Revisiting Karma and the Law of Attraction
They are the same but too many do not understand either so please allow me to clarify them and shoot the materialistic messengers selling their books and products
Karma
I see slews of well-intentioned, clever, and/or full of helpful content articles discussing karma. These two pieces by very popular and helpful writers come to mind: Genius Turner’s Why Science Proves the ‘Law of Karma’ Exists and Dr Mehmet Yildiz’s What If Serendipity Knocks on Your Door Every Day, Here’s how serendipity and karma positively affect the quality of my life and what you can learn from my experience. I leave comments attempting to explain that karma is not about “cause and effect,” or punishment (“karma is a bitch”), or reward for good deeds, or “what goes around comes around,” etc., etc. I try to explain that those are western religious and or philosophical concepts misappropriating the term karma. I go on and on for paragraphs about intent and karmic bank accounts and clearing karmic debts and teachable moments. I refer people to writers on Hinduism (Tara Desai PhD) or Buddhism (Sandra Pawula) for better explanations while noting that even those eastern explanations do not exactly align with my understanding.
Today in DL Nemeril’s excellent Your Soul Knows Why You’re Here, she delivers this simple, elegant, and correct explanation from her spirit guides:
Here, we would like to add that we do not agree with karma meaning you have to ‘pay’ for what you did in another lifetime. That is a very human perception, of life being a court system meting out reward and punishment. Karma is a vibrational level that draws the experiences needed for healing and growth to a soul. Nothing more.
Mic drop!!
Law of Attraction
This is a big pet peeve of mine and I say so often both in my essays and my comments. The law of attraction, as sold to the toxically optimistic, power-of-positive-thought-guzzling consumers seeking self-improvement, is total horseshit. I enjoyed this essay today by Matthew distinguishing true spirituality from consumerized spirituality. See, also, my Vision Boards are Bull S**t, housed in Melanie J.’s great publication Unpopular Opinions.
Self-help BS artists like Tony Robbins, and just about every snake oil salesperson in the MLM industry, foster the myth that the law of attraction supports that creating a vision board to help one focus on their goals will lead to achieving those goals. I think the law of attraction is generally misunderstood and misused, because, for example, positive energy also attracts negative energy and that is why narcissists, aka emotional vampires, easily hunt and prey upon empaths, but in this short piece I just want to focus on the vision board hogwash.
I have also stated that I despise the victim-shaming side of the popular version of the law of attraction — you emitted negative vibrations and brought this upon yourself.
This conversation began many posts ago with my assertion that the law of attraction is absolute horseshit. Sure, sometimes it seems that someone has manifested their wishes or their destiny but the corollary that failure to achieve those through positive thought means that the sufferers brought such upon themselves by not vibrating enough positive energy or too much negative energy reeks of so much victim-blaming and shaming that anyone who still clings to this new age crap should look in the mirror with the shame that they cast.
I engaged in these discussions many times with a great spiritual person and poet, Ilis Trudie Palmer, who received my thoughts with grace and asked me what I do believe. Only today do I give a complete and direct answer.
Properly defined, the law of attraction does exist and is the same as the description of karma provided by DL Nemeril above, which for full context and proper understanding, please read her article.
I realized after reading NL’s guides’ thoughts on karma that the law of attraction describes the vibrational pulls of our soul contracts, not what we humans consciously or subconsciously emit.
I need to address the victim shaming again before signing off. DL felt channspired to write his piece after reading Miriam Rachel’s Do You Design Your Entire Life Before Incarnating (Even The Trauma)? Miriam writes:
I want to scream from the rooftop a big fat NO! I cannot subscribe to that at all, and I have seen some so-called mediums on TikTok gaslighting you that you are not a victim of trauma because you “planned” it.
I commented to Rachel:
Yes, they are gaslighting but I do believe that sometimes the trauma is planned. Yet, no one should use that to minimize the pain or victim shame.
Please, do read both Rachel’s and DL’s essays.
In Rama I create, with soul energy surging through my body, inspiring me and breathing wind into my sails,
