Never-Ending Story of Esther and Jerry Hicks
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Jerry, Esther Hicks and Abraham: The Story
A scam built on run of the mill spirituality coupled with well-honed marketing skills is what their Abraham-Hicks operation has been described as--along with many things that are more positive. There's little doubt that some or most of what they do can be fairly described as a scam or a fraud, but it's also true that legions will come forward to say they've been helped.
(Photo: Jerry and Esther Hicks In The Beginning)
But really, who are Esther and Jerry Hicks? What the heck is Abraham really? A team of a hundred "nonphysical teachers" with an interest only in sharing their wisdom for the common good? How did Jerry, Esther and Abraham get here? More important in the moment, how has Jerry Hicks illness and death in November from cancer effected them? One sure bet is that Esther will cease her practice of offering the easy Abraham cures for any and all diseases. She might have to explain why Jerry never tried them.
(New: Jerry Hicks Bio, A Strangely Short Story)
Jerry and Esther Hicks have worked hard to obscure their personal histories as well as their present reality. Even so, the truth has a way of seeping through.
Contents at a Glance
Jerry and Esther Hicks
The Latest
Let's start at the end.
New: See Jerry Hicks Died, But Guess What? He's Back!
The photograph you see here is the most recent Jerry and Esther Hicks, through Abraham Hicks Publications, pushed out for publicity. While questions swirl around the couple concerning Jerry Hicks recent treatment for cancer, they struck a positive note.
Right now, Jerry and Esther Hicks have pulled back into an unprecedented and eerie silence. Workshops and cruises have been wiped off their calendar without explanation. Their heavily marketed Abraham LIVE series of webcasts was mothballed. As anyone who has followed the pair know, this is unprecedented.
What is not unprecedented is that Jerry and Esther Hicks have not made any effort to explain to the faithful and curious.
Earlier email blasts to followers contained upbeat messages about Jerry's condition, and they, too, were used to pivot for ticket sales. The marketing messages are relentless, and scarcely a word comes out of AHP without a pitch.
In this instance, they used a balloon trip with their family as a metaphor for the "Teachings of Abraham." While mentioning how cramped the gondola was, they made the turn to contrast how roomy the space available was for their next workshop. Then, they segued as they usually do to contact links and telephone numbers.
Interestingly, Jerry Hicks cancer has been eliminated.
Others have said the image was Photoshopped for effect. Whether that's accurate of not, the fact is that the picture is either deliberately obscure and lacking details or is the worst publicity photo ever taken.
"I must be aware of bad things, and guarded about bad things, and I must watch out for bad things by trying to guide myself toward good things." You can't do both at the same time. You can't watch out for bad things, and allow good things at the same time. It is vibrationally not possible.
--- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Los Angeles, CA on Saturday, March 10th, 2001 # 174
Jerry and Esther Hicks and the Image
What is clear about this picture (and the one that follows) is that, in spite Jerry Hicks' leukemia and "heavy chemotherapy," the couple are determined to maintain the illusion of a perfect life they've used as an example to collect followers and their money. The perfect life is as much a manipulated image as is the photo.
Jerry and Esther Hicks are just people, not better or worse than most of us. They found an angle that let them create a steady stream of revenue by posing Esther as a conduit for Abraham. Abraham, for the uninitiated, is said to be a collection of approximately one-hundred "nonphysical teachers" who Esther Hicks "brings in" by settling into a quick meditative state.
Once Abraham arrives, they feed Esther "blocks of thought," all nonverbal, which she interprets instantly when on stage or at typing speed while punching out a new inspirational, self-help book.
This presentation has worked for twenty-five years and has kept their following growing, in spite of criticism or fraud and accusations of being a cult. Support from popular public figures, like Oprah Winfrey and Wayne Dyer, is certainly one of the reasons.
Another is that both Jerry and Esther Hicks are publicly charismatic figures who exude sincerity and good intentions. Until the last year or so when there have been a series of mean-spirited incidents committed by Esther in the Abraham Hicks workshops, they have consistently preached an upbeat message that valued freedom, self-reliance and positive thinking.
There was always another side, but with a few exceptions, Jerry and Esther Hicks managed to avoid exposure.
