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Originally Posted by Daffy Duck  Maybe, but I haven't seen enough evidence yet to convince me that the five-year-old playing happily on the sidewalk attracted the drunk driver who hit and killed him. |
Right. In this case, if your inquiry goes far enough, it will lead you to explore the meaning of death. And then perhaps you'll find the answers that you're looking for.
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Every single person in the world could think that the Sun doesn't exist... and yet there it would be, just shining like it always does.
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No. Not every single person in the world could think that the sun doesn't exist. For instance, I wouldn't be able to. This would require such a massive unravelling of my belief system that it's pretty much impossible.
So yours is a common misconception about how the LOA works. To give you a simple example, a person addicted to smoking may casually think to himself "I am no longer addicted to smoking."
Well, if that is all he thinks, I assure you that he would be no more successful than the person who casually thinks, "The sun no longer exists."
However, if the smoker does conscientiously work on his thought patterns (perhaps, for example, by using hypnosis to access deeper states of mind to plant thoughts such as "I am free of my addiction", "My lungs are fresh and clean", "cigarettes are replusive to me etc) over a period of time, then it is reasonable to expect that indeed he could rapidly be free of his addiction.
The sun example is more extreme, and therefore represents a belief much more difficult to unravel than beliefs about an addiction (and as I say, in practice, probably just outright impossible). Again in practice, this is hardly of much significance, since there would hardly be anyone who harbours a strong desire for the non-existence of the sun.
Following logically from my line of reasoning, you see that it is too grand a statement to say that all things are possible for you, with the LOA.
More correctly, the statement should be phrased as follows: "All things are possible for you, with the LOA, to the extent that you are able to consciously control your mind." The point here being - all of us have quite limited control of our minds.
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Theoretically, just for the purposes of discussion, what might happen if a person with advanced mind abilities were to keep meditating on the non-existence of the sun? (As stated, this is a very theoretical question - since I really don't see who would want to do such a thing).
I imagine that possibly he might go very blind. Such that he will never see sunlight again. Possibly he might die. Or circumstances may lead him to live in a dark, gloomy home in a dark, gloomy part of the world. Perhaps he'll end up working the night shift all the time. Haha.
But for the purposes of LOA experiments, why bother with such intentions? I advise you to select intentions of some practical benefit or use to yourself.