I’ve had a bit of a love-hate relationship with LoA over the last year. I sincerely wished it was true, and I did all the exercises, but nothing significant emerged.
The only thing that made sense after reading 'Ask and It is Given' several times, was something I already knew anyway. If you ask for something and it is in accordance with God’s/Source’s will, then it will be granted, but maybe not in the way you expected! If your will is united with God’s will, then it doesn’t really matter what you receive or don’t receive, it is all for your general good.
In a general sense, we could say LoA works – if you have a happy, positive outlook on life, then you tend to attract happy, positive people and events into your experience. Nothing new there. However, negative experiences can and do still happen. Just as nice things may come unexpectedly into your life, for no apparent reason whatsoever (thus validating your belief in LoA), so can the more unsavoury experiences.
When we come to the level of LoA, which everyone is really interested in (getting lots of money through doing next to nothing, except ask for it) then we have serious problems with the teaching. We are told that as soon as we desire something, it is immediately manifested and we just have to allow it in. But, where exactly is it manifested? How, exactly, is a desire immediately converted into a reality, without following through with intention, action and determination?
If I sat and did nothing for 5 days, except think about having a holiday home in the sun, would it manifest? Perhaps, if I died first, then experienced it in the afterlife!  |