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The Law Of Attraction And The Mind Movies Creation Kit. Can It Work For You?
The phrase Law of Attraction, although widely used by New Thought writers, has a range of definitions. Turn-of-the-20th-century references conceptualized the law of attraction as relating to physical structure and to how matter develops. A more modern consensus among New Thought thinkers is that the Law of Attraction says people’s thoughts (both conscious and unconscious) dictate the reality of their lives, whether or not they’re aware of it. Essentially “if you really want something and truly believe it’s possible, you’ll get it”, but putting a lot of attention and thought onto something you don’t want means you’ll probably get that too.
Widespread popular interest for the law of attraction reached its peak after the release of the The Secret, a 2006 cinematic release. After the film’s release, the book Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham by Esther Hicks and Jerry Hicks made the New York Times Best Sellers list, drawing more attention and interest to this topic. Before this, the couple had been in the New Age field since the 1980s.
In 2007, the writer of the bestselling book, The Secret, Rhonda Byrne had become so popular that she was interviewed on Oprah Winfrey’s Show. By the time Byrne went on Oprah the book had already gotten its break on the Ellen DeGeneres show and was “hugely successful”. Oprah aired the first of two segments on February 8, 2007.
Since many of the claims of the law of attraction appear impossible without violating established scientific principles and our understanding of the universe, it has received criticism from the scientific community. Physicist Ali Alousi, for instance, criticized it as unmeasurable (and therefore unscientific) as well as questioning the likelihood that thoughts can affect anything outside the head. The Associated Press is also quoted as saying that “some medical professionals suggest it could even lead to a blame-the-victim mentality and actually be dangerous to those suffering from serious illness or mental disorders”.
Skeptical Inquirer magazine criticized the lack of falsifiability and testability of the claims . The evidence provided is usually anecdotal and because of the self-selecting nature of the positive reports, as well as the subjective nature of any results, highly susceptible to confirmation and selection bias’s. References to modern scientific theory are questionable. Brainwaves do have an electrical signal, and any magnetic field that the brain produces is actually negligible. Not to mention the required shielding of a room against outside magnetic sources, to enable the minuscule magnetic field of the brain to be isolated and detected by very sensitive equipment. So, “the brain’s magnetic field of 10 -15 tesla quickly dissipates from the skull and is promptly swamped by other magnetic sources, not to mention the earth’s magnetic field of 10 -5 tesla, which overpowers it by 10 orders of magnitude”
The use of the term “metaphysical law” has also come under fire (of the term and)
Both Dr. Victor Stenger (PhD. Physics, UCLA 1963) and Dr.Leon Lederman (PhD. Physics Columbia Univ.) are critical of references to quantum physics to bridge any unexplained or seemingly implausible effects, which are hallmark traits of modern pseudoscience.
Writing in the New York Times, Virginia Heffernan said: ““The Secret” is not really a book but a series of misquotations from historical figures and fraudulent maxims from no-count hucksters. And yet something inbetween the pages of that gooey red waxy seal on the front of “The Secret,” and the book’s believe-in-magic glitter, takes me to a happy place.” The hitherto undiscovered “Secret”, is actually a mix of misunderstood quantum physics and a re-telling of “New Thought” fallacies, which have been around since the late 18th century.
The principles of a mind movie have also been interpreted in the realm of medicine and illness. In 1990, Bernie Siegel (a retired assistant clinical professor of surgery at Yale) published a popular book, Love, Medicine and Miracles, which claimed that the threat of disease was related to a person’s imagination, will, and belief. Siegel primarily advocated “love” as the source of healing and longevity stating that “if you want to be immortal, love someone.” Some argue that this claim is clearly falsified by the eventual death of every known human, despite the propensity of many to love each other. As yet, no immortal loving people have been discovered. Siegel’s description has been largely rejected by the medical community. The most notable critic is neuroendocrinologist and Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky, who devoted a whole chapter in his book Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers to critiquing Siegel. Sapolsky refers to Siegel’s general idea as “benign gibberish” but is strongly critical of what he sees as blaming patients for their illness, based only on questionable anecdotal evidence. Sapolsky sums up his primary criticism as follows:
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