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Originally Posted by dor  Regarding LOA:
The alternative to not accepting that you are responsible for your circusmstances, is not accepting them. and if you don't then why would you be truly, deeply motivated to do anything, if a deus ex machina can come down in ActIII? |
I think the right path is in the balance- reality is both objective and subjective, AND our paths in this life on earth are shaped by both internal and external forces. There are layers of reality, like the earth and the atmosphere, hard objective and flexible subjective.
We are not entirely responsible for our reality while in our physical bodies- we are still subjected to natural scientific laws, (perhaps we chose to agree to those parts of reality when we became human, but they bind us while in the physical world nonetheless), but we can control and shape the flexible parts of reality while we're here.
I thin LoA and other similar teachings in the new age movement are powerful in that they show that individuals have the power to shape their destiny, whereas previous religious teachings gave this power primarily to a separate God force.
Books like The Secret and the Law of Attraction take this individual power to an extreme, and say that the individual is responsible for ALL. I think the individual is responsible for more than he previously thought, but still shares responsibility for his path with some external forces.
So, there is a balance of responsibility, between the individual, and God/universe/external forces.