I believe that we always have complete control of our lives. When we begin to think otherwise we are giving away our power and leaving ourselves open to outside influences.All power comes from within and we always have free will to choose which direction our life takes.

We often have experiences in life that we feel we didn't ask for but on some level we have asked for this experience - albeit unconsciously. Nothing comes into our life unless we are a vibrational match to it. When something unwanted comes into your life,it's often beneficial to take a look within and see what belief has caused you to attract this unwanted situation. This means being bluntly honest with yourself and accepting the fact that you did attract or create the situation in your experience.By doing so you now have the awareness to change that belief and not attract a similar situation in the future.

That atheist may have had an unconscious yearning to lead a spiritual life.

The LOA has science at its root. Scientists tell us that everything vibrates at the molecular level. It is true for both inanimate objects and living things. You need a strong enough microscope to see it, but it is happening in everything. The molecular vibration of an object is what is holding that object together. Remember, that which is like unto itself is drawn.

The person you are, at your core, is quietly, silently conveying or emanating desires. At the micro-atomic level, we are told by quantum physicists, our emanating desires, like every physical thing, are actually measurable vibrations toward which similar objects and experiences will be drawn. That can be true because a thought is a physical thing, like that apple in the fruit bowl, or the tree in your yard, or the chair on which you sit. Thoughts are things.

Those vibrational desires are coming to pass in each successive moment. They look like your life experience: your relationships, habits, possessions, accomplishments. If you are self-aware, you can and do change those desires, which, in turn, changes what comes to pass. You can, quite literally, bring about what you think about.

I sometimes observe people treating the Law of Attraction as a spiritual or religious precept, something in which to place faith. That will only confuse you. It is not a doctrine of any religion. Practice your religion without trying to infuse it with the Law of Attraction. Don't try to explain your religion with Law of Attraction. Though the Law of Attraction can be observed in religious experience, it is not a religious idea in and of itself, anymore than the Law of Gravity is. Observe the Law of Attraction in your religious experience, but do not conflate and confuse the two.

The Law of Attraction does not validate doctrine. It only draws to you a person, event or feeling that is similar to that which you give attention of thought.

i would like to believe that potentially we could hold our own against any forces that try to feed on us. Ask the child and he may feel helpless, but as he develops/unfolds more control is gained, emotional, psycho-social, mental, spiritual; do not forget cosmic forces either. so, what level have you attained and if not are you sure you got it all? you're not yet in total control.