Anyhoo - another thought (then I’ll shut up for a bit - the thing that occurs is this: all that Oprah is doing (for whatever reason, and I have no idea) by the idea for this programme is going to perpetuate the one big lie. Remember Goebbels? It’s another way of reinforcing the insane idea that there is a law of attraction. Circular logic is always suspect. That’s, I suppose, when I first started to smell a rodent. I’m holding forth here in a big way, but I’m going on gut that it’s important. Doesn’t matter why or why not something is working for you. What matters is, are you trying to build your house on sand. Sorry if that’s offensive to anyone. But that’s what it amounts to. Is it real? Really? Are you sure.

You know all this, and I hope you don’t object to my publishing it on your blog. Mine was started and put aside, when my father died suddenly last week. And the floodgates are now opening.

For all we know all the “channeled” entities are the high school pranksters of the extra-terrestrial world “Hey, dude, check this out. I’m gonna talk through this housewife from Iowa and have her read my 5th period fiction paper, ‘We’re all vibration.’”

I had no idea there was an Amway connection… the thot plickens!

You may well be hearing voices, but who the heck but your psychiatrist would ever want to listen:-)

I fell for Abraham hook, line and sinker. As light began to dawn, I found the Amway connection, and all sorts of things began to become, well, rather clearer shall we say.

Unlike the LOA which is a LAW in the same sense that Jude Law is (i.e. in name only), and is only provable AFTER the fact.

You certainly don’t want to get your laws confused, especially when your livelihood depends on it!

So I shall carry on allowing the cogitations to circle, and we’ll see. Nice to meet you.

I like your earth-is-flat-believers idea. Similarly, despite the millions of little girls who want to see a unicorn, there isn’t one. And despite the number of high school boys who used to fantasize about sleeping with Farrah Fawcett, I’ve never heard one LOA story that begins with, “One day, while visualizing in my bathroom…”

Of course, the LOA believers will counter your earth-is-flat idea by saying, that the LOA doesn’t affect things that ARE, only things that you want to appear in the future! Remember, the universe is a giant catalog, just waiting for you to ask for what you want. So if you WANTED the earth to BECOME flat (or round), well then it would HAVE to!

See how easy it is to skate around any argument for a belief you want to hold?

First, like yourself, I was a true believer in LOA - I actually thought I’d got the secrets of the universe. And taught it, and wrote about it ….. Well, since my wake-up call (oddly enough through Byron Katie and The Work - one day I sat down and asked myself: There is a law of attraction. Is that true?” I started laughing that day and I’ve been laughing ever since. I have, in other moments, been trying to work out a way of disproving it. And we come straight up against the impossibility of proving a negative. However, just recently in a different context, something occurred. Back when everybody thought the earth was flat, no one is suggesting that it actually ever was - I mean, it didn’t pancake down flat and then spring back into it’s present curved shape, or no one is suggesting that, that I am aware of So, if LOA really existed, and everybody thought the earth was flat, it would have been so. And there would be a fossil record. You could suggest to Oprah that she find it.

It’s the current best I can come up with. Good luck.

I also applaud Bill’s taking on TS, especially since so many of his customers are true believers.

I think that almost all humans engage in magical thinking at some level as a matter of survival.