12/6/2006 - The Law of Attraction

I decided to do some looking into and reading up upon the subject of this whole Law of Attraction thing, becasue I noticed one of the new blogs here seems focused around the idea, and then I happend upon the phrase elsewhere, and so I thought this must be some new thing, or I am just out of touch, which would not surprise me in the least, but point in fact, it caught my attention becasue I was seeing it around and had not previously heard of it, so I looked it up, and I found it quite intresting that it seemed many of the ideals and concepts behind this whole Law of Attraction thing bump up against very closely to the concepts, ideas, and workings of magick, and yet as far as I can tell the Law of Attraction is not intended to be spiritual in anyway, nor is it aimed at those of a spiritual nature nesscairly. But all the same it deals with the ideas of energy, the energy of the individual being, and the interconectedness of the energy of the world around us, and the way in which we have effect upon that energy by no more then the act of thinking we impose ourself upon it, and the power of the will and mind and so forth. A lot of it reminded me of the Reiki phrase I wish such and so to happen.

I am not entierly sure how I feel about this or what I think of it, on the hand a part of me does find it a bit intresting that they ideals and concepts are being used in the mainstream you might say and perhaps being accepted by those very same people that would not think twice about Paganism and perhaps even consider Paganism a dead relgion and that those whom continue to practice it to be a bit loony as I am sure many of us Pagans have encountered such sentiment from time to time.

But on the other hand it is not altogether a pleasent feeling or thought to have the things which are a part of my spiritualty stripped away from its meaning and put purely to some materail and mundane use as well as the thought that whomever first began this whole Laws of Attraction thin trying to take some sort of cridit for what are really very ancient ideas that are deeply ingrained in a powerful beleif system and has links to varrious different cultures.