Re-reading my research to prepare my videos, I had a few thoughts about the "Copernicus" story I often use to show how some erroneous piece of fundamental knowledge can cause hardworking, intelligent people to come to very bad conclusions. You can liken that to a broken compass. No matter what you do or who you are, if you're unaware the compass is faulty, you're not going to get where you want to go.
The Copernicus story may seem unimportant for most people as it did not have much of an impact on the everyday life of people. Astronomers had their universe turned inside out, but what difference did it make for all the daily tasks, relationships, etc of people's lives? Basically nothing. Yet the realization that some fundamental fact about life turned out to be wrong caused vast changes that have been going on for centuries and continue today.
In fact I would claim that some of the change that took place led to at least some "fact of life accepted ideas" that are also wrong. Uncovering mistaken background knowledge, a "broken compass", is what this series and the videos are about. I'm attempting to pull back the first layer to begin to look at who we are, what can we as individuals accomplish, and use a new view to become more effective in anything we do. What if many of the things you think about yourself are wrong? What if you could decide new characteristics for yourself? How could you use them to become more effective in getting where you want to go or even choose a new direction you hadn't thought possible?
Showing posts with label The secret. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The secret. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Saturday, July 14, 2007
I'm an alien. I just realized how foreign I am. Like science fiction I live in a different dimension. I don't see the same world you do. Every TV commercial, news story, book is seen quite differently for me. Michale Moore, "The Secret", FOX news (?), CNN, my friends, China, Big business and Bush (W), are just a few examples.
The Secret is popular, positive, incorporates many interesting and potentially helpful ideas. Unfortunately it also contains a lot of bullshit. Things like "manifesting a million dollars takes the same effort as manifesting a dollar" is total BS. Yes, I get the idea, The thought process and the GOAL is the same, but at some level everyone knows this just doesn't work THIS way. Yet it does seem to work for some people, but certainly not everyone, not even 1 %! (Do you think 55,000 people have manifested a million bucks from reading the secret? - 4 million books, 1.5 million DVDs times 1%) SO they haven't really gotten to THE secret.
The book is close, the quotations bring an awareness to a human phenomenon that really is amazingly powerful. The problem is in the "manifesting" stuff. They really don't know how it works. They really haven't given you any concrete methods or exercise to be a better manifester! I actually know THE secret, the problem is that living in the reality I live in makes it very difficult to share it. People just don't have the ears to hear the answer. How can that be?
What kind of ears DO we have? The world has changed so much. We live in a time where education is all one way. We are told things. Our parents, teachers, president, news, etc. tell us "facts". We don't learn to think and discuss, like the ancient Greeks for example. The modern world stands on the mathematics, social and political ideas they invented. People learned through thinking and discussion, for example with the Socratic Method.
We run around with a bunch of "facts" we picked up from ??? ... who knows? We learned it someplace. What difference does it make? I know it!! period. NO discussion. People don't even know what discussion or conversation IS. The Greeks even knew that. CON=together, VERSA=transform. Our modern version of conversation is arguing the "facts". You throw me one of your facts, and I hit you back with one of mine, that shows you have the wrong fact. The end result is usually pitiful. Neither has respect for the other, neither learns anything new, and most likely the area of a circle would not have been figured out using this method.
That's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. It's the beginning of why you can't hear what the secret really is. You already know, besides who am I to tell you? "If you're so smart how come you're not rich"? See I really do live in another world. I see being rich, smart, reliable, and anything else you can say about people so differently than you.
Actually while I respect Socrates: "He claimed that the chief goodness consists in the caring of the soul concerned with moral truth and moral understanding, that "wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state", and that "life without examination [dialogue] is not worth living".(Wikipedia)" Excellent, we really need the "examined life" thing, but I can see another, deeper dimension in understanding wealth and goodness. It's not about me being smarter than Socrates. We live in a different time, and I have the advantage of having learned from people that came after him. So I have a perspective that includes understanding what "Smart" or "Wealth" are, in a way that can make anyone more effective, at anything they do - especially if they want to manifest tha million dollars. I can tell you how, or better yet, learn what a GOOD LIFE is, with OR without that million bucks.
Stay tuned.
The Secret is popular, positive, incorporates many interesting and potentially helpful ideas. Unfortunately it also contains a lot of bullshit. Things like "manifesting a million dollars takes the same effort as manifesting a dollar" is total BS. Yes, I get the idea, The thought process and the GOAL is the same, but at some level everyone knows this just doesn't work THIS way. Yet it does seem to work for some people, but certainly not everyone, not even 1 %! (Do you think 55,000 people have manifested a million bucks from reading the secret? - 4 million books, 1.5 million DVDs times 1%) SO they haven't really gotten to THE secret.
The book is close, the quotations bring an awareness to a human phenomenon that really is amazingly powerful. The problem is in the "manifesting" stuff. They really don't know how it works. They really haven't given you any concrete methods or exercise to be a better manifester! I actually know THE secret, the problem is that living in the reality I live in makes it very difficult to share it. People just don't have the ears to hear the answer. How can that be?
What kind of ears DO we have? The world has changed so much. We live in a time where education is all one way. We are told things. Our parents, teachers, president, news, etc. tell us "facts". We don't learn to think and discuss, like the ancient Greeks for example. The modern world stands on the mathematics, social and political ideas they invented. People learned through thinking and discussion, for example with the Socratic Method.
We run around with a bunch of "facts" we picked up from ??? ... who knows? We learned it someplace. What difference does it make? I know it!! period. NO discussion. People don't even know what discussion or conversation IS. The Greeks even knew that. CON=together, VERSA=transform. Our modern version of conversation is arguing the "facts". You throw me one of your facts, and I hit you back with one of mine, that shows you have the wrong fact. The end result is usually pitiful. Neither has respect for the other, neither learns anything new, and most likely the area of a circle would not have been figured out using this method.
That's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. It's the beginning of why you can't hear what the secret really is. You already know, besides who am I to tell you? "If you're so smart how come you're not rich"? See I really do live in another world. I see being rich, smart, reliable, and anything else you can say about people so differently than you.
Actually while I respect Socrates: "He claimed that the chief goodness consists in the caring of the soul concerned with moral truth and moral understanding, that "wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state", and that "life without examination [dialogue] is not worth living".(Wikipedia)" Excellent, we really need the "examined life" thing, but I can see another, deeper dimension in understanding wealth and goodness. It's not about me being smarter than Socrates. We live in a different time, and I have the advantage of having learned from people that came after him. So I have a perspective that includes understanding what "Smart" or "Wealth" are, in a way that can make anyone more effective, at anything they do - especially if they want to manifest tha million dollars. I can tell you how, or better yet, learn what a GOOD LIFE is, with OR without that million bucks.
Stay tuned.
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