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Originally Posted by cylon  Yeah but I am life. I may not be above anything else in life but I'm also not beneath. |
Then you'd respect yourself as you are life.
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Your point was that LOA could give you an over-inflated ego. If everything in our lives is a result of thought, then call it what you will.
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I wasn't trying to make a point that using LoA makes you have a big ego. Sorry if I wrote unclearly about that idea.
I think people approach wanting to use LoA with their ego. Or it's their ego's feeling of lack that makes them want to "use" LoA. Or the sense of not feeling whole, which the ego is good at feeling, drives us to want to use these IM ideas because it looks like a solution to our issues of not having what we think we want. And those things we want to get by using LoA are just things or situations that we "think" we want. They are not our true desires, they are ego desires.
It's like telling someone that it's ok to eat what ever you want and they go eat ice cream all day. But wanting ice cream is not really what they want, if they could be more in tune with their true nature and listen to the body - they would realize wanting ice cream is not it. It would be more like what one really wants to eat is what feeds the body well or even helps heal the body.
The same with our desires. We "think" we need something. We try to solve an issue in our lives by looking for something that comes from feelings of lack. Those feelings of lack are from being in our ego separate self too much. Then we think, ok more $$ is the cure to lack and here's IM so if I do it right everything will be fixed.
However I don't toss LoA/IM out with the bathwater. It's an interesting idea and I feel it to be in operation just by seeing what's in my life and observing my inner state. It get what I put in. I haven't tried too much to prove it or send out specific desires. I do however spend some time meditating and then some of that is putting myself in feelings that I like to have - hoping that attracts more life situations that would allow me to be in those feelings more regularly. Sometimes it feels like a battle. As others have said. They start doing something like this and the ego patterns protest. Then I go back to just meditating and usually find peace at least. I try to find inspiration and excitement - but wonder how much of that is the ego wanting a rush anyway.