Yesterday at the Crystal Temple, us initiates did a prosperity ritual for the umpteenth time. I've done so many of these prosperity rituals I've lost count. I've bought many a green-colored candle that says "prosperity" on it, and burned it in good faith, fully believing that I would attract prosperity my way. In last night's ritual, we were asked to visualize buckets of money pouring down around us. Now I hate to be a Negative Nancy, but how many times have we done this? Shouldn't we all be millionaires by now? I bought into the whole Law of Attraction stuff for quite a while, trying my best to think positively and visualize the wealth pouring in. I ended up broke after putting a my life's savings into a home business that completely failed.
I think one the biggest farces is that the Law of Attraction is presented as some deep spiritual concept, when it's really just narcissism at its worst. People are taught to believe that the world really does revolve around them. But if I could point to any universal truth taught by every religion, it would be that it's NOT all about you. The Law of Attraction also does not pass the Aushwitz test. According to it, the Jews who died in the concentration camps were responsible for their own demise either because their negative thoughts brought them there, or because they lacked the positive thinking the manifest their freedom. And it's not like these people knew nothing about manifestation. Several Kabbalistic lineages died out in the Holocaust. Surely they could have manifested a way out, right?
The thing is, I think there is a deep spirit truth about abundance of which the Law of Attraction is a gross distortion. Yes, there's abundance available to us in our lives, but it's not about satisfying the desires of our egos. The universe doesn't care if we want a Ferrari or a yacht. It will give us abundance in what we need, not in what we want. And the way to that abundance, it seems to me, is not about fooling yourself into fully believing that you're going to be filthy rich, but rather in opening yourself up to whatever form of abundance the universe is offering you. It is about aligning yourself with your life purpose, and when that happens, I believe, the universe will provide you with whatever abundance necessary toward the achievement of that purpose.