Robert Burney - The Law of Attraction - Misunderstood & Misinterpreted: A Larger Spiritual Paradigm

The Law of Attraction -

Misunderstood & Misinterpreted

A Larger Spiritual Paradigm

By Robert Burney

Author of Codependence

The Dance of Wounded Souls

All rights reserved.

Copyright 2013 by Robert Burney

Although my book makes reference to Alcoholics Anonymous, the principles and Twelve Step program of A.A., this does not mean that A.A. has reviewed or approved the contents of this writing, nor that A.A. agrees with the views expressed herein. A.A. is a program of recovery from alcoholism only - use of this material in connection with programs and activities which are patterned after A.A., but address other problems, or in any other non-A.A. context, does not imply otherwise.

No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission of the Publisher, except where permitted by law.

Published in January 2013 as an e-book through

Amazon Kindle

by Joy to You & Me Enterprises

PO Box 235401

Encinitas, California 92023

First Edition

Dedication

To Richard Bach whose book Illusions "The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah" I found in a grocery store in early 1984 when I was about 3 months sober. His book was "mind boggling, paradigm smashing" and really launched me on my Spiritual Quest.

Table of Contents

Author's Foreword

Part 1

A Larger Spiritual Paradigm

The Journey of this Spiritual Teacher

Twelve Step Recovery

A Higher Power of my own understanding

Metaphysics

Mystical Messenger

Part 2

The Law of Attraction

Metaphysical Law - Discernment about Truth

Enlarging the New Age Paradigm

Polarization / Black & White thinking

Discernment within between emotional and mental

Codependent, shaming New Agers, Twelve Steppers, Spiritual Seekers

The Law of Karma Trumps the Law of Attraction

Dance of Karma

Curing Cancer / Manifesting Abundance

Author's Foreword

I first wrote about imbalance and misinformation that I was seeing in the New Age movement in 1999. And then in 2001 wrote an article entitled New Age Misinterpretations of Metaphysical Truth. After The Secret came out in 2006, I felt the urge to expand on what I had touched upon in the Misinterpretations article because I was seeing so many people hurt because of the ways in which spiritual teachers, new age gurus, and New Thought churches were/are teaching the Law of Attraction.

It wasn't until 2008 however - after observing how passionate I was about this topic while responding to some questions in a workshop - that I actually wrote the article this book is based upon. My reasons are summed up in the following paragraph which you will see later in this book.

"I am publishing this book because I believe that the way the Law of Attraction is being taught by most people who are teaching it today is not ultimately Loving. I believe it is being taught in a way that makes many of the people hearing it feel ashamed; in a way that causes people to focus on reaching a destination at the expense of being present in the now; in a way that reinforces the delusion that there is something inherently wrong with being human, with human beings. It is also being taught by most spiritual teachers in a way that discounts and devalues emotions and emotional healing."

This is a New Age in my understanding - so that is not the issue that I have with the New Age movement. The following quotes are from my book Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls - which evolved out of a talk I first gave in June of 1991.

"We have now entered a very special time in human history. An Age of Healing and Joy has dawned in human consciousness on this planet. We now have tools, knowledge, and most importantly, clearer access to healing energy and Spiritual guidance than has ever before been available in recorded human history on this planet."

" A Transformational Healing Process has begun on the planet Earth. Due to a profound change that has taken place in the energy field of Collective Human Emotional Consciousness, resources are now available to us to do healing that has never before been possible in recorded human history. Human beings now, for the first time, have the capacity to directly address the core issues of the human dilemma."

(All quotes in italics are from Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls by Robert Burney)

I believe that this is a New Age of Healing and Joy from multiple perspectives and on multiple levels. Here is an excerpt from one of my articles (which starts with a quote from my book) in which I talk about one of those perspectives.

"One of the fascinating things about the Age of Healing and Joy that has dawned in human consciousness is that the tools and knowledge that we need to raise our consciousness, to awaken to consciousness, have been unfolding in all areas of human endeavor over time, and at an accelerated rate in the last fifty to one hundred years."

I believe that Alcoholics Anonymous and the twelve step process were vitally important components in the evolutionary / revolutionary ascension of planetary consciousness - in the acceleration of enLightenment - that produced critical mass and transformed planetary conditions. In this quote, I make reference to how this consciousness expansion can be seen in all areas of human endeavor. Likewise, it can be viewed from a multitude of perspectives. One of those perspectives would be astrological.

From an astrological perspective, the Age of Healing and Joy that I talk about in my book, can be seen as the Age of Aquarius.

Now astrology is not something I know a lot about - nor is it something that I give a lot of power in terms of how I live my life day to day. But it is a part of the whole picture, and does carry some power and Truth in it's perspective.

One of the sparks that went into igniting the series of articles I am beginning here, was rediscovering a piece of writing that I ran across some years ago - which I am going to quote from in this article. It was something I found on the internet - although I failed to note where I found it, and cannot find it on the web now in some searches I have done in the last few days. (If anyone can tell me the original source, I will be more than happy to give credit where credit is due.)

When I originally discovered this piece of writing, it validated what I had been saying for years about the Age of Healing and Joy being the Age of Aquarius. I had been saying that based upon intuitive knowledge rather than any actual understanding of the study of astrology. This is something that has happened again and again on my Spiritual Path. That is, I am led to see the Truth in something through intuition and messages from the Universe - and those nuggets of Truth that I discern are later validated by multiple external sources.

This astrological information that I recently rediscovered is something that resonated powerfully with me - and I created a word processing document to save it on January 30th 2001.

In this rediscovered piece of work, it is explained that it takes 2,160 years for the Spring Equinox to move through the zodiac wheel from one sign to the next - thus an age associated with a specific astrological sign lasts for 2,160 years. We have just passed from the Age of Pisces into the Age of Aquarius. (There is no consensus among astrologers on when the the passage from Pisces to Aquarius actually takes place. Some say it already has, some say it will on various dates in the coming years. I believe the age of Aquarius began in the late 1980s.)

These next two paragraphs are what I wanted to share in this article. I find them very interesting in relationship to the Transformational Healing process I see happening on the planet.