If Thoughts Are Part of the Illusion, Are They Still Valid?

Question:

Dear Ariel,

I was reading through this site, and found that it goes against the “law of attraction”. because in law of attraction, thinking is good when I can direct them in a positive way. it is not just an ego. If I think, “I am confident that I can do this job and have lots of money doing so.” Then it is a positive thing to think about according to law of attraction.

Another thing is that the imposer article states that incarnation after incarnation brings only suffering.

Law of attraction says that we were not forced to incarnate but rather so eager to jump in again and again because there is so much joy in life.

So, I stopped reading the thing, but the book says that my ego will always come up with ideas so that I don’t have to read the book.

Did my ego mudding my thinking?

Or do I have some valid points?

Thanks, S.

My response:

S, excellent points, but yes, that is your ego looking for an out.

The two concepts do seem to butt heads a bit.

The main “problem,” if you will, is that people have lost their conscious connection to Source. They have become completely identified with their ego, their thoughts, and physical reality. Instead of life being a place where they could bring down their connection to Source and create whatever they choose, people forgot about all this and got stuck in physicality as if it was the only reality. This is what the Buddha meant when he said that life is suffering. Life, when identified totally from the ego, IS suffering for the ego itself is the source of all suffering through resistance and judgment.

So we learn that thoughts have no absolute truth, yet any reality (and I mean any reality) can be believed to be true and thus made experiential.

Thoughts can be used as relative truths in order to experience a particular aspect of Allness.

A thought is simply a vibration. Selecting a certain thought and the associated belief systems is like tuning in to a particular channel on TV. We know that at this moment, ALL channels are available and happening Now. By thinking certain thoughts, we literally change our own vibration so that we experience just one of those realities, just one channel at a time.

What we’re experiencing as a result of our thoughts is not absolute Truth, but simply a relative truth, one of the channels currently being shown on TV.

We are the awareness that is watching TV. The free will that we have is what selects the channel by choosing to bring itself into a frequency of vibration that matches a particular reality.

Life is meant to be observed with the understanding that you can observe and experience any reality you wish. The realities and beliefs others believe are as equally “real” as yours! The problem is that people forget that they have the power to change the channel and thus then begin to believe that their selected channel is the only real channel, the one TRUE channel. All others channels are either wrong, invalid, or just plain made up.

After all, look at my TV screen! What I’m seeing is real! If your TV is showing you something different, then clearly either your TV set is broken or you’re just stupid and seeing the wrong thing.

We’re meant to understand that no, there is more to reality than just our one chosen channel of TV and that we have the ability to watch any channel we want, without negating the validity of other channels.

We can subjectively experience any reality we choose while simultaneously recognizing that our current reality is only one subset of ALL Reality, not ultimate Reality itself.

We recognize that our thoughts are not meant to be THE source for Truth, but rather a tool we use to experience one portion of All That Is at a time.

Our beliefs are what we use to experience relative truths (law of attraction), not absolute truth (enlightenment).