THE LAW OF GARBAGE!
In the middle of the night when I am wont to wake, I sometimes surface with those trailing tendrils of prophetic dreams. Last night, the dream was about searching for a job of a certain description. I was using search terms similar to those I had used a year before and found that the jobs that came up were the same as the previous year. Not only that, they seemed to have a similar feeling of negativity. Curious. How could they still be open, I wondered? Then I realized these were different jobs entirely but matched my search nonetheless. The negativity was somehow part of my criteria and the dissatisfaction of the result commensurate to my lack of expectation.
Then WHAM! Lights! Bells! I got it! I knew it all along – repeated it to myself like a mantra and still didn’t get the significance and sublime simplicity of THE LAW. What law? The Law of Attraction? Nope. Simpler. More real and grounding (literally) than the law of gravity. What is it? The LAW of GARBAGE! Yep! Garbage In – Garbage Out!
The thing is, I’ve even been working on a book called Making Friends with the Sky – The Chicken Little Guide to the Internet. In it I share my discovery, as I drop deeper into web design, internet marketing, traffic trends, and search engines, about the very nature of the Internet. That the Internet is a model for consciousness. In short, it is our precursor or teacher for the rate and subtlety of communication and creative manifestation that we have been promised for centuries.
Of all the prophets and spiritual leaders, Jesus used the simple language of parable so that the lessons on how the universe works as a creative vehicle driven on Love could be easily understood by all – educated and simple. A mustard seed. A lily. We seem continually bent on looking past the obvious in search of a more complex solution to the woes of Earth Life. We stand on the headland of Life and are buffeted by the winds of change and whimsy. Life seems to be what happens to us.
And then this morning was the revelation. So clear. So simple. So provable. The books all say to be specific in your intentions. To write down your goals – repeat them over and over. If you want a car – name the model. If you want a successful income – name the amount. If you want a great relationship – describe the very qualities you desire. Why? I used to think it was to train my mind or somehow forge a bridge between my desires and the universe so the universe could get busy and manifest it. If I repeated it enough I would finally believe it and then the universe would provide it.
Then I’d get caught up in what was ‘right’ for me. What was the divine plan. What did God want? If I got what I thought I wanted – would I be happy? Would it be ‘good’ for everyone around me? And while I was grunting and fretting through consciousness, the rest of the world was either doing the same or more often, careening through life banging into people and circumstances – beyond their control. And there’s a good word – control. How many of us think we have to control the outcome to get what we desire?
So what is this epiphany? What is so freaking simple and obvious that I had to climb up and lumber over it every minute of every day while I looked for the light? Well – it is this: You get what you ask for. Right, you say. We know this. ‘Ask and it shall be given.’ ‘Be careful what you ask for.’ Of course. I ask – but do I get? Sometimes. Mix emotion with your request – it makes it happen faster – like fuel on the fire of desire. Is that right? Maybe – but not for the reasons I thought.
I had my list of wishes and I’d ramp up my emotions – first to overwhelm my emotions of doubt, fear and anxiety and then to fire up the excitement for … what? Harmony? Success? A villa in the sun? My business? Love? Peace? Happiness? Cool. Now, let me show you a simple little illustration – using the Internet to model how the universe manifests. Interested? I think you will be if you get what I get.
When I ‘google’ my desires here are my search results: Harmony: 61,000,800; Success: 311,000,000; Villa in the sun: 34,300,000; Business: 1,600,000,000; Love: 1,350,000,000; Peace: 244,000,000; Happiness: 69, 800,000. Now let me get a little more specific. For sale traditional stone villa in Hydra Greece three bedroom, terrace overlooking Kamini Harbour walk to beach Now watch this – search results? 101. Now, in case it’s not yet clear, think about this. How long would it take me to find what I want if I have to go through thirty-four million, three hundred thousand websites? Would I give up before I got to the last page of junk? Now that I have 101, I can fine tune that still more until I have a short list and once my house sells – I’m outa here!
So it’s not about repetition. It’s not about emotion. It’s not about ‘good’ or ‘bad’. It’s not about ‘conjuring’ a result from the universe by will or intent. It is about specific and clear directions. No more. No less. No garbage – unless that is what you are looking for. The more clear the vision, the more details, the more colour, the more specific place, amount, style – the faster the circumstances can be met. There are fewer matches and so you and the love of your life can find each other because neither of you will be bothering with the dross of wasted time and emotion in the wrong relationships. The life you want cannot be left to chance. Period. And doubt? You don’t have time!
I’ve had random experiences of this and called it synchronicity. But now I get it. Emotion is important – not for the level of passion – but for the detail passion gives you. I want to live on Hydra because Leonard Cohen lived and loved and wrote poetry there; artists and authors cluster there, and by chance (hmmm) a photo I cut out of Architectural Digest in the 90′s that has helped me get through my toughest times, I discovered recently, is looking over Kamini Harbour from the terrace of the McGuire Family villa. Now is it too much to imagine that the man in my life is what? Greek – maybe? Coincidentally (did I say that out loud?) two friends chatting at my husband George’s funeral wondered what would happen next. One said to the other – oh, she’ll probably end up on and island in Greece writing a book.
My mistake has been to see will and intention as a jaw set, hands on hips determination to manifest – dammit! To rake off the weeds on the top of the water until your dream glimmers up from the depths. But now I see that you can’t even think about the weeds – let alone engage in raking them. Google search for weeds: 70,500,000. If I put ‘weeds’ and ‘Greece’ in the search I’m going to get a lot about Dandelions which has nothing to do with where I want to live when I kick this pop stand. Mixing up our search gets results but they are garbled and unsatisfactory. My own ambiguity has cluttered my path on many fronts.
I’ve got to tell you, it was the rubber band that did it. Once I started being aware of all the moments I give energy and focus to negative or insecure thoughts, I got closer to this realization. When your mind is not engaged in all the garbage that can, might, is, did, or will go down, there is finally room for sunshine thoughts. It’s easier to fill in the details and get specific about disaster, disease, discord, and distrust because we are constantly pummelled with the message in both our news and ‘entertainment’. Turn it off. Turn your desires on. Sketch out your desire and then fill in the details. Very clearly. Be specific. Cut out pictures. Add music. Daydream about a conversation in these circumstances.
Think about it. If impulses of light travelling on fibre optics can connect you instantly with your cousin in Saudi, or allow you to purchase a $55,000.00 painting, can Creation Itself not tumble Paradise at your feet for the asking?
And what about God? The divine plan? When you are fulfilling your desires and the outcome is your happiness then the world will follow you and will be a happier place. It cannot be otherwise. Look at the stats. It’s easy to see where the global ‘head’ is. War, 800 million, outweighs peace, 244 million, by nearly 4:1. So if your head is your PC and the universe (collective unconscious, according to Jung) is the internet – what are you putting into your search? Every single choice you make gets a result. When you don’t make choices – clear and definitive, you get the world of spam – everybody else’s uncensored, unconscious, unclear, noise and confusion.
Now that you get it too, rather than life happening to you – make sure you happen to Life!
What a great resource!