{"id":619,"date":"2007-08-18T17:51:19","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T16:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=619"},"modified":"2007-08-18T17:51:19","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T16:51:19","slug":"the-law-of-attraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"The law of attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that most people who know me would regard me as a very positive and optimistic person, but I think that the so-called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Law_of_attraction\">law of attraction<\/a> is utter nonsense. I&#8217;ve blogged on this subject before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2007\/03\/how_to_be_happy_2.html\">here<\/a>, but I&#8217;m returning to the idea now because it has featured quite prominently in a series of e-mail exchanges that I&#8217;ve had this week with someone who takes a very different view from on the work of Richard Dawkins and posted her views <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2007\/08\/enemies_of_reason.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nNow one of the numerous problems with this &#8216;law&#8217; of attraction is defining it, but basically it states that your thoughts determine your experience. My e-mail correspondent referred me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squidoo.com\/the-law-of-attraction-comprehensive-guide\/\">this site<\/a> which actually offers 18 other names for the law of attraction &#8211; which adds to my view that it is meaningless.<br \/>\nMy correspondent eventually responded to my skeptism in this way: &#8220;OK, the law of attraction..well, proof is in the pudding..if you don;t believe it then that is what you get. if you do you get that&#8221;. But, as I pointed out to her: &#8220;Then, it isn&#8217;t a law. If I throw a ball in the air, it will always come down whether I believe in gravity or not. That is a law.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe web site I mentioned earlier has the following claim: &#8220;Don&#8217;t believe that the Law of Attraction is real, well, you&#8217;re just about the only one.&#8221; It then quotes a successor of figures from Jesus to Winston Churchill who apparently believed in the &#8216;law&#8217;.<br \/>\nIf I really am &#8220;about the only one&#8221; who rejects this new age nonsense, then maybe mumbo-jumbo is conquering the world [see my book review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/currentaffairs.html#HMJCTW\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that most people who know me would regard me as a very positive and optimistic person, but I think that the so-called law of attraction is utter nonsense. I&#8217;ve blogged on this subject before here, but I&#8217;m returning to the idea now because it has featured quite prominently in a series of e-mail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}