
information itself is alive. In some future blog entry I’ll write
more about that “living information” concept.
SANTA MONICA: WHY WASN’T IT WORKING… THIS TIME?
Fast-forward to January. I’ve spent a whole year in Santa Monica,
and increasingly realized that I absolutely hated the living
conditions in and around my apartment, and I needed to get out… as
soon as possible.
Time and time again I have used the power of intent to insure that I
would have what I need, when I needed it. You don’t necessarily
become rich, but the important part is that you can follow your
dream and make it a reality — rather than be trapped in the
lifestyle most people endure, where they only see their work as a
means to an end — a necessary burden for survival of the physical
body.
Now I knew I had to move… with absolute certainty. I had TONS of
intuitive signals telling me this. Dreams, messages,
synchronicities, and my own ever-increasing, strong irritation with
my surroundings.
So, I was stating exactly what I wanted, where I wanted it and how
much it was going to cost me. Upper corner, no power lines, quiet
and secluded, guaranteed parking, laundry on site, two bedrooms,
less than 2K, near Montana or the Promenade. I was meditating,
focusing, visualizing and experiencing the emotional rush of the
success as if it had already happened — all according to the formula
— but still I kept hitting brick walls.
“The Secret”… did NOT work. At least not in this case.
THE CHOICE BETWEEN TWO PATHS
It wasn’t a whole lot longer before I started to “think outside the
box”. I remembered that there were only 22 experiences we ever
needed to have in our entire spiritual awakening, known as
“archetypes”… and these were written by the mind of the Galaxy long
before we were ever created.
I covered this in earlier David’s Blog
entries dealing with Britney Spears and the like, while she was
going through the one often called “The Dark Night of the Soul”.
The
Law of One series had very interesting observations about the
archetype known to Tarot readers as “The Lovers”. In the Rider-Waite
version pictured above, like most others, the Adam and Eve storyline
is brought in. The way you are told to read it is that Eve (the
Inner Feminine) can see the Higher Self (the angel), but Adam (the
masculine or ego) must look to Eve (the inner feminine) to access
the Higher Self.
The Law of One series completely deflated the credibility of this
model. Though it is a useful metaphysical teaching in its own right
— stressing the importance of the subconscious mind in accessing the
Higher Self — it had become greatly distorted from its original
focus.
The original archetype was apparently called “The Choice
Between Two Paths”.
In the corrected version of how it was originally drawn, as you see
here, you have a man who is being equally pulled on by two women.
The woman on the “left hand path,” i.e. the path of
service to self,
or the negative, has her breasts exposed. There is also a strange,
impish creature with a bow and arrow, the arrow drawn back and ready
to fire towards he who strays into the left-hand path.
The woman on the right-hand, or
service to others path, is the
maiden. There is no danger, no coiled arrow ready to fire, when you
walk towards the right side.
Again, this archetype is called “The Choice Between Two Paths.”
Ra
explained that this archetype details how you approach your Higher
Self — the choice between one path or the other.
THE PROSTITUTE
One choice is to approach your Higher Self as if it were a
prostitute.
“This is what you’re going to do for me,” you say. “I
ask you for this and you will give it to me. I want a big mansion, I
want a BMW, I want a basic living budget of 50 thousand dollars a
month. I want, I want, I want, I want.”
This is precisely what you
learn in “The Secret”… with seemingly endless repetition!
Sure enough, you CAN use the “Law of Attraction” and get this
“cosmic welfare system” to work. You can approach your Higher Self
like a whore, tell her what you want her to do, how you want her to
lie there, how much to undress, what you’re willing to pay, how long
you want it to take, and what you’re going to do after you’re
finished with her.
You may feel you’ve found a great Secret… THE
Secret. And it may work… for a while.
Some people become high priests of this philosophy — and charge
exorbitant fees to teach it to others. People are inspired by their
own greed, thinking they will make similar amounts of money, and
thus pay these speakers the fees they ask.
There is a deep belief in
the human psyche that the more you pay for something, the more it is
worth. Seems to make sense, right? Thus, the speakers make
substantial profits from their followers, and appear to be living
proof that the philosophy works.
If you are NOT willing to pay the exorbitant fees, then like any
good cult, the devotees will accuse you of having “issues with
prosperity and abundance”. In fact, I’ve had MULTIPLE, very sad
encounters where people defend this film, and its philosophy, with
all the vigor of members of a fundamentalist religion. They become
angry… even exasperated… that I would dare to say the film presents
a corrupted message.
