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Originally Posted by JHL  It requires, as Markus74 points out, other people to (unwittingly) behave in ways that conform with other peoples desires. |
But of course. By the way, in case you did not know it, JHL, you also behave in ways that conform with other people's desires. These include people like your mother, your father, your lover and the last clever salesman who successfully sold something to you that you didn't really want to buy and still regret buying.
There is something, however, that you must understand, and it is the third law outlined by Esther Hick's Abraham (the first law being the Law of Attraction). The third law is the Law of Allowing.
What does the the Law of Allowing say? While you are the creator of your reality, others are also the creators of their own realities. Because we all innately desire to be creators, things can go very sour if you directly impose your intentions on someone who has contrasting, opposite or clashing intentions of his own.
Example: Suppose a parent holds the strong intention that his child shall be a doctor. However, the child holds the strong intention to be an artist. Well, what happens is that even if the parent succeeds, the end result may well go sour. For example, the child may resent or hate the parent, a consequence that the parent wouldn't like. Etc - you see my point.
How does this fit with my attracting nice events and people into my wife's day? Well, it doesn't. You see - I don't force anyone to change their behaviour such that they become nice to her. I simply attract into her life people who feel like doing nice things for her anyway, and for any variety of reasons of their own.
If you want a more concrete example, imagine that you have a nasty boss, someone rude and unpleasant to all his subordinates. You then start applying LOA deliberately: "I shall have a nice boss, one who treats me with respect and courtesy". You hold such strong intention on this, that the outcome becomes true. But how? There are MANY possible ways, for example:
(1) Boss begins to change. He becomes nicer to everyone in general. Actually, he had been nasty and irritable to everyone because in the past five months, he had been very stressed and worried about his poor mother who was very ill, but now she has recovered.
(2) Boss begins to change, he becomes nicer to you only, perhaps after working with you on a few projects, he starts to appreciate certain qualities in you as an employee.
(3) Boss leaves for a better job opportunity elsewhere. You get a new boss, a nice person who treats you with respect and courtesy.
(4) Due to corporate reorganisation, you are transferred to another department. You get a new boss, a nice person who treats you with respect and courtesy.
(5) You change jobs. Because you are very focused on having a nice boss, the universe leads you to a job opportunity where at the interview, the potential new boss seemed like a genuinely nice person. You take the job, and so now indeed you have a new boss, a nice person who treats you with respect and courtesy.
Etc etc. So this is how the LOA works. Everything that happens in your life has been attracted into your life, by your thoughts. If you strongly intend to attract only nice people into your life, it doesn't necessarily mean that all the nasty people in the world will drastically change their behaviour or that they will cease to exist. It merely means that they won't show up in your life, or that they will show up in your life only if they have reasons for being nice to you (eg you just happen to be one of the few persons which for whatever reason they truly regard as a good friend).
Esther Hicks (through Abraham) even says that where positive + negative appears to be wrapped up in one package, you can even attract ONLY the positive and leave aside the negative.
For example, suppose there is a person who is very fun to be with, but he also has a habit of borrowing money from his friends. You like to be with him, but you don't want to lend him money. This is also possible, and it doesn't mean that you mind-control him into ending his habit of borrowing money from his friends. It merely means that it is possible for you to bring about a situation where you continue to enjoy the fun of his company, but without having to lend him money (for example, he may decide to borrow from all his other friends).
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It seamlessly explains how one can manifest money and all the good stuff into one's life, but falters and stutters when the less glamorous outcomes such as abuse, murders, natural disasters and chance events are raised, forcing its advocates to clutch at increasingly elaborate theories ranging from subjective realities, to quantum physics and multiple universes.
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This again is a severe misunderstanding.
People like Fred Alan Wolf were physicists long before they ventured into areas like intention-manifestation. Physics led them to IM; IM did not lead them to physics.
Multiple universes theory was created by Hugh Everitt to explain empirical results in a science laboratory, not to explain Steve Pavlina's posts. It just happens that everything turned out to be interrelated. It is neither the fault of the physicists nor Steve Pavlina that they happened to be talking about the same universes.