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Old 10-17-2008, 03:16 PM   #25 (permalink)
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Just thought I'd make a broader point here about some of the other responses in this thread, specifically, about the similarity between LOA and religion, new age, life after death, etc.:

While there are plenty of resources on LOA (like this forum, and the Abraham material, which is my personal favorite) there is no set of beliefs that you HAVE TO believe. If you don't believe in life after death, drop it. If you don't believe in spirits or channeling, drop those too. Drop or add as you see fit. As our own personal Jesus we have the freedom to form our own world-view.

Really, it's the belief systems of the past, where most people were terrified into adopting their local religion, where you get this notion of knowledge and truth coming from OUTSIDE of you. "Well this person wrote a book on LOA and said xzy, and that's just bogus because clearly we all know abc" well that's THEM. That's the conclusion they made with their own life experience.

Get busy with your experience, your own experiments. Nothing is fun about having a belief system wrapped up in a nice bow that you take at face value. Tear off the wrapping paper, take the thing out of the box, get out your screwdriver, take it apart, put it back together and see if it still works, or see if you can make it do something you didn't think it was supposed to do. Make it your OWN.
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