The Serene Way

‘The Secret’ and ‘The Law of Attraction’ as Fabrications of Greed

“The enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.”

Julius Caesar, 75 B.C.

The pursuit of happiness and peace is caught in, and now churn and grease the wheels of, consumerism, commercialism and materialism. This ultimately makes a mockery of spirituality and the quest for meaning in our lives, and never so dynamically and ubiquitously as both The Secret and the ‘Law of Attraction’. For years we have been hearing and literally ‘buying into’ the promise that we can have all that we want—the good life—through visualization, belief and a modicum of effort. This only serves to intensify desire, leading to greed and a further spiral into the illusion that materialistic gain will give us the security for which we search.

Perhaps we can say that the rape and pillage of the earth began with Imperialism. Certainly the Industrial Revolution introduced many benefits. However, when we look closely, we see its empty results: the destruction of our air, our water, our earth. We continue to pass down to future generations the responsibility of repairing what we have been systematically destroying. We have not been able to set an example for these future generations, teaching them how to shoulder responsibility, nor have we demonstrated much more than a single care about them. They see only a continuation of the same actions, of single-minded greed that keeps the current system intact and causes endless cycles of crisis.

This repetitive program results in a pattern of fear which is based on illusion, currently manifest as the profit turned in ‘paper’ transactions upon which our ‘free market’ society is based. This programming has become a source of control for the mechanisms of consumerism—its manipulation, calculation and deception. It has been instrumental in separating us from our selves, in giving power to someone or something—an entity—other than our selves.

How can the goal of the bigger house, the faster car, the gold, diamonds and pearls fill this emptiness within? The idea of more, more, more and guzzle, guzzle, guzzle can lead only to a repetition of history, where stock markets plummet and fear grips the world. It certainly hasn’t changed in this lifetime; we need look no further than the real estate crash of the ’80s, the dot-com crash of the ’90s, and now a combination of both monetary lending for real estate and commodities crashing today. Trillions of dollars have been said to have been lost on the global markets, and a single country is spending $700 billion to bail out those that continue this repetition of historic pirating.

The promise of ‘abundance’ has proliferated like nuclear missiles and weapons of mass destruction. In the end, it creates the same emotional reaction—fear—out of power, control, and an ‘I am better than you’ mentality. These ideas, no matter who discusses or promote them, whether it is Rhonda, Oprah, Jack, Bob or Phil, lead us down the path not only to earthly ruin, but to the ruin of humanity itself. It appears that the last bastion of the self—our soul—is becoming fodder for the markets.

Perhaps we are getting what The Secret and ‘The Law of Attraction’ promise, as there is never an action without a reaction.

It has been said there is enough for everyone on this earth. These works, which promote the manifestation of our materialistic desires by focusing on our intentions, lead only to a further exhaustion of all non-renewable resources and move us closer to the brink of extinction.

“We can have what we want” is the chant and chorus bombarding our senses. Do we need a 5,000 square foot home? Do we need a television for every room in the house? Do we need all those gas guzzling cars? They only serve to suck up limited resources and abuse the fertile soil we need to sustain our selves. We encroach upon the habitat of other animals without concern for their demise, only appreciating their monetary value. We continue to destroy the symbiotic relationship we have with this planet and all that exist upon it for the sake of power, control and materialistic gain.

Perhaps the better question is, “What do we need to exist?” No longer do we gather for the long winter. Instead we horde for the sake of hording and feed the illusion that this will give us a sense of identity, our desires creating a self image in a society lost on its path to light. The cycle of abuse perpetrated not only on this planet but upon ourselves has manifested itself in the form of the current economic turmoil—we reap what we have sown.

Originally, abundance and attraction were intended to enlighten, to instil a true sense of security and self. They are now being used against us. The plunder has reached into our most basic nature, raping our very souls. The sanctity of self is being prostituted, sold and re-sold as pretence of materializing the divine—an impossiblity, since it is an infinite expression of energy.

We continue to take an internal quest and externalize it in the form of materialistic goals, missing the point completely. The secret is not to manifest materialistic desires but to release them.

The secret is to know that abundance and wealth in physical terms are illusions. They are transitory; they are ‘no’ thing, not everything.

