The Truth Behind the Law of Attraction

The more the law of attraction becomes a feature of our lives the more we realise that it has always been in operation.

We normally imagine that we develop the power of attraction through spiritual cultivation. But the truth is that the law has always been in action, and that spiritual cultivation merely raises it to conscious awareness and understanding.

What we call the common everyday ‘will power’ of the ego is actually the power of attraction. We our conscious that we need to go to the shops…and then later on we find that we are actually in the shop. This seemingly mundane sequence is the power of attraction. We have a strong motivation to visit the shop, we believe that it is in our power to achieve it…and behold, we find ourselves actually at the shops. If we had neither the motivation or the belief in its possibility then the manifestation of the shop would not occur.

As long as we are egos we are constrained by our belief that the natural laws of time and space constrain us. We subject ourselves to the belief that this mysterious power of will (although, like gravitational attraction, we no longer view it as mysterious) – we believe that this will power is capable of some things and not others. But we limit ourselves by this belief.

With spiritual cultivation comes a certain scepticism about our identity as individual egos. We realise through our practice that we are rather more than what we previously thought. It is this transcending of the ego that allows us to be sceptical also about the laws of nature that supposedly constrain us. We see that it is perfectly realistic that our thoughts might manifest in ways that seem, from the egoic perspective – and to other people – are completely wacky and supernatural. Perhaps ironically, it is by transcending the ego we clearly see that, whatever the law of attraction is, it has been in operation all along – we just didn’t believe it.

So whether we are ego bound or not, every time we ‘decide’ to do something it is our conviction that we have the power to decide that makes it happen. The law of attraction is just normal everyday stuff – why does it take so much spiritual effort to see this?