As A Man Thinketh

The Fallacy Of "Reverse Causation" Between Thought And Circumstances

The claim made, by many of the teachers of the law of attraction, that there is a direct causal link between your thoughts and all of the circumstances of your life is not true.

Frankly, it is preposterous and insulting to millions of people who are suffering sickness, poverty, violence and restrictions, through no fault of their own, in circumstances that are imposed on them!

It is a lie because it is a partial truth masquerading as an absolute truth.

It's a partial truth because we can prove from observation and scientific studies that "like does attract like" in social interactions in the physical world that we live in.

But it is a total lie based on pseudo-science to state, as a law, that your thoughts create everything that happens to you in terms of your health, wealth and the circumstances of your life. There is no scientific evidence to support this claim.

The Effect Of The Subconscious Mind

Many - if not most - of our thoughts are out of our consious control and are unconscious so as I discussed in some detail in "THE CONFLICTED MIND - The Law Of Attraction:

It is a very good thing that the law of attraction doesn't work as claimed, because the mind that has not been trained to stop thinking is full of so much "junk thought".

One of many reasons LOA doesn't work as claimed is because the different levels of your mind are in conflict and working against each other.

“A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favour or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with Godlike thoughts.”

“Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.”

“MAN’S mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.”

“Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.”“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself”

“Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.”

“A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life.”

“Clean thoughts make clean habits. The so-called saint who does not wash his body is not a saint. He who has strengthened and purified his thoughts does not need to consider the malevolent microbe.”

“He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.”

“He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.”

“And you, too, youthful reader, will realize the Vision (not the idle wish) of your heart, be it base or beautiful, or a mixture of both, for you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love.”