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Hearts5683:
You actually believe in the "law of positive attraction"?
Please explain how this would apply to the victims of genocide?
Below is a blog I wrote several months ago to a friend of mine. It isn't on Genocide but may answer your question on what I believe. I believe in past lives. I also believe that the "bad" things that happened to me and the unhealthy relationship I was in not too long ago was something I made an agreement with that person to teach me something. I didn't know how that was going to come about or what experience I would face in order to learn that lesson when I made that agreement, but I certainly learned some lessons in the challenges I've faced in my life. I've written a lot about this stuff in my blogs. I absolutely believe that I attract everything I have in my life. The good and bad. It's ok if you don't agree. That's just how I feel because I've seen proof in the last year.
*NOTE: I did take my real name out of the Blog and replace it with something else to remain anonymous.
I suggested that a friend of mine buy and watch the movie The Secret. So he did and he emailed me the next day. Here is what he had to say!
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(MY NAME HERE), I don't get it. It's bogus! Here's what the bald guy says in The Secret: "Everything in your life, including the things you're complaining about, you've attracted."
Do you agree with this? I don't. I think it's utter garbage.
If you disagree, please explain how the Jews attracted the Holocaust. If "The Secret" (and, to the same extent, the law of attraction) has been around for thousands of years, it was surely operating in the height of Nazi Germany, no??
If you don't want to discuss the Jews, please feel free to discuss the victims of Hurricane Katrina, or for that matter, anybody who has EVER had anything terrible happen to them that they didn't expect.
What about children who've been molested? Women (and men) who've been raped? Victims of September 11th? Workers who've been laid off?
It may sound like I'm being extremely negative, and maybe I am. The reason I'm upset is because I DO believe that the DVD has some good advice. I DO think it's good to focus clearly on what you want in life. I DO think it's good to be grateful for the things you've got. All of this is good stuff...
But to say that we're attracting EVERYTHING bad in our lives...well...that's just WRONG. Sometimes it's somebody else's fault, and the fact that the makers of this DVD can't address that makes me extremely angry, because it's a "blame the victim" type of philosophy.
Here's a final thought for you. Let's say I go for a walk around the block. At some point, I stroll by a house and decide, just for fun, to throw a brick through somebody's window. The brick goes through the window, and hits somebody in the head who happened to be walking to their kitchen at the same time.
Did that person "attract" my actions? If so, it seems that my behavior was actually the result of some cosmic force beyond my control. If that's the case, and I'm really NOT in control of my thoughts and actions, then I don't have free will.
Am I wrong? I don't think I am, but if you disagree, I'd love to "attract" a reasonable explanation so I can understand this better.
Or, maybe you'll come around to my point of view and admit that the fat guy who made the quote I opened with is, in fact, full of crap.
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This is easy to respond to. If one looks at the Holocaust from a spiritual perspective, one realizes that it had a huge purpose. An event like the Holocaust has the power to shift the consciousness of an entire planet. And it did. As for the Jews who "attracted" it to them, yet again from a spiritual perspective, one realizes that at some level - subconscious, soul or otherwise - they had to have agreed to participate in that event, to, in a sense, sacrifice for the shifting of the consciousness of the world. In a like manner, events like rapes and molestation, from a spiritual perspective, are not the negative events that we as a society say they are. I know that sounds impossible to grasp, but it is human beings who place the positive or negative judgment on things. Those events can be seen as opportunities to grow. They do not make anyone a victim. In fact, there truly are no victims except as society has chosen to label individuals. Speaking as one who has been sexually assaulted, I can see this clearly. What resulted from my having to work through the pain of that event was incredible insight and understanding about who I am and my purpose. Would I have come to the same conclusions without being sexually assaulted? Probably. But maybe it would have taken longer, much longer, to happen. Maybe I "needed" that event to speed up my own growth as a person to prepare me for helping others who had been in that same situation and would approach me with their stories (which actually did happen).
So to say that this only puts people in a victim mentality is false. What it does is empower individuals to realize they can take responsibility for everything and find a way to learn and grow from anything and everything they experience.
As for throwing a brick in someone's window, let's just say if you were of sound mind and body when you did it, then you clearly had choice. If there is a lesson to be learned from you hurting someone, you had a choice in how you were going to learn that lesson, whatever it may have been. Another reality of our society is that for every action, lawmakers have an equal and opposite reaction, so you would go to jail. You're choice, really.
Thank you for watching! :)
~(MY NAME HERE)