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		<title>By: Wolf Halton</title>
		<link>http://www.drmartinrussell.com/law-of-attraction-is-good/comment-page-1/#comment-495</link>
		<dc:creator>Wolf Halton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>LoA seems to be a model that gets some people motivated.  Puritan Work Ethic is another model.  There is a bit of funny business going on with the definitions of words.  We may not agree with the way that some marketers have jumped on the LoA, Ron, however it is just vague enough to be pulled in.  LoA isn&#039;t about &quot;do nothing and bathtubs full of money materialize out of thin air.&quot;  If you tighten the definitions enough to have it mean anything at all, it seems to describe how sufficient motivation makes even hard grueling work seem easy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LoA seems to be a model that gets some people motivated.  Puritan Work Ethic is another model.  There is a bit of funny business going on with the definitions of words.  We may not agree with the way that some marketers have jumped on the LoA, Ron, however it is just vague enough to be pulled in.  LoA isn&#8217;t about &#8220;do nothing and bathtubs full of money materialize out of thin air.&#8221;  If you tighten the definitions enough to have it mean anything at all, it seems to describe how sufficient motivation makes even hard grueling work seem easy.</p>
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		<title>By: Ron Tocknell</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ron Tocknell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Law of Attraction is based on the solipsist concept that we create our own reality. It&#039;s just been hijacked by the marketing world as a means of selling &quot;get-rich-quick mindsets&quot;.

Mohammed Latiff is well worth reading if only for the entertainment value. He talks about manifesting a &quot;swimming pool full of money&quot;.

Presumably he has a bank account full of water?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Law of Attraction is based on the solipsist concept that we create our own reality. It&#8217;s just been hijacked by the marketing world as a means of selling &#8220;get-rich-quick mindsets&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mohammed Latiff is well worth reading if only for the entertainment value. He talks about manifesting a &#8220;swimming pool full of money&#8221;.</p>
<p>Presumably he has a bank account full of water?</p>
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		<title>By: Wolf Halton</title>
		<link>http://www.drmartinrussell.com/law-of-attraction-is-good/comment-page-1/#comment-406</link>
		<dc:creator>Wolf Halton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I believe the LoA fever is a rebound from the &quot;Truth is Ugly&quot; fervour the world media seems to be selling these days.  Violence in the US has been dropping for 10 years and the papers and TV news always has more ugliness for us.  This is not a 90s thing, but an Industrial Revolution thing.  I believe this is a multi-generational worldview that started around the time of DeCartes and is resisted at intervals.  

LoA seems to work in the same way that, when you have a broken leg, you notice that every other person you meet also has a broken leg.  It is about what you are focusing on,  Truth and reality are so complicated that nobody can &quot;get it&quot; in its entirety.  Focus is a habit, so the courses in LoA can help people develop the habit of looking for the path to their goals, through the semantic noise we interpret as &quot;reality.&quot;  What is wrong with that, specifically?  
I think also the LoA is concerned with individual practice of taking responsibility for where one is right now.  Similar to how overcoming addiction probably requires acceptance of the idea that the addicted person had something to do with their situation.  There is no personal power in saying it is a &quot;genetic predisposition&quot; or one was abused as a child.  The only path to achieving anythin is to singlemindedly assume responsibility for all outcomes.  Nobody who has really achieved their goals believes it was accidental, or &quot;genetic predisposition.&quot;  It always seems that a true success story is one where the person overcame the obstacles somehow.  It does not follow from this, specifically that starving children in Indonesia chose their set of obstacles in some metaphysical way.  This is not about accepting guilt or setting blame, but about personal resolve to achieve something.

Seems like lots of people are so beaten down by the happenstances of their upbringing that they are not able to see any options at all.  The LoA is a way to talk about there being options.  Just because they are not in the choices that we have received from our cultural setting does not mean there are none.  All innovation is the result of individuals fighting the apparent set of choices and bringing in a new one.  

