Recently, the on-line and DVD presentation, The Secret, has become popular in many countries including Australia. What it refers to as the secret is the Law of Attraction -- that our thoughts attract or draw to us what our lives are made up of.

The main value in proposing the law of attraction is that it lets people know that they create their own lives, that thoughts take form, that if one desires to change ones life that person must change how they think, but the law of attraction goes only so far and tends to be a mental activity rather than a spiritual one.

Of the four presenters in The Secret two were motivational speakers who approached the concept objectively and the other two proposed a more subjective spiritual approach. Almost everything in the program was true from the level it represented, but because the difference between the spiritual and the mental approaches was not defined, many have mistakenly thought they were the same.

The law of attraction implies that we attract to us things that previously exist as though they have already been created. Those of the motivational or mental approach believe that one should envision what he or she specifically wants, draw a picture, project a specific amount they want to receive into thought etc.

This is the objective approach. It has a particular object or goal in mind. What’s more, it works. It is proved that we can mentally draw to us what we want. However, such an objective approach is based on ones ability to judge what is good for them to have and what may be evil.

Someone may want a sporty BMW convertible. He or she can image it. See how it looks, picture the details, and, sure enough, they may achieve their goal. They may also drive down to the corner, have a crash, and kill themselves or somebody else. If intuition backs up ones judgment it might work out for the best, but the spiritual approach is less fallible.

Surprisingly, today, Quantum Mechanics supports and scientifically explains the spiritual approach that is outlined in the beginning of the Gospel of John, which says, In the beginning is the word and the word becomes flesh. In doing so, Quantum physics proposes that consciousness is the substance of all that is, that consciousness creates or manifests everything in our lives rather than its having been drawn to us from outside.

Thus we do not attract to us, but rather we ourselves create our life experience and everything in it. We materialize our perceptions. The quality of the forms our lives take is determined not by what we think superficially but by what we perceive as reality. Our perceptions manifest our reality.

We, as finite thinking people, don’t know what is needed or in store for our growth and well being. What we think we want to attract may be the thing that is bad for us in the end.

On the other hand, when we entertain subjective (spiritual) ideas or ideals and do not outline them in specific terms (objectively), we initiate the same principle that is in the Law of Attraction; however, rather than drawing to us, our divine inner selves (see Bible: 2 Pet. 1:4*) creates that which is harmonious and in divine order.

Spiritually, rather than trying to attract a particular person into our lives, we set in motion the consciousness of perfect companionship. Subjectively, instead of praying for a thousand dollars, we open ourselves to Life’s abundance knowing our needs will be well met. Subjectively, instead of trying to attract a specific automobile we open our consciousness to the best and most appropriate transportation.

I promise you, if we trust the process and set subjective goals for ourselves, we will be shown how to create them or they will appear, and will do so without any down side. That which will appear will be the result of our trust in the process and our perception. It is all God.

By Walter Starcke
www.walterstarcke.com
wstarcke@walterstarcke.com

Recommended book by Walter Starcke
It's All God
Guadalupe Press, 1998
Softcover, 288 pages.
ISBN: 0929845064

* "Be aware that you are partakers of (one with) the divine nature." 2 Pet. 1:4