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Originally Posted by Cantando  Doesn't sound like a very high success rate for LoA practitioners, then, considering that LoA is based on the premise that you instantly create/manifest absolutely everything in your reality (including the physical) through your thoughts and beliefs!  |
Here is another explanation from that. I heard it from a magickal practitioner (who had
never heard of the term Law of Attraction).
Notwithstanding the fact that he had never heard of the LOA, he also fully subscribed to the idea that we create everything in our reality. However, his explanation is that we do not know a lot of what we create. And the simple reason is that we do not know our minds very well.
His single most important key to magick is therefore self-knowledge. Which in his terms means that you have to meditate regularly and explore the mysterious depths of your mind.
And as any meditator knows, truly your mind is vast and mysterious and all sorts of thoughts continually ooze out of it, on their own volition, and if you have not developed the attribute of mindfulness through meditation, you would not even be aware of the oozing process. Yet you're oozing thoughts all the time.
And if you are not even very aware of the oozing process, how could you possibly know what you are creating?
In psychology terms, we know only a very tiny portion of our own thoughts. Most of our own motivations and intentions are unknown to ourselves. We call them the "subconscious" and the "unconscious". They are a much larger part of our minds than the conscious part. Freud has his iceberg model of human consciousness:
All we are aware of is the tip of the iceberg.