Law of attraction was what initially seduced me into the new age thought practice, and whilst the idea of law of attraction seems amazing, it’s actually a trap into very dangerous territory. i first heard about loa from a movie named The Secret, it was a very Hollywood style documentary movie that explained that by directly focusing our feelings and thoughts and maintaining a grateful frequency, we could manifest what we wanted into our reality.
The movie explained how when we were miserable and ungrateful we would manifest further “bad luck”, and when we would be happy and grateful, we would receive more of what we love i.e., situations, people and money. It went on to say that we were our own gods and in total control of our own destiny and outcomes, and the ‘universe’ and not God, responded to our vibrations.
It didn’t feel wrong, the more I practiced law of attraction, the more I would experience it working for me. with more research I learned of an experiment carried out by Dr Masaru Emoto, a Japanese businessman, author and pseudoscientist who claimed that human consciousness could affect the molecular structure of water.
He had carried out an experiment that revealed when positive and negative emotions were directed at water crystals, it would affect the molecule structures accordingly. positive emotions would create beautiful structures, whilst negative emotions would create ugliness and rotting, proving that our thoughts alone can manipulate our reality.
Worship is instinctual among humans, and it’s irrefutable that what we idolise and worship, we become. When we live by law of attraction we focus on our own worldly needs and desires, we focus and worship self, which in turn becomes a narcissistic ritual. We train ourselves to only think about what we want, fame, fortune, love etc, it all becomes me me me, then anything that threatens our thinking/feeling pattern we abolish from our lives, including people. This is a hateful practice and the complete opposite of what the bible teaches us.
Jesus taught that whatever we ask in his name God will give us, proponents of loa would even use this as evidence to support it, it doesn’t at all. What better way to deceive us away from Jesus than to use one of his greatest revelations, and manipulate the truth to the point that it removes the need for God from the equation entirely.
We can’t control our thoughts and feelings all the time, I found myself becoming almost crazy and depressed trying to maintain “a good feeling” constantly. I also found myself judging and isolating myself from people that I felt were “low vibrational” people.
“What better way to deceive us away from Jesus than to use one of his greatest revelations, and manipulate the truth to the point that it removes the need for God from the equation entirely”
None of this means to say we cannot ask for what we want, Jesus made it perfectly clear that whatever we ask for in his name God will give us, as he said in John 14:13 “And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.” and again in Mathew 7:7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”
Law of attraction tells you worship yourself, God only asked one thing in return from us for eternal life with him, to believe in him, to accept Jesus as God, by practicing the law of attraction we not only completely disregard this, we begin to idolise self by thinking we are our own gods. Law of attraction is simply a way of deceiving us away from Jesus by using yourself and worldly desires against you.
