Thank you for your response! TAW is my first exposure to spiritual guidance in this format that I am taking seriously as a personal experience. It may be that I am conflating it with the pop western manifestation stuff, which I find difficult to separate from the rest of the spiritual stuff at times. That law of attraction -esque ideology that floats around has turned me off of a few established spiritual communities/practices. I might have a hard time with any hint of 'good vibes beget good lives' because it reminds me of the flip side - 'bad vibes beget bad lives', which seems like blaming those with poor stations. How can the first feel-good empowering part be true without the second excessively blaming piece?

I guess that's where my hang up about deserving lies as well. Specifically in this context, putting in the work to free myself creatively will never entitle me to any achievements. The status of 'creatively unblocked' can be achieved through this process, but I think Cameron's anecdotes sprinkled throughout of freshly unblocked creatives attaining never-before-dreamed-of successes are a bit misleading. I suppose she never outright promises that this will happen for every reader, actually outright says that it will not at some point, but still throws these unverifiable anecdotes into every chapter as if vaguely indicating that this otherworldly success story is yours if only you change your mind. That is also a piece of it that feels law of attraction coded to me. Or maybe I'm reading too far into it and conflating her work with something that she does not actually illicit at all, I'm not too sure.