Yes, it is true that all is energy. Or, vibration. Vibration streaming is *flow*.
It seems odd though, (this is a recurring niggle of mine), for those beyond the time-space of form (Abraham) to encourage people, who encourage one another, to manifest more and more of what "feels good", i.e. form: objects of the desire realm. Why do I presume "form"? In three-dimensional time-space, like attracts like.
Form = form. And we know we are vibration masquerading as form, right?
Ego is not *of* non-form, or vibration, and ego is the default CEO, so ego will pull the wagon of I-identity toward more and more of what shores up this separate self sense.
What a delight though to consider manifesting form as if one were a god! To be told one is doing wonderfully! There are realms too where beings do manifest form with just a thought and it instantly appears, but in such realms they are no longer bound to form--that's a huge distinction. Thus, such entities are not "fooled".
The small niggle (in my mind) with much, but not all of Abraham's discourse is that ego is attracted to "power" more than "now": a fully present Now empties all desire, and invites the alive completion of Is-ness. Consider the phrase "Power of Now" and see where the desire-attention ( the "downstream" ) goes.
In truth, (in the meta-physical, or "beyond physical" where Abraham 'locates'
there is no Power in Now, since power presupposes "having" or owning something in contrast to some not-owning and in fullness of Now there is no separate self
insistent on *doing* any owning. It's laughable. Genuinely, non-judgmentally laughable. That's the humour of God.
Many people think that meditation is about focussing the mind, and of course that sounds dreadfully boring! As if one is not going to be allowed to imagine more and more fullness but is asked to "settle down".(So ego most likely labels it as "upstream".)
But meditation is really about flow, and watching it. In some ways it is "eating your cake and having it too!"
So, Lao, here is where perhaps one *can* be 'flexible', though it is well to remember the "hidden" desire nature which might think thusly: "i hold on to my fur as best as i can." LOL. That's ego speaking, since "you" have no need of fur, or anything at all. I am teasing though. In no way positioning myself above you. I wonder if Kam Yuen would find that you are "missing a tail" as he seems to find with many. I used to think I was, when I was about twenty.
But back to what I wanted to share about Now and meditation, (or about Now, in Presence) which seems in some ways to be the reverse of what Abraham is teaching (intentionally or not, I'm not sure.)
The process is focussing on the flow of mind.
First, one has to focus the flow. Then, one lets go
of the focus of flow. The action of focussing the being
allows the flow to happen, and (one) watches
instead of being in control.
in that watching, one sees what is authentic being, and what is false self.
Without this locating in authentic being, manifesting desires is just shoring up
treasure of the form nature. I think of what is meant by "where your treasure is, there too will your heart be). The heart is the true location of "mind", not the head, the thoughts, the desire-nature guided by the compass of emotion.
"energy in motion" (emotion) sounds wonderfully pure and purified, yet, as a session with a yuen method practitioner will quickly reveal, emotion is more often the representative of "stuckness"-- and the cause of belief in a separate
(separated from God or Source) self. Separation (from NOW) is the cause of war, inner, outer, and hidden.
I did say an *attempt* at succinct, didn't I? It's a work in process, this
coming to rest in Now. :-) Ah, one of those lovely spring birds has just started to call. Spring is moving underground.