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Peyton Place
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Mark Robson
Produced by
Jerry Wald
Screenplay by
John Michael Hayes
Based on
Peyton Place
by Grace Metalious
Starring
Lana Turner
Hope Lange
Lee Philips
Lloyd Nolan
Diane Varsi
Arthur Kennedy
Russ Tamblyn
Terry Moore
Music by
Franz Waxman
Cinematography
William C. Mellor
Edited by
David Bretherton
Production
company
Jerry Wald Productions
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release date
December 11, 1957 (1957-12-11) (Camden, Maine)[1]
December 12, 1957 (1957-12-12) (USA)[2]
Running time
162 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$2.2 million[3] or $1.8 million[4]
Box office
$25.6 million
Peyton Place is a 1957 American film drama in color by De Luxe and CinemaScope from 20th Century Fox, produced by Jerry Wald, directed by Mark Robson, that stars Lana Turner and Hope Lange. In co-starring and supporting roles are Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan, Diane Varsi, Arthur Kennedy, Russ Tamblyn, and Terry Moore. The film is based on the bestselling 1956 novel of the same name by Grace Metalious.
The film's storyline follows the residents of a small fictional New England mill town in the years surrounding World War II, where scandal, homicide, suicide, incest, and moral hypocrisy belie its tranquil façade.
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Release
4.1 Critical reception
5 Accolades
6 Gallery
7 See also
8 References
9 Works cited
10 External links
Plot[edit]
In April 1941, in the New England town of Peyton Place, drunkard Lucas Cross (Arthur Kennedy) stumbles out of his house, just as his step-son Paul, fed up with Lucas's alcoholism, leaves town. Lucas's downtrodden wife, Nellie (Betty Field), goes to work as the housekeeper for Constance "Connie" MacKenzie (Lana Turner), a prim local dress shop owner. The daughters of both families, Allison MacKenzie (Diane Varsi) and Selena Cross (Hope Lange), are best friends and are about to graduate high school.
A stranger, Michael Rossi (Lee Philips), is hired to be the new high school principal by the school board president, Leslie Harrington (Leon Ames), the local woolen mill owner; the students' choice for the position is long-time teacher Miss Elsie Thornton (Mildred Dunnock). Rossi wins over Ms. Thornton by saying that he wants to work with her.
Later, Connie encourages her daughter not to invite Betty Anderson (Terry Moore) to the party, due to Betty's overt sexuality; Constance finally reconsiders, allowing Allison to invite anyone she wishes. At the party, Betty arrives with Leslie Harrington's son Rodney (Barry Coe), who soon turns it into a make-out party, kissing Allison; the party ends when Connie makes a scene, embarrassing Allison. Before church the next day, Allison witnesses Lucas beating his step-daughter, Selena.
Later, Rossi arrives at the MacKenzie house to announce that Allison has been named valedictorian, and he asks Connie to chaperone Allison's graduation dance; the two slowly develop a romance. Meanwhile, Harrington informs his son Rodney that he does not approve of his going with Betty Anderson, because of her bad reputation, so Rodney is forced to uninvite her. Rodney instead goes with Allison, though Allison is in love with shy Norman Page (Russ Tamblyn), who has an overprotective mother, Evelyn Page (Erin O'Brien-Moore). At the dance, Rodney splits off to make out with Betty, but she is angry for him dumping her, so refuses to have sex with him.
After the dance, Selena is raped by her step-father, Lucas. She becomes pregnant, and when she goes to Dr. Swain for an abortion he refuses, and she confides that her step-father raped her. Swain confronts Lucas, and he is forced by Swain to promise to leave town after signing a confession, all of which Nellie secretly witnesses. Out for revenge, Lucas chases Selena when she returns home, and although she escapes, she falls and injures herself. After treating her, Swain records the operation as an "appendectomy", when in fact she has had a miscarriage.
