| This month of March holds the date for the most | | | | But the original text (as reported by author Neil |
| well-attended Sunday service of the year for Christian | | | | Douglas-Klotz in "Prayers of the Cosmos: Meditations |
| churches. Whereas many Christian leaders now refer | | | | on the Aramaic Words of Jesus") goes more like: "All |
| to Easter as Resurrection Day (partly due to | | | | things that you ask straightly, directly.. from inside my |
| commercialization of the holiday), this day is a useful | | | | name, you will be given. So far you have not done this. |
| time to review the message of creation that many | | | | Ask without hidden motive and be surrounded by your |
| believe Jesus delivered. | | | | answer. Be enveloped by what you desire, that your |
| Regardless of one's spiritual or religious background, | | | | gladness be full." |
| there is much to be gleaned from this spiritual teacher | | | | This teaching could easily be interpreted to mean that |
| about our ability to transform the nature of our world. | | | | what really matters is how we feel. (Which can |
| Some experts say Jesus was actually not just a | | | | actually be taken literally: our feelings become matter.) |
| miracle worker himself, but that he actually intended to | | | | As Braden teaches, "We must first have the feeling of |
| teach us how to create our own miracles as well. | | | | our prayers answered in our hearts before they |
| Here All Along | | | | become the reality of our lives." |
| Although "The Secret" movie and ensuing best-selling | | | | Loaves & Fishes |
| book billed the Law of Attraction as a "secret" that | | | | Author Todd Michael believes that a well-known |
| was withheld from the masses over time, ancient | | | | section of the gospel of Matthew contains the |
| records indicate otherwise. The Emerald Tablet, dated | | | | technique of creating miracles, as laid out in twelve |
| approximately 3000 B.C., is purportedly the first written | | | | steps. His book, "The Twelve Conditions of a Miracle" |
| text divulging the "secret" of deliberate creation. | | | | postulates that the story of the loaves and fishes, |
| Fast forward to the time of Jesus and thanks to new | | | | when translated from the original Greek, reveals the |
| insights into old translations of ancient manuscripts, as | | | | steps Jesus showed us to create our own miracles. |
| well as recovered biblical books, we learn that his | | | | Michaels argues that the Miracle of the Loaves and |
| teachings were very much in line with what current | | | | Fishes (Matthew 14:13-23) is unique not just because |
| science reveals about the nature of the Universe. | | | | this is the only miracle included in all four gospels, but |
| In the Essene Gospel of Peace, Book 2, for example, | | | | also because Jesus performed this miracle twice. |
| an unnamed scribe reports that Jesus says the power | | | | Michaels says: "It's as if Jesus were saying, 'Watch |
| to change our world lives within us. This is in line with | | | | carefully and make no mistake. I will show this carefully |
| Law of Attraction teachings that our power lies in our | | | | for all to see, and repeat it - so that you will see how |
| vibrations, since we get what we feel. By changing | | | | to do this for yourselves.'" |
| what we feel, we change what we get. The power | | | | The twelve steps the author believes Jesus laid out |
| lies within, not through our power to make something | | | | for us are an instruction manual for full-fledged miracle |
| happen in the physical world, but by learning to manage | | | | creation. By revisiting the original Greek text and |
| the energy that we flow from our hearts and souls. | | | | choosing slightly different meanings for complex |
| In another example, early translations of the book of | | | | words, Michaels translates Jesus' actions into a clear |
| John say we should ask without hidden motive and be | | | | process for deliberate creation. The process includes: |
| surrounded by our answer. Author Gregg Braden, in | | | | Alignment, Asking, Visualizing, Gratitude, Acting as if, |
| the "Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer," interprets | | | | and Receiving. These steps are also central to the |
| that to mean "for our prayers to be answered, we | | | | practice of deliberate creation. |
| must transcend the doubt that often accompanies the | | | | Good Company |
| positive nature of our desire." The Nag Hammadi | | | | Many other spiritual teachers also share and embody |
| Library records a lesson from Jesus teaching that | | | | the principles of creating reality. Tibetan abbots who |
| transcending that doubt allows us to "move mountains." | | | | have passed down their wisdom in high mountain |
| The "be surrounded by our answer" instruction is in | | | | monasteries for eons teach that feeling is the crucial |
| consistent the Law of Attraction wisdom to activate | | | | ingredient in their prayers. The Egyptian sage Hermes |
| the vibration of what we want by acting as if; by | | | | Trismegistus taught us "As above, so below" - that our |
| immersing ourselves in the feeling of our manifested | | | | world is a reflection of who we are. The ancient |
| desire. Knowing our thoughts manifest, releasing doubt | | | | Babylonians practiced these principles as well. You can |
| is crucial to manifest what we want. That's what | | | | find this information in the writings and stories of |
| allows us to move mountains, whether literal or | | | | Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. |
| figurative. | | | | This information is far from new. What we do with |
| Another schooling from Jesus is revealed in the original | | | | these instructions is up to us. Although teachers can |
| text of the "ask and you shall receive" passage. The | | | | show us the way, and we can read book after book |
| modern and condensed version from the King James | | | | listening to expert after expert, it's meaningless if we |
| Bible says: "Whatsoever ye ask the Father in my | | | | don't implement what we learn. |
| name, he will give it to you. Hitherto have ye asked | | | | May this Easter awaken within you new inspiration to |
| nothing in my name: Ask and ye shall receive, that your | | | | live the life you are called to. Namaste. |
| joy may be full." | | | | |