Esther Hicks and Jerry Hicks

Esther and Jerry Hicks are American authors in the New Thought tradition, best known for Ask and It Is Given, a guide to the Law of Attraction based on channelled teachings.

Esther and Jerry Hicks built a substantial following over several decades through workshops, recordings, and books presenting teachings they attributed to a non-physical collective consciousness called Abraham. Ask and It Is Given, their most widely read title, lays out the core framework of the Law of Attraction in systematic detail: that thoughts and feelings generate a vibrational frequency that attracts matching circumstances, and that deliberately shifting one’s emotional state is the primary mechanism for changing one’s life.

The book is structured partly as philosophy and partly as a practical toolkit, offering numerous exercises designed to move readers up what the Hicks call the emotional guidance scale. For readers already sympathetic to New Thought traditions — which stretch back through Napoleon Hill and beyond — the framework will feel familiar and the exercises accessible. The writing is clear, and the central message that emotional well-being is something that can be actively cultivated has resonated with millions of readers.

From a critical standpoint, Ask and It Is Given rests on metaphysical claims that are not empirically supported, and its framing — that circumstances respond directly to belief — can be troubling when applied to illness, poverty, or trauma. The implication that suffering results from misaligned thinking places responsibility in ways that critics consider harmful. Readers should approach it as a personal philosophy of attitude and focus rather than a literal description of how reality works, and by that measure it offers real comfort and practical direction to those drawn to its worldview.