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I have experienced some pretty high ‘highs’ in my life, and to my
understanding of the Vortex – you have to be somewhat euphoric to enter.
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I felt that immersing myself in the teachings would help me dispel any remaining resistance, and help me with my ‘processes’ which served to get me into that euphoric state Abraham calls ‘Joy’ that is a sure sign you are IN THE VORTEX!
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The only people that got rich at AMWAY got rich
selling the IDEA OF HOW TO GET RICH by way of tapes and
seminars!
Sound Familiar???
Folks, friends and neighbors…..Jerry Hicks found a way to work an Amway style
business without the bother of the pesky products!!!!!!! ...It’s
perfect.
There are no products to sell. No physical action (or ‘efforting’) is
necessary. I
n fact, you are encouraged NOT to work and toil towards wealth and success. No sir. Your job is to raise your vibrations, get into, and stay in, the Vortex, and all your ‘stuff’ will literally ‘drop into your lap’.
Heck…this is way more attractive than having to sell vitamines and appliances at home parties!!!
Best of all…it’s not quantifiable.
No one can complain to Jerry that they’ve done their ’100 cold calls and 10 in home presentations per week’ and aren’t having success. No sir..no complaints can be
lodged.
If you don’t have your stuff, it’s because of a flaw in your
vibration…Abraham is working hard to give you every ‘process’ they can think
of..but it’s your resistance you see…..it’s you insisting on looking at, and beating the drum of what IS….you see…..
Key words
"efforting"
"Joy"
"emotional guidance system"
Posted on October 7, 2011 by luvyourplanet
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I am writing this blog, in all sincerity, to help people make their own, informed,
decision on whether to follow the teachings of Abraham Hicks. If you have come
across my blog, chances are, you are having tiny stirrings of doubt about
‘their’ message. If so, I invite you to read on, take what you want, and throw
away the rest.
I want you to know that when I first came across the Abraham
Hicks teachings, I fell in all the way. I felt I was ‘home’. The teachings
resonated deeply with me and I thought my whole life was about to change in
front of my eyes.
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Now, I want to convey to you, that, as much as I’m making light, I absolutely believed that these things were going to happen to me because I really believed the Abraham Teachings.
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After reading ‘The Astonishing Power of Emotions’ by Abraham, and being a highly emotional person to begin with, I felt I had a very good chance of getting into, and staying in, the Vortex. ....... I remember thinking how much more likely
I was to access my Vortex than some less fortunate people who
were fighting a disease; or who had been laid off and lost their homes etc. I
felt that they may have some trouble accessing their Vortexes
because they had to ignore some pretty prevalent and nasty things in
order to get into the euphoria of ‘all that they really were’.
So, wanting to get ‘my stuff’ sooner, (why wait?) I started buying up CD sets from Amazon, watching Abe on Youtube, and jumping onto Abe Forum and Abe Chat on Facebook.I didn’t even think about the cost of the books, CD’s and DVD’s because,
what the hey?! I was about to win the lottery! Seriously, I don’t say this
flippantly, I really thought I was getting all that was in my vortex, so what
was a couple of hundred dollars spent on ‘study’ material.
I felt that immersing myself in the teachings would help me dispel any remaining resistance, and help me with my ‘processes’ which served to get me into that euphoric state Abraham calls ‘Joy’ that is a sure sign you are IN THE VORTEX!
OK….so here’s what happened next. I started voraciously watching the DVD’s and
listening to the CD’s….working my processes, and avoiding all negative thought.
But, instead of getting closer to my Vortex, I felt the sand starting to shift beneath my feet.
My heart started sinking as, time and again, I watched desperate people get on the ‘hotseat’ in front of Abraham/Esther, pleading for help only to be dismissed, cut off, interrupted,overtly and ingenuously misunderstood, and/or be given a ‘process’ that had
nothing to do with what they had asked.
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So the next logical thought was ‘well if they’re up on the teachings and following the simple guidance for getting into their vortexes…..why on earth do they look so desperate? Why aren’t they enjoying their ‘stuff’ yet?
..As I felt my ‘emotional guidance system’ start ringing and buzzing about what I was seeing - my first instinct was to rationalize it all away. ‘
Abraham must be
right’, ‘I must just not be enlightened enough to see the big picture’.Heck, I was new at this and should just close my mouth and open my ears, get
happy, and get into the flow. Of course, I had a vested interest in
‘
keeping the faith’ – it’s called ‘
health, wealth and beauty’, it was all there
waiting in my vortex for me, and I wasn’t ready to give up on any of that just
yet.
So on I trudged..still happy…did anyone see me looking unhappy…nope..happy here happy here…gonna get my stuff….happy
happy…
Now for the next and very important part of this tale…
It was as I watched the DVD ‘
Ask and It is Given’, that I keyed in on something Jerry Hicks said about his past business success.
