Love!
" if it's negative, stay far far away from it," is beyond a trap, it's a spiritual bypass. I agree

"The law of attraction, focus on what you want & not on what you don't want, MOST CERTAINLY IS A TRAP... & quite frankly, a lie on levels."

Thats not what attraction says, its how some people interpret it. Attraction says, like attracts like, invariably. It TEACHES shadow work because it says you can only experience darkness/strife/pain/etc if you have that inside you already, that it is reflecting a part of you. Thus, it shows that we MUST try to look within and find and unravel the shadow darkness if we are to discontinue manifesting it.

I love your words! I like all the content your saying here. But "manifestation paradigm" -- think about what you want want want, is different than observing "attraction" and the overall functioning of karma and samskaras. I hope to be able to right the concept in the minds of people who were irked by the trap of "the secret."

Gratitude :-)