The Abraham-Hicks Scam

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Stephens, Bill
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From the earliest days when I studied the Abraham-Hicks phenomenon, I was aware of a sort of awkward overcompensation from the operation regarding Jerry Hicks status. Even though Esther Hicks is the only one of the two that channels Abraham, the histories always started with Jerry's background, his inquisitive nature and, tellingly, his claim to financial success before meeting Esther. The story credited Jerry as being the "questioner of all time" who lured Abraham onto Esther's head.

Here is a bit of what their official website says about Jerry: "...by the time he met Esther, Jerry had built a multi-million-dollar business operation engaging over 100,000 people. His success springboarded almost entirely from a chance reading of Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich. Jerry confides, "I was never much interested in money. I was more interested in having a wonderful life . . . and being free." There is no mention of what that "business operation" was or what those "100,000" people were engaged in.

More tellingly for me was the point made, in explaining how Abraham first took verbal hold of Esther, that the couple were driving around in Jerry's Cadillac. No mention of clothing, weather or other conversation, but his Caddy seemed important.

Their official website, seeming blissfully unaware of the humor, adds; "Jerry's life reads like a celebrity bio: circus performer, juggler, boxer, singer, gymnast, radio show host, comedian, millionaire entrepreneur. No mention of his work as a serial husband, which he was, married at least five times or, according to Jerry himself, so many times he lost count. And virtually none of the career claims, except Amway, comes with any documentation or anyone who remembers him.

In truth, Jerry's entrepreneur credentials come from work as a highly successful inspirational leader in the pyramid marketing operation, Amway, using techniques similar to those used with Esther in promoting Abraham. They obscure this as much as possible and normally limit live appearances to unquestioning head-nodders like Oprah Winfrey. Search Jerry on the web and you get either Esther or a history that leaves decades of gap material until he hooks up with Esther. If his "...life reads like a celebrity bio," how come you can't find it?

It's all wrapped into the Abraham Hicks scam.

As I have written before, I do not believe Esther Hicks could knowingly have faked channeling Abraham for decades. She and Jerry sincerely believe she is channeling Abraham, but they have always been conscious enough of the stigma to call it something else. The consistency of presentation, personality, philosophy and reliability argue against faking. What I do believe is that she is mistaking a mixture of intuition and extreme narcissism and that Jerry Hicks has always seen her abilities as a product with big time marketing possibilities.

Worth noting, too, that Esther consistently parrots Jerry Hicks worldview when doing Abraham. That is, virtually, Jerry Hicks is Abraham.

In my opinion, Abraham never announced that they would write a book with Esther by seizing control of her body. She wasn't dragged to the typewriter and forced to press keys. That was an early strategy of Jerry's to get some publishing sales to go with the seminars-also to sell at the seminars. Every book has been a digest, mainly done by Jerry, of genuine readings from Abraham Hicks workshops with his own labored spin. Eventually, someone invented such stunts as "the vortex" to avoid repeating the same simple truths and watching seminar attendance plummet.


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It started with the law of attraction, a theory many of us found easy to accept, having seen how attitude affects results. Then, the art of allowing made sense too. Learn to manage your emotional stream. After that, it's malarkey and elaboration. In my opinion.

Think about this. Meditation has been around forever. My cats do it. Guided meditations are not new. I bought Andrew Weil's beautiful set on CD over a decade ago and found them immensely helpful in some very tough times. The only argument for buying the Abraham-Hicks set is their claim that Abraham is somehow involved. Their pitch implies that they almost invented the concept and are not just jumping on an established sales stream.

On a personal level, I've learned a lot from listening to Esther's presentation of Abraham's teachings, even if they were all "borrowed" from another source. It can be exhilarating. My suggestion is that each of you who have gained insight from the experience send a message to the Abraham-Hicks operation in Texas and ask them to get back to trying to teach spiritual truths and put Jerry and Esther's Abraham Hicks scam back in the corner where it can eventually be forgotten.

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