I think negatively of these authors because I see them as lacking integrity. They blend fiction with fact in order to sell books. They present themselves as wanting to help other people but mainly, I suspect, they want to help themselves.
What is wrong with that? In helping themselves, they are adding to other people's problems.
If someone said to me "Can you recommend a book that will help me get rich?" and I didnt like that person, I would say "Sure! Go read The Secret, its the best book I know to help you get what you want."
If I did like the person, I would ask "Why do you want to be rich?" Assuming I had the skill, I would then help the person uncover the insecurities and lack of self-worth that they are invariably trying to compensate for. If that person was honest enough, they would ultimately end at the point "I just want to feel good about myself, I just want to be loved."
IM is just a tool, its neutral. It can be used very positively BUT people would be better off understanding why they want the things that want in the first place and, usually, its because they want to feel better.
The problem is that using IM to get stuff, is a poor, short term solution. And thats why I think negatively of these authors - they play into people's weaknesses and profit from it. You yourself have expressed your disappointment with something you manifested - I dont know how you saw that, but to me it suggests that using IM doesnt always bring the result we hope for. I imagine that in some cases, it brings some pretty nasty results. Which begs the question - how are we to know what to ask for, and should we be using it in the first place?
On the one hand in this forum we marvel about synchronicity, and on the other hand we desperately try to manufacture the results ourselves. Should we not trust in the universe to organically bring us what we need? Or are we afraid it wont be ENOUGH?
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