Law Of Attraction
So well has this principle been established, through
psychological research, that we have abundance of proof that two minds which are properly attuned and in
harmony with each other may send and receive thought at long
distances without the aid of mechanical apparatus of any sort.
Rarely have two minds become so well attuned that unbroken chains of thought could be registered in this manner, but there is evidence sufficient to establish the fact that parts of organized thought have been picked up. That you may understand how closely interwoven are the fifteen factors upon which this Reading Course is based, consider, for example, what happens when a salesman who lacks confidence in himself, and in his goods, walks in to see a prospective buyer.
Whether the prospective buyer is conscious of it or not, his imagination immediately "senses" that lack of confidence in the salesman's mind. The salesman's own thoughts are actually undermining his efforts. This will explain, from another angle, why self-confidence is one of the most important factors entering into the great struggle for success.
The principle of telepathy and the law of attraction, through which like attracts like, explain many a failure. If the mind has a tendency to attract from the ether those thought vibrations which harmonize with the dominating thoughts of a given mind, you can easily understand why a negative mind that dwells upon failure and lacks the vitalizing force of self-confidence would not attract a positive mind that is dominated by thoughts of success.
Perhaps these explanations are somewhat abstract to the student
who has not made any particular study of the functioning processes
of the mind, but it seems necessary to inject them into this lesson as
a means of enabling the student to understand and make practical
use of the subject of this lesson.
The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite,
untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create
fiction. It is this popular disregard of the powers of the imagination
that has made necessary these more or less abstract references to
one of the most important subjects of this course.
Not only is the subject of imagination an important factor in this course; but, it is one of the most interesting subjects, as you will observe when you begin to see how it affects all that you do toward the achievement of your definite chief aim.