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Also, this kind of thinking has the potential to cause people serious harm! People who are seriously ill might stop taking treatment or medication, believing that positive thoughts alone are the answer to all their prayers.
It also suggests that every attempt at solving one of the worlds problems, i.e. terrorism, hunger, poverty etc (causes people have died for) has all just been a waste of time and energy. Instead it suggests we simply think positive thoughts, in the hope that the universe will somehow magically solve all our problems and make all our dreams come true... you can't be serious?
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"You don't want to negate medicine: every form of healing has a place"
~Dr John F DeMartini, about an hour into the movie.
Oh, and Jack Canfield talks about how Mother Theresa said that she'd never attend an anti-war rally: only a pro-peace rally.
So I don't think some of you guys are quite getting what The Secret is saying: it's not that if someone has a deadly illness they should completely ignore medicine, or that to help other people we should stop giving to charity, or that if we lie in the middle of a field the LoA will bring all the stuff we need to us and we don't have to work or anything - there is action involved, and the things you attract may not necessarily arrive in the shape you initially imagined them. I've talked about this in the left-hand losing thread, that the universe manifests what you need based on your intention rather than exactly what you intend.