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Personal Magnetism

Personal magnetism is a quality of personality that is thought to account for why some people are luckier than others. It is a strange term as it has several meanings. It can refer to someone who is very attractive to the opposite sex, to someone who naturally attracts wealth with little effort and to someone who is a good salesman. Of course all of the above are not bad attributes to have.

So why is it that some people seem to have more personal magnetism than others? Most success gurus attribute this to the “power of positive thinking.” This is no secret. It actually goes back to wisdom in both the Bible and the Torah that states, “The word is flesh.” This means that whatever you name or say will eventually become a reality. It refers to the ability of each individual to manifest his or her dreams or worst nightmares in life.

There are all kinds of different interpretations of what personal magnetism is supposed to achieve for an individual. The most primitive theories have to do with the accumulation of wealth. The idea is that the person with the most personal magnetism is able to also somehow magnetize the most stuff.

This type of notion is very popular right now thanks to the greed expressed in books like The Secret. Unfortunately the secret does not work for many people as one of the cosmic laws that govern personal magnetism is that the energy that is generated from it should be attached to spirit and not material things. Truly successful people really do not give a hoot about the physical or material world and are more concerned with righting the wrongs of the world. These people often become rich by default simply because they do not concentrate on money or their own selfish desires too much.

There is not much evidence to support that one can be trained to have personal magnetism. Almost all cultures believe that a person is born with it. Having too much charisma is considered to be a bad thing as it creates a life that is too lively and out of balance.

Having personal magnetism is the equivalent of being born under a lucky star in many cultures. Many different horoscope systems discuss this by attributing personal magnetism to some Zodiac signs more than others. For instance in the Western horoscope system Geminis, Libras, Leos and Scorpios are said to have more personal magnetism than the other signs. In the Chinese horoscope the Rat, the Rooster, the Pig and the Snake are said to be more personally charismatic then the other animals in the Chinese Zodiac.

Personal magnetism actually has an even rarer meaning and that is to describe a person whose body either physically attracts metal objects in its direction or whose body seems to emit some kind of ray that interferes with the proper operation of clocks, computers and other electronic equipment. A famous person with this type of personal magnetism was the epileptic Rasputin.

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The Secret – The Law of Attraction

The thing about the book, the Secret is that it is not secret at all. The principles in it have been extolled for centuries by a number of very spiritual individuals who have not been credited by the authors of the Secret. In fact it is insulting to most people’s intelligence to have the wisdom of the ages repackaged and remarketed to them on Oprah.

These authors who were not credited in the Secret include individuals such as Dion Fortune (the mother of white light), Alistair Crowley, Florence Scovell Schinn (who pioneered all positive affirmation books) and countless others have written about these principles in books that have been widely published and read by millions of people.

The authors of the Secret also blatantly ignored the masterworks of philosophy, the works of Shakespeare and even the Bible itself, which discusses the Law of Attraction with the phrase “the word is flesh.” There was also no credit given to any of the authors such as Norman Hallet who wrote “Think and Grow Rich” or Norman Vincent Peale who originally wrote “The Power of Positive Thinking.” Even Ayn Rand who first wrote “The Virtues of Selfishness” was totally ignored.

To even define The Secret as a book about the Law of Attraction is an insult to the many authors who are true masters of writing about the subject. A good example is Samantha Stevens, a metaphysical author from Canada who was writing about the same subject in 2001 in four books that predate The Secret and that were widely sold on Amazon and Walmart. Another author that is badly ripped off in The Secret is Wayne Dwyer who wrote several ground breaking books about

The Law of Attraction coined phrases like “Attitude of Gratitude” long before this greedy collection of marketing experts decided to pinch it and include it in their marketing scam. It seems that part of the law of attraction might be to appropriate the ideas of others and make them your own. In fact this law of taking credit for other people’s ideas is actually one of Robert Green’s ugly and political “48 Laws of Power” and not really qualified to be one of the laws of attraction.

One thing that is very flawed about The Secret is that it does not have the inherent wisdom in it to take notions of success away from the realm of money and into the realm of happiness and spiritual achievement.

The book does not really have anything to do with the Law of Attraction and is more about the Law of Greed. What it really does is set up unrealistic expectations of oneself and others. Failures no longer become a matter of rational cause and effect. Now when a failure occurs in someone’s life it is because the person is guilty of not being able to practice the “Law of Attraction.”

This type of superstitious and metaphysical belief about manifestation is a delusion that belongs in the Dark Ages and is inappropriate and also inhumane to adopt in the twenty first century. Surely we are in a position in this modern age to provide people with real solutions and not the false hopes as exemplified by the idea that our thoughts can manifest us things like new bikes, cash and jewelry. It’s psychologically and spiritually bereft and much too primitive for this society.

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