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Being "psychic" (pg. 6)
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| squirrelly |
| I know what you're talking about Jamie, I'm right there with you. We talk about this stuff all the time. Somehow, every single trip that we've planned I have unintentionally booked us a room exactly where they used to stay (his grandparents passed and meant the most to him) - so we'll get there and be like "wait a minute!" and then every time, a cardinal (his grandpa's favorite bird) will fly by. My mom always teases me because the minute we start talking about him when I go visit her at her condo, he'll call. I call out a lot of things way in advance, but then when it happens and I remind people that I did they say "oh, whatever" so I started documenting that (dreams I have) :mad: |
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| secked |
Lots of things in life are entirely predicatable. What a ing concept.
You people are how religion was started. |
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| Omega_M |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
i guess i'm a little new age-y with the energy stuff but to me it makes sense because it's based on science. |
Is it ?
Do you "feel" the increase in gravitational potential energy as you climb up the stairs ? Do you "feel" the change in kinetic energy as you accelerate or brake your car ? All this wonderful "energy" gets wasted on braking, in the form of heat, at the brake pads. I hope you are sensitive to this "drain" of kinetic energy out of your body. And these energies are not even subtle. They are gross and measurable. Climb up a height h, and you have gained a gravitational potential energy of mass x g x h. Decelerate your car and feel the drain of energy equivalent to (1/2) x your mass x square (velocity). Velocity being a variable as it goes from a value V to zero.
"Energy" is perhaps the most abused word out of physics. It is an abstraction and a mathematical means of explaining physical activities through "work". Mechanical work is simply defined as force x displacement. This is how it's scientific. This is what should make sense. Not some bull psychic energy or good energy or bad energy or whatever... |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_M
"Energy" is perhaps the most abused word out of physics. It is an abstraction and a mathematical means of explaining physical activities through "work". Mechanical work is simply defined as force x displacement. This is how it's scientific. This is what should make sense. Not some bull psychic energy or good energy or bad energy or whatever... |
Stop giving off so much negative energy, maaaaaan! There's more to life than your narrow scientific view of the world, dude.
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| iammesol |
| quote: | Originally posted by secked
Lots of things in life are entirely predicatable. What a ing concept.
You people are how religion was started. |
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I half agree, but I don't think it has to do with relgion, but rather a sense that we don't have the technology to detect yet. |
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| Omega_M |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Stop giving off so much negative energy, maaaaaan! There's more to life than your narrow scientific view of the world, dude.
:rolleyes: |
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I promise to broaden my view.
*senses a positive vibe*
Is that you Mr.JBJ ? :eek: |
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| secked |
| quote: | Originally posted by iammesol
:stongue:
I half agree, but I don't think it has to do with relgion, but rather a sense that we don't have the technology to detect yet. |
I think that lack of effective technology has everything to do with how religions are allowed to succeed. Really, people only bought tales about talking snakes and vengeful, omnipotent boogiemen when they couldn't explain things any better way or, more specifically, when somebody tells them that they can see it, because ya know, they talk to God and have psychic powers, etc.
Perhaps I should have said "You people are how the clergy was started"? |
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| noikeee |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
does anyone ever experience psychic-like situations on a regular basis?
for example:
i was just at the grocery store and for some stupid reason, as i was walking in, i had a random thought in my head that one of these days i'm going to run into my ex boss at that grocery store because he lives close to it. well sure enough, i saw him in the ing grocery store after i walked in:wtf:
these kind of things happen to me pretty regularly. i'll think of someone randomly i haven't spoken to or thought of in ages, and they'll either call me or email me or something within a few days of my thought. a friend of mine said it's about the "energy" that i put out there. i know it sounds really silly but when this stuff happens on a regular basis, you start to wonder what's behind it all besides pure coincidence. |
You've been doing so much drugs that your brain can't organise its memory anymore, and when you see something for the first time, it thinks it has seen it before. |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Damerchi
That was my last trip, because it quite nightmarish. Initially psychadelics were great to see the bright side of life, and everything was so profound. I never thought about what a trip would be like on the other side of the coin, until I lived it. VERY intense. Perhaps i will try LSD again, but i think I'm retiring from shrooming. |
in my experience i have found that it is only nightmarish because it does away with all the illusions that comfort and sustain our mind/worldview.
when you realize nothing at all is what it seemed or seems to be, you bricks.
and i agree, it is not something you need to experience many times, particularly if you value your 'life' or 'sanity' as you conceive of it
it's like if you're having a good dream and you can feel yourself about to wake up, but you are enjoying the dream so much that you decide to stay in it rather than to awaken. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
I see religion and magical thinking as related, but different. IMO a lot of "magic" is actually sort of a primitive kind of science, an attempt to observe, explain, and control the laws behind events. A lot of the time it does this badly by attributing agency to non-biological things or explaining remote events in terms of human willpower (e.g. "curses" and such), which is why science is finally starting to replace it.
Religion is a bit different because it addresses questions of ultimate purpose and destiny, although it can often involve magical thinking as well. |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Religion is a bit different because it addresses questions of ultimate purpose and destiny, although it can often involve magical thinking as well. |
and then there is spirituality which is something completely different |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
and then there is spirituality which is something completely different |
How is that? |
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