Plenty is being said about The Law of Attraction these days. Books are being written by the droves, Movies like "The Secret" and "What the Bleep do We Know?" have mega-millions of avid fans, a veritable global cult of new age thinkers who have seemingly been starved for this kind of message – the divination of humanity – a reclaiming of an inherent birthright of godhood that has been kept a "secret" by organized religion for centuries. But now the cat is out of the bag, and surprise … we are Gods! Yay!

Easier said than done, however, this realizing the god-nature within us. My intent today is not to go into a tutorial or explanatory expose on the do's and don'ts of how to make the Law of Attraction work for you. And, truthfully, you have no choice in the matter anyway … it is ALWAYS working for you, but if you are unconscious of it, it probably feels like it's working against you rather than for you. Ignorance is deadly. But there are plenty of great books, essays, websites, coaches and the like to do that type of teaching. I would rather focus here on why IT isn't "happening" (in a good way) for the vast majority.

I call it The Law of Distraction.

Jesus said, "The Kingdom of Heaven is spread out upon the earth, but you do not see it." He also said, "Ask, and ye shall receive." I could go on and on quoting, but for the sake of brevity I won't. Clearly, there is abundance everywhere, right before our eyes, and all we need to do is ask in order to experience heaven here on earth, while incarnated in these bodies, while having the human experience. I'm using Christian images and scripture, but those of other walks can read identical (in spirit) passages from the Koran and the Dhammaphada, the Upanishads, and so on. To quote Yogi Berra, "You can see a whole lot by just lookin'."

So why aren't we attaining to an enlightened society? Because, for the most part, NOBODY'S PAYING ATTENTION! We live in cyber worlds of imagination; we seek to be entertained constantly or we become quickly bored and despondent, even depressed. Suicidal. Walkmans adorn our ears, displacing the real world sounds of nature with thunder decibels of the rap of distraction. (I've seen people walking through the woods with them on) We warp along at mach four through our lives, never stopping to see, hear, feel, smell, and taste God. In every "right here," every "right now," if we but take the time to stop and not be distracted, there is a ubiquitous universal love enveloping each and every one of us. God speaks to us through the whisper of the winds in the trees, the lap of the waves on the shore, the tap tap tap on the rain soaked window. The majesty of creation, the wonder of the heavens, the inexplicable intricacy of the body – one could spend an entire lifetime in a state or wonder and worship, a thankful state of bliss.

But we have bills. We have toothaches. Our marriages aren't working out. Our bosses are all jerks. Gas prices are too high. There's never enough time in a day to get everything done. We're always so tired and frustrated; what with all the responsibility and demands on us in this rat race we call life.

That's crap. You know it, I know it. Excuses. Reasons to keep the distraction going, paying abeyance to the Law of Distraction. We can't blame the churches for keeping a "secret" from us any longer. We can't ask God for any more than IT has already given us. We just have to kick the habit, stop obeying the Law of Distraction, and then the divine plan, the Law of Attraction, will bring us what God wants us to have and be. But first we have to pay attention and listen, with an undistracted mind.