This thread is going around in circles, it's driving me crazy. Or maybe I'm just creating this thread to drive me crazy so that I can better understand how the universe works. But that's for another post.
As for "Creating money from nowhere" part of I-M, and the idea that if it worked then you'd just sit home and manifest everything you wanted is complete bollocks.
That is just like hearing from someone that "A car can get you to places." and you go off and jump into a car, say where you want to go and you get there straight away without doing any work, which is not what a car does. Yet everyone keeps applying that logic to I-M.
The point I'm trying to make is that the Law of Attraction simply states that you will attract into your life that which you think about. Think thoughts of doubt and uncertainty and that's what will appear in your life. Think thoughts of skepticism and science and all you will see are things to be proven/disproven, science working all around you and silly people on internet forums talking about magic. Think thoughts of power and possibility and you will see openings for doing things you would never have believed you could do and having things you never thought you would have.
Intention-manisfestation is just a mechanism for this theory. (Yes it is a theory, look up the word in a dictionary) You put out a powerful and conscious thought and it will be attracted into your life. How it is attracted is up to the universe, which is a cop out, but there's no other way to explain it. Coincidences arise that can't possibly be related to any action you have taken that allow you to proceed towards the manifestation of the intention. Much of the time however the attraction creates openings and opportunities for action.
Now the people who made The Secret probably had a purpose of sharing it with the world, but also had the intention of making money, the two came together and they produced the movie, the movie being the vessel for the intention of money being fulfilled. Perhaps they didn't have the intention of making money, it could have been sell X number of copies or even spread the secret to the world.
In the same way that Steve uses his website to generate income through ad revenue and donations, he also uses intentions to generate greater income through manisfestation. And he has documented some of his manisfestations in regards to the site, such as other sites he has never heard of linking through to him giving him a great traffic boost. I can't see how any action he directly took would have caused that, not without fobbing it off as a random coincidence. You could explain it in other ways, the fact that it's a good website and other people would eventually find it and link to it, but then you are closing your eyes to what really happened.
A good scientist looks at the outcome of the whole experiment, they don't fob bits off as coincidences or random outcomes, they examine and measure each part of the experiment. Imagine Newton studying physics and saying "Oh, this ball falls down when I drop it, but this feather doesn't, therefore gravity is false and falling down is a big coincidence." Preposterous hey? Science is all about pushing the bounds of what we believe to discover that which we didn't already know. And unfortunately skepticism doesn't come into that, you are into the realm of creation and discovery. Skepticism and Scientific discovery don't work together, and that's a fact.
I've probably just said what's been said 100 times already. Hopefully I shift you away from self defeating disempowering thoughts and towards those that can really help. That would be worth reading all of this for.
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