Stephen’s Comments (group member since Mar 14, 2012)

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Here is a success (well two, actually) story that was sent to me, obviously name of the person concerned has been changed.

I wish to share with you a couple of little successes I've had with my Cosmic Orders lately. The first was at the end of January when I received my gas bill. My heart sank when I opened it. (This is because I went down to half pay as I was off work for over six months due to being unwell. I am still trying to play catch up regards to finances).

When I saw how much the gas bill was I said out loud, "Send me the money to pay for this please!". Three days later I received a letter regarding my Equitable Life pension scheme, informing me that I would be receiving a payment in the post compensating me for losses I incurred with the pension. The amount of money that I would receive was just a few pence short of the cost of my gas bill!!!! A few days after that I received the payment and paid my bill.

The second Cosmic Order was along the same lines. This is a bit long winded so please hang in there: I received my telephone bill early February. Again my stomach churned and then I said again, "Send me the money to pay this please!". Now for the last four months I have been receiving "bully boy" type letters from XX Loans because I fell behind with payments because I went down to half payments.

I phoned and explained the reason why this had happened and that I will pay the arrears but that at the moment I couldn't afford to pay off the whole lot. Even after I had several long conversations with them they still continued to send me threatening letters. I then found out that I had PPI (Payment Protection Insurance) on my loan, which I was mis-sold! I then phoned them and complained asking them why, when they knew my situation, that at no time did they tell me I had PPI, because then I wouldn't have the arrears as I would have claimed the PPI and paid the arrears. They tried to come up with all sorts of excuses as to why they didn't advise me of the PPI. I informed them that this situation has caused me great anxiety and worry and I was pretty disgusted with them for not advising me as this would have been a huge weight off my mind if I'd have known. At the end of the conversation the lady said, "Miss Benton, please can you confirm your address so I know where to send the payment to?."

So I asked what the payment to me was for, to which she advised me that it was for the worry that I had been caused!!! My telephone bill was the exact same amount as their goodwill payment!

Again the Cosmos had delivered.

Nice comment, Daniela.

Here is my convoluted response:

In Proverbs 11:24, we are told: “One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.”

It is not so much the giving, or in the above passage, the withholding. It is the attitude we hold as we do whatever it is we so choose.

If we ask, we should also be prepared to give. Some people say that they have nothing whatsoever to give, but we all have something to give. Whether we give it with an open heart is another matter entirely, however.

In Matthew 21:22 it says: “And all things, whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.”

There is one difference between Cosmic Ordering and prayer, however, in that subscription to a specific religion, if at all, is not required. There are no holy days to celebrate, no services to attend, no dues that must be met, no tithes to be paid, and no authority to recognize, save those of the land.

If you have ever prayed for something and received what you wanted, you engaged in Cosmic Ordering.

Daniela, you are right. It is important to live in the present moment. At times it may not be easy to let go of the past or to not worry about its effect on your future. Life is ever-changing.

Trust the Cosmos. Use its strength to create your destiny.

Daniela, yes it's a popular story but never fails to hit the mark, rather like all those Zen stories floating about.

For anyone with an interest in chakras then they will know the power of the heart chakra. When enough people’s primary attention becomes focused through their heart chakras then the "hundredth monkey effect" will occur and will spread throughout us.

The hundredth monkey scenario shows that we all resonate as one, on the same frequency of consciousness. Have you noticed that people who are not in physical contact with one another can come up with new and similar ideas and thoughts at the same time? Can you recall having a light bulb idea, then seen other people express or use that idea? Of course you thought to yourself that it was your idea and you thought of it first! Yes? Well, that’s how the global mind works. It’s an environment that you share with all other sentient beings, but you tune in especially to the particular topics and frequencies of mind that interest you the most.

Does forgiving mean that you befriend your enemy? Is the only safe and sure way to destroy an enemy is to make him or her your friend?

There will be those you harmed who will not forgive you. In this case how do you seek forgiveness?

You you subscribe to these quotes:

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Love, Wealth and Success
A woman came out of her house and saw three old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them. She said, “I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat.”

"Is the man of the house home?" they asked. "No", she said. "He's out."

"Then we cannot come in", they replied.

In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened. "Go tell them I am home and invite them in," he said.

The woman went out and invited the men in. "We do not go into a house together," they replied. "Why is that?" she wanted to know. One of the old men explained: "His name is Wealth," he said pointing to one of his friends, and said pointing to another one, "He is Success, and I am Love." Then he added, "Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home."

