The Law of Learning

Photo by Helen Levitt 

I had my morning coffee outside while sitting on a pillow with my feet in the grass as I have been doing, lately, when I have a day off. I've been making a conscious effort to ground and connect with the Earth. I scrolled through Instagram, which I don't often do anymore and suddenly felt the desire to post something, create something, say something. 

This desire to create made me think about a recent dialogue that took place in a chat. I was trying to explain some of my beliefs which were misconstrued as "The Law of Attraction". In the moment, I felt explaining myself to a hostile audience would be pointless, but I pondered to myself about what I believe and practice.

I really hate the Law of Attraction, frankly. It has always rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe it's because I don't believe that everything happens for a reason. I don't believe everything that happens to us we attracted to ourselves. To say that a child attracted to themselves being raped for years by a parent or sold into sex trafficking is just cruel and so many shades of wrong. 

Photo by Sergio Larrain 1952.

I think what I believe is more like "The Law of Learning". LOL for short. 😁

When we have grown and healed enough, we can more easily analyze a shitty situation we have experienced and learn from it when we ask ourselves certain questions. One of the primary things I ask myself is, "What is the symbolism I am seeing?" because I believe we can interpret everything in our lives in exactly the same way we interpret dreams. The first rule of dream interpretation (the first layer) is that everyone in the dream is an aspect of self. 

Once I can see the symbolism before me, I ask myself, "What has this taught me about myself? What have I learned?" 

Obviously, I would never expect a child to be able to process their lives in this way until they are older and able to have a deeper, broader understanding of reality. As adults, I believe it is our responsibility to do what we can to protect the young from harm when and where we can.

Once we reach adulthood, it is in our best interest to learn how to compost. We need to learn how to take all of the shittiest experiences and process it in such a way that it can become fertilizer for the garden that is ourselves. 

Now, there is an art to composting successfully to produce the best results. There will be some things you want to leave out of your shit pile that really won't help you. Blame is one of those things better set aside because it will make it take longer to yield a healthy fertilizer.

One of my issues about the Law of Attraction is that it harps on about vibration and low vibration versus high vibration. "Keep those vibrations high" the followers of Law of Attention will tell you.  

It's bullshit.

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The very nature of existence is multi vibrational. Keys on a piano have multiple vibrations to make up a single piano and a song is created by using various vibrations. It's bullshit to think we should always hold a high vibration to experience what we want in life. That's like saying we should only ever play one note on the piano to write the song that is us. 

It's true that our thoughts have the ability to create, but it is also true that the programming of the system we are in is set to make sure we learn by throwing metaphorical barrels at us the same way that Donkey Kong throws barrels at Mario. It's not personal, it's programming.

Then add into the mix that this is a multiplayer platform where we are co-creating as we go along and each player has free will. That means that some of the free will choices another makes ends up being the shit I receive and have to process. I didn't attract it or deserve it but I am a very good composter so I know I can eventually turn the shit I was served into something to help my garden grow.

So yeah, fuck the Law of Attraction. 

I live by the Law of Learning.