If this was the case, you can validate what I had for dinner last night. What did it taste like? Did I like it?
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Do You Create Your Reality?
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If this was the case, you can validate what I had for dinner last night. What did it taste like? Did I like it?
Cooky
Veteran Member
This might sound funny, but I have always thought one of the most amazing things in the world, is the calendar book. There, I can imagine whatever I choose, and then write it in the book... Once it's written, I just follow it... And all my dreams come to life.
I know it seems simple, but there is no better way to take control of your life, as long as you promise yourself to follow the book. Your book.
...I prefer the At-A-Glance book, because you can set weekly, monthly and annual goals. It's a life changer.
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Heyo
Veteran Member
I could theoretically verify what you had for dinner by analysing your excrements because that is part of reality. I might also be able to say what it tasted like (salty, spicy, etc). For the part on deciding if you did like it, I'd need a bit more data from reality, an fMRI scan might do that.
The question is comparable to the question if the police can verify that you drank alcohol. Why, yes, they use a breathalizer or a blood test. And you'll agree that loss of money or your license will feel very real to you.
You could analyze it and verify it? Is your background in scatology or coprology?
What kind of data would you need to know if I liked it? Why can't you verify it in reality now? Can you verify if I liked it better than what I had for breakfast today? What did I have? I haven't yet excreted it.
My point is, your and my reality are different. The can overlap, sure, and you can accept my reality to be a part of your reality, and I'm confident that you would need to incorporate the reality of another to analyze my excrement.
I what I'm boiling this down to is that experiential evidence is subjective and unverifiable by another. You couldn't verify my experience of jumping out of a plane as much as I couldn't verify your experience of analyzing my excrement.
Ponder This
Well-Known Member
I have no good reason to, but part of me believes this and has since childhood. It is logically lame. I've also always felt that I was being watched, and I think that is natural for many people. No matter how I try to confirm that I am not being watched, I can never confirm it. I cannot look everywhere nor know everything, and therefore I have to live as though I am not being watched. I have also always believed that I have super powers, but I have never been able to confirm this. It eludes me. It probably means that I wish I had super powers and wish that I was somehow of interest enough to be watched. Wishes can become beliefs very easily, so to undo them probably requires unwishing them. "I wish I were unimportant and subject to my environment" is a hard wish to make.
I think it is a psychological social rule. If you don't have something then it implies that you haven't been trying enough, although there are exceptions. There are times when no matter of trying will work. Its like that pop song "...can't get no satisfaction..." and that other song about "...you can't always get what you want..."
amorphous_constellation
Well-Known Member
Seeing life and the individual as separate components first of all, I see that life is the river / boat - ride, and the individual is the passenger / observer of the river. This observer I see as one who can take action, but the river journey may not have a known or completely controllable destination. The creation of history doesn't seem to be something you throw into park. I think when early humans saw rivers and tried to connect them to spirituality, they likely saw it as something akin to this. They saw it as something they could not stop with their mortal hands, something that had a power of eternal movement. However, they also saw the power they had to improve their situation around such an endless phenomenon. They could attract good fish to eat in it. They needn't be swept down it if they knew how to ford it. It follows that they could attract a good life, but only in the context of an endless flow from who knows not where and to who knows where.
I'm not superstitious and as far as I can remember the Fridays the 13th I've had so far we very good days. I also love black cats
Heyo
Veteran Member
My point is, your and my representation of reality are different. But there is only one reality.
You keep using the word "reality" for your picture of reality.
It's like pointing at a picture of your girlfriend and declaring "this is my girlfriend" - as if you were in love with the picture. The picture is not the reality. It's a picture of reality.
You only have that picture because there is a real person out there you can take that picture from. You didn't create the picture in your mind. If you did, you could never agree with any real person that your girlfriend existed or what her properties are.
You could argue that you might have created all persons that agree with you in your mind but that leads only to solipsism - a position that leads you nowhere.
Either you accept reality or you accept that you are alone in your head and everything you experience is just your imagination.
WalterTrull
Godfella
Fun thread. I believe I have taken all the positions expressed here at one time or another. Currently, just trying to understand "We are the children." Somehow comforting, but at the same time, so enigmatic.
QuestioningMind
Well-Known Member
I read a study once that indicated the full moon phenomenon is purely psychological As I recall it studied the crime rates during a full moon. There WAS an increase in crime during a full moon, but ONLY when it wasn't overcast and the moon was visible in the sky. This suggests that people see a full moon and then they give themselves permission to act with less restraint. If they are not aware that there's a full moon in the sky, they don't react in the same manner.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
See, I told you we'd probably agree.
wandering peacefully
Which way to the woods?
After all these years I would have to say I definitely believe in some idea of attraction being a state which we can, as individuals, create and control for ourselves.
We create our own reality every moment we live. Every thought , action, and feeling is how we choose it to be. The only difficult thing about it is deciding how you want your being to be.
It can be angry, egotistical, greedy, fearful, peaceful, fair, loving, hateful, kind, vengeful, satisfied, or any combination.
Only our self can choose which reality we will live is how it works imo. And by choosing that, some may create as many attractions and repulsions as they want to.
There are those about who would like all discourse of real importance to end and to just focus on the arguments over whose religion and gods are right and how they are only the right ones in the end. In my mind that is not progressive for anyone or anything.
I would recommend not feeding bots and instead feed each other in meaningful dialog. Otherwise, the bots are able to shut down any place they choose. Why they do it, I can only speculate and therefore will not. But most do not heed the insideous spread because they live for the argument even if it takes down diversity and human discourse with it.
Exploring what we want our own individual reality to be, I believe is the key to controlling our own reality and directing our own lives.
It may be more difficult living this way, but it is also a life much more free, fulfilled and meaningful. You are responsible for you. Good, bad, and the ugly, no one else's doctrine can decide your reality for you.
So yes, use yourself to attract or repell what you wish.
Erebus
Well-Known Member
There are certainly ways that something like fear of Friday 13th could negatively impact somebody's life. We're all prone to confirmation bias and so if somebody truly believes that a particular day is unlucky, they're much more likely to notice the myriad problems that occur over the course of the average day. In extreme cases (such as when a superstition becomes a full-fledged phobia) people can suffer tremendous stress or even panic attacks. There's also the placebo/nocebo effect at play. Athletes with a lucky charm really do seem to perform better or worse depending on whether they have their charm with them.
To me that's a big component of how a concept like the Law of Attraction could function. As for influencing it ourselves, certain occult groups view magic as being largely or even entirely the conscious manipulation of one's own perceptions. From a pragmatic point of view, if having a lucky talisman positively influences your life then does it really matter if the mechanism behind it is supernatural or psychological?
joe1776
Well-Known Member
If it concerns our health, our expectations can bring about the reality, both good and bad: The placebo and nocebo effects.
But the law of attraction is an illusion. On a car trip, if you ask children to count the white vans they see, after a while, because they will see so many, it will seem like they are attracting white vans but the fact is that those white vans were always there but not noticed.
Similarly, if someone is looking for business opportunities, and they focus their attention on them, it will seem like they are being attracted but they were always there.
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