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For me Law of Attraction was something I was introduced to as a foundation to magical practice (by professional Hoodoo expert, Dr. Kioni). I was directed to read, Science of getting Rich by Wally Wattles, I still find it the best book on the subject I’ve read to date. This post is an overview of what I’m adding to that book for the kitschchaos edition, there’s an awful lot of interest in LOA.

LOA seems like ‘positive thinking’ rather than an occult practice, ergo it’s popularity. But if you really want to tweak it to produce results reliably, you have to realize it is fundamentally a magical practice and apply insights from magic to get it working.

That said, I’m critical of LOA, as I’ve seen it practised. I find examples of people blaming others for their thinking and therefore their failures with LOA,  rather than taking responsibility for their own thinking. Some people forget the mystery inherent in LOA, and presume to blame victims for creating their own unfortunate circumstances.

Importantly, and I much prefer to withhold this and sell the idea to you in an e-book, it’s well and good to tell people to manage their thoughts, its another to do it. The latter half of the equation is the bigger deal, I have some excellent coaching – the stuff that’s most often glossed over or ignored entirely.

Now let me be blunt. I’m biased to Chaos magic, and given a bottom line of real world results – I don’t limit myself to LOA to produce results.

So, for those new to this, to answer: What is Law of Attraction?

Law of Attraction:

The principle that a person’s thoughts powerfully shape that person’s subjective and objective reality, ‘attracting’ to manifest the object of the person’s thinking. For example, to become rich: believe that becoming rich is a moral good, believe that you will become rich, believe you will obtain those desires you clearly visualize and imagine owning already. Now structure your thinking to be consistent with these beliefs.

There’s LOA, in a nutshell. So what problems occur? The problems of magic are still problems in LOA: Duality of Desire, Lust for Result and the Psychic Censor. Let’s review them:

Duality of Desire: Change is always threatening, be it for good or ill, and this fear is always in opposition to desire for change.  Many people have turned being victims into being right, and that’s a lot to give up. The promotion at work promises greater prestige and salary, but costs you camaraderie of those who now are co-workers but would become subordinates – not to mention the windfall of righteous love and support upon not getting the promotion -”you deserved it!”.

Lust for Result: If your mental state is one of being anxious for the results of LOA (or any magic act/spell) – this will sabotage any result. Typically results will manifest once you have stopped being anxious and have become indifferent from resignation. The ideal state for producing results is to be indifferent to begin with.

Psychic Censor: This is the internal sceptic, that part of you that doesn’t believe Magic is real, doesn’t believe that LOA is real. Obviously it can prevent you from indulging the ideas and visualizations that are the stuff of LOA if it’s too strong. The Psychic Censor is not a bad thing though, it’s what keeps you sane, allows you to distinguish a real result from a subjective one. But you shouldn’t be ruled by it either.  A wise person knows little or nothing because mystery out weighs all else. Chaos Magicians take this to an extreme:”There is no truth” is an axiom to them. Rather than overrule your Psychic Censor, it can be useful if you allow it to encourage an indifferent attitude towards results.

Now the ‘Duality of Desire’, is a key reason for recommending the ‘Law of Attraction’ to Chaos magicians, Wiccans, Hoodoo Root workers and more. Sigil magic works around the duality of desire by minimizing the impact of the conscious mind. Law of Attraction presents the possibility of focusing the mind in such a way as to minimize duality of desire in the conscious mind itself!

How to put LOA into action?

