Law of attraction, a concept I found extremely interesting. Upon further research, I found that it is strongly linked with the new thought movement. Both of these concepts believe that everything in our lives is attracted to us via our thoughts, so illness comes from negative thoughts.

The New Thought Movement

The Law of Attraction as it is commonly understood by the New Age Movement, originated within the New Thought Movement which sprung up in New England during the late 1800s.
The leader of the New Thought Movement was the former mesmerist, master clockmaker and mental healer, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby.
Quimby had ve…

Hudson Mohawk Press, a new independent publisher in upstate New York, has launched its publishing program with an updated edition of the New Thought classic, Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World by William Walker Atkinson.

Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America , by Barbara Ehrenreich, New York: Henry Holt, 2009. This is an important and frustrating book.  Important because it correctly points out just how deeply New Thought has become embedded in the US, frustrating because it wastes a lot of time on personal attacks against selected personalities involved in the evolution of the movement, from John Calvin to Rhonda Byrne . Long time Doomers will remem

Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America , by Barbara Ehrenreich, New York: Henry Holt, 2009. This is an important and frustrating book.  Important because it correctly points out just how deeply New Thought has become embedded in the US, frustrating because it wastes a lot of time on personal attacks against selected personalities involved in the evolution of the movement, from John Calvin to Rhonda Byrne . Long time Doomers will remem