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I did end up finding a pretty good book. It was by "Craig Beck" and it is called "Laws of Attraction". Though Beck seems to be quite a confidence man / Tony Robbins type... his book was none the less good. It wasn't specifically on the LOA but it seemed to tie in two subjects that for me... the universe of LOA... can't exist without... love and the ego.
Basically, he kind of says that you have to go back before the "secret" and understand where the whole thing is coming from. We are all part of the same universe / material. A similar example might be like water. You can take water out of the ocean and put it in a cup but it is still water and eventually the water will return to the ocean. Water might take different forms / ice / clouds / but it is all the same thing. In a similar way the universe and everything within it is the same. So that jerk at work, part of the same thing. Every human, everything thing is the same. When you look at that jerk at work that you hate -- as you - it is hard not to feel more love or compassion. He even mentioned an idea that really captured me, but what if the entire universe is just like one cell in the body of a greater creature? You think that is nuts but if you went back in time to the 800 AD time and told them what we know today... wouldn't that seem nuts? So you now see how pointless it is to be angry at another person or want to hurt something else...it is all you. By hurting another person, you hurt you. With regard to the LOA the "vibrational frequency" of the substance is love because of course, it is going to love itself. I mean you don't want to hurt your kidney? In the same way, the energy / frequency / thinking stuff doesn't want to hurt you or anything that is part of it. If you do... you will not be on the same frequency. But the more you act in conformance with love of everything... the easier your ability to get in line with the universe. He provides a lot of examples from religion(s) all talking about treating others as you would want them to treat you. Every religion talks about the golden rule and talks about the importance being good to everything.
So why then do humans turn away from this. After all, ever seen a kid? They are much more like this than adults. Well, he talks about the ego. If you haven't read the "power of now" --you should. But the power of now talks about the ego. The ego is something within all of us that is destructive. No basically insane. The ego has all the bad ideas and it responsible for making humans feel alone, sad, upset. Beck says that the ego's biggest fear is death. Because the ego is a uniquely human thing. I personally feel that the ego is something that is formed in every human to protect them. After all, a human wouldn't live too long if they had zero self preservation aspect to it (like children have very low or very undeveloped ego) and must be protected by adults. But the ego must be kept in check. So how does this play into the LOA? You must be sure that your use of the LOA is not being motivated by the ego. If your requests to the universe are things that are your ego talking -- a sports car that is unnecessary, - harm to another, - winning the lottery you won't be on the universal wavelength and they won't happen. You must also keep the ego in check to even start using the LOA.
Other good ideas that he talked about that other authors don't.
1. every request you make is heard, but you must understand that sometimes the answer will be no. How many times have you wanted something but in the end you realize it wasn't right for you. Ask, believe, receive / accept. Personally I have had many things that I thought I wanted but in the end... I didn't get them and they were the right thing for me in the end.
2. Why are we in human form at all? Because as energy etc.. we can't experience things. We can't grow, we can't create... but in a different form we can. Everything in the universe is the expression of the energy in this form.
3. Death essentially has to be a change from one form to another. Like when you pour the water back into the ocean from the cup. So you shouldn't be that afraid of it. For me this kind of went into the idea of "only the good die young"... because maybe the closer you are in human form to getting it right... the less you need to be here to grow or to suffer or to learn or to contribute ideas. Weirdly this morning on my facebook "memories" was a meme talking about how maybe dogs don't have a long lifetime because they are so close to love / joy and perfection naturally.
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