(This was originally posted on the Universe of Power’s Discussion forum, in response to a member’s two part question: what about the overwhelming input we get from everything around us that getting what you want out of life is always hard, time-consuming and a struggle; and, why do any of us deserve to have happiness or prosperity when so many in the world are suffering from poverty, illness or war.)

It’s certainly true that we were raised and are now surrounded by messages about how hard everything is. I think this is based on the idea of an intact external reality moving along outside us like clockwork, a reality that doesn’t need us to exist, barely notices our existance and has no urge or tendency to provide us with what we need. That seems to be the “science” of the world view we’ve been living under. On the other hand there’s the traditional Christian view that most of us are exposed to in the western world (whether we are Christian or not our culture and social ideas are based on Christian beliefs) which says that there is a judgemental God, again external to us, who is intact, pre-existing and complete without us; a God we have to somehow please or cajole into providing something for us.

With this as our surroundings it’s no wonder everything seems so hard. How can our single psyche and our frail body make an impact on a huge pre-existant universe that has it’s reality so intact and complete that we are just a blip in the dark? Read the rest of this entry »

Alignment is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Several books and seminars have brought up the topic and it started me thinking. It’s almost like when we incarnate, our spirit imprints a particular shape on the universe, which is our shape. Like a cookie cutter image. If we live “lined up” with this shape then the universal energy stream can flow through that cutout to us unimpeded, and through us to our projects and creations.

It’s like a person-shaped window in a solid wall, that the sun can shine through. If we stand in front of it, the sun can warm every part of us and we’ll feel great. If we are not in alignment, however– either don’t feel we deserve to stand fully in the sun, or allow others to pull us away from the window, or think that it’s not the right thing to just stand there– then we may have to go through all kinds of contortions and try to invent devices that will get the sun to reflect over to where we are.

Abraham talks about this as the “stream” and that we are in a canoe either going with the flow of the current, or fighting our way upstream, or so crosswise of the stream that we get flung against the boulders. Our training says that the hard way is the most rewarding and meritable, that it’s “too easy” to just let go the oars and go with the flow.

Whatever analogy we use, it seems to say that being in alignment is easy. It’s the path of least resistance in a positive sense. It may not be easy to find that place, we are so programmed against it that it can be right under our noses and we don’t even see it. But once we do find it I think the promise of a creative satisfying life is limitless.