Cosmic ordering
type of positive thinking proposed by Bärbel Mohr, that a person can simply write down their wish list and wait for it to become reality
Cosmic ordering is a type of positive thinking proposed by Bärbel Mohr, who believed that a person can simply write down their wish list and wait for it to become reality. She first outlined her own version in her own magazine called Sonnenwind (Solar Wind), and then expanded these ideas into a 2001 book called The Cosmic Ordering Service: A Guide to Realising Your Dreams.
In the United Kingdom, disc jockey and TV game show host Noel Edmonds has become the main media promoter of Mohr's work.
Exponents
Noel Edmonds, the British television host, became interested in the subject after being introduced to The Cosmic Ordering Service by his reflexologist. After having not worked on television since the end of his BBC TV show Noel's House Party in 1999, one of Edmonds' wishes was for a new challenge. Later he was offered the chance to return to television to work on Deal or No Deal. Edmonds later went on to write his own book titled Positively Happy: Cosmic Ways to Change Your Life.
Criticism
Cosmic ordering has been criticised as "nonsense" by Carl Cooper. He describes it as goal setting dressed up in spiritual language. He also distinguishes cosmic ordering from intercessory prayer, noting that prayer is not "divine room service".
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