Hi Heavensent,

You raise a very important inquiry - thanks for asking. I think awakening people are now beginning to see that how "The Law of Attraction" has generally been presented is distorted and grossly misleading.

I think in understanding why, we need to take a big picture approach... who are we really and why are we here? From the Openhand perspective (and many others) we are pure presence - everything/nothing through it all and beyond it all. The One Life, Seer or Source.

From the Source flows all life - through us it flows as the soul. So we are the Source (Seer) and a unique expression of the Seer at the same time (the expression being the soul).

To be in perfect harmony in life is to know ourselves as the pure presence and flowing spontaneously as the soul in every moment - acting according to how we feel to be. When we are doing this, it feels harmonious, aligned and totally 'right'.

Now humanity has been caught in an illusion. The soul has been fragmented into various conditioned behaviour patterns and fixed mental routines. We - as the Seer - identify erroneously with the separated self. In that place all kinds of limitations arise constraining our beingness - things we might desire or want for example. The Seer needs nothing because it is everything.

So the Seer - that which we truly are - would not deny one experience or another. When we are being the Seer, there is no such thing as 'good' and 'bad'. If our soul was to reach a 'road junction' with one direction marked 'hell' and the other 'heaven', it truly wouldn't have a preference on which way to go - except in the direction of most learning and evolutionary development.

The journey is all about coming into Enlightenment: knowing ourselves as the Seer expressed through the soul without attachment to the outcome. The soul creates mirroring experiences in the outer world to reflect who and what we are really being thereby inviting us to peel away limitation and behaviours that don't serve. It's not about suplanting one thought with a more 'desirable' one. This is highly disempowering. It's like being a police detective at the scene of a crime where someone has removed all the evidence! Better that we embrace the though/emotion/feeling and work to understand where it came from. Then if it truly doesn't serve us, we can dissolve it by becoming awesomely okay with it.

So, by the (true) "Law of Attraction", our soul draws to ourselves circumstances and people to reflect how we are being and asking the question "does that serve you?". How the law has been perverted and distorted, is that people are advocating trying to change our inner world by intention to create a more 'desirable' outer reality. But I ask where is the desire coming from? The soul does not desire - it does yearn for right action yes, but there is no desire and no resistance to its destiny, whatever that is.

So in my view, the law has been misrepresented and is leading millions of people into blind alley ways of identification - desire for 'this' and 'that'. One day, not too far away, there will be quite a few people sitting around with serious egg on their faces!

Chris

Thank you very much, Chris, for your reply - it certainly provoked a lot of conversation in our house this morning! I had to read it several times! What I now understand is that LofA is simply drawing us into the world of desires again, which is not spiritual growth. I wonder if it is a cultural thing ... I had noticed that the particular books are more directed to U.S. lifestyle, rather than transcending that lifestyle and finding God. It seemed to be all about what you could (should I say, should) desire in this life, material things in particular, and not about a relationship with God. There seems to be an encouraging of desires, not a transcending of them. I just could not get, for example, that if you were poor you could become rich by imagining and believing you were so, and anyway, why should you want to focus your desires on becoming rich as if that were the answer to your problems! If your consciousness is raised, you wouldn't mind being poor, it just wouldn't bother you at all! So why is L of A being advocated?

I understand that the Source is in a sense amoral; it has no concept of right or wrong - to it, everything is okay, and it enjoys experiencing itself as 'us' through us ... a 'piece' of the Divine as Chris, for example, enjoying the 'Chris-ness' of the things you do and think. ...On one level, it doesn't matter what we do! But persons who have a hunger for self-realisation are operating from a different set of drivers. It is so complicated to explain in words!

One thing: please would you define 'right action' because once you've got 'right' there's also 'wrong' in the picture. Do you mean 'right action, i.e. in accord with the laws of nature'? I am not sure what you mean there.

Once again, I thank you for the time taken with your considered reply.

heavensent.

p.s. i saw the words 'conscious cookery' on your site and must check this out - very dear to my heart!

Well I'm glad to have provoked an inquiry!

Just to be clear though, I am not saying "The Law of Attraction" is wrong - far from it. I am saying the way it has been misinterpreted and indeed perverted (possibly in an attempt to control and make money) is leading people astray.

To me, "The Law of Attraction" is a universal truth. Our inner configuration of consciousness draws to us - just like a magnet - EXACTLY the right mirroring circumstances we need to see who we are and what we are being. In so doing, we get to see and feel what really doesn't serve us and peel away those behaviours. When we do this, our inner consciousness changes and therefore we attract a new mirror to ourselves (again by The Law of Attraction).

