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Originally Posted by Frans  I noticed the same pattern in recent threads.
It's a fact that there are conflicting point of views amongst I-M believers.
Some say you don't need to do anything, others say "you have to pay a price"...
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I think the disagreement between IM believers hasn't really been so much about action, but rather whether the results come strictly from the action.
Meaning, non-believers think that IM is just a motivating tool and if someone spends 3 weeks focusing on their intention for 1 hour a day by meditating and visualizing etc. nothing has yet happened in the world to manifest that intention besides that person's level of motivation going up. Then, after 3 weeks if that person now begins to take action, that is really the first step towards there being any change in the universe in terms of making that intention happen.
Believers, at least the way I see it, believe that during that 3 week period the universe is arranging things, making things happen, in order for that person's intention to arrive to them, so that by the time the 3 weeks is done, YES the person has to take personal action to "receive" the intention but the MAJORITY of the work has already been done at that point.
As Steve has put it, IM is like a marketing campaign or an AD in the newspaper telling people there is a sale on at your business. Yes, your sales people still have to process the clients lined up outside the door, but that's only a little bit of work compared to how much work they would have to do in order to cold-call everybody in town to tell them about the sale if the marketing campaign wasn't there.
This is the tricky point, because non-believers begin to now say "So what, are you remote controlling the people?" etc.