Your Thoughts Do Not Create Your Reality, Stupid.

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It was definitely a personal reaction to pseudo-metaphysics such as The Secret. I think it's not bashing 'magic' per say but a critique that the way it is taught is in a way lacking and leads naive minds to believe that just thinking will manifest something, whereas as others said, action is paramount.

Seems as though the New Thought movement overemphasizes the importance of thought while minimizing or ignoring the importance of unconscious aspects of our mind, including emotional memories that are instrumental in retrieving thoughts based on past experiences that have not been sufficiently processed. The subtle emotional memories influence what thoughts are retrieved and so when there is emotional baggage around what one is intending to manifest, mere thoughts (like affirmations for example) or will/desire will probably not change someone the way person wants things to change. That said, it's not only action but also having more access to these unconscious issues in the personal unconscious that create a sort of pattern or template of how reality is perceived and created.

So add to action, the need to clean out own mental baggage that keeps person stuck in certain patterns.