By continually looking at the truth we see in the mirror, affords us the opportunity to evolve and grow by peeling away that which we know in our hearts does not truly serve.

This quite different from deciding what we want (with the mind) then manipulating our thoughts and inner state of consciousness to try to manifest what we want. Actually it's no secret at all - people have been doing just that for centuries. There's nothing new about "The Secret", like everything else, it's just been packaged in a new way.

It is this mind led manifestation which has brought us to the brink of disaster. In my observation, what we really need to do is to go inside and align with "Right Action" - that which feels aligned to the natural flow of the universe. Then we come back into harmony and discover a way of living which not only totally serves us, but also the WHOLE OF LIFE.

Ah yes... bliss!

Chris

Chris, I love the way you shared this:

"To me, "The Law of Attraction" is a universal truth. Our inner configuration of consciousness draws to us - just like a magnet - EXACTLY the right mirroring circumstances we need to see who we are and what we are being. In so doing, we get to see and feel what really doesn't serve us and peel away those behaviours. When we do this, our inner consciousness changes and therefore we attract a new mirror to ourselves"
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In my experience, I have received a different message from the Law of Attraction "messengers" depending on where I have been on my journey. I notice that others do, too. For a long time, I heard, "think about what you want and keep it in your daily thoughts repeatedly and it will manifest." Then years later I heard, "think about what you want but then let it go because you can either have something - or want it - so let go and it will manifest." Now I hear something completely different.

From the teachings of Abraham, the message I get is that nothing is more important than feeling good, and to stop worrying about trying to create "stuff" because we only think we want that "stuff" because we will feel better in the having of it - so feel happy now and we'll have everything we really want. Happiness is effortless and we should stop all the action and efforting and be happy now.

Often I hear, "focus on feeling good now, whether your stuff comes or not, and that way, even if your stuff never comes you'll be perfectly happy without it." It seems that "Abraham" knows that if we focus on feeling good we'll eventually realize we don't want the "stuff" anyhow so there is no disappointment in not receiving it.

I've always understood the Law of Attraction to simply be a Universal law that just exists like gravity - we don't apply it, it applies itself to our lives. And that it brings us what we are a vibrational match to. This makes sense to most people. OK, so we have a vibration - and we attract what matches that vibration.

But the trap here is that many of us have been conditioned to believe that our vibrational point of attraction is based on our state of mind and/or emotions. That when we feel depressed, we attract more depression; when we feel joy we attract more joy. While this can be true it's not always true.

In my experience, vibration is changed only by transcending the mind; by peeling away our layers of story.

But if we really think about what "vibrational attraction" is, it is just another construct created in the mind that is inherently empty... and everyone has a different interpretation. The dualistic mind naturally wants to equate attraction with "like attracts like" - and label our vibration according to a dualistic scale. But our vibration holds no duality - there is only duality in the mind. We must transcend the mind to even begin to grasp the experience of vibrational attraction...

Here's a thought about the Law of Attraction:

There are people in this world who are greatly suffering and act violent and angry. Often, these angry, violent people attract compassionate people into their lives who come bearing unconditional love and kindness that helps the violent, angry people begin their process of personal Transformation.

I have seen many instances of this happening all over the world: angry and violent people attracting unconditional love before they, themselves, change their mindset to match.

Since an angry, violent person can attract unconditional love and kindness into their lives before they do the inner work to change first, by the concept of "Law of Attraction" that means that while those people are angry and violent, they are a vibrational match to unconditional love and kindness.

This is proof that our state of mind is not determining our vibrational point of attraction.

So, what is "vibrational alignment?" Clearly it isn't dualistic in nature. We attract what we are in alignment with - but that alignment is not based on our state of mind, whether we perceive ourselves as good or bad. We attract situations and circumstances in our lives based on what we need in order to shed our illusions and stories and distractions and be our authentic selves.

What we attract may consist of "desirable" circumstances - or "undesirable" circumstances no matter how positively or negatively we are thinking. We get what we need - what we're a match to for our spiritual evolution - not what our conditioned mind thinks it wants.

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Hi Calence,

Greetings, welcome to Openhandweb and thanks for posting

Yes I agree totally - it's not about trying to manifest things. Authentic manifestation happens from what we are being. We don't have to 'effort' that, things just unwind, unfold as we let go, and 'resources' appear as and when we truly need them.

