You really can't tell about people though. It's a board about IM so the assumption could be that many people here had no previous experience with different viewpoints. You know my story, I am not a scientist but I enjoyed calling myself a skeptic for many years, I was ACTIVELY a skeptic, meaning that's how I got my identity. Natural world, period. Religion and superstition, the enemy. That was my worldview. I didn't just wake up one day and say "Gosh, the world must be MAGIC! Neat!"
But I tend to say that more now.
I mean there are many intelligent people here. I bet this place for many is the consequence of several years of thinking and immersion in the quest to "understand". Then there are the people who saw the Secret and that was their introduction to thinking more about "the big questions."
Anyway I subscribe to a series of interview cds that are about personal relationships and before I played it today I said "I wonder why I got this today. I've been taking a break from IM while I go on this crazy inner resistance purge. I'm missing my intention writing and visualizing. I wonder if this cd is going to relate to what I'm going through".
And of course it was all about Law of Attraction. WHICH MEANS---time to write out my vision again of the life I want to live.
This actually could be a new topic. RT had discussed IM as an advanced practice of PD. I did lots of PD for childhood issues, and while it did help to heal some old wounds, it kept me in the past, dwelling on experiences I don't want (or wouldn't want again). You're not supposed to focus on what you don't want. But I want to close the door on it for good. So I think it was/may still be necessary.
'nother hit and run. You kids play nice.