Law of Attraction

[DavidC]

I wanted to post a link to this view giving a different viewpoint on the Law of Attraction, etc., and other recent ideas and movies relating mystic/esoteric and quantum mechanics subjects.  I have not got around to watching the movies yet but still plan to.

http://www.firstscience.com/home/articles/big-theories/where-physics-and-mysticism-don-t-meet_37611.html

[smallstuff]

Brother DavidC,

Very interesting subject. I did not watch any video but read the sites' article.

The first thing that came to mind was "prayer". The power of praying.

Is not this what someone wishes to achieve with some payers? Changing

reality from a certain outcome to a different outcome through praying.

The art of praying may well have been to the ancients, a science with a

known outcome from a known prayer.

This deserves more attention.

Peace,

smallstuff

[DavidC]

I guess what you say one may wish to achieve is similar, but I think prayer is also very psychological.  Also, we know it has to do with the spiritual but maybe not the physical, though studies show prayer helps with medicine sometimes.  Maybe praying to an entity/divinity just makes them have a better opinion of you or also makes them communicate to you--if you are open to it.  However, it has nothing to do with the idea of whether theism or deism is true.  I think theism is true, but people are the ones that have the most control over their lives (besides society) and I am not sure much else does.  Of course materialism is not true, but the article brings up questions on other details of how the universe works.  Sometimes people using the Law of Attraction believe they have powers just because the law says.  However, it takes a lot of purification and illumination to even fully accept powers could be possible, let alone be able to use them.

That is based on the idea of the traditional Christian mystic path katharsis-photismos-theosis (purification-illumination-divinization.)

I do not think the article contradicts spirituality, but it just gives some clearer ideas on details of how the universe may work.  That does not mean one should not try to be spiritual, but it means one may actually have to try.  The idea that one does not have to make effort--that one is pure and powerful the way one is--seems rather dangerous, though the ideas of original sin and vicarious atonement are also at least as dangerous.  All of that may also deserve attention.