LAW #3

Like attracts like.

Whatever lives within us resonates with similar forces, people, and experiences until we become conscious enough to transform it.

 

The fusion of energy and consciousness creates an electromagnetic field of tremendous power. Every possible outcome is contained in this force field, and every idea or attitude we have about life creates such a field. Once such a field is activated, it sets events, patterns, behaviors and reactions into motion.

These force fields operate according to one simple law: like attracts like. This means our whole approach to life—what we think and believe—will attract or push away people, events and circumstances. In our work, we must excavate the deep negative emotions that are attached to our false ideas, along with the negative intention we have toward life as a result.

We will discover, with alarming clarity, that what happens to us in life is no coincidence. The world is just lining up according to immutable laws that are always at work.

We are not victims

We can only be affected by the wrongdoings of others if there is something in us that responds. We’re like tuning forks that only hum when the same note is playing next to us. So the negative thoughts and feelings of others will only stir up the corresponding areas in us where we harbor our own distortions.

This explains why our thoughts and feelings—whether conscious or unconscious—can be so contagious. And it doesn’t matter if our attitude is conscious or unconscious. This is the law of affinity: the attraction of similar things and the repulsion of dissimilar things.

It’s simply not true that we can come to harm through some arbitrary fate or due to the cruelty, selfishness or ignorance of others. Any fear that this is so is pure illusion. We’re not victims of other people, and no harm can come our way that’s not self-produced.

Friction reveals what needs healing

God’s laws are lovingly designed to bring us back to where we started—back into union with God. For God is love, and the nature of love is to share—to connect.

We, however, in our humanity, turn every divine aspect into its opposite. In other words, we use the same power towards a very different outcome. So we are the ones who separate ourselves from God.

In the Spirit World, thoughts and feelings aren’t abstract like they are here in this material world. There, everything is concrete and everything has form—not just material objects, like here. This means that even love has form in the Spirit World and is visible.

There, spirits only live in worlds with other spirits who are at a similar level of development. Such an arrangement facilitates life in general. But individual development is slowed down, for there’s less friction.

Here on Earth, people with varying levels of spiritual development all live together. Due to the friction this creates, we don’t always get along.

Friction is what brings our faults to the surface where we can see them and heal them. Without the friction caused by other people’s faults, we are slower to develop. This points to the very real upside of coming here to Earth.

How we give up freedom

One of the greatest reasons to embark upon a spiritual path is to gain personal freedom from the chains of our inner distortions. The distorted energy and consciousness of our faults don’t just create conflict with other people. They also draw unseen forces toward us.

For example, in the spirit realm, there are both good spirits and bad spirits. In accordance with spiritual law, we will attract the ones to come close to us that match us—who specialize in good or bad qualities like the ones we possess.

Say we have a fault of being selfish. This means selfish specialists can attach themselves to us. Or if our fault is furious outbursts, we’ll have negative specialists nearby, just waiting for us to let them unload on someone.

If we let them, they will influence us, take over us, and live through us.

It’s our own faults—the cracks in our fragmented psyche—that let them in. They just wait for an opportunity to spring into action. That’s how we collude with them.

The only way to rid ourselves of these specialists is by overcoming our faults. When we do so, those entities learn from us and grow. But if we’re not diligent and strong, they will inspire us to follow them in their blindness.

We don’t need to fight against others’ imperfections. We just need to wake up to our own.

Others reflect our flaws

We all know that physical growth can only happen gradually. It’s no different with growing spiritually or emotionally. It takes time.

Nothing eliminates strife more effectively than becoming aware of our own flaws and willingly addressing them.

In truth, any time we’re upset by someone else’s faults, we must have something similar somewhere in our soul. We especially condemn in others the faults we refuse to acknowledge in ourselves. The disharmony we feel is due to our reluctance to admit to or give up our own fault.

This makes us resent the fault when we see it in someone else. We are breaking spiritual law because we refuse to see ourselves in truth. To whatever extent we cannot remain serene in the face of another’s faults, to that extent we don’t accept ourselves as we are right now.

When we inwardly fight against others, it’s ourselves we refuse to accept.

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