A Course in Miracles and the Message of The Secret2776948
Over the past year, many individuals have approached me asking me about my perspective, and the perspective of A Course in Miracles, on the well-liked book and film The Secret. I was also lately asked to participate in an expert panel discussion on The Secret and the law of attraction at the Body Soul Spirit Expo in Calgary.
As I see it, The Secret provides a couple of potent and essential global messages worth appreciating. The first message is that our thoughts have a potent influence on our life. The next insight is that we are entitled to a wealthy life, although true wealth is much much more than just cash and "toys." Rather, it entails feeling fulfilled in all locations of life, such as our relationships, career, and health. What we require to do is look within to discover if, in reality, we really feel worthy of genuine 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 component to manifest the desire, synchronicities arise, and dormant forces come alive.
On the flip side, I feel the concept that more "toys" in the form of cars, houses, jet planes, and boats will make us happy and will be the demonstration of our capacity to manifest is potentially damaging and crippling for many individuals who are already "bankrupt" in the areas of self-love and self-appreciation. The problem with this image is that the desire to have often comes from a feeling of lack rather than a feeling of completeness. And because of this, whatever we gain in hopes of feeling "full," entire, pleased, or accomplished, will inevitably not work, since we feel a void internally.
The truth is that we are not empty, but currently full, and when we understand 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 truly grateful for our inheritance as being an unbounded, abundant, entire, and unlimited Self, we will attract to ourselves the perfect outward expressions of our claimed inner worth. This reclaiming of our authentic Self will then miraculously bring into manifestation any material items 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.
