Looking Askance at the Law Of Attraction: How LOA "Manifestation" is Unlike Neville Goddard's Manifestation

I feel really bad about the Law of Attraction. It gives me the willies. Neville Goddard talked a lot about how we are born into a state of amnesia in these lives, completely forgetting what we are and where we came from. I say that we are "ignoranced." From this ignoranced state we are to ascend and become aware of our Godhood better than we were when we descended. The LOA, though, seems to major in ignorance itself, and in greed, and in the denial of God. It scares me that people are dumb enough to listen to it, and worse, to believe it.

The purveyors of the Law of Attraction (and it is a business) cite Neville almost continuously. They say he taught the Law of Attraction and was a New Thought teacher. Quite the contrary, he seems to have mentioned mental magnetism in only one lecture (that I am aware of, anyway), and to have immediately repented from that. And he loathed New Thought philosophy. He said he went around to the quick and the dead of the New Thought teachers to correct them. "There is no New Thought," he stressed. "We are destined TO FULFILL SCRIPTURE!!"

But Neville did talk a LOT about manifestation and causation by imagination. You will find heaps of his quotations in Law of Attraction literature. Except Neville was talking about the Law of Assumption, A FACET OF THE NATURE OF GOD HIMSELF. Law of Attraction hacks use the Law of Assumption because it works, and then when it works say it was the Law of Attraction that worked. If you cannot see that, well, see the first paragraph above.

By the way, you will note that Neville was a deeply religious man. His lectures and books were Bible studies. He taught manifestation and causation by imagination (through the Law of Assumption) because those are what the Bible says about the manifestation of GOD. The Law of Attraction, on the other hand, is taught by mediums who channel demons. Think about it.

There is a marked difference, in my mind, between the manifestation of God which is talked about by Neville Goddard and the "manifestation" preached by advocates of the Law of Attraction. Neville repeatedly insisted that you imagine what you want AND DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO FORCE THE ISSUE. You apply for the job, put your name on the list, inquire about what is available, but do nothing towards arranging things EXCEPT LIVING IN THE END IN YOUR OWN MIND. You leave the orchestration of natural influences and decisions--causation--to God. And having done nothing, you get what you want.

LOA manifestation seems to be your earnings, your wages. You improve your mental state or vibration, find value to sell, go through the doors that open to you, make a lot more money, and then "manifest" what you want BY BUYING IT. See the first paragraph above.