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Linda,
I see that you found an answer, but you must know that there are those among us who are compelled to give their opinions anyway, lol.
First I want to give a disclaimer. I only recently found the teachings of Abraham, though I read Psychocybernetics long ago. So I'm not an authority at all. For that you need Linda Miller who has been a student of the Law of Attraction far longer than I have.
I do want to set down my thoughts, too, though, because my mind turns to those questions every time I read in Abraham-Hicks's writings. I'm beginning to get a glimmer of understanding, but I still can't reconcile it with the babies, for example.
The key according to Abraham is to understand that we are not finite beings, beginning with birth and ending with death. We are eternal conscious beings who have chosen to enter the physical plane, knowing that we can't be separated from Source. We do so for the joy of experiencing physicality and for the satisfaction of creating an expanding Universe through our choices.
Now, Abraham also says many of us have become so distracted by the physical manifestations around us that we have forgotten what we knew as we came into the physical. We have forgotten that we know how to create circumstances that are pleasing to us. But having forgotten we don't stop creating...we are simply creating unconsciously. Therefore, we often create negative circumstances because we are giving attention to a lack of what we desire, rather than to the desire itself.
As far as the people you mention, what if they did the things they did because it felt good? What if Mother Teresa saw a starving child and thought, 'It would give me pleasure to feed this child."? If I'm right about the Law of Attraction, that thought would attract more of the same until what she created was what it was.
As I said, I'm a new student. I don't know how to answer all of the questions, but I do know that as I have practiced the processes, or games, my circumstances have changed, and continue to change for the better--that is, are more pleasing to me. I've learned that I can choose my attitude. I can direct my thoughts toward something that feels good rather than focus on something that feels bad.
What feels good (in the sense of the emotions it evokes) to me might be completely different than what feels good to you. No one can create someone else's reality. You can only create your own. Refer back to unconscious creation.
That's as far as I can take it. I'm thinking about what causes wide-spread negatives, like war, and can only assume that there are a lot of people who are attracting the same vibration.
I've seen reference to an experiment in Washington D.C. where a number of people came together to deliberately think thoughts of peace and love. At the same time there was a corresponding drop in the crime rate.
The interesting thing is that apparently you can't exclude a negative. Focusing on it includes it. But you can attract the positive in such abundance that the negative is excluded by that abundance. Kind of like chasing away the darkness by turning on a light. You can't shoo the darkness out of the room, but it disappears when you turn on the light.
I find it to be an interesting way of thinking of things. Abraham says that a thought practised many times becomes a belief. I guess that's what's happened to me. That I seem to be a happier person now is an added bonus.
Cheri
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