Thought Manifestation

I keep hearing talk about Thought Manifestation, Reality Manifestation and the Power of Positive Thinking. It’s everywhere, along with a number of advertisements in the form of many documentary-films – What the Bleep, and The Secret among them. So the approaching popularization of the Law of Attraction and Create Your Own Reality. Personally I loved these things on the first viewing; then upon later consideration, I realized they are a bit of a bastardization of most levels of so called Quantum Thought (a bastardized term if there was ever one!) A bit like how popular music is a bastardization of true music – so-to-speak.
So are we entering an age where occult beliefs are to integrate into the mainstream – only to be worn like a new trend of i Pod?
We could call it, I, Manifestation.
In entering popular thought; the message behind thought manifestation – the Law of Attraction – could begin loosing some of its essence. These things are being driven from a perspective of self-serving, self-fulfillment. Don’t get me wrong – it’s great to have nice stuff… but I, Manifestation lacks a certain grace of thought. When creating our own reality, should material fulfillment be the eventual result of our faith? As if the term Faith could ever be applied to materialism…
But this isn’t what reality creation is truly about is it. It isn’t so much that there has been a perversion in the ideals; but rather a corruption in the interpretation. And I suspect that is how it goes – it seems to me that this is often the result when millions of people get their hands upon what could be deemed holy law. Scripture is another area where group interpretation rules over and above the true message. It is what is within us that counts – as was told in the famous words: “The Kingdom of Heaven is Within”.
What is within any of us? It’s a question we should be constantly asking ourselves.