New: Abraham Hicks Is Dead
Jerry and Esther Hicks and Extended Family
Up, Up and Away
This photograph, also done for publicity and attached to the latest sales pitch is weird. It's weird because it's intended, according to the text, to be a "one big happy family" picture with Jerry and Esther Hicks enjoying an outing with children and grandchildren.
The strangest part is that Jerry Hicks, assumedly the family patriarch is stuffed back in a corner, waving feebly, while everyone else smiles in the play of sun and shadow, including Esther, who has turned away from him, Crouched down low for unexplained reasons, Jerry looks for all the world like the family homunculus the kids were forced to bring along but can't stand to be near.
I don't know what the story is, and if Jerry and Esther Hicks sent a note explaining it, we probably still wouldn't know the truth. The point is that, it's effect is the opposite of what was intended. Since the average family photographer could easily have come up with something more positive, we're left with the impression that this is the best they could get, under the circumstances.
Since the early, slapdash email blasts they sent out, trying to mislead and reassure followers at the same time about Jerry's bout with cancer, Esther and Jerry Hicks have let others handle the writing. You compare the two, and it's obvious that a PR specialist is now writing them. So, why weren't the photos vetted better?
Why Hide?
I repeat. Jerry and Esther Hicks are just people. They've been lucky since first hooking up together, thirty years ago, even if there have been rough patches. They've become wealthy doing what they like doing: preaching their beliefs, using a a questionable vehicle, Abraham, a channeled entity, to get credibility by selling the teachings as those of deeply spiritual beings with direction connections to "Source" (God to you and me).
That's crafty, and the tactic was learned from detailed readings of Jane Roberts' Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul
In reality, nothing Jerry and Esther Hicks have come up with is new or especially enlightening. it's the presentation that's so effective. As the skeptic blog Kyra Speaks has shown, even the "Law of Attraction" was borrowed from the 1920s new thought movement. Even wording for catchphrases like "That which is like unto itself is drawn" was only slightly reworked, accounting for the archaic structure of it. What are called "The Teachings Of Abraham" could accurately be retitled, "Dumbed Down Seth For The Lazy." And the channeling? Practically a replica of Theo's performance by way of Sheila Gillette, down to the voice.
More telling in the immediate sense, Jerry Hicks' illness exposes the ineffectiveness of the spiritual approach Esther has brought to the stage for decades. Not only would Jerry's practicing the beliefs (You bring yourself illness of health strictly by your thoughts alone.) precluding his contracting cancer, but the teachings are clear and have been repeated many times about medical treatment. "Heavy chemotherapy" would never have been the choice when deliberately changing your thoughts (alternatively "vibrations," depending on what popped out of Esther at the moment) would make you instantly well.
So, why didn't they?
Why hide? Because the Abraham Hicks is a house of cards. To avert a disaster, they've decided to disappear Jerry Hicks cancer.
"It is only about what you are, right now, in this red hot fresh moment emitting."
--- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Seattle, WA on Saturday, June 20th, 1998
"It does not matter where you are; where you are is shifting constantly."
--- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Detroit, MI on Saturday, September 27th, 2003
Is channeling a viable source of spiritual guidance and wisdom?
What's your opinion?
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Ziggy
Mar 14, 2012 @ 9:25 pm | delete
- These two remind me of Jim and Tammy baker who were exposed preacher frauds.
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clara dyer
Jan 29, 2012 @ 9:58 pm | delete
- I didnt believe at first that it was possible to channel, but I took it to the lord about this way of getting things across and I come to the understanding that we as human beings are like channelers for the Lord to speak through us in our daily lives through our actions as well as our thoughts. Afterall we are in his image both inside and out.and yes I do believe and also I have been following my heart in this with their teachings and which is one of the threads.that I have been following. I have many books that I have gotten wonderful help out of and they all describe this subject from many sides. I hear one voice [Gods voice} from all these writers and abraham is one of them. Their teachings were covered just like there are many sides to an object and I have learned much from their teachings. I believe that they have a right to handle their personal life in the way they see fit. I understood this vortex in a sense before I heard any of their teachings and they just went further for clarification. I appreciated that! As far as the money situation I feel that a person is entitled to recieve for their giving. They have given alot. I have seen their audiences in their meetings. You can tell that they have been helped. The proof is in the pudding. I too have been helped. I am greatful to the Lord to reveal his beautiful puzzle of life. Every writer just reveals more pieces. It is beautiful. I believe they are one of the writers as well. I appreciate them!!
