DE tekst voor degenen onder ons die overvloed willen aantrekken, wat een waarheid! Claim 'm, die rijkdom, zegt Alan Cohen:
I received a letter from Malaysia informing me that the deceased King
of Iran wants me to inherit
his royal fortune. All I need to do to
claim it is send money to an anonymous post office box in England to pay
the lawyers who will release the funds to those who have faith in the
windfall.
You, too, have probably received one of the many scams announcing
that some wealthy, famous, royal, or spiritual person has stashed away a
fortune, now available to an elite group. Your faith will be rewarded
when you send cash.Why are such ruses so common and why do people fall for them? There is a shred of truth in every lie. Something inside us knows that there is a realm of vast wealth waiting for us to claim it. We recognize that the world we walk daily is definitely not the kingdom of heaven and we long to return to the domain of which we retain a faint but glorious memory. The idea that we are heir to a great estate vibrates at a cellular level. So when the email or letter arrives informing us that our hidden estate is now available, we perk up. In a way, it’s true. We are heirs to a great kingdom. Not the one the scammers are selling us. The one the lives inside of us.
Romantic love stories also embody a spark of truth. We all want to fall in love, be in love, and stay in love. Rightfully so! Love is our natural state. Yet most of us have drifted so far from that experience that we feel like the ashen-cheeked Cinderella scrubbing floors under the whip of wicked stepsisters. In the midst of our toil we hope and pray that a dashing Prince or Princess Charming will scoop us up on a white horse, sweep us from our misery, and restore us to the castle where we belong. There we will be pampered with soft beds, harp music, and servants feeding us grapes. A childish flight of imagination? On one level, for sure.
Yet on a deeper level fairy tales remind us of who we are and what we deserve. The tricky part is how to get there. If you are depending on winning the lottery to pay off your credit card bills or for Mr. or Ms. Right to liberate you from your boredom, you might have a long wait. The key question is: Do love, healing, wealth, and salvation come from outside you, or do they proceed from within you? Do positive circumstances make you happy, or do they reflect a sense of well-being you cultivate? Do you need the King of Iran to bequeath you his fortune, or can you generate it with your own creativity, passion, and service?
Passionate living attracts wealth because it is wealth. Your spirit is a far more dependable currency than the papers that pass through your wallet. If you dwell in a pauper mentality, you will create pauper experiences. Claim your royal identity, and the universe will affirm your riches.
Many people consult angel cards, shop at angel paraphernalia stores, and become certified angel practitioners. This is a very positive phenomenon. Yet dependence on angels is exceeded only by being an angel. God will not save the world through winged haloed entities descending from the clouds. Been there, done that. God will save the world through people like you and me. Human beings who get impatient with their kids, flip the bird at bad drivers, and occasionally bounce checks. Welcome to Planet Earth. Yet simultaneously we embrace and embody divinity—the capacity to be God in life. If you would like to meet an angel, look in the mirror. To summon angels is one thing. To be an angel is another. The latter will get you and the world far more mileage. The earth is not a place where angels thrive. It is a training ground to become one.
As the song goes, “Fairy tales can come true. It can happen to you.” Don’t wait for your fairy tale to come true. For the best fairy tale formula, follow the command of Captain Jean Luc Picard, chief officer in one of our most popular contemporary fairy tales, Star Trek. Daily Captain Picard told his crew, “Make it so.”
