From what I can tell - I actually saw the video as my neighbor is into it - it is about 6 degrees away from Scientology and only about 3 from Wicca. I'm all for positive thinking, but to believe that it can cure breast cancer and no real action is required? Hogwash. Your thoughts do not dictate what happens around you. Thoughts and desire are the catalysts to action. Action causes effects. I sit in my house and think positively about being with the girl next door, nothing will happen. Does it make me more succeptable to allowing events to occur around me? No. It makes me a pathetic degenerate. Now, if I think positive thoughts and go ask the girl next door out, that's action. I couldn't believe in the article about how they said that the holocaust was partly the fault of the victims because their overall mindset was negative. What a pile of crap. I can't believe people are jumping on this wagon. There really has to be something wrong with someone's personality if they believe in stuff like this.
>At the surface, it's the same mind-set as all the faith healers in revival tents. "What! Your incurable disease is back? The you don't have enough faith!"
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>But the other thing I get from hearing about the book is that it's all about being positive. If you think 'light' (happy, positive, insert favorite adjective [here]), the you get 'light'. Sorta like that whole 'what goes around comes around' and 'reap what ye sow', but let's not forget 'be careful what you wish for, you might get it' (Insert favorite platitude [here]).
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>>Really! Just think about it hard enough and it's yours! Cures balding, breast cancer, poverty, AIDs, anything you can imagine can be yours with just a few simple thoughts throughout the day. Want that coworker who is married with three kids to have an affair with you? Just think about it! Want to own that Corvette you've always dreamed of, but could never buy because you only make $6.75/hr pushing grocery carts around? It's yours! And, if you don't get what you want, then it's your fault! That's right, everything negative that happens to you is your fault. That car accident where that drunk driver came out nowhere and wiped out a crowd of people? That was the fault of those people. Really! So, unless you fork over the money for the book and/or DVD (it's even available as a pay-per-view download!) then you will be a loser like all those others who do not have a false sense of control over their lives. Wouldn't you rather ignore all reason and logic and simply "wish" for all that you
>>want? Don't think negative, be a winner!
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/06/25/books.thesecret.ap/index.html