At a picnic later that year, Rodney and Betty reunite and go skinny dipping, while nearby, Allison and Norman go swimming in proper suits. Marion, the town gossip, sees the naked couple and falsely makes an assumption, telling Connie it was Allison and Norman. Connie and Allison fight; in a fit of anger, Connie admits that Allison's father was married to another woman when Connie became pregnant. Upset, Allison runs upstairs and discovers Nellie Cross has committed suicide. Allison goes into a state of shock, and is confined to bed. Sometime after, Rodney and Betty elope, infuriating Rodney's father Leslie. After recovering, Allison leaves for New York City.
World War II erupts in 1941, and Peyton Place's men go off to war. When Rodney is killed in action, his father offers to take care of his widow, Betty, and she is finally welcomed into the family. During Christmas of 1942, Connie visits Rossi to apologize for being dismissive of him, and when she confesses that she was a married man's mistress, Rossi decides to stay in Peyton Place, promising her that his marriage proposal is still open. During this time, a drunken Lucas returns from the Navy and tries to rape Selena again, but this time she bludgeons him to death in self-defense.
After Easter of 1943, Selena tearfully confesses to Connie, and she is later arrested and tried by the District Attorney (Lorne Greene) for Lucas' murder. Allison, still estranged from Connie, returns for the trial, as does Norman; the truth about Selena's self-defense, her step-father's abuse, her miscarriage, as well as Dr. Swain's false report, all come to light. Dr. Swain admonishes the town for their gossipy ways and failure to offer Selena help when she needed it most. Ultimately, Selena is acquitted, and she and Ted are free to marry.
Allison has a change of heart and approaches Connie with a hope of reconciliation, and Norman is welcomed into the house.
Cast[edit]
Lana Turner as Constance MacKenzie
Diane Varsi as Allison MacKenzie
Hope Lange as Selena Cross
Lee Philips as Michael Rossi
Arthur Kennedy as Lucas Cross
Lloyd Nolan as Dr. Matthew Swain
Russ Tamblyn as Norman Page
Terry Moore as Betty Anderson
David Nelson as Ted Carter
Barry Coe as Rodney Harrington
Betty Field as Nellie Cross
Mildred Dunnock as Miss Elsie Thornton
Leon Ames as Leslie Harrington
Lorne Greene as District Attorney
Staats Cotsworth as Charles Partridge
Peg Hillias as Marion Partridge
Tami Conner as Margie (a classmate of Selena and Allison)
Erin O'Brien Moore as Mrs. Evelyn Page
Scotty Morrow as Joey Cross (uncredited)
Cast notes
Both Diane Varsi and Lee Philips made their film debuts in Peyton Place.[5]
The films also marked the first time that David Nelson had appeared separately from his family, Ozzie, Harriet and Ricky.[5]
Erin O'Brien-Moore, who played Mrs. Evelyn Page, would play Nurse Esther Choate in the TV series, Peyton Place in the sixties.
Production[edit]
Less than a month after the novel's release in 1956, producer Jerry Wald bought the rights from author Grace Metalious for $250,000 and hired her as a story consultant on the film, although he had no intention of actually allowing her to contribute anything to the production.[citation needed] Her presence in Hollywood ensured the project additional publicity, but Metalious soon felt out of place in the film capital. Horrified by the sanitized adaptation of her book by screenwriter John Michael Hayes, who was forced to contend with the Hays Code, and his suggestion Pat Boone be cast as Norman Page, she returned to her home in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. She hated the film, but she eventually earned a total of $400,000 in exhibition profits from it.[6]
The novel never mentioned the state explicitly, but it made several references strongly suggesting that Peyton Place was located within the state of New Hampshire, whereas the film makes no clear references to any particular New England state. The film was shot primarily in Maine, mostly in the town of Camden, with additional exteriors filmed in Belfast, Rockland and Thomaston,[5] as well as Lake Placid in New York.
