West Los Angeles, CA 8/16/03
Guest: Abraham, what I’m really drawn to about the teaching here is pragmatic. It’s very practical. It’s something I can use every day and uh, I’ve enjoyed it - knowing that I’m happiest when I’m in love, when I’m in joy, when I’m appreciating.
Abraham: Earlier you talked about how you had been on a spiritual path. And we wanted to tease with you just a little bit and say - you really can’t get off that path. (laughter) In other words, there is nothing more spiritual than the full blossoming of spirit into manifested physical human form. In other words, here you are, the extension of source energy. It is spiritual. Just be. Yes.
Guest: On this path, I’ve chosen to be a teacher - a teacher of spiritual principles - helping people to transform their lives. And going through addictions myself - through alcoholism and drug addiction - I tend to attract those people into my life that also need help. What is the best way to help them generate that desire to get off the drugs? Because the drugs do make them feel good. They do make them feel happy and loved - with great consequences, of course. But addiction has been - ah - it’s a very tough situation.
Abraham: As you offer the word and the meaning of “spiritual principles”, we want to keep bringing it back around - in a playful way - to help you to understand that, while spiritual principles - it sounds good, and we understand what you’re getting at - we would be teaching individual guidance. In other words, we would try to help anyone understand that they have within them an emotional center that is guidance that lets them know their connection with source. Because, when you try to guide from ‘principles’ rather than put someone in touch with their own guidance, now you are less likely to help them do what is best for them.
It’s an interesting thing - how many systems of ‘spiritual principles’ exist and how in contradiction they are, so many of them one with another. And so, people have a very hard time guiding themselves from the outside. We understand - it is all very well meaning what you are offering and there are a lot of people offering a lot of ‘spiritual principles’. But we would say there is one principle that we would like you to understand. When you feel good - and we will qualify that for you here and we would for them too - when you feel good you are in alignment with the energy that is you. And when you don’t feel so good, you are not.