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I expect this will raise some feathers…
Some of my metaphysically oriented friends may not be happy with the notion that the Law of Attraction is a cop out for real social responsibility. Yet, I see it more and more as the economy seems to get worse and worse.
The Law of Attraction that was popularized by Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich was originally taught in a 24 week correspondence course taught by Charles Haanel. In fact, you can get this course free by registering with this site, http://www.enjoyabetterworld.com. So, I am a big proponent of the Law of Attraction.
The essential Law of Attraction is that important stuff in our lives actually happens at a non-conscious level… that you have quintessential connections to the world around you and the universe at a non-conscious level and that is where the real action is. The conscious mind is what you use to “program” the non-conscious mind, and the main programming tool is visualization. So get the picture here (no pun intended). If you want to build a 40 story building you visualize the creation of the building on a number of levels. You use the conscious mind to create the blueprints… that’s the ultimate visualization for the form of the building. You make 3D models of what the building will look like. You even work out the budgets and financing on paper before they become reality. This conscious activity is what programs the non-conscious mind and ultimately turns the building from an idea into reality. See the metaphysics of the Law of Attraction in the following video.
Unfortunately, the teachings of Charles Haanel have been morphed into an idea that “like attracts like” and that “if you just think right you will be successful”. So, if you say “I am wealthy” in a mantra like fashion of daily affirmations you will be rich.
The Hanged Man
The image at the left is the Tarot card for The Hanged Man. One of my teachers said that this was the most significant card in the Major Arcana of the Tarot Deck. It is the card that signifies the transition into the spiritual life and points a direction for how to make your world much much better.
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The Message of Easter
Yesterday people around the world celebrated Easter… and the focus of Easter and the Christian church is on the Passion of Christ, perhaps most graphically portrayed in Mel Gibson’s movie of the same name. In churches and museums throughout the world, paintings and crucifixes depict the incredible suffering of Christ at the hands of the Romans. The message is that Christ endured all that pain and suffering for our salvation in an incredible act of selflessness… of sacrificing for everyone else.
Think about the implications… this raises enduring pain and suffering to a virtue. It tells ordinary Christians that if they experience pain, suffering, and even death, particularly in the name of religion, then they will be rewarded in the afterlife.
The Early Christian Message
Interestingly enough, the passion/crucifixion centric view of Easter did not make an appearance until about 1000 CE (AD). Prior to that, the focus of Christian theology was on the Resurrection. It’s impossible to find images of Christ on the cross before about the year 965 CE. Think about the theological implications… Adam represented the expulsion of man from paradise on earth… The Garden of Eden. Christ literally paid mankind’s dues, inherited from Adam, and that reestablished paradise on earth. In the Book of Thomas, one of the earliest of the Gospels, Christ clearly says that the Kingdom of Heaven is all around us, but we just fail to see it. That was the message of the early Christian church.
Paradise Lost
St. Augustine (354-430 CE) is generally considered to be the first to justify a “Holy” war within Christianity. That fits rather nicely with the adoption of Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire. This also coordinated nicely with the elimination of the Gnostic Christian movement from Christianity culminating in 1229 with both the Albgensian Crusade that killed the Cathars and the institutionalization of the Inquisition. The Gnostics’ viewpoint simply would not do in a violence-centric theology that sacrificed paradise on earth for the justification of war and glorification of death in the name of religion… the Gnostics taught that Christ brought wisdom to men to restore the lost paradise… but by 1229, paradise was lost again.
The emergence of the crucifixion in Christian art in 965 also fit nicely with the beginning of the First Crusade, that made going to the Middle East in order to acquire fortune OK as a Holy undertaking.
The picture here is the replacement of the real Christian message with a system of belief that justifies war and glorifies suffering and death in the name of religious and political empire. The substitution of the idea that the goal we should strive for is the establishment of paradise on earth… the correction of the ills that cause suffering and the loss of paradise… to the acceptance of suffering as somehow “Holy”.
The Easter Message
So, your question for this Easter is which view you will pursue. The idea that violence and suffering are justified on spiritual grounds or the idea that we are all here to help each other establish paradise on earth.
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