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Originally Posted by carenkh  Not to take the thread off-topic - but I believe Simpleology and LoA are not exclusive of each other. Here's a quote from Joe Vitale, one of the teachers from The Secret:
Simpleology (which I have not practiced, but have read extensively on the site, and get the e-mails) breaks down the *action* steps you need to take to achieve what you want. I remember James Ray saying the 3 steps to achieve anything were: visualize what you want, feel how it would feel to achieve that, then take action to achieve it. Action is a necessary component. |
Visualize, Feel how it would feel to achive, and Take Action is never the arguement of LoA believers/disbelievers. If you want to see if someone truly believes in LoA or not you have to ask questions like:
(1) If Mr. Smith visualizes having a car that he loves with great intensity, connecting to his vision in such a way as to feel the car in his possession, but has NOT YET taken ANY action whatsoever - hasn't told anyone that he wants the car, hasn't ordred any brochures, hasn't changed ANYTHING, just visualized it in his mind and connected to it; prior to taking ANY action, has ANYTHING happened in the world to bring the car closer to him? Or does NOTHING happen until he takes some form of action towards attaining the car?
- LoA Believers believe the universe shifts when someone visualizes and re-arranges itself to help this person get what he wants in the easiest way. YES there might be actions required to bring him what he wants, but they are like 1% of the work. 99% of the work is done by the "universe" to arrange for it to happen.
(2) Can something be manifested purely by visualizing correctly and connecting, without taking action?
- LoA believers believe that in some (actualy quite a few) cases there is no actions required outside of what the person normally does anyways. For example, lets say that you have a grandpa who buys a scratch and win EVERY FRIDAY but hasn't won anything in 50 years. He then learns about LoA and does a visualization exercise to attract a $40k car he wants. While waiting to hear from the universe as to what actions he should take he goes on about his day to day business as normal. On Friday, when he goes to scratch his scratch and win ticket he wins $50k. YES he took action, but LoA believers believe that the universe put the ticket into his possession.
(3) Is there always a logical process you can set for your actions at the time of visualizing?
- LoA believers believe the answer is NO. YES you can plan out some details, but by trying to plan things out TOO much, you restrict yourself as to how you will accomplish what you want. For example, in the above example lets say the Grandpa visualized the car and then thought to himself "How can I get this car?" and thought "My pension doesn't afford me such a car, but I can get a job at Walmart because I know the manager and I'm sure he could pay me $10/hour, and I'll save everything I earn and in 5-6 years and I'll save all my other money as well, every dollar, including those stupid scratch and wins I always get that I haven't won anything on in 50 years, and I'll be able to buy the car!"
Anyway, I don't want to turn this into a thread about LoA. But if you believe that Simpleology believes in LoA, you might want to ask the creator a few of these questions. I signed up, watched the video's and it became abundantly clear to me that he not only didn't believe in LoA or anything along those lines, but also that it tried to detract people from what's important (Figuring out who you are, what you want, visualizing it, working on your beliefs, taking *right* action) and focusing them on the last step of LoA which is "Action".
I saw the endorsement by Joe Vitale as well, and to be honest, I'm totally confused why he would do such a thing. I know him and the creator of Simpleology worked on stuff before, but I think it was before Vitale started really going down the path of LoA. I don't know why he would endorse this.