Take the opportunity to release these attachments and create a new world order that will manifest understanding and compassion on our path to light.

© T.S. (Tim) White, 2007

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Canadian Natural Health Coalition

Policy Statement on Bill C51

www.cnhc.ca

Oprah, we all need your help!!!

The state of health of all North Americans is in jeopardy.

Here in Canada big pharma is strong arming the government to pass Bill C51 (www.stopc51.com) There is a similar Codex in the US and this government is following its southern counterparts lead. This would restrict access to natural remedies, such as vitamin and herbal supplements to a prescription basis. The government would have the authority to enter one’s home without a warrant and seize one’s property as well as levy fines upwards of $2,000,000 and jail time for drying herbs in your own home.

I’ve signed the petition “Stop Bill C-51″& http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/StopC51

This is the note I attached to my signing of the petition.

12:50 pm PDT, May 7, Tim White, Canada

Thanks in part to natural supplements and herbal remedies; I have been able to control my Irritable Bowel Disorder for the past 2 1/2 years. It is with this continued support that I do not have to avail of the health care system at a great expense. Giving in to Pharmaceutical companies is just another indication of how government is for the corporate sector and not of the people for the people. Stop the process of this act immediately. How much more can the health care system sustain. Extended Health Care premiums would skyrocket and how few can afford them as it is.

We must all fight to ensure that neither government enacts laws that restrict access to our ability to take care of ourselves. We must be free of big brother Pharma trying to squeeze more out of the average citizen by its lobby.

We need your help to get this message out to as many as possible so we can protect our right to avail of natural products and be responsible for our own health and wellbeing.

Many thanks

Tim

I agree that in torture - animals vs. humans - we are no more important than any animal and in turn they are no more important that we are.

The seal hunt has many personal triggers for me, as I have seen the place that I come from, Newfoundland, completely transformed and broken down with the failure of the fisheries. It is the fishermen themselves that have felt the brunt of this, though they had been telling the governments for years of excess international fishing which continues unabated, and the effects of the closure of the seal hunt upon fish stocks. Outside observers and experts had their own views and statistics that did not take into account the observations of a people who had spent their lives working with the ebb and flow of nature.

It has been a tradition for these people that have lost their livelihoods—much has been taken from these people of the sea which has seen an exodus from the province, which had been built on the fishery. They did not use just the pelts for warmth or fashion, the entire animal was and still is utilized – omega 3 oils anyone? The traditional flipper pie still exists; seal meat is still consumed, though one would have to take the current state of the ocean and mercury levels of larger sea animals into account for the safety of this practice.

I question this particular target – the seal hunt - why not all international fisheries for over fishing and all the industries that have created a far greater concern with environmental pollutants. If the goal is to protect, then where are our priorities?

The media and various interest groups continue to proliferate the idea that baby white coats are still targeted; this is sensationalist hype and emotional manipulation. This has not been the case for years. If you’d like to see a different take on the seal I would direct you to the movie “Happy Feet” to see the ferocity of this animal, which eats its weight in fish on a daily basis.

The latest ‘protest group’ effort on the East Coast, not even near the most of the hunt, had Paul McCartney and Heather Mills in the midst of the milieu. There was a posed picture of them with a white coat. Well, that baby seal being touched my human hands, lost its mother (mother seals with pups are not hunted). Once touched, the mother will abandon its offspring, in this case it was not the hunt that destroyed the baby white coat but the opportunity for an emotionally charged photo.

Now, the east coast of Canada, Newfoundland in particular has off shore oil reserves. Yes, a different resource but non renewable and what effect will this have should there be an environmental disaster created by oil spill or even worse a terrorist attack? This area is along the gulf current that runs to Europe with great winds and storms travelling this route. Will the animals of the sea then be protected? What greater potential for loss is there here? What wars are being fought based on oil production and the loss of human lives for this cause? These are just questions I ask myself, where does the balance exist? Is it six in one and half a dozen in the other?

I have no answers, only my heart which belongs to my home. Now it is on a slick and oily slope filling the pockets of international corporations and the feeding frenzy of over consumption. The livelihood lost from the ocean’s natural abundance, where there was a provision of responsible management by these people for centuries without ill effect.

© T.S. (Tim) White