The Foundation Stone

“Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself.” ― Neville Goddard, Your Faith Is Your Fortune

I think that one of the biggest tripping points of the law of attraction is to be found in its very name, together will all the talk about like attracts like.

Now I'm not bashing The Secret or any of the other "law of attraction" books and courses out there. They do provide some very useful tools and are a good entry point for people completely new to this line of thinking and living. But the whole idea of "attracting" stuff places us into a mechanistic, Newtonian paradigm where we need to vibrate at a certain level to get what we want. And even then, the argument that like attracts like is not always true, sometimes like repels like and opposites attract. A couple of minutes playing around with 2 magnets demonstrates this very clearly.

But the main point here is that even though it may appear that we attract things as we walk across the bridge of incident it is all simply an out-picturing of our consciousness and therefore an inside-out paradigm.

And so, if I desire something, be it something material or an experience, I must clothe myself in the consciousness of possessing that thing or being the person having the experience.

All the while remembering that the world is only the mirror and that the things that may concern me now are just effects, past states of being, in the world of effects and that my job is to "remember when" and then revise.