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Originally Posted by pokilty  I think what bothers me is that there's only one place I see this "believe then see" ideology appear in the world -- and that's religion. |
Actually this concept of "believe, then see" shows up in many different ways outside religion, and outside LOA.
For example, it appears in psychology & neuroscience. Some people are told that they will be shown a picture of X. Some people are told that they will be shown a picture of Y. Then they are all shown the same picture. The people in the first group all insist that they see X in the picture, but the people in the second group all insist that they see Y.
It's all about the brain perceiving what it thinks is there. And how it fails to perceive what it thinks should not be there.
In the same way, the kind of thoughts you think, gears you towards perceiving or not perceiving the existence of certain things in your reality, or attributing certain types of meanings, when such things occur. That's one way that the LOA works, and this way, while not at all an adequate explanation for how the LOA works, should not in itself be underestimated.