If you’ve been with me for a while, you know that
Esther Hicks was instrumental in the miraculous healing
I experienced about six years ago. I’ve been a big fan
of her and her husband Jerry ever since.
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve received quite a few
emails regarding Jerry’s transition from life as we
know it.
How could this have happened???
Here are excerpts from one of the emails I received.
“I was shocked to hear…that Jerry Hicks
died on 18th Nov. Seems he was having
chemotherapy for leukaemia.
“People are now asking whether this is the
death of Abraham-Hicks and questioning
whether they were a scam…
“They can’t understand how Jerry got cancer
in the first place if everything Esther
teaches is true. If you think about a
positive healthy life then you should never
attract something like cancer into your
vibration according to Esther.
“Secondly her fans are upset that they went
straight to chemotherapy and didn’t use
this opportunity to stand up to the power
of their teachings and actually put it to
the test.
“What do you think? I’m definitely v. shaken
by it and am clinging on to hope & faith here.”
— Debbie
So, let’s talk about this.
As with anyone who gets sick and makes the transition
from living in the body with with we are familiar and
appears to “die,” the rest of us are left to fill in
the unknowable with our own beliefs.
We have no way of knowing what was going on in someone
else’s mind. We can’t know all the things that really
influenced the decisions they made, what really
“caused” the body to respond the way it did, or what
would have happened if different decisions had been
made.
We can’t prove what happens to someone after they
“die,” where we came from before “birth,” what really
lies beyond the physical world we live in.
And even in the physical world, we each have an
individual perspective about what’s really going on,
because of the limitations of what can be proven.
That leaves us each with our own life experience,
almost 100% beyond anyone else’s ability to fully
comprehend.
Hmmm.
So, why did Jerry get cancer? Why didn’t he
immediately fully recover and sustain life in that
body? After all, in Esther’s words, translating the
wisdom that he and Esther shared with the world for so
many years,
“We’re going to make a very bold statement:
any disease could be healed in a matter of
days, any disease, if distraction from it
could occur and a different vibration
dominate-and the healing time is about how
much mix-up there is in all of that.”
If Jerry couldn’t do it, who could?
This question, of course, implies that he wanted to.
How can we even know that?
Maybe there’s more to the story.
We could get all bent out of shape about how the idea
that Jerry got sick, and then passed on, means that
what he and Esther believed and taught was wrong, or
impossible to apply.
But where is the benefit in that conclusion? To me,
it’s depressing and stressful–and certainly counter to
my own experience.
Stress is counterproductive to health. The entire
point of what he and Esther shared was to let go of
stressful beliefs.
Here’s the thing. Those “why” questions–why’d he get
sick and not get well–are only answerable with
unprovable beliefs.
BELIEFS. Not facts.
Because I’m in favor of the fully alive, vibrant
health of the rest of us, and I believe that stress is
behind all the pain, sickness, and suffering that are
the opposite of fully alive, vibrant health, I’m a fan
of finding the least stressful, most comforting
possible beliefs to explain anything.
So, let’s consider what beliefs could explain Jerry’s
adventure, given that we can’t possibly know.
Here’s a guy who is my role model for being the most
fully alive, fun loving, happy, intensely curious
adventurer who wasn’t out to prove anything to anybody,
didn’t care what anybody thought of him, and certainly
didn’t want any followers.
For years, he has pushed to know more about what
happens in the great beyond. For years, he has talked
about the belief that there is no death, that it’s all
an adventure, that there’s much more to life than this
one, and that when one has milked this life for all
it’s worth, every one of us chooses to leave it.
Sounds like that’s exactly what he did.
To me, that’s comforting.
How about these beliefs:
– Illness is not a sign of failure. It’s a sign that
one is rapidly expanding and stretching, and there’s
resistance in the system that’s not allowing the full
expansion.
– There is no such thing as death. There is only a
withdrawing of focus and energy from the physical
realm. Life is eternal.
– We are each magnificent beings who are constantly
expanding, and our physical bodies are the result of
focused energy by the larger, non-physical parts of
ourselves.
– When we are ready to move on to another level of
life experience (“die”) we choose an exit route. For
some it’s an “accident.” For some, it’s an illness. For
some, it’s a quiet night of sleep from which one
doesn’t awaken.
– What happens in our bodies isn’t a conscious choice
by the limited part of us that we identify by our names
and personalities. There’s something much bigger going
on in the world of our true expansion. We can tell what
direction we’re headed by how we feel.
I had no direct exposure to Jerry while he was ill. I
have no idea what that experience was like for him, or
if he suffered.
So, I can choose to fill in that gap of knowledge by
imagining he suffered terribly, tried hard to cure his
disease and failed.
Or, I can choose to fill in that gap of knowledge by
imagining he laughed merrily all the way to the end,
filled with love and excitement about what would come
next.
I can choose to be sad for the loss of him.
Or, I can choose to raise myself and be exhilarated by
the wonderful example of a free and happy being he was
in the flesh, and the free and happy being he still is.
You, too, get to choose.
What do you choose to believe about your own state of
health? What about the passing of others you care
about?
If statistics are any indication, ten out of ten of us
will pass on sooner or later. As far as I know, every
great teacher, master, enlightened person, and every
other person in history has gone on. Does that mean
they all failed? That what they taught was bogus? That
they are gone from us forever?
Or that their lives were meaningful contributions
whose value continues; that they are all still part of
the universal consciousness that every one of us can
access?
