Positive thinking does not work! It appears to work sometimes, but so does religion, politics, police regulation and corporate control.

The rules (taught as guidelines), that institutions impose upon you, are not realistic or practical. They do not make life easier and they do not free you from problems. They fill you with false hopes and usually leave you stranded with the frustration of broken dreams.

Positive thinking is just another dogma. It depends on guilt and embarrassment to keep the followers chasing the unattainable carrot. It promises riches, security and power all by following a few simple steps and repeating the appropriate mantras on a regular basis. It puts up living examples of Positive Saints who’ve gone before you onto mega-wealth and glory.

If something really works, it works all of the time. Gravity seems to be something that really works, up until now, it has been consistent and reliable. Manmade rules are rarely consistent and reliable.

You accept that the earth rotates around the sun because it does so consistently! If once it didn’t, would your understanding still be complete? Of course not and humanity would frantically try to find an alternative law that did work. Yet, you accept the inconsistencies of positive thinking and other dogmatic teachings.

Positive thinking definitely does not work consistently. It is no different to religion, it’s another unproven set of organised and fantastical ideas.

In truth, the only people who make any money out of positive thinking are those who sell the doctrine. This is similar to those on the internet who make money by telling you how to make money on the internet. They have no product to offer, they are selling a dogma.

You justify the failure of positive thinking by assuming that you are subconsciously negative. You blame yourself for your failure to live up to someone else’s promise. You justify religion by stating that the mysterious god concerned somehow changed his mind through a mysterious thing called ‘His will’. The result is that you always feel guilty and blame yourself for your imperfect ways, even though those teaching the values are just as imperfect.

There are very few things that are consistent in life. Perhaps the only things you can rely on are: change, struggle, bad luck, death and taxes. This seems to be a practical summary of it all.

Perhaps the only thing you really have, is the challenge to make something wonderful in a world that is consistently uncomfortable.

So what now? Question what you justify and you might open the door to a new way of seeing this strange destructive planet.