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The New Science of Abundance by Joseph Franklin was originally presented as a ten-month home study course in the UK, but the complete course of ten modules can now be obtained at a fraction of the original cost from www.newscienceofabundance.com. I have been studying this course myself for just a few weeks now (it has only recently be released online) and I have been so impressed (and enriched!) that I requested permission to present an extract of the first module here at Create Good Things. The author was generous enough to approve my request, and so here it is – enjoy!

Why You Need to Become Abundant

We live in a world where a state of abundance is the natural expectation of all living beings.  Yet we all know that there are millions of people who live in poverty instead of prosperity, in sickness instead of health and in a state of emotional misery instead of joy.  So how do we begin to understand such suffering and poverty in the context of an abundant universe?  And how can we help to change things?

The answer to the first question is rather simple.  Just as some plants get trampled on by ignorant walkers, so some groups of people are trampled on by ignorant majorities.  People do not starve because there isn’t enough food in the world to feed them.  People starve because there aren’t enough abundance-minded individuals around to help them.  It is human selfishness (which stems from an ignorance of abundance principles) not nature, which creates poverty.

This being the case, the answer to the second question becomes obvious.  The only way we can help to alleviate suffering and poverty is to become abundant.  When we live in a state of total abundance we will be in a position not only to directly help those in need, but also to teach abundance principles to others so that they can help even more people, and so on.

Imagine living in a world where every man, woman and child understands the science of abundance.  There will still be a few individuals who, through no fault of their own, suffer from setbacks.  But because the majority of us will be living in a state of total abundance, those unfortunate few will instantly be aided and assisted by the rest of us so that they too are brought into a state of abundance.

It sounds like a Utopian vision, doesn’t it?  Yet this is what I believe we ought to be working towards as a civilisation.  I believe that stories about the Garden of Eden and the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth were not written to educate us, but to inspire us.  I don’t think they were given to us to show us what we might or might not miss out on, but to show us what a civilisation is capable of becoming.

Deciding to shun abundance because other people are suffering in poverty is totally illogical.  If there is sickness in the world, we need to train more doctors, chemists and healers.  If there is suffering and poverty in the world, we need to train more people to reach a state of total abundance.  Only then can suffering be confronted in a meaningful and permanent way.

You therefore need to become abundant.  Not only because this state of being is your natural birthright as a human being, but also because this world desperately needs abundant people to help turns things around and put our civilisation back on course to reach a future destination where all human beings thrive, flourish and prosper as nature intended.

This sounds like a tall order, I know, but just think about abundance in the context of your own life as an individual.  How will achieving a state of total abundance affect your immediate friends, neighbours and relatives?  How will you feel when you can actually do something to alleviate the suffering of those around you, secure in the knowledge that you can never run out of abundance?  How will you feel when you are able to solve problems and meet real needs?

Achieving a state of total abundance will inspire those around you to follow a similar course of action.  Your life will offer hope to those who currently have none.  It will awaken the people who know you to new possibilities.  By simply following your own natural desire for abundance, you will automatically create a wave of change in the lives of others.  These people will influence still more people, and so on and so on, until eventually your single decision to become abundant will have had an indirect influence on many more people than you can currently dare to imagine.

When it is stated in these terms, does the idea of becoming abundant sound selfish?  Not at all!  It is in fact one of the best things you can do if you want to play your part in creating a more peaceful, productive and caring world.

For more information on The New Science of Abundance visit www.newscienceofabundance.com.

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