Release[edit]
The film premiered in Camden one day before opening in 24 cities across the US on December 12, 1957.[1][2]
Peyton Place was the second-highest-grossing film of 1958, although in the first few months of its release it did not do well at the box office, until a real-life tragedy gave it an unexpected boost. On April 4, 1958, star Lana Turner's daughter Cheryl killed her mother's abusive lover, mobster Johnny Stompanato, and was placed in Juvenile Hall. The press coverage of the subsequent investigation boosted ticket sales by 32%, and the film eventually grossed $25,600,000 in the U.S. A coroner's inquest ruled the murder justifiable homicide, and the district attorney chose not to charge Cheryl with the crime, although he declared her a ward of the state and placed her in the custody of her grandmother. Turner feared the negative publicity would end her career, but it led producer Ross Hunter to cast her in the 1959 film Imitation of Life.[6] According to Wald, Peyton Place earned $10.1 million in 4,185 theatres.[4]
Peyton Place was also a popular prime time television series that aired from September 1964 until June 1969.
The film is recognized by the American Film Institute:
2005: AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores – Nominated[7]
Critical reception[edit]
While Peyton Place was a commercial hit, most critics noted that the most salacious elements of the Metalious novel had been whitewashed or eliminated completely. In The New York Times, Bosley Crowther remarked, "There is no sense of massive corruption here."[8] However, he did generally like the film, praising Hope Lang for a "gentle and sensitive performance" and finding Lloyd Nolan "excellent."[9] Variety wrote that the film was "impressively acted by an excellent cast," but noted that "in leaning backwards not to offend, Wald and Hayes have gone acrobatic ... On the screen is not the unpleasant sex-secret little town against which Grace Metalious set her story. These aren't the gossiping, spiteful, immoral people she portrayed. There are hints of this in the film, but only hints." [10] Richard L. Coe of The Washington Post wrote, "While the four-letter words of the Grace Metalious novel have been adroitly erased, it's easy for one of the apparent few who didn't read the book to see why so many did. There are several strong stories and the characters are sharply drawn. Without these two characteristics the best written novels remain unread."[11] Edwin Schallert of the Los Angeles Times declared the film "probably the most powerful small-town picture ever produced,"[12] and Harrison's Reports praised it as "an absorbing adult drama" that "grips one's attention the whole time it is on the screen, thanks to the sensitive direction and the effective acting of the capable cast."[13] John McCarten of The New Yorker was negative, writing that the film "makes no attempt to exploit the sensational aspects of the tale it has to tell; on the contrary, it is woefully diffuse, and before it's over—roughly, three hours—boredom has set in like the grippe."[14] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote, "Slick and passionless, the film is an expensive and heavily bowdlerised adaptation of Grace Metalious' best-seller," adding that "the film never quite makes up its mind whether to extol small-town America or castigate it."[15]
TV Guide said, "This is the kind of hypertensive trash that gives melodrama a bad name, cynically tempering its naughty bits with smug moralizing. The fact that the film won an 'A' rating from the Catholic Legion of Decency, meaning it was deemed 'acceptable to all,' is a dead giveaway.[16] (In actuality, it was given an "A-III" rating, meaning appropriate only for adults.)[17]
On the film's 40th anniversary in 1998, celebrations were held in some of the Maine towns in which the film was shot, attended by Hope Lange.
Accolades[edit]
The film received nine Oscar nominations (and no wins), including four honoring supporting performances, which tied a record set three years earlier by On the Waterfront. That record would later be matched by Tom Jones, and The Godfather Part II. The film's nine Oscar nominations without a win also tied a then-Academy Award's record for biggest shut-out (with The Little Foxes). That record was later surpassed by The Turning Point in 1977 and The Color Purple in 1985, both of which won zero of eleven nominations.
