Turn Your Attention Someplace Else

Well-being is just a thought, that feels good, away.

You could have every deadly disease known to man,
within you, today,
...and if you chose different feeling thoughts,
...tomorrow, they would all leave your body.

They are not physical things that have jumped into you.

They are the reflection of your not allowing
your natural Connection.

It’s nothing more complicated than
choosing better feeling thoughts.

For example, you just had a weak moment,

and now you feel guilty.

Guilt causes cancer ... and all kinds of other things.

You felt fear.

Fear causes cancer.



Fear or anger or jealousy, or guilt, are your indicator
that the thought you are choosing
is contradictory to, and is, hindering,
the Source Energy.

The key is to not give anything that you do not
want much of your attention.

As soon as you realize it doesn’t feel good,

... do your very best to turn your attention ...
someplace else.

Abraham-Hicks

You Felt Inclined to Go This Way

The hypocrisy around the subject of sexuality is huge.

Early on, there were others who were a lot more interested in you satisfying what made them feel good than in satisfying what made you feel good.

There were so many things that you felt inclined to go this way, that you were forced to go that way, that at an early age, you made a conscious decision that if it felt good, it was wrong.

And if it felt wrong, it was probably right.

(Abraham-Hicks)

Seth Godin: We All Need A Tribe

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Enjoyed this conversation with Seth Godin around tribes and why we all need one, how we should be the best in the world at what we do. -- Seth also answers why he is not on Twitter. --

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Ideal Citizen?

GUEST: My question is how to participate as a citizen in a country in a way that would be positive rather than negative.

During the war in Viet Nam, I was in silent vigils that some people and I started.

And I felt good about that.

But I also realize that it’s very easy to get caught up in resisting and being negative.

So, I wanted to ask you what your thoughts are on that?


ABRAHAM: The ideal citizen, ... one who contributes enormously to the Well-being of the whole,

... is one who focuses so specifically on life giving projects that you act as a vortex that summons life into this dimension through you.

Some would say, “Well, you mean she shouldn’t get involved in bigger issues?”

And we say, “She can choose any issue she wants to be one of those life giving issues.”

It’s about choosing something and focusing upon it with the sheer intent of letting it summon to itself through you.


GUEST: I don’t want to see society become like those countries where women would be kept at home and not allowed to leave.

I would like to operate in my society in a way where I see to it that more freedoms in that way are preserved or enhanced.

ABRAHAM: What do you see as you look around you in this society?

You see mostly freedom.

And so, as you focus here, you can feel, as you observe, an environment that is a vibrational match to your desire.
You feel better.

As you observe another society that is not a vibrational match to your desire, you don’t feel so good.

Your role, as a productive citizen,

is to choose from those two perspectives

the one that you can feel the Energy flowing the strongest.

And, it’s not hard to figure out which one that is, is it?
You can tell by the way you feel.


Many people believe that if there are not protests, that nothing ever gets better.

And we say, well, there is accuracy to a degree.

If you don’t know what you don’t want, you could not know what you do want.

And so, it is the contrast or the diversity that helps you to formulate your decision.
And often the strongest decisions come out of the worst situations.
It’s those unbearable or deplorable things that often give the rocket of desire the greatest thrust.



But what goes wrong with so many people is, once the desire is born, then they keep looking back and trying to justify the desire by pointing out how bad things are.

And, when they look back, they just include that vibration which makes them a muted, clutter filter.

They are not a vortex that is doing any summoning toward what they want.

If you let a negative situation build that rocket of desire within you,
and you focus upon the way you want it to be,
and then you imagine that.

You dream that.

You amplify that. You look for evidence of that.
You talk about that. You script that.
You find the feeling place of that.

You imagine that.

You dream that.

You hold yourself in that vibration and you create that.

You open the vortex, single-handedly, that hundreds of thousands, millions,
then benefit from, because of your attention to the subject.



Most of you do not believe that you have that kind of power of focus.

So you gather all over the place, and then you feel crabby because you know,
from your Non-physical Perspective, the extraordinary power and value and reason that you have come here to focus.



You did not say, “I’ll come forth, but clean up everything that might bother me,

and then I’ll come.”

Instead, you said, “I’ll go forth into this contrast,
and out of it I’ll feel new desire born in me.”


When we tell you that you are on the leading edge of thought, we are not kidding you.

Here is the way it works:

So, you examine the contrast.
We are not talking about conflict.

