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October 10, 2006

LoA: Introduction

The Law of Attraction: an Introduction

The Law of Attraction is something that every person really should become familiar with as through it the universe will make itself available to you.

Sounds a bit hokey, but it really is true and this is where we will begin with it.

When we go through the Bible and other scripture, we find that we are made to be the children of God and as such, are part and parcel of Him/Her. We tend in most of the western world to shy away from such an idea as if it were heresy and God would strike us down at the mere thought. If you believe that God is omnipresent, then God MUST be in the area, no matter what is happening. We are given the ability to turn out backs on God and deny the existence of a supreme being. God does not have that luxury, if God were to turn His back on us and separate himself from our existence, we would cease to exist and return to the nothingness that we were created out of.

I've stated it before, but I have always been amazed that there is one point of fact that every single religion, that I have looked into at least, agree upon. That fact?
  • We are all eternal spiritual entities that are only temporarily inhabiting these little physical bodies.
Now as to what happens after that fact is up to debate and discussion. Some believe that you go directly to an eternal heaven or hell while others believe that your soul change clothes and reappear in a new body and continue the journey. The spectrum of these beliefs run everywhere in between and a few go to other places. Sadly, we tend to be willing to kill each other over these differing opinions instead of being able to come together with that one truth we can agree upon.

In the last few years, I have been spending time and energy trying to shift my focus in life from the external, the world of things and appearances, and relate to people and things from the point of view of soul instead. The Law of Attraction has recently become a lesson in practical experience in this experiment of mine.

How I was introduced to the Law of Attraction

I have been aware of the basic premise of the Law of Attraction for a very long time and just never really understood a practical way to put it into effect in my day-to-day experience. I am one of those people that can know all the theory about something, but not necessarily have a clue about practical application. I was aware of the idea that what we focus on is what we create in our existence.

Creation is something we need to discuss real quickly. I believe that we are all the children of God and as such, it is our birthright to inherit everything that God is. This most definitely includes the rite of and ability to create. For the vast majority of us, we are unaware of the fact that we are creating entities that are constantly adding to and changing the environment we participate in. What this means for most of us is that we are creating, but not really aware of what we are creating and as such, end up creating exactly what we don't want. How do we change this? You'll see and it is amazingly simple to learn and use if you will let it be.

I have known these basic facts for as long as I've been aware of. I remember reading "Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East" by Baird T. Spalding and knowing what the higher law they were talking about was, but I could never put my finger upon it or verbalize it to anyone. Throughout the books, they characters make reference to a higher law that they operate by, but I never really understood what they were referring to as to how to make use of it.

As time continued, I kept running into the general idea of the Law and yet, could never quite grasp what it was. That has recently been solved in a series of actions and events. Here's what has been happening in the last few months on this subject.

Shortly after my move back into a place of my own, which was practically an example of the Law in action in itself, I started the following series of events. I would say it started when I picked up a passenger and took her to film a commercial one morning and was going to return later and take her home. during the day, I stopped by one of my favorite used video and music stores in West Los Angeles called Record Surplus. I go to Record Surplus fairly often for their interesting selection of used CDs and DVDs for some excellent prices (ok, plug over). This particular day, I picked up "Clueless", "Planet of the Apes" Box Set Extras Disk, "Baron Baptiste: Journey Into Power", the recent "10 Commandments" TV miniseries & "The Secret".

Funny thing about that last one, "The Secret", for it was an impulse buy for no reason. The package had the logo on the front, a wax seal with an "S" in it and the text "Secret" overlaid. The back didn't say much either and I had no idea if it was a thriller or what.

I went to pick up my passenger and she asked me what I had been up to and I said shopping a bit. She asked what I bought and when I mentioned it, told me that I would find it very interesting and helpful. I put it on my video shelf and other than several friends borrowing it, they seemed to know more about it than I, forgot about it for the most part. I intended to watch it, but not knowing what it was, waited for a chance to watch anything.

A month or so later, like 2 weeks ago, a friend recommended a CD set he had been listening to. Now he is always offering self-help stuff to me and we have been helping each other out for a few years now. This time, he gave me a copy of "Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting" written and read by Lynn Grabhorn. Though the subject was of interest, I think the thing that actually got me to listen to the whole disk set (5 disks) was Lynn's voice and enthusiasm. In fact, it is the format that Lynn Grabhorn uses that I am using as the skeleton for these pieces. I hope I do her justice.

So after listening to this and having a major Ah-Ha moment (as Oprah would say), I finally had an expression and a practical example of the Law of Attraction. A few days later, I finally got a chance to watch "The Secret" and can you guess what it is about? Uh huh!

So I now had what I am starting to call the "Attraction Trio":
  1. What the "Bleep" Do We Know!?
  2. The Secret
  3. Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting

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