Best Motion Picture: Jerry Wald, Producer
Best Director: Mark Robson
Best Actress: Lana Turner
Best Supporting Actress: Diane Varsi
Best Supporting Actress: Hope Lange
Best Supporting Actor: Arthur Kennedy
Best Supporting Actor: Russ Tamblyn
Best Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium): John Michael Hayes
Best Cinematography: William Mellor
Gallery[edit]
See also[edit]
1950s portal
Film in the United States portal
List of American films of 1957
Illegitimacy in fiction
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "Today in History - Monday, December 11". Telegram & Gazette. December 11, 2017. Retrieved July 8, 2018.
^ Jump up to: a b "'Peyton Place' Showings On Limited Runs Basis". Motion Picture Daily: 3. December 9, 1957. Retrieved July 8, 2018.
Jump up ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p251
^ Jump up to: a b HOLLYWOOD SCENE: Jerry Wald Presents His Treasurer's Report -- Blaustein's 'Horsemen' By THOMAS M PRYOR HOLLYWOOD.. New York Times (1923-Current file) [New York, N.Y] 27 July 1958: X5.
^ Jump up to: a b c "Notes" on TCM.com
^ Jump up to: a b Kashner and McNair, pp.248-51
Jump up ^ "AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores Nominees" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-08-06.
Jump up ^ Kashner and McNair, p. 253.
Jump up ^ Crowther, Bosley (December 13, 1957). "The Screen: Drama in 'Peyton Place'". The New York Times: 35.
Jump up ^ "Film Reviews: Peyton Place". Variety: 6. December 18, 1957.
Jump up ^ Coe, Richard L. (December 20, 1957). "Vivid Account Of Best Seller". The Washington Post: B6.
Jump up ^ Schallert, Edwin (December 13, 1957). "'Peyton Place' Thoroughly Dissects Small-Town Life". Los Angeles Times: Part III, p. 16.
Jump up ^ "Film Review: Peyton Place". Harrison's Reports: 198. December 14, 1957.
Jump up ^ McCarten, John (December 21, 1957). "The Current Cinema". The New Yorker: 54.
Jump up ^ "Peyton Place". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 25 (292): 58–59. May 1958.
Jump up ^ TV Guide review
Jump up ^ "Archived copy". United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Archived from the original on 2013-04-16. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
Works cited[edit]
Cameron, Ardis. Unbuttoning America: A Biography of 'Peyton Place'.. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-80145609-1. (available online)
Kashner, Sam and Jennifer MacNair. The Bad and the Beautiful: Hollywood in the Fifties. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2002., ISBN 0-393-04321-5
External links[edit]
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Law of attraction (New Thought)
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In the New Thought philosophy, the Law of Attraction is the belief that by focusing on positive or negative thoughts, people can bring positive or negative experiences into their life.[1][2] The belief is based on the idea that people and their thoughts are both made from "pure energy", and that through the process of "like energy attracting like energy" a person can improve their own health, wealth, and personal relationships.
