If anyone has seen the movie "The Secret" -that's where this question originated. The point of the movie is that what we think is what we are. Our thoughts have frequencies that resonate throughout the universe and become attracted to other similar frequencies. So if we keep thinking strongly the same way about the same thing, eventually it will realize itself in the physical realm. If you think about it, this happens all the time on a small scale, but we just don't give our minds credit for bringing about whatever it is into our lives. We chalk it up to mere coincidence. If we all learn to harness this natural superpower like some people have, anything we want or imagine can be attained. Watch that movie after you tell me what you think.
2007-04-05 21:15:57 · 16 answers · asked by kazu 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I think that it is true I think we definitely have a strong influence over what comes about in our life, The more strongly we desire something the more likely we are able to bring it about. The more we gravitate towards things and people and learning that will help us achieve this. I don't know if I would really think of it as like a type of natural superpower though and I do think it has a negative side to. Generally what we most fear and dwell on ends up happening because of the same process. We do need to realise the intense power of the mind and learn how to harness it
2007-04-06 00:25:14 · answer #1 · answered by sereneicequeen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-07 01:15:00 · answer #2 · answered by Nanette 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You claim that this happens all the time on a small scale, yet you failed to list an example. The Idea sounds like a flight of fancy. Although you could be right ...manifesting your own reality through repetitive thought patterns...might already exist, in the form of a psychiatric disorder like Obsessive Compulsion.
Hell I'm with BANANA, there are a couple gals with whom I would like to create an alternate reality. Hmmn....repetitive thought patterns eh?. Here goes nothing...I think I can ...I think I can ...I think I can.
Damn ...I'm still here?!...Argh!...fiddle-sticks!
2007-04-05 23:08:52 · answer #3 · answered by G.reaper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'As a man thinks in his heart so is he' I don't know who said this but I believe it. Its true have you ever just been in a really good mood thinking positive things and people responded really well and doors that wouldn't normally open did. I have and the more I believed in myself the more others did too, which is kinda the same.
I also read Ulysses by James Joyce and a message or thought I kept getting whilst reading it was be careful what you wish for which I felt was the authors intention, to suggest that what you wish for does happen.
2007-04-06 09:27:10 · answer #4 · answered by loislane 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I completly agree, like a self fulfilled prophecy. People who are positive bring the positive into their lives and same with negative thinking, it really is a case of mind over matter and i do believe that if you have the confidence, determination and ambition enough to do something it will happen, sadly too many people harbour negative thoughts or talk themselves down and feel a failure which sets of another negative pattern.
Haven't seen the film but would like to.
2007-04-05 21:21:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am an old woman and most of the people that I know who have made manifest a desirable destiny got off their butts and worked for it. People should be very aware when they are accepting entertaining fiction as if it were though it's desirability endowed with fact.
2007-04-05 21:31:49 · answer #6 · answered by QueenBean 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I could think myself a new reality I would be wearing a cape and ridding the world of the filth and the scum...maybe rescuing an attractive woman from a perilous situation...maybe spinning the moon around my finger.
It's interesting but not a replacement for the physical reality one has to affect by effort and engagement. Wish it was that easy...
2007-04-06 03:24:31 · answer #7 · answered by Duncan Disorderly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it might be called metaprogramming.
There is an interesting book on a similar subject by Robert Anton Wilson, "Prometheus Rising". He even suggests series of practical exercises.
2007-04-05 22:10:17 · answer #8 · answered by Reavan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No that is ridiculous. That whole "The Secret" thing sound to me like some "jump on the bandwagon" idea that is going to make the author rich and give him a bunch of gullible naive cultish sheep listening to his every word.
If wanting to be rich bad enough would surely make you rich, there would be a lot more rich people in the world.
2007-04-05 21:24:47 · answer #9 · answered by Michael B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can achieve a lot better results without having to put my "faith" into something so commercially spun towards the gulliable and weak-minded.
If anyone here has to rely on such crap just to "attain" their goals in life--than to have the real courage and conviction to try it out on their own terms--they deserve everything which is coming to them.
This whole charade just sickens me. It cheapens man's ability to achieve realistic life-long goals.
In short, we've now become a society of under-achievers and "lookie-looes".
2007-04-05 21:31:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