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gypsyman27
Oct 29, 2011 @ 11:48 pm | delete
- Sounds good, but it doesn't play in the cheap seats. See you around the galaxy...
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DaveStone13 Oct 30, 2011 @ 8:26 am | delete
- Well, put. It's easier to play with when you have time on your hands.
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smnsoares
Feb 8, 2012 @ 7:18 am | delete
- Not, necessarily!
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So, Historically, Who Are Jerry and Esther Hicks?
Did they have lives before Abraham?
But we do know some interesting bits about them, before and after Abraham.
Jerry Hicks: From Tough Childhood to A Prosperous Adult
Jerry Hicks as born into a painfully unstable household. He has spoken proudly of his mother who, after poverty forced her to leave him in an orphanage for two years, fought her way back to retrieve him. The family had a history of violence and, according to what little Jerry opened up about before turning clam again, what sounds like severe mental illness.
Jerry tells his childhood stories publicly in a positive way, but in private, he talks about putting a gun in his mouth with a single bullet in a chamber and pulling the trigger.
He has joked that he may have been married more times but can remember only four wives prior to Esther.
Among Jerry Hicks most attractive characteristics is an inquisitive open-mindedness. He talks openly about learning experiences with a ouija board, for example, and claims many career experiences, including a stint as a circus acrobat in Cuba. Few of his claims can be verified and some have been refuted by others he has said were associates, but the spirit is clear.
With his fourth wife, Trish, he rose to one of the highest levels in the hierarchy at Amway. Securely wealthy for life, Jerry Hicks left Amway and was divorced from Trish.
Jerry has often said that the biggest change in fortunes for him came when he found Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich
, a landmark book about positive thinking, much like Esther Hicks preaches through Abraham.He frequently talks about trying hard to teach others the secrets of obtaining great wealth and his frustration that so few managed to pull it off, an apparent reference to his days at Amway where inspirational teachings are part of the upper level routine.
In Abraham, he tried to teach by using a new gimmick, his wife's claimed channeling.
Jerry Hicks "is mistrustful and controlling; he's not one to get openly upset, but he carries a grudge for months at a time," according to long time friend and webmaster for AHP, Ahnalira Koan.
Working closely with Jerry and Esther Hicks for a decade, Ahna was also devoted to helping others discover the teachings. She severed her relationship with them earlier this year, partly to set off on projects with her husband without the 24 X 7 demands that often went into working for AHP and partly to square herself spiritually after becoming disillusioned.
"As our understanding of the internal organization dynamics deepened, it also became apparent that to us that - on occasion - Abraham's responses to questions reflected Jerry and Esther's opinion more than the pure concepts of the teaching," she explained.
No disgruntled ex-employee settling scores, Ahna is a certified Jungian therapist and meditation instructor who came into Jerry and Esther Hicks' orbit with her own personal views well-established. She still admires much about what they've accomplished.
Where, for someone who knew them well and initially resonated with the teachings, did Abraham end and Esther and Jerry's worldview begin?
Was there ever an Abraham or was it always Jerry Hicks' decades of study in the New Thought Movement, parroted by his adoring, dependent and much younger sidekick, Esther?
Not an easy question to answer.
Another close associate, who went to a first Abraham Hicks workshop around the time Ahna and her husband began working with them, says that his initial skepticism melted when he went to a workshop (with one foot out the door, ready to escape) and was amazed to see auras dropping over Esther as she "brought in" Abraham.
But then, there are the contradictions, errors and episodes of public abuse that seem impossible to square with a loving, all-knowing assembly of spiritual teachers. One of those teachers, according to Esther Hicks, is Jesus.
And Esther...?
If Abraham is no more real that the King Arthur legend, then Esther Hicks may be the most effective scam artist after Bernie Madoff.