The Law of Attraction is among the most popular of the "Universal Laws".[3] Advocates of this mind-power paradigm generally combine cognitive reframing techniques with affirmations and creative visualization to replace limiting or self-destructive ("negative") thoughts with more empowered, adaptive ("positive") thoughts. A key component of the philosophy is that in order to effectively change one's negative thinking patterns, one must also "feel" (through creative visualization) that the desired changes have already occurred. This combination of positive thought and positive emotion is believed to allow one to "attract" positive experiences and opportunities by achieving resonance with the proposed energetic "Law".[4]
The Law of Attraction has no scientific basis[5] and has been dubbed a pseudoscience.[6] A number of researchers have criticized the misuse of scientific concepts by its proponents.[5][7][8][9]
Contents
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1 History
2 Descriptions
3 Philosophical and religious basis
4 Criticism
5 Prominent supporters
6 See also
7 Notes
8 Sources
9 External links
History[edit]
The New Thought movement (Law of Attraction Origins) grew out of the teachings of Phineas Quimby in the early 19th century. Early in his life, Quimby was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Unfortunately, medicinal treatment wasn't working, so he began carriage riding through his hometown, Lebanon, New Hampshire. He then regained his health and recovered, an event that prompted his study of "mind over body".[10] Although he never used the words 'Law of Attraction', he explained this in a statement that captured the concept in the field of health:
the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in, and we put a value on it according to its worth. Therefore if your mind has been deceived by some invisible enemy into a belief, you have put it into the form of a disease, with or without your knowledge. By my theory or truth, I come in contact with your enemy and restore you to your health and happiness. This I do partly mentally and partly by talking till I correct the wrong impressions and establish the Truth, and the Truth is the cure.[11]
In 1877, the term 'Law of Attraction' appeared in print for the first time in a book written by the Russian occultist Helena Blavatsky, in a context alluding to an attractive power existing between elements of spirit.[12] (Her book Isis Unveiled discusses esoteric mysteries of ancient theosophy.[13][14])
But the one who really first articulated the Law as general principle was Prentice Mulford. Mulford, a pivotal figure in the development of New Thought thinking, discusses the Law of Attraction at length in, for example, his essay "The Law of Success",[15] published 1886-1887. In this, Mulford was followed by other New Thought authors, such as Henry Wood (starting with his God’s Image in Man,[16] 1892), and Ralph Waldo Trine (starting with his first book, What All the World's A-Seeking,[17] 1896). For these authors, the Law of Attraction is concerned not only about health but every aspect of life.[18][19]
The 20th century saw a surge in interest in the subject with many books being written about it, amongst which are two of the best-selling books of all time; Think and Grow Rich (1937) by Napoleon Hill and You Can Heal Your Life (1984) by Louise Hay.
Even if the New Age movement adopted many New Thought ideas, including that of the Law of Attraction, the Law of Attraction remains a new thought philosophical concept.[20]
In 2006, the concept of the Law of Attraction gained a lot of renewed exposure with the release of the film The Secret (2006) which was then developed into a book of the same title in 2007. The movie and book gained widespread media coverage.[1][21][22] Rhonda Byrne's book also has influenced the creation of an untitled fiction film based on The Secret, starring Katie Holmes.[23]
Descriptions[edit]
New Thought authors believe that the Law of Attraction is always in operation and that it brings to each person the conditions and experiences that they predominantly think about, or which they desire or expect.
Charles Haanel wrote in The Master Key System (1912):
The law of attraction will certainly and unerringly bring to you the conditions, environment, and experiences in life, corresponding with your habitual, characteristic, predominant mental attitude.[24]
Ralph Trine wrote in In Tune With The Infinite (1897):
The law of attraction works universally on every plane of action, and we attract whatever we desire or expect. If we desire one thing and expect another, we become like houses divided against themselves, which are quickly brought to desolation. Determine resolutely to expect only what you desire, then you will attract only what you wish for.[25]
