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Hi:
I was debating whether to post/ask this in Linda M's forum or Cheri's, and chose to put it here so I don't take your threads south on you. lol.
In 1960, Maxwell Maltz published Psychocybernetics. (An excellent book) Maltz refers to the vibrations of a tuning fork and how a piano across the room responds in the same pitch. He uses this analogy to explain that we are all energy, and we "get" what we "are" and to change what we get, we must change what we are.
Today, that same theory is being talked about by more and more people.
--> The movie "What the Bleep Do We Know?" expounds on this and illustrates it with the story in the movie.
--> It's the basis of "The Law of Attraction"
--> It's the basis of the Teachings of Abraham.
I read about the Teachings of Abraham at a couple of other forums. Of course, I went to look. (lol) I found this snippet;
You Did Not Come to Fix a Broken World
...you did not come forth to try to get others to stop doing what they are doing and do something else. You came forth understanding the value in the contrast, and the balance in the variety.
Do Not Put Those Unwanted Ingredients in Your Pie
Imagine yourself as a chef in an extremely well-stocked kitchen that contains every imaginable ingredient... (snipped)....Some of the ingredients in this well-stocked kitchen are harmonious with your creation, and some of them are not. But even though adding some of these ingredients to your creation would absolutely ruin your pie, you do not feel the need to push against those ingredients, or to ban them from the kitchen, because you understand that there is no reason for them to end up in your pie unless you put them in it.
When I read those parts, something inside me was absolutely and horribly appalled. All I could think is this...
... It's a good thing Mother Theresa didn't think that way when she saw children starving to death.
... It's a good thing Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King didn't think that when they saw how whites treated blacks.
... It's a good think Ghandi didn't think that when he saw people denied basic civil liberties.
... (I could go on, but you get the idea)
I'm glad that they DID mix those ingredients into their pie. I am glad they DID think they were here to fix a broken world.
I find this confusing, because - you see - I DO believe in the theory of the tuning fork. I have never yet seen anyone that gripes and complains and whines and moans and feels sorry for themselves succeed at much of anything.
But, at the same time, there is also the saying that all that's needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
And, there's also the thought that if I turn my eyes from that which is wrong because "I'm not here to fix a broken world" and all I focus on it what *I* want, doesn't that just SMACK of greed and selfishness? And, if it does, then am I really emanating anything TRULY positive?
Now, one could say that those people (Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King, Ghandi, etc) worked for good. That's true. They did. But to work towards good, they had to look at and focus on what was bad. They had to strive to change how other people behave. And isn't that focusing on negative to achieve positive?
So, how does that fit in with the whole "don't focus on negative" and "you're not here to change anyone" theories??
I'm not asking this to be a pain in the posterior. I'm asking because I'd truly like to know what others think. lol
So...? What do you think?
: )
Linda
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