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The '''Law of Attraction''' is an idea from the [[New Age]] Movement that thinking about something will make the "cosmos" suddenly manifest it for you. It has recently been popularized by the book and movie [[The Secret]]. Proponents try and wrap the idea up in [[pseudoscience | pseudoscientific]] language, usually something to do with [[sham quantum physics|quantum physics]]. Thoughts form "[[energy]] fields" that "[[vibration|vibrate]]" with a "frequency" that attracts like "energy" from the "cosmos" and all this is some how made manifest by such ideas as [[sham quantum physics|quantum probability waves]] and [[science woo|wave-particle duality]].  
 
The '''Law of Attraction''' is an idea from the [[New Age]] Movement that thinking about something will make the "cosmos" suddenly manifest it for you. It has recently been popularized by the book and movie [[The Secret]]. Proponents try and wrap the idea up in [[pseudoscience | pseudoscientific]] language, usually something to do with [[sham quantum physics|quantum physics]]. Thoughts form "[[energy]] fields" that "[[vibration|vibrate]]" with a "frequency" that attracts like "energy" from the "cosmos" and all this is some how made manifest by such ideas as [[sham quantum physics|quantum probability waves]] and [[science woo|wave-particle duality]].  
  
In essence, to be rich, think about being rich. To be poor think about being poor. That's why all those people are starving in Africa—all they think about is not having food. {{fact}}
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In essence, to be rich, think about being rich. To be poor think about being poor. That's why all those people are starving in Africa—all they think about is not having food.
  
 
:"In 1906, William Walker Atkinson (1862 - 1932) used the phrase in his New Thought Movement book, ''Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World''.  Atkinson was the editor of ''New Thought'' magazine, a student of Hinduism, and the author of more than 100 books on an assortment on religious, spiritual, and occult topics. The following year, Elizabeth Towne, the editor of The Nautilus Magazine, a Journal of New Thought, published Bruce MacLelland's book ''Prosperity Through Thought Force'', in which he summarized the principle, stating: "You are what you think, not what you think you are."  The phrase "Law of Attraction" appeared in the writings of the Theosophical authors William Quan Judge in 1915,  and Annie Besant in 1919."  <ref> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Attraction </ref>
 
:"In 1906, William Walker Atkinson (1862 - 1932) used the phrase in his New Thought Movement book, ''Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World''.  Atkinson was the editor of ''New Thought'' magazine, a student of Hinduism, and the author of more than 100 books on an assortment on religious, spiritual, and occult topics. The following year, Elizabeth Towne, the editor of The Nautilus Magazine, a Journal of New Thought, published Bruce MacLelland's book ''Prosperity Through Thought Force'', in which he summarized the principle, stating: "You are what you think, not what you think you are."  The phrase "Law of Attraction" appeared in the writings of the Theosophical authors William Quan Judge in 1915,  and Annie Besant in 1919."  <ref> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Attraction </ref>
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==External links==
 
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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usbNJMUZSwo The Chaser's War on Everything testing the Law of Attraction]
 
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usbNJMUZSwo The Chaser's War on Everything testing the Law of Attraction]
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==References and notes==
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Although it may use scientific terminology, it does not use scientific methodology.
Remember: just because it sounds right doesn't mean it's actually right.

The Law of Attraction is an idea from the New Age Movement that thinking about something will make the "cosmos" suddenly manifest it for you. It has recently been popularized by the book and movie The Secret. Proponents try and wrap the idea up in pseudoscientific language, usually something to do with quantum physics. Thoughts form "energy fields" that "vibrate" with a "frequency" that attracts like "energy" from the "cosmos" and all this is some how made manifest by such ideas as quantum probability waves and wave-particle duality.

In essence, to be rich, think about being rich. To be poor think about being poor. That's why all those people are starving in Africa—all they think about is not having food.

"In 1906, William Walker Atkinson (1862 - 1932) used the phrase in his New Thought Movement book, Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World. Atkinson was the editor of New Thought magazine, a student of Hinduism, and the author of more than 100 books on an assortment on religious, spiritual, and occult topics. The following year, Elizabeth Towne, the editor of The Nautilus Magazine, a Journal of New Thought, published Bruce MacLelland's book Prosperity Through Thought Force, in which he summarized the principle, stating: "You are what you think, not what you think you are." The phrase "Law of Attraction" appeared in the writings of the Theosophical authors William Quan Judge in 1915, and Annie Besant in 1919." [1]

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  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Attraction
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