Get ready to hear one of the most intriguing concepts regarding attracting prosperity I have heard in years! I am really excited about this because you get to a point in the personal growth/coaching industry where it seems you are hearing the same old stuff again and again, repackaged with new names on labels slapped on it. Rarely do I come across a new way of thinking about something, so imagine my surprise after reading literally hundreds of books on the law of attraction and attracting money, to find a gem we can use to “tweak” how we are manifesting.

In John Randolph Price’s book Empowerment, he mentions that someone who thinks money is not a spiritual energy is still working at the lower nature of materiality and one who is functioning at the spiritual level must not think of money the same way. 

In other words, we know that our vibration is what attracts something into our lives and we know that like attracts like. So if you are a person who believes in the third dimensional physical reality, you are working at the material level and money must be thought of in material terms or else it will not be attracted to you.

If you are a spiritual person and functioning at the soul level, then you must think of money as a spiritual energy or a spiritual asset, for like attracts like and if you are vibrating here, you cannot think of money as a material asset; it will not be attracted to you. You must change your way of thinking about money if you change your level of functioning.

This is the reason many people called to a spiritual path are living in insufficiency…., because they have changed their vibration to another level of functioning, yet have not changed their thoughts to match. If they still view money as a material asset separate from God rather than spiritual substance made manifest, then there is no common frequency, thus no attraction.

This is also the reason people see what some call “materialistic” people with lots of wealth, and say “How does he have all that? He is not even a good person.” Well, he is in total alignment with how he views money. He certainly does not see it as a spiritual substance since he sees nothing that way.

With this model we have a new way of explaining why the spiritual camp seem to live in lack when they choose the path. (There may be other factors of course, but that is for another article). What I like best about this insight, besides the fact I have never heard it explained in this way, is that the universe doesn’t care what your choice is, as long as you are in alignment with it. Be materialistic and think of money as a material asset only…or be spiritual and think of it as a spiritual asset. The choice is yours!

 

In two-and-a-half months, the Treasury has used up half of the money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Here’s how it came and went so fast.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — President Bush has grudgingly allowed General Motors and Chrysler to drive away with the last few billion bucks in Treasury’s TARP till, which boasted $350 billion a mere 77 days ago.

How did it all slip away so fast?

The money pot — intended to save the teetering financial system — was formally proposed in a three-page missive that Treasury sent to Congress on the morning of Saturday, Sept. 20.

Over the course of two weeks, lawmakers debated the potential moral, ethical and financial hazards of handing over unprecedented power and unprecedented sums of taxpayer money to the Treasury. Their responses ranged from gobsmacked to apoplectic.

By Friday, Oct. 3, Congress had passed a 451-page bill that President Bush signed into law within hours. The law granted Treasury up to $700 billion, half of which was made available right away.

Since then, Treasury has:

• sent checks totaling $168 billion in varying amounts to 116 banks;
• committed another $82 billion to capitalize more banks;
• bought $40 billion in preferred shares of American International Group (AIG, Fortune 500) so the troubled insurer could pay off an earlier loan from the Federal Reserve;
• committed $20 billion to back any losses that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York might incur in a new program to lend money to owners of securities backed by credit card debt, student loans, auto loans and small business loans;
• committed to invest $20 billion in Citigroup on top of $25 billion the bank had already received;
• committed $5 billion as a loan loss backstop to Citigroup;
• agreed to loan $13.4 billion to GM and Chrysler to get them through the next few months.

Now, it’s likely that Treasury will ask for the second tranche of $350 billion.

“It’s clear Congress will need to release the remainder of the TARP to support financial market stability,” Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Friday. “I will discuss that process with the congressional leadership and the president-elect’s transition team in the near future.”

It’s not clear, however, whether Paulson will formally ask Congress for the second tranche of TARP money before turning over the keys of the Treasury to his likely successor, Tim Geithner.

Even if Paulson wants to, however, he’s likely to face an uphill battle getting it.

“It seems very unlikely that Congress will give the final TARP installment to the Bush administration,” said Jaret Seiberg, a financial services analyst at policy research firm Stanford Group.

That’s because the apoplexy among those who originally opposed the TARP or who voted for it reluctantly has grown and spread for several reasons.

One cause of Capitol Hill’s bailout rage: the Treasury has not used TARP money to help prevent foreclosures. Democratic lawmakers, who crafted the legislation and purposefully included language about foreclosure prevention, beg to differ. They have said repeatedly they will not release any more TARP money until the Treasury commits to use some of it to help troubled homeowners.

Second, lawmakers are not happy Treasury has given so much capital to banks without requiring them to lend more and do more to oversee how the banks are using the money. Paulson has said Treasury told TARP recipients that it expects them to lend. “But it’s not practical or prudent for the government to say ‘make this loan, don’t make that loan,’” he said Thursday, speaking at an event in New York.

And third, Republicans in particular resent what they see as TARP mission creep. House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, was one of many who opposed the auto bailout, and the fact that TARP was the source of the bridge loans in particular.

“The use of TARP funds is also regrettable, the latest in a growing list of TARP money uses that were not discussed with or envisioned by Congress when the program was authorized,” Boehner said Friday.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has said she is working on a bill to add more guarantees that future TARP funds be used to prevent foreclosures and protect taxpayers. But it’s not clear yet how much Democratic support that will get. And there is near total Republican opposition in the House to approve any more TARP funding.

If that remains the case, the Obama team will have to add yet another entry to its ever-growing to-do list when they take power on Jan. 20.

- CNN congressional producer Deirdre Walsh contributed to this report.