Do you like taking thought beyond that which it has been before? Do you want to set aside everything that you have come to know and believe, all at once and just jump into a whole new understanding? Well, if that is your desire, you are really going about it the hard way. And it also implies that what you have is not working when it is.

The way you evolve is from where you now are standing on your current platform and a large part of your current platform equals a large part of your current vibration – that’s what your belief system is. But you don’t need to uproot your entire belief system in order to evolve. There is much that you believe that is serving you extremely well.

Someone handed Jerry and Esther a copy of a book that they had found in a bookstore that was written in the 1930s. And the reason they were so eager to give the book to Jerry and Esther is because it mentioned the “Law of Attraction.” And as Jerry perused the book, much of what he is hearing today from Abraham was written in this book. And then as he read closer, he saw that the author gave credit for her inspiration to Ernest Holmes (who in turn gave credit to Thomas Troward for much of his inspiration). And Jerry has long seen a vibrational sameness between what they were receiving and what Esther is receiving, (from Abraham) even though there are many years difference.

The author, a woman, was talking about “what an extraordinarily fast-moving environment we are all living in, in this modern day” and how hard it is to keep up. And Esther nearly drove off the road in the monster bus as Jerry was reading this to her, because she had been working to get her satellite dishes to work and working to get the communication between the office to work and had been talking, just hours before, about this “bleeding edge” that they are living on, in terms of technology and almost longing for a simpler time.

She said, “My parents still have the television we had when we grew up. They still have the same telephone, the same 10-key adding machine, the same electric typewriter... And while they do have a computer, they still have the same can opener, the same Mixmaster all of these old, reliable machines that mother still knows how to use that were built to last and did. And Esther was longing for the good old days, just a little bit.

Jerry was reading from a woman’s perspective, who was, at that time, on the leading edge (because the now always is the leading edge, isn’t it?) who was, in her day, struggling to keep up with what was new. And what we want to say is that, the vibrational basis that you are now standing in is the basis for the majority of your vibrational offering and your vibrational offering is your point of attraction.

And so, there are some powerful points to be made of Jerry and Esther’s new awareness of how fast the leading edge of the 1930s felt to those who had just stepped from 1929 into 1930 just as sometimes your leading edge place feels almost faster than you are ready for... Whether it was then or whether it is now or whether it will be tomorrow, your work is always the same: Your individual work is to keep yourself, in vibrational alignment with your own desires. It’s not to keep up with what everybody is thinking about. It’s not to understand what everybody understands.

It’s not to mesh your desires or your beliefs with everyone else’s. Your work (and the work of this woman who was living in 1930) is always to bring the vibration of your thought, in this moment, as close as you can, in this moment, into vibrational alignment with the desire that you hold in this moment. As Esther listened to Jerry read this woman’s brief account of what it was like then, it was interesting to realize that almost everyone who is standing in their leading edge place has this sense of urgency about getting it to the point of completion; getting it figured out, getting it solved. And there was something so interesting to Esther as she was listening to this woman speaking about solving it all way back when. And Esther couldn’t help but notice that between 1930 and today it didn’t get solved and it didn’t get finished; it didn’t get completed and all of that striving seemed ill-placed.

It is ill-placed if you’re trying to get things fixed, if you’re trying to figure it all out, if you’re trying to get to the place that you think you were sent here by God to conclude. But when you get it, that whether you are focused in 1930 or 1940 or whether you’re focused right here, today, your work is about being, observing, vibrating, concluding new preference, aligning with preference – and the world just goes around and around and around – for what? For what?

Were those in the 1930s sent here to make it some way so that by some deadline it will be some way? There are so many who want you to believe that “We’ve got to get ready! Gotta get ready!” For what? For eternity? For more opportunity to be? What is it for? What is any of it for? What has any of it ever been for? What will any of it ever be for?

What it is for, is for your creative pleasure in your now. It is for your opportunity to conclude what you would prefer and for your opportunity to align that preference with the Source that is You. And when you use the Guidance that comes from within you to help you know whether you’re in sync with the desires that you have set forth or whether you are not – then you’re in alignment. Then, you’re in alignment with your now. Then, you’re in alignment with your Source. Then, you’re in alignment with All-That-Is. Then, you are living that which you came forth to live.

Abraham – “a group of non-physical beings” – speak and teach through the physical apparatus of Esther Hicks. Esther and her mate, Jerry, present Abraham’s teachings worldwide, through seminars, books and video and audio recordings. They may be reached at (830) 755-2299, at P.O. Box 690070, San Antonio, TX 78269 or at www.abraham-hicks.com.