[wolfgang]

I've taken on the idea that it's not so much the thoughts that create reality. That the thoughts are sign posts to feelings and internal states, a labeling. I've felt that LoA as an experience when I've been totally persent. I'd look around and not really have thoughts but awareness that the experience of the physical world is living through me as being me in the universal sense. The boundary of me/other or inner/outer gets blended and everything just IS exactly perfectly unfolding.

So I'd say your two points are actually the same thing. Although I say that by qualifying "thoughts create reality" as your feelings are your experience. Which is both what Buddhists say and IM says, I hope. Like IM is really, in my ideas, a way to get more aligned with the natural way of being such that your thoughts are more conhernt as a reflection of being more at peace and less ego driven internally and the universe seems to respond by showing you more refections of your internal state. I suppose the IM stuff helps rein in the thoughts to produce the internal states that get great vibes going.