Even though he was evasive about what the business was, he did mention giving in-home presentations. It didn’t take much ‘research’ to find out that Jerry Hicks had been big into Amway.
The idea that Jerry used to be heavily involved in Amway didn’t sit well with me. And it
didn’t sit well for the following reason:
I suddenly realized that the only time I had experienced the type of nervous ‘high’ I was
experiencing since being introduced into the Abraham Hicks material, was when I
had been introduced into a certain MLM that had promised to make me rich beyond
my wildest dreams!!!
Yes…it all started flooding back to me now…the promise
of millions….the sudden ‘knowledge’ that all I had to do was follow a simple
formula and it could all be mine…ahhhh yes…the wealth and success I could
have.....
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The MLM that I was involved with was ‘Arbonne’ cosmetics…but I have come to realize that whether it be Arbonne,Amway..Quixtar..Goji…it’s all the same pyramid style gig..money rollsuphill and the recruits are told to ‘have faith’ and they too can get stinking rich!
When my ‘friend’ Arbonne recruiter told me she was making $80,000.00 a year with
only one year with the company (lies btw), and that her ‘upline’ was making
$30,000.00 a month…man I was in full on..sign me up!!
I remember the euphoria, the realization that I would finally be rich! (Fast
forward to Abraham…same euphoric – Finally, I have the answer…type feeling).
To make a long story short (not that it mattters I guess) but the end result of my Arbonne experience was being in the hole roughly $8,000.00, minus several friends, and avoided by family.
But none of that hurt as much as the dawning knowledge
that I was going to have to keep my J.O.B. and continue living like a
normal working chump, not a millionaire.
So, now that I realize that Jerry comes from an MLM past, I’m really tweeked, and I do the unthinkable. I start surfing around the net looking for more scoop on Jerry Hicks and Amway…( I say unthinkable, because to question the teachings in any way..I felt I was losing a grip on what was in my vortex…and I had become quite attached to it thankyouverymuch).
So what do I stumble upon next?…And this is what I’ve been coming to all along…Hold
on to your hat, it’s big…I come to a Dateline expose on Quixtar.
Quixtar, it turns out is actually Amway – but Amway had to change their name because they had been caught making fraudulent claims as to revenues etc..but I don’t really
want to go into that part of the Amway scam.
The fascinating part, as it relates to this story, is this: The head honchos of Amway, the Amway Millionaires, (Jerry Hicks et al), did NOT, I repeat, did NOT make their money
selling Amway products and recruiting others to sell Amway products. No sir they did NOT.
The Amway millionaires, made their money selling motivational tapes and selling tickets to motivational seminars on how to use Law Of Attraction and other mind tricks to be successful selling Amway Products (which, as it turns out, is the impossible).
So, hang on a second, Jerry Hicks’ past includes getting rich by selling people on how to use the ‘Law of Attraction’ to get rich, using a flawed business plan – in which no one got rich (the expose followed people trying to get rich actually selling the Amway
Products – it didn’t happen).
The only people that got rich at AMWAY got rich
selling the IDEA OF HOW TO GET RICH by way of tapes and
seminars!
Sound Familiar???
Folks, friends and neighbors…..Jerry Hicks found a way to work an Amway style
business without the bother of the pesky products!!!!!!! ...It’s
perfect.
There are no products to sell. No physical action (or ‘efforting’) is
necessary. I
n fact, you are encouraged NOT to work and toil towards wealth and success. No sir. Your job is to raise your vibrations, get into, and stay in, the Vortex, and all your ‘stuff’ will literally ‘drop into your lap’.
Heck…this is way more attractive than having to sell vitamines and appliances at home parties!!!
Best of all…it’s not quantifiable.
No one can complain to Jerry that they’ve done their ’100 cold calls and 10 in home presentations per week’ and aren’t having success. No sir..no complaints can be
lodged.
If you don’t have your stuff, it’s because of a flaw in your
vibration…Abraham is working hard to give you every ‘process’ they can think
of..but it’s your resistance you see…..it’s you insisting on looking at, and beating the drum of what IS….you see…..
Oh Jerry….I take my hat off to you….you had me…you really did…hook line and sinker….I feel like such a fool…I wanted to believe so badly…I mean, man, you shoulda seen what was in my Vortex!!!
So now…I guess all that’s left for me is to go back to being a normal person (again), living a normal, ho hum, life, with my age appropriate (Abraham says we only age because we think we have to…sigh), slightly overweight body, annoying, somewhat mind numbing J.O.B., bi-weeklymortgage payments…and a somewhat predictable, if not all bad, future…
But there’s always a silver lining…right? At least I can get well
and truly pissed off at something or someone now, and rant around a little (or alot) without having to worry that my negative vibrations are ultimately delaying my rendezvous with my impossibly gorgeous Barbie Doll figure and winning Lotto Ticket……..happy here…happy over here…….End