[moonrambler]

There is an entire social service industry built up for counseling those people who want to talk to psychologists. How do we prove that counseling works?

To me, this relates more to LoA/IM, than lab experiments. We look for an improvement in the majority (or a significant minority) of people's lives who go in for counseling. And I don't think perusing this forum and seeing how many people are griping about the poor results they are getting, is a scientific observation. Many of the most talkative people on this forum are actively searching for answers, as opposed to providing answers.

We aren't looking to change somebody into a hippo. We're looking for a way that a person who really wants to have his very own hippo can get one. Or can realize that having a hippo wasn't what he really wanted, what really would make him happy is to become an exotic wildlife specialist and conduct safari tours. And once he realizes that, then he can work on manifesting that dream.

P.S. Another thing about gauging the success of LoA by reading postings on this forum -- you get someone like ALG who has said that things were already going swimmingly for him when he started working with LoA, and afterward, things got noticeably better in quick and unusual ways. But many people show up here when they are at the end of their rope and nothing else has seemed to work.