Some back story, so to speak.
I live in Sydney, NSW and the metropolitan area has strict no backyard burning laws. No one has been allowed to burn in their backyard since the 90s.

I don't know what sparked this memory but on Friday I suddenly remembered that, in the 80s, when I was living with my parents, how one day our neighbour decided to do backyard burning just after my mother had done a pile of washing. The smoke was wafting over the fence and my dad went ballistic at my neighbour for his inconsideration. As my neighbour is fairly short it probably didn't occur to him at the time to look over the fence but I do remember thinking at the time that I probably wouldn't have said anything, and deciding that, if it ever happened to me, I would ignore it.

25 or so years later, only one day after I thought of this, my neighbour does backyard burning. It's like...WTF??? No one has burnt anything in their backyard in over 15 years. And I'd just done my washing!!!

Noetic sciences looks at the idea that if you have a substantial amount of people all focusing on the same thing, then the influence will move from imperceptible to perceptible. There are two things happening at the moment that have a number of people around the world focused on them. Global warming and the global financial crisis.

Since the release of the book a number of websites have become popular, discussing Noetic Science. The Institute of Noetic Science can be found

Yeah, people use these kinds of links all the time but disguise them as a tiny url or give them their own domain name. Not me!

Yes, I've been away from this blog for over a year. Time to start getting back into posting. Lots of things have happened in the past year that involved the law of attraction. I'll have to post them bit by bit as I remember them. I guess if I had had the Zox Training System before this would be a lot faster! Oh well.

Let's start with some recent examples. I had been wondering why the law of attraction does not work all the time. By chance I stumbled upon

1. It was my birthday and, being the sort of bloke who doesn't buy clothes more than once every 3 years or so, I had been staring in the window of Y.D. a few times, deciding what I could afford. Surprise, surprise, my wife bought me the exact same shirt I'd been looking at for my birthday and I never told her I was thinking about buying clothes, let alone pointed out the shop I'd been looking in in the city.

Anyway...

Many Secretors know that the idea of asking the universe for something, expecting it to arrive and remaining in a state of bliss until it does, and living your life like you have already got it, has been around for at least 10,000 years, probably longer. So it is likely that it will crop up in every religion in the world.

Well, Dr Charles Stanley of In Touch Ministries delivered a sermon on June 15th 2008 which, if you replace every reference to 'God' with 'The Universe' you'd get pretty much a summary of everything in Rhonda Byrne's book.

It's definitely worth watching if you're a Christian interested in what the Secret is about and a Secretor interested in what Christianity is about. There are a lot of similarities.

To watch the video online for free you can

I even bought anti-lactose tablets and swallowed copious amounts of them without any effect.

I'd resigned myself to the fact that I would never be able to eat dairy products and spent most of my time in supermarkets reading the ingredients, making sure there wasn't a speck of dairy product in anything I bought. (Did you know they use milk powder as a binding agent to attach flavour to chips (crisps)??? Can't even eat those!)

I'd been thinking about this recently and wishing that there was some solution as, why was it that I couldn't even have a little when even lactose intolerant people could eat a lot with anti-lactose tablets. It just didn't seem fair.

That same week I was discussing food with one of my Italian students. Without any prompting from me, he told me that he really loved Italian food in Italy but that a lot of the food in Australia made him sick. He said that he could eat any cheese in Italy but then described how he felt if he ate any cheese, butter or cream, or drank any milk in Australia. Similar symptoms to me.

I'm pretty sure my mouth fell open right there. If brains could explode I think mine would have. Shock, elation, incredulousness, regret, anger, frustration, hope and excitement all happened at once. I had suddenly realised that if eating dairy products made in Australia made him sick, maybe imported dairy products would be fine for me!

Thanks to me thinking about my dairy problem at this time, the universe allowed me to meet a student who could give me a different perspective.

After the lesson I almost ran to the local supermarket. I gathered up what little cash I had and bought a piece of imported cheese. Not any cheese though. I bought the cheese I thought would have the worst effect on me. Mouldy blue cheese from Denmark! Probably the grossest cheese I've ever seen, especially with 20 years of feeling sick from even looking at cheese, let alone eating it. If I didn't get sick from this then I would be able to eat any cheese from around the world, except Australia.

Well, later that night