From the book "Gods About Us", Max Rempel
As I have already mentioned, the law of attraction has both materialist and supernatural explanations. Let me give an example. British researchers conducted a classic experiment on the study of luck. Volunteers, who had previously characterized themselves as either extremely lucky or extremely unlucky, were asked to perform a simple task - at a certain time to enter a certain coffee shop and drink a cup of coffee. It was concealed from the volunteers that a five-pound banknote (a considerable sum for the time; the experiment was conducted in the 1970s) had been planted at the entrance to the coffee shop in time for the appointed moment, and that inside the cafe a pleasant and highly successful businessman, a participant in the experiment, was waiting for them. The result of the experiment was that the volunteers who defined themselves as utter failures, as a rule, did not notice the banknote, sat down as far as possible from other people in the cafe, and did not enter into any conversation. The volunteers who defined themselves as lucky picked up the banknote, sat down closer to the successful businessman, and struck up a general conversation with him that could potentially prove useful to them.
As you can see, the experiment fully confirms the correctness of the law of attraction: the lucky attract good fortune, while the unlucky repel it. The materialist explanation of the good fortune of the lucky is that they were open to receiving new luck. They were actively involved in life and ready to find money lying in the road, ready to meet a friendly and useful person and to enter into conversation with him. The unlucky, by contrast, did not believe that money could be lying in the road, and did not believe that a person who happened to cross their path could be of any use to them.
Moreover, it is perfectly obvious that unlucky people are in a state of energy deficit; it is hard for them to look around, hard for them to pay attention to such trifles as what lies underfoot, and they fear that additional contact with people in the coffee shop will injure them still further and drain still more of their energy.
The supernatural explanation lies in the idea of attraction - that like attracts like, that to a person accustomed to receiving money, money sticks of its own accord, that a person accustomed to associating with successful people supernaturally attracts to himself new successful people and still more good fortune. The supernatural explanation does not exclude the materialist explanations, but regards them as secondary and as flowing from the supernatural attraction of like to like.
What of those who find themselves in a state of penury, in a state of despair, of low energy, and who have no strength to attract more good fortune to themselves?
There is no universal answer to this question. But an understanding of how luck works, of how the law of attraction works, helps to formulate approaches to finding individual answers and individual solutions. First of all, one should understand that any situation, any development of events, is neutral by definition. What counts as good fortune and what as misfortune is a deeply subjective matter. That a person has chosen his own destiny, that his soul has chosen its own trials for itself. That even the greatest misfortune - namely death - by and large carries no negative meaning. That most of the fears a person experiences are artificial and groundless. That a person is never alone and is always supported by his guardian angels. It is important to understand that the soul has chosen its trials for itself, and that the only thing required of a person is to do the inner work and to live through that trial.