You know, there's something about these discussions about whether LoA works or not that's always had me wondering as if I'm missing something. But I think I've figured it out, at least partly.
Part of it goes to whether action is required to manifest. True Believers seem to hold to the opinion that asking the universe is enough (provided, of course, you're "vibrating correctly" and never let a doubt cross your mind and have perfect detachment and be completely ego-free and all the rest of the usual mystical caveats... pretty much impossible, unless you've got the mental focus of a Zen monk). I examined this briefly in a post
here.
But there was always something else that was bugging me and I've never really been able to put my proverbial finger on it. That is, until the last 10 days or so.
In short, it's the experience of many, many people (myself included) that using the principles of LoA to influence another party to do or be something is a crap shoot. It might work, it might not. It can't be counted on to generate a desired result.
Manifesting "stuff" like a new car or fancy house or something else through the use of LoA (including action... no action = no result, that much is pretty clear) really isn't that different than simply setting a goal or making a plan and carrying it out. Nothing even remotely mystical about it. I want to manifest a jar of olives, I go to the grocery store, find the olives, pay the cashier and now I have a garnish for a martini. Nothing could be easier.
Manifesting something like "being a better person" (however you may define it) also isn't particularly mystical. I want to stop procrastinating, so I develop a plan to do that and carry it out. Perhaps I'll buy a book or go online and avail myself of those sorts of resources. Again, there's nothing about putting in a request to the universe for it; you don't have to meditate or visualize or do anything of the sort. (You certainly can if you wish, but it's not a prerequisite.) You see what you want, you make a plan, you follow through, and your chances of success are reasonably good.
But there's a component of LoA which often gets missed in these sorts of discussions, and that component centres on influencing other people. And, in my experience - and clearly, that of Rockchick26 and Floridagal and plenty of others - that's where LoA seems to have little, if any, impact. Very recently I was peripherally involved in a court case (as a friend of one of the people involved; I wasn't actually directly involved in the case) with a woman who was LoA-ing a positive conclusion. But the end result left her bitterly disappointed. And it's her children that will suffer.
This is similar with what happened with Rockchick26 and Floridagal; they weren't trying to attract "stuff" or some sort of personal improvement, they were trying to influence another party. And it didn't work.
Perhaps LoA isn't intended to influence other people. Perhaps that runs counter to the principles of freewill. Perhaps it's limited to getting goodies like a jar of olives or creating a plan to stop procrastinating. But clearly it can't be relied upon to have any sort of influence on others. It might work, it might not, but it's hardly something you can take to the bank.