Sure, you can have an expectation of what will be there. That does not at all mean you will be correct. This is easily provable; shut your eyes now visualize a platinum brick in front of you, open your eyes with the expectation of it being there.
Go on, try it.
I'm not saying it would be correct, or even close, every time. But observation induces thoughts, even if extremely subtle, and those thoughts affect the equation, although the effect could be trivial.
Do you really think if the secret worked, and had been known about for so long, the world would be in the state that it is?
Yes, it is very possible. There are countless things that human beings know how to do, technically speaking, which would improve life in many ways, and move humanity forward, bit by bit, but for various reasons, we choose not to do them. Here's a couple off the top of my head:
* We have enough food, and the means to grow and deliver food, to feed the starving, but instead, we let them die, or, we pat ourselves on the back for supplying them with the 'rough' version of Malt-O-Meal...........decade, after decade, after decade....
* Mass transportation. Some places have it, like Europe, and the top 10 U.S. cities, but America specifically (since that's what I'm most familiar with), opts to go the greedy and wasteful way.
There are many, many more, of various subjects and magnitude, going all the way down to the fat American, fresh off the triple bypass, who goes straight back to the burger and fries 3 meals a day.
We know better on so many different subjects, but human nature is filled with ironies, and great new ideas and even rock solid science aren't always enough to sway the masses into making the better choice.
Let me tell you a true story.
I know someone (Sue) who was very into the secret. She had the book, the DVD, and was utterly convinced of it. Now, a few months after she had gotten into the secret, her house was burgled and some very precious things with a lot of sentimental value were stolen.
Upon examining this situation (and the millions like it that happen every day), it is pretty clear that the secret it not true.
The burglar was getting what he wanted - does this mean he knows the secret?
She did not want to get robbed, so why did it happen to her, if she is responsible for creating her own reality?
How did you examine the situation? The problem the skeptics here continue to have, is they are trying, as you're doing here, do define LOA
for us, which obviously will not work, if anything is to work.
The only significant detail you gave me here was that she was 'utterly convinced'. But based on everything that I've laid out in this thread so far, it should be clear than simply 'being convinced' of the validity of LOA is not enough by itself.
There are numerous variables in the equation. Let me give you a short list, as the long one would kill me.
* How many minutes a day did she work with it from beginning to event A?
* Where was she on the emotional guidance ladder at Start, and event A? What was her overall emotional swing like during the timeframe?
* Did she have any lapses, i.e., days where she did not actively do workshops and meditations?
* What is the typical duration of negative emotional swings? And positive? How far on the ladder does she swing?
* Does she meditate, or only do dreamwork? How long for each? How much of a hike in emotional state is achieved in each one?
* How many negative events does she experience in an average day? How many recurring negative events and interactions does she see and/or expect in a day/week?
* When encountering negative thoughts, what actions does she take, if any?
* What kind of dreamwork does she do? What is included? Just financial stuff, or also safety, security, peace, health, ect? What is the emotional gain from the safety/security bit?
* When asked, does she genuinely feel as if she has made real progress, or is she uncertain?
* What is here strongest negative, regular thought? How long does it last? How does she counter it? Does she feel like the counter balancing works?
* What is her strongest positive thought..........?
* What kind of news does she listen to? Does she routinely hear stories of breakins, robberies, rapes, murders, stalkers, wife beaters, ect. Does she make an effort to tune into these stories, or avoid them?
* How does she feel when hearing these stories? How long does the emotion last? What methods does she use to counter balance? Does she feel like it works?
* What is her exact understanding of LOA? Does she perhaps misunderstand parts of it?
* How in tune is she to her subtle emotional guidance system? Can she focus away from a thought within 5 seconds of creation?
* and on and on and on and on and on and on.
I simply cannot stress enough, that if you want to understand the LOA in any capacity, then you must be educated on it the same way as anything else, even if you think its' bogus. Otherwise, there is zero point in discussing it because you will be attempting to refute an idea that doesn't even exist in the LOA community, as you will be making up your own LOA, refuting it, and then attributing to the actual LOA believers! I believe this is called a Strawman.
How does the LOA determine what is a good thing, and what is a bad thing? The robbery was a good thing for the robber, and a bad thing for the victim. Did the robber use the LOA to complete a successful burglary? If Sue knew the secret and was only attracting good things, then why did she get burgled?
LOA does not concern itself with good vs. bad, as these are all defined on the fly anyway, and change on a whim. LOA is not like the God of the old testament, flying around shoving lightning bolts up the wazoos of various pagan freaks.
LOA is, for the purpose of this discussion, a mechanism which I believe will ultimately be discovered by science and become part of modern physics.
Also, if you want to use the observer effect as your explanation, you need to abandon the cosmic vibration theory (which is complete rubbish, as we know scientifically that opposites attract) because these are incompatible.
The cosmic vibration lie (LOA) states that you exist in a universe that you can shape using your feelings and thoughts by vibrating correctly.
The observer effect lie states that you create your own reality. Therefore you are not existing in a universe that would respond to your vibration, you would be living out a dream which is constructed via your thoughts.
They are contradictory.
Opposites attract as a matter of the design of the system. The opposite's you see attracting are on the 'surface'. The inner workings are attracting likes. Abraham, and many others, tell us that the universe is completely conscious on every level, all the way down to the quark and beyond. These conscious entities have their own 'desires', the same as us, albeit very basic.
Put simply, the opposite's
desire to attract each other, as that is what they need to exist, or to take a certain form. The actual 'like' in the equation is the conscious desire emitted by both opposites, to attract the other. The desire is a match, therefore they come together.
If the observer effect is real, then from my opinion i have created you StarSeed, and you are not real. I can turn you into a frog, merely by making that my reality. However, you know this is not true, because you are a real person. From your perspective, if you believed this "create your own reality" nonsense, then I am not real, and are just a figment of your imagination. I know this is not true.
No, again, you are misunderstanding. LOA allows you to control what enters your 'personal sphere' of reality. It does not allow you to interfere with another's reality unless
they allow you to. And there is nothing regarding the Secret that says that the universe is merely the figment of one person's imagination, so we just have to play marco polo to figure out who it is!
