Something I meant to say in this but just straight-up forgot to put in the script is; I find this kind of ideology even more cruel than the modern profit-driven televangelists that are so prevalent in the USA. When they promise miracle cures, and put the responsibility on you to pray for it, at least God is still in the equation. God presumably has some agency here, so it's not entirely on you. Whereas the Law of Attraction is presented as like any law of nature, constant, without agency & so manifestation is entirely your responsibility, everything is entirely your fault. That's some messed up stuff if you ask me.
It's akin to lots of discussion of merit and justice in that way. I mean, it IS praying, but it's praying without the moral and social costs - which makes it EVEN BETTER for the people winning, without all those awkward notions like charity and generousity, bleh. Hands off, this is mine, THE UNIVERSE said so.
@@gagrin1565 And it's actually not that different from the televangelists - those and similar pastors claim to have a direct line to God and an ability to ask God's opinion on a constant basis really the biggest "I know a guy" flex ever, dressed up in holy robes.
Read this after commenting thusly, “I understand clarifying one’s goals and setting intentions so that you focus on your goals, but from the first time I read The Secret (at the start of this nonsense), I thought it was nonsense and dangerous. It’s really great for victim blaming… it’s really great for taking no responsibility for fixing a broke system that harms so many people. It’s like our penchant for expecting therapy to fix societal issues.”
Finally! Someone breaks down how genuinely terrible "The Law of Attraction" is. It is almost entirely a way for the privileged to rationalize how their success is their own, and their abuses are the fault of the victims.
that's exactly how it's used & the how blatant it is was almost a shock. and most normal people who buy into the ideas therein have no idea what they're actually buying into
@belle478 I was trained as a Religious Science Practitioner, so I get the concept. If your goal through affirmations is to change your brain, then that is legit. "Manifesting" teachings, though, imply that your thoughts ALONE can directly impact the external world. That is the aspect that I reject.
@belle478 And of course I agree with that. I think that the Tao te Ching is far more realistic and valuable than all the recent Law of Attraction books combined.
Mind blowing that a quote starting with "why do you think that 1% of the population earns 96% of the money? It's designed that way" ends with an endorsement of the status quo. How do you get so close to leftism and come to the exact wrong conclusion??? Great video as always!
"it's designed that way by THE UNIVERSE and cannot be changed, so the only choice is will you choose to be in the 1% or not??" The individualist tends to say "get a better job, make better choices" in response to capitalisms failures and when you explain that you want things to be better for * everyone *, not just yourself, they can't even understand what you're saying. It almost seems like their brains can't even fit the idea of wanting to improve life for * other people * inside.
Its not designed that way. It's a principal that repeats throughout the universe from galactic level to the level of atoms. Most wealth will always accumulate to few. Most power will always be held by few.
When I heard in the secret ‘you did attract that car accident’ I thought about all the hardship and suffering people have gone through in this world and realised it was a pretty fucked up concept. Think of starving children or holocaust survivors being told they attracted those awful things. What a terrible concept
@@nomorecrocswell there's enough info if you study abd research it of children recalling past lives etc Reincarnation has more evidence pointing to "very much more likely than not"
many people had tried to push this book on me over the years, to "help" with my depression. I'm eternally grateful to have never read a single word of it.
learning about law of attraction as a kid gave me extreme life long obsessive compulsive disorder, as it’s like a step by step guide to causing intrusive thoughts and doing mental compulsions to remove them so that they don’t ‘come true’. thank you for making this video, i wish the dangers of this way of thinking was talked about more!
Omg while this is the first time I’m hearing about it causing OCD, it makes perfect sense now you’ve said it. It’s as if they’re affirming the worst part of OCD. Jesus. I’m going to need to make another video 😅 I hope you’re doing better now!
@@Ember_Green yes that’s exactly it! I still have people around me in that mindset that regularly reinforce it with things like “be careful what you say/think, you don’t want to attract it & make it happen!” which is exactly what OCD is 🥲 i was told by my therapist that law of attraction-related OCD is a lot like ‘religious OCD’ (for example someone who uses prayer as a compulsion). Also I would totally watch that video if you made another one, I’m a new sub and really enjoying your content ☺️ thank you sm for the well wishes, unfortunately OCD is still quite severe for me but I have a great therapist for ERP so am in good hands! Sorry for rambling on, I could talk about this stuff for weeks but I’ll spare you haha thank you for reading my comment though, hope you have a swell day/night where you are ☺️
See I was previously diagnosed with OCD and then on TikTok discovered this LoA stuff. I got absolutely terrified. Had to delete the app. I have a complex about allowing negative thoughts now.
All the most popular "self-help" books seem to advocate changing your attitude to adjust to the shitty systems we live under, because those systems are fine.
Funny how it's super successful people that are so drawn to this stuff. Helps explain why so many celebrities refuse to attribute luck to their success. It was their mindset and the law of attraction responsible for their success, not their good look, connections, and/or dumb luck having some powerful person give them a shot for no reason.
This video is really cathartic for me because I recently got out of a toxic living situation with a new-age lady who kept screaming at me about "manifesting sickness" because I am chronically ill.
Omg I'm so so sorry to hear that. It has been very touching to hear how many people personally relate with this. Spurring me on to make a more personal video on the subject too 💜 thank you.
@@Ember_Green Well I got out quickly enough (before my major surgery, lol) and now I'm in a good place with reliable friends so it all turned out okay in the end. Sorry that you have relevant personal experience too. It's rough. I look forward to that future video, sounds like it'll be really great!
I'm chronically ill, too. There literally is, in the book, passages about you contract or don't overcome sickness because you had a bad mentality. I've been told that IRL, both about disability and depression. It's encouraging ableism.
I was scammed for $100 for "manifestation coaching". The reason why the manifestation BS wasn't working for me is because it doesn't exist lol. I confronted my scammer, and she actually gas lighted me for a second time by telling me that my self concept wasn't strong enough.
My abusive stepmother was (probably still is but I moved far enough away to not know) really into this stuff and always blamed her abuse on my energy, so yeah, this type of shit is so so bad on like, every level and I'm so upset that it's 1. a thing and 2. still a thing
At the core of the LoA lies one thing: victim blaming. ''If you don't have the results I did, you're not believing enough, you're not viewing it the right way''. Let's ignore luck, external circumstances, backgrounds etc. Some toxic spirituality dark age garbage.
haha, yep! I was in this spiritual group last year. During that time, I had to go through an attempt on my life and then an assault by the former person's friend. I mentioned it there - the idiots told me, I attracted it. In fact, I've been in a very secure and abundant space for a while at that time. I felt amazing, "high vibe" etc. Absolutely no doubts about all that. Anyway, they told me to shut the f up and start learning how LoA works. Anyway, this is a cult and they are cognitively dissonant. I think that LoA works, HOWEVER, the purpose of one's life on the earth is to experience a wide range of emotions and situations, NOT only the bliss states of optimum health, only perfect relationships, making money off the bad and with no effort. Hence, God/ Universe, gives us curveballs. It is normal. The idea of literally everything being a manifestation is complete and utter mental dissonance. Needless to say, I am not hanging with these sorts of dum dums anymore. Right now I have a lot of curveballs to tackle, but it has nothing to do with LoA. I wanted change in many areas and I had to take action to accommodate and facilitate this change. Hence, I am dealing with a lot of S. Yet, the LoA cultists would still come at me with this bs of how I attracted it and how I have deep-seated problems because of my current challenges. WTF! lol
I have been saying for years that positive thinking and law of attraction is dangerous! I tried it for many years and things only got worse! I have talked to MANY others who also tried it and things got worse for them as well! And it causes deep depression when people do this stuff and take it seriously and expect great things to happen. And when good things never come, it destroys them! it is easier to handle bad things when you are not hyped up expecting to get your desires and expecting good things. SO when people really believe a dream life will manifest, it makes it that much worse on them when nothing good comes and worse when bad things happen instead. Funny thing is they all say you MUST be positive and not negative. Yet being positive and doing these teachings are when the worst things happen to me. And it has always been when I felt angry, depressed and hopeless that anything good at all has happened for me. So it seems they have it backwards. And others have said the same thing. Fact is, there is nothing conscious in the universe that knows you or gives a damn about you. Nothing is going to help you. And if one more person says to me all of my desires are in my vibrational vortex I will scream! I cannot go to my landlord and say "hey, the rent check is vibrational and in your vortex"!
