Re: Power of NOW

It's a curious thing--but so often when I hear people speaking about what Abraham says, it feels like ego is talking. Ego in the sense of the constant busying nature, of consciousness looking for what it "likes". What is really the central impediment to meditation, and transcending ego-identity. When I listen to *them*, I hear it a different way--with more purity, but as if it's being also filtered for a mass conciousness to "get". I feel as though the message is very easy to 'profane',
so to speak; easy for it to become a self-perpetuating (if *fun*) prison. Or box.

Actually, I haven't read any of his books...nor any of Esther Hicks'. (I'm entirely video-taught, in their case.:-) ) And I was mildly struggling with Tolle's 'energy',
for lack of a better word--in fact the whole 'Oprah factor'...which tends to support hungrily consuming...

But, I found that "proof" quite a delightful recognition. Really Pith instruction.
And I enjoyed hearing him speak on this second web thing. (no video! )



On another (but I see it as related) topic--I was going to ask you if you felt like coming up with a bit of a 'rampage' on Vipassana.:-) (as per your retreat experience.) Now there's a paradox--ha!- well, maybe. I think it's the sort of Now
I was referring to. And if, as Esther_Abraham says, they "speak of nothing but God--or, what you call God", well, the now is not something separate from God, but is in fact more like that Holy moment when divinity may enter and sweep away all other desires!

How would you say this "now" aligns with the concept of "feeling good", if one is only to go after what "feels good", as is often suggested? This question seems to intersect nicely with Kam Yuen's Yuen method, since, as you know, Yuen is always finding that what is holding people back from, let's say, vibrationally shifting,
is the presence of what is often called psychological reversal. So you have the man who's still stiff around the neck area, because he feels weak at the thought of being "loose". (and then their are grief issues that affect his hips and ears.)

Or the woman who can't move her arm back, (partly) because she believes "going backwards is not an option." And when he shows her it can now move back without pain--she still doesn't believe. He has to 'correct her' for this fierce determination that she MUST always move forward. She could fairly say she "feels good" moving forward in her life. She is an example of someone who might constantly struggle with feeling she is practising "LOA" "wrong". Alternately, she might be encouraged to move toward things that feel good that are, in fact, only disguises of what is inherently *weakening* or disempowering... Any thoughts on this?

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