You decide what to believe, and therefore, you create
your experience of life.
Me, I’m choosing to aim for joy and freedom. Thanks,
Jerry!
With great love,
Dr. Alexandra Gayek
P.S. If you’re unfamiliar with Jerry and Esther Hicks,
you can learn about them at:
I’ve received a flood of emails in response to this article, which I sent to my “Be Well!” subscribers. Here they are, unedited, in the order received. (Note: these were all individual emails in direct response to the article. None of the writers read any of others’ comments before writing theirs.)
My invitation to you: As you read others’ comments, notice your reaction. How do you feel when you read something that you agree with? How do you feel when you disagree?
How do you feel when you read words of appreciation and gratitude? How do you feel when you read words of criticism, negative assumption, judgment?
How many positive comments does it take to hold your attention? How many negative comments? Which ones make you want to react? Defend? Attack?
Just notice. Notice your urges to react. This is an opportunity for you to notice what’s important to you: be right about what you believe? convince others that your perspective is the only valid one? love yourself and others no matter what they say? go along with the majority?
Feel free to add your comments, both about the article, and about what you learn by noticing your reactions. (I do have my site set that I must “approve” new comments. This is just so I can delete spam and anything that crosses the line of courtesy. Thanks for participating!)
Here are the emails I received:
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Hi
We all have to go back home and only need an excuse to leave this earthly existence. It’s the legacy we leave behind, for me, that is important.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience!
Lots of Love Kalai
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Dear Alexandra,
it was, indeed a little bit shocking, your message.
Rudolph Steiner already told, the decision to die you make yourself
on a higher level.
its not the question how long i do want to live
but how i live and when you have done what you have to
do in the world than its enough and time for an other live.
I think Jerry did enough
Jerry Hicks dead is for me a real recall to live my life fully
and during the time i have to work on my task on earth
i want to be very healthy and happy.
Thanks for your email
Hubert
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HI (been a while).
If this message should show up either on the SOBW Network Forum, or on your
Happy Health System Blog, I’ll serious consider stating my “two cents” on
the subject.
Regards,
WAYNE
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Well written!
David
“Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
-Albert Einstein
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Dear Alexandra
I go with what you say about we all leave for another state of being 100%
I have walked with my death as well as I am able for most of my life (since
I was 6 in fact)
I am left with one question though.
A question that still hangs over the Abraham-hicks work since this event.
Why choose chemo?
If I am really aware of my passage into another state of me, a truer I AM,
If I am ready to meet this aspect of myself, that has perhaps guided and
fired the me I know today, why go to it drugged up to the hilt?
If I wish to stay here longer why not use the techniques I have propounded?
But accepting your chosen seeing of it that Jerry, at one level anyway was
ready and willing to move on, then why the chemo?
I thank the goodness in my life that I am not faced with this question right
now. Around me spiritual people are dying or living with cancer, one went
two weeks ago leaving 6 kids and only accepting in the last four or five
hours that she would not believe her way to staying here, with chemo, with
mistletoe, with everything she could throw at it.
My next door neighbour and one time wife had a chunk cut off.
It is a battle I am ignorant in the face of, but in my thinking I would
prefer to stand up and say, “I go with God, one road or another, I do not
choose to lie down and be poisoned in the pursuit of life in the body”
I see clearly that Jerry had his own life, his own decisions to make, yet it
could seem like a victory for the big pharma that this man chose this route.
Tobias K
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Thank you Dr. Gayek. And it’s important to remember too, isn’t it, that our “salvation” and happiness does not rest in the hands and minds and actions and manifestations of others, but within ourselves, yes?
Rebecca Bryant
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Dear Dr Gayek
You explained it so nicely and I agree with your comments. As in “If you think you can or if you think you can’t ….either way you’re right.”
I Love this poem:
THE WEAVER
My Life is but a weaving
Between the Lord and me
I cannot choose the colours
He weaveth steadily,
Oftimes, he weaveth sorrow
and I in foolish pride
Forget he see the upper
and I the underside
Not ’til the Loom is silent
and the shuttles cease to fly
Shall God unroll the canvas
and explain the reason why,
The dark threads are as needful
in the Weavers skilful hand
as the threads of Gold and Silver
in the pattern that he has planned!
BEST WISHES
Reece
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Thank you, Alexandra. This is most helpful!
Laura
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Bravo! Magnificent! Thank you!!!!
B. Brooke
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Well said! Thanks for that.
Donna
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Dr Gayek
This is the greatest eulogy I have ever heard or read. I am positive that
Jerry is honored and proud to have made such a difference in all of our
lives, especially yours. Thanks for all you do
Jeannie McGrew
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Excellent summary and exactly as I believe. Jerry was ready to go and he did. For those of us still here, we can benefit greatly by the works of this wonderful man, Esther, and Abraham. Esther is doing a workshop on December 10 and I will be participating as always.
Tonya
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Debbie, “clinging on to hope & faith here” get off Hope and faith.. and move on to integrity. Go to Landmark Education, discover how to live.
Discover a new view and a new Realm of life. get off magic and superstition and get to creating a life that you love and creating living .. being fully alive and you will not fear or be anxious for long. That is the brain dominating you. You are whole, complete and perfect. You are divine. You are not your brain. The brain is an organ system , immune system, heart and lung system, etc. it does what it does. That is not who you are. They are system within your body, you are not your body. STOP identifying with your brain. That is not you. The you, you are is not on a x-ray. You are Divine. You have power. Be still and know the I AM lives in everyone, and most have to die to learn it. Feelings have little if anything to do with it. Don’t get all hung up on your feelings, they merely follow a thought, which 99.99999999999% of them time are generated by the brain. The real self is in the present. NOW moment.
