Is the force behind I-M/LoA intelligent?

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Angela

This is actually a very interesting question, I think. I believe it's not a separate intelligence, like a personal interventionist god, but I understand what we refer to as "the universe" and "the law of attraction" the way I do the Internet .... it's like a collective creation that influences us, and some of us deliberately contribute positive or negative or neutral things, and some of us are afraid of it, some of us are still trying to figure it all out, some of us are completely oblivious to it, and some just reap the benefits (or problems) that it provides without really contributing much of anything.

"Dang!" thinks Smart Alx. "That was not what I wanted her to say!".

What Smart Alx actually wants you to say is:

"This is actually a very interesting question, I think. I believe it's probably a malevolent force at work, like a very specific, personal interventionist demon .... And even if you constantly move towards positive emotions like love, wisdom, compassion and kindness, like many LOA teachers tell you to, well, in the end you're still a helpless pawn of the devil. Remember, if you ever fulfill any of your intentions in a miraculous sort of way, it's never God that did it, or even a non-interventionist universe, it's just Lucifer, plain and simple."

[moonrambler]

Originally Posted by Angela

This is actually a very interesting question, I think. I believe it's not a separate intelligence, like a personal interventionist god, but I understand what we refer to as "the universe" and "the law of attraction" the way I do the Internet .... it's like a collective creation that influences us, and some of us deliberately contribute positive or negative or neutral things, and some of us are afraid of it, some of us are still trying to figure it all out, some of us are completely oblivious to it, and some just reap the benefits (or problems) that it provides without really contributing much of anything.

Like the Internet, I view "the universe" (or the law of attraction) as the intelligence of collective generation.

This is a cool way to look at it, and it kind of gave me chills, because I got to thinking that we as people over a very long period of time have now created something (the Internet) that closely resembles this view, perhaps because that is what we know really underlies everything. Everything is connected, everyone can reach everyone else.

[SmartAlx]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

"Dang!" thinks Smart Alx. "That was not what I wanted her to say!".

What Smart Alx actually wants you to say is:

Well... there you go. Honestly, it could be either scenario, right? We really just don't know. And that is the problem. If it is the second, then using the LoA is a big mistake. And that's why I advocate being careful with it.

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by SmartAlx

Well... there you go. Honestly, it could be either scenario, right? We really just don't know. And that is the problem. If it is the second, then using the LoA is a big mistake. And that's why I advocate being careful with it.

And if it's the first, then you're defying God, which is also a VERRRRY big mistake.