How are we supposed to not think about our debt when we're in debt. An automatic debt repayment doesn't work if you don't have the money to pay it. I believe trying to follow the steps outlined in "The Secret" and LOA as manifestation coaches made me even poorer and more in debt. This philosophy is ridiculous. Circumstances don't necessarily happen to us because we think about them.
I spent years following "manifesting" gurus and feeling like a failure when my life went to crap despite my constant monitoring of my thoughts and focus on what I wanted... thank you for making this
I just posted about this today in an Autism group, wondering if anyone else feels like the law of attraction or manifestation doesn't work for them! I guess it doesn't work for anybody; they're just rich or lucky!
It is a problem actually for a lot of people. A lot people start experiencing terrible anxiety due to these manifestation principles. They start worrying that they'll manifest all the horrible stuff too. However, the human brain is designed to think of horrible scenarios to protect us.
Wow! I'm halfway through this and find this topic of toxic positivity so fascinating! The bit in the book about people who experienced horrible things in history just attracted that made my jaw drop. Like yeah, I bet everyone who died when the Titanic sunk were just real downers. Fantastic video!!
@Ember_Green lmao 🤣 ember...I just left the hospital due to shingles. ( that's another topic ) lol but here's a sick twist. This amazing nurse cared for me so amazingly. So loving, so!! Sweat, so everything. She made my last day so calming! She gives me my last antibiotics threw the IV. Takes bout an hour to go through. She came back....and she was holding her jaw! Bc some crazy patient tried to escape! No way!! Was she negative! Not 1 bit!! In fact I placed a prayer for her before that happened!! And wame! Gets assaulted!!!!! Now if she " secretly " is a negative person who does bad that I'm not aware of...than ok. But in my presence she was loving, caring, kind, sweat. No way in hell did her negativity manifest that.
I can respect people wanting to be more positive and hopeful and trying to achieve their goals. I cannot respect the people using this to sell courses and scam people while also ruining people's mental health by getting them to try and control every thought and never think anything negative because if you do they'll victim blame you. horrendous but I appreciate everyone who calls out the BS. Thank you!
@@user-dv9xx3yy8vsame, i’ve manifested super easily before but i struggled as soon as i joined the community. what they teach is a bunch of bs and just confused me and gave me more depression. i believe everyone should follow their intuition and what feels best for them
@@user-dv9xx3yy8vi never “ignored” my reality or the “old story” which is what they call it. i accepted my reality for what it was but just knew i was getting what i wanted any moment and if i kept it as simple as that and didn’t overthink it then it would always happen!!
I once had to listen to the Secret audiobook during a 2-hour car journey...it was hell, two fucking hours of b-list celebrities endorsing this idea, and just repeating it with slight variations...and at the end of the car ride, I asked the owner of the car, and thus the person who chose the listening material this question: "So...what's the actual secret? Just...wishful thinking?"
Yes! Finally, I thought I was the only one who could see how all these movements are just propaganda to make you feel worse about yourself. Push the belief that you can attract chances into your life just by having happy thoughts (when it's all down to pure family and resource privilege), and then make you feel guilty that if you can't do it, it's your fault, you're not doing it right, you must be too negative or something.
@ramblinactivist ironic ain't it...that these same middle class are now disappearing from society? Perhaps bc they realize the hustle culture is BS. Lol 😆
@ramblinactivist we were told that inflation is effecting the " middle class " how can that happen lmao being in middle class is actually abundant living. Maybe just maybe they are " choosing " to not be so superficial. Maybe they are choosing to eat at home. Bc they still think giving a huge tip to a waiter for terrible service/food simply ain't worth it.
I cannot count the number of old money people from these blue blood families who say "I always manifest what I want with my positive vibration" No.... your parents gave you what you wanted. You do stupid stuff, fall on your face, and your parents rescue you. Or - if you have mean parents - uncle, aunt, siblings, grandad... whatever. People in war torn countries do not get everything on a silver platter because they wish for it.
@@jesseleeward2359I actually read a comment today that said people in third world countries are hungry and in turmoil because “they don’t know about LOA” These people are bananas
Oh man... Thid video explains so much of the fallout of the relationship I had with my mother by the time this book got popular and I "came out" as very depressed and suicidal when I was a teenager
Not the most important aspect here, but surely the very fact that the “secret” is delivered in book/movie form is proof that it isn’t true, right? If it was and the author really wanted everyone to know about it, she could just manifest knowledge about the law of attraction directly into our heads!
@@graceclover8697 no it isnt. manifesting works under the same guidelines as phony witchcraft, which isnt real. previsualize, then manifest, and if you didnt get what you wanted repeat the process, because you didnt do it right. exactly how witchcraft explains its failures: you didnt do it right, so you couldnt conjure, so start over, find another virgin/goat to sacrifice, and try again. manifestation is the same as conjuring. conjuring isnt real, and neither is manifesting.
I understand clarifying one’s goals and setting intentions so that you focus on your goals, but from the first time I read The Secret (at the start of this nonsense), I thought it was nonsense and dangerous. It’s really great for victim blaming… it’s really great for taking no responsibility for fixing a broke system that harms so many people. It’s like our penchant for expecting therapy to fix societal issues.
Roots were a little earlier but she seems to be the first to use the actual words. I found that rabbit hole so so interesting as someone who kinda uncritically accepted this trash for time 😬
Yikes, I just watched the recent video on Aspie Supremacy which talks about her in great detail and now I'm here, about to watch this and saw this comment. So many bad things seem to go back to that woman, it makes me wish time travel was real so I could go back in time and *cough* deal with her before she could ever open her mouth about any of the nonsense she peddled. The world might be a better place for it.
That one line, when taken to the logical conclusion it can be applied to anything negative:"if you don't want x to happen, dont talk about it and dont listen to others talking about it. Otherwise you are asking for it ti happen to you." That is vile beyond belief....
I definitely had a small phase sucked into this stuff. I can only imagine the harm it would have done had I stumbled upon it earlier and got stuck. I wonder how likely this is to catch people who are just about ready to realize they've had enough of a situation.
"Ask any physicist and they'll tell you its true", says Alan Arkin.... Okay Alan, I just asked my physicist wife if thoughts = things, and she laughed at me and said that was absurd.
You wanna know how I found this video? Because my 29 yr old white woman boss messaged our team telling us that we need to become better sales people and that she highly encourages us to read The Secret in our down time. She's been pushing this crap on us for years. I knew I wasnt crazy in thinking this stuff is just already well off entrepreneurs fluffing themselves up with praise about how they "did it all themselves". So I typed in "The Secret and capitalism" into the googs and found this video. Thank you for the analysis.
