You know Ariel, it's all fine to believe what you do, and no disrespect intended, but this is the sort of "truth" that a lot of the LOA "experts" are selling, and there is little verifiable evidence.
Just to clarify my position, I am not a dyed-in-the-wool skeptic who discounts all paranormal phenomena or believes that science holds all answers. Far from it. I have explored many philosophies, and actively practice alternative medicine and healing despite being a qualified Western Medicine doctor. However, when such big claims are made, I like to see real evidence.
Deepak Chopra rose to fame after he wrote his first bestselling book "Ageless Body, Timeless mind". Inspiring book, no doubt, but if the principles in the book are indeed universally applicable, how has he not been able to arrest the biological aging processes of his own body? How come he now needs glasses, when he previously had perfect eyesight? I'm not even talking about becoming immortal, just the small stuff.
Joe Vitale loves marketing himself as being an expert at "attracting" things into his life (including his $375,000 Rolls Royce.) When a person challenged him to reverse his baldness and grow hair, notice that he said if he wanted to, he could "attract" toupees and hair transplants. Why didn't he say he would be able to grow a full head of his own natural hair?
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Originally Posted by Ariel Bravy  People with multiple personality disorder, for example, are breaking the sense of continuity. You'll find that one personality has cancer, while the other doesn't. One personality will have a broken bone, and when they switch to another personality, that personality never had a broken bone and thus that person has a totally fine bone. |
Have you personally seen such cases? Can you point me out to the scientific literature where such a case has been documented? If not, I will dismiss it as your own imagination. BTW, MPD is now clinically known as Dissociative Identity Disorder.
I do believe the holographic universe concept. In fact Advaita Vedanta, which I have studied and investigated through meditation for over a decade now, considers the universe to be nothing but mind-stuff, and I agree. However it is an inaccurate extrapolation to then believe that you and I have the magical ability to consciously alter the fabric of that holographic universe at will.
There are many, many accounts in Hindu mythology of great Rishis (mystics who have mastered superconscious states) who were able to create entire universes at will. However, I have not come across any such individuals in our present day world. So, I regard all theories of you and I being able to alter perceived reality at will as mere feel-good emotion with zero practical applicability.
It would be cool to have the ability to alter reality, but unfortunately, we do not - at least not in this physical dimension. Each time you and I explore alternate "universes" and come back to waking consciousness, this world and our bodies remain as they were last perceived. Gravity is no more "imaginary" than your own perception that you have a physical body and are interacting with other physical bodies trough this physical medium of the internet. In the realm of duality it is as real as can be, and I challenge you to prove otherwise by manipulating it at will.