The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was overjoyed. "How nice!" he said. "Since that is the case, let us invite Wealth. Let him come and fill our home with wealth!"

His wife disagreed. "My dear, why don't we invite Success?" Their daughter-in-law was listening from the other corner of the house. She jumped in with her own suggestion: "Would it not be better to invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love!"

"Let us heed our daughter-in-law's advice," said the husband to his wife. "Go out and invite Love to be our guest."

The woman went out and asked the three old men, "Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our guest." Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other two also got up and followed him.

Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success: "I only invited Love, why are you coming in?"

The old men replied together: "If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would've stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever He goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!"

Daniela - thank you for your response re "karma. In fact the word karma simply means "action". So there is "good" action and then there is "bad" action, simple as that. The only one who is credited with cancelling out bad karma is the person claimed to be Jesus of Nazareth, anyone else claiming this must, too, be the "son" of the Christian god.

We only learn from our mistakes, by this I don't mean academically. I mean about life. Anyone who has never made a mistake will always expect things to go smoothly, and then when they hit a brick wall then they do not know what to do.

The greatest people known to us have made many mistakes to get to the heights of where they are now. For anyone to claim they can press a "reset" button and clear away the baggage of our past is making a claim that I would like to see. I can reset anyone's past by taking them into an hypnotic trance, but this is just putting a veneer over of, coating it with candy to hide the bitterness of life.

When we look at an old tree we can see where it has come through the ages, there are knots where branches have snapped, worn bark and roots coming through the ground, yet we adore such trees and it is the same of people. They come through life battle scarred, a little worn but nevertheless we adore them because of it, not in spite of it.

Well put and an apt reminder, Daniela, that what we make we can't take! For all of our toiling and struggling and striving to achieve, all of that is valueless against what is in our inner being.

Great point, Daniela,

At times, though, we need something more physical than love, we need to make a connection on a higher plane. At times we nned hat is called a "comfort object", which could be that old t-shirt we can’t bear to part with, even though it’s full of holes and faded and two sizes too small for us. Maybe it could be a baseball cap from our childhood years, that dress you wore to the prom, those old hipster jeans or old, smelly baseball boots.

Sometimes a physical connection is more important than love, but that is not to say that we should undervalue the importance of love.

My own take on this subject is that we shouldn't be afraid of seeking our own pleasures. Cosmic Ordering/mind power is a very self-centered thing.

Remember, Cosmic Ordering is about getting what YOU want. It is not all about giving, as you cannot give until you get.

In my humble opinion there is nothing wrong in wanting the better things out of life, as we may not be around to enjoy it if mankind keeps depleting as they are.

But what is your take on this subject, is it alright to indulge in a bit of what you like withourt feeling guilty?

Quite a profound experience for Barbara and some great in-depth resonance from Daniela.

There are millions of people saying prayers every day, and expecting an answer! Many seek divine intervention at the most dire of times in their lives.

My own belief is for religious prayer to work you have to be thankful for what you already have. With Cosmic Ordering, though, this is not the case ... you only have to be thankful for what is manifested.

That is not to say that gratitude for that you already have should not be expressed. Cosmic Ordering is a way for you to manifest your desires without having to pay a penance or to make some sort of personal sacrifice.

I am religionless, I am an eclectic, universal gypsy. I do not dwell on religious concepts too much as I feel some religions are oppressive. I do not practice any religion, but for me every day is as if it is a Christian Christmas, a Jewish Hanukkah and any other religous festival of the other faiths.

Have you any friends that pull you down and shoot your dreams down at the first chance they get?

Get good support; don't cast your pearls before swine. Really good friends empower you in securing your dreams - they don't have a hidden agenda to keep you where you are, to suit their own inadequacies.

Should you 'lose' people, and withhold information from family members who are unsupportive?

What do you think of this story:

TWO FRIENDS WERE WALKING THROUGH THE DESERT.
DURING SOME POINT OF THE JOURNEY THEY HAD AN ARGUMENT AND ONE FRIEND SLAPPED THE OTHER ONE IN THE FACE.
THE ONE WHO GOT SLAPPED
WAS HURT, BUT WITHOUT
SAYING ANYTHING,
WROTE IN THE SAND:
TODAY, MY BEST FRIEND
SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.

THEY KEPT ON WALKING,
UNTIL THEY FOUND AN OASIS,
WHERE THEY DECIDED
TO TAKE A BATH

THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN
SLAPPED GOT STUCK IN THE
MIRE AND STARTED DROWNING,
BUT THE FRIEND SAVED HIM.

