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Originally Posted by Nicholls  The Law of Attraction, and by consequence The Secret, is, under the current scientific understanding of the universe, complete bullshit. Even bullshit has it's uses though. |
Yes, the current scientific understanding of the universe is somewhat lagging behind. To understand what's scientifically available, though, you can consider reading Lynna McTaggart's book "The Intention Experiment" which surveys scientists' fledging attempts to understand how intention, thoughts etc can produce observable, measurable changes in reality.
The examples are really quite diverse - I'll just give a few. Stanford physicist William Tiller has got an experiment demonstrating how meditators' focused thoughts affect the rate of development of fruit fly larvae. There are a few interesting neuroscience experiments about how, merely by IMAGINING that you're working out with weights, your biceps actually gain in muscular strength. Professor Jahn, a NASA rocket scientist who was also with Princeton University, gets mentioned for his experiments on how human intention affects the outcomes generated by a Random Event Generator (which you can conveniently think of as an electronic coin flipper). Etc etc.
Unfortunately the book was published too late to cover Dean Radin's double-blind, and successful, scientific attempt to replicate Masaru Emoto's experiments about human thoughts directed at water end up affecting the shape of the water crystals subsequently formed from the water. Radin's attempt was published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal late in 2006.