Published at November 4, 2008
in Books.
Award Winning Book Published
Earlier this year I published a book. Already it has won two awards, one of the was a Best Book 2008 (USA) Finalist Award! Fantastic.
This book is not the Living Beyond The Secret book this site is set up to discus and make available. Yes, I know, I’ve been promising Living Beyond The Secret for nearly two years! Sorry, but other writing proved more important, and I know you’ll not be disappointed when you read Peace, Power, and Presence.
420 page of detailed information highly relevant to people wishing to gain a deeper understanding of the inner workings of Life, Reality, and the human experience. The full title is Peace, Power, and Presence: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Self-Empowerment, and Inner Peace. You can buy it at all major online book stores.
Click here to learn more about it and how to buy it for immediate delivery.
If you are interested in some alternative views to those in TheSecret regarding the You Create Your Own Reality thought-form, this article over at cassiopaea.org has much to say.
Let me know what you think about it.
I realize this article will not impress hard-core YCYOR believers, but it may at least invoke some healthy debate.
I found an article over at this page which is worth reading. Alexander has made a well constructed point with regards to some of the shortfalls in the movie The Secret related to The Law Of Attraction.
If you read it, please check back here and let me know what you think of it.
With love,
Jonathan
There’s a nice site over at http://vanillamist.com/
One particular post I read (http://vanillamist.com/blog/?p=106) provided links to a number of Law of Attraction sites you may find interesting.
Jonathan
Published at May 22, 2007
in General.
What happens when we as humans, with our sense of identify firmly fixed on our limited sense of ego-self, start asking for things that contradict the Intention our Essential Being has for us in this moment?
Is our very asking the result of Intention flowing through? Or is it the product of our illusions?
We are, in essence, the Dreamers of a dream.
“You” and “I” in this dream are not the dreamer but the dreamed. The Dreamer has an intention that has brought all things into being. The dreamed, whilst asleep to the Dreamer, might wish, and want, and desire, all manor of things it believes are important, valuable, and needed. Much of what the ego-mind thinks is important is what the global human collective ego told it was so.
More often than not this teaching from the collective is a lie at worst, and a distorted truth at best.
Perhaps whilst we engage in such folly the Dreamer simply waits. For how long?
Infinity has forever to patiently wait whilst we appease our mad minds, unchecked emotions, and endless desires.
I wonder.
Blessings,
Jonathan Evatt
There is lots of interesting reading over at http://www.evolvingtimes.com
Here Edward Mills explores the Law Of Attraction much more deeply than most I’ve read, and certainly more deeply than The Secret ever did. I think you’ll find his writing of value.
Enjoy,
Jonathan
Today I was reading some blog entries by Steve Pavlina. I’ve enjoyed what he has written, although I don’t necessarily go along with it all (I couldn’t say either way as I’ve not read it fully enough yet). Much of what he says is on par with some of what I’ll be sharing at http://livingthesecret.tv
Here’s the links to the blog entries I read…
Enjoy, and let me know what you think after reading his work.
Jonathan
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Bill Harris was one of the particpants/presenters in The Secret.
I have found an interesting letter he has written and published over at http://www.themastersofthesecret.com/letter/
He shares some interesting throughts and perspectives. Some of these fly in the face of what was presented in The Secret. Particularly the notion put forth in The Secret that one has to simply imagine what they want and focus on it and it will come — as if no pro-activity is required on our part. Bill suggests this ain’t true and action is necessary.
Enjoy the read and let me know what you’re thoughts are.
Jonathan
… what will you do with it?
What will it do with you?
The following is a thought-provoking movie clip over at Global Mindshift. Let me know what comes up for you when watching it.
http://www.global-mindshift.org/memes/10000.swf
Enjoy,
Jonathan
As I write this I am having a discussion with Aaron over at http://www.todayisthatday.com/blog/the-science-of-getting-rich/
Here’s copy of what’s come out/in through that discussion so far… I thought readers here may find it interesting and topical.
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May 19 2007 @ 1:24 am
This is the book that The Secret was almost entirely based upon.
I read this book some years ago, and also watched TheSecret a few months ago. I think both fail to convey an important message with regards to the Law of Attraction. The Secret makes this omission far more severely than The Science Of Getting Rich — what with being so incredibly capitalistic/materialistic in its approach (TheSecret that is).
Nice site by the way. Greatly enjoying reading through your blog entries. I’ll be reading more just as soon as I have some spare time for it. Thanks.
Jonathan
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May 19 2007 @ 10:34 am
Jonathan,
I appreciate you stopping by and sharing your thoughts!
Yes, the movie was largely based on the book, and that is a good thing. Wallace D. Wattles knew what he was talking about.
However, I don’t agree that the movie was capitalistic/materialistic. Yes, they used money and possessions to demonstrate the concept of the Law of Attraction, but that is simply because those are tangible, measurable things.
Explaining a concept to someone is very difficult if you have no way of showing them in real life how it works. It is my belief that one of the reasons why the Law of Attraction is so hotly debated is because so many people think that it is all about money and material possessions, and that, of course, is ridiculous.
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May 19 2007 @ 8:24 pm
Hi Aaron,
I am not familiar with the debate pertaining to the LOA. Perhaps it’s not something that’s topical amongst the various circles of people I know here in New Zealand.
After watching The Secret perhaps 6 or 7 times (necessary as I am writing an eBook related to it), I saw very little in there that took the viewer beyond a rather limited material based approach to reality.
I agree the money and physical “stuff” is tangible to the majority of people. I agree that it is measurable. What I have found, however, is that I live in a highly intelligent universe, and that this highly intelligent universe is more than capable of taking care of my tangible/material/measurable necessities for physical survival and enjoyment — with very little conscious effort on my part.
In the ancient Hawaiian Huna tradition there is there is the prinicple that “as a divine being we have only ONE need. That is the need of a mirror”. (This follows on from the principle that “we are first and foremost Divine Beings”). The reality we construct and perceive within consciousness (our life here in Earth), is that mirror.
I have found, in working with myself and other people, that the key is in “decoding” the nature of what it is I am ALREADY attraction into my experience and hence mirroring to myself. There is a way of approaching my experience which results in every experience leading to an increase of Power (authentic Power). At a tangible/measurable level ONE (a fairly insignificant one) con-sequence of increasing Power and Awareness is greater and greater effortlessness with regards to financial sufficiency.
I do not personally judge there to be anything “wrong” or erroneous with the approach the makers of The Secret took in illustrating the Law Of Attraction. Rather, I simply feel that in my experience it was a relatively limited and potentially distorted approach when not put into the greater context through which things like the LOA are naturally and spontaneously revealed to a human being as he/she awakens to reality and his/her true nature.
I suspect the movie took the limited approach that it did either through ignorance on the part of the producers (questionable, but possible), or because they knew this is what would sell (especially in America and any other culture subscribing to the “American Dream”). The majority of people are not primarily concerning themselves with consciously waking up to their true nature. They are, however, deeply engrossed in the money-driven/orrientated mindset and “I am insufficient as I am” mindset that has been carefully impregnated into the human story for the last 400-600+ years by a tiny collective of people who presently reap the most benefit from a world that buys into these mindsets (i.e. the small handful of people who effectively own/possess/control a vast majority of the material wealth in this human world), at the expense of nearly every other nation/human being carrying interest bearing debt.
Stumbling around in the ridiculous seems to be human speciality. Of course, it’s all part of what helps Awareness evolve through the human experience.
With love,
Jonathan
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