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Originally posted by Cythraul
Originally posted by smoke screen
I was just going to post a thread similar to yours in regards to our current financial situation and the culmination of a global economy.
Regarding this, everytime I turn on the news, it seems that the media is dedicating huge amounts of energy towards convincing us how bad our economic situation is. In this way, the media is in a highly priveleged position of power in terms of causing mass-thoughtforms.
Originally posted by psychedeliack
So we could create what we dont want, experience it, and transcend it...just a learning process...we are merely children reaching adolescence, our parents come in from time to time to sit amongst us and disperse enlightening insights...
I agree. I think the purpose of life is for us to learn to harness the power of our minds. The way we learn this is to be thrown into an existence where we are able to mould reality using thoughtforms.
Originally posted by Syntax123
Why didn't these thoughtforms cause the Y2K prediction to become true? Or the webbot predictions? Or the Blossom Goodchild predictions? Or the FEMA camp round up predictions? Or the countless other failed predictions?
Good questions. Like Nohup says below, the effectiveness of thoughtforms is unstable because of the sheer number of conflicting views and perspectives. For every person who feared Y2K, there was another who actively refused to believe in such nonsense. Also, I'd suggest that even the people who chose to believe in - for example - Blossom Goodchild were only mildly certain of her predictions whereas something like 2012 has had centuries of absolute certainty due to its religiousness. Still, I'm not going to say 2012 is definitely going to happen, only that if it does, it may be in large part due to the absolute belief in it. Thoughtforms of an apocalyptic scale require unimaginable amounts of concentrated energy in their favour. They are not a certainty and may manifest in less-direct ways than we can imagine, for all our naivety.
Originally posted by Nohup
they are very unstable in "normal" reality because while your consciousness might want to bring them into being, the consciousness of the guy down the street is working just as hard to keep reality status quo.
Yes, true. But as more and more people become disenchanted with the status quo, the more incredible possibilities grow in potency. Perhaps it is the balance of pro-status-quo-ers and anti-status-quo-ers that keeps the world in harmonius balance - much like religious types believe in the balance of good and evil, and Heathens believe in the balance between fire and ice.
Originally posted by Syntax123
What about a large amount of people constantly thinking that we are near the end times due to their religion? With every generation of Christians, there is a large amount of people who genuinely believe that the world will end soon. This was especially prominent during times like the dark ages. If those thought forms weren't/aren't enough to end the world, then I doubt any thoughtform that is currently being perpetuated is strong enough to end the world.
Originally posted by Cythraul
Originally posted by Syntax123
What about a large amount of people constantly thinking that we are near the end times due to their religion? With every generation of Christians, there is a large amount of people who genuinely believe that the world will end soon. This was especially prominent during times like the dark ages. If those thought forms weren't/aren't enough to end the world, then I doubt any thoughtform that is currently being perpetuated is strong enough to end the world.
Yeah for sure, it'd seem like a prime candidate. However, I won't pretend to know how predictable thoughtforms are. A religion whose adherents all believe rapture is imminent could be cancelled out by the number of people who think said religion is full of BS. Personally, I think 2012 is a stronger thoughtform because of how old and widespread the tradition predicting it is. I think there are less people who oppose South (and North) American wisdom traditions than there are people who oppose, say, Christianity. But like I said, very difficult to measure thoughtforms due to the huge number of variables.
Originally posted by cancerian42
Thoughtforms don't just destroy, they also build. The physical plane may be being destroyed, but people through thoughtforms could possibly save their souls.