posted June 25, 2007 01:08 AM
"THE PROSTITUTEOne 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 ***** , 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.”
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"The Secret" teaches you to approach your Higher Self and tell it what you want, how you want it, where you want it, how much you're willing to pay for it and what you expect to do when it's over.
This philosophy elevates the 'ego,' and it's own demands, to a Godlike level… as if you should go forth and seek whatever your heart desires, no matter how big the price tag, because the Universe is basically built to satisfy you… like a giant "cosmic gumball machine".
If the world's most powerful people are ALREADY using this Secret, so the philosophy goes, then why shouldn't you? The problem, as we explained in Part One, is that the world's most powerful people are doing a lot more than sitting and meditating for prosperity… they are killing, starving and exploiting untold numbers of people to maintain their vast riches.
THE MAIDEN
The opposite approach — that of the positive path — is to approach your Higher Self as if it were a maiden.
Let's say you're the guy, and you want to 'get lucky'. With the prostitute you go, pay the fee, and get exactly what you want from her… but since it is illegal, you may end up getting hit with a few arrows as well.
If you want to connect with the maiden, it's not so simple. You have to LISTEN to her.
You have to dance with her… explore her needs… find out what she wants… and be willing to move with her own free will, so that the two of you can COMBINE your visions into a MUTUAL view of what you want. Only then do you consummate the relationship.
THE HIGHER SELF IS NOT THE EGO
The problem with philosophies like those in "The Secret" is they assume the 'ego' IS the Higher Self. There is no other authority to look to. You know what you want, and therefore that is what God wants. End of story!
This error in judgment is a classic mistake. This materialistic oversight is an experience that we are all intended to have, as it is written into the mind of the Galaxy. It is a growth experience we ALL must go through.
The Secret is at least teaching people to get to the point where they are aware of their power, and even though it nudges you towards the negative, I know for a fact that this film has had a positive impact on many people… namely because they read their pre-existing positive biases into it, though messages of service-to-others are strongly diminished, if not nearly eliminated in the actual finished product.
As you can see from reading my own life story, in "The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?" and throughout this Divine Cosmos website, the Higher Self is far from a passive participant in your life. What most people think of as the 'self' is a vastly insufficient explanation of their true identity.
To really 'get' what spirituality is about, part of that awakening is realizing that all time is ultimately simultaneous. Your brief lifespan on Earth in this incarnation is but a microsecond in your overall cosmic evolution. You have multiple incarnations, with very definite lessons to learn, and if you don't 'get it' in one lifetime, then you'll come back and repeat the class in future lifetimes, again and again, until the truth sinks in."
Lindaland
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