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Originally Posted by John Freestone  Constantly the claim of psychics whose experiments don't show a positive result is that 'it' (the effect, their power) doesn't perform on cue. It's not a performing monkey, but a spiritual thing to be respected. Ok. So what this means is that even if it is a real effect, it is virtually useless. It is so unpredictable (literally) that it can't be measured. Yet the psychic is giving the impression that this is a really important thing. |
We get in our own way. It is useless because of the same mechanisms of our brain filtering. The not performing on cue is out of it being a skill that has levels. That's what they'd say. It is predictable as much as a pianist or dancer can pull off a good performance.
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I could choose any number of arbitrary cosmologies that can't be proven and have no use. Like I kept saying to ALG, if I'm just a figment of your imagination, what's the point in talking to me, and why send me off to read bad research? We have to choose - reality or makebelieve. There's not much middle ground. And IM is literally makebelieve. Do you actually CARE whether there are ACTUAL fairies at the bottom of the garden? Because whether there are or are not is, IMHO, a question of what is real. Do you mind if you believe in them and they're not really there? Because that's fine too if you want to live like that, in a world of deliberate renunciation of rationality and reality-testing. Is there any belief you'd consider silly and misguided? Do you know that Santa Claus isn't real, or is that a matter of opinion, of imagination?
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Provable or imagination. So reality is provable. And the reality that is provable is magical. Why does gravity work? Every equation that predicts the laws of physics still has grand mysteries behind it. Why is that the speed of light? I think the way to go is to be open and look at the mysteries and allow yourself to be in awe and love it. We can test reality and make equations that predict and also push the limit of what we think reality is. The we get into seeing that we are part of the equations more than Newton thought. Anyway, we get bored with regular reality but instead of re-realizing that regular reality is pretty darn wild we go into our imagination to entertain ourselves out of that boredom. However, a lot of the imagination going on is open minded views of what science is looking at paralleling what mystics and spiritual teachers have expressed.