Rhonda Byrne published in 2006 the film The Secret wherein she emphasized thinking about what each person wants to obtain, but also to infuse the thought with the maximum possible amount of emotion. She claims the combination of thought and feeling is what attracts the desire.[26] The Secret says your subconscious mind can control everything that happens around you, including both positive experiences, like having someone call you from miles away, and negative experiences, like death. The Byrne underlines the power of the subconscious mind by asking the reader to take full control of these thoughts, in order to achieve things in life, with the mind, as much as with action. Another similar book is James Redfield's The Celestine Prophecy, which says reality can be manifested by man.[27] Man and the universe have a force of attraction between them similar to a magnetic attraction. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy, says readers can achieve seemingly impossible goals by learning how to bring the mind itself under control. The Power by Rhonda Byrne, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, and The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle are similar. While personal testimonies claim the secret and the law to have worked for them, a number of skeptics have criticized Rhonda Byrne's film and book. One New York Times book review calls the secret pseudoscience and an "illusion of knowledge".[28]
Philosophical and religious basis[edit]
The New Thought concept of the Law of Attraction is rooted in ideas that come from various philosophical and religious traditions. In particular, it has been inspired by Hermeticism, New England transcendentalism, specific verses from the Bible, and Hinduism, [29][30][31][32][33][34]
Hermeticism influenced the development of European thought in the Renaissance. Its ideas were transmitted partly through alchemy. In the 18th century, Franz Mesmer studied the works of alchemists such as Paracelsus[35] and van Helmont.[36] Van Helmont was a 17th-century Flemish physician who proclaimed the curative powers of the imagination.[36][37][38] This lead Mesmer to develop his ideas about Animal magnetism which Phineas Quimby, the founder of New Thought, studied.[36][39]
The Transcendentalist movement developed in the United States immediately before the emergence of New Thought and is thought to have had a great influence on it. George Ripley, an important figure in that movement, stated that its leading idea was "the supremacy of mind over matter".[36][40]
New Thought authors often quote certain verses from the Bible in the context of the Law of Attraction. An example is Mark 11:24: "Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."[41][42][43]
In the late 19th century Swami Vivekananda traveled to the United States and gave lectures on Hinduism. These talks greatly influenced the New Thought movement and in particular, William Walker Atkinson who was one of New Thought's pioneers.[44][45]
Criticism[edit]
Skeptical Inquirer magazine criticized the lack of falsifiability and testability of these claims.[46] Critics have asserted that the evidence provided is usually anecdotal and that, because of the self-selecting nature of the positive reports, as well as the subjective nature of any results, these reports are susceptible to confirmation bias and selection bias.[47] Physicist Ali Alousi, for instance, criticized it as unmeasurable and questioned the likelihood that thoughts can affect anything outside the head.[1]
The Law of Attraction has been popularized in the early 21st century by books and films such as The Secret. This 2006 film and the subsequent book[48] use interviews with New Thought authors and speakers to explain the principles of the proposed metaphysical law that one can attract anything that one thinks about consistently. Writing for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, Mary Carmichael and Ben Radford wrote that "neither the film nor the book has any basis in scientific reality", and that its premise contains "an ugly flipside: if you have an accident or disease, it's your fault".[46]
Others have questioned the references to modern scientific theory, and have maintained, for example, that the Law of Attraction misrepresents the electrical activity of brainwaves.[49] Victor Stenger and Leon Lederman are critical of attempts to use quantum mysticism to bridge any unexplained or seemingly implausible effects, believing these to be traits of modern pseudoscience.[50][8][9]
Prominent supporters[edit]
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Prentice Mulford, a Californian author and humorist, used the term Law of Attraction in his essays Some Laws of Health and Beauty and Good And Ill Effects of Thought, written in 1891.
Ralph Waldo Trine published his book In Tune with the Infinite in 1897. In the second paragraph of chapter 9 he says "The Law of Attraction works unceasingly throughout the universe, and the one great and never changing fact in connection with it is, as we have found, that like attracts like."[51]
Thomas Troward, who was a strong influence in the New Thought Movement, claimed in a 1904 lecture that thought precedes physical form and "the action of Mind plants that nucleus which, if allowed to grow undisturbed, will eventually attract to itself all the conditions necessary for its manifestation in outward visible form."[52]
James Allen, an English New Thought writer, wrote a series of books and articles between 1901 and 1912, after which his wife Lily continued his work. Allen is best known for writing As a Man Thinketh in 1902.
Emmet Fox wrote about metaphysics and the power of prayer in his numerous essays and books. His teachings are founded in Christianity and the stories in the bible, he cites Jesus Christ as being the greatest teacher of metaphysics who ever lived, and explains that our thoughts are our most important emanation, more important even that what we say or what we do. In his books Power Through Constructive Thinking and Find and Use your Inner Power Fox speaks about "building the mental equivalents of what you want and to expunge those that you don't".