Read Eckhart Tolles’ books and quit looking for magic .. you are 100% responsible for your happiness, you are 100% responsible for creating a life you love, get over Jerry death. Fast. Focus on your life. be a contributor to others once your life is working.
Coach
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Hi Dr. Alexandra,
Thank you for this beautifully written letter …
I have been following you for awhile, but not closely and do not know about your illness and healing.
Please could you refer me to information about this?
Thank you, Linda
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Dear Dr. Gayek,
I am deeply grateful for the message you sent out in regard to Jerry’s passing. It was helpful to read other ways of thinking about it that are not as fearsome as the ones I had before 🙂
Again, thank you so much!
Warmly,
Sunny
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THIS IS FANTASTIC!
Rebecca
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I presume his passing had something to do with the Law of Allowing. Am I
interpreting this Law incorrectly? If so then I’ll allowing a lot of
unwanted stuff in my life unnecessarily. –God Bless you Dr. Gayek.
Thankx,
Jesse.
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That’s well said and I agree with you. I imagine that we will learn more about the story, in time, from Abraham and from Esther. Personally, I believe Jerry is now fully immersed in the Vortex. He really did make a substantial contribution in advancing our evolution and understanding. His questions were great, and like you. I’m benefitting from the answers. Thanks for what you do to help this along, I enjoy reading your posts.
Stephen
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Dear dr gayek
thank you very much for this mail
I have been following your posts,and WallaceWattles, even before I learned about Abraham& Jerry and Esther
I totally agree with you, I also choose to this passing of Jerry makes him and Esther even more beliavable to me. They could have chosen to conceal everything, or say that he passed without illnesses, but instead they told the truth.
every work I heard from them, echoed inside me as the truth I have been really longing for. The peace and sense I found is immense and goes beyond them.
all the best
amalia
buenos aires, argentina.
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Dr. Gayek,
Of course we cannot know what went on in Mr. Hicks mind but his actions suggest (strongly) that if he chose to treat his malady (leukemia) with such a harsh, anti-life and apparently ineffective modality as chemotherapy, he did indeed want to live on. It suggests that his level of fear was so high that he would do anything to live. His level of fear suggests that he did not practice the wisdom (?) that he preached to the rest of us. Disheartening and disappointing.
Our thoughts are with Esther at this time.
Joe Lupo
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I wrote a similar piece in our Life Mastery group led by William Linville. Someone asked a similar questions. I never ever saw Jerry as a victim of anything. He told Ester when they met he would go first. We all have those hidden beliefs and these days I am uncovering new ones all the time!!
The tire company put on the wrong tires on my car and I was all in a fuss about it and they were willing to change them. I meditated and in the shower I was told… I have always had this fear of driving on snow and ice and that BELIEF creates my driving experience and not the tires. So I followed my intuition and called a good good intuitive friend who validated I was in alignment with my truth which I thought I was. I just called for a little support realizing this huge break through.
She lives in Canada where there are literally horrendous winter conditions with sometimes over 10 feet of snow, 40 below and she has a four wheel drive older car with all weather tires, no snow tires, no studs! She has never had problems and just knows she can get anywhere she needs to go!!
So I have no idea what Jerry might have had hidden from himself. He might have chosen to go feeling he had done whatever he wanted. He could have believed in aging and so on. I sent him much love and gratitude and have only the highest respects for him. I am grateful for all he helped bring forth through Ester and Abe with his constant questioning!! May we all learn to be that child like!!
Love and Magic, Morgine
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I was aware of the Hicks but not a follower. However what I’m telling their “fans” is that they should remember what he taught and not to get obsessed with how he left. Last spring I had to do the same thing for the followers of Sai Baba and back in the 70’s I had to do that for the followers of Elijah Muhummad. As a teacher, I just want folks to learn something from the messages that sometimes channel through me and when it’s time for me to leave I want them to remember what good things they might have learned. I think we all get attached to our teachers and actually start to deify them. We’re all spiritual beings having a human experience…obviously the human Jerry opted for treatment that he thought could heal him. But I’m sure wherever he is now he’s probably trying to influence his students to move on and to use whatever good teachings that they received from him. We need not get stuck in how he died, but how he lived. I was told that when the teacher makes the transition he or she graduates to a higher level of understanding and his or her students also graduate to a higher level of understanding. So it’s important not to throw out the baby with the bathwater (smile). What Jerry and Esther are teaching is universal truths. Those truths will always be the same. Spiritual Law is exact, unchangeable and valuable to those who will flow with them. I’ll share your message with our online meditation group. Thank You,
Love & Light, Ayesha Grice
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Thank you for your thoughtful comments about a very difficult question.
As Jerry signed:
In-Joy
Jim
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Thank you for this wonderful post—-I belong to a LOA group on Yahoo and these were the kinds of things everyone was asking—-I felt exactly as you did, we don’t know exactly what was in J’s mind, AND I’m betting it was all a ploy to move on to his next great adventure—he was the more adventurous of the two LOL
Namaste, Margaret
“We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.”
