The Secrets of Law of Attraction, Balance, & Extremes of Wealth

I call this posting "The 'Secret' of why sharing the 'Law of Attraction' will likely foster a wave of poverty."

One of the hottest topics of discussion in recent months has been the DVD and book "The Secret." This is a repackaged version of metaphysical ideas that have been taught throughout history and have been popularized in books earlier in the century as well as in "New Thought" spiritual circles. Thus, the title itself is misleading, but that's not the reason I suspect wealth consciousness evangelism will foster a wave of poverty and economic depression.

The basic idea of The Secret is known as the Law of Attraction, that like attracts like. That our thoughts are creative energies and we attract what we think about. While this principle is fundamentally true, nearly all teachers of this concept fail to acknowledge that our human conscious mind is not the most potent attractor field, so it's not the only influence "creating" one's reality. Furthermore, this is not the only relevant metaphysical law shaping our reality. The Law of Balance is one I wish to focus on here, as it is vital to understanding what may happen when immature, undisciplined, and imbalanced conscious creators choose to have the deliberate intention of manifesting wealth.

Balance necessitates that any unbalanced intention will foster itself as well as its opposite polarity. In the world around us we can see that extreme wealth is accompanied by extreme poverty. There are people who apply the "Secret" without concern for ethics or the balance of the world around them, fostering this situation. There are families such as the Rockefellers and Rothschilds who control trillions of dollars of assets, yet it is generally the charity of ordinary persons that is sought to try to aid those who lack basic needs. Extreme wealth has no purpose without its comparison to its opposite, poverty. Likewise, if everyone was poor then no one would know they were poor since there'd be no image of wealth to compare oneself to.

When people choose to attract wealth without considering the context of how that wealth will enter their life and how their other values may be impacted, it can be expected that many people will attract excessive assets, which in the consensus economic system we exist in necessitates that someone else will end up in debt. Here's a practical example of how this happens:

There's curently a marketing program on the internet where people pay over $1000 to get a DVD workshop and other resources to teach "The Secret" concepts. By doing so, they then can earn referral fees for referring this program to other people who end up purchasing into the program. Thus, to earn your money back you have to refer a lot of people. This is for a "secret" that's never been secret and which can be read about online for free in books that are now public domain. Now let's suppose that people were able to keep getting new referrals and eventually there would be NO ONE LEFT to refer to. The last ones to buy in to the program can't earn their money back, and like any pyramid program, the last ones in the pyramid is the largest layer. Remember, whoever started this "selling the secret" program will make HUGE amounts of money while the last ones to join are guaranteed to not recoup their investment.

Another issue here is that wealth in our society has become connected to the medium of money, which has no tangible value aside from its use within a societal agreement that it can be used to obtain goods and services (and those goods and services can't be received without it). Since people generally have psychologically accepted this polarizing system, their thoughts of wealth are attracting the relative opposite of wealth (poverty) to be created as well. A balanced system would be one where everyone has their needs met and people aren't accumulating assets merely to give themselves a sense of power and security. Since few people are able to project the intention of wealth in a balanced way, the wealth that is attracted will be accompanied by an increase in poverty and economic decline, for each polarity feeds its opposite. Some individuals may generate both extremes in their life as they learn about these polarities and how they are generated.