On the other hand, she is more direct about the limited history she leaves open for conversation, almost all of it after marrying Jerry Hicks. What she prefers not to disclose is that she was born in Utah to a family of mostly Mormons. Her husband and father of the daughter she and Jerry refer to as their own, Tracy, was also a mormon.
This, of course, contradicts her claim that Abraham came to her, over everyone else, because she was so open and not burdened with firm convictions.
It may tell us something about Jerry and Esther Hicks integrity that, when they first met, Jerry was engaged to another woman and Esther married to Richard. Richard discovered her car in a motel parking lot where she drove it for a rendezvous with Jerry.
Jerry and Esther Hicks are just people, and like the rest of us, they sometimes do things that are questionable and dishonest.
Esther has since condemned her first husband for being too controlling.That reads like a lame excuse for adultery, especially when children are involved. And, no, Jerry does not speak up about his fiancee, his intended to be wife #5, displaced by Esther. He also has little or nothing to say about the other four.
According to a long time associate, "Esther is emotionally volatile and quick to blame."
The picture you should be getting here is that Jerry and Esther Hicks are not the personas they put up for sale in public.
Jerry and Esther Hicks Snapshots
In the months leading up to his illness, Jerry slept little. He spent hours surfing the internet, searching for comments about himself, Esther or Abraham and sending out associates as sock puppets to counterpunch anonymously. His proxies have also been responsible for glowing, if noticeably shallow and predictable, rave reviews of their books on Amazon.
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When the Abe Forum first started, Jerry and Esther Hicks had a moderator who, when harsh comments were made, argued in favor of a laid back approach: "Let the law of attraction sort it out," she said, rather than restrict or control. Jerry and Esther flipped, discharged the original moderator and brought on David Gordon who, to this day, faithfully controls the Abe Forum in a way that supports the Abraham Hicks brand...but not the law of attraction.
(Fair disclosure: David Gordon has banned me from the Abe Forum. Although there are simple ways to get around the restrictions, I am not supposed to able to even read the comments of others. I can, whenever I want, but don't because these are some of the dullest and most cult-like riffs ever clogging up cyberspace.)
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In 2007, Jerry and Esther Hicks tried to claim a trademark on "Law of Attraction." It was unwise because they almost certainly knew the phrase had been created by someone else and in the public domain for almost a century. Even so, when they were turned down, rage filled the monster bus, with Jerry pacing up and down the aisle, fuming.
They then demoted "Law of Attraction" in favor of the clunky, but original "Vortex of Attraction."
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Jerry and Esther have left a trail of bodies, employees and associates who believed they were intimates but who, with little or no prior notice, found themselves frozen out.
And Abraham is brought in just to shill for products. Jerry and Esther Hicks have a standard quote that goes with employee issues: "We talked to Abraham, and they said you'd be okay with this."
According to Jerry and Esther Hicks, Abraham Said...
To Abraham or Not To Abraham
In 2010, Jerry and Esther Hicks decided to cut back on the road grind and looked for new ways to generate revenue without so much effort. One highly promoted product they came up with was guided meditation DVDs. They flooded their Daily Quotes subscription list with thirty straight days of product pitches. In one unintentionally hilarious moment, Jerry claimed to quote Abraham:
"These will get you into the vortex," he says the nonphysical entities told him.
But if Abraham can be used to shill for products as well as be the core of the products themselves, is there a limit?
What, I wondered, is Abraham? Did Jerry and Esther Hicks invent them as a gimmick or was there, at least sometimes, a real set of spiritual masters who came through Esther with their only intention to teach unselfishly?
Faking or Shaking?
Whenever I settle on what I believe is the right answer to that question, I get second thoughts because of my friend who is so convinced he saw auras, many of them, descending around Esther. But what does it mean to see auras? Could it have been a clever lighting effect or some sort of optical illusion? And why Esther, of all people?
Then, I realize it's a pretty thin thread on which to hang any faith in Jerry and Esther Hicks' stories about Abraham.
Especially when there is so much to argue against it.
I've gone into extensive detail on my lens, Fifteen Reasons Why You Can't Trust Esther Hicks' Abraham Scam, so here's a quick summary of why the pitch is not believable.