Marianne Williamson
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Dude, there is one HUGE flaw in your reasoning. Although you say that
everyone chooses how to exit this “life”, it looks quite obvious that Jerry
did NOT choose to exit via the cancer that he contracted, because he was
undergoing treatment to eradicate the cancer. Therefore, he was attempting
to beat the illness and stay alive, not exit via the illness.
It is a nice little story that you cooked up that will certainly smooth
things over for many of your followers. And in the end, that is all you
truly care about, isn’t it? Keeping a big customer base to you can keep
banking those profits.
Regit
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Awesome!
Jacquelyn
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Dr. Alexandra,
Thank you for this!
Richard
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My thoughts on Jerry Hicks passing:
He wasn’t God… only human… and humans die.
HC
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Aloha Alexandra, thank you for your words of TRUTH. Choice is truly at the
bottom of all our decisions and we create our life based on our choices.
Thank God we are given the power of choice, the power of free-will.
May all that you so graciously share come back to you in infinite
blessings.
I sit in deep appreciation for Jerry and Esther for their life-changing
words of the most High Truth.
May peace reign supreme in your everyday decisions,
Gloria
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Mmmmm…that was inspiring reading Alexandra. There have been many similar questions in my circles. There are people who say I should have gone the conventional path, that I at least should have had surgery and I would have been better years ago. I question that very occasionally myself in my darkest moments. How would any of them know, or myself, what might have happened? It is so easy for them to create the outcome that suits them, in their mind, and be right, and make me wrong. They are the people I choose not to be around. I choose people who support me, whatever my journey. Who, like me, trust higher wisdom. and see my personal growth during this time. I have a sense of what this is about for me. I go with better feeling thoughts every time I feel dis-ease. I follow yours, and Abraham’s, teachings and those teachings come in many different ways from many different people. Dr Hamer of German New Medicine says that leuekemia is the healing phase of a severe self devaluation conflict. My beautiful and recently adopted dog Zola also died of leuekemia last month. It was a real shock as she appeared well when I left her with a lovely young housesitter while I went away for a week but she died three days after my return. She was only 7 years old. I choose to believe that she came as a gift for a year, a time when we both benefited from the love, the attention, and all the wonderful walks in nature we shared. We had lots of fun!! Thinking of that gives me good feeling thoughts. I may never know why she came and went so suddenly and I don’t need to know. I don’t need to know why Jerry’s journey was the way it was. I appreciate everything I learned through him that benefits my BEing and rejoice in his life! In all life!!
Thanks for the insights from your email and thanks to Debbie for the questions.
With love,
Mary
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Instead of guessing…has anyone asked Esther how or why it happened? 🙂
Jill
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Thank you for that. I didn’t realise that he had died, though I knew he was ill.
I am on the same page as you and its clear that you’ve got to pass at some stage, of something.
People have, in the main, given up thinking for themselves & making up their own minds. Like you, I am a fan & find that the principles work for me very much as Abraham describes. Jerry passing on cannot change what has been my experience.
I have had times in my life when there has been an inner conflict. Part of me has wanted to be here whilst another part, that observes much of the restriction & negativity, has wished to leave the cycle of birth & death altogether. Something like that may have been going on for Jerry & maybe his soul was ready for the transition. Well, not maybe, clearly the dominant energy was to leave.
I am so grateful for the work of the Hicks & feel truly blessed to have come across them.
Thank you again for sharing your thoughts.
Love & light
Suzanne
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Hi Alexandra,
I love what you commented over here it make me feel relief about the whole new and feel relief about the concept about death and the point we choose for ourself to tansite from our physicality and this made me understand certain things more and more I am so grateful about your informations . Hopkins
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thank you ———-art
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Thank you for your wise response. I really appreciate your thoughts and viewpoint.
Kind regards,
Kate McEwen
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Thanks Alexandra
– Ray
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What a lot of BS
having been an ardent follower of personal development foe many years I have seen a lot
and can now have an informed view of things
– chris howard, failed marriage, physical breakdown
– james arthur ray, at an event I actually attended one of the attendees committed suicide, I attended (regrettably two of his programs) the second one clearly revealed him as a charlatan, the next program in the series was the sedona desert one, thankfully I could see clearly what a sham he was and declined, several people died and many more were taken to hospital with organ damage and failure
– wayne dyer, what a wreck his life is, how many failed relationships, not to mention his health issues
– marcier weidner, failed relationships etc
I could go on and on
I ask, why put yourself in the same camp as these charlatans ????
you do yourself and others a great disservice
rgds tony
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your reply is written from someone who has no idea what they are saying,
of couse we do not know what is in Jerrys head, but come on they made a fortune explaining this stuff. and dont forget Esther had to interpret this in modern english/american culture language to keep everybody happy,
I thought her message was the bees knees but after a certain time, there were some cracks appearing that didnt sit well with me, personally that an idiot couldnt work out for himself. after a while a lot of stuff they were saying just did not agree with my God self and no appologies.
– Ian
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Good morning, Dr. Gayek,
Thank you!
I do understand the emotional sentiments of the author who wrote the email AND
i totally agree with your response to it…could not have been stated plainer.
Bravo!
All the best &
allow happiness.
thandiwe chappot
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Great message Alexandra!!! Thanks for sharing!
I resonate with your “explanation” – I had come to a very similar thought.
“There is great love here for you” . . .
All is well,
Lezar ♥
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Hi Dr. Gayek. I think that Jerry went because maybe he was always in the background whilst Esther was doing her thing, and maybe now she has to learn to do it on her own. I can never understand why people think that they have to get sick, If they want to go why cannot they just go???? Regards. Pearl.
