Pearce

This is by far my favorite reading we've done. The foreword explains perfectly how unimportant things are even though they seem to be at the time, "Even our culture--made entirely from the most ephemeral thoughts, ideas, and beliefs--has a tenacious sense of reality to it. We know with great certainty what's possible and what's impossible, what's right and wrong, what's acceptable and what's offensive--even though in the modern world all of these cultural referents change, often dramatically, though the course of a single lifetime. Still, at every moment each seems solid and real."(ix) The truth is, none of this matters. All things will pass, including us.
The preface notes, "This circular trap of how we perceive reality is our cosmic egg, a shell of mind that both defines our world and helps shape it just as that world so shaped defines the nature of our mind and experiences." (xiv) I think this hints at the possibility of being able to manifest your thoughts into reality. I know I keep talking about it---but I think positive thinking can and will manifest into your reality (so why not try it?!) Again, another quote (I couldn't put my highlighter down when reading this) "There is a relationship between what we think is out there in the world and what we experience as being out there. There is a way in which the energy of thought and the energy of matter modify each other and interrelate. A kind of rough mirroring takes place between our mind and our reality." (3)
I'm fascinated by the idea of a tulpa. I've mentioned before that I want to get into yoga---now I have even more of a reason. And why am I wasting my time looking for the perfect girl when I can just create her. "Anything capable of being thought of can be true" (26). I better get started.....