But contrast might be conflict.
You examine the stuff, ... all the stuff.
You observe it, and out of it is born a desire,
and when that desire comes within you,

you feel it.

And as you feel that desire, then you talk about it,
and you think about it, and you think about it,
and you imagine it and you offer a vibration about it,
and then the Universe responds.

And, now you stand in a new place with a whole different set of contrasting experiences
giving birth to another desire that you then focus upon and think about
and find a feeling place of
until you are standing in a different place with a whole different set of contrasting experiences.

Sometimes we think you think that the work is to get it done.
You think the work is to get it all cleaned up.

And we say, you did not ever intend to come forth and get everything checked off the list.
You came forth to get more things on the list.

You never get it done.

Now you’re beginning to understand why we want you to enjoy the journey.
Because there is no end to this journey.
You could desire and it could be painful to you,
and you could stop desiring and you could croak.

But we promise you, that won’t be the end of you.

In your physical withdrawal from this experience,
all you get is a whole new lease on life from which you want to come forth into another physically focused environment,
so that you can begin the process again.

It is so satisfying once you begin to understand the rhythm of all of this,
and you begin to understand that the contrast is a good thing
... because the contrast gives you a new desire,
and then, as you fantasize and find the feeling place of it,
then everything in the Universe begins to respond to your vibrational output.

And then, from that new vantage point,
new contrasting experiences give birth to more desire.

And so, the fun of it is not getting to the place where the Universe yields it to you.
Although that can be fun.

But the fun of it is the birth of the desire to begin with, and then the bringing yourself into an alignment with the desire.

There is nothing more delicious than the Creative endeavor.


Friends, you have in your hands the Energy that creates worlds.
And you said, “I would like to take that powerful Energy,
and I would like to focus it through my specific physical human vortex.
So I will be a citizen in this environment,
and I will conclude as best I can from my vantage point.

And when that conclusion builds within me as that rocket of desire and I feel it,
I will revel in what this contrasting experience has produced,
because I’m on the leading edge again.

I’ve just given birth to a new desire.

I am going to focus on the desire.
I’m going to find the feeling of the desire.
I’m going to explain the desire.
I’m going to become familiar with the desire.

I’m going to become desire.

I am going to become the embodiment, ... the vibrational embodiment,
... of this desire.

I am going to radiate that desire.
It’s going to express through me so that anyone that comes into contact will feel a piece of that desire.
And, sure, Law of Attraction will manifest the heck out of it all around me,
but that’s not why I’m here.

I’m here for the experience of the Energy flowing through.



-Abraham-Hicks-

time, space obsolete

Time, Space Obsolete in New View of Universe

Many physicists are embracing a revolutionary, still mysterious idea called string theory.
The concept rejects several familiar notions and includes the existence of 11 dimensions.

By K.C. COLE, Times Science Writer

Ever since early astronomers yanked Earth from center stage in the solar system some 500 years ago, scientists have been pulling the rug out from under people's basic beliefs.

"The history of physics," says Harvard physicist Andrew Strominger, "is the history of giving up cherished ideas."

No idea has been harder to give up, however--for physicists and laypeople alike--than everyday notions of space and time, the fundamental "where" and "when" of the universe and everything in it.

Einstein's unsettling insights more than 80 years ago showed that static space and fixed time were flimsy facades, thinly veiling a cosmos where seconds and meters ooze like mud and the rubbery fabric of space-time warps into an unseen fourth dimension.

About the same time, the new "quantum mechanical" understanding of the atom revealed that space and time are inherently jittery and uncertain.

Now, some physicists are taking this revolutionary line of thinking one step further: If their theories are right, in the words of Edward Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, space and time may be "doomed."

Concurs physicist Nathan Seiberg, also of the institute: "I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated."

That conclusion may not affect anyone's morning commute. But it is rocking the foundations of physics--as well as causing metaphysical reverberations that inevitably follow major changes in our fundamental understanding of how the universe works.

The impetus behind this tumult is an idea that has become increasingly dominant in modern physics: string theory. According to string theory, the most basic ingredients in the universe are no longer point-like particles, the familiar electrons and quarks. Instead, they are unimaginably small vibrating strings of some unknown fundamental stuff.

String theory suggests that different configurations of strings produce different harmonic chords--just as a piano produces a sound different from that of a flute. The vibrating string gives rise to the particles, and the way the string vibrates determines each particle's properties. This all takes place in a convoluted landscape of 11-dimensional space.

