Blog number three

Thoughts are energy. Thoughts are energy. THOUGHTS ARE ENERGY!
The first paragraph of the first page of the first chapter is brilliant.
There is a relationship between what we think is out there in the world and what we experience as being out there. It’s all subjective, all of it. We shape our reality through what we see, know, and experience and even our culture.

The fourth paragraph on page five is a perspective I can relate to. I agree that reality is not fixed and we play an integral part of every event. We attract the things that happen to us, even the things we don’t want to happen.

The more the women in Pearce’s family feared breast cancer, the more they attracted it. It sounds crazy, but the fear of what the women didn’t want to happen, more or less attracted it. Whether or not it’s a good or a bad thing, if it’s on your mind all the time, it’s probably going to happen. When your day starts bad, then you think to yourself, “today is going to totally suck.” And it generally does, right?
Generally = most of the time (for clarification). Whatever we think about, we bring about.

Pearce’s definition of “converted” scares me. To be converted is to, “be seized by an idea that orients us around a single focal point of possibility.” Not cool. With so many possible focal points, why convert to anything? I’m going to quit before I sound anymore like a “heathen.”

Autistic thinking is interesting. It sounds like the description of being “in the zone.” The word autistic takes on a more interesting connotation in Pearce’s description. I like what it is to be an autistic thinker. “Autistic thinking, then, refers to an autonomous, self-contained kind of thinking that makes no adjustment to the world of other things or thinkers, but it must have its materials from this other source.”

When it comes to alternate ways of thinking or perceptions of reality and other things, I’m always amused by the psychological perspective. There is always this tone of skepticism from psychologists, maybe because, “this is the cosmic egg’s fear of being cracked.”

Also, sensory deprivation is very interesting. The mind creates its own reality and begins hallucinating after a certain period of time. Even to the point where the person feels part of what is going on, and the mind adjusts accordingly to what the mind’s reality has going on.

I love it, I love it, I love it, “When we have finally persuaded and/or badgered our children into ‘looking objectively’ at their situation, taking into consideration those things other to themselves, we relax since they are being realistic. What we mean is that they have finally begun to mirror our commitments, verify our life investments, and strengthen and preserve the cosmic egg of our culture.”
The quote in bold speaks for itself.

It is true that we are socialized from a young age to consciously and unconsciously selectively ignore certain phenomena and look for and nourish other phenomena.

For instance: We think ghosts, hallucinations, or people speaking to the dead to be pretty ridiculous, partially because science can’t explain it, and we’re just told not to believe in that kind of stuff. Where as we regard religious phenomena as acceptable, such as: religious miracles (healings, accomplishments, e.tc.); Jesus magically appearing on someone’s toast, garage, or building; and the statues that bleed or cry blood.

One more thing… in chapter three… the notion of cultural agreement back in the day from one of the “awesome” theorists of the time… is also stupid. Yes, it’s stupid, because it requires no thought, and it makes it too easy for people not to think. Though, if we have a nation of non-thinkers… How easy is it to control the masses?
Indeed.