William Walker Atkinson used the phrase in his New Thought Movement book Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World (1906), stating that "like attracts like".[53]
Bruce MacLelland's prosperity theology book Prosperity Through Thought Force (1907) summarized the principle as "You are what you think, not what you think you are." It was published by Elizabeth Towne, the editor of The Nautilus Magazine, a Journal of New Thought.[54]
Wallace D. Wattles wrote The Science of Getting Rich (1910) which espouses similar principles — that simply believing in the object of your desire and focusing on it will lead to that object or goal being realized on the material plane (Wattles claims in the Preface and later chapters of this book that his premise stems from the monistic Hindu view that God provides everything and can deliver what we focus on). The book also claims that negative thinking will manifest negative results.[55]
William Quan Judge a theosophical author used the phrase in his book The Ocean of Theosophy (1915).[56]
Annie Besant, another theosophical author, discussed the 'Law of Attraction' in 1919.[57] Besant compared her version of it to gravitation, and said that the law represented a form of karma.[58]
Napoleon Hill published two books on the theme. The first was The Law of Success in 16 Lessons (1928), which directly and repeatedly referenced the Law of Attraction and proposed that it operates by use of radio waves transmitted by the brain. Then in 1937, he published Think and Grow Rich, which went on to become one of the best selling books of all time, selling over 60 million copies. In this book, Hill insisted on the importance of controlling one's own thoughts in order to achieve success, as well as the energy that thoughts have and their ability to attract other thoughts. In the beginning of the book, Hill mentions a "secret" to success and promises to indirectly describe it at least once in every chapter of the book. It is never named directly, for he says that discovering it on one's own is far more beneficial. Many people have argued over what the secret[59] actually is, some claiming that it is the Law of Attraction. Hill states the "secret" to which he refers is mentioned no fewer than a hundred times, yet reference to "attract" is used less than 30 times in the text. Hill claims in his book that people can obtain what they desire through thought of definite purpose.[60]
Israel Regardie published many books with the Law of Attraction theme as one of his prevailing Universal Laws. His book, The Art of True Healing: A Treatise on the Mechanism of Prayer and the Operation of the Law of Attraction in Nature (1937), taught a focused meditation technique to help the mind to learn to heal itself on both a physical and spiritual level. Regardie claimed further that the Law of Attraction was not only a valid method for attracting good physical health but for improvement in any other aspect of one's life.[citation needed]
W. Clement Stone and Napoleon Hill wrote Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1960).
Richard Weiss states in his book, The American Myth of Success (1988), that the principle of "non-resistance" is a popular concept of the New Thought movement and is taught in conjunction with the Law of Attraction.[61]
Esther and Jerry Hicks' book Money and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Health, Wealth & Happiness (2008) appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list.[62] Hicks have been publishing books about the Law of Attraction since 1995.
Rhonda Byrne, author of The Secret, The Power and The Magic, influenced by Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich.
Yousef Erakat (FouseyTube) Throughout his Vlogs on his second YouTube channel, Dose of Fousey, he often explains how the Law of Attraction impacts his life.
Conor McGregor has claimed, he uses the Law of Attraction. He said, "This is what I dreamed into reality", upon winning his second UFC championship title belt after defeating Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205.
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert
Mike Cernovich, alt-right blogger
Norman Vincent Peale, pastor for Donald Trump
Jim Carrey
See also[edit]
Conversations with God
Cosmic ordering
Efficacy of prayer
Homophily
Internal locus of control
Kybalion
Law of contagion
Magical thinking
Medical students' disease
Mind over matter
Positive mental attitude
Priming (psychology)
Pygmalion effect
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Sympathetic magic
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Sources[edit]
Hill, Napoleon (2010). Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition. American Liberty Press. ISBN 978-0-9842784-4-2.
External links[edit]
The dictionary definition of law of attraction (new thought) at Wiktionary
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