*** The big one skeptics often miss with Jerry and Esther Hicks, as well as others, is the utter lack of their having anything original to say. A minimum requirement for any group claiming a pedigree of such magnitude is that they bring real, original insight or wisdom to their teaching. A clear explanation of how AIDS devastated cultural subgroups before researchers spent millions to uncover the epidemic's secrets one by one; an idea for solving the nightmare of starvation in Africa; a plan for bringing peace to the world--any of these and, honestly, much less would have scored big.
Instead, we get what Jane Roberts converted into the series of Seth Books, dumbed down to capture a wider audience than the challenging insights Seth was reported to render. We get such "wisdom" as this:
Nothing is more debilitating than to care about something you can't do anything about. And you can't do anything about your adult children. You can want better for them, and maybe even begin to provide something for them, but in the long run, you cannot do anything about someone else's vibration other than hold them in the best light you can, mentally, and then project that to them. And sometimes, distance makes that much more possible than being up close to them.
--- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Ashland, OR on Saturday, July 19th, 2003
Resistance is about believing that you are vulnerable or susceptible to something not wanted and holding a stance of protection - which only holds you in a place of not letting in the Well-being that would be there otherwise. There is nothing big enough to protect you from unwanted things, and there are no unwanted things big enough to get into your experience.
--- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Atlanta, GA on Saturday, November 4th, 2000
We're not wanting to be insensitive to what so many of you are feeling, but we are very much wanting you to put this death thing in the proper perspective: You are all going to die! Except there is no death. You're all going to make your transition into Non-Physical. It is time to stop making your transition into Non-Physical sound like a subject that is uncomfortable and begin acknowledging that it is something that happens to everyone. This death thing is so misunderstood that you use it to torture yourself never-endingly and just absolutely unnecessarily. There are those who feel such fulfillment of life and such Connection to Source Energy, who understand that there is no separation between what is physical and Non-Physical; who understand that there is not even a lapse in consciousness, that "death" is a matter of closing one's eyes in this dimension and literally opening one's eyes in the other dimension. And that, truly, is how all death is, no matter how it looks, up to that point.. The re-emergence into Source Energy is always a delightful thing.
--- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Buffalo, NY on Tuesday, September 25th, 2001
*** The Jerry and Esther Hicks story has been too liberally adapted to circumstances. They could still be publishing and selling their first book, A New Beginning I: Handbook For Joyous Survival
,published in 1990, except that it is so much in conflict with the books that made them famous a decade later.In New Beginnings, Abraham comes off as a predictor of impending doom. The world, this book tells us, is entering a cataclysmic phase geographically. Gas masks are advised for everyone. Oops. Later, they tell you that Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires
is the book Abraham declared they would write for Esther. So, why did they write several others first that didn't become best sellers?Why did the message change until it resonated with people hungering for easy spiritual messages?
*** Jerry and Esther Hicks have always preached that abundance, whatever it is to you, is delivered based on what Esther calls your "vibrational countenance." She, posing as Abraham, has pooh-poohed hard work and making an effort to succeed, saying it accounts for less than ten per cent of results. Yet, Jerry and Esther Hicks have been well known to exhaust themselves by working seven days a week on workshops and marketing gimmicks. People who know them well will tell you that their happy go luck, life is supposed to be fun mantra has little relationship to the way they live and work.
First of The Books Mentioned in This Lens
Napoleon Hill's much admired effort.
Think and Grow Rich
Amazon Price: $4.87 (as of 06/01/2012)
#2 Sheila Gillette, Model for Esther Hicks
The Soul Truth: A Guide to Inner Peace
Amazon Price: $5.09 (as of 06/01/2012)
The First Abraham Book They Don't Want You To Read
A New Beginning I: Handbook For Joyous Survival
Amazon Price: $58.00 (as of 06/01/2012)
You can't even get an image of this one, but it and several sequels are available on Amazon. Look around and be surprised.
What are your thoughts on Jerry and Esther Hicks?
In my experience, few people are able to remain neutral.