Introductory Zen Meditation, it introduces mind to the capacity of self awareness and discipline. The process is very simple:

• Sit bolt upright, with a straight spine, the position, on chair, on floor, kneeling, lotus..etc. is less important. Only masters use uncomfortable positions to test their concentration.
• In front of you, place the back of your left hand in the palm of your right hand, thumbs up and almost touching. If you lose concentration, the thumbs will meet.
• Breath deeply and from your stomach, the stomach will rise and fall with every breath if you’re doing it properly.
• You can close your eyes, or keep them barely open if that helps you maintain concentration.
• What you are doing is counting your breathes, one to ten.
• On the first breath, think ‘one’ allow the number to consume your thoughts until you exhale and then inhale the next number which similarly consumes your consciousness.
• When your mind wanders during this process, you must restart your count and begin with ‘one’ once again.
• Beginning this meditation, it is unlikely you will ever reach the number ‘10′, you will understand the unruliness of your own mind. But! You will learn 2 critically important things: your capacity to concentrate IMPROVES with practice, You are able to return your mind to any focus at will.

Once you try Zen meditation, besides the usual and numerous benefits of meditation – the capacity to change mental focus at will alone will make your thinking impervious to assault from ‘negative’ thinking people. Negative people will only be able to influence you if you allow them to (and in fact, you quite likely will choose to for reasons of camaraderie and ‘being right’ or ‘fitting in’- be clear this is your decision and not the fault of someone else!).

NLP, or Neuro-Linguistic programming, is something I am very interested in and will learn more about soon. One simple principle is that positive and negative emotions always are associated with physical positions. If you are finding yourself being negative, try raising your head and straightening your shoulders. If you begin a practice of physically grinning broadly 20 times a day – it’s highly likely you will find yourself taking life less seriously and having more fun.

The problem of other people in your life … being ‘negative’ and a problem because they are influencing you and sabotaging your thinking and now the LOA works against you. The main thing to realize is how selfish this attitude is,” the problem is MY results – and F#ck them for sabotaging me!”.  Please notice that while that condemning thought is in your head, what is missing is the thing you want to manifest from thinking about it -that’s your problem! Better to be generous, let people be, and think of the benefit to others the example of your success will make possible for them.

If you learn from meditation to focus your thoughts at will, never again can another person get your Law of Attraction practice off track without your permission! There’s no reason to not be generous, no one can ‘get you’ off your LOA focus unless you allow them to.

The mystic art of expectation: when you expect something from someone, it creates a space for that behaviour , encouragement that it’s possible for them and encouragement to do so. This is not to suggest the practice is more than an invitation, but it’s highly likely to produce the behaviour expected. This is using the law of attraction interpersonally, and it’s often not easy. You may already have people pigeon-holed in various ways, and you’ll have to forgive, give up those expectations in order to manifest new ones. Just do it!

That’s most of what I have to say, except for one thing. The ‘LAW of attraction’ is NOT at all like the ‘Law of gravity’ and not understanding this will make you an @sshole, instead of effective. The Holocaust didn’t happen because Jews felt bad about themselves, rape victims never ‘asked for it’, people get sick just because, not always because of how they are thinking.

I think of the Law of Attraction as a minor thing that can become large, like ‘the butterfly effect’. Remember that if LOA is real for you, then it must be as real for everyone else, and what happens in your life is a manfestation of your LOA and the LOA of every person your life touches. Also remember that just because LOA produces results, doesn’t prove it’s real (Chaos magic is helpful here, inviting the experience of successful results from contradictory paradigms) – don’t presume you know what is happening, why it’s happening – you’re just guessing even as you appreciate the result.

Now that you’ve a handle on how to get Law of Attraction working for you, it’s time to remind you that the Law of attraction is magic. By which I mean it’s not different from any other sort of magic, you have to put the effort in to create a pathway for the result to manifest. The law of attraction will help you, but if you don’t start a business it won’t help you with business success, if you don’t go out to meet new people the Law of Attraction won’t fetch you a lover – and so forth. The Law of Attraction is a 24/7 practice, which is how its challenging – but this paradigm is also blessed in this way. Because all magic is really a 24/7 practice, you may use a conjure spell but getting the conjure to work the way you want regularly requires you to live your life in such a way as to create the opportunity for fulfilment.

I’ve said this before. You can use magic to create your own reality, but if you believe magic is limited to conjure and nothing else is required, you’ll be the only person living in that reality.

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