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ᴛʜᴇ Ⱡ₳₩ ᴄᴜʟᴛ ᴏғ ᴀᴛᴛʀᴀᴄᴛɪᴏɴ: ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴀʏ ɪ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ.
ɪ—ɪɴᴛʀᴏᴅᴜᴄᴛɪᴏɴ:
this thread was inspired from a conversation between me and my friends ( @tixtwo, @midnitemadness6, and @moonchild4054) addressing the following tweet, about the law of attraction and the community surrounding it, and why it doesn't work the way it's 'supposed to.'
as @midnitemadness6 said, i do feel like this is a good-intended white lie. specifically, one that is probably never true unless you meet certain 'standards' in our society—see: white, cishet, neurotypical, and meeting heteronormative expectations. https://twitter.com/orangebook_/status/1318904573482930177?s=20
the new age spiritual community has an obsession with the law of attraction, and has established certain 'rules' that they 'discovered' the law abides by: positivity, belief, affirmations, and letting go—just to name a few.
"set your intention, believe you can achieve it, affirm that you can achieve it anytime you question it, and don't think too much about it—just relax and lay back and watch as [enter name of higher power] brings it to you."
and you know what, maybe that works for them. maybe this technique is indeed what the law of attraction means to them, so i'm not invalidating their experience with it—although it still stems from a place of privilege. my problem begins when they start teaching it. here's why:
ɪɪ—ᴛᴇᴀᴄʜɪɴɢ ғʀᴇᴇ-ᴛʜɪɴᴋɪɴɢ:
i do plan on making a separate thread on this, but for now, i'll sum it up into this:
some spiritualists need to feel emotionally and mentally superior to others, so they start teaching their growing platform, which, let's be frank, consists mostly of minors.
some spiritualists need to feel emotionally and mentally superior to others, so they start teaching their growing platform, which, let's be frank, consists mostly of minors.
aside from the fact that this allegedly new-found knowledge they claim to have curated is just recycled, hand-picked teachings from ancient texts (colonists, luv!), they begin selling it—quite literally—to their followers, taking advantage of their vulnerability and failures.
now, if this was indeed an attempt to "set you free," why would there be a need to spoon-feed the audience this information after bombarding them with inspiration porn and a lot of meaningless pictures of them as examples of their successful manifestations?
anyway, moving on:
anyway, moving on:
ɪɪɪ—ɪɴғɪɴɪᴛᴇ ʀᴇᴀʟɪᴛɪᴇs:
i am not exaggerating when i tell you i heard this every other sentence in every other manifesting video. there's this idea that quantum physics goes hand in hand with hinduism, and there are infinite parallel realities with infinite versions of us, etc, etc.
and don't get me wrong—it could be true. but it gets hypocritical when they start lecturing people on how they should manifest, according to their experience—not the person manifesting.
this is when the problem grows.
this is when the problem grows.
so they believe there are infinite possibilities out there, ranging all the way from worst case to best case scenario, but they refuse to accept that any method other than theirs is correct and effective. they are convinced that only the 'law' that works for them, works.
now,
now,
ɪᴠ—ᴀ ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ ʙᴀᴄᴋsᴛᴏʀʏ:
my father's company went bankrupt when i was around 5 or 6, but he still remained in the mindset of being a millionaire. he drove expensive cars, worse expensive clothes, gambled—even though he was on the brink of being in debt.
did he get richer? no. it made things worse.
did he get richer? no. it made things worse.
there are people around me who never manifest, nor set intentions, nor repeat affirmations. they don't even believe they can—but they still do get—what they want. and that really drove me insane when i used to believe in the 'mainstream' law of attraction taught to me.
here i was going through depression after another, 'awakening' after another, waiting for my turn to come while my reality crumbled, trying to be positive in order to not 'attract' more negativity into my life, and people who were also as depressed as me still got what they want.
what i want to get across is that manifesting isn't what they paint it to be, at least not for everyone. i found a way to manifest what i want that doesn't work for others, but does to me. and that's what should be taught—being able to find what works for you.
which bring me to:
which bring me to:
ᴠ—ɪɴғɪɴɪᴛᴇ ʀᴇᴀʟɪᴛɪᴇs, ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴇᴍɪx:
the loa community puts manifesting as this concrete process that has to be done in a certain way, or otherwise, you're not healing 'enough' or you need to work on your beliefs—
when in reality, no one knows what the fuck they're talking about because everyone is different.
when in reality, no one knows what the fuck they're talking about because everyone is different.
our minds work differently. our experiences are different. 'parallel reality' and 'quantum jumping'—well, then, of course, people's realities are different, therefore their 'law of attraction' is different.
some manifest through prayer, others through visualization, some listen to music, others set intentions. for some, the mainstream law of attraction is most effective, while others would rather hustle.
and all of these methods are valid.
and all of these methods are valid.
let's stop pushing the same narrative unto others. our backgrounds are different, our minds are different, our place in society is different. it only makes sense for the way we interact with our world to be different, as well.
phoenix of earth, over and out.
