Unity Church of Tucson

by Larry Swartz

I just recently again viewed The Secret on DVD and whenever most everyone has emerged from a viewing often the phrase is uttered…“Is it really that simple?” My response to that question is, “If it is, then it is provable by you, right where you are.” However, so are many other things likewise provable, but there generally is an unspoken and hence often overlooked caveat attached—steps have to be followed, sequences observed, and ingredients faithful to the recipe. As a child I really didn’t know the important difference between baking soda and baking powder and made the incorrect choice to add baking soda. Needless to say, I didn’t “prove” the recipe and the reason wasn’t to be found within the steps, sequences or ingredients called for, and that only left me as the culprit.

Culprit is actually too strong a word within the context of this writing for it implies wrong doing and within the framework of The Secret there isn’t ever anything that is classified as wrong, or within our Judaic-Christian background, sinful…only outcomes that are working for us and outcomes that don’t work as well. Indeed, to remember that we can never get it wrong because we can never get it done, blunts many self-imposed criticisms and enhances our ever changing set point with acceptance and peace.

Why is this understanding desirable? No matter what our moment of the now might be, it is needful of acceptance and peace by us. This doesn’t mean we settle into an unhappy moment and give it the name of forever, and blindly accept that this is our lot in life. Our true “lot” in life is joy, abundance and light. But, to stew in anything and everything that we label as being wrong…everything we don’t want or like…talking with anyone who will listen as to why it isn’t right for us to be experiencing this unfair or unhappy encounter, is to line up more with its energy pattern and by so doing to either cause it to stick around, or be the catalyst for the attraction of similar things in the now’s of our future moments.

At the beginning point of understanding as we might set out to prove to ourselves that the ideas postulated within The Secret are indeed that simple, we need to insure that the tendency or habit to bemoan wherever we presently are isn’t part of the steps, sequences or ingredients of our recipe for the reality we want to create, for remember we are the creators of our own reality. Why?

The Secret speaks to the Law of Attraction and how this basic Law is at the center of all form and experience, (Unity and New Thought refer to it as our life being equated with our consciousness) so as we begin to consciously set out upon the joyous task of proving the law, our beginning point cannot be anything but the acceptance of the only beginning point we have which is always now.

If we are in resentment or blame, then that toward which our blame and resentment is focused, also being within the universal Law of Attraction but replicates that energy pattern, and translates it/them ad nauseam into person, place event or thing, and we seem to get nowhere.

It is impossible for us to be stuck anywhere. If we feel struck, what we are really doing is replicating over and over again the vibrational signature that through the Law of Attraction is fulfilling our choices with the same old thing, event, circumstance or person. Not understanding what is happening, we think we are dead in the water. Not so, our ship of state is moving for nothing is ever static, but the crew isn’t changing.
With this analogy then, how do we change the crew? It is so obvious to me that our Elder Brother fully understood the Law of Attraction as He made reference to seeking, knocking and asking with the further assured words that such would result in finding, opening and receiving. Note…not if you prove yourself worthy, or some other such thought that qualifies the promise, but an obvious promise.

The writers of The Secret state that because we are the leading edge of Source Energy (God)—actually extensions thereof for Oneness is Oneness—Source through us says, “Okay, you ought to know” to each and every desire we send forth. Understand, this process picks up on the vibrational equivalent that we have made part of our “signature” that is always offered to the Universe, not necessarily our words, but like a tuning fork that once struck causes the similar frequencied tuning forks in their close vicinity to also vibrate, so our vibrational signature reaches out, now not to anything that is just in our close vicinity but into the Universe as a whole (for remember Who we are), and if that drum is beat long enough, in other words isn’t just a passing desire but a constant one, brings similarly frequencied experiences to us.

The whole spectrum from abject disease ridden and painful bodies all the way to vibrant health…each step within this spectrum has a vibrational signature that we can attract. The whole spectrum from homeless poverty all the way to wealth beyond measure, each step within this spectrum likewise has a vibrational signature. And, the same can be said to every opposing set of contrasts. That being said, in order to change the crew on our ship of state we need to be more mindful of the drums we are beating, and begin to reach for thoughts, expectations and images of what we really want to bring into manifestation.

The preferences and desires we have sent forth has been called step one in a three step process. The second step was alluded to a few sentences ago as Source says, “Okay, you ought to know,” and our Higher Self that is the greater majority of who we actually are…but a small percentage of the total Energy that is us is ever extended into physicality…becomes our preferences and desires.

Step three now comes back to our conscious physical-bodied doorstep for as an example, if we are wanting more financial supply (it could also be clarity or wellness or a satisfying relationship) from a non-acceptance of the now we can’t even hope to embrace what we have asked for, what we have desired, and has been made part of our Higher Self. Why? Whenever we vibrationally align with all the reasons it is unfair for others to have money that they obviously don’t deserve and harp on the way they spend it in the way that they do and on and on and on, we don’t stand a prayer of accepting something that has a totally different vibrational rate. We have to begin to imagine as if, even pretend as if, and certainly have virtual reality encounters with what we want, not with the present crew on our ship of state. Amplify what is and it becomes stronger.

That simple? It either is or it isn’t. If it is, then it is provable. If it is, then we have a handle on how to bring to pass absolutely anything we desire or want to experience. Step one we learn how to beat only the drum of what we desire or want, usually not what is, (and it can be as unpretentious as a healthy body), as well as then insure that where we presently find ourselves is not allowed to be an irritant that precipitates a vibrational energy that but reaches out to bring into being more of what we really don’t want…more of the motley crew of our ship of state rather than a new, fresh and eager set of beliefs and truths. Step two is not our conscious doing, but is Source (God) through us here on the leading edge of the creative experience saying, “Okay, you should know.” Then a step three is our conscious responsibility and it is to stay centered, non-resistant, appreciative, thankful and feeling blessed beyond measure, for this is the hallmark of allowing, and this is allowing our ship of state to take us into all the good that not only have we asked for, but awaits us.

Along the way we have a guidance system that assists our process, namely our emotions. Involuntary emotions that are negative or that don’t feel good simply tell us that we are out of alignment with who we truly are and with all we have asked for and simply is saying, “Check out the drums you are beating…check out what you believe to be true about yourself and Source…check out how much you are allowing the various things in the world that you can’t do anything about to annoy you.” In other words, get back on track.

That simple? Only we can discover this for ourselves.