In Holland we call this " Having the wind taken out of your sails "
You guys pretty much covered all I wanted to say and more
Sliccy, I wanted to know your view of God in reaction to this post:
Here it is, we are saying God, or Being whatever you want to call it. Is all powerful, has higher intelligence and knowledge we can't even begin to dream of. Why would God than come up with such a flawed system such as the Law of Attraction? It just seems to narrow in a way, even though we say "I didn't want that credit card bill" you will put further energy into it and amplify it more. Why wasn't God able to just use logic when it came to this? If you said you didn't want it, well than you won't get it. Simple as that.
Forgive me if I am missing out on something, but this to me sounds just like our current predominant religions. God is all there is, God loves you, blah blah blah....BUT! He is also jealous! It's not OK to kill people, but if God tells you to it is...etc etc (I am just using these examples to clarify my question, I do realize that some of my examples might have been inaccurate, and over exaggerated)
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I have some homework for you now !
Reading back your initial quote, your belief into God seems to hint towards a Higher Being, a superintelligent, all-powerfull mind, a person if you will.
I didn't want to alter that belief, but since you have said that you don't know what to think or believe (yet?) I can safely tell you what I think:
I do think that there is a higher intelligence, like a field of information ( rather than a person-like God with an actively thinking brain about what is to happen when and where ) from which all arises and all goes back to, both the physical world as well as that of creativity and presence. This field is constantly changing, yet it's base is the same. This base can be found when in deepest meditation within ourselves, when we surpass our individual mind and see "the observer behind the observer"
As you might have read allready in older posts here about the LOA, especially this one :
A New Earth: by Eckhart Tolle
There is a cohesion between enlightenment and the LOA. I suggest you read this entire thread, especially the long posts by D. James Albert, should be about an hour, very... enlightening if you will.
If you want to understand the LOA, you have to understand the Universe, and to understand this, you have to practice meditation to reach enlightenment, in whatever degree.
You see, we have two brain hemispheres, and for every day life we need our left side the most, it is calculative, mathematical, knows how to handle an agenda, understands time only by clock or date.
This part of your brain will never understand the Universe. The Universe is too complex to ever be categorised, even tho scientists are doing their best.
We are constantly stimulated to use the left brain from a young age, because our society revolves around our calculative brain.
There are those who rely more on their right brain, and those are sometimes looked down upon for their "strange clothes" or "weird behaviour".
They are commonly known as artists.
If you want to know how that side of the brain works, check out this inspirational video:
Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight | Video on TED.com
Enlightenment comes when the brainhalves start to work together.
The intelligence of the left brain is not shut out like in the video of Jill Taylor, but it is enhanced by the creativity of the right side of the brain. People who experience this, change for the rest of their life. They become both inspirational spiritual people, but also very intelligently inspiriational people.
A good example is Albert Einstein.
It is not proven in any way, and I would not know how to prove it anyway, but it is my strong belief that Albert Einstein was enlightened. Check out some quotes on the internet by him, and try to remember that he was the one that created the formula that explains our physical world.
Albert Einstein Quotes
Strangest thing is that numerous people who experienced this "awakening" used to be atheist, but could not deny the presence of God and a higher interconnectedness afterwords. It took a higher intelligence, one that goes beyond that of a calculative brain, to see the "bigger picture".
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” Albert Einstein
Sorry for all the links, but I am hoping to lift your viewpoint beyond that of your left brain hemisphere alone. It is ok if this is too much to handle, it took me a few years to accept all I have written. My world has become a lot prettier since I have changed my view tho.
I wish you the very same
BTW, this book really helped me with my current view:
Amazon.com: The Quiet: Four Simple Steps to Peace and Contentment - Without Spending Your Life on a Mountaintop: Paul Wilson: Books
especially Book B ( Book A is meditation techniques, book B is enlightenment techniques )
and of course the book by D. James Albert ( the Realization System ) is wonderfull as well !
