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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot  I'm sorry, but there are a few things which the author doesn't understand.
1. You don't just buy a book or DVD about the Law of Attraction and become phenomenally successful overnight. It doesn't work that way. Among other things, you have to learn how to use the Law of Attraction, and that takes time (and practice). |
The thing is, most people who buy the DVD probably *do* think that just watching the DVD will bring them great riches. Which is why she sees the LOA folks as taking financial advantage of the gullible. Not to mention that the DVD focuses almost exclusively on the wanting and not on the doing.
As for the backward projection, I think her point is that many of these people made their riches through years of hard work and sacrifice. You can't sell hard work and sacrifice to most people, but you sure can sell them an Oprah-endorsed DVD that tells you how to obtain a new car by fantasizing about.
Really, her point isn't that LOA is a sham. Just the recent sensationalist distillation of its complexities into consumerist pap.
I'm an LOA fan, but I like to read critics as well so as not to lose my perspective