😂😂😂😂 I can't able to control my laugh vro , keep make videos I shared to my fellow toxic positive thinkers , I want to explore more propanganda like this ❤ love from asia ❤🎉 it opened my eye and life saver ❤🎉
i read this book when i was younger because someone recommended it and i felt really weird reading it and hated it but could never put into words why. thank you for that
@@Ember_Green That is very sad. I'm starting to think that this LOA mindset is detrimental and even hope is better. At least with hope, we don't to delude ourselves. Great video. If you have more concerning the LOA and these Manifest grifts please let me know.
@@rodb66well said. I'd rather be negative with realistic expectations. Pessimism is a good thing. I call the law of attraction the law of distraction.
This was the start of my self undoing and ultimately isolating myself from my peers ,this wishful thinking shit instead of getting counselling when I needed it most.Needless to say I am now picking up the pieces,I was in middle school when I first saw the movie the secret smh til this day I’m still trying to undue the delusional thinking I was exposed to through this shit…the obsession of wanting things instead of enjoying my life is now something I have to correct about myself THAT IS NOT LIFE OR LIVING!
This video has made me feel so seen! Finally, I'm not the crazy or negative or non-belieiving one who is chronically ill because of my own negative thinking or single because I keep thinking about my lonliness. Thank you SO MUCH for this video, watching this is the best and most validated I've felt in months!
You're 100% right about this. I am from India and life here is very harsh if you're poor and because of religion and law of attraction aka assumption I've ruined my life. My parents sent me to college to get educated but I believed these stuff and quit education and because of that for the last 10 years I've lived a miserable life. Watching manifestation video after video moving from guru to guru everyone of culprits have intentionally ruined my life same thing goes to the catholic church.
Thank you for making this video. A few years back, I adopted this type of thinking in response to some uncontrollable negative life events and encouragement from my well-meaning mother. Watching your video now with a different perspective at the age of 21 is cathartic.
Unless you're already super-rich, this shit will ruin your life. Without going into too much detail, people very close to me have suffered greatly due to a combination of this and the sunk-cost fallacy. And the fall-out is still being cleaned up.
@@soofitnsexy Kanye basically blames African slaves for their situation because they "chose it." It's victim blaming, short and simple. The powerful cannot fathom personal accountability without risking losing their power over others.
I'm just now seeing this video. I'm so glad you made this video. I was not heavy into LOA but into enough that it almost destroyed my life. As well as mental health. I started to believe if I a negative thought or was sad/depressed I would attract negative things to happen. I realize in order to heal and better myself I have to deal with things that are not always positive. By accepting the good and bad in life I can handle whatever comes my way. Thank you for making this video.
The Secret is bad, but Neville Goddard is even worse. Have you heard of him? He's big within these communities and unfortunately I got into his 'teachings' at 16. His crazy metaphysics and solipsistic ideas gave me dissociation AND psychosis that I had to get psychiatric treatment for. Because of him, I really used to think I was God and not only did I create myself and my own sufferings BUT the entire world, and I was the one responsible for all evil. It messed my mental health so bad. I am 19 now and fine, but I still regret that I could neither enjoy my late teens nor do my A Level on time because of him.
The same thing happened to me, I thought I was God and that I was responsible for everything that happened in my life. I also had solipsistic ideas, and my anxiety increased too much.
@@dulcepaola9509 I'm so sorry it happened to you. It's really evil how he's messing up people's minds by literally gaslighting them. There should be more awareness about this Neville Goddard cult so people can be wary of his heinous lies.
I unfortunately got into this crap several years ago, at probably the worst time ever. It was suggested to me by a reasonably wealthy relative, well a lot wealthier than I've ever been at least. I knew it was crap, but I didn't realize how incredibly bad it is until watching your video. This is just straight up awful, and I am mad that I ever got sucked in.
I really dislike self help books, which are actually just a bunch of tips which might be helpful, or not, and present them like they are magic They are also VERY likely to appropriate other cultures or flat out lie about them, a lot of orientalism
I have autism went to a farm for autistic people or people with special needs and mental health problems one off the members off staff was madly into this he was talk to the clients into detail about this for example every emotion is a chocie its your own fault if your Depressed I noticed this he would balnk me if i said i was depressed he also said your mum is off saving refugees as my mum teaches them english he said they dont need saving there thoughts are what created there suffering in first place I dont get why hes working there it winds me up
If I could get stuff just by hoping I would already be happily married to my robot husband lmao My mom was WAY into this shit as a kid, which is probably why she doesn't accept my disability or transition. She keeps hoping for the perfect daughter instead of trying to have a relationship with her son.
Here are your few thousand subs!!! In all seriousness, this was my first time seeing you and you definitely get my sub!! This was well written and well executed, and I'm excited to see what else you've covered. Nom nom, algorithm!
Jeez, youtube... Only just finding out you had an episode after watching your most recent one. Anyway, I used to work in a bookstore and the only people who bought The Secret were the bored housewives of wealthy husbands who liked to make everyone's life hell (today we call them Karens). Really tells you all you need to know about the book.
I came here from Chill Goblin and I'm very glad to come across such a well-made video. This video also felt very calming to watch, perhaps it's your accent or tone of voice haha. I also notice that, watching your video with broken earphones where only the right earbud works, that the voiceover audio of some passages are for some reason audible on the left audio channel only. What I mean is, I don't hear the voiceovers through my right earbud unless I unplug my earphones, or switch my laptop's audio settings from stereo to mono audio. Not that it's a bother at all, but I thought I could mention that just in case it helps when you're editing videos Thanks again for the great video! Off to watch another video of yours. Update: Edited to add that I don't experience this issue using the same broken earphones on TH-cam mobile. It only appears to be the case on my laptop. I guess it's another issue altogether unrelated to your video. I should probably just buy a new pair of earphones instead haha. Sorry if I seemed overly particular about this.
thanks for the comment! CG's audience has been so lovely! I actually did have some techy problems on this video which affected the audio, so you might have picked up on that. It shouldn't happen again. (I totally get being particular over audio)
Can I just mention too that when you operate in this complete positive mindset sometimes it forces ppl in your orbit to adopt such a “negative” way almost to unconsciously balance this distorted and polarized way of being. I say this because my family was like this (knowing or unknowingly) and growing up in that I think that’s why I became such a “negative” person…of course for years I thought it “was me” and something was wrong with me but now looking back it’s almost like a law of the universe (irony and no pun intended) for me to be forced to balance this, because it’s like my family was utterly incapable for looking at, discussing or engaging in anything “negative” or sad or bad or anything that wasn’t butterflies and rainbows 🤮 growing up in that was sooo draining.
As a Buddhist, I wanna offer the observation here that The Law of Attraction is kinda bizarro Buddhism. The Dharma tells you to put your mind in the present, sit still, and respond with acceptance to whatever you think or feel. The Secret is essentially teaching people that if you truly do that for *one* moment, if you slip out of your desires and let yourself feel happy right where you are...well that's why you're so unhappy. It's like someone was trying to write a recipe for alienation from self.
I wrote a book debunking the law of attraction. Helena Blavatsky never said “law of attraction” but she did teach it. Andrew Jackson Davis coined the term. Great video though!
Anyone who has played MMORPGs or similar knows the law of attraction is baloney, because the harder you want a rare drop, the *less* likely you are to get it!
“Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.” ― Lao Tzu Lao Tau said the truth without the Capitalist BS in The Secret. Thanks for the great video!!!!!
Ugh the secret.. beautiful book but it is way too superficial.. Neil Donald Walsh summed it up quite well. our cities and our environments effect our state of being and our life possibilities. if humanity really is to reach the next level we need to address the problem of poverty at a social level
I'm really late to the party but I had an ex who had me read this when I started falling into a depressive episode, I remember crying after I finished because the book made me feel so intensely guilty for all of my negative intrusive thoughts. My ex was obviously just trying to help as the book had been helpful to him when he'd hit a bit of a slump, however he was never able to understand that my depression wouldn't go away if I just tried a little harder or was a bit more positive. My chronic depression only started to get better about eight years later when I was diagnosed with ADHD and started receiving appropriate treatment...
I am an electrical engineer and am well versed in electronics-magnetics and to put it bluntly Like does not Attract Like in fact it is the complete opposite.
It's interesting to see the weird parallells to some more lefty variants of the same kind of thinking, such as shows up in some Discordian writings for example. I can't recall anything about material conditions really changing due to belief, but instead it's very much a focus on social relations - by Thinking and Acting in certain ways, you can be _perceived by others_ as already having some specific property (such as being rich), which could make the difference between getting or not getting some opportunity or access, for example. Obviously less bullshit than The Secret, even with the telepathy.
This video is good! God I wish I could've watched this years ago! I had a close friend who LOVED The Secret and law of attraction. He argued that the anti-Iraq war march helped cause the war to happen. But that didn't stop me going along with it for a while (facepalm). I'm interested in how this ideology has morphed and evolved today. Its shed some of its overtly New Age baggage and now is embodied in the form of Joe Rogan and Tim Ferris and the like. Feels like a certain Podcast Scene is steeped in it. It's so insidious and ruins so many lives. Repressive toxicity with a smile. I don't want to inflict this on you, but have you thought of covering Jordan Peterson? (you definitely shouldn't but you definitely should)
it's funny i have an acquaintance who is a bit into Peterson & those podcaster dudes & he comes out with Law of Attraction kinda stuff a whole lot. I have thought a lot about Jordan Peterson, although always struggle to think of what more i could add. I'll be doing more videos about humanity, "human nature" & feminism & stuff at some point & that will absolutely counter much of what he says. Not sure if I dare risk the wrath of the Lobster Brigade by putting him in the thumbnail tho lol!
@@Ember_Green I think that's a very good counter-argument! Unless you went and read the entirety of Map of Meaning (or whatever it's called) - which someone said I should do the other day, before criticising JP. Apparently, he is a Great Thinker. The new video ideas sound great, looking forward to them.
i tried many times as a kid to get jedi powers and move objects with mere focus. it did not work. I learned that the law of attraction is BS first hand! thank you star wars :D
You know, I've gotten a lot of stuff accomplished over the course of my life, and the thing they all have in common is that I've tried to do them. And, oddly enough, I've never once achieve something I didn't try to achieve.
I was manifesting 94% in my exams but ended up getting 75% . Really prepared well for the exams but because of this loa , each and every thing in my life happening is just opposite of what I really want to manifest. Fuck loa!
Gaining control over one's thoughts is such a laughable proposition that I've no words to match it's laughability. What gains control over what and how, exactly? Anyway, I'd call such being fooled by thoughts instead of controlling them.
Most people confuse luck with manifesting. I’m not religious but there’s got to be some divine order to how life reveals itself. If people could actually manifest, there’d be a lot of, for a lack of a better term, glitches. For example, it would allow 2 objects to occupy the same space at the same time.
Something I meant to say in this but just straight-up forgot to put in the script is; I find this kind of ideology even more cruel than the modern profit-driven televangelists that are so prevalent in the USA. When they promise miracle cures, and put the responsibility on you to pray for it, at least God is still in the equation. God presumably has some agency here, so it's not entirely on you. Whereas the Law of Attraction is presented as like any law of nature, constant, without agency & so manifestation is entirely your responsibility, everything is entirely your fault. That's some messed up stuff if you ask me.
thank you yet again. Also compliments to the chef (you) for the upgraded look of your video. Nice work!
@@arasharfa thanks for noticing!
It's akin to lots of discussion of merit and justice in that way. I mean, it IS praying, but it's praying without the moral and social costs - which makes it EVEN BETTER for the people winning, without all those awkward notions like charity and generousity, bleh. Hands off, this is mine, THE UNIVERSE said so.
@@gagrin1565 And it's actually not that different from the televangelists - those and similar pastors claim to have a direct line to God and an ability to ask God's opinion on a constant basis really the biggest "I know a guy" flex ever, dressed up in holy robes.
Read this after commenting thusly, “I understand clarifying one’s goals and setting intentions so that you focus on your goals, but from the first time I read The Secret (at the start of this nonsense), I thought it was nonsense and dangerous. It’s really great for victim blaming… it’s really great for taking no responsibility for fixing a broke system that harms so many people. It’s like our penchant for expecting therapy to fix societal issues.”
Finally! Someone breaks down how genuinely terrible "The Law of Attraction" is. It is almost entirely a way for the privileged to rationalize how their success is their own, and their abuses are the fault of the victims.
that's exactly how it's used & the how blatant it is was almost a shock. and most normal people who buy into the ideas therein have no idea what they're actually buying into
@@Ember_Green Word Association Prompt: "The Secret":
Spiritual Cancer.
Imagine calling yourself an anarchist without even realising that anarchy is just capitalism
@@AverageAlien imagine commenting about someone's username but actually having the history backwards.
Stay in school.
@@anarchisttechsupport6644 what history would that be?
The time I was a believer in LOA, were the most miserable years of my life. I needed a realistic philosophy, not childish, magical thinking.
@user-uc3db4uj3r Yep. It is basically believing that you're magic. I'm glad you also decided to join reality.
@belle478 I was trained as a Religious Science Practitioner, so I get the concept. If your goal through affirmations is to change your brain, then that is legit. "Manifesting" teachings, though, imply that your thoughts ALONE can directly impact the external world. That is the aspect that I reject.
@belle478 And of course I agree with that. I think that the Tao te Ching is far more realistic and valuable than all the recent Law of Attraction books combined.
@@Kesase That can actually be a good sign if you are being serious.
Any philosophy books you recommend?
Mind blowing that a quote starting with "why do you think that 1% of the population earns 96% of the money? It's designed that way" ends with an endorsement of the status quo. How do you get so close to leftism and come to the exact wrong conclusion???
Great video as always!
My face was pure reaction GIFs listening to that. I think it was that quote which made making this video inevitable.
"it's designed that way by THE UNIVERSE and cannot be changed, so the only choice is will you choose to be in the 1% or not??"
The individualist tends to say "get a better job, make better choices" in response to capitalisms failures and when you explain that you want things to be better for * everyone *, not just yourself, they can't even understand what you're saying. It almost seems like their brains can't even fit the idea of wanting to improve life for * other people * inside.
Its not designed that way. It's a principal that repeats throughout the universe from galactic level to the level of atoms. Most wealth will always accumulate to few. Most power will always be held by few.
When I heard in the secret ‘you did attract that car accident’ I thought about all the hardship and suffering people have gone through in this world and realised it was a pretty fucked up concept. Think of starving children or holocaust survivors being told they attracted those awful things. What a terrible concept
a whole hella lot of folk believe in reincarnation, I wonder about that
Yeah it's toxic af.
