A Course in Miracles and the Message of The Secret143198
Over the previous year, many people have approached me asking me about my viewpoint, and the perspective of A Course in Miracles, on the popular book and film The Secret. I was also recently asked to participate in an professional panel discussion on The Secret and the law of attraction at the Body Soul Spirit Expo in Calgary.
As I see it, The Secret offers a couple of powerful and essential global messages worth appreciating. The first message is that our thoughts have a potent influence on our life. The subsequent insight is that we are entitled to a wealthy life, although accurate wealth is much more than just cash and "toys." Rather, it involves feeling fulfilled in all areas of life, including our relationships, career, and health. What we require to do is look within to discover if, in reality, we feel worthy of authentic wealth.
An additional message that is subtly conveyed in The Secret, and one that I think to be accurate, is that when we have a heartfelt want and we say yes to performing our part to manifest the desire, synchronicities arise, and dormant forces come alive.
On the flip side, I feel the concept that much more "toys" in the form of cars, houses, jet planes, and boats will make us pleased and will be the demonstration of our capacity to manifest is potentially damaging and crippling for many people who are currently "bankrupt" in the locations of self-love and self-appreciation. The problem with this picture is that the want to have frequently comes from a feeling of lack rather than a feeling of completeness. And simply because of this, whatever we acquire in hopes of feeling "full," whole, pleased, or achieved, will inevitably not work, since we feel a void internally.
The truth is that we are not empty, but already full, and when we comprehend and really feel this to be our new reality, then the outer world starts to "echo" our inner awareness.
A Course in Miracles reminds us that to the degree that we can accept and be really grateful for our inheritance as being an unbounded, abundant, whole, and unlimited Self, we will attract to ourselves the ideal outward expressions of our claimed inner worth. This reclaiming of our authentic Self will then miraculously bring into manifestation any material products that will serve the greater good of both our life and of those about us, and yet we will really feel no dependency upon them for our happiness.
