On 04/10/2015 01:04 PM, salyavin808 wrote:
---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.
So you say! But no, I don't have to imagine it any more than I have to
imagine the sky. It's just there. You mean it isn't for you? Maybe you
need a new mantra. :-D
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:
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<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
<http://mashable.com/2010/04/04/deepak-chopra-earthquake/> or claimed that
the moon doesn’t exist
<http://www.skepticblog.org/2010/03/23/does-the-moon-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
<http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-today-conclave-2015-deepak-chopra-motivation-guru-author-darwin/1/423746.html>.
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
<http://ncse.com/blog/2015/04/why-does-deepak-chopra-hate-me-0016257>
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I’ve never done anything to Deepak Chopra. At least, not in this
lifetime.
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