I appreciate you sharing your opinion about ‘The Science of Getting Rich’ as well as the Law of Attraction.

As with everything, each person will have their own views, and what empowers one person will not have the same effect for others.

It’s all about what each individual gets out of any given set of information, and there are no hard and fast “this is good or this is bad” rules.

James Arthur Ray says that we should surround ourselves with things that strengthen us and stay away from things that weaken us.

So, if something doesn’t give a person strength, inspiration, or empowerment, then no amount of other people saying that information is “good” will make a difference.

It’s all up to the individual.

After watching The Secret perhaps 6 or 7 times (necessary as I am writing an eBook related to it), I saw very little in there that took the viewer beyond a rather limited material based approach to reality.

I agree the money and physical “stuff” is tangible to the majority of people. I agree that it is measurable. What I have found, however, is that I live in a highly intelligent universe, and that this highly intelligent universe is more than capable of taking care of my tangible/material/measurable necessities for physical survival and enjoyment — with very little conscious effort on my part.

In the ancient Hawaiian Huna tradition there is there is the prinicple that “as a divine being we have only ONE need. That is the need of a mirror”. (This follows on from the principle that “we are first and foremost Divine Beings”). The reality we construct and perceive within consciousness (our life here in Earth), is that mirror.

I have found, in working with myself and other people, that the key is in “decoding” the nature of what it is I am ALREADY attraction into my experience and hence mirroring to myself. There is a way of approaching my experience which results in every experience leading to an increase of Power (authentic Power). At a tangible/measurable level ONE (a fairly insignificant one) con-sequence of increasing Power and Awareness is greater and greater effortlessness with regards to financial sufficiency.

I do not personally judge there to be anything “wrong” or erroneous with the approach the makers of The Secret took in illustrating the Law Of Attraction. Rather, I simply feel that in my experience it was a relatively limited and potentially distorted approach when not put into the greater context through which things like the LOA are naturally and spontaneously revealed to a human being as he/she awakens to reality and his/her true nature.

I suspect the movie took the limited approach that it did either through ignorance on the part of the producers (questionable, but possible), or because they knew this is what would sell (especially in America and any other culture subscribing to the “American Dream”). The majority of people are not primarily concerning themselves with consciously waking up to their true nature. They are, however, deeply engrossed in the money-driven/orrientated mindset and “I am insufficient as I am” mindset that has been carefully impregnated into the human story for the last 400-600+ years by a tiny collective of people who presently reap the most benefit from a world that buys into these mindsets (i.e. the small handful of people who effectively own/possess/control a vast majority of the material wealth in this human world), at the expense of nearly every other nation/human being carrying interest bearing debt.

Stumbling around in the ridiculous seems to be human speciality. Of course, it’s all part of what helps Awareness evolve through the human experience.

With love,
Jonathan

I appreciate you stopping by and sharing your thoughts!

Yes, the movie was largely based on the book, and that is a good thing. Wallace D. Wattles knew what he was talking about.

However, I don’t agree that the movie was capitalistic/materialistic. Yes, they used money and possessions to demonstrate the concept of the Law of Attraction, but that is simply because those are tangible, measurable things.

Explaining a concept to someone is very difficult if you have no way of showing them in real life how it works. It is my belief that one of the reasons why the Law of Attraction is so hotly debated is because so many people think that it is all about money and material possessions, and that, of course, is ridiculous.

I read this book some years ago, and also watched TheSecret a few months ago. I think both fail to convey an important message with regards to the Law of Attraction. The Secret makes this omission far more severely than The Science Of Getting Rich — what with being so incredibly capitalistic/materialistic in its approach (TheSecret that is).

Nice site by the way. Greatly enjoying reading through your blog entries. I’ll be reading more just as soon as I have some spare time for it. Thanks.

Jonathan

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