The innovations that stick and become &quot;the new paradigm&quot; are always obvious after the fact.  Maybe the LoA will be one of those obvious things, and maybe it won&#039;t.  It has existed, essentially as is, in the Unity Movement (and others) since the late 1800s.  LoA is not a very new thing at all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I believe the LoA fever is a rebound from the &#8220;Truth is Ugly&#8221; fervour the world media seems to be selling these days.  Violence in the US has been dropping for 10 years and the papers and TV news always has more ugliness for us.  This is not a 90s thing, but an Industrial Revolution thing.  I believe this is a multi-generational worldview that started around the time of DeCartes and is resisted at intervals.  </p>
<p>LoA seems to work in the same way that, when you have a broken leg, you notice that every other person you meet also has a broken leg.  It is about what you are focusing on,  Truth and reality are so complicated that nobody can &#8220;get it&#8221; in its entirety.  Focus is a habit, so the courses in LoA can help people develop the habit of looking for the path to their goals, through the semantic noise we interpret as &#8220;reality.&#8221;  What is wrong with that, specifically?<br />
I think also the LoA is concerned with individual practice of taking responsibility for where one is right now.  Similar to how overcoming addiction probably requires acceptance of the idea that the addicted person had something to do with their situation.  There is no personal power in saying it is a &#8220;genetic predisposition&#8221; or one was abused as a child.  The only path to achieving anythin is to singlemindedly assume responsibility for all outcomes.  Nobody who has really achieved their goals believes it was accidental, or &#8220;genetic predisposition.&#8221;  It always seems that a true success story is one where the person overcame the obstacles somehow.  It does not follow from this, specifically that starving children in Indonesia chose their set of obstacles in some metaphysical way.  This is not about accepting guilt or setting blame, but about personal resolve to achieve something.</p>
<p>Seems like lots of people are so beaten down by the happenstances of their upbringing that they are not able to see any options at all.  The LoA is a way to talk about there being options.  Just because they are not in the choices that we have received from our cultural setting does not mean there are none.  All innovation is the result of individuals fighting the apparent set of choices and bringing in a new one.  </p>
<p>The innovations that stick and become &#8220;the new paradigm&#8221; are always obvious after the fact.  Maybe the LoA will be one of those obvious things, and maybe it won&#8217;t.  It has existed, essentially as is, in the Unity Movement (and others) since the late 1800s.  LoA is not a very new thing at all.</p>
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		<title>By: Megan</title>
		<link>http://www.drmartinrussell.com/law-of-attraction-is-good/comment-page-1/#comment-332</link>
		<dc:creator>Megan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>beliefs.... filters.... perceptions... experiences... truth.... all relative to the individual.

Call it what you like, what you may, generalize, categorize, label and contain, and it&#039;s all fine.  Depending on your interpretation, it may speak just to you, or it may speak to the masses, but somewhere, there is going to be some speaking, and those who want it in this form, will get it, and those who don&#039;t won&#039;t.

Either way, All is Well, so eloquently spoken by Abraham-Hicks.

Hugs,
Megan

http://www.thelawofattractionstation.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>beliefs&#8230;. filters&#8230;. perceptions&#8230; experiences&#8230; truth&#8230;. all relative to the individual.</p>
<p>Call it what you like, what you may, generalize, categorize, label and contain, and it&#8217;s all fine.  Depending on your interpretation, it may speak just to you, or it may speak to the masses, but somewhere, there is going to be some speaking, and those who want it in this form, will get it, and those who don&#8217;t won&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Either way, All is Well, so eloquently spoken by Abraham-Hicks.</p>
<p>Hugs,<br />
Megan</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thelawofattractionstation.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.thelawofattractionstation.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: Jules</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jules</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have to say that for me, the Law of Attraction works, but I do combine it with a number of other mind power systems. I think people dismiss LOA because they read an article or two, try a few experiemnts and then give up in disgust when the new Mercedes does not arrive in a few days. Most people would benefit from many of the mind power products available, but people just read information and fail to act upon this information. Great debate though.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have to say that for me, the Law of Attraction works, but I do combine it with a number of other mind power systems. I think people dismiss LOA because they read an article or two, try a few experiemnts and then give up in disgust when the new Mercedes does not arrive in a few days. Most people would benefit from many of the mind power products available, but people just read information and fail to act upon this information. Great debate though.</p>
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		<title>By: Carnival of Australia 12 September 2007 : semanticallydriven.com</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carnival of Australia 12 September 2007 : semanticallydriven.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: &#187; Cultivate Greatness Personal Development &#38; Leadership Blog Carnival #017 · Leadership Training · Personal Development 2.0 Blog, Podcast, and Portal &#124; Cultivate Greatness &#124; Leadership Blog &#124;</title>
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		<title>By: Peter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There seems to be a cult following of &quot;The Secret&quot; which kind of worries me. Personally , I think the brilliant part of it was marketing LOA as &quot;The Secret&quot; - now that was a million dollar idea. All that said, there is a lot of good in the message of LOA, and I don&#039;t think the idea should be tainted by the way some people cling to it. Oh, I&#039;m not sure I would consider it a &quot;Law&quot; though like gravity.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There seems to be a cult following of &#8220;The Secret&#8221; which kind of worries me. Personally , I think the brilliant part of it was marketing LOA as &#8220;The Secret&#8221; &#8211; now that was a million dollar idea. All that said, there is a lot of good in the message of LOA, and I don&#8217;t think the idea should be tainted by the way some people cling to it. Oh, I&#8217;m not sure I would consider it a &#8220;Law&#8221; though like gravity.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
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