Watching it was a real revealation for me, because I had only just started to read about the law of attraction, but there was something about the movie that made me uneasy. It got me excited because I believe that it does work, but underneath the excitement was a feeling that something was fundamentally off.
I think it was because it was so focused on self centered applications, like attracting new cars and bigger houses for yourself. I have no doubt that it does work for those kinds of things, but there will always be a flip-side of suffering when your thoughts and intentions are partially ego motivated -- that is, when your will is not aligned with the will of God. When your intentions are based on what you want for yourself, all the things that come with that self will be included: self centered goals cannot be separated from the fundamental belief in separation, the illusion of ego, with all the inherent suffering and complications.
But maybe it's a distorted memory of the movie on my part. As I remember it, the message was a bit muddled between spiritual teaching and rah rah peptalk, so maybe I'm blowing the self-centered part out of proportion?  |