Andrea Mathews - The Law of Attraction: The Souls Answer To Why It Isnt Working and How it Can

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THE LAW OF ATTRACTION

Author Andrea Mathews provides readers with a very thought provoking and insightful examination of the working principles of the Law of Attraction, dispelling the myth that you can get what you want by just thinking about it.
Caroline Myss
Author of DEFY GRAVITY and ANATOMY of the SPIRIT.

Andrea Mathews brings sense and sanity to the law of attraction, which is one of the most misunderstood concepts in our culture. This is a penetrating discussion of the layers of consciousness that are involved in everyones life. If you desire greater clarity and fulfillment in your life, this extraordinarily wise book is for you.
Larry Dossey , MD
Author of The Power of Premonitions.

The Law of Attraction: The Souls Answer to Why It Isnt Working and How It Can points to the real path of transcendence, the real door to the Divine. With this new, radical understanding of the law of attraction, the mystery of your own One Self will open the magic door of life.
Ivan Rados
Author of Health Its All About Consciousness.

Andrea Mathews has given us a wealth of wisdom, insight and new ways of applying ancient knowledge in this wonderfully deep and spiritually sophisticated second-look at the phenomenal global drive to understand the law of attraction.
Jonathan Ellerby , PhD,
Author of Inspiration Deficit Disorder.

Andrea Mathews offers the reader a new, and much needed, dimension of understanding and application of the Law of Abundance. In The Law of Attraction: The Souls Answer to Why It Isnt Working and How It Can Mathews explains what most students of prosperity consciousness refuse to acknowledge: sometimes the law of manifestation (when insufficiently understood or improperly applied) doesnt work. Mathews then draws from a very deep well of training and experience, blends spiritual and psychological principles, and offers solutions for successfully applying the Law of Abundance from a more authentic, spiritual state of mind.
Michael Mirdad ,
Bestselling author of Youre Not Going Crazy... Youre Just Waking Up!

The Law
of Attraction
The Souls Answer to Why It Isnt Working
and How It Can

First published by O-Books, 2011
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Text copyright: Andrea Mathews 2010

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Immeasurable gratitude goes first to Leslie West for her endearing support of both my authenticity and my process of coming to terms with my own explorations of the mystery within me. Each time I touch the hem of that garment, I come away with new information. Her loving warmth and intentional grounding is an invaluable gift for which I am eternally grateful. And I am equally grateful to my children, not only for their adult support of who I am and my work, but also for the many ways that raising them informed me of the beauty and potency of human nature, for they taught me so very much about parenting, about the depths of my own heart and about my own authenticity. I am grateful to my sister, Bonnie Council, for editing some of my earlier work, a lengthy and arduous process that taught me much more about the art of language and communicating my most cogent thought. And I am grateful to my entire family, with all of its dysfunction and poignant mastery of my heart, for all of the lessons in life, love and spirit. I would not be who I am today and therefore could not have written this book without their mastery of my heart or these lessons. Finally, I want to thank my agent Krista Goering of Krista Goering Literary Agency, for her honest feedback, as well as her encouragement, wisdom, guidance and efforts on behalf of getting this book into your hands.

But beyond all of those most personal influences and foundational supports in my life, I would also like to thank all of those mystics, explorers of the human spirit, who have gone before me. They passed through as blind as the rest of us, and yet, with sensitive fingers, touched the mystery and, through that special Braille, learned to see. When I read their work, my own experience is affirmed and enlightened, as I so hope that my work will likewise affirm and enlighten.

This book is dedicated to both the power of mystery and the spirit of
exploration in all of us.

The ideas presented in this book come from years of professional work in which I served clients, workshop attendees, radio show audiences, and readers who continually informed me of their difficulties in working with the current and common understanding of the law of attraction. Through that experience, in combination with my own personal experimentation with that law, I came to know that like any new definition of the depths of experience in mystery, this understanding of the law was both a good start and yet, not enough. In fact, it stops short of offering the very thing it promisespeace and happiness. Much like the Western adaptation of the beautiful Eastern art of meditation, which has so often been reduced to yet another skill to quick-study and execute for optimum performance, the current understanding of the law of attraction has become a struggle, an effort, even a mind-boggling stumbling block for many who are seeking the high road.

Perhaps it was not originally intended to be so, but it has nevertheless become so for manymany who were troubled before taking up the law and became more troubled as a result of this understanding of it. The sad story has begun to be told, in which the human psyche is further split-off from various aspects of itself, fragmented as a result of striving after positive thinking and avoiding negative thinking in order to attract dreams and prevent negative circumstances. This book will not only clarify that story, but it will offer an entirely new perspective on the law of attraction. It does not debunk the law, but it does revise our understanding of it to bring it into the realm of not only the possible, but the probable.

It is absolutely possible for us to attract and be attracted by certain people, places, things, events and circumstances, both desired and undesired. But how and why that happens is not at all like what weve commonly understood thus far.

The collective mind has been on a long and winding road toward its ultimate destiny of acceptance. The mystery of our existence, including our collective and individual struggle with the seemingly incongruent and mutually exclusive concepts of suffering and rejoicing, has been very difficult for us to simply accept. And our process has included each one of the stages of acceptancedenial, anger, sorrow, and bargainingstages that are strangely similar to the now well-known stages of grief, which likewise end in acceptance. Down through history, as we moved through these stages in random and incoherent order, we made up our own mythologies in an attempt to solve the conundrum of life. Through those mythologies we hoped to find the magic bullet that would eliminate our suffering and bring us to a peaceful coexistence with each other and the earth itself. To date, this is an unfulfilled collective soul longing. Yet we continue to hope. So it is that throughout our psychic history weve imagined all manner of superstition that has been intended to give us some modicum of comfort in a world where seeming lucky happenstance and random horror can occur at a moments notice.