Creation and the Law of Attraction (LOA) are vital topics for study and practice. My own path has been greatly influenced by this over the past several years.

Having said that, I must confess to some disappointment in the movie "The Secret". I suppose it follows the formula for what is expected to sell, appealing as it does to the common desire for Health and Wealth with a minimum of fuss. However, the emphasis on wealth building and success makes it seem more appropriate for motivational seminars than as a spiritual teaching tool.

Having endeavored to write a series of articles on "What Life is Really About" (which could eventually gel into a book), I imagined that "The Secret" is at least useful in opening a primary topic for discussion.

Introduction To Creation

My own spiritual life has been immensely altered and enriched through study of Creation principles. It turns out that this is one of the primary reasons we find ourselves here, incarnating in physical bodies. It turns out to bear little relation to how healthy and wealthy you become; rather, this study touches on a fundamental, eternal purpose of the soul.

"You can create anything you desire." Thus the central theme is established early on in "The Secret". Essentially, this is quite true, and as I began, I found myself pondering over it.

"Anything you desire" - this is actually a seriously provocative and challenging statement. We are taught from birth that life consists of deprivation and hardship; only if we work hard and get a little lucky will we be able to overcome this condition. We tend to think in terms of external events happening to us, over which we have little control. The theology of most religions has us supplicating in an attempt to please an external God in the hope of influencing him favorably toward us. If this fails, we get lightning bolts or worse.

So...broaching the possibility that it's not all externally decided for us, we are challenged to give it a try. So how does one answer the question "What do I desire"? At first pass, it sounds simple enough. Most can quickly compile a list containing wealth, power, fame, beautiful babes (if you're a guy), etc.

Having attempted to live a spiritual existence for most of my life, I intuitively realized that material success was not at the core of my desires, although this is not necessarily a bad thing in itself.

What I found challenging about this process is that I had to begin to dig deeper down through various mental and emotional layers in order to discern my core desires. In actuality, this process had more to do with clearing emotional debris and healing old wounds. It's really a process of self-actualization, of which the end result is a more emotionally healthy, stable, grounded approach to life. Along the way, one become acquainted with the internal sabatour and the various strategies concocted throughout life to actually limit our progress.

The path inward, to discover one's core desires, inevitably leads to the soul, and discovering the soul's agenda. This is a very core aspect of what life is about.

From the study of Creation principles, the conclusion is reached that we are not victims, that we have placed the limits on ourselves and cannot blame anyone (or God) for our circumstances. We learn that we already have been creating the fabric of our existence, and if we don't like what we see surrounding us, we take responsibility for it, and simply stop creating it. Some may find that premise hard to accept, and for those, it is simply too provocative.

It could be that some find suffering to be more palatable than taking responsibility for one's own life, especially if it can be blamed on God, others, or just plain bad luck. Taking responsibility for conscious creation can seem challenging at first. The creation part is actually easy; the difficulty lies in rooting out old beliefs and assumptions that have served as a frame-of-reference for one's life up to this point.

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