The teachings are pure evil
Victim blaming.
@@nomorecrocswell there's enough info if you study abd research it of children recalling past lives etc
Reincarnation has more evidence pointing to "very much more likely than not"
Its crazy that I ever believed in these things. But honestly, when you come from a rough situation and are desperate, youll believe anything
I absolutely get it. These gurus take advantage of the desperate and vulnerable.
@@lordfreerealestate8302 nope just the stupid and lazy...
But how though? Spiritual manifestation? I mean it's all psychological
many people had tried to push this book on me over the years, to "help" with my depression. I'm eternally grateful to have never read a single word of it.
Lol, this book can CAUSE depression
I did read it and gave it away. The idea that bad things - including cancer - that happen to you are your fault is toxic.
learning about law of attraction as a kid gave me extreme life long obsessive compulsive disorder, as it’s like a step by step guide to causing intrusive thoughts and doing mental compulsions to remove them so that they don’t ‘come true’.
thank you for making this video, i wish the dangers of this way of thinking was talked about more!
Omg while this is the first time I’m hearing about it causing OCD, it makes perfect sense now you’ve said it. It’s as if they’re affirming the worst part of OCD. Jesus. I’m going to need to make another video 😅 I hope you’re doing better now!
@@Ember_Green yes that’s exactly it! I still have people around me in that mindset that regularly reinforce it with things like “be careful what you say/think, you don’t want to attract it & make it happen!” which is exactly what OCD is 🥲 i was told by my therapist that law of attraction-related OCD is a lot like ‘religious OCD’ (for example someone who uses prayer as a compulsion). Also I would totally watch that video if you made another one, I’m a new sub and really enjoying your content ☺️
thank you sm for the well wishes, unfortunately OCD is still quite severe for me but I have a great therapist for ERP so am in good hands!
Sorry for rambling on, I could talk about this stuff for weeks but I’ll spare you haha thank you for reading my comment though, hope you have a swell day/night where you are ☺️
See I was previously diagnosed with OCD and then on TikTok discovered this LoA stuff. I got absolutely terrified. Had to delete the app. I have a complex about allowing negative thoughts now.
All the most popular "self-help" books seem to advocate changing your attitude to adjust to the shitty systems we live under, because those systems are fine.
Burn it all
I don't know what self-help books you've been reading but I've read a ton of them and none of them have even remotely advocated for that.
@@Chris27883care to elaborate which books is it, I'm genuinely curious
Funny how it's super successful people that are so drawn to this stuff. Helps explain why so many celebrities refuse to attribute luck to their success. It was their mindset and the law of attraction responsible for their success, not their good look, connections, and/or dumb luck having some powerful person give them a shot for no reason.
Must be the law of attraction also when they sleep with people to go up the Hollywood food chain. LOL.
Lol that stops the moment they get canceled lol
It’s a feel good talk, makes you like special or something larger, because you’ve made it temporarily on the totem pole slide
So true , it’s a lot about connections, who you know .
Completely disregards privilege, I agree.
This video is really cathartic for me because I recently got out of a toxic living situation with a new-age lady who kept screaming at me about "manifesting sickness" because I am chronically ill.
Omg I'm so so sorry to hear that. It has been very touching to hear how many people personally relate with this. Spurring me on to make a more personal video on the subject too 💜 thank you.
@@Ember_Green
Well I got out quickly enough (before my major surgery, lol) and now I'm in a good place with reliable friends so it all turned out okay in the end.
Sorry that you have relevant personal experience too. It's rough.
I look forward to that future video, sounds like it'll be really great!
I'm chronically ill, too. There literally is, in the book, passages about you contract or don't overcome sickness because you had a bad mentality. I've been told that IRL, both about disability and depression. It's encouraging ableism.
I was scammed for $100 for "manifestation coaching". The reason why the manifestation BS wasn't working for me is because it doesn't exist lol. I confronted my scammer, and she actually gas lighted me for a second time by telling me that my self concept wasn't strong enough.
Pretty classic deflection on her part. Sorry you went through that.
Was it Sammy Ingram? These manifestation coaches are so full of themselves.
Feeling it's Sammy Ingram. Lol
My abusive stepmother was (probably still is but I moved far enough away to not know) really into this stuff and always blamed her abuse on my energy, so yeah, this type of shit is so so bad on like, every level and I'm so upset that it's 1. a thing and 2. still a thing
thanks for sharing that - this was my exact experience with one of my abusers too.
Glad you got away! And love your icon!
At the core of the LoA lies one thing: victim blaming. ''If you don't have the results I did, you're not believing enough, you're not viewing it the right way''. Let's ignore luck, external circumstances, backgrounds etc.
Some toxic spirituality dark age garbage.
haha, yep! I was in this spiritual group last year. During that time, I had to go through an attempt on my life and then an assault by the former person's friend. I mentioned it there - the idiots told me, I attracted it. In fact, I've been in a very secure and abundant space for a while at that time. I felt amazing, "high vibe" etc. Absolutely no doubts about all that. Anyway, they told me to shut the f up and start learning how LoA works. Anyway, this is a cult and they are cognitively dissonant. I think that LoA works, HOWEVER, the purpose of one's life on the earth is to experience a wide range of emotions and situations, NOT only the bliss states of optimum health, only perfect relationships, making money off the bad and with no effort. Hence, God/ Universe, gives us curveballs. It is normal. The idea of literally everything being a manifestation is complete and utter mental dissonance. Needless to say, I am not hanging with these sorts of dum dums anymore. Right now I have a lot of curveballs to tackle, but it has nothing to do with LoA. I wanted change in many areas and I had to take action to accommodate and facilitate this change. Hence, I am dealing with a lot of S. Yet, the LoA cultists would still come at me with this bs of how I attracted it and how I have deep-seated problems because of my current challenges. WTF! lol
I have been saying for years that positive thinking and law of attraction is dangerous! I tried it for many years and things only got worse! I have talked to MANY others who also tried it and things got worse for them as well! And it causes deep depression when people do this stuff and take it seriously and expect great things to happen. And when good things never come, it destroys them!
it is easier to handle bad things when you are not hyped up expecting to get your desires and expecting good things. SO when people really believe a dream life will manifest, it makes it that much worse on them when nothing good comes and worse when bad things happen instead.
Funny thing is they all say you MUST be positive and not negative. Yet being positive and doing these teachings are when the worst things happen to me. And it has always been when I felt angry, depressed and hopeless that anything good at all has happened for me. So it seems they have it backwards. And others have said the same thing.
Fact is, there is nothing conscious in the universe that knows you or gives a damn about you. Nothing is going to help you.
And if one more person says to me all of my desires are in my vibrational vortex I will scream! I cannot go to my landlord and say "hey, the rent check is vibrational and in your vortex"!
How are we supposed to not think about our debt when we're in debt. An automatic debt repayment doesn't work if you don't have the money to pay it. I believe trying to follow the steps outlined in "The Secret" and LOA as manifestation coaches made me even poorer and more in debt. This philosophy is ridiculous. Circumstances don't necessarily happen to us because we think about them.
Didn't neville goddard say visualise your way out of it
I spent years following "manifesting" gurus and feeling like a failure when my life went to crap despite my constant monitoring of my thoughts and focus on what I wanted... thank you for making this
I just posted about this today in an Autism group, wondering if anyone else feels like the law of attraction or manifestation doesn't work for them! I guess it doesn't work for anybody; they're just rich or lucky!
