[Anagogy]

Originally Posted by SmartAlx

There is a difference between not being good at something and being bad at something.

What I'm telling you is if it was left alone, it would function correctly. Just like with the hot stove and the hand that is placed there. Your natural instinct is to pull your hand away when you touch something damaging.

Intentional manifestation is the same way, if we didn't unlearn that natural part of it, we would normally focus away from the detrimental thoughts and more towards that which would keep us happy.

Originally Posted by SmartAlx

But learning to control the LoA consciously isn't exactly the same thing. You may not be born bad at it, but you aren't born good at it either. No one is born with the ability to consciously control the LoA. If that were the case then babies would never cry.

Nobody controls the LoA, it controls you and everyone else, absolutely. It's not like it goes away if you aren't consciously utilizing it. It's like gravity, you don't wake up and say, "Oh I think I will utilize the force of gravity today, so I don't float away."

And I would disagree that no one is born with the ability to work with the LoA. It is like free will, everyone is born with it, but to varying degrees which is a factor of how AWARE of choice you are. Intentional manifestation is the same way, it is a factor of how aware of your thoughts you are. You have the choice to choose what you think. This is the law of attraction.

Originally Posted by aelle

Your answers are extremely interesting, guys. Maybe you can help me with something. I understand that taking responsibility and being at cause is a major part of growth and IM, but I have a hard time conciling it with some of my life events - I'm specifically thinking abuse, as a child in particular. No matter how I try to look at it, I cannot wrap my head around the idea that I could be responsible for being raped when I wasn't yet able to talk. Input?

You believe that a child is not capable of offering negative vibration? Children are thinking the moment they are born. If something occurs that causes that child to feel fear and then they focus on it, you can expect a negative reality to enter that child's experience. The fact that the child does not understand what rape is is of no consequence as to WHAT is drawn into that child's experience of reality. An experience will always be drawn that reflects, and perpetuates, the fear present in the child.

But just because the thoughts of the child generated the experience, doesn't mean the child is to blame. No one would deliberately put themselves through emotional hell. Thus, ignorance is to blame. Knowledge is the antidote to ignorance.

Knowledge protects from every form of negativity in existence.