The Law of Attraction and the Holocaust

Many of the folks who do not like the movie The Secret or the idea of the Law of Attraction point to the Holocaust or Sept 11th or some other terrible event and then simply ask: So did these people attract that to themselves by what they were thinking?

Its a really tough question, but I think it is born out of the (incorrect) idea that the Law of Attraction is only about conscious thought. The sub-conscious mind plays a role as well, and that needs to be taken into account.

What is the sub-conscious mind attracting? It is attracting according to the programs that it is running. What programs is it running? Well it is running the programs that were put into it as it was living its life, from the time it was contained within a little child on up.

In most cases it is running a lot of programs that were deposited there by the parents. Some programs were deposited by school teachers or friends. Basically anything we heard that we believed began to become a program, and as we continued to hear and believe what we were hearing then that program got stronger.

So I think it would be difficult in the general sense to answer the original question, but if we can ask a specific individual we may be able to learn what they knew or what they feared that might have brought these kinds of circumstances their way. One thing that seems clear to me in the Law of Attraction is that we do tend to attract that which we love, and also that which we fear.

In As A Man Thinketh, James Allen says that it is those who live in fear of disease are the ones who get it: anxiety quickly demoralizes the whole body and leaves it open to the entrance of disease. This could help to answer the corrollary question which is do the cancer sufferers attract the cancel to themself. Well I agree that very few if any would attract it by conscious thought, but when we consider who might fear it or what the sub-conscious is doing then I can see ways for it to be attracted independent of conscious thought.

Something to think about.