Book starts out by telling us that there is an infinite amount of riches just around the corner for all of us if we just hang in there and read the rest of the book. So already the book is a con and knows it's a con and is hoping that we don't know that it is a con.
Book rambles for a few paragraphs about how some dude who lost his arm, lost his arm because of the "flow of his thoughts." If thoughts made that much of a difference then everyone that ever cut me off in traffic would have died horribly and I would be a mass murdering psychic. A guy if you cut him off he'll use his powers to make you steer your car into the nearest concrete wall at top speed. I think everyone that drives would also be that same character. So this is horseshit, that's what I'm getting at.
There was a brief example about how the same suggestion could merit two wildly different responses depending on who you make the suggestions to. Well yeah, haven't you ever yelled "Suck my dick!" at a group of murderous dudes on the street corner as you drive by? They don't give the same exact reaction as when you yell it down the hallway at the nursing home.
The book points out that through the power of suggestion ancient healers were able to convince people that they weren't sick anymore by putting them through nightmarish rituals. Maybe you could consider that a healing if they forget about their aches and pains, but how do you heal the trauma associated with having minced squirrel guts and lizard tongues muddled with assorted wild berries and then smeared all over your body by a chanting mad man?
There is an example of a lady that wanted a Cadillac car. So she follows the mumbo jumbo from the book about how to imagine you are in the car until you have it. Sure enough she ends up with her uncle's Cadillac car. The uncle passed away and left it to her in his will. So either this was just an unfortunate incident, or her thoughts literally killed her uncle. Since this book wants you to believe in magic, I'm going to say that her thoughts killed her uncle for his car.
There's some marriage advice in here as well. For the nagging wife it recommends that you praise her for her positive points and show her more attention. I think that you should just imagine having the whole bed to yourself each night and your thought will force her car off a cliff with her in it. It worked really well for the Cadillac lady.
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