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Hi Dr G
Thanks v. much for your thoughts on this, much appreciated. Also he was 87,
I guess!
Debbie
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Thank you, Alexandra.
That was great.
Also, Esther was channeling an entity named Abraham.
She, and her husband were HUMAN. Many people seem to forget that.
In depreciating them for what happened in Jerry’s journey, we deny our
OWN
humaness, as well as their’s.
Love,
Suzanne
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Me, I’m choosing to aim for joy and freedom. Thanks,
Jerry! 🙂 Thank you, Dr. Alexandra Gayek!
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Dr. Gayek,
I have been surprised at some of the comments made at Jerry’s
passing. I have followed Jerry and Ester’s work for years and
will continue to be uplifted by their work. I can only speak
for the positive influence Abraham’s statements have had on my
life. I am comfortable with Jerry’s passing into the next phase
of his existence and my primary thoughts are for Ester at this
time. She has an amazing life and has a remarkable impact on
many people.
I do not know your story of how they were able to help you. I
would find it interesting to hear it in your words. I have a
kinship with Jerry and Ester through their work and by sharing
openly their experience in finding Abraham and evolved to share
it with so many others is testimony of the remarkable influence
it has had on so many.
I have had the good fortune to experience what many would call
healing miracles in this life’s adventure but I look at it in a
different way. I believe when it is time to move on we at some
level in our being .. move on, and it is as natural as taking a
breath… and it matters not the method in which it occurs.
I resonate with Abraham’s teachings and it works for me. Your
comments are good ones and welcome. Thank you for your perspective.
Thomas Stokes
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we are all energy!! lets get in to our hearts and begin to viberate this energy. how many times in our lives has an idea, or an intuitive moment caught us as we were day dreaming and we either followed it up or just let it go? I can’t begin to explain how many times I’ve been led to a new source of knowing and why it has or where it has come from. It makes you wonder doesn’t it? we never die , we are the energy that is the whole of the entire life experience as we see, feel,smell and hear every second as we know it in this form that we have chosen to vibrate. Lets say then when we “die” where does it go? If it can take form into this beautiful state why then would it chose to be no more? Get it? keep on vibrating!! Oh by the way, it begins and ends with love.
James
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HI Dr. Alexandra
The article you’ve had written about abhrahm hicks was sensational and it is
the reality of life .
As a matter of fact it is unavoidable part of life coz one has to taste
every essence of life and at last is the death.and yov got hurt with his
thoughts . The best thing that we can do right now is learn from it leave
whats behind and move forward . so lets understand from this that , i belive
from this that i have to finish what ever i have to do for my family and my
friends bfore the eleventh hour of mine , as a student i want to
achieve more ,if death is the thing which is hindering me to move forward i
wouldnt bother about it
“BECAUSE THE GREATEST DISABILITY IS NOT HAVING NO ARMS AND LEGS , IT IS THAT SOME THING WHICH HINDERS YOU TO MOVE FORWARD -NICK VUIJIC” . in this journey what ever happens dont that this would stop you or moving further is
impossible or useless “COZ WHO GOES TO TRAIN STATION LOOK AT THE RAIL WAY
TRACK AND TELL ‘OH.. THE TRAIN IS NOT COMING AM LEAVING ‘ , THEY WONT COZ
THE SCHEDULE SAYS THAT THE TRAIN IS COMING ,IF THER IS NOTHING VISCIBLE IT NOT MEANS THAT THE SUCCESS IS NOT COMING -NICK VUJIC”
Nishanth
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Hi Alexandra,
I am both surprised and not at the same time to hear of Jerry’s passing on
18th Nov. Surprised that is was so sudden, not so because of contradictions
I have come to notice in the Abraham-Hicks teachings with The Word of God.
There is no doubt that there is a lot of wisdom in the teachings, but as I
make references to The Bible (NIV) the how’s became evident.
Blessings,
Alex
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Dear Alexandra,
Thank you for what you have said below. I don’t think anyone could have expressed it any better and it is a testimony to the internal work you have done to grow and expand as a conscious human being.
Thank you again. Much love xxx
Eva
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Good stuff!
I read in a book (I think it was Evolution Angel but not positive) that the
expanded/higher being of some of us decides to have a certain end on this
planet and before coming in they make it clear that’s what they want (for
some growth purpose) and make everyone promise not to intervene no matter
how much they (as the physical being) beg for help. An interesting
viewpoint.
Thanks for your newsletter. Always good info.
Catherine
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Thanks again for participating!
Dr. Gayek
We all need to believe in something to make sense of life. LoA is the philosophy I’ve chosen and the one that makes the most sense to me, the one that I’ve felt intuitively was true since I first started reading Seth. BUT–I’m compelled to question things and don’t want to have a blind faith.
For me, Jerry’s manner of dying raises a lot of questions. I’m not bothered that he died. I’m bothered that he didn’t die more consciously with more choice, given the advantage he had of having Abraham available for continual consultation and given the charmed life he and Esther seemed to lead by following the principles. He always seemed to be the one person who was able to live the principles most fully.
So was it a higher-level soul choice (this was his time to move on, having accomplished so much) or was it a breakdown in his ability to follow the principles (for whatever reason, no one is perfect, we all have our issues, etc etc)?
