[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Daffy Duck

I'll give an example. Every day my house contains my car keys. I may walk by them a hundred times and never notice them. Only when I direct my mind to "pickup my car keys" is when I notice them and pick them up. This isn't anything magical -- I did not alter reality, I did not use LOA to manifest my car keys "out of thin air." They were always there. I just decided to notice them. Our mind can only consciously notice so many things at once.

Right. You are referring to the reticular activating cortex. The mind will find whatever it is motivated to find.

I believe that the reticular activating cortex is ONE way that the LOA works, And no doubt it is an important way.

However I do not believe that it is the ONLY way that the LOA works.

But the interesting thing is why it works. Does LOA work because the "Universe conspires to work for you," or rather because it directs your own mind to accomplish things? I think the latter is more correct.

The latter will certainly appear to be more correct, if you view reality in the way that most people view reality.

However it will begin to seem less correct, once you are able to see that your view of reality is merely a view, and many different views of reality are possible and are, as Eisho put it, "no more or no less true".