Welcome to our discussion in which we pose this question about the Law Of Attraction .. do you half get it or do you REALLY get it? There’s a world of difference between those positions, and two stories came up this week that illustrate those differences. So it seems like a good time to dive into the deep end of the pool. Not that you have to do that to create new and better things in your life, it’s just that for some of your questions, there is no simple answer, or even any answer at all, while we’re sitting at the shallow end, so let’s see if we can move a little deeper.

We’ll begin first with those two stories. Then we’ll get into the simplest way of thinking about the Law Of Attraction. And then for those of you who are looking for more complete answers, we’ll get into a deeper level of understanding and revisit those stories from that new perspective.

Story number one. This one has a friend Bob, who understands somewhat the Law Of Attraction and the nature of reality. We would say he half gets it. Some time back, Bob proposed that, if you became aware that a known sex-offender was moving into your neighborhood, and the family next door has small children, then you should warn them. If your Law Of Attraction understanding is at the half-get-it level, this might seem entirely reasonable. Taking such an action would be the responsible and caring thing to do.

Story number two. In response to one of our processes in which you make up a new and better version of your past, one of our friends Mike wrote ..
”The ideas that you guys are talking about make sense theoretically but they still do not account for some of the things that go on in this world.. Philosophy is fascinating unless a couple of planes fly into tall buildings down the street and your lover leaps to their death.. I totally get that we create the space for things to exist in our lives through our beliefs. The average American creates ‘terrorists’ through their beliefs. But changing the story about what happened is a stretch.. How [do] you deal with that ‘so called’ reality when someone you care about gets incinerated?”

We’ll come back to these stories, but let’s first get to the simplest level of understanding. All you really ever need to know about the Law Of Attraction is .. always choose the better feeling thought. Now .. no matter what your belief system is, there’s little about that statement that’s likely to cause you much of a problem. Being positive, choosing to see the glass as half full rather than half empty, seems to be widely acclaimed as a good move. And it is. This is Law Of Attraction 101. Always choose to find a better feeling thought. And here’s the important thing to understand about making that choice. People and circumstances cannot control your feelings.

You alone choose your thoughts. Your thoughts control your feelings. Therefore, by definition, you control your feelings. Nobody can MAKE you angry. Nobody can MAKE you happy. Now you may have a long-established habit of reacting automatically in certain ways to certain things, but don’t confuse a subconscious automatic response as being inevitable. It’s just a stored program. It’s no more and no less than what you have programmed your subconscious to do. You CAN rewrite the program. If you always choose that better feeling thought, you’ll do very well in this game of Life On Earth.

Beyond that, if you’re at all curious about why how you think is so important in your life, then we offer the next level of detail. The Law Of Attraction in its simplest form is .. you get what you expect. What you have chosen to believe, creates your reality. Those choices, once made consciously, are mostly stored away subconsciously, and seldom or never thought of consciously again. Now we realize that we’re heading into things metaphysical here, and if you’re a materialist, if your base assumption is that if there was anything non-physical you would be able to verify it by physical measurement, then we may be about to part company . But perhaps consider this.

In this one’s version of the world (yours may be similar), even in scientific experiments, the consciousness of the observer has been shown to affect the result, and Quantum Physics has raised serious doubts about the physical model of reality. We submit that you are first and foremost a consciousness, and that your thoughts have great power to affect your physical reality. What you know as certainties, will always happen. What you know as probable, will mostly happen. What you know as possible, will sometimes happen. What you know as improbable will happen rarely. The impossible never happens. This is the highly complex tapestry we call your expectations.

You may consider these expectations to be the result of you observing the world around you, but in fact, the opposite is true. You’ve had a lifetime of making choices about what to believe. By Law Of Attraction those choices have shaped your world. If you spend energy regretting your past, or worrying about your future, by your focus on negative things, you create an expectation, and negative things occur. Here’s why your feelings are important. When you’re feeling good, you’re in effect training yourself to expect good things. And good things will be the inevitable result of that. You can create whatever you want.

So now if your mind runs to .. but how can this be? Surely there’s a world of things and people out there making decisions and creating circumstances that I must deal with? To adequately answer this we need to go to a much deeper level. At this level we’ll be talking about concepts that may take you a while to get your mind around. It took this one months to really internalize all of this and he’s still learning. But here’s our promise to you. Once you get it, you’ll have all your questions answered .. and the questions behind the questions, and you’ll discover how elegantly simple it really is. It’s not complex. It’s just a new and different way of seeing things. Buckle up, here we go.

You’re a consciousness – an extension and always-connected part of the Collective Consciousness of All That Is. Your desires and intentions, your belief choices and expectations, define you. They literally create you. By Law Of Attraction, as you make a new choice, you step into a new version of you, and a matching version of everything and everyone wraps itself around you. This is the way in which you create your physical self, your physical world, AND your non-physical world, and these provide the context for your experience. This is fundamental and absolute. Everything else is your Story, your choice.

