Re: "The Secret" and Law of Attraction - My questions
Posted: 21 Oct 2011, 23:12
Ok, I watched Louise Hay literally go from nothing to being one of the heavy weights of the New Age movement during the 80's and yes, she started many years earlier "affirming" that she'd become a vital "source" in the L.A. spiritual community. It took a bit of time and nearly loosing it all to boot, but she got there and she brought an handful of friends with her, including Marianne Williamson. I say this, I was there!
So on your point about the mind/thought setting the focus and allowing us to "see" those opportunities that allow us to move forward and create our reality, you are kind of correct. Kind of, in that everything comes with a price, this too is a law within mysticism and life itself -- NOTHING IS EVER FREE THERE IS ALWAYS AN EXCHANGE. With Louise and Marianne both I saw them loose a great deal of their down-to-earth sense of connection with people in exchange for business success and propelling that carnal enterprise forward, frequently with curious rehash when it comes to the material shared. . . but that goes with the territory, I can't list the number of New Age writers who've plagiarized Victorian writers like DeLawrence and Blavatsky or any number of great spiritual icons from around the world, claiming it to be "channeled" or insinuating that it's their own view and they got it from no source but their own heart. . . an odd thing given that they have books by the very people they "paraphrase".
Your contention however, like most New Age material, negates the law of Karma let alone Reincarnation and the fact that we are responsible for our past-life transgressions. So given that the most dominate energy from that previous lifetime will be part of who we are in this new life be it positive or negative, how does all this "Self-Creation" fit the bill? There's a huge probability that your personal karma is going to nix those lofty goals so that your own soul path find balance and is able to actually learn the lessons you are supposed to be learning rather than running from them and trying to "fix it" but accumulating more and more negative karma by way of your ego-based self-centerdness.
So many that follow New Age ideologies RUN when faced with such points in fact; on one hand they will talk about Karma and Reincarnation, etc. even Hermetics and yet, when those same principles start regulating and negating self-will and fantasy, they come up with excuses. My favorite being the re-write that all Karma is instant and does not transfer from life to life even thought that's what's been taught for thousands of years the world over. This newer idea however, is more commercially appealing, isn't it? But even on that level, it cannot explain away the fact that karma can and will affect those various affirmations -- there is an "outside" influence that can only be controlled when we deal with it head on and learn the lessons it offers us.
One can become rich & famous by way of focus but as I've said, there is a price. I was offered the world in my younger days but only if I made certain compromises such as being a rent-boy to older, very powerful men that could hand me my career. So long as I was willing to to keep my personal beliefs and points of view "Politically Proper" when in so-called Polite Society. Too, I had to be willing to apply "pressure" in ways that would be to my personal benefit, which is a kind way of saying that one must use creative intimidation and even "muscle" from time to time, keeping an ear to the ground so you could usurp any advantage the competition might be gaining and so on.
I ended up known but not part of the upper crust because I wouldn't sell my soul -- the price of doing business. I've certainly lived an amazing life and even tasted what it would be like to be part of that high profile life but I couldn't and wouldn't pay the asking price. This is what these teachings leave out.
NO, I'm not saying that all people with money or fame are corrupt or evil, only that there is a price. The majority of upper-middle-class bums simply have to work 60-70 hours a week, have no true "family life" and ultimately pay with their health. They must still deal with office politics and the schmooze the client games a.k.a. dirty pool. Not the scale of manipulation and usury we've seen with Microsoft and other such "pseudo-monopolies" but even a generous soul pays for his/her sins in life, so take a long hard look at his price.
Pardon my rant, but I've not only played these games over the years as a patron, I used to make the pitch. I can no longer do so because I know where the gaps and inconsistencies lay as well as what kind of racket it actually is. Sorry, but 35 years in the business and I've become quite jaded. Not because of "failure" but because of the lies.
So on your point about the mind/thought setting the focus and allowing us to "see" those opportunities that allow us to move forward and create our reality, you are kind of correct. Kind of, in that everything comes with a price, this too is a law within mysticism and life itself -- NOTHING IS EVER FREE THERE IS ALWAYS AN EXCHANGE. With Louise and Marianne both I saw them loose a great deal of their down-to-earth sense of connection with people in exchange for business success and propelling that carnal enterprise forward, frequently with curious rehash when it comes to the material shared. . . but that goes with the territory, I can't list the number of New Age writers who've plagiarized Victorian writers like DeLawrence and Blavatsky or any number of great spiritual icons from around the world, claiming it to be "channeled" or insinuating that it's their own view and they got it from no source but their own heart. . . an odd thing given that they have books by the very people they "paraphrase".
Your contention however, like most New Age material, negates the law of Karma let alone Reincarnation and the fact that we are responsible for our past-life transgressions. So given that the most dominate energy from that previous lifetime will be part of who we are in this new life be it positive or negative, how does all this "Self-Creation" fit the bill? There's a huge probability that your personal karma is going to nix those lofty goals so that your own soul path find balance and is able to actually learn the lessons you are supposed to be learning rather than running from them and trying to "fix it" but accumulating more and more negative karma by way of your ego-based self-centerdness.
So many that follow New Age ideologies RUN when faced with such points in fact; on one hand they will talk about Karma and Reincarnation, etc. even Hermetics and yet, when those same principles start regulating and negating self-will and fantasy, they come up with excuses. My favorite being the re-write that all Karma is instant and does not transfer from life to life even thought that's what's been taught for thousands of years the world over. This newer idea however, is more commercially appealing, isn't it? But even on that level, it cannot explain away the fact that karma can and will affect those various affirmations -- there is an "outside" influence that can only be controlled when we deal with it head on and learn the lessons it offers us.
One can become rich & famous by way of focus but as I've said, there is a price. I was offered the world in my younger days but only if I made certain compromises such as being a rent-boy to older, very powerful men that could hand me my career. So long as I was willing to to keep my personal beliefs and points of view "Politically Proper" when in so-called Polite Society. Too, I had to be willing to apply "pressure" in ways that would be to my personal benefit, which is a kind way of saying that one must use creative intimidation and even "muscle" from time to time, keeping an ear to the ground so you could usurp any advantage the competition might be gaining and so on.
I ended up known but not part of the upper crust because I wouldn't sell my soul -- the price of doing business. I've certainly lived an amazing life and even tasted what it would be like to be part of that high profile life but I couldn't and wouldn't pay the asking price. This is what these teachings leave out.
NO, I'm not saying that all people with money or fame are corrupt or evil, only that there is a price. The majority of upper-middle-class bums simply have to work 60-70 hours a week, have no true "family life" and ultimately pay with their health. They must still deal with office politics and the schmooze the client games a.k.a. dirty pool. Not the scale of manipulation and usury we've seen with Microsoft and other such "pseudo-monopolies" but even a generous soul pays for his/her sins in life, so take a long hard look at his price.
Pardon my rant, but I've not only played these games over the years as a patron, I used to make the pitch. I can no longer do so because I know where the gaps and inconsistencies lay as well as what kind of racket it actually is. Sorry, but 35 years in the business and I've become quite jaded. Not because of "failure" but because of the lies.