The Law of Attraction
So much has been written about the law of attraction as a late that it seems redundant to go into explaining it. For those of you who do not understand what it is, here are some of the basics…

The Law of Attraction is this. That which is like unto itself is drawn. Like attracts like. This testimony, however, seems to fly in direct opposition to the expression, “opposites attract.” But both assertions are actually true. The expression, “opposites attract,” is really a misnomer. And this is the cause of the confusion. Opposites are really different degrees of the same thing. Opposites don’t attract each other, they are each other; merely different degrees of each other. Think about it. Hot and cold are essentially the same thing. If you ran hot and cold along a scale could you pinpoint the exact spot where hot ended and cold began? The same is true of light and darkness, up and down, big and small. You cannot pinpoint the exact spot where one quality ends and the other one begins. Why? Because there is no real distinction or separation between opposites. Opposites are like in kind but not in degree. There is an old Hermetic axiom which says, “Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree...” It’s called the principle of polarity. Turn this axiom over in your mind from every angle you can come up with, and you will see that it holds up as fact. So you see the Law of Attraction is the dominant truism here, even though both proclamations are true. If “opposites attract,” then that which is attracted is like unto itself. So that which is like unto itself is drawn; this is law. And this law, the law of attraction, is what drives the creation process. Every soul, without exception, is subject to this law. Every soul, without exception, creates the reality of his or her own world by virtue of this law.

The law of attraction creation process as explained in the book “Ask and It Is Given” by Esther and Jerry Hicks sums it up nicely. It is as follows:

“Step 1: You Ask

Because of the wonderful and diverse environment in which you are focused (the physical plane), Step 1, comes easily and automatically, for this is how your natural preferences are born. Everything – from your subtle or even unconscious desires to clear, precise, vivid ones – result from the contrasting experiences of your day-to-day life. Desires (or asking) are the natural by-product of your exposure to this environment of fantastic variety and contrast. And so, Step 1 comes naturally.

Step 2: The Universe Answers

Step 2 is a simple step for you, for it is not your work at all. Step 2 is the work of the Non-Physical, the work of the GOD Force. All things that you ask for, large and small, are immediately understood and fully offered, without exception. Every point of Consciousness has the right and the ability to ask, and all points of Consciousness are honored and responded to immediately. When you ask, it is given. Every time.

Your “asking” is sometimes spoken with your words, but more often it emanates from you vibrationally as a constant stream of personally honed preferences, each building on the next, and each one respected and answered.

Every question is answered. Every desire is given. Every prayer is answered. Every wish is granted. But the reason that many would argue with that truth, holding up examples of unfulfilled desires from their own life experience, is because they have not yet understood and completed the very important Step 3 – for without the completion of this step, the existence of Steps 1 and 2 could go unnoticed.

Step 3: You Allow It In

Step 3 is the application of the art of Allowing. It is really the reason your (emotional) guidance system exists. It is the step whereby you tune the vibrational frequency of your Being to match the vibrational frequency of your desire. And we call that the Art of Allowing - that is, allowing what you’re asking for. Unless you are in the receiving mode, your questions, even though they have been answered will seem unanswered, and your desire will not be fulfilled – not because your wishes have not been heard, but because your vibrations are not a match, you are not letting them in.”

“…to the degree you feel blessed and expect good things to flow to you, this indicates the level of your state of allowing; and to the degree that you do not feel blessed, where you do not expect good things to come to you, this indicates your degree of resistance.”

Jesus counseled us with the same directions on how to harness the creative energy of the Universe when he told us, “…all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive."- Mathew 21:22 

It is in Step 2 of the preceding instructions that the law of attraction has its application. The Universe responds Yes to all that you ask for and you draw these desires to you. However, you ask not with your words but with your Attention. Again, I’ll borrow a quote from Esther and Jerry Hicks from their book, “The Law of Attraction.”

“When you are focused upon what you want, your Inner Being offers you positive emotion. When you are focused upon what you need, your Inner Being offers you negative emotion because you are not focused upon what you want. You are focused upon the lack of what you want – and your Inner Being knows that which you give thought to is that which you attract. Your Inner Being knows that you do not want the lack; you Inner Being knows you want what you want, and your Inner Being is offering you guidance so that you will know the difference.

Focusing upon a solution makes you feel positive emotion. Focusing upon a problem makes you feel negative emotion, and while the difference is subtle, they are very important, for when you are feeling positive emotion, you are attracting into your experience that which you want. When you are feeling negative emotion, you are attracting into your experience that which you do not want.”

(Here the term Inner Being is synonymous with the same term I will use throughout this writing to refer to Spirit.)

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Now Is All There Is
Time is a perceptual illusion, “a mistake of the senses.” It is not Real. To borrow the words of William Walker Atkinson (pen name: Yogi Ramacharaka) “Time exists solely in our minds. It is merely a form of perception by which we express our consciousness of the Change in Things.”

“We cannot think of Time except in connection with a succession of changes of things in our Consciousness − either things of the outer world, or the passing of thought-things through our mind. A day is merely the consciousness of the passing of the sun − an hour or minute merely the subdivision of the day, or else the consciousness of the movement of the hands of the clock − merely the consciousness of the movement of Things − the symbols of changes in Things. In a world without changes in Things, there would be no such thing as Time.”

