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Originally Posted by Zukin  The only moral implications I understood from the Hicks' work is this:
You can't make another person do something. You can only attract others to you who match your intentions.
Everything else is subjective and there's no problem with you getting what you want. |
The problem area in 'Ask and It is Given' is that Hicks alternates between saying you should be on the same vibrational level as source and then a little later says you should be on the same vibrational level of the thing you desire in order for it to be achieved.
But, what is the vibrational level of a house or a car?
Whatever you desire must make you feel happy, joyful and expectant, which will then match source. So, the implication is that the object of your desire must also have a vibrational level of happiness, joy and expectancy.
Hicks states that if your feelings are not as such, then you are blocking the flow with resistance. But, he never mentions the possibility that the desire itself could just not be right for you, that the desire itself does not match source and that your desire for it is not to your own good. And that could be the reason your desire is not being fulfilled - not because of your resistance, but because the desire is unsuitable for your personal growth.
It is hinted at, when he says you can't make a big vibrational jump, to something that is not immediately possible, so you have to desire it in incremental amounts which you are able to cope with. So, this is really a far cry from being able to desire, say, 10 million dollars but only getting 10 dollars.
What if you decided before this life that you did in fact want a life of poverty and hardship in order to learn and grow, but having been here for a while, your ego started to want the luxuries life has to offer?
Sadly, the initial statements in the book of being able to get absolutely anything you desire do not hold up under scrutiny.