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Interesting - in the another thread about the "Bachelor," one of the contestants was a strong believer in said law. She envisioned being married to the bachelor, and (I believe) even cut out photos of him and pinned them up with the headline that they would be married.

She was rejected by him on the first night.

In comlete defiance of Newtons 'shove it up your ass' law

Hi Ambrose

Happy New Year,
I wish you that you achieve your desires in 2009.
Have you ever tried the Law of Attraction personally?

I do believe in the Law of Attraction,

but, if the vibes don't mesh...

It ain't gonna happen.

(It doesn't work by force)

Actually, everything we see around us we have
attracted to us - either by design or default.

Very true

To a degree. The thing is we've all had many experiences that are relevant to its claims. For instance, I've had days where all that was in my head were miserable thoughts and worries - and GOOD things happened to me, in contradiction to this so-called law. And I've had times where I had mainly positive thoughts and expectations, and they didn't bear fruit. My provisional conclusion is that there exists no ability of our minds to materially affect reality, except through physical actions. If we could actually make reality bend to our wishes in this solipsistic sense, that would allow contradictory outcomes as (for instance) different people envision the same events (an example being the aforementioned "Bachelor" where 25 women who believed in practicing LOA wanted the same thing. Who wins?).

That being said, one might gain a lot by employing some of the (less mystical) aspects of the Law of Attraction - for example, being aware of the negative effects of our negative thoughts (how self-defeating prophecies can often become reality), and the power of positive thinking.

you lost me, Dusty. Help?

The Mind pays no attention to the judgment of good or bad. It is within our free will to (better) make that choice. The Mind just produces what we focus on intensely. If it is
a passing thought or wish then it most likely won't come about.
If one puts more thought into it and plans, believes, writes
our desires down and continues it in the Mind there could be
a likelihood of it materializing. We then, let it go, believing
it to be already a part of who we are. Like a seed we nurture
it for a while to get it going but then we don't keep going back
to the seed until it gets dug up and destroyed. We have to let
it go and grow.

We have either attacted things to us or we have been apart
of mass consciousness that has.

Whatever I have in my life are what my beliefs have given
me.

if I got you correctly:

when 'the vibes don't mesh' but it's still in your surrounding, it doesn't exist [for you]?

Because physically it sure happens?

Good luck with your thoughts, Laura

thanks!

'coz my attractions are in physical world, most of them.

I believe that it sure happens but on conditions as long as you don't give up on your thoughts and your faith. It takes the burning desire and absolute faith for it + persistence. It depends how much thought you devote to it, usually the more the better but as Ambrose and dusty were saying it also take physical effort for it and off course the seed which was mentioned require sun shine and watering.

Is that right Dusty?

Yep, a little watering, and sunshine.

sounds almost like practicing voodoo.

the power of intention - Dr. W Dwyer



voodoo is voodooable

Voodoo?
What’s that?

Well, sorta <smile>.
If the belief is consuming and passionate enough there are
some who let their fears guide them, hence they materialize.

I try not to let my mind wander in that direction. For me,
-not healthy-.