Ask And It Is Given: Learning To Manifest Your Desires

Abraham introduces themselves as a collective consciousness, a term that functions in different ways throughout the book. In the case of Abraham, the term appears to describe a group of discrete energetic beings who have been brought together by their mutual intention to help humans achieve a higher level of universal understanding. In other areas, the term is used to refer to a general cloud of omnipresent consciousnesses, with each individual being acting as a physical manifestation of the collective.

The text employs this phrase to refer to the emotion that an individual is feeling most frequently in connection to a specific desire or situation. When carrying out the processes designed to move up the Emotional Guidance Scale, people are advised to identify their current emotional set-point on that scale and use it to choose the practical process that would be most effective in that particular moment.

This term is related to the Law of Attraction and can be viewed as the law that guides human’s interactions with the Law of Attraction. The Law of Deliberate Creation posits that all things in the universe are created by interactions between matching energies, and that people can manipulate these interactions intentionally to achieve their desires.

In the book, Life Force is a term that refers to the human form of universal consciousness. In the authors’ view, a person’s Life Force is the specific segment of consciousness that has inhabited their body and has allowed them to become an individual being.

This term is a neologism that Esther/Abraham creates in an attempt to describe a concept for which there is no English word. Overwhelment is located near the middle of the Emotional Guidance Scale and is described as the feeling of focusing simultaneously on one’s desire and one’s inability to achieve it. Abraham claims that this paradoxical dynamic is the most common form of resistance.