About: Living from abundance

Our relationship with time and money reflects something much deeper: whether we experience life as abundant or scarce.

The Plan of Salvation, also discussed in Holy Moly, explains the reality that we have all come from previous hellish spheres. There, we lived in a condensed matter—much thicker than the matter on Earth.

Nature was totally absent, nothing was alive, nothing had flavor. Our inner nature was also equally inaccessible.

In that sphere, there is no birth and no death—this is a distortion of eternity. It is hopelessness itself and existence is totally mechanized.

The principle of evil prevailing there is materialism—the belief that only material reality exists.

In the last century, this aspect of evil has taken over Earth. The lifeline to reality has been broken, resulting in an alienating reality in which humanity has prided itself on its advanced state.

We have become a reality unto ourselves.

The good news is that this has brought people back to taking self-responsibility for searching within. It is not a coincidence that the science of psychology has emerged. The challenge is that we have produced a life not that much different from that dark sphere we came from.

Moving toward giving

Materialism shows up on this dualistic Earth plane in the form of “having” and “not having.” Of course, on the unitive plane, there is always a way out, which is this: we must learn to give. Because the Law of Giving and Receiving states that receiving is impossible when the soul withholds its innate yearning to give. One cannot exist without the other.

When we are in the illusion that we are empty and impoverished—we are “not having”—we automatically create a vicious circle. Because this belief makes us hoard ourselves—our riches and our talents.

We are holding in rather than giving out. This separates us from the riches that surround and penetrate us, confirming the belief of our poverty.

In contrast, a benign circle can be created by risking giving out. We need to consciously expect that abundance will grow. As we begin giving from a place of trust, we lift the lever that locked the mechanism.

Words can never describe the magnificence of realizing that grace is all around us. To see that the more we receive, the more we can give. And the more we give, the more are we capable of receiving.

Then giving and receiving become one.

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Learn more in Blinded by Fear, Chapter 1: The Mother of All Fears: Fear of Self (Subhead: Giving and Receiving).

Building on deficit

False pictures are reinforced by our beliefs, just as true pictures are. Only when they are questioned do they lose their power to out-picture painful experiences.

This is why we need to unearth and challenge our false beliefs. It is like pulling out poisonous weeds and planting new beautiful seedlings.

One of the most common ways we do this is by building on deficit. It links to our belief that we live in an empty, poor, ungiving universe where only some can “have.”

When we build positive beliefs and life patterns on top of hidden negative beliefs, we build on deficit. It’s the same when we secretly believe that we are a totally unlovable and unacceptable human being.

Or when our real and false guilts prevent us from turning ourselves fully over to God. Any time we assume the universe is hostile, so we must protect ourselves with destructive defenses, we build on deficit.

Building on deficit can appear to succeed for a while.

That is the trouble.

It is like building a house on sandy ground. It may hold up for a while, but when it starts to crumble, we may have forgotten we chose to build on such a weak foundation.

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Learn more in Pearls, Chapter 7: Basking in Grace & Not Building on Deficit.

Creating inner order

This path is directly designed to create an inner order, painful as this may be at first. Then we can begin to build on real assets and never allow our “inner economics” to become fraudulent and unsound.

All personal crises—all breakdowns—are nothing but bankruptcy exposed.

We need to stop living above our means, covering one hole with a newly created hole. The same principle applies to families, organizations, communities, and even nations.

Whenever a country goes through a severe crisis—riots, wars or financial collapse—it is a result of waiting too long to establish order in a controlled way. It results from not wanting to expose the deficits so that true abundance can follow.

This step can only be possible through faith in God. Risking to have faith can create faith. A balanced, harmonious, abundant world order requires direct communication with the divine world and the light of Christ within and around us.

If we ignore his existence, we cannot perceive his presence. Nor can we hear his guidance.

We need to connect with this inner light to summon up the courage needed to temporarily expose inner bankruptcy—which is reflected in outer bankruptcy—for both people and countries.

By doing this, we will be able to also examine when the individual needs to give more to the collective entity, and when the process can be reversed. The law will fulfill itself so that none will come to deprivation from their giving.

Quite the contrary, more abundance will accrue for them.

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Learn more in Pearls, Chapter 15: What’s the real spiritual meaning of crisis?

Using time wisely

Many spiritual teachings talk about the need to be in the present moment—in the Now. The Guide advocates we use a Daily Review as one of the best means toward living each day and each hour fully.

The Guide strongly recommends a daily practice of self-review because transformation happens through steady, ongoing attention.

In time, after having recognized a distortion or a negative attitude in ourselves— in all its depth—we will experience a special peace that is full of the spark of aliveness.

That the recognition itself may be very unflattering and disillusioning about oneself, and at times even painful, will not diminish this great experience once the recognition is complete.

This happens because, in that moment, we have fully used the fragment of time available to us. Too often, we are right in it, but blind to it. We merely try to get out of the Now without utilizing it.

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Learn more in Pearls, Chapter 6: Unwinding humanity’s relationship with time

Keeping traditions alive

Traditions are an example of where we may experience a duality that relates to time. They come about when some beautiful truth breaks through into our physical world. Our desire is to continue to experience an expression of it.

Some people may get stuck on the notion that all things from the past have value, and therefore they reject change. But change is what was needed to inspire a tradition to begin with. Others swing to the opposite side and say only new things have value, rejecting all traditions.

Both can be true. For if we search more deeply into spiritual reality, we’ll see that neither of the terms “old” and “new” make sense.

There isn’t old or new—there is both.

As we walk a spiritual path, we will discover new truths we hadn’t known before. So they are new to us, but they are not really new. What is new is not the truth itself, but our ability to perceive it.

Yet each time we are introduced to a new spiritual concept, a new approach, or a new expanded way of thinking, we experience great resistance.

For new truths create a sense of threat.

Our desire is to hold onto our old approach which we are familiar with, leaving the confines of our thinking and perceiving untouched and unexpanded. Because seeing the world in a new light feels threatening. We want to hold on to what we know and become a traditionalist.

We want to remain comfortable.

The way to widen and expand our consciousness is by continually allowing new truths—which are really old truths—to manifest. To trust them and not obstruct them. This is how we add more wisdom, greater freedom and deeper abundance to our lives.

If we don’t do this, we can’t grow.

Growth requires movement. And movement always joins what is eternal with what is new.

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Learn more in: Keeping traditions alive: Why change is essential

Whether we are dealing with money, time, faith or relationships, the same spiritual law applies: abundance grows when we stop living from inner poverty and begin participating in life’s movement of giving and receiving.

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