Frans, I completely agree with the point you are making.
Viktor Frankl, one of my personal heroes, said this:
"What is to give light must endure burning."
LOA and IM play in beautifully to the zeitgeist of out times - consumerism, materialism and instant gratification. The gist of LOA is that we can manifest whatever we want if we work hard enough at it. Oh, how the ego loves the sound of that.
If one wants to be simplistic about it, our desires come from one of two places: from love or from ego.
Desiring to have enough to grow and to sustain yourself in life is from a place of love - growth demands that one first survive. Desiring to double your income, make your kids smarter, attract a beautiful/wealthy partner comes from ego. Unnecessary embelishments which people fall over themselves to insist they deserve. Why not? They say. That, Mr Andersen, is the sound of your ego.
IM theory is pretty much accurate - it works. But its an ego-trap. You're far more likely to read something like "I've spent the last 2 weeks trying to manifest $10 000 dollars, but I only got $57.60. What am I doing wrong??!" than "I've got enough, but my neighbor has been battling to make ends meet. How can I use IM to help?"
I believe part of the purpose of life, of growth, is to subdue our egos. To learn humility, humbleness, to help others, to become more loving. IM tends to do the opposite. It makes us selfish, rather than selfless.
The responsibility IM demands of us, is to know the difference.
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