Of course, all this is speculation. We don’t really know what happened or what was going on during the months of his illness. I’m guessing that death was not a conscious choice since he opted for chemo. He and Esther were always so adamant about being radiantly healthy and not having health insurance. I’m really curious about what Abraham had to say along the way and after his death. I’d really like to see a statement from Abraham.
Perhaps there is a part of our higher selves that knows when it is time to go or when it is merely time for a lesson.
Perhaps this is why some people can “miraculously” heal, while others will croak (smile) no matter what they do.
All human and non-human beings have a built-in instinct for survival, so we seem to naturally defend against illness, even when our higher selves want something else. Jerry & Esther live in a human body, just as we all do, so they are not absent from that natural instinct.
As Steve Jobs said in his famous commencement address:
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.”
We just all have that natural instinct for survival and it makes us do things we think we would not normally do, even when our higher self intends to move forward.
Death is life’s instrument for change and for some reason, we just don’t like or accept change very easily. We just naturally resist it, no matter how evolved we are.
I like all of the comments; they all have their own merit, and some are just plain funny! A good read from all angles. 🙂 🙂
Dear Alexandra:
I’ve noticed a lot of people try to discredit Esther and Abraham and now Jerry (who was the most loved of the three I think :)); In my opinion people are scared of what the LoA means; you and only you are responsible for what happens to you, nobody wants that; we have the govertment to blame; the terrorists; the criminal. mom. dad, my boss, etc.
They also make fun of the be positive and happy all the time or as long as you possible can; they say that is irresponsible and other things. So what they try to say is worry is the responsible answer, or anger, or depression. Well I choose to be happy and optimistic because it feels better.
I choose to believe that Jerry must had have his demons and they were stronger than him or whatever. If we could be like our inner being we will be dead. 🙂
Lots of love,
Luz Maria
Dearest Alexandra,
Of all the opinions that have been inspired, by Jerry’s passing; yours resonated at the highest level with me. It was like a beautiful, refreshing, cool sea breeze, blowing over me on the hottest day I can imagine.
The news of Jerry’s death had such a profound effect on me, that it totally took me by surprise; and left me harbouring many questions which I was struggling to answer. But more importantly, it was the incredible, heartfelt sadness, I felt for someone I have never met, spoken to, or personally know; but yet he was closer to me, than the closest person I know.
The message Abraham brings to the world, is only of value, if you personally resonate with it. Its not something you can force someone to understand or learn. The message touches you at the core of your being, or it doesn’t……..
This is to me, the reason, why the message of Abraham; effortlessly makes its way around the world. Words cannot fully describe; although Dr. Gayek, I think you’ve done a great job, what this is all about. You either resonate with the message or you don’t.
Which leaves Jerry’s passing in the human basket that it belongs, none of us are going to get out of this thing called life alive. So if I can feel myself into a better place, when events in life, force me to pick my jaw off the floor. I know that I can thank Abraham for being the teachers, that have given me this training, which I have allowed; because I resonate with their teaching. Thank you to Esther and Jerry, for delivering this body of work to us; and may Jerry rest in peace, and flourish on the next phase of his Universal adventure…..
Thank you so much, Dr. Gayek
More comments from emails I’ve received, again in order of receipt, and unedited:
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Dear Alexandra
I spent most of Sunday thinking about Jerry and you and wondering at this
conundrum of our willingness to pass into the next stage of anything.
25 years ago I met Trevor Ravenscroft, the occult researcher and chronicler
of patterns of reincarnation as historical threads leading world and human
development. This man was my friend for 5 years or so at the end of his
life. To watch him come to the gate was extraordinary in that suddenly his
work was felt by him to be shaky and his faith in the goodness of the next
stage of his journey was not there for him.
It seems to me that our journey in this world is a very tricky conundrum.
Starting out as essence, seed power it our task to make this fruitful, to
build this into a plant that will flower and fruit such that good seed may
come from it.
Such an image is necessarily allegorical and incomplete, yet our becoming a
person of substance in this world is ultimately in service of the richness
of the final seed, if one sees life as one of many in the development of the
true self.
Yet all plants are also in service of the world. As they grow in strength to
flower and to fruit they also create oxygen from carbon dioxide, cool the
earth with their shade, bring down the rain and cradle rivers. Provide food
for other beings etc, etc, etc.
Thus it seems to me that what we do in this life, in service of self
development and of others can be seen in this way like a plant.
At each stage of its development a plant loses something. As it shoots it
breaks open the seed, as it flowers the leaves grow weaker, in order to
fruit the flower falls away. For some the eating of the fruit by a bird is
the beginning of growth again.
For myself, personally I find it difficult to leave one task and begin the
next. That is partly why I do things so well; because I am reluctant to move
on I use excellence as an excuse for not breaking from the task in hand to
begin the next. I suspect that when the end of this bodily life comes for me
I shall hold back, grab on, and not know how to take that step. Maybe this
fear of moving on will manifest as grabbing at medicines, I don’t know. I do
believe that I shall need help at that point to look up at the view forwards
and let go of the perception that my task is too important to leave.
I do not wish to judge Jerry for the way he handled the end of his life.
That would be too unkind, I would fear that this judgement would come back
to haunt me.
My own hoped for image is that I will have faith, will believe that it is
possible to let go of this personality and become again that which changes,
which powers and informs this personality, but I know that the more I go out
and hold workshops, the more people tell me how amazing my work is, the more
I try to spread the word about the transformative effects Sounding Bowls
have on people the more strongly I form this everyday self that must
eventually die and allow that which it cultivates and serves to emerge, like
the fruit, rotting, releases and fertilises the seeds growth into a new
plant.