As an OCD-haver this sounds like a NIGHTMARE. The mental compulsions this can cause...
It is a problem actually for a lot of people. A lot people start experiencing terrible anxiety due to these manifestation principles. They start worrying that they'll manifest all the horrible stuff too. However, the human brain is designed to think of horrible scenarios to protect us.
Wow! I'm halfway through this and find this topic of toxic positivity so fascinating! The bit in the book about people who experienced horrible things in history just attracted that made my jaw drop. Like yeah, I bet everyone who died when the Titanic sunk were just real downers.
Fantastic video!!
that iceberg was actually drawn towards them like a goddamn magnet. people don't aren't taught this.
@Ember_Green lmao 🤣 ember...I just left the hospital due to shingles. ( that's another topic ) lol but here's a sick twist. This amazing nurse cared for me so amazingly. So loving, so!! Sweat, so everything. She made my last day so calming! She gives me my last antibiotics threw the IV. Takes bout an hour to go through. She came back....and she was holding her jaw! Bc some crazy patient tried to escape!
No way!! Was she negative! Not 1 bit!! In fact I placed a prayer for her before that happened!! And wame! Gets assaulted!!!!! Now if she " secretly " is a negative person who does bad that I'm not aware of...than ok. But in my presence she was loving, caring, kind, sweat. No way in hell did her negativity manifest that.
I can respect people wanting to be more positive and hopeful and trying to achieve their goals. I cannot respect the people using this to sell courses and scam people while also ruining people's mental health by getting them to try and control every thought and never think anything negative because if you do they'll victim blame you. horrendous but I appreciate everyone who calls out the BS. Thank you!
I believe in it though i agree that it's a scam when people are using it just to sell courses and "over" charge.
@@user-dv9xx3yy8vsame, i’ve manifested super easily before but i struggled as soon as i joined the community. what they teach is a bunch of bs and just confused me and gave me more depression. i believe everyone should follow their intuition and what feels best for them
@@user-dv9xx3yy8vi never “ignored” my reality or the “old story” which is what they call it. i accepted my reality for what it was but just knew i was getting what i wanted any moment and if i kept it as simple as that and didn’t overthink it then it would always happen!!
@@user-dv9xx3yy8vyes i agree
I once had to listen to the Secret audiobook during a 2-hour car journey...it was hell, two fucking hours of b-list celebrities endorsing this idea, and just repeating it with slight variations...and at the end of the car ride, I asked the owner of the car, and thus the person who chose the listening material this question: "So...what's the actual secret? Just...wishful thinking?"
Yes! Finally, I thought I was the only one who could see how all these movements are just propaganda to make you feel worse about yourself. Push the belief that you can attract chances into your life just by having happy thoughts (when it's all down to pure family and resource privilege), and then make you feel guilty that if you can't do it, it's your fault, you're not doing it right, you must be too negative or something.
'The Secret' ~= middle class consumerist 'prosperity gospel'.
@ramblinactivist ironic ain't it...that these same middle class are now disappearing from society? Perhaps bc they realize the hustle culture is BS. Lol 😆
@ramblinactivist we were told that inflation is effecting the " middle class " how can that happen lmao being in middle class is actually abundant living. Maybe just maybe they are " choosing " to not be so superficial. Maybe they are choosing to eat at home. Bc they still think giving a huge tip to a waiter for terrible service/food simply ain't worth it.
The Law of Attraction is basically the the Law of Privilege.
I cannot count the number of old money people from these blue blood families who say "I always manifest what I want with my positive vibration"
No.... your parents gave you what you wanted. You do stupid stuff, fall on your face, and your parents rescue you. Or - if you have mean parents - uncle, aunt, siblings, grandad... whatever.
People in war torn countries do not get everything on a silver platter because they wish for it.
@@jesseleeward2359I actually read a comment today that said people in third world countries are hungry and in turmoil because “they don’t know about LOA”
These people are bananas
Oh man... Thid video explains so much of the fallout of the relationship I had with my mother by the time this book got popular and I "came out" as very depressed and suicidal when I was a teenager
Some of the best comments I receive are when people say I helped them understand something about themselves or their relationships, so thank you!
Not the most important aspect here, but surely the very fact that the “secret” is delivered in book/movie form is proof that it isn’t true, right? If it was and the author really wanted everyone to know about it, she could just manifest knowledge about the law of attraction directly into our heads!
that doesn’t make sense, manifesting is real but not telepathic powers
@@graceclover8697 no it isnt. manifesting works under the same guidelines as phony witchcraft, which isnt real. previsualize, then manifest, and if you didnt get what you wanted repeat the process, because you didnt do it right. exactly how witchcraft explains its failures: you didnt do it right, so you couldnt conjure, so start over, find another virgin/goat to sacrifice, and try again. manifestation is the same as conjuring. conjuring isnt real, and neither is manifesting.
I understand clarifying one’s goals and setting intentions so that you focus on your goals, but from the first time I read The Secret (at the start of this nonsense), I thought it was nonsense and dangerous. It’s really great for victim blaming… it’s really great for taking no responsibility for fixing a broke system that harms so many people. It’s like our penchant for expecting therapy to fix societal issues.
I didn't realize Law of Attraction garbage had roots all the way back to Madame Blavatsky. Really interesting!
Considering the mid 19th century was a bit earlier, I wouldn't be surprised if the concept was influenced by the garbage idea of Manifest Destiny.
Roots were a little earlier but she seems to be the first to use the actual words. I found that rabbit hole so so interesting as someone who kinda uncritically accepted this trash for time 😬
Yeah she also worships Satan
Yikes, I just watched the recent video on Aspie Supremacy which talks about her in great detail and now I'm here, about to watch this and saw this comment. So many bad things seem to go back to that woman, it makes me wish time travel was real so I could go back in time and *cough* deal with her before she could ever open her mouth about any of the nonsense she peddled. The world might be a better place for it.
That one line, when taken to the logical conclusion it can be applied to anything negative:"if you don't want x to happen, dont talk about it and dont listen to others talking about it. Otherwise you are asking for it ti happen to you." That is vile beyond belief....
I definitely had a small phase sucked into this stuff. I can only imagine the harm it would have done had I stumbled upon it earlier and got stuck.
I wonder how likely this is to catch people who are just about ready to realize they've had enough of a situation.
"Ask any physicist and they'll tell you its true", says Alan Arkin....
Okay Alan, I just asked my physicist wife if thoughts = things, and she laughed at me and said that was absurd.
😂 Love this.
You wanna know how I found this video? Because my 29 yr old white woman boss messaged our team telling us that we need to become better sales people and that she highly encourages us to read The Secret in our down time. She's been pushing this crap on us for years. I knew I wasnt crazy in thinking this stuff is just already well off entrepreneurs fluffing themselves up with praise about how they "did it all themselves". So I typed in "The Secret and capitalism" into the googs and found this video. Thank you for the analysis.
It’s synonymous with the MLM stuff, woo woo magic sells
😂😂😂😂 I can't able to control my laugh vro , keep make videos I shared to my fellow toxic positive thinkers , I want to explore more propanganda like this ❤ love from asia ❤🎉 it opened my eye and life saver ❤🎉
i read this book when i was younger because someone recommended it and i felt really weird reading it and hated it but could never put into words why. thank you for that
Thanks! please keep the good work : )
wow! thank you! that's my first one of those :D
I didn't realize that the ladies breast cancer returned after her testimony in "The Secret".
sadly it did, yes
@@Ember_Green That is very sad. I'm starting to think that this LOA mindset is detrimental and even hope is better. At least with hope, we don't to delude ourselves. Great video. If you have more concerning the LOA and these Manifest grifts please let me know.
