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Originally Posted by blazer1  Anthony Robbins, the Secret, Power of Now - Tolle and all that new-age rubbish towards self-development started with 1 person, Napolean Hill |
Nonsense. Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich" was published only in 1937. That is
25 years after Charles Haanel's "The Master Key System" which was published in 1912.
Charles Haanels "The Master Key System" itself was published
six years after William Walker Atkinson published "Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World", which appeared in 1906.
Eight years before William Walker Atkinson published ""Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World", Elizabeth Towne already started publishing a journal entitled "Nautilus" (in 1898), which related to the Law of Attraction and was published regularly for more than half a century.
Elizabeth Towne was a prominent figure, in her time, of the New Thought movement, but the New Thought Movement itself is considerably older than Elizabeth Towne. An earlier proponent was Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, who was born in
1802.
And this is just the history of the Law of Attraction in the USA alone - a country which, in those days, would not have been considered a particularly significant, powerful or advanced civilisation in the overall global scheme of things.
William Walker Atkinson in fact drew his inspiration from Indian spiritual teachings about mind & reality, which themselves are a lot older than the USA.