Do you believe?

maybe on Thursdays, but not on Mondays...

Sure I do. I practice it mostly on man.

It's a LAW??!!!?!??? What's the penalty for breaking it?

I think he actually meant this:

The Law of Attraction is the belief that by focusing on positive or negative thoughts a person brings positive or negative experiences into their life.

Philosophy which is in some aspects similar to Karma.

Ah. In that case, mostly no. I've seen no evidence to support any magical beliefs.

the related thing I have seen, is that it is very common for people's assumptions, prejudices, and mistaken impressions of the world, to cause them to blind themselves to what is actually real. Thus, depressed people tend to fail to notice the positive things in their lives, and overly happy people often fail to notice when sadness is troubling some who are near them.

I find that it is true that small steps such as training your "resting face" to reflect a positive or at least calm demeanor, will decrease the number of people who react negatively to you at first sight.

But no matter how much someone meditates, or "focuses energy" on something, that something wont be affected.

But people who do believe in such things WILL tend to think it has been proven true, because since they will WATCH for positive things to happen, and attribute them to their focusing work or prayers, since there are always positive and negative things happening, they will find their reinforcement.

I think law of attraction has become one of my core beliefs, I just think now, everything that's going on about you is connected to that law. Its on the level now where I think, whole areas are governed by frequencies, and certain groups of people on a given frequency live in that area. And I think you see evidence of this, like why do all the rich people live in a certain area, all the poor in another area, all the intellectuals in another area, all the war and fighting in another area, all the spiritual people live in a certain place. All this is governed and separated by laws of frequency, and people attracted together by those laws.

I love reasoning's on those meta-physics levels.

Oriental philosophies have nothing to do with magic. They teach us how our thoughts and actions, their causes and the consequences should be in harmony with nature and universe.



It has nothing to do with beliefs or religion, but personal characteristics. We become blinded not by religion, but by our own egos.



None of those philosophies claim that you can change or affect "something" by meditation. You can change only YOURSELF, the way how you think and perceive surrounding. I meditate with purpose to focus my own thoughts, to clear my mind. It helps me to see things more objectively, not blinded by current emotions, biases and my ego.



Smile to people and they tend to smile you back. Be angry at everybody and everything and you'll see how people become angry at you, simple as that. The energy you create will be projected back to yourself.

I use the word "magic" to refer to anything that someone claims to believe will happen, without any mechanism existing to make it happen. I have never seen anything in the portion of the universe I have known, which was not the result of everything else.

The "magic" doesn't have to be built into the beliefs. The problem of "magic" occurs within the people who think they are following the philosophies, but don't understand the mechanisms they are working with.

I don't know what "Oriental Philosophies" you are referring to. I didn't refer to any. But the idea of coming to be "in harmony with nature and the universe" isn't as much of an avoidance of reliance on the kind of "magic" I refer to as you might want to think it is. In order to pursue "harmony," requires that you believe that such a "harmony" exists, and that you can tell the difference between being in tune with it, and not being in tune with it.

That's where it gets tricky.



There is no "creation of energy." That would entail magic, and would be firmly out of "harmony."



Yeah, sort of. But you're really just saying the same thing twice in different ways. Anyone who follows ANY belief or philosophy in a religious way, is doing so in an act of supreme ego. You MUST be an extreme egotist, to be absolutely certain that someone, or something else, must be in charge of everything. If anything, I would say that it happens very often that people blind themselves WITH a belief system, because that act appeals to their ego.

I grew up during a time when Eastern philosophies were very popular for the first time. I saw first hand, how no matter how calm, how subtle, or how humble people were encouraged by those ideas to be, they still managed to turn it all into something self-obscuring. I came to suspect that anyone who declares that they are "enlightened," is to be trusted the least, regardless of what they said brought about that "enlightenment."

Do you believe??.

Puts down the marijuana

WOW@! I am having such an X-Files flashback right now dude..lol.. cue The X-Files soundtrack..lol