One of the most New Age-y concepts of success is the Law of Attraction. First promoted by Napoleon Hill, and made famous by the movie The Secret, the Law of Attraction seems to imply that if I think about something long enough, it will come to me.Well, that's partly true. Consider the following scenarios:
If you install solar panels on your new home, will the universe bring you electricity? If you install a water wheel on the river behind your house, will the universe bring you power? If you sit under an apple tree long enough, will the universe bring you an apple? f you're a pretty girl, and you go to a dance, will somebody eventually ask you to dance?
The universe, God's creation, is as giving as its Creator is. Gravity brings things to us. The four winds bring things to us. If we set a trap and wait, we can catch the food and clothing that creation brings our way.
So, perhaps that Law of Attraction is not as New Age-y as it appears at first glance. The major proponents of this Law, all say that you can't just sit back, you have to work along with creation or it won't happen. Isn't that what a farmer does? He has a vision of a field of corn, and he sets out to make it happen? Eventually, the laws of creation fill up the empty earth with acres of corn.
I just keep thinking that the millionaires and billionaires who teach the Law of Attraction (Robbins, Assaraf, etc.), can't all be wrong. Perhaps their understanding is flawed because of the New Age-y verbiage that is associated with this idea? If somebody taught that departed tree spirits brought apples down from apple trees, would that make gravity any less real?
Or could the vocabulary simply be wrong?
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