Every day I get a message from the Universe in my mailbox courtesy of Mike Dooley at TUT.com, so it was particularly fun to interview him for a Game Plan column. His new book, Infinite Possibilities, is already a best seller. Check out Act As If You Have It, And You Just Might Get It.
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There’s certainly nothing to argue with regarding Dooley’s point of view, but what I find so amusing is how this same information gets recycled generation after generation.
Florence Scovel Shinn said all this and more in her 1920s bestseller, “The Game of Life.” But as she’s dead and not around to talk about her masterpiece anymore, others are carrying on the message.
I have to wonder, though: As so many of these authors are practically using Shinn’s language verbatim, are they not giving her credit where it’s due, or have they come to the same conclusions on their own?
At times, I’ve thought of writing about the Law of Attraction myself (a phrase Shinn coined, I believe, as I can’t find any reference to it before her), but felt like I’d be plagerizing and so have simply recommended Shinn’s works wherever applicable.
Yet these other authors have embraced the subject as their own, positing their theories as something new, when in reality the subject is very old, most likely even older than 1920.
While I find Dooley inspiring, I’m equally irked.
Great column, though. Better to get the message out there than not at all.
Mary Ann, FYI, Mike Dooley’s recommended readings on his Web site and in his book include Florence Scovel Shinn’s work. They have clearly influenced him and he is by no means hiding it.
He was also in The Secret and the very idea of that book was to bring attention to this concept going back centuries. I think we’re all just doing our part to spread the word!
Roger that.