by Dan Murphy
Snapshots
The Province, August 10, 2003

When I got Michael Losier on the telephone last week he said that he’d been sitting there vibrating for me to call him, which is something frankly, I wish more people would say.

Vibrating is basically Michael Losier’s career these days. He teaches vibrating and gives lectures and seminars on it. Michael Losier vibrates professionally.

In his self-help book, The Law of Attraction, Losier explains how everything we want – from love to wealth to an broadened client base – will come to us if we vibrate for it.

This is the Law of Attraction, a big profound universal law that the other universal-law guys missed because they were monkeying around with gravity or subatomic particles or whatnot.

Michael Losier didn’t always know about vibrating. There was a time when crappy things would happen to him and, like the rest of us, he’d throw his head back and shout “Why is the universe doing this to me?”

Losier was determined to figure it all out. He decided he’d wade into the very metaphysics of happiness and havingness and broadened-client-basey-ness. He steeled himself to wander the wilderness until he had the answer.

Conveniently, he was able to do all this from his living room in Victoria. Losier tracked down references to vibrational force in books by other wildnerness wanderers – one written in 1910 by Wallace Wattle, another from 1960 by Napoleon Hill. It’s a regular lending library in that wilderness.

Coincidence, serendipity, fate, karma, out-of-the-blue - all of those terms are expressions used to describe evidence of Law of Attraction," Losier says.

Soon, Losier had a good enough handle on how the Law of Attraction worked that he was explaining it to larger and larger groups of people. He established a website about vibrating. He developed vibrating exercises.

Since 2000, Losier has been devoting most of his time to teaching the Law of Attraction – and using it to bring him all the things he needs, such as contacts, followers, and, judging from his photo on the website, a cheesecake from time to time.

When Losier published his book earlier this year, he successfully vibrated to get invited to the Vicki Gabereau Show. His vibrating, he says, has helped him sell 5,000 copies in the last six months and take his book into its third printing. And his vibrations got him a ringing website endorsement of Carole Adrienne, the El Cerrito, Califonia, numerologist/financial advisor.

“I’m Canada’s next big guru,” Losier says.

And did Canada have a previous big guru?

“No, not really. There is a guy named John Kehoe from Vancouver, and he’s written a number of books on Mind Power and the power of positive mind and stuff like that.

John Kehoe is a self-help guru who wandered the B.C. wilderness for three years and emerged with a book explaining how people become what they visualize.

Whether one can safely vibrate and visualize simultaneously has yet to be determined.

Eckhart Tolle is B.C.’s other big guru, whose latest book, Stillness Speaks, which comes out August 26, says that we should all just keep quiet. I left a message for Tolle to call to talk about vibrating and visualizing, but he didn’t get back to me. My telephone remained silent.

Actually, maybe that was Tolle getting back to me.

Michael Losier is now setting his vibrating sites on Oprah.

“I’m quite certain through all my connections and the subject of the book,” Losier says, “that somebody in Oprah’s office somehow will learn about this before the end of the year.”

Oprah is an established step on the stairway to heaven now.

Losier’s website about vibrating is at www.LawOfAttraction.ca.

He also has an ad in Shared Vision magazine from which he peers with the ebullience of someone who’s on to something big – or a Marakesh lounge singer in search of a fez.

This just in: Alicja Aratyn has returned from the wilderness and will be giving a talk in Vancouver on September 21 entitled Dowsing for Your Soul Mate.