Beginnings

Just recently someone gave me a copy of an old book by Orison Swett Marden. Apparently he is one of the apostles of getting prosperity to come to you. From reading this book I found that there are a number of other authors who also preach the same things. I found, Robert Collier, another author of the 19th century. He also teaches prosperity in a similar vein. Very quickly like falling dominoes I found a multitude of others. Some were actual originals while others were merely plagiarizing some of the older works. I also found Napoleon Hill, apparently an original and of course Dr Peale of the " Power of positive thinking" fame. The question is, does any of this stuff they write about actually work? As an engineer and a scientist, embedded in a family of scientists, I find it particularly difficult to accept these claims. I thought I would find out if one can verify these metaphysical powers of mankind through experiment. This web log will try to document my experiments and findings.