Thank you for raising this question with Jerry, it goes deep.
Tobias
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“Jerry Was A Man, Not an ET”
Dear Dr Alexandra
I don’t understand all the bruhaha – Jerry was in his late 70s from what I understand. His body had undergone a huge amount of stress – from his early childhood when poverty surely prevented him from eating foods to sustain his growing body… and I believe that the body is like a house. If you don’t create solid foundations (balanced, organic foods to grow on), eventually the ravages of Time will cause the house to fall. (The parable of building a house upon the sand or upon rock is pertinent here).
He put his body through rigorous times, despite this lack (working in a circus, etc.), always pushing it to the limit.
In later years it was his /mind/ he pushed to the limit; and his role was to meet, love, marry and bring Esther to the point where her work with Abraham would sustain her when the time came for him to move on. He had ‘warned’ her right from the start that he would go first.
Who knows how they ate; if it was with pre-packaged foods and/or supermarket ‘raw’ foods, then they (along with most) were receiving a daily dose of chemical poisoning.. guaranteed to weaken the physical system. They were always on the road – stressful and exhausting in itself, even if totally enjoyed by them both.
It is possible Jerry thought chemo would keep him on Earth a bit longer so he and Esther could get used to the idea of his going: she is, after all, as human as the rest of us, facing the loss of her soulmate/partner. Wrong decision in that sense since it is the most deadly of all Big Pharma’s poison cabinet, but perhaps it did slow the dis— ease galloping through his body.
While Abraham will help her find her equilibrium quicker than most, they will not completely assuage the lack of physical warmth and communication, or the cold, empty space next to her in their bed for a long time to come (in my opinion) – which is normal .. and part of the human experience.
Anybody who doesn’t understand that, doesn’t understand the teachings. I think his body just wore out. I can live with that; I hope Esther can too.
Regards
Heidi
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Hi Dr. Gayek. Thank you for the Information on Jerry Hicks. I read that he was bitten by a spider in a Hay House email. And maybe he wanted to go so he did not heal. Maybe his Soul thought that he had done all he could here. Regards. Pearl.
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I’m very grateful that you’ve posted all these and have been such a
wonderful advocate for Esther and Jerry.
It’s given me great pause to reflect on all the points (both sides, I really
appreciated that) you’ve expressed and has helped me gain even more trust in
the process of life, and leaving is just another part of the process.
When my son had a ‘accident’ and passed over at the tender, vibrant age of
25 I had a great deal of grief, naturally, and then one day (I feel because
I was looking for the spiritual answer) I had an aha moment: the message
came across loud and clear…. this decision had NOTING to do with me… it
was not about ME and my relationship to my son, it was about HIS
relationship to his Higher Self… from then on, I gained peace… I still
grieved, because that’s what we do when we miss someone, but it wasn’t to
the crushing depths as it had been and over the years it has evolved,
lightened, eased, and that’s what grief does too when we are able to hold it
lightly…. Esther will be a beacon for us all on this one I’m sure.. and
Jerry… he’s in Pure Positive Energy, how grand that must be.
Thank you for all that you’ve done for each of us as we continue to question
and search for the spiritual answers to life.
Pat
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Thank you! And an excellent explanation too….
Carol
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Your article was timed to my inbox perfectly as I struggled with feelings of watching my mom move close to crossing. The Jerry story and your words connected my body, mind and spirit fully and moved me toward acceptance and letting go. I have learned a lot from Esther and Jerry over the last 10 years and owe the change in my day in a life attitude to them and the wisdom of Abraham. The timeliness of this article and the Jerry kicking the bucket topic is an amazing gift in itself.
It seems that there is not one sage that has defied death – not Jesus, Buddha, or more modern day Paramahansa Yoganana. Or even Steve Jobs, though he tried. Bodies wear out naturally, but life and living continues on — the new movie starts in the next room. The dying don’t die — they graduate and start a new life.
Thanks again for sending the Jerry words when I just needed them.
Donah
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As Wallace Wattles said, healing comes from focusing on health (not
sickness).
By having chemotherapy, didn’t Jerry Hicks do just the opposite and
therefore attract more sickness and even death via the LOA by doing so?
Debbie
Here’s another comment I received by email: “A friend sent me your email about Jerry Hicks and Lukemia”
I have many friends who are dedicated followers of the wisdom of Abraham as it comes through Esther. So I am curious about the message regarding Jerry Hicks and fatal leukemia.
Aren’t each of us humans infinite life-force entities dwelling in this realm dominated by duality? We can choose to learn to dwell in a state of separation or connectedness, can’t we?
Our bodies are incredible “biological computers” that get programmed as they are formed from conception and on throughout life’s journey here. Each individual human has access to infinite possibilities but how to get there through the “programming” is also ultimately unique to each person. That is why what works for “healing” one person may not work for someone else. As the saying goes, One truth, many paths.
So, we make our choices, consciously and unconsciously, shaping our experience and continuing to develop more and more complex “programming” … everything being energy vibrating at different frequencies (and with quantum physics even using the word “energy” is a bit limiting) … the “illusion” of this thing we call human life continues to mystify and challenge us … and we get too busy sometimes to sustain our Relaxation Response and other biological systems that are self-regulating and homeostatically restorative. Cancer is a form of virus that gets into the biological computer. Big Pharma and traditional American medical practices are on their way out when it comes to cancer. The corruption of making money from someone’s illness has distorted options focused on treating symptoms instead of causes. We may never know why Jerry chose the response to his leukemia that he did. Restoring the healthy state is ultimately a unique set of choices for each
human, isn’t it? We are not simple creatures, are we?