And humbly I'd invite an even deeper realisation from the Abraham teachings you've quoted...

"From the teachings of Abraham, the message I get is that nothing is more important than feeling good, and to stop worrying about trying to create "stuff" because we only think we want that "stuff" because we will feel better in the having of it - so feel happy now and we'll have everything we really want."

In the Openhand Approach, everything arises from presence, everything/nothing, the absolute, the source. It is the void which precedes all things and we are that. We call it the "Seer".

The Seer needs nothing nor wants nothing because it already is everything. So neither does the Seer in us need to feel good. The Seer accepts totally anything that presents itself.

It's like at the source of who we truly are, we are already complete. Yet out of that arises experience - the soul - a unique expression for all of us. So we're being the Seer and a unique expression of that all the time.

If we can totally accept and embrace every experience - even pain and sorrow - without needing to change it, then little by little we drop into this hallowed place of the void. Then all experience can simply flow through us unhindered.

We find ourselves being drawn on a journey into ever higher vibrational states of harmony and universal alignment. There is an increasing sense of 'rightness'.

Chris

Thanks for the welcome, Chris!

Yes, absolutely - Abraham speaks to the concept of wanting to be happy, which, when we are Being pure presence the wanting of happiness is just another construct but once people experience that happiness through concentrated effort of letting go, they are much more likely to find themselves actually experiencing that happiness (rather than wanting it) and then the concept of happiness dissolves and becomes simply "what is."

Every experience is beneficial to our lives in some way. What we label "undesirable" experiences end up being the more useful experiences (in my experience).

I like to think of it in terms of "passenger consciousness" which seems like your term "seer" if I understand what you're saying correctly. It's like sitting in the backseat of the vehicle of the body and allowing everything to just be, observing the experiences as they unfold...

The passenger? In one sense yes, but then I'd also say to be truly the Seer, there's total engagement too. Otherwise we're not really being presence at all, but rather the Observer, which is still a subtle identity. There's still a degree of separation.

Chris

I don't think of it as an observer without engagement - just that the passenger is not trying to control the external circumstances by using the mind to tell the body where it thinks it should be, do or have...

As I experience 'Passenger Consciousness' I am pure presence, engaging in everything that I experience rather than using the mind to determine what experiences I want to have. Enjoying the ride, not driving the experience of what happens

In which case, we would be speaking of the same thing.

Chris

Gotcha! OK. There are so many ways to phrase our expressions! hehe
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And the words are so important, because within them hide these 'oh-so-subtle-shadows'.

Chris <3

Great point - I am actually looking forward to getting my book back from my editor soon to see what she has discovered and all the places she's found that don't actually convey my vision/message... can't wait to see what shadows are there for me to see as a reflection!

LOL!

Yes indeed. It reminds me of coaching - everytime I've 'advised' something, I always know the words are meant for me too.

Very humbling!

Chris

We really are speaking to ourselves, aren't we? I love it!

I love your posts, Chris, I always get something out of them - thank you for sharing this beautiful resource with all of us. I'm glad I was able to find the video link for 5 Gateways that was posted on Facebook that led me here!!

I really enjoyed your exchanges.. Hullo

I felt like adding that not-wanting some thing also means not wanting to not want, if you know what I mean.

The point is that it doesn't mean I am not supposed to feel I want or need something, but it means that this wanting will now arise from a totally different place, not the conditioned anxious and grabby, but an authentic one. And people often dissolve that because they don't want to want. Sounds funny

Another thing is that knowing how it is supposed to be (not wanting or needing anything) may cause one to get trapped in a 'desirable' state without really being there. I have encountered a couple of blind cases lately, it can be a real trap and get people stuck for years.

I am not enlightened and also not perfect, and it is ok. So why should I behave and force myself into pretending as if I am? And it is natural that till then I will want things and maybe even will want to follow and try that. Can I accept it too? I mean fully accept, embrace it?

To me the most important thing is not to forget 'where I am going'. And I am not going anywhere, but deeper and deeper into myself and into the connection between me and everything. This shift in attitude really helps me not to get too lost in ideals and fake identities. I do use a couple if they serve, but as long as they serve me and not vice versa.

Another thing that is helping me is keeping the balance between being human and not human, accepting the human part of me. It is very hard for me, but I learn to see the blessing in it and it helps.

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