Hi Everyone thanks for the replies....
If I want to be a quantum physicist in 7 days and a bought a book that says it will show me how, I want good help page and customer service phone number darn it! lol
This is my opinion and just my opinion on this subject; One problem with concepts like these is that even if it's honest, well meaning and true, the cult mentality somehow always finds a way in and then exaggerates, distorts, and twists the ideas around and innocent people unfortunately get exploited.
For example, psychics and the afterlife; when promoting themselves, many self proclaimed psychics or mediums confidently claim they can talk or communicate with the deceased; Not receiving vague letters, but communicate, like direct 2 way communication.
And yet on stage in front of a camera the best they seem to do is this; "I'm getting an.. "A" ....does your Aunt's name start with an A? Yes, She's telling me it Ab-- is that right? Ok, yes it Abby she says her name is Abby...." If this medium is really communicating with the dead, then why he or she are only getting letters? And even then the medium must first confirm it with the audience member or person in the session before moving to the next letter... and then comes the investigation by Dateline or 20/20 and the expose......
Does this sound convincing to someone who is really seeking answers to the mystery of life and death?
On the other hand you have psychics who have helped police investigators, remote viewers who have hit the target dead on....
For the first example, what happens if the medium writes a book on how to communicate with your spirit guide for happiness and prosperity? Will it waste the reader's time, disappoint him or her eventually? Or if they believe in the psychic, will they get something out of it?
And then what happens if a FAN of the medium writes a book based on the medium's work and promotes it to people?
And remember Transcendental Meditation, and the claim that some of its followers could learn to fly? The claim seem to imply that these people could do something like levitate or glide through the air. If I were just learning about yoga and meditation and believed the claims about yoga, I might be interested in this idea with images of being able to float around using the power of meditation...
But once I see how it really looks, and see only people seeming to just up and come down again while sitting crossed legged, you might not blame me for feeling disappointed.
Are we still talking about manifesting?
I'll be back soon with some more replies if you're interested, take care everyone....