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Originally Posted by OlderWiser  To me, this isn't any sort of law of the universe or manifestation or anything else. It's just common sense. Yes, if you want fresh fish for dinner, you need to go get some fish. There's nothing magical or mystical about it, nothing whatsoever.
That's not attraction, it's acquisition. 
By the same token, it's not manifestation or LOA when you get a job after pounding the pavement for weeks or months, handing out resumes and filling in applications (something I've seen LOA coaches talk about). Yeah, if you apply at enough places, you'll eventually get a job, assuming you're qualified for the positions you're applying for.
The same is true for most of the LOA things I've seen. This "take action" thing is the part that always makes me laugh, because it's always just common sense. Yes, put in applications to get a job. Yes, go fishing to catch fish. Yes, get a teaching degree to be a teacher.
I really WANT to believe in the Law of Attraction, but I've been reading about it for months and months now, and trying to practice it and as far as I can tell, it's nothing more than old fashioned positive thinking, some self confidence exercises, and a lot of hard work that has very little to do with the universe, and everything to do with personal effort. |
I guess you have to start defining "magical" and "mystical". A pocket cigarette lighter would have been "magical" 1,000 years ago. Sticking someone in the arm with a hollow needle and squirting some liquid into them and curing The Plague would have been "magical" 500 years ago. Hell, saying the Sun was the center of the Solar System was not only "mystical" but heretical 500 years ago. But understanding certain principles and how the Universe works has redefined our terms for us.
Who's to say that what we term "magical" and "mystical" now are no more than principles we have yet to understand? And, just because some choose to call them "magical" or "mystical" doesn't make them any less real.
On the flip side of that coin, denying that they are "magical" or "mystical" doesn't make them any less so. Just because we know HOW something works, doesn't mean we know WHY it works. The two are not mutually exclusive and - IMHO - actually support and defend one another.