There's a great little article by Geoff Gilpin here (warning: PDF) talking about the flaw in the continuing beliefs about "creating your own reality", and "manifesting" things through directed consciousness
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passel of thoughts...winterlionDecember 25 2007, 19:07:41 UTC
According to Alan Dean Foster (not exactly the most reliable of sources and he hid it in a book which makes it even less reliable) but c'est la vie... There's a philosophy (from Africa) that says "There's a good reality and a bad reality. Which one you pay attention to becomes real".
As I understand it, it's meant to be a spot of mindfulness. One tends to do the actions that will bring about the outcome one expects - rather than the one that is wished for. (the book takes it literally. That's the fun of books)
I rather like that paper.
The Maharishi Effect is so revolutionary that we have to revise everything else in physics to accommodate it. That's a threat to the scientific establishment, so they won't permit it.
this is a good sample of paranoid thinking. "They won't let us do ....".
there's also another interpretation of people creating reality that's kind of amusing: Those who sit around imaging reality (or watching TV, ...) - are getting themselves out of the way of those who are going about doing things
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Re: passel of thoughts...politasDecember 25 2007, 20:45:20 UTC
I can fully get behind the "Think positive, to avoid sabotaging yourself." side of it. It's just when you get to the "Positive thinking is all you need to make things happen" that it gets problematical.
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There's a philosophy (from Africa) that says "There's a good reality and a bad reality. Which one you pay attention to becomes real".
As I understand it, it's meant to be a spot of mindfulness. One tends to do the actions that will bring about the outcome one expects - rather than the one that is wished for. (the book takes it literally. That's the fun of books)
I rather like that paper.
The Maharishi Effect is so revolutionary that we have to revise everything else in physics to accommodate it. That's a threat to the scientific establishment, so they won't permit it.
this is a good sample of paranoid thinking. "They won't let us do ....".
there's also another interpretation of people creating reality that's kind of amusing: Those who sit around imaging reality (or watching TV, ...) - are getting themselves out of the way of those who are going about doing things ( ... )
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