Dan love your blogs but have to disagree with youon this one.

I do believe that we need to take responsibility for what happens in our life. There is entirely too much ,"it is not my fault" out there. On the other hand stuff happens and we don not attract it. I cannot imagine how over 3,000 people attracted crazy terroists on Sept 11.  I think you can just be an unlucky victim somethimes too

We are what we think, is hat comes to mind. We are responsible for our condition, to a great extent.

Charlie  and Gail - I respect your thoughts and comments.  Gail, I can sense your pain and sympathize with you.  I am sorry for your loss. 

This certainly is the hardest concept to accept and I don't believe I can adequately explain it here to your satisfaction.  Think about the fact that what we resist we attract more of.  We have a war on terror and we have more terror.  We have a war on drugs and we have more drugs.  We have a war against hunger and we have more hunger.  What we resist we attract.

My dear Gail, there is a lot of anger, hostility, and judgment in your comment.  I suppose you are still trying to come to terms with your loss.  Perhaps there is some guilt or self-blame in your mind, I don't know and I am certainly not judging you.

I'm sorry you think me cruel.  My apologies. And, I do think you can have a happy life by learning to think better "inner pictures."

Thank you Dan - well put and so universally true.

Dan - brave man my friend! I do believe we are like magnets and what we put out we attract back in the main. But of course some people are trying to attract the reverse and I also think if there are enough of them, then perhaps they can attract at a higher level if that makes any sense. As for spirituality - I do think that being spiritual is a huge part of it, but I don't think that has anything to do with god or religion. trust me - that's a 2 o'clock in the morning discussion. Back to college for us my friend!

Art - Thanks for reading and commenting.

Simon - I am trying to wrap my brain around this concept as well.  But deep inside I know it's right. I was thinking of this.  If you place a 4x4 on the floor and try to walk from end to end without losing your balance, it's not a big problem. It's pretty easy.  But, if you raise that 4x4 to 50 feet off the ground you would probably be thinking, "Don't fall, don't fall, don't fall," and you WOULD fall.

Maybe someone thinks "I don't want to get sick," or "I don't want to lose my job," or "I don't want to have a wreck," or "I don't want to _____" over and over again. Perhaps if they are thinking that, they attract the very thing they don't want.

Dan - I think the key word in your assorted examples is "DON'T". How about "I love this job and want to do well and advance" or "I will be safe on this car journey" or even "My parking space will be there when I arrive" are all more positive messages.

What I was trying to say before is that no one was thinking, for example, that the twin towers were in danger, but a whole bunch of people were thinking "the towers will come down if we do this" - in other words there was no counter.

It is a very difficult concept to understand and I make no assertions here that I have it nailed. My examples and explanations are certainly simplistic but I do understand that the LOA are indeed simplistic on so many levels - almost a contradiction in terms, but oh well!

Simon, your understanding of the LOA is far more advanced than most.  I don't profess to know it all either.  I am a student and a sojourner.  I am open to learning more.  I try to refrain from judgment and stay in curiosity.

I don't think the people who died in the World Trade Center died because they attracted that attack. However, I do believe that collectively we attracted it.  I do believe that some escaped it that day because they were in tune with something bigger than themselves that caused them to change their plans that day.  Others did not.  I can't explain it, I can only observe it.

Thanks for your comments my friend.

I am questioning a difficult phone call I recieved yesterday and trying to relate it to the law of attraction.  I do my utmost to screen this person from my life and they still sneeked in .  What a downer.