Counterfeit Attraction

When I was ten my parents purchased their first home. As soon as we settled in, my dad planted a little garden. Every summer night he would come home from work, change into his shorts and he and I would tour that little garden together.

Now that we have purchased a home, my love for gardening has bloomed again. We have begun the process of adding plants to our yard that attract butterflies so that when we saw our first spring butterfly dance across the lawn, it was a happy moment.

The key here is the word “attracting”.

We can’t make butterflies do anything. We can’t round them up and usher them into our yard hoping they will stay, we have to build an environment that attracts them and then supports and sustains them so that they will remain.

This is a multi-dimensional idea. If we don’t want something, then we shouldn’t build an environment that attracts it. In fact, the more we build an environment that suits who we are, it becomes less likely that what we don’t want in the form of events, people, or things will be attracted to it, or stay in it since there won’t be anything there to support and sustain them or it.

How does this relate to spiritual perception?

In planting our garden, I appear to be doing the work of attracting, but I am not. What is attracting are the qualities of the plants in the garden. If I was doing the work of attracting, I might sit and think using my mind or will power to convince the butterflies to come and stay in my garden. Instead, I am trusting in the natural order of nature to do what it does, by simply being.

My job is to care for the plants, not to attempt to force butterflies into our yard.

Taking this symbol to a larger arena, it is not our job to attract what we need, from companionship to money. That is the one creator’s quality, and works without our needing to step in and try to manipulate people and situations using a material counterfeit attraction.

Since there are many proponents of this counterfeit attraction, we can be fooled; it is highly marketed, appears to be easy, and for a time we may be good at it. However, this counterfeit attraction exists within the material realm, and is not the practice of spiritual perception.

When we use our own mental mind force or will power to make something come to us we are playing a dangerous game. When we give power to our human mind, then we have given it the power for both good and evil. In addition, we have opened the door for others to play that game with and at us. When we give matter power for good, in the dualist place this exists; it also has power for bad.

It is not only dangerous, it is a small, limited, cramped, and tiny playing field compared to the Divine’s attraction of unlimited possibilities.

Material attraction is always hard at work in its attempt to lure us into its limited and false front environment. This attraction to finite and material means and ends, although temporarily pleasant, always leads to a dead-end.

Butterflies leave environments that do not support them. We can also leave environments that don’t support us, which is always the environment of the counterfeit material attraction.

Spiritual attraction is the open door to experiencing the infinite and our relationship to it.

What is our “job” in this spiritual garden of Life? To tend and care for the life found within it, beginning with our own, and from there broaden our outreach, our garden, filling it with the qualities of intelligent Love.

Within our home garden, we pause to marvel at the beauty of the tiniest element to the largest tree. In the garden of the Divine, we can pause often to marvel at the infinite attention to every detail of life, attracting only expanding good for every living thing.

Stop working at counterfeit attraction, and look with spiritual perception at the only attraction that is really going on. Expect that everything you need has already been provided for you, expect that only good is coming your way because that is the only attraction there is.

There is only one cause and creator, only one attractor, only one power, only one infinite holding all of Its creation within Its unlimited loving care.

As spiritual beings, we are the qualities that attract, just as the plants are the qualities that attract butterflies. All we have to do is acknowledge, possess, and live as those qualities, and leave the rest up to the Principle of attraction in action.

“Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there.” Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

(Do you love attracting butterflies too? Info on Monarch Butterflies and their migration.)

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