It is a concept so strange that even theoretical physicists struggle to understand it. String theory offers a universe bizarre beyond imagining: Under powerful enough magnification, every known particle in the universe would resemble a complex origami folded out of sheets or strings of the three familiar spatial dimensions, plus one dimension of time, plus seven extra dimensions of space.

While string theory is far from proven, or even well formulated, its consequences would be enormous. Among other things, it would:
* Reshape fundamental notions of space and time, energy and matter, expanding the number of dimensions to 11.
* Give the first comprehensive list of all the ingredients that make up the universe.
* Reveal that every tick of a clock, every barking dog, every dying star, can be described by one master mathematical equation.

Being Involved in a 'Scientific Revolution'

Which practical fruits will flow from the new view of the universe remain unknown. But in the past, fundamental revolutions in physics have--against everyone's wildest expectations--flowered into everything from cell phones to brain scans.

"I've been in physics for 35 years, and this is the first time I've felt I'm involved in a scientific revolution," said Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind.
"In the last five or six years, I really have the feeling we're doing something as crazy, as interesting, as new as the revolution that Einstein wrought."

Perhaps most revolutionary of all, it appears that space and time aren't essential ingredients of a universe ruled by strings.

To grasp the extent of the current upheaval in physics, consider what has happened to our basic understanding of space and time over the past hundred years.

Until the early 20th century, scientists, like laypeople, assumed that space and time were fixed--like huge, metaphysical clocks and rulers in the firmament.
Objects that moved in this unchanging background could be pinned down to definite positions.

"Everything was where it was when it was supposed to be, and that was all there was to it," said Strominger. "Space-time was out there. You could count on it."

Then, Einstein revealed that space and time were woven into a single fabric that deforms like so much Silly Putty; indeed, it is the warping of the fabric of space-time by massive objects that produces the force of gravity.
We perceive gravity as a "force" only because we can't directly perceive the fourth dimension.

Because gravity affects everything, everything gets warped by its pervasive influence--including the clocks and rulers we use to measure time and space.

Even more unsettling, Einstein's now well-proven theories showed that the fabric of space-time, with its three dimensions of space and one of time, is not a passive backdrop for the events and objects in the universe. Space-time also creates objects and events.

Imagine the universe as a performance on a stage. The stage of space-time does not act like a static floor. It also pulls and pushes the actors around.

Quantum mechanics introduced even more uncertainty.

In the subatomic realm, the entire concept of fixed particles in time and space fuzzes out into an ever-shifting haze of probabilities. Trying to pin down a subatomic particle's location or motion is like trying to put your finger on a snowflake; the very act of measurement destroys the thing being measured.
"That means . . . space-time is an uncertain concept, so you've lost your firm footing," said Strominger.
"And that is a deep conceptual issue we have not yet come to grips with."

Now string theory appears to be propelling this evolution one drastic, perhaps inevitable, step further.

Certain approaches to string theory dispense with the notion of space-time completely. Yet, they seem to produce the same set of results as string theories with normal space and time.

To some theorists, this strongly suggests that space and time are superfluous. Space and time as fundamental concepts may be about to disappear altogether--literally pulling the floor out from under physics.

"The notion of space-time is something we've cherished for thousands of years, and it's clearly something we're going to have to give up," said Strominger.

Even before string theory enjoyed its recent successes, physicists knew they would have to grapple again with the inadequacy of our understanding of space and time. The reason is a glaring mismatch between gravity, which rules large-scale events in the cosmos, and quantum mechanics, which rules small-scale happenings.

Both gravity and quantum theory are well understood and have survived decades of experimental tests. Quantum mechanics gave rise to lasers and computers; Einstein's theory of gravity predicted everything from black holes to the bending of light by stars, insights since proved by observations.

The problem is, the two theories are mutually exclusive.
The space and time of quantum theory don't mesh with the space and time of Einstein's theory of gravity, or General Relativity.

In the language of gravity, the quantum mechanical aspects of the universe turn into gobbledygook. And vice versa.
"We can describe the world that we see and experience completely," said UC Santa Barbara physicist Sean Carroll, "but the explanations are internally inconsistent."

Some Things Don't Affect Everyday Life

Until recently, physicists found it easy to sweep this unpleasantness under the rug--in part because they didn't know how to deal with it, in part because it doesn't make a difference in our everyday lives.

