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When you want to teach a kindergartner how to count, do you toss a Calculus book in front of him and walk away? Or start with the basics, in cute books with interesting shapes, appealing characters and pretty colors? Modern humans were like kindergarten kids when it comes to LOA, when The Secret was released so why would it be better to bust out the Calculus Book of Attracting when first introducing it? The fact that The Secret talks about manifesting money (and health, and general success, and relationships, and world peace, let's not forget) is not a sin. Most people, to quote my local LOA teacher Connie Domino have these priorities: "I want my money, my honey, my job and my health. In that order." As far as whether it's "true," one would assume that would be a personal judgement and that for as many people that disagree with it, there are probably more that have found it to be perfectly true or the LOA "fad" would have died by now. Yet it's going strong. You can't make a blanket statement that it is "untrue." Jennifer | ||
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I think that Buddhism is one of the forms of LOA. And Buddhism has had many followers in the past 2,500 years. | |
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BTW, I like your handle - "They travel in the time of the prophets, on a desert highway straight to the heart of the sun [etc.]"
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I was fortunate to have discovered the concept of IM/LoA a few years prior to The Secret, as I found the latter experience like eating a jar of cake frosting - very sweet and enjoyable, but ultimately insubstantial and just a wee bit nausea inducing... Now, let's see about manifesting a right-brain-friendly equivalent to calculus
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I personally think we were destined as a species to learn these concepts NOW, for a specific reason probably having to do with survival and/or evolvement. But that is a whole other thread. So how do you get the most people interested in a strange concept as fast as possible? Make it appealing. Big marketing duh. Interestingly, it's release coincides, roughly, with the public-ification of Kabbalah teachings which I also believe were made public for the same reason, around the same time and they are connected concepts. Jennifer Last edited by Dreamline; 06-23-2009 at 01:17 AM. | |
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Well, roughly it goes like this. 1. You find Joseph Murphy's book appealing. 2. You find it appealing because he seems to explain the LOA in terms of your (apparently smaller and more limited) subconscious mind, rather than something much more mysterious (eg a universe that magically reacts to your thoughts). 3. I'm telling you that Joseph Murphy actually works on the basis on prayer and God. 4. You say that works fine for you as well. 5. It's just a little ... noteworthy ... to me that while you shy away from the notion of a universe that magically reacts to your thoughts, you don't shy away from the notion of an invisible, all-powerful, omnipresent deity that magically responds to your prayers. |
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Well, perhaps not just your personal subconscious mind. Freud has this concept of mind in several levels, eg conscious, subconscious, unconscious, superconscious. In his framework, superconscious is the level of mind that you share with pretty much the rest of the human race, past, present and future (and maybe more than the human race, past, present and future). Which means that potentially you can have access to a heck of a lot of information and knowledge out there. | |
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Does the universe magically react to our thoughts, or do we magically react to our universe? Did Steve create the opportunity for himself, or was there always an opportunity for a personal development blogger and Steve came in at the right time to fit the bill? Are our thoughts creating brand new realities or are our thoughts bending our own minds to see opportunities that were always there? At the end of the day, I suppose it doesn't matter, but it does matter when we're trying to explain why or how it all works. But as I've said in the past, I think we could come up with many theories, but I'm more interested in turning on lightbulbs than discussing the inner workings of electricity, if you know what I mean. | |
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I have seen the secret and i really did want to believe in it but i just needed more evidence to convince myself. There were some scientists in the movie so i looked up them on youtube and i found videos about quantum physics witch really explained how this law of attraction works. link: YouTube - Mind Over Matter dont be scared about quantum physics it is easy to understand |
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