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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot  In a nutshell, your thoughts are like magnets. If you think of red widgets, you will get red widgets, not green woolahs nor blue parelis. If you think of nice people, you will attract nice people. You can't remote-control nasty people to be nice to you.
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Maybe our differences are because of semantics and words.
Let's take "If you think of nice people, you will attract nice people". I would agree in the sense that "If I'm in a good mood and I want to have nice people around, I will focus on those and try to be in situations where it's likely to find them. I might also perceive more nice people in general (since I'm focussing on them, like the example with your new car).
Now if it's NOT meant in this way, then it seems to me that the alternative is remote-controlling people. If you say YOU attract other people by sending out 'requests to the Universe' that means that those people couldn't have come to you by themselves. So you did something to 'attract' them, to influence them over a distance and without addressing them. That's what I would call either voodoo, or remote-controlling. Or how would you explain it? I keep asking this because I haven't received a congruent or coherent answer yet.
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By the way, what's your view on that post about mind-body connection which some poster wanted to kindly draw your attention to? Let me guess:
"It can't be scientifically explained, but this doesn't mean that the man's thoughts had anything to do with it."
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I must have missed that one.
And I'm convinced that the mind can influence the body to a certain degree. Even, at times, astonishingly, beyond these degrees. There are, a very few, medical miracles that Science cannot explain (yet?). But they are rare and most often completely spontaneous. I'm intrigued by this. And Science is too, therefore they're analyzing these things. Hoping to learn something from it and make it accessible to more people.
I'm also intrigued by the brain and abilities of idiots-savants. They're able to do incredible stuff, but to the detriment of other abilities. But since they're able to perform superhumanly in certain areas, it would be interesting to know whether it's possible to have the full spectrum of brain power. Or if these savants are just freaks of nature.
These are all interesting, and mysterious, stuff. But that doesn't mean that I will take any magical theory as an adequate answer. Esoteric people claim a lot but can prove little. And most of their theories have logical flaws.
This is not to say that everything is wrong or impossible. But most if speculation and wishful thinking.