Is 'manifesting' just magical thinking?
became an instant international bestseller when it was published at the beginning of the year. It has been on the Sunday Times bestseller list for weeks, and numerous celebrities have been spotted with a copy in their hands.
This self-help tradition dates back to the final decades of the nineteenth century. Its beginnings lie in the American “mind cure” movement. Proponents of this movement believed that all sickness originates in the mind. Consequently, right thinking has a healing effect. The American clockmaker Phineas Parkhurst Quimby was among the first to articulate this idea.[ii] Quimby held that all disease is nothing but a false belief that manifests in the body in the form of physical symptoms.
The leaders in this faith have had an intuitive belief in the all-saving power of healthy-minded attitudes as such, in the conquering efficacy of courage, hope, and trust, and a correlative contempt for doubt,We can clearly see here that the tenets of the mind-cure movement contain the seeds ofThe Power of Positive ThinkingAnother important “mind cure” thinker, Prentice Mulford , set out the principles of the “law of attraction.
Many of us may find these overblown promises of effortless transformation suspicious. But what is worse, Byrne’s and her fellow mind-over-matter writers’ doctrines are victim-blaming. Ultimately, they hold those who suffer misfortunes personally responsible for their sufferings. This includes cancer, rape, car accidents, and acts of violence.
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