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The Law of Attraction has been around since about 1879. And, what is it? Basically it is a belief that states if you believe something strong enough, what you believe will be attracted to you.

Law of Attraction, as a popular phrase, was first used by a major publication in 1879 when the New York Times newspaper wrote a story about the Colorado Gold Rush. It described the wagon trains that were moving westward as moving in obedience to some occult “law of attraction.”

This phrase has been used over and over since then, but it has changed in its meaning over the years. It was used at first mainly to describe how this Law caused people to do something.

Eventually, that changed to a different and modern meaning of this law as being something that manifested itself and caused things to happen. To manifest in this sense means that it came about, or was thought to be real.

As early as 1902 to 1904 it was stated by some that thought had to precede any physical form and that it was the action of the mind which was the nucleus of any outward visible form.

All through these early years, there were those who denied that any such thing as thought being powerful could not be true. Among the leaders of such doubters were physicists who were basing this belief on the idea that if it could not be measured, weighed or have physical form it could not be the law of anything.

But, there were always some physicists who believed that energy was involved in matter formation.

An electrical engineer and early physicist, John Ambrose Fleming, held that “every completed manifestation, of whatever kind and on whatever scale” was “an unquenchable Energy of Attraction”

Think and Grow Rich, a book by the famous Napoleon Hill was first issued in 1937 and became one of the most successful books ever … selling well over 60 million copies.

Hills idea was that you must control your thoughts. If you did, you would find his secret (which he said was mentioned in every chapter). He never said it in so many words, but most think he was writing about The Law of Attraction without saying so.

Physics was changing during these intervening years. Something called Quantum physics developed. It is, briefly, more about energy than physical measurements.

As Quantum Physics now tells us and one can see in real experiments, the reality of the universe out there is not independent of our views. It is not our purpose here to discuss quantum physics except to say that it is concerned with energy.

There are some quantum physicists now who say that everything is energy.

There are also quantum physicists who maintain that the Law of Attraction is indeed real and can be accessed and operated by anyone with sufficient dedication. Thus we see a joining of doubters and believers, in a way.

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