tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707638324114540842.post289977572196090329..comments2023-05-04T06:58:42.296-07:00Comments on The Secret Behind the Secret: SECRET #5: Protesting War Creates More WarTad Hargravehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15231450305735382092noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707638324114540842.post-27226884410975380482007-03-01T20:33:00.000-08:002007-03-01T20:33:00.000-08:00Inconsistency with the name in the second paragrap...Inconsistency with the name in the second paragraph. (?ed.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707638324114540842.post-72628728981023685912007-02-21T21:51:00.000-08:002007-02-21T21:51:00.000-08:00Great topic, Tad, I've been thinking about these t...Great topic, Tad, I've been thinking about these things (I'm surrounded by Secret-watchers) but hadn't said anything, and I think it's so important to acknowledge the power of the principle and the feelings it arouses and also be able to still think for yourself. It can be a real strain to do both, but ultimately it's worthwhile. <BR/><BR/>As I reread Thomas Leonard about the OS of attraction I sort of snicker at the very simplified version the film presents. But what's great about the film, even in its cheesiness, is that it does have a fair number of positive images in it that stir the senses and really get my emotions going--"vibrating". I love watching it in a group of people for that reason, to be with other people resonating in that way. <BR/><BR/>The worst abuse of this idea that I encounter is blaming victims for "manifesting" bad things in their lives--it's so much more complicated than that, and it's so unhelpful to blame a victim in this way. It's a perfect illustration of how not to use the Law of Attraction anyway--blaming--yet people frequnently fall into this hypocrisy. As a person who has Lyme disease, I find it especially nauseating to be told I'm responsible for my illness. I am not responsible for it. Global warming is responsible for it; perhaps some government bio-engineers are responsible for it; I am merely responsible for <BR/>deciding to incarnate in this body in this very painful time and to stand my ground and pseak truth no matter how unpopular it has made and continues to make me, and if getting Lyme disease was part of that package I've accepted that and haven't let it stop me. And I will get better, especially once I get off antibiotics and onto the real medicine.<BR/><BR/>I am so happy and grateful now that I have so many people in my life.Inspiring Newsletterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10496915978270267221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707638324114540842.post-51932472460920157942007-02-21T11:51:00.000-08:002007-02-21T11:51:00.000-08:00You have struck a rich vein of gold, Tad, beneath ...You have struck a rich vein of gold, Tad, beneath the sugar-coated repetition of politically correct New Age think. Real spiritual growth is messy. Choosing peace is a disciplined response. Forgiveness only works if the act being forgiven was truly unkind. Yes, we are creating life experience through the law of attraction, but life experience, either messy or grand, is the key to our own spiritual redemption. Yes, we unwittingly attract painful and challenging experiences so that our soul can really, deeply, irrevocably LEARN. In the stillness of my witnesssing self, I recognize that I am a soul on the fast track to waking up...and every experience I've attracted in my life - the pain, the joy, the anguish, the enlightenment, all the dualistic steps actually belong in the greater dance of teaching my self how to love. For me, the real, untold secret, is that until we serve the collective good of fearlessly feeling, of deciding to be responsible for every personal thought, for challenging and admitting our true intent, we are stupidly enabling our sneaky and self-serving negative-ego. This destructive aspect of mind thrills at the popularity of a new and endorsed language that entitles a desire for power and stuff in order to feel secure. In my view, authentic wakefullness requires patient and sometimes confrontational questioning, not blind obedience to a new and attractive code of greed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707638324114540842.post-81437387766823601472007-02-21T07:10:00.000-08:002007-02-21T07:10:00.000-08:00Hi Tad - Oh - This is gonna be FUN!!! Perspective...Hi Tad - Oh - This is gonna be FUN!!! Perspective is interesting, ins't it. When i saw the "War" bits my take was that violence creates violence; an eye for an eye leaves the world blind. In no way did it speak to me of condoning or ignoring violence, nor of refusing to take a stand when appropriate. A minor, real life example is a "peace protest" when i was at Queen's that ended with cars upturned, store windows smashed, people injured. Imagine the energy around that gathering; it was in no way peaceful. Contrast that with a gathering we had here after 9-11 when everyone met, lit candles, prayed for peace, prayed for the victims, families, and bombers. That felt like bringing peace. There are many ways we can take a stand without promoting more of that which we're standing against, but it can be a fine line. Personally i don't believe all the bombing and killing overseas is doing anything to heal the situation. I don't know what would, but this feels like it's simply breeding more violence.Angie Evanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06241892335157766324noreply@blogger.com