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Originally Posted by Jason S  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. |
You have to appreciate that in the final analysis, we're discussing the ultimate nature of reality here. There is no way that a 2-hour DVD is going to satisfactorily address that, for any viewer who really thinks. "The Secret" should, at most, be viewed as an entertaining and inspiring
introduction to the topic.
Your suggestion to investigate LOA from a variety of different perspectives is something that I'd seriously commenced on, from about a year and a half ago. (Hey, you didn't think I'd just believe something as crazy as LOA, just like that, did you).
You'd want to look at hypnosis; Jungian psychology; Buddhism; Hinduism; the collapse of the wavefunction; technical analysis in the stock market; biofeedback; Jesus; neuroscience on the operations of the brain at different frequencies; Ramtha; Seth; Abraham Hicks; reiki; Princeton Engineering Anomalies Lab; the Silva Method; ESP studies; Masaru Emoto; witchcraft and magickal practices; conventional personal development books; the Rosenthal experiments; Roger Penrose; Krishnamurti; studies on meditation ... for starters.