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— Is it possible to attract money and success through meditation and visualization? Does the law of attraction work?
— This is a very good and, of course, extensive question. In recent decades it has been actively broadcast in a huge amount of literature. And what’s interesting is that on the one hand there is a strong belief in this law, and on the other hand a huge number of people appear who ridicule it, calling it “success porn,” “info-gypsy stuff,” and so on. That is, there is a backlash to this whole reality. And this is a very important aspect.
There is only one way to sort this out—understand why certain events occur. The essence is not whether it’s possible to attract money with visualization, but what the cause of events is.
Imagine: an event is supposed to happen in ten years. This is fate. And in order for it to happen, a person, for example, gets to a certain training, where he performs a visualization practice. Fate thus builds circumstances to prepare the ground for a future event.
This is a very important point—considering causes not only in the past but also in the future. Most often people look for the cause in the past, but try to look at it from the future. Then much becomes clearer.
For example, I moved to America two and a half years ago. And we met 17 years ago, and you had a strong influence on this move. But what was the cause? Did we meet, and that led to the move? Or the other way around—I was supposed to move, and therefore at some point our acquaintance happened? These are fundamentally different approaches. If we look more broadly, it may turn out that your events and steps were aligned precisely so that I would end up in America. That is, your fate to some extent was included in mine. And this often happens: we participate in the fate of other people or in the realization of events that may seem insignificant to us in themselves. Everyone likes “great events”: if I had become a president or a famous person, you would say: “Well yes, my fate was to help Alexander Volchek become famous.” But even if it’s not that noticeable, in reality cause-and-effect relationships still work at a deeper level.
Sometimes children are born so that certain events are realized. Space forms circumstances: getting fired, starting a business, obtaining a visa, moving to another country, even wars. All this may happen for the coincidence of future events—and by no means always for our personal fate. Therefore, when we talk about visualizations and intentions, it’s important to understand: what causes stand behind a given event? It may be karma, heredity, your personal choice, the choice of other people, the energy of space, of a people, of a country. Or simply the presence of a person who possesses a certain power and transmits energy.
People often think that power lies in money. But this is not so. The causes lie in completely different planes. This is exactly how one should approach the question of visualizations: not “does it work or not,” but “what forces and mechanisms are engaged.” After all, you can launch an intention, get a result in one place, and lose something in another. For example, a woman with two children decides to build a successful business. She understands that success depends on the number of actions and begins working 16 hours a day. As a result, the business grows, but in the family she loses something else.
Space constantly balances energy: it increases in one area and decreases in another.
This is how it works with energetic intentions as well. This is difficult to track, because the world can easily make an exchange: give one thing, take another. But we never agree in advance on exactly what we will lose. We don’t know the “weights of energy.”
— Many people believe that spirituality should be free. But at the same time we see a bunch of examples where a session with some great guru, his books, or events cost a lot of money. People relate to this in different ways. Please share your opinion.
— Here everything depends on how we understand spirituality.
If we look at it from the material world, then yes—spirituality has a price. It’s time, actions, effort. Someone will call it charity, but still expects something in return. Some consider the price normal, others—too high. But the question is always in perception: what is expensive to us and what is cheap?
We recently talked about the “Aman” hotel. In New York and in Utah in Death Valley, a night there costs more than 4 thousand dollars, sometimes 6.6 thousand. For some, a hotel for a thousand is expensive, for others—three hundred dollars. Polina, my wife, once worked at a five-star hotel in Minsk where a night cost 300 dollars. Back then it seemed an insurmountable price, and today it is perceived completely differently. What is expensive for one is affordable for another. The same with spiritual practices. For someone a week for 100 thousand dollars is a normal amount, for another—it’s an apartment in Minsk. People simply perceive the value of time and experience differently.
If, however, we look at spirituality from the other side—that there is a spiritual world within which the material world exists—then any spiritual event is priceless. A karmic correction for decades, the transformation of heredity or energy flows, the harmonization of processes that influence the destinies of people and nations… How do you evaluate that materially?
Most people aren’t even ready to pay for what truly has value: inner calm, silence, balance. They go somewhere, feel something, and then years later they open a business or, on the contrary, close it—and they don’t see the connection between spiritual experience and material consequences. They don’t understand why wars happen, why some countries develop and others disappear, why some people are happy and others are not. They don’t see the patterns and don’t know how to draw the right conclusions.
We often mistakenly attribute results to some superficial things: “I was beaten with a belt, I studied diligently—look who I became.” Are you sure you became who you became because you were beaten with a belt? Or are these things not connected at all? You became the person who cries every night. Or maybe, on the contrary: it’s precisely because of that that you cry every night. Or perhaps the real value was not the strictness of the parents at all, but the presence of a close person nearby.
People buy apartments based on the renovation or location, but they don’t understand that the location itself can be energetically negative. The same with practices and teachers: you can go “the wrong way” and get a transformation in a completely different direction. How much does that cost? Sometimes—years of life or enormous volumes of energy. But most people evaluate only by external criteria: a specialist’s hours, the number of books written. Although you can write books by the hundreds—today artificial intelligence will do it. But the essence of spiritual energy is not in quantity.
Therefore, the most important thing is to understand: spiritual life is priceless. On the one hand, it is completely free, because everything around is already a spiritual experience. Food, work, a walk, a conversation, even going to the toilet. All this is spiritual life.
Moreover, the spiritual is not necessarily good for a person. Once again, not necessarily good. For the spiritual world your living accelerated, karma—you died tomorrow. And that’s fine, a proper living through. On the other hand, we must learn to pay for energy correctly, to see where there is balance and where there isn’t. In our world the balance is almost never equal. One person watches Netflix every day, another—once every three months, but they pay the same. This is the illusion of equal exchange.
Does this mean that a person will be in balance in any case? No. In this way one can remain in imbalance and in the wrong volume of energy for a very long time. Figuring out how the true exchange of energies is arranged, understanding what is truly valuable, is a very big and complex task for a person.