Then they automatically assume they are better or more evolved than
I am, because I’m not “with it”. They tell me that I am the one who
has the problem, because I am not “claiming my abundance.”
“CLAIMING MY ABUNDANCE” … ?
Many times I’ve been told I should get back into doing clients and
charge anywhere between 500 to 2000 dollars for a reading; charge
700 or more dollars for a weekend workshop without lodging included;
and begin “claiming my abundance.” If I give away all my writing for
free on this website, then I clearly am “blocking the flow of my
prosperity” because I don’t “believe in myself” enough to “claim my
own worth” and “pay myself first”.
They could get the brilliant idea that I should be taking each
David’s Blog entry, like you’re now reading, turn it into a PDF
file, and charge two to three bucks for it, so I have new products
coming out every day. I entice people with a teaser and then they
pay the rest of the way. Get ‘em hooked so they keep on paying in.
Before you know it I’m flush with cash.
By this same logic, the people who DON’T want to pay are
“interrupting the flow of the Universe” and therefore will continue
to be poor, because they are “attracting” poverty by not “paying
themselves” through investing in products like those I offer. If
they don’t want to pay, or can’t afford to pay, then they’re
probably too far gone to be helped… so I shouldn’t worry about them,
as I don’t want to “attract” their “poverty consciousness” to myself
anyway.
I personally know for a fact that one of the speakers in “The
Secret” will charge you 1200 dollars to sit down and treat them to a
half-hour dinner engagement, where you can chat them up about
whatever your heart desires — and a two-day workshop where you’re
nestled in with a big group of people isn’t a whole lot less.
Bear in mind that when I shut down my readings business in 2005, I
was still only charging 150 dollars a client for something that took
an entire day of my vital energy, one hour of time for documenting
the dream, and two hours on the phone to complete.
Since I made barely enough to afford my lifestyle, even though I was
taking as many clients as I possibly could, I probably should have
raised the rate. I admit that. If I were to ever do it again (and I
don’t plan to), I wouldn’t go for less than 300, considering that
it’s a whole day of my time that I lose. But the idea of having some
guy pay me 1200 dollars to sit there and chat me up over dinner is
patently ridiculous.
Nonetheless, my own example shows that you can have SOME benefit
from reflecting on these concepts and increasing your sense of
self-worth — but films like “The Secret” take this to very
exaggerated extremes.
I also know that another prominent speaker in “The Secret” has now
been guided to break off from the whole media machine that was
created around it… because his original intention was to teach how
this can be used for positive purposes, but he sees that it has
become a legitimization and sacramentalization of greed instead.
BRUCE ALMIGHTY: POWERFUL MESSAGE IN A MAINSTREAM MOVIE
The film “Bruce Almighty” blows major holes in the credibility of
the underlying premise in “The Secret”, that if more and more people
learn the “Law of Attraction,” there will be more and more resources
that become available.
In this movie, Jim Carrey takes over God’s job for a day. God is
played by Morgan Freeman in the movie, which I found very
entertaining.
‘God’s’ best line in the movie is when he warns Bruce, “Just don’t
mess with free will.” In fact, a good study of the Law of One tells
you that free will is the MOST IMPORTANT law in the Universe, after
the Law of One… free will is the “first distortion” of the Law of
One.
Bruce eventually decides to answer everyone’s prayers, which come in
the form of an enormously full Inbox of emails. Everyone prays to
win the lottery, so they all do… and as a result, each person ends
up winning one or two dollars!
This just goes to show how if everyone wants the same thing… i.e. a
much higher share of the total resources of the planet… then it ends
up watering down the ‘payoff’ for everyone. There is obviously more
to life than just ‘stuff’ — but many people get stuck there. Tell
them that their favorite obsession is a spiritual path, and you’ve
got the makings of a cult movement.
THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE USE THE SECRET… SO WHY SHOULDN’T
YOU?
The most sickening part of “The Secret,” when I first watched it,
was when one guy actually looks you in the eye and says, in so many
words,
“The world’s most powerful people are using
The Secret all
the time… so why shouldn’t you?”
I almost projectile-vomited when I
heard this line… I kid you not. By the time the film was done I felt
as if I had been severely beaten on a psychic level.
Obviously this man did not know about or understand
the Illuminati,
what is really going on in the world, and HOW they are able to
become so wealthy. It goes far beyond sitting there and meditating
for prosperity… it involves a hyper-complex web of intrigue,
deception, war, assassination, manipulation, economic enslavement
and global empire-building.
