I know what you mean, Cantando. It does tend to sound like that.
I think a lot of times people are trying to come up with reasons that LoA "didn't work," and some of those reasons I don't agree with. For instance, I don't see much evidence other than a few anecdotal stories, that people attract what they fear. I see a lot more evidence that people do not attract what they fear. I also don't believe people collectively manifest disasters. I don't think I have to believe any of that. I think there are some things not all of us comprehend yet.
What I have been learning about why desires don't manifest, are:
- lack of skill in IM
- lack of focus
- limiting beliefs
- contradictory intentions/beliefs that we may not even realize are there until we do some psychological work (and this was my biggie)
- because of the above four aspects, we have a tendency to get more of what we already have, because that is who we are. And we can get better and better at getting more of what we already have, if that's what we want, but making the switch from lacking something to having it and then being able to get more of it, now that's the difficulty.
I don't like the attempts to explain away the giraffe falling out of the sky by LoA, even if you weren't remotely thinking about it, even if you had never thought about such a thing, even if you were happy and joyful, even if you hadn't even thought about a giraffe for five years, even if you had never been afraid of things falling out of the sky, and you were really looking forward to the place you were on your way to, but the giraffe interrupted the whole thing and wrecked the entire night.
I suspect what the experienced LoA practioner could arrange for in this case, is to have the ability that, if a giraffe is going to fall out of the sky, it would at least not fall on your head or your car, and even better, it would land on something real soft so that it could shake off the experience and happily run away into the wilderness.
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