Good question Jeremy. Every day I am consciously attempting to refine how I'm supposed to help. I do think we get caught up in and can complicate the idea of service. Generally speaking, I think the idea is to be there for people when they ask for help. We spend so much time thinking about how to impart our knowledge and cure the world of its informed ways, but it seems that what this world needs is not people telling each other how to think, we need people to help each other in very common and simple ways. Service becomes very simple and straightforward that way.
So to answer your question, yes I think in some manner we attract things.
My understanding is that a healer (an adept) is someone who is consciously working with catalyst. Ra describes healers in this manner..
"6.1 The purpose of carefully and consciously opening this channel is to serve in a more dependable way, in a more commonplace or usual way, as seen by the distortion complex of the healer. To others there may appear to be miracles. To the one who has carefully opened the door to intelligent infinity this is ordinary; this is commonplace; this is as it should be. The life experience becomes somewhat transformed and the great work goes on."
"66.10 Therefore, there is no difference as long as the healer never approaches one whose request for aid has not come to it previously. This is also true of the more conventional healers of your culture and if these healers could but fully realize that they are responsible only for offering the opportunity of healing, and not for the healing, many of these entities would feel an enormous load of misconceived responsibility fall from them."
Since you can only help others in the manner that they are reaching out to you, you can see in the above that we don't have to cure the world or guide others in the moment, but passively "offer opportunity" for assistance or wisdom. And I do think we are supposed to be performing some unique task related to our interests and desires in giving back to the world, and not be passive in that sense.
In your example, I think it would be ok to reach out to them. When I think about my past, there were times when people asked simple things of me and I just didn't feel like doing it. And usually there were reasons that would make helping them inconvenient, so I could validate it. The more we help each other, the more possibility there is of inspiring others to do the same, in turn creating an environment of service and assistance.
So to answer your question, yes I think in some manner we attract things.
My understanding is that a healer (an adept) is someone who is consciously working with catalyst. Ra describes healers in this manner..
"6.1 The purpose of carefully and consciously opening this channel is to serve in a more dependable way, in a more commonplace or usual way, as seen by the distortion complex of the healer. To others there may appear to be miracles. To the one who has carefully opened the door to intelligent infinity this is ordinary; this is commonplace; this is as it should be. The life experience becomes somewhat transformed and the great work goes on."
"66.10 Therefore, there is no difference as long as the healer never approaches one whose request for aid has not come to it previously. This is also true of the more conventional healers of your culture and if these healers could but fully realize that they are responsible only for offering the opportunity of healing, and not for the healing, many of these entities would feel an enormous load of misconceived responsibility fall from them."
Since you can only help others in the manner that they are reaching out to you, you can see in the above that we don't have to cure the world or guide others in the moment, but passively "offer opportunity" for assistance or wisdom. And I do think we are supposed to be performing some unique task related to our interests and desires in giving back to the world, and not be passive in that sense.
In your example, I think it would be ok to reach out to them. When I think about my past, there were times when people asked simple things of me and I just didn't feel like doing it. And usually there were reasons that would make helping them inconvenient, so I could validate it. The more we help each other, the more possibility there is of inspiring others to do the same, in turn creating an environment of service and assistance.