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Originally Posted by justinf77  This is something I also need further clarification on. Are you saying that I attracted you to this forum to read your comments? Or did Daffy Duck? Or did Holistic Star?
Basically, how does the LOA function with regard to a number of people and intentions? |
It is collective and multi-directional.
In a simple two-person example, eg a husband and a wife, or a robber and his victim, or a teacher and a student, each party attracts the other. In a multi-person example, (eg let's say there are 10 people working together in one group), each person has attracted the other nine. Each person also plays a role in the respective realities of nine other persons.
In this forum, I have attracted you into my reality, as surely as you have attracted me into yours. The role you play in my reality is fundamentally dictated by my mind; and the role I play in your reality is fundamentally dictacted by yours.
For example, if your mind is of the firm view that I am an eccentric, crazy person, then that is the role I play in your reality, and though you know nothing of me beyond what I write in these forums, you will see abundant evidence of my eccentricity and craziness.
Alternatively, if your mind is of the firm view that I know the LOA very well and have a lot to share with you about this topic, then that is the role I play in your reality, and though you know nothing of me beyond what I write in these forums, you will see abundant evidence of my knowledge of the LOA and my willingness to share it.
And if your mind is simply not interested in the topics I write about, then your mind will simply tend to skip over threads and posts where I have written something, and you may not even notice my existence.
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The poster Impaul99 once posted in these forums about a LOA experiment he did. IIRC, for the purposes of this experiment, what he did was that he deliberately meditated on thoughts about rudeness and unkindness. He then reported that within the next few hours, he met a series of very rude people in different sorts of places (including a very rude driver on the road; a very disgruntled cashier at a supermarket etc etc).
This striking experiment tends to illustrate how the people in our respective realities are all, in some way, reflections of what goes on in our own consciousness.
This is not to say that all people in our respective realities play an equally important role. Clearly, there are some people who play a bigger role in each person's life. These include people whom you interact most frequently with and/or people who you feel most strongly about and/or people with whom you have long-term relationships. These people appear in your reality, because of the more-dominant and significant attitudes, beliefs etc that you have percolating in your consciousness.
Also, you might notice that even as your external surroundings change (eg because you move to another city; graduate from college; change jobs etc), there may be certain types of people who keep recurring in your reality, even though you did not deliberately seek them out. For example, you may be the woman who keeps getting the abusive boyfriend; or the employee who keeps getting an abusive boss - no matter how many times you change boyfriends or change jobs. Again this is a reflection of something going on in your consciousness.