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Originally Posted by John Freestone  I would just say that it could be meaningfully defined to include external action in some way, but I agree with your implication - it won't be possible to tell whether it has anything to get weirded out about, go off to study in a course in miracles to develop, or that can be proven to be any different from normality (oh that boring n-word again, sorry). It would be what I called earlier (or on another thread) the Weak Law of Attraction. Actually, that was probably unhelpful, because the important features of the phenomenon are 1. that it is not weak, but very powerful, and 2. that it is not some kind of mystical law of mental functioning or magic or parapsychology, just unconscious processes (hypnosis, placebo, positive/negative thinking, etc.). Generally people do not understand or make enough use of these features of the mind - and it is disappointing that they are so often popularised under the mystical guise of the LoA, spiritual consumerism, 'the secret' and such. It turns what could be a genuine enlightenment into a new trap in superstition and muddled, self-delusive, self-hypnotic stupidity. |
Generally people assume the mind is all figured out and is just a habitual machine. Why toss out ideas that our minds are representations of a whole infinite mind that we can connect to? Isn't that genuine enlightenment? Being free of the habitual mind's unconscious flooding of our awareness such that some fully awake consciousness comes into being?
I have thought all this LoA stuff is directly viewable from a mind that is free of conditioned behaviours. And that is enlightenment. If one is enlightened they won't be habitual and full of unconscious processes. They will be flexible to the point of being one with all that is - no preconceived ideas/views or prejudices. They also see manifestations. They can wiggle this complete one consciousness with the desire of one and unfold reality before their eyes. Including a couple sparkely dolphins. But who can get there? Maybe Jesus got there.
Our unconscious processes get in our way to see reality without filters. That's what our unconscious processes are - habitual filters - the veil over real reality. When we see that way we are stuck with what we habitually see. The 'mystical' guise of LoA is that our unconsciousness is doing a lot of the sending of 'vibes' into the ether that we don't know about. Keeping reality out there in some way since it's still our consciousness but we aren't in touch with what it's doing.
So then we could say LoA is either just programing our unconscious to be habitual to our liking and reality will look like we designed it or LoA is about becoming genuinely enlightened which then allows one to see creation and be part of it.