The inherently uncertain behavior of subatomic particles affects only things as small as atoms, not everyday objects like chairs; the warping of space and time shapes the orbits of planets, but is too diluted to make itself felt on the scale of our own backyards.

Where the large-scale fabric of space-time gets tangled in the inner lives of atoms, however, chaos erupts; space and time fail to make sense. And increasingly, physicists find themselves face to face with situations where quantum mechanics and the extreme warping of space-time collide.

For example, physicists won't be able to understand either the innards of black holes or the origins of the universe until they come to grips with how gravity behaves at extremely small scales. Indeed, the ultimate laboratory for studying the collision of these two opposing realms is the infinitely compressed dollop of space-time that gave rise to the Big Bang.

That cataclysmic speck, physicists believe, contained everything now in our universe, so it would have packed a huge gravitational wallop. At the same time, it would have been small enough to behave according to quantum mechanical laws.
Because physicists can't study the Big Bang directly, they wind back the clock with equations and thought experiments--imagining what might happen, for example, if time really reversed.

The results are disturbing: As the universe gets smaller and smaller,
the warping of space-time gets stronger and quantum uncertainties get progressively larger.

Finally, the uncertainty becomes larger than any time interval that could possibly be measured. Measurement becomes meaningless.
Time at the first moment dissolves into nonsense.

"If you ask questions about what happened at very early times," said Harvard physicist Sidney Coleman, "and you compute the answer,
the [real] answer is: Time doesn't mean anything."

Or consider what happens inside a black hole--a region where gravity is so strong that space-time curls in on itself, in effect, shutting out the rest of the universe. Black holes are swirling pits of pure space-time.

And according to Einstein's theory, their enormous gravity causes them to collapse to an infinite point of zero size--what physicists call singularity. Is there such a nonsensical thing as infinite density packed into zero size?

"I remember puzzling about that when I was a kid," said Gary Horowitz of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara. "I thought when I went to college I would find out the answer . . . I'm still waiting."

In the pinched-off centers of black holes, space-time appears to simply stop. "The singularity acts like an edge," said Horowitz. "You run into it, and it's the end. There's no time after that; there's no space after that. But we don't think physics should end [there]. That's why we're trying to" find new laws of physics, which will describe what happens beyond that edge.

Black holes, said Princeton physicist John Archibald Wheeler, "[teach] us that space can be crumpled like a piece of paper into an infinitesimal dot, that time can be extinguished like a blown-out flame, and that the laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but."

Space, Time May Be Doomed as Concepts

String theory has emerged as the only viable candidate to reconcile the differences between gravity and quantum mechanics. It does so by eliminating the notion of infinitely small particles. The loop of string is the smallest allowable size.

"You never get to the point where the disasters happen," said Seiberg of the Institute for Advanced Study. "String theory prevents it."

But rather than rescuing space and time, string theory only seems to make their doom as fundamental concepts more imminent.

When they are incorporated into string theory, "space and time get confused," said Seiberg. "It's telling us that the traditional understanding of space and time will evaporate and there will be a more interesting and subtle result."

Some string theorists believe that space and time somehow emerged in the early universe out of the disorganized, 11-dimensional strings. The strings are "shards" of space and time, said physicist Brian Greene of Columbia University.

Imagine grains of sand on the surface of a drum. If you tap the surface over and over at the same place, the sand falls into patterns--like iron filings around a magnet.

Did space and time emerge in the same way, as resonant patterns of vibrating strings?
Trying to make sense of such an idea is a struggle even for theorists.
"String theory has been giving us a lot of clues," said Strominger, "but we haven't been able to put them together into a unified picture."

Even philosophically, the challenge of replacing space and time is daunting.
What does it mean to inhabit a spaceless, timeless universe? Clocks and rulers not only measure hours and inches; they tell us where we've been and where we're going.

"When we talk about space and time, we think there is something there, and we live in it," said David Gross, director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics. The idea that space and time might be illusions, he said, "is very disturbing.
Where are we? When are we?"

The almost unfathomable scenario of a universe without space and time in turn calls into question the very connection between cause and effect. If time can break down, how can one event be placed clearly "before" or "after" another?

Hypothetically, if there is no clear difference between now and the instant after, how can we say whether the gunshot caused death--or death caused the gunshot?

"We normally think of causality as a basic property," said Horowitz. "Something effects something else. But when you're getting rid of space and time . . . are we sure that causality is going to be preserved?"

