Thanks Vera, for being a regular reader and contributor! I love hearing from you!

I am one of those intelligent people that fell for it, hook-line-and-sinker. Then, sunk. So I’m following it through to the bitter end, and documenting my journey along the way.

For me, I was introduced to an alternative finances seminar taught by the wife of a friend who I’ve known (and looked up to) for about a decade. I’d never heard of the Law of Attraction when I took this course. Everything they said seemed to make sense, and they claimed to be living the life of the wealthy (turned out to be true for only a brief moment in time).

They said all the right things. “Most people don’t do this because they don’t know this.” “The banks don’t want people to know this.” “You are among the select few who choose to see this.” (We all like to hear that we’re special and that we have the inside scoop on … well… on anything.)

Once we were entrenched in their investments bids (and really, like most investment companies they get paid a commission to recruit investors, they didn’t necessarily have to invest themselves), they did a showing of the movie, “The Secret.”

Again, this movie said all the right things to all the people who really want to believe. And I think in the middle of a recession (as we were at the time), there are many such “vulnerable” people.

Ah, yes, we nodded our little heads, it makes sense. After all, Andrew Carnegie did it so therefore it must be true.

Fast forward, and each of our investment strategies have sunk. Bombed. Died incredibly dismal deaths. One “secured” investment turned out to be an investment scam to pay back previous investors; another was just an incredibly ploy (this fellow raised millions through small investment clubs and pilfered it all away; Alberta securities finally caught up to him and charged him 10K and told him he couldn’t be a corporate director until 2013!).

There are some tremendous loopholes in our financial world, ranging from the hungry to the wicked to the just plain stupid (where I sadly sat for a year or so).

I figure my job now is to contribute to educating the masses, so that those who care to seek out this information can find it.

Thanks for your comment and question, Bruce. I really appreciate my slowly-growing readership, and hope that a truly “enlightened” view can be blasted out there, overriding the one that currently feeds our insatiable hunger to know “the” answer.

I have read Wallace Wattles. Several times in fact, when I was feverish with belief.

If you follow any of Buddhists philosophies, you’ll also be advised of the First Noble Truth, that life is first and foremost suffering. Also in the teachings is that the only thing that you can really control is your mind.

Wallace Wattles would have you believing that you control the banks, the governments and the weather. Desire is a trap, and aggression is never (ultimately) rewarded.

Had Mr. Wallace written that eating bran produces the same results, perhaps you would have modified your diet by now.

“using the law of attraction,” I wish you all the best in your endeavours and hope that the LOA brings you the results you’re envisioning. Good luck, and may luck be on your side.