Comments on: What Do Spiritual Laws Have to Do With Making Money?

By: Qazse

Qazse — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:05:36 +0000

I was once told that in order to be successful, help others become so. I have tried to live by it.

I guess you could substitute other words for “successful” and wind up with the same truism: “what comes around, goes around”.

But what about the Exxon Corporation?

Great post and discussion.

By: Paul Piotrowski

Paul Piotrowski — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:53:32 +0000

@nudgeme: It’s pretty crazy when you first start getting into the “Woo woo” stuff and you see some of the people that are teaching it, like Deepak Chopra. He’s a medical doctor who used to teach medicine at Harvard. The whole theory that people who believe in “woo woo” stuff are just non-intelligent to realize that it’s BS goes right out the window when you realize just how smart the people who talk about this stuff really are.

We’re talking about some of the brightest minds in the world believing in “spirituality” (not talking about religion here), not people with a kindergarten education. Once you open yourself up to the stuff they teach you realize that it’s actually highly experientally duplicatable. For example the spiritual law of reciprocity where whatever you “put out” there comes back to you in multiples can be very easily tested. I do it with this Blog. I could easily write everything I write on here for free inside eBooks that I try to sell, but instead I give it away for free and then money flows back to me anyways.

You can almost say that “spirituality” is more a science of humanity than anything else.

The main point is this… Ignoring the “woo woo” stuff because you’re afraid of it will keep you broke.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:13:50 +0000

If you take science far enough it will actually tell you, that science don’t know exactly, what is going on. Only you know what is going on in your life. You are the only person who has enough details to change your financial situation. If you don’t know why you aren’t doing better it’s usually fear that’s preventing you from seeing the problem. Working on yourself and your fears is woo-woo stuff indeed, so I must agree with you, Paul.

By: nudgeme

nudgeme — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:04:19 +0000

Thanks for this post Paul – it really resonated with me and, as Joy said, I also loved your description of an analyticaly thinking atheistic non woo woo believing person as this sums me up well! However, as an atheist, I often get told that automatically precludes me from embracing spiritualism, which I’ve increasingly argued against. And I think you hit the nail on the head when you described the difference between being religious and being spiritual – I feel that the two are poles apart. In my work as a coach, I feel it’s important to learn about all forms of personal development and learnings – both scientific and spiritual – and I’ve always been very interested in the mind/body connection, including the work of Deepak Chopra etc – and the right of everyone to be able to express things they believe in – even if they might not be my beliefs. I have an expression, “you like apples and I like oranges, so let’s just agree to differ”, which has always held me in good stead. So, in short, I agree wholeheartedly with keeping an open mind – thanks again for the interesting post.

By: Joy

Joy — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:50:11 +0000

Great article, Paul. “Even if you are a complete analytically thinking atheistic non-”woo woo” believing person…” — that made me laugh. It’s true though. I’ve tried to to avoid this and gloss over anything that dealt with it, but over the past couple of years I realized that spirituality gets you to the point where you will truly find and accept yourself.