Add to our lives today the toxicity of the world humans have created for our bodies to cope with, human life continues to provide an adventure … Some people come into this world with DNA that is more resilient to this toxic world than others don’t they? Along the way, some people actually take time to choose WHY they are here instead of just accepting some cultural programming or story from those already available.
I choose my purpose or function here in human form to be that of learning to exist in the realm of “unconditional love”… a sort of energy state of consciousness that is resilient. With more than 7 billion humans each vibrating in a milieu of energy these days, sustaining a healthy human experience provides each of us quite a challenging adventure, doesn’t it?
It will be interesting to see how Esther Hicks/Abraham handles this current challenge.
The bioenergetic healer, Dr. Ted Morter, Jr., had the same challenge when his first wife “transitioned.” B.E.S.T. continues to provide some people access to healthier living. I imagine the words from Abraham
Blessings of this holiday season to you …
Janet
Storyweaver
As I promised the good Doctor, here’s my “two cents” on the matter.
First, I should point out that, to date, I personally have neither perused nor studied the material produced by Jerry and Ester Hicks, so, unless I visit their website or get into their material, I cannot claim any familiarity with exactly what they teach or expound on the subject of human mortality or immortality. Anything I have studied and come to believe on that subject comes from the works of others. Second, anything I state on the subject is based on what I have come to believe, based on my own course of study. I don’t expect anyone else to immediately latch onto any of it, unless they go through a similar course of study. And even then, because everyone is free to think how they please, a person is free to either accept or reject what follows – in part or in full – if they so choose.
To make an otherwise long story short, from my personal position, I have come to regard Death as simply a conception or idea, which, over time, has been effectively implanted into the collective human consciousness, thus forming what some writers have termed a “race-belief” (as its name implies, a belief present in the minds of the majority of the human race). That race-belief effectively states that Death is an absolute and fundamental fact of nature, from which none shall escape. And coupled with this is a belief which, from all indications, has its roots in the theological proposition that
Death is “the will of GOD” (I will refrain at this moment from any discussion of what each person’s conception of “GOD” is).
From the collective writings of at least one such writer (Dr. Gayek may have a clue as to whom I refer, based upon my past posts at the Science Of Being Well Network Discussion Forums), it is possible to trace out a clear, logical and sensible argument which effectively states that the phenomenon which Man calls Death is neither an absolute and fundamental fact of nature, nor is it “the will of GOD”, but rather, it is the unavoidable outcome of accepting the idea of Death as being true, i.e., believing in it. And in like manner, it is possible to trace out a similarly clear, logical and sensible argument, that, to put it simply: “Man Need Not Die”, i.e., that Life is the eternal and enduring principle – not something that is either impossible, or something that “GOD” will impart unto humanity in some far-off future, but rather, something which can actually take place, here and now.
However, just because one can trace out and realize such an argument, it does not necessarily mean that the person has instantly and automatically escaped from Death. A notable example which my studies has highlighted is the apostle known as St. Paul, and his own statement that (quoting loosely) while he has not yet attained to the resurrection of the dead, he is nonetheless pressing on towards its attainment (Philippians 3:12). The inference offered from my studies is that while St. Paul might have awoken in consciousness to the possibility that Man need not die, his own comments suggest that, at the moment of his writing, he had not yet realized the possibility as an actual fact in his own life. However, it can be put forth that knowledge of any principle is the first step towards inevitably getting it to work.
On the assumption that someone who is still reading this post may ask the following questions: (1) Can one change their mind to believe in Life, rather than in Death? and (2) How long will it take for belief in the principle of Life to override the belief in the idea of Death? Simply put, (1) I have come to believe that it can be done, and (2) I have no idea of how long it may or will take. Everything I have studied thus far postulates that it is a matter of individual effort, which no-one can do for another. I volunteer that Mr. Hicks sought to deal with it in his particular manner. Dr. Gayek will deal or is dealing with it in her particular manner. I will deal with it in my own way. And so will each and every person. It may well come down to each and every person’s personal implementation of that oft-quoted statement from the New Testament, which is
actually a scientific fact, simply stated – namely:
“It shall be unto you, according to your belief.” – Matthew 9:29.
“… and it is so with you, and with all of us.” – Wallace D. Wattles
Reach deep and be well. We are supposed to die just like we are supposed to be born. We live in the middle. It is nature’s wonderful cycle. Like a mighty oak tree, a seed falls to the ground, moisture sprouts it, dirt surrounds it, nutrients, air, water, minerals nurture it, it grows upward, outward, endures changes in weather, environment, it lives, breathes, sways in the wind, drops seeds to the ground, it ages, rots and dies, turns to mulch, fertilizes the soil and the process starts over with the birth of another mighty oak. Jerry is no different in his cycle. You are no differnt in your cycle. I am no different in my cycle. If you are looking for more, reach deep and live well. Nature takes care of it’s own. What is nature? Nature is the manifestation of God’s thoughts. We live in a thought universe… The mind of God. Reach deep and be well. All is well. All is as it should be. Accept God’s wonderful creation as it is intended to be accepted. Reach deep and live well. There is more in God’s natural plan. His thoughts never stop. We never end. Reach deep and be well. ~ m.s.wardrip