‘The Secret’ and Abraham Hicks

About a week ago, I ran across a blog post at Get Wet! in regards to an email they sent to Abraham Hicks about how they felt that “The Secret” was very materialistic with it’s examples and failed to let people know that LOA (Law of Attraction) also works for all other aspects of your life as well. The main push of the film was about money and getting things.

They received an email in response to their well written concerns from Abraham-Hicks (Jeanne) which basically said that when Esther and Jerry agreed to participate in this project, they really didn’t know how it would turn out and that is was quite different than what they contracted with the company.

So when the producer recently insisted on further significant changes in their agreement regarding marketing, distribution, and theatrical rights, Jerry & Esther opted instead to be cut out of the film altogether. This is still in negotiation.

I have to say that I wasn’t too impressed with “The Secret” either. I didn’t like the style of the film. I also felt the same way about “What the Bleep”. Good concepts but hard for me to “get into”. I did notice the materialism of it all too and that bugged me as as it did Stacy and Andrea. I can see, though, how it would appeal to the masses as it appears that most people look towards things and money as a way to find happiness. “If only I could have that, I would be happy” and I sure that any LOA / Abraham die hards know that there is SO much more to it than that.

When I was listening to this week’s Abraham CD (I highly recommend doing the weekly subscription!), I felt like I was a fly on the wall with something that was being talked about. There was a women talking about how she wanted to get rid of resentment towards people in her life and Abraham had some interesting “Esther” information to share. It really fits into what Stacy and Andrea were talking about in their blog post.

From Abraham-Hicks Weekly CD subscription – CD 7/1/06 Seattle WA Track 7 “Her Resentment is Hurting Her”

The thing we enjoy, and every now and again Esther and Jerry bump up against something where they are sure that the reason they feel bad is because of the behavior of someone else. And we particularly enjoy it when that person continues to be as bad as Jerry and Esther think that they are and refuses to change what they are doing and they continue to be that bad which gives Jerry and Esther the option of turning and going with the flow or holding themselves in resistance to the flow and giving that person the credit for them being out of the flow. There are a lot of people who will tell you one thing and do another. There are people who will mislead you, who will pretend to be one thing when they are really another. In other words, we’re not saying that you don’t have a legitimate gripe or a legitimate claim. We’re just saying that if you wait for some outside arbitrator to make them be the way you need them to be so that you feel better then there will always be another one and another one and another one. Where if you take your stand and reclaim your power by saying to them “I resent you and it feels terrible, therefore, I am going to do something about my resentment and I am not going to ask you to do something about your behavior”. Because when you are trying to control conditions or circumstances, there’s just another and another and another and another and another and another. Jerry and Esther had an experience recently where someone asked them to enter into an agreement which they usually don’t do but they did and then the person proceeded to break the agreement at every turn and then proceeded to threaten them if they didn’t allow a further breach of the agreement. And as it went on, first Jerry and Esther’s, mostly Esther’s, mouth was hanging open in disbelief. She could not believe that they could be so bold and blatant about it but the longer it persisted, for many many months it went on, the longer it persisted, the deeper their level of resentment became. And short of going to battle which they do not want to do, they could not get these, this person, to do something different, and so the resentment sort of festered. Now Jerry and Esther have a wonderful life and in the scheme of everything they are living, it was not a big part of their life, although it started taking more and more and more and more of their time. And Esther found herself wanting to clean it up but believing to clean it up, this person had to stop doing that. In other words, still not taking responsibility. Only this was so in your face and so apparent that Esther said “Time to clean up my vibration, time to accept my own power, time to acknowledge that nobody can do anything that is big enough that it deserves my resentful attention. Because resentful attention only gets you more of what you do not want”

It was really odd to me in my evaluation of this information. I know The Secret is introducing people to the Law of Attraction and that can be nothing but good. If someone realizes that they DO have control over their lives, that can only create improvement in their lives. I just hope that they realize that that control envelopes their whole life and not just the material part of it all. I appreciate The Secret because I know it will give those who are not up to speed with all of this, a hand up and help them grow and learn. I think, for me, I have moved beyond the money / belongings part of LOA. I have that well under control. I know there is a never ending supply of money and that if I want it, it will come to me. I don’t need to stockpile stuff in order to convince myself of that (anymore). I think it is cool to see that Esther and Jerry still battle with it all too and that they are able to understand and “turn the boat around”. Makes them more real to me. I do wonder, though, how they managed to attract this particular, challenging situation That is just me being a nosey parker!