A Course in Miracles and the Message of The Secret7014603
Over the previous year, many individuals 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 lately 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 provides a few powerful and necessary global messages worth appreciating. The first message is that our thoughts have a powerful influence on our life. The next insight is that we are entitled to a wealthy life, although accurate wealth is much more than just cash and "toys." Instead, it involves feeling fulfilled in all locations of life, such as our relationships, career, and health. What we need to do is look within to uncover if, in reality, we feel worthy of authentic wealth.
Another message that is subtly conveyed in The Secret, and one that I believe to be accurate, is that when we have a heartfelt desire and we say yes to doing our component to manifest the desire, synchronicities arise, and dormant forces come alive.
On the flip side, I really feel the concept that much more "toys" in the type 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 already "bankrupt" in the areas of self-love and self-appreciation. The issue with this image is that the desire to have often 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," entire, pleased, or achieved, will inevitably not work, because we feel a void internally.
The truth is that we are not empty, but currently full, and when we understand and feel this to be our new reality, then the outer globe 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 becoming an unbounded, abundant, entire, and limitless 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 higher great of both our life and of these about us, and yet we will feel no dependency upon them for our happiness.
