[Jason S]

I just read through this thread... seems kind of a closed loop... I didn't see anyone trying to reconcile LOA with other concepts such as FREE WILL... or what happens when two people with conflicting goals come into contact with one another...

...maybe I missed this part of the discussion, but it seems that there is more that needs to be put on the table here... ??

Personally I thought The Secret put a coat of too-glossy paint on an otherwise good, but not-yet-fully-understood concept; judging from the film itself (as well as the reaction), the intention of the people behind it had to have been to get rich--not to help people--and they achieved it. I'd caution against trying to answer bigger questions within the framework of LOA, b/c the theory isn't complete enough to handle such situations... or put another way, science isn't developed enough to test the hypothesis. Abraham seems much more geared toward helping people, and is much less sweeping in "his" claims of what LOA can do.

I recently wrote a blog post comparing today's discourse on leadership to a pre-Pasteur discussion about staying healthy. The same analogy could be made of LOA... there's something going on here, but we have neither the insight nor the science to understand it... so rather than rehash the same old debate, let's broaden the discussion... let's work together to brainstorm new questions to spur new thinking and new investigations.

Heck, Steve's wife Erin writes about life plans that we write before we are born. How could we test that theory? Maybe that theory holds the key to why bad things happen to good kids: because they attracted it before they were born.

Anyone here a scientist? Geneticist? Psychologist? That could get interesting...