The simplest problem with this line of reasoning is that our
population, worldwide, does not have enough resources to survive.
The Western lifestyle takes an abnormally large bite out of our
total resources, and this is the result of careful global
manipulation and downright ‘evil’ activity… such as the Wal-Mart
sweatshops that create modern-day slavery in Southeast Asia so we
can have ever-cheaper goods… giving us the illusion that ‘inflation’
is not occurring and that we are getting a “good value”.
Also consider the testimony of John Perkins, in his “Confessions of
an Economic Hitman” work.
Here’s a 10-minute clip of him explaining
the whole thing — rapidly enough that you should probably watch it
twice — to Amy Goodman:
Perkins explains how a worldwide empire has been created through
financial manipulation… getting poor countries to accept unbalanced
loans that they then cannot pay back, putting them in the economic
stranglehold of the Empire. Leaders are bribed into supporting the
goals of the Empire, and assassinated if they do not.
If you think this is all BS, or just a fantasy distortion of truth,
then you’re not paying attention. As Perkins says, war is only the
last resort that is being used in the current global empire.
Countries are allowed to maintain their own apparent sovereignty,
national identity and currency… but in reality the vast majority of
them have already been absorbed into a global empire, and suffer
very strong economic enslavement.
Since you are reading this article on the Internet, you are also
someone who is benefiting directly from this artificially-created
economic inequality. Granted, according to the Law of One series,
the higher forces DID try to give us free-energy technology, so that
people in the world wouldn’t have to work to earn money and could
instead focus on their spiritual path… but the New World Order
forces wouldn’t have it, and made sure to stop any and all inventors
from releasing a product, through the same means as John Perkins
outlines in this video.
Getting back to the world stage, let’s say you’re the
democratically-elected new leader of a small country. First they
send in the “economic hitmen,” like John Perkins used to be, to talk
to you about accepting these loans that will enslave your country to
the Empire.
He will say,
“In this pocket I have millions of dollars
for you if you go along with us… and in this pocket I have a gun,
for you and your family, if you do not.”
He doesn’t literally shoot them… though in some cases he did bring a
gun. If his threat didn’t work, then the higher-ups send in what he
calls “the jackals”… highly trained assassins who get the job done,
fulfilling his “gun prophecy”.
Then, if the jackals can’t get to the leader either (such as with
Saddam Hussein, as Perkins reveals in a much longer video
elsewhere), then THAT is when the military gets called in… and only
then do you have a war, as most people now think of it.
John Perkins did not rank highly enough, in his job, to know that a
few levels above him, he was working with an organized, negative
spiritual group that calls itself by various names, including “Moriah”,
or “The Order,” or “Family” or “Illuminati”… but as I’ve documented
in The Revealing series, other whistleblowers have come forward…
with remarkably inter-linking storylines… and they all are saying
the same thing.
Let’s hear that line again… “The world’s most powerful people are
already doing it… so why shouldn’t you?" After you’ve watched the
above video, and done the necessary research to prove that John
Perkins is telling the truth, you can never again hear statements
like that the same way.
PERSONAL BIASES: THE REASON WHY MORE PEOPLE DON’T SEE WHAT’S MISSING
When I saw
The Secret, I realized the problem with it that, at the
time, very few others were seeing, and most still do not see.
Namely, people are reading in their own pre-existing biases to the
film. They take in their love, their open heart, their desire to
help others, to heal the world, feed the children, save the whales,
et cetera.
However, if you actually watch the film WITHOUT reading in personal
biases, it could just as easily be shown to train people on the
negative path as the positive. There is little, if any, mention of
love or compassion, nor is there any discussion of karma — the fact
that free will is the highest law that is balanced in this Universe,
and if you infringe on free will, you can ‘attract’ all you want,
but the karma will still be returned to you.
Getting back to the Law of One version of “The Lovers” or “The
Choice Between Two Paths,” the original image associated with this
archetype has the ‘second-density’ creature — a nasty-looking imp —
ready to fire off an arrow at he who ventures to the left-hand path.
Unexpected disasters happen. You don’t get the money you think
you’re going to get. You try the same formula again and you end up
losing everything. You become addicted to the game of striving, and
inadvertently your whole life becomes one of material pursuit.
In Part Two we will explore the archetype of the Maiden… which is
how you approach your Higher Self WITHOUT getting blasted by bad
karma… and go into more detail about how all this reflects back into
my own personal journey…
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