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Gina
Feb 24, 2012 @ 6:06 pm | delete
- its very pitty that Shaila has not made the expirience of Channeling athervise she would not write such comments...the teachings of Abraham is wherever someons awareness is...and what evrybody does with does theaching is not in Hicks responsability..of course they whre physical beeings(Jerry enymore)and they had there experience as well..but I had a lot of terrifc experiences and guess what?The teaching helped a lot and I coul change Vibrations I could change life directions...its always the same when Someone Sucessfull goes lot of jelosy and bad energy will came up..but my way I found out is be wise and get into the feeling and connect with yourself..so nobody is responsable..and whe are all free of biiig judgement...love and great to be a Meditation Teacher working with Hypnosis...Love to Esther and Jerry
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- I don't know who you are referring to as Shaila, but I, like whoever it is, agree that professional channeling as if one individual is chosen as special source for wisdom nobody else get is bogus. Real teaching encourages people to seek within and is, most importantly, not for sale at prices high enough to enrich the teacher beyond anything their students will ever see.
If Jerry and Esther take no responsibility for what they teach, why would anyone be expected to listen to them. If they believed it to be true, they'd be more than happy to take responsibility. I realize that putting everything on disembodied voices gives them an out, but that's just a clever tactic, used by religious and spiritual teachers forever.
As long as they are claiming all that cash, shouldn't they have the simple virtue of responsibility? And if it's a con job meant to mislead vulnerable people desperate for healing and connection, shouldn't they be held to the same standards as any other business for the results of their work? They aren't a church, you know, but a commercial operation selling a product. Why is everyone so willing to let them off the hook, especially when so many instances of damage have been documented? So many of you who believe they benefited are more than willing to kick into the gutter others who did not or were adversely affected. If they aren't responsible, why are you giving them credit for helping you? Isn't it a two way street?
And by the way, why would anyone pay for a meditation teacher? My cat meditates like a champ, never took a lesson
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Terri Jo Keonly
Nov 25, 2011 @ 4:03 pm | delete
- I have listened to quite a lot of Abraham stuff. I love Esther's voice, and much of the conversations contain good advice. I paid my therapist for much more and got much less. Some things didn't sit well with me and I just let that stuff go .I'll admit that I was floored when I read Jerry "transitioned". Almost "let down" because I figured that if anyone could do it, Jerry could. But I don't know them. I don't know what deep seated crap Jerry carried around. If I was angry or disapointed because they weren't up front with Jerry's illness then that's my problem. Who knows what they were thinking. I wasn't in love with Jerry; truthfully... he kind of irritated me. I didn't want to be with them....just Abraham. I read and listen to many different teachers, all with the same message, just the delivery is different. Seth was way over my head so Abraham's "dumb downed" delivery hit the spot for me. I don't understand why there are people out there who are so angry with them. You don't need to save me. Also, what the hell is wrong with making money? My doctor makes money, my lawyer makes money (oops, wrong guy to mention), churches make money, many bloggers make money, almost everyone wants to make money. Is there a level where too much money is considered bad? If Jerry and Esther made a little bit of money would they still be considered scammers?
The bottom line for me is that I have changed the way I think in many ways. Most of all is that I am responsible for my thoughts. I once believed that if you did something to me and I felt bad then it was YOUR FAULT. So what Abraham has taught me is that I have my own power and my thoughts, and that takes a lot of work. AND I have also found a bit more comfort in death. For me, that makes living a hell of a lot easier.
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- Couple of quick points. Although I'm not angry with them, I know others who were ripped off by them, especially by Jerry, put their health a serious risk by trusting the teachings or had relationships damaged by believing an actual oracle of some kind was speaking.
As for money, I don't know anyone who objects to their making money. It's how they make it, by scamming needy people who fall for the snake oil, that's a problem. Some are amazed they haven't been prosecuted for fraud. If your doctor, lawyer, blogger or church makes money from a scam, I'd be opposed to that too. Bernie Madoff made money. I'm assuming your weak moral rational thought his method might be wrong.
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Terri Jo Keonly
Nov 25, 2011 @ 7:39 pm | delete
- I'm sorry but I don't understand your last sentence.
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- I thought, even if you're so eager to excuse Esther and Jerry, you might concede that there's more about making money than the obvious. It can be done in a way that is both immoral and hurtful to others. Your rational for excusing them was weak.