As Einstein so famously reported, time is relative. The only aspect of what we call time which truly exists is Now (the present moment). What we call the past is merely experience. What we call the future is merely possibility or potential. We carry both our past (experiences) and our future (possibilities) with us in the Now. That which we call Now is awareness or Attention. And as we just went over in our explanation of the law of attraction, it is our Attention which sets into motion the creative process. Creation only happens right where we are Now. Therefore, Now is all there is. Yes, you can reflect on the past. Yes, you can observe the Present. Yes, you can imagine the future. But you are always doing this reflecting, observing or imagining right Now. 

“Thought is the vibration which The Law of Attraction is acting upon.” And you cannot do your thinking outside of the present moment. Now is where you do your thinking. Therefore, Now is where you are actively creating. Therefore, Now is the only interval of time which is truly real and substantial.

Our perception of what we refer to as linear time is an illusion which proceeds from a limited awareness of reality. Our Spirit, the messenger behind our dreams, is not afflicted with such a limitation. Spirit is all aware. Past, present, future, to our Spirit, is all the same thing. Now is all there really is, and the Spirit knows this. The Spirit’s perspective is infinitely broader than that of the conscious perspective. 

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The Make-Up of Your Mind
Imagine a person sitting on a boat in the middle of a brook, observing the world around them. The only knowledge this person has of the world is confined within the boundaries of this brook. There may be many possible reasons for this person’s confinement. Maybe the person was told there was nothing beyond a certain point; and as proof of this proclamation someone offers this person the evidence of his or her own eyes which does indeed confirm that they cannot see anything beyond a certain point. So the person then concludes that what he or she has been told is in fact correct. Or maybe this person was advised to not explore beyond a certain point or awful things would result; and so it is this person’s fear which keeps them confined. Or perhaps this person is simply content where he or she is at present and isn’t inspired to go beyond a certain point. Whatever the reason may be, the point is, this brook is all of the world this person knows. This person’s perspective is a limited one, wouldn’t you agree? But imagine that this same person one day overcomes whatever it was that had been keeping him or her confined, and he or she is moved to go beyond where they’d never been before. In this person’s movement, his or her perspective of the world grows. Where once he or she only knew of a single brook, this person soon discovers rivers, and one day will know oceans as well as he or she continues to move passed the self-imposed boundaries they had placed on themselves. And each time this person continues to move these boundaries back and crosses over to explore new territories, his or her perspective on the world expands. He or she does not lose what they once knew, but their understanding of what they knew grows broader and deeper than it had been before. Mentally, each of us is on our very own boat similar to the one occupied by the person in the preceding analogy.

The value in this analogy is that it places a useful image in your mind’s eye. Brooks run into rivers. Rivers run into oceans. There are no real boundaries separating these bodies of water, they are all one, and yet each seems to offer something different from the others. In like manner, there is no real separation between your unconscious and conscious mind. It is all one mind. The unconscious mind is merely that which falls outside the realm of your conscious awareness (it is your self-imposed boundary). 

The way your mind processes information is all relative to its perception. And it’s the environment that you’re in (the physical dimension) which shapes your conscious perception. As you observe the things around you in this physical environment, if you take the things you see and experience at face value, this viewpoint forms a distinct perspective. However, the more your conscious perspective shifts from accepting the things it sees and experiences at face value, to also observing and considering the aspects which lie behind “the face,” the more the conscious mind expands to encompass regions of the unconscious realms, and the boundary lines are thus reset. That which distinguishes the conscious mind from the unconscious is merely perspective; in actuality there is no real division. It is all one mind; and the different perspectives of this mind are in constant communication with each other. Your dreams are just one mode of this communication. 

As you observe and experience life, you do so from all your perspectives – simultaneously. Your Superconscious mind (the higher region of your unconscious mind) speaks mainly in terms of intuitive-feeling; and your subconscious mind (the lower region of your unconscious mind) speaks mainly it terms of instinctive-feeling. In other words, feeling is the language of the unconscious mind, whereas your conscious mind speaks mainly in terms of logic or reason. Your conscious awareness is fueled by the information you take in through you physical senses. The process of gathering information, sorting through it and then drawing conclusions about it is the function of the intellect. So it’s no wonder your conscious mind has an affinity for palpable, logical, linear communication. But regardless of this affinity, remember that in actuality there is no real separation of minds. It is all one mind; therefore you are fluent in both languages (feeling and logic) regardless of the preference of your unconscious or conscious perspectives. You are bi-lingual, so to speak. You fully comprehend the language the unconscious mind speaks; therefore, you fully understand the language of your dreams. You’re simply not associating what you’re “hearing” when the unconscious mind speaks, with a language. This is because it’s such a natural part of your everyday experience. But this just goes to show you how common communication is from the unconscious mind; that it could occur so frequently that it goes unappreciated by so many of us. Our feelings are such an ordinary and natural part of our experience that we often take them for granted and fail to appreciate them for what they truly are – communication from our unconscious mind.

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