Wayne Dyer and Jerry Hicks, two of the biggest names in LOA propaganda, both died of cancer. Scam.
@@rodb66well said. I'd rather be negative with realistic expectations. Pessimism is a good thing. I call the law of attraction the law of distraction.
whenever someone tells me to "think positive thoughts" my desire to chokeslam a random individual doubles
I have such a big problem with spirituality pretending to be science
I am spiritual but I don't pretend it's science.
This was the start of my self undoing and ultimately isolating myself from my peers ,this wishful thinking shit instead of getting counselling when I needed it most.Needless to say I am now picking up the pieces,I was in middle school when I first saw the movie the secret smh til this day I’m still trying to undue the delusional thinking I was exposed to through this shit…the obsession of wanting things instead of enjoying my life is now something I have to correct about myself THAT IS NOT LIFE OR LIVING!
This video has made me feel so seen! Finally, I'm not the crazy or negative or non-belieiving one who is chronically ill because of my own negative thinking or single because I keep thinking about my lonliness. Thank you SO MUCH for this video, watching this is the best and most validated I've felt in months!
You're 100% right about this. I am from India and life here is very harsh if you're poor and because of religion and law of attraction aka assumption I've ruined my life. My parents sent me to college to get educated but I believed these stuff and quit education and because of that for the last 10 years I've lived a miserable life. Watching manifestation video after video moving from guru to guru everyone of culprits have intentionally ruined my life same thing goes to the catholic church.
Wait, so you mean that you thought you could achieve everything you need with LOA and quit your education ? I'm not mocking you, geniunely curious.
Thank you for making this video.
A few years back, I adopted this type of thinking in response to some uncontrollable negative life events and encouragement from my well-meaning mother.
Watching your video now with a different perspective at the age of 21 is cathartic.
Can't believe they showed us this shit in high school
THEY DID WHAT!? nooooo
@@Ember_Green Yeah, I was pissed. I didn’t even catch on to the capitalism angle at the time, I just hated the pseudoscience.
Wow, I knew The Secret was a shitty book, but not just how shitty. Really insane quotes you've collected.
I was listening to most of it like 😮😬😶 it really is terrible.
Unless you're already super-rich, this shit will ruin your life. Without going into too much detail, people very close to me have suffered greatly due to a combination of this and the sunk-cost fallacy. And the fall-out is still being cleaned up.
This reminds me of what Kanye West said about slavery
Omg, exactly! I wanted to get that in too somehow but forgot!
what did he say?
@@soofitnsexy Kanye basically blames African slaves for their situation because they "chose it." It's victim blaming, short and simple. The powerful cannot fathom personal accountability without risking losing their power over others.
Thank you for that. I had fallen for all that garbage. Now I know it's ok to not force being positive all the time and be easier on myself.
I'm just now seeing this video. I'm so glad you made this video. I was not heavy into LOA but into enough that it almost destroyed my life. As well as mental health. I started to believe if I a negative thought or was sad/depressed I would attract negative things to happen. I realize in order to heal and better myself I have to deal with things that are not always positive. By accepting the good and bad in life I can handle whatever comes my way. Thank you for making this video.
The Secret is bad, but Neville Goddard is even worse. Have you heard of him? He's big within these communities and unfortunately I got into his 'teachings' at 16. His crazy metaphysics and solipsistic ideas gave me dissociation AND psychosis that I had to get psychiatric treatment for. Because of him, I really used to think I was God and not only did I create myself and my own sufferings BUT the entire world, and I was the one responsible for all evil. It messed my mental health so bad. I am 19 now and fine, but I still regret that I could neither enjoy my late teens nor do my A Level on time because of him.
The same thing happened to me, I thought I was God and that I was responsible for everything that happened in my life. I also had solipsistic ideas, and my anxiety increased too much.
this is first time i hear someone criticize Neville Goddard..he is worshiped among loa communities
@@dhammmaraja of course those poor brainwashed people worship him. I hope they come to their senses before it's too late.
@@dulcepaola9509 I'm so sorry it happened to you. It's really evil how he's messing up people's minds by literally gaslighting them. There should be more awareness about this Neville Goddard cult so people can be wary of his heinous lies.
@@dhammmarajaYeah his teachings are so toxic..and I notice his followers are full of themselves. Just look at all these lao coaches.
I unfortunately got into this crap several years ago, at probably the worst time ever. It was suggested to me by a reasonably wealthy relative, well a lot wealthier than I've ever been at least. I knew it was crap, but I didn't realize how incredibly bad it is until watching your video. This is just straight up awful, and I am mad that I ever got sucked in.
I really dislike self help books, which are actually just a bunch of tips which might be helpful, or not, and present them like they are magic
They are also VERY likely to appropriate other cultures or flat out lie about them, a lot of orientalism
I have autism went to a farm for autistic people or people with special needs and mental health problems one off the members off staff was madly into this he was talk to the clients into detail about this for example every emotion is a chocie its your own fault if your
Depressed I noticed this he would balnk me if i said i was depressed he also said your mum is off saving refugees as my mum teaches them english he said they dont need saving there thoughts are what created there suffering in first place I dont get why hes working there it winds me up
4:50 this quote is especially embarrassing because in physics it's opposites attract NOT like attracts like. What a fool.
If I could get stuff just by hoping I would already be happily married to my robot husband lmao My mom was WAY into this shit as a kid, which is probably why she doesn't accept my disability or transition. She keeps hoping for the perfect daughter instead of trying to have a relationship with her son.
They shpuld go to places like Gaza and show them how to use law of attraction to get out of hell.
LOA just made me look like a fool so many times.
Here are your few thousand subs!!!
In all seriousness, this was my first time seeing you and you definitely get my sub!! This was well written and well executed, and I'm excited to see what else you've covered.
Nom nom, algorithm!
Thank you!
Insightful commentary as usual and 'Speak for yourself!' made me smile.
Thank you!
Thoughts might actually become things if you've got money.
Jeez, youtube...
Only just finding out you had an episode after watching your most recent one.
Anyway, I used to work in a bookstore and the only people who bought The Secret were the bored housewives of wealthy husbands who liked to make everyone's life hell (today we call them Karens).
Really tells you all you need to know about the book.
Why it's even more BS that so many people are subjected to this nonsense without ever reading it. They'd hate it if they did 😅
I came here from Chill Goblin and I'm very glad to come across such a well-made video. This video also felt very calming to watch, perhaps it's your accent or tone of voice haha.
I also notice that, watching your video with broken earphones where only the right earbud works, that the voiceover audio of some passages are for some reason audible on the left audio channel only.
What I mean is, I don't hear the voiceovers through my right earbud unless I unplug my earphones, or switch my laptop's audio settings from stereo to mono audio. Not that it's a bother at all, but I thought I could mention that just in case it helps when you're editing videos
Thanks again for the great video! Off to watch another video of yours.
Update: Edited to add that I don't experience this issue using the same broken earphones on TH-cam mobile. It only appears to be the case on my laptop. I guess it's another issue altogether unrelated to your video. I should probably just buy a new pair of earphones instead haha. Sorry if I seemed overly particular about this.
thanks for the comment! CG's audience has been so lovely! I actually did have some techy problems on this video which affected the audio, so you might have picked up on that. It shouldn't happen again. (I totally get being particular over audio)
Ronda was smart enough to use ideas that were no longer under copyright law, a smart thief.
