If you look at all these new age teachings today, all the excercises given (even the so called "magick books" and diaries) they all emanate from ancient spiritual teachings, and are commonly found in the mystery schools.
This includes "clearing the mind," learning to selectively think, learning to be "aware of the body," and being aware of the subconscious/mental routines that we do every day and may be harming us. But unlike LOA, it tells you to be your own harshest critic, to know and understand EVERY single "flaw" that you have and look at its ugly head(s).
The Law of Attraction essentially tells you that you attract what you don't want, and that which you obsess about, this is true. So it tells you to flip it and selectively choose positive thoughts. They use examples of money, a nice bicycle, of a nice house and lots of things- which is a trap in itself because they don't focus on the SPIRITUAL aspect of it...at all, which is the meat and bones of the mystery teachings.
You don't want to just control your thoughts and energies for the sake of some hypnotic state of happiness, or to get a new house. You want to do this so you can finally begin to understand your true self. To EMPOWER ourselves by being able to take control over our words, thoughts, actions, energies and be FULLY conscious of what we are doing in THAT moment.
The LOA stuff also doesn't teach you how to "increase" your influence, and visualization skills in a way that can create what you truly desire in your life. And with this, I don't mean this as an insult- I actually agree with all this stuff not being fully "revealed" to people yet. It can lead to someones ruin and psychological imbalances. Like the "amrita" or the "philosophers stone" it can be poison to people who plunge deep into these kind of things without first understanding themselves.
I'll give you an example of someone I know in real life who LOVES "the secret." She's right about many things, as are all of us in regards to who we attract, why, our goals and how we "attract" them to us. But the concept of "attraction" is an external one, it teaches you that you are simply "attracting bad" in your life BECAUSE of your own thinking patterns. She is a person whose life is now "seemingly" perfect and portrays this to everybody, including her relationship (boyfriend), but behind closed doors is in actuality, incredibly paranoid,needy for attention, drama, and much more. She often would vent all her negativity on some of her closest friends, but when someone can to her with "their negativity" she could not handle it. She's GREAT and controlling her thoughts and seeing "the bright side" but so much so that she doesn't see the realistic severity of things in her life, sometimes things about her, that are asking for her to pay attention.
This is not entirely true, "Attraction" is an external concept that makes you think of you and others as magnets. In actuality, the outer is a manifestation of the inner and events come into your life, "obstacles" (bad or good) because your spirit desires (true NEED) to LEARN something. So when you have this mentality that all this negativity is the bane of existence, and only creating positive thoughts- you NEGLECT a part of what your subconscious is trying to TEACH you in your "manifested" reality.
This leads, to always being happy on the outside, and creating a life that is good for yourself SOMETIMES at the cost of others- who may have genuine problems, or a karmic tie to you that you "blow off" simply because "they are not in your happy frequency." Pretending you don't have a shadow doesn't make it go away. If you want to stand in the light you see your shadow very clearly.
Therefore, the "Secret" is in understanding, in the moment, in the now, and always that EVERYTHING that comes into your life is a manifested (and observed) reality that YOU CREATED based on your inner condition. Yes, sometimes we can go in routine and our subconscious can manifest illnesses, negativity, and all sorts of things that we don't WANT or NEED in our lives. But often times they are there because it is something deep INSIDE you (not outside, attraction) that is begging to be NOTICED. If you constantly say "no" to the negativity without actually confronting it, facing it, and understand the why (and yes, chaos exists too, somethings just happen) can actually cause these inner issues to BUILD up, like a dam until one day the perfect bubble of "happy frequencies" comes bursting and we wonder why somebody as "good" as ourselves is now suffering!
The "good christian" may also have this happen to him, and wonder why God had forsaken him?
Someone mentioned gratitude, this is VERY true. VERY powerful. Thank the planet, your food, everything, but also, THANK yourself, your body, for all things good and BAD and allowing yourself to be a part of this sacred journey. This DOES create abundance in our lives because we become abundant on the inside.
Desire is not about what your ego wants. The Buddhists like to say that it is suffering. Not true. Desire is what you truly need as a spiritual being. If you know this, things will manifest into your life instantly (no joke) because you become a "vessel" (using a kaballistic word here) for the "need" yourself, as a spiritual being wishes to express in the material reality.
By truly understanding yourself, you understand "God" or at least, that spark that is One with all things. From here, "manifestation" and "law of attraction" isn't some formula of physics we have to manipulate (like people think of karma), it just becomes an expression of our "being" in our own personal realities. We become "co-creators" instead of passive observers. To "create" is to be an active observer.
Re: Does "The Secret" Really Work?
Well, I will continue trying to manifest good things for me and my family (which is also the world!) I am totally against the NWO and want as much as you guys to see it end and a healthy, happy planet put in it's place. If I get what I'm trying to manifest it will be proof positive that it works. I've just never known that anything like this could be done. I'm asking for roll of plastic.....believe it or not! But, it's special plastic and I don't have the $148.00 dollars that it costs, and I really do want it. I picture it in my mind, I know what it's like because I bought a roll of it a few weeks ago but now I need more. I don't think I can give any clearer visualizations to the Universe than my memories of using it.....how it feels, what it looks and smells like, how it was packaged, etc.....Thanks for all the posts both for and against it! I wanted to hear all sides to it and my gut instinct is telling me that it does work, but I have to be very specific and believe that it is in the mail on the way to my house. If this works I will definitely write back about it! I'm excited hoping it will really happen. And I want the big roll, not the little roll o.k. Universe? lol! THANKS!!!!!!
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