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Originally Posted by petewilliams  Paul, I like your point about Einstein, and quantum theory is proving wacky stuff every day. Some of them make the LoA look relatively tame!
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I know! LoA is like easy to accept compared to some of the stuff they are discovering.
The one thing that baked my noodle from "What the Bleep do we Know" was that our brain can only process like 20,000 sensory inputs per second but our senses register something like 40,000,000,000 (not sure the exact number). The point is that we can only even PROCESS like less than 0.0001 what we actually SENSE.
That's freaky enough. However, the wackiest thing is that one of the filters that we have built in (unconsciously) is that IF something "can't exist" based on our belief systems, we will NOT see it.
That basically means that if we had a strong enough belief that there is no such thing as a purple Zebra, there could be one standing right in front of us and we wouldn't see it. Meaning, our eyes would see it, but the brain would not register it.
I've seen total evidence of this when I was training with a professional magician. Through applying certain psychological misdirection, he could do certain things and nobody would see it. It's SOOO WEIRD. Meaning, he would do a trick for me and I wouldn't see what he's doing. THen, once I learned how it's done, I could totally see what he's doing and it seemed so obvious but the other people totally don't see it.