By now you’ve heard all the buzz about the movie The Secret. www.TheSecret.tv Even Oprah is heralding it and you can’t get higher support than that! And I’m proud to say that many in the movie are friends of mine. If you don’t have it, get it and watch it over and over.
It’s mostly about The Law of Attraction and how what we think and feel determines what we draw or attract into our lives. Change what you think and you change what comes to you. Amazing stuff.
I’ve written a lot about the power of our minds in this space. And since many movie critics are castigating the movie (now that it’s successful) as a bunch of woo woo slop, I want to re-visit a key point in all of this that this great movie doesn’t touch.
When Larry King interviewed a few of the movie’s cast he asked if someone actually ‘attracts’ cancer. As always happens in the wake of this no-win question there was enough scurrying so as to avoid a clear answer. If you say “Yes” to be consistent with The Law of Attraction you put blame and guilt on the poor soul who is already fighting for their life. If you say “No” in order to be kind then you blow the attraction concept to smithereens.
Let’s be a little hard nosed here before I get to the real lesson. If you’re a negative thinking, lazy, miserable person who smokes, drinks and eats too much…the truth is you did attract your health problems. What did you expect would happen? So quit blaming others, get a grip and change your choices. End of story.
I’m talking about the innocent ones who somehow end up in negative situations not of their own making. Starving kids in Ethiopia. A kind clean-living non-smoker who ends up with lung cancer. What’s the answer now? The answer is neither ‘yes’ nor ‘no’; it’s “No, you didn’t attract it, WE did.” The “we” is you, me and the rest of us on this planet; especially those who control the infrastructures behind how our global societies work.
Why are kids starving – some in even our own country? Because the rest of us don’t give a damn. WE collectively ‘attract’ starvation to much of the world. Who is attracting global warning? WE are. And if I were really courageous I’d also ask who is attracting war on our planet.
How come so many kids are dropping out of school with many living pointless lives? Are they all a bunch of negative talent-less losers bringing misery on themselves? Some may be of course, but for many WE collectively attract failure to them.
And even with the kids who are creating their own failures we’ve got to ask how they got that way. Did they do it all by themselves or did they get expert help on how to be miserable, negative and hopeless?
Yes, you reap what you sow. You also reap what you didn’t sow. All day long we sow things in other people’s gardens. Some grow into beautiful flowers and some into choking weeds. Got anyone in your life who’s sowing weeds in your garden?
Here is the lesson. We are created with an amazing limitless power to create any reality we chose and think about. That is a Divine gift of the highest order. But that’s not the whole story. It isn’t just up to you.
We are also created to be in community and have the potential to attract amazing realities to each other as co-creators. That too is a Divine gift of the highest order. We need another movie about this collaborative key to attracting our highest dreams.
The “greatest commandment” isn’t ‘to think positively and have a vision board of all the stuff you want’. It is to ‘love each other’. Genuine love for each other – in school, work, places of worship, even government and mostly in families – is the pilot light for igniting your/our dreams of peace, joy, meaning and prosperity. Without it we’ll just end up as noise and the movie critics will be right.
Until next time…be purposeful.
Ian