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New Age Vs. Carl Jung. Laws Of Attraction. Dreams Vs Reality?

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I used to debate with my former girlfriend, a woman much more socially and finally successful than me, about the business principals to success. Though she did it, like me, the old fashioned way, made a plan and worked the plan and increased organizational skills along the way, she still believes there is some mystique and "laws of attraction" to it. Of course she is a Beverly Hills attorney, I, a cartoonist and e-tailer. Since the times of EST and other "thought mills", California has been a haven for slick re-packaged ancient scrolls disguised as "NEW"-AGE. She partly buys into it. I don't buy into it at all. Let me rephrase that. I do buy into it. I just happen to know it is nothing new except more slickly packaged and worded more for the proletariat.

Since I went back to school and studied Internet marketing, she always said I was better at it than she was. I am not so sure that is true. I spend more than half my day doing advertising and promotions and don't make nearly as much income as she does. She doesn't even have a website or advertise and people are always lined up at her office door. So who is the better marketer is a bit of a moot point. Her clients market for her via word of mouth. And it works well.

Being a Cancer (that remains my excuse), I naturally am less organized and more clumsy than my former Aries better-half (Gerald Ford was a Cancer...get the picture?). Her claim to fame is a monumental law firm on the most expensive property in the U.S. (possibly the world). My claim to fame is digital funny pictures on some expensive Internet property that may or may not make a lot of money, depending if I sell it or not. We both started small, she on a park bench after escaping her mother country and me in a metal rural Mississippi warehouse where 44 year old cartoonists, I guess, were considered "possessed" and nobody much wanted us for neighbors. I am also an inventor, writer, and student, but that is a whole other story.

She drives a new Mercedes. I drove an '89 Buick Regal until I got a heart condition and stopped driving. She has a big home in the Valley. I have a modest studio apartment on a mountaintop in Arkansas. I now have a 2000 Saturn and I'm prefectly satisfied with it.

Her debate is one I hear often. "You don't think big. You need to learn to think big. I think it's an Arkansas thing!" That makes me laugh. I want to say, "Yeah, tell it to Sam Walton."

We differ in our opinions of "New Age". I have lived in Southern California so I realize all that is a way of life. But I also, hopefully, am savvy enough to realize that the majority of it is ancient biblical history, reworded ever so carefully, and packaged beautifully to make the new guru rich. And it works. And hopefully Oprah will endorse it, and the guru will live happily ever after.

Now there is nothing wrong with attracting wealth and good things for you and/or your family by praye and meditation. But there is nothing "New" about it. It is in both the Jewish and Christian Bibles and mentioned numerous times regarding the labors of attraction, prayer, and "ACTION". What seems to be left of a lot of the new age laws of attraction is the action part. If you've met someone who has sat on an easy chair for weeks, months or years, without moving a muscle, and suddenly his BVD Tee turned into an Armani Suit, his '57 Chevy Pickup into a new Lexus, please do let me know about it and I shall gladly edit or remove this article. The Kaballah (hardly New Age) but the mystical intrpretation of the Torah, still considered a bit controversial even in Judaism, has all the information in that is in the slick new age packaged goods. The big difference is that it is available for free. And the information is more precise and based on real spiritual dynamics, not on a spiritual guru's bank balance.

Life is what it is. I can't debate with her about income. If I want to make more, I will promote my business more, go to law school, or both. A good lawyer, historically, makes a better income than a good cartoonist and e-tailer. But I don't like law. Grew up with plenty of lawyers in my family and though they made a great living, very few of them enjoyed it. In fact several quit and one never even practiced after daddy paid for law school. So it goes.

So everyone is telling me to "live the dream" and "sell the dream". I don't want to be sold those things. I feel like I'm in a conversation with Elmer Gantry when that occasionally happens. I'd rather talk about the weather.

But I have an ally. He's long gone now but his words live on in his writings; Carl Jung that is. Many people do not understand Jung's message and that's okay. I think it was because he was so interested in the spiritual and metaphysical side of things. So am I. But he, like I, am also interested in living in the now, enjoying the now, appreciating the struggle. For if not to appreciate the struggle, once the dream "happens", what's next? I don't want to keep living for "new dreams". I want to enjoy the ones I am living and gradually evolve into other ways of life, if they look health and positive for me.

He purveys the caveat that it will never be utopia no matter how "pristine the dream". So, what to do?

I think the thing to do is "do what you like". For some people, the dream is money. Back when Nelson Rockefeller was one of the richest if not the world's richest persons, he was asked, "How much money is enough?" He answered, "Just a little bit more."

I worked in corporate America for two decades chasing the almighty dollar. I made a lot of them. I can assure you they did not buy me happiness, and, in retrospect, because I hated what I was doing for a living.

It is insightful to read autobiographies of captains of business such as Bill Gates and others. They struggled too. They had many missteps along the way, many failures. They discuss them. It was those mistakes that led them to finally do it right. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite before he invented his famous prize. It was for blowing up mountains to build cities. When he learned the military was using it for killing people he fell into a depression. That is not how he wanted to go down in history. So he re-invented himself. So can you. So can I.

I have many wealthy friends, many middle class, many upper class, many lower class; I really don't find any of that important as a requisite for friendship. I love being around people who are doing things to try to improve themselves and others. If someone is out there just trying to make a lot of money, so be it. They bore me. If they are out there trying to provide the best service, product, or creative endeavor out there, and whether they make a pot of gold, or not, I will hang with them.

So to each his own on living the dream. My dream may not be yours.

A lot of our former education is good. Especially the basic principles. But let's remember, times have changed. When I worked in real estate, we were sent to guru workshops on "sales tactics and manipulation". They were based on the world being "not so savvy". The world is a lot more savvy now and manipulation and tactics insult most's intelligence.

I will continue to "live my dream", even if my better half thinks I'm "not thinking big". I've seen more big thinkers in bankruptcy court than checking into The Four Seasons Hotel.

I am not saying not to think big. All I am saying is to lay the foundation first. Do the legwork. Check your waist-size and make sure you are not too big for your britches (too soon). And make sure it is your dream, not one delegated to you. You are bound to make some "enemies" by not following someone else's dream, but you'll make many friends too. And most of all you will be your friend, and know "To thine own self be true" is what it is all about.

You will be happy, rich, or not.