Originally posted by OzWeatherman
Oh, great. Here we go again.
Show me some proof that you are not "from here" and maybe I will start believing
When you have greater control over your own mind you will see how these things are indeed possible. Then you have your own proof, and that proof is
experience.
As of now, you are still tied to the Church of Science. Which is different from the
scientific method (a very useful
tool). Instead
you want things spoon-fed to you by other individuals who appear "credible" in your eyes, no different than a Christian looking to a pastor (also
credible in their eyes), or a Hopi looking to their Shaman. The overriding pattern is that you are forced to look outside of yourself for an answer,
but where do you think the answers you are looking for are originating from? The scientific method itself can be internalized and applied by yourself
within your own head when you prove these things to yourself. Then you are no longer dependent upon others, the equivalent of an intellectual
teat-seeker.
The science of NLP already recognizes that there are competing psychological "entities" or "agents" in your head that have contradictory
requirements for being satisfied, and your own consciousness is what actually settles if you will eat now, or work more first and eat later, or use
the bathroom now in your pants, or use your "better judgment" to hold it until you reach a bathroom. Many of these "agents" are biological in
nature, and come from natural chemical impulses from your bodies. Others are purely psychological, and come from nothing but "ideas" you have
internalized, for example various "morals" and social customs.
Using that as a starting point, "you" are not what you think you are. You are not
one thing, you are actually billions/trillions of
discrete parts, if not more.
How much do you
really know about the trillions of things that make you up and how they are created? I suppose this is where you appeal to
your church of experts for the latest consensus opinion, as confused/incomplete and tangential as those answers are going to be. I say figure it out
yourself, because none of the people you personally choose to listen to know what they're talking about on this subject.
[edit on 9-11-2009 by bsbray11]