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Curious
Dec 3, 2011 @ 5:17 am | delete
- I think Terri Jo Keonly makes a very good argument on the whole controversy. Here is my question to all the skeptics and all those trying to smear the Hicks's image: It is a well-established and well-known fact that Jerry Hicks has been a millionnaire for decades, well prior to the Abraham phenomenon became publicly known. If the Hickses were a fraud, what would their motives have been for "scamming" the world and putting their own reputations on the line by pioneering this work? Why would they risk the "fraud" criticism if they were already comfortably wealthy? Why would they work so hard if they didn't have to work at all? Couldn't it be that their motive was to propagate a philosophy which would have an immense positive impact on the entire world? Why are people so hung up on the details - "Are they a fraud?; Is this a scam?; Did Esther commit adultery? ... etc." Does any of this really matter? Isn't their message clear enough and positive enough? Why the need and desire to chisel at it and make it crumble when it teaches nothing but upliftment and empowerment of self and others?
And why is now everyone fixating on Jerry Hicks's death? I mean did anyone really think that both Esther and Jerry would go on living in their current physical bodies forever? So Jerry passed on. He had cancer. Everyone seems to assume that having been exposed first hand to Abraham's teachings, he would have known how to avoid physical death. But avoiding physical death is not the point of us being here according to Abraham. The point is creation. Joyous creation through a focusing of consciousness. The point is the exilarating experience of living. And then moving on to the next logical step. So let's cut Jerry some slack and forgive him for daring to follow his own next logical step. Only he knew how he felt, what he thought, what his hopes were, and what his desires were, including the appropriateness and timeliness of his passing. His life experience was his own, and I really don't think anybody - be it a "believer" or a skeptic - is in any position to judge him for following the course of events that was his own - including the number of wives he may have had.
On the issue of not disclosing details of their lives prior to Abraham, I would like to wonder aloud: why is that important? Why would their prior lives need to be publicised, when the Hickses' intent seems to always have been only to uplift and empower? The message they carried was the main event. The rest is just human experience, just as the rest of us go on with our own human experiences. Why put a spotlight on their own lives, when their mission was to evoke clarity on an ever-evolving message of betterment for all?
So with that said, I hope that more people will realize that Jerry was a special individual, smart, funny, uplifting, unique, and really - brilliant. I cannot say I've ever heard or read anything he may have ever said that aimed to diminish any other human being. He brilliantly facilitated a message of love, hope, and empowerment, for many years. I think his work speaks for itself. As for those who wish to dig around for dirt, uncover conspiracies, frauds, and hoaxes, and use tabloid-style catchphrases, I suppose that's their choice, and maybe that is what feels fulfilling and uplifting to them.
I wish the Hicks immediate and extended family strength and love at this time of loss, and as to Jerry - thank you and happy new adventures, wherever you may be now!
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Michelle
Nov 25, 2011 @ 3:09 pm | delete
- Well, it doesn't really matter to me if they are "scam" artists or not. I haven't paid more than $20 for any of their material (most I download for free off youtube) and they've helped to improve my life and my marriage including the way I think about things.
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- I believe the people I've heard from who believe they were hurt by Esther and Jerry would disagree. Your not caring "if they are 'scam' artists puts you in the same self-enamored category as Esther, a serious narcissist whose basically philosophy is that, as long as you're happy, others are irrelevant. Hers (and presumably your) lack of empathy puts you in a very selfish place. But as long as you're happy, who cares if someone else suffers pain or loss, right? It's just all about you.
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gypsyman27
Oct 30, 2011 @ 12:00 am | delete
- They seem to be your average scam artists plying their trade in anyway they can. The picture of the family says a lot, with Jerry stuck in the corner barely seen. They are not any different from others that have come before them with a similar message, which was simply a way for them to make money. See you around the galaxy...
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This couple seems to have put together a format which was a patchwork of things they had experienced in the past. That would be alright, in and of itself, but they use it for profit. See you around the galaxy...
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- This is a very well written and informative lens on the couple. They chose to line their pockets by giving people a formula for success without substance. See you around the galaxy...
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