---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote :
Are you sure you even exist? Maybe you're just imagining life. :-D My experience is that there is a field that permeates everything and what everything is made of. It's like a screen which a picture is projected on. Your mileage may vary. But then maybe I don't exist either and am just imagining FFL, Sal, Turq, MJ and the rest including Chopra. I would say your experience is more your interpretation of what you imagine your experience to be. I am fairly sure I exist in some way, and I also think everyone else does - the reason being is that there appear to be a lot of people who are more intelligent than me. If I was somehow creating reality I must be holding back things that I don't understand for other parts of my creation to invent. So either we are all really here or I'm insane or else I'm a masocist. I'm going to Occams razor this and conclude there are some people on the other end of my broadband connection talking to me! On 04/10/2015 12:27 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> mailto:noozguru@... wrote : I would say that Steven Newton must have fallen on his head from a apple tree (or it's a pen name). Poor ignorant guy needs to try some meditation and yoga probably and maybe in 15 lifetimes he'll experience enlightenment. Uh the moon doesn't exist unless someone sees it is just an existential riddle. Perhaps Steven dropped out of college too soon. :-D Actually it's something the early quantum physicists thought might be true (But did they really believe it?). The problem was the idea of the observer collapsing a waveform was taken to mean that there wasn't anything there unless there was someone looking at something but it's really any interference from anything, including other atoms. Take an atom away from interference and it just sits there all fuzzy like. What it might mean is that there are infinite universes all sharing atoms and we see the one we are in because everything in this universe interferes with everything else. Parallel worlds. Multiverse. Most odd - unless it's real. Or there's another explanation. But Deepak can relax, we won't suffer the disaster of the moon disappearing if everyone falls asleep or watches TV instead of one of us keeping an eye on the heavens... And quite where any of it would fit in with Deepak's ramblings is beyond me. On 04/10/2015 10:44 AM, salyavin808 wrote: I’ve never done anything to Deepak Chopra. At least, not in this lifetime. Perhaps I’ve mocked his surrealistically bizarre anti-science pronouncements among my friends a few times, or a few thousand times. How could I not when he tweeted that his personal meditation caused an earthquake or claimed that the moon doesn’t exist unless someone sees it? Chopra is so on the fringe, it’s actually fun to read him usually—picture me with tears in my eyes, emitting cackles like Mozart’s braying laugh in Amadeus. But when he goes after evolution, it starts to feel personal—and less amusing. Chopra believes there is some “consciousness” that flows through the universe—an energy field created by all living things, surrounding us and penetrating us, binding the galaxy together…no, wait, that’s the Force I’m thinking of. Chopra’s notion of consciousness has more in common with that of the charlatan book The Secret, which says if you just think really hard you can change reality. (A lot of children engage in this magical thinking, but as they mature they outgrow it—apparently with some exceptions.) So perhaps this universal consciousness helped Chopra sense my negative energy. At a recent conference in New Delhi he reportedly said: Charles Darwin was wrong. Consciousness is key to evolution and we will soon prove that. Why does he have to hurt my brain like this—what have I ever done to him? Darwin “wrong”? Consciousness directing evolution? Evolution being affected by the thinking of beings that haven’t yet evolved, in some sort of tachyon-induced time warp? His words quantum-entangle my mind in a synergistic charlie foxtrot of howling madness. There's more: Why Does Deepak Chopra Hate Me? | NCSE Why Does Deepak Chopra Hate Me? | NCSE I’ve never done anything to Deepak Chopra. At least, not in this lifetime. View on ncse.com Preview by Yahoo