AFTER HE RECOVERED FROM
THE NEAR DROWNING,
HE WROTE ON A STONE:

TODAY, MY BEST FRIEND
SAVED MY LIFE.

THE FRIEND WHO HAD SLAPPED
AND SAVED HIS BEST FRIEND
ASKED HIM, "AFTER I HURT YOU,
YOU WROTE IN THE SAND AND NOW,
YOU WRITE ON A STONE, WHY?"

THE OTHER FRIEND REPLIED
"WHEN SOMEONE HURTS US
WE SHOULD WRITE IT DOWN
IN SAND WHERE WINDS OF
FORGIVENESS CAN ERASE IT AWAY.
BUT, WHEN SOMEONE DOES
SOMETHING GOOD FOR US,
WE MUST ENGRAVE IT IN STONE
WHERE NO WIND
CAN EVER ERASE IT."

LEARN TO WRITE
YOUR HURTS IN
THE SAND AND TO
CARVE YOUR
BENEFITS IN STONE.

THEY SAY
IT TAKES A MINUTE TO FIND A SPECIAL PERSON,
AN HOUR TO APPRECIATE THEM,
A DAY TO LOVE THEM,
BUT THEN AN ENTIRE LIFE TO FORGET THEM.

What is your take on visualization?

Mine is:

Visualization is a set of words or thoughts (mental imagery) spoken out aloud or said in the head that exert a magical effect on a situation that the person saying them seeks to change or make happen. This might be for things like improving self-esteem, bad habits, etc. You imagine yourself doing something and then go and do it, simple as that.

There is nothing wrong with having a desire to escape the poverty trap or the burden of life as it is today. There is no limit to what you can achieve. There are no religious or moral restrictions placed upon you, no one to judge how much of a ‘fat cat’ you want to be. This is a very personal and very self-centred discipline, and yet it is something you can gain so many new friends from.

However, in this day and age where wealth seems to be a dirty word is it best, then, to keep your wealth desires under wrapsor is it right that you should shout from the rooftops that you want to be filthy rich and rolling in money?

Lovely piece, Barbara. Actually you are right, a lot of the religious ceremony revolves around the masculine genre when it comes to the prayers, etc.

This is how the construct of religion works, you have to follow rules and conform. This is the same if you are politically motivated. You have to work to the confines of restrictions, rigid belief is confinement.

You see, some people would have you believe that Cosmic Ordering is a religion…it is not! You do not have to have spiritual feelings in any particular way, not even remotely! You are not asked to do anything against your will, and to coerce anyone to do anything is quite wrong.

Cosmic Ordering is a way for you to manifest your desires without having to pay a penance or to make some sort of personal sacrifice. Prayer may in fact curb your desire, whereas Cosmic Ordering demands that you expand on your desires and invites you to make them happen. I have lost count of the times I used to pray for those close to me with illness to make a recovery or for those dying to cling to life a little longer … all to no avail. Then I found Cosmic Ordering, my Orders to the Universe were all met.

But these are my experiences, anoyone else wishing to add to this are welcome to do so.

We have to look at how some churches are offering HIV healing and are claiming to cure HIV and the deaths resulting from this in order to understand the difference between Cosmic Ordering and religion. HIV healing has sprung up in some churches around the world, and particularly in the UK cities of London, Manchester, Glasgow and Birmingham. At least six people have died in Britain, having been instructed by pastors to stop taking their HIV medication, yet the churches are still able to continue doing this. Imagine if half a dozen people died as a result of a Cosmic Ordering practitioner telling someone with HIV that they could stop taking their treatment! Lisa Power, policy director of the Terrence Higgins Trust, said: “There is no Ofcom for religion. People can claim what they like and it’s up to you whether to believe them. Believing anything else will lead to misery and an early, unpleasant death.”

Well in direct contrast to this I have set up a regulatory body for Cosmic Ordering practitioners (www.aocop.com). In order for a practitioner to be recognized by AoCop (Association of Cosmic Ordering Practitioners) they have to undergo a rigorous series of tests, or possess relevant qualifications, before being endorsed as a practitioner. To date there are only two Master Trainer Cosmic Ordering Practitioners in the world.

I feel that the person named Jesus (that has been taken out of context by the Bible) was one of the greatest Cosmic Orderers of all time. Yes, I believe he existed, but not along the lines he is portrayed as. Of course there are arguements on boths sides, but I do not side with anyone in this, as this is my own theory. What is yours?