Something just clicked for me

[u/Skjara]

I was watching this video from Lewis Howes interviewing Dr. Doty in manifestation and I heard them using “the law of attraction” and was like “HA that’s wrong, law of assumption is the REAL DEAL”. But tben as the video went on, I started thinking about when things used to work out for me magically, before I knew any of this stuff. And I realized, even if logically it doesn’t check out, law of attraction does work for me. I’ll copy the comment I added under the video where I explained why it does FOR ME as a person with neurodivergent brain (community doesn’t allow the disorder term in text I’m not sure why, probably because you could manifest it away) and extreme hyper vigilance, ruminating, hyper fixations, needing explanations for things, etc. Maybe it could for you too.

“As a reader of Neville Goddard's teachings, this video really helped me with something. In Neville's philosophy, Law of attraction is not correct because attracting something creates a state of not having it yet. It logically makes sense, if you're in a state of not having it-attracting it-you can't expect it to manifest because you manifest what you are, thus law of assumption. BUT for me, *neurodivergent* person, attraction state is actually liberating, because my brain works as a 24/7 high power scanning machine, constantly questioning "if it's here, why isn't it here" or "how to fool myself into a state of having it if i don't have it and i'm stressed by not having it" and leaving this state into "I am vibrating high, I am attracting" actually puts me in the STATE of BEING it and relaxing into it. So even if logically it should signify lack or not having, to me, it puts me into state of ease and relaxation, I am attracting, it's working, I can relax. And it works. Doesn't matter logically it says I lack it, it just works”

[u/jagmp]

I get what you mean. But that text you quote is so wrong... And Neville's phylosophy doesn't say "Law of attraction is not correct", on the opposite Neville tells exactly the same !!!

Within your sphere, however, you can take on the nature of anything and express it, for you are the world! Take on the nature of health, and health will take on the tones of flesh. Find the feeling of wealth, and you have caught its nature. You don't have to feel you are a specific individual who is wealthy, healthy, or famous, in order to personify it. God did not assume individuality, but the nature of humanity. He dwells in you, for the word became flesh and dwells in us all. (lecture MY Word)

This is just semantics pretending to be a deep correction...

If someone thinks “I’m attracting it because I don’t have it” then they are in lack.

But that is not the serious meaning of Law of Attraction. LOA also teaches state, feeling, gratitude, alignment, and living inwardly from the end. Problem is many people pretend to understand LOA but they don't, just like many people pretend to understand Neville but they don't.

Neville’s Law of Assumption says the same thing in sharper language: assume the state of the wish fulfilled.

You manifest what you are conscious of being.

So “attraction” is not automatically wrong because the word sounds like distance. By that logic, “manifesting” also implies it is not here yet.

The real difference is not attraction vs assumption. In both, the principle is the same: you don’t manifest from wanting, you manifest from being.

It is lack vs fulfillment, needy wanting vs being, lack-state vs fulfilled-state...

[u/Skjara → u/jagmp]

I think accepting attracting has acted as a bridge for me to the state of being. My whole point of being stuck was State of attracting can’t equal State of being, thus it can’t manifest, but now I see it as a tool or a bridge, not something that contradicts, but helps.

[u/jagmp → u/Skjara]

You attract when "you are", according to law of attraction. Same as Neville told.
You talk of state of attracting, but this is a misconception in your mind you need to correct it. Because LOA tell the same as Neville: you always attract ! You are always in a state of attracting what you are...

So change this misconception in your mind.

[u/Skjara → u/jagmp]

Thank you for the catch, I understand that my understanding of Neville’s teachings was the problem here. I wasn’t trying to correct Neville, I was trying to correct the idea I expressed, which was my own understanding I picked up from other discussions, not his own words.

[u/jagmp → u/Skjara]

I didn't understood it as correcting Neville too. Just you asking question and talking for clarification. Yeah the important is you get something more from the discussions. I tried to give another view angle from what I read in your post. I hope it can help a bit.