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- Magic is older than humans. Animals rely on magic -- subtle intentional interactions with quantum mechanics in their everyday lives, it is second nature to them. For a take on it accessible to someone with a science-centered mindset, try looking at the book Entangled Minds. Not just "higher" animals, even earthworms. We humans think we're so much smarter, though... We deny even the possibility of its existence :)
Amazing to see how quickly my comment is downvoted away, within seconds. You must be very quick at checking your references. Try this thread posted parallel to my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26449135
- A good place to start, if you are a firm skeptic and not willing to even attempt faith or your own empirical experiences, is a book called Entangled Minds. There is not a single claim made in this book which does not have a reference to a proper peer-reviewed paper attached to it, iirc several hundred papers in all. It firmly supports consciousness being in at minimum earthworms, and probably even ,,lower,, creatures.
Once you actually open your mind to this idea, you will begin to see it everywhere, and with practice be able to connect, communicate, and derive mutual benefit. It,s up to you to take the first step, though.
Of course, you can also choose to remain in the safe comfort of materialism. I know from experience that it can be a very lonely place. I wish you a happy journey, wherever it may lead.
- I read a really fascinating book on the matter, from quantum mechanics perspective, called Entangled Minds.
The craziest part for me was that it is not just humans. Even down to earthworms, living things have demonstrated precognition and ESP in scientifically sound experiments.
- I also had this fantasy, and then it became a dream, and then it became an intention, and then it became reality.
I did not do it overnight, it is a practice I started about 7 years ago, and I am still practicing every day, though I am better at it now.
I was lucky to be exposed to the ideas at a very young age.
Like I said, had a fantasy for a long time, before my 20s, then through my 20s, then into my 30s.
Then, around the same year or two period, I got hit by a car on my bike (rushing home for lunch from work), family illness (while fending off emails from project manager), and then injured myself even more seriously and finally got to take some time off, wearing a cast.
As this was happening, I began to come to the conclusion that my fantasy/dream/intention has always been there all along, and by avoiding it I only made it a longer and more painful process...
As that stuff was happening, I started finally making moves. First, I got rid of my apartment, which was my biggest monthly expense. I started couch-surfing and also found a very cheap place to live. I slowly got into the mental habit of actually lowering my expenses.
Gradually, I stopped bying clothes, paying a cell phone bill, etc., until all that was left was transportation, shelter, food, and weed. (Since ~25, I am a regular smoker because it helps me with depression like nothing else I've tried.)
Eventually, I bought a minivan on Craigslist for $1,400, which turned out to have a "broken" transmission, and I lived out of this van for about 1-2 years. I never got the transmission repaired, I just had to drive it gently, and no faster than 25 miles per hour with the blinkers on whenever I was going uphill. But I was not nearly as often in a hurry as I am now.
Then I lived out of another van. I had a housemate in this van, and they were messy, and so I learned to keep my things organized in bags. My main backpack (smol) for things like identification and laptop, everything I don't want to part with. A bag for dance and movement things. A bag for electronics.
Then I met people living outdoors and thought, hey, I've done this before in the woods, why not in the city. So I tried it. And it stuck. I got rid of the van eventually.
Before Corona, there was so much free public space, it is was unbelievable. I could work in almost any town or city, because there was almost always a seat, a table, and a power outlet, and often wifi too.
All good things come to an end, however. I've had to make some adjustments lately. But I'm still hanging on, with some minor concessions.
While I am adjusting, I have reverted to using currency for a few things. Luckily, I was approved for foodstamps and even cash assistance, which works out to a few hundred a month. I have not applied for other benefits like the Corona Payment and Unemployment.
And now that I am more experienced, and I have a bit of a system, it is easier to just replace one thing at a time. I've also learned a lot about flow and manifestation.
If you have heard about The Secret and it seemed like bullshit, try another book: Entangled Minds. Quantum Reality is undeniable, and only a fool would ignore the possibilities.
You can literally create a better world for yourself by imagining it, focusing on it, setting good intentions, and feeling gratitude for your gifts to yourself.
- Another scientist, Dean Radin in his books - "The Conscious Universe" and "Entangled Minds" has compiled a very detailed and persuasive meta-analysis of experiments and phenomena that defy conventional scientific explanations.
- I googled Entangled Minds, apparently "Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality" by Dean Radin. Immediately I thought "Oh, I guess that's quantum in the meaningless "woo" sense, like Deepak Chopra" and scrolling down the amazon page was a blurb by Chopra! – "Dean Radin brings parapsychology into mainstream science. The revolution has begun." Radin is a parapsychologist, even a former President of the Parapsychological Association. I consulted wikipedia on parapsychology, to refresh - it's been a very long while. The article begins
"Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, as in telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, a.k.a. telekinesis, and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, for example related to near-death experiences, synchronicity, apparitional experiences, etc. It is considered to be pseudoscience by a vast majority of mainstream scientists, in part because, in addition to a lack of replicable empirical evidence, parapsychological claims simply cannot be true "unless the rest of science isn't." ... Parapsychology has been criticised for continuing investigation despite being unable to provide convincing evidence for the existence of any psychic phenomena after more than a century of research."
Uh, possibly fair enough. But apparently in his book
"Radin shows how we know that psychic phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance, and psychokinesis are real, based on scientific evidence from thousands of controlled lab tests."
