A Course in Miracles and the Message of The Secret9831789
Over the previous year, many people have approached me asking me about my viewpoint, and the viewpoint 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 couple of potent 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 true wealth is a lot more than just cash and "toys." Instead, it entails feeling fulfilled in all areas of life, including our relationships, profession, and health. What we need to do is look inside to discover if, in fact, we really feel worthy of genuine wealth.
Another message that is subtly conveyed in The Secret, and one that I think to be true, is that when we have a heartfelt desire and we say yes to doing our component to manifest the want, synchronicities arise, and dormant forces come alive.
On the flip side, I feel the concept that 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 problem with this picture is that the want to have frequently comes from a feeling of lack rather than a feeling of completeness. And because of this, what ever we gain in hopes of feeling "full," whole, happy, or accomplished, will inevitably not work, because we feel a void internally.
The truth is that we are not empty, but already 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 really grateful for our inheritance as becoming an unbounded, abundant, whole, 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 these around us, and yet we will feel no dependency upon them for our happiness.