New views of time could lead to even more bizarre consequences--for instance, more than two dimensions of time, a theory being worked on by USC physicist Itzhak Bars, among others.

Whatever the outcome of these efforts, it's clear, said Greene, that "space is undergoing a drastic rearrangement of its basic pieces; we will not understand string theory until we make a major breakthrough in notions of space and time."

If Greene and his colleagues are right, expanding the universe into 11 dimensions and looping it into strings are only the beginning.

On the horizon looms a new kind of physics, where space and time melt down completely.

"The real change that's around the corner [is] in the way we think about space and time," said Gross. "We haven't come to grips with what Einstein taught us.
But that's coming. And that will make the world around us seem much stranger than any of us can imagine."

The Favor of Hardship

...from the Field Project


When the gods want to make a poem out of a man’s life, they send him suffering. – Anonymous


Field training teaches that the reality of our world arises out of our intentions, defined as that structure of consciousness that comprises what we take to be real, and that with which we identify. Thus, for example, the belief, “I am a survivor” will fulfill itself in the manifestation of experiences for us to survive, “I am lucky” will produce its own sort of luck as efficiently as “I am unlucky” will produce the opposite, and so on. Note that it isn’t the words “I am” that spark the creative arc, but the underlying identification, the silent claim, the unspoken and perhaps even unthought assumption.


When we fail to recognize the causal role of our consciousness in a situation, when we believe that our reality happens to us rather than through us, when it seems that all the power and authority lie outside us, then we are in a state of what Field training calls “immersion” in another belief—namely, the belief that we are at the mercy of conditions, and this belief, too, tends to be self-fulfilling, until a nicely closed system is formed between the psyche and the world, and our experience continues to prove what we have assumed to be so.


From an immersed state, it may be all but impossible to recognize the great benefit, even blessing, of hardship, but things only start falling apart when they are no longer adequate to fulfill. Hinduism tells us that the nature of the Godhead is threefold, that it has three aspects: Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Sustainer, and Shiva the Destroyer, and it is important to understand that often, Shiva must do his part before Brahma can do his. An old, decrepit building must be demolished before a new one can be built on the site where the old one stood, and in just this way, psychic structures of our life that have been burdened and exhausted too long by contradiction must be torn down to open the way to fulfillment.


Before we can receive what we want, our hands must be open, and this may require that we let go of an old identity that served us once but has since become too costly. So does every rite of passage involve a wounding, the loss of a certain version of self, and a dismantling of the old reality that belonged to it.


When we are moving though moments of dismantling, when it seems that things are falling apart, and we cannot see over the next rise to the gift that is on its way to us, it can help greatly to remember that Shiva’s work is not arbitrary. He destroys to make room for the new, for Brahma, for greater life, identity, and creative self-expression. To cooperate with Shiva is the mark of an advanced student, someone who has learned to stand in the face of facts without allowing those facts to impersonate a conclusion, who knows that the better outcome always has the last word. At such times, it isn’t necessary to have heroic faith, only to be willing to let things unfold, and to refrain from agreeing with facts or thoughts that would set us against our best interests by giving ourselves to worst-case suppositions.


If contradictions try to take our resolve hostage, we remind ourselves that any path is as steady under our feet as our willingness to see it through, and remain poised no matter what the world throws at us. Florence Scovel Shinn writes, “I do not move, so the situation moves.” Far from being a bad guy, hardship gives us the opportunity to rise above where we have been and acquire a new way of being in the world. When we choose to remain poised under fire, we do not have to wait long to hear the wings of angels, for the one who overcomes the enemy within overcomes the world.

Important That I Feel Good

Concentrate on how you feel, and make a decision, “Nothing is more important than that I feel good.”

“It’s so important that I feel good, that I’m going to watch specific television programs. It’s so important that I feel good, I’m going to spend more time with this good feeling friend and less time with that not so good feeling friend.

It’s so important that I feel good, I’m going to change the magazine subscriptions that I read. It’s so important that I feel good, that I’m going to ponder thoughts from my past that make me feel better and I’m not going to ponder the ones that make me feel less than good.

-Abraham-Hicks-

"...Lather still finds it a nice thing to do,
To lie about nude in the sand,
Drawing pictures of mountains that look like bumps,
And thrashing the air with his hands.

But wait, oh Lather's productive you know,
He produces the finest of sound,
Putting drumsticks on either side of his nose,
Snorting the best licks in town,..."

from the song, "Lather" ... by Jefferson Airplan