Of course the whole thing is a sham and a scam
Can I just mention too that when you operate in this complete positive mindset sometimes it forces ppl in your orbit to adopt such a “negative” way almost to unconsciously balance this distorted and polarized way of being. I say this because my family was like this (knowing or unknowingly) and growing up in that I think that’s why I became such a “negative” person…of course for years I thought it “was me” and something was wrong with me but now looking back it’s almost like a law of the universe (irony and no pun intended) for me to be forced to balance this, because it’s like my family was utterly incapable for looking at, discussing or engaging in anything “negative” or sad or bad or anything that wasn’t butterflies and rainbows 🤮 growing up in that was sooo draining.
What happens when someone decides that what they really want is for the Law of Attraction to be false?
As a Buddhist, I wanna offer the observation here that The Law of Attraction is kinda bizarro Buddhism. The Dharma tells you to put your mind in the present, sit still, and respond with acceptance to whatever you think or feel. The Secret is essentially teaching people that if you truly do that for *one* moment, if you slip out of your desires and let yourself feel happy right where you are...well that's why you're so unhappy. It's like someone was trying to write a recipe for alienation from self.
I wrote a book debunking the law of attraction. Helena Blavatsky never said “law of attraction” but she did teach it. Andrew Jackson Davis coined the term. Great video though!
I’d love to read your book. What’s the title?
I’ve never believed in the law of attraction. I believe in God instead.
The Law of Attraction is just Christian prayer, repackaged.
Anyone who has played MMORPGs or similar knows the law of attraction is baloney, because the harder you want a rare drop, the *less* likely you are to get it!
omg can you imagine having intrusive thoughts in this universe
When i was a kid, at Christmas wed go through store catalogues and cut paste what we wanted .... Funny enough never got it 😂
This is an excellent video, a little slow in the beginning but I’m glad I stuck around
A handbook on narcissism and elitism.
Wow I've never heard of this..
Thanks for shining some light on this!
“Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.” ― Lao Tzu
Lao Tau said the truth without the Capitalist BS in The Secret. Thanks for the great video!!!!!
Sammy is still OBESE
I think optimism is the real secret. It will help you do actions toward goals and continue to progress.
Found you through Chill Goblin, and what a great finding your channel is! Hilarious and insightful work, very glad to subscribe
welcome & thank you!
The mind is powerful... but not that powerful.
Ugh the secret.. beautiful book but it is way too superficial.. Neil Donald Walsh summed it up quite well. our cities and our environments effect our state of being and our life possibilities. if humanity really is to reach the next level we need to address the problem of poverty at a social level
why do you think the secret is a beautiful book? just asking
Brilliant takes! Capitalism is a pyramid scheme!
of course try comunism then! great achievement.
"ask any physicist they will tell you it's true" SIR NO IM A PHYSICIST AND ITS A BUNCH OF BS
Bruce Lee had the correct way of The Secret:
-Believe you can do it
-Investigate how it's done
-Start doing the thing
I'm really late to the party but I had an ex who had me read this when I started falling into a depressive episode, I remember crying after I finished because the book made me feel so intensely guilty for all of my negative intrusive thoughts. My ex was obviously just trying to help as the book had been helpful to him when he'd hit a bit of a slump, however he was never able to understand that my depression wouldn't go away if I just tried a little harder or was a bit more positive. My chronic depression only started to get better about eight years later when I was diagnosed with ADHD and started receiving appropriate treatment...
I am an electrical engineer and am well versed in electronics-magnetics and to put it bluntly Like does not Attract Like in fact it is the complete opposite.
I just saw stuff on the book, "The Secret", I must have seen it advertised on TV when I was little, bc it looked very familiar but I never read it.
all those kids who get cancer--they just need to change their attitude 😅 amazing
does the LOA somehow tie in with the reincarnation doctrine and if so, how??
Not really. It's just a reworking of Christian prayer. There's almost no emphasis on acting well, just wanting stuff.
It's interesting to see the weird parallells to some more lefty variants of the same kind of thinking, such as shows up in some Discordian writings for example. I can't recall anything about material conditions really changing due to belief, but instead it's very much a focus on social relations - by Thinking and Acting in certain ways, you can be _perceived by others_ as already having some specific property (such as being rich), which could make the difference between getting or not getting some opportunity or access, for example.
Obviously less bullshit than The Secret, even with the telepathy.
I still can't believe that anyone thinks they can wish things into existence. Money, relationshps, whatever it may be. That isn't how the world works.
Excellent video! I knew The Secret was nutty, but sweet Jesus.
Its so true, while I was reading the book, I felt super uncomfortable coz its not realistic, its a bunch of fake crap.
I had this peddled to me by the Dilbert guy in middle school. Good on you for really taking it on!
This video is good! God I wish I could've watched this years ago! I had a close friend who LOVED The Secret and law of attraction. He argued that the anti-Iraq war march helped cause the war to happen. But that didn't stop me going along with it for a while (facepalm). I'm interested in how this ideology has morphed and evolved today. Its shed some of its overtly New Age baggage and now is embodied in the form of Joe Rogan and Tim Ferris and the like. Feels like a certain Podcast Scene is steeped in it. It's so insidious and ruins so many lives. Repressive toxicity with a smile. I don't want to inflict this on you, but have you thought of covering Jordan Peterson? (you definitely shouldn't but you definitely should)
it's funny i have an acquaintance who is a bit into Peterson & those podcaster dudes & he comes out with Law of Attraction kinda stuff a whole lot. I have thought a lot about Jordan Peterson, although always struggle to think of what more i could add. I'll be doing more videos about humanity, "human nature" & feminism & stuff at some point & that will absolutely counter much of what he says. Not sure if I dare risk the wrath of the Lobster Brigade by putting him in the thumbnail tho lol!
@@Ember_Green I think that's a very good counter-argument! Unless you went and read the entirety of Map of Meaning (or whatever it's called) - which someone said I should do the other day, before criticising JP. Apparently, he is a Great Thinker. The new video ideas sound great, looking forward to them.
i tried many times as a kid to get jedi powers and move objects with mere focus. it did not work. I learned that the law of attraction is BS first hand! thank you star wars :D
So glad to have found your channel, I feel like you speak to my soul
Excellent video - I was directed to your channel by Sinan and I'm very glad he did so. Can't wait to browse the rest of your videos.
thank you & welcome!
You know, I've gotten a lot of stuff accomplished over the course of my life, and the thing they all have in common is that I've tried to do them.
And, oddly enough, I've never once achieve something I didn't try to achieve.
I was manifesting 94% in my exams but ended up getting 75% . Really prepared well for the exams but because of this loa , each and every thing in my life happening is just opposite of what I really want to manifest. Fuck loa!
Maybe desiring the opposite is the key in your case lol.
Gaining control over one's thoughts is such a laughable proposition that I've no words to match it's laughability. What gains control over what and how, exactly? Anyway, I'd call such being fooled by thoughts instead of controlling them.
Most people confuse luck with manifesting. I’m not religious but there’s got to be some divine order to how life reveals itself. If people could actually manifest, there’d be a lot of, for a lack of a better term, glitches. For example, it would allow 2 objects to occupy the same space at the same time.
had a coworker recommend this book to me and i was just like "haha! no!"
Um there's a problem honey
why can't i like your video 2890644 times?
where is that option on youtube?