James Sawyer wrote:If poor Napoleon Hill knew that LOA gurus would be stuck on his 1937 state of knowledge and ignore his 1970 revelation, he'd be pissed.
Oh I'm not so sure about that now.
Take a look again at Napoleon Hill's quote in his 1971 book published 1 year AFTER he died in 1970.
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The time is nearing when one may treat physical ailment, master the inferiority complexes, and condition the mind for any desired purpose while one is asleep. Moreover, it will be possible to master any desired language, and acquire education on any subject while one sleeps. These seemingly fantastic achievements will be attained through the aid of a specially built
phonograph which will play back, every fifteen minutes while one is asleep, recordings giving scientifically prepared treatments on any subject, for any desired purpose. The machine has been perfected so it can be set with a time clock which will start the record playing after one is asleep.
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He talked about a "phonograph" for Christ's sake
Now think about that for a second. He was not talking about a Mp3 (2000s), nor a CD (1990s), nor a cassette tape (1980s), not even a stereo (1970s) or a radio (1930s and up) but a phonograph which was the thing they used to play old records way back in the early 1900s so despite the fact that he published this book in 1971, we stopped using "phonograph" for many decades so this means that he knew about The Doorman way before the 1970s or even 50s so he may have even made this quote way before he published Think & Grow Rich back in 1937.
So this would mean that he kept this secret to himself for many decades and only told us about it AFTER he died when they decided to publish his last book.
The problem with the LOA has ALWAYS been the same. It's like a Genie in a Bottle BUT... it works 1% of the time at best which means that VERY FEW people can master it to the point where they can use it to attract EVERYTHING that they want including tons of money so the best way to do this is by SELLING books and Tape/DVD programs and seminars about the LOA rather then use the LOA to attract millions and that is EXACTLY what they all did/do including Napoleon Hill.
If you know about the LOA then you know about beliefs and if you do more research about it you will find LIMITING BELIEFS and if today we are still either broke or not millionaires in the 21st century, this means that we still have limiting beliefs on money and that mean our parents and grand parents gave us those limiting beliefs and that includes Hill's parents and the same with Proctor and Vitale.
For me, they all got rich by SELLING stuff about the LOA and NOT use the LOA to attract money or maybe a combination of both.
In other words, if WE have TONS of limiting beliefs so did they and knowing how hard and time consuming it is to remove ALL of those limiting beliefs, this tells me that they had no choice but to sell products on the LOA to make the money that they did because they still have those limiting beliefs.
It would be interesting to see if Proctor would start losing everything if he would stop selling his LOA books and seminars today.
Anyway, I don't wish anybody's harm and they at least deserve a big Thank You for introducing the LOA to the majority of people. Without Hill's TGR and The Secret, at least 80% of my forum traffic would be gone. In fact 100% when you think about it because Hill's TGR made me start my LOA research so this forum would not even be here.
This being said, they are TEACHERS to me but they are NOT MASTERS of the LOA. We are the only ones on this planet I believe who could reach this level but we are not there yet, we still have a long way to go. Well ok, maybe not THAT long.
Merlin