Doing Law of Attraction, Magic – RIGHT!
by Michael Robin Cooke on Mar.18, 2009, under Kitschchaos
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Okay, many reading this post are looking for recommendations , not an explanation of how there is no one ‘right’ way (we’re all different, there is no one right way). My honest best advice relating to Law of Attraction is in another blog post, this one (and, it has been replaced with the downloadable E-book – please register above to get yours now!)
There was a spammy reply to my Law of Attraction post (the referring url, not the content) suggesting what a person should do to start off a Law of Attraction practice, is to take responsibility for their life!
All magic is about using will to cause change. Power and responsibility are exactly the same thing. The mere act of using Law of Attraction or other magic makes you reponsible to the degree it is effective. And, being the stuff of subjectivity – belief can make it real! Believe yourself to be powerful, and so you will become!
But – there’s a down side too. If you’re responsible for your life, you’re blameworthy for any illness or loss that could impact your circumstances.
Consider a story outline I’ll be turning into a comic (I write and draw comics, when this site is supplemented with some, the ‘kitsch’ part of KitschChaos.com will make more sense). The teen girl has been working magic since she was a tween, recently her chaos magic practice has turned into a variation on Christian faith. And then, her parents die in a car crash. Did the girl’s magic cause this? She, as any teen, did desire independence – did this desire fuel the death of her parents as a terrible consequence? Is she responsible? How can she know that she’s not? What a terrible burden.
And that’s how power is dangerous. If you have power and do nothing, you’re responsible. If you have power and do something, you’re responsible. If you look at the people living life with you, what is very common is a communal avoidance of responsibility. Responsibility is unwanted, the common desire for power – the desire itself is false. People popularly crave the blamelessness of no power.
So what is the right way to go about things?
Here’s the thing, you, who are reading this blog post – you are not me. All I can tell you is what is right for me.
And this is the critically important thing I want to express, the reason Chaos Magic has an edge on other magical paradigms. One style does not fit all. If you are the eldest of many siblings, assuming responsibility may be very comfortable and natural for you – if so, believing that all, good or ill in your life, is your responsibility – will work beautifully to engender a powerful practice. Another person, such as myself, may be less eager to take personal accountability for purposes of ‘staying sane’ and not surrendering blamelessness entirely.
Regard the ‘staying sane’, let me provide the example of my using magic to help elect President Obama. Obama won that election , am I personally responsible? Any psychiatrist confronted with the claim of being personally responsible for the outcome of any public election would reasonably consider it compelling evidence for a diagnosis of mental illness. Putting limits on the degree you’re responsbile becomes necessary at some point. (but just in case, I’m working magic to have the American economy healthy again -lol).
All I can do is explain how I approach this, what is ‘right’ for me. What is right for you is likely something else. Your job as a magician is to become the best magician YOU can be, your gifts, strengths and weaknesses are unique to you and will necessarily shape the way in which you can be the most effective reality hacker you can be.
I work with a lot of uncertainty and ‘recognize’ that everyone expresses will and works magic, consciously or not. With this model, when you work magic, the effect is working a compromise between your will, that of the universe and the others living in it. So if something unfortunate happens, I’m not blaming myself. I’ll look upon the poor circumstance as an opportunity to learn and perhaps a necessary step towards gain on a scale I never imagined before.
But realize, the former paragraph isn’t truth. I don’t know what the truth is. What it provides is a story about magic that allows me to exercise power and not fret over being responsible for every sad circumstance I endure in the process. Stories can be useful that way.
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March 20th, 2009 on 8:36 am
Hi,
Can i take a one small photo from your blog?
Have a nice day
Saurooon
April 5th, 2009 on 11:40 pm
Commenting usually isnt my thing, but ive spent an hour on the site, so thanks for the info
April 12th, 2009 on 4:13 pm
Hi there,
Ugh, I liked! So clear and positively.
Have a nice day
Pett
May 1st, 2009 on 8:57 am
I think you made some good points
May 1st, 2009 on 9:17 am
great site and informative posts
May 1st, 2009 on 9:27 am
There is obviously a lot to know about this.
May 2nd, 2009 on 4:56 am
I\\'ve a project in the works, in the meantime please feel free to try out the Law of Attraction as I\\'ve presented here and in other blog posts, share your results, and please, ask specific questions. I\\'m here to help.
July 20th, 2009 on 5:33 am
This post is very deep, its given me a lot to think about – but I will make changes in my life – thanks.
July 29th, 2009 on 9:37 am
Part of attraction is wanting what you can’t have. Think about all the celebrities etc that people crave. Others have that X factor (much of this is self confidence).
Get over that and you are half way there.
October 4th, 2009 on 5:59 pm
I don’t think “blame” and responsible are necessarily the same thing. This was one of the points made in Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning.” While his fellow prisoners could take responsibility for their mindset, choices and responses to all that was happening around them it didn’t mean they were to blame for those things happening around them.
IMO: Responsbility comes from a place of personal power while blame comes from a weak place of “victim.”
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October 5th, 2009 on 6:22 pm
Responsibility is power, they are one and the same. ‘Blame’ is most often a technique for avoiding personal responsibility by denying person power and thereby accountability. But blame is not unrelated to responsibility, the person that is responsible will not evade blame, but, indeed will accept the blame (and thereby be blameless in their responsibility -ha!).
But of course there are practical limits to this. As much as I might like to have the power and responsibility of President Obama, I am not him, his is the power….and the blame. Where the distinction is useful is, say, in the domain of my continued unemployment. Sure, the economic situation of the United States (one statistic I’ve heard is 6 unemployed people for every job opening) makes finding a job more difficult than in recent years. But getting a job, even if I have to beat out 600 competitors (when I lived in NYC this was every job) – it’s all me. It’s up to me to use the resources available to me, and to try again repeatedly until I get a job.
March 27th, 2010 on 8:04 pm
Did you create your own blog or did a program do it? Could you please respond? 28
March 28th, 2010 on 12:07 am
The bog itself is the open source wordpress and I am using an open source skin for the same. All of the writing in this blog is (c)2010 Michael Robin Cooke and authored by same, the videos on this blog are not my own, the images associated with the blog posts are often not my own, but I am a cartoonist and illustrator so many of the cartoons and drawing on various posts are by me, I designed the kitschchaos logo, chaostars, designed the guy meditating in a chaostar color background and so forth.
I am researching how to skin wordpress, at some point I’ll have a custom skin, likely one matching the site so I no longer have to use an iframe. After that I may create custom skins for others to use.