I’m not sure I understand what connection you’re drawing. Are these people also saying that their experiences vindicate some particular theory about how the mind works?
People who attribute their success to the Law of Attraction believe that it makes the Law of Attraction the correct theory about how the mind works. (The theory does not have many gears, but it is a theory.)
Thank you for the lists!
I notice that for some items in the list, I have also heard opposite evidence… I can’t find a link now, but someone complained that meditation reduced their ability to feel love and joy, so they stopped. I find it plausible that the practice has different people on different people, the question is how many of which. The list could in theory be a starting point to a series of experiments, if we could operationalize the statements.
People who attribute their success to the Law of Attraction believe that it makes the Law of Attraction the correct theory about how the mind works. (The theory does not have many gears, but it is a theory.)
I’d assume that the theory by itself is either so simple as to potentially be true (“visualizing my success will make more likely to work for it”—yeah sounds plausible?) or to have claims that seem implausible for some reason (“visualizing my success will cause magic to bring me what I want”—requires a supernatural magic so seems sus) . The Buddhist teachings I’m talking about don’t have anything that’d sound obviously implausible in the same way, they largely only talk about things that you can directly experience in your own mind.
I find it plausible that the practice has different people on different people
Oh definitely, and different techniques also have different effects—I included stuff from a number of different practices and I’d expect very few people to get all of these. You may not get much in the way of extra visualization abilities if you don’t do any visualization practices, for instance.
People who attribute their success to the Law of Attraction believe that it makes the Law of Attraction the correct theory about how the mind works. (The theory does not have many gears, but it is a theory.)
Thank you for the lists!
I notice that for some items in the list, I have also heard opposite evidence… I can’t find a link now, but someone complained that meditation reduced their ability to feel love and joy, so they stopped. I find it plausible that the practice has different people on different people, the question is how many of which. The list could in theory be a starting point to a series of experiments, if we could operationalize the statements.
I would guess you mean this (with Kaj’s comment just below the post).
I’d assume that the theory by itself is either so simple as to potentially be true (“visualizing my success will make more likely to work for it”—yeah sounds plausible?) or to have claims that seem implausible for some reason (“visualizing my success will cause magic to bring me what I want”—requires a supernatural magic so seems sus) . The Buddhist teachings I’m talking about don’t have anything that’d sound obviously implausible in the same way, they largely only talk about things that you can directly experience in your own mind.
Oh definitely, and different techniques also have different effects—I included stuff from a number of different practices and I’d expect very few people to get all of these. You may not get much in the way of extra visualization abilities if you don’t do any visualization practices, for instance.