You are a not a physical being. The time/space physicalness that is you and the world around you, is simply the stage on which your chosen Story is playing out. You are a time-less non-physical consciousness having a time/space physical experience, and, to the extent that you choose it, a non-physical experience. The experience is real. The Story is a work of fiction. The Story is simply the illusion that provides the context for the experience. This context is a moment by moment creation of yours. The stuff around you that looks like a solid, shared, continuous world, is not. It is a collage of matching worlds – yours and those of the others in your life. It is a movie playing in your mind.

When you woke up this morning, you created instantly around you the bed, the floor, the walls, time and gravity. They were there because you knew they would be. There was no energy, focus or attention required because this is what you expected – not at a conscious level but stored away in that tapestry of yours in the section called Certainties. Are you beginning to see how powerful you are? Can you see that as you make new choices, and expect the result to manifest, you step literally into a new version of reality and matching versions of everything are attracted into this reality.

You exist in many versions. When you choose to go left at the fork, you step into one version of your virtual reality, and in that version you will intersect with the versions of everything that match that version of you. Another equally valid version of you goes right at the fork, and on that path you intersect with a different set of matching versions of everything. Within the shape of the consciousness you’ve chosen, you’re probably perceiving only one, but both versions simultaneously exist. Each version has its own matching versions of people and things. The miracle of the Law Of Attraction is that these collages look flowing, and continuous, and real, and believable.

Such is the power of your expectations, and can you see how self-reinforcing they are. They come with their own life-support system. Once you have chosen to believe something, the world around you conforms, and from a purely physical perspective, that world around you “proves” that you’re absolutely right. Look, we know that when you’ve long-practiced the idea of being in One World, it can be a bit mind-boggling to step back from that practice. But we encourage you to see that this new way of looking at things is not complex. It’s just different. And you don’t have to be able to envisage all those different versions. What’s important is knowing that you’re the decider.

So now let’s revisit Story number one. Bob feels it’s his responsibility to warn the neighbors, to suggest that they be careful, perhaps to modify their behavior and thereby minimize the chances of something bad happening. It sounds perfectly reasonable until you understand what’s actually going on. The only relevant question is, is Bob heading into a feel-good conversation or not? It’s possible but perhaps not likely, because it’s a tricky subject on which to have an uplifting conversation. If the result is that the neighbors live more in fear, then whether they modify their behavior or not, they will be attracting more of what they do not want – whether from this particular threat or from something else.

From Bob’s perspective, while we’re NOT suggesting that he’s necessarily consumed by worry and fear, we ARE suggesting that since this is what came to him as an example of a something a compassionate person would do, it must be somewhat in the foreground of his thinking, and therefore these unwanted things are, to some extent, the sort of things he is creating in his world. All that he needs to do to create harmony in his neighborhood is to imagine that peaceful place into BEingness, but if the dominant vibration is “guard-against”, then no amount of taking action or giving “responsible” warnings will prevent unwanted things from occurring.

In Story number two, Mike is making a distinction between .. things in his past and his present that he is holding as “real”, and .. things that can be changed. Well of course none of it is “real”. Things don’t just “go on in this world”. When Mike says “this world”, he means that One World out there you all share, and there is no such world. Things go on in Your World, the virtual reality you’re creating, within the boundaries you set by your expectations. All of it is an inside job, by which we mean it’s not out there external to you. As we said earlier, you can think of it as a movie playing in your mind, and everything and everyone in it is faithfully following your screenplay.

There are no “terrorists” in your past, present or future, except those you create by choosing to believe them into existence. There is no “average American” whose behavior you can cite in order to explain how things are. There is no one-version of the CNN nightly news, and the sun only rises in the East because that’s what it says in your screenplay. If you asked us how and why things happen this way or that way in Your World, as Mike did for example with a question about holocaust survivors, we would say, it’s your Story, so you will have to tell us. And if you have no answer, we would further say, then there is no answer that exists until you make a new belief-choice and fill in the blanks.

So think on these things. If you can begin to grasp all of this, you will have arrived at a place that many have yet to get to. In this one’s world and probably also in yours, most of the so-called gurus of the Law Of Attraction are still wrestling with the “How”s of all of this because they are trying to explain everything from a One World perspective. And nobody can do that. And so the Stories get long and involved, and maybe this or maybe that, or maybe it depends somewhat on what those “others” over there also want. By simple logic .. if you can have your world be anything you want (and you can), then so can everyone else. Can you see therefore that you cannot be sharing a One World.

This is the elegant simplicity of it. You’re creating Your World in infinite versions and stepping between those versions by the belief-choices you make. As you do that, you intersect with the matching versions of the worlds those others are creating. But all of it, you, them, the “world”, even us; all of it is an inside job.

So are you beginning to REALLY get it? Half getting it is not an easy road to be on because on that road there are no simple answers. But when you REALLY get it, your questions take on a different shape. Now the task becomes, how do I create new probabilities in my expectation tapestry? And new certainties? And that is the task we will be spending more and more time upon as we intersect with you here on this path. We look forward to your questions. We enjoy our interactions immensely. You are creating us in Your World even as we are creating you in ours. Let’s dance.