Imagination
It’s really an amusing experience to read this piece of essay-the force of imagination. The author uses several little examples that are mysterious. He tries to be objective and convince the readers the magi power of imagination. I don’t think the list of these stories really convince me but I somehow agree with this opinion: imagination may change your life.
That’s a picture of her. Seems a little bit complicated, mysterious and with magical power, right?
In her book, she told us about a law of attraction. Our thoughts create a force field of energy that radiates out from us and attracts back into our life, the people,circumstances, ideas, opportunities and anything else that is consistent with those thoughts.
This idea in its essence, from my perspective, is the same with the magic power of imagination that has been talked about in Montaigne’s essay. In Byrne’s book, she also used a lot of stories to convince others. The main characters of these stories are still alive and it seems this law really changes their life. In my point of view, she just uses the same way of Montaigne to persuade people and tells totally the same thing. The only different thing is that she also encourages people to use this law in a positive way, to help them out of trouble. And hence, this book turns out to be an inspirational book. People are really crazy about it. It even has a film and website and thousands of fans sharing their life-changed stories on it. I think it is really fun so I share the link of the website and the film below. Maybe it will help if you’re interested in it.
THE FILM: http://v.ku6.com/show/ndTXX-nuLMC7zJsCE5Qirg...html (I just found a free version in a Chinese website so it may be a little bit slow.)
OK. All above is about the fun part. In the following, I wanna discuss with you guys about something more serious. I want to ask you guys a simple question.
Question : Do you believe the magic power of imagination?
As for me, I partially believe it. I believe it not because of Montaigne’s essay or Bynre’s book but because of some life experiences. Those supporting examples in his essay are too crazy and unbelievable. And for the book the secret, it is too positive and all the stories are with happy endings. I don’t believe anything that has only one side.
In my own life, I think I have used this law. For example, I wanted to go to France for my exchange study a year before and I always thought about what I was going to do in France and where I would go for traveling. And now, I am here. I don’t know whether it is the help of this law or just a coincidence. One thing we have to admit is that everyone will certainly have this kind of experience. Think of us in classes. Do you also have the feeling that every time you don’t want the teacher to pick you us for answering the questions but he always pick you. That may be caused by imagination. Those kind of experiences make me partially believe this idea.
Actually, this law wasn’t first stated by Byrne. It can be traced back to 1877 on Isis Unveiled: Secrets of the Ancient Wisdom Tradition. After that, several people wrote about this and until 2006 it became popular around the world by the book the secret. Scholars talk about it in a scientific and psychological way. Common people become crazy about this.
Montaigne tells us to be doubtful even if it is said by the authority or the majority. I still cannot be totally convinced. Your action matters! If you just lie on the bed and think, nothing will happen!
Whereas, I still suggest to apply this law. We can have a positive attitude which may change the result.
So here are several questions that I want to discuss with you guys:
First, do you believe it and why? Can anybody tells me some reason that more from a scientific and psychological view?
Another one is that why so many people are convinced easily about the power of imagination? Does it imply some phenomenon?
