The Attractor Factor: 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (or Anything Else) From the Inside Out

Chapter 4. The Truth about the Law of Attraction

"You don't know what Desire is. I tell you if a man wants a thing as much as the prisoner wants freedom, or as much as a strongly vital man wants life, then that man will be able to sweep away obstacles and impediments apparently immovable. The key to attainment is Desire, Confidence, and Will. This key will open many doors."

——Thought Vibration By William Walker Atkinson (1906)

The other night I had dinner with a few friends on a wooden deck under the Texas stars. The conversation was about creating your own reality. We talked about Jane Roberts and the Seth material, including such books as The Nature of Personal Reality. Seth was one of the first to teach me that we create our own reality, as individuals and as groups, through our thoughts and feelings. Our inner self pulls the other to us, while helping to create life through us.

That led to conversation about the Law of Attraction. This is the law publicized in the mega-successful book and movie, The Secret, and in books of my own, such as The Key. The Law of Attraction has been around a lot longer, of course. William Walker Atkinson wrote about it in 1906 in his book, Thought Vibration. But others declare the law goes more than 2,000 years back, all the way to Jesus. Philip Harris, in his book Jesus Taught It, Too: The Early Roots of the Law of Attraction, writes: "Jesus was by no means the first to introduce the concept of the Law of Attraction." He says the law had its earliest ...