I wanted to talk about LoA, but never got a chance before. I'm taking a hold of this thread.

I'm convinced, at least in an instinctual way, that manifestation, conscious creation, is real. And the reason why is sound so unbelievable to us at first is because of the general conventional knowledge in which we base our lives around. With that said, LoA (Law of Assumption/Law of Attraction) is, by far, the worst approach to this phenomenon that i have ever seen. Generally with other approaches (Chaos Magick, Oneirosophy, Castaneda or Universal Line, to name a few examples) there is a logic to follow and understand, with a very pragmatic and practical overview of what to do, how to do it, and why. But with LoA there is no direction, and it feels like a purely religious jargon without the myth aspect but still heavily dogmatic. It doesn't help that it tends to have a lobotomizing effect in their practitioners at the long run; in the least severe of cases, is just self help on steroids, but at worst, it can fuck up their pattern recognition and abstract thinking, their general and subreddits feels like a cult. It's pretty dangerous in particular because it just can simply fuck you up from the inside out. Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug. I generally don't rely on the idea that everything that surrounds me is a potential psy op, but if there is anything that can amount to one, is this. Religion wishes madly to be as effective as LoA to control the general population because it preys on the single most powerful driving force of human action: Desire; and it convinces subjects in a state of learned helplessness into inaction, basically making husk of humans along the way. This is, by far, more predatory and damaging than any religion or cult could ever be.