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Originally Posted by John Freestone  If, for instance, I decide that I can predict the future, and I'm a bit wooly in my thinking, and I experiment by taking something random like "mouse", and I sit and concentrate on images of mice for an hour, chanting "mouse, mouse, mouse", and then I'm sitting later watching TV and suddenly a trailer for a wildlife documentary includes a mouse, I will consider this good evidence and think I'm making progress. This is the kind of 'evidence' people 'find' all the time, but if you learn about the principles involved in this kind of thing, you discover that there are natural psychological pressures to believe these are significant events when they are pure coincidence. |
Actually, this is just stating IM in a negative way. There is no overall order to the universe, except the one I am creating. Is it a psychological delusion to see patterns where there are none? Then every person on the planet is deluded. This is what we do. You couldn't walk down the road otherwise.
Why do you lament what you are? So you can become a robot? What's the point?
Whatever you believe, you will summon the evidence to prove it. That's my hypothesis. It goes far beyond seeing a mouse on tv.
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There's a difference between saying "I tend to see what I want to see" and "My beliefs change reality".
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Here's a simple example:
If I believe I am a complete loser with the ladies, than my chances of getting laid are pretty bad. If I believe that I am a real stud muffin, my chances greatly improve. If I maintain my focus on either belief over a period of time, MY reality will consistently provide me feedback to prove what I believe.
If I believe I am a stud muffin and a pretty woman tells me something to the contrary, I won't even hear her. If I believe I'm a loser, I would hold on to every syllable of her insults. If I were to chose to believe that I am neither stud nor loser, my results would be 50/50.
So, yes, my belief changes my reality. Not the absolute reality. There is no such thing. Just my reality.