[Acting Like Godot]

An interesting post, Frans. My two cents worth:

Originally Posted by Frans

This applies to all things you intend: how can you appreciate a perfect health if you never were/are sick?
How can you be happy if you never were/are unhappy?

I suppose you can always look back on the days BEFORE you learned about LOA. In other words, the days when you were ill, poor etc.

The fact is: people who apply I-M are not satisfied with their life. They want something else.

This is true. Abraham-Hicks said as much, in different terms. The way that Abraham-Hicks put it goes something like this -

as long as you're in this universe, you'll always have desire. When one desire is fulfilled, you'll look around and experience a new desire.

Buddha said as much.

The difference is that Abraham-Hicks describes "desire" as your impetus to create - and describes "creation" as the very reason why you had chosen to come to this universe.

Whereas Buddha describes "desire" as something that you'd want to transcend. In other words, the ultimate state is enlightenment, when you no longer desire or need anything. In fact, you are so much in control of your mind that you no longer generate karma (which is to say, you can actually desist completely from using LOA consciously or unconsciously).

Unfortunately, I'm not an enlightened being. Thus my choice is to either be:

(1) a non-enlightened being with great power to fulfill my desires; or
(2) a non-enlightened being with very little power to fulfill my desires.

Between (1) and (2), I choose (1). What would you choose?

I believe that if you are serious about personal development, it is much better to live your life as it presents itself to you, because everything that happens in your life has a meaning for you.

In the Abraham-Hicks framework, desire is what arises when life presents itself to you. For example, you go about in your daily life, you notice this, you notice that, X happens to you, Y happens to you. All these things have meaning, and shape your desire. and that's when desire begins to arise: eg "Oh, I want that too .... I don't want X ... I do want Y ...".

And then you begin to create. Which, in the Abraham-Hicks framework, is the really fun part. In other words, it's the journey, not the destination. It's the creating, not the creation.

I don't see any reason why you should use I-M, because things that you consider now as "bad", may have a positive effect on your life in the future.

The thing is, unless you're enlightened, you're using IM all the time. It's just that some people use it unconsciously, whereas others use, or strive to use, it consciously.

I consider I-M as a cheat code in this life "game".

I consider IM'ers as the programmers, not the program.